Hey! finals ore over! (sighs with relief) now i can consentrate more on my fanfics inbetween the holiday festivities.

Sesshomaru's Forbidden Bonds

Broken Curse

Smash! Crack! Bang!

The Spider Head had broken through the roof of the cave. Soun Yee hunched herself over Sesshomaru to cover him from the falling rocks. The dust quickly cleared to reveal the hideous spider hovering over them with hunger and hatred burning in his eyes.

Immediately she jumped to her feet and grabbed her sword, "Jaken, guard Sesshomaru and escape as fast as you can. I'll hold it off to give you some time." She said to the toad as she raced toward the demon to attack.

Jaken: "Well…. eh alright I guess…good luck…"

Soun Yee dashed between the long legs of the spider and slashed at the underbelly, carefully examining where to land a lethal blow. "If I can get a good slash in the inessential system and insert thepotion, it'll enter the blood stream and kill it." "I just hope that the Belladonna was enough."

She found a weak area where she guessed the small intestines were, but just before she could drive the sword into the skin a mass of poisonous thread were shot at her from the abdomen.

Sesshomaru watched between the pangs of pain as she was forced in front of thegiant demon, her arms and legs bound together in tight threads.

"He he he, foolish girl. Did you really think that you could defeat me when your boyfriend couldn't?"

She remained silent and starred deep into its eyes to show she wasn't afraid of it.

The demon grinned hungrily, "I should devour you this instant, but first…" the strands that were binding her retracted, followed by one strong, stiff strand of thread out of its mouth and around her throat. "…I want to see you die."

The (ex)dog demon's eyes widened as he saw her breaths her growing more rasped and labored. She reached into her sleeve for a dagger, and with all the strength she had left she threw it into the thing's left eye.

"Aahhh! You'll pay for that!"

The thread became tighter. Sesshomaru couldn't draw his eyes away as she gasped for the slightest breath. He saw her gaze down at him with a dark haze over her eyes, "Sesshomaru..." she reasped weakly as the air was forced out of her lungs, "…ai-shiteru…" Her voice soon grew faint…then- silent.

Everything seemed to stop for Sesshomaru when she fell limp in the silken noose. A strong pulse began surging through his body.

The imp Jaken tried to coax him stay down when he drew himself to his feet. "My Lord you're still infected by the poison. You shouldn't be u..." but the toad's words were cut short when he saw his master's eyes glowing blood red and his black hair slowly begin to shine and rise. He spoke not with indifference anymore, but with a restrained rage ready to be released, "Out of the way Jaken! I'm not in the mood."

The Spider Head was about to draw Soun Yee to his mouth when his long neck met the fangs of a giant dog. A paw reached out and snapped the webs attaching her to it and she fell to the ground.

Panicking from the battle Jaken rushed to her while avoiding humongous legs, fangs, and claws. He reached the human and dragged her far enough away from the line of fire. Once at ssafe distance he panted from fright. "Phew, that was close. Now let's see…" he examined her for a moment then grabbed a knife from his pocket, "Poor thing, she better have some life left or else Lord Sesshomaru will have my hide."

As he sliced off the last of the strand Soun Yee inhaled as deep as she could and coughed to get her lungs working again. "Aye my lady, you're alive."

She forced her eyes open and turned her head to the imp, "What's going on?"

"That dreaded beast almost killed you, until I came to your rescue." He answered pounding his chest in pride.

Soun Yee: (slant-eyed) " Oh really?"

Jaken: (slumps)

The girl reached over to him and patted him gently on the head, "Thanks Jaken."

With that the little imp practically fell head over heels, "Well you know what they say 'No noose is good news'."

Soun Yee sat up and gazed over to the Spider Head. Fighting with it was a giant white dog with a crescent moon on its forehead and an attached boa around the shoulder and down the spine. Her heart jumped in surprise at the size of the beast. "Is that….is that Sesshomaru?"

"Yes I'm afraid so. Apparently he gained back his demon form when he saw you near death."

She just starred at them as they fought. The spider had wrapped his webbings around the dog's right paw but was smacked in the side with the other. The white dog pounced on the spider but was bombarded with poison needles. They battled viscously until the dog had the Spider Head in a fatal nape bite. With one twist of its neck he ripped off the head completely, tearing away the nerves strands blood vessels along the neck. Its eyes glowing red the creature saw the human girl and dropped the head on the ground. It stopped snarling and slowly walked toward her. "Soun….Yee…?" She heard it ask under a muffled growl to speak.

"Ses…. Sesshomaru? Is that really you?" Soun Yee managed to squeak out before her throat suddenly became terribly dry. She stood up and tried to walk closer to him.

He nodded his head and slowly changed back. She watched in a terrified/astonished state as the form he changed to was exactly like the man she knew except that his hair was white and the scars on his face were actually two red strips on each side of the face and a blue crescent moon on the forehead.

"So…it's true."

Sesshomaru nodded again, unsure of what to say to reassure her.

Soun Yee: "You're… a demon."

Sesshomaru: "I tried to tell you but you didn't listen."

Falling short of breath she passed out stepping forward. Sesshomaru caught her in time held her close to his bare chest. (Somehow his pants stayed on in his human-like form.)

Jaken panicked and ran around in circles, "Oh no is she alright my Lord?"

"She'll be fine; this had just been too much for her."

The imp calmed down and sat in a noble priest position, "Can't say I'd blame her. It's not everyday someone proposes to them, almost get killed by a spider, then see your lover in their full demon form."

Sesshomaru starred at Soun's face with regret. He got his form back along with his powers but he didn't know whether she'll accept him or not, "It might be best….if we leave her in the next village, and have someone tell her she's been in a coma since her village was destroyed. That way…she'll think it's all a dream."

Widening his eyes in shock Jaken irrupted in an outrage, "Just what in the world are you saying? You're going to abandon probably the only woman you'll ever love because you think she won't like you as a demon?! Quite cowardly if you ask me."

"But… I might kill her out of instinct. I'm not a human anymore. This feeling I have for her now might fade away."

Jaken: "But it could grow stronger. You can't control what's going to happen, but maybe you two will be perfect for each other, despite her being human. You just have to try."

Sesshomaru: "But Jaken…"

Jaken: "No 'But Jaken'! I'm not going to let you give up a chance to settle downuntil you talk to her after she awakens!"

What will happen to their relationship now that Sesshomaru is a demon again? Better review to find out.