Old friend
Kagome laid still, her mates arm wrapped around her back while her head rested on his shoulder.
(They are the ghosts of innocence
That have awoken from my dreams)
She felt off, as if there was something not quite right about the room surrounding her. As if the warm body next to her belonged to someone other then her mate. The back of her neck continued to tickle.
Touga rested next to his mate, a smile on his face with an arm around her with her nestled close. He was happy, finally for once in his miserable youkai life there was no war, no strife to take him away from his mate.
A knock on the door brought him out of his thoughts, while causing his little mate to stir.
"Father, you are needed in conference."
Upon hearing the voice of his heir and oldest son he frowned. Kagome gave a groan and turned to her other side and curled up. The blanket slipped off of her when she turned, Touga slid out of bed and walked to her side of the bed to cover her. Hearing her groan in displeasure when the blanket touched her shoulders he gave a low comforting growl to ease her pain.
He tried to contain his anger till he exited the room knowing that she would pick up on it. Sesshomaru waited outside his father's door and took his place flanking him on there way to his father's office. There Kouga the king of the eastern wolves sat covered in bandages with a cup of tea in his hand.
"Kouga, what brings you here last this night?" Touga asked as Kouga handed the great dog general a note.
"My mate was taken from me in the dead of night. Days prior there had been this weird youkai hanging around the den keeping her in his gaze. I fought him till my mate intervened on his behalf. Gave me quite a beating. I heard him mumble something about two down two to go. I headed straight here worried for our pack sister."
(Welcome to your nightmare
Say good-bye to everything)
The moment Touga finished reading the note a loud bang shook the shiro knocking the dust from every crevice. Time seemed to slow down for the great dog general as the page slipped from his hand. No mater how fast he went it still seemed slow to him.
The west wall of the room he shared with his mate had a hole in it, the rubble from the magnitude of the explosion everywhere. The only thing missing was his mate.
He walked over to the bed where his mate had once rested, the blanket holding her lingering scent. His son and Kouga reached the room just as Touga stood from his crouched position by the bed.
(All your past obscenities
They have determined where I stand
Echoing cries, in the time that it began)
With a rather wicked smile he turned slightly at the ear shattering roar that echoed throughout the island. The demi-goddess holding his hand tugged on it slightly.
"Why did you stop? Didn't you say you wanted to get home before dawn my love?"
The half demon half kami looked upon his latest bride, with a smile and a squeeze of his hand started walking.
(Hear me now)
To say she was surprised when her former husband and son stormed through the doorwithout invitation deeply concerned her. For when he placed her in charge of the cloud palace he made her share that any demon nth at needed to enter the shrine of the gods would be able to.
She made the mistake of approaching him, only for him to snarl at her eyes bleeding with a voice loud enough to shake the palace.
Both she and sesshomaru stood outside of the shrine. Letting the man do what he needed to do.
(Feel my blade
There is no more time for apologies)
A representative of the dark kami enetered the room of the shrine the moment Touga placed the sword of the heavens into the floor.
"Touga old friend, tell me what is it that you are after? Another trip to the under world? Or perhaps information?"
The God looked upon his friend struggling to contain himself.
"Something took my mate, is taking the mates of the other Cardinal Lords as well. What do you know?"
(Malevolent emotions
Take hold of me)
The kami sighed and looked into his friends mind.
"I do know who took your mate old friend. Gather your friends at the gate of the heavens and I will take you to the realm of the kami's."
At his friends words Touga calmed quite a bit. He bowed to the kami.
"Thank you my friend"
(Are you ready to begin your trip to the other side?
Death is an old friend of mine)
With two at his arms and two at his feet, he could not but help smiling at his latest two conquests. Not the most powerful and most beautiful women of the mortal worlds is his. The thrill of the upcoming war thrilled him, as did the beautifully decorated backs of his conquest. The half dragon, half kami of pain enjoyed inflicting pain on his mates.
'Mates, ha! What a laugh,'he thought. 'If anyone knew what I was planing I would be killed on the spot.' One of them didn't move the right way causing him to whip her violently on the back.
One of his 'wives' stopped what she was doing and went to comfort her sister.
He started dreaming of that day, he wondered which one would enter his realm first. He would not show the males mercy. In fact he would force them to watch as he did a 'holy, cleansing' of the females.
(You can't escape your judgment
I hear them calling out your name
Do not beg for mercy now)
The men stood outside the gate, youkai raging armor shining in the morning sun, blades, fangs and eyes seeking out the first taste of enemy blood. Three of them agreed to stand aside and let the great dog general have the first crack at the half being.
Death watched as he old friend and other lords stood before the gate. Shaking his head thinking that the youngster earned the beating he promptly was to receive, he opened the door and allowed the group in rank to pass through.
The first thing he noticed, no the first thing that his nose noticed:the scent of his mates blood soaking the air. Both he and the wolf darted towards there mates.
The Demi kami frowned as he pulled Kagome by her hair into the hallway. He wanted to breed her first, with her already a Demi kami from her pure soul he had hoped to introduce the world to holy pain. Little did he know that her mate hid in the shadows waiting for the right time to strike.
Materializing a whip from out of thin air, while throwing her to the grown Kando started to heavily whip her.
"Forget him, that demon forced himself upon you, you are my mate and only mine!"
(You never showed any to them
Embrace your final punishment
There's not a soul to hear you scream
I have to thank you for letting out the animal in me)
Touga watched as her back began to profusely bleed. His hand went to the heaven sword, only for Gotu to start shimmering on his back. He gave the blade a quick look at before rushing to save his mate.
Nothing could save Kando from the force of tougas thrust. In shock he dropped the whip looking at the sword stick out of his stomach. Both hands on the blade trying to dislodge it he watched as the wolf went over to his pack sister.
'If the wolfs there then that means.'
(Hear me now
Feel my blade
There is no more time for apologies
Malevolent emotions
Take hold of me
Are you ready to begin your trip to the other side?
Death is an old friend of mine)
The sword split him in half, all the while he watched as kouga took the crown off of his beloved mate. Almost seconds after the sword left the wound the wound healed. The whip back in his hand as he spun around to rip the person behind him a new one.
Only to meet with a giant muzzle. Kando thought only two words before the giant dog began tearing him limb to limb. Kagome watched in a haze of being under the spell for weeks in the realm of the kami's as she saw both men whom she saw as mated try to kill one another, while it being true that only one did the killing.
Kagome passed out right as Kando's blood started to mingle with touga's blood.
(The blood became my life
When I was trapped inside
And I can feel the dark passenger calling me)
Touga felt something wrong with himself. Felt his blood become at war with himself. He knew that his mate was near him so he made the slit second decision to put himself in a trance. Little did he know that the gods were on his side. Somewhat that is.
(My mother's blood and mine
Uniquely intertwined
Help me father purge the memory from my mind)
The kamis gave him help with trying to control the new status, by getting his father to help.
"Hello son" Touga looked at his sire.
"Father what am I doing here, what are you doing here?
"You have gotten yourself into trouble boy, I'm here to help you out. You killed a kami"
(My hunger to destroy
When I was just a boy
It pulled me deeper into something that I now enjoy)
"Father I'm a demon its part of my nature to protect what is mine.
"That may be son but since you killed a kami, sorry a demi kami you now have to replace him.
(The ritual begins
Evil will meet its end
In your destruction I will finally feel whole again)
Touga thought on his father's words, in all reality he was ok with being a Demi kami.
"You do realize that once the process of you becoming a Demi kami you would have to give up your mate. Your cousin has already taken your mate back to the shiro."
"But she and I can still see each other in the cloud palace.
"See yes, but over time while she forgot her pain here..."
"That's enough. I found my mate again and I will not leave her!"
Touga woke up and made his way back to his shiro, where everyone grouped together males with there mates sleeping off the last of the watched over his mate in her room.
He got into her dreams and profusely apologized to her, for leaving her there without him.
(There is no more time for apologies
Malevolent emotions
Take hold of me
Are you ready to begin your trip to the other side?
Death is an old friend of mine)
He moved the pawn taking her knight in the game of chest, she looked much older then the last time he saw her, when she had the horrible nightmares.
(I have become your nightmare
Say good-bye to every thing)
Her queen captured his King signaling there time was up. She stood and went to the door.
"Goodbye." And she left. He went home as well. He knew what her words meant. Throughout the world he owned a bowl of sorrow echoed. His mate had given up. In his sorrow he failed to mention another being in his space. That is till a hand placed on his shoulder.
"Hello old friend."