A/N: By the way "Kendale" is pronounced as "Kendle" so you won't get the wrong idea about what his name is!
Darius and his friends rode out to the shore district, although they kept getting delayed because many people needed their help in every village they went through, so they had to stop in a village that was a couple miles out from the coast because they didn't want to travel in the darkness. The head of the village invited them in her home (Power The The Women!) to stay the night, although they stayed in a totally different wing than her since it would be improper to have them in the same wing.
They were a little irritated that they had to stop so often, but they were happy that the Lady of the village was kind enough for them to stay in her home, so they paid their respects to her (I mean that they said thank you, not money) and went to the rooms they were assigned to get ready for bed, but after that they all met in Darius' room to go over what the plan was when they got to the coast.
" Darius, when we get to the coast Tarington and I need to go scout and get everything in order."
"Why, Kendale, if I didn't know any better I would say you are only scouting to get out your frustration with the war entirely."
"Ambery has a good point, are you just going, for you want to beat someone in a fit of frustration or are you doing it to actually see if the coast is good for people to live their so close to the sea?"
Darius said, a little sketchy to let Kendale go galavant on his own, especially after the attack and all the stops that they made to get this close to the coast district.
"Ye don't have to worry 'bout him, he shall be goin' with me to check up on the lads before we go 'nd scout the area. Twas a loss to lose the seas to the french, but we shall get it back," Tarington interjected before Kendale would say anything that would get them all on edge before dawn had even broke.
Darius looked at both of the men in front of her and knew that Tarington would keep Kendale in order through all of this. So, he just nodded his said and dropped the subject moving on to deeper subject that lasted for about two hours then everyone retired to bed, waiting for the next day to come through sleep.
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Emma's uncle sighed. He had brought Emma to his Castle on the other side of the well because that is where he wanted them to stay while he trained her, but she was still sleeping from the shock of it all when she found him. And that was two days ago!
He hoped that she should wake up soon, if she didn't then he knew something was bad.
$I told you not to scare her by just standing there, but do you listen to me? Noooo, you thought she wouldn't be as frightened as if you walked in the cave after her in our human form!$
+Didn't I lock you away in some part of our mind? I need to get better locks in my mind 'cause of you,+ he inerly sighed, +you are very troublesome, indeed.+
$I know I am, It's my job to annoy you about our instincts and what not. Twas a shame that you locked me away when we were younger, we wouldn't have lost our mate if you didn't.$
They both grew silent at the memory of their beloved mate, their soul mate, to be exact. She was most beautiful indeed! She had long silver hair that stopped right below mid thigh, two magenta stripes on each cheek and the most beautiful honey brown eyes that he has ever seen.
People know her as Sesshomaru's mother, the cold hearted bitch that never loved humans; but in truth she loved humans and she was a very kind person who was always a good company keeper. Only he, Sesshomaru, and the humans in the castle has seen her true self. The people who know her as a cold hearted bitch were the people that were friends with Touga, or other wise known as Inu no tashio.
She was only that way because she never loved him, she was only their because her father made an arranged marriage between them to become allies and Touga needed an heir- she was the most suitable to bear an heir they said. She was only happy there because of Sesshomaru, nothing more because she wanted to be with her soul mate, as she later told him.
When Sesshomaru was over a hundred years old, she explained him the situation. Not in spite of his sire, only to tell him that she was leaving that shiro to go to her true mate. Sesshomaru understood and started to treat Emma's uncle as his actual father, not Touga; which surprised him and his mate. But Emma's uncle treated him like his own son every time he saw Sesshomaru, which was very often since he loved visiting them.
Sesshomaru's father, Lord Touga, never understood why Sesshomaru never treated him like he was his sire, like he actually is. Sesshomaru later explained to Emma's uncle it was because he never acted nor treated him like he was his son; instead Touga just treated him as an heir that needed to know how to rule, not to feel and not to be the person who lost his temper too easily with the people around him.
That's when the uncle started to understand what was going on between the actual father and son, but he never pushed Sesshomaru to do anything that he didn't want. He taught Sesshomaru that he can do what he pleased, as long as it wasn't political. When it came to political stuff he had to have a reason of why he was doing whatever he was doing.
But, all in all, they missed their mate because she died in the war that tore the northern and western lands apart. They would never forget her, even though many women have tried to get themselves to be his second mate he never took them, hell, he never even slept with anyone besides his mate that died two and a half centuries ago!
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In some other part of Feudal Japan, Sesshomaru had the feeling that he wanted to sneeze. Badly. Although, being him, he squashed the urge by will power and started to wonder who was the person that was either talking or thinking about him… Maybe it was his father that was thinking about him, he will find out soon enough, for it was almost time for him to come and visit his beloved father who took care of his mother, while the man who actually sired him did nothing.
Sesshomaru remembered that day clearly- how could he forget when his mother died on his birthday all those years ago? He goes to her grave every year on the same day to pay his respects. He has never once celebrated his birthday because of what happened and who ever was the unlucky soul to bring it up would perish…
Sesshomaru's mind started to drift to a certain raven haired maiden that traveled with his otouto. He had grown a fascination over her a few years ago and now that he somewhat knew her a feeling deep down inside of him started to grow, although, he didn't know what this feeling was! It was all too new to him to understand what was the feeling he would get every time he would see her.
*He will figure it out,* his beast thought to himself while making sure that Sesshomaru couldn't hear. *All in due time...*
A/N: So… What did you think? I thought leaning to the Inuyasha side would help people get in the flow of what is going on since most people don't know what book I'm talking about…
Please tell me what you think!
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