o- wow this was a lot longer than I had planned oh well... I suppose that some people like long ones.
Sessho-maru- When will you let me go you filthyhuman?
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Sessho-maru- Alright only for today cause I want to leave, o- does not own...
o- NOOO! You need to say the whole name now start over!
Sessho-maru- O-Aki-Hoshi doesn't own Inu-Yasha, and the character Aki- Hoshi from her story is not based on herself she just likes the name... now leave me alone or I will send you all to the seventh hell...
Past Memories Come Calling
Ch. 2
In a dimly lit room decorated in dark red, dark plum, and black a sleeping female wolf demon was awakened by a pale line of light that had escaped the dark, heavy curtains that covered the windows.
"Mmm... huh?" She took one look around her and realized that this was not her room and suddenly an onset of memories of the past two days filled her mind. "NOOO!" Her silver eyes glowed red, tears rolled down her face and an aura enveloped her body.
Sessho-maru was gazing out into the sky from the balcony that connected his room to the one next to it, when he heard a quiet sound come from the girls room, dismissing it as a sleep murmur, he continued his pondering of this new mystery that had presented itself to him, or rather forced itself. After a few moments a sharp scream of rage and torment pierced through the air and it was followed by a powerful aura. Immediately he ran to her glass door and slid it open with a quick flick of the wrist.
He glanced about the room and saw her, with a powerful aura around her. 'Damn her power is more than I suspected.' He jumped onto her bed and shook the girl, still she did not react. 'Why wont she wake up? Her screaming stopped but her aura is still there and her eyes are glowing red...' He slapped her face, nothing happened. He tried calling to her and still nothing happened. Finally fed up he left the room and went to the bath, got a bucket of cold water took it back to the girls room and threw it on her.
"AIEE! What the hell was that for?" She screamed at him and jumped out of the bed and took up a guarded postition. "And where in the seven hells am I?"
He just looked at her. 'Right after I threw water on her, her eyes went back to their original color...' "What question do you want me to answer first?" She looked at him with an angry gleam in her eyes, he smirked at her and she intensified her glare.
"Well it would be appropriate to answer them in the order given." She said with a haughty air. "Or we could just start from the beginning, like who you are and why you have me captive."
'I can be just as aristocratic.' He smiled at her and bowed; "I am Sessho-maru lord of the Western Lands, and you my dear are not 'being held captive' you are here to heal and for me to solve a little puzzle as to what has happened to a lesser lording family that is in my domain."
"You are lord Sessho-maru? How can I be sure that you are him? You could just as easily be an imposter sent to kill me."
"Ah yes but if I were said assassin why would I have not already finished you off in your sleep."
"Yes I suppose you are correct, but if you are not the assassin then you could be..." Before she finished he interrupted her.
"My dear, I could be many things, but I assure you that I am Sessho-maru and even if you don't believe me it will not change anything. Before you continue interrogating me I have one question for you. Who are you that you would fear an assassin?"
"Ah you are smarter than I presumed I did not think that you would have caught that seeing as you ignored it at first. I am AkiHoshi ,the only child of Malachi. Whose castle was attacked..." She let the words trail off.
"I surmised as much so tell me what happened?" He looked at her and realized that she was emotionally worn and she looked like she was about to faint, 'probably because she has not had sustenance in a while.' As if to tell him that he was correct, she wobbled and fell forward into him.
"You are hungry. Hold on, I will send for food. JAKEN!" Immediately Jaken came running into the room.
"Yes my lord?" Jaken asked, 'So that is the woman who Sessho-maru brought here. That is a little bit strange for him, but it is none of my business.'
"Get food for the guest and myself." Sessho-maru said and then turned his attention to the woman in his arms. Jaken knowing that this was a dismissal and left to fetch what his lord required. 'She is warm...'
"I can stand on my own!" She said with indignation and immediately felt his arms leave her. For a moment she stayed up right on her own then once again she fell, and once again he caught her. He smirked at her flushed face and picked her up, and her face got even redder. Suddenly Sessho-maru twirled her around and laughed at her expression. He was lost in a memory, a memory he thought was to deeply buried to be remembered.
Flash Back
It was a time where he did not have a care in the world, before his brother was born, a time when his father took him with him to visit family friends.
The first time he was ever taken to visit Malachi was when he was really young still just a kid. His father told him that Malachi's wife had born him the most beautiful child in all the lands or so he claimed. They were going to see the little girl, for her naming ceremony, for in the pure breed demon society the parents would not name the child until a week after the child's birth and then a purification ceremony would be preformed and the child's name would be revealed or so the rituals legend said.
When they had arrived, Sessho-maru looked at both Malachi and his wife and noticed that the woman carried a small bundle. "Father is that bundle a toy for the girl child?" His father and Malachi and his wife laughed at Sessho-maru's question.
"My son that 'bundle' is the girl child."
"Would you like to hold her, young lord?" The woman had asked. Sessho-maru looked at his father and when he nodded, Sessho-maru went forward.
"Father I did not think that it would be so little." He said as he held the now squirming baby girl.
Again his father laughed "My son even you were that small, and you are only six now. She has plenty of time to grow."
That memory faded as a new one came into it's place.
Aki was running away from him, she was older now she was four and he was ten. He caught up with her and grabbed her by the waist and twirled her around and around, all the while she was giggling.
"It is a shame her mother be here to see this." Malachi said his eyes full of a loneliness that his friend and Lord of the Western Lands could relate with.
"The pain will lessen with time. Oh but look at them, they are so jovial. The future will be kind to them."
"Just think maybe one day they will marry and our families will be united." Malachi said while the two fathers watched their children come racing to them.
"Papa, what does marry mean?" Aki asked
"Aha my daughter, ever the inquisitive one, it means to be together with someone forever." Malachi smiled at his lovely daughter, who was the picture of her mother, with her long dark blue hair and the way she held herself, but her eyes were his. Those silver eyes that could pierce a soul.
"You mean that if I marry Sessho then I could play with him forever? Yay then Sessho-maru will you marry me someday?" Both the fathers looked at each other and broke into grins.
"Huh? Marry..." He looked at her expectant face and smiled "Yes someday Aki-Hoshi I will marry you."
"Ah your son the ever serious young man." Malachi grinned at his old friend and then looked at the sun. "Oh, well it is time for this little one to be sleeping."
"But papa..." A great big yawn interrupted her, Malachi picked her up and smiled to his friends. "Sessho-maru remember your promise 'kay?" When he nodded and smiled Aki-Hoshi nestled into her fathers neck and fell asleep.
"The servants will show you to your rooms tonight, I have a little one to put to sleep. Good night my friends."
The memory again floated away and the present showed itself once again.
"S... Sessho, it really is you!" He immediately set her down onto her bed.
"I should not have done that you are still recovering. I am sorry." He went and opened the door to admit Jaken, who was overloaded with trays.
"Your food my lord. Will that be all?" Jaken said bowing and casting a curious glance at the blushing woman on the bed.
"Nothing else is needed Jaken leave us and take Rin out to the gardens." Jaken immediately left and Sessho-maru set the tray near Aki-Hoshi.
"You will eat now." He said and then sat back waiting for her to finish.
'He is not like he used to be, I did not think that if I saw him again that he would be so cold.' "Yes sir." Aki-Hoshi said stiffly 'Maybe he has forgotten, it is possibly I mean a hundred years have passed well ok a hundred and fifty but who's counting?' She ate slowly savoring each bite and discreetly looking at Sessho-maru.
"Is there something on my face?" Aki-Hoshi looks at him, with a tint of a blush on her face. 'She hasn't changed...' Sessho-maru smirked at her.
"No I was just thinking that you are a puzzle, first you save me and act like a jerk, then you throw water on me to wake me up, next you twirl me around the room like you did when we were kids and now you are acting like a stranger. So Sessho who are you the jerk, the stranger or are you still a friend?"
"... I fail to see why you would care. I brought you here to find out what happened in my territory."
"Oh and it doesn't faze you that your fathers friend is dead and the one who murdered him still lives. Oh but I suppose that you don't care for anything that concerns your father and his friends! Why are you the Lord of this territory if you care nothing for it! I heard that all you care about is the tetsaiga yes I have heard of your travels, and your obsession with your brothers sword. YOU ARE THE LORD OF THE WESTERN LANDS AND YOU WANT A SWORD! I refuse to belief that you are the rightful demon to be the lord of this territory when you rarely hand this territories troubles you always have a servant do it or you just ignore it." Aki-Hoshi got out of the bed and stomped over to where he was sitting and slapped him. "You are not worthy of this land."
Sessho-maru looked at her his eyes blazing, "Are you quite finished? I find that your 'opinions' are quite proof less and no one would ever listen to them." He grabbed her arm. "And never raise your hand against me again, you will not live to regret it."
"I will never regret my actions especially when they are well deserved. Oh and I would care whether you are the jerk or what not because you twirled me around the room, and our families were quite close but then again I suppose that you would not care about that since you only care about the tetsai-!" Sessho-maru put his hand over her mouth and pushed her down onto the bed.
He leaned on her and put his head right next to her ear. "You know nothing about me anymore, Aki. So you have no right to judge. Oh and that twirling as you called it was just old memories coming back..." He whispered into her ear, "coming back to haunt me yet again." he mumbled without knowing it as he rose up. "Now eat and I will be back in one hour to get the story from you."
o- I am too lazy today what with cramps but I am sure you did not want to know that so whatever you should not have read this then... later days