Shiinto no Saisuuheiki
Silent Weapon
By KillingMeTenderly
Because we are friends
I wanted you to know,
That I love the way you laugh.
I want to hold you high and
Steal your pain away.
I keep your photograph
And I know it
Serves me well.
I want to hold you high
And steal your pain…
Because I'm broken,
When I am lonesome
And I don't feel right
When you go away…
You've gone away,
You don't feel me ...anymore…
The worst is over now
And we can breathe again,
I want to hold you high,
You steal my pain away.
There's so much left to learn
And no one left to fight.
I want to hold you high
And steal your pain…
You've gone away,
You don't feel me...anymore…
Darkness was all around her. No sounds, no feelings, no sight…
… Just darkness. It was tempting her to stay there forever. Sleeping, dreaming… in a world, where she was alone with herself. It was comfortable. Happiness, sorrow and other feelings were overflowing her. She was embraced from the blackness. Here she was wanted… Wanted? She remembered something… she was…waned… somewhere else too… Silver tresses, golden eyes, moon- pale skin… and name… She couldn't remember it. Here names meant nothing. She too have once had a name… it was somewhat hard to remember how she was called. Memories floated in her consciousness. A red- clad hanyou, beautiful woman, with large boomerang and a man with priest clothes. There was a little kit ad a neko- youkai too. A smiling woman with short hair, a boy and old man, dressed like… miko? Inuyasha? Sango… Miroku… Shippo… Mama… Sotta… Grandpa… they ere all waiting for her. They would all miss her. Somebody else too, somebody that loved her… Sesshomaru…She couldn't let them down…
…She couldn't let him down…
…And then she saw the light…
Kagome's scream echoed in the forest. Sesshomaru's eyes grew wire in realization- she was hurt. Something snapped in him and in a moment his eyes were bleed- red. With speed no one was able to match he ran to small clearing. His heart stopped it's pulse from he scene. Kagome, his Kagome was wrapped in the tentacles of a strange youkai. Her eyes were closed arms limply hanging by her side. Again and again he repeated her name on the primitive language of his ancestors. His excuse for a half- brother was knocked down and the tajia and the monk fighting fiercely their way to the young miko. His lips turned into a snarl and he pushed his limits to talk to the human's tongue.
"Let the woman go or loose all limbs you have, weakling."- His voice keeping the ice shade, but his blood eyes giving away his anger.
"My, my is this Lord the West?"- the demon, made strange grimace that maybe was a smile, Sesshomaru wanted to wince to the way the thing was talking using like it seems only verbs and nouns- "Now Mijo can fight and get Shikon, miko and the West lands!"
Sesshomaru let a loose grow 'Idiot'- he thought- 'you have to know better when to claim what belongs to this Sesshomaru."
With a cold glare the taiyoukai leaped toward the other demon, unsheathing Tokijin. With wide arc he bring the sword toward the youkai's head, just to meet many tentacles. The demon shuddered, but over wise didn't make any move to show, that he was in pain.
'How is this possible?'- Sesshomaru thought- 'Normal demon would have been harmed.'
Suddenly the realization came. The youkai had shards from the Shikon no Tama and that meant that he was stronger than a usual youkai. Alas there was no time of thinking. The other demon was holding Kagome too tide and the taiyoukai knew, that the young miko was on the verge of life. Her breathing, as he was able to hear was labored and her heartbeat unsure.
Without much of a thought he jumped, claws first to the demon. The taiyoukai was determent, that he would save the woman even if that meant, tearing his way to her. He knew that he would always be able to bring her back with Tenesaiga, but he just didn't want her to feel any pain.
Mijo looked at the demon Lord in front of him and understood- his life was going to end in seconds. But the youkai was determined- he was going to take the girl with him if he was to go to the world beyond.
His thoughts were stopped as the taiyoukai made his attack. Mijo now realized. It was like he was already dead and nothing was going to save him.
Sesshomaru made his first blow… his last blow to the unfortunate demon. With a clean hit the taiyoukai sank his claws thru Mijo's throat… and pulled out three shards. The Kami's were disposed to him today.
The Lord of the West jumped high in the air and catch Kagome before she hit he ground, her little frame fitting perfectly with his large one. Fire crept threw his body. This was the first time he touched her. Sesshomaru held her tidily to his chest wanting to remember the feeling. He knew that this was maybe the last time too. His arm holding her waist and thighs firmly, her head on the place, where his neck met his shoulder.
The moment finished too soon. His feet touched the ground and as gently as he could he put her down. She still was pale and her heart was on the verge on the stopping. For first time in his life Sesshomaru- the Great Lord of the West felt strange feeling. It was if someone was squeezing his heart.
He understood. Fear. Panic. Things he never knew were now getting the best of him. He just stood there, with her lying in his feet with him watching her with cold gaze, the red from his eyes long gone. He felt her life running from her veins. He just didn't know what to do.
The monk and tajia slowly crept toward him, unsure if he was to hurt their friend. Sesshomaru was on the bridge of falling to his knees, putting her in his lap and begging her not to die, when he heard a sudden intake if breath.
He looked down just in time to see sapphire- blue eyes snap open. His heart stopped. Oh, how he desires her in this moment- heart, body and soul. He ignored it all and stared at her.
"Sesshomaru?"- His name was sounding sweet on her lips, but he wanted to hear her scream it in passion- "What are you doing here?" –her voice stopped his sinful thoughts.
"Well, that's what I want to ask!!! Why is HE here? And what happened to the fish- guy?"- Inuyasha, which had the perfect timing for ruining the mood as always, screamed conscious again.
Without lifting his gaze from Kagome he answered:
"I, Sesshomaru have come to join your group. The demon is dead, because of me. You should be grateful, half- breed, for this Sesshomaru have saved the miko, which you travel with. It seems that you encounter the demon Naraku often. That way I, Sesshomaru can have my revenge for him."
'Woa'- thought Kagome- 'So cold!'
"WHAT THE FUCK?!? You think that I'm gona let you stay with us, just to be stabbed in my sleep? No way in hell!!!"- the enraged hanyou shouted.
"Inuyasha, please think."- Started Miroku, for Kagome's surprise- "Lord Sesshomaru just saved Lady Kagome! He could always let her die and then join us, but he choose to protect her while you wasn't able. He is strong enough to make us more powerful than Naraku and his minions!"
"No way in hell, I'm going to…"
"…Sit!"- Kagome finished for him- "Sesshomaru-sama, thank you for saving my life. I, as a keeper of the Shikon no Tama will be glad if you join our little group."- And with those words the miko bowed in respect.
To say that everybody, Sesshomaru included were dumbfounded was an underestimation. Inuyasha for first time was speechless.
"But…"- he started.
"Sit!"- she answered.
"Kago…"
"Sit!"
"Bitch…"
"Sit!"
"OK, OK, he stays!!!"
"Si… Oh, really! I was sure that you will understand my way!"- she smiled happily.
"I see"- said the taiyoukai, trying to hide a smirk- "then this, Sesshomaru will start traveling with you from today."
"Feh, bitch, I'm going to hunt, I don't want to smell him anymore. Just don't come to me when he disposes you from your limbs. I'll let him stay just to see how stupid you really are, but if he tries anything funny he is six feet underground."- the hanyou shouted
and sprinted toward the trees.
"So, Sesshomaru- sama…"- unsurely said Sango- "Why did you really save Kagome?"
A cold glare make her shut her mouth- "This, Sesshomaru's reasons do not interest you, human. But that brings forth on other question. Miko, why did you call my name, when you were attacked? "- a sparkle of hope was burning deep in his chest.
"Well"-Kagome was thinking feverishly, she needed a lie and she needed it NOW- "Well… I felt your aura and thought that you may come and help me. I knew you were able to save me, because you are one of the strongest demons alive."
Sesshomaru felt his ego stir. She thought he was strong. "One of the strongest"- she has said. Still he didn't let his mask fall.
"And why, pray tell, would I, Sesshomaru, Lord of the Western Lands, decide to save a human?"- he arched a silver eyebrow.
"But"- she started slyly- "Didn't you just do that?"
He didn't answer, for she was smarter than he had ever thought.
"Besides"- she told him this time more gently- "we are friends!"
"Friends?"- he asked half- amused, half- concerned for her mental capabilities. He haven't even talked to her without insulting her and still, here she was- claiming, that thy shared a friendship.
"Yes, we are!"- She started happily- "We just don't know it yet."
Then the time stopped. Her in mere meters from him, the taija and the monk beside her, the little kit in her feet. The time stopped, because she smiled. She smiled at him…
…A smile just for him.
To Be Continued…
Hey, Hey,
What's up? Sorry for not updating yesterday, I had to writ HUGE homework for Mythology class. So, you like the new chapter?
Finally Sesshy got his smile, ne? Well, I don't have much to say, just that I maybe Will have to slow down a bit, 'cuz I'm thinking of writing a new story called "Waga Akuma" (My Satan or My Demon, as you like it better) and now I'm working on the plot.
So R & R pls. Oh, and I don't own the song.
Love You Guys, KillingMeTenderly
P.S: Hey, Deb, please redact this version, 'cuz it's a bit different, from the one I sensed you, K?