first, yes, it was a dream.
And second, I FINALLY GOT MY MUSIC BACK! YAY!!!
My cd player broke a while back and i had no other means of listening to my music other than by radio, and the only stations aroud here dont play anything worth listening to with a good beat. all they play is country, wich is good for any other time except for when i'm writing. wich means lack of inspiration.
Okay! now on with our little drama!
Kagome opened her eyes, grabbing her throat to make sure that it was still flawless.
When she looked around her, she saw that the room was filled with people.
Miko was crouched on the end of the bed, a worried frown creasing her face.
Kagome was still wide eyed and breathing hard as the crowd came forward.
Kagome didn't want them near her, didn't want them touching her.
She screamed when they reached the bed.
Damien heard her scream and raced to her rooms.
When he arrived, he saw many of the demons crowding around her.
he saw red.
Racing toward the crowd of viral demons, he slay them with one swing.
Kagome was curled into a fetal position against the pillows, tears streaming down her face.
As he reached near her, Miko jumped in front of his hand, her arms outspread, protecting her friend.
"Miko, move." he ordered her.
"No, how do i know that you are the real Damien?!" she growled ferally.
He untucked the chain from under his shirt, the one that glowed with a dark light.
She looked at it for a moment, then nodded and moved aside.
Damien touched Kagome's arm and winced as she swung her arm at his own, knocking it away.
"Who did this to you?" he asked, care in his voice.
When she didn't answer, he touched her arm again.
This time when she tried to knock him away, he caught her wrist and pulled her to him.
When she fell back asleep, his eyes showed rage.
Someone had hurt her, and now he would hurt them.
He called for the wolf demon Kouga.
Kouga was sitting outside of the gates, he and shippou and Jaken were alone, huddled against the cold as they fueled the fire.
When the gates opened and a runner came out, they all turned to watch him.
When the runner came towards them, Kouga stood on stiff knees to meet the young human.
"Yes?" Kouga asked, the back of his mind playing the old days when he ran faster than the wind.
"Lord Kouga..." The boy huffed, kneeling to catch his breath.
"Aye, i am he." Kouga waited patiently as the boy caught his breath.
"Lord Kouga, Master Damien wishes for your prescense, he says it is urgent." Then he stood, and turned, taking off at a slow jog as he took a drink from the flask hanging from his belt.
When he was gone, Kouga began to gather up his things.
"What do you think it means?" Shippou asked.
"I don't know, i honestly don't know." Kouga said as he walked toward the eastern gates of Tokyo.
Kouga walked slowly through the darkened streets.
There had been placed a curfiew on the city, hundreds of years ago, that said that no human nor demon was to be out after nightfall withought the proper liscense or registration.
Kouga walked openly through the streets.
Here, he was feared, for his land held the fire maden.
Enforcers passed him looking at him warily before moving on.
He was known as one of the world's feircest fighters, And was known to kill anyone he didn't like that crossed him.
suddenly, a band of Enforcers walked around a bend and stopped, facing him.
Kouga stared at them, confused glances aimed his way made him want to laugh.
These men and women were first years on the force and had never seen him.
Kouga watched with mild amusement as they all drew their swords.
"Sir, please go home, it is after curfiew and we would not wish to kill you." one of the men spoke at him
Kouga threw away the cane that he carried with him and straightened his back so that he stood his full five foot eleven.
Some of them shrunk back, but most of them stayed their ground.
"Sir, please go.."
"I have business with a friend, let me pass and no harm will come to you." Kouga interrupted him.
"Old man, noone could hurt us, at least not someone like you." one young demon retorted.
the others laughed.
Kouga started forward, picking up his cane as he walked by kicking it up to his hand.
He stepped up to the man that had spoken first.
"What is your name, young one?" he asked.
"I am Brian of the Lore clan." he said, looking him in the eye.
"Aye, tis a good clan. but i belive that you know not of who i am. I would like to impress upon you that my friend would not like me to be late to our meeting." He tried to brush past the man but he stopped him with a raised sword.
"Sir, who is your friend, that we may tell Damien of his actions." he asked.
"You know him." Kouga said, enjoying playing mind games with these children.
"What is his name?"
"As i have said, you know him." he said, wrapping his wrinkled hand around the blade of the sword.
Brian looked at the crazy old fool, he would be killed by the others if he wasn't carful, and Brian didn't want that to happen.
"Allow us to escort you then, to your friend's house." Brian said, not letting his sword move.
The old wolf nodded in assent, and led the way.
(sorry, i had to run outside through the pouring rain and throw a torn garbage bag over my dad's harley. i did it out of Kindness, not that he deserves any. and then my batteries went dead for my cd player, and i had to get them, and now i'm freezing by butt off even more than before, which is making my autrhitis act up even more which causes most of my typographical errors. Twitch twitch"
He went on a winding path through the city, taking roads that he knew the enforcers were on.
as he passed them, they nodded to him, but the first years mistook it as nods of approval.
He had done this to all of the first years since the curfiew was passed, taking them all to Damien, who played along with his game and met him in the Higurashi shrine, and every time that he called for him, he met him there.
When they passed the gates of the castle, he turned down the main road and went down that way, they had traveled for maybe fifteen minutes.
"Where is this friend's house of yours, old man?" Brian asked, beginning to become impatiant.j
"We are here." he said, stopping just outside of the gates of the Higurashi shrine.
Walking through the gates, he walked toward the well house where a single candle burned from within the little shelter.
When he knocked on the door, it opened and he stepped aside for the trainees to see who was inside.
They rushed in and surrounded the cloaked man who kneeled behind the candle.
"You are under arrest for breaking curfiew. Please come quietly." Brian said, his sword was the only one still in it's sheath.
"Kouga, why have you brought these guests?" Damien asked, darkness in his voice.
"They insisted on coming, Lord Damien." Kouga said, satisfaction in his voice.
Damien threw back his hood, letting his long hair fall free down his back.
The enforcers immediately dropped their swords and begged foregiveness.
"Brian, I belive you have already met Kouga, Lord of the wolf demon tribe." Damien gestured to Kouga who stood in the corner near the door.
"I am sorry to have mistaken your identity." he bowed to the wolf, the rest doing the same.
the one that had made the rude comment earlier was looking like he feared for his life.
Kouga couldn't help the light chuckle that came from his throat as he watched the man cower.
"Relax, i will not kill you tonight for enforcing your laws." Kouga said, watching them all visibly relax.
"Now, leave us and go back to your routes." Damien said, dismissing them.
They left, talking excitedly.
Brian had been appointed guard duty at the palace that night after the rounds were done.
He was appointed by order of Damien himself to make sure that noone got into Kagome's rooms, and that if she stirred, to send for him immediately.
He sat in the dark, on a chair beside the window watching the beauty on the bed breathe shallowly.
A song came from his mind and planted itself on his lips.
He began softly humming under his breath, and soon began singing softly, the haunting melody accentuating the calm darkness of the room.
"Lay down moonbeams, dear moon, that i may walk among the lilies and roses. Stones shining blinding white in the light shall guide my path, as i follow the moon across the sky. I am but a lonely child, protected by the fires of life, This is my refuge, in the circle of night.
"Let the walls come down around the tower, leaving me a way out. O moon, o moon, lay down moonbeams for me."
That was where the song ended, it ended because the creator disappeared before finishing it.
"Lay down the path for me to travel back to the tree of god, wake the hanyou, wake the youkai, for i will someday return. I run a long trail around the world, five hundred thousand times before i return, the seasons turn and turn again, until i am home. O moon, o moon lay down moonbeams for me, that i may reach the circle of night, and undo what had been done." Kagome finished the song.
She wasn't awake, though, so Brian just committed the words to memory and was silent until the next shift came to relive him at dawn.
Kouga sat on the floor of the Higurashi shrine, his back braced against the wall of the well.
"As you know, i have chosen Kagome as my bride. She is an interesting woman. Somehting concerns me, though, She has nightmares, people hurting her, she wakes screaming and ghasping for breath. I wish to know her past." Damien said, not looking at his ally.
"I know not of her past, but that she was found by my people when she was fifteen, she had no memory of her past, and we dared not try to get into her mind for fear that she would fatally injure herself as she had tried to when we had found her." Kouga said. Although he was lying, he decieved the demon.
"So, you know not of her past, then, other than that of the past four years?" Damien asked.
"Aye." Kouga said, looking at the dirt near his feet.
"If you find out who it is, tell me. I won't dig through her mind to open the memories, i wont cause her any harm." Damien said.
At this moment, Kouga felt a kind of warmth toward the demon that had slayed and enslaved most of the people he knew. He felt a sort of guilt, knowing that he could decive the demon so easily.
Then the moment passed when he remembered Akira's cold and headless body lying on the ground before him.
"I do not know, and when i go back to my lands, i will try to find out, but i cannot garantee an answer." he said, nodding at the demon before he tried to rise to his feet.
Damien jumped up and helped the old wolf to his feet.
"Maybe, you should retire old one." Damien suggested for the thousandth time.
"I will retire when i am dead, there is too many things for me to do until then." Kouga said, leaning on his cane.
When Kouga left, damien shook his head.
as he raced through the streets, stretching his stiff muscles, he thought of the song he had heard the guards singing on their nightly passage.
He realized that it was not finished, and made a mental note to ask about it.
When he arrived at the castle, he was in total darkness. he picked his way through the feild, avoiding all of the traps and spells as he walked.
Making a mental note to reinforce the guard here, he slipped into the castle and up to Kagome's rooms.
She was alone, it was dawn, and time for shift change.
He looked at her sleeping face as the sunlight played accross the floor to land on her face as the sun peeked above the horizon.
Her lids fluttered and she opened her eyes.
Clouded with sleep and warmth, her eyes were beautiful. he walked over to her and sat at her side, making sure not to disturb the sleeping Kitsune.
She looked at him and smiled.
Then she looked down at the clothes he wore and her expression didn't change, she only trailed her eyes to the kitsune, and tucked the blanket around the girl.
When she looked back up at him, he could see a ceartain peace in her mind.
"Kagome, it is time to eat, do you wish to eat with me?" He asked, his voice light and caring.
At her nod, he picked her up and carried her into his room.
They sat on the bed and ate breakfast in silence.
When they were finished, he watched her for awhile as she gathered their things together on a single tray.
"Kagome, I saw what you did yesterday, with Miko." he said, quietly.
She looked at him, confusion in her eyes flashed for a moment before it was replaced with fear.
"I thought it was a good thing that you know the house rules, and that you used them that way.. even after you were attacked." he mumbled the last few words.
she relaxed.
Sensing her fear subside, he continued. "I think we need more of your passion. That is what attracted me to you in the first place, your passion for life and freedom." he said, laying a hand on hers.
she didn't say anything.
The silence was uncomfortable, until she blinked. "Damien, tell me of how you came here." she said, a pleading look in her eyes.
"I was once a lowly snake demon, until my master transformed my body into that of a human, but i still had all of my powers and my lifespan. He sent me to retrieve a human woman, but i do not recall her name, now. When i brough her to him, he rewarded me with a sword.
"As the relationship of my master and the human progressed, she became pregnant with a child.
"When the boy was born, i was assigned to teach him. When he grew to the age of one, his father, my master, died, and the Hanyou's half brother tried to slay me.
"As i hid in the darkness, watching the two grow, i trained to defeat them and claim title to the world.
"in my progress, the hanyou was bound to a tree by a miko, and the same miko died.
"I watched as the years passed and then i was captured by a hanyou called Naraku.
"I escaped and trained alone in another plain of existance for almost half a century. Then i came back to where the hanyou was bound, and he was there with his brother, the one that had tried to destroy me in my younger years, and i turned them both to stone. After i had done this, nothing but Naraku stood in my way of ruling Japan, making it safe for all beings. I quickly gathered an army and destroyed the hanyou before i built my castle around the God tree."
Kagome listened to this, absorbed in the past of her enemy.
When she came to herself, he had been silent for a few minutes.
She sighed, and looked up at him in astonishment.
Damien was in the war room again, planning an attack on the rebels.
"This is one chance we will not pass up! We will destroy the scoundrels that kill our men and decieve my rule."
Damien stood in the middle of the room, pulling up maps of the surrounding area of mount Hiei.
When they were finished he gestured for Kiota to come over to him.
"Come through the forrest on the right instead of the left, i belive there is a spy among us." he whispered in her ear and turned back to contemplate the maps again.
Soon, he was alone.
he leaned against the wall, and, with little unease, fell into a light sleep.
It was midnight, and Miroku couldn't sleep. His dreams were troubled with visions of the past, and his mind was crowded with memories.
Miroku decided to walk around the courtyard.
He was a slave, but he was a personal slave of Damien, which gave him some authority.
He sat on one of the cold stone benches, the cold stone against his heated skin felt good.
He looked into the water at his reflection.
He looked the same as he had five hundred years ago.
He sat at the water's edge and closed his eyes, listening to the fish jump and the crickets sing.
Before he could go inside, a figure stepped from the shadows, making him jump.
"Miroku, could you not sleep?" damien asked.
Miroku shook his head.
He had many nights like this, and Damien allowed him to go into the garden at times to clear his head.
"Nor could I, this night." Damien looked up at the moonless sky.
Damien looked over at the statue of the hanyou, a frown crossing his features.
"What was this night to you, i wonder." he asked the statue. "Why can i not relax this night?"
He often came out to the statues and studied them, quietly observing them as vines crept over their bodies.
Kagome was standing in a dark feild, surrounded by sounds of a violent battle.
One person came into clear view, Kouga.
She saw an arrow aiming at him and she raced toward him, but was stopped by what felt like a wall.
Kouga sliced through another man and turned to attack another, clearly not noticing the arrow trained at him.
She saw as the owner released the deadly thing to fly through the air at the wolf.
It struck him in the throat.
He swirled around, blood gushing from his mouth and the hollow spear point of the arrow.
She screamed his mame as the world went black.
Damien was there when she started twisting and turning in her sleep.
"No. Please..No." she mumbled.
"Who hurts you, Kagome?" he asked her.
"No......not again....please...no." she mumbled.
"Tell me, who hurts you, Kagome?" he asked again.
"No....Not again.....KOUGA!!!" she screamed.
When her shaking subsided, he turned to the guard. "Prepare to attack the wolf demon Kouga." he whispered, careful of waking kagome.
he nodded and left.
Damien lay down beside her, on top of the covers, and held her.
When he woke up, he was alone.
He sat up, his senses reaching out for Kagome, as he looked around the room.
Then he realized that he was covered up.
He looked up as the nob twisted on the door and Kagome came in with a tray of food.
He relaxed, seeing that she was safe.
When she sat the tray down in front of him and crawled back into the bed beside him, he felt so contented.
"Thank you." He said, handing her her plate.
"I have to go deal with something in the western lands for a few days, i will be back soon." Damien said, "I will leave Miroku here to watch over you." he said, gesturing to his personal servant. "When i return, we shall wed. I will return with my wedding present to you." he said, as he swung up onto his horse and led his men into the setting sun.
Yup. I'm doing it again. i'm going to leave you in suspense for now.
Okay, now let's get on to other things.
Sayonara.
And second, I FINALLY GOT MY MUSIC BACK! YAY!!!
My cd player broke a while back and i had no other means of listening to my music other than by radio, and the only stations aroud here dont play anything worth listening to with a good beat. all they play is country, wich is good for any other time except for when i'm writing. wich means lack of inspiration.
Okay! now on with our little drama!
Kagome opened her eyes, grabbing her throat to make sure that it was still flawless.
When she looked around her, she saw that the room was filled with people.
Miko was crouched on the end of the bed, a worried frown creasing her face.
Kagome was still wide eyed and breathing hard as the crowd came forward.
Kagome didn't want them near her, didn't want them touching her.
She screamed when they reached the bed.
Damien heard her scream and raced to her rooms.
When he arrived, he saw many of the demons crowding around her.
he saw red.
Racing toward the crowd of viral demons, he slay them with one swing.
Kagome was curled into a fetal position against the pillows, tears streaming down her face.
As he reached near her, Miko jumped in front of his hand, her arms outspread, protecting her friend.
"Miko, move." he ordered her.
"No, how do i know that you are the real Damien?!" she growled ferally.
He untucked the chain from under his shirt, the one that glowed with a dark light.
She looked at it for a moment, then nodded and moved aside.
Damien touched Kagome's arm and winced as she swung her arm at his own, knocking it away.
"Who did this to you?" he asked, care in his voice.
When she didn't answer, he touched her arm again.
This time when she tried to knock him away, he caught her wrist and pulled her to him.
When she fell back asleep, his eyes showed rage.
Someone had hurt her, and now he would hurt them.
He called for the wolf demon Kouga.
Kouga was sitting outside of the gates, he and shippou and Jaken were alone, huddled against the cold as they fueled the fire.
When the gates opened and a runner came out, they all turned to watch him.
When the runner came towards them, Kouga stood on stiff knees to meet the young human.
"Yes?" Kouga asked, the back of his mind playing the old days when he ran faster than the wind.
"Lord Kouga..." The boy huffed, kneeling to catch his breath.
"Aye, i am he." Kouga waited patiently as the boy caught his breath.
"Lord Kouga, Master Damien wishes for your prescense, he says it is urgent." Then he stood, and turned, taking off at a slow jog as he took a drink from the flask hanging from his belt.
When he was gone, Kouga began to gather up his things.
"What do you think it means?" Shippou asked.
"I don't know, i honestly don't know." Kouga said as he walked toward the eastern gates of Tokyo.
Kouga walked slowly through the darkened streets.
There had been placed a curfiew on the city, hundreds of years ago, that said that no human nor demon was to be out after nightfall withought the proper liscense or registration.
Kouga walked openly through the streets.
Here, he was feared, for his land held the fire maden.
Enforcers passed him looking at him warily before moving on.
He was known as one of the world's feircest fighters, And was known to kill anyone he didn't like that crossed him.
suddenly, a band of Enforcers walked around a bend and stopped, facing him.
Kouga stared at them, confused glances aimed his way made him want to laugh.
These men and women were first years on the force and had never seen him.
Kouga watched with mild amusement as they all drew their swords.
"Sir, please go home, it is after curfiew and we would not wish to kill you." one of the men spoke at him
Kouga threw away the cane that he carried with him and straightened his back so that he stood his full five foot eleven.
Some of them shrunk back, but most of them stayed their ground.
"Sir, please go.."
"I have business with a friend, let me pass and no harm will come to you." Kouga interrupted him.
"Old man, noone could hurt us, at least not someone like you." one young demon retorted.
the others laughed.
Kouga started forward, picking up his cane as he walked by kicking it up to his hand.
He stepped up to the man that had spoken first.
"What is your name, young one?" he asked.
"I am Brian of the Lore clan." he said, looking him in the eye.
"Aye, tis a good clan. but i belive that you know not of who i am. I would like to impress upon you that my friend would not like me to be late to our meeting." He tried to brush past the man but he stopped him with a raised sword.
"Sir, who is your friend, that we may tell Damien of his actions." he asked.
"You know him." Kouga said, enjoying playing mind games with these children.
"What is his name?"
"As i have said, you know him." he said, wrapping his wrinkled hand around the blade of the sword.
Brian looked at the crazy old fool, he would be killed by the others if he wasn't carful, and Brian didn't want that to happen.
"Allow us to escort you then, to your friend's house." Brian said, not letting his sword move.
The old wolf nodded in assent, and led the way.
(sorry, i had to run outside through the pouring rain and throw a torn garbage bag over my dad's harley. i did it out of Kindness, not that he deserves any. and then my batteries went dead for my cd player, and i had to get them, and now i'm freezing by butt off even more than before, which is making my autrhitis act up even more which causes most of my typographical errors. Twitch twitch"
He went on a winding path through the city, taking roads that he knew the enforcers were on.
as he passed them, they nodded to him, but the first years mistook it as nods of approval.
He had done this to all of the first years since the curfiew was passed, taking them all to Damien, who played along with his game and met him in the Higurashi shrine, and every time that he called for him, he met him there.
When they passed the gates of the castle, he turned down the main road and went down that way, they had traveled for maybe fifteen minutes.
"Where is this friend's house of yours, old man?" Brian asked, beginning to become impatiant.j
"We are here." he said, stopping just outside of the gates of the Higurashi shrine.
Walking through the gates, he walked toward the well house where a single candle burned from within the little shelter.
When he knocked on the door, it opened and he stepped aside for the trainees to see who was inside.
They rushed in and surrounded the cloaked man who kneeled behind the candle.
"You are under arrest for breaking curfiew. Please come quietly." Brian said, his sword was the only one still in it's sheath.
"Kouga, why have you brought these guests?" Damien asked, darkness in his voice.
"They insisted on coming, Lord Damien." Kouga said, satisfaction in his voice.
Damien threw back his hood, letting his long hair fall free down his back.
The enforcers immediately dropped their swords and begged foregiveness.
"Brian, I belive you have already met Kouga, Lord of the wolf demon tribe." Damien gestured to Kouga who stood in the corner near the door.
"I am sorry to have mistaken your identity." he bowed to the wolf, the rest doing the same.
the one that had made the rude comment earlier was looking like he feared for his life.
Kouga couldn't help the light chuckle that came from his throat as he watched the man cower.
"Relax, i will not kill you tonight for enforcing your laws." Kouga said, watching them all visibly relax.
"Now, leave us and go back to your routes." Damien said, dismissing them.
They left, talking excitedly.
Brian had been appointed guard duty at the palace that night after the rounds were done.
He was appointed by order of Damien himself to make sure that noone got into Kagome's rooms, and that if she stirred, to send for him immediately.
He sat in the dark, on a chair beside the window watching the beauty on the bed breathe shallowly.
A song came from his mind and planted itself on his lips.
He began softly humming under his breath, and soon began singing softly, the haunting melody accentuating the calm darkness of the room.
"Lay down moonbeams, dear moon, that i may walk among the lilies and roses. Stones shining blinding white in the light shall guide my path, as i follow the moon across the sky. I am but a lonely child, protected by the fires of life, This is my refuge, in the circle of night.
"Let the walls come down around the tower, leaving me a way out. O moon, o moon, lay down moonbeams for me."
That was where the song ended, it ended because the creator disappeared before finishing it.
"Lay down the path for me to travel back to the tree of god, wake the hanyou, wake the youkai, for i will someday return. I run a long trail around the world, five hundred thousand times before i return, the seasons turn and turn again, until i am home. O moon, o moon lay down moonbeams for me, that i may reach the circle of night, and undo what had been done." Kagome finished the song.
She wasn't awake, though, so Brian just committed the words to memory and was silent until the next shift came to relive him at dawn.
Kouga sat on the floor of the Higurashi shrine, his back braced against the wall of the well.
"As you know, i have chosen Kagome as my bride. She is an interesting woman. Somehting concerns me, though, She has nightmares, people hurting her, she wakes screaming and ghasping for breath. I wish to know her past." Damien said, not looking at his ally.
"I know not of her past, but that she was found by my people when she was fifteen, she had no memory of her past, and we dared not try to get into her mind for fear that she would fatally injure herself as she had tried to when we had found her." Kouga said. Although he was lying, he decieved the demon.
"So, you know not of her past, then, other than that of the past four years?" Damien asked.
"Aye." Kouga said, looking at the dirt near his feet.
"If you find out who it is, tell me. I won't dig through her mind to open the memories, i wont cause her any harm." Damien said.
At this moment, Kouga felt a kind of warmth toward the demon that had slayed and enslaved most of the people he knew. He felt a sort of guilt, knowing that he could decive the demon so easily.
Then the moment passed when he remembered Akira's cold and headless body lying on the ground before him.
"I do not know, and when i go back to my lands, i will try to find out, but i cannot garantee an answer." he said, nodding at the demon before he tried to rise to his feet.
Damien jumped up and helped the old wolf to his feet.
"Maybe, you should retire old one." Damien suggested for the thousandth time.
"I will retire when i am dead, there is too many things for me to do until then." Kouga said, leaning on his cane.
When Kouga left, damien shook his head.
as he raced through the streets, stretching his stiff muscles, he thought of the song he had heard the guards singing on their nightly passage.
He realized that it was not finished, and made a mental note to ask about it.
When he arrived at the castle, he was in total darkness. he picked his way through the feild, avoiding all of the traps and spells as he walked.
Making a mental note to reinforce the guard here, he slipped into the castle and up to Kagome's rooms.
She was alone, it was dawn, and time for shift change.
He looked at her sleeping face as the sunlight played accross the floor to land on her face as the sun peeked above the horizon.
Her lids fluttered and she opened her eyes.
Clouded with sleep and warmth, her eyes were beautiful. he walked over to her and sat at her side, making sure not to disturb the sleeping Kitsune.
She looked at him and smiled.
Then she looked down at the clothes he wore and her expression didn't change, she only trailed her eyes to the kitsune, and tucked the blanket around the girl.
When she looked back up at him, he could see a ceartain peace in her mind.
"Kagome, it is time to eat, do you wish to eat with me?" He asked, his voice light and caring.
At her nod, he picked her up and carried her into his room.
They sat on the bed and ate breakfast in silence.
When they were finished, he watched her for awhile as she gathered their things together on a single tray.
"Kagome, I saw what you did yesterday, with Miko." he said, quietly.
She looked at him, confusion in her eyes flashed for a moment before it was replaced with fear.
"I thought it was a good thing that you know the house rules, and that you used them that way.. even after you were attacked." he mumbled the last few words.
she relaxed.
Sensing her fear subside, he continued. "I think we need more of your passion. That is what attracted me to you in the first place, your passion for life and freedom." he said, laying a hand on hers.
she didn't say anything.
The silence was uncomfortable, until she blinked. "Damien, tell me of how you came here." she said, a pleading look in her eyes.
"I was once a lowly snake demon, until my master transformed my body into that of a human, but i still had all of my powers and my lifespan. He sent me to retrieve a human woman, but i do not recall her name, now. When i brough her to him, he rewarded me with a sword.
"As the relationship of my master and the human progressed, she became pregnant with a child.
"When the boy was born, i was assigned to teach him. When he grew to the age of one, his father, my master, died, and the Hanyou's half brother tried to slay me.
"As i hid in the darkness, watching the two grow, i trained to defeat them and claim title to the world.
"in my progress, the hanyou was bound to a tree by a miko, and the same miko died.
"I watched as the years passed and then i was captured by a hanyou called Naraku.
"I escaped and trained alone in another plain of existance for almost half a century. Then i came back to where the hanyou was bound, and he was there with his brother, the one that had tried to destroy me in my younger years, and i turned them both to stone. After i had done this, nothing but Naraku stood in my way of ruling Japan, making it safe for all beings. I quickly gathered an army and destroyed the hanyou before i built my castle around the God tree."
Kagome listened to this, absorbed in the past of her enemy.
When she came to herself, he had been silent for a few minutes.
She sighed, and looked up at him in astonishment.
Damien was in the war room again, planning an attack on the rebels.
"This is one chance we will not pass up! We will destroy the scoundrels that kill our men and decieve my rule."
Damien stood in the middle of the room, pulling up maps of the surrounding area of mount Hiei.
When they were finished he gestured for Kiota to come over to him.
"Come through the forrest on the right instead of the left, i belive there is a spy among us." he whispered in her ear and turned back to contemplate the maps again.
Soon, he was alone.
he leaned against the wall, and, with little unease, fell into a light sleep.
It was midnight, and Miroku couldn't sleep. His dreams were troubled with visions of the past, and his mind was crowded with memories.
Miroku decided to walk around the courtyard.
He was a slave, but he was a personal slave of Damien, which gave him some authority.
He sat on one of the cold stone benches, the cold stone against his heated skin felt good.
He looked into the water at his reflection.
He looked the same as he had five hundred years ago.
He sat at the water's edge and closed his eyes, listening to the fish jump and the crickets sing.
Before he could go inside, a figure stepped from the shadows, making him jump.
"Miroku, could you not sleep?" damien asked.
Miroku shook his head.
He had many nights like this, and Damien allowed him to go into the garden at times to clear his head.
"Nor could I, this night." Damien looked up at the moonless sky.
Damien looked over at the statue of the hanyou, a frown crossing his features.
"What was this night to you, i wonder." he asked the statue. "Why can i not relax this night?"
He often came out to the statues and studied them, quietly observing them as vines crept over their bodies.
Kagome was standing in a dark feild, surrounded by sounds of a violent battle.
One person came into clear view, Kouga.
She saw an arrow aiming at him and she raced toward him, but was stopped by what felt like a wall.
Kouga sliced through another man and turned to attack another, clearly not noticing the arrow trained at him.
She saw as the owner released the deadly thing to fly through the air at the wolf.
It struck him in the throat.
He swirled around, blood gushing from his mouth and the hollow spear point of the arrow.
She screamed his mame as the world went black.
Damien was there when she started twisting and turning in her sleep.
"No. Please..No." she mumbled.
"Who hurts you, Kagome?" he asked her.
"No......not again....please...no." she mumbled.
"Tell me, who hurts you, Kagome?" he asked again.
"No....Not again.....KOUGA!!!" she screamed.
When her shaking subsided, he turned to the guard. "Prepare to attack the wolf demon Kouga." he whispered, careful of waking kagome.
he nodded and left.
Damien lay down beside her, on top of the covers, and held her.
When he woke up, he was alone.
He sat up, his senses reaching out for Kagome, as he looked around the room.
Then he realized that he was covered up.
He looked up as the nob twisted on the door and Kagome came in with a tray of food.
He relaxed, seeing that she was safe.
When she sat the tray down in front of him and crawled back into the bed beside him, he felt so contented.
"Thank you." He said, handing her her plate.
"I have to go deal with something in the western lands for a few days, i will be back soon." Damien said, "I will leave Miroku here to watch over you." he said, gesturing to his personal servant. "When i return, we shall wed. I will return with my wedding present to you." he said, as he swung up onto his horse and led his men into the setting sun.
Yup. I'm doing it again. i'm going to leave you in suspense for now.
Okay, now let's get on to other things.
Sayonara.