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Seeshomaru's Forbidden Bonds

Confronting Jaken

Soun Yee woke up a while later to see the young girl's worried face, "Kagome?"

"Thanks goodness you're awake. I was getting worried." She said helping her up from the ground.

Soun Yee: "So where are we?"

Kagome: "In a prison cell in the cellar. Naraku is holding us prisoner to lure Inuyasha and Sesshomaru here."

"Oh." Soun Yee looked away depressed. She felt messerable fornot preventing their capture better than she did.

Suddenly the cage door was unlocked.

The girls quickly turned to the door to see Kagera on the other side.

Kagome: "Kagera."

"Quickly now we don't have much time." The Wind Sorceries said motioning them to move with her fan.

Not arguing Kagome and Soun Yee raced from the dungeon and followed Kagera through the corridors of the castle.

"This way." Kagera lead them to an abandoned courtyard when out of the blue, something attacked them. Kagera was thrown forward face first into the dirt; Soun Yee got thrashed to the side while Kagome was knock flat on her back.

The young teenager opened her eyes to the freakish face of yet another incarnation. He was a mix of canine and human. His hair was black with streaks of white integrated through his thick locks. He wore a blue and gold kimono had faint fur that covering his exposed skin the same color as his hair. The incarnation was starring at her hungrily with his hypnotic eyes a mix of red, green and gold.

She heard a faint growling to her right. Slowly Kagome averted her eyes to Soun Yee, who had a large wolf standing on top of her. Its thick fur coat was the same color of the stranger holding Kagome down.

The large canine lowered its face down to Soun Yee's face and seemed to whisper in her ear. "Happy to see us, Mother?"

Then a haunting echo flowed from the doors of the front of the courtyard. Two lights light up from behind the paper blinds to reveal the shapshifting tyrant Naraku.

All three girls gasped in fear, all for the same reason.

The demon laughed mockingly, "Well ladies, how do you like my new incarnations?" with that the furry man yanked Kagome to her knees as the dog dragged Soun Yee to face Naraku, "They're similar to my earlier works, Juuroumaru and Kageroumaru, except I used the flesh of two premature half demons. As I you can see they're much more obedient."

Kagome: "Premature half demons? That means…."

She looked back to Soun Yee who held her head low, "No, it couldn't be…Soun Yee?"

The women glanced at her and nodded.

Kagome: "So that's why she wants to kill Naraku. He killed her children to make these incarnations. He must have ordered Kagera to take them only hours after they're born, that's why she recognizes her. Curse him. Curse him to hell!"

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Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Miroku and Sango raced down the treacherous trail toward Naraku's castile.

Inuyasha scooted up to Sesshomaru with one hand ready on the Tetsiaga. "So Sesshomaru, Soun Yee was telling you two have been together longer than you said earlier."

Sesshomaru turned his head slightly to Inuyasha, "What?!"

Miroku and Sango on Kirara swooped next to the brothers.

Miroku: "Really?"

Sango: "Meoga told us that Sesshomaru was telling Kagome the same thing."

Inuyasha's and Sesshomaru's eyes widened.

Inuyasha: "Huh?! You were?"

The full demon looked away plainly, "She said she could help me with our problems."

Inuyasha: "That's what you're wife wanted me to do."

(Pause for affect)

Inuyasha glanced back to Sesshomaru to seemed upset by the new predicament, "Alright if you want you can finish the story with me and I might help. Even tough I think the whole thing is an act or whatever."

The full demon sighed, "Alright, how far did she tell you?"

Inuyasha: "The part when you started to grow feelings for Soun Yee."

Sesshomaru: "Hmm, same place where I was with Kagome."

Back to the Real Story

For several days afterward Sesshomaru forgot about the feeling. But eventually it came back stronger than the before. He never told Soun Yee but the longer those pangs of emotion lasted the more he wanted her to know.

"Now don't you go peeking on me." Soun Yee told Sesshomaru as she was descending down the hill to a lake.

"I won't."

Sesshomaru watched her closely till she was out of sight. Then he sat down on the grass and gazed up at the night sky. The stars were twinkling madly yet the moon refused to show itself. "The moon is dark tonight. By this time Inuyasha would also be human and stay in hiding. Yet strangely enough, I don't mind it anymore. "

His dreamy daze was cut short when he heard the grunts and groans of a short amphibian demon strutting toward the hill. Recognizing the voice Sesshomaru quickly tied up his long hair in hopes that the thing would mistake him for someone else.

Sure enough a petit wrinkled-green toad came panting over the hill. The thing was grumbling under his breath just about every threat in the book.

"Sesshomaru…. you better be nearby…. eh…I swear as soon as I reach you I'm going to ring that scrawny neck of yours. Move it nigen! (Japaneese for Human. need spelling) (shoves past Sesshomaru not even looking) You're going to be in sooooo much trouble you wretched mongrel. I'l kick your littlebaka butt!"
Sesshomaru sighed deciding to give the imp a little fright, "Jaken?"

The toad froze in place when he heard his name with cold indifference.

Trembling from head to toe the servant turned around to see the humanized Sesshomaru. His shaking stopped when he only saw a human male. "How do you know my name? Explain yourself human or I'll be forced to take action!" he shouted setting his long wooden staff defensively.

"Lower your talisman Jaken. Unless you want to be removed from you head."
Jaken fell over in surprise of the filmiererity of his master's voice. He stared at him in confusion before stepping closer sniffing the air. The imp shuffled to the side to see the faint scares where Sesshomaru's markings were. Recognizing the faint moon in the forehead Jaken nearly passed out from fright. "Lord…. Sesshomaru….???? Is that really you?"

Sesshomaru slightly nodded and then changed his gaze to the sky.

"My Lord it is you! I've been so worried. When I saw you being blown away by the wretched witch I swore I would not stop until I found you again!" Jaken danced around with joy, then stopped to notice the difference in Sesshomaru's appearance. "Master…. what's happened to you? You eh…. look…um different."

Sesshomaru shut his eyes at the thought of what he was trying not to say, "You mean human."

Jaken: "Oh of course not my Lord! Not at all! Sure the markings have faded ……and your hair maybe a bit darker then usual….but at least your fur is still attached…"

Just as he said that Sesshomaru pulled on his fur boa till it slid off completely.

Jaken nearly fainted seeing how much he changed, "Never mind that and don't worry, now that I'm here we'll find a way to change you back into a demon!"

Sesshomaru rested his chin on the human sword and turned his eyes to the ground, "That is a hopeful thought, but it might be unnecessary."

"Unnecessary!? What are you talking about?"

The man/dog demon looked back at the darkened forest.

Jaken folded his little arms and sat down near his master. "My Lord sir, is your body having a sudden stir of special feelings master?"

Sesshomaru: "Special, feelings?"

"Well you know…loneliness, anxiety, love, stress…"

Sesshomaru: "Love? What's love?"

The imp sprung back on his feet starring at him in surprise, "What's love?! Are you saying that you, Lord Sesshomaru, don't know what love is?!"

Sesshomaru kept his gaze on the horizon, "I have heard the word, but I've never understood what it meant."

Jaken starred at him more. Sesshomaru didn't avert his eyes from the moonlit scenery ahead.

The imp sat back down and held his staff soundly, "Well master it's about time I teach you something for once. Ha hum. Of all the peaty emotions these humans have love of probably the most observed one of them all. It's an emotional and a physical attraction between a male and a female often used to bond mates. Each side of the whether being male or female can often say, act, and do what they usually wouldn't. They see things in their partner that other humans can't. The females become all weak and helpless when with the man where as the males pretend to act tough were as they're really no better than the women."

"Is that all?" Sesshomaru asked his voice almost lost to the wind.

"Sadly no, there are cases of one committing suicide when they can't have a particular mate and others falling for the wrong gender but I won't scar you with that for now."

A few moments of silence followed Jaken's speech. Sesshomaru kept going over the words in his head for what they meant. "See things what others don't see? Do what they normally won' t do? Act weak? Well…other humans seem to see her as none other than a rodent. I've never use to defend humans from each other, I usually kill them all myself. And when I look into her eyes…"

"Jaken."

The imp crouched down in cowardice, "Yes me lord?"

"Is it possible for demons to fall in love? Or is love an emotion reserved only for the humans?"

His servant cupped his chin in thought, "Actually demons do occasionally be in love once in a while. It's just that humans are the only ones who take it seriously. In honest there's no reason why demons shouldn't. I mean that was how your parents got together. As well as an arrange marriage. Eh…why do you ask?"

He said nothing for a moment, then as if he saw a revelation he told the little imp what he saw, "In the short time I've had in this human body, I do believe that I've fallen in love."

Jaken (again) sprung to his feet in shock, "Really?! Are you sure?"

Sesshomaru just slightly nodded.

The imp thimble his fingers a bit nervously, "With…. a woman?"

"A goddess."

Jaken then jumped in excitement and slightly hopped away for a second, "It must be with some other kind of tiger or wolf demon, or better yet another dog!" he hopped back to question his master's acquisition. "So eh how long have you known this lady? What makes you think it's love?"

The de(man) closed his eyes to remines, "We have been together not a day longer then I was cursed. She healed my wounds and helped me to survive in this human world."

Jaken: (nodded)

Sesshomaru: "Whenever she's in a crisis she could either be a healer or a viscous fighter stronger than any warrior."

Jaken: "Ah huh. Good."

Sesshomaru: "A first glance she might not appear to be much, but put her near the moonlight with her hair untied and defensive walls down, she is a beauty that rivals even sea spirits."

Jaken stared to drool, "Please go on my lord."

Sesshomaru: "But it's the way she makes me feel that makes me attracted to her the most Jaken."

"Yes?"

Sesshomaru looked back at the stars and the moon. An imaginary set of eyes gazed down at him and he could make out the face of the woman Soun Yee. "She fills an empty place in my heart that I never knew existed. Every time I'm near her I feel helpless, and yet…stronger than ever. She knows how to make me laugh; and she has the sweetest scent in all the lands."

Finally Jaken couldn't control himself anymore, "Enough enough ENOUGH! Where is this goddess?!" the imps eyes began to water in anticipation.

Sesshomaru glances sown at him slightly surprised at Jaken's amazement, "She in the lake at the bottom of this hill."

"So what are we waiting for lets go!" with that he raced down he hill.

Sesshomaru tried to say something to stop him but the imp was already gone, "Oh well, his funeral."

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