Chapter 18
"Am I To be alone?"
Kagome didn't know what time it was when she awoke again, but it was the absence of the warmth that she had known all night that had caused her to wake. Using her miko powers she knew that Sesshomaru was no longer in the bed or in the cave. Sighing she slowly climbed out of the bed she lay upon, she knew something like this would happen, knew that should she let Sesshomaru that close to her again that it would be the last time regardless of the fact that he had completed the mating between them. Kagome could feel the youki with in her body could feel the change in her self knew that now she was connected with Sesshomaru in a much more intimate way than she had been during the night.
He had done the deed, saved his honour and calmed his beast, and now she was alone and he had left her. She knew she shouldn't have been surprised as another depressed sigh rushed passed her lips, walking toward an arch way in the wall that was uncovered, Kagome noticed the hot spring, she would need to bathe before she left she felt dirty and sticky and her muscles hurt in such a way that she knew that she wouldn't be waking properly for a day or two.
Slipping into the steamy waters with a sigh, Kagome quickly scrubbed up as best she could with out soap and then leaned back against the rocks to relax and think about what had happened.
She knew that now there was no breaking the link with Sesshomaru, there was no way that she could go back to the way things were before. There was no way she could even try to, She knew that Sesshomaru had told her he loved her but leaving her without even a note to tell her that he was gone was a little much, she knew now that his words had been a lie, he didn't love her he didn't want her it all had been to appease his beast. Sesshomaru was still the same Taiyoukai he had always been, a few centuries dealing with humans didn't' mean anything and neither did a few nights in her bed.
"I should have known" She said as a single tear rolled down her cheek "It was all a mistake I should have never taken the case to begin with, no mater how much I wanted that connection with the past, Kami I can be so stupid. I should have known that he would never want to be with me in anything but a physical way, men regardless of the fact that they were human or demon they were still all the same and all only wanted one thing." As she talked to her self in small whispers, Kagome could feel her depression deepen and she knew that the feelings she had allowed to develop for the Inu Lord were the source of the pain and because he had left her in a place she had no idea where she was, everything just compounded upon it self, her thoughts becoming cyclical, spiralling down in to the darker area of her mind.
Wanting to just curl up and forget everything, Kagome let go of the edge of the rock and allowed herself to float away.
Though it had been some time since he had hunted, Sesshomaru had returned victorious with a small deer but it would feed them for a day or two before they left. Now that Kagome was carrying a good deal of his youki and he had that strong connection with her he knew that now no spell could effect her with out him knowing. It gave him a measure of peace to know and after the events of the night he knew that he never wanted to be with out her ever again.
Entering the cave Sesshomaru placed the skinned animal on a spit in the fireplace and allowed the magic that turned the meat to do its work as a fire suddenly appeared under the carcass. A good mood riding him as he entered the chamber that he had spent the night with Kagome in. not finding her there he turned to wards the spring room. Panic erupted from him as the sight of Kagome floating in the pool of steamy water. Listening closely he couldn't hear her heart beat, rushing to her side he lifted her out of the water and gently placed her on the warm stone floor.
"Kagome" he grated out giving her a little shake "Kagome, please don't leave me" He placed his ear to her chest and tears started to run from the corners of his eyes.
"Don't leave me" he whispered again.
It took a moment for Kagome to realise that she was no longer in the hot spring a few more to register that there was some one's head laying on her chest. The soft muffled sounds of said person sobbing into her chest.
"Please Kagome don't' leave me, I love you" she heard the inu sob.
He was here, and thinking she was dead? She was slowly coming out of the meditation didn't his ears pick up on the fact that she was still alive still pink in colour. Sure she felt a little depressed but he was back begging her to not leave him. Opening her eyes she brought her hand up to his cheek only to fine it wet with tears, he had been crying, crying true tears for her. Quite caught up in his grief he hadn't noticed that she had touched him.
"Sesshomaru" Kagome said softly, he didn't respond, Placing a hand on either side of his head she lifted him so that he was eye level with her. Startled out of his grief by the movement she had made he looked down in to sapphire eyes, Kagome spoke again.
"Sesshomaru, I'm not dead"
Shock quickly faded into relief and the Taiyoukai spoke.
"I did not hear your heart beat, and you were so limp, I…" his voice was anguished.
"I was meditating because I had thought you had left me here" she said knowing she needed to be honest to Sesshomaru about her thoughts and her fears.
"You didn't leave a note or anything and I had thought that since now that your honour had been appeased and your beast sated that, that was it that I was a mate you didn't want. I was depressed at the thought and went to soak in the spring, I thought it would be best if I had calmed my self down first before allowing my fears to get the best of me" She didn't tell him that she had thought to never see him again and she probably would have went a head and moved out of the country after selling her shares in several companies. Kagome didn't think that she would have been able to see Sesshomaru even by chance had he truly not comeback.
Pressing a hard kiss to her lips, Sesshomaru scooped the naked miko into his arms bringing her to the bed. Allowing the kiss to become more as he pulled off the shirt he was wearing.
"Gods, Kagome" he bit out as he ravaged her lips. "If I had lost you for real" He paused in his ravishment of her as he realised his beast had been quiet and content as his more civilised half had jumped to conclusions about her state of health. Situations like this were not something that had ever happened before.
"What is it? Sesshomaru" Kagome said a little breathless as her small hand lightly caressed his cheek.
"I'm sorry Kagome I should have woke you before I went hunting…It's been so long since I had some one other than my self to think of"
"It's okay, just don't do it again" she said kissing him tenderly on his lips.
InuYasha sat back in Sesshomaru's chair. The office where the taiyoukai worked was stylish but simple, functional but with taste, which was one of the inu lords finest qualities. Though InuYasha had from time to time assumed control of the company in the past things now were way more hectic, he had, had no idea that Sesshomaru had such a heavy workload.
The phone call he had received three days ago had gotten him worried, the look on his face when he had stormed off to find Kagome had been down right scary, and then the phone call he had received a few hours later telling him to keep and eye on the company for a while. InuYasha had never been given a specified period of time as to when Sesshomaru would be returning and from the information Shippo had given him everything had pointed to an attack on Kagome. With the mating bond incomplete he knew that his brother was in the process of rectifying the problem, attacks aside InuYasha knew that Kagome wouldn't be coming with out the mating mark of his brother.
It was frustrating not knowing who was after his brother and now Kagome, the amount of resources that Sesshomaru had put on finding the blackmailer was astounding and for the inu to even bother told of the severity of information that he had against Sesshomaru. Thankfully no demands had been made as of yet but it was only a matter of time; these type of people never waited too long before voicing what they wanted.
Though it was no longer his place he knew that Kagome was in danger and being her previous protector didn't' change the fact that his best friend needed him, regardless of what her mate had to say. In a way he was still her protector and before he him self got involved with any one they would have to get rid of this guy, he didn't want to bring any one in to the demon world and have to face this right away. He didn't' need things more complicated than they already were, didn't need the stress of caring for an innocent with no supernatural powers which had always ended badly in the past.
It had been easy to roll the minds of those humans, it had been easy to plant what he needed done. Dante sipped the glass of wine as he stared out at the darkened city, now it was just a waiting game until the newly mated pair emerged from their seclusion and he would be able to bring this game to an end. Now was the greatest opportunity he would ever get, Sesshomaru would be dead and his mate would be his and his revenge after the fun with the woman would be complete. He would have avenged his clan and brought justice that had taken over fifteen hundred years to bring about. Dante would have his justice and then he would leave well enough alone and disapear in to history, smirking at everything that was to come; Dante felt light hearted for the first time since he watch the western lord make off with his mate.
AN: Okay every one I know your pissed at me for taking so long to finally get to this point how ever 2 new chapters in a month isn't bad, even with the depression that had been riding me before causing me to remove all my stories, any way I would like every one to review please, Since the move across country I am now in a less stressfull enviroment and would like as much feed back as possible, I know you all hate dante and I know he's a very sick fuck, but please for quicker updates I do need feed back I need to know what could be improved other than grammar, I do my best but with out the knowledge that you guys like what I do and with suggestions I could make it better, we are nearing the end and though I right with out a litterary plan I have a general Idea where everthing is going. so PLEASE REVIEW, Thank you for reading I love you all.