MS: Oh how I love this chapter…I'm giddy all over… whehehehehe… Ohohohoho…I hope you enjoy this too…please read and review…It will give me more love and interest into pouring my heart for another chapter…
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CHAPTER 24
Green-eyed monster unleashed!
The chirping sounds of birds and slightly chilling wind greeted her, it is now early autumn. She breathes in a healthy amount of air. "Ah! Unpolluted, fresh air." She said as she reached up to grab the vines clinging inside the well, and then cringed. She felt sore all over and her last training session this morning only made it worst.
Kagome climbed the edge of the well with her aching limb. "owowow…damn, I should have asked for a break from that training before I go back here. I think even my ears are sore. Ohhh…crap. He even tests me right before I jump. I should have clobbered him or something. Next time I'm gonna kick his ass… his nice and sexy ass. Damn, Miroku syndrome again." She sighed as she pulled herself over the rim and stand there perfectly still when she felt her shackles rise on end when the wave of youki hit her hard. She turns on her side to look at the white, red, and black vision a few feet away from her. Kagome felt her heart skip a beat and her breath stayed lock in her lungs at the sight of a very furious Sesshoumaru.
The inuyoukai stood there rigidly. His eyes flashing between red and gold and obviously teetering on the verge of fury as he struggle to maintain control of his blood beast.
"Miko, who is he?" he snarled.
"Who? What?" she asked confused at the furious taiyoukai, her eyes locked at the glistening white fangs that are visible at the moment.
"The male you were with. You reek of his scent. He has been all over you and most possibly not just a fleeting contact." He gritted between his fangs.
Kagome stood gaping stupidly at Sesshoumaru. 'Now what's wrong with him?' she thought as she tried to remember any male she had been near recently. She took a little too much time to answer the impatient youkai.
"Miko, answer me now!" He growled out each word. "WHO WAS IT?" his eyes settling to crimson red.
"I-I don't know…maybe it was my brother or my ojii-"
"Do not lie to this Sesshoumaru. The male is non-human, his scent reeks of power. ANSWER!" his voice dangerously low and icy, made her blood run cold. He had tried to infiltrate her thoughts once more, but just like before, it was nothing more than a blur.
'Non-human male? But the only one that's none human is…oh that guy…he didn't do that 'just-testing-you-attack' for this, did he?'
"I-It must be Takumi-kun. He's a friend, Hikari's older brother. He was teaching me self defense before I return to this era. That must be why his scent still lingers on me." She stammered softly. Her instinct kicking in. There's no need to question why she needs to answer his queries, because at the moment he looks way murderous, she could feel his youki swirling towards and around her. She shivers visibly at the anger and fury emanating from Sesshoumaru.
'Why is he acting like this…is he..jealous?...that can't be possible…that's just absurd.'
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed as he stepped forward towards her. Kagome unconsciously stepped back and ended up cornered beside the well. She felt her knee give in and sat at the rim of the well, sneaking a look into its dark bottom. 'Maybe I should jump and come back later when he's a little more…himself?'
"Do not even dare jumping into the well. This one could rip your throat before you could even move to do so." He said slowly and coolly but with a voice edged and sharp. 'This one could not sense any lies from her, but still…'
Kagome gulped at the words as sweat rolled down her forehead.
"Miko, explain about this Takumi. If he is the older brother of that girl you took back to your time, then what are they? The girl seems human to me but her brother's scent obviously is not." He demanded heatedly.
'Oh boy. That's supposed to be a secret. Me and my big mouth. I promised Hikari but not about Takumi, right? Right.' She inhaled, trying to calm her suddenly suffocated lungs.
"Takumi said he's a…ahmm…celestial youkai. A moonlight scion, I think. At least that's what he told me." She whispered feebly, looking down at her fumbling hands on her lap, something she seems to be doing quite a lot recently.
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed further. 'A celestial youkai? Moonlight scion…where have I heard about them?' "And why did he choose to teach you how to fight?" he asked as his thought runs through any knowledge he had about celestial youkai.
"Ahm…He offered to teach me, to train me how to fight…I need to learn to protect myself." She answered as she looked at him and relaxed visibly when she found his eyes now golden again.
He quirked an eyebrow at her answer. "You do not need to learn how to protect yourself. No one would dare harm who is under my protection. Especially within this one's shiro." He replied, peering down at her before turning on his heels and walked towards the west, obviously intent to go home. "And if you really think you 'could learn' how to protect yourself 'right', this Sesshoumaru will send someone from my disposal to train you."
Kagome just gaped at his back. 'Why you pompous arrogant self-centered egotistical jerk!' she was seething with fury and barely stopped herself from stomping her foot before following him.
"No thanks! I'm pretty much contented with Takumi-kun's help…Ouch! Hey!" she bumped into his back when he suddenly stopped. He turned around to face her, the crimson edges starting to seep into his golden orbs once more and grabbed her arms.
"You will cease this training with that celestial youkai. This Sesshoumaru could provide you with someone else to train you if that is what you wish. Disobey and I will not let you go near that well again." He demanded in a harsh tone.
"Now look here! Who do you think you are to tell me what I need and could not do? I know I owe you my life but that doesn't give you the right to tell me what to do. And you can't stop me from going home either. You gave me your word that you'll allow me to visit my family as long as I come back with you to do my responsibilities with the dark shards and Rin. You are far too honorable to take back your words." She grumbled loudly as she poked his armored chest with her finger.
A menacing growl came from deep in his throat creating a tremor through his chest, sending vibrations through her fingers and into her body making her resolve wavered. 'Oh great. I'm going to die.' She gulped as she closed her eyes waiting for her death. 'If it's cold then it's Toukijin. If it's warm that would be his claws. But then again, Toukijin releases some kind of electric barrier so it might be the other way around. I wonder if I could even feel it before I die?' was her morbid thoughts.
She eeped when she felt something furry wrapped around her waist and her feet left the ground and found herself standing beside the furious taiyoukai on a crimson cloud of youki.
Their current closeness only made his rage to spike up; he needed to stay away from her. The scent of that male still infused with her own is pushing him into the state of bloodlust and his beast is not helping with its rampage. They must arrive into his shiro as soon as possible or else he might do something harsh – or imprint his own scent on her, quite forcefully.
"Be at ease. Do not attempt to fight." He commanded, his voice is not one you'd choose to argue. Kagome was surprised when a blinding light covers them both. The suddenness of it renders her speechless as she found herself within the orb of his youki, alone.
Usually, his youki was warm, so unlike the cold façade that he usually portrays, but now that it is infused with his rage, it was hot, like sitting beside a furnace. Kagome tried to relax against the smoldering heat of his rage while controlling her reiki from reacting against it. Not one word was spoken during their journey as Kagome kept her silence trying to weigh the situation. Then after a while, she felt their descent to the ground. Their usually a full-day long journey flying from the shiro to the well only took them a few hours with his energy form.
The hot orb transforms into his body once more, Kagome cradled safely in his arms.
Then he dropped her unceremoniously to the ground and walked away without even turning back to look at her.
Kagome, feeling a bit disoriented, ungracefully stand on her feet massaging her sore butt where she landed painfully. She looked at her surrounding and realized that their already within the shiro's courtyard.
It took a minute before she finally walked into the main door and into the door hidden beyond the grand stairs that leads to the inner dwelling where her own chamber is. Her emotions were in tangles and she could not sort out whether to be mad, angry, furious, disappointed, worried, or even relieved. She can't even start guessing why she felt some of those emotions at the moment. But she's sure is happy to be alive at least. She finally gave up trying to figure out what made Sesshoumaru act like that. The headache that it gave her as a result is just too much, she might snap at anyone who bothers her at the moment.
But still, something keeps nagging inside her…something important she must have forgotten…
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If he could not control his emotions as well as he could, the chamber he's in will probably be in shambles now. He kept phasing around trying to sort his emotions and berating his beast for even resurfacing like that. He was overwhelmed by his emotions, enough for him to even forget for a moment to honor his promise to take the little kit back with them, he still need to somehow uphold his promise to the miko. But with the way his beast was reacting to the miko's 'tainted' scent, it is a must for him to bring them home as soon as possible and leave the presence of the frustrating human woman. He was disgusted from even thinking that he was jealous. That's just beyond the impossible. Is it? She's nothing more than Rin's companion, a means to put an end to the new threat of the Kuro no tama. A property as he put it. Nothing more. Maybe he felt like this because somebody is trying to steal away what he deems to be his? Yes, he's not jealous. Just protective of what is rightfully his.
'Just keep thinking like that and you might start to believe it yourself.' A voice in his mind said.
'Hn'
'And you really believe that is right?'
'There is no point in dwelling into this further.'
'Celestial youkai is a powerful creature and he got the upper hand since he is in the same time line as the miko. Do you really think it is right to push her farther from you?'
'That is of no concern of mine.'
'You might lose her to that descendant of the moonlight. Are you sure you wish to ignore her still?'
'She is a human. I can not allow anymore connection with her than what it is now.'
'But I am your blood beast, I act through instinct and it seems that even my baser instinct does not care about the part of her being human. Even other youkai seems to think the same way. And from the scent that clings to her, she is far too familiar with that youkai.'
Sesshoumaru growled menacingly at the thought. There's no point in lingering around the shiro if his mind is itching to find out about his miko's newest friend.
He stopped and tried to figure out since when did he start referring to her as his miko. He groaned, frowning a little. Had he really developed such an attachment to the miko? His frown deepened. He should really put a halt with it. It will be troublesome if it goes even further. But what about his reaction towards the celestial youkai? His mind is moving in circles and the miko is in the center of it.
He snarls forebodingly.
He walked towards the balcony at the highest point of the main dwelling and jumped in the air, favoring his energy orb form than his true beast form to avoid much attention and dashed through the night towards the forest at the border of his vast land.
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The leaves rattled in the wind as he walks toward a giant old tree in the middle of the forest.
"Old Bokuseno."
An old face of a male youkai slowly took shape in the bark of the old tree.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, you have come for answers I presume?"
"Hn."
"Ask then, son of the great Inu no taishou."
"Tell me about the celestial youkai. The moonlight scion, to be specific."
"Ah yes, celestial youkai are rare and powerful, but the moonlight scion that you speak of… their rarity is so great they are considered nothing more than just a myth. I would have thought so too if I had not met a pure-blooded one a few hundred years ago."
"Who was it that you have met?"
"He is someone that you also had the honor to be acquainted when you were but just a pup, Sesshoumaru-sama. The loyal friend of your chichiue…Gesshoku-sama."
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed as he tried to remember about his father's friend. He couldn't seem to remember much about his childhood for some reason.
"Tell me more about this Gesshoku-sama."
"All that I could impart to you about the great celestial youkai is that he has great powers, he has always been your father's closest friend, and had taken your father's younger sister to be his mate. He is your godfather and uncle. May I ask, son of Inu no taishou, why do you think you can transform your body into an energy orb that renders you to transport faster than when you transform into your original beast form?"
Sesshoumaru didn't like the feeling of being ignorant about anything. Especially about his own powers. But he seeks for knowledge, and so he endures his unease.
"This one assumed it was something that runs in my bloodline."
"But alas, Sesshoumaru-sama, you are the only one of your kind who could use such ability. It was a gift that was given to you right after birth by your godfather, the great Gesshoku-sama."
"Is there anything else you can inform me about him? Where is he now?"
"That is all I could tell you about him. His current location is unknown for hundreds of years now. We have never heard of him ever since his untimely hibernation. The old retainers of your father might have more information for you."
"Hn." He turns around and started to leave.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, may I ask what made you seek for information about the celestial youkai? Moonlight scions are not common knowledge."
He looked over his shoulders to the talking tree. Normally, he wouldn't answer anyone but the old youkai tree is one of the very few that he could tolerate and oftentimes respected. "Someone under my protection has an acquaintance with one. It was brought to my attention a while ago. I am merely curious." Then he walks off into the night.
"Hmm…interesting." Bokuseno whispered and then the old face faded into the bark.
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MS: (grovels to the ground) gomen minna-san, updates will take longer than usual since my computer is still a file of crap at the moment and I'm currently in an internet cafe just to post an update, it's a good thing most of the chapters were already uploaded before my pc turns crazy on me...so please everyone, bear with me, ne?...(grinning stupidly) Sesshou-kun, you look so kawaii when you act like a jealous puppy… ^_^
Sesshou: This Sesshoumaru is not kawaii you filthy celestial youkai. (murderous glare) and this one will never demean his person to be jealous.
Ms: Whatever you say…Fluffy-kun. And I'm a moonlight scion, there's a slight difference. I'm special. Hmph.
Sesshou: That's it wench…you're dead.
MS: (enveloped with a glowing blue orb of energy before teleporting to another time and place) Bye fluffy!
Sesshou: (dashed through the orb and vanished with the very surprised MS) Die wench! (evil grin)