Chapter 11: Immortality of another

The spy was glad when Sesshomaru’s mother had to leave Sesshomaru’s rooms to check on something. It moved to Kagome’s side and hissed in horror when it noticed that her scent was changing to that of a corpse and that her skin felt cold to the touch. It was too late for the spy to save her from death.

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Lady Kaede wished Inuyasha and Miroku goodbye with Sango and her children before heading over to her herb garden to tend to the herbs that were growing there. With a sigh playing on her lips, she thought of poor Kagome and what her future was turning into. She had always known that Kagome was destined for great deeds and the defeat of Naraku and the destruction of the sacred jewel…but this couldn’t be a part of that great destiny.

To simply have seed forced into her womb and to become a field that will harvest children…to live the life of a favored concubine, it would likely be the death of Kagome’s heart and spirit. Just like it would be for any great woman like her, it was a death sentence until the paradise that it was to the simple-minded noble women. It made Lady Kaede a little thankful that she was a priestess since she could never have her virginity taken from her without angering the Gods. Though like some others, she had felt the longing to carry a child within her womb…but unlike those others, she did not give into the sinful desire to become a mother.

But she had always wondered if it was sinful for a priestess to become a mother, to create and carry that new life within one’s womb…she sadly didn’t know and it was too late for her to ever become one as it was.

Pushing the old thoughts from her mind, she continued to pull the weeds from the herb garden and lost herself in the task at hand. Well she did until she noticed Sesshomaru was watching her, waiting for her to notice him, but it was clearly as his eyes were red that he had little patient at that moment. “Lord Sesshomaru, why are you here? Rin is off with the other children at the moment if you came to see h-”

“I’m not here for Rin, I am here because I have need of your knowledge in healing…Kagome is in need of your skills as a healer.” He cut in, wanting to return to Kagome’s side and hold their child for comfort of what was going on with Kagome. His thoughts centered around that dream that he had when Kagome had carried their daughter in her body, he wanted the son that she would birth him, he wanted the children that they would have after him and he would do anything to have them…Gods, he was turning into his mother when it came to his children.

“I’ll need m-”

“You will lack nothing for instruments of healing, we will leave this instant.” He stated as he used his super-speed to grab her, he wasn’t willing to let his concubine go or let his daughter suffer as he knew that she would without her mother at her side. Lady Kaede was startled by Sesshomaru suddenly grabbing her, knowing only a handful of demons that were as fast as him. He changed them into a ball of light before Lady Kaede could say anything at all.

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Kagome was curled in a ball in the dark water that surrounded her, her eyes were closed…scared of what she would see if she opened them. She knew that she was in a dream and that she had some control of her dreams like every human in the world, but she knew that she didn’t have total control of it. With the little control that she did have in her current life, she didn’t want to feel out of control in her dreams as well. She knew that the lack of control of her life was slowly destroying who she was as a person.

After all, she had had a break down when she had been pregnant with her little girl.

It was killing her in a way, having little control of her life, being Sesshomaru’s sex toy and baby maker, and being forced to become a mother at the young age of eighteen…for a woman of the modern era, these events would slowly break down any woman’s mind.

She loved her daughter and would die for her in a heartbeat, but Kagome couldn’t help, but wish that Mizuki had been born to another father and when Kagome was older as well. She was eighteen…well, nineteen since she figured that her birthday had pass some time ago, but she felt too young to be everything that her little girl needed and deserved. It wasn’t fair to her and it wasn’t fair to Mizuki as well.

With those thoughts in her mind, she opened her eyes to see that she was lying down on a futon in what looked to be in beautiful rooms that she had never been in before. Kagome sighed, a little upset that she was in her childhood home like she always of; a sob ripped through her as she battled to keep everything bottled up inside of her. Burying her face into the futon, she let herself cry out all of her pain that Sesshomaru and his mother’s actions had caused her, letting it chock her and leave her hollow…and empty again.

“Mommy?” said a little voice that made her head snap up to the door to see a group of little boys staring at her with worried expressions on their faces. She took in the looks of the little boys when she noticed that a little girl was hiding behind one of the boys. All of them looked like a mixture of her and…Sesshomaru, filling her with a mixture of emotions, but not even one was negative and she felt oddly happy at the sight of the little boys and girl. “Come…in,” she whispered softly, not fully understanding what she was feeling. The moment the words left her mouth, Kagome was swarmed by the children, but the little girl was the one that hugged her tightly and buried her little face in Kagome’s chest as sobs came out quietly. “What’s wrong?”

“The other children were picking on Kiyomi,” the little boy that had black hair and golden eyes answered. Kagome nodded and rocked Kiyomi in her arms, soothing the upset little girl like any good mother would. The sobs slowly stopped after a while, but Kagome continued to hold Kiyomi, getting the same feeling that she got when she held Mizuki in her arms.

Joy filled Kagome and it gave her a strength to not let herself break, holding the child in her arms made Kagome realized that she had been so close to breaking like she had had before, but on a different degree. Kagome had been so close to breaking and never being whole again. But she held the key to keeping herself whole and strong, and though she hated Sesshomaru in some ways, she was thankful that he had given her the key to her cage. “Don’t let them bother you, Sweetie. They want to see you cry and they want you to feel that you’re weaker than them, but you’re not…you are so much more than they will ever be.” Kagome whispered into Kiyomi’s ear before kissing the top of her head.

“That and Mizuki is kicking their stupid butts for being idiots too!” one of the boys said with a happy…Inuyasha-like grin on his face, unaware of the spike of pain that hit Kagome’s heart at the sight of it and made her a little happy that this was a dream and not a reality…yet.

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Nori sat at Kagome’s bedside and wiped the tears away from Kagome’s face when they appeared. Seeing the tears that refused to disappear, she wondered if she had been too hard on Kagome to change and adjust to their world. Kagome was strong and strong-minded, so it was hard to make Kagome see that she was wrong in her thoughts of her new life with them. It was hard to make Kagome see what she was and what time she was in, after all it had always been a woman’s place to obey and remain silent.

The life that women lived would never change, they would always have to obey and remain silent, they would never become great warriors like their men, they would always have to give their bodies to their men without defiance and birth their men’s children without the thought of the risk to their lives. When Nori thought about it, she knew that it was a raw deal for women, but demons and humans had lived that way for so long, and it was likely that it would never change. With a quick look around the room, Nori bended over Kagome’s body and placed a gentle kiss on Kagome’s forehead. “I’m sorry for your pain.” She whispered, knowing that though she was sorry for her past actions towards Kagome that cause the younger woman pain…she knew that she would still have to do them if Kagome continued to refuse to do her duties to her son.

It was just the way of their world, and it would never change.

She glanced at the bottle at her side, she would soon have need to give it to Kagome if her son did not return soon, she wondered how Kagome would react when she learned that she was immortal and never be able to escape Sesshomaru’s hold on her.

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Sesshomaru changed back when they reached the entrance of his palace; he appeared calm as he ordered one of the guards to take Lady Kaede to the infirmary to get what she needed. Sesshomaru already knew that Kagome had been moved to his rooms and walked to them, barely resisting the urge to run to her as fast as he was able. He was happy to see his mother was at Kagome’s side and his little girl was in her grandmother’s arms.

Closing his doors, he let go of his urge and ran to Kagome’s side, but was unhappy to see that she looked worse than before and her lovely scent held death. “She is becoming worse…I fear that death will soon take her from us.” Nori whispered before Mizuki started to whimper and cry, the smell of death on her mother upsetting her greatly. Sesshomaru glanced at his little Moonlight, but was quick to return his gaze to the mother of his child; everything inside of him, screamed at him to save her and keep her safe.

But he was failing and he didn’t know what to do to stop Kagome from dying.

“mother,” He whispered, catching her attention like he wanted. “What do I do?” Nori looked at her son, saw the fear and worry within his eyes. She was suddenly reminded of when her mate had found Inuyasha’s mother and he had gotten her pregnant with his child. He had been the same as Sesshomaru when Izayoi’s time had grown close and she had been taken from him.

“We wait and see what the healer has to say, if the healer can do nothing then we use ‘it’ ahead of time.”Nori answered her son’s question, they would not let her go. She was their future and they would not let their future go so easily as death’s embrace. Nori knew that Kagome may not like that she was meant to give birth to her son’s sons, but Kagome was also unaware of the honour and the importance of the duty of birthing Sesshomaru’s children. Sesshomaru would rule this land and all overs with the aid of his children’s power and hers; it was a part of the new person that her son had become. Before Sesshomaru would have taken rule of this world with the thought of the strongest survive and the weak die, but now…it was so the strong would aid and save the weak. Sesshomaru pursued to create a paradise for all that held a good and true heart.

Kagome’s womb was the key to that.

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Sakura walked through the halls, barely keeping her delight to herself as the servants whispered about the Whore’s poor health. It was hard on her though that the Whore was dying…it truly was since she couldn’t smile brightly and scream to the world that she was the cause of the Whore’s death. Oh how she couldn’t wait for the Whore to be buried and for her mate to fuck her again.

Or so she thought.

When she walked into her rooms, she had not expected to see her brother there, waiting for her and enraged as well. He had found out about the Whore dying and learned from the damned spy that she had ordered the stupid spy to kill her. It was clear as hellfire that she was in total shit as well about to be punished by her enraged brother. “Brother! What a surprise to see you here…why are you here?” She asked sweetly, hoping that she would live through his punishment with her amazing figure intact. “I’m here because Sesshomaru’s concubine, the mother of my future children and weapon of destruction, the Lady Kagome is dying.”

Sakura instinctively inched back towards the exit upon her brother’s fiery growl of rage; she was in more shit than she had first realized if Takashi was mad enough to display his anger in front of her. “If she dies, then you will suffer greatly for it. I have made some important plans that are centered on her, and it will go down in shit if she dies, do you understand? I had the spy get her the antidote, but I’m telling you that nothing is to happen to her.” He snarled at her as he slowly calmed down.

Brushing his golden hair out of his dark amethyst eyes, thinking of what Sakura’s punishment should be…”Sakura, what is the worst thing that you think I could do to you?”

“Nothing, the worst thing that could ever happen to me would be to become pregnant, but I can’t since you ripped my womb out of me before I mated with Sesshomaru.” She said happily, not seeing that she had given her brother the answer that he wanted from her. Takashi smiled for a moment before sighing at his sister’s stupidity…the perfect example of what happened if new blood was not add to the bloodline every few generations…but Kagome was the key to fixing that.

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Lady Kaede was done with examining Kagome…she could tell that the young woman didn’t have a chance of survival. “Well?” Sesshomaru asked, death began to fill the room and he knew that it was coming from Kagome, her body started to shake and thrash about. His golden eyes turned red when he saw the underlings of the underworld surrounded Kagome’s body, anger rose within him and he could barely keep from transforming as they worked.

“There’s noting that I can do for her.” Lady Kaede replied honestly, lying to the demons before her would do nothing for her at the moment and it would do nothing for Kagome either. Seshomaru looked at Lady Kaede, showing her the anger and fear that her words increased tenfold. It made her wonder what the demon Lord felt something for Kagome. “Thank you, priestess for your knowledge and skill as well as for your honesty. We will take care of Kagome, now.” Nori said before picking up the bottle of elixir of immortality to her son.

Sesshomaru looked at the bottle and then at Kagome, he wondered if she would resent the gift that he was about to give her. He knew that he shouldn’t care for her resentment, but a small part of him did care and wanted her to be grateful for the gift that she was about to be given. This wasn’t simply for her or him, but for their daughter and for the children that he would plant inside her.

Cutting his tongue with one of his fangs before taking the elixir into his own mouth to combine it with his blood, he wanted Kagome to live as long as he did and his blood would see to it. Putting the bottle, he gently took Kagome into his arms and passed the elixir to her with a kiss. Kagome’s body like always resisted Sesshomaru, though it didn’t stop her from swallowing her chance at life and ripped her away from the sweet dream that she had been having. Kagome began to thrash harder and clawed at Sesshomaru’s clothes, pain consuming her like a fire burn fast and hard. Her body was burning hot to Sesshomaru’s touch and he did nothing, but hold her through the pain that was changing Kagome’s mortal life into one of immortality.

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