"Run! Its a demon!" Shouts filled the ears of a young boy, not much older then 10. He had no idea why the villagers were shouting at him, he was just a kid, and like any child does when yelled at he hid behind his mother. She looked down at him.
"Why are they shouting mommy?" "They fear us demons my son." "Why?" "They believe that their lives will be shortened by us dear." "Oh...but we're not going to hurt them are we?" "No, we wont harm them, we'll pass through and they'll forget all about us." The boy and his mother walked through the village full of cowering humans. The boy sighed, "Why must we be demons mother?" "Hm? That I cannot tell you, fore even I do not know my son." "Do I have to like being one?" "Hm, not until you want to dear." "Good, cause I don't like it." "Why?" "Why? People run in fear and no one likes demons, that why mom." "Hm, perhaps that is what you believe now, but soon you will believe another thing." "Hmph! No I wont!" "Whatever you say dear, let us continue on our way home, shall we?" "K."
Once the boy and his mother had returned home, he went outside to wait until his father returned home as well. He sighed as he noticed a few human children, that looked around his age. He contemplated going over to them, but desided against it. He didn't want to have them fear him, just because he was a demon.
Late that night, as the moon shone bright in the sky, they sleeping boy was lifted into strong arms and carried to his room. He was laid upon his bed and covered and left to sleep there for the rest of the night.
"Mom! Mom!" "Yes dear?" "Did dad come home?" "He's already been and gone again son," "Aww! I fell asleep again didn't I?" "I'm afraid so dear." "Hmph! Its not fair!" "Whats not?" "He's always away, I never get to spend anytime with him at all!" "Now, now, you know your father must scout the entire Western lands, to make sure the inhabitors are not making trouble." "I know..." "Hm...perhaps, you could ask him if he could take you with him tomorrow," "Really! I'd be able to go!" "Of course, dear, you'll be with your father, so I know you'll be safe." the boy smiled a bright childish smile and ran outside, where he lept into the air. "Yes! I cna't wait for father to come home tonight!" The boy was in such a good mood he didn't notice a young human girl, giggling from behind a tree.
"Huh! Who's there!" The boy called, slightly embarassed that someone had seen him so happy. "Hmph! They wont show themselves, they fear demons...huh..." The boy saw that there was now a young girl infront of him.
"..." She smiled, "Hi," "Hi..." "I'm sorry for watching you, but you just seemed so happy." "I am happy." "Oh? Thats great! Me too!" "Why're you so happy?" The girl approached making the boy back up. "I'm happy, because you're happy." "Huh? You're happy for me?" "Mhm..." "You're weird." "I know..." A voice was heard and the girl hurried towards that way she'd appeared from.
"I have to go now," "Really?" "Mhm." The girl noticed that the boy looked sad, and smiled as she got to the trees. "I have to go, but I"ll come back tomorrow if thats alright with you?" The boy looked at the girl who wore such a cute smile. "Really? You'll really come back?" "Of course." "Why?" "Hm?" "Why? You must know that I'm a demon," "Hm? Demon?" "You're telling me that you don't know what demons are!" "Oh, no! I know what demons are, they're mean, scary, nasty, and they kill, " "Yeah, so why do you want to come back?" "Hm, because, you maybe a demon, but you're not mean, scary, nasty, and I don't think you've killed before, so you are baisically a pure demon." "Huh..." The voice was heard again. "I'm sorry, I really must go, I may over look the fact that you're a demon, but my parents wont." "I understand..." "Oh! I'm sorry, my name is Sunali." "Sunali..." "Sunali Kagome Higu...Oh!" "Hm?" "I'm sorry I cannot tell you my surrname." "Thats alright..." "Whats your name?" "I'm Sesshoumaru." "Sesshou ma ru...thats somewhat difficult, so...can I call you Sesshy?" "Ah...sure...I guess so." "Thanks! See you tomorrow Sesshy!" "Bye." He watched as the girl, Sunali was no longer in sight. "Bye..." A pressance was felt behind him.
"Who're you saying bye to?" The boy tunred to looked into the eyes of his father. "Father!" The boy ran into his father's arms. " I missed you father! I missed you so much!" "I missed you as well, my son, I'm glad to see that you are still awake this time." The boy blushed as his father lifted him onto his shoulders. "So, who were you saying bye to?" "My new friend." "Friend? Really who is this friend?" "Her name is Su...Kagome." "Kagome, very pretty," "Mhm! She's a human too!" "Hm, she must have a very kind heart." "Mhm, I think she does." They went inside where they were greeted by the boy's mother.
"Sesshoumaru? Son?" "Hm?" "Are you going with your father today?" "Oh!" The boy sat up quickly and hurried to get dressed. "I'll let him know to wait for you dear." "K." The boy hurried to make sure not to keep his father waiting. He looked through the window of his room and saw children playing in a field, thats when he stopped getting ready.
"Sesshoumaru? Why dear! Why are you not ready to go? Your father can't wait much longer." "If...if Kagome comes here, tell her I'm sorry for not meeting her today..." "Kagome?" "Mhm, my new friend...she said she'd come back to see me today, but..." "Hm...dear, would you rather stay here and meet up with her?" "...But I want to go with father too..." "Alright, I'll let her know that you'll see her tomorrow." "Thanks mom." "Of course, now finish getting ready." "K." The boy hurried and as soon as he was finished he ran out the door with his father, and soon after his father transformed into his demon form, climbed on his back and they were off. The mother waved from below.
"Where are we going father?" "Well, first we must...oh..." "Hm? First we must what father?" The father landed and turned back to hs human form. "Father?" "Sesshoumaru, you stay here..." "Why?" "There...theres a bit of trouble up ahead, and you're far too young just yet to get mixed up with this kind of trouble." "Alright, be careful father." The boy watched his father disappear into the forest. "Hm..." "Sesshy!" The nickname made the boy turn.
"Sunali...What...what are you doing here?" "I'm here to pick berries silly." "Oh." "I went by your home, but your mother told me why you weren't there." "You're not mad are you?" "Mad? Of course not, why would I be mad?" "You said you'd come back to see me, but I didn't wait for you..." "Only because you went out with your father. Don't appoligize for wanting to spend time with your father." "..." "I wish I could spend more time with my own father," "Why can't you?" "...I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to reveal that..." "Thats alright...oh!" Both children heard a noise, one that neither had ever head before.
"Whats that noise?" Asked the girl who moved closer to the boy, who shook his head. "I don't know...but it came from the direction my father went!" The boy rushed towards the forest. "Wait!" The girl grasped his hand, "Please...dont' leave me here all alone..." The boy didn't know what to do. He wanted to go after his father, but he knew he couldn'y just leave his friend alone. She was a you g girl after all a young human girl to boot. "Okay, lets go together." "K."
"Father!" The boy called for his father, but got no response. "FATHER!" "Sesshy...look! Over there..." The girl gestured. "Huh..." They peereed through the bushes and saw a man and a woman.
"Is..is that your father?" "Yeah...but thats not my mom! Who is that woman!" The boy watched how tenderly his father held the woman in his arms. Watched the kisses he gave her and watched how, when his golden eyes met the woman's hazel ones, the boy saw the flecks of light flowing through his father's eyes. He stood angrily. "Sesshy..." He glared at the woman in his fathers arms.
"Those eyes are only for my mother!" He shouted and both his father and the woman turned to see him and the girl beside him.
"Sesshoumaru..." "Is this what you call scouting the area!" The father reluctantly left the woman and approached his son. "Sesshoumaru, son, listen to me..." "Listen to you! You lied to me! You said there was trouble! Now I see you just wanted to be alone with that woman!" "Sesshouamru! Watch your tone!" "I will not!" The boy shouted and ran away from his father. The girl hurried after him, she stopped when she was in front of the father. "I'll take him home sir." "...Thank you, you must be Kagome." "! How do you know my name!" "My son has spoken quite a bit about you..." "Oh...he forgot to put Sunali before Kagome," "Oh, I see." "I'll calm him and bring him home for you sir." "Thank you, you really do have a kind heart." He said as the girl hurried after his son.
"Sesshy?" "Go away!" "Sesshoumaru..." The girl found her friend sitting in a tree. "Please come down." "No!" "Ha, okay fine."
"Hm? Hey...where'd you go?" The boy looked down. but couldn't see his friend. "Hm...I wouldn't have stayed either. That..." "Hey!" "WHOA!" The girl now sat on the branch with him.
"Thats reckless!" "What is? Climbing up here?" "Yeah!" "Not if you're me its not." "Hm...I'm never going home!" "Oh, come now, you must go home." "No! I don't want to be around him!" "What about your mother?" "..." "Will she not miss you?" "Hm...your right..." "Shall we walk home together?" "Okay." They climbed down the tree and hand in hanad walked through the forest heading toward the boy's home.
Several years later, the boy is now a 16 year old man, and the girl is a 15 year old woman. The boy, Sesshouamru is still angry at his father for cheating on his mother with a human woman, called Izyoi.
"Sesshoumaru?" "What?" "Now, son, don't be that way..." "I will not accept that thing as my family!" "How do you..." "I'm a dog demon father, remember? I have a well trained nose." "I see, but son, the child will be either your little brother or sister." "You think so, huh, well you can keep thinking that I will accept it as a memeber of my family." "Ha, you're starting to annoy me, why don't you go hang out with Sunali." "Good idea, then I don't have to be around you." The teen left the house and went to find his only friend Sunali.
"Sunali? Hm?" He called her name, saw her, then saw a few other women following close behind her, so he kept himself from sight. He noticed though that Sunali looked rather stressed and unhappy. Curious he stealthly followed them women.
"My lady, please come back into the house..." "No! I refuse to be anywhere near that loathsome man!" Suanli shouted angrily as she tried to shake the other women. "Your ladyship, please..." "Father intends to marry me off to that despicable man! I will not be sold to some man like a sack of rice!" "My lady..." "No! Now leave me be!" The women hesitated, then sighed and bowed, "Of course your ladyship." They left and returned to the house.
"Argh! How I detest that horrid man!" "You sound pretty angry today." "Hm? Sesshoumaru! Finally now there can be some kind of joy in my day today." "Unhappy?" "Very. You?" "Yeah, me too." "Hm..." "You...ah...you want to go for a walk?" Sunali nodded "Yes, oh yes! I need to get away from this place for a while." The two teens walked into the forest.
"So, why are you so unhappy today? I'm not used to you being so unhappy." "My father came home last night." "Thats why you're upset?" "No, I was so happy when he came home, then I found out that a partner of his had come back with him." "Oh?" "Father brought him back, intending to marry me off to the jerk." "I see..." "He has no regard for my life or my feelings at all! I told him that I refused to marry the creep, but he keeps telling the other girls to prepare my things to leave with the man." "When?" "They havent desided on a day yet. Thats what makes me so angry!" "Hm?" "I could be sleeping one night here and the next morning I could wake up to find myself in a totally new place." "Your fatehr wouldn't allow that...would he?" "I don't know, I don't think so..." "I mean he is your father," "Yeah I know, but this...this blew me right out of the water. I mean you're right he is my father, so shouldn't he be trying to keep guys away from me?" "Hm...who is this guy anyway?" "Some...demon lord my father knows." "Demon lord huh?" "Mhm..." "so is it that you don't like demons?" "No! That's not it at all! If it was do you think I would continue to be your friend?" "I...I see your point..." "Ha...I mean if he wants me to marry a demon..." There was something in Sunali's voice that caught Sesshoumaru's attention. "If he wants you to marry a demon...what?" Sunali shook her head, her face bright red with blush. "Never mind...ha...its such a nice day out today, I can't let myself get caught up my unhappiness on such a lovely day." Sunali sighed as she leaned against the tree they sat beneath.
It was dark when the two returned to Sunali's home. "Bye Sesshy, see you later." "Yeah...see you later." "Hope things go well between you and your father." "You too Sunali." They said their good-byes and parted.
Sesshoumaru didn't go straight home though, instead he went down to the river to do some thinking. There had been something Sunali had been about to say, whe she said what she did about her father wanting her to marry a demon. "What was she going to say?" He wondered to himself as he pondered the thought that she had about to say for her father to get her to marry him, then shook the thought from his head. He'd seen what his father was like with a human woman and he didn't know if he wanted to be like tht with Sunali, or not. Of course that didn't kill the fact that he had indeed developed very strong feelings for the only friend he had and he believed the only one he'd ever have in his whole life.
Sesshouamru was just returning home, when he heard shouting from the forest. "Hm?" Suddenly from the forest appeared Sunali.
"Sunali?" she ran right to him and embraced the demon teen tightly. "Su..." "Don't let go...please, don't let go." Sesshoumaru didn't know what to do, so he just stood there, holding Sunali in his arms. He didn't let the fact that she was crying escape him for a moment. Something had happened at her home, that he knew for sure.
"Sunali? Tell me what happened?" "He wants me to leave with that horrid being!" "When?" "Tonight!" "Tonight! Thats..." "I'm not going anywhere with him! I will not allow my father to make my life decisions for me! I wont!" "What will you do then?" She said nothing then looked up into his golden eyes and smiled softly. "I don't want to go anywhere, that I cannot go without you Sesshouamru." That made the demon's heart seem to soar from his very chest, then it happened again, when Sunali kissed his lips.
"Sunali!" "Ssh, please...you must know how much I want to be with you...from the moment I met you, I knew you'd be man I'd fall in love with..." "Sunali..." "Please...my real name isn't Sunali." "Wha...what is it then?" "Sunali was my grandmother's name, my father decided to use it to keep my exsistance secret until I was onl enough to marry." "Why?" "You heard the women calling me lady, and their ladyship, right?" "Yeah...but..." "They were told to use 'lady' for me, but I've really been the sole heir to my family's clan." "Then, that makes you, a princess? Is that right?" "Mhm, my real name is actually my middle name, Kagome." "Thats why you got so woried when my father called you Kagome." "Yes! I was afraid that he'd found out!" "I'm sorry, that was my fault there, I didn't know what he'd say if I'd told him that you'd told me your name was Sunali." She smiled and pressed herself against his body. "Its alright, I understand, and thank you for being so considerate." "Thank you for being my friend..." Sunali pulled back. "Hm? Is something wrong Sunali?" She sighed.
"Is that all I am to you? Even now? A friend?" "Sunali..." "You know I realized I loved you when I was 12," "12! Thats only two years after we became friends!" "I know, but Sesshoumaru...you can't control who you fall in love with nor can you control when you fall in love with that person." "Hm..." "The same goes for your father, you know." Sesshoumaru looked at her, "True your father shouldn't have cheated on your mother, but like I said, you cannot control who you fall in love with nor when." "Hm..." "You know, maybe you should give this woman a chance, you never know, you may actually get to like her." "Like that would ever happen...hm?" "She's pregnant right?" "Yeah so?" "I think you should try your best to be there for the child, you know." "What! Are you insane! It'll be a hanyou!" "Hanyou?" "A child born between a demon and a human!" "You...you don't like hanoyus?" "No I don't! I think that they are worthless things that should be instantly killed...ah...Su...Kagome?" "Thats so crule...thats mean!" "Ka..." "You really are a demon...aren't you...mean, crule, and if you'd kill an infant, just because of what they are...you are not the man I believed you were!" The girl turned to return to her house. "Kagome!" "I'd rather marry that demon lord...then ever wind up being with you!" She ran off quickly. Leaving the demon teen alone in the dark.
A few months later, in the dead of winter, Sesshouamru's hanoyu, half brother was born to his father and the human woman Izyoi. Like he'd said to his father, Sesshoumaru showed the infant no love, nor did he like to be around him. He'd often go for long walks during the day, so that when he returned home, the infant would already be asleep. He never did forget the pain he'd caused Sunali, or Kagome as he'd learned the girl's real name. He hand't seen her for quite sometime either and came to the realization that she had gone off and married the demon lord she loathed so much.
It was then that he heard rustling coming from the bushes. "Who's there! Show yourself!" For a moment no movement was heard. "Hmph, good ridence...huh..." Now before him stood Kagome, like the day they'd first met, this time however, she wasn't the 9 year old little girl and he was't 10 anymore either. "Kagome..." "I can't stay very long...I leave today..." "So...you're really leaving then?" "I have to, father has ordered it...and I can't stay here with you..." "Why not?" "Why not! You have an hanyou for a sibling, and I bet just like you said several months ago, I bet you've shown the child absolutly no love what so ever. Am I right?" Sesshouamru was silent. "I thought so, how can I stay here, with you if you dispise hanyou?" "..." "Sesshouamru...do you realize that you hate an innocent child? One who had no choice in what his parents were?" "..." The gilr came over and took his hand into her's. "Sesshoumaru...do you really hate this young innocent child? Or is it that you hate how he was created and who created him?" Sesshouamru looked into the girl's eyes and as he looked into them he saw that the girl who'd once been such a young child had truly become a woman. He pulled into an embrace and held her tightly. "Thank you Kagome." She said nothing and just hugged him back.
"Kagome?" "Hm?" "Shouldn't you have left by now?" "Huh? Oh!" It was night now and Kagome stood quickly. "Oh no! Father is going to be so angry at me!" The two had fallen asleep and had just now woken. She went to head towards her house, Sesshoumaru reached out and grasped her hand.
"Sesshoumaru..." "Don't go...stay here...with me." He could tell that, thats what she wanted to do, just from the glimmer of light in her eyes. "Are you sure?" "Mhm..." "What about hanyou?" He pulled her back into his arms. "Like you said before, you can't control who you fall in love with, or when." "Hm," "Also...the child wont have a choice at who his parents are, right?" She smiled and nodded, "Right." He kissed her softly as several men came crashing through the forest.
"Hault! You there demon!" "What do you humans want from me?" "The lady there in your grasp, she is all we've come for." "Hmph! You want her? Then take her." The men approached. "However, I warn you, either of you lay one hand on her and you'll loose that hand and possibly your head as well, now I'll say again, if you want her, come and take her." The men stopped.
"What are you useless humans doing!" Kagome's eyes widened and she hid right behind Sesshoumaru's body. "Hm?" "It's him! The man I loath so much." "Ah." A demon landed before Sesshoumaru. He had long black hair, tied with a bit of fur, or so it looked like. He had a brown tail and brown fur on his arms and legs and around his waist. He had stone grey eyes and pointed ears. Sesshouamru sighed, "What do you want here Koiji?" "Sesshoumaru, my, my, havent seen you since forever." "Koiji, you know I hate to repeat myself." "Right, well, you see that lovely lady in your hold, she's all I want and..." "Do you know her true name?" "Huh! What are you getting at?" "If you know her true name, then say it, if the name you give is her true one, she'll be yours..." "Sesshouamru! No! Please..." "Ssh, however if you guess wrong, she must remain here with me, understood?" The demon sighed and nodded, "Ha, I suppose. I'd rather do this then fight you to the death for her..." "Wise choice, considering it would be you who would die if we did." "You think so huh?" "No. I know so. Now! Speak her name!" "You certainly are a foolish one Sesshoumaru, her name is Kagome of course."
There was a short pause and Koiji approached Sesshoumaru and the girl, he went to reach for her, but Sesshoumaru lept away from him. "Hey! I guessed her name!" "Not her true name you didn't!" "What!" Sesshoumaru smirked, "You only guessed her middle name, her true name is Sunali." "What! Is this true!" The woman smiled and tightened her hold on Sesshoumaru's arm, "Yes, Koiji it is true, the name my father gave was a fake one, my middle name that is." "ARGH!" "As we agreed the girl stays here with me, right Koiji?" "GRRR! For now Sesshoumaru! Fornow, but do not think I shall ever forget this!" "Don't you forget Koiji, that if you come even an inch near her, you will find yourself in hell!" The demon lord left, along with the men from Kagome's home.
"Sesshoumaru! That was so dangerous!" "Why?" "What if he had said Sunali?" "Then I'd have said your true name was Kagome of course." "Ah...oh, you trickster." "Trickster? Me? I don't know what you mean," "Hm, right...so how do you know Koiji anyway?" "Long, long, long, story." "I see...so now what?" "Now what? Well...I don't know...what do you wish to do?" "Hm...Marry you." "Ha,ha,ha then I guess thats what we do next huh?" "Mhm...oh! Actually what you'll do next is go and help out with your brother." "Kagome..." "Either you start to learn to like hanyou, or there will be no, 'happy time' between you and I." "Thats mean!" "Take it or leave it." Sesshoumaru groaned, but did as told. From that day on he began to undrstand more and more about hanyou and even started liking his new brother, not enough that he'd call him his brother, but enough, that he wouldn't kill the boy either.
Soon, Sesshoumaru and Kagome were engaged. Sesshouamru's little brother, Inuyasha had taken quite a liking to Kagome, and she to him. Watching her each day and seeing how wounderful she was with his brother, Sesshoumaru began to think, about possibly having a child with her. True the child would be a hanyou, but he didn't seem to be that against hanyous anymore. So late that night, he took Kagome to the river. Love, family and her, were the only things on his mind at that moment.
"Kagome," "Hm? What is it?" "I know we're to married soon, but perhaps...could we..." "Hm...you horny dog," She giggled, but didn't stop him when he grasped her in his arms and laid her on the grass. She never stopped his soft, yet rough hands from roaming her body and she didn't end the kisses he was trailing down her body. "You're really impatient aren't you?" "Only around you..." "Hm...I suppose we can, I mean we are going to be married soon, so...mmm!" Her sentance was cut short as Sesshoumaru's lips pressed against her's.
That night, on the bank of the river, both teens became aware that one was indeed a woman and one was indeed a man.
"Kagome..." He said her name so sweetly, "Mhm?" "Do you want to..." As if she knew what he was going to say, she nodded, "Yes, I'm ready to have children."
"Are you sure you shouldn't lay down for a bit?" "Would you stop being a pest? I've told you I'm doing just fine." "Yeah, but..." "Ssh! Lower your voice, Inuyasha is sleeping and you know how hard it is to get him back to sleep." "Ah...yeah...sorry." "go for a walk or something, I'll be fine, really I will, k?" "Ah...ha, okay." Sesshoumaru went out for a walk, though he couldn't help, nut think of Kagome and the child within her womb that was still not ready to come out. "Ha...father...is this how you felt each time? With mother and Izyoi?" He sighed as he lowered himself to sit beneath a tree. "Ha...what a stressful thing, fatherhood...hm...how on Earth did I get so lucky?" He kept asking himself each time he looked at Kagome even when he was a child and had just met her he'd ask himself how he'd gotten so lucky to have a friend like her. A lover like her and soon a wife like her.
Suddenly, Inuyasha came teetering through the bushes. "Huh? What are you doing out here all alone runt?" The small boy looked up at Sesshoumaru and just climbed into his lap. "Ah...where is Kagome kid?" "Hot..." "Hot?" "Hose hot...like food we eat...me tired, me sleep." Sesshoumaru didn't know what the child meant, and stood, his brother in the crook of his arm and headed back to the house. Thats when he found out what Inuyasha had meant by 'hose hot' The house was on fire and it looked like a very bad fire at that.
"So, this is what you meant..." He set Inuyasha down in the grass and looked around. He scanned the safe areas, but didn't see Kagome anywhere. "Where could she be..." He looked down at the sleeping child and noticed that his hair was slightly burnt. Thats when the horrid realization came to him, Kagome was still inside the burning house.
Like a flash of lightning, Sesshoumaru dove within the flames, that continued to burn his home to the ground. "Kagome!" He called and covered his mouth, the smoke killed his eyes and hurt his throat. "Kagome!" He was able to choke out. He couldn't here anything, but saw her laying on the floor, her clothes were soaked in water. She'd doused herself with the drinking water to keep from burning to death, but that didn't stop the smoke from filling her lungs, suffocating her. "Kagome!" He tried to reach her, but couldn't. "Kagome..." He tore the beams that blocked him from his path and finally made it to her. He lifted her into his arms and hurried outside with her. He laid her on the grass as Inuyasha woke up.
"Kagome! Kagome! Wake up!" Sesshoumaru shouted and shouted, but the woman did not move. Inuyasha, being a toddler and curious toddled over to Kagome and poked her arm. "Stop that," "Why Kag not wake?" "Don't ask me!" "You know all!" "Huh?" "You big broder, and you know evyting." "Ah...Ha, I don't know everything Inuyahsa, no onw knows everything in this whole world..." "Oh...why she no wake toe?" Sesshoumaru sighed sadly, but didn't answer the child.
"Big broder..."Inuyasha said his brother's name, and saw the water on the older man's face. "Broder? Why you ave wet face?" "Hm? Come Inuyasha, we'll go locate a new home..." "You leave kag?" "..." "No, we wont leave her." Sesshoumaru lifted Kagome's lifeless body into his arms and Inuyasha onto his shoulder and he left the burning house in search of a new one.
It was nearly morning when he found an abandonded castle and he sighed to himself, opened the gate and walked into one room, set a now sleeping Inuyasha down and slightly closed the shiori screen door. He carried Kagome's body into another room and laid her down onto a tatami that was still in good condition. he collapsed beside her and slammed his fist into the ground. "Damn! DAMNIT!!" he roared, pain able to be heard within his voice and visable tears able to be seen streaming down his face and onto the floor.
"Se...Sesshy?" "Huh!" The voice sounded like an angel's voice as he whipped around to see Kagome's eyes open and a light smile on her face. "Ka...KAGOME!" He embraced her tightly. "Thank the kamis your alright!" "Where...where is Inuyasha?" "Asleep in another room...what on earth happened?" "I...I don't know...all I know is that when the fire started, I made sure to get Inuyasha out of there...did he find you?" "Yeah...thats how I found out about the fire...are you alright?" "Mhm...a bit hungry though." "Right, I'll be right back, Inuyasha'll probably find his way into the room." "I'm okay with that..." "Kagome..." "Hm?" She said weakly, "Yes?" "I lvoe you." She smiled and nodded as he left the room. "I love you too, and...I'm so sorry..." Then she closed her eyes.
"Kagome! I'm back!" Sesshoumaru called to the woman he thought was sleeping, with a little boy wrapped in her arms. "Hm...didn't take you long huh runt." He said lightly as he sat down beside both bodies. "Kagome? You still hungry...huh...Kagome?" he kept calling her name louder and louder, woke Inuyasha up, who complained, then went and ate some berries.
"Kagome! come on! Wake up! Kagome...KAGOME!!" Her eyes no longer held life within them, now they were eyes of the dead. Sesshoumaru grasped her body tightly in his arms. "Kagome...please don't...please don't leave me alone...please..." He pleaded, but to not avail. Now he cried deeply and loudly. she's come back to him for a short time, then had died while he'd been out getting food for her. He knew she hadn't wanted him around when she died, thats why she'd sent him to get the food and why he'd heard her say 'I'm so sorry' as he left the castle. "Kagome..." He cried into her raven black hair.
"Sesshoumaru," "Huh!" The voice, it was Kagome's, but it didn't come from her body, it came from behind him. He turned and saw Kagome bathed in white light. "Ka...Kagome..." She smiled. "Sesshoumaru, I'm sorry..." "Its not your fault!" "Hm, Sesshoumaru...I may have died in that body, but throughout your entire life, my soul will be within a woman's body one that resembles the one in your arms." "What..." "Sesshoumaru, as long as you live, I will never die, not forever, I love you far too much to die and leave you alone." "Kagome..." "Please, keep this promise, and please take care of Inuyasha, he's the only family you have after all...I..." "Kagome! Who did this!" "Hm?" "You didn't die because of the fire! You died another way! Didn't you?" "Yes, I did, but I am not allowed to reveal how I died...but I can say that you are right, the fire did not kill me, but it did quicken my death..." "Kagome..." "I have to go now Sesshoumaru," "Must you really go?" "I'm afraid so, but remember what I've said and please keep caring for Inuyasha, he needs you, you know." "I swear I'll do as you've asked! I promise!" "I love you Sesshoumaru." She began to fade away. "Kagome...I love you." Then she was all gone and the body in his arms became dust.
"big broder...wha icky stuf?" "That Inuyasha isn't icky stuff, it's holy dust." "Holy?" "Yes, now eat up and then go to sleep, we begin turning this castle into our new home tomorrow." "K."