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Tears in the Rain

Sesshoumaru pulled away from me and then kissed my chin on the right side gently as he slowly started to move lower down my neck. 'This does feel rather pleasing, but I don't know if I can just sit here and let him do it all the time…' Sesshoumaru pulled down the hoari to my shoulder and placed his mouth where his mark was. Gently sucking at the flesh or the scar, he pulled me a little closer to him. 'I can't do this. I can't let him do this…' My heart started to pound with confusion and frustration.

"Sesshoumaru, will you help me defeat Naraku?" I asked, looking to the left.

He stopped and then looked at me with some interest.

"I will do such and you will remain at the castle. I will not have you put into danger," he said calmly but protectively.

"He's my enemy. I was his prisoner for five years. I want to take his life with these claws," I growled with hate towards the half breed.

'I want to rip out his beating heart and break his damn neck. There's no way that I'll ever be able to open that pathway if I have no clue how.'

"The answer is no, Fatomi. I will not permit you to go onto another battlefield. Your body would not be able to withstand Naraku's poison."

"Oh really? Then how do you think I'm still alive? If he strikes me, I can't feel it. It only hurts when you strike me!" I said rather coldly, trying to pull away from him.

"If you are within his grasp, Naraku will make you open the pathway. In the dark sorrow of your mind is the key to get there. All he has to do is see within your sadness," Sesshoumaru said with a stern look in his eyes.

"What makes you think I'm sad?" I said in defense, becoming angry with what he was saying.

'I am not sad! I am not that easy to read or weak!' Sesshoumaru took hold of both my sides and made me stay where I was.

"What are you doing? I'm not sad alright so just leave me alone!"

"Is that true Fatomi? Do you really believe those words when you feel that emptiness in the pit of your stomach when you see someone with the one they love?" he asked me rather coldly.

I stopped struggling for a moment at those words. 'I don't feel that way. I'm not a sad person!' I cried in my mind.

"You have no clue what you're talking about Sesshoumaru," I tried to mock with a smirk.

"Does not remembering bother you that much? Or is it the pain of remembering that makes you feel sadness? Every rain drop, to you, is like a fading memory," Sesshoumaru said as he looked at me with his cold eyes which seemed to be a lot less cold.

It felt like my heart had stopped because of his words. IT was like it was being crushed by sadness and then it erupted. Tears slowly fell down my cheeks and I hung my head with shame for crying again. 'Damn, he's right. It's the pain of not wanting to learn about what happened. I want to know, but I'm afraid that I might have killed more than just Shena…'

The sound of something hitting the hut filled the silence as even more fell. The rain poured against everything that got in its way of the ground. My head fell onto his shoulder because I wasn't really all thee at the moment. 'I am kind of sad about everything, but I'm used to it now, so why can't I stop crying?'

"Please stop. I don't want this with you…" I whispered, taking his hands off my waist.

Sesshoumaru's expression changed slightly at those words and he complied by letting me go. I got to my feet and stood in the middle of the hut, looking out the door into the rain.

"I'm gunna go sit outside for a while," I said solemnly as I walked towards the door and went outside into the rain as it poured to the ground.

'This life is better than being trapped in Naraku's castle. Then again, I'm sure that anything would have been better than being trapped there, even being raped by a male would probably have been more exciting…' I thought to myself as I walked out to the forest and sat on the other side of a tree trunk so Sesshoumaru couldn't see me as well. Small footsteps were coming through the mud on the ground and the smell of toad filled the air even through the rain.

"Lord Sesshoumaru! Where are you lord Sesshoumaru?!" Jaken called through the trees.

'It's that toad… Something must be going on for him to come looking for Sesshoumaru in this weather. Either that or he just had to give into his gay needs of seeing him.' I looked around the tree trunk to see the small imp walking towards the old hut.

"Why are you here Jaken?" Sesshoumaru's voice asked from within the hut.

"My lord, I'm afraid that Naraku is searching for a female of his that he claims to know the pathway. Though I was sure that that family was completely wiped out five years ago," Jaken said with some confusion as he walked into the old hut.

Sesshoumaru looked at his vassal with his cold eyes. He had been in thought, thinking deeply about the problem with Naraku and Jaken ruined the train.

"Is that so? How ignorant of him to believe that a female would know how to open a pathway. Ridiculous," he growled slightly, actually knowing the truth on who and where said female was.

The rain started to pour more violently than before and the slight scent of salty water filled the air. This caught Sesshoumaru's attention more than it would have before. He could tell that something was wrong with his personal servant, and he could not help but think that it was partly his fault.

"Are you alright my lord? I realize that you do not wish to show someone your emotions, but if there is something wrong then I wish that you would tell me," Jaken said with a small blush.

The imp didn't receive an answer. Instead he got a large goose egg for his words.

"My apologies for my outburst lord Sesshoumaru," the imp apologized.

"Where is Naraku as of now?" the lord asked with curiosity, looking away from the imp.

"He is searching around the mountains. I thought I should tell you incase he decided to come to the castle to look for his wench."

Sesshoumaru growled slightly. Naraku may not have known where the girl had gone, but Sesshoumaru did since she was now his personal servant and he did not want Naraku to be the one to have her.

"Ridiculous," he grunted slightly.

Not a sound was heard outside other than the rain, not even the sound of wails trying to be suppressed. Yet the scent of tears filled the air and Sesshoumaru could not understand why there were no sounds from it.

"She is strong," he whispered to himself.

Jaken looked at his with some confusion, "Pardon, my lord?"

"Fatomi, she cries but does not wish for anyone to know. She truly doesn't need trust to survive," Sesshoumaru said as he looked at the tree directly ahead of the door, the one where his servant was sitting.

I sat against the tree trunk with tears slowly falling down my cheeks with the drops of rain. I could hear what Sesshoumaru was talking about with his vassal and it had to make me wonder if he really did know. 'Of course he knows, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to see my father in the past…' The thought of everything being like rain kept making my tears form. I didn't understand why, but I knew it has to stop.

"I lived without crying in the past so I can live without crying now," I whispered to myself.

'I need to wrap Sesshoumaru's wounds. They are probably worse than my own were. Did he not say that he wouldn't need them?' So many different thoughts were running through my head and then a familiar scent filled the air only to make more questions come to my mind. 'Didn't Jaken said that Naraku was going to the north?' No, he said he was going to the mountains, but I guess that that meant he didn't have to go with him. What are you here Hakudoushi?'

"My, my, my. Why would you be out here crying? You never were one to cry, Fatomi," the boy's cold voice said with some amusement.

My heart almost stopped with some fear at actually hearing his voice after I had run away. 'Where is he?' The boy suddenly appeared in front of me with his pale face in a smirk.

"Of course why would you answer me, you're a mute. Then I don't have to worry about you calling for Sesshoumaru to kill me," Hakudoushi laughed slightly as his almost white eyes looked at me.

With his words, I looked to the side of me in hopes that I could see inside the hut and see Sesshoumaru sitting there. 'Damn it. I'm completely screwed here. If Sesshoumaru doesn't smell Hakudoushi soon then something is gunna happen and I think Naraku is gunna find out about where I am…'

"He doesn't know where you are. Even though Naraku and I are connected, I have no intention of allowing him to know where you are," Hakudoushi said with a small smirk.

'I don't believe him. How can I believe him when he's part of that bastard?' I gave Hakudoushi a glare and then tried to get to my feet.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you Fatomi. Kagura is out looking for you as well and if you're found then you are most surely to die."

I froze at those words and then Hakudoushi looked deep into my eyes and saw the sadness he had longed to see.

"Such a tragic life for you Fatomi. Do not let Naraku be the one to take hold of you. Sesshoumaru is the one you belong to and do not forget that. You owe your life to him, so give your life to him."

With that, Hakudoushi disappeared into the sound of the rain and then sound of a fan was heard. 'Kagura!' A blast was heard from far off and I ran away from the hut without Sesshoumaru noticing. 'She's here too, trying to find me. I have to fight her on my own without Sesshoumaru getting too involved. He's already injured enough as it is…' Running through the mud on the forest floor, I ran towards the sound of the explosion.

"Well if it isn't Naraku's little pet. I guess I can get rid of you now since Hakudoushi knows the way now," Kagura laughed with some amusement as she floated down on her overgrown feather.

'I'd like to see her try!' I thought with a small smirk.

"I would never allow myself to become a bastard's pet. I will never belong to a male who doesn't know how to respect a woman!" I growled hatefully.

Kagura was shocked slightly, hearing my voice for the first time.

"Such a shame that I have to kill you. You were such a peaceful child and that is such a pretty voice," Kagura laughed as she jumped down from the feather to the ground.

"Too bad I'll have to screw up that pretty face of yours. I'm sure that once Naraku discovers that you too are a woman, he will end up using you for his pleasure," I said with a smirk.

"You're out of my life now!" Kagura growled as the wind picked up.

'Alright, she's angry. Maybe now she'll be so focused on killing me that I'll be able to fight her and win… Wait, she's focused on killing me!'

"Dance of Blades!" she shouted as she swung her fan.

Blue blades that looked like crescent moons that could cut my head off appeared and flew directly at me. I jumped out of the way into a tree and waited.

"Is that all you got?" I mocked.

Kagura gave me a hateful glare and then turned her fan slightly.

"Dance of the Dragon!"

A tornado of razor wind appeared, following me every place I went. Numerous trees were destroyed as I jumped from tree to tree and I got stabbed in my arms by splinters of wood. 'Damn, that attack doesn't go away very fast. Nothing stops it.' I watched as the wind faded and I sighed with relief. Pulling the splinters from my arms, I gave Kagura a cold look.

"You are fast, but not fast enough."

'Damn. The only way I can use my attack is if I get caught by on of hers…'

"Dance of the Dragon."

"I'm going in," I whispered, waiting for the attack to hit me.

I was sucked into the tornado and was trapped in it. Something was going through the wind, slicing anything it could hit and it was hitting me. It felt like a blade sliced at my arms and legs and back, leaving large gashes of blood. 'Now's my chance!'

"Dance of Blades!" Kagura shouted, waving her fan.

The blades of light came toward the tornado only to fade as I summoned my attack.

"Frozen Tsunami!" I called out as my blood froze into sharp blocks of ice and were thrown towards Kagura.

"What?" she gasped, unable to block the spears of blood.

I watched as a block of ice flew directly at Kagura's arm and she didn't even bother to block it. Once it made contact, there was a loud snap and Kagura's arm broke at the strength of the attack. She let out an ear piercing scream of pain and dropped her fan into the mud.

"You little wench," she growled at me.

"Leave her be Kagura. Hakudoushi will open the pathway and once I have extreme power, we will return to kill her so she cannot take that power away," Naraku's voice laughed though the forest.

'That bastard. I'm gunna kill him for what he did!' Clenching my fist, I watched Kagura pick up her fan and pull a feather with her good arm to leave.

When I turned to walk away, pain coursed through my entire body and I had to wince. 'I have to make it back to the hut… Otherwise Sesshoumaru will suspect something if I do not return to the hut soon.' Trying to ignore the pain, I walked unsteadily back towards the old hut as the rain poured its hardest. It had been a long time since the area had received much rain, but then again, what exactly did I know after being trapped with Naraku for five years?

"I never thought that I would turn out to be this weak," I laughed slightly, trying to improve the mood of the day.

'I wonder what Jaken and Sesshoumaru are going on about. Jaken's probably doing something gay, like usual. This morning with the lord, I kind of felt a connection with him, but I couldn't really understand why… Do I… Am I starting to feel towards Sesshoumaru?' I asked myself, not really wanting to think about what Naraku could do with passage to the pathway. Nearly tripping, I took hold of a tree branch to hold myself up and felt light headed. 'That can't be too good. I'm starting to not feel well.' Water started to form in my mouth and it wasn't the rain or spit. Leaning down slightly, I threw up some blood and whatever food I had eaten in the past few days, so there wasn't much food to go with the blood. 'Funny. I haven't done that in a long time. Not since the first beating I received from Naraku.' I coughed a couple times to make sure that nothing else would come up.

"There, all better," I whispered, standing back up and continuing back to the hut.

It only took me about ten minutes to walk back and by the time I made it there, I was on the verge of falling asleep. 'Damn, I haven't felt this weak in a long time. Well other then the other day.' I stared at the old hut for a few moments, trying to see if Sesshoumaru and Jaken were still there. They were, and their presence was calm, as if they were both sleeping. Unsteadily, I walked to the door and inside to see what was going on. I saw Jaken sitting against the wall with his eyes closed and his staff held protectively under his arms. When I looked at Sesshoumaru, his eyes were closed as well, that is until his nose caught the scent of fresh blood. They opened almost immediately and looked directly at me.

"I guess it's a good thing I haven't worn those new clothes yet, huh?" I laughed slightly, feeling my legs want to give out.

"Fatomi, what happened?" Sesshoumaru asked me as he got to his feet.

"I saw Kagura and she wanted to kill me, so I fought back… I'm sorry that I just get in the way sometimes and that you came all the way out here only to get hurt…" I apologized, wobbling slightly.

He walked up to me and pulled me into an embrace.

"I desire to tell you something Fatomi, before unconsciousness takes over you. When I came here in the past, I did not come to take you to my castle… When Naraku slaughtered you parents, I was there to get my answers on how to get the pathway open," he explained to me.

"Then earlier, you lied," I whispered with some confusion.

"In my head, I assumed that if I told you that I was there take you to my castle then you would desire to become my mate. It would be in my best intentions to not assume such foolishness," he said quietly.

"At least you took the time to tell me the truth. That's all that really matters," I whispered before falling asleep in his arms.

Sesshoumaru held me more protectively as he knew I was asleep. He no longer wanted to sleep in the same room as his vassal so he turned to the closed door; the one that lead to the other room.

Sesshoumaru opened to old room door and looked at the old space. There was no leak in the ceiling and the bed wasn't as destroyed as the other one from decay, but it was still pretty bad. There was a closed window above the bed that let the light inside. Sesshoumaru sat down after closing the door behind him and pulled my unconscious form into his lap.

"Naraku will pay for what he has done to you. For being an ignorant half demon, I will use Tokijin to slice off his head and destroy his black heart," he whispered to himself, closing his eyes to fall into sleep.

End of Chapter 6

Hey again. Sorry that this chapter is so short, but I was kind of running out of things to write. So hopefully I have where I'm going with this now. : ) : ) Alright, well please R&R and I'll try to update as soon as I can. Thanks again for reading! Bye for now. : ) : )