Chapter 4 'Love Lost, Love Found'

~ ~ ~ Next morning

Solonque woke the next morning meeting the sun. She slowly sat up and groaned. She looked around and saw Sesshoumaru and Horrance sleeping. She went to the side of the bed.

A servant came in and walked over to her. "You can't get out of bed." She laid her back down.

"But I have to go. Lord Sesshoumaru doesn't want me here." She sat back up.

"If he has you here in his bed then he wants you here." (That sounds wrong doesn't it? lol)

She looked at Sesshoumaru and smiled. She was so happy, but did that mean that he wasn't going to kill her? He probably would have killed her while she was asleep. He has changed so much, but why, how? She had so many questions going through her head, too many, but the main one was, did he want her for him or to keep her here till she got better

The servant left believing that she was going to stay there.

Solonque slowly climbed out of bed walking to the balcony.

Sesshoumaru woke and looked around when he didn't see her in bed. He saw her and got up walking over. "You know you're hurt and not suppose to be up."

She turned around and smiled. "I know. I don't like sitting around doing nothing." She turned back to the lake. She sighed.

He smirked "You're still not suppose to be up. You'll get worse if you stay out of bed."

"I know but I like looking at the lake." She slightly smiled at him. "It calms me down."

He shook his head and turned her to him. "Do you want to die before you get your revenge?" He looked into her eyes seeing shock and sadness.

She turned her head away from him. "I can't, remember. I have a spell on me." She sighed and walked back in then out of the room. She wanted to be alone for a while to think about her situation and what to do.

He followed.

She knew he was going to probably follow her so she took a quick turn around the corner. She winced at the pain as the wound opened more. "Why does it have to be this way? Why can't I just die? Why am I here?" She stopped as a sudden thought came to her head. "Does he?" She shook her head getting the thought out. "No…it couldn't be. He never acted like this before. But the other servants did say he was always cruel and he's being nice right now. What could it be?" She walked again the thought still in her head.

Sesshoumaru heard what she said. He was behind a corner wall listening. "She is right. What is going on? What is wrong with me?" He growled to himself, this year was getting more frustrating than by every minute. Everything it seemed made him think very carefully and made more questions come to his head as every second went by.

Solonque walked outside to sit beside the lake. She sighed as she dipped her feet into the cool water. She lay back on the grass and looked up to the sky, it was a beautiful light blue. She had never seen the sky this clear before, it was the most wonderful and comforting thing she had ever seen.

Horrance woke and looked around. She laughed as she saw both Solonque and Sesshoumaru's place where they slept empty. She over to the balcony to see if they were by the lake. That's where they were most of the time she saw them, especially Sesshoumaru. She looked around and sighed as she saw her sitting it staring into the sky. She looked around more and saw Sesshoumaru, standing near the entrance to the castle. He looked like he was thinking hard, too hard like he had never done. She smiled. "Hey! What are you two doing?!" She yelled out jumping off the balcony and walking towards them.

Solonque jumped up and stared at her. "What do you mean two?" She looked around and saw Sesshoumaru. "Oh, I see."

Sesshoumaru sighed and walked back inside.

Horrance sat down beside her. "What is wrong with you? No wait, what is wrong with him?"

She looked at her and shrugged. "I don't know." She looked back to the lake and squinted as a glimmer from the bright sun came to her eyes. "I discovered something about myself these couple of years that I have been staying here. I… love him… His eyes just amaze me. How could something so cruel have such beautiful eyes?" She sighed blushing slightly.

Sesshoumaru heard and he was frozen stiff hearing it. She loved him; she didn't understand why he was cruel though. He didn't know either why he was like that. He now understood why she was so loyal to him though. He smirked and turned around walking back towards his room. "Now I know."

Horrance smiled. "I thought so. I could tell." She was happy for her but she was also sad, for she also had feelings for him but couldn't admit it because she thought he wouldn't love her back. She stood and walked into the woods.

Solonque sat there thinking to herself; trying to answer all the questions that she had formed all these years. The other servants said Sesshoumaru had been cruel till she came. Had she changed him? No, the servants must be thinking that because he was acting different and plus people didn't stay the same way forever. Maybe it was the time when he changed and she was got there when it was happening.  Even she changed when she least expected it, she liked that she changed also. But a fall for it was that she showed her feelings and started being nice to the villagers and servants. She had been thinking why she was acting like that for a long time till her mother told her she was growing up and that she would never be the same forever.

Sesshoumaru was getting even more questions in his head. Was he getting feelings for her? No couldn't be, but he had never acted this way. What was going on? He stopped and looked back to the two female youkai and sighed. What's happening to me?! He growled to himself for changing and not knowing why he was while walking to his study.

Solonque stood and looked into the glimmering gold and blue water. She sighed and walked in slowly then sat.
"I have to make him pay for what he did." She looked up towards the place where she last saw Naraku and growled standing. She walked towards it and sighed. "I don't care what he does to me. I just want to save my brother." She took off into the air and sighed. The cool wind felt so good on her body and face. She starting to sing a low song of joy and she smiled. "Who could not enjoy this?" She laughed going around in circles. She looked down and saw a red blur going past her. She arched an eyebrow. "Wonder what that could be?" She flew down slowly and landed on a branch looking around. "Who's there?!"

No answer.

"I know someone is there! I can smell you!" She yelled jumping down to the ground.

Another red blur went past her again and she growled holding her arm out. The demon fell. She saw it was a young half-breed with long silver hair and wore a red kimono.

He looked up to her with a red face of anger. "What the hell did you do that for?!" He barked.

She blinked. "You talking about me doing something to you when you were following me!" She growled picking him up by the cuff of his shirt. "Why were you following me anyway!?" She yelled then squinted thinking why he looked so familiar. "You're Inuyasha aren't you?"

He smirked. "Yes. Now give me the jewel!" He slapped her hand away and stood glaring at her.

She smiled. "Well I can't. I can't get it out." She started to walk away then stopped as he grabbed her arm.

"Give me the shard!"

She slapped him away also clawing him on the face.

Inuyasha stepped back clutching his face, which was now bleeding like hell. "You're going pay for that!" He yelled charging at her.

She growled and got out of the way. "You shall not do anything!" She yelled and took off into the air. She knew that he would have trouble following her if she was in the air and he was still on the ground trying to dodge all the trees and keep an eye on her also. She headed back towards Sesshoumaru's place and he still followed not knowing where he was headed. A few minutes later she saw the castle and stopped in midair. She looked down to him, who stopped under her. She smiled. "Hey! You know that you're like really close to your brother's place!"

Inuyasha froze as his smile disappeared. "Damn. " He whispered to himself and ran the other way from Sesshoumaru's place.

She sighed as he left. "I have to be more careful now. Although that he still can't get the shard. But I still don't want to be in…" She groaned as the gash in her stomach started to reopen. "Damn!" She removed her hand to look at a bloody body and a hand. Her blood was gushing out fast and she couldn't do anything about it so her vision started to blur. She lowered to the ground and to her knees. She started to grow weak and saw a figure in white before she passed out on the ground.

Sesshoumaru smelt Inuyasha so he came out to investigate. He now looked down at Solonque's body. He growled. She was stupid to go out alone when she knew she was wounded badly. He knelt down picking her up. He looked down to her and sighed. She was very stupid to do it, but she was stubborn and he kind of liked it. He walked back towards the castle. "Now she needs to stay in bed this time instead of me letting her get out." He walked by around the lake and to his balcony and walked in his room laying her on his bed.

Horrance smelled blood and she sat up. The blood was familiar. "Solonque." She looked towards where the blood came from and ran towards it jumping into Sesshoumaru's room. She looked at him then than bloody mess on his bed, which was Solonque. She walked over looking at him. "Is she alright?"

"Well she did say that she can't die, so I guess so but she is bleeding very badly. She is loosing a lot of blood."

"But she's demon so she can heal pretty quickly." She sighed as she heard that she couldn't die. She walked out of the room and back to where she was by the lake but in the trees.

Sesshoumaru summoned a servant to go get the healer for her. She immediately left and came back soon with her.

"Why have you summoned…" The healer froze as she saw the bloody thing on his bed. She immediately rushed over and started healing her.

Solonque's body glowed as her wounds slowly went away.

The healer stood a few minutes later and sighed. "You called for me just in time Lord Sesshoumaru. She wouldn't have probably made it." She bowed and left without a sound.

Inuyasha stopped, as he smelt the blood of the one whom he was chasing just a few minutes ago. He smiled and started running towards it. How did he know that this was going to happen? He came to a halt as he saw the large fortress that Seshoumaru, his half brother lived at. He wasn't sure if he wanted to go in there. Sesshoumaru would sense and smell him and that would be trouble for him since he wasn't that strong compared to his brother. It wasn't the smartest plan but he had to become a full youkai. He growled to himself as he walked towards it, the blood trail that she had left behind. He froze in his place as a better thing to do came to his mind. He would come tonight and take it from her. He turned around and walked till he thought that he would be far enough from Sesshoumaru.

~ ~ ~ That night

Inuyasha was ready to go get the shard from her. He just hoped that Sesshoumaru was asleep or gone, anything better than being awake and around him. He looked around as he came out of the woods and to the lake which was the obstacle between his and getting the shard. He followed the trail of the blood once again and jumped onto the balcony of his brother's room. He looked around and saw her, Solonque, laying on the bed and his brother sleeping next to her in a chair. He smirked and walked towards her then stopped looking at his brother. He was asleep, why should he be worrying?! It's not like Sesshoumaru will kill or attack him in his sleep. He looked at Solonque and reached out to her then froze not able to move. He tried all he could but still couldn't move. Damn, this was all he needed; being stuck in the place where he would most likely to be killed. Solonque could feel it as Inuyasha reached out to her. She used all her strength to freeze him and keep him there till the morning when Sesshoumaru would wake and see him.