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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 22

Before she had time to close her violet eyes for the long awaited sleep she had so hoped for Katsurou's cackle echoed throughout her room rumbling against the floor, walls and ceiling as if the land beneath their feet had been hit by an earthquake. Growling in frustration she herd the heavy knock upon her door that would not let up if it was ignored. Sighing she sat upright gathering her sleeping yukata around her she answered it.

None other then Kenichi their lords most trusted general stood before her wearing what he had worn the last time she had encountered him in battle. She suppressed the rack of shivers that yearned to travel down her spine as the memory of that encounter flashed through her mind. Katsurou had some perverse ways of keeping those whom he had entrapped within his web under control. Her eyes grew hollow as she stared into the darkened eyes of her commander.

"Lord Katsurou wishes to see you in his private chambers." he stated. No more no less as he turned from her leaving her to close and dread to find her. 'So it has come to this' she thought bitterly reaching into her wardrobe for suitable attire. 'Yet again he will force me to grace his bed.' he heart snapped bitterly sliding a single arm into the kimono sleeve. 'Sesshomaru,' she pleaded as she slid to the floor, her cobalt bangs easily sliding over the hands that now cover her face. 'Kagome, liberate us.' she pleaded as she gave into the tears that she had held at bay for far to long.

"Kaminari, he waits for you." his dreaded voice sounded echoing throughout her quarters with the promise of what would await her. 'Liberate us.' she preyed as she moved to do as commanded.

"You should have allowed me to assist you." Sesshomaru stated trying to keep his concern out of his deep voice while succeeding in receiving a stunned glance from all in their traveling party Mikazuki included.

"I will be fine, it's nothing that a few day's of rest won't cure." she tried to let the subject hang there but the bothersome daiyokai in front of her wasn't having it.

"And you will rest." he barked rather loudly for all those within hearing rang which resulted in more curious stares that he didn't bother to acknowledge.

"My my you can't let go of that bone can you?" she laughed softly ignoring the twin daggers that he was sending her way. Apparently even after all this time he still didn't know how to take a joke. "Calm down I meant no offense and I will rest when the time is right."

"Are we almost there?" Shippo whined interrupting the heated and uncomfortable atmosphere that had suddenly blanketed them.

"Yes it will only be a moment more." Mikazuki's warm voice sounded as she chuckled softly behind her hand before noticing the distant look that had suddenly crept upon her daughter's face. "What is it Kagome?"

"Huh?"

"You were staring off into space Hun."

"Oh," she said mutely blinking twice before meeting her eyes wearily. "Not that long ago we were attacked by Katsurou and three of his men and I can't stop my mind for replaying what Kaminari said 'Those whom stay and fight alongside Katsurou don't do so willingly.'"

"Yes," Sesshomaru concurred momentarily dismissing the look of concern that crossed Mikazuki's motherly features. "Nor can I Kagome-" before he could continue she interrupted him.

"They don't. Some serve him as a means to obtain the power he has deprived them of while others," she paused her voice suddenly shaky. "Others serve him out of fear, out of the fear of what he would do to them should they disobey his will, you see," she continued meeting their inquiring gaze while a look of sadness jaded her maternal face. "Most of the yokai under him are what remains from the villages he has plundered or they have been abducted from their native lands. Very few come to him willingly."

"They don't try to escape?" Inuyasha asked astonished that they wouldn't fight their way out. Not that he couldn't see any other means of escape the thought they hadn't or didn't puzzled him to no end.

"You don't understand," she shook her head softly. "Once he has taken you he uses the most underhanded means imaginable to keep you." she whispered softly. 'He destroys you by forcing your mate to bed another man or by having you fight those you love in an arena to the death.' her voice echoed throughout their minds leaving them all with the same thought before they realized she was walking away.

"How do you know all this my lady?" Miroku inquired while her words still running within his head.

"I know his heart." she replied simply as if it was the only truth that existed in the world around her before locking her eyes onto those belonging to Sesshomaru in a curious gesture one that she wouldn't explain. "There is much to be discussed within the safety of the walls of Miwako."

"Much to be discussed?" Kagome mumbled incoherently as Sesshomaru moved to link his fingers with hers earning a startled stare as the soft heat from his skin began to envelop her own.

"Yes there is but now is not the time but the time will come soon enough." he said softly so the others could not hear making the girl whose hand felt as though it was within a soft mitt or a glove of some kind wonder about the possible meanings his words had taken. Finding nothing but fractured thoughts she decided to suddenly sprint forward snapping the demon behind her out of his own thoughts.

"Kagome." he nearly growled when she turned face him never stopping in her progression her brilliant smile in place. The kind that had and would always cause his breath to hitch whether he wanted it too or not.

"Come along." She ordered softly much to his annoyance before a peculiar thought irked him. He wondered briefly what the others would think before he dismissed it seeing as when did he care what those around him thought.

He rushed forward suddenly, surprising the miko in front of him as an arm wrapped around her shoulders while the other swopped to gather the crook of her knees. He heard her startled breath breath before he saw her blazing cheeks heat and redden considerably. Even for her.

"Sesshomaru," she murmured debating whether or not to scold him before the thought willingly died. She remembered briefly that when she was pregnant with Kane that he used to hold her like this, so close to his heart, so close to his chest. "Sesshomaru," she whispered softly while a single hand found itself lingering where a life she could barely remember had once been.

"Kagome." he sighed holding her closer to him then he had been. He knew her pain and her fears, just as he knew his own. Even with the amount of time that had separated them she hadn't changed, not really. She was still the Kagome she had been in spirit. A spirit that he was proud to say sparked in battle. A spirit that was kind and compassionate. A spirit that never really asked for anything and yet yearned for so much. A spirit that had been broken and healed more times then he could willing admit to especially when the last time said spirit had been broken it was by his hands, and his doing.

"I miss him," she whispered softly. "I miss him so much." she whispered turning into his metal covered chest while her tears streamed down her cheeks. "Is it wrong of me to wish I could forget?" she asked suddenly unaware that her question had caused the demon lord who held her so closely to stop in footsteps even as the palace gates loomed just a short distance ahead.

"No," he sighed. "It isn't wrong to want to live without the emptiness that consumes you when you loose someone who was and is a part of you." he shook his head softly tossing his silver bangs from side to side. "I know that Kane would not hold that against you." he whispered feeling her stiffen slightly before the salt of more tears could be smelled. "And nor do I."

"Why?" she asked. "Why don't you hate me?"

"We went through this." he whispered softly unsure of where to go from here. "I do not blame you for you were not the one to take Kane's life that was Katsurou's doing."

"Why would he do it?"

"I-I do not know of his reasons." he answered simply slowly beginning down the path and in close step behind the others.

"I'm sorry," she whispered softly. "You lost everyone that meant anything to you and it was all because of me."

"DO NOT SAY SUCH THINGS!" he growled harshly detesting the avenue in which her thoughts had taken. "You are not to blame for the actions of Katsurou nor his men and you are not the reason behind Kane's death and nor am I. Those actions belong to him and him alone." he growled much softer then before but the edge was still there, clinging to every word that left him.

"I know but-"

"I understand, Kagome." Sesshomaru whispered putting an end to the conversation. As true as it was that Kane's memory pained him even to this day he wouldn't allow Katsurou to wield his son's memory against him for his son had more courage and dignity in the hair that adorned his head than that detestable yokai held in every cell of his body. Sighing he trudged forward with a heart as heavy as hers knowing that tomorrow night would be as inevitable as the rains that would soon sweep the land.

"Is this," Sango stuttered flabbergasted. "Is this Miwako?" she asked turning towards the stunning demoness.

"Yes, is it to your liking slayer."

"I'm sorry it's just-"

"I don't take offense to your heritage child just as I hope you don't begrudge me mine." she smiled softly watching as the taijiya's eyes darkened somewhat. It was obvious to her that the child had lost almost as much as her daughter had and that in itself was something to shudder at but then again it seemed everyone here had lost something they treasured dearly. "Come," she commanded snapping their attention from the illustrious landscape and the taijiya from her thoughts. "I do regret that any tour of the grounds will have to postponed until tomorrow seeing as rest is something you are in great need of acquiring." she smiled softly as the hanyo in her midst shrugged but followed none the less.

They followed her in through the main doors and down a corridor that led to a set of stairs that stretched upwards to at least three maybe four levels if they were pushing it. Mikazuki didn't fumble not even pausing to see if the followed as she led them to the top of the third floor where the stairs split off and into another direction. She moved down the hallway pausing at the first door she came to where she turned softly towards the taijiya with whom she had just spoken but moments before.

"This is to be your room during your stay," she stated simply. "It is the most feminine quarters we have in this wing." she concluded acknowledging the slayers slight blush before drawing her attention elsewhere. "Hotoshi," she announced gesturing towards the deep blue skinned male that neither one of those present besides the Eastern Lady had noticed standing patiently in the corner awaiting instruction.

"My lady?" he asked bowing deeply allowing his almost crystalline blue strands to slide across his back and shoulders as he did so.

"Will you please direct these two men towards their suites as guests of honor." she asked softly with an air of respect that coated every word she spoke. The likes of which had those around her slightly baffled save for the yokai who stood silently.

"Of course my lady, it would be an honor." his deep voice answered turning towards the hanyo and monk with the softest of smiles in place.

"Thank you very much Hotoshi." she replied watching as the male water demon led the males in her daughter's enterouge down the corridor, moving to stop the young kit who had moved to join the adult males in his midst, when the hanyo's loneliness stuck her now that he was a part from the group giving her an idea. She had no idea if it would work but anything was worth a shot at this point seeing as his depression would soon seep into the floor that he walked upon if it was to continue a moment longer. "Shinju" she said softly gesturing towards the extremely pale blue water demoness that had stood beside Hotoshi just moments before.

"Yes my lady?" she inquired bowing softly which in turn had allowed her white coral hair to slide over her shoulders in a mirror reflection of Hotoshi's actions.

"Can you take this child to the room adjoining Sango's ."

"Will that be all my Lady" Shinju asked as if detecting something amiss.

"Yes would you join me in the gardens when you are finished?" she said turning her eyes towards the kit at her feet and ushering him towards the demon before her with a reassuring smile.

"My lady." she bowed again moving to take the child's hand to which Kagome was pleased to see began chatting animatedly with the beautiful water demoness. A conversation the Kagome was sad to say she was soon out of range of hearing.

"As for you Kagome," she sighed turning once more towards her daughter and her daughter's mate. "Sesshomaru knows the way to the family chambers."

"But there's so much to talk about with you that I-I can't-" she protested earning a smile from both of them and several other yokai in the hall.

"There is and there will be plenty of time for that tomorrow night my love but tonight, there is much that Sesshomaru and you need to discuss."

"Come." Sesshomaru commanded softly before Kagome could even make a move to protest without making a fool of herself in front of everyone much to Kagome's annoyance. But really what could she do, he still held her close and judging from the fierceness in which he held her she didn't stand a chance in hell of breaking away. Growling softly she had to watch as her mother's form faded from view before her words finely sunk in.

"What do we have to discuss?" she whispered looking up at him through her lashes.

"Something private."

"Is that the only answer I'm gonna get?" she asked slightly miffed.

"Until we are safe within our room, yes." he said equally smooth and unfazed while she couldn't help but blush. She didn't understand her bodies constant need to do so. It wasn't as if she was left in the dark about the nature of relationship and yet with the slightest inclination of an intimate situation there she went, skin heating to a flaming red that not even water could douse. However all too soon for her his steps slowed as they came to a distinctly familiar door but before she could study it's unique architecture a guard slid it open for them muttering something along the lines of 'Welcome Home Lady Kagome and Lord Sesshomaru.' Something like that though it wasn't like she was permitted to hear much of anything before being tossed upon the bed which lay in the center of the room.

"HEY!" she called not at all pleased at his choice of fun but laughing none the less as the daiyokai in front of her raised an eyebrow. "I didn't deserve that!" she pouted crossing her arms across her chest dramatically.

"You did and more."

"Oh really!" She challenged before retreating. Something had definatly upset him and that she had to admit unsettled her.

"Kagome!" he growled softly in annoyance forcing the playful air to sober drastically which only succeeded in putting the already nervously anxious miko even more under water if that was remotely possible.

"Just talk to me please!" she pleaded desperately as he walked towards the balcony allowing the silence that had developed over the last few moments to drag onward.

"What else do you remember?" he asked leaning against the slightly open balcony doors that allowed a shaft of twilight to dance along the floor.

"Not much," she shook her head. "I remember bit's of my pregnancy with Kane, and how nervous you were." she smiled softly as their eyes met.

"Anything else."

"I-I don't know, it's just so confusing to have two sets of memories at war with each other and not knowing which one to believe." she earned a pained stare. "That's not what I mean and you know it. I know this is real, that my past with you is real and yet I've lived this whole other life apart from you where subconsciously every guy I went out with could never meet up to the standard you created." she growled flopping on her back. "It's official I hate, no wait, I detest time paradoxes." her growl deepened unconsciously. "And to think I used to love watching things like Star Trek for that very reason."

He had no idea what a 'Star Trek' was and considering how it distressed her so he wasn't going to ask not when what he had to tell her had the potential to bring tears to her eyes without any effort at all. Sighing he decided to press onward ignoring the thought of any other male ogling her which he had to admit he found unsettling.

"Do you know what season begins tomorrow?" he asked opting to just dive right into it.

"Season?" she asked rolling over onto her stomach looking at him curiously. "Should I?"

"Hows the mark on your neck?" he dodged subconsciously.

"Are you going to continue asking me questions that I have no chance of answering?" she challenged arcing a raven brow in a perfect imitation of his own.

"I had hoped you would have gained some insight before now," he sighed now knowing that there was no way of getting around it he turned to face her. "Tomorrow the fire that consumes our mark will spread throughout your body before it will begin to consume my own."

"Mating season." she gasped to which he nodded. "Won't I become pregnant if we, if we-" her voice suddenly dropping off.

"Yes you will conceive." he whispered softly as an image of happier times with Kane came to mind before he forced them to recede.

"And I'll most likely regain all my remaining memories?" she asked suddenly wishing she didn't sound as though she had a frog stuck in her throat.

"Most likely."

"Oh," she sighed. "Is that all?" She asked sounding absolutely terrified as her brain tried to keep this latest installment of 'Vital Information' began to settle in without making much sense if any at the moment.

"For now." he relented not noticing that she had been making her way towards him. Not noticing that she moved to embrace him from behind like she had done to prevent him from leaving the cave after their first union while his words echoed throughout her head answering the very question she had been unaware she had asked herself.

"No. Never regret!" he nearly shouted as all signs of his finely controlled emotions shattered with her words. "I JUST NEVER WANTED IT TO BE THAT WAY! TO TAKE YOU LIKE THAT WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT ONLY TO LOOSE YOU DOWN THE WELL DESPITE DOING EVERYTHING I KNEW HOW TO PROTECT YOU FROM HIM! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE, KAGOME, TO WATCH THE WOMAN YOU HAVE LOVED FOR SO LONG NOT KNOW YOU? TO NOT KNOW ALL THAT SHE IS LEAVING YOU WITH THE BURDEN OF HAVING TO REMEMBER ALL THAT YOU ONCE SHARED FOR THE BOTH OF YOU? DO YOU?"

"Sesshomaru," she whispered her breath tickling the fine hairs of his neck as she tried to match his height while failing epically. "I think I know what you're trying to ask of me." she whispered kissing the skin that she could to which his eyes closed although she didn't see it. "You want my consent, is that what this is about?" she asked watching his form slowly turn to meet her eyes. "Then you have it."

"Kagome,"

"Don't look at me like I'm making some huge end of the world sacrifice okay. I love you and right now if doing-if doing-well you know what I mean." she growled angrily as her heated blush crept down her neck and under the collar of her kimono.

"We don't," he tried to reassure her that he wouldn't force himself upon her even though at that very moment his body was unconsciously cornering her against the wall.

"I n-need to," she croaked gasping for air. "To r-remember this without the all c-con-consuming pain coursing through my b-blood." she stuttered as his body moved to press her against the wall like the predator she knew him to be. His movements slow and deliberate and calculated forcing her to look instinctively for the exit door that wouldn't be found. "I-I want to k-know-"

"Stop talking." he commanded softly reaching upwards to undo his armor breast plate while never taking his eyes off of hers. He watched her eyes as they followed his fingers through the motions of sliding the bothersome metal off of his form. He watched her as they locked onto his gaze as if they were the life raft he had sent her adrift upon.

"I-" he silenced her fears the moment his lips locked onto hers. He wanted her, to feel her and know that this wasn't a dream from which he would wake without her beside him. He wanted this, to know that she had consented and had not been blinded by a scorching passion. He needed to know that she had come to this decision willingly. And not been forced to find a means to the end of the torture the season would inflict upon her.

"I love you," he whispered drawing back softly to look into eyes that were already being closed over with passion, a passion that she fanned when her fingers lurched forward to undo his obi in a series of a few less than graceful tugs and pulls. A motion that was soon matched by one of grace and eaze as he reached to do the same. Only pausing for the few moment it took to hoist her into the air and place her upon the bed as one fluid motion. He realized in that one moment, in that spit instant of eternity when his eyes held hers, that he had gone far to long without her. That he had gone far to long without the comforts that only his mate could offer him.

By now she was in a daze. She didn't understand her eagerness to become entangled as one body instead of two. She didn't get anything that happened to her in the recent month let alone this strange happening but she couldn't deny that it was there, as his fingers parted the layered kimono to expose her binds leaving her to mind to scroll through the many times had she pondered her so called first time on the other side of the well. Leaving one thing to be concluded, that in each of those visions she had always played shy and tried to cover herself but not now. Now she was nearly breathless waiting for him to disrobe her while her eyes slid closed drinking in the sensations.

She didn't have to see him to know that he was there as he pulled himself alongside her gently sliding her arms out of the kimono sleeves with great care. A kind of care that reminded her of the way young girls dressed their antique china dolls taking extreme care to ensure the porcelain in the arm didn't fracture. Sighing she allowed him to roll her over to gather the cloth out from behind her before she gasped sharply when she felt him come behind her.

"You are mine." he promised her as the flesh of his hard muscular chest met her back and the fronts of knees met the backs of her own. She thought she would have mourned not being able to watch the emotions that flickered across his face but like everything else he had proven her wrong once again. In this instant he had appealed to the wolf that had lain dormant within her for far to long, the wolf that wanted him to take her from behind as their natural nature demanded they should.

"Not yet." he whispered. "You're not ready." 'Not ready' her mind chimed, she was already beginning to ache between her thighs so how could he say she wasn't ready. "See for yourself." he stated allowing himself to rest upon her while his fingertips grazed along her side from her hip down towards her right breast. She wasn't shy and neither was he as his fingers began to probe the sensitive flesh. Twisting and turning it until she cried softly throwing her head forward.

"Please." she begged as his other hand moved around her front to tangle within the curls covering her sex. "Please." she pleaded as a singular clawed digit played with the soft pink folds earning another soft cry as his fingers delved further inside her welcoming entrance. "Please." she pleaded again as he continued to play with her silk folds.

She felt the blinding pressure of his fingers build against her sex until she felt the beginnings of her climax. A climax that would soon sweep throughout her like electric shocks that would force her to convulse but before such revelations could be reached his blissful fingers stopped in their ministrations.

"Sesshomaru," she gasped unsure before she felt the tip of his erection press against her opening. Now she knew, as he pushed forward, that she had and always and would belong to him. "Sesshomaru," she growled nearly searing her lip as he spread her pink folds with his sex. A sex that she had to say almost made her cum just by touching her folds. A sex that filled her to the brim and had her missing it the moment he pulled out. A sex that he begging for him to fill her again.

"Kagome." he growled as she clenched around him forcing his resolve to take it slow to loosen. She was driving him mad and she had no clue as to how close his control was to slipping away when she bucked against him. "Kagome." he growled as his pace quickened slightly stabbing his claws into the flesh that surrounded her hip earning a cry of ecstasy from the maiden beneath him. From the woman who was his mate, his lover, and the other half of his soul.

"I need you," she whispered close to tears, her eyes flashing to silver as she tossed her head backwards. "I need you," she howled softly as his pace quickened again nearly slamming into her with barely contained hunger, a control that she shattered by forcing herself backwards to take in all of him with every thrust.

"You do not know what you ask?" he grunted harshly passion warping the deep undertones of his voice.

"I want you." she stated allowing him to force her nude form into the pillows beneath her and her ass firmly into the air. "I need you, all of you." she commanded breathless.

"As you wish." he groaned as his control snapped allowing him to claim her with the hunger that his nature commanded. Her sex quivering around him trying to hold onto his cock as his repetitive movement's continued in their pursuit of fulfillment.

"Kagome," he nearly growled, his eyes bleeding red for a fleeting moment.

"S-SESSH-" she cried before his lips covered hers drinking in the scream of the orgasm that tore through her while her walls contracted around his throbbing member begging for a release that was granted the moment his cock slammed into her womb coating it's walls with his semen as a second orgasm tore through her body.

"Kagome." he breathed near breathless as they fell into the sheets beneath them. "Kagome." he growled softly flipping her over onto her back as his body prepared to enter her again. "As I said my dearest Kagome you are mine."

Authour's Note: Okay so here is the long awaited chapter 22. Hope it was rather easy to follow especially when you add that it suddenly began from Kaminari's point of you at the beginning and for good reason I assure you. For those of you who might not remember who Kaminari is or when she was introduced it was around chapter 15 if I recall correctly when Katsurou attacked with the twin demons in similar garbe and then Kaminari said those precious words to Sesshomaru!

Till next time and don't forget tell me what your thinking,

Your Lady Fractured Moonlight