Between Lust and Love
Chapter 5: Slumbering Power Hidden Concern
Far from Sesshoumaru's palace in a cave in the deep forest, two figures discussed a rather serious matter, one of them being Kouga, the other being unknown, his face disguised in the shadows, his voice deep and intimidating asked "Why do you want her?"
Kouga stood up from his former position, he was now roaming the cave, his hands on his back, never looking straight at the figure in front of him, he stopped and answered "I have my reasons." The shadowed one smirked at this and in a quick motion stood up, heading to the exit and replying "Then you and your reasons shall solve this situation on your own." Feeling he was serious about it, Kouga quickly reacted "Ok I'll tell you." He finally gave in. The figure turned back to the place he was seating before, expecting Kouga to answer his questions.
"She's... important to me." He finally admitted, the figure growl in irritation and spat "I'm not here to guess what your god damn reasons are, now spit it OUT! ALL OF IT!" Man he was pissed, if there was anything he hated more than a filthy job involving humans was a youkai who couldn't speak his mind, he was starting to think he was wasting his time. He snorted and held back any comment. "She's different from all of the ordinary humans, she has... a strange power." Now this was starting to feel interesting, he lift a brow at this "What sort of power?". Kouga looked at his doubtful but now he couldn't hold back, he had to finish what he had started "A year or so ago, there was a rumor about a lineage of power among the humans, youkais searched the family containing this power. Villages were destroyed and men slain, they wouldn't stop until they would find the source of this menace towards all youkais. It was then I found her."
FlashBack
Kouga and his companions squatted a troop of youkais heading to a near village from his den, he sensed the smell of human blood in the air. They reached the village but found no human alive... or so they thought. He could smell a faint fragrance, the one from a human female, he ordered to look for the woman, and finally under the burned ruins of a house they had found her.
"Take her out of there and see if she has any wounds!" he barked at the near wolf-youkais, they immediately did as told and laid Kagome on the floor she was knocked unconscious. A member of Kouga's pack ran to him and informed "She's unconscious by the moment Kouga, although there's something strange about her..." This caught Kouga's attention "Speak." He ordered, the wolf-youkai, motioned him to come with him and got closer to the girls limp body on the floor, they both kneeled in front of her and Kouga inspected her body attentively he then noticed. "As you may see she doesn't have any wounds on her body, and you recalled where we found her.." Kouga's eyes widen at the sudden reveal "She was underneath all those ruins, it's not humanly possible to escape such a fate without any wound... then this girl!" he gasped.
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Golden orbs nodded in understanding "Then the girl you're referring to is the source of that strange power?" Kouga nodded, he had kept this a secret only few members of his pack knew about the true importance of Kagome, he lower his eyes, his bangs covering his face, he greeted his teeth "And the bastard of Sesshoumaru appeared and took her away from me!!" he spat in anger, this made the shadowed man skip a beat while he thought 'Sesshoumaru has her... This should be interesting...' he grinned at the idea of killing Sesshoumaru and retrieving Kagome to himself. Kouga caught the grin and hastily shouted "Don't you dare take her for yourself, she belongs to me!!" the figure frown and stepped forward a menacing look over his face.
"You should've thought of that before answering my question." He said cunningly smirking in delight of the wolf-youkai's reaction to this. He moved to the exit of the cave but before he could leave Kouga lift a fist to the air and yelled "You cannot take her for yourself InuYasha!"
The light flew against the shadowed youkai, silver hair and a red haori could now be seeing. Deep golden eyes flashed at Kouga, a bright smirk on his face "I do whatever I want. And the way you put it she seems like a fine attribute to my power!!" he laugh out loud and then added "She'll be mine." And then he leaped out of the cave, his presence and scent lost in the distance.
Kouga swung a fist to the walls of the cave, making it crumble a little, he then came out of the cave and called his pack.
"Attention all of you, we're going to take Kagome back!" A young member asked "Why do you want her for Kouga? She just a filthy human!" Kouga went straight at him and got a quick grab at the insolent's neck, lifting him up and making him gasp for air. "You will NOT question my orders!" He then threw him to the crowd of youkais all of them fearing Kouga's wrath.
"Pack everything. We're leaving!" he last ordered.
Sesshoumaru's palace
I stood up from my desk and put down the book I was reading, Kagome looked at me puzzled "What is it?" she asked lifting her head from the book she was reading, she was, I could sensed it, a little worried. It has already being 4 days since Kagome had established herself in the palace, she had accepted to stay more time than she needed and had become awesomely attached to little Rin. I on one hand had already familiarized with her presence, running around to catch Rin in the garden and even I got used to her small fights with me at dinner time.
I looked at her for a second, I had, for this past 4 days, discovered how Kagome's eyes could describe exactly what she felt, now they were full with concern, confusion and fright, so I said, sort of trying to comfort her without her knowledge, "It's nothing for you to be concerned of." I walked to the door of the library, leaving her there and went straight to the dojo.
I entered the dark room, my footsteps echoing on the wooden floor, I stepped closer to the great inu-youkai's steel statue and took the ornament hanging from his mouth 'I never thought I will use this...' I thought when I took the large blade in my hands, it was Tenseiga, Sesshoumaru's legacy from his father, he knew this sword was of no use to him as a combat instrument, but even so he took it, sensing he would need it anyway.
I could feel eyes on my back, I turned around and spotted Kagome at the entrance of the dojo, her eyes widen in fear and surprise.
I followed him silently, I knew something was wrong, something was very, very wrong, I saw him enter the dojo and noticed him take the ornament from the inu-youkai statue's jaws my heart skipped in my chest, never had I seen that sword before and never had I noticed it was part of the statue, he must've heard me gasp for he twisted around to face me, a determinate glare rushed through my body. I was right, something was about to happen, I walked slowly to him and finally could spit out the question in my lips "What's happening Sesshoumaru?"
I could now see she was worried I came closer to her and put a reassuring hand over her small shoulder, she saw my hand carefully before driving her gaze back at me, deep blue eyes shone with concern, I whispered loud enough for her to hear "Someone is coming, I can sense the will to fight not far from here." She looked scared for a moment, her heart bounced on her chest and she swallowed some saliva. "I want you and Rin to stay inside your room, take a bow and arrows, no matter what you need to do what I say." Her eyes widen, she was now deeply frighten, I shook her shoulder gently with my hand and gave it a squeeze "Listen to me Kagome! No matter what, you must stay and protect Rin do you understand me?" she muttered something incoherent I shook her again this time with more strength "Do you understand?!" She replied with a weak "hai". I moved forward to leave but then I felt a warm body against mine, and arms circling my waist and then a whimper.
I understood what was happening, I knew something dangerous was about to happen, and I couldn't hold myself, I was scared, I didn't want him to leave, it hurt so much. 'Why? Why does it hurt so much?' incoherent images of a man in a black armor went through Kagome's mind in small flashes, they were memories, memories she had somehow forgotten. Then it came to her, it was her father.
FlashBack
"Father please don't leave!" came a crying Kagome into a strong man's arms, she was young, probably about 11 years old. She slammed her face against his armed chest 'He's leaving! He's leaving to go to war!' was all Kagome's mind could think of, her dear father going to the outside world to risk his life for the sake of something she didn't know what it was, but thought it didn't matter what it was. All that mattered was her father was leaving, and might never come back. She had never understood war, people killing each other for apparently no reason. Life was wasted in war.
Then how come her father wanted to leave? Why doing something so foolish for no reason, why not staying here with her mother and little brother? Why? WHY?
"I don't care if this war is necessary or not! Just please don't go!" she sobbed a little more, staining her father's armor with her tears. He lift her face to look at him and with a smile kissed her good-bye. Her mother took a hold of her and kept her still so she wouldn't run after him.
"FATHER!!!!!!" she screamed until she wouldn't follow him, he's form lost in the horizon.
He never came back.
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End FlashBack
She knew this was going to be the same, he would leave and never come back, she didn't want this. She threw herself at him, clutching her arms around his slim waist, again her face filled with tears just like the day her father had left her. Her hands twitched in Sesshoumaru's haori, sobbing uncontrollably, pressing herself to him not letting him move from his place.
"Please don't leave!" she cried out in despair. She couldn't say much, her tears caught her voice in her throat, she gasped for air now and then trying to speak her mind.
"If you do, you'll never come back to us!" She finally declared. The once stiff body began to slowly move and she found herself in the embrace of the strong taiyoukai.
I felt her tighten her arms around me, I didn't understand why but something in me wanted to comfort her, so I set my arms around her small figure, resting my head over hers. I could smell her scent mixed with her salty tears, she muttered something like "you'll never come back to us" I then understood she was afraid of me dying. Of course I knew that wasn't going to happen, but something in my head told me it was right to hug her back, so I did. 'Kagome...' was the only thing I could think of, her tears soaking my armor, her arms around my waist, her cries and sobs telling me not to leave.
I unconsciously started whispering words to her.
"Don't worry, I'll come back." Slowly I rubbed gently her back with my hand, her sobs stopped, and she was now sniffing and washing the tears away from her face, she seemed to calm down and let go of my haori, her eyes were now deep sad blue, puffy and red from the crying. I let her go and finally put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, caressing it gently. Her eyes on her feet, I placed the same hand on her neck, at this she looked up again fear and pain flashed in her eyes like a thunder-storm.
"I promis to come back. Please protect Rin. Please Kagome, be strong... for me." Was all I could say, she seemed pleased with it and smiled brightly at me, my heart skipped but I didn't show it, I smiled faintly at this and gave her shoulder a final squeeze before walking out of the room, I was prepared.
'My brother, I'm waiting for you.'
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A/N: Well?? What do ya think? I think I have improved a lot. Yeah sorry if Kouga and InuYasha are the bad guys, it's just that I did NOT want Naraku involve with my story, sorry I just think it's the typical InuYasha villain. Kagome's starting to recover her memory though she just remembers short events of her life before the youkai attack.
This chapter was inspired from a scene in the movie Rurouni Kenshin when the main female character Kaoru sees her father leave for war, I connected this event to Sesshoumaru's leaving for battle his half-brother.
Oh and if you wanna know: Kouga wanted to use InuYasha to get Kagome back, though it didn't work as excepted =P.
Oh and thanks to artemis347 i had my doubts about the "domo" things, so thanks!
NEXT CHAPTER FULL OF ACTION!!!
Hope you liked it and thanks to the few people who review I really appreciate it.