It's had been twenty years since the day that the woman had left. He felt betrayed and angered that the woman didn't even say good-bye. She was still there in his dreams, her long raven hair, and her deep chocolate eyes. He wondered when he would see her again. In his heart, even though he felt betrayed, he knew that it was for his own good. His father had raised him well, he was fierce and cold, cunning like not even the most powerful youki, yet he still was missing something. He had more power in him, power that had not been released for the twenty years that's this woman left. He remembered the feeling of her closeness. He remembered the feeling that washed over him when he opened up to his unknown powers, but he couldn't seem to repeat that power with out her.
The boy left his room and down the hall, taking two lefts and a right, then stopping at his fathers study, where he knew he would find him. Slowly he raised his hand and knocked twice.
"Enter." A cold voice came from within the room. The boy pushed the doors with ease.
"What is it Mitsuaki?" Sesshoumaru lifted his eyes and the grown pup. Smiling on the inside at his accomplishments. Kagome had left him with a powerful heir indeed. 'Maybe I should find her and tell her the truth about-…'
"I need to find her father. I need to find the lady that haunts my dreams."
"Which lady would that be. You have seen many woman that you were able to court with?" Sesshoumaru naturally cold voice echoed through the air. Since then he had never thought his son was interested in and of the female youki that had been presented.
"None that are available and none that have been presented." Mitsuaki walked to the window of his father's study. "I don't understand father. It had been nearly twenty years yet her scent still lingers in the room. Her words still echo in my head, yet they are jumbled and make no sense. Father-…"
Mitsuaki's words seem to fade as he looked upon his father's face. He remembered that his father had fallen for and been betrayed by this girl. The woman he so distinctly remembered.
"Forget about her, she is a beauty but nothing else and should not matter to you. She has done nothing to help raise you." Sesshoumaru stood abruptly, he knew his son could feel his tension, his painful memories. When he heard that his Kagome had been mated off with his dim witted half brother he nearly puked. Locking himself away from everyone but his son for months, rebuilding walls around him that were cold and strong as ice.
"How can you say that father, she is the reason I am alive. It may have been twenty years but I still remember how she saved me from that village. Her name hasn't yet to come to me but I know that it will. I know that not matter what you say one day I will find her and I will remember her." Mitsuaki looked up at his tall father. The one who raised him to be strong, to be cold, never distracted by anything, anything but her. "Sesshoumaru, she is my mother."
Sesshoumaru stopped in his mind. Yes she was his mother, her soul was the mother to his son, but her heart, her heart betrayed him making him even colder. Could she not see that he had fallen for her?
[Flash back
"I am no father to you, half-breed."
"If I ever hear that word being spoken to my son again, I will take him away so that he may never have to put up with your hatred. Mitsuaki is stronger then you will let him believe and when you call him half-breed it hurts. Don't you realize that it is the same thing that you have done to Inuyasha? Your brother is trying and trying to please you, as he wouldn't tried to please his father if he was alive. All you have ever done is make fun of him, causing him to actually believe he is worthless-…"
Her words hit him right in the ego. He had wanted to bad to kill her for making him realize that he could no longer blame anyone else but himself.
"You're cold. You're bitter and hating. Why are you so idiotic, you told me you would take him in because you were ashamed that Inuyasha was raised so harshly? But you were the one who made him that way-…" Kagome started to piece everything together.
"Why do you even care?" Sesshoumaru looked at her, staring into her deep chocolate eyes.
"Because I love my son, and no matter what Inuyasha has done to me, I know that I will always love him." Kagome looked down, covering her eyes with her bangs.
"He has done nothing for you. He abandoned you, he has tried to kill you and still you push it all away. Many things, wench does not confuse this Sesshoumaru, but you have no meaning in your actions."
He had tried to show her that Inuyasha was not the one for her but she was just too stubborn. The one thing that made him fall for her, was the one thing that stopped them from being together.
"You were right Sesshoumaru." Kagome stood and wiped the tears from her eyes. "About everything." Kagome walked up to him and kissed him quickly on the cheek before he knew what was even happening. "But I love him so much, that you could never understand." Kagome moved to the doors, then turned around. If he had been right why would she return with him. Why did this Sesshoumaru have to be so cold? Why wasn't he able to just tell her he couldn't bare her to leave?
"Please take care of my shinning light. Take care of my Mitsuaki." And with that Kagome left with Inuyasha, going back to the village to meet two friends that she helped escape Naraku's rather, knowing that no matter what there would always be evil to fight, but love would always prevail.
So he did. From the day the child could hold a sword he was trained to fight, pushing himself so he was able to be as fast as his father, his idol. On his nineteenth birthday he had even beaten his father, proving to the ice lord that he was no longer the best and that his lands were in good hands.
[End of flash back
"Father are you listening to me?" Mitsuaki growled as his father snapped back into reality.
"I will come with you then. I would like to see your mother again as well." Sesshoumaru walked over and placed his right hand on his son's shoulder.
"Are you sure you want to do this? Who will watch over the palace?" Mitsuaki tipped his head to the side.
"The general will watch over it while we are gone. Come now Mitsuaki let us be on our way."
So the two left the palace searching for the one thing, the one person who they knew could help complete their lives.