Title: My Silver Dog
Rating: R
Disclaimer: The characters are NOT MINE.
Chapter: 14/???
Words : 1,647 words
Summary: Thanks to Kagome's healing miko power, the lord of Western Land involuntarily returned into his younger past form who simply followed his instinct to protect her. How could Kagome cope with an overprotective HUGE silver dog following her in every second? [SessKag]
Pairing : SessKag, MirokuSango (others will be decided later)
A/N :
Sorry for the late update, dears! I've been too busy in college (I'm in Pediatric Department at the moment) and I've been too interested in writing The New Hokage, one of my Naruto fics, so there.
And not to forget, dear Gothic Jigoku Shoujo has been very dear to me and betaed ALL chapters 7 to 13! You might want to read them again (with better grammar and all). And don't forget to give cookies and kisses for her!! I love u, and thanks for your hard work, dear! 8D –hugs her again and again-
- Izky
WARNING!! UNBETAED YET!!
Chapter 14 ~ The Compassionate Heart : 1,647 words
In another place, Megumi's eyes widened as she saw the decision her pup took. The meidou-stone in her palm show Sesshoumaru's form vanished into the darkness.
Her mate, Inu-Taishou's words rang clear inside her mind. Ones who walked the path of the Death, they can only proceed, as the return path has crumbled. Ahead of them is the hell itself. And once they step into the darkness of hell, it's over. There's no one able to come back again.
Feeling coldness seeped inside her heart, the Lady of the Western Land simply closed her eyes, ignoring the other's curious eyes and Inuyasha's glare at her.
Sugumi-sama .......... please protect our pup.
As the darkness ate him, young Sesshoumaru blinked at the sight before his eyes.
Hundreds, thousands –even millions- of bodies scattered all over the places, so many that it looked like a sea of people with darkness as its sky. The bodies were thin, scrawny, and dirty as their owners screamed in anguish and pain. Quickly, the young inu-youkai flied with his cloud to avoid the claws and hands of those people.
"Help....!! Help me!!!"
"Arrgh!!! I'm dying!!!"
"No....!! No...! I don't want this!"
"Let me die!!"
"It's hurt!! It's burning!! Ahh!!!"
Many screams and cries were heard all over the places, making young Sesshoumaru's skin tingled in horror. In his young one hundrend-forty eight years, young Sesshoumaru had never seen so many deaths in one place like that. At his time, Western Land was the calm and happy land where its Lord, his Chichi-ue, protect its people and land.
Where........ Is this hell?
His shocked gazes looked down only to find the previously small orb of Rin's life turning slowly into the small girl's form, filling his previously free arms with her solid body.
"Rin..? Can you hear me?" He whispered at the form in his arms, adjusting his arms to hold the girl better.
The form didn't move or answer at all.
Is she......dead?
He widened at the discovery. Before, Rin's soul was warm and breathing against his hand, and he was confident that if he followed his mother's words, he could save the human girl.
This was something he didn't expect.
'Sesshoumaru.'
His mother's soft words was like a gentle song among the cries he heard there. The place was .... disturbing.
"Haha-ue? Is that you?" He couldn't hide the relief he looked up, trying to find the source of the voice. But nothing appeared saved the sea of bodies under them.
'You must get out of the hell quickly, before the Hell keeper finds you, pup.' Megumi's voice was stern and serious.
"But how...?! And Rin isn't breathing at all, Haha-ue!" The desperation escaped his voice as he looked down at the still cold form.
The voice was silent for a moment, before it spoke again. 'Is your Tenseiga beating or giving you a response to the human girl, pup?'
"No, Haha-ue. It's silent." He shook his head, giving a glance at the sword in his grip.
'Then it means that you can't call back her life, pup. You're taking too long to bring her back to this world. Her soul is long gone. I'm sorry.'
The implication hit young Sesshoumaru hard inside. The Tenseiga on his hand fell down toward the sea of bodies below as its owner's grip on the girl went slack. "She...can't be saved?"
Rin's smile and laughter filled his mind. She was one of his pack, one of the few he must protect. He was determined to save her life, even going to hell himself.
The sight of his grieving mate and pack was still fresh on his mind. He would do anything to make them smile again. He didn't miss a small of hope inside their eyes as he agreed to save Rin's life. And he could feel a spark of hope inside his own heart, right until the very second his mother's last word.
But he failed.
"Rin....." The hurt and anguish filled his heart as the beast inside him roared in sadness.
What's the point of having Tenseiga, then?!
I'm sorry Rin...... I let you die.....
I'm too late.....
Letting a tear down his pale cheek, young Sesshoumaru looked down to find Tenseiga gleamed in the darkness, pulling the mountain of scrawny bodies closer to it. For a short second, he felt hateness toward the sword he inherited those decades ago.
What's the point of having the Sword of Living if it can't save the lifes that matters!?
"Arghh....light......"
"Save me....please...."
"Please..... don't let the darkness come...."
"It hurts...."
The whimpers and cries of those below him eventually made young Sesshoumaru closed his eyes in resignation. Never in his life he witnessed something this ..... broken.
He failed to save Rin's life.
But maybe he could save another life.
Taking a decision, he leapt down to take the sword again. As soon as the sword came into his grip, Tenseiga shone in a beautiful blue light, a strong beat was heard.
As young Sesshoumaru slashed the mountain of bodies below with one precise attack, he only could hope that was enough.
The bodies of people suddenly floated up as Tenseiga's blue light surrounded them. The cries and screams were turning slowly into joyful sounds as their owners changed into thousands of small pure white orbs and flied up toward the darkness.
The dead of hell were being purified.
'Thank you, my Lord!'
'Thank you...!'
'Thank you!!'
And a white crescent shaped hole was formed before young Sesshoumaru's eyes.
With a pair of determined eyes, he jumped into the hole with the dead Rin tightly tucked in his arms.
The sight which greeted him was something he didn't expect.
For one thing, he didn't know Kagome had THAT much strength.
"Sesshoumaru-kun!"
"Thank God..... Sesshoumaru!"
"Sesshoumaru-sama!"
"Feh! Took you a god damn long time, Sesshoumaru!"
Young Sesshoumaru blinked as he finally recognized the faces hovered above him. Kagome's arms tightly circled around his armour as the miko nearly settled into his lap, sniffling as she mumbled how thankful she was to see him alright.
Wait a minute.... his lap? What's about Rin?
"Sesshoumaru, you did it." His mother's beautiful face appeared before him, a smile on her pale face.
"Haha-ue? I don't understand...." He said hesistantly as the people around gave them room to breathe. Even Kagome quickly jumped out of his lap in embrassment.
Rin is dead, right? How come I can do it?
As if knowing what he was thinking about, the Lady of Western Land shook her head. "No, you don't resurrect her life."
"I failed, Haha-ue. Then why do you ..... smile like that?" Young Sesshoumaru was confused, torn between growl or smile back at his apparently happy mother. Rin is dead! And that's not what they wanted!
"You bring her soul back safely to this world, Sesshoumaru. And you get to unleash Meidou Zangetsuha from Tenseiga. You did well, pup." At that, Megumi kissed the crescent moon mark on his forehead.
"Her soul? Where...?" Young Sesshoumaru widened his eyes as the familiar white orb –Rin's soul – appeared in his mother's palm.
"First, forgive me for doing this, pup. I lied to you. The human girl's life can be saved." A hesistant glint inside those golden eyes was the only indication that the female inu-youkai was worried of his response.
"What!? Haha-ue! How come-" Before young Sesshoumaru could protest more, he was cut off by a pale finger on his lips.
"It's necessary for you, pup."
"..............."
"You must feel the sadness and fear of losing certain people when your heart wishes to save them. Tenseiga, even when wielded as a weapon, you must understand the weight of life and carry a compassionate heart when dispatching your enemies."
The pale finger was lifted up from the pale lips. Then, the Lady of Western Land smiled at her only son, a far beautiful and honest one than they previously saw before.
"That is what is necessary....for the one who wields the Tenseiga which can save a hundred lives and send enemies to the hell itself. I failed to make you realize that the last time we met."
"Haha-ue...."
"You have unleashed Meidou Zangetsuha, the Dark Path of the Dawn's Moon, an attack that open the path to the realm of the dead and sent the enemies through it. It is proof that Tenseiga accepts your compassionate heart. Use it well, pup. It'll help you in the long run."
Nodding at the suddenly silent group, Megumi walked toward the laying form of Rin. With a sigh, she throw a soft look at young Sesshoumaru. "Think this as my apology..... and your reward, pup."
And Megumi took the glowing white orb, Rin's soul, into the Meidou-stone, which absorbed the orb quickly into its darkness. Carefully, the female inu-youkai put the necklace on the little girl's chest.
A few heart-stopping seconds later, the black stone in the middle of the necklace shimmered, shining brightly on Rin's form before finally it's light dimmed and dead.
Taking the necklace off Rin, Megumi slipped it into her robe before finally nodding at the frozen group. "She needs to be purified first after passing the darkness of the hell and Seshhoumaru's youki. Miko, you need to heal her."
Slowly, Kagome rose from her sitting position and kneeled before Rin's form. The previously pale face was slowly turning healthy rose as small breath was taken in and out of those lips.
Feeling wetness at the corners of her eyes, Kagome let her aura washed Rin's body. The reddish-darkness she felt inside the girl's center vanished and replaced by her red-pink aura.
Nearly everyone hold their breath as the purification went. At least, until those dark brown eyes opened and mumbled. "Sesshou....maru-sama?"
And young Sesshoumaru couldn't help but gather the barely awake human girl into his arms. "Welcome back, Rin."
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A/N : Shorter than usual, but I think it's better to stop here....still.....Yay!! Rin is alive! Are u satisfied? 8D
- Izky