.: To be Loved :.
:By:
Mys C
A/N
OmG! I just had to re-do this story. It used to be titled, Restless. I've always wanted to fix it. Now it's a remake, nah, actually it's a new story all together… Bwahahaha. Hope ya'll review.
Disclaimer
I DON'T OWN INUYASHA! I mean, unfortunately I don't own the wonderful characters of Inuyasha. I wished I owned sesshy though…Him and his fluff!
Short Chapter Summary
Kagome gets kidnapped…And she falls asleep in his captor's arms.
WoW that was short…
Chapter 1…Grieving
Kagome Higurashi was tired.
Tired to no end. Their travels gave her no time to rest at all. She only got to rest for a couple minutes, when riding on Inuyasha's back. The last remains of the jewel shards needed to be found, she couldn't complain now after all that needs to be done. Now that Naraku is once again in hiding, everything had to be done fast, before he returns and tries to attain the shards once more.
She was human and humans needed rest. And she needed one, now! Kagome kept wondering how Sango and Miroku put up with their fatigue. When she would look in her friend's eyes she would see deep circles under. She was tired, yes, but so where they. Kagome didn't want to nag; she couldn't do that to her friends.
The jewel was near completion, there was no time to be tired. Inuyasha needed her, Sango and Miroku needed her too, everyone seemed to need her help and she couldn't turn her back on them. She could, but she wouldn't. She could just hop in the well, to her own time, to feel that soft bed against her body, to feel the warm water in her tub, but she wouldn't dare depart her friends now. She needed to be strong, for them and for herself.
Inuyasha noticed Kagome lagged behind. He could slightly hear sighs that she gave out frequently. He hated to do this to her, he hated to be the cause of her discomfort, but as the faster they collect the shards, the sooner she gets to resting. Inuyasha wondered what would happen if they completed the shard. What would Kagome do with it? Would she leave them for good?
Inuyasha didn't want to think about the future, it hurt too much. Instead, he focused his thoughts on current events. Naraku's sudden disappearance shocked all. Even his loyal servants, Kagura and Kanna were surprised by his actions. This event kept one question in everyone's minds; where is he? As for now, Inuyasha concentrated on getting the remaining jewel shards. When he had it, he would finish Naraku, for good.
"Hey, will you hurry up already, you're dragging us behind!" Inuyasha shouted. Her only answer was a soft sigh, pushing her thoughts away and jogged forward to catch up with the rest of them.
Miroku noticed the young miko's slightly glassy eyes. He knew something was bringing the miko down. He knew Kagome to be the blissful girl, who always made everyone happy at the cost of her own. He knew Kagome to be the carefree, loving, voluptuous, desirable, irresista-… Miroku stopped his thoughts before he could go any further. He groped Sango to divert his thoughts of Kagome.
Sango gasped and grabbed her enormous bone and hit the houshi on his head, hard.
"Do it once more and you die houshi!" A dark aura threatening to unleash if Miroku didn't remove his hand.
"But dear Sango, you know my intentions were innocent." He covered.
"Keh. If that's innocence to him, wonder what his views on perverted ness are." He mumbled. Kagome felt her lips tilt and gave another low sigh that she thought no one heard. She was happy as long as her friends were. She didn't want to bring them down because she was simply tired. They walked for a full mile and a half after Kagome felt like her legs would simply give in, but something bothered her foolish thought.
"Inuyasha! There's a shard up north." He needn't be told twice. Kagome was running as she wondered. If she was in deep trouble would Inuyasha be quick on his feet to come to her beck and call? Would he come to her aid if she was hurt? She frowned at her memories, he has done that. He had come to her aid when she was hurt.
'But he only cares 'cause I'm his shard detector. Nothing more, nothing less. He just protects me for his sake.'
She knew that if he was in deep trouble she would certainly come to his aid, if it meant her life, she would do anything for him. At the cost of anything.
Her thoughts were interrupted when arrived at the scene.
Inuyasha, with his Tetsusaiga held in both hands in a battle stance, facing his half-brother, The Lord of the Western Lands, Sesshoumaru. She ran to Inuyasha and stopped when he saw the look on Sesshoumaru's face.
"What the fuck do you want?" Inuyasha's words came out more like a growl.
"I just want your wench, dear brother. I need her assistance in a business I would want to keep as my own." Kagome's thoughts went a mile a minute. 'What would he need me for? Why does he have a shard? Where the hell is it, why can't I sense it on him?
"Inuyasha the shard is behind that bush, something's holding it, must be Jakken." She whispered behind him.
"It doesn't matter right now Kagome, just get behind me. I'll protect you." She did as he asked and wondered why he said that finding the shard didn't matter at the moment. The demon with the baritone voice spoke once more and her heart raced. Not with fear, but with confusion.
"Just give me the wench and I give you this in return." On cue, the green imp came out with the shard glowing brightly in a small bottle. Jakken set the bottle in the between the brothers.
"Keh. As if I would trade Kagome, for one shard. She ain't goin' anywhere and that's final. Now if you want her, you have to get through me."
Kagome looked behind her to where Miroku and Sango were. They were immobile with the scene unfolding right before their eyes. They were in their battle stances and ready, but they knew this could get messy if they jumped right in.
"Gladly." With a drop liquid motion Sesshoumaru was behind Inuyasha with Kagome in his arms being carried like a new bride. She didn't even have time to gasp, when she felt herself being pulled away from the scene. She heard Inuyasha say her name and saw him running after them at a fast pace, but Sesshoumaru was much faster. Kagome wondered if his feet were even touching the ground. All she saw were green and brown blurs.
She felt fear and adrenaline rushing in her blood when she looked over his shoulder and saw a small red blur slowing disappearing with the green ones.
As she looked up at her captor, his silvery white hair flowing away from his face as they ran at a speed Kagome wasn't sure of, not that she wanted to know if they could beat Jeff Gordon in a race. The thought alone was crazy to begin with. She chuckled as the image of Sesshoumaru, in a race track with Jeff Gordon's number 24 car beside him both waiting for the light to turn green, was a foolish one left to be forgotten.
She felt her heart slowly became calm, no longer tattooing against her chest. She felt really comfortable with the wind hitting her face softly and being carried this way. Inuyasha never carried her in this formal way. She blushed at her thoughts. She didn't know why she didn't feel afraid anymore, but for the first time in days she felt comfortable and at peace.
Kagome felt her heart beat finally return to normal. Her eye lids fluttered, she thought about what Inuyasha was to do to get her back. Would he want her back? She smiled at her own stupid question, but instantly frowned when she thought why he would have to get her back.
The Shikon no Tama.
She quickly brushed the thought away before the tears started. Kagome gave one last look at her captor. She saw a divine beauty none of the men in her time would over come. She noticed the magenta stripes that adorned his cheeks, the indigo crescent moon that graced his forehead, and those cold golden eyes.
'He looks so much like Inuyasha, yet so different.' For a second she saw a flash of warmth that crossed his eyes, but as soon as it came, it was gone. She quickly blocked all the thoughts of Inuyasha and slowly closed her eyes. In mere minutes she was having her first comfortable dream filled with those golden warm eyes.
Inuyasha was still seeing an image of Sesshoumaru, when he suddenly felt a breeze behind him. He didn't know what he was seeing; Miroku and Sango had determined looks in their faces, as they ran past him. However, Inuyasha knew what he wasn't seeing.
"Kagome!" He screamed as he ran in the direction Sango and Miroku were going. He out ran them, Inuyasha saw the white blur in front of him and he lost contact of everything, but that white and silver blur in front of him, the blur had a mix of black. Kagome's hair. He only had the thought of catching up to them, to get his Kagome back. Shard forgotten.
He ran as fast as his legs could take, suddenly the white blur was disappearing into trees, and suddenly, that was all he could see. He let himself slow when he felt the trees were laughing at him. Laughing at him for he was only half the man he was supposed to be. He was supposed to keep his promise, to protect her. He had to face the painful and obvious fact that, he failed.
The trees were still laughing because he was half the demon he was supposed to be, his strength only half way up compared to his half-brother. His whole life was filled with halves. Only Kagome made him feel whole. He can't imagine his life half complete because she wasn't there anymore.
"Inuyasha, why did you stop?" Miroku asked as he saw his friend, who was just looking ahead, immobile.
"Leave me the alone, damn you!" He wasn't talking to Miroku; he was talking to the still laughing trees. Mocking him, making him feel small all over again. The last thing he felt was Miroku's footsteps, walking away from him. As soon as Miroku was far from hearing range, Inuyasha felt his knees give in to dirt and on bended knees he did the only thing he capable of.
He wept.
Sesshoumaru felt proud of his handy work. He successfully attained his half-brother's wench, without complications, all without breaking a sweat.
As he grabbed her and ran, he felt guilty for stealing something that would never belong to him, he felt like a coward because of running from the scene. He only did that so he didn't have to shed Inuyasha's blood once more to get what he wanted. That didn't work so well with the Tetsusaiga. He gave up on it, ages ago. His arm was now fully grown and he had no intentions of losing it again.
When he felt Inuyasha close to catching up on them he ran faster. His half-brother would never catch up, no matter what he tried.
They neared his estate and he knew that Inuyasha would never understand the power his little miko had. He was too busy using her as his personal shard detector.
'The wench knew that, hell if Jakken knew, she certainly would have known too. She is only being used for that purpose, so why does she put up with the idiot'
He watched his brother fall under Naraku's spell in hopes to turn the priestess, Kikyo, against Inuyasha, and he to her. The fool didn't see it coming, Inuyasha fell for it. And where did it get him?
Stuck to a worthless tree for fifty long years, that's where.
Idiot.
Sesshoumaru saw many things in his long life. He saw the rise and fall of evil. He saw his father's whores, his mother was a stuck up bitch who didn't care for anything. 'Father only wanted her for an heir. After mother had given birth, father left her and took me as his heir.' Sesshoumaru saw his father fall in love with a pathetic human, he saw her give birth to his half-brother, Inuyasha, and thus the loathing begun.
He hated the pathetic look in his father's eyes each time the weak human would pass by. He hated that look for he never gave that to anyone, not even him. His father was a fool. And Inuyasha was proving that all too well. His father was strong, yes, but he had a weakness, and that weakness was love. Sesshoumaru couldn't imagine himself falling under love's spell. Love had a power to weaken even the strongest, to bring down strong barriers in minds and hearts, and Sesshoumaru would never allow himself to fall under a foolish spell.
Sesshoumaru wondered how it felt to love and suddenly he felt curious, but he would never go as far as falling in love to find out. He was going to take a different path from his father and Inuyasha. He wouldn't love, couldn't.
Love was the reason Inuyasha got bound to the tree all these years, it was the same reason why his father's barriers went down. He watched many human wars in his long life, some of them over land, some over wealth and power, but most of them fighting over something foolish, a woman. Fighting for her love and respect. How pathetic.
His thoughts were disturbed by the awkward noises the human was making. He dared look down at her angelic face. Her eyes were fully closed, her hair flying wildly across her face, and her luscious pink mouth slightly parted.
He could feel her heart slowly thumping in her chest; he could hear her even breathing through the wind. She was asleep and snoring. Sesshoumaru hid his chuckle as he neared his estate.
Humans were interesting creatures. Inuyasha's mother proved that
Flashback
His small feet made small tip tap noises in the marble floor of the long hallway. The wide windows were letting the long fingers of the moon slip in. He liked the dark, it was fun to hide and watch people. His thoughts interrupted with the little Tip tap his little feet made. He ran across the hallway looking down at the shiny marble. Suddenly his tip-tapping was interrupted by the smell of cherry blossoms, he followed the scent wanting to find out what made it.
He took lefts and right's until the scent got stronger calling him, dragging him in an unfamiliar territory of his mind.
His innocence.
The scent led to a wide door leading to his father's room. He wasn't supposed to go inside papa's room, but the scent told him otherwise.
He slowly opened the door with his little clawed hands. The door made a small squeak and he dared to peak inside.
The sight alone made his little jaw drop. There on his father's favorite chair was a woman, her long dark hair spilling around the chair, cradling a book in her lap.
When the woman heard the squeak the door made. She looked towards his direction. Their eyes held for a second. She closed her book and got up from the chair. He got to see her beautiful pink and white kimono. The dimmed lamp made her skin glow, giving her an angelic look.
She motioned for him to come closer. He did as she asked. For that moment he would have done anything. Her scent was so welcoming. The cherry blossoms hit his nose like no other.
"What are you doing in this room? A human is not allowed here!" He lost the feeling of innocence, when he noticed that she was just human.
"It matters not." Her voice was calm, he didn't smell fear on her. He hated the smile on her face. She was unafraid of him, how could a lowly human not be afraid of a youkai like him?
"Why do you not fear me!" For a small creature such as himself, he already had the baritone voice like his father.
"Would you want me to read to you?" She ignored him. How dare she? She will surely die.
He took his little claws that glowed light green and waved it in her face. She was still smiling at him.
She carried him to the chair and cradled him in her lap. His claws that were still glowing and he slashed her shoulder. The poison slowly eating at her kimono, she looked down at her shoulder and slowly tore the tattered part off. Decreasing the speed of the poison. She looked up at him and smiled.
Sesshoumaru hated this, he hated her for being unafraid of him. This lowly human deserved to die. Why doesn't she fear me? He was confused, his head ached. He needed to know, why!
He did the only thing he could do when he was confused and couldn't find answers.
He cried.
Instantly the smile she had was replaced by a slight frown. She cradled him in his lap and rocked him until he was calm.
The confused feeling was long gone, the moment he was being rocked; it was replaced by the unfamiliar feeling of being cared for and affection. In this human's arms he felt peaceful and content. This human was interesting. She had courage and enough guts, normal humans would normally scream, run, and hide, in that order, from the mere sight of him. This human was interesting, very interesting indeed.
His thoughts were carefully drifting into nothing as he slowly closed his eyes and slept in her loving arms.
End Flashback
Sesshoumaru remembered that thought from the face of the human he carried in his arms. Humans were interesting, interesting indeed.
A/N:
Thanks for all the reviews. The flashback was a mess, forgive me! This story used to be a complete mess, now I re did it with a different thought behind…Hopefully it's good enough…Sorry for making Inuyasha cry!
All death threats, flames, and hate mails are accepted. -
I really have no idea what was Inuyasha's mom's name. If anyone knows, do tell…
Sesshoumaru's last thought:
'Snoring!'
:Disclaimer:
The characters of Inuyasha do not belong to me. I claim no rights to any, those rights rightfully belong to Rumiko Takahashi. This is a mere fan fiction to show my passion for the anime/manga series created by the talented Rumiko Takahashi.
Mys C -
