Seven Days by anonymousfangirl

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Hello all my loyal readers, mainly kk-chan and wynter89! This is a challenge fic. That's right, I agreed to a challenge fic. I offered it, in fact, to one of my only two loyal reviewers. This one is for wynter89!!!

By the way, major props to Cierranna, on her story The diary. I majorly endorse this story and recommend it for all of you loyal Sesshou/Kagome who agree with me that Inu needs to die happily ever after with Kikyo, and then, poor heart broken Kagome needs to live, that's right, live, happily ever after with Sesshoumaru. But that's just my opinion. It matters to me. If you have a different opinion, that's great for you, but I don't want to hear it.

Sess/Kagome FOREVER!!!

Let's just get on with this fic, shall we???

Rating- M Let's face it, I write better smut then I do kids novels.

Pairing- Sesshoumaru Kagome

Summary:

Kagome finds out the she is the long-lost heir to the western wolf tribe via Kouga – a tribe that lost their lands and her, as long as she got to grow up safe and happy. Promised to Sesshoumaru as a baby, he gladly hid her in a place where it was safe from the war that was tearing his people apart- the future.

But now Sesshoumaru can't stay away. Not with the knowledge that Kagome knows his after her, Not with Kagome so wonderfully innocent and most definitely not with Kagome so near going in to heat. Nor can he seem to keep his animal instincts that were always smashed down by intellect at bay. Why else would he torture himself by having her so near, when she was so unattainable?

Sesshoumaru Kagome

M

Romance Drama Comedy

(A/N: Do NOT listen to the song Don't take the girl by Tim McGraw before you type, you will have it stuck in your head.)

Seven Days

By An Anonymous Fangirl

Challenged by Wynter89

Chapter One

The tale of Two demons

Just another day in Sengoku Jidai for the shikon-seekers. They all woke up to Inuyasha demanding they move, Kagome mumbling sit in her sleep at the request of a half-asleep Sango, and everyone going back to sleep for a few more hours. Or, that's what would have happened if Inuyasha hadn't pried himself off of the ground, drew his sword, and screamed out one of his two most common battle cries.

"Get out here and fight, wolf!" Inuyasha yelled in his best 'I am so NOT a morning person' voice.

Said cry had everybody rolling over and getting out of bed as Kouga burst in to the clearing, grabbed Kagome (who was still in her sleeping bag) and held her to his chest.

"My love, it is not safe here. The wolf demoness of the western lands is around here, and she should be traveling with a strong half-breed. I figured that it must be Naraku. You must come away from this area!" Kouga demanded as he placed Kagome, now fully awake, on the ground.

"Naraku isn't around here, he isn't even alive anymore. We're searching for some stupid dog demon who killed him for the sacred jewel shards from him." Inuyasha said as he sheathed his sword, willing to be civil if he could get some rumor about the sacred jewel, which was obviously connected to this Western Wolf. "And Sesshoumaru rules all of the western lands. There isn't any western wolf tribe."

Kouga lifted his head to the sky, eyes nostalgic. "There used to be..." Kouga began the story, telling it in great detail but leaving out every name.

Flashback, eight hundred years ago...

"The western wolf tribe shall surely fall if we don't help them." The ten year old Sesshoumaru told his father, Inutaisho, as he looked out the window and at the battle field no more then a mile away.

Inutaisho nodded. "Yes, son, but then we shall kill the ones who slaughtered them and take their lands with out dirtying our claws with wolf blood."

Sesshoumaru looked at his father with loathing evident in his eyes. "Why are you so cruel, father!?!" Sesshoumaru screamed as he turned to face him. Inutaisho didn't even flinch when Sesshoumaru launched his fist at him as hard as he could. "Why must you not be a benevolent ruler?! Why must they die!?!" Sesshoumaru screamed with tears in his eyes.

Inutaisho backhanded Sesshoumaru, sending him reeling back wards, holding his face in his claws. "How I rule is none of your concern right now, Sesshoumaru. You'll rule if I see fit, and then you can make your own choices. Until then, you shall not question me." Inutaisho's eyes lowered and narrowed on a wolf who stood at his front gate holding a small bundle wrapped in a cat skin fur. In one fluid leap, Inutaisho grabbed Sesshoumaru under his arm and landed in front of the gate. "What do you want, wolf?" He said as if it were a word that burned his tongue.

Sari, mate to the leader of the western wolf demon tribe, bowed lowly before Inutaisho. "Please, milord, we are all dying. No one shall remain once this battle is over. I realize that you haven't helped us because it wouldn't be in your best interests, and neither will what I am about to ask you, but please protect my daughter." With that said, Sari lifted the bundle to Inutaisho's face.

With a sneer, Inutaisho almost knocked the baby away, when Sesshoumaru quickly snatched her into his arms. "Father," Sesshoumaru said with more conviction then he felt, "I will not let every wolf die here today."

Sesshoumaru saw his father advance, but instead of flinching away from him as was his normal reaction, he straightened his back bone and glared up at him, sheltering the girl in his arms.

Inutaisho raised his fist back, waiting for his son's reaction. What he saw though, were his son's eyes narrow. What he heard, instead of a whimper, was a low and feral growl. What he felt in the air, instead of the normal fear, was power. Inutaisho unballed his fist and lowered it to the girl's head in a soft pat.

"I shall spare this girl's life, in exchange for two things." Inutaisho said with a velvet-covering-iron voice. Sari's eyes lifted in joy to his, before she saw the lust filled glaze in them. But even that didn't have her eyes lower. She knew she was as good as dead, and she intended to have her daughter live to see another sunrise.

"I have heard rumors about the sexual poweress of a female wolf. It's true that they mate for life, and I have yet to conquer one. You shall be my conquest." Inutaisho told the shaking wolf.

"As you wish, milord." Sari mumbled in an even voice.

Inutaisho nodded. "The second thing I demand of Sesshoumaru."

Sesshoumaru's gaze turned cold as he met his fathers. "What do you command, father?"

"In exchange for this girl's life, you shall do exactly as I tell you without question. Is that understood, boy?" Inutaisho asked.

When Sesshoumaru looked down into the little girl's wide, doe brown eyes, his mind was made up for him. "I shall obey you without question..." Inutaisho's smirk widened slightly, "...as long as this girl never sees you again. She must live, though, and she must return after you are gone from this world."

Inutaisho's smirk turned to a smile of approval. "You shall make a great ruler someday. You just prevented me from ever touching her, or hiring anyone else to do so. Alright, boy, she is yours. Leave her some place safe, and I shant harm her."

Sesshoumaru nodded solemnly and turned to the eastern lands.

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It was only a matter of hours, ones that he knew his father was occupied with, before he came across the village he was searching for- the village of the priestesses. He accepted the glares with disinterest as he walked to the center of the village- the place where the head priestess, Midoriko, resided.

Pushing open the bamboo curtain with one shoulder, Sesshoumaru addressed Midoriko. "Milady Midoriko, I humbly beg a favor of you." Sesshoumaru said in the tenor that Sari had used for respect to his father.

"Yes, demon?" Midoriko said with a glare. She was known for her hatred to all demons.

Sesshoumaru didn't flinch. "Please, milady, protect this girl." Sesshoumaru pulled open the cat skin fur to reveal the tiny girl inside.

Midoriko rose swiftly. "You would offer me a wolf cub. Ask me to raise her. To protect her."

Sesshoumaru nodded, not bothering to explain the situation, knowing that Midoriko could read it in his mind if she wanted to know why.

Midoriko nodded and took the child, looking deeply in to her eyes. Midoriko turned the full power of her glare on the child, and the child returned it. Midoriko smiled slightly. "This child is a half-breed, is she not?" She didn't wait for the answer. "The mother is a wolf who broke her heritage. She slept with a monk. She had this baby. I wonder how the father doesn't know?"

Sesshoumaru looked down, ashamed. "My father killed him when the war started. He didn't want the wolves to have any chance for survival."

Midoriko smiled at the demon and ushered him to her lap. Sesshoumaru came forward and clutched at her skirts and wept. "My father is cruel. He wishes to rule the western lands alone, and he is killing everything to get it!" Sesshoumaru wailed.

Midoriko's eyes glazed slightly with tears that could never be shed. "I will die soon, and in the after math of my death, a jewel will be made." Midoriko knelt down to Sesshoumaru's eye level. "I will not be able to protect her personally, but I do have enough power to send her somewhere where she will be safe. The future."

"Tell me, what must I do to get you to save her?" Sesshoumaru asked, eyes swiftly drying.

Midoriko smiled sadly. "I ask that this girl- her name Kagome- should be your mate when you are older."

Sesshoumaru stepped back. "Nanitte?"

"This girl will protect the jewel that will be my embodiment, shikon no tama. I can see it just touching her. She needs a strong mate, someone who can protect her, but still has the heart to send her away when it is too dangerous for him." Midoriko's eyes met the girls. "I see myself in her, I am already a part of her. I will use the last of my energy, being that I am to die soon anyway, and send her safely to the future. When I die, it will be your job, and hers, to protect this world in my place."

Sesshoumaru nodded. "Alright."

Midoriko pulled a thin dagger from her sleeve and Sesshoumaru immediately snatched the babe out of her arms. Midoriko smiled solemnly. "I need a drop of your blood and hers to complete the spell." She explained.

Sesshoumaru carefully cut his wrist, held it out to her, and did the same for Kagome, not allowing her to be near the babe with the dagger. He could smell dead demons on it, and knew it had dealt their deaths.

"With this spell, She shall go forth in time. For the travel, she shall use a dry well. This blood shall seek hers through time, so long as the hearts are intertwined. He protects her, and someday she shall he, as I will it, so mote it be." Midoriko said the spell and fell deftly to the floor. Carefully, slowly, she rose and turned to Sesshoumaru. "Take her to the dry well on the edge of town. Jump in, and you both shall go into the future. Leave her with the Higurashi's, my descendants, and she shall grow there as a human. When she turns fifteen, she shall fall into the well to the time when your father is dead, so long as you remain alive."

Sesshoumaru nodded and raced away from the hut and out of the village of priestesses and to the dry well. He peered down, making sure it was safe, before he jumped in with poise, cradling the girl to his chest.

When he looked up, there was a well house roof over his head.

Taking a deep breath, Sesshoumaru left the safety of the well and walked to the front gate, where a young woman greeted him.

"My goodness! You're all scratched up, young one!" Sasha Higurashi exclaimed as she ran up to Sesshoumaru, pointing out wounds he hadn't been aware he had.

"I must've gotten em going through the underbrush on the way to the well." He muttered to himself, mentally making a note to have it cut down and cared for as soon as his father died.

"Oh, you poor things." Sasha said. "Gin! Get out here! These kids need medical attention!" Sasha said.

Sesshoumaru shook his head. "That won't be necessary, Ms. Higurashi."

Sasha slowly turned her head to face the young silver-haired boy. "How do you know my name?" She asked as she bent down to his level, and realized that the girl was wrapped in a ca-skin fur. They had come out of the well house, and those clothes looked like they were from the feudal era. "Who are you? Where did you come from?"

Sesshoumaru stood straight and tall. "My name is Sesshoumaru Nishi. I was sent from the past to entrust this girl with you." Sesshoumaru held out Kagome, and Sasha gasped as soon as she saw her eyes open wide. The brown was lined with a thin gold, the color that mirrored the marking of a golden trinity on her forehead. Kagome yawned, brandishing two pointed fangs, and when the wind blew her short, black-blue hair away, they revealed tiny pointed ears.

Sasha took her fill of this girl before she turned to Sesshoumaru. She had noticed his markings immediately, but had ignored them, thinking it was face paint. "What are you two?"

"I am a dog demon, heir to the western lands. Kagome is a wolf demoness, heir to the western wolf tribe, and..." Sesshoumaru tested the way the next words felt on his tongue before he said them, "she is also my mate to be."

If Sasha couldn't comprehend any of this, she didn't show it. "Why can't you take care of her?"

Sesshoumaru explained the situation to her, and had barely finished when Gin, her husband, came out with a first aid kit.

"Honey, I thought you said they were hurt." Gin said as he set down the kit. Sesshoumaru didn't have to look down to know that all of his wounds were healed.

Sasha turned to her husband with tears in her eyes. "We have to take this child." She said as she gently pried Kagome from Sesshoumaru's arms.

Gin looked at the child, then at the boy, then at his wife, and finally, resting on the boy again. "You're a demon, are you not? A powerful one, and obviously one who can transcend time."

Sesshoumaru nodded. "Yes, we are both demons, though she is only a half-breed. I can cover her markings, put a spell on them so that no one can see them until she hears her story, though. That would guarantee her safety until she was ready."

Sasha nodded and Sesshoumaru began the spell.

End flashback.

"After he put the spell on the girl, he left her and came back to our time." Kouga's glazed eyes took on their normal hue. "But who's ever heard of a time traveling priestess, eh Kagome?"

But Kagome wasn't listening. She was focusing on her breathing as the world spun around her. Scents, sights, sounds, all of them were boosted. She grabbed her head and the ground in order to anchor herself to safety.

"Kagome?" She knew her friends were around her, but she also knew that she would never be able to answer them if they wouldn't hold still!

Kagome fell to the ground, still holding her head. Suddenly she noticed that there were only three blurred figures in front of her. The silver-haired hanyou and the wolf demon weren't there.

"Inu... Yasha..." Kagome muttered as she tried to stop the sounds of metal against metal, the smell of putrid acid. Suddenly, there was only one figure, a red head that was guarding her fiercely in her inhibited state. But when she blinked, all she could see was a silver figure standing above her. The smell that overwhelmed her was not Inuyasha's scent of sweat, nor was it Kouga's earthy, Fresh Mountain air scent. It smelt like blood, acid, all overlaying a thin scent of pine trees and salt water.

Kagome's head stopped spinning as the figure knelt down and scooped her up. Her eyes used his as an anchor to this world. Gold, yes, but not Inuyasha's bright yellow gold ones. No, these eyes were deep amber, as if the blood they had seen had somehow stained the yellow.

"Sess... Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked as she slipped into a blissfully unaware state of consciousness.

Fangirl-

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