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Lei non Deve Parlare, Sento Chapter 6-Goodnight Moon

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In Japan, a demon ignorant of his new fatherhood was still uncertain about the human girl, Kagome. However, he was certain of one thing, he had to find her again.

Her absence in his life had become an injury, and never once did she leave his thoughts. She remained present in his mind in one way or another, and he felt nothing for her except for a passion to see her again.

Sesshomaru felt no hate or anger for her; he didn't feel anything about her, technically, just about seeing her. It was a complex situation, but he had persuaded himself to believe that if he might somehow meet her again all would be resolved.

That was why he was doing everything in his power to find her. And he knew he would, it was inevitable. Sesshomaru had very good resources as well. His connections were great and vast, and he also had a special group of a select four that he knew would find her. His special four, all assassins, and all with demon blood.

For that was how Sesshomaru was able to live so comfortably. He commanded an assassination squad, and was occasionally an assassin himself. They were all five of them the deadliest power in the world, and the deadliest power in the world was certainly paid very lavishly when they were assigned a mission, individually or as a squad.

That had been his purpose for Kagome, originally; to train her as his newest killer; and then to use her, by her will or not. In the end, Kagome would enjoy her work, and eventually she would realize that. For one who had once been so pure...it could be a mind-shattering revelation; enough to destroy the soul.

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Nearly three months had come and gone quickly. The sky outside of the plane was a hazy purple-red. Sesshomaru watched Japan dwindle behind him under the clouds from his window. In his hand was a slip of paper with a few digits written on it. In his other hand, was a cell phone.

Only a few minutes ago, Kagura, one of his deadly four, all of whom were with him on the plane, had handed him the piece of paper with only a few words for him. She understood very well the moments when Sesshomaru would wish not to be spoken to.

He remembered the brief interaction vividly. Only a few minutes ago he had comfortably adjusted himself to the fact that in a few hours he would be seeing Kagome again. It hadn't taken long for them to find her, considering her skills in hiding herself away. Skills she had learned from him, and that his team, also trained under his hand, could interpret. As soon as he had heard the news of her location, Sesshomaru had arranged for a private jet to take him and his team to Puerto Rico. He felt it necessary that they should accompany him on this expedition. Yet here was a new thing. He had a chance now to talk to her early.

"We just got her phone number," Kagura said, standing beside his seat, looking down at him, emotionless. It wasn't the time for emotions. He took the small, folded sheet of paper from her solemnly. She opened her mouth to say something and then shut it again with a bow. Then she turned away.

So now, only a few long minutes after Kagura had handed him her number, Sesshomaru was silently debating whether or not he should call her. He didn't know why the thought made him so doubtful, but it did.

Yet despite his apprehension, he suddenly lifted the phone, opened the slip of paper, and began dialing. He settled it to his ear, and listened while it began to ring forebodingly while he felt his heart pounding in his chest only a bit more swiftly than usual.

A voice answered softly on the other side, "Hello?" It asked.

Sesshomaru was momentarily paralyzed by the sound. Her voice seemed like it came from decades in the past. It was lovely to him then, lovely to hear it and have a small burden lifted quietly from his shoulders, but not the entire burden. Yet it was still a small relief to hear her. In his mute awe he forgot to answer, and again she quested, "Hello?"

"Hello Kagome," he finally said very calmly.

There was silence for a little while on the other line, and then, "Sesshomaru?"

"Yes." He stared out the window while he talked, enjoying the conversation like it was just a simple chat between good acquaintances.

"How did you get this number?" She inquired without a tone of any sort. Her voice was just flat, quiet, mature.

"I have my ways."

"Then...I suppose you know where I am, don't you?"

"Yes I do," he responded kindly.

Another small silence, "May I run?" She asked him like a little child. She was being very serious.

"I'd rather you didn't," he said, "I'll find you somehow you know."

"Yeah, I know..." They were both quiet then, both unable to speak, and then she said in a seemingly more casual voice, "You know, for a while, I thought you might leave me alone for good."

"I needed to find you."

"...Why?"

He touched the glass of his window, "I don't know."

"I suppose you will, when you come."

"Yes."

"I-I have to go now, Sesshomaru."

He nodded, feeling that it was an appropriate time to end the brief and quiet conversation, "Goodbye Kagome."

"Goodbye Sesshomaru. I suppose I'll...see you soon."

And then she hung up, and left him still listening, half expecting her to start talking again with a new passion for hating him. It felt strange, and oddly empty or unsatisfying to talk to her without feeling her anger or his own.

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Her landlord had just informed him that she was not in. Sesshomaru had frowned a little at that. Had Kagome thought to try and escape anyway? It wasn't like her, and she hadn't sounded like she was preparing to leave when he had talked to her on the phone. The man had explained to him that she would be back shortly, having only left just five minutes ago for a walk.

Five minutes suggested to Sesshomaru that she had not, in fact, chosen to run. Five minutes was not enough time this late in the game to make a move like that. She had to really be taking a walk.

So Sesshomaru decided to wander around the town while he waited for her to come back to her apartment. His four killers had escorted him in a black Mercedes, and he told them all to wait by the apartment and call him if she should return. Despite their protests, he insisted that he wished to walk alone.

The town was beautiful in its own subdued way. Set in a valley surrounded by mountains, surrounded by a tropical forest-jungle. It had a blissfully warm climate, and the architecture was filled with Spanish themes that gave it a small classical appearance.

There was a little lake in the near vicinity, and Sesshomaru decided that it would be worthwhile to find it. The view had to be lovely just as the sun was setting, as it was at that moment. He wandered in its direction, following the scent of water.

Eventually he started to catch glimpses of it between buildings, but preferring not to walk through the narrow alleys, he continued to travel in search of an opening where he might find a space to stand and watch it shine without feeling closed in.

He spotted it up ahead, and moved towards it at a quicker pace. Then he turned around the last building in his way before the open lot, and walked into the small, sandy area.

Sesshomaru stopped where he stood, seeing a young woman with her back turned to him, leaning on a railing that blocked her from the rest of the beach, and getting hit with her scent at the same time. He hadn't once forgotten her scent in the past four months. Not once. It was sweet, not particularly amazing, but sweet and pleasing for a human all the same.

After pulling his phone from his pocket, he dialed his killers and told them that he had found her, and that they should meet him along the lake in a small empty lot of sand.

And then he approached her cautiously, and came up beside her. She didn't turn around and face him, but she could feel his presence, and knew it could be no one else.

"Kagome."

She sighed very deeply and then stood up from the railing, turning to face him. He looked her up and down once, and then he realized it.

The change, it was everywhere. Her scent, her body, her face, her posture, everything! Everything was different, and he knew why...

"You're pregnant," he whispered.

She nodded with a little smile on her face, and placed a hand over her slightly swollen stomach, "Yes I am Sesshomaru."

His eyes widened a little as the gravity of the situation slowly began to dawn on him. At first he couldn't find words to speak, and his mouth opened silently, then, he blinked and lowered his head a bit.

"Are you...happy?"

Ever calm, she replied, "Yes."

He stared at her, this human woman. He had to admit that while she stood in the light of the setting sun, her hair disturbed by a passing breeze, with a look of utmost confidence and joy on her face, that she was beautiful. She really was.

Seeing that he couldn't talk to her just yet, she chose to speak instead, "Sesshomaru," she began quietly, "May I ask you a question?"

He felt a sudden sadness in his heart, "Yes."

"Do you think, that...if we hadn't ever hated each other, that if none of this had happened the way it did.... that," she struggled for the right words, and bowed her head for a moment before bringing it up again to face him, "That we might have been in love?"

He was silent, pretending to think about the question deeply even though he already had the answer in mind. The waves accompanied their conversation softly as they splashed on the nearby shore.

"Yes," he finally responded.

She smiled even more, "I thought so too. It's too bad...that things had to happen this way."

"We can still change."

Kagome turned away from him and looked towards the sun, "No, no... I don't think we really could. It's really...too late. I don't think that we could do it."

Her words were cutting him like a knife, and there was nothing he could do to help it. Not with words. So he reached out to touch her, and she said, "You shouldn't," which was also very painful. He asked himself, in the midst of all the misery he was feeling, what did he expect her to say to him?

A car pulled up behind them, and Sesshomaru knew that it was his four. They might come out of the car and frighten Kagome if he stayed too long. He would have left then if he hadn't felt that there was something he needed to say to her yet.

But again, she spoke before he had a chance, "Sesshomaru please," she suddenly begged, "Please, let me go. Let me have my baby, please."

He still couldn't talk. She was actually pleading with him to leave her alone.

"I like it here," she continued, "I like this life. I want to live it with my baby. Please, just...go away." Her eyes were full of tears when she looked back at him, "You've caused me so much pain Sesshomaru, please, please, let me go now."

His mouth hung open a little in shock.

"This is," he paused, "What you want?"

Kagome nodded, "Yes."

He breathed deeply in surrender. "Then for you my Kagome..." He smiled a little as he suddenly recovered himself, "I will let you go."

She returned his small smile gratefully, and all at once she suddenly lifted herself onto her toes, touched his chin, and kissed him very lightly. "Thank you," she whispered into his lips, "Thank you, thank you."

He gently took her hand and lowered it to her side. As he did so he drew her into a firm embrace, and felt her lean into him in return. One hand pressed her back to him; the other held the back of her head, which he kissed softly. Then he pulled away from her and held her face. "Take care of yourself Kagome."

"I will." She was crying joyously.

With that, he turned and walked towards the car awaiting him. Kagome followed him with her eyes from the railing blissfully. As he reached the door he turned to her one last time and gave her another small smile.

She waved at him a little, and he then opened the car door. Just as he entered it and closed the door, he began speaking to his four. "You may drive us back to the airport Kikyo. Sango, I would like you to please make arrangements to have Miss Higurashi's mother, grandfather, and brother eliminated."

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No, I'm not using the original Kikyo, or Sango, or Kagura. I'm just using their characters, it's not as if Sesshomaru brought them from the past to the future, so don't get confused. I would just feel bad if they got left out.

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