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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 14
It had taken Kagome the better half of the first few days to come around to the fact that Sesshomaru wasn't going anywhere. And while that was comforting Inuyasha's persistent claims were another matter entirely. It was one thing to say someone belonged to you when the one in which you were referring didn't possess a birth rite that could incinerate you instantaneously. Why it was almost laughable.
Kagome would always insist that she wasn't something to be one owned, and that if she was it wouldn't be him who would possess the privilege of owning her. To which Inuyasha would bark 'then who, Sesshomaru.' Her face would turn several shades of red before she issued an onslaught of sit commands that would propel Inuyasha deeper and deeper into the hardened earth every time she uttered the dreaded three letter word.
Today was no different then the others before it had been. As Kagome made her way over to Sesshomaru smiling brilliant before Inuyasha had to go and pick a fight. Sesshomaru hated seeing Kagome in such distress but enjoyed seeing the havoc she could wreak upon the source of her frustrations. So now there he was, content to watch Inuyasha get stuck in an Inuyasha shaped crater at Kagome's feet and that is when he did allow himself the freedom to chuckle softly to himself.
He knew she hadn't felt him come up behind her until he moved to rest his hand upon her shoulder. He knew he had startled her when her heart rate accelerated ever so slightly underneath his fingertips. But when she looked at him with her eyes so full of a pain he didn't understand he did the unthinkable. He pulled her too him, holding her close before taking off into the surrounding woods, leaving behind him a very puzzled Sango, Miroku and Shippo in the clearing. Helpless to do nothing but stare helplessly at the spot in which he had inhabited moments before.
"You think I would get used to that." Sango stated blinking several times. She allotted herself one last quick scan of their surroundings before the familiar sensation of that lechers hand upon her rear caused her back to go rigid and her eyebrow to twitch. "Miroku!" She growled. Her voice suddenly on edge as the familiar irritation settled into her fingertips. "Keep your hand to yourself PERVERT!" she hollered.
"Why Sango I just couldn't help myse-"
"HELP THIS!" She stated forcefully as her fingers swung at his cheek leaving harsh indentations of her hand print in the tender flesh. She smirked softly upon hearing him hit the forest floor with a somewhat loud thud.
"Serves you right!" Shippo piped up, puffing out his chest as he did so before turning and hoping upwards toward Sango's welcome shoulder.
"Shippo what do you say to never becoming like them?" she asked gesturing to the two unconscious men in the vicinity.
"Be like them," he gawked with disbelief. "Never!" Shippo stated confident in the fact that he wouldn't become like the two men who were now unconscious in the clearing, before bouncing from her shoulder to pick some flowers for his surrogate mother leaving Sango's mind to wander. At long last over the conversation she had shared with Sesshomaru.
She knew he had left out how he had come to meet Kagome and about her first heat which she was truly indebted to him for his thoughtfulness on the subject. That was definitely not the kind of conversation you would want to have with someone who could have easily been called your 'brother in-law'. Wait had she actually thought that thought. Shaking her head she continued with her train of thought.
But from the scene earlier it was clear that Sesshomaru could calm her in a way no one ever could. And she had to admit that as long as Kagome was happy with Sesshomaru what did it matter what the arrogant Inuyasha thought. 'Let's face it,' she thought to no one in particular. 'Inuyasha never did deserve her.'
"Hey Sango?"
"Ya!" Sango replied as Shippo's voice cut through her thoughts.
"Where's Kage?" he asked and for the first time Sango realised that the group's latest member was no where in sight. When had that wolf up and gone?
"I-I don't know." Sango's voice shook softly as her thoughts ran away on their own again.
"Why can't I remember you Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked for what seemed like the billionth time with no result. Her heart strings trembled slightly as her voice softened.
"You will in time." Sesshomaru's voice was as even as ever and that sent her over the edge.
"Gaaawwwwwwwwwww! I can't take it anymore!" She growled nearly screaming. Maybe it was directed towards him for his damn evasiveness or perhaps it was left over frustration from Inuyasha. Either way she found herself totally aggravated in Sesshomaru's presence. "I'm sorry." She offered turning to meet the yokai lord face to face a soft smile tugging at her lips.
She nearly fell backwards from his closeness first of all and secondly from the way he was starring at her with that unguarded stare of his. 'Damn it!' She cursed herself trying to get a barring on her runaway heartbeat which she had to admit happened often in his presence.
"What ever for?" he asked her stepping closer. Damn him now how was she ever supposed to form a coherent sentence or for that matter a single solitary thought that actually made some semblance of sense.
"F-f-f" she tried before swallowing hard preparing to continue when she saw the worlds smallest smirk tug at the left corner of his lip. Damn him. He thought this was so terribly amusing. 'Well' she thought, trying to phsc herself up for the apology. 'Here we go again.' "For taking out my frustrations on you." She blurted as her words seemed to run together, her eyes snapped close from embarrassment as a soft blush touched her cheeks.
"I do not mind it!" he finally spoke after what seemed like a lifetime. Her eyes suddenly snapped open when she felt his breath against her forehead. 'Darn it. If he keeps this up he's going to end up kissing me for the first time since, since' her mind drew a blank. 'Oh god Kagome wake up!' she hollered mentally at herself.
"Ummmm….Sesshomaru why did you bring us here?" she asked trying to distract herself from his closeness.
"I needed to talk to you away from so many ears."
"Oh." She stated sounding like an idiot but what exactly was she suppose to say to something like that after being swept away by someone who could easily be described as a living god.
She turned then watching him as he moved away from her suddenly to move towards the largest tree. She watched him as he moved to sit with unbelievable grace looking so regal against the forest backdrop that she couldn't suppress the feelings that suddenly arose within her.
He hadn't motioned for her to join him, or for her to curl up into him and for the life of her she couldn't figure out why she had done it. She knew she wasn't exactly the type of person to force her will onto anyone nor for that matter was she one to do something without their consent. And this, she realised definitely qualified as an awkward situation but it was something that she felt drawn to do. She relaxed somewhat when his arms drew her closer to him proving that her assumption or basic instinct had been right.
"How much do you remember………about your life before?" he asked his voice soft and tender lulling her into the very comfort she welcomed.
"Not much I'm afraid."
"It is important that I know just how much of your memory has been recovered." She heard the importance behind his words and tried to focus when the closeness brought on another memory.
Her mind drew her to a time in which she was certain she was in her early teens, maybe no more than fifteen but as for the other she couldn't be sure. But it didn't make sense for her to have been the very age she had been when Mistress Centipede had dragged through the bone eaters well. It couldn't be right? Could it?
Her body, she soon realised, burned against the cold cave floor as her naked skin raked against the stone in agony. Her eyes snapped open trying to focus on his face only to find that once her vision did it instantly blurred and a new fire lit, reaching from her core through her bones extending to her very skin. She cried out as someone approached her. She wasn't sure who.
She welcomed their touch as it seemed to put a cease to the fires if only for a moment. She heard her name then, briefly falling from familiar but unrecognisable lips as whoever it was tried to explain to her what was going on but she didn't hear it against the fires that raged within.
She felt distant as if separate from her skin somehow as they touched her. As their hands moved along her body, cradling her as their touch brought some peace compared to the fire. Her body moved to welcome the contact as the person, whom she could not see, touched her in places she never thought she would welcome.
They did something then that was unexpected within the storm that she was facing. Her body went rigid for a moment or two as she gave way to the most animalistic nature. And only then did the fires begin to recede. She didn't know whom was loving her nor did she care as long as it made the fires stop.
Her body still burned but in a new way as pleasure began to take hold in the pit of her stomach when something sunk into her shoulder causing the crescendo to break and a searing pain to take its place. Shattering her will power into nothing at all, her breath came in shattered gasps as his voice began to make sense. It was strangely apologetic.
"I'm sorry Kagome," they said, their soft and distant. "I'm so sorry that it had to be this way." That's when it hit her. Her eyes snapped open as her body came into her realm of control as they focused on his face. 'S-s-s-s' her mind stuttered as she pushed away from him with all the force she could muster.
"S-s-s-Sess-homaru?" she asked for it could be no one else. She moved to shield herself knowing in that instantaneous second full well what had just transpired. But as she did so her long raven strands fell over her aching body shielding herself somewhat.
"Here." He stated wrapping his haori around her before quickly moving away ashamed with himself for how it had to be done.
"Sesshomaru stay!" she stated when she realised that he was leaving. He turned softly to look at her out of the corner of his eyes. "It happened didn't it?" he nodded softly turning to leave again when she did something she never thought she would. She threw her acing body against his receding back, her footing lost as she collided against him.
"Stay,…….please stay." she begged as she wrapped her arms around him grazing his chest from behind him then the memory blurred and Kagome was faced once again with the present knowing something new.
"I burned and you-you-" She stated incredulously pulling away from him them, trying to stand but falling backward hitting the ground hard unable to get up. "It will happen again, won't it? Like the first time?" her eyes locking with his searching for answers. He nodded softly not wanting it to have to be as dangerous as it had been but knowing he had other choice. "That's what you wanted to tell me?" she asked hoping that this was all she needed to know but knowing somewhere it wasn't likely.
"Not all, but yes it will happen again and for that my dearest Kagome I am deeply sorry." Kagome's eyes widened. He meant it. He was sorry. He blamed himself for it but why?
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