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Rise Of The Shikon Miko	By : golden_eyes_hypnotize Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 2628 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the characters herein. I make no money by this writing. This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to real people is all in your head.

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Chapter 25

Kagura was late. And by the looks of things, that wasn’t the only thing bothering his brother. Only one thing could put that look on a guy’s face: a female. Feeling brave in his new position as Confider of Kagome Secrets, Inuyasha said, “So are you gonna tell me what’s eatin’ you, or what?”

His only answer was a low growl.

“Look, I know Kags was upset last night, but she really isn’t one to stay mad long, so whatever happened after is on you, man.”

Another growl. “My chosen is in excellent emotional health this morning.”

“Excellent? Well, what the hell is the problem, then?”

“Kagome has lain with another inu.”

“What?!—No she…,” He was cut off by a “Silence!” from his brother.

Sesshoumaru continued, “The wind witch approaches.”

They sat in silence waiting for Kagura to come to the door. Inuyasha was trying to figure out what had gotten that insane idea into his brother’s head and Sesshoumaru was busy stewing in his jealous rage.

At length, there was a knock on the door and Inuyasha opened it to let her in. Throwing a glance over her shoulder, knowing Naraku had spies everywhere, she swiftly entered and slammed the door behind her. She looked to Sesshoumaru and said, “We will need a barrier.”

He wasn’t sure what she was about, but he manipulated his energy into creating an impenetrable barrier around the home.

When Kagura sensed it, she said, “I know what you’re up against and I can help.”

Inuyasha scoffed, but Sesshoumaru sensed only sincerity and fear coming from her. He would allow her to explain herself and then decide what to do with her.

Kagura was concise and thorough as she laid out everything she knew about the hanyou Naraku.

……………………..

The witch left the way she came and took off on her feather boat. As they watched her sail away, Inuyasha turned to his brother and asked, “Think any of that’s true?”

“It would appear she has no reason to lie. She comes to us merely for self-preservation, however. Do not mistake that for an alliance.”

“Yeah, I get it. I still don’t like her. I can’t forget the way she treated Kagome and she is tied to her old man, no matter what she thinks of him. Hey, so where the hell did you get the idea that Kagome was with another inu? I can tell you right now that’s not true, I…,”

Once again he was cut off. “You do not know all of her history. It was obvious to this Sesshoumaru. She communicated with an inu gesture that is only taught to chosens and pups. She has no way of knowing that without having been very intimately involved with…”

Now he was the one cut off. “Sesshoumaru, you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. I fucking told her to do it when we were leaving last night. Pops told me about it when I mated but I didn’t realize it was supposed to be a fucking secret. I was just trying to throw you two a bone, you idiot.” Inuyasha was thoughtful for a minute. “So she did it, huh? Shit, I didn’t think she’d do it so soon. And you wasted it? What an idiot!”

Sesshoumaru’s mind was going a mile a minute. He had ignored his chosen when she tried to get him to talk to her. He had smelled her pain when her questions had gone unanswered while they readied themselves for the day. He had purposely left the house half an hour early to avoid her—all because he was jealous of something that had never happened.

But what if it had? He knew she had been with other men, but it just made him crazy thinking of her with another inu. With an inu so close to her that he would have told her about that way of communicating. Who was he kidding, even thinking too long about the other men she had loved, and still did because that was the way of her heart, made him completely unsettled. She was his. She had always been his, but he had no way to rewrite the past. If he could, he would start with that monster of a father of hers falling dead moments after he conceived Kagome with her mother.

Inuyasha was still talking, but Sesshoumaru had to get home. His father would be bringing the old miko by but before they could start her evaluation and training, he had to see his chosen.

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Meanwhile, Kagome was preparing a special lunch for when the daiyoukai returned. She had found fresh rabbit in her expedition of the walk in refrigerator and decided it was perfect for her inu. She was making her favorite, oden, a kind of winter stew made with lots of yummy ingredients in a light, soy-flavored dashi broth, with her mother’s special recipe that had come from Kagome’s grandmother. For the tsukune, or fish or meat balls, she would make them with the rabbit meat. She added sliced daikon radish, boiled eggs, konyakku (a gelatin made from a flowering plant that is cut into noodles,) carrots, shitake mushrooms, cabbage rolls, ganmodoki (fried tofu and vegetable balls,) and chikuwa (large surimi tubes.)

The house smelled amazing and Jaken was helping her clean up when she felt the familiar aura of her one approaching. She threw the last of the utensils in the dishwasher, slammed it shut and set it to run and grabbed a dishcloth and wiped down the counter quickly. She untied her homemade Hello Kitty apron and hung it beside Sesshoumaru’s pristine white one in the pantry. She ran a quick hand over her hair she had tied up in a high ponytail before heading out to the foyer.

He was just getting out of his coat and shoes and had a subtle expression on his face that, if she didn’t know any better, looked a whole lot like guilt. He kept looking away after meeting her eyes and his brow was crinkled. Not to be deterred, she walked up to him and took his hand, leading him into the dining room. After she got him settled in his chair at the head of the table, she returned to the kitchen to fill two bowls and returned, serving him from the left, before moving to her chair at his right and sitting down.

“You prepared this?” he asked. How could she have done this for him after the way he had treated her this morning?

She smiled as she blew on a spoonful of broth. “Yep. You seemed out of sorts this morning and I wanted to do something to cheer you up.”

He reached for the hand that was in her lap and met her gently smiling eyes with his troubled ones. She put her spoon down. He began, “Kagome. This Sesshoumaru is sorry for my behavior this morning. Not for our sharing of pleasure, never for that, but for my moodiness after.” She said nothing, just waited patiently for him to continue. “This Sesshoumaru was confused and jealous that you had knowledge of such an intimate custom. You see, it is only shared with intended mates and pups. My beast and I reacted strongly to what you did, of course, but afterwards, I felt jealous that some other inu had been that close to you.”

Considering her own bout of jealousy that was indirectly responsible for their play that morning, she definitely couldn’t judge him for his own feelings. She got up from her seat and stood beside him. With a hand moving in a gentle caress of his anxious face, she pulled him to her breast and held him. He let her. Stroking his hair, she said in a quiet, soothing voice, “You must have gone to Inuyasha about it. Did he tell you he’s the one that told me?”

He nodded his head in her hold; there was a curious lump in his throat that prevented speech. No one had held him thus since his mother’s passing.

“You know he didn’t mean any harm by it. Inuyasha’s been quite the little matchmaker with us and he probably hoped for just the sort of magic that happened this morning. Are you upset that he told me?” When he shook his head in the negative, she lifted his chin to look in his eyes before continuing, “I’m sorry that it upset you after. But I hope the next time something happens, and things always happen in life, that you will feel comfortable enough to use your words and come to me.” She couldn’t resist poking him with his own words from when she had been pouting and ended with a mischievous smirk to lighten the mood.

The reference was not lost on him as he narrowed his eyes and swatted her behind playfully.

……………..

Just as they were tucking back in to their meal, there was a familiar flare of youki announcing Toga’s arrival. They got up to greet their visitors and everyone took a place at the dining room table as Kagome brought in piping hot bowls of oden for their guests. Her tsukune were a huge hit with the inu and in fact they got quite loud fighting over the last rabbit ball. Kaede and Kagome met eyes across the table with a similar, wearied expression of ‘Men!’

After lunch, the women excused themselves to the empty space of Kagome’s study where Jaken had thoughtfully placed pillows on the floor on which they would sit. The males headed off to the dojo to practice their fighting skills.

Kagome helped the older woman down on her plush pillow before taking to her own. Her cat, Buyo, followed them into the room and settled down beside Kagome’s pillow. Kaede would start by probing the younger woman’s aura and inspecting what she could of the curse placed on her.

She led Kagome into a meditative state, which proved difficult because the girl’s mind was always going. At great length, she settled sufficiently for Kaede to begin her work. She opened her mind to see her aura and what she saw made her suck in her breath in wonder of the evil at work. Kagome’s aura was a bright, shining pink that shimmered in opalescence where it wasn’t touched by the brownish ropes that circled her chest and abdomen and squeezed her soul like a corset. She had never seen anyone endure such a binding and live. She watched as the ropes seemed to suck in wisps of the girl’s pure energy, gathering it into a rope of pinkish white, glittering light that it sent off into the distance. So the monster was feeding on her. After 32 years of milking such a powerful child of her energy, he would be a mighty foe, indeed.

She centered herself back in her own mind and body and prepared to give her charge the news. “Kagome, child.” The younger woman slowly opened her eyes and focused them on the elder miko. “I do not have the power to break this curse.”

………………..

Father and son were slashing at each other with their legendary swords: Toga with Sou’unga, Sesshoumaru with Bakusaiga. They were both masters in armed combat and his father was really the only demon left that Sesshoumaru could spar with at full power. Moving quicker than the human eye can perceive, they danced together in their mock battle.

“I couldn’t help but notice, son, how much of your scent was layered over Kagome’s own,” his father said between strikes.

“Hn.”

“You were warned, were you not, to go slowly with the girl?”

“This Sesshoumaru’s chosen is not as fragile as you and my brother seem to think.”

“Sesshoumaru, I know your instincts are raging—believe me, I know—but with the things she’s been through…,”

He was cut off by, “It was Kagome who initiated the events of this morning, Father. She is my one; she is strong.”

“Well, I’ll be damned.” He was truly stunned and it cost him a fine, linen shirt. Sesshoumaru lunged and slit the sleeve of his right arm, purposely moderating his attack so as not to draw the blood of his sire.

“I was as shocked as you when she approached me in the shower, but I will not mate her until she reaches her potential. I want her to know that what she will accomplish she was done by her own power so she never questions her worth again.”

Lowering his sword, his father warned, “Alright. I agree that your idea has merit, but will you tell her?”

“She remains unaware of the benefits mating will have on her and I intend to keep them from her until we are mated.”

“Son, she already cares for you a great deal. And given time together that will only grow. But do you not think she will start to question why you have not mated her as time passes? I do not know Kagome as well as Inuyasha, but I do know her better than you. I can tell you her insecurities will mount and create a wall between you if you do not give her a reason why you wait.”

Though he considered his father’s words, he was confident in his plan. She may wonder why they failed to consummate their relationship, so he would just have to be creative in his ways to show his chosen the closeness she needed. Hell, that they both needed. He answered his father simply with a “Hn” before raising his sword again.

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