If he wanted to lay there with no intention of getting up, then he was
doing a damn well job of it. Nothing hurt him beside his hand, and for that
he should have been thankful.
But he wasn't.
His eyes were open and staring at the sky. Had his mind been on where he had been walking, he would have seen the edge of the cliff much sooner. Instead his mind had been on the girl and his most unusual behavior towards her. 'I'm becoming too erratic for my own good,' he thought somewhat dryly as he began to get up.
He looked down at his clothes to see that they were wet and a little damaged, which put him into a worse mood than the one he was already in. His armor was undamaged, however, but he wasn't surprised. It was armor, after all. What good was it if it couldn't survive a little fall?
Logic had struck him before fear as he plummeted down towards what appeared to be a thin line of water, getting bigger by each passing second. His hand reached out to grab part of the cliff wall, though as he grabbed on to a sturdy looking piece of rock, it simply broke off and began falling with him.
So Sesshomaru tried a different approach, clearly not knowing his own strength, as he forced his arm into the wall and destroyed part of it, breaking off and dragging down large sized gravel. This accomplished three things: slowing him down, bruising his only good arm, and making a large crater into the cliff wall. Sesshomaru landed in the river and swam to shore, despising everything in the world ten times more than usual as he fell into a really peeved mood.
Now he examined his hand to see that his palm had been cut wide open and was bleeding. His arm and knuckles were bruised and battered and his claws were dulled and chipped. One nail seemed to be broken off completely and made a nasty looking cut. He knew it would heal in a matter of hours but did not care as his concern began to focus on the girl.
Kagome.
He didn't even like her, if he really gave some thought about it. She was too outspoken and loud for his taste. She seemed to have a small amount of common sense and a smaller amount of strength. And all she really seemed to do was cry and complain and complain and cry, which was truly pathetic.
Yet even if that was the problem, it wasn't his brain that registered her as an interesting person, but his heart. Without even knowing her all that well, he had developed a sense of concern for her. He hated to see her in pain, even if he was a main cause. And enjoyed being around her as she somehow had the ability to calm yet disturb him at the same time.
Though instead of pondering what those signs meant, he simply put his emotions for her off as lust. He lusted after her and nothing more. His brief mental insanity had proved it. He hadn't even found it surprising that, when he kissed her, the voices subsided. They had sounded angry, needy, and confused. The types of voices you should and would usually give into.
It reminded him of a certain angry, needy, and confused half brother who always wanted his way, actually...
Sesshomaru shrugged off the thought without thought. Whether they were, his conflicted emotions of not, he did not care. He had kissed the girl and he had enjoyed it, and that was that. Now he would move on and find her again. She was slower now that she had been wounded and daylight was completely gone.
A lot of demons were hunting now and the wounded Kagome would be the perfect prey for them.
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Pain, exhaustion, hunger, loss, and weakness were all she could feel as she lay in the dirt. She didn't dare move, nor had the energy to. Every ounce of will power and confidence she had was gone, as she continued to cry and drift in and out of consciousness.
She couldn't bear the fact that she was failing her daughter. As soon as Sesshomaru's falling body was out of her line of vision, Kagome had convinced herself to give up, assuming he was dead. So she sighed, closed her eyes, and waited to die. She knew that Sesshomaru had been the only chance she had to get her daughter back. And without him, she would have died, anyway. She couldn't take on Kikyo, let alone Inuyasha. What thought in her right mind possessed her to try and rescue Anomie?
Kagome knew her arm was broken when it began to swell and her wrist turned a sickening black, blue, and purple, though she stopped caring about it after a while. She was too exhausted to care about anything anymore. Drowning her self in shame as she realized how right Sesshomaru had been. She was weak. She was a pathetic woman who constantly needed to be protected and watched over. Otherwise, this was what happened to her: She had a nice broken arm, no energy to move, and was lying alone in a dense forest waiting for some creature to come along and take away her life. Wasn't everything just great?
She must have fallen asleep because she slightly jumped when she felt a warm hand brush against her dirtied face. She opened her eyes by a fraction to see if she was about to be devoured.
"You're still alive?"
She heard a fragment of the surprised sentence, as she was touched again. It was a male with a rough voice, and he had claws. Kagome tried to yell as he touched her arm, examining it. She moved her head to the side and made out the fuzzy outline of bare feet. Automatically, she knew it wasn't Sesshomaru.
"What in hell happened to you, Kagome?"
This time, she only heard her name as she began to drift off again. She barely felt the person lift her up and begin to slowly walk away with her.
"I'll kill that bastard for laying a finger on you," the person continued to talk to her as he held her close. Kagome willed her eyes to open as she dared to look at her rescuer. She gasped lightly before falling into a deep and painful unbroken sleep.
'Brown Eyes. Black long hair.' She noted mentally before her mind went blank.
The last question she could remember was an important one, but she doubted she would ever voice it as she felt her life dwindle on the border of death. (Again)
Was the human Inuyasha rescuing her? *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Inuyasha was here a few days ago," Sango said as she put her sons to bed. She kissed each one on the forehead as she talked to her husband.
"That's nice," was Miroku's reply as he placed his staff up against the wall and sat down, rubbing his temples. Inuyasha did drop by every once in a while, so it was nothing new to him.
"I made quite a lot of money from the exorcism six villages over and I'm exhausted." He changed the subject as he opened his legs and patted the space between them, with a small smile. "Come here. I've missed you,"
Sango smiled and happily sat with him, giggling as he wrapped her in his arms. She sighed contently and lay back against him, relaxing. Absentmindedly, his hand reached out and rubbed her growing stomach.
"A girl this time?" he asked as he kissed her ear.
"Kami let it be. I swear, if I have another son, I'll grow his hair and make him wear kimonos anyway." She said in a bit of a serious tone.
"That's a disturbing thought, Sango."
She laughed. Then her smile slowly faded into a frown. "I wouldn't be so lonely for feminine company if Kagome was still around." She sighed wistfully before adjusting her self to get more comfortable "I told you Inuyasha stopped by. Anomie was with him."
At this, Miroku gave a surprised expression. "And where was her mother?" he asked with growing concern.
Sango gave a bitter laugh. "He said Kikyo was her mother now. And I hate to say it, but if Sesshomaru has Kagome like Inuyasha said, then I fear that Inuyasha may be right. Kagome must be gone."
"Don't say that," Miroku whispered as he held her tighter. "We must always have hope, Sango. Even when things are bleak."
She nodded and quieted as they both sat in companionable silence. They stayed like that; holding each other, until they fell asleep and had sweet dreams of all the things they wished could come true:
Kikyo finally returning to the afterlife.
Sango finally having a baby girl.
Inuyasha finally holding Kagome in his arms as he told her he loved her, never wanting to let her go.
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And that is it for now. I predict about 4 to 5 chapters left, 6 at the most.
After that I've got a ton of stories I've pre-written to choose from. None of them are complete but I've at least got the first two chapters done. Maybe I'll post summaries and clips at the end of next chapter and let you readers pick?
Until next Wednesday! Ja! ^. ^V
But he wasn't.
His eyes were open and staring at the sky. Had his mind been on where he had been walking, he would have seen the edge of the cliff much sooner. Instead his mind had been on the girl and his most unusual behavior towards her. 'I'm becoming too erratic for my own good,' he thought somewhat dryly as he began to get up.
He looked down at his clothes to see that they were wet and a little damaged, which put him into a worse mood than the one he was already in. His armor was undamaged, however, but he wasn't surprised. It was armor, after all. What good was it if it couldn't survive a little fall?
Logic had struck him before fear as he plummeted down towards what appeared to be a thin line of water, getting bigger by each passing second. His hand reached out to grab part of the cliff wall, though as he grabbed on to a sturdy looking piece of rock, it simply broke off and began falling with him.
So Sesshomaru tried a different approach, clearly not knowing his own strength, as he forced his arm into the wall and destroyed part of it, breaking off and dragging down large sized gravel. This accomplished three things: slowing him down, bruising his only good arm, and making a large crater into the cliff wall. Sesshomaru landed in the river and swam to shore, despising everything in the world ten times more than usual as he fell into a really peeved mood.
Now he examined his hand to see that his palm had been cut wide open and was bleeding. His arm and knuckles were bruised and battered and his claws were dulled and chipped. One nail seemed to be broken off completely and made a nasty looking cut. He knew it would heal in a matter of hours but did not care as his concern began to focus on the girl.
Kagome.
He didn't even like her, if he really gave some thought about it. She was too outspoken and loud for his taste. She seemed to have a small amount of common sense and a smaller amount of strength. And all she really seemed to do was cry and complain and complain and cry, which was truly pathetic.
Yet even if that was the problem, it wasn't his brain that registered her as an interesting person, but his heart. Without even knowing her all that well, he had developed a sense of concern for her. He hated to see her in pain, even if he was a main cause. And enjoyed being around her as she somehow had the ability to calm yet disturb him at the same time.
Though instead of pondering what those signs meant, he simply put his emotions for her off as lust. He lusted after her and nothing more. His brief mental insanity had proved it. He hadn't even found it surprising that, when he kissed her, the voices subsided. They had sounded angry, needy, and confused. The types of voices you should and would usually give into.
It reminded him of a certain angry, needy, and confused half brother who always wanted his way, actually...
Sesshomaru shrugged off the thought without thought. Whether they were, his conflicted emotions of not, he did not care. He had kissed the girl and he had enjoyed it, and that was that. Now he would move on and find her again. She was slower now that she had been wounded and daylight was completely gone.
A lot of demons were hunting now and the wounded Kagome would be the perfect prey for them.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Pain, exhaustion, hunger, loss, and weakness were all she could feel as she lay in the dirt. She didn't dare move, nor had the energy to. Every ounce of will power and confidence she had was gone, as she continued to cry and drift in and out of consciousness.
She couldn't bear the fact that she was failing her daughter. As soon as Sesshomaru's falling body was out of her line of vision, Kagome had convinced herself to give up, assuming he was dead. So she sighed, closed her eyes, and waited to die. She knew that Sesshomaru had been the only chance she had to get her daughter back. And without him, she would have died, anyway. She couldn't take on Kikyo, let alone Inuyasha. What thought in her right mind possessed her to try and rescue Anomie?
Kagome knew her arm was broken when it began to swell and her wrist turned a sickening black, blue, and purple, though she stopped caring about it after a while. She was too exhausted to care about anything anymore. Drowning her self in shame as she realized how right Sesshomaru had been. She was weak. She was a pathetic woman who constantly needed to be protected and watched over. Otherwise, this was what happened to her: She had a nice broken arm, no energy to move, and was lying alone in a dense forest waiting for some creature to come along and take away her life. Wasn't everything just great?
She must have fallen asleep because she slightly jumped when she felt a warm hand brush against her dirtied face. She opened her eyes by a fraction to see if she was about to be devoured.
"You're still alive?"
She heard a fragment of the surprised sentence, as she was touched again. It was a male with a rough voice, and he had claws. Kagome tried to yell as he touched her arm, examining it. She moved her head to the side and made out the fuzzy outline of bare feet. Automatically, she knew it wasn't Sesshomaru.
"What in hell happened to you, Kagome?"
This time, she only heard her name as she began to drift off again. She barely felt the person lift her up and begin to slowly walk away with her.
"I'll kill that bastard for laying a finger on you," the person continued to talk to her as he held her close. Kagome willed her eyes to open as she dared to look at her rescuer. She gasped lightly before falling into a deep and painful unbroken sleep.
'Brown Eyes. Black long hair.' She noted mentally before her mind went blank.
The last question she could remember was an important one, but she doubted she would ever voice it as she felt her life dwindle on the border of death. (Again)
Was the human Inuyasha rescuing her? *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Inuyasha was here a few days ago," Sango said as she put her sons to bed. She kissed each one on the forehead as she talked to her husband.
"That's nice," was Miroku's reply as he placed his staff up against the wall and sat down, rubbing his temples. Inuyasha did drop by every once in a while, so it was nothing new to him.
"I made quite a lot of money from the exorcism six villages over and I'm exhausted." He changed the subject as he opened his legs and patted the space between them, with a small smile. "Come here. I've missed you,"
Sango smiled and happily sat with him, giggling as he wrapped her in his arms. She sighed contently and lay back against him, relaxing. Absentmindedly, his hand reached out and rubbed her growing stomach.
"A girl this time?" he asked as he kissed her ear.
"Kami let it be. I swear, if I have another son, I'll grow his hair and make him wear kimonos anyway." She said in a bit of a serious tone.
"That's a disturbing thought, Sango."
She laughed. Then her smile slowly faded into a frown. "I wouldn't be so lonely for feminine company if Kagome was still around." She sighed wistfully before adjusting her self to get more comfortable "I told you Inuyasha stopped by. Anomie was with him."
At this, Miroku gave a surprised expression. "And where was her mother?" he asked with growing concern.
Sango gave a bitter laugh. "He said Kikyo was her mother now. And I hate to say it, but if Sesshomaru has Kagome like Inuyasha said, then I fear that Inuyasha may be right. Kagome must be gone."
"Don't say that," Miroku whispered as he held her tighter. "We must always have hope, Sango. Even when things are bleak."
She nodded and quieted as they both sat in companionable silence. They stayed like that; holding each other, until they fell asleep and had sweet dreams of all the things they wished could come true:
Kikyo finally returning to the afterlife.
Sango finally having a baby girl.
Inuyasha finally holding Kagome in his arms as he told her he loved her, never wanting to let her go.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And that is it for now. I predict about 4 to 5 chapters left, 6 at the most.
After that I've got a ton of stories I've pre-written to choose from. None of them are complete but I've at least got the first two chapters done. Maybe I'll post summaries and clips at the end of next chapter and let you readers pick?
Until next Wednesday! Ja! ^. ^V