Chapter 56: A Curse or A Blessing
After a short tour of the Sado palace Sesshomaru had taken Kagome to the very top floor and found that it was here that was the dojo. It was larger than the one at the shiro with a vaulted ceiling that would allow him to be in his true form without having any trouble fitting it. She could see him having spent many hours training and perfecting his techniques here in his early days, but also found that this place seemed lonely too. The palace walls were bare and only held a sword or shield or a tapestry here or there baring the family emblem on it.
It needs a woman's touch. She thought as she looked over at her mate as he lifted a bokken from the dojo wall and smiled as he ran his hands across the wooden practice sword as a memory began forming causing the usually stotic daiyoukai to smile and show emotion. "This was my first sword." He told her. "Father refused to allow me to use a true sword until I could defeat my swordmaster." He lifted his lip showing fang. "I defeated him within a month." Turning his head he looked at her over his shoulder, her white kimono with golden flowers embroidered into the fabric seemed to make her glow. "I was twenty though I looked no older than eight then." He swung the wooden sword before placing it back on the shelf where it belonged. "I left the palace and came here when I was sixty, by then I looked like a thirteen year old and was going through some changes." He touched her cheek after crossing the room to her. "I needed to be stronger. The need was always there, but was more so at that point in my life than at any other." Kissing her forehead he gazed into her eyes. "It was at this time my beast took over and for twenty years I battled for control. I couldn't be around anyone at that time. It was lonely, but I was happier that I wouldn't harm anyone while out of control." Closing his eyes he leaned his forehead against hers as his hands pulled her closer to him. "When I regained my control and was certain I was strong enough I returned to the palace, I was nearing my hundredth year then. I looked no older than you did when I first laid eyes upon you."
Kagome blushed. "I didn't think you noticed me back then; other than trying to kill me that is."
He bowed his head in shame. "I was a fool then." He lifted his face when she laid her hand on his cheek, cupping it. "I was obsessed with gaining power then."
"To a certain point I think you still are." She giggled when he frowned at her words. "You just have that obsession under control now." She watched his face smooth out at her words and relax.
"Do you wish to know this one's age my little mate?" He leaned down and kissed her cheek.
Kagome was surprised by his question. It wasn't something she thought about, after all he barely looked twenty, though after looking at Toga who she knew was close to two to three thousand years old, but look less than thirty in human years; it did make a woman wonder sometimes. Nodding her head after deep thought she smiled when she saw joy leap into his eyes.
"This Sesshomaru was two hundred when Inuyasha was born." He said with a smile. "It takes a hanyou one hundred and fifty years for their beasts to first show and another fifty for them to be fully in control of that side." She frowned at him. He's giving me math to do! Her mind yelled at her. Sesshomaru's eyes danced with mirth at seeing the irritated look she was giving him. "Inuyasha's beast should have appeared fourty-nine years ago, but he was sealed to that tree at the time. So that makes him one hundred and ninety-nine years old; making this one nearing his four hundredth year of life." He looked at her with tired eyes. "I have waited for you for almost three hundred years because it took me a hundred to realise what was missing in this life of mine. I believe I was strengthening myself for you this whole time, I just never knew so until I realized who and what you were meant to be to this Sesshomaru."
Kagome blushed at his words. "I'm so glad you did finally realized who you were to love." She sighed. "Months ago I felt like Inuyasha and I were forcing each other to be with the other. I felt that my love for him was dwindling away and that once it was gone I'd be forced to leave him and that the break-up would leave him angry and afraid. Then that day you told me that I was your intended mate, it was like something had been lifted from my shoulders. Then he found Chikyo and now everything seems to have worked out for the better." She smiled. "Though I still love him, it's a love a sister has for a brother. My love for you is so much deeper than anything I ever had for Inuyasha and I want you to know that my heart is yours and no one else's."
She felt his chest rumble as he began nuzzling her neck his mouth seeking out his mark there causing her to gasp as pleasure raced up her spine as he licked and suckled the tender flesh there. Her knees gave out from under her as one of her hands clutched his shoulder and the other the back of his neck to hold his mouth there on that sweet spot. Her head fell back and to the side fully submitting to him. She didn't stop the breathy moans from leaving her lips. She found herself lowered to the floor of the dojo and once her body was safely on the polished red wood flooring he slowly pulled his face from her neck, his eyes fully red with blue pupils. "Mine." He growled at her causing her to shiver.
She hummed as she closed her eyes before opening them and lifting her hand to trace her fingers along his jagged markings on his face. "Yours." The next several hours left both moaning and panting as they gave each other everything.
Lord Farley tapped his clawed finger tips on the table next to his chair as he continued to listen to his brother Lord Shinta argue and yell at several lords who argued and yelled just as loudly back. The red haired male just smiled and acted like he didn't care what they were saying as he drank supposed wine, which was nothing more than grape juice with some animal blood mixed into it. Alcohol clouded ones judgement after all and he needed to know the names of all the people who would threaten peace within the Western Lands. He was a Western spy after all and it always paid off to know your enemies better than your friends. From what he'd gathered nearly half the Lords and their Ladies were in on this conspiracy; most were of the Western Inu lines, though not a single Silver Inu was apart of this. This meant that either the Silver Inu clans knew of this plot to kill the human Western Lady and didn't say anything about it or the death of the Western Lady would've been the first of many deaths. Either way, he couldn't allow this to continue.
Closing his eyes he covered the left one with his hand, taking a deep calming breath he opened the right. The once normal green eyes now swirled like a pool of liquid green whirling around and around. The first lord to look at him gave a shuddering gasp before his body went still and fell to the floor near the young lord, followed by the next who dared to look. Standing from his seat, he gained his brother's attention; however that attention was soon followed by Shinta gasping for air before falling onto the floor. His face pale, eyes bare of life and heart stopping almost instantly. Within moments chaos ensued only for the remainder residents in the room to be met by the same fate. Once it was over nearly fifty Lords were either on the floor or tables dead. It's for the betterment of the West. He thought as he closed his eyes. When he opened them both eyes were the once more. He touched his right eye. Sometimes being the Kami's right eye can be handy. Other times it's a curse. He thought before taking his brother's dagger and began setting up the massacre by slicing or stabbing each man in the throat or chest. Once done he took the dagger and cut his own hand down to his elbow to make it look like he'd been attacked too, making sure to rip the sleeve of his kimono to match the cut before wrapping his brothers hand around the dagger and plunging it into Shinta's stomach.
He staggered out of the room in supposed shock and walked down the hall until he came to a line of windows overlooking the back gardens. It didn't take long for somebody to spot him or the blood running down his torn kimono onto the stone floor. The servant girl looked at the injured lord and wrapped a cloth she'd been carrying around his injury. He saw her lips move but didn't hear her or perhaps he did here her but chose not to respond. Did I do the right thing? He wondered. He truly did love his brother, even if he was a bastard, but... The West must be protected. He thought. The young Lord Sesshomaru must be given the peace he and his ancestors have fought long and hard for. He closed his eyes tiny white specks appearing in his right eye. Tonight the Kami will take their souls that I took from them. They will either be purified or reborn; depending on how defiled their's is. He thought as the servant led him down the halls to the infirmary. Perhaps my brother will be lucky and be reborn or perhaps he shall perish. At this point, I do not care.
Lord Farley found himself seated and being looked after by the head healer who seemed to be berated for getting hurt, only for a servant to come in the room with a panicked look. She began telling the healer of what she had found.
Farley smiled inwardly. So it begins.
Sesshomaru laid on the dojo floor with a sleeping Kagome his left hand laid over her belly where is young grew. He had loved on her most of the afternoon. He couldn't get enough of his tiny mate. Her taste, her scent, her hands as they pleasured him and that devious mouth of hers. He shivered at the memory of her mouth wrapped around him on the night of their ceremony. She had given him the most intense feelings that night. Though he wished for another session with that mouth of hers, he dared not ask. He'd take it offer, but would not request it if she didn't wish to do so. His mokomoko suddenly fluffed up three times it's size as she began to move. The furs was wrapped about her naked body as their clothes were thrown about the room. Sighing he removed his hand from her belly and stood. He dressed quickly and by the time she awoke he had snapped the armor plates into place.
"I shall return." He stated. "The fruit trees outside you shall enjoy. There is a stream nearby as well as several hot springs. I shall return before dark, but if I am not do not venture into the darkness."
Kagome blinked the sleep out of her eyes and nodded. "Okay." She muttered softly. She pulled his fur off of her to give to him, only for the fur to gain a mind of it's own and re wrap itself about her person. "Eek! Sessho-" She looked up when she heard a chuckle from him.
"My pelt will not be leaving your body anytime soon Itoshii." Her cheeks flushed at the word he'd used. "It will remain here and allow this one to know you are safe." He turn to leave but paused at the dojo balcony. "Do try not to ruffle it. It's connected to be and as so I feel everything it feels." He then jumped into the air before turning into an orb of light speeding off towards the Western Palace.
Feels everything he- her thought came to a stop as the fur's tip snuck between her legs. She gasped in both horror and slight pleasure. "Hentai!" She cried out as she tore the fur off her body, unfortunately for her the fur wasn't ready to let go of her. "It just had to happen..." She muttered to herself. My mate's fur is perverted. Just then a lightbulb seemed to turn on. Does that mean...She looked off to where Sesshomaru had jumped from. But he's such a gentleman. He wouldn't... The fur moved against her breast confirming silently that yes her mate was just like his fur. Groaning in frustration she began to pull the fur off again this time semi succeeding as she started to dress. The fur still was wrapped around her right ankle. Once dressed it slid up her body, half wrapping around her waist and belly while the rest went over her shoulder to drape down over her back. Sighing in defeat she left the dojo room to find something good to eat.
Sesshomaru arrived at the Western Palace quicker than when he had left, but found it to be in utter chaos. "Jaken, explain." Her ordered the imp when he found him rush off to somewhere.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" The little green youkai cried out. "Lord Shinta has caused a massacre to occure." He stated. Sesshomaru frown at the tiny male causing Jaken to sweat slightly. "Fifty Lords including himself are dead." He explained. "He killed them all with his dagger, then turned the dagger upon himself and performed seppuku."
"Any survivors?" Sesshomaru inquired as he began to walk at a brisk pace causing the tiny youkai to run after him with the two headed staff in his hand.
"Yes mi'lord!" He cried out with relief. "Lord Farley." He paused when Sesshomaru stopped in the stairway that went to the infirmary. "However he has not spoken nor even moved from the spot he has been placed in."
"Placed?" He inquired as he quickened his pace. "Explain."
"He was found by a servant girl by the back garden windows." Jaken explained his tiny legs having a hard time keeping up with his Lords pace. "He was bleeding and trembling. Or so she stated." Jaken muttered the last part quietly. "She took him to the head healer who for the better part of the day has been trying to get him to talk, however all he seems to do is hold his head or try to sleep. He doesn't seem to be capable of speaking."
"Hnn..." Sesshomaru muttered as he turned into the infirmary. Opening the doors he found the healers cleaning the floor. The scent of blood hung heavily in the room. The head healer turned towards the intruder to tell them to leave only hold her tongue when she saw who it was. "Where is Farley?"
A heavily obese woman walked up to him. "This way." She pointed towards the back where the curtains were pulled to keep any from seeing who laid there.
Sesshomaru pushed the curtain to the side, flicking his wrist raised a barrier around the area to allow for privacy. Laying on his side Lord Farley looked pathetic. His face pale, his long red hair was out of it's normal high tail and was loosely hanging around his face while his eyes were open he continued starring off at the wall, his clothes were pristine minus the tear of his sleeve to his elbow. "What happened?" He asked the red Inu. He knew he must've done something, but what, he wasn't sure.
Farley licked his lips. "It was far more sinister than we knew." He said turning his head to look at the Western Lord, his eyes shined with unshed mournful tears. "I had to do it to protect the West and it's Lady." He stated before looking away. "There were men from every Inu clan but the silver that were apart of this. This left me to wonder why this was. Did the silver Inu's know but did not care or were they left out for far worst sinister plan. As I listened to them yelling and arguing at who was to blame in the assassination not going as planned, I heard details of a secondary plot. One that would destroy peace in the West, start a clan war and create unrest in the other three provinces." He clothed his eyes. "I had no choice. I had to take action."
"How did you kill those men?" Sesshomaru needed to know how he did it.
"Did I ever tell you how my mother died?" Farley asked. "Of course not. I've only been in your service for a few months. Though your father knew how she died. He was there." Sesshomaru remain stoic. "When I was born it was like any other birth. When my mother held me to her chest for the first time and breathed my name I opened one eye at her. My right one. In a moment she was dead." He touched his eye. "You see I was both blessed and cursed with the Kami's Right Eye. This eye draws in a soul to it, thus killing the person. At night the soul is released and returns to the Kami." He looked at Sesshomaru. "I had no choice but to use it to protect the West."
"Hnn.." Sesshomaru agreed.
"As far as anybody knows I escaped my brothers massacre and he performed seppuku, which is far easier to accept than the fact that this really occurred to protect our home and way of life." Farley sighed. "However, there are still the ladies that need to be dealt with. Fear will definitely make them think twice before raising their hands against our new Western Lady."
"Hnn..." Sesshomaru stated before speaking fully. "You may be correct." His eyes looked at Farley's. "This power of yours came be used and then be lain dormant?"
Farley nodded. "It took four hundred years for me to learn how to conceal it correctly." He looked at the young lord. "Why?"
Sesshomaru smiled. "Because one day that curse of yours may turn out to be a blessing to the West." He flicked his wrist causing the barrier to vanish. "Get some rest my friend. Afterwards go to the shiro and seek out the monk. Ask him about his curse and how he dealt with it so that in time you too may learn to fully live life the way it's meant to be lived." Sesshomaru then turned and left the red Inu alone and headed to find Inuyasha.
M-Angel: Bet nobody expected that from our sweet and sneaky Lord Farley. Sigh. Reviews are welcome!
A bokken is a wooden samurai sword used for training. Seppuku is a samurai suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai. Part of the samurai bushido honor code, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor.
