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paynesgrey_ficsFandom: Inuyasha
Title: The Unquiet Winds
Chapter Title: The Right Question
Characters: Sesshoumaru, Kagura's reincarnation (inevitable Kagura/Sesshoumaru), Shippou
Genre: Fantasy/Supernatural/Suspense
Rating: PG-13 (overall)
Universe: Canon divergence, Modern
Chapter Word Count: 500
Notes: This new serial was started to follow the themes for contests at Livejournal. This is the 19th installment, written for the "The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming. - Benedict Cumberbatch" prompt at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ib4y20. You can find all the previous chapters at my archive HERE.
Story Summary: Natsumi dreams of another woman's past, a woman who desperately wants to reunite with the man she loves, even if Natsumi has to suffer in the end.
Chapter Summary: Natsumi tries to get Shippou to tell her more about how Sesshoumaru felt about Kagura.
Previous Chapter
“Well,” Natsumi asked. She was waiting for an answer and Shippou only stared at her with an odious grin. “Did Sesshoumaru love her - my reincarnation, I mean?”
“That’s not the right question,” Shippou said, still sounding mysterious.
Natusmi sighed in frustration, throwing up her hands. She tried to be quiet in the library, but she was losing patience. Shippou was not an easy person to get information from; she could tell he found it amusing, like a game, to put her on edge and challenge her to research her own information.
“Well, then, what is the right question?” she asked in exasperation.
“The question could be... did Sesshoumaru love anyone? He loved a small human girl named Rin who was his ward. She stayed with him until she was a teen, and then he visited her to bring her gifts. She grew into a beautiful woman,” Shippou said, and Natsumi watched as he seemed caught in time - almost living the story.
“Yes, I know about Rin, but he didn’t love her romantically,” Natsumi said. “Did he feel that way about Kagura is my question.”
“I don’t know. Sesshoumaru is not the most charming person, and he doesn’t exactly share his feelings with people,” Shippou said.
“Humph,” Natsumi said, eying him suspiciously. “That sounds like biased information. Plus, anyone who met Sesshoumaru for five minutes would know he wasn’t charming or extraverted.”
Shippou laughed. “Oh, Natsumi, trust me, you’re the charming one.”
Natsumi sighed again. “You really aren’t being helpful, are you? What’s Sesshoumaru’s history with Kagura? What did he feel for her?”
“Still not the right question,” Shippou said, and she met him with an angry stare. “The right question - is what did Kagura feel for Sesshoumaru?”
Immediately, Natsumi felt an odd jolt through her core - piercing from her loins to her heart. She blinked, feeling the same pain that she’d felt whenever she was in Sesshoumaru’s presence. Yet, he wasn’t here.
“She -- she was deeply in love with him, and he knew she loved him. She loved him so much that she followed him through time,” Natsumi said, everything coming out in one breath and feeling like an old memory burned into her soul. Memories accosted her senses and the youkai woman’s essence came back to her - her feelings also returning in full form. Kagura hated her feelings for him at first, but then she grew to embrace them. She embraced her admiration of his beauty, her confidence in his prowess, and her belief that he could save her.
The feelings began to overwhelm Natsumi, and she swallowed hard, almost to swallow the pain of an old life.
Shippou nodded, and Natsumi felt tears rolling down her cheeks. “Kagura’s love changed her life. It changed her whole destiny.”
“And Sesshomaru - he felt something too for Kagura. Remorse? Gratitude?”
“Admiration,” Shippou said, and Natsumi was surprised to get a straight answer out of him. He shrugged. “Though that may be a biased opinion.”
Next Chapter
Title: The Unquiet Winds
Chapter Title: The Right Question
Characters: Sesshoumaru, Kagura's reincarnation (inevitable Kagura/Sesshoumaru), Shippou
Genre: Fantasy/Supernatural/Suspense
Rating: PG-13 (overall)
Universe: Canon divergence, Modern
Chapter Word Count: 500
Notes: This new serial was started to follow the themes for contests at Livejournal. This is the 19th installment, written for the "The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming. - Benedict Cumberbatch" prompt at
ib4y20. You can find all the previous chapters at my archive HERE. Story Summary: Natsumi dreams of another woman's past, a woman who desperately wants to reunite with the man she loves, even if Natsumi has to suffer in the end.
Chapter Summary: Natsumi tries to get Shippou to tell her more about how Sesshoumaru felt about Kagura.
Previous Chapter
“Well,” Natsumi asked. She was waiting for an answer and Shippou only stared at her with an odious grin. “Did Sesshoumaru love her - my reincarnation, I mean?”
“That’s not the right question,” Shippou said, still sounding mysterious.
Natusmi sighed in frustration, throwing up her hands. She tried to be quiet in the library, but she was losing patience. Shippou was not an easy person to get information from; she could tell he found it amusing, like a game, to put her on edge and challenge her to research her own information.
“Well, then, what is the right question?” she asked in exasperation.
“The question could be... did Sesshoumaru love anyone? He loved a small human girl named Rin who was his ward. She stayed with him until she was a teen, and then he visited her to bring her gifts. She grew into a beautiful woman,” Shippou said, and Natsumi watched as he seemed caught in time - almost living the story.
“Yes, I know about Rin, but he didn’t love her romantically,” Natsumi said. “Did he feel that way about Kagura is my question.”
“I don’t know. Sesshoumaru is not the most charming person, and he doesn’t exactly share his feelings with people,” Shippou said.
“Humph,” Natsumi said, eying him suspiciously. “That sounds like biased information. Plus, anyone who met Sesshoumaru for five minutes would know he wasn’t charming or extraverted.”
Shippou laughed. “Oh, Natsumi, trust me, you’re the charming one.”
Natsumi sighed again. “You really aren’t being helpful, are you? What’s Sesshoumaru’s history with Kagura? What did he feel for her?”
“Still not the right question,” Shippou said, and she met him with an angry stare. “The right question - is what did Kagura feel for Sesshoumaru?”
Immediately, Natsumi felt an odd jolt through her core - piercing from her loins to her heart. She blinked, feeling the same pain that she’d felt whenever she was in Sesshoumaru’s presence. Yet, he wasn’t here.
“She -- she was deeply in love with him, and he knew she loved him. She loved him so much that she followed him through time,” Natsumi said, everything coming out in one breath and feeling like an old memory burned into her soul. Memories accosted her senses and the youkai woman’s essence came back to her - her feelings also returning in full form. Kagura hated her feelings for him at first, but then she grew to embrace them. She embraced her admiration of his beauty, her confidence in his prowess, and her belief that he could save her.
The feelings began to overwhelm Natsumi, and she swallowed hard, almost to swallow the pain of an old life.
Shippou nodded, and Natsumi felt tears rolling down her cheeks. “Kagura’s love changed her life. It changed her whole destiny.”
“And Sesshomaru - he felt something too for Kagura. Remorse? Gratitude?”
“Admiration,” Shippou said, and Natsumi was surprised to get a straight answer out of him. He shrugged. “Though that may be a biased opinion.”
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