The Moon Hides Its Light from Me

FadedMoon

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, BUT I DO own those wonderful reviews my faithful pets have been sending me

Speaking of which… YALL HAVN'T BEEN FAITHFUL LATELY! What happened to all my faithful reviewers? T-T sits on the floor of a big golden hall with big golden pillars with two white envelopes floating down, containing two reviews

I shall write and weep at the same time… how depressing

Chapter 10

A Thousand Wounds

'Wh… Wha-aa…?' Kagome felt her heart start to pound. She was going to die now… she knew it… she was gonna die. She squeezed her eyes shut and prayed that it was just a bad dream, but when she opened her eyes, she was standing at the door a couple feet away from her own. Kagome blinked at the sliding door then down at the girl that smiled so happily back at her.

She gulped.

"Go on, Kagome-chan! Sesshoumaru-sama is waiting." The small girl pulled open the door and gave Kagome a small nudge.

Her heart pounded loudly against her chest as she felt sweat form on her forehead, then stepped inside.


"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin's voice rang out in the dark, vast, ominous room. Kagome stood there, her knees shaking while trying to fight the urge to run and hide.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, Kagome got better so she came to see you!" she said in a tone too happy for the amount of tension between the demon and miko.

'I'm gonna die… I'm gonna dieeee… OH MY GOSHHH! I'M GONNA DIE!' the voice in Kagome's head kept on repeating. 'Is this girl INSANE!' She peered down towards the grinning child by her side. She felt a nudge.

"Go on, Kagome! Tell him to get well! You're staying at his castle, anyhow…" Rin whispered all too loudly. Kagome gulped audibly. 'Wish him well! So what! So he can come and kill me!'

"Ahhh, get… um… well… soon, Sesshoumaru-sama…"the teenage girl spoke in a shaky voice.

Sesshoumaru, himself, was quite unsure of how to respond to all this. His worthless half-brother's wench was in his quarters wishing him good health, when it was her that put him in such a state in the first place. Even more, his 'adopted' child was being all giddy about it.

"Okay, Rin is going to go now. Bye-bye!" Kagome eyes grew wide as the little girl disappeared from her side. This was unbelievable. Being alone in the same room as someone who tried to kill her time and time again. The silence was killing her enough. Kagome desperately wanted to run, but she felt her body frozen in place. Her hands went clammy with cold sweat. If there was such a thing such a miracle, it would be great if it came right then.

Sesshoumaru watched the girl amusingly; she was nervous and scared half to death. The smell of fear was overpowering. But just to emphasize his hatred towards her, he slowly cracked his fingers. He could basically see her shaking.

Suddenly, the door flew open and a small, ugly green something tumbled in.

"Move aside you worthless human!" Kagome was shoved to the side as a toad youkai bowed in respect to his master lying on the spacious futon.

"Lord Sesshoumaru, I bring news of the dark priest!"

Sesshoumaru's unsure thinking was suddenly cleared when he heard his faithful servant speak of the dark priest. His golden orbs traveled to the brown and green lump of poop on the floor.(A/N: SORRYY! I just HAD to say that!) Usually, in the past (and sometimes now in the present), he would always give Jaken hell. Sesshoumaru was always telling him to do chores, telling him to kill some people not worth his own time, telling him to watch Rin, scaring him half to death, actually killing him then reviving him again just so he could kill him once more- such things gave the inu youkai some pleasure in such a routine life style. The amber orbs flicked over to the miko that stood in almost a trance-like state. Fear still radiated off her as she slowly regained her senses that she was, indeed, killing distance of Sesshoumaru.

"Proceed."

Jaken lifted his smushed face a few inches off the floor to look towards the place where his master lay.

"M'lord. The dark priest has been studying your Tenseiga and concluded that it was the only reason you were able to survive such a strong purifying arrow." Jaken shot a deadly glare at Kagome then went back to his humble position. "He says, m'lord, that whoever shot that arrow with the powers of a miko and took away your strength should be able to restore you back to your full health."

Kagome turned her fearful eyes to the servant on the floor when he had mentioned the miko part.

"He says to bring the priestess with you to his domain so he may be able to find the exact way for you to be healed."

Hurriedly, Jaken arose and scurried to his master's bedside. He held out a small black bottle to the demon.

"This, m'lord, is a potion that will give you strength to walk about and journey to the dark priest's home, and do such, but he says that he fears it will not be enough to give you the strength to fight. And it has some side effects…"

Sesshoumaru took the small black bottle, examined it, and then sniffed it. He turned his emotionless face towards the young miko causing her to back up a few steps to the wall.

"Meaning that …" Sesshoumaru concluded slowly, "…I will be no better off than a human…"

Jaken fell to the ground, smushing his already ugly face into the hardwood floor.

"M'lord, I fear that the potion that the dark priest has sent you will… turn you into a human."

The youkai lord said nothing. The toad's words rang through his head.

Turn you into a human. Turn you into a human.

Was this really how Fate was going to punish him- by turning him into the one thing that he despised and hated the most? How strangely cruel this mistress Fate was.

Nevertheless, it couldn't affect his decision- he would have to let down his pride and do what he had to do… to preserve his lands.

"Jaken. Give the miko some food. We will depart soon, and you will stay here and watch Rin."

The toad servant bowed even lower and rose. He scurried to Kagome, bidding her to follow him out of his master's quarters. Kagome shook herself out of her daze and quickly followed Jaken to her freedom from the looming death.

Once the two had left, Sesshoumaru slowly pulled himself to a sitting position. Pain felt its way all around his body as his arms shook from the lack of strength. He brought the black bottle up to eye level again, staring at it long and hard. It seemed safe enough, what would a dark priest have against him when he was paying him a great sum anyhow? Finally making up his mind, the demon lord unplugged the bottle and poured the potion into his mouth.


MY FAITHFUL PETS! (those who reviewed): Actually… I lost count of who reviewed… so I'll just do the last… uh. Wot? Twenty?

morlana – 1

Hot Shot Rose- 1

Blue Kami- 1

Kagome takes over the wor- 1

Comicfancat- 5

Sliver-Blue-eyes- 1

TheHikariWhoLovesBishis- 1

Sesshyangel- 1

Kagome- 3

Trina3- 2

AnonymousT- 3

Rem9- 1

cloudsephiroth- 1

akuhoshi- 4

Why must you suck so bad- 1

Spiffiness- 1

Kuramasgirl556- 1

lolliekittie- 1

and my most faithful pet is… drum roll COMICFANCAT!

And my second most faithful pet is… drum roll again AKUHOSHI!

Praise be to Kagome and AnonymousT (tiffooooo) also

Gives tons of hugs and kisses!

By the way… those two reviews I got at that one time… (BY UBER FAITHFUL PETS!) are from: akuhoshi & spiffiness (not counting mr-I-don't-like-sesshoumaru-but-inuyasha-because-sesshoumaru-is-all-mean-and-nasty-and-he-stole-my-teddy-bear! Aka: Why must you suck so bad, and if you haven't noticed… it IS an Inu/Kag for those who hate Sesshoumaru coffcoff tiffO coff well… at least for now it is… grins evilly)