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A Question of Family

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Fandom: Inuyasha
Author: MacabreVampire (silenttaiyoukai)
Rating: PG
Genre:  General
Pairing/Characters: Sesshoumaru, Kagome
Word Count: 400 words
Summary: Kagome and Sesshoumaru have a little talk while everyone else is sleeping. Well, mostly everyone.

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Kagome lay awake in her sleeping bag with Shippo and Rin snuggled against either side of her. Though it was well into the night Kagome was wide awake. Shippo's snores provided the only sound, and the only thing keeping Kagome from staring into darkness was the taiyoukai's luminescent eyes.

He was sitting against a tree barely an arm's length away, his hand dangling over one bent knee. Kagome wasn't quite sure where her boldness came from, but she reached out and ran a finger over his striped wrist.

"What are you doing?" Sesshoumaru asked, and Kagome's wrist was in his crushing grip.

"I'm sorry," Kagome said, and his hold on her loosened. "Your markings, they're a pretty color," she finished. Sesshoumaru released her and settled his arm back on his knee.

"They are inherited from my mother," he said.

For some reason Kagome found herself shocked at this revelation. She had always found Sesshoumaru to be ethereal, and to realize that living somewhere was a woman that birthed him knocked him down a peg. Perhaps he wasn't quite so inhuman.

"Really?" she said, and after an awkward silence, she continued, "Most people say I look a lot like my mother. Mama thinks I look like my father."

"Hnn."

It was then that Kagome consciously realized something about her circle of friends.

"You know, it's strange," she said, and Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. "All of us have lost our fathers."

In fact, she and Sesshoumaru were the only ones with living parents.

"And you, miko?" he asked.

"Dad died before Souta was born. Mama and Grandpa raised me."

He made no reply. Another question came to her, and she was nervous about posing it to him. She gathered her courage and asked anyway.

"Inuyasha said he doesn't remember your father. Do you?"

"My father trained me in swordsmanship many centuries ago," he said, briefly touching the hilts of both swords he carried.

"Do you miss him?"

There was a long silence.

"You should sleep," Sesshoumaru said.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to upset you."

Sesshoumaru grumbled and looked over his shoulder towards his brother. "Our words are reaching listening ears."

"Oh," Kagome said, and propped herself up just enough to get a glimpse of Inuyasha. She could see his left ear swiveling. "Goodnight Sesshoumaru," she said, rolling over to face skyward. "Goodnight, Inuyasha."

In the distance she heard a very distinct "Keh."
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ShishiNoSeirei's avatar
I like this one :3