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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 16
"FINE!" Sesshomaru growled, caving to the persistence of Kagome who nearly fell to her knees upon realising she had won. Or was her energy drain getting to her? Either way she won and the result was a very peeved Sesshomaru moving to position himself against a tree while she moved to get her medical supplies from her god ugly yellow bag. Smiling brilliantly as she brushed past a very numb Inuyasha to disappear down the trail.
Her words were still playing in his head as Kage approached him. What did she mean by he knew? Knew what? That she technically belonged to Sesshomaru. No not really and if he had his scent hadn't been fresh. It was most likely faded at best, almost non-existent really but now that she had been spending more time with his not so stoic yokai brother it had been gradually gaining. Could that have been the reason for her odd scent?
'Inuyasha forgive me but you look lost.' Kage spoke through the only medium she could which led to a very amusing situation when she watched him try to figure out who was speaking to him.
'Inuyasha I do not possess the right vocal cords to talk normally so I am afraid you will have to deal with the fact that this is the only means to which I can communicate with you.' She said amused.
"Uh right." He stated extremely embarrassed with himself for his display which included the unsheathing of Tetsuaiga before its hasty re-sheathing.
'It's alright,' she assured him. 'Now come with me.' She stated allowing for him to follow her into the surrounding woods leaving Sesshomaru to his thoughts.
'Katsurou,' Sesshomaru nearly growled at himself. 'He's after her and worse he knows that I would do anything to protect her. Even throw my life away if it meant she would live. But I can't let such a situation occur. I can't let her suffer anymore than she already has by his hands' his thought paused as their internal workings struck a cord. 'Or by my own.' His thoughts paused again as he came to a reluctant realisation. 'Then there is only one conclusion that I can come to-'
"Um Sesshomaru," her hesitant voice echoed through his thoughts causing him to open his eyes and to lock on hers, wide with concern. "Oh good you didn't fall asleep." She smiled brightly before huffing as she tossed the ugly yellow sack to the side.
He watched her dig through the large sack before she settled on a few items of interest, watching then as she turned her attention towards his injury. He let her undo his haori as it would only be a hindrance to her efforts at taking care of him. Not that he needed it.
"Kagome," he began once she was occupied.
"Hmm." She responded when he didn't continue, when she stopped her task all together opting for looking at him directly instead of his distracting chest.
"I'm afraid that we must take the five day journey to Miwako." Sesshomaru stated knowing full well just how close they would they come to the beginning of mating season but knowing that they had no other choice.
"Miwako?" she questioned still staring.
"Yes, if I can get you safely behind the walls of Miwako in your mother's care then someone can be sent to rescue the lady Hana and Ayumu."
"My-my mother." She stuttered, struggling with the subject when the only mother she could remember was the mother waiting for her in present day Tokyo while the thought of Hana and Ayumu in the hands of Katsurou sent a noticeable shiver down her spine.
"Yes." He said when she looked away from him. He knew to which mother her mind had instinctively latched onto and thus is one reason why he reached to bring her face back into his line of sight.
"But I-I don't remember her Sesshomaru." She said, her voice quivering slightly.
"If you know yourself than you know the Lady Mikazuki." He stated confidently smiling slightly when he said the next thought that came to his mind. "After all she even possesses you quick tongue and violent temper," he paused then watching as the fire he knew would kindle did. "However in spite of such things you both possess a compassionate heart to which this Sesshomaru has never seen the like." To this a thick blush spread across the surface of her cheeks as she busied herself again with the task of cleaning a wound that didn't need to be cleaned.
"When your father came close to finding you," he tried to explain the reasons behind his decision so long ago, only continuing even though his voice quivered slightly. "I did the only thing I could've done, but in my need to protect I also hurt you Kagome." She paused turning to look at him though he didn't return the action. "I separated you from your ookami spirit, even while knowing it could kill you. I sent you down the well. Not knowing for certain if it would work-"
"Stop," she whispered almost pleadingly, earning a cold stare. "You did what you had to in order to secure my life," she said locking her eyes onto his. "And for that Sesshomaru I will always be eternally grateful." She whispered inching closer to him then she already was, positioning herself in the oddest of ways that held the taiyokai spellbound as to what she would do when she pressed her lips to his.
It wasn't an unwelcome sensation, just an unplanned, uncoordinated mess and yet here they were pressing their bodies into each other. Lips hard and firm as the kiss became slightly more eager then the kisses they had shared before this moment that lingered between them. Sesshomaru found himself in the midst of everything moving her closer and closer towards the forest floor, positioning himself on top of her in such a manner that their body temperatures began to rise. Something within told him they were entering into dangerous waters and thus reacted to this instinct.
He knew it startled her when he tore himself off of her. When he leaned heavily against the tree he had previously occupied. What made him keep his distance was the knowledge that she didn't yet understand what was going on with her body, or what it would mean for them and for her if they were to continue on like this.
"I'm sorry," he mumbled, a slip he wish he could've taken back the moment it fell from his lips. 'I have to tell her everything, I know I do. I can't keep running away from reality….I just have to postpone the inevitable a little while longer,' He thought distantly. 'Just a little while longer.'
"Okay, here I am now talk." Inuyasha demanded gruffly before hearing her deep hearted chuckle from within his head and that caused a low rumble to escape his chest. He didn't get what was so funny. She wasn't the one that would look insane to someone outside of this situation, he was.
'Always with the demands so then I will not delay.' She said with a fondness he had not expected. 'I noticed earlier when Kagome and yourself shared words that you did not understand her reference to the mating scent.' She paused watching him look to his extreme left as he tried to hide the thick red blush that now coated his cheeks.
'I know this is an uncomfortable subject for you but you need to understand if you wish to protect Kagome.' With that she earned a dead on concerned glare from the very hanyo who had been embarrassed just a moment before. The seriousness of her words reaching his ears in record time.
"What do you mean protect Kagome?" he asked genuinely concerned.
'In order to understand you must listen to me Inuyasha. Is that understood.' Kage stated waiting for the soft head bob of his head to follow her words before she would yet again continue.
'Kagome is not of modern times. She was born in this era like you were only she is something else. One half of who she was as I am the other,' she watched his eyes widen almost unnoticeably to the naked eye.
'You must not repeat what you have just concluded to anyone. Not to the monk or kit and especially not to Kagome herself. She must remember all of this in her own time and with Sesshomaru's aid, is that understood?' nod.
'Kagome is gifted with powers that no one can really understand and because of this her father sees as his greatest threat.'
"So you mean that yokai dude that attacked us was Kagome's old man." Inuyasha sounded nothing short of stunned, bewildered even, and angry all in one but she could do nothing but nod. "Why, because she's a yokai miko?" he sounded enraged now and she understood why. He had been born hanyo and with it had been judged and feared even targeted because of his parents love. She watched his anger fade slowly to an expression of sorrow as he sympathised with her mistress leaving no answer to his question.
'Inuyasha, not only must she be protected because of what she is, we have to protect her from Katsurou's hands and we must protect her from Sesshomaru's enemies. The mating scent will draw them to her.'
"I understand what Katsurou wants Kagome dead but about the enemies the 'old dog' may have, how would they know that she was his?" Kage knew that the brothers weren't exactly on the most friendly of terms before this and now it seemed that he held no respect at all for his elder by referring to him as an 'old dog'. Sighing as much as a wolf could sigh she thought she should explain.
' You see when you mate with someone a small portion of their scent mixes within your own as if to say to other's I'm taken and this is who belongs to me just as I belong to them. Understand now?'
She eyed him then watching as he nodded solemnly, almost broken as if realising something he hadn't before.
"Inuyasha?' she questioned not liking the look in his eyes one but.
"I never stood a chance did I?" Realisation dawned for the ookami spirit who paused in her even stride to look up at him. Her heart breaking as her eyes met the face of a man who resembled a little boy, with that heart broken expression. She understood the look and the question all too clearly. He loved her mistress, he truly did. He loved her to the point he would and had sacrificed himself for her if the situation demanded it. She knew this just as she knew that he would do so now, even though he could not be what Sesshomaru was to her.
'No, I suppose you didn't. At least not in that sense young one.' She watched his saddened eyes lit and ears perk ever so slightly listening to her words intently. 'Kagome may not have the romantic feelings towards you like she does for Sesshomaru but she does love you. She loves as a confident and a friend, and that is something to be treasured.' She watched him nod his mood obviously lightening greatly. 'Now let us return before the other's grow suspicious.'
"Ya." He agreed. "I wouldn't want that perverted monk thinking of anything ridiculous." And now it was his turn to laugh openly at her bewildered expression.
Authour's Note: Okay here we go with Chapter 16! I hope I explained better, about how Inuyasha should've known about Kagome and Sesshomaru. It wasn't until I got a confused reviewer telling me of my error! Anyway I hope it makes sense now just as much as I hope this chapter makes sense, it does to me! Oh and I almost forgot, sorry for the cliffy between Sesshomaru and Kagome, but I couldn't have them mate before the season has even begun though I wonder how they will be able to survive the five days travel to Miwako while sufferings the early onset. I wonder lol.
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