(( I do not own any of the Inuyasha characters, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Dante belong to theglassaddiction ))
Zabel, a demon from far away with only death in his mind got an interest in the western lord and jis beloved mate. The lady of the west went to delay his amries while lord got his own troups together, but something went very wrong. Sesshomarus mate died in his absence and this is the story of the soulbond lovers, how his mate Dante watched him wither away to then see her friends fight for their reunion in death.
Unseen chapter 1- the truth of a broken heart
Darkness.
She couldn't feel him anymore.
She couldn't hear him.
All she felt was the darkness which kept creeping closer around her, suppressing her, capturing her.
She felt the panic grab her soul, and she fought to move, to open her eyes.
But nothing happened...
{ No...i promised...no...no...i cant die..}
She suddenly felt a huge weight on her soul, her last power dissapearing from her core.
Everything went dark.
The next thing she knew, she was in a room.
Dante looked confused around her, but she knew right away where she was.
{ I...im home... }
She looked around, letting her teal gaze wander over the familiar room as she frowned at herself.
{ How did i get here? All i remember is that i fought Zabel...and i got badly wounded...
Sesshomaru. He had been there with me in the snow at the place where i crashed...where is he? }
She started walking deeper into the house, searching for him but she got an odd feeling I'm her chest.
Something was wrong.
Really wrong.
She hurried her steps forward, almost running through the corridor.
She had to find him.
Suddenly she came to the livingroom and turned to look inside.
It was dark.
No lights were on, so all that lit up the room were the rays of the moon from the outside, which coursed a spooky cold light in the empty room.
No wait.
It wasnt empty.
The light fell on hair of sliver and Dante carefully took a few steps forward, softly calling his name.
"..Sesshomaru..?"
The youkai on the floor didn't react to her voice.
He just sat there, hanging his head by his knees as his hair fell down his shoulders.
"Sesshomaru?"
She walked a little closer and sat down in front of him looking up in his face.
She gasped as she jerked back a bit.
He looked horrible.
His eyes were filled of pain, fury and sadness.
His face was covered in stripes where his tears had fallen, but the tears themselves were long gone.
His eyes were red as he had cried for a long time.
He looked like he was dead, only his weak breaths showed that it was still life in him.
She called his name once again, but he still didnt move.
She reached for his cheek, wanting to comfort her mate.
But she couldnt.
She froze where she sat beside him.
Her hand just went right through him.
{wha...what is this...}
She looked at her hands, holding them up in front of her.
In her eyes she seemed just like normal.
She looked back at Sesshomaru and she noticed to her devastation that his breathing was low and un regular.
She pulled herself together and crawled forward to him, looking up in his face once again and she shakingly reached out for him again.
Her hand still went right through him.
She stared at him as tears formed in her eyes.
{ He...is broken...his eyes...
... they are dead. }
She looked down at the floor and she noticed that the floor was covered in a layer of dust, it was all over the place.
No one had walked in or out for days...maybe weeks.
No footsteps led from the taiyoukai...or to.
The truth started to sneak into her mind, but she didnt want to believe it.
Sesshomaru was broken.
She didnt leave any footprints.
She couldnt touch him.
She kept looking at her husband, facing the horrible truth.
She was dead.
She was nothing but a ghost, a lost soul in this realm.
She cried.
But not for herself, but for her love in front of her, since she could see that he was dying as well.
He looks so sickly in his white kimono, his skin im almost the same color.
He looked so thin, so fragile.
She could see his cheekbones much better than she should, which made her even more scared of how he looked underneath his clothes.
As she looked down his body, trying to get a glimpse of how his body looked underneath, scared of what she would find. That was when she noticed his hand, which were clutched tightly around something in his hands.
She moved a little closer to him, her non touching hands reaching for his living ones.
She met no resistance again when she reached his hand, her hand going right through his.
She fighted the tears the once again started falling down her cheeks as she saw what he clutched so desperately too.
It was their rings.
They were on that chain again, the same he had when he proposed to her a few months earlier.
She wanted to hug him so desperately, to show him she was just fine, that she still was with him.
But she couldnt.
Because she wasnt.
She sat down on the floor in front of him as the tears streamed down her face. She sat there for she didn't know how long without anything happening.
"...Dante..."
She looked shocked up at him when she heard her name, the word leaving his lips with pain, frustration, loss and love in his cracking voice.
"...why...you promised..."
His voice were shaking and full of pain as he spoke low.
"...you promised you wouldn't leave me...you promised.."
He whimpered heartbreakingly and Dante looked helplessly at him, her face wet of tears.
"Why did you die...why didnt i follow with you...i should had been there...i should had been by your side..when...when.."
His words had sounded so full of pain and regret, even though she heard that these same words had been said many times before.
She cried as she spoke desperatly to to him, but her words unheard in his ears.
She wanted to tell him it wasn't his fault, that she had insisted to go by herself and that only she was to blame.
But as his voice went into a whisper when he started to stutter to then disappear completely, his whole body started shaking and she saw the tears fall from his eyes again.
No.
That wasnt ordernary tears she saw.
These tears were bloody red and she could now see that the golden orbs she loved so much were gone, replaced by the red youkai eyes that was split by a green slit.
She felt her heart freeze.
He was shaking of fury and loss, his body couldn't take this depression any longer.
His teeth were clenched tightly toghether and he growled furiously as he cried out his heartblood, letting the pain be replaced by an never ending fury, directed to the one and only that was responsible, but could harm many else.
"...Zabel...you...you..."
He didnt even finish that sentence, his furious growl taking over his words and the taiyoukai lent back towards the wall and growled one last time towards the ceiling before the wind around him engulfed him his body wrapped in into his last transformation as he gave up.
The taiyoukai Sesshomaru existed no more.
Dante stood frozen by the ruins of her home, watching the body of the once powerful and loved inuyoukai rampage in the forest, destroying everything in his path.
The soul of her beloved existed no more, only his youkai self were still in this realm.
A mind of a low level youkai in the body of a taiyoukai.
The destruction would be huge if he wasn't stopped.
Dante tried to turn away, she didn't want to see him this way, she didnt want to see the shell of her former lover be nothing but a force of destruction, destroying his own land and home.
But she couldn't.
She didnt wanna leave him alone again, even if she was nothing but a ghost and he was just a an empty shell of himself.
She still loved him...
And she always would.
But suddenly she could hear other things than the roar of destruction.
There was terrified, mourning voices around her and she finally was able to move and she saw all of them by the end of the clearing.
Sango, Miroku, Kagome and Inuyasha, Sonny, Hiten, Bankotsu and Mizuki.
They were all there, all that were fit fight.
Dante watched their dark but concentrated faces as they walked forward, closer to their lost friend or brother.
They collected themselves and then some darted of towards the inuyoukai, surrounding him, stopping his rampage.
He growled and stared with completely blood red eyes at the people which was in his way, letting his poison drip in pools over the ground as he shook his head wildly.
But his friends were prepared.
They moved in what looked like a planned formation, surrounding his sides with Inuyasha by his head.
Then the three males and the female attacked, Inuyasha unleashing his adamant barrage at his face, Miroku throwing his sutras toward his flank and bankotsu swung his sword at his left leg as Sango swung her hiakotsu towards his other one.
The inu didnt avoid the attack to Dantes horrified surprise, but let all of the attacks hit him and he fell to the ground, bleeding from thee flesh wounds on his nose and legs.
As he fell the purple light of a reformed barrier wrapped around his main body, legs and mouth and bound him to the ground.
The miko and the female hanyou secured their energy to the ground and the youkai only struggled a little as he growled a low.
She didn't want to look.
She couldn't.
But she couldnt bring herself to turn away.
She couldn't turn away from him.
She just stared at the scen in front of her, her tears had dried long ago.
She was surprised that a ghost could cry at all.
As she stared at the heartbreaking scene before her, she saw Sonny run to his head and kneel down beside him, leaning over his nose and stroke his fur softly.
She remembered now. She had known that Sonny had known him for far longer than her, she was his best friend as kids and she probably still was.
He was like her brother.
And now she had to watch him die.
Dante noticed that Hiten moved towards them, slowly lifting his pike.
She couldnt stop herself.
She ran to his side as well, kneeling down next to Sonny, looking down at her mate, into his red eyes.
She froze.
His eyes had their green slit again.
He was still there.
He wanted them to kill him.
Then she heard Hiten raise his pike, the sparks sparkling through the air, making her wanna shiver.
She stared softly into his unseeing eyes and at a moment she thought that he actually saw her.
Then a huge bolt of electricity were sent through his body and he jerked a bit, before his limbs relaxed and his eyes closed.
Then he stopped breathing.
