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Your Lady Fractured Moonlight
Summary: Sesshomaru has lived centuries without the one thing he desires the most only to have her return with no memory of him or the life they had known. Can he accept her as he had once or will everything be lost to time once more? Will she love the beast within the man as she once had in a time lost to her? Will they learn to love or will their love vanish as though it had never been? Read and discover the untold story between Sesshomaru and Kagome and you might discover a love that can span the centuries!
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Moonlight's Embrace
Chapter 11
It had been frustrating to Sango that Inuyasha had been so brash in his actions towards her but what was even more disconcerting was the fact that she was so open with Sesshomaru and he with her. Or so that was how it appeared. She had completely missed something, she was sure, and now that she was bathing with her, why it presented the opportune moment to get the answers to the millions of questions she had…..or so she hoped.
Kagome sighed deeply as she sank into the blissfully warm distraction the spring provided. The dark foliage that surrounded her added to the air of wonder that flowed through her at the moment and she was thankful to share said moment with a woman she cared for more deeply than any other. She wondered briefly if Sango would be affected by her deepening connection with Sesshomaru. She didn't know but anything was possibly especially concerning her.
"Kagome, why were you in that clearing?"
"You had to go there?" Kagome sighed not willing to go there just yet but knowing and seeing as she was there she deserved nothing short of the truth. "I felt him, when he left I mean and it woke me." Her voice Sango noted took on a darker tone as she spoke. "I knew where he was going but I followed anyway. I guess I wanted to prove myself wrong but it only served in proving myself right."
"Kikyo." Sango bit out and watched as Kagome nodded meekly in response looking away from her towards the rippling water surrounding them, studding her distorted reflection.
"I don't remember much about what they talked about but I know they were talking about me and something about a switching of souls so that way she can come back into the world of the living through me…..I don't understand it myself so I don't think I'm explaining it well. I'm sorry." Kagome finished and flashed Sango a sad smile despite being dangerously close to tears.
"Don't apologise." Kagome gave another meek nod at Sango's heated words.
"After that I was foolish enough to think I could sleep after hearing what I did but I couldn't not after something…..something like that." She paused briefly. "I decided that it was an impossibility and went for a walk but I didn't pay any attention to anything until-" her voice dropped off then and the smooth contours of her face changed from barely controlled to white and quivering. Remembering your own death would do that to you Sango supposed.
"I know." She said deciding to save her from her internal agony. "We found the clearing but 'you know who'" Sango supplied opting to leave the hanyo's name out of it. "Didn't detect Tensaiga's energy pulse. Though I am curious myself as to Sesshomaru's reasons for reviving you?"
"I am as well. He doesn't talk about it much and in fact, if he can, tries to avoid the subject entirely. I can't say that I blame him not with what I've been remembering lately and it isn't like we've had much time to talk about the subject either." Sango's quirking of her eyes and raised eyebrows told her that her unintentional slip would have to be explained. This wasn't going to be easy when you yourself didn't understand it yet.
It took everything within Sesshomaru's realm of control to not go tearing after his beloved and the young taijiya. But such actions would lead to more unpleasant situations than he was willing to enter into at the moment. Not to mention the curious looks he was receiving from the monk and young kit which were easily ignored but he had to admit, reluctantly, that the hanyo's were not. He looked at him as if ready to bash his head in for some useable reason. It was the half-breeds fault that she was currently in the amount of pain she was in.
It was because of him that she was in the clearing. That she was in fact attacked and it was because of him that he had been put into this precarious predicament with her. It was because of him that she was remembering things that were far better for her sake not to remember. And her growing fondness for him, he was certain would bring about her premature death. A thought that he couldn't stand and all because of this moron's mistake and he was risking it all.
He was risking his lands. He was risking her life and he was now risking exposing her for who and what she really was. He remembered the scent that had laced the air when she bleed and was certain that he hadn't mistaken it. It was yokai and that only affirmed that sending Hana and Ayumu to claim her yokai spirit was a good decision, however reluctantly made.
He wasn't a fool and he knew, if only for her sake that she needed to remember and fast, and the best way to do that was to have her here with him despite the millions more questions, glares and more heated and curious glares he would receive. And then there was the possibility that they wouldn't be able to grasp the concept, however unbelievable, that she was a creature of myth.
He knew however that it was a fleeting desire and that if only for a little while he would have to distance himself from her….if only for a little while. He knew he wouldn't last long but he also knew that he had to try as he told himself yet again that this was all as a means to protect her. His internal rant continued even as Inuyasha glared heatedly at him.
"Inuyasha why do you stare?" he decided to ask when his brother continued to glare a smirk tugging on his lips. "I have done nothing to hurt the miko however," he toyed. "It is because of you that she is in this predicament." He decided to play this game as a means to distract himself from the decision that he had made. The decision that was crushing him though it didn't show.
Inuyasha growled and his smirk deepened. Yes the half-breed indeed had a purpose, if only one, and that was the ultimate distraction and he always rose to the occasion. Too easy, Kagome was far more entertaining in this regard. A comfort he would not find in this moment.
Her scent tickled his nose then along with the taijiya's meaning she was on her way back into their tiny encampment. Rising, he ignored the stares from the men and curious kit choosing to meet her gaining form instead. She still drew his attention from afar, damn her or his lack of control.
Kagome was totally engrossed in Sango's tale of their journey to find her. It wasn't particularly interesting per say but she had missed the allure and comfort that Sango's voice brought and so she listened far too intently than the situation called for.
She hesitated momentarily in her stride when Sesshomaru drew her attention away from Sango. She hadn't noticed him before now, as he approached, and only noticed him as he brushed past her, his golden eyes meeting hers for a second his steps never faltering as he continued onward.
"You are safe now." His words sounded distant to her ears, as if he had never even spoken. What did that mean?
He was leaving? Where would he go now? She was so lost in the sudden distance Sesshomaru had displayed that she hadn't realised that she was looking longingly at his retreating form. This image tugged at her in an unusual way….as if begging her to remember something.
She stood there remaining frozen, rooted to the spot as a memory flashed before her eyes, enwrapping her within its tightening embrace. Through the haze she saw his ghostly form just as he was now, his back to her fading fast while she did nothing, his ghostly, haunting words echoing throughout her as she watched him leave even as her own pained words mixed with his.
"I am doing this to protect you." He had said long ago in a time as lost to her as he was to her now.
"To protect me?" her voice shook with fear, the fear that came with loosing your world. A fear she knew well.
"As long as you remain human you will never possess the power necessary to defend yourself."
"You mean you won't lower yourself to be with a human?" she spat.
"NO!" he growled, his eyes bleeding red before snapping shut. "It is not the fact that your status offends me," they opened slowly revealing them to be golden again. "It worries me for if I should I fail in my mission…" he couldn't bring himself to say it and she understood even now.
"Sesshomaru, then why?" tears stung her eyes as her voice became a faint whisper caught on the wind.
"Because my dearest," he had said as he reached to run his clawed fingers along the curve of her cheek, smiling softly as she turned into his touch, her fingers lingering over his. "My being with you in this place puts you in danger. For those who seek to punish me will seek to destroy me through you."
"Don't leave." She begged but to no avail and like now he was gone from her sight before she could blink.
It made it hard to breathe as the similarities struck a painful cord within her soul. Would he be coming back? And what did her yokai have to with anything? Yokai? She part yokai? As much as this knowledge should have disturbed her, the fact that he had left overshadowed everything, blurring her world with an impenetrable darkness that she couldn't escape.
She felt her lungs tighten and her legs buckle beneath her giving way as she watched the empty space where he had been. The gap in the tree line that had been graced with his presence just moments before. Why? She wanted to call out but found she couldn't. She barely registered Sango's voice though the words she spoke to her now she didn't hear them.
"I'm safe now," she echoed the very words he had spoken just moments before and quivered as an unforeseeable hole tore through her. How could this be happening now? She needed him, she knew this but he had left her. Didn't he know?
"He's not coming back." She voiced aloud and the reality she feared. Tears brimming as the pain within the confines of her chest, both emotional and physical began to take its toll.
"How?" she questioned herself trying to understand the emotional turmoil that assaulted her now, failing rapidly at holding her tears at bay.
"How what?" Sango's voice spoke softly becoming the proverbial anchor that grounded her through the storm. She looked at her then, out of the corner of her eyes, breaking Sango's heart in one smooth motion, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"How can someone," she tried her voice trembling with barely contained emotion. "How can someone touch you so much and you don't even now of it until they've up and left."
"He will come back," Sango tried to reassure her dear friend not knowing how utterly useless it was. Kagome knew.
"I don't think he will,"
"You don't know that-"
"I do, I'm safe now, and at least for now he thinks he'll stop,"
"Who? Thinks who will stop?"
"Katsurou." The very name caused her voice to harden even then.
"The Lord of the East!" Sango gasped at mention of his name and shock as to how Kagome knew of it. "But what does he have to do with you?"
"He's my-my father."
"Your father!" further astonishment and all Kagome could do was nod meekly.
'Kagome, forgive me for what I must do now.' He pleaded from afar. 'I promise you I will return, of that much I am certain.' his mind called out to her as he watched her trembling form from the sky. 'I'm sorry for this my dearest.' His heart tearing with the knowledge that he was the cause of her pain.
Authour's Note: First off I would like to appoligise for the wait but I hope this was worth it! And please don't hate me their suffering is completly necessary for what this authouress intends to do for them. Aren't I so evil to my favourite Inuyasha pairing! I know! lol
Well anywho as always tell me what you think,
Your Lady Fractured Moonlight
