Lady Kurama: Kuro-chan Youko-chan and Sesshi-chan is mine!
Kuronue: Like hell I am!
Sesshoumaru: I'm not some Sesshi-chan
Youko: F!# you!
Lady Kurama : GLADLY! XD chase Youko around
Kagome: ERM! Anyway... none of us are hers! we're owned by Rumiko-sama!
Chapter 10 : Goodbye Blue Rose
Kagome woke up in a start, her eyes snapped open, her face flushed red as she recalled the dream. Her mystery protector was being so tender and loving to her, something that she always dreamt her future husband to be, sweet, loving, powerful and protective. Well, someone like Blue Rose-san. She giggled softly, yes, someone like Blue Rose-san was her ideal man.
"Mmmmnn... Kagome mama..." she blinked at the soft call, staring at Shippou, had he said what she thought he said? Or was she just imagining things? "Kagome mama..." she heard him muttered again. Kagome blushed a few shades of red, so she had not mistaken, Shippou had called her mama, that was certainly something for her to ponder on later.
Quietly she got off the bed, spotting a neatly folded clothes at the corner, she took it and went to the room adjoining hers, presuming that it was the ofuro, which was absolutely correct.
# Half Hour Later #
There in front of a mirror stood our famous Miko in her new outfit.
And she was totally uncomfortable with it.
She ran to the drawer to find a pin or something, the outfit she wore was a Cheongsam! It was dark blue and had feathers embroidered on it. It was sleeveless and was buttoned by small white wings on the side. If that was the case, it was still fine to Kagome, but the problem was, it had a slit that was cut too high up her thigh! It exposed way too much leg!
'Argh! There got to be one!' she rummaged her bag pack since the dresser only consisted of Rin's things. 'This freaking clothes that I received from the freaking Demon Lord was cut all the way up to my freaking upper thigh for my freaking Goddess sake!' Not even her school uniform showed this much skin even though how inappropriate it was.
'It may be my fault that I am short, but I am of average height of a normal ningen! I'm 5,6ft tall! And where's that freaking pin?' she cursed a long list of words that surfaced in her mind.
Knock knock
"Kagome-sama! I'm sent to bring you to the Dojo!" a cheery voice chirped. Once hearing it, Kagome knew that she would definitely like this girl. "I'm coming!" she answered back with equal enthusiasm since the children would never wake up, they slept like a log.
Running to the door, she opened it.
What stood before her was the most unique youkai she had ever seen, she had never once seen a youkai so closely resembled a ningen with the exception of her tail. She had a light blue tresses and a pair of stunning pink eyes, her face portrayed her excitement and cheerfulness while her blue tail which had a bell tied at the end of it jingled softly.
She was wearing a knee length pink yukata that complimented her eyes, "Meow" she mewed cutely, acknowledging Kagome's presence. Kagome gave a light chuckle, "I take it you're a Neko youkai?" she questioned curiously, "What's your name?"
Servants who were passing by stood transfixed by her reaction, earning a confused blink from their Lady, 'Did I say something wrong?' Kagome wondered.
The Neko youkai purred in delight, "The name is Botan Kagome-sama! And yes! I'm a Neko youkai!" she happily answered, never had once any of the guest asked for her name, instead she was always being punished for being annoying to them. Taking her hand, she lead her Lady down the halls, "Please hurry Kagome-sama! Sesshoumaru-sama hates waiting!" Kagome nodded, letting her lead the way to the Dojo.
By the time they arrived in the Dojo, Kagome's breathing was slightly ragged, 'Just how huge is this castle? I got tired by running from one end to another!' She thanked Botan before stepping into the place.
As soon as she entered, she caught sight of her new protector standing in the middle of the room in his white hakama, showing his bare chest for the world to marvel. "Ohayou Sesshoumaru-sama." politely, she greeted, checking him out.
His body was glistened with sweat, an evidence on how much time he spent training. 'Oh wow... and here I thought Youko-kun got the greatest body...' her mind strayed, 'KYAA! Kagome bad girl! Bad girl! BAD! What's with you and bodies of youkais? Continue this and the next thing you do is peek on them when they are bathing like Miroku-sama!' As though her mind had fulfilled her 'wish', animated images of Youko, Sesshoumaru and Kuronue popped up in her mind, and they were...
They were washing her.
The fur on Sesshoumaru's tail bristled when he heard her squealed, her high pitched voice ringing in his ears. Unsheathing his Tenseiga in alarm, he pivoted 180 degree to face...
For the first time in his centuries of life, Sesshoumaru had no idea what to do. There several feet before him was the Miko, she was covering her face behind her hands for no particular reason, and her body was flushed with the colour of crimson.
Knitting his eyebrows, he advanced to her, smelling something amiss from her scent. Sheathing back his katana, he stepped right in front of her, feeling the heat that radiated her body. "What's wrong with you Mi-Kagome" he settled into calling her with her name, knowing that she would not take it otherwise. Gently, he took hold of her wrist.
Kagome gasped and jerked back at the electrifying touch, 'ARGH! Go away! Go away! Why is Kuronue in this too?' Images invaded her virgin mind, ignoring her commands and was totally immune to her will of driving them away. 'NO! I'm only sixteen! There should be some restrictions to this! Shouldn't it be labeled as NC-17 ir something?'
Sesshoumaru lowered his head down...
Damn!
He leapt back to the corner of the Dojo, taken aback. His mask cracked and revealed his shock in the depth of his golden irises, his lips slightly open. Her cherry blossom and jasmine scent was overwhelmed with a tangy cinnamon... She's aroused! He could feel himself reacting to the call and could barely keep his coherent mind intact for 99.9 percent of it was fantasizing away.
How the mighty one had fallen, he never had such reactions before! Not even for his concubines! What made this ningen a difference beside being a virgin? And owning those heavenly fragrant? He struggled for control while Kagome tried to kick the erotic images out of her now corrupted mind, say goodbye to innocent thoughts!
'This is going to be hell!' cursed the Taiyoukai and Miko.
#On Other Hand#
At the glare of the angry sun, a Kitsune Lord awakened. He cursed the Gods for interrupting him... or maybe not. There lying beside him was a raven head, 'Kagome.' he smiled at the smell of sex that hung thick in the air. He lightly grazed her waist and took a whiff of their mixed scent before he...
Before he growled.
He grabbed the woman and threw her to the floor, waking her up with a startled gasp. Her green eyes widened in fear of the furious Lord.
Blood slowly seeped into his eyes, Kagome never smell so musky, she always had an air of innocence around her. Her eyes were not green either, it was those ocean blue orbs that he could drown into...And HIS Kagome was not a youkai!
Suddenly, events from the previous even crept back into his mind.
-Flashback-
He was walking down the hall, feeling utterly bored. He wanted to see her, she always had a way to brighten up his mood, 'You craved for her.' his conscience chuckled. of course the arrogant Kitsune Lord denied it. 'Are you dreaming ?Me? And that loudmouth vix-woman-child?' he blushed when he almost slip... Almost.
'Ah ah ah... Did I hear vixen there? Vixen? V-I-X-E-N?' he could somehow picture his counterpart smirking.
'Vixen? HA! You call that child body vixen?' now he was wondering about his sanity, why was he arguing with himself?
'Hmmm... But I remember that her body is very...voluptuous.' he replied, 'Remember those huge chest? And her petite waist? Add those innocent face of hers and what do you get?' he snickered, 'A cute little angel call Kagome.'
'Hn.' that was when she bumped into him, the youkai that struck a resemblance to the to the woman he was infatuated with. "Come." a simple one word command from his lips and she willingly allowed him to take her, using her as replacement for Kagome.
-End Flashback-
Now that he narrowed his eyes towards her. he wondered which part of her resembled Kagome, perhaps he was too bored to even properly observe her.
He cast her a look of pure disgust, Kagome would never droll at the sight of him, she would have turned away with that cute blush on her pale cheeks and accused him of being a hentai. Kagome would never just stay there and wait, she was the one who would grasped him straight, not wait for him, well, if she ever want him.
Lastly, she would never so willingly give herself to him, she would have struggled for freedom and refused to bend to his will. Even from the short amount of time he knew her, he could vaguely guess her reactions, she was like an open book, so predictable yet so full of mystery and puzzle. He, the Lord of the East, had spotted the mystery, one that he was unable to solve for certain reasons.
Getting out of bed, he changed into his usual white tunic and pants before he left the room. He and Kuronue need to talk, 'I guess... Some things are just hard to let go.' he smirked, making his way to the study.
# Back with Kagome #
Kagome was beat up, she lied flat on her stomach, frustration rolling off her aura in waves. Was controlling Miko powers so hard? Sesshoumaru had told her to calm herself and search deep within herself for her powers. It was a strange sensation of searching yourself, as though you were floating. She had found her source of power, rather easily at that.
The problem was, she could barely reach out for it! It refused to cooperate with her, it kept on burning her whenever she tried to get hold of it! She had been trying to catch it for the last few hours, but to no avail. Her body was tired and her hands were deep red, with the skin peeling off. 'Stupid overly large Miko powers, what use of it if I can't even control it?' cursed the furious Miko.
"Try one last time Miko." she heard Sesshoumaru's deep and cold voice ordering her. With a sigh, she closed her eyes and went into a state of calmness.
Again, she was back in the white place, Sesshoumaru had called it her core. "Home sweet home." she mumbled sarcastically before she scanned the area for the lavender sphere, 'Cih... Stupid power.' she insulted.
She almost jumped out of her skin when the lavender sphere appeared in front of her. "HEY! Don't scare me like that!" she put a hand on her loudly beating chest. After it calmed, she peered closer to it, "What's with the sudden friendliness?" she teased playfully.
She could feel the lavender sphere, which was the size of a basketball, glaring at her, somehow. After some time, she heard something spoke in her head, 'Why do you want to control the power?' she raised her eyebrows, the stupid sphere could talk?
"Why I want to control it?" she repeated the question, "What do you think? I've given the answer just moments ago." she huffed, "I want to use it to protect others of course, do you think that I'm like Naraku?" she stuck her tongue out at it.
The sphere circled her, 'Why protect them? They destroyed the world don't they?'
Kagome closed her eyes, "Yes... They did destroy the world, the nature... But nothing could be worse than Naraku taking over the world. I need power to be able to rid the world of his existence." she replied. "I know that I'm no God to make such judgments, but I'm doing what I think is best. One life in exchange of many others."
'What if you are the one needed to be sacrificed?' the sphere was now floating still in front of her, waiting for her to speak.
Kagome let out a smile, slowly opening her eyes, "Then I shall sacrifice myself if needed be. Life is unfair to some, that I've learnt, I will protect those that are worth it. As for now, the only way to protect them is to destroy Naraku."
The lavender sphere laughed, 'Very well... You're too stubborn to give up anyway.' it struck into her chest. A scream tore out her lips in shock and the burning heat in her chest. She could feel something being absorbed into her and after what seemed like hours to her, it stopped, leaving her panting for breath.
'Remember, if you ever use us for your own gain, we will not hesitate to seal ourselves.'
Kagome opened her eyes, her breathing ragged as she forced herself into sitting position. Strangely enough, she felt no pain from the burnt hands, holding it up, she saw that it was healed. She sighed in relief, "Stupid troublesome power..." she mumbled, not aware of the Taiyoukai standing beside her. He had his arms folded against his chest, it seemed that her power had will of its own, that was rare indeed.
"Practice mediating everyday." said Sesshoumaru before he left the room, leaving her with her own thoughts.
She frowned, what's wrong with him?
Growl
A groan escaped her lips, she almost forgot, she had yet eaten since yesterday night, and it was mid day now... But where should she go? Now that he had left?
A shout answered her question.
"Kagome-sama!" Unmistakable, it was Rin. After a few seconds, three figures burst into the room, "Kagome! We're going for a bathe!" Shippou leapt to her lap and cheered.
"Hai hai! Botan-chan, can you help me up?" asked Kagome. The Neko youkai grinned as she happily helped her to get on her feet before they head to the ofuro.
After bathing, the two chatterboxes and Kagome were sent to the dining room, they ate till Kagome begged for no more, feeling that she had gained at least three kilos.
They went to the garden. It was a beautiful sight, filled with many different varieties of flowers and was fenced with bushes of rose. Red, yellow, white, purple and blue, all was there. Yet to Kagome, the gardens in the Eastern Lands were more awesome than this. Sighing as the kids began to play tag, she slowly sat down and pondered about her dream and its content.
# In Eastern Lands #
The two lords entered a dark chamber with a lantern in their hand, they grinned at each other before dashing inside in blurs of black and white.
Soon, sounds of banging and crashing were heard from the room, the blood of the servants who past by grew cold, quickly they vacant the spot in fear of their wrath.
# Western Lands #
Three days...
The same routine had been going for three days, wake up, mediate (As Sesshoumaru-sama called it), bath, eat lunch, went out with kids, come back for dinner, read stories to lull the children to sleep, then she relaxed herself and went to sleep. She had not been having any dreams lately, and she was highly disappointed with it.
Today was different though, Sesshoumaru had left early in the morning to patrol his lands. Kagome had asked for permission to travel out of the castle with the kids. He had agreed, provided that Ah-Un followed along and that she would always stayed near the castle grounds.
"Shippou-chan, you're it!" Kagome giggled as she touched Shippou's head before turning tail to run, leaving a pouting Shippou who laughed before he began chasing the terrified Rin. Ah-Un was laying flat under the tree, watching them with sleepy hazel eyes.
Kagome went to them and sat against them, using them to hide from the energetic children's view. She gently stroked its rough scales, leaning against Ah's neck, "I'm so bored...but it felt nice knowing that I could feel my powers which seems to have enhance my senses." she sighed.
Ah-Un growled softly and fixed their attention on her, with Ah lightly nuzzling her neck.
Kagome giggled, "How about I tell you something? but promise not to tell anybody?" she whispered tiredly.
At their nod, Kagome continued, "I met a youkai..."she started, "I've never see him before... He never shows himself, but he gave me this haori." she held up her sleeves for him to see. "I first knew of his existence when he saved me from a pack of Neko youkai, it had been confusing really... Especially when he introduced himself with a blue rose..."
"After I returned, my group went to the Eastern Lands, and guess what? We met the Lords of the East! Youko-kun and Kuronue-kun! They bound Inuyasha and Miroku into a vine mummy!" she laughed at the memory, "Then Youko-kun tried to seduce me... Well, I remembered slapping him on the cheek." her cheeks warmed, "I believed that my slap was cursed! Just like with Kouga-kun, he didn't get angry, quite the opposite in fact!" she pouted for a second before her face soften again, "Blue Rose-san saved me though."
By now Ah-Un was intently listening, so this maiden had many noble secret admirers, what a trouble she would cause.
"We escaped to the border of Eastern Lands, where we stopped for the night, I got angry with Inuyasha because for no reason he was angry that I had a secret protector! The nerve of that baka!" she huffed, "I left the camping spot and found myself in a field of Eschscholtzia, you know, the cute little orange flower. I began to sing." she let out a sheepish smile, "Youko-kun caught me! Oh it was so embarrassing!" she giggled.
"I was so shocked to learn that Youko-kun and Blue Rose-san were childhood friends! We talked about all that they have done until suddenly..." she sighed, "He tried to kiss me... Of course I pushed him away before running back to the camp!" she added hastily, leaving out the part about the Eschscholtzia.
As Ah-Un listened, they stared at each other, childhood friends of Youko-sama and Kuronue-sama? Ever since Sesshoumaru-sama was born, they had been his 'pet' dragon, well, not exactly 'pet', it was more of caretaker. Their little Lord always rode them to Eastern Lands to play with the two young Lords. They have never seen Youko-sama or Kuronue-sama having another friend except for their Sesshoumaru-sama.
They peered at the Miko who was talking about her days in the Palace of the East. They glanced at each other, could it be...
Hm?
They whisked their head at the familiar presence, scanning the forest, they spotted their Sesshoumaru-sama sitting on a high branch of a Sakura tree, leaning against the bark. He might be concealed to the others, but not to his dragon caretaker who had served him for his whole life. More ever, they had an ability to sense youkais even if they used a concealment spell, that was a power that they prided on.
Their Lord was gazing at the Miko who was busily relating her story. He caught their stare, which caused him to turn his head to the opposite direction. Un purred in laughter whereas Ah stopped Kagome's storytelling by licking her cheek, this little Miko was the cause of their Lord's embarrassment! It had been decades since they saw it!
"Ah-Un! That tickles!" laughed the Miko.
Sensing that the children were safe in the area, the dragons stood up. Un licked her cheeks before it bit onto her sleeve, pulling her into the forest.
"Nani Ah-Un, where are you bringing me?"
Sesshoumaru got onto his feet when Ah-Un brought her towards his direction, what were they planning now? When Ah-Un brought her to the tree he was perching on, he was prepared to leap away. All of his attention was solely on her in case she ever looked up. What was this foreign feeling in him that made him decide to take refuge on another tree? 'Was this what ningens called... nervousness?'
Ah-Un pulled Kagome to sit under the tree, with Ah putting his head on her lap and Un growling at the unfairness. "Oh you babies." cooed Kagome, "How old are you anyway?" picking the fallen sakura, grass and sticks around her, she placed it before her. "Ok... let's say that a flower is one century, a grass if one decade and a stick is one year." she waited for them to select it.
Ah lifted his head from her lap and began to put some of them aside.
"Oh wow..." Kagome counted in disbelieve, "Sugoi! Ah-Un you're 826 years old?" she clapped her hands. Suddenly, a thought crossed her mind, "Hey Ah-Un, how old is Sesshoumaru-sama?" she asked curiously.
Ah hesitated, not knowing whether he should tell, but Un, the more playful of the two, began to select the things with his snout, putting some aside and adding some in. Kagome stroked Ah's mane while bending over to count the numbers, "One, two, three, four... Woah Sesshoumaru-sama is 534 years old?" she gasped. Up above her, Sesshoumaru waited for her reaction, would she feel repulse?
"Shouldn't he have a mate by now?" her flabbergasted expression turned into one of deep concentration, "Then again, he is the Lord of Western Lands... If he wants a heir, he could just do that with one of his concubines. I'm sure he had many... Hundreds perhaps." she lowly mumbled, "I guess there's no such thing as commitment among youkais... Why am I thinking about that anyway, it's not like I will fall in love with one." she added softly.
Though it was barely audible, Sesshoumaru caught every word she said. It was true that he had more that hundred of concubines, and it was also true that there was no such thing as commitment among most of the youkais, but why... hearing it from her gave him a small pang of regret? Did she mean it? When she said that she would not fall in love with a youkai?
Gracefully, he landed on the ground, his back against the bark. He was so near... so near that he could almost feel her leaning against him. She was so near... so near yet so far away.
He admitted that he was attracted to her, admitted that he wanted to solve the mystery within her, but was admitting to himself enough? Enough to hold her in his arms? Enough to let her change her mind about him?
'Sesshoumaru... Do you have something to protect?' his father's voice emerged in his train of mind, this time, the voice was as though taunting him, mocking him, daring him to say no. 'Father...' a hand went to his forehead, holding up his bangs as her lowered his head, 'Is this how you feel? When you are with Izayoi? Is this the reason why you gave me Tenseiga?' Kagome's smiling face popped up in his head, 'Hn... smiles that never would be mine.' never once he saw her smile when she was with him, never once...
"Nee Ah-Un... I wonder where Blue Rose-san is... I've never seen him for four days... I mean I haven't been in contact with him." his ears perked up. Ah-Un let out a laugh, she was just so naive, couldn't she sense that he was just right behind her? With only a tree separating them?
"I take back the part about falling in love with a youkai." hugging Ah to her chest, she blushed and muttered under her breath, "If Blue Rose-san ever show himself, I'm sure I could easily fall in love with him." her cheeks were flaming in heat at her own confession.
Sesshoumaru's golden irises went wide in disbelieve, a barely noticeable smile of sorrow appeared on his face. It was impossible for him to be the one she adored, she said it just because she did not know that it was him. He always had the courage to face even the deadliest foe in the world. Yet... yet he could never had the courage to reveal himself to a 16 years old Miko.
With a small bittersweet smile, he finally decided, 'This got to end.' From now onwards, there would be no such person called Blue Rose, there would be no more mystery protector. He took out a Blue Rose from his haori, one that he plucked before he came. Eyeing it for the longest moment, he lowered his eyelids as he let it fell, letting the wind blew one of its petals away.
Goodbye Blue Rose.
TBC...
Reviews :
Shoomy2003: Hey thx! I didn't realise it before! but I think it was all cleared up... is it? If not, pls inform me!
Mimiru : OF COZ! Youko and Kuronue are just... AWWWWWWWWWW anyway, this is a Kag/Sess fic ( PLS ignore my crap : P)
Damned Angel of the Dying Light: HEHEHE You'll get it in the next chapter! MUAHAHAHHAHA ""
renyun: This is not a triangle! This is a urm... what do you call a five sided thingy? issit pentagon? Well about the Hi thing, can you imagine Sesshoumaru saying Hi? Uh... It get kind so strange doesn't it?
ranchan23: DAMN STRAIGHT! MUAHAHAHA : P
Kitten : YEP he is! But unfortunately he's gone SOB SOB Goodbye Blue Rose!
Brittany : LONG WAY till she realise hauahuahuahu
Faded Moonlight: HEY! You can't do that: P
inukuramaRmine: LOL, this will be a Kag/Sess fic OH YES CHOP OFF HER HEAD AND LET JAKEN EAT HER!
sexyvodka1125: Thx, I'm glad that you like it : ) URMM about inu... oh well... I guess you have to read on... just to tell you that... it won't be much of a good things about inu
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