Disclaimer: Don't own these characters at ALL! But I can dream!
Author's Note: This chapter isn't too interesting... well not to me, I hope it doesn't get too many bad reviews. R/R!
Chapter 3
Kikyo stared down at the beautiful scenery at the top of the mountain. They had been climbing it for a day now. Sesshomaru's home is at the top of the mountain that looked over his lands. After they reached the top she wanted to enjoy the land beneath her. Rin and Jaken went up the house to rest. She spotted Sesshomaru standing not too far from her staring down at the vast forests below.
"Sesshomaru..." she said. He turned his attention on the miko, but didn't say anything. He wasn't a man of words obviously. "Do you feel free?" she asked. He gave her a puzzled look. He didn't understand what she meant.
"What are you yapping about?" he asked.
"Even though I'm free to feel emotion, of task I still feel like I'm bound to this world by something, like an invisible chain locked around me, never letting me go," she said.
"What about it?" Sesshomaru asked, in his uncaring voice like always, always putting his guard up.
"Nothing," she said shaking her head. He wouldn't understand. Maybe what she's looking for is someone to break that chain that connected her to her dreadful memories. Sesshomaru looked at her quizzically, but decided not to push it any further.
She gawked at him, his long silvery hair, and his warm golden warm eyes that was iced over, not letting anyone to feel the warmth, so alike Inuyasha yet so different at the same time. It was hard to explain, though they have the same personalities Sesshomaru was harder to break down, he suffered for more years than Inuyasha has lived, he was so much more mature, strong and didn't let his emotions move him.
Sesshomaru's POV
Sesshomaru kept glancing back at her to see when she would stop staring at him. Those two big pools of sadness kept looking at him, unblinking, it made him a bit uncomfortable. He had to say something.
"Kikyo," he said. She snapped out of it, blinking a few times. She looked away for a little but then looked back.
"Yes?" she asked. She seem so sad, maybe he should do something. He got it! He'll take her for a ride around the world, it is truly beautiful up there. (like the lil video clip for fukai mori )
"Have you ever seen the world from afar?" he asked.
"I don't understand," she replied.
"Here," he said holding out his hand. She looked at his hand as if it was diseased. "I won't bite," he said. She took it, but reluctantly. The feeling of her hand against his sent chills down his spine. Her hand felt so fragile, like it would crumble if he squeezed too hard.
Kikyo's POV
She looked down at his hand holding hers. He had a pretty firm grip on her hand. Suddenly she felt them being lift in the air. Her feet weren't touching the ground anymore! She held onto his arm afraid that if she let go of his hand she would fall. He glanced at her and gave her a smirk. It was like a sparkling invisible cloud underneath them. She looked down, they were getting farther and farther away from the ground until even the giant mountain looked small. The wind blowing in her hair felt nice, and so did holding Sesshomaru's hand.
"Wow," she gasped looking down at Earth. She never realized how small Earth was compared to the rest of the universe. The stars were scattered across the dark sky like a clumsy child spilling glitter everywhere.
"It's beautiful isn't it?" he said, but he was looking at her instead of at the Earth.
"It is," she said, her eyes wide open, trying to see everything at the same time.
"I know you wanted to be free from all your problems, I couldn't think of any other way but this," he confessed. She smiled gratefully. He sure did know how to please a lady.
"Thank you, Sesshomaru" she said. She leaned against him while holding his arm, with her eyes slightly closed enjoying the feel of the wind hugging her. The wind was blowing all her troubles away.
Sesshomaru's POV
Sesshomaru felt a warm sensation flow through his body. How can a mere human ever make him feel warm? He looked down at her, her eyes scanning every picture, enjoying the moment. His hand reached for hers, she didn't seem to notice but his heart was beating faster than usual. Why was he so attracted to this woman?
"Sesshomaru?" she asked.
"Yes?" he barely uttered.
"You're so lucky," she told him. He was lucky, but he was also lucky in another way, to have this beautiful woman next to him. "You have an escape," she said.
"With all the problems from the past I had to come up with something," he told her. He felt like he could trust Kikyo.
She opened her eyes, looking up at him, they were no longer sad, but full of wonder and sincerity. He had let his guard down for a bit. As long as she's happy he was happy.
"You mean Inuyasha?" she asked. Whenever his name was uttered it felt like someone just poked him with a needle.
"I suppose, the runt and I..." he began to explain. He had Kikyo's full attention now. "Well I hate him because of his mother," he said. She looked at him confused. "My mother and father were happy together until one day she was killed," he said. The memories were flashing back to him, like stinging slaps to the face but it was okay because Kikyo would protect him.
"That's too bad," she sympathetically.
"No it's okay," he assured her. "The thing that got to me the most was that my father replaced my mother the great dog demoness with a human woman," he said with disgust. "That is the reason I always gave Inuyasha a hard time," he told her. "Then my old man dared to give the better sword to the half breed," he said angrily. "Ever since then I knew I could never rely on anyone but myself," he said coldly. "I noticed that people change their tune about things quickly, especially my father. I've learned to only rely on myself," he stated, not asking for an answer. She stared at him sadly.
"I can relate," she said. He looked at her a bit astonished that she would ever understand how he felt. "I grew up guarding the sacred jewel, I could never show emotion because I was taught that to never trust anyone that the whole world was after me and the jewel," she said. "But then I met Inuyasha," her expression getting calm. He could see the love she had for him in her eyes. It annoyed him. "I thought that being able to guard the Shikon Jewel made me feel like I was special and better than all the other priestesses," she said. "But then I found out how wrong I was, while all the other girls in the village laughed and talked about boys I had to study and remain emotionless. I was lonely for a long time, until I met Inuyasha," She seem a bit happier when she was reminiscing about that hanyou. "Of course I was betrayed by the one I loved, I had everything taken away from me, ripped from my arms," she said slowly but painfully, like the memories were playing in the back of her eyes. Her grip on his arm tightened a little. "But its okay, because I was in love. If I had to die, I would of wanted it to be by his hands. What angers me the most was that my death was false."
He couldn't believe that she was okay with Inuyasha killing her, even though it wasn't even him! She had to suffer for him but she still forgave him. He would never make her suffer the way he did.
"We should go back, we can't keep Rin waiting," he told her. She nodded. They head back down to Earth.
He really didn't want to go back down, he wanted to stay up there with her, he didn't feel alone when he was around her, she was someone who understood and cared, even if they were two very different people, from entirely different worlds. It felt like some of the weight he had been carrying on his shoulders were lifted off.
Maybe this is what it feels like to feel free...
Maybe to be free meant to have someone that can help you with your problems, someone you can depend on to always be there, someone to take all the worries away.
P.S: Eh... you can tell Sesshomaru really likes Kikyo now. Trouble over the horizon though so stay tuned!
Yes I know! A bit of OOC and you guys probably want to complain a bit about this chapter. I didn't like this chapter much. you guys probably want to disagree with some of the comments the character made