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Kagome awoke with a blink and a near retch as she felt more pain. Her body ached as she tried to see but the whole world was a dark mass. Her senses returned with the painful burn of cold and she struggled, clawing. A constant beeping was sounding from further away and she grit her teeth as she realized that her beacon had been ripped from her body in the avalanche. Kicking one of her feet she found that at least one skii had been broken, and her foot encountered a space, and that kicking through the wall of snow had her slumping down her foot and half her leg into said space. 

Huffing out a breath the air burned, and she felt queasy, a sign she was running out of oxygen in her bubble, whatever that space was, had to have more air, so she wiggled, getting her other foot, completely sans skii, to the space and quickly slipped down and through the hole. Taking a deep burning breath in cold she looked into the dark space trying to blink her eyesight into working order despite not having any sight. Clawing off her mittens, and then her gloves under them, she then ripped off the twisted mask and hat off her face that was blinding her. Cursing as bright light slammed into her eyes making her turn and actually retch with the sudden stabbing pain that it caused in her vision. 

The moment she was well enough Kagome took a long breath in and considered washing ehr mouth out with a bit of snow and shook herself from that thought. Instead she turned back towards the bright light and found herself staring at something that really couldn’t be. A large tree was inside what appeared to be an expansive cave. Hakurei wasn’t known for any caves, though all the local tales said it was hollow and held all sorts of demons. She shook her head, halfway convinced she was still unconscious under the avalanche. 

Looking down at her broken skii she unlatched it and began walking towards the tree. Green and living with a short of shimmer in its branches as if there was a sun at the top of the tree shining down upon it and the large cave. Kagome tried to recall exactly where she had been when the avalanche hit rubbing her head; which also had her realize that inside this truly large cave it was warm. Too warm in fact. She knew it was a bad idea to strip down from the heavy skii gear but she couldn’t stand to be that hot as she approached the cavern. The tree took up the majority of the space, so large that it was as if the entire mountain was really hollow. 

It was some kind of fantasy glade, where flowers and grasses softly swayed around that massive tree the size of the mountain. Drawn further towards it Kagome thought she saw little butterflies and insects racing around the place, the sounds of rabbits or squirrels, and so forth as she drew closer and closer to the tree. It took an age to just reach its first root, Hakurei was the second largest mountain in Japan after all, standing alone where a mountain shouldn’t entirely be. Explained by volcanic and tetonic actively that so plauged and fascinated the entire country. 

The roots were just as massive as actual trees, she had to be dreaming, and continued to follow the root towards the tree, a great white scar was on it. But as she got close, it wasn’t a scar, but a sleeping giant dog. About twice the size of any creature she had seen, maybe bigger than a blue whale a small sploch of blood, stood out against its white coat. An arrow had pierced its side near the shoulder of the large dog, there were strange magenta stripes along its jaw, and a blue crescent moon on its forehead like some strange anime creature. That was what decided her that she definitely was dreaming. No real creature looked like that making her law aloud and quieting the clamour of buzzing and distant chittering. 

“This is a pretty weird way to dream when I’m stuck in the snow.” she commented, chuckling, but frowning. As soon as the last note of her chuckle and words died the noise resumed as if she was the intruder, that she was the wrong thing inside this stranger place. Touching the beast brought fur so thick she could almost pass her entire arm into the fur, it was a living breathing thing. Taking a long inhale, then exhale of warmth. Perhaps, in the logic of the dream that was what was keeping this place warm. She did hope she was alive back in the snow where she had to be, hypothermia in the late stages were warmth as the nerve endings died making you think you were hot. When really you were dying. 

“What are you?” she asked, this time at least the things decided she belonged and didn’t quiet as she got to the wound on its side. It looked like the tree had wrapped around him, pinning him to the tree, the arrow was just a normal one feathers slightly dingy. The blood on him was fresh, dying her hands with it as she touched it. It make her hand tingle further, almost burn as it then dried and flaked away from her. That was far too mystfying to not be from a dream, the beast breathed in, and breathed out. 

It was still sleeping away, or rather, he was still sleeping, this was a male dog from what she noticed. “This is just too weird right?” she asked rhetotorically. “What am I suppose to do?” dream logic told her to remove the arrow perched high above her head. A tree root came around just at the perfect height, as she stumbled and climbed the massive root, balancing on it as she got close to the arrow and touched it. Something warned her, deep in her head that said this was all wrong. A primal sort of fear that sprung up deep inside of herself, but she didn’t listen to it, as quite possibly she could finally wake up and claw herself out of the snow. 

Gripping the arrow she yanked pulling it out of the shoulder, the arrow vanishing, and a rush of what almost but not quite electricity raced through her. That sense of doing something wrong prevaded every sense of her being as the dog took a breath in, and held it. It stilled, and one large red eye opened. It looked towards her, and a low growl escaped its throat, before it thrashed. Knocking her down off the root and breaking apart the tree roots that encased it, like a made animal it ripped parts of the roots out and it was like the tree screamed. 

It made a sound like metallic screaming as the dog finally scrambled out of the roots and focused on her. She froze her body going still as the dog snapped towards her falling short. Splittle struck her as it missed and turned back around. The tree was moving, the roots thrashing as the place didn’t go silent but roared with noise. Roots rose up, moving towards the dog as it gave a bark, then glanced back at her. Something inteligent was in its eyes as it turned on her again, this time snapping her up, rather gently into its mouth and throwing her up. She landed with a cut off scream onto its back as all the roots stalled just about to grab the dog. And the dog, laughed. 

The dog backed away with the roots looking like they were wanting to take him down again but unable to. Then the dog twisted, and bound away from the tree the roots following as it got towards the snow blocked exit. “Wait!” Kagome cried clutching desperately at the fur, before the dog burst forth, going through feet worth of snow. In one bound she was back outside the mountain as it rumbled. A earthquake, no an aftershock of the one that had caused the avalanche in the first place hit the mountain, but the dog was bounding back up. Impossibly jumping on the air as thick clouds swirled around its feet. 

Carrying it into the sky, cold air bit at her as she gasped in trying to get enough air into the lungs as it climbed and looked back at the mountain. Kagome saw a brief flash of light, and something like a bubble of thick foggy air around it, before she passed out, back into darkness. 

Can anyone guess why I bought these gloves?

Now I want an skiier au where Kagome is trying to do thrill seeking like skiing down a 'forbidden' mountain only to get caught by Sesshomaru.

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Can anyone guess why I bought these gloves?

Now I want an skiier au where Kagome is trying to do thrill seeking like skiing down a 'forbidden' mountain only to get caught by Sesshomaru.

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*screaming*

Shippo is a child that survives an attack by people trying to sell force sensitive to Naraku!

Inuyasha is Sesshomaru's half brother and is a bounty hunter?

Miroku pretends to have force powers but is really just a very good con-artist. (He works with Inuyasha)

Jindonbo is a Jedi herbalist. (Yes there were Jedi who dedicated themselves to growing plants)

Kaede is just a temple lady, who has seen a lot of jedi come by and by. Many evil people too.

Rin maybe another force sensitive child who gets picked up, but has no real clue what Naraku wanted to do.

Naraku (maybe) has to eat the brains/bodies of force sensitive people to keep himself powerful. Due to this he pays people to kidnap others. The more powerful or potential one has the more power he has temporarily!

i knew I K N E W THIS WOULD HAPPEN I KNEW IT

ex-jedi sesshomaru jedi healer kagome MANDALORIAN SANGO you can all pry that from my cold dead hands sith lord naraku pirate captain koga and some indulgent junk ahahaaaa sesshomaru is MOST LIKELY part arkanian–debating over making kagome mirialan maybe MAYBE. naraku is some kinda spider and has six (6) eyes and unhinge-able jaws. koga is a Wolf Man because i said so. sango is human u wu

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union

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Butt. Butt. Butt.

A collection of recent sketches. We were talking about a Fae King AU for Sesshoumaru. A couple of kissing/necking sketches. And a rounding off the collection with some cake ✨

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Mine might be just overly but not exactly rigidly dramatic Sesshomaru. Like he takes things to 11 because that is who he is. Oh he must court a mate, well then he might slay a huge demon and present its head of course! 

Kagome: What am I going to do with a oni head? Mount it on a wall?

Sesshomaru: *Legit insulted* I killed it for you! 

Kagome: I asked you to kiss me. 

Sesshomaru: And now I can kiss you!

Just ridiculous sort of rituals of courting that just would make for excellent comedy. 

Favorite SessKag Headcanon (Fandom Positivity Bingo)

Honestly, it’s a toss up between protective AF Sesshomaru and competitive Kagome. I mean, we all know they are both insanely stubborn and I can see them clashing over this at first, but then I can also see Sesshomaru recognizing Kagome’s skill and agreeing to train her.

One of the reasons I love this OTP so much is because I truly believe that they bring out the best in each other. I think they have so much potential for personal growth and development by learning with/through each other.

What’s your favorite SessKag headcanon?

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There is a huge difference. And in the Manga Kagome actually didn't hook up with Inuyasha. Inuyasha stayed behind inside the jewel to fight of darkness inside of it forever or something like that right?

But the relationship between sesshomaru and Rin even by the standards when taken in a Japanese contex... it's kind of... bad. Because she is so very young when they meet, it is more of a father/daughter vibe EVEN IN THE MANGA.

I literally always cringe so hard away from the fics that do this that it is the sole filtered tag I have on Ao3.

And the relationship between Elias and Chise actually doesn't hit on that same vibe. While Elias is at first very condensending he grows more to respect and care for her deeply. Where the whole wife thing is actually more of a after thought actually. Cause keep in mind Elias is more of a monster than Sesshomaru.

Elias is some weird barely human entity. So it actually makes sense that some of the things he has personally consumed, human tales/myths where things like him take people like her as their you know brides. So it comes more accross as the naivety of something that only thinks its human and thus acts like it. Elias and Chise's relationship is far more developed to boot and given time to grow.

While this... this is just on us like a load of bricks. Like 'oh yeah btw rin and sesshomaru got married' like there was ZERO. NONE. of it in the Manga or the series. (Which is good because literal child) it would be like saying Kohaku and Kagura got married and had kids.

Or that young thunder sister? I forget her name and Kogua hooking up. We only knew Rin AS A LITERAL CHILD. Like you know in Canon she'd age, but it still is like... eww no.

I better stop before this goes into some kind of rant. It's no wonder why I do not touch the new series.

On that topic of SessRin do.... these.... spoiled idiot kids forget that at the beginning of the show Kagome is 14? and when the series ended proper she was 16? Marrying Inuyasha at that age and I hear no one complaining about that? Instead of crying and bothering the show runners how about they help with real living victims of paedophilia? Oh wait they cant it was never about protecting victims it was about making THEMSELVES the victims and receive asspats and clout

No, but you don't understand~ Inuyasha didn't 'groom' Kagome like Sesshomaru 'groomed' Rin~

... Even though legitimate grooming would be more akin to (and I hate putting something I like inti the crossfire) Elias' initial behavior towards Chise over in The Ancient Magus' Bride. Note how I said 'initial behavior' because it was 'hello, emotionally-broken young woman! I'm here to buy you out of slavery, take you as my apprentice, *quickly under his breath* and one day make you my wife -- And off we go!'

But, even with that, I'm not the kind of person to call for tars and feathers over a fictional story. There's too much stuff going on in the real world for that kind of nonsense.

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Sesshomaru has now committed two types of sexual assualt. Not to make light of this, but seriously. Be warned about that. Also:

Me: I want Sesshomaru to quote poetry!

My brain: yeah and you need to learn japanese, study old poetry and then finish.

Me: sounds good- hey wait a minute!

My brain: silence! Only correct!

Haha. I really wish there wasnt such a vast language barrier. There is this need in my brain. that it is as close as possible to traditional Japanese poetry. I hope I got it close enough to count!

So this is what I have of the AU so far, if you watch you can MAYBE see me update the story? But so far. Ehh… Sesshomaru of the past is pissed as all hell, but he is a youkai of Honor. Until he gets to the bottom of this he will help them. OH and YUS. 

Kagome getting the magical whip and being able to put ‘poison’ in her arrows to shoot? YES THAT WILL BE A THING. Best of all the way it will go Inuyasha is pissed too, the fight that will happen will hopefully be nice. 

If you don’t want spoilers for how it is in my head don’t click read more. 

But basically as he is a powerful Youkai when he choses a mate they have to be on the level, or more powerful then him. So that because of this, they share powers. Now that he is a mate with Kagome he can share in her Reiki powers and even in some small way sense the jewel shards. He can’t see them, but its like knowing the smell of them now. 

This is why he is irate so bad about it. But can see the use, so he doesn’t want to just end it as there is some use in it. And because again as a youkai of honor he can’t just murder his mate. Particularly since he see’s her as much weaker then himself. It wouldn’t make for a good Lord if he murdered his helpless wife. He could loose allies no matter if she is a human or not. 

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Wrote some more! Now with naked bath time so be warned! 

So this is what I have of the AU so far, if you watch you can MAYBE see me update the story? But so far. Ehh… Sesshomaru of the past is pissed as all hell, but he is a youkai of Honor. Until he gets to the bottom of this he will help them. OH and YUS. 

Kagome getting the magical whip and being able to put ‘poison’ in her arrows to shoot? YES THAT WILL BE A THING. Best of all the way it will go Inuyasha is pissed too, the fight that will happen will hopefully be nice. 

If you don’t want spoilers for how it is in my head don’t click read more. 

But basically as he is a powerful Youkai when he choses a mate they have to be on the level, or more powerful then him. So that because of this, they share powers. Now that he is a mate with Kagome he can share in her Reiki powers and even in some small way sense the jewel shards. He can’t see them, but its like knowing the smell of them now. 

This is why he is irate so bad about it. But can see the use, so he doesn’t want to just end it as there is some use in it. And because again as a youkai of honor he can’t just murder his mate. Particularly since he see’s her as much weaker then himself. It wouldn’t make for a good Lord if he murdered his helpless wife. He could loose allies no matter if she is a human or not. 

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So this is what I have of the AU so far, if you watch you can MAYBE see me update the story? But so far. Ehh... Sesshomaru of the past is pissed as all hell, but he is a youkai of Honor. Until he gets to the bottom of this he will help them. OH and YUS. 

Kagome getting the magical whip and being able to put ‘poison’ in her arrows to shoot? YES THAT WILL BE A THING. Best of all the way it will go Inuyasha is pissed too, the fight that will happen will hopefully be nice. 

If you don’t want spoilers for how it is in my head don’t click read more. 

But basically as he is a powerful Youkai when he choses a mate they have to be on the level, or more powerful then him. So that because of this, they share powers. Now that he is a mate with Kagome he can share in her Reiki powers and even in some small way sense the jewel shards. He can’t see them, but its like knowing the smell of them now. 

This is why he is irate so bad about it. But can see the use, so he doesn’t want to just end it as there is some use in it. And because again as a youkai of honor he can’t just murder his mate. Particularly since he see’s her as much weaker then himself. It wouldn’t make for a good Lord if he murdered his helpless wife. He could loose allies no matter if she is a human or not. 

Basically during the fight Inuyasha will try to Kill Sesshomaru with Tetsiaga, but it doesn’t work. In fact it reverts back to the rusty sword as Sess grabs it and pulls it out of his hands. Sesshomaru see’s it transform as he raises it against Inuyasha and tells him to stop threatening humans. (Kagome is nearby) before tossing the sword back to him. It would show that Sess doesn’t despise humans as much as he did before the fight. And in fact is able to wield it AS A FULL DEMON. 

That’s how much I got now. Its just getting to the fight while having their relationship grow. 

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Thinking hmmm....

Kagome and her friends decide to go to a new venue that ope s up in the city. There Kagome is attacked by a youkai, and gets poisoned. However she encounters a wild (and owner of venue) Sesshomaru. He doesnt recognize her at first but for hundreds of years now there has been a truce between humans and youkai. The youkai dont kill and eat humans, humans dont kill them.

Sesshomaru knows something, as Kagome falls more ill with rhe posioning he is trying to help her but Kagura, yes her, tells him that the cure has been long extint. (Back in the fedual era) and he seems to relize something. As she grows weaker he does something and casts her into the well.

A few days later Kagome wakes up in Sesshomarus castle with a very angry sesshomaru demanding her how she became to bare his mating marks. As he has never mated, and certinally wont mate a human. Not that he didnt cure her illness mind you, but that want because they are mates. When he himself still hasnt chosen a mate.

Basically future Sesshomaru puts his marks on her and sends her back in time, where she meets him again. The Sesshomaru she meets in present day is the one who had experienced this truly odd occurrence and gosh darn. It makes Kagome's head hurt thinking about her time traveling like that. (The mask of Noh was bad enough!)

But yeah got to thinking about this sort of AU. Where poor Sesshomaru has to wait 300 years for his mate to come back to him. Making him clingy and also adding in a powerful demon lord to our party for the good guys to take out Naraku.

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This probably happened:

Miroku: hey guys come check this stuff out!

Sango: what is that?

Miroku: its called sushi!

Kagome: yes! Finally give me- *miroku opens the pot*

Kagome in English: fuck you america

Sango: what did she just say?

Inuyasha: who cares give me some!

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However on Kagome’s wedding day, taking place at her families shrine. She goes to the dry well and is grabbed by some kind of demon. Traveling through time via the well Kagome is thrust into three hundred years into the past where the only person who can see her is her very much future husband. She must solve a murder, the very murder of her ancestor, all while she must get her husband, a ‘man’ who despises humans to trust her. She has barely a month to solve it before it even happens. 

IF she can stop it from happening that is. 

Hnn....An Idea

A long time ago Kagome’s family made a promise as they fled from their lands to the west. Being taking in by a demon lord they made a vow that the lords family could take whomever of the family they might want once a generation. As her family grew, they went back to their lands. Building a large shrine and set of buildings around a well. However three hundred years ago a event took place, where one of the family stole a bride on her wedding day. Her family rebelled against the demon lord, and tried to gain back their bride. However the demon that took her had already killed her as the bride, Kikyou, tried to escape. 

This event had killed the demon lord, and his place was taken over by his eldest son. He had no desire for humans, and cut all ties with her family, as decimated as it was from the fight. He offered up his half brother, the one to take Kikyou and kill her, as a sacrifice to them. Her family killed the demon on a large scared tree on their property, the tree still bares the scars of the sacrifice to this day.

After three hundred years pass and her family grew in number and power, the Higruashi’s are once again at odd’s with the demon lords family, as the same demon who took control of his family after his fathers passing, now wants a bride. His eyes are sent on Kagome, and Kagome realizes that she is the reincarnation of Kikyou, the one who was promised to him as his bride a long time ago. Now he wants her, Kikyou or otherwise, back. 

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Hnn....An Idea

A long time ago Kagome’s family made a promise as they fled from their lands to the west. Being taking in by a demon lord they made a vow that the lords family could take whomever of the family they might want once a generation. As her family grew, they went back to their lands. Building a large shrine and set of buildings around a well. However three hundred years ago a event took place, where one of the family stole a bride on her wedding day. Her family rebelled against the demon lord, and tried to gain back their bride. However the demon that took her had already killed her as the bride, Kikyou, tried to escape. 

This event had killed the demon lord, and his place was taken over by his eldest son. He had no desire for humans, and cut all ties with her family, as decimated as it was from the fight. He offered up his half brother, the one to take Kikyou and kill her, as a sacrifice to them. Her family killed the demon on a large scared tree on their property, the tree still bares the scars of the sacrifice to this day.

After three hundred years pass and her family grew in number and power, the Higruashi’s are once again at odd’s with the demon lords family, as the same demon who took control of his family after his fathers passing, now wants a bride. His eyes are sent on Kagome, and Kagome realizes that she is the reincarnation of Kikyou, the one who was promised to him as his bride a long time ago. Now he wants her, Kikyou or otherwise, back. 

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This sounds interesting I would love to read it too.

Looking for SessKag Fic... PLEASE Help

I have been looking for a SessKag fic I read so long ago but I can’t remember what the title was or who the author was. I believe it was either on Fanfiction.net or Dokuga I have been DYING to re-read it but no matter where I look I can’t find it. Can someone PLEASE help? This is what I remember…

- Rating: was either M or T (pretty sure it was M?)

-Plot: Kagome’s mother urges Kagome to get a real job while Kagome is still going back and forth between the well. Kagome gets a job and finds out that it is working for (future) Sesshomaru’s company. Kagome in the meantime has been traveling back and forth and becomes very close to Sesshomaru but past Sessho keeps pushing her away because he does not want a human as a mate. As she becomes close to future Sesshomaru he ends up marking her as his mate so past Sesshomaru does not make the same mistake of not mating her. I am pretty sure in this same fic Kagome discovers that Inuyasha has mated with someone (can’t remember if it was Kikyou or someone else) and stumbles upon him in the lobby of the building? I’m pretty sure that Kagome also runs into Kouga as well.

If you know which story I am talking about PLEASE let me know!! I remember this being my favorite story and it seemed to have disappeared into thin air. I remember it was a very long fic with many chapters. Maybe the title was one word? 

Plz help. 

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Fireworks

(be aware, keen angst here. This is like a Rory Doctor Who situation, the story will explain, its also the anime storyline. Keep in mind you will need to know some basic Japanese funeral customs.) 

Kagome shivered again, pulling her yukata closer to her as she took care, she let out a breath, took care of Inuyasha. He was old, she was not. All time seemed to no longer touch her the moment the jewel had been simply... wished away. She stayed in the past to be with him, and they had tried, tried for years, decades, and now a hundred years, to create a family. Maybe it was impossible for halfbreads to father children. So few had lived as long as Inuyasha. So-Kagome delicately onited his lips with a little water. 

Preparing for his funeral took more will, and more strength then she knew she had. It seemed so alien, she barely remembered her fathers funeral, the memories almost as distant as Souta’s voice, as his face. She slowly arranged things, methodical to the last. She wasn’t at all expecting Sesshomaru when his presence, sudden as a arrow to her heart, arrived as she and temple priests began to do the final preparations. She had just placed the six coins for passing, along with a finely crafted dagger. His clothes, a fine white kimono, along with the long since last used robes of the fire rat went in next. 

He would not want his fathers blade to go with him. He’d want it to go back to his fathers grave, or to protect her. Sesshomaru, arrived without saying a thing, and simply dropped a long flattened ball into the casket as she stared to him. Uncomprehending, heart aching. 

“He used to play with it.” he told her. “as a child.” She had saved even one cup of instant ramen, finding it actually from her now moth eaten schoolbag. That went too, as the grandson of Miroku, began the wake. She winced, frowning as she sat down, there were the descendants of Miroku and Sango, Shippo, his wife and child, and now Sesshomaru. He took front and center in the ceremony. Being the only living relative left and her being the grieving wife in white. 

The next day, she could only stare to the ground as Inuyasha was given a new name. Yuuto, for utter shortness to her mind to not focus as much on it, was finally now gone. Slowly she placed a small bunch of white lilies around his neck, no longer supple and moving as his body... Kagome pulled away going back to her placement as others offered their flowers. She felt dumb and weak and only noticed the huge arrangement Sesshomaru offered. It took two of his demon leiges to carry it, and made her stare to him. 

For their whole life Sesshomaru was a rare part of it. He had not informed them of Rin’s death, nor her child’s. She didn’t even know if that child had their own children, or if Rin was now almost erased. She barely even noticed as Yuuto was carried away by Sesshomaru’s two head dragon, in a luxurious cart. She followed blindly next to the demonlord. 

Sobbing as the fire was set and roared to life, taking away the last of who he once was. It was hot enough, by Sesshomaru’s directive, to even burn away the old red robes. It took an agonizing long time, it took such a long time that she felt like she hadn’t taken a breath in the entire cremation. 

With him, she carefully picked out the bones, as he placed them into the white and gold leafed urn. Then it was done, he handed her the urn and she took them to their empty home. Barely tasting food for the next 35 days she was sure she could hear footsteps, the always bare steps of Inu-Yuuto, but then they ceased as the final day ended. And it was time to place him into his final resting place. Kagome went alone, placing his urn into a grave that she knew in a few hundred years would be demolished to be made into high-rise buildings. Whatever remaining urns and remains interred somewhere else. Somewhere no longer home. 

It was then once the grave was sealed that Sesshomaru finally came back, and stayed silent as she stared at the fresh carved stone topping his grave. “I am offering my home to you.” he told her. Kagome blinked to him. 

“Why?” she questioned, her voice was hoarse and she only realized now, she had barely spoke a word since he died. 

“It’s what he would have wanted? You protected?” he replied, almost annoyed with her. She bristled at it. 

“I can protect myself, DAI-Youkai.” she replied hissing out a sharp breath. In-Yuuto would never trust his brother to do anything, let alone protect her. The demonlord looked to her and motioned her with him. 

“Unless you wish to live as a ghost in his home.” he said simply and with more humanity she had ever heard in his voice. The reminder of their home left her feeling that keen ache. Where ever board, every screen and mote of dust for years to come would remind her... Kagome sighed and nodded. 

“I will go with you.” she said defeated by her own sorrow. She left everything there, even jewelry, and fine clothes, she never wanted to remind herself of him, allowing everything to be donated to others through the temple. Sesshomaru made no comment, only guiding her into a wing of empty rooms. Empty of everything but the basic needs of life, servants both demon and human running around her to get her settled as soon as possible. 

Maybe a year or more passed, she didn’t really care, but now she was breathing out a fog of white breath in the winter. She felt like she had always been waiting, always been running to catch up with I-Yuuto. Maybe that was why it had taken years before she had removed the necklace from him. Until she knew he was hers loyal to the last...she frowned squeezing her eyes shut. 

“Do you want your dinner with me?” Sesshomaru asked her. He asked that every night since she had arrived, it was a constant, a steady rock for her to cling to. Something in her finally crumbled, leaving way for the rushing current to pass through. 

“Yes.” she replied following him feeling a unknown giddy feeling in her for the first time in years. Ever since she had realized that she did not age, ever since she realized that Yuuto would die long before she did. It seemed either she was displaced in time, forever waiting for her era to continue her life, or that the Shiikon Jewel had cursed her, or that demon within it, to live like she was now. Didn’t demons age? Didn’t they grow old and die? 

“..Akemi, used to eat here.” he gestured vaguely to the room around them. Kagome had a brief moment of confusion, until she realized he had done the same ceremony for the little girl that she had done for Yuuto. She had a shrine next to the one for Yuuto. “I do not require to eat everyday.” Kagome watched as a fairly simple meal compared to the luxurious meals she expected him to eat were placed down. 

“Did... did she live a good life?” she asked him. He made a noise, taking a bowl of rice and eating it. 

“Yes. Long until she was like... that old woman you roomed with.” he told her. Kagome followed his suit, eating, it felt like the first meal she ever had in her life. Nourishing in a strange and thrilling way. 

“I’m glad!” Kagome told him. “How many children?” 

“How many for you?” he retorted quickly like a jab. 

“I don’t mean it like that. Me... we never could... it never took.” He looked to her and then back to the meal. 

“She died in birth, her and the child.” Kagome swallowed. “Her husband perished from a fever years later. Having never taken another.” She continued to eat in silence. They were more alike then she thought, both of them had watched as those they cared for died. Either by age, or from the rigors of child birth. “One doesn’t miss things until they are gone.” he stated flatly. 

“I know... I kept hearing the sounds of his feet.” she replied forgetting the remains of her meal. 

“Laughter.” he replied simply. Kagome closed her eyes, all her memories, they were there waiting for her. As though waiting for her to have a chance to grieve, to allow herself to come to terms with her fate. Her brothers face and voice loud and annoying, her mothers kind compassion. Grandfather’s near paranoia at all creaks from the shrine. Said shrine was just being built, to be rebuilt later, over and over again at least four times. 

“Do... do you know what will happen with me? Will I age?” she asked bitterly. 

“If you are anything as I, then no. Demons of my stature do not die until they are slain.” she felt that rushing warmth, a hot spring formed up in the waters of her soul. Warming it until she felt alive again. 

“Maybe... you need a guard?” she asked him. He looked to her. “A priestess is a very powerful ally.” she hadn’t practiced in decades, but that power could be brought back. She could still feel it as a vital part of her. 

“You may stay as long as you wish lady Kagome.” he told her, affording her more respect then she ever remembered of him. For any human. 

“Thank you.” 

Time maybe a decade or more, it was hard to tell when you are as immortal seeming as Kagome, she leaned back into Sesshomaru’s back swallowing thickly. It wasn’t alien as it was the last time. He encircled his arms around her as the fireworks burst over a river the sounds thumping over the both of them. Just like the sparkles of light from the gunpower. 

They were alone in the courtyard of his home, his arm tightened around her waist, the other holding hers in clawed hands. He breathed in the smell of her hair as she watched the fireworks. Time extended out in front of her, sure as a river coursing through, sure as a deep hot spring. Even as the world changed around the two, even as she found the modern era again. 

It was as though she never existed. Never in this modern time, as she watched Souta, her mother and father laughing as they got ready for a festival. Without the existence of the Shiikon Jewel Kagome had never been born. But she had a place to be, and long since knew this. One of the wealthy patrons of what once her families shrine Kagome smiled as she picked up the latest little hanyo. The old tree, connected to the dry well still stood. Growing as strong as ever. Sesshomaru stood beside her as they navigated the world. 

Two timeless creatures come together as one.