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Chapter 17

To whom does your Heart Belong?

Renamon had been searching the forest for several minutes and had yet to pick up and Sesshomaru's trail. She was about to go back to the camp when she heard the sound of someone talking. It was quite, but as she listened closer to the noise she was sure it was Sesshomaru's voice. After taking a minute to find the direction the sound was coming from Renamon leapt from the branch she was sitting on and began heading toward the sound with great speed. She had been speeding through the tree tops for a few minutes before she came to a clearing. The clearing was shrouded in a heavy mist, but she could clearly hear two voices rising up from the ground. One of the voices was Sesshomaru, the other was a women's voice she hadn't heard before.

Sesshomaru had just entered the clearing when he heard a familiar voice saying, "Lord Sesshomaru."

Sesshomaru turned his head in the direction of the voice. The voice came from the opposite side of the clearing. He scanned the mist for a few seconds and with blinding speed pulled out one of his blades and used it to deflect an arrow that had been shot at him. After sheathing his sword his said into the mist, "Don't try to hide from me. You reek of bones and graveyard soil. The only one who smells like that and knows my name would be the dead priestess Kikyo.

After a few moments Sesshomaru could see a figure coming through the mist. After a few moments the figure got closer and was in clear view of Sesshomaru. The figure was dressed in her usual white top and red pants, the dead priestess Kikyo. After several moments of silence she said, "So, I hear you are traveling with Inuyasha now. I thought you despised your half brother, what would make you travel with him, the one you detest so much."

Sesshomaru just kept his usual cold exterior as he said, "What business is it of yours who I travel with?"

"When Inuyasha defeats Naraku I will come for him, so we may go together to hell. If you continue to travel with him you may try to stop me when that day comes, and I will not be stopped." Kikyo said as she stood facing Sesshomaru with out fear.

"There are two things you should know," Sesshomaru said as he placed his hand on Tokijin, "One, I will be the one to slay Inuyasha. I may travel with him now, but the second I can find a way to take the Tetsusaiga away from him I will run my blade through his body. Two, I don't take kindly to threats from humans, especially dead priestesses." Sesshomaru then pulled out the Tokijin and prepared to slash Kikyo to bits, but he was to slow on the uptake. When Sesshomaru had placed his hand on Tokijin Kikyo had placed her hand on an arrow, and before Sesshomaru was able to take Tokijin fully out of its sheath she had readied a bow and was taking aim. She released the arrow and it flew and hit Tokijin. She then quickly readied another at let it fly striking the sword again. Unfortunately be hit by a sacred arrow twice proved too much for the blood thirsty blade. When the second arrow hit the blade in the same spot the Tokijin broke right in half. Sesshomaru looked at what was left of the Tokijin in his hand. Then he heard the priestess's bow being pulled taught again, and he was ready to feel the sting of the purifying arrow when he felt something plow into his back and push him out of the path of the arrow. When he opened his eyes his vision was blocked by yellow fur. His mind instantly knew who had saved him, but before he could say a word the mass of fur blocking his view was gone and all he could see was a yellow blur lunging itself at Kikyo.

Sesshomaru quickly stood up and began to watch as the yellow fox digimon and dead priestess began to fight. Renamon was taking several punches a Kikyo, but through the struggle Kikyo had gotten one of her feet in-between her and Renamon. With a great push she force Renamon off her and had already readied another arrow and let it fly, sending it right into Renamon's shoulder. Renamon flew back with the arrow and was pinned to a tree on the edge of the forest by the arrow. She cringed and tried to pull the arrow out, but couldn't summon the strength to pull it out of the tree. She looked up to see Kikyo pulling back another arrow and just before she released it she said, "Do you have any final words demon before I send you to your doom."

Renamon noticed a shadow appear behind Kikyo with bright red eyes. With a smile Renamon said, "I have just one thing to say. You will soon learn why it is such a fool's errant to go against the will of Sesshomaru." Kikyo got a questioning look on her face when she sensed the massive demonic energy behind her and she turned to see Sesshomaru standing there on the verge of transforming to his true form. Before he could run his claws through her Kikyo dodged to her left and summoned her soul collectors to pick her up into the sky. As she floated away over the tree tops she said, "Sesshomaru, when I come for Inuyasha stay out of my way, for if you interfere I will show no mercy."

When Kikyo was out of sight Renamon scoffed and said, "You will show no mercy, Ha. She'll be lucky we don't send her back to the grave." Renamon then cringed from the pain of the arrow now wedge through her shoulder. Sesshomaru caged his more feral side before he walked up to Renamon and helped her pull the arrow out of her shoulder. Sesshomaru held the arrow in his hand a moment before he tossed it away and eased Renamon down to the ground.

After a few moments of silence Sesshomaru said, "Thank you Renamon."

Renamon raised her hand to her bad shoulder as she said, "What for Sesshomaru, you just saved me from the walking pot."

Sesshomaru shook his head and said, "I thank you for this is the second time you saved me. You just saved me from the sealing arrows of Kikyo and earlier from the powerful blast of that maniac Naraku. From where I stand I owe you one."

Renamon chuckled slightly through the great pain in her shoulder as she said, "That is some logic you have Sesshomaru. I know a way you can repay me though."

Sesshomaru smiled a gentle smile as he said, "Really, and what might that be."

Renamon cringed as she moved her shoulder a bit before she said, "I would like you to do two things for me. One is after you do my second task you carry me back to the others."

Sesshomaru nodded and asked, "What is the second thing you want me to do."

Renamon paused a moment before she said, "I want you to answer a question." Sesshomaru looked at Renamon as she squirmed a bit before she said, "I was listening to the others conversation back at the camp. Myoga showed up and told us that the only way you could summon the Dragon Heart Strike is if you loved some one. Then, when Kagome asked Jaken if you had meet someone before you joined up with us, but he said that he didn't think you had. In light of that information Kagome assumed that you had to have fallen in love with either her, Sango, or me. Inuyasha then mentioned how you had an inherent hatred of humans, and the only one of those three that wasn't human was me. So, my question is….my question is…" Renamon drew silent for a few minutes trying to build up the strength to say what her heart pushed her to say. Finally she was able to say in a low voice, "Do you love me?"

Sesshomaru stood there for several minutes, letting the words that had just come from Renamon's mouth. After a several minutes of silence Sesshomaru finally was able to say, "I…The same thought has been crossing my thoughts for a while now. You have just…just had this effect on me that no one else has. I thought it weakness to show any sort of emotion, but trying to hold in my feelings for you was tearing me up more then anything every has. I just can't imagine a life with out you somewhere near me. Your silent grace and cool temper are qualities I thought no one else had, then you appear to me when I was battered and bruised, when I was weaker then I have been in a while. You took me into the lions den, to where my brother and his friends could have easily had rid themselves of me. You kept them at bay, and even faced down the power of the Tetsusaiga to keep me safe. No one has ever done that for me."

By this time Sesshomaru had knelt down to Renamon's eye level, and they were looking deep into each others eyes when Renamon said, "No one has stood against there own allies to defend you."

Sesshomaru shook his head as he said, "Not since my father protected me from an attacking tribe when I was young. The tribe had swayed half our people to rebel against him, and they decided to go after me, the heir to the thrown. My father fought them all off though, and saved me from an untimely death."

Renamon smiled as she said, "Sesshomaru, I have one more thing I want you to do. Something we can only do together." Before Sesshomaru could say a word Renamon had raised her self up and brought their faces close together. After a few moments she leaned in a bit closer and she and Sesshomaru shared one long kiss. Sesshomaru with his broken sword and Renamon with a trail of blood going down her arm, but they didn't care. The moment was perfect because they were together, and that's all they cared about.

After the passionate kiss had ended Renamon cringed from the pain of arrow wound. Sesshomaru noticed her pain and decided to take a quick look at the wound. The wound itself wasn't that bad, since Renamon had sustained worse in her first battle with Kagura and had healed in a few hours. The difference this time was she was hit by a sacred arrow, and the mystical power the arrow had sent into Renamon's are kept the wound from healing.

Sesshomaru realized that Renamon could bleed to death if she didn't get the wound bandaged. So, with out a word, Sesshomaru scooped Renamon up like a bride and began to run through the forest with a speed he didn't know he had. For some reason he ran faster then he ever thought possible, but then he thought of something. He ran today with the love of Renamon driving him and a much lighter heart then he had in a long time.