When the Sakura Blossoms Bloom…

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Chapter 2: My Past…

A young girl ran through and down the hallway. "Sessho-kun! Where are you!" All of a sudden she ran into a maid that was carrying dishes.

CRASH!

"Gomen-nasai!

Sesshomaru turned his head in the direction of the loud crash.

"What is going on?"

The dark haired girl quickly picked up the scattered and broken dishes.

"Ahhh!" She had cut her finger on one of the shards.

"Still as clumsy as ever I see…"

"What!" She turned around. "Oh Sessho-kun, it's only you!"

She glared at him and patted her chest enthusiastically. "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"And still as weak as ever huh?"

"Grrrr!" She glared at him, huffed and began to walk in the other direction.

"You are dismissed, and clean up this mess." He barked out the orders to the maid and began to trail after Kagome.

"Kagome," He whispered, "What is it that you wanted to tell me?"

She stopped and turned around. Her eyes were full of tears.

"Sessho… I don't understand… Is what they say about me true?" Her tears began to fall from her eyes.

"What did you hear?"

"I was walking by some of the youkai lords and I ran into a vase… When it broke they all stared at me since I was picking up the shards with the servants."

Sesshomaru sighed… He knew what the lords had said to her. It was most likely along the lines of what they said to him when his father had married that disgusting ningen.

"They say that I'm some ungrateful orphan and that I should be thrown to the wolves!" She began to furiously wipe away her tears, but to no avail. "They say that I'm… Just a popper! That I'm not of royal blood. That I have no family! They told me that I should be a servant…"

She stopped talking and flung herself at him. Wrapping her arms securely around his waist, while soaking his yukata with her tears.

"It… It… It can't be true can it? All these years?" She sobbed. "Please tell me it's not true! Tell me the truth!"

Sesshomaru had not said anything the whole time. He was too speechless. 'Oh Kagome… You have no idea of how close to the truth you are… Do you? But they have lied… You are an orphan…'

"No." He said with a shake of his head. "What you have heard are all lies. I will personally have the people that said this punished! Now come… It's time that we visited our secret place."

With that he took hold of her hand and led her to the sakura grove. When they had arrived there Kagome's spirit seemed to have lifter somewhat. Her natural glow came back to her face as she began to twirl and dance with the sakura blossom petals.

'Oh Kagome… What would you do if you ever found out the truth about your past? Would you hate me for not telling you?' He sighed heavily and closed his eyes. Reminiscing about the past and how he really met her.

Flashback

Hordes of demons crashed through the forest. A lone woman ran through the forest with a bundle in her arms.

Pant, Pant

She tripped but made sure that her body took the fall as to not harm the bundle. She gasped as she sensed the demons closing in on her.

'Only a little more! I must not let them take my baby from me! No… We'll never make it alive…' She stopped outside of a cave and drew a circle with symbols into the ground. Once she was done doing this she began to chant softly to herself. A faint glow surrounded her body. She gasped as wings sprouted out of her back. The winds swirled around her body. Tossing her long hair every which way and her deep blue eyes shone with teas of sorrow and regret. Loose feathers from her wings floated around her as her wings shielded her body from viewers as she transformed into her true form.

With a final burst of light she stepped out of the protection of her glorious wings. When she stepped out she was wearing a pure white kimono with elaborate golden designs. Midnight black hair glistened in the pale moonlight, while a faint glow surrounded her body. Golden bracelets clinked together as she moved her arms in a sign of prayer to her god. 'Give me the strength I need to protect my child…' She cradled the small bundle in her arms. Her tears streamed down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry my love… My dear precious baby… I must do this… Only one of us will survive. And I will do everything in my power to insure that it is you!"

After saying this she ran into the cave and hid her child within the deepest regions of it.

ROAR!

Her head whipped around as she heard the demons approaching. Quickly she took off a silver crescent shaped pendant. In the center was a glowing sapphire. She mumbled a few words and created a shield around the child, and the fled the cave to her doom.

Screams and howls rented the night. The mysterious woman fought hard to protect her child. She had summoned her staff, made of gold with symbols of the elements engraved on it. She lashed out relentlessly at the demons while sending countless spells out towards them. Freezing and burning them, but for everyone she killed it seemed as if two more took its place. Soon she began to tire. She gasped as she felt on of the demons slash her in the side. Drawing blood. This encouraged the bloodlust of the beasts.

A wicked laughter rang through the night as a mysterious hooded man summoned a sword with the wave of his hand and threw it at the woman. She screamed as it pierced through her heart.

"Did you really think that you could escape me?"

She collapsed to the ground coughing up blood.

"Where is the child woman!" The hooded man lifter her head with his hands and looked her directly in the eye. Crimson eyes clashed with her defiant stormy blue eyes.

"I… I…" Cough, Cough She spit up more blood. "I'll never give you my daughter to slaughter as you did to your own kin!" With this she took one final breath and spit at the man. Her blood splattered on his face.

He growled with disgust and tossed her dead body into the cave.

"Search the area! I want that child and you will find it for me!"

With that he turned around and left with a puff of smoke. The demons searched until the break of day. But they never did find the child.

The Next Day

'How could they? How could he! Father you have betrayed me! Me and all of the pure blooded youkais!' A young inu-youkai stomped through the forest.

He kicked a rock and continued to kick it. Not knowing where he was going or what he was about to discover.

Vocabulary:

Gomen-nasai- I'm sorry(Very formal way to say it.)

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