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One Wish	By : Earthnfarie Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 8219 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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She hadn’t been to the village in some years, but now she was heading there. Sango was expecting their fourth child. Kagome had returned once when it was their first, but not since. She had been lucky enough at the time that Inuyasha was back in Edo with Kikyou. This time, she knew, she would not be so fortunate. She was expecting Inuyasha to be there, and that was why she had waited so long before returning again. She preferred to avoid the brash hanyou and his dead mate whenever possible.
This she could not avoid. Their fourth was their first girl. Kagome came bearing gifts for the little one.
Arriving in the village she was welcomed by the people, with Sango and Miroku in the lead. Kagome handed off the gifts, and then went to Sango’s cabin with her. She wasn’t there long before she was tsking over their lack of herbs.
“There is a garden, but lately I tire too quickly to get more than what is essential.”
“Is there no healer to help you?”
Sango and Miroku exchanged a glance. “The healer is Kikyou,” Sango explained. “She and I still don’t get along well.”
Kagome nodded, and picked up a large basket. “I will be back shortly.”
“Kagome you don’t have to-”
“But I want to, for my sister.”
Sango sat back on the chair she was in with a nod.
“I will show her where they are my dear.”
Kagome and Miroku stepped out of the door, and she glanced at him. His eyes were still haunted whenever he looked at her. She knew that he was punishing himself far more than she could punish him, and yet, it wasn’t what she wanted for him. She wanted him to be happy.
They reached the meadow where the various herbs for the new slayer village grew in mass. Kagome kneeled to pick, and as she did began to speak. “There once was a man who was in love with a beautiful woman. He was very faithful to her, and wanted to give her the world, even if she didn’t know it yet. The man knew that the woman wanted children, his children.” Miroku fell heavily to the ground beside her, and began to pick the herbs unseeing. “He was a good man, and one day he came upon a horrid choice. He had to choose to save his love, and give her the potential of the world she wanted, or forsake it for someone else, a girl he barely knew.”
“Kagome-”
“Let me finish Miroku.” When he nodded she continued, “The man couldn’t turn his back on the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with for a girl that wasn’t even meant to be in that place. So he made the choice that anyone in his place would make. He saved his love.” Kagome rose, and went to another place with different herbs. “He let that day haunt him though, and let the guilt eat him alive.” She sighed. “He didn’t need to though, even the girl he turned his back on knew he had made the right choice, though it took her time to know herself. He had only fulfilled his destiny, and allowed her to do the same in his acts. He freed her that day. He set into action the events that would bring the downfall of an evil hanyou, and end a curse and evil reign.” She stopped and looked at him.
“It took me a long time Miroku, but I forgive you, you did the right thing. I would have hated you even more if anything had happened to Sango because you stayed for me.” She laid a hand on his shoulder to reassure him. “It’s time to forgive yourself; doesn’t be a prisoner anymore to misplaced guilt.”
Miroku nodded, trying to keep from the tears. Then he looked up at her, and she saw in his eyes he was already healing. “Kagome have you ever spoken to anyone what happened?”
“No.” She looked away, knowing she would have to tell him some to help him fully heal.
“Maybe you should.”
“When I am ready.”
Miroku nodded, but then asked, “You said the man freed her?”
“Yes.” She didn’t let the hurt overwhelm her. “You see she, when she was born, had another soul entangled with her own. That night, that soul was ripped away from her own. In that action she was freed to be herself. She was being held back by that soul, and with it still there the evil hanyou may have never been defeated.”
Miroku was silent. Then Kagome said, “You should get back to your wife. I will finish picking what she needs, and return.”
Miroku gazed at her for a moment, then nodded, and did as she suggested.
Kagome continued to pick the various herbs that Sango would need. She felt a pressure of a person she wanted to see least coming, but ignored it. She knew this time would come. She wondered how he would be now. She wasn’t surprised when he stopped not too far away, and stayed there. He was watching her again, and probably noting how she wasn’t ageing. She wondered how he would feel about that.
After several more minutes she straightened up, and turned to where he was. “Just come out.” She said normally. She watched as he dropped from a tree, and approached her. She turned her back on him, and went back to what she was doing.
“You look well.”
Kagome ignored him. He attempted several more times for small talk, all of which Kagome ignored.
He let out an exasperated sigh, “Why are you doing this? It doesn’t have to be like this.”
Kagome straightened up, and looked him dead in the eyes with a glare. “No? And why is that?”
“Kagome that’s all in the past. It’s been nearly ten years.”
“One would think that time heals all wounds when they aren’t the one wronged.”
“Kagome-”
“Don’t you use that tone with me Inuyasha! You have no right! You got what you wanted didn’t you? So just leave me alone!” Kagome snapped.
“No,” he said hanging his head low. “This isn’t what I wanted.”
Kagome couldn’t feel sorry for him, not after everything he had done to her. “I guess that’s karma.”
His head came up, and he growled at her.
“Don’t you growl at me! This is all of your own making. Don’t you see that Inuyasha?” Her voice softened. “After everything we went through together. After all the times I stood by you through anything, and you just ran off to her.” She stepped closer to him. “How could this not be what you wanted? You knew as well as I did what her intentions were that night. You knew she wanted the soul inside me, and what did you do? You left me there with her, to die. Inuyasha this is only what you made it.”
“You were too weak!” He choked out.
Kagome stepped back. “Yes, I was, but does that really justify it?”
Inuyasha fell to his knees in front of her, “No.”
“This is the life you made for yourself.”
Kagome picked up the basket, and turned from Inuyasha to the one behind her. “Did you really think I wouldn’t know you were there?” She asked as she caught the dagger.
Kikyou sneered at Kagome, “One could hope.”
“Your hope is in vain.” Then Kagome smiled, “Still needed the souls of others to survive?” Kikyou tried to slap Kagome, but she caught that hand too. “I’ll take that as a yes.” Then she shoved the older miko back from her. Kagome stepped to where both Inuyasha and Kikyou were in view.
Inuyasha rose, “What do you mean Kagome? Kikyou has her soul; she doesn’t need to have other’s souls like before.”
“Never told him huh? Not surprised honestly.” Kagome said to Kikyou then looked at Inuyasha. “Did you never question why your mating mark fades, and must be reapplied?”
Inuyasha looked at Kikyou startled, but asked, “How did you know?”
“It’s fading again. You will need to remark her soon.”
Inuyasha looked at Kikyou’s mark, and saw she was right. He let out a weary sigh. “Kagome, do you know why?” He couldn’t look her in the eyes.
“Because she is still withholding some of my soul. It is the only way she is still a miko.” Kikyou said.
Kagome laughed, and addressed Kikyou. “You would like to believe that wouldn’t you? No you took all of your soul, and you and I both know it. You are not alive. You are still the walking dead. And this is part of your punishment for the deeds you committed as you are now, as well as in life. You have forsaken you destiny twice now, and that won’t go unpunished, as a miko you know this. You just don’t want to admit it to others. You will never achieve the life you want until you make amends for your crimes.”
Inuyasha looked at Kikyou stunned. She was not the woman he had once loved, and even more every day he saw that. “Kikyou is this true?”
“No! She lies! She is only saying that so she can keep the jewel! If we take it we can wish me alive!” Kikyou told him.
“But that would be a selfish wish.” Inuyasha told her. He liked Kikyou less every day, and this only showed how she was not the woman he had loved. She was just a shell that looked like her. He had thought when she got her soul she would be the Kikyou he had known, but she wasn’t.
“Not if Kagome makes it.” She said with a smile. She knew this time she was ahead of that damn whore. She would teach her a lesson for interfering with her plans. No one defied Kikyou, and got away with it.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome, and she knew if he had asked her to do this before that fateful night she would have for him. Now she wouldn’t. She was surprised when he didn’t ask. “If Kagome is stuck here it is because she has already made a wish, and the jewel is gone.”
Kagome didn’t correct him, and wondered if Kikyou would be able to tell that she hadn’t.
Kikyou looked at Kagome, and then to Inuyasha then back again. Did he still hold some connection to this girl? She narrowed her eyes at Kagome. She needed to die to be sure she wouldn’t meddle in her plans anymore. She deserved to die for what she had done, and who she was. She was an abomination in this world, and Kikyou wanted to purge her from it once and for all. She needed to die so Kikyou could live as she wanted, and so the filthy woman wouldn’t be allowed to continue as she had been. “I think we should cut the jewel out of her to be sure.”
“No.” Inuyasha told her firmly.
Kikyou glanced at him, “What?”
“I said no. Haven’t you done enough to her already? Leave her alone.” Inuyasha replied.
While the attention wasn’t on her from the two arguing, Kagome slowly backed away, and then covered her scent and aura, and returned to Sango.
**
She wakes. She was always awake. She felt like she never slept, but she didn’t tire. She went to the edge of the village, and looked out over the land as a light drizzle began to fall. She let the cool touch on her skin sooth her.
It was times like these she wanted to run. She wanted to disappear, and be left alone. She wanted to vanish, and just leave it all behind. She wanted to be happy again. She was tired of the torrent of emotions that washed through her daily. She remembered what it was to be the carefree child, and she wanted it back. She wanted that joy to touch her again.
She wanted to be free.
She didn’t react when Inuyasha came up behind her. He stopped, and she knew he was looking over the land like she was. “I will be leaving soon.”
“Because of Kikyou?”
“She wants me dead. I am in danger every moment here, and I grow tired of looking over my shoulder.” She replied.
“I could fix this.”
Kagome sighed. “Not for me. I won’t ask you to do that.”
“You’re not really her reincarnation are you?”
“No.”
There was a pregnant pause. Then Inuyasha turned Kagome to look at him. “Will you ever forgive me?”
“Maybe, but not anytime soon,” She told him.
He stared into her eyes, and then laid a hand on her cheek for a moment before returning to his hut.
Fire burned in Kagome’s eyes.
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