Inuyasha crossover Saiunkoku Monogatari

Chapter 21: Just The Two of Them

Just like that, Xuan was by her side every waking moments until when she opened her eyes and the first person that Kagome saw, is him. Her eyes were blank for a moment as she looked at Xuan and he looked back at her worry evident upon his face as his hand still held onto hers.

"Did something happened?" she asked in a hoarse voice to which she frowns at the unused sounding of her voice as she sat up in bed stiffly.

Her body stiff as she grimace at the feeling of aches over her body which Xuan immediately took it all into eyes as he reached out to help her sit up.

"Here, have a drink," Xuan told her softly, immediately bringing to her a cup of water he had poured out as he held it to her lips.

"Sip it slowly," he told her softly, watching her taking the drink, but coughed at the first initial drink of water as Xuan took the cup from her hand whilst the other patted her back to help sooth her.

"Here," Xuan softly placed the cup before of her again as she reached out to grab it. "This time, take sips," Xuan told her as he watches her finish the cup.

"Want another?" he asked, only to see her shake her head in reply.

Smiling at her fondly, he reached out for the cup to place it on the table. Though outwardly he may look calm and dote upon her fondly like usual, but inside, he was feeling anxious that there is going to be a difference in the way that she behaved to him.

"Are you feeling unwell anywhere?" he asked her, a hand on her wrist as he took her pulse to see if there is anything wrong with her.

Again Kagome shook her head before replying him with her own words as she looked at him.

"How is your body feeling?" Kagome asked after remembering that he had been in isolation to meditate, and heal up.

"Much better now," he told her fondly, his eyes softening as he looked at her tenderly, reaching out with a hand to brush a stray strand of her hair to the back of her ear.

"Thanks to you," he said cupping the side of her face as he looked at her, Kagome looked at him questioningly, her head tilting slightly to the side as she regarded him.

"We should go out and train a little more together, your cultivation may have gone up, but it still need consolidating for your ability to stand on a firmer ground," Xuan explained to her, feeling anxious still about her.

"Teacher, I feel tired and will rest a little more, you should get some rest too," her eyes looking worriedly at him, seeing that he look paler than the past despite of himself as she urge him to go take a rest as well.

"I will," he told her with a smile, leaning forward as he place a peck of a kiss upon her forehead like he does all the time to show his affection as he helped tucked her in.

Though he would like to stay closer to her for every moment of their lives, but worries that if he acts too boldly now, she might instead draw away from him and run away before he could even be given a chance. And another is also because she is a female and though it was already seen in her that she does not mind the proprieties of what manners dictate between that of an unmarried man and woman, he still would like to respect that.

"I'll call you up for dinner later, so rest well and don't think about anything, know that I'm always here for you," Xuan told her softly, touching the side of her face tenderly again as he placed another kiss upon her cheek.

All these little actions though when put into the human society is that of him taking liberties of a young innocent woman like her, but it is more than that to him.

"Ehn, I will, teacher you should rest well as well," Kagome told him with a smile as she send him off with her eyes rather than getting out of bed, and also because he did not allow her to leave her bed.

"Mnh," he voiced out with a smile as he turned to face her, looking at her for a longer time period before he left her room, closing the door behind of him.

Just as she closes her eyes, it took only a short moment before she fell into sleep again without fail. This time she slept dreamless, before that she checked on her inner self and saw the new strength coursing through her body as she cleared her mind and fell right into slumber.

Meanwhile;

Sa Sakujun was settling some problems within their group, getting rid of possible threats that might be working for them as he reorganize a restructuring of the organization and a shift in the various business that they dabble into. Though there is also one thing that he felt damn frustrated about, and that is about Kagome. It seemed as though she had disappear out into thin air and no one has ever seen her or find her anywhere, not even in the places that they may have been together in the past.

Demons are running more rampantly, causing more havoc and trouble as the folks fought them off bitterly and tiringly. Those that are unable to defend themselves against those beings could do nothing but to bitterly wait and pray that someone would save them.

"Is there any news?" Sakujun asked not for the first time as he lazily casted a glance at the kneeling subject in his domain, slanting honey gold eyes in the others direction as he laid on his side his clothes half opened to show well-muscled toned chest as he peeked through those long lashes to look at the few person kneeling before of him as they kept their head low.

"There's been no news at all Master," the main person taking the lead amongst them gave him the answer that always left him feeling unsatisfied and frustrated most of the time.

Glancing at them through the slit of his eyes dangerously at them, the kneeling men resisted the urge to shiver at the feeling of danger directed at them, most especially since it is coming from their Master. Though this is now becoming a daily occurrence, it still finds it scary to be before of him, most especially in these days when his mood is undetermined and fluctuate about too randomly.

"Hmm," he voiced, eyes casted down as he reached out for a cup of wine from the table nearby, as he took sips from it, feeling the burn of the strong alcohol running down his throat.

"Continue," he lazily ordered his cup being immediately refilled by an attendant as he took another long sip from it.

"Everything is as per usual," the man kneeling continued as he gave his report to the attendant nearby who brought it straight before of Sakujun.

Sakujun did not bother reaching out from it, or glancing at the documents presented to him.

"Good, what else," Sakujun drawled with another sip of his wine, glancing at the kneeling subordinates.

"Nothing else Master," the leader of their group replied, and was met with that cool honey gaze of their Master as he quickly looked down to the ground out of respect and fear.

With a lazy wave of his hand, the men were dismissed leaving him alone in the grandeur of his room of Sakujun sat up in the day bed, built out of the finest red cypress wood, cushioned in the finest of silk stuffed with cotton as he laid on it.

'There is much restless in you' a voice chimed out in amusement within Sakujun's head, causing him to frown ever so slightly, but it was only there for a mere second or less before his face smoothen out to it's cool look of boredom as he walked towards the window and looked through it and down to the busy streets of the town below.

Recently when he's been bored, killing someone is simple enough, but yet he gets bored of it immediately again, and turned to other activities to help pass the time whilst he had people out there searching for her. There is much about her that drew his mind towards, but there is also her many expressions that he has yet to fully uncover them all.

'If you really wish to find her, I might be of some help,' the voice in his head chimed out again in a sly coy manner.

Though Sakujun did not reply, but he could hear that taunt in his voice, and the way he seems even more overly interested in Kagome than he himself. And that alone gave him the urge to kill that person whose voice rang in his head.

He is selfish that way, not wanting to share Kagome with anyone until he is bored of the other, and most of the time when that happens, they are usually dead or missing.

'You're not cute at all,' the voice told him after trying to wait for an answer, but never got any, but he is very thoroughly ignored.

A/N:

Hello
Another very quick update as we reach into the story again of where Sakujun and the Black Immortal will start to slowly appear. Take care!