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LinksThey are Pack | I am Alpha | Home |2nd book of Alpha Pack MatesThey are Pack Chapter 4
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and all of it's characters are property of the brilliant Takahashi-sama and I claim no ownership of them. Only the story belongs to me. Summary: Book 2 in the Alpha Pack Mates series. A new pack member, blossoming romances, a wedding, completion of a quest, and learning how not only to be a pack, but also to be a family. Find out what else is awaiting the inu-tachi and get answers to some questions from Alpha. Pairings: Inuyasha/Kikyou, Sango/Miroku, Sesshoumaru/Kagome. Follows: The Anime and movies. "spoken" 'thought' (translations) Special thanks to my betas PockyThief , TheMikoShivae and Kiyota . Chapter 4 After telling her to wait there, I left Kikyou in the hut and began making my way over to Inuyasha who was talking quietly with his half-brother. When he noticed me coming towards him, he stood and turned to me in question. “It's time, anija-chan. She's waiting for you in your hut,” I told him with a smile before sitting down next to Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha continued to look at me in confusion before shaking his head. “Thanks,” he mumbled before turning and heading toward his hut. Glancing toward Sesshoumaru, I found him staring at me with a raised eyebrow, and merely smiled back. Just as I was about to open my mouth to talk with Sesshoumaru, a very happy hanyou came rushing back out of his hut. Within seconds I was being held in the air by his strong arms and spun around. I couldn't help but laugh at his antics. As he finally set my feet back on the ground, he leaned down to kiss my cheek lightly before whispering in my ear, “Thank you, imouto-chan.” Hugging me to his chest quickly, he finally let me go and rushed back toward his hut. Laughing softly to myself, I sat back down and turned back to Sesshoumaru, the look in his eyes clearing stating he wouldn't allow me to get away with not answering again. “Kikyou is once again a living, breathing human,” I explained with a smile. He seemed to think about it fore a moment before replying, “Aki?” With a smile I just nodded my head before turning my attention toward the giggling kids that were running around. Wondering why they weren't in bed yet I turned back to Sesshoumaru, who seemed to know my question before I had the chance to voice it. “We were unsure of when you would put them to bed, and they seemed to be enjoying themselves,” he explained with a very slight nod toward the children. “I'll be back in a minute,” I told him with a smile as I stood and began making my way over to the children. “Alright guys, time for bed,” I called out, ignoring the groans and pleas to stay just for a little while longer. “Don't start, you guys, you've already stayed up past your bedtime,” I reminded them with a smile. After a moment, and a few more groans, they finally relented and began making their way to our hut. Sending a quick smile over my shoulder to Sesshoumaru, I led the children into the hut and covered up the younger ones once they were ready for bed. “Can you stay?” Daichi pleaded so quietly that I almost missed it. Turning back around with a smile, I grabbed a nearby book and crawled onto the futon next to him. He quickly curled up against my side, followed by Shippo who positioned himself on my lap. Two pages into the story, even Rin came over and curled up against my other side. Smiling softly down at the children, I continued reading until all three of them were fast asleep. Setting Shippo down carefully in between the two, and making sure not to wake them, I put the book away and made my way back outside. I found Sesshoumaru still sitting where I had left him and he turned to glance at me in question as I walked over. “Kids wanted a bed time story,” I told him with a smile as I sat down next to him. “He won't come near this Sesshoumaru,” he told me after a moment of silence and it was easy to figure out who he was talking about. “Give him time, Sesshoumaru. All he understands right now is that you are the guy that killed his mother. He's too young to understand that you did what you did in self-defense. Right now he's beginning to trust me. If he sees me trusting you, he will be more willing to do so himself. “But you have to give him some time to come to terms with everything. It's hard to think about, let alone be around, the man that killed your mother. Trust me, I know. Just give him some time,” I told him as I laid my hand on his shoulder with a smile before standing up and going back to cleaning. I figured he would want some time to himself and the clearing wasn't quite clean yet. It didn't take too long before everything was picked up and I stopped by where Sesshoumaru was still sitting on my way back to my hut. “If you change your mind about sleeping outside, you're free to use the family room. There's no open futons, but I imagine you wouldn't sleep anyways and so sitting leaning against a wall should be just fine.” He nodded to me slightly, not really listening to what I was saying, and with a smile I leaned down to gently kiss the crescent moon on his forehead before heading toward my hut. As I walked in to the bedroom, seeing as the three kids had my futon covered, I quickly dressed for bed and laid down on Rin's. As I was closing my eyes to sleep, I heard movement in the family room and looked up to find amber eyes gazing at me from across the room. Sesshoumaru had come in and sat down against the far wall, directly in line with my door. Smiling at him, I mouthed 'good night' before closing my eyes and drifting off to la la land. (Some time before) Kikyou watched as Kagome left the hut, thoughts running through her mind faster than she could even think them. She was alive again. Truly alive for the first time in over 50 years. No body of clay and dirt and graveyard soil. But one of flesh and bones and blood. No more depending on her soul stealers to keep herself in the land of the living. She now had a full soul of her very own, but at the cost of Kagome living the rest of her life constantly missing a piece of hers. How could someone do that? Relinquish all chances of having her soul once again complete to give life to a woman who had tried to kill her on more than one occasion. To someone who made her suffer and lose her first love. How anyone could be so selfless, Kikyou would probably never understand. She herself didn't think she would have been able to do what Kagome did if the roles were reversed. And for the first time since she joined the pack, Kikyou truly understood why Kagome was the Alpha. Why she could never be, though she was doubting now that she would ever want to be. Being Alpha meant you had to put everyone before yourself, even at the cost of your own happiness. Always having to do what was best for everyone else, never thinking of how it would affect you. Knowing you may never get what you want, but being happy just knowing that the others did. Now Kikyou wasn't a completely selfish person, not when she was first alive anyways, but she knew she could never do what Kagome did every day. She could never truly be that selfless. She could never be completely happy just knowing the others were. She would need something for herself. Kikyou finally understood everything the pack had been trying to tell her from the very beginning. There was a reason Kagome was the Alpha, and why she would always be the Alpha. She was just cut from a different cloth than everyone else. Everything that Kikyou tried to do in her life, and failed miserably at it, Kagome succeeded - being the Shikon no miko, protecting the jewel and even correcting the mistake she made rather than giving up. Sure the girl had shattered it in the beginning, but she had allowed herself to be easily tricked resulting in the tainting of the jewel and her death, all because she wanted to rid herself of the responsibility and become a normal woman. Inuyasha...how she loved him, but she had wanted him to become human, not only to get rid of the jewel like she had told him, but also because she knew how hard it would be to be with a hanyou. She wanted a normal life, even at the expense of who and what he was. But not Kagome. No, Kagome loved him unconditionally without reservation, without wanting him to change, without wishing him to be something or someone he wasn't. She loved him enough to let him go just so he would be happy, even if it wasn't with her. But Kikyou could never let him go. She had thought it was because she loved him so much, and while she did love him more than anything, she couldn't let him go because she was weak. She wasn't strong enough to live without him. She wasn't even strong enough with him. She allowed herself to be tricked by that dark hanyou when Kagome refused to allow him to corrupt her mind or turn her against her friends. Maybe what Kagome had told her months ago was right, maybe everything did start out with a rough draft. At the very least, Kikyou was pleased to know she had done so much better in her next life. Kikyou was startled out of her thoughts as Inuyasha walked into the hut. Glancing up at him, she wondered how he would take her new form, but before she had the chance to ask, he had sniffed the air and dashed back out of the hut. Kikyou stood there confused. She would have thought he would have been happy to have her truly alive again. Though he never said it to her face, she knew he couldn't stand her scent of graveyard soil. He would always scrunch his nose when he thought she wasn't looking. Now she couldn't smell it herself, but she was pretty sure she was back to smelling like the rain as she did before she died. Why wasn't he happy? Before she could think about it further, said hanyou was rushing back into the hut, his arms immediately going around her waist as he pulled her flush to his chest. “Kami, I have missed this scent,” he whispered against her ear as she felt his hot breath cascading down on it. “Why did you run off?” Kikyou questioned as she gazed up into his amber eyes and saw that for the first time in 50 years, he was truly happy when he was with her. “I had to thank imouto-chan,” he explained with a soft smile before leaning down and capturing her lips in a fiery kiss that left them both breathless when he finally pulled back. “It's time,” he whispered against the shell of her ear, sending a shiver down her spine. Kikyou gazed into his amber eyes, so full of love and passion, with the first real smile she remembered wearing in the longest time. Far too long in fact. But thoughts of how long it had been since she gave a true smile left her mind completely as his lips descended on hers once again while he lifted her into his arms and carried her over to their futon. Inuyasha laid her down gently before finally breaking the kiss. He gazed into her eyes for a moment before running his thumb, mindful of his claws, over her lips. Leaning down so his lips were just a breath away from hers, he whispered, “I love you Kikyou.” Please R&R, good and bad reviews are welcome, however, I will ignore flames. CreditsLayout and Coding By: JayImage From: Aethereality.net Resources From: Hybrid-Genesis.net |
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