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Her Eighteenth Birthday	By : TheSlytherinPhoenix Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 26779 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 13
Disclaimer: I do not own INUYASHA or any of the CHARACTERS in the series. I do not make money off the stories that I write with these characters. I am simply a fan playing out a fantasy involving them in my head that I thought others might like to read

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Kagome swore her heart had stopped because she was suddenly feeling dizzy, but she kept her barrier intact despite her world dropping from below her feet. Real mother? She was staring at the demon before her and his blatant disregard for her holy powers secretly terrified her. She didn’t know a demon alive that was not weary of the power she now held, though Inuyasha still hadn’t caught on that she could handle herself nor had her group of friends. She dismissed it as habit, but even Sesshomaru showed some measure of respect for her now that she could effectively injure him when Inuyasha truly couldn’t. But this strange being that looked eerily like her was pretty much slapping the holy power right back at her.
  “Who the hell are you? And what do you mean my real mother?” she spoke, somehow finding her voice after searching for any hint of deceit in his aura. He locked his eyes with hers, caramel meeting that chocolate as power seemed to build between them. She could see him hesitate, glancing to the sobbing woman beyond the barrier before looking back to the woman within reach of him. He had told Aiko he would give her the extra day, but he just didn’t have the time to wait anymore.
  “My name is Akihiko.” He spoke as if that cleared up the entire situation, though Kagome could see he was trying to figure out how to word something else. She still couldn’t stop the feeling that he was somehow familiar, somehow important, but all be damned on both sides of the well if she trusted him just because the unseen forces of the universe told her to do so. “This is harder than I imagined it would be ‘Gome.” She sucked in a breath, the way he said her name sent bells ringing in her mind and she could hear the nickname, but coming from a much different voice, a younger voice.
  “I know your voice… why?” the barrier crumbled as all concentration was lost, her mind scrambling through a fog in her memories. It was as if every time she was close to grasping the pictures in her head they tumbled further down a rabbit hole and out of her grasp completely.
  “Because I am your brother.” She was shaking her head instantly, Souta was inside. “Yes. Think about it. How else could I, an Inuyoukai, touch such holy powers and not wither away into ash? How else could I be so close to you and not have my skin trying to crawl off of me?” His reasoning was solid with the amount of energy she had been pushing out when she believed her family might be in danger. “How else could I travel through the Bone Eaters well?” his voice was a whisper now and she looked to the well house. He had come through it?
  “Prove it.” She spoke the words before she knew she intended to do so. He had to be lying, the only reason Inuyasha could travel through it was the rosary around his neck and she would know if she had put one on Akihiko. He turned his back on her, once again signaling she wasn’t his enemy. Kagome was torn for a breath of time before she was following him, randomly glancing at her unmoving mother until he opened the well house sliding doors and stepped aside for her to join him in the small building. She narrowed her eyes but walked down the stairs with him, watching as he glided over the edge of the well and it swallowed him into the void as it did her. A strangled cry tore from her lips and she was covering her mouth with both of her hands.
  She couldn’t form a word as the lights glowed once more from within the well and he was leaping out of it with little effort to land silently beside her. She was staring at him as if he were something from outer space. An entity she had never seen nor knew existed. “How is this possible?” she managed as tears started to slip down her cheeks, it was finally settling in the pit of her stomach; her whole life was a lie.
  “Because after my mother was killed, our father took a second mate. Midoriko.” Kagome’s head snapped back as if she had been hit, and not gently. She was stumbling but caught herself on the edge of the well before she fell on the ground. “There is so much to tell you Kagome, I swear to never lie to you. Midoriko had many secrets, including you and our father, Masaaki. Tomorrow your world will change more than you can imagine, and you have to be in a safe place for this to happen.” He reached out to her, hesitating for a moment before lightly touching her shoulder.
  She was in shock, pure shock. Her mind was racing and she couldn’t make it stop. How could her world change any more than it just had? “I need to think.” She spoke, shocked at how clear and level her voice sounded. He nodded, telling her would be in the well house waiting for her. She glared at him, watching his hand fall away from her, hating his assumption that she would just go with him but she left him there anyways to go to her family and find out the truth. Her ‘mother’ was looking at her as she walked over to her, kneeling down by her side. “Is it true?” she whispered.
  Aiko’s renewed sobs were enough confirmation for her. The older woman had her face buried in her hands and normally Kagome would have been heart broken and consoled her instantly, but she was simply to hurt and borderline angry to do this. She silently got up and walked towards the house, her body on autopilot as it guided her through the rooms and hallways. All she saw were fabrications and ghosts of memories she didn’t want to relive at the moment. She found herself in her room, staring at a pile of unfolded laundry that she started to do; she had to be doing something or she would scream and start breaking things.
  Brother? Demon? Midoriko? Masaaki? Secrets? Changes? Safe? Not her real family? Everything was spinning around endlessly until she realized she was walking down the stairs with a basket of sorted and folded laundry and headed to the well house to put everything on the remaining shelves. She almost turned back around, but decided she was not a coward and needed to do this before she could leave anyways. Leave? Akihiko wanted her to leave with him. Now. She walked passed his sitting form, noting how he looked up at her from the steps. She didn’t speak, nor did she risk looking at him. She was afraid she would break down if she did, so she focused on arranging a shelf for each person she considered family. She had gotten Sango some sports bras and panties, knowing they would make her more comfortable than the tight wraps she wore, along with pajamas and multiple pairs of yoga pants and spaghetti straps to wear since it was getting hot. Miroku had gotten some boxers and pajamas, along with some baggy cargo pants and t shirts, she had managed to find some wife beaters that would fit both him and Inuyasha so she split the bags between the shelves. Inuyasha had gotten similar clothing to Miroku’s but most of his stuff was red or black. Shippo had wanted beaters to wear, but mostly he said he wanted boxers and pajamas, he would wear them all day if he could but she had gotten him some cargo pants as well. Rin had an assortment of clothes that would fit currently and some she could grow into over time. Her own clothes matched Sango’s but she also had clothes she could access in her room…her mind stalled when she thought about this. Was it really her room now?
  She sighed heavily, her eyes watering before she left the well house. Akihiko could feel her inner turmoil and hated it. He knew he was the cause, but it wasn’t really his fault. It had been planned to do this differently, to integrate themselves in her life all along but when Midoriko had died the well had stopped working and it had taken years to get it to work once more so this was all happening at a rate that would be all consuming and had to be explained very quickly. He would give her time to process, but in the end she had to leave with him, he couldn’t risk her hurting people or people hurting her.
  Kagome walked past the shell of a woman still sitting on the ground and ignored her, as much as she understood why her mother had never told her she had blatantly lied to her the night before about the situation being nothing for her to worry about. She would have preferred to hear this from her, not some stranger. She searched out Souta, watching him play his game for a few minutes before she hugged him out of nowhere, telling him she was heading back to the Feudal Era. She saw that gramps had fallen asleep and left him a note saying she loved him and goodbye. All she had to do was pack up the other backpack with extra clothes and other assortments then she could leave. This took a little time since she rolled and folded everything as small as it could be so she could fit as much in as she wanted, on her way to the well house she hesitated and kissed the top of Aiko’s head which brought about a new wave of tears and her pleas for Kagome to stop and listen.
  Kagome was silently crying as she entered the well house, holding an empty duffel bag in her free hand with her bags slung over her shoulders. She began filling the duffel with some of the items she had gotten, still silent as the grave. This was too much, even if Akihiko hadn’t been here she would most likely have gone back to her friends after this news so the fact that he was here didn’t change that. She would decide what to do once she was back where she felt she truly belonged. She laughed out loud, shaking her head at the way it sounded so lost. She did belong there, it was her real home apparently. Akihiko eyed his younger sister thoughtfully, she was scaring him ever so slightly; she had been around humans for too long he concluded.
  With a look at her new found relative Kagome zipped up the bag, dropped the two backpacks so she could sling the long strap of the duffel across her chest then slipped the backpacks back on. She was slightly off balance for a moment before she settled herself and with effort slung herself over the well. When the void caught her she was relieved, she needed to escape the house of lies in the future and figure out what had caused it all. The next thing she knew she was staring up at the blue sky and the weight on her shoulders lightened slightly before being gone a moment later. Akihiko had taken the backpacks and was jumping out of the well.
  She climbed up after him, grateful yet silent for the moment. After successfully getting out she saw him a few paces away, holding the bags for her. “Thank you.” She mumbled, still unsure of how to act around him. “I’m not going with you.” She stated with more confidence than she had in her body, surprising herself though it didn’t show. He looked at her, blinking in shock.
            “What?” his voice was startled, yet it still held that air of power she had felt when she first felt him at her graduation.
            “I said, I am not going with you.” She dropped the duffel bag by her feet, “I can’t just disappear. I have friends here. A duty. I have a mission to complete. An evil bastard to destroy.” She felt the confidence she had been lacking rising inside her once more. “And I sort of locked my best friend in a barrier he can’t get out of because he is a hanyou.” She mumbled the last part, though Akihiko burst out laughing.
            She was taken by surprise by how warm his laughter was and one again she recognized the sound from some distant memory she couldn’t remember. Compared to Sesshomaru this Inuyoukai was the polar opposite it seemed, how could this be happenng? Shhe watched as he reeled in his amusement at her statemen,. “Your mother used to do that our father all the time when he would anger her. She left Masaaki in there for a week once.” He sighed softly, remembering the days when the four of them were a family hidden in the mountains. He felt her discomfort then, it rolled off her in waves that had him remembering his purpose for the moment. “You can’t stay here right now ‘Gome.”
            “And why the hell not?” She hissed, narrowing her eyes as her energy spiked, Inuyasha had rubbed off on her too much.
            “Because if you do, you might kill everyone you care so much about.” He whispered, looking up to make sure she knew he was not lying. “I told you. Tomorrow will be a critical day, possibly a dangerous day. You have to come with me, I don’t know exactly what will happen.”
            She wanted to scream all over again, “No. I’m not going to hurt anyone. LOOK AT ME! I’m a priestess!! Why in the world would I hurt people I care about?” she had begun to load her bags onto her body once more, hating the weight of them but she had carried heavier before. “I’m going back to my friends Akihiko.” She said firmly, not believing in a million lifetimes she would hurt the people she cared about.
            “One day. I can give you until tomorrow night. But you won’t stay that long.” He sighed softly, but as she turned around to say her two cents worth he was gone. What did he mean she wouldn’t stay that long? Why in the world would she not stay with them? Even if she was going through something, no matter what, she would turn to her friends! Not some stranger just because he claimed to be family. She turned away from the area, determined to go back to the village and pretend none of this had happened, that her life wasn’t a lie, that her brother wasn’t an Inuyoukai but Souta instead, that she was still a simple priestess. Not Midoriko’s daughter, for once in her life she was wishing she truly was just some copy of Kikyo because if she was, nothing would be changing.
            She took her time, trying to figure out a way to put on the cheery mask her friends were used too. She was not one for lying, but after so many years of watching Inuyasha sneak off to see Kikyo she wasn’t exactly perky. Sango had lost her whole family, Kohaku was forced to taunt her. Miroku’s wind tunnel was very slowly killing him in the same way he watched his father perish. Shippo was an orphan and she could tell he viewed her as a mother. Inuyasha had been tricked into a mutual betrayal and pinned to a tree for fifty years only to wake and discover his true love was dead, but would soon be a shell of the woman she once was and walk the lands to haunt him. She sighed softly, Kagome was no better. She was a girl misplaced in time, pulled through a well, thrown into a world of demons and violence, and had misplaced love and devotion when it came to a certain dog eared male. To top it all off she felt like she was a stranger in the world she grew up in, but as it turns out it wasn’t her world but a well thought out stage.
            She reached the dip in the hill that overlooked the valley Edo was built in, looking at the villagers scattered about going on with their happy normal lives. How she envied them in that moment, she could see Inuyasha in the distance still in her barrier. This was going to be bad. She took two minutes to debate leaving and avoiding the moment, but she had to let him out eventually and the longer she waited, the worse it would be. “Dammit all.” She mumbled before forcing her body to move, the only silver lining being she would be able to put all the bags down.
            “Kagome!” Shippo’s voice could be heard as she neared the hut Kaede lived in. She would always associate that excited call with a little bundle of fur barreling into her gut to cuddle, but the new action that accompanied it was far more pleasant. Shippo was nose to nose with Inuyasha now, his hair was long like Miroku’s, and his cute little puffy tail was now long and very much like a foxes. He had started to grow so quickly that she almost hadn’t caught on until his barreling exclamations of excitement started to knock her to the ground. Now Shippo would run up to her and hug her so she was lifted off the ground, then he’d usually take whatever she was carrying.
            “Hey Shippo.” Kagome smiled as she was set down and her shoulders, once again, became lighter. With that feeling she froze for a moment, remembering Akihiko, but tried her best to hide it. “I figured the sooner I got back the better.” She spared a glance at the glaring hanyou and cringed, he looked like he was on the verge of murdering a kitten. Shippo smirked, if only she knew just how angry Inuyasha had been when he realized what she had done she would think he was in a good mood now.
            “Wench! LET ME OUT OF HERE!” Inuyasha was screaming at her. Kagome walked over the barrier, staring into his amber eyes with apprehension.
            “Promise not to go crazy?” she asked him, watching his eyes narrow further and his fingers begin to tap on Tetsusaiga. “I just needed to make sure you didn’t try to drag me back, I’m sorry. I know I went too far. But, you upset me and I acted without thinking. I was so late.” She sighed, knowing he didn’t give a damn about her explanations or her legitimate reasons for going back home. Home. She felt tears threaten to fall down her cheeks and his face crumbled, he thought she was upset about what she had done to him when he saw her eyes fill with unshed tears.
            “Hey.. Kagome.. Don’t cry dammit! Alright alright! I PROMISE! Just let me outta here!” He begged, his whole body having taken on a sort of panicky stance. She let the barrier fall, turning away from him to grab her duffel bag and head into Kaede’s hut. She greeted her friends, not really hearing anything they said because her mind was back on Akihiko and his words and her realization that she didn’t really have a home. Shippo watched the woman he viewed as a mother struggle to maintain her smile and nods at the pauses in conversation, he wondered what was wrong with her but didn’t dare to ask in front of everyone. He was the only one to know what she truly had going on in her head, beyond her smiles and laughter, beyond her bouncy personality he knew she was just like the rest of them. Fighting her own battles.
            “I’m going to go put all the stuff I brought back in my hut. I will be back in a little bit.” She stood, signaling for Shippo to help her with the bags. Inuyasha scoffed at the pair and turned his back to her, still sore over his jail time. Miroku was too busy groping and being hit by Sango to really take notice of her leaving, Sango was beyond bubbling with rage to care since nothing seemed wrong with her friend.
            When the pair stepped into the hut the villagers had built for Kagome Shippo plopped down onto the floor, staring up at his mother. “Spill it momma.” She pulled her energy into herself and pushed it out causing a sudden burst that had Shippo’s hair shifting in the wind it made, the moment her barrier was up she started to sob and crumbled to the floor. Shippo, wide eyed, crawled over to his mother and pulled her into his arms to cradle her against his chest. “Kagome… What happened?”

Authors Note:
Masaaki - Name meaning True Brightness
Akihiko - Name meaning Bright Prince
Inuyoukai - Dog Demon
Hanyou - Half Demon
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