Sesshomaru sat alone thinking of his feelings for a certain demoness that had come into his life, he know he loved her, but he couldn't tell her that, that would make him look weak. So he sat in his library now, after just having yelled at her and wrote a poem that described how he really felt.
Bottled Emotions
Kiss me gently, hold me close
You're the one I want to hold.
Let me hold you dear
Let my love for you be clear.
My heart aches to hold you
My mind wants to know you.
I look at you and want to cry,
I cannot name the reason why.
I've held my emotion in a bottle, until now
The way you've set them free, Tell me how!
You cannot understand what you've done to me
But one look in my eyes and you see
My troubled thoughts deep inside;
This cannot be!
No one has ever been able to read me
Yet here you are beside me
And I love you dear,
But I cannot tell you, what you wish to hear.
He read it and realized how true it was, before turning to throw it into the fire, he could never let her know. He walked out of his library and to his bedroom to sleep for the night, he never noticed the pale hand that reached into the fire and pulled out the poem. The demoness sighed after reading it and threw it back into the fire, "If that is how you truely feel, goodbye, by dearest Sesshomaru."
She wrote a short poem of her own just for him,
My Heart Beats for you
Eyes deep and dear
I shudder when you're near
I feel that I might drown
Within their watery depths.
Your skin is soft
Beneath my hand
Not dark but fair as porcelain.
Your lips are soft and gentle
Yet demanding in a kiss at least within my dreams
Your hands along my skin
Feels like pure bliss, even when they aren't loving.
When I'm with you
My heart races,
My blood heats,
It is for you that my heart beats,
And it shall to my death.
And under it she signed it, "And tonight it shall stop beating, for I know your love cannot be given, think of me when you look at your bottle of emotions. Think of me always when you feel loves pain, My Love always, Koneko. P.S. As one last gift to you, I shall rid you of the thorn in your side, Naraku."
She left it on his door as she walked out under the stars, she would get rid of the pest called Naraku before she died. She followed the scent as fast as she could fly until she found his lair, Kagura raised an eyebrow, but let her pass, she could care less what happens to Naraku. She walked in and didn't wait, but attacked as soon as he saw her. They fought for hours, until their wounds were finally too much, Naraku laughed sadistically as he summoned the last of his miasma, "Now you die."
"And so do you."
She pushed through the miasma, letting it tear at her skin as she wrapped her arms around him and let her powers wrap around them. With the last of her strength she destroyed each demon that made up he being and with her last breath she said the name of the one she loved. "Sesshomaru."
At the break of Dawn Lord Sesshomaru of the Western Lands awoke in a sweat and went to get something to drink.....it was on his way out of his room that he found the poem on his door. "Oh, no!" He left as quickly as he could, transforming into his dog demon form to run faster, he had to make it.
He reached Naraku's castle to find most of it destroyed and one pile of demon meat sliced to bits, alone with one demoness that wasn't breathing or moving at all. He was too late, because of him hiding his feelings she was gone, her face looked oddly peacful, with a small smile tugging at it's corners. Silver eyes that were glazed over in death looked lovingly up from the ground towards the direction of his castle. /I was her last thought.....me, after everthing I've done wrong......I don't deserve to live, but I don't deserve to die with her either./
An old seer from the nearby village looked at him, "Lord Sesshomaru, do not think foolish thoughts, you may yet see her again, and maybe next time you will tell her how you feel."
"What do you know old woman?"
"Reincarnation, my Lord, Reincarnation......but you'd have to start mending a few things now to be able to see her again."
Sesshomaru thought about it and it was after that that he began helping more people, not being so distant from everyone, it was then that he opened his eyes and everytime something came along and he wanted to go back to his old self, the image of her laying on the bloody ground, for him came to mind and he kept at it always thinking, "we'll meet again, Koneko."