Yin and Yang... Two half's of One Whole...
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Chapter one: Farewell
Previously:
Sesshoumaru just looked at her hand and then back at her smiling face, all the while with a cold emotionless face plastered on. He then gave a scoff like grunt and walked right past her. Almost knocking her down when he pushed her out of his way with his shoulder.
Kagome glared angrily at his retreating back. Hoping that she would somehow bore holes into it.
'Stupid, cold arrogant, jerk!' She thought, still staring at him with her death glare.
Finally giving up, she sighed and went after him, almost tripping in the process because of her long kimono. Coming to a stop as soon as she was at his right side.
'Well,' She thought as she looked up at him and then back ahead to where they were going, which was a small shop to find him some clothes for the time being. 'This is what I get for having such a good heart I guess.'
She then once again looked up at him but then bent down her head to look at the ground, as a slight blush spread itself across her cheeks. Because, as soon as her eyes landed on his face, there was one golden eye staring back at her from the corner with its cold essence.
'Well, I guess it was worth it to be able to have saved those beautiful golden eyes from being shut for all eternity.'
Note: ' ' Are the characters thinking and the italic is Nozomi speaking to Kagome.
Now:
The walk to the small cloth shop was long and silent. Well, that was how Kagome felt. She thought that even if the small shop was just twelve shops away from the auction cathedral, it felt as though it was really twelve miles away with such a stoic man accompanying you to it.
'Well, it's not like I've even tried to make conversation the past few minutes.' She thought to herself. Silently nodding to herself in agreement. She then looked up at him and saw that he was still staring straight ahead. Oblivious to the happenings of the rest of the towns rushed activity.
Then it drawled to her of what had happened before in the entrance of the auction cathedral. How rudely he had treated her when she introduced herself and she even stuck her hand out in greeting, but all she received from the ungrateful youkai, was a weird stare, him going passed her, and almost knocking her down in the process when the side of his arm contacted harshly with her shoulder.
'Argh! I should just not talk to him at all for what he did before!' She thought angrily, but was unaware that she was also showing her anger physically on her face.
Don't you think that, that was what he wanted? A melodic voice inside of her head said.
That maybe he wanted for you to stay quiet for as long as he was able to make you angry and that he somehow knew you would not talk to him because you would think that that would be punishment?
Kagome, at hearing the melodic womanly voice, suddenly felt frightened of what could have entered through her well drawn up mental barriers from her miko training.
'Who are you, what do want, and how did you get through my well put up mind barriers?'
She asked frighten yet seriously, determined to find the answers to her questions.
Sheesh! Have you truly forgotten about me so quickly? You do have the worst memory in history! The voice responded with a slight chuckle in the end.
'What are you talking about? Are you saying that we have met before?'
Why of course we have, Kago-chan.
'When?'
When you were only but a child.
'Huh?'
Sheesh! Have you truly become that dense over the past few years that you blocked me out?
'...'
sigh I guess that was a yes.
'Hey! I never said yes or no!'
Don't interrupt! Like I was saying, I am a figment of your imagination. I was created after your dear mother pasted on. You named me, Nozomi. You named me that because–
'Because you were my hope after my mother died.' Kagome thought sadly.
Yes, that is correct.
'But, why did I block you out?'
At the moment, I cannot explain that to you. I shall explain tonight when we meet in your dream.
'But why not now?'
Because your about to fall flat on your face, my dear. Nozomi said with a rich chuckle in the end.
'What?'
And just as Nozomi said, her foot contacted with a small yet large rock. In result, making her lose her balance and head straight for the ground.
In reaction, Kagome stuck her arms out in front of her to stop her face from contacting directly with the ground.
'Well at least my face will be safe.' She thought with closed eyes as she awaited for the pain to start railing up her arms and the rest of her body. But, to her surprise, the pain never came.
So, she slowly and cautiously opened her eyes and looked up. Only to be met by cold emotionless golden eyes. She felt as though she had been lost in those beautiful golden suns. As though they had hypnotized her with their cold essence.
"Aren't you going to straighten up, human?" Came the rich deep voice that belonged to the man with the golden suns and the one whom had just saved her.
"Uh..." Was all Kagome could say before Sesshoumaru scoffed and let his arms drop back at his side. Making her almost fall, again.
"Hey!" Kagome yelled at his retreating back. But he of course did not listen and kept walking until he got the entrance of the small clothes shop that they were going to and stopped turning to her, obviously knowing that if he entered the shop, they would think that he were there to rub something.
Still feeling aggravated, Kagome just huffed and walked to the shop, past him, and into the shop. All the time fuming for being so stupid and not watching where she was going before. Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru just followed. Not thinking about anything but about why he had saved the human from falling and making a fool of herself.
'It does not matter anyway.' He thought cooly. 'I shall soon be rid of her tonight when I escape.'
A/N: In my fic, Sesshoumaru always keeps his cool emotionless voice. Even in his thoughts. End A/N
As soon as they entered the shop, they took of their shoes before stepping on the well polished wooden floor. They then fully entered the shop going through a curtain, Kagome leading the whole time to Sesshoumaru's displeasure, and ended up in a room full of different kinds of colored silk and different sorts of beautiful kimonos of all kinds.
"Why Kagome-san," An elderly voice said as its owner came into view from the back to greet them. "What brings you here to my humble shop? Do you need a kimono made for that lovely figure of yours?" The old maiden said with a smile upon her wrinkled face.
"Moushi kaneru Takumi-san, but the clothes that I need are not for me. They are for my friend here, Sesshoumaru. He is a youkai." Kagome said politely to the old woman standing in front of her.
Takumi then looked over to Kagome's left and all she saw was the mid section of someone's stomach. So the old woman looked up and was surprised to see a very tall and very handsome, youkai standing right in front of her.
"My, Kagome what a very handsome young man you have there." The old maiden said, squinting her little beady eyes to get a better look at the man that could resemble a tower compared to her.
Sesshoumaru just brought a well shaped eyebrow up in question but then noticed that the woman could not see him very well. So he let out a mental sigh, and bent down far enough so that the old woman could see him better.
As soon as he did this, Takumi, let out a frightful scream and backed away. Horrified at what she saw.
"Iie, what do you want of me, demon!" The old woman said completely horrified to have seen a youkai in her shop.
"Do not be so foolish, human." Sesshoumaru began after straightening out his posture. "If you were paying closer attention to what the girl said I would not have to bend over so that your weak mortal eyes could see that I am not an ordinary being. Much less a human." He finished with venom dripping off the word 'human'.
"Child," Takumi began still having her eyes on Sesshoumaru in case he did anything 'suspicious'. "Is he the one that you wish clothes to made for?"
Kagome had been stupefied, after seeing Sesshoumaru bend over slightly so that Takumi could see him clearly. But then, as soon as Takumi finished with her question, she came back from her stupor.
"Um... Hai, Takumi-san." Kagome said quickly a bit embarrassed for spacing out. "He is my new servant and I wish for you to make him a new pair of clothes, for our travels back to my family's home."
"Ah, yes." The old woman said coming closer to the two. "What kind of clothes do wish for me to make for him?" Takumi asked as she began to lead them to the back room where her measuring tools and things she would need to make clothes were at.
"Well, anything comfortable for our long awaited journey." Kagome said as she followed the old seamstress to the back room where she did her work. Knowing that Sesshoumaru was following from behind.
"Ah, I see." Takumi said in acknowledgment. "But why do you do need comfortable clothes if your family shrine is just outside the village shops? And you also have the carriage that your father gave to you and Kikyou to use."
"I need comfortable clothes made for him because Kikyou took the carriage to go with Inuyasha. Also, I am not going to the shrine directly. I am going to go and visit my old miko trainer, Lady Kaede." Kagome explained as they finally reached the back room.
"Now I understand." Takumi said nodding her silvery grey head.
She then turned her misty brown eyes toward Sesshoumaru, who was quiet the whole time, and beckoned him over. "Please, young demon, I need you to come here so that I may take your measurements." She said when he wouldn't come the first time she signaled to him.
Finally, Sesshoumaru came to stand in front of her, brushing past Kagome in the process. Sesshoumaru knew that the woman was a seamstress and so he decided to do as she said until he had his new pair of clothes. He needed them if he was going to escape soon. Plus, he was not about to keep walking around in the filthy rags that his 'captors' had provided for him.
"Now, I need for you to spread out you arms so that I may take their measure and the rest, leave to me." The old seamstress said with a smile.
Sesshoumaru again did as he was told. Each time telling himself that it was only temporary.
'Well, at least until I escape from this human onna tonight.' He thought as a ghost of a smirk played across his lips. While he was thinking about his glorious escape, Takumi had thanked him and left the room to go get a stool so that she could take the measurements for the top layers and the haori.
A/N: I went and investigated and found out that before one adds the haori in a samurai's kimono there are three under layers. Oh and yes, the kimono that Sesshoumaru is about to adorn will be a samurai kimono. End A/N
Takumi finally came back and put the stool in back of Sesshoumaru and started measuring from his back all the way down to his hip for the haori and the inner layers. Counting in specific lengths from the top of his back all the way the bottom. Takumi sometimes forgetting where she left off and asking Sesshoumaru if he could remember the last number or on what section she was last measuring.
'Argh! This is going to take longer than what I thought it would.' Sesshoumaru thought a bit frustrated with the situation he was in, but soon got himself in line and even scowled himself for getting out of character like that for such a petty little thing.
Meanwhile, Kagome had long ago left to wait for him in the front of the shop where a human servant girl had brought her warm tea. She had been wondering what she would do with Sesshoumaru as soon as they got to her home, the great Higurashi shrine that her family was known for and its mysteries.
'Hmm,' she began to think while taking a sip of her warm tea. 'Maybe I can have him as my personal guard.'
'No,' She thought as she put her tea down and went outside to a small back garden that Takumi had. 'I cannot do that. I have decided that instead I'll let him go on the way to Kaede's. Besides, I only bought him so that I could save him from being executed at sunrise.' She began as she sat down in a bench that was next to a small Japanese style pond. 'I never really had any intentions in keeping him anyway. Heh, he's probably too dangerous to keep anyway.'
Kagome sat there staring at the pond thinking of nothing in particular for the rest of the day. Until it was about sunset, Takumi called her over to see how the samurai's kimono fit Sesshoumaru. Kagome smiled at the old woman's enthusiasm and followed her to the backroom where Sesshoumaru was finishing putting on the kimono.
Kagome was stunned out of her mind to say the least after looking at how even more elegant and handsome Sesshoumaru looked in the kimono.
'If I thought he looked like an angel before,' Kagome began as she looked at his figure up and down. Drinking in how beautiful he looked. 'Then now he must have turned into a god and the most beautiful one at that.'
Sesshoumaru had on an elegant black silk haori with three white silk under layers. The haori had outlined silver hexagons with silver sakura blossoms in the inside of the hexagons. That were on a corner of the long sleeves and in the shoulder blade of the left shoulder. The sash or obi of the kimono was silver with slightly thick black lines going around it. The hakama's that he wore were a dark gray that slowly turned black as soon as it reached the bottom of the hakama's. At the moment he was not wearing any shoes but Kagome could see that off in the corner there were a pair of leather boots to match his attire.
'Hmm, Takumi-san must have sent someone to go get those.' Kagome thought but shrugged it off.
She then noticed that Sesshoumaru must have taken a bath while the seamstress prepared the kimono because all the dirt and smudges that adorned his face were washed clean. She also noticed that his hair was brought up into a low ponytail by a black silk ribbon. That was when she also noticed that in the back of the haori there was a rather large silver inu that looked to be howling to a white silver crescent moon.
'That must be him in his full form. He must have asked Takumi if she could add it. Oh well, it's his outfit not mine.'
"So, Kagome-sama," Takumi began as she looked up at Kagome with her beady little eyes and a smile spread across her face showing off the gaps she had from fallen teeth. "What do you think of my master piece?"
"I think you did another fine job, Takumi-san. Thank you." Kagome said sticking out a bag full of gold coins for the old seamstress to take.
"No, Kagome-sama, Thank you." Takumi replied taking the bag of gold from her hands.
Takumi then guided them to the front of her shop where both Kagome and Sesshoumaru put on their shoes and said their good-byes as Takumi waved them off.
It started to dark and they were heading out into the lush forest to where Kaede's hut was located deep within the forest. Safe from any attacks and loud villagers. Where she lived with her granddaughter and grandson, Sango and Kohaku. Who was also a dear friend of Kagome's.
"Human, why do you need to go into the forest at this time of night?" Sesshoumaru finally spoke while keeping his gaze straight ahead.
"Because," Kagome began as she too kept her gaze straight ahead. Alerted if anything decided to pop out of the forest and greet them. "I need to go and retrieve a few herbs from Kaede and finish the last bit of my training." She said seriously.
"Plus," She again began, this time in a happier tone and her eyes were looking up at him. "I needed a private and human-free place to let you go."
That caught Sesshoumaru's full attention. "Nani? Why do you need to set me free if you just spent a great deal of money on me?"
'Not that I minded. I was going to escape anyway.'
"Because, I really only bought you so that you did not get executed. It is my duty as a miko to save a life whenever I get the chance to. Human or Youkai." She added quicky before he could protest.
"Hmph, you know that can get you killed on of these days." Sesshoumaru said coldly as he again averted his eyes on the path they were going to.
'Not that I care.'
"I know. It's just that is the way I see it. Heh, plus, if it does get me killed then at least I will know that I died doing what was right." She responded as she once again had her eyes glued to the path.
An hour later they finally got to the clearing that marked they were only a few feet away from Kaede's hut. Stopping in the middle of the clearing, Kagome turned to Sesshoumaru.
"Well, this is as far as I need for you to accompany me." She began. "Now, you can go and do as you please. Just this time," She said while looking up directly into his eyes. "Don't get caught."
Sesshoumaru then just scoffed and turned to another direction and began to walk off.
"Hey! If you need anything, come and find me!" Kagome yelled at his retreating back.
"Farewell, Sesshoumaru." She said and then turned the opposite direction to head to Kaede's hut. Truly hoping that he will never again need her help...
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Well that concludes the real chapter one. I hope that you liked it. Keep in mind that this is not the real end. That it is only the beginning. The next chapter shall be up within a week or so.
Oh! I almost forgot!
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Cheer and Applause as Lady Liz makes her appearance
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