Chapter 6 - Love
There was no blood. There was no screaming. It was just what she wished for. He pulled his claws from her neck and looked into her eyes. She fell, scattering her lute, onto the dirt paved ground. No moon hung overhead, not even a sliver. The only light was reflected from the scavenging fireflies over the spring waters. Cyrus's body began to disintegrate, into a powdery sand form. Is this what happens to celestial beings once they've reached their end?
What is the reason to live, what good is life when all is but an empty shell? The powdery form , that was once the Celestial Maiden Cyrus, soon transformed into sparkling trickles of glowing light, floating up and up into the air, as if desperate to return to the Heavens. But with no success. The tiny trickles of golden light remained on earth.
My name is Cyrus. I am the one and only descendant from the Heavens. I have been forbidden from my own realm, Earth bound here forever. All because of one foolish emotion, love.
Sesshoumaru watched the golden sparkles of light slowly begin to disappear. That woman was not of Earth. But now she is free, free from whatever pains the engulfed her. She will find better life in the Netherworlds. She will be with… the last thoughts lingered in his mind as if his conscience refused to admit it. She will be with Mother.
He closed his eyes. And as soon as he was sure no one was watching, he allowed a single tear to trickle down his cheek and drip down, down into the earth below.
This will mark the spot Sesshoumaru finally discovered love within himself. And the spot Cyrus was released from the pain of love. Two different situations, two different worlds, yet the resemblance were remarkable.
"A young demon youth sprang from the careing of Inutashio's servents and ran across the courtyard, right into his Youkai Mother's arms."