Death of a Heart

The Pasts Meet The Present

Desire walked through the den and tidied up a little, she hated it when it was messy. Ever since they had learned that she was pregnent they hadn't let her do much, for fear of hurting the baby.

Kouga and Espada were outside training, though they called it playing. Kouga and Espada walked back into the den and sat down at the table, panting and gasping for breath.

"Don't you two look tired?" Desire asked in a mocking tone.

"That was fun." Espada said cheerfully.

"I think I'm getting old." Kouga muttered.

"Why would that be?"

"She gave me a work out and she's not even 3!" Kouga said. Desire walked over and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Kouga..." Desire said. "She's your child."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"That she's going to be just like-" Desire said, she stopped.

"What's wrong?" Kouga asked, Espada was looking between her parents. "Is it the baby?" Kouga asked.

"Hai." Desire managed between gasps for air. The first time it had been ever worse, by now she would have already been screaming at the top of her lungs. Kouga took her into the birthing room that they had prepared and then he ran and got the older wolves to help Desire deliever. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Desire yelled in pain, Kouga flinched and his hair stood on end, Espada had tears coming to her eyes.

"Daddy! I'm scared!" Espada said. Kouga looked at her and then picked her up.

"What're you scared of?" Kouga asked.

"I'm scared that Mommy isn't going to live. I've never heard Mommy yell like that." Espada said as she started to cry. She burried her head in her fathers chest and sobbed.

"It's ok, Mommy's going to live." Kouga said. He and Espada flinched as Desire screamed again.

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Aylin walked into her old room, everything was how she had left it. Her bed was still unmade, everything was screwed up in this room, since she liked it that way and if it wasn't that way she didn't know where anything was.

"Exactly...how...I left it..." Aylin muttered as she looked around. "Ah! It better be there!" Aylin yelped as she dove into her bed and started looking for something.

She was laying flat on the bed with her waist down being the only thing you could see. Sesshomaru looked into the room and saw Aylin under the covers looking for something.

"What're you doing?" Sesshomaru asked, putting on his emotionless mask. Aylin grunted and sighed.

"I was looking for something but I can't find it." Aylin muttered. She crawled out from under the blanket and her face was met with the thing she was looking for. She blinked twice and then took it. "YAY! YOU FOUND IT!" Aylin said as she danced around hugging it to her chest.

"What's so special about it?" Sesshomaru asked, Aylin looked at him and smiled.

"Well first of all, I got it from the great, kind lord of the west, second, it was a B-Day present, and third, I can't sleep without him." Aylin explained.

"You've had it for five years." Sesshomaru said as he took Aylin's most prized possession from her arms. "It's a stuffed animal." He held up a stuffed lion cub.

"So? He's my sleeping buddy!" Aylin growled as she took him back and put him on her unmade bed. She muttered something under her breath and then turned back to Sesshomaru.

"What did you say?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"What's it to you? Is the great Lord Sesshomaru suddenly interested in what a little nobody dog demon has to say?" Aylin retorted.

"I think so."

"Well you can keep being interested because I'm not gonna tell you what I said."

"What if I took...this?" Sesshomaru asked as he held up the lion.

"Ah! No! Simba!" Aylin yelped. Sesshomaru looked at her.

"...You named it?"

"Uh...no...?"

"You did."

"Not!"

"Did."

"Not!"

"Then you wouldn't care if I threw Simba away would you?"

"Nooo! Don't kill Simba! What did he ever do to you!" Aylin said, she lunged for Simba. "Ah! Got 'im!" she said as she grabbed him from Sesshomaru's girp. Suddenly she felt strong arms around her, keeping her form hitting the wall in her desperate attempt to get Simba.

At some point she had closed her eyes, slowly she opened them, just waiting for the wall to be an inch away, but it wasn't. It was feet away and she noticed that she was in Sesshomaru's arms. Aylin blushed and then jumped away. Her cheeks were burning and she was hoping that Sesshomaru hadn't seen that.

"Uh...thanks. Guess I kinda wasn't thinking." Aylin muttered as she put Simba on her head. After Aylin apologized there was an akward silence between them, neither knowing what to say.

Byron and Gikyoku stifled their laughter and then ran off down the hall. They had seen what had happened between the two dog demons.

"This is great!" Gikyoku said as he threw up his arms and giggled joyuosly.

"Yes, blankmail..." Byron muttered.

"It don't think that's a good idea...It's Aylin we're talking about here, you've seen what she can do when she's mad." Gikyoku said, he was actually being smart for once.

"What're you two doing?" Aylin asked as she looked down at them with her hands on her hips. Sesshomaru was right beind her. Gikyoku and Byron jumped up with their hair standing on end from fear.

"Nothing!" They said. "We've gotta go."

"Yeah you know, fix the carpets." Byron said as he dashed away.

"Yeah...I've gotta feed the cats." Gikyoku said as he dashed away in the other direction before either of them could stop him.

"I don't have cats..." Sesshomaru muttered.

"Didn't think so...definatly a cover up." Aylin muttered. "Oh, would you mind taking me some where?" Aylin asked.

"Where?" Sesshomaru asked.

"To the place where I died." Aylin answered.

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After about 3 hours Desire had finally given birth.

It was a little boy named Escudo. He had red eyes like rubies, from his mother, and brown hair. He was much smaller than Espada had been, but what was bad was that he had almost gotten stuck, but in the end Escudo had come out just fine.

"Isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen?" Desire asked. Kouga looked at his mate and son with loving eyes. Espada didn't like the baby. Now she didn't get any attention.

"Mommy, Daddy, I'm hungry." Espada said.

"I'll get you something then." Desire said she started to stand but Kouga pushed her back down.

"You just gave birth! You're going no where!" Kouga said in a firm tone. "I'll get her something while you REST." Kouga took Espada's hand and lead her out. Desire moved to make herself more confortable and Kouga stuck his head and hand back in. "Stay!"

"I'm getting more comfortable!" Desire growled at him.

"Oh. Continue then." Kouga said as he disappeared. Desire smiled and rolled her eyes. Somtimes her mate could be such an idiot.

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"Why do you want to go there?" Sesshomaru asked.

"I want to see how it's doing. I may have died there but I still consider it a spot where I'd go to think." Aylin answered. "Will you take me?"

"If you want to go back go a head, but I'm not going." Sesshomaru said in a firm tone.

"Please, I wont be able to handle it if I go by myself." Aylin pleaded. "Please?"

Sesshomaru sighed and then looked at her.

"Fine." he answered, suddenly he found himself being hugged by Aylin.

"Thanks." she whispered. Sesshomaru looked around, no one was looking. Aylin realized what she was doing. Dammit...I'm such an idiot. She thought to herself. Sesshomaru turned down the hall before anything else happened.

"They hugged!" Byron said. Gikyoku laughed.

"I wonder if they're ever going to get together...it's obvious they love each other." Gikyoku said.

"Who loves who?" a female asked. Byron and Gikyoku whirled around.

"Yeah, don't hold back the info." another girl said.

"Leela, Tempest, welcome back!" Byron said.

"Lord Sesshomaru and Aylin are in love!" Gikyoku said as he giggled and smiled like a total idiot, which he was! I mean seriously! Why would a DOG demon have CATS!

Leela smiled. For once her light pink eyes didn't have a haze in them. Her short black hair was hanging loosly around her face, framing it perfectly and she was as tall as Byron, who was about 2 feet shorter than Sesshomaru.

Tempest had emerald green eyes and the same color hair, her hair was constantly up in a bun so you could never tell how long it was.

Tempest and Leela were alchoholics. They had only been totally sober from the age of, just out of their mothers stomachs to 15. When they got together with Aylin...that was a WHOLE other story.

"Jeez, took them long enough." Tempest muttered. "Now...who is up for sake?"

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"We're here." Sesshomaru said. Aylin nodded and opened the willow leave to get in. Sesshomaru followed her, the stream and everything was how it had been before, except the stream was wider because it was the rainy season.

"It looks no different from before yet it feels different." Aylin muttered to herself. She looked around and found the sink hole where Sesshomaru had sat down. When she sat down her feet were in the water, it was cold but nice. "It seems like this place has been tainted or something." Sesshomaru walked over and sat down next to Aylin. The stream water lapped against his feet.

"No one's been here since you died." Sesshomaru said.

"Not even you?"

"I meant besides me."

"Ah." Aylin pulled her knees up to her chin and let them rest like that. "Before when I brought you here I set that up. I wanted to tell you something and when I was about to, well I bet you can guess." Aylin said.

"What did you want to tell me?" Sesshomaru asked.

"It doesn't matter." Aylin muttered.

"Tell me."

"Just forget it." Aylin turned her head away from him and looked at the place where the stream seperated into two. That's how her heart felt at the moment. She wanted to tell him how she felt, but she didn't want to find out that he didn't feel the same way. Sesshomaru looked to where she was looking and noticed what it was like.

"If you're not going to tell me then I see no point in staying here." Sesshomaru said as he stood, Aylin grabbed his hand to stop him. He looked at her.

"What I wanted to tell you that day was that I loved you. That I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you and that I'd always be there for you." Aylin said, her voice was in a monotone so that she didn't falter. "I didn't tell you sooner because I didn't know if you felt the same way, I guess in the end I chanced it." Aylin added, Sesshomaru waited a moment to see if she was going to say anything more. She didn't.

Sesshomaru used the hand she was holding and lifted her up. Aylin was still looking at the ground. Without thinking Sesshomaru lifted her chin so that their eyes were level and then he kissed her. Aylin's eyes widened, then sunk closed to give into him. Ever since he had given her Simba she knew that she had loved him and that she knew that she'd be safe with him if he felt the same way.

Aylin and Sesshomaru parted.

"I love you." Sesshomaru said as he pulled her to his chest and hugged her. Aylin hugged him back, her heart fluttering like a buttlerfly on a spring breeze.

Both of them savored the moment, they knew it wasn't going to last long. A rumble of thunder was heard and then there was a flash of lightening.

"The irony." Aylin muttered as she smirked. "At least we wont get wet here." Just as she finished the branches gave way and both were soaked. "I should really learn to keep my mouth shut."

"Yeah, you should." Sesshomaru muttered, Aylin had forgotten he was wearing white and that he didn't have his armor on.

"Ah shit." Aylin muttered as she turned around before noticing anything that she shouldn't have. "I'll...uh meet you back at the castle!" Aylin said as she darted off, avoiding looking at Sesshomaru. She got back to the castle and changed into a dark blue outfit like Sesshomaru's. Then she walked to Sesshomaru's to see what was going on.

"Milord, Kouga of the East has another heir." a messenger said. Aylin walked over, her interested had been lit and she wasn't going to go away until it went out.

"Who is his mate?" Aylin asked.

"Desire Du Sang."

"Ah! I know her! Where are they staying, living, whatever?" Aylin asked happily, she hadn't seen her friend in years.

"The eastern mountain range, in a cave in the side of the biggest mountain."

"Yes! I kno right where that is!" Aylin said as she jumped up and down.

"They're having a party in the castle tomorrow night, don't you think you should wait?" Sesshomaru asked.

"No! Then she'll be surrounded by everyone else! I'll be back before the stupid party to change and then go with you. See you tomorrow night!" Aylin dashed off to her room to grab her armor and weapons so that she didn't have to worry about injury on the way there, since it was a good 7 hours away.

"She's one busy person." Tempest muttered.

"Temptest, go with her." Sesshomaru said.

"Wait! Why do I have to go? I just got back!" Temptest said.

"That's an order, do I have to relive you of your post as 4th general?"

"I'm goin'! I expect 5 bottles of sake when I come back!" Temptest yelled over her shoulder.

"You're not going to get it!" Sesshomaru growled.

"We'll see Mr. Boss-man!" Temptest yelled again, she couldn't walk in a straight line if her life depended on it. "Now...where was what's-her-name's room again?" Aylin walked out of her room and looked at Tempest. "I'm supposed to be going with you to Kouga's."

"Can't I do anything alone?" Aylin muttered. "Alright well c'mon."

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"Here we are." Aylin said, she walked up to the mountain and found the cave. "Kouga? Desire?"

"Who is there?" Kouga asked.

"Aylin. I'm from the west." Aylin explained. Kouga appeared right infront of Aylin.

"You definatly smell like Sesshomaru. You weren't doing anything were you?" Kouga asked.

"No! I caught me before I hit the wall and killed myself!" Aylin growled at him. Kouga laughed. "Now, is Desire here?"

"Hai." Desire said from behind Kouga. When Desire saw Aylin her eyes widened. "Aylin?"

"The one and only."

"I thought that you were gone."

"Well I was, it's a long story. Anyways I heard that you two have had two kids!" Aylin said. "Dunno why...I hate the things."

"The same old Aylin. Come in."

"Got anything to eat? I've been runnin' for 7 hours straight!" Aylin said.

"Sesshomaru had you come didn't he?" Kouga asked.

"How'd you know?"

"Aylin has the scent of Sesshomaru all over her, but the most recent is on her lips. So I knew that Sesshomaru had sent someone with her so that she didn't die. It's not like him to let people that he cares or rules over die." Kouga explained.

"You're not such a hardhead wolf are you?" Temptest asked as she punched him on the head.

"Ow! What the hell?" Kouga growled at her, Temptest was already walking into the den and looking for sake.

"Hardhead wolf! Got any sake?" Temptest asked.

"Why should I let you have it?"

"If I don't have it then I'll go crazy and who knows what will happen. So where is it?"

Kouga growled and threw her the sake that he had hidded.

"Thank you."

"So Aylin, what have you been up to?" Desire asked.

"Eh, not much. This and that." Aylin answered. "How about you? You've already got 2 kids! Must have been busy huh?"

"Aylin!" Desire said loudly from surprise.

"What?"

"Oh...nevermind. I heard that you had died."

"Yeah I did, for about two months before I was brought back by someone, still haven't figured out who though."

"Seems you've been busy." Desire said with a smirk.

"What're you thinking, I know that smirk, even if I haven't seen you since my family was killed."

"Did you actually think that I wouldn't notice Sesshomaru's scent on you? The most recent is on your lips, Aylin. Anything else happen that I should know about?"

"I knew I was forgetting to do something." Aylin muttered to herself. "No, but I think we need to catch up, don't you?"

"Hai, we should. Let's start when your family was killed." Desire said.

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"Bye Desire! I've gotta go, my mom wants me home." Aylin said to a younger Desire.

"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow then Aylin. Bye!" Desire called to her childhood friend with a wave.

Aylin and Desire looked no different then from they did now, except they didn't have as big of boobs or were as tall. Yeah you get the point.

"I wonder what's for dinner?" Aylin wondered to herself as she walked from Desire's to her house. Suddenly Aylin heard a scream, it was coming from her village. "What's going on!" Aylin darted off into her village to see what was going on.

Her eyes widened when she saw what was going on. Men and little boys and baby boys where all thrown into a pile of the dead and then set on fire, the women were being dragged into houses so the men that had conqured the village could have their way with them. There was one man and woman that were still fighting.

"MOM! DAD!" Aylin yelled at the top of her lungs, her mother and father turned to her.

"Run Aylin!" They both yelled at the same time. A spear was stabbed through them both, sealing their fates. Aylin had tears streaming down her face.

"You bastards!" Aylin yelled as she ran into the village, grabbing a spear from her father's best friend. She took a ready stance and waited for them to come at her, when they did she shoved the spear through them, just like they did with her partents. "You will pay for what you have done to my happy life you bastards." Aylin growled with her eyes flashing from blue to red and back again.

"Hah! What can a little girl do? Your parents would be ashamed of you for not listening to what they told you to do in their last moments." a leader of the killers said, Aylin glared at him, her eyes still flashing, the only thing that was keeping her eyes from staying red was the sorrow and pity she felt.

"They may be ashamed of me but I swear I will kill you all!" Aylin yelled. Before anyone could stop her she grabbed the swords and daggers from the fallen people all around her and attacked the people once again, this time cutting down as many as 5 in one swing.

"How the hell can a little girl do this!" the leader asked.

"I dunno Boss, should we pull out?" another bandit asked.

"No, I'm going to have this little girl, I'll make sure of it." the leader said. "Fall back! I will fight the girl." the leader called into the bandits. Aylin turned to him, she had a spear tucked uncer one arm and a sword in the other hand, fighting off people from both sides.

"So the leader comes to take me?" Aylin asked with an amused smile. "I'd like to see you and your fat ass try." Aylin smirked when she saw the look on his face.

"You may be smart now, but wait until your under me, begging for more." the bandit leader said, Aylin spat on his feet.

"You. Wish." She growled at him. Aylin hurled the spear at him, it was stick out from the other side of him. The bandits started to run, but they weren't fast enough to get away from her.

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"After that I was wandering and stumbled across Sesshomaru. I went with him to his caslte and grew up there for a little while, 5 years to be exact. Though he still talks in a monotone, and Jaken still talks more in his sleep than Sesshomaru talks." Aylin added.

"How do you know?" Desire asked.

"If you mean did I sneak into Jaken's room with a knife and tried to kill him in his sleep...no...no I didn't." Aylin said as she turned her head away.

"Definatly the Aylin I know." Desire laughed, Kouga and Temptest were feeling felt out so they sat down and started to drink sake like it was water. "My turn now." Desire siad.

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After Aylin and Desire had said good-bye Desire had walked home, then she smelled blood. It was coming from the direction on Aylin's village. Before anyone saw her Desire dashed off to see what had happened.

Dead people were every where, bandits were piled up and were on fire, people that the bandits had been burning where put out and had a cloth over them, and there were two graves. One had lillies and the other sunflowers. Lillies were Aylin's mom's favorite, and sunflowers, her dad's.

"Aylin!" Desire called. "Aylin!" There was no answer to her calls. "She must already be gone, but where would she have gone to? It isn't like Aylin to kill people." Desire added.

"If you're looking for the girl who was here before, she already left." A man said, Desire turned around and saw him hanging from his ankles upside down.

"Ah! Who are you?" Desire asked.

"Well I was the leader of the bandits that had attacked this village, but then that girl came and killed all my men but me." he explained.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did she leave your miserable hide alive?"

"She said 'You're not worthy of dead, the buzzards should be coming here soon to feast on your eyes and anything else that they're hungry for. You shall die slowly and I'll make sure of that, even if I have to come back here and heal you every day.' Any more questions?" he asked.

"No...but she's right, if you did do this, you're not worthy of death, and the buzzards are coming." Desire added. Desire left and as she did she heard the screams of the man being eaten alive.

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"When I left I went to a steam and started to was myself because the sights made me feel so dirty, then Kouga saw me and kept making smart remarks...I almost killed him several times." Desire growled slightly as she glared at Kouga who was totally wasted.

"But you've had two kids? Why should I matter?" Aylin asked. "I mean there's two...so you must have done it at LEAST twice."

"We didn't get any results on the first 15 times for Espada, we got her on the 16th time, and for Escudo, it was...13 tires and we got him on the 14th." Kouga explained, Desire was BEAT red, and Aylin was biting her lip to stop from laughing.

"So he's an honest drunk! Can't Believe he counted!" Aylin said as she burst out laughing.

"KOUGA!" Desire yelled, her face still beat red. She was about to kill Kouga but he was out like a light. "Dammit all..." Desire growled as she stalked into the other room to check on the kids.

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Notes: ((None))

Disclaimer- I don't own InuYasha

Aki- LMAO! The last part was added in as revenge and hence...I find it hilarious!

Next Chapter- Whose Behind it All?

After the little 'mishap' with Kouga being drunk Aylin and Temptest move onto going to back to the west so that they can try to figure things out, like who brought Aylin back, why they brought her back, getting ready for the party in celebration of Kouga's second Heir. Something..unexpcected happens during the party and EVERYTHING goes wrong.

Aki- Please reivew! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! I'M BEGGING! (begs) Please? Ok well anyways I hope you liked it!