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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 7

Inuyasha was having as a hard a time as any of them and the fact that Sango knew the truth didn't sit well with him at all. And for the briefest of moments he thought that she would spill it all to the perverted monk that held her. A moment that ended when she pried herself from him turning her angered gaze to his with full force. He was wrong, he realised, to ever think that Kagome's look made your blood run cold for Sango's was much, much worse.

It terrified him as she stepped towards him as though her rage and hatred towards him had become a bright fire that enveloped her just as surely as it threatened to envelop him if he looked at her the wrong way. Damn she was scary.

"Inuyasha," she said her voice sickly sweet threatening to break at any moment. "I MUST BE ABSOLUTLY INSANE TO BE COVERING FOR YOU! YOU ARE A STUPID, STUPID HANYO AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT KAGOME EVER SAW IN YOU TO BEGIN WITH BUT I'M WARNING YOU IF YOU EVER HURT HER AGAIN AFTER WE GET HER BACK I SWEAR ON KOHAKU THAT I WILL BEAT SESSHOMARU TO THE KILL AND KILL YOU MYSELF!" He swallowed hard not doubting that she would live up to her threat if what she spoke of ever became a reality.

Sesshomaru wasn't at all calmed by the rain in fact the more he moved away from her the more his unease unsettled him. His need to be beside her, to be with her, to see her, threatened to overtake his entire being should he not comply too the will of his mark and her unknowingly desperate call. It threatened to drive his beast insane which in turn would make him submit to his beast in a manner that was unacceptable.

He knew he had to return to her, that she needed him. He could feel it. He could feel the tug and pull against his heart with each leap that the poison was spreading further throughout her system. He didn't have to watch her disintegrate into nothing to know what was happening to her no he could feel it and that was so much worse.

He could feel her breath as it constricted, could feel her need to have him near rip through her, tearing at his heart strings, and than he could feel her silent pleas. The pleas she thought she kept hidden away from the world. The pleas that begged the world to give her value to give her something, anything despite the void of empty memories that assaulted her. The pleas in which she longed to have her memory, intact and in full. The pleas he knew in truth may never be answered.

He knew within himself, that she would always be his world and his life and his every waking breath for she had always been. He knew that unlike his brother he had never given her a reason to doubt his love for her other than that one day that led to centuries in total agony and the several minor attempts to claim her life. He wanted so badly for her to see herself as he did and not some miko of wondrous power but a woman, the woman that he loved.

Hana heard his approach before Kagome felt it. She could sense the tension in him before he stepped through the opening revealing him to be even more dishevelled than she would've expected. His long strands appeared to be the only thing in an orderly fashion. His clothes on the other hand told another story, dirt and grass all dampened with rain soaked through him and his armour, she was quick to find that he was in fact removing it.

"How is she?" he asked as the loud crash of metal was heard and his words effectively mixed with the sound caught her out of her silent wanderings and she hopped this would go unnoticed by him.

"Not very well I'm afraid," she said truthfully turning her eyes back to the pot. She gathered some into a small glass before turning to hand it to him. He looked at her and the strange nearly odourless liquid quizzically before she had the heart to answer. "Have her drink this. It should help……if only for a little while."

He took the cup offered more or less understanding what needed to be done. Hana had already explained the inner workings of this to him earlier though for the life of him could not remember it. Sighing, he knew that as long as it helped her cling to life than it was worth it.

He saw much to his surprise, though it never showed, that she responded to his presence. She turned into him, before her eyes slowly began to flutter open, fanning raven eyelashes against her cheeks.

"Kagome," he whispered, almost to softly for Hana's ears, "You must drink this." His hand steady despite his heartfelt uncertainties.

"S-sesshomaru?" she questioned her face matching the unsure tone that laced her voice.

"I'm here." He reassured as he moved gracefully to kneel beside her despite the cup in his hand. He noticed then much to his distaste that her raven bangs lay thick with sweat that lung to her forehead obscuring her eyes from his. Tenderly he moved such an annoyance out of his way when her eyes turned to his. They tried several times to pin point him before they at long last settled, a soft smile touching her lips as they did.

"I-I thought," she tired but stopped when his finger on her lips silenced her before she could say her dreaded words.

"That would never happen!" he assured her while his voice took on a slightly harder tone than he meant to leading to the slight confusion he saw take residence in her eyes. "Kagome, you must drink this for me."

"What is it?" she asked.

"Something that will help." He put simply reminding himself of all the times he had made the mistake of telling her the ingredients watching as her face blanched before he learned that it was best for all involved if he not mention it.

He watched much to his own personal chagrin as she tried to sit up on her own only to fall against his fur hitting the stone beneath her. She winced visibly as he moved to help her, before Hana took it upon herself to take the cup from him so that way it wouldn't be a hindrance. Inwardly Sesshomaru was thankful for her forethought though he was a little too preoccupied with a certain poisoned miko to show it.

She groaned and hissed at her movements which made Sesshomaru rethink his original thought. His hands moved to reassure her that such movements were no longer necessary and thus instead set about directing her head into the comfort of his lap where this would allow him to cradle her neck.

Hana handed him back the substance she held within the confines of the cup. She tried to contain the sorrow mixed joy as she watched Sesshomaru treat her mistress as though she were an infant. It would have been funny had she not had to reminded herself that the only reason Kagome was in this position was because of Ayumu. And the guilt that flooded her then was enough to gain Sesshomaru's attention if only for a moment before instructing Kagome to drink. She turned from them then unable or unwilling to look upon them further.

Sesshomaru realised he would have to talk to Hana about her distance, and most especially the guilt that had just washed up against him. Kagome made a sort of choking sound that drew his focus as he propped her up further, watching as her face scrunched at the vile tasting substance which she drank nonetheless.

The effects were almost immediate. He could feel from the skin exposed around her neck that her temperature had begun to fall, and her sweat lessened. He was thankful to Hana for her knowledge in an area he hadn't had much practice in and an area that Kagome, if she would ever recall, exceeded at despite her silent cringe when said skills and knowledge were used for her. When used on others however her distaste for the substances required were more or less forced aside by a sheer force of will but when used on her, she was something else. As though she couldn't stand the thought of someone caring about her and that thought made his skin crawl.

His thoughts were brought back to the present when Hana kindly informed him that Kagome had fallen asleep. When he looked at her, he could have sworn he saw her smile for the first time, well at least like that as though she had found some kind of hope, a hope that she had lost.

"S-sesshomaru?" she stuttered softly and he realised he had allowed his eyes to linger on Hana's face a moment or so longer than what was necessary. Turning his attention back on Kagome he realised that in deed she had fallen asleep while his memories had dragged on and that for the first time, in what seemed like forever, her breathing didn't look like it had become a painful struggle. And with that knowledge he found he could breathe a sigh of relief.

As mornings first rays peeked over the horizon Ayumu could feel his lord's power begin to assert themselves over his body and he wondered, however briefly, if Hana had caught onto this fact during their encounter. However her heated words of 'You know nothing of me' still echoed throughout him. It was true. It had been ages since his body had been his to command and not his lords which dragged on for an eternity. However her face, her angelic face had been the driving force behind his will to remain alive.

He had contemplated, on many occasion, taking his own life when his body was his to command but could never bring himself to conduct the movement that would end it all. Perhaps it was selfish of him, maybe even foolish to linger on as he had, to live in the space of never knowing where your lord's black heart and cruel intentions would lead you next.

He hoped she would remember him as he was and not as he was now a killer of many innocent men women and children. He hoped against hope that she would remember him as they were before just as surely as he hoped his lord would never command her head. He, at least in this frame of mind, wouldn't stand for any harm to befall her after all she still bared his mark. Wait then that meant…..and with one swift burst of power the still love struck Ayumu was stolen away from himself and forced behind the bars where he was to linger neither conscious nor unconscious.

Sesshomaru would get his answers from Hana now that Kagome slept peacefully for the first time in a long while. He would not let her get out of this one. There was something she was hiding from him and maybe even from herself but heaven be damned if he was going to allow this to continue.

"Sesshomaru," she addressed startling him when she turned suddenly to face him but he nodded giving her every indication that he would listen intently without saying the words. "There is something that you need to know," she paused and he could see it was difficult for her to continue so he waited however impatiently but waited just the same. "There is something you need to know about Ayumu."

"What about Ayumu?"

"He's not-he's not heartless, he's my-um-my uh" he arced an eyebrow at her words she was stalling and he knew it. "He's my mate." She said bluntly, her voice dangerously soft leaving him to wonder if he had even heard her as she gave up the very secret she had been holding onto for so long. She watched as Sesshomaru's eyes widened noticeably before an intense growl left the confines of his chest.

'Maybe it wasn't the best idea for me to reveal that' she thought wearily watching as the whites of his eyes bleed red and his once golden orbs bled teal. 'Defiantly wasn't a good idea.'

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