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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 12
"KAGE!" Hana hollered after the ookami spirit who now saw fit to toy with them in such a tedious and wasteful manner. "DAMN THAT BEAST!" she cursed forcing her angelic voice to echo off of the surrounding trees in her anger at having to hunt down the source of her annoyance.
"Hana?" Ayumu tested but it wasn't wise, he surmised, when he was suddenly on the receiving end of the death glare of all death glares. Gulping harshly he took a subconscious step back, not wanting to be in her way should she suddenly decide to lop off some heads, meaning it would start with his should this be her choice of action.
Hana stared at Ayumu's reaction perplexed. She wasn't that scary was she? On second thought maybe she was. And here she was glaring at the man who had only hunted after her for centuries. The very man who was her mate, though the only other who knew about her situation was her Lady who had been more than discrete.
She turned on her heals then heading for the thickest part of the woods allowing her anger to fuel her pace. She would find the damned beast even if it killed her. Kage was as allusive as her namesake, she sighed deeply, trekking further inward. Kagome needed her and Hana wasn't leaving with anything short of the ookami spirit in toe.
Kagome remained on the forest floor for sometime, neither moving nor seeing the people that moved about her. Blinded by the ache that wouldn't leave her, by the ache that gnawed on her very soul threatening to destroy her completely. Why had his leaving like this effected her so? Why did she feel as though her entire world had slipped through her fingers completely?
The next few days she did the same, walking through the waking world while neither living nor dying, as if she was already dead. She looked more like Kikyo than ever before with the dark imposing circles underneath her eyes, the only evidence of her sleepless nights though nobody said a word to her about it. Her joy, her life, her very being shattered and destroyed.
Nothing Inuyasha had ever done, from his countless betrayals to his brash behaviour had ever felt even remotely similar to this. This was like loosing everything that made up who you were. This left her breathless and trembling until her internal and personal agony left her numb and quaking until she eventually stilled.
The following week was a blur with nothing to stir her from her emptiness. They all tried. Sango tried to temp Kagome into meaningful hot spring conversation only to have her attempts turn to silence. Miroku tried to get a rise out of her by doing whatever his perversion dictated but she did nothing to stop him. No yelling, no screaming just silence and that, he had to admit was far worse than being bashed in the head by Sango's hirakotsu. Shippo tried to get her to smile by gathering flowers for her, only to be met by empty expressionless eyes. Even Kirara went so far as to rub up against her without so much as a quick glance leaving the neko confused as to what else to do. It was hard to believe that Kagome's deep unshakable depression was all a result of Sesshomaru's sudden departure.
On this particular night the sunset stretched brilliant colours across the sky with brilliant hues that danced and shimmered. Kagome sat against a tree watching the colours dance as she had every night since then waiting in silence. She waited endlessly for the memories that had forsaken her, just as she waited hopelessly for him to return. No matter how dim that possibility appeared to be. Her hope had dwindled to something resembling the small flame that flickered in and out, the same flame meant to serve as their campfire.
Rising slowly she ignored the concern Sango showed her as she walked into the surrounding wood. Once again they would sleep outdoors instead of inside the comfort of the nearby village. She preferred it this way, so others could not see the pain that blanketed her. The pain that night hid effortlessly.
As she walked her mind unwillingly replayed his words 'I am doing this to protect you'. She knew that it was how he felt about it but what she couldn't understand is what could possible be served from his absence.
In these private moments she found she was able to express her grief in the ways she never could in front of those closest to her. There was no grace in how she fell now that no one was watching her, holding her sides as if her innards would burst free. Her tears spilled freely down her cheeks uncontrollably now that she lay here away from unwanted eyes.
"Why?" she questioned aloud as the hours that blurred together forced her tears to dry. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
"There is no need to apologise my lady." Kagome's eyes snapped open widening as her eyes focused on nothing. No one had followed her here she was certain of it but than again the things she seemed to be certain of lately were few and far between. And it hadn't been the kind of lyrical soft voice of memory she had gotten used to. No this was something else entirely.
"I am sorry my lady Kagome that I did not come sooner."
"W-who are you?" Kagome spoke aloud to the voice she couldn't identify. Her eyes darting around trying to pin point it but when they came upon a set of silver eyes they stilled. Her curiosity rose. She watched as they closed softly before opening again as the source came into view.
"I am Kage."
"K-kage?" Kagome echoed the name of the figure before her, the figure closely resembling a wolf. Its raven fur glistened with an unnatural shine while its height was probably somewhere near her waist if she had been standing. "My yokai spirit."
By the time the words had left her lips a vision danced before her eyes. She had left the serenity of the forest and was now sitting in one of Sesshomaru's more intricate gardens. Sakura petals danced about her but the person she stared so intensely, despite holding a deep resemblance to Sesshomaru wasn't him. The deep violet jagged strips on each cheek resembled the ones that marred Inuyasha's when he lost control of himself.
"Kagome," he spoke, his voice holding a deep resonating presence.
"How do you know my name?" he laughed deeply at her youth.
"Sesshomaru speaks very fondly of you, little one." He smiled at her shock.
"Sesshomaru talks about me?" Kagome could swear her cheeks were heating up now.
"Yes very much so."
"KAGE!" A much younger Sesshomaru growled and when her head whipped around she saw why. He was completely soaked through resembling something close to a drowned rat. She couldn't contain her laughter. Her giggles only served to infuriate him further which led to another round of snickers.
Kage shook herself of the remnants of water before being pounced on by Sesshomaru. He was pretty determined to win the battle the beast had set him up for. He wasn't thrilled to be beat once more by the yokai spirit that infuriated him. Leaving him behind to shake herself free of her water logged fur on the river bank.
As Kage pranced towards Kagome with pure glee she couldn't help but laugh at his dishevelled appearance. His long silver strands were a complete mess and caked with water, as were his clothes that clung to every part of the young lord.
"Are you laughing at me?!" he asked as if in complete disbelief that something about his situation was even remotely funny.
"I'm sorry, I just can't help it!" she continued to laugh even when she became the target of his game. But her laugh soon turned into a shrill nearly silent scream as she fell into the black embrace of the well.
"I am doing this to protect you?"
Suddenly she was back in the forest where she had been all along, staring at a wolf who was the other half of herself. Her eyes locked with Kage's as they slowly opened upon her approach.
"I see, and for that I am sorry my lady Kagome." The last syllable of her name turned into a growl as she turned her attention from Kagome to the west.
Kagome followed her line of sight and her heart sank. She could see his dark silhouette approaching and the inevitable fear began to creep upon her. What would he say? What would he do? What would she do?
She watched as the moonlight danced upon his form bringing out the elegance in him that her memory had neglected. Kagome noticed that he had neglected his armour once again favouring the look that literally took her breath away.
"Kage," he spoke and his voice broke through her in waves. "I see you have come to the aid of your mistress."
"Yes but it seems I am not the one to have left her in shambles" she snarled allotting for her jaw to snap threateningly.
"So it appears." His voice dropped and his gaze averted briefly before meeting her dead on, his eyes conveying the regret that he would not allow his voice to show. She stood slowly moving towards him in a mindless daze. Desperate to prove too herself that he was in fact real and not an apparition.
"S-sesshomaru," she gasped as her finger reached out to touch the smooth skin of his cheek before she fell into him. She felt his arms thrust out around her limp body before she could hit the ground. It was only then that he noticed her pale skin with the dark purple circles underneath her eyes from sleepless nights. His regret was enough to make him sick. "I'm sorry." She gasped looking into his concerned gaze.
"No, my dear Kagome, I am the one that must apologise!" he whispered meant for her ear alone. "I left thinking that I was doing the right thing but now see it was a falsehood and for that my dear Kagome I am sorry."
"Don't go." She pleaded as her eyes closed then, her sleepless nights catching up with her at long last.
"I am not going anywhere without you."
Kage's growls ceased as she watched them. Kagome looked almost peaceful in her Sesshomaru's arms. She allowed them their privacy, taking to the surrounding woods. She would give her mistress the moment or two she needed with him alone.
The wind shifted around her position a multitude of times so as not to be detected by the western lord. Her ruby eyes befalling a peculiar sight; watching Kagome slump into Sesshomaru's arms through the darkened leaves of a large tree sheltered within the darkness of night.
"Interesting, very interesting." She cooed out of her own curiosity and not malicious intent. Reaching for a singular white feather she took to the skies.
Authour's Note: First off I would like to appologise for the length it took me to update this story and for that I am truely sorry. I've had a lot going on in my life these past couple weeks and your patience with me has been well appreaciated. I want to continue to thank those who review and add this to story alert and favourite story as it makes my work feel valued in a way I never thought it would!
Secondly some of you have reviewed with questions asking me how is Kagome a yokai? And as I have told them that will be revealed but Sesshomaru does have something to do with it.
Thirdly some of you have said that this story is still at some points confusing and I was just wondering what was still confusing to you? So that way I can make things less confusing.
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Your Lady Fractured Moonlight