(A/N) All these stories were written for the LiveJournal Community 30Shards, for the pairing of Sesshoumaru and Midoriko. Each 'shard' is not related to the others, nor is this a long story.


#1 - Legend

Title: Remember the Legend
Pairing: Sesshoumaru/Midoriko
Shard: 1
Rating: PG
Squicks: Nothing, really. This one just has Sesshoumaru sorta... thinking.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
Summary: Sesshoumaru didn't like legends.


How, Sesshoumaru wondered, could a teenage girl with barely controlled priestess powers become a legend?

Well, how did all legends become legends?

First, there was a person. Second, the person did something notable. Third, the person died or vanished. Fourth, the people told the person's story. Fifth, the story was intensified with each retelling. Sixth, the story becomes a legend.

Sesshoumaru didn't want her to be a legend. If that happened, he would remember the legend, not her. Sesshoumaru didn't want to remember the legend. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember her.

Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the grin when she teased him. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the laughter when she joked with him. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the smile when she'd been with him. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the eyes when she looked at him. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the glare when she yelled at him. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the voice when she spoke to him. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the skin when she touched him. Sesshoumaru wanted to remember the lips when she kissed him.

But no. Midoriko was to be remembered as a legend and eventually, he knew he would remember only the legend too, and not the teenage girl with the grin and the laughter and the smile and the eyes and the glare and the voice and the lips.

So when Inuyasha sneered at him and asked if a desire to be known as a legend was the reason he was after Tetsusaiga, Sesshoumaru glared and just walked away. (After beating the crap out of Inuyasha of course, the younger wondering for weeks afterwards just what he was so pissed about.) He stayed in a bad mood for days, and safe to say, Jaken nursed an aching head for weeks after.

Sesshoumaru didn't like legends.