The Moon Hides Its Light from Me

FadedMoon

Disclaimer: I've finally come to terms with the fact that I don't own Inuyasha or Sesshoumaru… BUT WHO CARES AS LONG AS YOU DON'T OWN THEM EITHER! MWAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAA!

Gomen. I haven't updated since… since… wow… over a year… I haven't updated since forever… but yeah. I have no clue why, but I had like 0 inspiration to write anything about Inuyasha and not to mention lots of schoolwork. BUT! SCHOOLS OUT FOR NOW! SO COME TO ME MY INSPIRATION! stands with arms open wide as a silent breeze blows by and tumbleweeds round about … nvm then. Enjoy the first chapter to come out in over a year.

Chapter 11

To Be Human Is To Be

"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.


Kagome knelt before a small table with an assortment of foods placed upon it. Blinking, she stared at the food blankly, trying to realize that she had survived being alone in the presence of Sesshoumaru without getting killed, not once, but twice. The astonished miko shook herself out of her trance and tried to focus her mind on eating or else Sesshoumaru might come and actually kill her. The several dishes and baskets that had been set out contained six bread buns, three nectarines and carrots, and two pieces of cheese and a cooked fish. Kagome blinked at the live food pyramid waiting for her to consume it.

'Wow,' Kagome thought to herself, 'I guess Sesshoumaru likes to eat healthy.' She picked up some food and began absent-mindedly chewing. 'Still, I don't understand… Am I actually going to be traveling with Sesshoumaru to this place so he can get better? What will happen to me after that? He's probably going to pull out that other sword of his and chop me in half! No! I can't let him get better.' Kagome shook her head in frustration, 'But I put him in this situation… because he saved me...' Kagome's thoughts trailed off as images of their encounter at the well replayed in her mind.

"There has to be another way…" the girl thought aloud.

"And there will be once we get there."

Kagome spun around to see a young man towering over her and an unreadable expression on his face.

"Eh?" was all that came from Kagome.

'Who is this person?' the young girl wondered to herself. There was nobody else here that had spoken to her other than Rin, Jaken, and Sesshoumaru. She had never seen this person before.

'Wait… what did he just say? "once we get there"?' Kagome re-examined the young man again.

The man was quite handsome, Kagome had to admit- so handsome that he was HOT. The high school girl felt her heart flutter. He had long black hair, so dark that it seemed to consume all light that fell upon it. His eyes were a dark grey, though they had a hint of gold to them. He stood at a nice height and had a good build. His skin was pale and looked soft and smooth. However… he looked a lot like Sesshoumaru.

"Wh-Who are you?" Kagome stuttered.

The handsome young man had a hint of annoyance flickering in his dark grey eyes.

"You really are quite slow, human," he scoffed at her and walked past her to grab some food off the table.

Kagome was shocked. She tried to say something but her voice wouldn't work. Sesshoumaru watched the girl as she obviously was trying to piece the pieces of the puzzle together.

"Idiot girl, don't you remember that potion that I took?" he eyed her, annoyed. Kagome looked a bit lost, then slowly, she nodded her head.

'So that's what happened. This man is Sesshoumaru… as a human?'

That's when Kagome noticed it- he had two arms.

"Your arm…"

The man smirked.

"Yes… It would seem that being a weak human had given this Sesshoumaru my arm back."

The human version of Sesshoumaru had lost the armor and was now wearing a simple white robe. While munching on some bread, the now-human demon stood again and walked over to where Jaken was standing. The toad youkai stood holding a bag and two swords. Kagome gulped.

'Swords…?'

Sesshoumaru wanted to roll his eyes. This girl was so obviously afraid that he didn't even need his youkai senses to tell him that. However, he wanted to play with her a bit more…

"Jaken," Sesshoumaru motioned for his little frog minion as he kept his eyes on the frozen miko, "the dark priest never said anything about bringing the miko there aliveor dead, did he?"

Kagome audibly gulped and her eyes widened as the now-human youkai lord emphasized the word 'dead'. Sesshoumaru smirked inwardly at her terrified reaction, but the toad didn't notice.

"M'lord, the dark priest did say that it would be best to keep her alive, even though the Tenseiga could revive her once you arrived."

Sesshoumaru resisted the urge to beat down the toad next to him and looked at the young girl kneeling on the floor.

"Let us depart now, since you're done eating." Kagome looked surprised at his command.

"Wha- but I didn't…"

Sesshoumaru stared down at the girl, "If you had enough time to sit there with an idiotic expression on your face, then you've had enough time to finish eating." He turned to leave. "If you cause even the smallest hassle while we make our way to the Northern lands… I'll kill you."

Kagome stared after Sesshoumaru with bugged-out eyes, and then with the realization of the murderous intent behind his words, she scrambled onto her feet and raced after him.

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Exhausted from walking so long, she wheezed as she climbed the steep, rocky hill after Sesshoumaru. All her hopes and plans of escaping were crushed when she realized that he always kept at least one eye on her. She glanced up ahead and saw him steadily climbing the boulder covered slope.

'Sheesh! If he wants to get there as soon as possible for that dark priest to heal him, he could at least give me a hand.' Kagome thought unappreciatively, 'Then again, if we get there faster…'

Her thoughts trailed off as she stopped from her long and tedious trek. The raven-haired man stopped and turned around looking at the girl with an unreadable expression.

"Keep walking." Kagome gaped at the back of the figure as it turned around again to continue along its way up to the top of the hill. She couldn't believe how rude this man was. A look of anger passed over her usually happy features as she glared at the Sesshoumaru's back.

"There is no point in glaring at me like that," he spoke without turning around, "But if it will help, I will gratefully remove some of your body parts. And I am sure you will miss them." (A/N: From Kill Bill XD)

Kagome stunned at how casually he spoke those words. She stood there for a couple of seconds until she remembered his last command and began racing up the hillside with the renewed energy from her fear of his wrath.

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Kagome collapse onto the dirt floor just as the sun was setting. She couldn't go any further. Her legs felt as weak and wobbly as jello flan. She knelt on the ground as she breathed heavily. She knew Sesshoumaru would be mad, but she didn't care. She couldn't go on anymore.

She heard the dirt crunch as a pair of black cloth shoes approached her. She closed her eyes and prayed for mercy then looked up. To her surprise, the human-youkai looked worn out himself, but calm.

"Tired already?"

Kagome looked back down on the ground. She might as well stand up to him if he tried to make her go any further. Painfully, she tried to push herself off the ground when she felt a hand lightly pressing her head. Surprised, she looked up again.

"Don't push yourself anymore. There's no reason to."

Sesshoumaru dropped his hand and began to walk away.

"Don't kid yourself. I have no concern for you. But if I didn't stop you, you would have probably kept going then fall over and die. And if that happened, I wouldn't be able to return to my original form."

Kagome wanted to beat the living and dead crap out of him. But of course, since her chances were already one out of a thousand, trying to beat a human Sesshoumaru up when she was exhausted has the chances of one out of a million. The miko sighed.

"We'll stop here for tonight. Get some rest- we're leaving at daybreak."

With that being said, Sesshoumaru turned around and walked off into the forest.

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Kagome stretched her arms out as she let out a huge yawn. Her legs were in massive pain.

Although she was very athletic, her legs were no match for walking for days. She didn't want to get up. However, just as she settled down for another long nap, she realized that the sun was already up.

'Oh no!'

Kagome sat back up again, looking around for the Sesshoumaru. She gulped.

'Where is he?' Kagome carefully eyed her surroundings, 'Didn't he say we were leaving at daybreak? It's probably almost 10 o'clock by now.'

She shuddered. What if Sesshoumaru came back and began tearing off her limbs as a punishment for oversleeping? She didn't want to die yet. She was too young to die!

'Wait. Sesshoumaru can't kill me. He NEEDS me to be alive… well until we get there. Freshly killed?' Kagome shook the bad thoughts out of her mind, 'But if he needs me to be alive… he wouldn't have just left me here… He'll definitely come back here for me.'

The miko gave a sigh. She was starving and her stomach was loudly reminding her. She would just have to wait for Sesshoumaru to come back then. She settled herself down to wait.

'He better not take too long.'

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Thirty minutes later, Kagome found herself still sitting there, waiting.

"I wonder what happened," Kagome thought aloud.

'I guess I should probably take a look around then…' she thought as she pushed herself off the ground, 'OWWWW… my legs STILL hurt! Gosh, I don't care if Sesshoumaru is a youkai or human- there is no way he can be walking around like that after being human for the first time.'

Kagome stumbled around a bit, her legs getting used to walking again. There was an edge of a forest to her left. From the looks of it, it seemed to be a small forest.

'Good,' Kagome the optimistic, thought as she stood at the edge, 'At least, I won't get too lost if I go in there.'

As soon as she took a few steps into the forest, Kagome stopped again.

'What's that noise?' Kagome turned her head and strained her ears to hear the faint noise.

"Are those…" she wondered aloud, "Voices?"

After waiting for a few more moments, the young girl heard the faint noises again. She began walking towards the noise.

'Its people!' Kagome thought with a hint of hope in her heart, 'It MUST be people!'

Kagome's walk turned into a fast stride, then into a run. If it was people that she heard in the distance, they could save her from the horrible fate that she had been bound to.

Soon enough, Kagome broke out of the forest and found herself in a grassless clearing. Before her was a large ravine. Kagome looked around.

'Where were those voices coming from though?' her thoughts were confused. She was certain that she had heard voices as she ran through the forest. Cautiously, Kagome walked up to the edge of the cliff and looked down.

'It's too deep to see anything…' she stared into the dark depths of the ravine, 'Is this were the voices were coming from?'

Kagome waited for a few moments and once again, she heard what sounded like voices coming from the depths of the ravine.

"Don't get too close, or you'll fall in."

Kagome spun around. There stood Sesshoumaru, or at least a very ravaged version of him. Blood drenched him- his dark hair was bloodied, his clothes were bloodied, heck, all of him was bloodied. Wounds were all over his body, he clothes torn in various places. He limped forward towards the miko to get her to get away from the edge. Kagome screamed and backed up, falling into the down into the eternal abyss.

Sesshoumaru cursed his bad luck and leapt down after his remedy.


You know, had I not felt so bad for not updating in over a year, I'd ask you to review. Alas, I do not deserve any reviews after making my faithful pets wait for over a year… oh… boohoo. T-T I'm going to go cry over there in the corner. PLEASE! DO NOT FEEL INDEBTED TO REVIEW! Though I would love over a hundred thousand times if you did… just a ray of hope