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To Protect the Alpha Female	By : Sylean Category: InuYasha > General Views: 10682 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter 24: To Learn of One’s Father

They returned to the village with Kagome still unconscious. After relaying the passing of Kikyo to Kaede, Inuyasha never left Kagome’s side. When she did wake, the weight of guilt he felt finally lifted.

“I see, so you did come for me, after all,” she smiled weakly and tried to sit up and look around. “Where is Sesshomaru? Or was it a dream… I thought I saw him, before-”

“He left once we got you back to the village,” Inuyasha’s voice stayed low, guilt ridden, for it wasn’t himself that saved her.

“Oh,” why did that upset her? Did she really expect him to be waiting at her bedside? She had hoped so, but why?

“I’m sorry; I wasn’t there for you,” Inuyasha professed his failures. ‘If Sesshomaru hadn’t saved you, I would have lost you, too.’

“I understand, Inuyasha,” she just smiled. ‘You can’t help but want to find her, but you came for me anyways.’

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‘That was odd,’ Kagome thought to herself as she walked towards her house. Inuyasha didn’t even put up a fight about me coming back home this time. “There’s nothing for you to do around here anyways,” his words echoed in her head. It must have been the guilt talking still; she didn’t like seeing him so gloomy, but who was she to complain when it made it so much easier to go home, for once.

“Mom, I’m home,” Kagome hollered.

“Kagome, welcome back dear,” Mrs. Higurashi said cheerfully.

“Well, well, you were gone for some time, it was hard coming up with excuses for your school,” her grandpa commented.

“Mhmm,” she responded, fatigue and confusion weighing on her mind. It wasn’t only schoolwork and relaxation she wanted this time, she had some issues that only a mother could help her sort out, guy problems.

After a decent meal, she snagged her mother for some long overdue heart-to-heart, “What is the problem, Dear?” Her mom always knew when something was up; how, Kagome had yet to figure out.

“Well, you see,” Kagome started nervously, “there’s this guy, from the past.”

“Oh, is this about Sesshomaru?” her mother surmised.

“What? How did you know that?” Kagome nearly fell out of her chair; could her mother read her mind or what?

“He sent Inuyasha here a while ago to request permission to court you,” she clarified, demystifying her seemingly random guess.

“He did what? And what did you tell him?” her tone accusatory.

“That it would be your decision alone,” she soothed. “I can’t make such a decision for you. So tell me, what is it that is bothering you?”

“He, confuses me,” she began. “I’m not sure if he likes me, for me, or if he just wants to… wants to have me give him pups.”

“I see,” her mother listened patiently, sensing there was more.

“He also seems to think I’m some kind of Angel’s child or something,” she let her voice raise in exasperation. “Ridiculous, huh?”

“Oh my,” her mother sighed. “I suppose I should have told you when you began travelling through the well.”

“Mom?” Kagome’s voice cracked. “Tell me what exactly?”

“Your father, he was sent to keep watch over this shrine, and especially the Goshinboku,” she recounted. “I first saw him when I was a young girl. Even though I wasn’t supposed to be able to see him, I could.”

“Sent by who?” she pressed uncomfortably.

“By the kami’s,” her mother smiled.

“Is that someway of saying you were destined to meet, like soul mates?” Kagome tried to rationalize. People often refer to their significant other as a godsend, and Kagome hoped that was her mother’s metaphorical meaning. If it was the other possibility…

“No, my dear. I mean he was literally sent to watch over the Goshinboku by the kami themselves,” Mrs. Higurashi reiterated. “Your father was a Tenshi.”

“You can’t be serious,” she exclaimed.

“I understand your confusion, since your memories of him are after he lost his powers, but when I first saw him, he was a most beautiful angel; there was no mistaking that glow,” a faint blush tinted her cheeks at the memory.

“So I really am a… Tenshi No Ko?” her mouth hung open. Sesshomaru was right, but was that a good thing or not?

“Yes, my dear,” her mother clarified. This is when Kagome’s mind turned to goop; it was impossible. “I know it’s a lot to take in.”

“But, I mean, how did he… does that mean Souta is one too?” Kagome mentally grasped at anything she could find, trying to make sense of all this.

“No, Souta is human, by the same father,” she continued to explain. “An angel can only remain on this plane for a short time before they loose their supernatural powers, as your father did. By the time Souta was conceived, he had none left. You however, being half human, can live here while still holding on to the power he passed along to you. I would guess that is why the well allows you passage, since Tenshi can manipulate time.”

“But, Inuyasha can cross too, and he’s not Tenshi,” she pointed out.

“He wears your power around his neck,” her mother reminded.

Kagome gasped, ‘The rosary…’ They sat in companionable silence, letting the information percolate. Kagome had always suspected the necklace was what connected them, but now she knew for certain.

“Your father’s time ran out, his powers dwindled, but still, he refused to leave us, not after having caught sight of you,” she reminiscence in detail. “It is rare for an angel to have children with a human, they bond out of love, not just lust or political reasons as demons do. They are also impossible for most humans, and demons, to even see, making Tenshi No Ko extremely rare, even more so in the future where there are so few god tree’s left to protect, compared to the past.” Kagome could tell that her mother truly loved and missed him, and he must have given up so much to stay with them. In the end, he even lost his life to the decision to stay.

“I miss him,” Kagome sympathized. She had been very young when he passed, but she could still recall the kindness in his eyes, the love in his arms… Her father, was a true angel, and not just because of where he was from either.

“You say you are unsure what this demon feels for you, whether or not he wants you, or just wants to use you,” Mrs. Higurashi began. It was a warning her late husband had passed on to her, telling her that should their daughter ever be courted by a demon, to make sure their intentions were pure. Some may only try to breed her, due simply to her immense power and the potential it could bring. “But what do you feel for him?”

Kagome froze for a second as she tried to figure that out for herself. “I, I’m not sure…” she admitted. She had only recently begun to think about him like that. “He’s… not very talkative, and behaves rather coldly towards everyone. He rarely smiles, and is known to be a ruthless killer… but, he’s protected me too. And he let me pet him, in his true form; he’s a giant dog, taller than our house.” She really hadn’t gotten to know him very well, he was still just doing as he pleased and not talking to her beyond what was necessary. “I agreed to let him court me, so I could get to know him better, but he hasn’t really talked to me any more than before I agreed.” ‘In fact, I haven’t really had a chance to spend time with him since he licked me,’ Kagome recounted the time spent apart. ‘We went into Mount Hakurei right after that, and I only saw him briefly when he saved me from Naraku’s infant. I kind of… miss him.’ Since when had she begun to expect, and look forward to, his silent company?

“I trust your decision, Dear,” her mother soothed, “just promise me one thing?” Kagome turned her full attention to her mother, waiting for those next words. “Only allow him what he’s after, once he proves he cares for who you are, not what you are.”

(A/N: I’ve probably said this before but, Kagome is Kagome is Kagome. I will not change who she is, not even slightly, I am only offering an explanation as to why she has her powers. Just because she knows of her lineage doesn’t mean she will change, only difference is she knows about it now.)

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As if her patriarchal discovery wasn’t enough stress, the next day at school Kagome was coerced into participating in the cultural festival and there were reconstituted demons running around. Turned out the dried foods she brought back for her grandfather, would turn back into demons if they were boiled, who knew. So now she had to sing lead in the choir performance, help remake all the food, and play the heroine in the romantic play she was dragged into. It was just her luck that Hojo was the male lead. Could this day get any worse? She should have known better than to jinx herself, for no sooner had that thought crossed her mind, than did Inuyasha crash onto the stage right in the middle of her performance. Apparently he didn’t like the romantic scene and made sure to interrupt it before the human boy could get to close to Kagome. The demon exploding through the stage was both blessing and curse, since it prevented the two males from coming to blows, but it also caused Inuyasha to use Windscar, blowing the roof off the auditorium. Mortified beyond belief, she made up a few lines and got him to carry her out of there, bringing the play to a succinct end.

Even now, the next morning, Inuyasha was still getting on her case about the human boy. Hoisting herself out of the well, she groaned out, “I told you Inuyasha, nothing is going on between Hojo and I. We were only performing a play, it’s a form of entertainment.”

“Well, find some ‘entertainment’ that doesn’t involve throwing yourself at some guy,” Inuyasha scoffed gruffly.

“It wasn’t entertainment for me,” her voice rose in pitch. There were so many other things she would have rather been doing, and none of them involved Hojo. He was nice, just, too pushy, and dense, and boring. So, not her type; no, she seemed to go for emotionally constipated dogs.

“For him?” Inuyasha asked appalled.

“No! We were acting, pretending to be fictional characters to tell a story to the audience. I mean really, do you honestly think I would go by the name of ‘Lady Escargot Pudding’? Do you even have any idea what Escargot is?” she cringed as the physical representation of that name came to mind; it was basically like calling her puréed snail dessert. Nauseating; she shuddered in disgust at the thought.

“That doesn’t change the fact that he wants you, he absolutely reeked of desire for you,” Inuyasha pointed out, only gaining an irritated groan from Kagome. Such was obvious, but her polite refusals didn’t seem to resonate with the love-struck boy.

“A challenger?” Sesshomaru asked as he appeared from the forest surrounding the well. He had no intention of appearing but hearing her arguing piqued his curiosity.

How long had he been there? “Ugh, not you too. Don’t you get it; things are different where I’m from,” she addressed both of them, her annoyance with the topic reaching the end of her nerves. She just wanted it dropped already; it was embarrassing enough to recall. “So what if he likes me, he won’t do anything. The only annoying thing is how dense he is; he makes Inuyasha look like the most perceptive person around.” A little mean, maybe, but she felt he deserved it with how exasperating he was being.

“Hey!” as expected, he hollered back in defense.

Kagome ignored him and turned her attention to the other significant event that happened over her visit home, “Oh, and Sesshomaru, I wanted to talk to you about… uhh, something.” Kagome hesitated; she didn’t want to tell Inuyasha what she was, yet. It was hard enough having his expectations increase at being Kikyo’s reincarnation, but if he, and her other friends, learned her father was an actual angel, they would probably expect her to do more than she was capable of. No, thank you! She would stay Kagome to them, ordinary and common.

Sesshomaru wondered over what she wanted to speak with him about, and whereas he would not admit it or let it show, he was a little concerned. They had just been talking about another male; she wasn’t going to back out of their courtship, was she? It took long enough to get her consent. He also noticed she left off his title again, that couldn’t be a good sign. He motioned for her to follow and she fell in line behind him, chewing on her lip as she tried to sort out her thoughts. She knew his intentions towards her were originally to breed her, and she would not give in if that were all she was to him. She needed to know if he still only wanted her for her “reproductive potential” as the book said, or if he could see her for whom she was, not just what she was.

Once far enough away, he waited for her to find her words, “You were right, about what I am…” She looked away, as if this fact ashamed her. Did she not understand just how rare that made her? “I just found out my father… was a Tenshi.”

“Was?” he pressed, looking for what the issue that plagued her to be.

“It’s... complicated,” she began. “He died in a car crash when I was little, but even if he had still been alive, he would be human.” He would have to ask what a car was at a later time, when she was not so emotional. “Tenshi can’t stay on earth without losing their powers.”

“Hn,” this explained much.

“What I need to know,” she brought her fierce eyes up to his, her timid voice turning hard with conviction, “did you only pick me because I’m half Tenshi? If I were fully human, would you still want me?” She would not be just his breeder, not on her life.

He wasn’t sure how to respond, her lineage was the concluding factor to make him begin pursuit, for it settled the issue of an heir being inferior, but even before he learned of her kind… he could find no fault besides her blood. He knew what she wanted to hear, that her blood didn’t matter, but it did, and he would not lie. He needed to find a truth that would settle her irrational accusations. What could he possibly say?
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