Kijustsu no Senyo

Author's Note: And here's the great big finale! Thanks for all your reviews guys! Love you all!


Lausanne found herself slipping back into consciousness. "No." she moaned, trying to hold onto the last bits of nothingness. It was so much more comfortable.
"No what?" a voice asked sharply.
She opened her eyes slowly to see someone who she was not expecting. "Sesshoumaru?" she mumbled, seeing the taiyoukai next to her. He was doing something with her arm. That's when the elf realized that half the pain she was experiencing was coming from there. "What are you doing?"
"Rebandaging your arm." He replied, sticking a finger into a jar of something and rubbing it on a large gash on her arm, "Naraku cut through many muscles and such. You are lucky you did not lose your arm."
"I did not though, did I?" she replied grinning.
"No." he agreed, "But you used all your power fighting Naraku. I suppose you might have used some to keep your wound from being life threatening too. You were near death and a full human when Rin brought me to you. You are still a human, but no longer near death."
"Rin?" Lausanne repeated as if not hearing Sesshoumaru's last comment, "Where is she?"
"In her rooms. I requested that she entertain herself while I was taking care of you." He picked up a long piece of white cloth and started wrapping it around her arm.
"How long have you been watching me?" she asked.
"Since we arrived at my palace."
"And how long is that?"
"Two days."
Lausanne smiled. "Thank you for all of your care Sesshoumaru-sama." She said, "I hope I was not too much of a nuisance."
"When I insisted that you travel with me I took on the responsibility of taking care of you." Sesshoumaru told her, "But still, it would have been better if you had alerted me of the impending danger instead of facing Naraku alone. It was very irresponsible of you. You knew that you did not have much power left, yet you insisted on challenging your luck and-" He stopped. She was giggling! He had just saved her life and a speech on how foolish she had been was definitely called for, yet she was giggling! "What is so funny?"
Lausanne was trying to keep the mood serious, she really was! But it was just too funny! Sesshoumaru, lord of the Western Lands was lecturing her! "Nothing." She replied, her giggles reduced to only a large grin, "You sound like my mother. That is all."
If Sesshoumaru wasn't good at keeping his emotions hidden, he would have had wide eyes and an open mouth. 'You sound like my mother.' It kept on repeating in his head. It was the strangest thing anyone had ever said. It even topped the strange things Rin had told him since he took her in. "Maybe you should have listened to her."
The elf rolled her eyes. "I did." She admitted, "But there's times when you have got to go with your gut feeling."
"And give yourself something like this?" Sesshoumaru poked Lausanne in her bandaged arm. She winced, grabbing it so that he couldn't do it again.
"What was that for?" she demanded. Suddenly her eyes widened, "Where's Tachi!"
Lausanne tried to sit up, only to be pushed down by Sesshoumaru. "He is in the next room." He replied, "Do not worry. But you cannot get up. The physician says that you are suffering from a head injury as well as your arm injury and should stay lying down for a while."
The elf sighed. "Alright." She said, "Only because you have been very nice to me and I should pay you back somehow. But is Tachi alright?"
"He has not stopped crying since yesterday." Sesshoumaru replied, "We have fed him and changed his diaper. I have even told him to stop crying. Yet he will not stop crying."
To say the least, she was horrified of the idea that her adopted child could have cried that long. At least the taiyoukai had tried his hardest to quiet him. "Please bring him in here." Lausanne requested, "I will get him to stop crying."
He nodded. A few seconds later, a young maid, brought a screaming Tachi into the room. Sesshoumaru motioned for her to give the pup to Lausanne. As soon as he was in her good arm, he started to quiet down. A few minutes later he was fast asleep.
"There." The elf said smiling, "It was as easy as him wanting to see me. That is all."
"Should I have him be put back in his room?" Sesshoumaru asked.
Lausanne was shook her head no. Obviously he demon next to her had not spent much time around children younger than Rin. Just then she realized just how tired she was. Just like Tachi, she slipped off to sleep.
Sesshoumaru looked the girl over. Even as a human, she truly was beautiful. And then there was her personality. She had so much energy, yet if she respected a person enough, she was polite. To top it all off she had a caring side. One so large that she had taken in a young dog demon pup even though she knew it would be hard work to take care of it. She would make a good mother some day.
Pulling a chair up Lausanne's bed, the taiyoukai got ready for another long night. He hadn't left her side for the past two days. Just because she'd woken up didn't make tonight any different.

Late the next morning, Lausanne woke up again. This time she did not struggle to stay in her dreamland, but willingly opened her eyes. Tachi was still sleeping next to her. Good. And then she turned to get the shock of her life. Sesshoumaru, the great Sesshoumaru, was sitting in a chair next to her bed, snoozing. She giggled, reaching up with her good hand to poke him.
The poke brought him right out of his light slumber. "Good morning sleepy." Lausanne said smiling.
"Good morning Lausanne." He replied, cursing himself mentally for falling asleep during his vigil over her bed. "How are you feeling?"
"Not bad." She admitted, "My arm aches a little and so does my head, but I think I will live. Do you agree?" She grinned at him. "Thank goodness the new moon is the night after next."
"But what if you are not well enough to get outside?" Sesshoumaru questioned, getting up. Lausanne's bandages should be changed again.
"Then I will have to find a way to talk you into carrying me out there." She retorted, "I have nothing against humans as you know, but I do have something about being one longer than I have to. I'm an elf. Not a human."
"If you are not well enough to go outside on the night of the full moon, you will not be going." Sesshoumaru said, his voice stern. She would not disobey him.
"Oh I will." She answered, "Believe me."

And he believed her. It was the night of the new moon and the taiyoukai found himself carrying a still very much inept human outside to the garden so she could return to her full glory of being an elf.
"This will be good." Lausanne said, indicating to a bench where she could get full view of the moon. "And this time please do not interrupt me."
"I will not." Sesshoumaru promised.
"Good. And thank you again."
There was no response because he was already gone. Smiling, Lausanne pulled out the flute Sesshoumaru had lent her and began to play.

By dawn he was paising back and forth in the room he had given to Lausanne. Where was she? Was she still gaining her power back? Sesshoumaru wanted to go and check on her, but he had given his word that he wouldn't interrupt again.
"Good morning!"
He turned to see Lausanne walk into the room. Her hair had its green and gold highlights again and her ears were pointed. She held the flute in her hands. "I am finished with getting my energy." She told him, "The first thing I did was heal myself, so you do not need to worry about me."
"Then why is your bandage still on your arm?" Sesshoumaru questioned.
Lausanne looked down and blushed. "I am not that powerful to heal something that large at one time." She explained.
He sighed. "Come here."
The elf walked over and sat on the bed. Sesshoumaru once again unwrapped her bandage. "It looks better." He commented.
"I should hope so." She replied, "I healed it most of the way, remember?"
"But not fully." The taiyoukai finished. Carefully, he took a wet rag and started to dab the wound. It was more like a large, wide cut now. "You are very brave."
"Yeah?" she asked, "Why do you say that?"
"Because it is true." Lausanne blushed. "I do not know many women, even demoneses that would stand up to someone like Naraku like you did."
"Are you going somewhere with this?" Lausanne asked him.
"Yes I am." He replied as he started rubbing cream onto her arm, "I believe I have seen almost every aspect of you and I like it. I like how you can stand up for yourself. How you take pride in everything you do. How you take care of Tachi and even Rin." Right now Lausanne's face was starting to resemble the color of Inuyasha's haori. "I believe that you would make a very good mother for my children and I would like it very much if you would become my mate."
The elf looked at him in plain shock. He had stopped working on her arm, staring straight into her eyes. For once there was emotion in them. Nervousness. Hope. She even saw, dare she say it? Love. "You- you are asking me to be your mate!" she asked, her eyes wide.
"Yes."
"Then yes I will!" Lausanne half threw herself onto Sesshoumaru, giving him a very large hug. She gave a little hiss of pain when her arm hit his armor.
"Careful." He warned, "I do not want my mate in more pain than she already is." Quietly, Sesshoumaru leaned down and kissed Lausanne straight on the lips. "A demon and an elf. Who would have thought? Yet we were meant to be." He whispered in her ear. The taiyoukai took his new mate's hand and pushed the two shards of the Kijustsu no Senyo into them. "I was waiting until now to give them to you." he told her.