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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 10

Kagome hadn't slept much the night before because a certain yokai thought it would be more productive to monitor her. She wondered if he could sleep when someone was watching him so intently. Sighing Kagome knew that the only reason he was like this was because the majority of the time she had spent with him she had been unconscious, poisoned or dead. Proving once again how utterly hopeless she was. She had even neglected her bow and arrows another thing she did on a regular basis that troubled her.

Sighing she shrugged out from underneath the furs he had so willingly provided only to find he was still seated where he had been the night before. Sesshomaru's eyes never left her as she looked towards the dying embers of the camp fire before searching for Hana, still uncertain how she felt about Ayumu but that was to be expected.

"They aren't here." He stated his voice emotionless.

"Who isn't here?" she sounded pathetic even to her own ears.

"Weren't you looking for them?" he asked and Kagome understood more or less.

"Kind of but not really." She admitted it was kind of true. She was thankful to have him to herself for once but from what Hana had told her he hadn't left her side. That knowledge caused a deepening blush to spread across her cheeks just under the bridge of her nose. "So where did they go?"

"Back to the east." He stated simply and Kagome tried to hold off her disappointment but wasn't terribly successful.

"Why?" she asked and he tried to hide the quirking of his lip corners from her view. 'Still with the twenty questions.' He thought idly, reminded that some things never change no matter how much time is to pass. He toyed momentarily with the thought of lying to her but in the end thought better of it. Instead settling for a half truth. He couldn't risk divulging anything that could do more harm than good.

"Hana received word from the eastern lady," he stated paying careful attention to leave their names out of it before speaking again. "That Naraku's minions have begun to encroach upon their territory. Ayumu was reluctant to leave her side-"

"And so you allowed him to accompany her." She concluded cutting him off accidentally as she looked towards him for confirmation, a confirmation that was granted in to form of a small nod.

"Dawn isn't far off you must sleep while you can." The concern that laced his moment ago emotionless eyes caused her blush to thicken immensely as she pulled the white fur underneath her chin as means of shielding herself from him. An attempt that was utterly futile and she knew it.

"I've been asleep more in the past couple of days than I have in almost an entire year…..I don't think I can close my eyes again for a long time to come." The softness of her voice had taken him aback but even more than the words she had spoken were the ones to follow after. "Why do you care so much about me anyway?" she asked at last and he hadn't been prepared for the anger that coursed through his veins then. Of course she had no idea what she really was or who she was even to him.

She watched him stiffen at her words and wondered if she had offended him which, she had to admit, was a rapidly gaining probability. She watched his fist tighten to the point she swore his claws drew blood leaving her to wonder why would he do something like that. Before she saw his eyes open slowly revealing the clearing whites of his eyes from red and gaining gold from teal.

"Sesshomaru I" he waited patiently feeling the emotional turmoil that laced her voice. "I think, I think I'm-" Kagome blushed suddenly gaining control before she could condemn herself further.

"Yes-" he encouraged waiting for something that would never come when an unwanted scent caught in his fine nostril hairs. A growl deepened as he looked towards the direction the unwanted scent had come from. He wasn't in view yet but that didn't mean he was far off their trail. "Inuyasha" he growled and watched as Kagome visible lurched towards him. Leaving him to wonder, not for the first time, what his bastard brother had done to affect his woman so.

'His woman' now that was a dangerous thought indeed.

"He's coming." He alerted her.

"I-I don't want to see him." Her voice quivered as Sesshomaru dashed across the clearing to be at her side instantly. Her discomfort became physical as his blackened form began to distantly take shape on the horizon along with her other traveling companions. She shook violently, almost but not quite, throwing herself at him. She didn't touch him like she wanted to but she did inch closer when he didn't protest. If his presence comforted her, despite her not knowing why, he would grant her that much.

Sesshomaru stood as his brother was forced to halt in front of him Tetsaiga drawn. Brazen as always however he never expected Kagome's next course of action. She literally, more or less, threw herself between the two men arms outstretched wincing openly at the pain that ripped through her system. As such an action brought to life her broken rib and reopened the wounds left in the wake of whoever had attacked her in the clearing.

The smell of her blood and discomfort assaulted him reminding him of her unhealed injuries. He hadn't felt the need to tend to them while she slept seeing as she was doing little in the wake of activity. But the smell, still metallic as was with all blood, contained only faint traces of yokai. His eyes widened slightly but not noticeably. It couldn't have begun? Could it?

"Inuyasha I won't allow you to hurt him." She stated boldly.

"What are you doing protecting this" Inuyasha said pointing fiendishly at his brother the dai she so valiantly stood protecting. "This vermin."

"Hn." She nearly laughed. "You're the only vermin I know of Inuyasha."

Sesshomaru watched the heated glare the half-demon was currently receiving and almost felt sorrow for him. Almost.

Miroku and Sango along with Shippo and a very puzzled neko all stared at them as if they were missing something terribly important. Especially when Kagome blanched white and her knees knocked before falling backwards right into Sesshomaru's arms. He actually caught her and Kagome blushed thickly apologizing. What was going on?

"I'm sorry Sesshomaru."

"Don't be."

"Hey Sesshomaru what have you done to Kagome?" Inuyasha accused watching as Sesshomaru glared coldly at him before hearing the dreaded word pass her knowing lips.

"Inuyasha SIT."

'wham'

Inuyasha groaned as he slung his arms over the sides of the crater made perfectly to the contours of his body. All thanks to the beads of subjugation that was still wrapped around his neck because a certain miko refused to take them off. Damn woman. Jumping to his feet his anger peaked when Sesshomaru's cold emotionless glare turned on him. Where did he get off?

"Inuyasha I'm not going back with you."

"WHAT YOU NEED TO FIND THE JEWEL SHARDS-"

"I KNOW THAT BUT I'M NOT GOING BACK!"

"WHY NOT?"

"WHY NOT? WHY NOT?!" her voice inched up another octave aggravating her broken rib even further as she continued. "BECAUSE I WON'T BE USED BY YOU A MOMENT LONGER! THAT'S WHY! I WON'T BE YOUR FAITHFUL DEVOTED SHARD DETECTOR ANYMORE! I'LL STILL COMPLETE THE JEWEL BUT I'LL DO IT WITH SESSHOMARU, INSTEAD OF AN IGNORANT HANYO WHO HAS A SEVERE CASE OF NECROPHELIA!"

Kagome winced more visibly against Sesshomaru and only when she grabbed him did Sango gain the courage to do something she should have done in the beginning. Knock the pest out with her Hirakotsu which resulted in a disgruntled heap of silver clad in red. To her silent horror Kagome didn't look to much better. A kind of sweat beaded along her forehead and her breath came out in soft, harsh pants that looked strained.

"Ka-go-me," she tested watching as her dear sisters eyes opened slightly to look at her momentarily before squeezing shut against another presumable wave of pain. And the way Sesshomaru was acting towards her was almost tender, could he be tender?

"Sesshomaru I'll take her," she offered and nearly fell backwards when a very protective growl left him totally directed towards her. "Sesshomaru her wounds-" her thought dropped off when his eyes turned towards her and reality set in. She could see that her words had reached him and their totality sank in.

Sango however wasn't prepared for the speed of the exchange. Kagome was more less tossed to her, throwing her backwards and than their was the speed at which he moved to get away from them. One moment he was there with Kagome in his arms and the next Kagome was in hers and he was nowhere in sight.

"Damn it!" Inuyasha exclaimed throwing a heated glare in Sango's direction.

"Inuyasha I'm not the one responsible for the wounds that Kagome suffers from." She snapped bitterly once again flying over the other heads in their vicinity.

"Feh!" he huffed crossing his arms. Watching as Sango aided Kagome to stand and then further more as the two walked into the surrounding forest. He watched them closely.

"What was that about with Sesshomaru just now?" Shippo whined totally confused looking towards Miroku for the answers he sought. The answers he doubted the monk possessed but he asked anyway.

"I don't know Shippo, I don't know." Miroku answered truthfully just as lost and confused as though around him. Had he just seen what he thought he had seen? Had he just seen Sesshomaru so expressive and concerned over the life of another or had he been imagining things? He honestly didn't know what to make of anything anymore.

As the sun began to set above them the brightening form of a wolf came into Hana's view. She turned towards Ayumu indicating silence before inching forward. "Your mistress needs you now," she told the wolf whose silver eyes looked towards hers and her raven fur bristled softly in the light breeze. "Kagome needs you."

Authour's Note: Yay! I might have posted this chapter prematurely but a lot of people have been having questions so here we go! Yep Naraku's still out there and as to what Kagome is well they are answers that are coming! I can't give you everything now can I? lol

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Your Lady Fractured Moonlight