A Way Back into Love
Looking over his lands the great Sesshomaru Tashio sighed with annoyance....
currently his retainer Jaken was being chased by the ever determined Rin. Squawking
in agony, Jaken pleaded with his lord to cease Rin's endless torture. Raising one of his
boots the great lord kicked the toad, therefore teaching him to 'fly' straight into a tree.
Squealing with laughter Rin finds herself rolling on the ground, obviously enjoying the view
of Jaken kicking his legs and screaming like the idiot he was. "Rin...cease this foolishness.
We have many things to attend to today and this Sesshomaru cannot stand to hear the toad
whine relentlessly. "Rin, stopping immediately, jumps to her feet and wipes the toothy grin
from her face. "Yes my lord," the little girl replied with much fervor. Only when the stoic demon
turned his back and replied with the ever famous 'hn', did the little girl send an evil smirk Jaken's
way.
With Inuyasha's Group- (yasha's pov)
I smell the wind around me...there is an unnatural chill within the air that I had not sensed before.
I smell a scent that reeks of dead bones and dry clay, and I can only deduct that it must be Kikyo.
"Kikyo? What are you doing here? I thought Naraku killed you." The cold priestess that I had once
loved turned to look at me.... "No Inuyasha, I was not killed. Somehow I managed to survive and
return to my soul collectors in time to prolong my miserable life." She stated with no emotion. I felt
my heart wrench in my chest...how could this woman be the same person I had come to know and
love over 50 years ago before her death? "Please Inuyasha....tell me you love me still. Please tell
me that we will always be together. "I felt all pity leave my heart for her at this statement. I must
tell her how I feel or I will never know any happiness....I cannot have both Kagome and her. I must
choose now....before I lose out on my chance. "Kikyo....I will always love you but I cannot be with
someone who is dead. You were my first love, true, but I love Kagome. She is my life now...and I
am not willing to lose her over a corpse. "I knew my words would sting...but I knew if we were both
to heal...I had to be blunt about my emotions. I now see Kikyo fall to the ground...clutching her bosom
and crying out her anguish to the world. I take my blade and I run her through....finally giving her the
peace she deserved....something that would have been impossible for me to do years before. I bury
my old love and mourn her loss....I finally lift myself from the ground and take off into my forest. I'm
going to the one place I know my love will be....beyond the passage within the Bone Eater's Well....
to my lovely Kagome.
Back With Sesshomaru's Group (Sesshomaru's POV)
I watched my half brother as he put the dead priestess to rest....I had to say that I was proud of my
younger sibling. He had spent all his years running between the miko, Kagome, and the clay pot known
as Kikyo....He was finally seeing that he was foolish to want a dead miko instead of a living, breathing one.
I no longer see him as a foolish half-breed boy....but as a man. Perhaps now would be the right time to accept
him back into my household....as a brother in blood as well as in arms. I was suddenly brought out of my
musings at the sound of laughing from above me.... I looked upwards into the trees only to see a beautiful
Inuyokai demon smiling down at me. Jumping down from her perch...the female smiled at me. "Hello Lord
Sesshomaru...fancy seeing you here on this glorious day. "the female said with laughter in her voice
"HN, What is it to you? I don't remember ever meeting you, yet you know of my name and station. Explain
yourself, Wench. I said with no emotion. "Lord Sesshomaru....you will refrain from calling me such disrespectful
names. If not I will remove your tongue at its source. The woman replied with ice in her tone. Roaring out my anger
I grabbed her by her neck and lifted her up in the air....or I thought I had grabbed her neck. I had simply grabbed a
tree trunk that had been behind her previously. I suddenly felt a knife to my throat and an arm around my neck in a
vice like grip. I was appalled...no one in my 400 years had ever been able to touch me let alone escape my wrath.
Yet this woman had not only done both but also had a weapon lodged against my throat, threatening to relieve my
body of the precious life fluid that was flowing through my veins and jugular. "I am the princess of the Northern and
Southern lands...you will not disrespect me or try to inflict bodily harm on my person! Is that understood Lord
Sesshomaru?" The little onna yelled in my ear. "It is crystal clear...Lady....." "Melin, My name is Melin Hakashi. I
am Lord Jakashi's only child....his heir? ""My apologies Lady Melin....I let my anger get the best of me. Of course
you would know me....I am in alliance with your father. "I ground out with malice. Removing the cold blade from my neck and returning it to its sheath, the young woman smiled at me. " I'm sorry to have done that Lord Sesshomaru….I hope that you will forgive me in time." I looked at the woman. How could she expect me to forgive her for hurting my dignity, my pride, and last but not least my reputation as the 'killing Perfection'….yet in spite of myself, I laughed. " Your father was right about one thing he mentioned about you….you are as deadly as you are beautiful." I froze….how could that have slipped out of my foolish mouth?! Never had I ever given any woman a compliment or word of praise….but yet I had just given this beautiful Inuyokai both. Shaking my head and deciding that the woman had cast some type of spell on me….I turned and
Walked away. The sound of footsteps behind me, however, alerted me that the woman had continued to follow me back to my camp. Wheeling around on the balls of my feet…I turned to face the annoying wench where she stood. "What is it that you wish of me, My Lady?" I stated with as much composure as I could muster. Laughing once again she stated…"I am simply observing my father's greatest ally formerly known as the 'Killing Perfection'….though I hardly see why you are called such."