Disclaimer: The anime series, Inuyasha belongs to Takahashi Rumiko

Written By: Moon's Phantom.

Age: Please be older then 14/15

Note: Possessive behavior will be displayed (They are demons of which are often associated with possessiveness, darkness and behaviors that our society find to be wrong. Women were seen as things that could be owned in the Feudal Era)

Empty can mean many things.

Do you know how to look deeper? Can you see the small things? Do you have the patience for it?

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Immortal Icicle

Chapter Twenty; Empty

His arms were empty.

"Kagome!" He screamed and leapt to his feet, searching around wildly. He overlooked the male standing nearby by and yanked open the screen, then yanked open several more and ran through many rooms desperately. In his blind searching, a naked woman screamed in fright and an ornament spear nearly pierced his head. Finally, in his frantic running around and searching. He found her.

The youkai crouched at her side, drawing her into his embrace.

He pressed his palm to her pale, cold cheek and stared into her empty gaze. She was still dead to the world.

Sighing, he placed her back into the futon and adjusted it a few times. Once he was satisfied that she was comfortable, he sat by her side and reached out to cradle her hand. He cradled her hand lovingly, stroking and caressing her fingers as she had done to him a few days ago. Her hand was soft, flawless under his fingers with a faint scar around the fourth. It almost formed a ring – he found himself tracing it gently. Wondering where'd she gotten it and if it haunted her…like her shattering scream had him.

"There…" A voice rasped, a male human struggled as he stumbled through where he had stormed into and he blankly watched the human fall to his knees, panting heavily. He felt no sympathy for the human and turned back to the miko; her orbs were open, blinkingly purposelessly. "…you…are."

The youkai did not speak or move to acknowledge the human, his focused on Kagome. He did however keep his hearing trained on him. It was a harmless human with no skills, very weak and would not harm them. They would not harm someone they had just brought to safety and healed. "Human."

The male laughed nervously, "I am Lord Akitoki, Leader of the Hojo clan…you are-were a lower slave to my cousins. If I remember correctly, you were the best – obedient with no personality. Reminded me a lot of a doll-"

He turned sharply, eyes narrowing dangerously. "Kagome calls me Buyo."

"Ah…" The human muttered, staring but continued to smile. "She gave you a name. Now, you are no longer a slave as slaves cannot have names, they are only possessions after all. One does not name their futon or their clothing. You are not a slave…anymore. Yet you still serve."

He only glared.

"Do you call yourself Buyo?"

It was a simple question. However, it was a rather significant one. By having a name, it meant that you were a being with a personality – that you were a person. It meant that you possessed specific traits that others associated you with, of which they cared about you and thought of you. That you were worth thinking about; Kagome thought about her pack often, she talked about them whenever she could. Would she think about him? If she reunited with her pack, would she tell them about him?

Then he frowned.

He did not think of himself has a person. He was a slave – he was meant to serve. Only serve.

He couldn't have a name; he didn't have a name.

"Then you are a slave. You may not be a slave to my cousins anymore, you are however one to her. Just do not let her know, she has a soft heart." The Lord stated and reached out to pat the youkai, but quickly stopped short. His cousins were not kind people. "Kagome is my friend, you two may stay as long as you like. Though I warn you, I do not have the kind of medicine she needs right now. She could die from whatever heartbreak she feels right now."

"Heartbreak? What's the cure?"

The human said nothing.

A/N

Nyght Elf: Thank you for your honesty. There's a few responses I had when I saw your review, nothing nasty I assure you, but if I to give you the meaningful and proper response it would take away from the story; it would make things too clear. I hope once this story is complete, you'll come back to read through it more thoroughly. Again, thank you for your honesty. It helped me write something better than before - i appreciate it.

Readers: Please have patience. Things aren't clear right now but if i had done my planning correctly, things will be clearer later. Maybe not all of it - most of it.

Thank you!

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