Title: Even Demons Love
Author: Fire Mistress
Couples: Sesshomaru/Kagome
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Disclaimer: The characters used do not belongs to me. They rightfully belong to their respective owner, which I believe is Rumiko Takahashi. I am a very poor college student so I am VERY broke. Please don't sue O.O
Notes: Ah. Another attempt to create a romance between Sesshomaru and Kagome. One will believe that after my first two attempts (which ended in failure) I would have learned my lesson. Stubborn, aren't I? Well, I really do hope that this challenge makes a bit more reviews then the past two. I will be very, very happy. So please, take your time and review. I believe that reviews not only make the author more enthusiastic to write more but also to write better.
Oh, well. Let us see how far this story will go. I hope that George (as I so affectionately named my writer's block) will not be visiting me anytime soon.
Fire Mistress
Chapter 1: The Great Escape
The dimmed light given off by the small candle's flame was the only thing that illuminated the otherwise dark cells. There were no windows, no holes from which the slightest rays from the sun could have possibly penetrated through. The only sound heard was the drop of water that fell from the small roof, creating a rather shallow echo through the empty halls. He was already used to the darkness though, not because he was a powerful demon but because he has been trapped in this sickening place for almost three centuries.
He sat down in the bottom-right corner of the cell, not having much choice since the roof was not even high enough to support his incredible height. Both his feet and hands were shackled, leaving Sesshomaru with no chance to possibly escape. However, the fact that he was imprisoned was not the real reason why he didn't transformed into his true form and finished off once and for all the miserable humans that had incarcerated him and robbed him of his precious freedom and pride. No. It was the fact that somehow, these humans have figured out a way to keep his powers under control. What really bothered the great taiyokais ego was the fact that he underestimated this insolates humans, and now he was paying dearly for it.
Three centuries ago, he had been at the mercy of the humans. With new technological weapons, not even the taiyoukai himself was able to stand up against them. This resulted in several deep wounds caused by their so called "guns" and his imprisonment. When he had awoken, he had found himself where he was now, his expensive silky kimono broken, his body shackled, and his mind imagining millions of different ways to kill the rabbit, or in these case, the humans.
Now if he could only think of a way to escape. His ideas would be nothing else but that if he did not escape and took revenge. Every human that comes across him will pay, being they guilty or not. To Sesshomaru, they were all guilty just for the simple fact of being humans and having their blood tainted. Sesshomaru looked around his surrounding once again, hoping to see an opportunity for freedom. However, just like the other times since his arrival to this wretched prison, he found none.
A small male laughter, followed by a pool of light picked Sesshomaru's curiosity. He had not received a visitor for the past three months and he hoped that this man would be foolish enough to get trick him into letting him escape. It was going to take every single strategy he could formulate to accomplish such feat. He just hoped that that lack of good nutritious food would not cause his mind to fail on him.
The pool of light came closer, revealing with it two men. One he had come to known as the idiotic fool who called himself a guard. Until today, Sesshomaru had not gotten used to his horrendous smell and lack of beauty. He wondered how any women could pay attention to such a dirty, fat, scumbag like him. Human were incomprehensible creatures, and mostly their females. He remembered Rin, however, and how after a while of being with her he had come to conclude that this human child was not like the vile creatures he so much abhorred. It was probably the fact that she had traveled with demons so much that she had come to almost be one. Thanks to him, she was the most intelligent and graceful little creature to walk Japan and he was proud to have her as his ward. Unfortunately, being human as she was, Rin aged and died at only fifty-three.
This had pained him terribly. He had grown rather fond of his ward. So much so, that he overlooked the fact that she was human and treated her like his own daughter. Of course, Sesshomaru never showed it, but he never had to. Their love and respect was so strong towards each other that she knew without any words of even physical contact, like a hug, how much he cared. Since then, Sesshomaru had come to travel on his own. He would have had Jacken with him, has it not been because the ugly little toad had found himself an equally ugly toad as his mate. So with neither Rin nor Jacken by his side, Sesshomaru was forced to travel alone.
"Well, if it isn't the greatest taiyoukai to ever grace the lands of Japan. It's an honor, my lord," mocked the man who traveled with the guard. Sesshomaru fixed his golden gaze at the man, his eyes narrowing as a deep growl surfaced from his throat. He eyed him up and down, taking in the appearance of the man in front him and trying to remember every detail - from the strange odor of cinder with tobacco, which Sesshomaru presumed, was probably from what the human called 'cologne' whatever that was, to his voice and looks. The man was taller than the puny soldier beside him, but not as tall as Sesshomaru. He had straight, black hair neatly tied in a short ponytail that was only a few inches past his nuke. His eyes were maroon, his nose upright and skinny holding superiority that Sesshomaru wished he could destroy. He was in all black, making him without the candles blend in as good as night.
"Be careful, Dr. Katzumo, he isn't here in prison for his pretty looks," laughed the tubby soldier, taking a big bite of a piece of what looked to Sesshomaru like the thigh of a chicken, but he wasn't sure. The man called Katzumo joined in his unanimated laughter then stopped abruptly, studying Sesshomaru from the corner of his eyes.
Sesshomaru wished by each passing minute to strangled both men.
"You are right, Tekku. Kami knows that if a woman would have been in charge of the assignment, she would of had let the beast free in exchange for a night in her bed. Don't worry, after I'm done with him I doubt any woman will look at him twice without turning away in pure repulsion."
Sesshomaru growled again warning both men than he was losing his patience, but both ignored him and kept laughing at their crude jokes. These men where the most despicable of all humans that have come across his path. The inuyoukai cared not for what the humans thought of their female counterpart, but no true honorable youkai would dare speak to the opposite sex as such. For the looks of it, Katzumo and Tekku were not men of nobility.
"Are you ready to get this dog the treatment he deserves?" asked Tekku as he threw away the bone of the chicken he was eating and took out one of the weapons he hid.
Laughing, Katzumo answered, "I've been ready all my life."
Tekku took out the keys that were being held by his belt and opened the cell. As soon as both men stepped in, Sesshomaru dashed towards them, but was soon detained by the enormous chains that were holding his body close to the wall. Both men laughed, knowing full well that he could not do anything to them in his current condition. Tekku took out the taser and started shocking the inuyoukai. Sesshomaru's pride prohibited him from screaming from pain, or even from showing it. He refused to give the humans the satisfaction of knowing how much he was hurting, so after five long minutes of torture and not a single sound coming from him Sesshomaru fainted.
"Uh, how boring. He did even scream," commented Tekku as his lips curved into a senile smirk. Putting away his taser, he added, "There's a police car parked outside waiting for them to take this sucker to your lab. Do not worry, it is made of pure steal so even if he wakes up, which I doubt, he will not be able to escape."
The man known as Katzumo nodded his agreement and taking the youkai by his legs helped Tekku to carry him away. The trip to the car was longer that what was anticipated. The fact that Sesshomaru weighted probably more than ten dead bodies together did not help in the matter. After a couple of IDs checks and such, they made their way towards the awaiting car.
"Damn, he couldn't be any heavier, could he?"
"Guess not," answered Katzumo honestly, leaning against the car to try and catch his breath, "It's a good thing, too because I don't think I could of carried him anymore."
The guard turned to Katzumo, his eyebrow arching a bit. There was one question that he always wanted to ask, but somehow never got around to it. Now, he thought, probably was a good chance to put his question at ease. "Hey doc, what does JYRF exactly stands for and what do you guys do?"
Katzumo turned to his accomplice, smiled and answered, "We stand for Japan Youkai Researching Facility. Each year we get some of the youkais that our accentors have captured and experiment on them. I must say, I was delighted to know that your prison held one of the most powerful youkais to ever live in the Feudal Era. I just couldn't let any other scientist have him, so I had rushed here as soon as I could."
Tekku nodded and setting Sesshomaru's body down he said, "Well, here's where we part Dr. I do hope to hear from you soon with that reward you promised."
"Ah, of course I won't forget. I'll be seeing you soon."
"In hell," before any of them had the chance to react, Sesshomaru had already cut Tekku's throat, leaving a pool of blood and a headless body lying on the floor. Stepping back in fear, Katzumo took the gun from Tekkus lifeless body and pointed it shakily at Sesshomaru.
"H...how did you...you weren't supposed to be awake for another two hours!"
"Your theory would have been correct, you filthy human, if you would had actually gotten me to faint"
"It can't be! That means that you"
"Faked the faint? Guilty of that and of so much more"
Katzumo fired the gun, but in his current nervous state only manage to hit Sesshomaru on his lower abdomen. Katzumo was ready to fire again when Sesshomaru slapped the gun out of his reached.
"Say good-bye, you miserable maggot," and with a piercing scream from Katzumo, Sesshomaru killed him.
The great inuyoukai's sensitive ears picked up the footsteps of what seemed to be guards so he decided to make a run for it. Sesshomaru was no coward, but he knew better than to fight them as he was without knowledge of their current advancement in technology. Leaping from tall building, to tall building the inuyoukai sought a place to hide. He was about to settle in one of the dark allies when a very familiar scent caught his curiosity. He stopped for a moment a began to try to remember who's scent it belonged to. The only person that he could vaguely remember owning this smell was his brother's wench, but she was human. How could she possibly have survived three hundred years? Curiosity got the better of him, and deciding to see how the wench had survived for so long if the smell truly belonged to her he headed towards Kagome's shrine.