Hey-llo, its me again. I'm finally finished with Chapter Two… been busy with Children of Heart …ack. My creativity is being sucked from me. Hope you like this chapter!!! R/R please

Disclaimer: Maybe... somewhere in an alternate universe of the fifteenth dimension, I do own Inuyasha, but, right here, right now… I don't

Death, Emotion, And Everything In Between

Chapter Two

           The girl jerked once more on the bed, a reaction to her injuries. I watched her. Bouen, my personal healer, had bandaged her as well as she could and added some chinseizai, but it was only temporary. She was dressed in a kimono one of my servants had given her. How ironic that her kimono was made out of silk and was colored a light beige, while her expression wasn't that of bliss. I hear footsteps coming closer and ever so closer. It must be her, checking on her patient. I move toward the door just as the knob begins turning. She enters.

           The Taka-youkai, known for her great sense of sight, hence the name that means 'seeing at a distance', entered the room with a swift motion and a lot of grace. I couldn't expect any less from one of my personal servants. She looked as though she was gliding on air. I look at the girl, but Bouen blocks my view. Knowing not to interrupt, I moved myself leftward and was granted a full view of her. Bouen was checking her pulse. She turned to me.

           "Everything is fine. The only problem I have encountered is the immense pain she will receive once the painkillers have stopped working. Nothing will help her, since my supply is completely diminished. I am afraid that a fragile thing like her will go crazy."

           "How long will they last?"

           "A few more hours."

           "She will not be in the castle by then. Thank you, Bouen."

           "My life is useful only to serve you," she said as she retreated from the room. I look at the women-child. My brother had brought such shame unto my family he doesn't deserve to live. Too bad, it was not I, who had or has the pleasure of killing him, but a lowly youkai, whose name I don't know. But such is the fate that the hanyou deserves.  I look at Her again, it is Time she woke up, and after all, I have so little Time to waste on the likes of Her. She will tell me what I need then 'come insane when pain controls all of her thoughts.

           I kneel down and grab her by the shoulders. I make her sit up, causing her to suddenly awake. Her eyes looked as if they couldn't focus, and her head drooped. In order to help her focus, I hold her head firmly with my hands and stare into her eyes, so she would center on my own. Her mouth tried to form words, once again. Finally, sound came of the wretched girl, and I made out a plea. Water. She wanted water.

           I gesture to a servant who stands in a corner of the room. A moment later, a cup of cool water was pressed to her lips by her shaking hands, accompanied by my servant's calm ones. When she had her fill, she tried to talk again, and this time, it seemed it was much easier for her because I could actually understand her.

           "Where?" she paused. "Inuyasha?"

           I shrugged. "I can not possibly know, but my guess is that he is dead or at least dying." I grin. She looks away, no tears in her eyes. No Emotion. Does she have cold in her heart as well?

           "Good." She turned to me. "As long as he doesn't know and," she paused, "will never know."

           Why she is talking to me, about such pointless things, I do not know. Even with painkillers, it must hurt to talk, such a frail ningen, would be more worried about herself. And yet, it seems, she doesn't notice the knives that pierce her throat, the needles that keep her from breathing properly. There is too much Silence. Wasted Time.

           "I need to know what happened to my brother." I urge her.

           "Ah." She said as if she knows Something. "But you already know."

           "Yet, I do not know the details."

           "What details?" she coughed twice. "Details are not important."

           "I shall state what is and isn't important, now tell me who the killer of my brother was."

           "I killed him." She said, looking into my eyes. It was strangely unnerving. They were cold, colder than ice on sweating skin. Freezing is not the right word for it; I do not even believe I know one that would be even slightly good enough to serve as a feeble description. This cold made me laugh, a bitter laugh.

           "You are brave, to try to defy this Sesshoumaru." I closed the distance between her bed and my body. "I smell no blood on your hands. And if you want proof, you love him too much."

           "Love?" She scoffed. "I did not Love that demon, the one that came close to killing me. Inuyasha did not miss me! I automatically made a shield from my purification powers, setting him of course as well as scorching his hand! No, Sesshoumaru. I did not love Him." She grabbed her throat and I signal for another glass of water to be brought. The sign. It was beginning. Soon, the painkillers would stop working. She drank the water as I studied her. Could she be telling the truth or lying to this Sesshoumaru once more? I could tell if she were lying or not, if she had any Emotion left within her, but none showed. So how am I to know?

           She finished her water, and resumed talking. "I killed him Sesshoumaru, or I had helped in any case. The Inuyasha I loved. He was the one that would do anything to protect me, even risk his own life. The day before Kikyou died, the day before the last fragments were collected from the decayed body of Naraku, he mated with the walking clay. I did not care; after all, that is what I wanted. For Him to be happy. But when She died, when the Shikon and my soul returned to my body, he fell into a state of depression. Then what was the whole point of my sacrifice?"

Her eyes widened and a flash of light flooded the room. When I regained my vision, she was still sitting on the bed as if nothing had happened, as if it was normal for her to be surrounded by light. Then, suddenly her body jerked and she fell into a fit of coughs. She covered her mouth with her hand, and once again, my servant ran to her with a cup of water. She refused it and kept coughing. A moment later she stopped and wiped her lips. She accepted the cup with one hand and drank the water. Meanwhile, probably hoping I would not notice, she wiped her hand on the blanket. She forgot that the blanket is white, and her blood is red. I pretend I do not notice. But the last sign had occurred, she should be feeling pain like she never felt before. And yet, she acts as if nothing happened.

 "I realized there simply was no point. I had made a sacrifice without a point. And still I did not care. You see Sesshoumaru. I shouldn't have made that sacrifice. Your brother. Your true brother died long before he ever let go of that sword." She said, piercing me with her glare.

"I see" I nod, as if in agreement. She stops looking into my eyes to submerge into another fit of bloody coughs. "You are no longer needed." I say as she stops coughing and smears more Human blood onto my satin sheets. "It is time for you to leave." I say. I do not understand how she can stand the pain and show no emotion, but no matter her state of health, I have no more time left to waste on her. Silence. Because she has helped me, it is only proper for me to escort her out of the castle and to the nearest village. I have to stop wasting time. I have to stop Silence before it turns into Death.

"You wish for me to leave?" she sad, with all knowing eyes.

"You do not know the one that killed Inuyasha. So, why should I keep you here?"

"Inuyasha killed himself Sesshoumaru. Details are not important."

"If I had killed Inuyasha, it would have been much easier for me to fill out his death records. But now, I have to search for some kind of clue of a demon that had been the closest to killing Inuyasha, because I haven't."

"Then write down my name as his killer. The Inuyasha who you think is dead has died long ago before the monster did. If he is dead."

"I cannot wench, for you did not kill him physically. Just started a domino effect."

"Don't you see? The dominoes are details, and they aren't important. It is who that knocks them down that is."

"And yet, you are blind to the fact that you are merely a domino as well."

"Nani?"

"Who knows when Inuyasha's fate was triggered to collapse? And that is why, Human, details are important. You, domino, are no longer needed." I said and I pick her up from the bed. She did not even grimace though I am quite sure I touched some of her injuries. Her face remained blank, in the state of confusion. I start to walk slowly. Then, seeing no reaction from her, I quicken my pace to that of an average running speed for Humans. Is it possible that she really didn't suffer any severe injuries? No, Bouen would not lie. And Bouen cannot be mistaken. Maybe, the girl is already crazy. The pain is just too much for her small brain to calculate. Maybe, pain is invading all of her senses, so she would not notice it until it is too late. Maybe.

Because there is still no response from the girl once I reach the forest that lay past my castle gates, I quicken my pace to a faster one, still on the Human level. I am now very disturbed by the Silence, so I switch to a low Demon Level. Not wanting Death to come, I run faster and faster and finally break through the dense wilderness to the village in which the Girl would be staying. If my servants have done what I had commanded them to do, a home had been prepared for the Girl and a housekeeper assigned for the time being.

In my haste, I forgot, for one of the first times in my life, to be notified of the location of the house I had asked for. I was saved this time, I can admit, by my servants, for the assigned housekeeper, one of my closest servants, had her scent in the village and I focused on it. Kashiwagi. I found her. The momonga youkai was quietly waiting on the steps of a respectable-looking house.

"Irasshai, Sesshoumaru-sama," she said to me, with warm eyes. "So, this is the injured Girl. Are the painkillers still in effect?"

"No."

"Douyatte?" she asked as if there was some reason.

"Dounikakounika." I replied. Worry filled her face.

"How is she expressionless?"

"Ask her." I lower my gaze to the girl who still had a blank look on her face. She didn't meet my eyes this time. As if she were currently in her own world. I, being very ungentle, dropped her to the floor. She hit the ground hard, her beige kimono not softening her fall, followed by silky strands of her ebony hair. She lay limp for a moment, and then gathered herself into a sitting position. Her eyes were still cold and expressionless, but her mouth twitched into a second-rate smile. She directed the smile at me.

"Pain. I feel it of course, but as long as my brain doesn't understand it, I can simply ignore it."

"Lying to yourself is not good."

"I know, but it is the only way to deal with it. Crying never helped me previously and talking always fails. Lying is the best thing for a poor useless domino girl like me." She said in a sarcastic tone as she smiled again. Her future servant looked more worried than before.

"She is sane." I try to assure her, as well as convince myself.

"Sesshoumaru," her tone more serious and cold, "don't act like you know me. The only people that ever did are dead, and the only other ones that half understood me, aren't born yet. You are not in any of these two categories. Shimekiru." This enraged me even more. How dare she! Perhaps she isn't sane at all. Because of my unsure-ness, I let it slide. A mistake? I do not know.

I turn my back on this women-child, thinking I wouldn't see the likes of her ever again. She might not even know who she is, after all, I glimpse back for a fraction of a second. She sits on the ground, in a silk, beige kimono, limply following my every move with Dead as well as Silent eyes.

ITS FINISHED!!! Hmm.. did I keep the same tense… -.-; T_T I DON'T KNOW Anyway, R/R

Lots of Vocabulary this time, sorry, I couldn't help myself ^.~

Bouen: Seeing at a distance

Chinseizai: Painkiller

Taka: Hawk

Youkai: Demon

Ningen: Human

Nani: What

Kashiwagi: Oak tree

Momonga: flying squirrel

Irasshai: Welcome

Douyatte: How is it so?

Dounikakounika: Somehow

Shimekiru: shut up, the problem is, I don't know if it means shut up in slang, or in the literal form.

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Thank You, Kagomesirene, my very first reviewer!!!

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