Sorry for the long wait to the people out there who actually read this.
pinky-chan has just been very busy. that is all. well, grab some snacks and
*if your inu-chan* some vanilla pepsi or sprite and sit back and relax.. ON
WITH THE CHAPTER!!!! *is struck with rotten vegetables (why they have them
I do not know) and popcorn by angry readers.
"okay okay!!!!!!! Geez.here it is then"
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Chapter Four: A Link to Sesshomaru's Past
"Kyokukou? No. your dead." Sesshomaru managed to get out. his face even paler than normal. He took a step back, trying not to show his level of shock to see her. Maintaining his cool exterior. He stared at her looking her over form head to toe, surprised that she had not changed in the least. "How can it be you? NEVER." Here she was, the only human he had ever gotten close to, besides Rin, that he had ever loved. who had DIED all those years ago. He gazed at the woman before him who claimed to be Kyokukou, his face and lips paler than normal, he felt his youki blood plummet to his chest, down from his face and extremities. "never." He coldly muttered in a hostile manner as he slowly walked from the room and outside into the cool, damp, starlit night. "Rin. Stay inside" he barked from behind his shoulder, forcing out his usual tone. "Yes my lord" answered Rin with confusion. "She can't be alive. I know she is not."
Shippo blinked mechanically. "What was THAT all about?" Why was Sesshomaru-sama acting so weird like that?" he asked, scratching his furry forehead with confusion from Rin's left shoulder as the sleepy girl walked back to her bedroom.
They all turned to stare nervously at the strange girl whose head was now turned to the door, waiting for some sort of answers to their multitudes of questions.
"I shouldn't fallow just yet. I think he needs some time to himself to take this all in. It seemed to be quite a shock.oh. I should have known. Why would this be easy for him. but it has been so long." remarked Kyokukou sighing as she fell to her knees on the hardwood floor, staff at her side, she replaced the hair stick that had the blade attached to the end. "I knew it had to be him. he is unmistakeable, and I could never forget him, not even after all of these years. and everything."
"Aah.. So how exactly do you know Sesshomaru-sama. Kyokukou-chan is it?" asked Sango, eager to know the story behind all of this commotion.
"Hmm. oh, forgive me. yes, that is my name. Nagasaki Kyokukou. And well. it is. hard.he and I have a past together" she replied with a nervous twitch of her eye as she bit her lower lip.
Kagome kneeled beside her, noticing her shaking. "Can you tell us. what is it? It seems hard for you, and you don't have to say anything if you don't like." Kagome turned her face downward, embarrassed by her nerve. to ask her something so personal like that when just meeting her. "Oh. I am sorry for pushing you like that."
Kyokukou relaxed a bit as she managed a smile from the lip she was chewing intently on. "I am sorry to have attacked you all like I did earlier. I just smelled some food and came in for some without waking you. I did not mean to frighten or alarm you all. And when he pulled his sword, I just got a bit frightened at its size. it caught me off guard."
"It's all right. Inuyasha pulls his sword on just about everyone.. You get used to it after a while" remarked Kagome with a wave of her hand.
"Yes, it is quite all right. there is no need to apologize.. Eh!!?" Miroku glanced down to see a blade at the base of his chin. held by a sarcastically smiling Kyokukou.
"Geez. you could have at least waited a few minutes after first meeting a girl to grope her.." muttered Sango while Kagome rolled her eyes with disgust in unison with her.
Kyokukou turned to the two other girls. "Does the other one do this as well?" she asked, glancing towards Inuyasha, then back to Miroku.
"Nope. that's pretty much just this one's thing." she answered with her look that said "letch".
Miroku backed away from the edge of the blade and the gang of girls, arms up in self defense. "a simple slap on the cheek as usual would have sufficed." Miroku cleared his throat "Hmm. you are very willful my dear. would you consider bearing my children?" asked the monk, a little to seriously for Kyokukou, as he grabbed and held her chilled hands tightly. so that the plain silver ring on her white finger left a mark on his warm hands.
"WHA!!" *insert slap here* "How was that?" she replied with a grin. Miroku touched a hand to the spot on his cheek that rushed with that all to familiar stinging sensation.. "Aaah. perfect my.."
*insert slap here*
"And that?" "No comment" grinned Miroku.
Kagome, Sango, and a still somewhat timid Kyokukou giggled at the smiling monk before them.
"You are all worth the trouble my ladies!" he dared to say before lifting himself from the ground in an attempt to Kagome's palm, Sango's hiraikkutso, and Kyokukou's staff. He left the room, still grinning as usual, shaking his head. "girls, girls, girls. the cause of all my bruises."
"Inuyasha. will you make a bed for Kyokukou in our room. You must be tired. please, stay the night with us" ordered Sango with a welcoming, pleasant smile.
"Why should I have to. you two are the girls here." whined Inuyasha.
Kagome had only to look in his direction and open her mouth before he gave in. as usual.
"Alright, alright. I never can win with you."
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Miroku stepped outside into the cool night air, rushing his face and shocking him a bit. "Now where did Inuyasha run off to?" he wondered as he journeyed around the complex, expecting the hanyou to be relaxing in a nearby tree somewhere. "Hmm." When he didn't notice him anywhere, he abandoned his mission and decided to return to his cozy, warm bed. dreaming of the chance that maybe Sango was waiting for him in it. He sighed at the mere thought of such an incident just as he came across a ghostly Sesshomaru, wandering absently through the open field of grass. His face was tilted downward slightly, as if in sarrow. not propped in a straight forward, nose slightly elevated, haughty manner. His steps were slowed and his eyes softened with gloom. His appearance was mournful, and energy deteriorated.
"Hm. could this HUMAN WOMAN have such an effect on Sesshomaru-sama? Why, not long ago he was but a stone, and hateful to humans. ashamed to have a brother even with human blood. But, he has come a long ways. ever since he found Rin. we could see him soften a bit. Maybe this girl has something to do with why he behaved that way for so many years."
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The remaining girls sipped their re-heated sake, while Inuyasha had left to prepare a bed in the girls' room for Kyokukou at the request/demand of Kagome... whom he was unable to say "NO" to, mainly because of THAT word.
"So. how exactly do you and Sesshomaru-sama know each other?" asked Sango, unable to keep from mentioning it any longer.
Kyokukou looked up from her sake and from the hand she was warming over its surface. "hmm..? Oh. ahh." she tensed at the question and returned her now anxious gaze back to the warm liquid in hand.
"Oh. I'm sorry to ask that. It really is none of my business, and I had no right to ask such a personal question. please forgive me" added Sango, turning red from her inconsideracey and complete violation of personal privacy.
"No. It's okay really. I was just caught off guard. That is all. but I am doomed to say something sooner or later aren't I?"
Sango, still red with embarrassment, "I should not have invaded your privacy though."
"No. It's really okay. I don't mind. It is still just a bit hard for me to deal with and accept, that is all. Well, I suppose everything started about a hundred and fifty years ago, when I was seventeen."
Kagome's and Sango's gasps of shock interrupted her, both stared in bewilderment.
"But. how is it possible that you were seventeen then? You do not look older than that today."
"Yes. and I do not sense any demon presence within you" added Sango with equal confusion.
Kyokukou giggled. "I am not demon. but an immortal human. You see, I now remain seventeen for eternity. But back then, that is when I first met Sesshomaru. I have never forgotten it. I was from a village of demon slayers, some ways to the north from this place I believe, and was one of their best. Well, during one evening just before sunset, in mid-spring, is when I first saw him. I had just finished a job at a nearby village and was returning home. Just out of the village, but a mile, I caught a glimpse of him. standing some ways before me at first, then he approached closer, until we were nearly face to face. He just stood there, unafraid and without murderous intent I sensed, reading me through my eyes. Before I could say anything he had disappeared.
This demon fallowed me after that night for several weeks, until at last he approached me once again while I was relaxing at the bank of a river near my village. He sat beside me, and asked why I had not been afraid of him that evening. After talking and introducing ourselves, we decided to see each other again. and within a month, we had fallen in love.
"WHAT!!?" The two girls sat wide-eyed in bewilderment at the thought. "Sesshomaru. in LOVE?"
"You. I thought I remembered the name. I am from the same village as you are. Your story has been told throughout many generations of demon slayers. But. the. they said you were. killed" Sango let out, unsure of whether she should have said that last sentence or not.
"Yes. It is all true. even. my death." Her hand shook with the next sip. "Sesshomaru and I decided to marry. but my father, a devout demon slayer, believed that ALL demons were evil and murderous, and of course did not approve of us being together, much less getting married or having children. I refused to stop seeing him. and rather than have a daughter who wanted to be with a demon, he decided not to have a daughter at all, and stabbed me while I was asleep one night under the stars with Sesshomaru. He woke up at the sound of my screams and defended me. My father was killed, although Sesshomaru tried to avoid it, he just could not get my father to calm down and leave us. But it was to late for me. he sat by my side weeping quietly as I took my last breath."
Kagome and Sango were now in silent tears at the story told, shocked and with sympathy for the young Kyokukou. They both moved to her side to comfort her thin, shuddering body.
"After my death," Kyokukou continued, "I begged the Ama-Tsu-Kami (A/N this is the name given to the Japanese gods and goddesses of Heaven.) to return my body and spirit to the earth, and to grant me my life back. My request was granted. I was given eternal life on earth, branded with the mark of immortality, and sent back. But the gods, in exchange for my life, took my reason and sanity. I did not know what was happening around me when I returned, and was insane for weeks. turning on myself and others for no reason. until I was approached by a kind priestess with great powers. She gave me this pendant. saying that it would control my mood and personality changes for as long as I posses it. I have since been roaming the lands. wondering if Sesshomaru was still living, and if I would ever see him again. I returned to my old village, but found no one. only graves. But now I have at last found him. and wonder if it was better that he had never saw me again. He seemed rather shocked and in disbelief when he saw me. Maybe I should have never searched for him."
Kagome and Sango gave her sympathetic gazes as a tear fell from one of her black and silver eyes.
"He is alive. all of these years.." Kyokukou whispered in a teary voice. Her entire body shook with disbelief and left over shock from earlier as the sake she held fell to the wood floor beneath her knees. Kagome and Sango held her loosely in their arms as she cried silently. moving only to brush a few strands of pitch black hair from her pale, moonlit face, while Inuyasha
"I never let myself stop believing."
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Sesshomaru sat quietly, legs crossed limply before him. The cool damp grass was illuminated and set afire by the large orange globe that was just peaking over the horizon, head propped up towards the vision of the last of the stars remaining from that night.
"My Kyokukou." His words floated with the sight of his breath to the painted sky. out to the stars and moon hovering above. out into the immense void of life. "I have longed for you."
Well, that is it for tonight. pinky-chan has school tomorrow. and must get up early. Thanks to all those who waited for so long for this chapter. ill try to get the next up sooner. . promise!!!! *shoves smore into her face and chews, bits flying everywhere*
Ja ne!!!
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Chapter Four: A Link to Sesshomaru's Past
"Kyokukou? No. your dead." Sesshomaru managed to get out. his face even paler than normal. He took a step back, trying not to show his level of shock to see her. Maintaining his cool exterior. He stared at her looking her over form head to toe, surprised that she had not changed in the least. "How can it be you? NEVER." Here she was, the only human he had ever gotten close to, besides Rin, that he had ever loved. who had DIED all those years ago. He gazed at the woman before him who claimed to be Kyokukou, his face and lips paler than normal, he felt his youki blood plummet to his chest, down from his face and extremities. "never." He coldly muttered in a hostile manner as he slowly walked from the room and outside into the cool, damp, starlit night. "Rin. Stay inside" he barked from behind his shoulder, forcing out his usual tone. "Yes my lord" answered Rin with confusion. "She can't be alive. I know she is not."
Shippo blinked mechanically. "What was THAT all about?" Why was Sesshomaru-sama acting so weird like that?" he asked, scratching his furry forehead with confusion from Rin's left shoulder as the sleepy girl walked back to her bedroom.
They all turned to stare nervously at the strange girl whose head was now turned to the door, waiting for some sort of answers to their multitudes of questions.
"I shouldn't fallow just yet. I think he needs some time to himself to take this all in. It seemed to be quite a shock.oh. I should have known. Why would this be easy for him. but it has been so long." remarked Kyokukou sighing as she fell to her knees on the hardwood floor, staff at her side, she replaced the hair stick that had the blade attached to the end. "I knew it had to be him. he is unmistakeable, and I could never forget him, not even after all of these years. and everything."
"Aah.. So how exactly do you know Sesshomaru-sama. Kyokukou-chan is it?" asked Sango, eager to know the story behind all of this commotion.
"Hmm. oh, forgive me. yes, that is my name. Nagasaki Kyokukou. And well. it is. hard.he and I have a past together" she replied with a nervous twitch of her eye as she bit her lower lip.
Kagome kneeled beside her, noticing her shaking. "Can you tell us. what is it? It seems hard for you, and you don't have to say anything if you don't like." Kagome turned her face downward, embarrassed by her nerve. to ask her something so personal like that when just meeting her. "Oh. I am sorry for pushing you like that."
Kyokukou relaxed a bit as she managed a smile from the lip she was chewing intently on. "I am sorry to have attacked you all like I did earlier. I just smelled some food and came in for some without waking you. I did not mean to frighten or alarm you all. And when he pulled his sword, I just got a bit frightened at its size. it caught me off guard."
"It's all right. Inuyasha pulls his sword on just about everyone.. You get used to it after a while" remarked Kagome with a wave of her hand.
"Yes, it is quite all right. there is no need to apologize.. Eh!!?" Miroku glanced down to see a blade at the base of his chin. held by a sarcastically smiling Kyokukou.
"Geez. you could have at least waited a few minutes after first meeting a girl to grope her.." muttered Sango while Kagome rolled her eyes with disgust in unison with her.
Kyokukou turned to the two other girls. "Does the other one do this as well?" she asked, glancing towards Inuyasha, then back to Miroku.
"Nope. that's pretty much just this one's thing." she answered with her look that said "letch".
Miroku backed away from the edge of the blade and the gang of girls, arms up in self defense. "a simple slap on the cheek as usual would have sufficed." Miroku cleared his throat "Hmm. you are very willful my dear. would you consider bearing my children?" asked the monk, a little to seriously for Kyokukou, as he grabbed and held her chilled hands tightly. so that the plain silver ring on her white finger left a mark on his warm hands.
"WHA!!" *insert slap here* "How was that?" she replied with a grin. Miroku touched a hand to the spot on his cheek that rushed with that all to familiar stinging sensation.. "Aaah. perfect my.."
*insert slap here*
"And that?" "No comment" grinned Miroku.
Kagome, Sango, and a still somewhat timid Kyokukou giggled at the smiling monk before them.
"You are all worth the trouble my ladies!" he dared to say before lifting himself from the ground in an attempt to Kagome's palm, Sango's hiraikkutso, and Kyokukou's staff. He left the room, still grinning as usual, shaking his head. "girls, girls, girls. the cause of all my bruises."
"Inuyasha. will you make a bed for Kyokukou in our room. You must be tired. please, stay the night with us" ordered Sango with a welcoming, pleasant smile.
"Why should I have to. you two are the girls here." whined Inuyasha.
Kagome had only to look in his direction and open her mouth before he gave in. as usual.
"Alright, alright. I never can win with you."
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Miroku stepped outside into the cool night air, rushing his face and shocking him a bit. "Now where did Inuyasha run off to?" he wondered as he journeyed around the complex, expecting the hanyou to be relaxing in a nearby tree somewhere. "Hmm." When he didn't notice him anywhere, he abandoned his mission and decided to return to his cozy, warm bed. dreaming of the chance that maybe Sango was waiting for him in it. He sighed at the mere thought of such an incident just as he came across a ghostly Sesshomaru, wandering absently through the open field of grass. His face was tilted downward slightly, as if in sarrow. not propped in a straight forward, nose slightly elevated, haughty manner. His steps were slowed and his eyes softened with gloom. His appearance was mournful, and energy deteriorated.
"Hm. could this HUMAN WOMAN have such an effect on Sesshomaru-sama? Why, not long ago he was but a stone, and hateful to humans. ashamed to have a brother even with human blood. But, he has come a long ways. ever since he found Rin. we could see him soften a bit. Maybe this girl has something to do with why he behaved that way for so many years."
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The remaining girls sipped their re-heated sake, while Inuyasha had left to prepare a bed in the girls' room for Kyokukou at the request/demand of Kagome... whom he was unable to say "NO" to, mainly because of THAT word.
"So. how exactly do you and Sesshomaru-sama know each other?" asked Sango, unable to keep from mentioning it any longer.
Kyokukou looked up from her sake and from the hand she was warming over its surface. "hmm..? Oh. ahh." she tensed at the question and returned her now anxious gaze back to the warm liquid in hand.
"Oh. I'm sorry to ask that. It really is none of my business, and I had no right to ask such a personal question. please forgive me" added Sango, turning red from her inconsideracey and complete violation of personal privacy.
"No. It's okay really. I was just caught off guard. That is all. but I am doomed to say something sooner or later aren't I?"
Sango, still red with embarrassment, "I should not have invaded your privacy though."
"No. It's really okay. I don't mind. It is still just a bit hard for me to deal with and accept, that is all. Well, I suppose everything started about a hundred and fifty years ago, when I was seventeen."
Kagome's and Sango's gasps of shock interrupted her, both stared in bewilderment.
"But. how is it possible that you were seventeen then? You do not look older than that today."
"Yes. and I do not sense any demon presence within you" added Sango with equal confusion.
Kyokukou giggled. "I am not demon. but an immortal human. You see, I now remain seventeen for eternity. But back then, that is when I first met Sesshomaru. I have never forgotten it. I was from a village of demon slayers, some ways to the north from this place I believe, and was one of their best. Well, during one evening just before sunset, in mid-spring, is when I first saw him. I had just finished a job at a nearby village and was returning home. Just out of the village, but a mile, I caught a glimpse of him. standing some ways before me at first, then he approached closer, until we were nearly face to face. He just stood there, unafraid and without murderous intent I sensed, reading me through my eyes. Before I could say anything he had disappeared.
This demon fallowed me after that night for several weeks, until at last he approached me once again while I was relaxing at the bank of a river near my village. He sat beside me, and asked why I had not been afraid of him that evening. After talking and introducing ourselves, we decided to see each other again. and within a month, we had fallen in love.
"WHAT!!?" The two girls sat wide-eyed in bewilderment at the thought. "Sesshomaru. in LOVE?"
"You. I thought I remembered the name. I am from the same village as you are. Your story has been told throughout many generations of demon slayers. But. the. they said you were. killed" Sango let out, unsure of whether she should have said that last sentence or not.
"Yes. It is all true. even. my death." Her hand shook with the next sip. "Sesshomaru and I decided to marry. but my father, a devout demon slayer, believed that ALL demons were evil and murderous, and of course did not approve of us being together, much less getting married or having children. I refused to stop seeing him. and rather than have a daughter who wanted to be with a demon, he decided not to have a daughter at all, and stabbed me while I was asleep one night under the stars with Sesshomaru. He woke up at the sound of my screams and defended me. My father was killed, although Sesshomaru tried to avoid it, he just could not get my father to calm down and leave us. But it was to late for me. he sat by my side weeping quietly as I took my last breath."
Kagome and Sango were now in silent tears at the story told, shocked and with sympathy for the young Kyokukou. They both moved to her side to comfort her thin, shuddering body.
"After my death," Kyokukou continued, "I begged the Ama-Tsu-Kami (A/N this is the name given to the Japanese gods and goddesses of Heaven.) to return my body and spirit to the earth, and to grant me my life back. My request was granted. I was given eternal life on earth, branded with the mark of immortality, and sent back. But the gods, in exchange for my life, took my reason and sanity. I did not know what was happening around me when I returned, and was insane for weeks. turning on myself and others for no reason. until I was approached by a kind priestess with great powers. She gave me this pendant. saying that it would control my mood and personality changes for as long as I posses it. I have since been roaming the lands. wondering if Sesshomaru was still living, and if I would ever see him again. I returned to my old village, but found no one. only graves. But now I have at last found him. and wonder if it was better that he had never saw me again. He seemed rather shocked and in disbelief when he saw me. Maybe I should have never searched for him."
Kagome and Sango gave her sympathetic gazes as a tear fell from one of her black and silver eyes.
"He is alive. all of these years.." Kyokukou whispered in a teary voice. Her entire body shook with disbelief and left over shock from earlier as the sake she held fell to the wood floor beneath her knees. Kagome and Sango held her loosely in their arms as she cried silently. moving only to brush a few strands of pitch black hair from her pale, moonlit face, while Inuyasha
"I never let myself stop believing."
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Sesshomaru sat quietly, legs crossed limply before him. The cool damp grass was illuminated and set afire by the large orange globe that was just peaking over the horizon, head propped up towards the vision of the last of the stars remaining from that night.
"My Kyokukou." His words floated with the sight of his breath to the painted sky. out to the stars and moon hovering above. out into the immense void of life. "I have longed for you."
Well, that is it for tonight. pinky-chan has school tomorrow. and must get up early. Thanks to all those who waited for so long for this chapter. ill try to get the next up sooner. . promise!!!! *shoves smore into her face and chews, bits flying everywhere*
Ja ne!!!