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Kagome's Blue Light	By : Earthnfarie Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 9808 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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   The final battle was over. Naraku had been cleansed from the Earth at last. It had been horrific even for the battle hardened humans, but now it was over and they could continue on with their lives. They could put behind them all the torture they had endured at the evil hanyou’s hands, but it would take time.
   Now they faced a foe possibly worse than Naraku himself- The Shikon No Tama. The jewel had been fused and cleansed by Kagome, and the time had come for the wish to be made.
   Even Sesshomaru had arrived to see the final event. He appeared early in the morning, but stayed on a hill outside of town. The town’s folk still eyed the silent, stoic taiyoukai warily as they went about their day. They were wise enough to know that while this youkai could bring destruction, it was unlikely he would; still youkai ways were unpredictable creatures best left alone.
Kagome- feeling and recognizing Sesshomaru’s aura- went to greet him. As she walked up the hill he turned to her and she waved in greeting. “Sesshomaru-sama,” She bowed to him, “I wanted to thank you for your part in the final battle. I am grateful.”
Sesshomaru noted this was the first time she had used the proper honorific with him. He looked down on the woman before him. “Hn.” He merely replied.
Kagome gazed up into the cold lord’s face. She knew he was most likely the most dangerous youkai in the world, but she found it hard to fear him after she had gotten to know him better in the months he had traveled with their group. Between finding out the story behind Rin, and how he had saved her numerous times- including in the last battle- she couldn’t see him as heartless anymore. Somewhere along the way she began to feel comfortable in his presence, and now even enjoyed the calm of his silence.
Kagome realized she had drifted off as she stared at the lord, and shook her head. “I didn’t think you’d come Sesshomaru-sama. Did you bring Rin?”
“No.”
“Oh.”
They lapsed into a silence again until Sesshomaru broke it. “Have you decided on a wish?”
Kagome looked away. She knew why he was here and didn’t bring his ward, and Kagome couldn’t blame him- she was scared too. Kagome twisted her toe on the ground as she said, “I- I’m… I’m not making a wish.” She let the silence reign. “That’s why you didn’t bring Rin isn’t it?” She said it more as a statement than a question, but the words still hung between them.
“So the hanyou will wish.”
“Yes.”
“Do you think that wise?”
Kagome couldn’t answer because a big part of her didn’t think it was. But she had to know the final truth, didn’t she? She had to know who Inuyasha was going to choose- her or Kikyo, and somewhere in her heart she already knew. This would just make it final in a very irrevocable way.
As they stood on the hill in silence together one of Kikyo’s soul collectors flew past. Kagome couldn’t even glare at it. Instead she felt a remorse that seemed to have no beginning, end or reason for being. She couldn’t say why specifically, but she knew that after today it all would change and she didn’t want it to. Kagome wanted to put the moment off as long as possible, but the dead miko was here. She knew soon her peace would be broken.
“You two coming or not?!”
Kagome flinched at Inuyasha’s voice, and Sesshomaru looked down on her once more. “Why go through with it?” He asked. This strange girl was truly a wonder. She was amazing. Kagome had all the qualities of a great mate yet she was human. Worse she continued to have faith of some kind in his half-breed bother, but Sesshomaru couldn’t help but wonder about the ningen. He found himself actually caring about her.
“Hmm?” Kagome looked up into Sesshomaru’s yellow gaze. In that moment her breath was taken away in the astonishing emotion she saw there. As soon as he noticed her reaction his cold demeanor was back, and Kagome could focus again. “Because I once promised him no matter what I would be by his side. On the way back here after we completed the jewel he took me aside one night. He asked me to let him make the wish, to trust him, and to be by his side in this. I couldn’t say no.” Kagome explained.
As much as she wanted to refuse him she knew that she never would. Kagome refused to be like everyone else in the broken hanyou’s life, and betray him, or worse walk away. She would always stand by his side as long as he wanted her there because she had promised to.
“So it is honor.” He said then he turned. “Let us go see the fate he has chosen.” He began to walk toward the village.
When Kagome didn’t immediately follow him he looked back to her. He watched as she took her gaze from him and looked once more of into the distance as if this was the last time she would see it. Then she turned back to Sesshomaru. Her gaze strayed to an impatient Inuyasha, and then back to Sesshomaru. She nodded as if approving some internal decision, and then walked to Sesshomaru’s side. She paused and looked up at him. He could see the determination in her eyes, and then they walked down together.
**-**

When they reached Inuyasha he said, “About time, what the hell were you two talking about anyway?”
   Kagome resisted the urge to sit him, and Sesshomaru answered for her. “She was thanking me.”
   “For what?! Not like you really helped!”
   “Inuyasha.” Kagome’s voice was calm, and everyone noticed. Inuyasha braced for a sit, but instead Kagome said, “He did help, and without him we may not have defeated Naraku. He didn’t have to travel with us, or help. So for once, calm down. Stop taking your anger out on us and let’s get this over with.” Then Kagome turned away from all of her stunned friends and walked toward the clearing where the wish was to be made.
**-**
   Everyone was gathered and waiting. Inuyasha was in the middle with the others circled around him shy of Sesshomaru and Kikyo both which stood further off. Kagome looked around at the faces before her. She had already said her goodbyes just in case. Then Kagome took courage and stepped up to Inuyasha. He had calmed down, but still looked impatient.
Kagome stopped in front of him, and looked in his eyes. Then she reached up, with a whisper of, “For you Inuyasha.” She grasped the necklace, and tugged. It fell away just beads and paper once more. Again Kagome served to astonish all present. Inuyasha looked into her eyes almost doubting his wish as she placed the jewel in his limp hand, and closed it around it. Then she smiled, and went back to her former place.
   It was Inuyasha’s turn to look around at everyone present. Then he held up the jewel. He closed his eyes, and made his wish: “I wish for all those affected by this jewel- especially Kikyo- to be at peace.” There it was, and no one was surprised.
   There was a moment when nothing happened. Inuyasha opened his eyes, and they met with Kagome’s. He saw the hurt as well as the pained smile she wore, and then the jewel began to glow. It pulsed and rose off his hand. All eyes were on it as it flew toward Kagome and stopped. It pulsed again and melded into her body. Everyone stared, and then the jewel pulsed again and blinding pain gripped Kagome. She screamed and fell to her knees. Everyone seemed frozen. Before their eyes Kagome changed. Kagome screamed again, and as she did looked up into Inuyasha’s brown eyes. She barely had a chance to register his black hair before the jewel within her pulsed again sending another shock wave of pain, and then blackness whelmed her.
**-**
   Kagome came aware in the field in Inuyasha’s forest. She was sitting on the well lip. She looked around curious; she didn’t remember how she got here. She squinted trying to remember. Then it came to her. Kagome help up her hands and inspected them, then looked over the rest of her. She looked fine. Am I dead? Did Kikyo get my soul? Kagome felt a tear drop. Then in front of her a person seemed to materialize out of nowhere. “Midoriko?”
   The woman smiled. “Yes Kagome, it is I.”
   “So I am dead.” Kagome stated. She felt so… empty. Was this really the end that she had earned for herself with all of her sacrifices?
   Midoriko laughed. “No Kagome you are very much alive. I came to prepare you for what you will find when you wake up.” Kagome stared at her silently. “Inuyasha made a foolish wish.” She stated. She sighed gazing round her. “Kikyo is alive. Kohaku is dead, but at peace, and Sango is about to be blessed with her little brother’s reincarnation.”
   Kagome smiled at that happy for her almost sister. Then she realized what Midoriko was failing to say. “Inuyasha is human.”
   Midoriko looked at Kagome. “Yes.”
   “And I am not dead, but?”
   Midoriko looked on Kagome in pity. “Even as Inuyasha’s wish meant well it was not completely unselfish, and so the demons of the jewel got their say in the results of his wish. They thought it would be most entertaining if my first full reincarnation was giving that that was taken from the hanyou.”
   Kagome gasped. “Kikyo is a hanyou?”
   Midoriko looked away from Kagome. “No she was not my full reincarnation. Yes, she had a bit of my soul, but not all of it. She was not ready for that power, and it is a blessing in my eyes she did not receive it. Beyond that most of my soul was still locked within the jewel. A small fragment escaped to be incarnated into Kikyo, and perhaps that was the problem- that she had so little- the remainder of my soul was freed with Inuyasha’s wish to be born into you. Kagome you are my first full reincarnation.” She looked back to the girl before her.
   “I am?” Kagome asked. She triend to think of the implications of time traveling, and how she could be born with a soul before it was freed, but her mind reeled. It was too much for her to understand the implications, so instead she focused on what she could understand. “So that was the pain- giving me what was taken from Inuyasha- changing me, but why am I still human?”
   “This is only your conscious, and as such you still see yourself as human.”
   Kagome thought this over. “So when I wake I will be an Inu hanyou?”
   “No.” Midoriko sighed. “You see Kagome, the demons within the jewel with me thought it would be so much funnier and ironic if the reincarnation of the soul they had been battling all along, the one that put them there in the jewel, the one that was meant to purify with holy energy would be made into the antitheses of what she was. They wanted the old miko to be a full youkai. And to further their amusement they wanted her to remember what it was to be a true miko, to know what an abomination she would be from here on out.”
   Kagome stared. “I’m- I’m to be a full blooded youkai, and remember your lifetime as well as mine?” She asked astonished.
   “Yes Kagome.”
Kagome took a moment to absorb it all. Then she asked, “What about Kikyou’s memories?” Even as she said it Kagome prayed that she wouldn’t have them. She didn’t want to be subjected to that.
“No.” Midoriko replied shortly, that was something even she wouldn’t want to have to deal with. Kagome would escape that fate.
“What of this place- the well- what of it?” Kagome asked, not wanting to look at Midoriko.
“It will be sealed for the time being.”
Kagome looked at the old miko. “For the time being?”
Midoriko went to Kagome, and sat next to her on the well lip. “Will you ever have need of it again? You know his choice, why torture yourself?”
“There is more here than him. I expected his choice, and although I don’t wish to see him, I want to see my friends, and my son.” She explained, but as she thought on all of them she still felt so hollow. Where had this massive void in her come from?
Midoriko nodded. “But why not let them live their lives as they would? They will continue on without you and prosper. Let them.”
Kagome looked into the miko’s eyes. “You’re asking me to just walk away?”
“Yes.”
There was a silence filled only with tension. The Kagome nodded once. “Ok.” She turned around on the well and looked down into the bleak shadows. She knew even in those shadows, in their bleak darkness, something truly comforting, reliable, and worth waiting for was there. She understood her life and future could be the same. She trusted Midoriko. She jumped into the well.
**-**
Kagome came awake in pain. It wasn’t that of her transformation, but of the sudden sounds, and smells. She covered her ears and groaned. This was horrendous. Kagome didn’t bother to note her new features; she had to get away from here. She quickly rose, and jumped out of the well. She didn’t know her own power though, and shot through the well house roof.
Kagome didn’t have room to care though. She had to get away. She ran as fast as she could, jumping from building to building, heading away from her home. She didn’t stop till the noise had faded away. Then she paused. She gazed around marveling at how far she had gone. Then she sat in the soft grass, and began to examine herself, and wondering what she was going to do.
**-**
Sesshomaru sat in the little café. He needed to get away. Lately he found himself thinking of the little miko, Kagome. In her final moment she had changed, and as his nose told him she became an Inuyoukai. His beast had been most pleased with that as well as himself. But then she was gone- without a trace, just gone. Inuyasha was left human, but insisted they check the bone eaters well. Nothing. Sesshomaru had left then, without a word to anyone. He had never found anyone that compared to the miko, and had never mated. He wondered now if his standards were too high.
Sesshomaru proceeded to go through all of the demonesses he knew and considered each of them. None had measured up. Sesshomaru was ready to give up- he didn’t need a mate anyway- when a girl walked past the café. Sesshomaru stared. The girl was wearing the same outfit that Kagome had always worn. Sesshomaru quickly paid, and discretely followed the girl. When the girl reached her home Sesshomaru followed the girl’s sent back to where she came from, and found himself at a school. Sesshomaru turned away, and heard a group of girl’s mention Kagome.
“Maybe we should go visit her, see if she well enough for visitors.”
“Yeah, and if she is we can tell Hojo!”
They giggled, and began walking. Of course Sesshomaru followed. They led him to a shrine. One he helped fund. He laughed at the irony, and caught a scent on the wind. He made his way to an odd and old building off to the side. There was a hole in the roof, and when Sesshomaru slipped inside he was almost overwhelmed with Kagome’s scent. There was her old one, but heavy over was the last scent of her he had caught before she disappeared. Sesshomaru realized this was the well Inuyasha had ran to when Kagome had gone.
Sesshomaru left the building, and followed the trace of the girl’s scent. Soon he was in the country, and as he came to a stop he looked around. Her scent ended here, but where was she? Then behind him he heard a voice he hadn’t heard in 500 years.
“Sesshomaru?”
He turned to see Kagome- an inuyoukai Kagome. She was slightly taller, and her hair was longer. She had fangs and claws now. Sesshomaru dropped his cloaking spell, and let her see him as no one had in 350 years. “Kagome? How?”
She smiled and came closer to him. “You’re still alive.”
“Yes, how are you here?” She looked at him confused, and he added. “You disappeared.”
“The jewel changed me, and sent me home.” She told him.
“Home?”
“Inuyasha didn’t tell you?” She paused. “I was never from your time. When I was fifteen I fell down the well on my family shrine. I landed in the past- 500 years ago. There I met a boy with dog ears pinned to a tree, and freed him.” Was it all that simple?
“So you were born here in this era?”
“Yes.”
Sesshomaru nodded. “Why are you out here, and not with your family?”
Kagome looked back toward Tokyo. “It’s so loud and smelly. I think… I don’t know what to do now.”
“Come with me Kagome.”
Kagome turned to Sesshomaru. He held his hand out to her, and she looked at it. Then she stepped next to him and took it. Kagome smiled up at him, and deeply inhaled his scent. She locked it in her memory, and saw the flashes of Midoriko’s memories of him. She felt a touch of the miko in her mind, and remembered both sides of the conversations at the well. Midoriko knew as she told Kagome to leave her friends that she had a future to go to. It was here in her time, with Sesshomaru. So he was her blue light in the shadows of her life.
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