Chapter Twentieth-six: Ended [Rewrite 12/10/2011]
The demon lord sits on a branch while holds the toddles closed to his chest. He had made a decision for their mating life when he knew that he cannot betray his feeling toward KotoriHime although she was dying for several hundred years. But her voice, her warmth, her love, and her touch still clear in his mind like the yesterday.
He has a mate but he did not feel that he love her. He must reject her although everyone will think he is selfish. But he cannot break the bound and she is still his mate until he or she dies as his parents.
A white tall frame sent his pups to the wet nurse before walked along the corridor to see his mate.
"Kagome, I have something to tell you."
"Hn, what is it? Will we visit your grandparent? Does he get ill?"
"No. It is serious and you don't want to hear but I must tell you."
"Mm!" A raven hair girl tense up and listen to his word.
"We will over."
"…are you kidding me?" His word stunned her.
"No"
"Why"
"I don't love you."
"Sesshou…maru"
"I never love you, never."
"…but the pups…"
"They are growing enough to take care themselves and they have a wet nurse and Rin is their step sister."
"Sesshoumaru"
"Prepare yourself and I'll take you to the well to go home."
"No, I don't want this."
"I had thought over a time when we got mate but you got pregnant so I had stopped thinking about it until the pups were born and grown enough."
"Am I just your pups' mother?"
"Hn"
"…"
"The only one I love is Kotori."
"Seshoumaru" She feels like someone slaps her cheek and felt like a knot sticks in her throat. She has been knows that he stills love her, his Kotori not Kagome.
A silent girl just looked at her mate stood at the rice paper door and tried to get up to slap his beautiful face. But she does not know why her body runs out of the energy to do but just breaths. "…Se…"
The western lord let his mate lost in silent but did not left her alone. They sat in silent but he stills keep an eye on her and found that she did not cry but keep silent.
'Why doesn't she cry or shout at me?'
…
Two weeks later, a silvery moon head demon took his mate to the Bone Eater's well where she had said she came from the future pass this dry well. And this time he will send her back to her home.
"Please Sesshoumaru, can you think over again?" She cries in silent and want him to change his mind.
"I'm sorry. I can't. I want you go back home and back to you life."
"No. Here is my life and my home and we are family. Please Sesshoumaru, don't leave me. Don't push me away from you."
"Even though I don't love you or I hate you. I don't want you be with it forever."
"But the pups…"
"I love our pups and I'll foster them. Time to go, my mate" He threw a seal scroll that he receive from his grandparents into the well and held her up.
"No, Sesshoummm" The western lord kisses her for the last time and releases her down the well. He saw the blue flame flashed off then his young mate disappeared from his sight forever.
…
Several years pass the western castle still peaceful but quiet. Rin grown up but the pups still are the toddles. She knows that why her lord sent Kagome to her home but did not quite understand him. She knew only that her lord gets worst after his mate was gone.
The great lord leans against a clay wall after he woke up and drinks again. He tried to ignore her old scented is in the room they had been sharing but she is absent because of his fool.
'I'm lost.'
'Because you leave her, you reject our mate.'
'But she still is our mate.'
'So where is she? Where are you hiding her from us? I want our mate back.'
'I want her come back too.'
"What did you do to me, Kagome? Why do you curse on my heart? I'm sorry that I drove you away. I'm sorry to hurt you again. Please forgive me, my mate. Please forgive your fool mate who rejected you for his blind. I'll do everything if I can take you back to stay on my side again, Kagome." He scratches the walls and destroyed the room and fell on a floor.
"Here were called home when you lived but it's not my home anymore when you had gone. It's too quiet and lonely. And you are only my home." He cries but he has no more tear.
"I miss you, Kagome. I love you."
Thirty six years later after Rin mated with his officer and gave him three pups but she gets ill and going to die. So the western lord took her in his care.
"How do you feel, my ward?"
"Sesshoumaru-sama"
"Do you want to see my red maple valley?"
"Yes, please"
He held his ward but she is already a woman. The lord took the pups and Ah-Un with him to the red maple valley. He let the pups play with the two brothers while he held her to a red maple tree.
"Does Kagome-sama like your valley?"
"Yes, she does. She and I usually visit here and another favorite one is a sakura valley but it far from here."
"I want to visit there."
"It would be tomorrow."
"Promise, Sesshoumaru-sama"
"I promise you, Rin."
"Oh! Look at that. I see a hawk."
"Hn, it is a golden hawk."
"It is beautiful. Mmm, why do I feel asleep?"
"Then sleep and I'll take you home."
"Sesshoumaru-sama"
"Hn"
"I saw Kagome-sama in a strange building. She sat on a chair at a clear window but her hair is short and she looked happy. Hawww"
"Sleep, child"
"Good night, Sesshoumaru-sama"
"Good night, Rin" She rest in peace while her lord held her close to his chest.
"Father, father"
"Look at this I found a beetle." Hiro shows him an unseasonable bug.
"And I found a butterfly." Shin's five years old form shows him the insect while Un bites a dragonfly and Ah bites a butterfly then walked toward them.
"Does Rinnee-chan fall asleep again?" Hiro and Shin walked to his father side and touch his sister's shoulders.
"Yes, you two should not bother her."
"Yes, father and please tell us a mother Swedish fairy tale when we go back."
"Hn"
"Father, do we write mother a letter?"
"Yes, pups. Ah-Un, come here. We'll go back."