Chapter Four: Nocturnal Supremacy
So she holds in her hands, a broken heart, that had been Damned...
The moon hung within the velvet night like a pearl pressed upon eternities finger. If it wasn't for the torches upon Sesshoumaru's palace doors, the moon would have been the only light.
" What do you mean?" Nasai asked, her eyes being bombarded by the stares this Kagura was throwing her. Though she held firm, and kept her eyes plastered to the youkai's, awaiting her answer. A laugh arose from the woman's throat, throwing her head back and bursting out as if she had concealed it all her life.
" What do I mean? Well my father cast that little spell that created you, and well he placed magic in you that could resurrect him if he were to parish. Though you can't do it alone. I'm going to take you to the only person who can help you." Nasai concealed her own laughter.
" Do not mock me girl." Kagura ordered furiously watching as Nasai released her father's hand and was walking toward her. " What do you plan to do?" The woman asked when Nasai was close to her, enough to feel the hatred upon Nasai's breath. " Answer me." Kagura's voice was growing impatiently gazing intently within Nasai's determined eyes.
" Why was I created?" Nasai asked finally, her eyes demanding an answer. Before Kagura could answer Nasai spoke once again. " Take me if you want. I wish to find out the reason." The two youkai women heard distinctly all the gasps in which rose behind them, yet chose to ignore them.
" Very well." In a quick gesture, Kagura took Nasai's arm and leapt back within the forest, causing Sesshoumaru to run after them. Inuyasha stayed plastered to where he was standing, as he grasped Kagome's arm as she tried to run.
" Let Sesshoumaru retrieve her. She's not my daughter anyway." Aya and Ania gazed toward their father, who firmly gazed back and said, " No. You two stay here. I can't have you getting hurt." Reluctantly they obeyed, watching as Sesshoumaru immerged from the forest. Eyeing them uncertainly he whispered.
" She's gone."
***
Nasai kept her eyes closed, allowing the breeze to massage her every cell, and ultimately relax her. She sighed once, hearing Kagura's voice rise above the chorus of the night.
" We'll be their soon." Her voice was placid, as if she herself was also soothed by the zephyr. Nasai didn't answer her, yet solemnly nodded, not knowing if Kagura saw it or not.
" Where are we going?" Nasai asked, gazing toward the stars in which dared not fall as she passed.
" To the North Kingdom." The youkai's voice was but a whisper, gazing upon Nasai who had her eyes fixed upon the heavens. Nasai turned an eye to Kagura as if she had known she was going to say something. " The sun is beautiful isn't it?" Nasai was taken aback by the kindness the youkai was displaying to her, yet nodded just the same. She didn't answer, instead she asked another question in turn.
" What will you do if my father finds this North Kingdom? What defences do you have?"
" Sesshoumaru." Kagura's voice was husky, and ruled by desire, turning her crimson eyes to the Western princess she answered. " Don't worry about that malady." Was all the youkai said and in truth Nasai didn't care. The rising sun was staining her eyes and Nasai placed an arm over them so they were shielded remembering the warning her mother had given her. ' Never look at the sun, it'll hurt your eyes.' Nasai gazed to her youkai capture and noticed that she gazed directly into the warm orb, turning crimson eyes on her. " You poor girl. Bound by the limits of a human. Don't you know that the sun can not hurt your unique eyes?" Nasai felt herself glare to Kagura, and was irritated by the way she pointed out the human weakness. Perhaps, since her mother was human, she inherited that weakness.
" Tell me,do you know anything more about me other then my father is Sesshoumaru?"
" Why?" Kagura felt herself ask, truly interested what the girl would say.
" Because my mother is human. Her name is Kagome, and I may have inherited little human weaknesses from her. Understand?" The demon's eyes widened searching Nasai's golden irises in disbelief.
" Then why aren't you a hanyou? I don't understand." Nasai didn't quite understand herself, but she had realised that her mother had been a priestess and used it to confirm her beliefs.
" Since my mother was a priestess in this time she was almost divine. Above human if you will, and since my father is a youkai it strengthened her power and thus I was born a youkai also. Yet I still have human weaknesses that she passed on to me, weaknesses like the sun hurting my eyes. Or my senses being dulled a bit." Silence enveloped the two, not a word from either of them. What Nasai had said is what she truly believed. It sounded correct in very aspect of her thoughts, and so must be true. The demon that accompanied her had gritted her teeth at the mention of her mother and Nasai made, thus, another conclusion. Kagura was indeed in love with her father and somehow had passed his senses. Perhaps he was in love with her also, yet the gaze he directed upon her mother caused Nasai's heart to descend. The look only kissed his eyes for mere seconds, yet Nasai could not deny it existed. Longing, assorted within surprise, and finally...love? Was that possible? Nasai knew the first time she ever saw Sesshoumaru love wasn't an emotion he felt for anyone, save her and the human girl.
Love her mother? Hadn't he told her he didn't, and didn't his eyes run cold and hard? Weren't they bitter enemies to the core? Nasai knew her mother despised him, yet did his heart soften over the years? Did the thought of her awaken something within his heart that made him foreign even to himself? Questions were drowning her mind, and they caused her mind to ache. Nothing about her family made any sense, and the darkness of ignorance was suffocating her, whirling her within an abyss uncertainty. The man she had grown up with, the man she had called father, always seemed so empty. Yet Nasai knew the stares he gave her mother, they mirrored the one her true father had given her mother, and that was when she knew. She may not know much about her heritage but at least she knew her father actually had feelings for Kagome. Knowing that perhaps she, in her own way, loved him back. Nasai's thoughts were suddenly silenced as their destination was viewed. A garden twisted about the palace grounds, the earliest droplets of dew adorning the flowers as if rain had freshly fallen. Nasai's golden eyes suddenly locked upon a woman standing at the entrance gates. Blonde locks fell about her as sapphire eyes were narrowed. Amber freckled them, causing them to seem as if twilight and day were breaking from each other. She beheld a solitary crimson rose out to Nasai as she landed upon the ground. Sliding from the beast they had ridden on.
" I welcome you Princess Nasai of the Western Lands. I am Lady Kyra, Queen of the Northern Lands." As the youkai turned about and walked Kagura and Nasai followed her, rose in hand. As they entered the palace Nasai could have fainted. Had ever gold been used to such an advantage? Drapes constructed of fine satin, sapphires the indigo of the sea after a storm. Fiery rubies as fierce as a beasts blood, emeralds that terminated the need for a meadow. Marble floors, as in Sesshoumaru's palace, in which were haunted with the past foot print echoes of generations long forgotten. Mirrors of diamond as they reflected the youkai's before them. Acting as a prism to the ruby, sapphire,and emerald in which paved through them. " You must be exhausted darling." Came the velvet voice of the queen. Soft, and yet unyielding. " You will stay in this room, and later one of my servants will call on you." Nasai felt a hand push her inside, yet before she could see who it was the door had been closed.
The room was anything but ordinary. Crimson drapes bleeding from the golden ceiling. A large bed, with claret enveloped around it, and a vanity. The mirror rimmed with rubies to carry on the garnet theme of the room. Marble that was shined so brightly her reflection could be seen beneath her very feet. The bed beckoned to her as she obeyed. Letting her hair fall loose, she wrapped herself within the protection of the comforter, drifting thus into a nightmarish slumber.
***
Nasai wakened within the hours of the night, rubbing her head and in that moment forgetting where she was. Recalling what had happened, she sat up and stretched, covering her mouth as she yawned. Running her fingers through the tangles of her hair, she tightened her loose robes. Hearing a knock on the door, she opened it to a young man. His ebony locks coiled about his head, his eyes deep pools of sapphire. Quite handsome.
" Lady Kyra wishes to see you." Walking out with him she noticed the palace was empty, haunted by the voices in which were left behind. Thick, stagnant breath hung about its walls. Recalling the sapphire eyes in which loomed before her, and she couldn't re-capture her voice, just kept silent behind him. Watching him from behind she stared into the back of his head until he ceased suddenly at a door. Opening it for her Lady Kyra turned her eyes, beckoning Nasai inside.
A/N: I haven't seen the episodes with Kagura in them so I didn't know how she acted. Sorry if she's out of character. Anyways its Tuesday and I updated like I promised, and again thank you all for the reviews I'm happy^.^! Hope I answered some questions!
So she holds in her hands, a broken heart, that had been Damned...
The moon hung within the velvet night like a pearl pressed upon eternities finger. If it wasn't for the torches upon Sesshoumaru's palace doors, the moon would have been the only light.
" What do you mean?" Nasai asked, her eyes being bombarded by the stares this Kagura was throwing her. Though she held firm, and kept her eyes plastered to the youkai's, awaiting her answer. A laugh arose from the woman's throat, throwing her head back and bursting out as if she had concealed it all her life.
" What do I mean? Well my father cast that little spell that created you, and well he placed magic in you that could resurrect him if he were to parish. Though you can't do it alone. I'm going to take you to the only person who can help you." Nasai concealed her own laughter.
" Do not mock me girl." Kagura ordered furiously watching as Nasai released her father's hand and was walking toward her. " What do you plan to do?" The woman asked when Nasai was close to her, enough to feel the hatred upon Nasai's breath. " Answer me." Kagura's voice was growing impatiently gazing intently within Nasai's determined eyes.
" Why was I created?" Nasai asked finally, her eyes demanding an answer. Before Kagura could answer Nasai spoke once again. " Take me if you want. I wish to find out the reason." The two youkai women heard distinctly all the gasps in which rose behind them, yet chose to ignore them.
" Very well." In a quick gesture, Kagura took Nasai's arm and leapt back within the forest, causing Sesshoumaru to run after them. Inuyasha stayed plastered to where he was standing, as he grasped Kagome's arm as she tried to run.
" Let Sesshoumaru retrieve her. She's not my daughter anyway." Aya and Ania gazed toward their father, who firmly gazed back and said, " No. You two stay here. I can't have you getting hurt." Reluctantly they obeyed, watching as Sesshoumaru immerged from the forest. Eyeing them uncertainly he whispered.
" She's gone."
***
Nasai kept her eyes closed, allowing the breeze to massage her every cell, and ultimately relax her. She sighed once, hearing Kagura's voice rise above the chorus of the night.
" We'll be their soon." Her voice was placid, as if she herself was also soothed by the zephyr. Nasai didn't answer her, yet solemnly nodded, not knowing if Kagura saw it or not.
" Where are we going?" Nasai asked, gazing toward the stars in which dared not fall as she passed.
" To the North Kingdom." The youkai's voice was but a whisper, gazing upon Nasai who had her eyes fixed upon the heavens. Nasai turned an eye to Kagura as if she had known she was going to say something. " The sun is beautiful isn't it?" Nasai was taken aback by the kindness the youkai was displaying to her, yet nodded just the same. She didn't answer, instead she asked another question in turn.
" What will you do if my father finds this North Kingdom? What defences do you have?"
" Sesshoumaru." Kagura's voice was husky, and ruled by desire, turning her crimson eyes to the Western princess she answered. " Don't worry about that malady." Was all the youkai said and in truth Nasai didn't care. The rising sun was staining her eyes and Nasai placed an arm over them so they were shielded remembering the warning her mother had given her. ' Never look at the sun, it'll hurt your eyes.' Nasai gazed to her youkai capture and noticed that she gazed directly into the warm orb, turning crimson eyes on her. " You poor girl. Bound by the limits of a human. Don't you know that the sun can not hurt your unique eyes?" Nasai felt herself glare to Kagura, and was irritated by the way she pointed out the human weakness. Perhaps, since her mother was human, she inherited that weakness.
" Tell me,do you know anything more about me other then my father is Sesshoumaru?"
" Why?" Kagura felt herself ask, truly interested what the girl would say.
" Because my mother is human. Her name is Kagome, and I may have inherited little human weaknesses from her. Understand?" The demon's eyes widened searching Nasai's golden irises in disbelief.
" Then why aren't you a hanyou? I don't understand." Nasai didn't quite understand herself, but she had realised that her mother had been a priestess and used it to confirm her beliefs.
" Since my mother was a priestess in this time she was almost divine. Above human if you will, and since my father is a youkai it strengthened her power and thus I was born a youkai also. Yet I still have human weaknesses that she passed on to me, weaknesses like the sun hurting my eyes. Or my senses being dulled a bit." Silence enveloped the two, not a word from either of them. What Nasai had said is what she truly believed. It sounded correct in very aspect of her thoughts, and so must be true. The demon that accompanied her had gritted her teeth at the mention of her mother and Nasai made, thus, another conclusion. Kagura was indeed in love with her father and somehow had passed his senses. Perhaps he was in love with her also, yet the gaze he directed upon her mother caused Nasai's heart to descend. The look only kissed his eyes for mere seconds, yet Nasai could not deny it existed. Longing, assorted within surprise, and finally...love? Was that possible? Nasai knew the first time she ever saw Sesshoumaru love wasn't an emotion he felt for anyone, save her and the human girl.
Love her mother? Hadn't he told her he didn't, and didn't his eyes run cold and hard? Weren't they bitter enemies to the core? Nasai knew her mother despised him, yet did his heart soften over the years? Did the thought of her awaken something within his heart that made him foreign even to himself? Questions were drowning her mind, and they caused her mind to ache. Nothing about her family made any sense, and the darkness of ignorance was suffocating her, whirling her within an abyss uncertainty. The man she had grown up with, the man she had called father, always seemed so empty. Yet Nasai knew the stares he gave her mother, they mirrored the one her true father had given her mother, and that was when she knew. She may not know much about her heritage but at least she knew her father actually had feelings for Kagome. Knowing that perhaps she, in her own way, loved him back. Nasai's thoughts were suddenly silenced as their destination was viewed. A garden twisted about the palace grounds, the earliest droplets of dew adorning the flowers as if rain had freshly fallen. Nasai's golden eyes suddenly locked upon a woman standing at the entrance gates. Blonde locks fell about her as sapphire eyes were narrowed. Amber freckled them, causing them to seem as if twilight and day were breaking from each other. She beheld a solitary crimson rose out to Nasai as she landed upon the ground. Sliding from the beast they had ridden on.
" I welcome you Princess Nasai of the Western Lands. I am Lady Kyra, Queen of the Northern Lands." As the youkai turned about and walked Kagura and Nasai followed her, rose in hand. As they entered the palace Nasai could have fainted. Had ever gold been used to such an advantage? Drapes constructed of fine satin, sapphires the indigo of the sea after a storm. Fiery rubies as fierce as a beasts blood, emeralds that terminated the need for a meadow. Marble floors, as in Sesshoumaru's palace, in which were haunted with the past foot print echoes of generations long forgotten. Mirrors of diamond as they reflected the youkai's before them. Acting as a prism to the ruby, sapphire,and emerald in which paved through them. " You must be exhausted darling." Came the velvet voice of the queen. Soft, and yet unyielding. " You will stay in this room, and later one of my servants will call on you." Nasai felt a hand push her inside, yet before she could see who it was the door had been closed.
The room was anything but ordinary. Crimson drapes bleeding from the golden ceiling. A large bed, with claret enveloped around it, and a vanity. The mirror rimmed with rubies to carry on the garnet theme of the room. Marble that was shined so brightly her reflection could be seen beneath her very feet. The bed beckoned to her as she obeyed. Letting her hair fall loose, she wrapped herself within the protection of the comforter, drifting thus into a nightmarish slumber.
***
Nasai wakened within the hours of the night, rubbing her head and in that moment forgetting where she was. Recalling what had happened, she sat up and stretched, covering her mouth as she yawned. Running her fingers through the tangles of her hair, she tightened her loose robes. Hearing a knock on the door, she opened it to a young man. His ebony locks coiled about his head, his eyes deep pools of sapphire. Quite handsome.
" Lady Kyra wishes to see you." Walking out with him she noticed the palace was empty, haunted by the voices in which were left behind. Thick, stagnant breath hung about its walls. Recalling the sapphire eyes in which loomed before her, and she couldn't re-capture her voice, just kept silent behind him. Watching him from behind she stared into the back of his head until he ceased suddenly at a door. Opening it for her Lady Kyra turned her eyes, beckoning Nasai inside.
A/N: I haven't seen the episodes with Kagura in them so I didn't know how she acted. Sorry if she's out of character. Anyways its Tuesday and I updated like I promised, and again thank you all for the reviews I'm happy^.^! Hope I answered some questions!