Chapter 3

Saved from the dark, Terms of endearment

(Sesshomaru P.O.V)

I woke up today feeling a little headed and groggy, maybe from all the tears I had shed the day prior. I went to my mirror, to see the mess I was. I groan at the sight. My eyes were still a little puffy, and my hair was just as untidy as ever.

I sighed. I happened to look down at my arms. I saw the bandages placed there by a kind heart. One I would never forget. Oh in my heart of hearts I had hoped that night was merely a nightmare not my sad reality. I sat back on my bed.

Deciding maybe to go back to bed, tell the world to leave me be for this day. To be truthfully I felt like crap, and it appears that I also looked like that. I sat there lost in thought. Err. I didn't want to be up. Someone knocked on my door.

I composted myself as much as I could and when to answer it. I would rather die then let anyone and I mean anyone see me cry or having looked like I cried. It was Inuyasha.

"W-what d-do you want?" I stammered what do you said to a guy who helped you out when no one else would even touch you.

"Hey, just wanted to see if you were alright. Oh and to tell you to get ready we have a trip today, to visit some shrine in the mountains." He said nonchalant as if was any other student, however his words also had concern in there. It touched my heart.

"A-Alright." I stammered again. I stated to feel dizzy. My lightheadedness was coming back. It was more then less likely that it was due to low salt levels, as I had cried so much last night, that was also the source of my headache. Inuyasha saw me wav a little.

"WHOA! HEY!" he caught me before I could do any real harm to myself by falling. "You alright?" he looked at me concerned.

"Yes just low salt." I said in a tone that meant if you tell anyone what I-did-I'll-kill-you. I tried to get back up, I was just so woozy. My legs felt like rubber, the feat was just impossible. Inuyasha saw me struggle trying to stand, he offered to help me. I had no choice but to accept.

"Are you sure you're alright?" he asked having helped me reach my bed. I nodded tiredly, I was still very tired from the previous night. "

I'll be just fine." I reassured him, through not feeling reassured myself.

"Well if you say so. Look just get ready we have to leave in an hour. I'll come check on you later." He smiled at me brightly, which embarrassed me.

"Look if your not feeling well you should stay here and rest." He said so kindly. It made me blush.

"I-I it's just…" I could finish if I wasn't a big enough loser for having cried, I would be one if told him why I didn't want to stay.

"It's ok if you don't want to tell me. I understand…" he replied, it bugged me how could he understood, no one does. It bugged me when people claim they understand, then have no idea what on earth there bahing about. I just closed up. I said nothing. He must have known that his words somehow affected me.

"If you don't want to tell me is all." He reassured. I continued to stare at the floor.

"Well I'm going to go to breakfast now, I'll save something for you if you like." Inuyasha said getting off the bed.

"You would do that for me?" I asked surprise no one and I mean no have ever done that for me before.

"Yeah" he replied brightly.

"Look just take your time the last thing you need now, is to rush. Especial if your not feeling well." He smiled and headed off, closing the door behind him gently. I was touched by his concern. I really began to doubt if it was really he who betrayed me, who hurt me. I sighed and got up slowly this time as not to fall. I had a feeling in my gut now that today was not going to be any better then the last one. I sighed and got ready.

It took the better part of the hour just to get ready as I had to stop so much cause of my dizziness. I was ready in time to go. Dressed in tradition shrine clothes I like all the others was ready to go. I stood in the back of the line so I wouldn't be seen lest I endure more torment. Here the part I hated we had to loaded on the bus by our last names. Mine was Tenshi. So I was in the middle of everything. Strange enough Inuyasha's last name was Taiso. We were the only ones with t last names. I sat next to him on that trip.

The trip was a nightmare. Catcalls, hiss, and taunts. Yet through it all I kept my emotionless face on. Just looking bored with the world. My stomach growled and I cringed, the sound was so loud that I feared all would hear it. Inuyasha laughed at my reaction.

"Here" he whispered handing me something wrapped in paper. It was a rice ball.

"Sorry it isn't much but it was all I could sneak out." He replied. I smiled weakly, glade for the act of kindness. I ate it calmly although I hadn't eaten since the night before. I wouldn't give them the change to see me doing anything they could possible giving me crap for. I give Inuyasha a half smile the best my cold heart can do as a thank you. He returns the smile happily. I feel my heart warming a little only to be frozen again by him. Miroku.

"Hey Inuyasha." He calls to his friend. Who in turn is surprise by Miroku's sudden appearance.

"Oh hey." The two start to get into conversation. I care not for what they said. I want nothing to do with Miroku again so help me Kami. I closed my eyes and lied back in my seat, deterred to at lest get some rest before this day got any worst. Miroku said something to Inuyasha that made them both laugh. I however pay it no mind.

My dreams were invaded by the catcall and rumors, that all those around me continued to whisper, however it Inuyasha who woke me. We were all then loaded off the bus. As soon as I stepped off that bus it felt like the pressure dropped, I became so light headed then all at once collapsed. It was too much, it all faded to black around me. I didn't even feel myself hit the ground. I did however hear the group draw in a quick breathe when I passed out. All of my senses fade to dark as well. The darkness I feared in my heart of hearts enveloped me in suffocating blackness. How long I stayed like this I knew not.

This darkness however was not peaceful no that would have been pleasant but instead this darkness gradually took shape, I was laying somewhere maybe somewhere in the temple. I could see all of it as if I was awake, but something was wrong I couldn't move. I tried and I tried with all my might but it all proved in vain. Creatures that at first I couldn't identify, But soon the dreadful realization hit me. These were the creatures of the underworld. I know I tried to scream, tried to let someone know I was in trouble.

But no sound came from my mouth. The screams were nothing more then dry forced breathes. These creatures they pocked and prodded me with there spears and cut my flesh with sadist blades. I'm crying in pain but no tears could come out. I feel my body being pulled and pushed into places it didn't go. Please I'm begging now, I shout in the only place that I can my mind. STOP! GO AWAY! PLEASE STOP THIS! I scream this over and over again in my mind. If I scream I won't feel their blades or chains tearing and ripping my flesh from my bones.

Such pain MAKE IT STOP! I feel my body being lifted off the ground, all the wounds I have suffered burn horribly, Whatever has lifted me throws me down hard on the bed roll I laid on, but it doesn't stop there. WHY WON'T IT STOP! Over and Over it throws me and lifts me just to drop me. I never believed it was possible to feel such pain. Finally I lay on the floor with the creatures all around me. NO! PLEASE NO MORE! I try with everything I have to move and this time I'm successful I move my hand.

Oh but it felt so heavy, I don't care I keep moving it. Soon I am able to move my whole arm, and after that my whole body although heavy it moves. I open my eyes, and Scream.

I scream over and over again. What else could I do? My screams brought attention. Attention that brought him to me. Inuyasha was the first to reach me and console me. He sees my arms as well as my legs covered by many cuts, cuts that no hand could have made. These cuts although deep bleed not on the sheets, but bleed a pound Inuyasha discovery, I shake now I'm so heavy with pain I shake bad I vaguely remember the cause of such wounds no I don't want to believe what caused them. Around me they others look on in amazement obviously amazed that the wounds had waited so long to bleed.

Inuyasha talks to me so gentility that I don't feel the others doctoring my wounds. Inuyasha brings something to my mouth.

"Sshshs, here you need to take this it's for the pain." I refuse knowing it will cause me to go back to sleep and that is the last thing I wanted. I lay against him I sob the Pain it was so real and it hurt so much, the pain that horrible pain keeps me from calming down. That's why I cried I cried from pain. I held the top on his haori so tightly not letting him leave me. No not now, please don't leave me now.

"Sshshs, I don't like seeing you in this pain, Please just take it. I promise I won't leave you." He says so softly and kindly. It was because of that promise that I submitted and let him place the pill in my mouth, his hands so soft so warm that I almost wished that they would stay there. I shallow with the water he gave me as well, then lay my head against his chest. Waiting for the pain to quit it's work on my body so it would stop shaking so bad. I didn't felt the pain however it faded from my mind the moment his hand pushed the pill in my mouth.

Their gentle warmth his tender kindness washed the pain away. He wrapped his arms around me to keep me close. I felt myself strife a yawn as my eyes grew heavy, wrapped in the warmth of companionship that I had never really known I drifted off, this time to peaceful dreams…

I awoke alone. My heart felt a little heavy, maybe because he had left me. It just felt so good that someone cared that much about that they would stay with me. He was my friend and the first one I had ever had. I sat up. Noting that I was dressed now in a simple white haori top and a red obi(ribbon wore around the waist) held the outfit together. I looked around the room, I was somewhere in the temple. I didn't like this place it had a dark feeling to it. I could feel the miasma all around me. I shiver then tried to stand my legs wobble weakly under me, threaten to fall. So I sit back down tired. I look at my legs, that were bandaged up as were my arms. I brought my knees up to my chest then buried my head in them aspirated. It was all so unclear as to what had transpired and to have caused me so much pain.

"Hey" it was Inuyasha. He had linens in his hands. He sat down next me.

"How are you feeling?" he touches my forehead, I know I blushed.

"You're a little warm." He smiled. "But you seem ok." He removed the covers.

"I need to look at your wounds." He then removed the bandages on my legs, slowly and carefully, it still hurt a little.

"Easy now." He said softly. I wince a little but stayed calm.

"Don't worry you didn't miss anything. It was all bah, bah sight seeing thing." He said nonchalant. It was nice to have someone to talk to. I was even better that he wasn't asking about what had happen earlier.

"A-are they talking about it?" I asked carefully. He knew of which I spoke. Inuyasha looks away for a moment.

"Yeah there's been some talk." He said solemnly. I look away also and asked

"Please tell me about it." He looks at me I nodded then he says.

"Have you ever heard of the tale of the twins of white temple? We were told about it after you were predisposed. You been out for 5 hours Sesshomaru, it 10 in the morning this Tuesday. I just came back from class." His words gave me a lot to think about.

"I-I never heard it?" I asked about the story. Knowing that I would be given hell for having missed class today, honestly the amount of time I do go to class is can easily fit in a 2 hour time fame. Serious it one thing or another and I always, always miss class.

"Well" he started. Having changed the bandages on my legs and was moving to my arms next.

"The legend says that this temple was once home to two twin brothers there names were Tensumi and Tetsumi. They say that in the time of warring states, those twins where found in field covered in snow not far from this temple." He looked at me for a minute then turned back to his work.

"They both had snow-white hair and blue eyes, it was Tensumi however that was the most beautiful, they say that his hair was so white that it made the clouds in the sky or the snow on the ground look dingy in compares, and his eyes so light blue that they were said to glow ethereally." I was awed by the description surely these boys were not human. Perhaps demon or at the very lest half demon, as half demon can be beautiful, I voice this. But to this Inuyasha shook his head no.

"No they were human and as human as you can be." It mystified me further.

"What of these boys? Surely their tale is not a happy one?" to this he agreed.

"It isn't." he took a deep breathe then continued. "Tensumi was the oldest in our terms but youngest in theirs. He was also the most powerful of the brothers. And he had trouble with a cruel destiny. Tetsumi by the stories' description was a total jerk. He had friends and was a jerk about it, at one point when they were kids. Tetsumi told Tensumi to die. It hurt the older brother to hear this. In fact Tetsumi tried to kill Tensumi many times saying he was a disgrace and need to die. Poor Tensumi had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. So he ran away but told his brother that he was always welcomed in his heart. At one point Tensumi came back saying that he needed Tetsumi so much. And that jerk you know what he said?" Inuyasha was so upset at this point he was shaking, I put my hand on his shoulder to help calm him amazingly enough he put his hand over mine and squeezed it I know then that I was definitely blushing. He held my hand and continued now calmer.

"He said you may need me, but I never need you. He then slapped him. Can you believe that his family his only family that needed his help the most and he slapped him and turned him away that bastard!" he growled proving his displease farther.

"…" I had my share of problems but at lest I'm loved, I could only imagine how horrible it would be to be unloved and alone. Poor Tensumi knew pain that I couldn't and wouldn't hopeful never experience.

"Everyone believes what happened to you was the curse of the temple. Tetsumi's hatred and Tensumi's pain, is what its called some bad things happened here, in fact Tensumi almost died here. Although he didn't die he still suffered greatly here, pain cause by his own twin Tetsumi's hatred for him." he explained and looked up at me. I tried to look away not use to meeting other people's eyes, but he pulled my eyes back on him, this was obviously very important. "That pain and these cuts you suffered from, that you went through was the same as Tensumi's, it was said that Tetsumi and his friends jumped Tensumi, beating and torturing the crap out of him in this very temple, they say it was an unfortunate accident, that they had mistaken him for a very dangerous guy that need to be killed." said Inuyasha shaking his head.

"Man, accident my foot! They were after him alright, all they were doing was covering there own asses, as jumping people for no coherent reason was a crime, even if no one liked the guy." Inuyasha added snorting. I couldn't understand why everyone would hate someone; Tensumi must have been very unluckily and very sad.

"Why would they hurt him so much?" I asked, knowing that humans rarely needed a reason to hurt others.

"That's just it, no one knows. The temple that raised them was almost Tensumi's grave, I mean that's it, game over. In fact many still wonder why, what piece of the puzzle are we still missing." he shrugged his shoulders. I when into thought, why was this pain happening to me, last time I checked I saw and heard spirits not felt their pain, and if Tensumi didn't die here, then why was I feeling his pain…It made no sense.

"Hey Sesshomaru." he called to me.

"Yes" I answered.

"Everyone is talking about it…" he said his voice getting a little lower.

"What is it they are talking about?" I was curious to say the lest, although I was almost certain the thing they were talking about was at how weak I was. Inuyasha gave me answer I would never forget.

"That you are Tensumi…"

LPK: Yeah cliffhanger! I love those! Alright note time, just two notes today. (1) This can happen in real life it ain't a disease, just a normal every day thing, it is called Sleep Paralysis, they feeling where you half awake half asleep, so the body is paralyzed, sometimes people hallucinate terrible things like monsters or aliens or maybe even demons.

Obviously Sesshomaru's sleep paralysis isn't normal. That was mainly due to effect, to make his pain more real. ( 2) Everyone believe that it is because Sesshomaru clairvoyant, that he has to be the reincarnated lonely shrine boy, which may just be true (I ain't saying yes and I ain't saying no) that is the reason he felt the pain. So they say he is cursed by Tetsumi hatred and Tensumi's pain, meaning that it was Tetsumi's hatred for Tensumi that cause Tensumi such pain. They feel that history will repeat itself in Sesshomaru. Wow! this one wasn't half as long as the first one…so I'm getting better at this… Hope you Read and Review