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Your Lady Fractured Moonlight
Summary: Sesshomaru has lived centuries without the one thing he desires the most only to have her return with no memory of him or the life they had known. Can he accept her as he had once or will everything be lost to time once more? Will she love the beast within the man as she once had in a time lost to her? Will they learn to love or will their love vanish as though it had never been? Read and discover the untold story between Sesshomaru and Kagome and you might discover a love that can span the centuries!
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Moonlight's Embrace
Chapter 3
Ayumu tore off through the eastern woods heading towards the west, his clans long felt enemy. The trees and world around him blurred against the setting sun as he prepared for the three day journey at hand. He would complete the task appointed to him and he would amend for his previous failure. He would kill the lady of the east who had been born human to a yokai house before she would even fully know herself. He would slay her and watch the pain it would cause the lord that loved her without condition.
"Kagome," he snickered. "I'm coming for you!"
Night began to settle upon the furthest reaches of Taisho castle, casting everything it touched with an amber glow. Kagome had taken to the path she was certain she had walked a million times before in the memories that had presented themselves earlier in the day. However one word stuck out among the many that had been spoken between them. Mate. That one word had caused her heart to skip a precious beat. Who knew the power one word could hold over someone's vitals.
She sighed shaking her head when her eyes came upon the distinct black boots of a certain someone. Hesitantly she looked upward to be met by his wondering gaze. They way he looked her took her breath away as she forced her heart to beat. 'Good looking yokai be damned.' She cursed hoping that somehow he didn't possess the power of telepathy, but judging from his smirk she doubted it.
"Sesshomaru?" she gasped not meaning to but there was something about him tonight that was different than anytime she had ever seen him. The look in his eyes, she had only glimpsed it before but now she could see the full force behind his gaze. She could see the youth from her memory behind the man that stood before her.
She could feel her body ready to cave from his proximity which only worsened when he moved to cradle her. Her blush thick as his face was mere inches away from hers and the urge to kiss him was unbearably strong. "I didn't know you would be here, I'm sorry."
"Kagome," he addressed her while helping her stand on her own while his fingers never left her waist, her blush intensified. "I often come here." His voice drifted away from her as if speaking to someone else entirely.
"It was our meeting place wasn't it?" the same eyes that had pulled away from her moments before turned on her with full force. 'She remembered?' "I don't remember much but what I do remember at points overwhelms me."
"Understood." Being around her provide him with the ultimate excuse for being himself. Which led to a very out of character, or more to the point, a very in character Sesshomaru and not the façade he was use to playing. He felt safe, secure and un-judged, imagine him needing such things. But he did, and he needed them from her.
"Sesshomaru?" she tested when the air became thick and still.
"Hm."
"These memories of mine are from a completely different time, and as I understand it yokai age differently than humans do right? So how can they be mine?" she questioned.
"That is a question that must be answered for yourself in do time." Again he was going to the play the 'you must discover for yourself' card which was quickly bringing on early insanity.
"Mate?" she mind slipped the very word she had pondered over out loud before realizing she had even spoken. That is until the very yokai in her presence looked upon her with such unhidden shock that she thought she out to die right here.
"What did you say?" he asked her.
"It's just a word you often use to describe us in my memories." She defended trying in vain to shield herself from him wondering just what it was about the intensity of his eyes that could so easily bore into her.
"It is nothing." He replied returning his gaze to the sakura tree before them, as if that could make Kagome forget about his reaction. Not a chance.
"I don't know what you're selling Mister but I'm not buying it!" she nearly shouted. "I asked Sakurako and she told me to ask you. She said it was something that bound us together in a way that nothing else could or ever would take its place. So why don't you tell me?!" she demanded.
"I won't tell you! If I were to force your memories to surface before they possessed the mind to I could, I could loose you all over again." His voice strangely distant and yet firm.
"L-loose m-me?" she stuttered.
"I took a vow to protect you and I will keep it even if it means protecting you from myself." His voice and face loosing the cool collective nature she had seen too many times to count as his face became something more real, unguarded and true. She watched on, as Sesshomaru revealed his silent vulnerability to her as he became his true self.
It was so vastly different from the Sesshomaru she had seen portrayed in battle, the aristocratic assassin. He wasn't a cold hearted killer as he would have liked the world to believe, no he was something far more three dimensional. He was a man who had suffered greatly, loved and lost, and somehow this whole thing revolved around her.
"I'm sorry," she looked at him. "for causing you so much pain." She looked as if she would cry and that was one thing among many that he couldn't stand. It shocked her when he moved to embrace her like he had that first night. Holding her close to him, his body hard against her own, and for some unknown reason she didn't feel the need to push him away.
As he held her, it felt as though she belonged here with him, just like this underneath the stars and dancing moonlight. It felt as though she would loose herself entirely in this simple gesture, a simple kindness that belonged to Sesshomaru. She knew in this moment that if she were to never regain her memory in full that she would stay with him. That she would remain here at Taisho under his protection until her natural life ended.
"Things are becoming interesting Ayumu, change of plan, bring her to me ALIVE!"
Kagome's eyes widened as if sensing something. Her body stiffened in his arms leaving Sesshomaru to wonder if he had done something until she relaxed against him once more.
"Kagome, what is it?"
"Someone's coming."
"Who?"
"I-I don't know."
"How many?"
"Seven I think."
Sesshomaru would have smiled, if it wasn't for the severity of the situation, at her returning senses. She had regained something that had been lost to her the day he sent her down the well.
"Sesshomaru, they've come for me?" her fear evident though she knew not why.
Now it was Sesshomaru's turn to stiffen as he held her closer still, making preparations for the battle at hand. He would not let her fall into their hands willingly.
He took his stance shielding her as best he could from those who would dare attack. Kagome remained mystified at her new sense, or was it a regained sense, as she felt them move into an unrecognizable formation. Then they lunged, swords drawn.
All seven moved to surround Sesshomaru who turned to Kagome telling her to remain with him no matter what was to happen. She nodded meekly as the strange looking yokai, ookami from the looks of it, surrounded them. Several lunging for her which only led to them being pushed back harshly.
Undeterred they tried again. This time successfully swarming Sesshomaru as their swords cut across his arms and chest as they reached for her. Sesshomaru only intensified his hold on Kagome who shook with fear against his back. Why was this happening? What could they possibly want with her?
Wicked laughter cut Sesshomaru's katana in mid swing, as smoke began to fume, lacing the air with intense odours that to his acute senses made it hard to breathe let alone see. What the hell?
The smoke blew dark almost black clouds about them obscuring Kagome from his view before his ears heard her screams. When had he released his hold on her, but more to the point when had he been made useless by such a petty smoke bomb? 'Wait this scent,' it hadn't been just a petty smoke bomb but one made of intense herbs that inu's detested, thus weakening him enough to take her from him.
His vision blurred as he tried to call out to her but his voice and eyes became useless even as the smoke began to subside. His senses were weakened, but he had sensed his sister's approach. He felt her hands run along his back checking for injuries as he collapsed.
"Damn it!" he growled.
"Sesshomaru, where's Kagome?" his sisters concern almost was enough to make him loose himself right in front of her.
"He found her," his growl intensified. His hatred for himself growing, he had let his guard down and because of that he had lost Kagome in his moment of weakness.
"OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how could you do it Inuyasha?" Shippo whined. "Kagome's gone and probably hurt and it's ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"I SAID SHUT IT!" Inuyasha growled before the all too familiar sound of his fist colliding with the kitsune pups scalp was heard.
"It's not fair." He cried.
"Shippo, don't worry we'll find Kagome." Sango reassured smiling softly.
"What do you think Sesshomaru wants with her?" Shippo cried further missing her already. Hell they all did.
"No matter what Sesshomaru wants with her," Miroku interjected. "Inuyasha has to remember the truce that can't afford to be broken between him and his brother." Miroku reminded much to Inuyasha's distaste.
"FEH! TO HELL WITH THE TRUCE IF HE HURTS KAGOME I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL RIP HIS FUCKING THROAT OUT!" He growled viciously at an unsuspecting Miroku.
'And he says he not the violent type.' Sango rolled her eyes at her own thought. True they had found the clearing where Kagome had bleed out but the area had been pulsing with Tesaiga's energy. If he really did mean Kagome harm wouldn't he have just allowed Kagome to die right then and there instead of riving her?
"Inuyasha we have no evidence that it was even Sesshomaru who attacked Kagome?"
"Miroku, I'm telling you that he's the only one who coulda cause his scent was the only other one there." Inuyasha's tone loosing the anger it had original held as it now took on a more helpless atmosphere.
"So you completely missed Tensaiga's energy pulse." Sango sighed seeing his confusion. "I knew it!"
Authours Note: I hope to update again soon but I thought I would give you a little bit of a forewarning about the upcoming chapters......new characters will be introdued and it might jump around a tad as I want to include as much as I possibily can.....about Sesshomaru and Kagome's past relationship and their reconection and explain her connection to the east! As alway tell me what you think!
Your Lady Fratured Moonlight