Chapter 42
It was all so confusing to deal with for Kagome while she remained in gardens. As the day wore on more guests arrived and some weren't too nice. All day words were shouted and made known.
"Ningen!"
"Streetrat!"
"Urchin!"
"Bitch!"
Are but a few of the words. Although none dared to approach her since they were probably afraid of Sesshoumaru. Each taunt stuck Kagome like a thousand knives into her soul. Her outward appearance did not change but inside she was dying little by little.
Chapter 43
Are the harsh words really worth living here? I have nowhere to go but back on the streets of Edo. I cannot do that to Shippo, he deserves to have more than a few pieces of bread every couple of days. The palace is better than the little shack that we had. The food is better than in the marketplace. The beds are real but I'm not.
I've been dying inside of me, I been going out of mind. I have nothing left inside of me. I have to dress a certain way and I'm not free; what the hell am I doing here? All my life, since my mother died, I have wanted to live a rich life but I'm not happy! Instead I have a bunch of spoiled brats tormenting me and Sesshoumaru does not make anything better. I deserve to be happy and rich! I deserve everything that they have and more!
"I need find where I really belong."
"And where do you belong, Lady Kagome?"
I did not know that I spoke those words aloud or that anyone was even there.
I hear whispers, chanting, it is enchanting to hear. I want to understand what they are saying; I need to know. Then the voices become clearer.
Rredimio suus mens ut meus mos.
'How dare this servant question you?'
Planto suus mos pallens ex meus alica.
'She should be bowing to your will.'
Ego dico super meus ancestors efficio meus mos. '
She should respect you.'
Sub cruor vitualamen mos ego successio.
The voices were right. As crazy as I might sound, they were right. There she was like she had to the nerve to speak to me. She gave me a list a commands, rules, and left the palace as if I never even existed. How dare she question me?
Chapter 44
"Where have you been, Sango?"
"Searching for Kohaku."
Kagome did not bother turning to face Sango; she remained facing the little forest behind the gardens.
"That does not mean that you leave me," she snobbishly.
"What has happened to you, Lady Kagome?"
"What? What?" Kagome yells attracting an audience. "I will tell you what! Since I have arrived here, I have been tortured, raped, forced to follow rules, and the snickering bitches over there," pointing to numerous ladies gossiping amongst themselves, "don't make anything better. Then you," pointing to Sango, "have the nerve to question me! You should learn your place."
The sky becomes an eerie black as the world becomes silent. Not a sound is heard from the sky, gardens, or forest. Even the guests are struck by the turn of events. Lord Sesshoumaru appears from his castle to see what the problem is when sees that Kagome is in the middle of it all.
Then the sky opens up around Kagome and purple light surrounds her form. The light is blinding to all those near and many close their eyes or turn around to be protected from the rays.
Lord Sesshoumaru pushes his way through the crowds since people did not know whether to be scared of him or the light. Nevertheless, Sesshoumaru went through the crowd and stared at the light that trapped Kagome.
Shippo stood nearby the sphere of light searching for way in. His nose nuzzles the crowd around Kagome but he is afraid to move any closer. He can feel the evil energy pulsing from the sphere and fears the worst for Kagome.
"Kagome," whispers Sesshoumaru.
The sphere disappears back into the sky and leaves a new Kagome in its wake. She still wears her red kimono but it's shorter, reaching the middle of her knees, the sleeves are completely gone, and her cleavage can be clearly seen. But the most attractive feature is her green eyes that profoundly stand out. She looked pissed beyond doubt and her hair was flying madly about her.
Her hips swayed sensually towards him. Her lips were pushed in this sexy smile that said, 'I want you and I always get what I want.' Her hair fell around her shoulders and her eyes were just as tempting as her lips.
"Hello, Sesshoumaru." The words came from Kagome's mouth, but the voice wasn't hers. The voice is more seductive and full of mischief. A voice could send men to their knees and destroy many a nation. She made him want to sink to his knees and bend to her every will and the way that she walked his way did not help his resisting either.
"You need to return to the castle," even though Sesshoumaru's words sounded calm and detached, inside he was shaking like a little boy who wanted a cookie, a green eyed, black haired goddess cookie.
"But I don't want to return," she pouted her lips.
"Lady Kagome, listen to him!" shouted Sango.
Kagome's head whips around to that annoying Sango's voice and voiced her words clearly so that all can hear and shake in fear.
"Why should I listen to your words? I have everything that you wanted and you don't even have your pathetic brother!" laughing at her own words, "You make me sick and I am sick of looking at you."
Sango's eyes widened in absolute fear when she saw the look in Kagome's eyes; it was completely terrifying.
'Her eyes; I can see my death in them.'
Images of Kagome squeezing the breath out of Sango's throat while she is suspended in mid air by strength that Kagome cannot possess are shown. Everyone stood around and jeered Kagome on and she killed the 'poor girl that lived as a servant.' Sesshoumaru also did nothing but wrapped his arms around Kagome's waist and said, "Finish her."
The world becomes outline in darkness and black snakes around the outside of her eyelids. Everything but inside of the image, Sesshoumaru and Kagome, is covered by nothing. It becomes harder and harder to breathe as the world becomes blue then a blood red.
'This is what it feels like to die.'
The pain slowly becomes unbearable and death seems to be more welcoming. Slowly and slowly, Sango's eyelids become closer and closer to the bottom lids. All the way she is trying to scream at the top of her lungs and nothing comes outs. The darkness is more welcoming than watching her once called 'friend' kill her.
Her thoughts are nothing as her breathing stops and heart ceases to beat. Her lips are blue and while and her skin looks clammy and cold. Death is a cruel event that eventually everyone has to encounter. Unfortunately, today in reality without the dream or images lays the body of the dead servant girl under Lord Sesshoumaru's care, Sango the demon slayer.
In reality, no one is cheering Kagome on; in fact one is saying a word but staring at the body that once held life. One minute she was talking the next she was suspeneded in air and kicking her legs like a mad woman. Her arms were trying to pull something away from her throat then she tried blue. The poor woman tried to scream and no one moved. They were all too afraid even Lord Sesshoumaru himself did not move from his stupor. The woman's arms then flailed about and eventually stopped moving. She was dropped to ground like a ragged doll that a girl did not want to play with anymore. She was dead.
"So many sad faces over a dead girl," observes Kagome, "No one will miss her, so why mourn her death? It was after all, glorious."
The guests stepped away from Kagome as she laughed manically. However, Lord Sesshoumaru did not back away in fact he stepped closer.
"Have you come to stand by me, milord?"
"I want you to be that girl that I met in the marketplace; the girl that I fell in love with."
"Please, you love my body."
"There is a difference between a longing for the flesh and the yearning to fulfill the soul. You fill my soul, Kagome."
Hot, surging pain coursed through Sesshoumaru's abdominal muscles. The pain causes black spots to appear and disappear in front of her very eyes. He looks down to see blood pouring through his white kimono and a breech in his armor is evident. The mighty Lord Sesshoumaru sinks to his knees before the woman he loves.
"Your words are very sweet to hear…"
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" screams a lady from the crowd.
Her hand holds the sword; its blood still dripping with fresh blood. She stabbed him with Daisuke, the very sword that he let her have. Evidently, it thirsts for his blood since the blade slices down to once again pierce through flesh, muscle, tissue, and organs.
"But I prefer to see you in pain!"
The guests cannot believe that a woman, a simple ningen woman, has injured the Lord of Edo. But there he was in all his glory, on the ground with blood running freely out of his body. The red that sustains him is running low and not returning. He poured his heart out to this simple girl and she is killing him!
'I could never hurt Kagome if even it meant losing my life.'
He remembers her comebacks and how much they stung. He remembers her smell and the way she looked in the throne room that day. He remembers her determination to have Daisuke by her side. He remembers why he loves her.
The last real image that he sees is Kagome bending down to his level, holding Daisuke to his throat and saying four final words.
"I'll never love you."
His world goes black, his thoughts are no more, and there lies the bodies of Sango and Lord Sesshoumaru killed by one who knew them, Kagome. Deceived by someone they loved and people now feared.
The dead bodies of Lord Sesshoumaru and Sango lay on the cold, garden floor as the pour on their skin. Kagome continues to stand above Lord Sesshoumaru, unaffected by the summer rain falling on her pale skin. Her eyes remain void of all emotion as Daisuke drips crimson red from its blade.
All the spectators remain a safe distance away from Kagome but then again, what is safe? They have just witnessed their Lord, the powerful Lord Sesshoumaru, killed by a ningen woman. If she could do that to him, what would she do to them? Fear is a powerful enemy.
"I am your ruler now, bow to me," demands her voice through the thundering rain.
One by one, they all bow down before Lady Kagome. Even though they wanted to rebel, one question remains on their mind: What will she do to them if they disobey? Who will live to tell the story?
Obey me and you will have power.
Submit to me and you'll never be alone.
'Yes.'
I'll never be alone again in my life; there always be someone beside me.
Sesshoumaru's body remains motionless as the rain continues to pour and the thunder continues to howl.
Sesshoumaru was too weak to remain at my side. He was too weak because he loved me, now he's dead and I killed him; I killed them both. Sango did nothing but talk and she dared to question me, glad that she's dead. I have no regrets for what I have done and what I will do.
I want you to be that girl in the marketplace; the girl that I fell in love with.
I bet that he doesn't love me know. In fact I bet that he's having a wonderful time dancing with demons in Hell! I should have listened to head long ago; this was so easy.
No one will be above me! Everyone will look up to me! I'm not the same girl that he met in the marketplace; I'm a woman and he's dead.
Chapter 45
Underneath the palace in the darkest of the dungeons on the lowest levels, two beings look down into a cauldron. Only one face could be seen because of the light from the cauldron while the other is covered by a hooded cloak.
"Is she under your control?" asks Lady Kima standing over a cauldron watching Kagome in the rain.
"Yessss," hisses a voice with throwing herbs over the watery image, "ssshe issss un-der my con-trrool."
"Good, that bitch is lucky that this is an illusion or I'd kill her for killing my lord. But the real Lord Sesshoumaru will have my head if he finds out and I'll have yours."
"Not to worry, all she needs to do is accept that she has a master and it'll be complete."
"Good."
Lady Kima's eyes refocus on Kagome's water image as she begins to speak.
"I have been raped and tortured since my stay in this castle. Within the days of my rule, one by one I will bring all resisters to their knees. I killed the strongest demon in Edo therefore I am Lady Kagome of Edo."
"Get to the master part, already," Lady Kima sneers.
"I will not let insolent beings interfere or conspire to rid of my Lord when he comes to rule and me by his side."
An image of Sesshoumaru walking away and Lady Kagome standing alone earlier that day appears in Kagome's head.
Kagome is left with her fingers touching her lips and her thoughts. 'They're still tingling. That was Sesshoumaru;' a smirk appears on her lips, 'all Sesshoumaru.'
"Be prepared to bow down before my Lord…."
An image of Sesshoumaru's dying form on the garden floor. Blood spews from his mouth, his golden eyes are slightly hidden by magenta eyelids; life is so slipping from him.
I want you to be that girl in the marketplace; the girl that I fell in love with.
"Yes! Say it!" cheers Lady Kima. '
"……"
"Say, who is her Lord," inquires Lady Kima.
"….."
"Fine be that way!" she pouts.
Kagome remains over Lord Sesshoumaru, never finishing her sentence. Instead she stares not at the people bowing but her attention is on Sesshoumaru.
"Sesshoumaru," she whispers almost unheard by the demon ears.
"No, you stupid broad," rants Lady Kima, "not that Lord; the other one."
"Nar--"
I want you to be that girl in the marketplace…
"Finish it! Say your lord's name!" Lady Kima screams.
She finally comes to halt on an alley wall with her weird looking red fox by her side. She feeds herself last while the fox eats more than her, why? This ningen is confusing to me but it is beneath me to understand them but I must why she decided to steal from my subjects.
"It is rude to watch someone eat."
"Stop standing there," Lady Kima watches Kagome staring at Lord Sesshoumaru's body, "and say his damn name!"
She did it. Kagome killed the one man that actually cared about her since her mother died all those years ago.
Regret and betrayal.
She regrets what she had done to the late Lord and the feeling that she has betrayed him doesn't make her feel any better.
She drops her sword; it has become too heavy like her heart.
His bloodied lips move with each word.
…the girl that I fell in love with.
…the girl that I fell in love with.
…the girl that I fell in love with.
"The girl he fell in love with. He loved me when no one else did and what did I do? I killed," choking bad a sob, "I killed him."
Kagome drops to her knees and cradles Sesshoumaru's head against her chest. She rocks back and forth as the whispers come back.
He threw you in the dungeon.
He tried to trick you but you were too smart for that.
"Stop it!" Kagome cried, "He loved me!" she screams to the world, "I know that now," she whispers.
"No," Lady Kima yelled, "you're losing her!"
The other person in the room with her did not move but turned to pink dusk. The robe fell as a pile of cloth on the floor.
"Impossible!"
"Not to worry, Kima!" a voice from the darkness speaks, "I have another plan that will be revealed tomorrow night! I never lose!"
"Fine! I should hope that your next plan doesn't fail!"
"Hold your wretched tongue," Lady Kima shrinks back away from the cauldron, "I never lose!"
Lady Kima runs away quickly out the dungeon door and towards her guest room where she stays until the day after tomorrow.
"That was close," sounding relied but still a little scared with the voice that she heard.
'I'm so sorry, Sesshoumaru.'