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A Demon Should Act Like A Demon	By : Ericedwyn Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 18688 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Twenty: Can’t Run Away From The Past

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and friends were created and lovingly brought to life by Rumiko Takahashi.

Author's Note:

I had to take a break from writing altogether as I made the choice of concentrating most of my efforts in completing the requirements of my last class and my candidacy for my degree. Today is the last day of the class and I still need to turn in one last assignment.

I am also taking Japanese language lessons and besides learning how to read, write, and converse in Japanese and memorize a ton of new words and phrases, sensei also gives us a lot of homework and weekly quizzes. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything. My Japanese class rocks!

The answers to some of your questions follow the teaser. The glossary will now appear at the beginning of the chapter (see # 7 of the Q&A). All text in ‘__’ are thought expressions.

What? You haven’t read “White Dogs: Perversity” by SilverQuick???? You don’t know what you are missing! It’s an incredible story and I am so honoured to have it on my site. I love SilverQuick’s writing style and this Sess/Kag story is just a mind blowing experience. Please be sure to read and review it. You won’t regret it!

Thank you for all your reviews. I really appreciate each and every one, although I am currently unable to thank each and every one of you individually as I wish I could. Kudos to Snarfburgalar, Lady of the Squirrels, EOW1055, Duo no Tsuin, Chibi Tenshi, Anyanka, and Inu165 whose creative reviews have brightened my day upon reading them!

On with the next chapter…

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Glossary:

Arigato: Thank you

Doomo Sumimasen: I’m sorry

Gomen ne: Sorry

Hai: Yes

Iie: No

Kon’ban’wa: Good evening

Okaasan: Mother
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~* In front of Kagome’s Middle School *~
“Kagome-chan… please come with us. You’ve been in the hospital for months.” Ayumi asked in a little whiny, high pitched voice.
“Hai, Kagome-chan. I swear, this time it’s my treat!” Eri begged.
Kagome eyes fell on her shoes. “Gomen ne.. I still don’t feel at all that well. I think I better go home.” She murmured softly, her face flushed from the little white lie she just told.
“It’s okay, Kagome-chan. We can go at another time. Please take care of yourself.” Yuka smiled encouragingly as she laid a gentle hand on Kagome’s shoulder.
Kagome looked up and gave her friend a grateful smile. “Arigato, Yuka-chan. I’ll see you all tomorrow.” Kagome said quickly before walking away.
‘I really hated lying to them but I’m just not ready…’ She clutched her books to her chest and with a heavy heart proceeded to make her way home.
“Higurashi!”
Kagome stopped in her tracks. ‘Oh no…’ She groaned inwardly.
Hojo pulled up on his bike beside her and got off. He reached into his book bag and took out a small soft cover book. “Higurashi, I’m so glad you’re back. I was really worried about you.” He handed her the book with a sheepish smile. He raised his hand to the back of his head and combed through his brown hair with shaky fingers as he watched Kagome study the book.
Kagome read the cover… Healing with Garlic. Kagome gave a nervous laugh. “Er… Hojo-kun, arigato, but you shouldn’t have.” She sighed inwardly. ‘You really shouldn’t have…’
“It’s a really good book. Garlic has many healing properties especially for the heart.” Hojo began to say. He continued to expound on the wonderful qualities of garlic healing oblivious to the fact that his words were going in one ear and out the other.
Kagome stared at the picture of the garlic bulb on the cover. ‘It won’t heal my heart…’ Kagome thought sadly. A week has passed since her return, and there was yet no sign of Sesshoumaru. ‘He must still hate me. I don’t blame him.’ Kagome fought back a sob and murmured a brief apology to Hojo before running away from him.
She ran from the school and down the main street. She kept her tear stained face low for fear that her marks have made themselves visible because she could no longer remain focus. She ran, far and long, until her feet stopped on their own accord. Kagome’s knees buckled and she fell down to the ground, her books spilling from her arms.
After a long moment of weeping and feeling sorry for herself, she finally looked up to find herself on a hill overlooking the residential part of the city. She wiped her face of the wetness as she watched as the light of the sky began its preparation to hide behind the cover of darkness. ‘Oh, Sesshoumaru… where are you?’
The young lady tightened her jaw to fight the tears from escaping once more before gathering the fallen books from the dirt ground. She stood up weakly, and with a brief glance at the top of the Torii gate of her family’s shrine, she dejectedly made her way down the hill.
Hidden from view and from all demon senses, a figure loomed behind some trees nearby. There was a brief flash of silver, followed by a pair of gleaming red eyes that peeked through the cover of leaves and branches...

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~* The Temple of Time in the Realm of In-Between *~
Inuyasha turned away from the Mirror of Time and Space as Kagome fell to her knees. The image shimmered and the colors swirled like paint being stirred before it faded away. He was lost to time. All he knew was that he had been watching Kagome since she was swallowed by the bone eater’s well.
At first his heart grew lighter when Kagome decided to go back to her time. Although he worried about her being youkai in the modern world, he hoped that seeing her family would help her somehow. Then he winced as he recalled his half-brother’s anguish call.
He understood how Sesshoumaru felt. He knew it like the back of his hand. Every time he closed his eyes, he could feel Kagome’s pliant body against him; hear her moans of pleasure against his ear… But no matter how sweet the event of that dream, it was always shattered by the torment that followed when both he and Kagome woke up to the reality that what they shared in that dream could never be. Unless…
“Unless I reincarnate in her time…”
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~* Modern Day, The Western Land Fortress *~

“It’s been so long, Tsumi-san. I want to go to her, take her in my arms and never let go. At the same time, I feel so apprehensive. Do you think it’s too early to approach her?”

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The bird youkai glanced up to watch her Master walk to stand by his young Hanyou son by the window. “If you are ready, My Lord…” Tsumi murmured. “I am sure Kagome-sama will be happy to see you.”
The dark-haired boy sitting on a chair by the window looked up from his game boy at his father. “Papa, who is Kagome-sama?”
The Lord of the Western Lands frowned slightly as he kneeled down on one knee before his son. He placed his hands on the little boy’s shoulders as he searched his son’s eyes. “Do you remember the stories I told you about when you were younger? The ones about the Miko who turned Youkai, Ju-chan?”
The young boy nodded his head slowly. “Hai…” He answered slowly… “But…” Ju-chan met his father’s green eyes. “Those stories were just myths, right, Papa? A Miko can’t be a Youkai too…”
“It really happened, Ju-chan, and the Kagome in those stories is here in our time.”
Ju-chan reached out to curl a tendril of his father’s red-orange hair around his finger. “How weird…”
Shippou grinned. “It is, isn’t it? I never was able to explain this to you before. I didn’t know how, but the Miko-Youkai in those stories, Kagome, was… is your grandmother, Son.”
Ju-chan’s eyes widened in confusion. “But Grandma’s name was Rin, Papa…”
Tsumi smiled as she watched the interaction between father and son. She held her breath and clutched the fabric of her blouse as she kept another coughing fit at bay.
“How can I explain this without confusing you even more, Son…” Shippou paused for a moment to think about his explanation. “Well… Kagome adopted Rin and I when we were children as did your grandfather, Sesshoumaru. They both… uh…” Shippou faltered a little before continuing, “Disappeared before you were born. I wish you could have met them both. Remember when I told you that Kagome went back to her time?”
Ju-chan nodded. “Hai, Papa.”
“Well, this is her real time, and now she is back. If only your grandfather, Sesshoumaru, was still with us, Ju-chan. Then it would really be a reunion.” Shippou turned his gaze from his son to Tsumi. “There really is no point in waiting, is there, Tsumi-san?”
Tsumi got up from her chair slowly. “As long as you are ready, Shippou-sama. Kagome-sama will need to know what has happened. She needs to know that Sesshoumaru-sama is gone.”
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~* The Temple of Time in the Realm of In-Between *~

“Repeat.” Juuki said in near desperation as he watched the scenes of his future life before him in the Mirror of Time and Space. Both anguish and anger fought for control as he watched the devastation that was to come. “This is not supposed to happen. It was to be a happy life. How can everything change so much because Kagome went back home?”
“Repeat.” He cried out. Again the scenes unfolded beginning with his soul being born to Shippou and Rin’s daughter, Keiko. His childhood had been happy—spent in constant companionship with his mother, father, Tsumi, and grandmother, Rin. Everything went well, even as his grandmother and mother aged, while he and his father remained young. But Tsumi remained and even though he had seen when Tsumi’s soul would return to the Realm of In-Between, it would have been a peaceful passing. But things changed…
“Everything’s changed. Oh, Kami-sama… Iie.... This just cannot be…” Juuki watched desperately, trying to look for something remotely different. Something that may perhaps change the dark future.
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~* Modern Day Tokyo, The Temple Compound, the next day *~
“You didn’t go to school, Kagome. Are you feeling sick?” Aiko wrapped a shawl around Kagome’s shoulders before sitting next to her on the bench by the Goshinboku. She searched her daughter’s pale face before placing her hand on her forehead, covering the blue crescent moon, to check her temperature. “You don’t seem warm.” She stated softly.
Aiko sighed inwardly. For days, she had watched her daughter grow more and more withdrawn. She didn’t like it one bit. There was something else amiss, and she needed to know that was. She needed to make it right somehow. She took her daughter’s hand in hers and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
“Kagome, please tell me everything. I feel that there’s something wrong. Maybe I can help, if only to listen.” Aiko said softly, a touch of plea in her voice.
Kagome tilted her head away from her mother’s view. “I’ve made some very stupid decisions, Mama. One of them I’m really ashamed of.”
“Go on, Kagome, I’m listening.” Aiko encouraged with another reassuring squeeze.
“Do you remember Shippou-chan? The kitsune cub I told you about?” Kagome began to say as her vision began to blur from the tears in her eyes.
“Hai…”
“I feel so ashamed for leaving him, Mama. When I thought I couldn’t go home when the Shikon no Tama disappeared, I tried to make a new life in Sengoku Jidai. I wanted to be a good mother to him. He lost so much for someone so young.” Kagome voice faltered. “And I left him, Mama. I left him.” Kagome bowed her head and covered her face with her hands in shame as she wept.
“Oh, Kagome…” Aiko began to say, as she wrapped an arm around her daughter’s shoulders.
“Oh, Mama… it’s not only that. I left Rin-chan too.”
“Rin-chan?” Kagome’s mother asked. “The little girl that follows Inuyasha’s half brother?”
Kagome sadly nodded. “I was just so scared, Mama. So scared of everything. I wanted it all to be just a dream.” She tried to wipe away her tears but more flowed to replace them. “When I saw the well again… all I could think of was home, Mama.” Kagome sobbed loudly. “I’m so ashamed for being so selfish.”
Aiko was speechless, not quite knowing what to say. As a Mother, she would do anything for her children, to keep them safe and to keep them close. Hearing her daughter’s words saddened her.
“It’s not only that, Mama…” Kagome continued.
‘There’s more?’ Aiko searched her daughter’s eyes, as she brushed awhe whe wet tendrils that clung to her daughter’s face. ‘My poor dear…’ She thought sadly. “Please go on, Kagome.”

“I also left the man I have come to love. I broke his heart when I left.” Kagome bowed her head, her tears falling on the dark fabric of her skirt. “I hurt him so much. He probably hasn’t forgiven me. If he had, wouldn’t he have come to see me?”
Aiko shook her head in confusion. “I don’t understand… Who is this man, Kagome?”
“Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha’s half brother… I thought maybe he w hav have forgiven me enough to see me.” Kagome turned and held on to her mother as she wept.
“Oh…” Aiko looked out into the distance as she contrived to understand all of her daughter’s pain. Aiko mouthed the words “Kami-sama” before wrapping her arms around her daughter.

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~* Sengoku Jidai, Western Lands Territories *~
A gigantic white dog howled into the night and waited patiently. With its bright red eyes, he watched his surroundings for any movement, and with his massive ears, he listened for any and all sound. A few moments later, he heard the fluttering of feathers and turned his head towards it.
A large sparrowhawk loomed overhead, and looked straight into the large canine’s eyes before descending to the ground and morphed into a more human shape. “Kon’ ban’wa, Sesshoumaru-sama…” Tsumi murmured softly before bowing to the Taiyoukai.
Sesshoumaru took on his human form before acknowledging her. “Kon’ban’wa, Tsumi-san.” He said in a slightly defeated voice.
“Where is Kagome-sama, My Lord?” Tsumi asked, a little concerned, remembering the last incident at the Neutral Zone.
Sesshoumaru looked away briefly before responding. “She’s gone, Tsumi-san. She went back to her time.”

“How can that be? I thought she could not go home without the jewel.” She scanned Sesshoumaru’s face, and saw the effects of Kagome’s departure—from the dark circles under his eyes to the shallowness of his skin. On the outside, the Taiyoukai seemed calm and collected, but she could only imagine the turmoil that’s brewing inside.
“Apparently the Shikon no Tama only allowed her passage to this time… She didn’t need it to go back.” Sesshoumaru bowed his head in wearin
“Gomen ne, Sesshoumaru-sama.” Tsumi began to say, but the Taiyoukai continued to speak.
“I couldn’t stop her, Tsumi-san.” He gave a half-hearted laugh that didn’t quite meet his golden eyes. “The Lord of the Western Lands couldn’t stop his mate from leaving him.” He shook his head at his words, his shoulders slumping.
The Hanyou watched her master sadly. “Doomo Sumimasen, Sesshoumaru-sama.” Tsumi said softly before placing her hand on his left arm. Slightly startled, she looked down at her hand and on Sesshoumaru’s newly regenerated arm.
“Tsumi-san… what am I going to tell the children? This will devastate them.”
Tsumi bit her lip at the sound of near desperation in Sesshoumaru’s voice. “We need to be honest with them, My Lord. It’s the only way.”
“I can’t do it. I can’t face Shippou and Rin. I have to find a way to bring Kagome back.” Sesshoumaru cried out hoarsely and turned to his most trusted friend and ally. “Maybe Myouga might know of other portals or other ways to cross time. If she was able to get to our time, there must be a way to get to hers.”
“I will make contact with Myouga-san immediately. He may still be at Toutousai’s den. We will find a way. I know we will, Sesshoumaru-sama.” Tsumi said encouragingly.
“Arigato, Tsumi-san. You don’t know how much your help means to me.” Sesshoumaru gave her a wan smile.
Tsumi squeezed his arm and nodded, her eyes brimming with tears. “We will get her back, Sesshoumaru-sama.” She reached out to his face. “First, you must rest. You look like you have not slept for some time.”

”I can’t, Tsumi-san. I need to do something now.” Sesshoumaru responded with determination.
“Iie. You cannot find her in this state. You are exhausted. You need rest. Humor this old lady, My Lord.”
Sesshoumaru shook his head and turned his back to her. “I can’t wait, Tsumi-san. I neer.”er.”

Tsumi took a step closer upon hearing the anguish in his voice. “I know, Sesshoumaru-sama. We all need her. But you know I am right.” She squared her back. “I have been a second mother to you for centuries, Sesshoumaru.” She said sternly. “I have never asked you for anything. But I ask you now to rest. You must take care of yourself first. I will watch over you. Onegai, Sesshoumaru.”
After a few seconds, when the words had sunk in, Sesshoumaru turned and bowed his head to Tsumi. “Hai, Tsumi-san. I will do as you asked, but I will leave as soon as I wake up.” Sesshoumaru walked to a nearby tree and lowered himself to the ground. “I do not know when I’ll be back, but I’ll need you to take care of things while I’m away, Tsumi-san.”
Tsumi nodded. “Hai. I will take care of the children and make sure everything is alright until your return.”
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Next chapter teaser: An old friend steps in to make right what was made wrong.

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Questions and Answers:

1. Who was Ju-chan from the last chapter? Did you guess the right Dad? Remember in the earlier chapter when Juuki was telling Inuyasha that one day he was going to reincarnate as Shippou’s son?

2. On the request for more lemons. Almost there… Again, the lemons will only appear in the NC-17 version.

3. How did Buyo get so smart? I love animals and I love observing them. Cats are really funny and interesting creatures. I thought Buyo would lend some comical relief to the angsty chapter. Also, he is very spoiled, so hence, he feels like he’s the “King” or the patriarch of his human family. ;)

4. Will Sess and Kag get together? A resounding YES! So please no more torture threats, ‘kay? LOL

5. Will I update soon? YES! So please no more death threats either. ;)

6. Lea asked about the people in the future. The ailing tori-youkai is indeed Tsumi from the past, but as a Hanyou, her life is not nearly as long as a full youkai. In Kagome’s time, she would be about 2700 years old. Ju-chan’s parentage will be explained in this chapter.

7. To respond to a review I received: I like including the Japanese language in the story and I have done my best to keep it at a minimum to decrease confusion. I am presently learning the Japanese language and its culture. It is my fifth language. It is my intention to go to Japan and produce some of my original work as an anime or manga or both. What better way for me to practice it but by using it in my stories, ne? I will place the glossary before the chapter rather than the ending from now on. If enough people want an English only version, I might consider writing one.

8. Anyanka brought up Kagome’s ability to use Tetsusaiga. Each interesting twist I added to the plot of my story I’ve taken apart, put them back together, and rationalized them to death. This is my rationale. Kagome was able to pull the sword because she was human and thus had the ability to break the seal. I also felt that the only person who can hand over the sword (or decree it) is the sword’s master… I purposely wrote Inuyasha placing the hilt of it in her hands before he committed the last portion of the wish that made her a youkai. Because she was originally human, and she was touching it first as a human when Inuyasha gave up his demon blood to Kagome, I rationalized that during the wish her blood mingled with Inuyasha’s and made her a kind of a Hanyou. I also made the change in her gradual rather than making her a full demon right away. Did that make sense?

There will be more interesting twists and turns coming up. It would be cool to read your take on my rationale.

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Okay… I will really try to follow this schedule from now on.

My Fan Fiction Updates

A Demon Should Act Like A Demon: I plan to post Chapter 21 (22 in ff.net) in a week or less. Chapter 22 (23 in ff.net) about two weeks from Chapter 21.

Kagome’s Second: (My first Bankotsu/Kagome romance and the prequel to The City by the Bay). Prologue Part C posted will be posted soon after Chapter 21 of ADSALAD.

The City by the Bay: Chapter 5 will be posted a week following Prologue Part C of Kagome’s Second.

Sango's Diary: The diary is a prequel and/or a companion to Kagome’s Second and The City by the Bay. The Prologue to Part I to be posted soon after Prologue Part C of Kagome’s Second.
In the planning stages:

Inuyasha’s Jewel: (Inuyasha/Kagome romance). On hold.
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