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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!
Warning: Mature Sexual theme's!
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Moonlight's Embrace
Chapter 23
The moon rose quickly for the occupants of Miwako leaving the Lady of the grounds to be very disturbed. As she sat upright, allowing the covers to pool around her hips she couldn't shake the images of the dream that still clung to her. Images of Hana in her mates torturous grasp relishing in the pain that he inflicted upon them both. She had dealt with premonitions of sorts before but this, this was something else. As if it had been a glimpse of the tortures he had bestowed upon them within the hour or so.
Gathering the courage needed to spring into action she threw back the covers, nearly leaping from the bed as she gathered a slightly thicker kimono then the sleeping yukata she had been wearing before rushing out the door. Much to her dismay she nearly ran into several armed guards patrolling the hall and split pathways. Blushing softly at her own clumsiness she muttered apologizes as she went about her way never stopping long enough to direct said apologizes towards the right guard.
She didn't really know where she was going until she suddenly found herself on the opposite end of his door debating whether or not to knock when the decision was made for her.
"Yes child?" the wise deep voice of the owl yokai rang crisp and clear within her sleep filled ears.
"I require the use of your mirror Tamotsu, that is if you will grant me the permission to use it?" she asked silently praying the her voice came out evenly and didn't suddenly crack under the degree of panic that coursed through her veins.
"Come in my Lady, the glass is always yours to use for allowing this old man to remain under your kind care." he replied moving to bow while Mikazuki thrust forward to prevent such an occurrence leading for his graying blondish strands to mingle within the ink well of her hair.
"Thank-you old friend but such action is unnecessary."
"An old man can always try." he shrugged taking pleasure in the soft giggle that had taken up residence within her chest and the soft smile upon her face. At least for the moment her panic had been forgotten but it wouldn't last.
"Shinju?" Hotoshi questioned, raising a slender blue brow at her curious expression.
"I'm sorry, I just can't shake Lady Mikazuki's strange request is all." she said shaking her head softly with the slightest of smiles, one meant for show and nothing else.
"What ails you about it my love?" he asked moving to stoke the fire back into existence. It may have been spring but the night still held a bitter chill and this night was no exception to the ones predating it.
"I'm not sure," she answered truthfully shifting into a slightly thicker yukata then the one she had been wearing behind the screen in the corner. "I understand her intentions for Mijun and Inuyasha and don't you go getting the idea that I don't think hanyo's deserve happiness because I do...it's just when you wreak of a life filled with pain and longing how can you hold onto a sliver of happiness even when it's presented to you?"
"Shinju..."
"Don't look at me that way," she grumbled turning away from him. "I was in no way talking about myself. I have plenty of happiness in my life," she sighed. "Even if it took me forever to accept it." she smiled.
"And how happy I am that you did." he smiled allowing his darker blue fingers to run along her cheek.
"Almost as happy that Lady Kagome's returned I'm sure!" she giggled as his expression fell slightly. "I am especially when you include that adorable kitsune pup of hers. He's absolutely kawaii!"
"Of that I have no doubt." he smiled briefly before turning towards the bed. "It's late and there will be a lot of things that will be required of come tomorrow morn."
"I am very much aware seeing as I'm the one who has to round up Mijun." she groaned sliding effortlessly under the covers beside him. "That alone will take a miracle from the gods." Hotoshi laughed before allowing his eyes to slide closed and sleep to take him.
"Sesshomaru?" Kagome questioned raising her head from his bare chest ever so slightly before moving to get comfortable again. Well as comfortably neutral as one can be when they had just slept with someone whose natural description could rival that of the gods.
"Hmm."
"What will happen tomorrow when I-"cheeks suddenly flaming. "You know."
"Going into heat is nothing to be ashamed of." he stated simply ignoring the first half of her question.
"I know, it's just-," she sighed. "I don't think that I'm ashamed, I-I I just don't want,-" she growled giving up with a dramatic humph.
"You don't want to have to relieve the tragedy that befell Kane."
"I-I don't think I could bear it especially with Naraku out there using Minoru's body. Who is most likely in league with my father and with me pregnant it's not like I'll be that much of an essential member to the team and wait a flipping minute," her thoughts suddenly turning with the new reality. "You changed the subject again."
"Exceptional powers of deduction Kagome."
"I'm being serious!" she pouted jabbing him lightly in the chest all the while wishing her control would snap and she could hit him harder. "I need to know what will happen for both myself and Kage tomorrow so I can kind of prepare myself. Though I don't know how successful that will be!" she growled eying at him startling herself as an animal like quality overtook it.
"Fine, I will tell you," he sighed deeply which only made it sound like a soft growl of distaste rather then a sigh of frustration. "The fire that consumes you is the re-alining of your demon and miko halves."
"Which means our bodies and souls merge right?" she felt him nod against her head. "Will we remain that way permanently?"
"No, only for the first night. After that she will exist as she always has only now you will be linked in a fashion that I've heard is unlike anything else."
"You mean there are things even the 'Great Sesshomaru' doesn't know?" she teased lifting her head and earning a stern glare form the dog. "You know I'm withering away here under that intimidating glare." she laughed softly before forcing her lips to thin as she tried to contain it.
"This is certainly proving to be an excellent means of acquiring the information you do desperately desire."
"Your right, I'm sorry please go on." she smirked slightly as she tried to contain the giggles that threatened to spring free much her loves annoyance. Sighing he decided to continue.
"She will be your greatest asset in on any battlefield." he finished pointedly.
"There's still something you're not telling me."
"And that would be?" he challenged detesting the fact that she had answered it.
"How Kage and I were separated in the first place." she stated almost triumphant in her victory before the pained look that passed by behind golden panes of glass snuffed it out.
"After Kane's death," he began after long minutes passed that made Kagome believe that he had dropped the subject entirely before his words allowed for a little sting of pain to jab at her heart. "The west suddenly grew silent as if the earth beneath our feet mourned the life that had once run through it's grasses, or played in it's rivers. Unknown to me Katsurou began to gather powers of a different sort, powers that he thought he could use to slaughter my mate like he had my son. I couldn't bear to loose you," he said meeting her eyes for the first time since beginning. "Not after we had lost him and so I did the only thing I knew how to do." he sighed allowing his eyes to close as he gathered his next words.
"When we were children we used to play within the forest now known as 'Inuyasha's Forest' when suddenly we came upon an old well. You then decided to be the fool hearty Kagome I know you to be and decided to balance on the edge leaving me to watch helplessly as your balance faltered and you fell. I thought you would have broken your neck and my heart sank but by the time I gathered the courage to look over the ledge you were nowhere in sight." she pulled away from him slightly.
"So it acted like a time portal then too?" he nodded. "But I don't see how that works in with Kane's death unless you decided that for safety reasons it was best that I wasn't in this time period any longer."
"I agreed but it wasn't I that wanted it." he stated simply eying her darkly and watching realization take hold.
"It was me, I asked you to!" she stated much in shock and in disbelief all at once.
"It was a long time before Kane's birth-"
"Or death." he glowered at her moving to grip her arms.
"HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT. I MADE THE CHOICE TO JOIN THE COUNCIL. I MADE THE CHOICE TO SEND YOU DOWN THE WELL, TO SEPARATE YOUR TWO HALVES. IT WAS MINE AND MINE ALONE. YOU HOLD NO BLAME."
"YOU YELLING AT ME WON'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT WE WILL ALWAYS HOLD SOME SORT OF BLAME BECAUSE HE WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE OUR SON!" she hollered back consciously putting the emphasis on the lost word. A word that as it turned out led her to be pushed carelessly towards the cushions sprawled along the edge of the bed.
"I never said that he wasn't." he whispered suddenly from the other end of the room pain lacing every word he spoke. She knew that her words had affected him deeply as she lifted herself off the pillows only to stare at his chiseled nude backside.
"I'm sorry I-"
"I have lived with these memories for so long that it is," he paused. "Difficult to discuss them aloud with anyone," he sighed. "Much less you." he said turning to face her with a sudden sadness swimming within liquid gold. The very same that tugged painfully at her chest. "I held you as you cried, smelling your fear pour off you in agonizing waves. I cast the spell that tore you're halves apart, willing myself to continue when you cried for me to stop." he breathed deep finding himself to be suddenly breathless. "I watched you as you fell through my fingers, a mere shadow of you I knew you to be. I watched as a light en-wrapped you within it's embrace, before the well took you into it's blackened depths. I lived without knowing if you had survived, without knowing if you would ever return to this land or to me."
Kagome remained mute as what had been a look of pain became a look of rage.
"I did all of this because of a MALICIOUS BEAST WHO WANTS NOTHING MORE THEN THE DEATH OF HIS OWN CHILD. A BEAST WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING WHO PLOTS EVEN KNOW KNOWING WHAT HAS AND WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN US! HERE, TONIGHT!" his claws flexed digging into the skin that covered his palms which allotted for a thin trickle of blood to drip towards the floor in an inconsistent flow. "THIS TIME HE WILL NOT ESCAPE ME! THIS TIME HIS BLOOD WILL DRAI N FROM HIS CORPSE BEFORE HE WILL DARE TAKE WHAT IS MINE!" he howled in a rage that echoes off the walls.
Kagome wasn't sure if she should approach him upon seeing the whites of his eyes bleed red and the once golden irises flash teal. She'd be lying if she said that in this paralyzing moment she didn't want to bolt for the exit. She'd be lying is she said that wasn't what she wanted to do in this exact moment. But she didn't flee. She approached him with hesitant steps, the sheet she had wrapped around herself trailing behind her.
"S-sesshomaru?" she stammered unsure of his true nature. "S-sesshomaru?" she whispered again softly extending a single hand towards his cheek, watching with relief as his eyes closed the moment her fingers made contact. She was stunned to silence as his face found refuge in her collar before his body slammed into hers. Her eyes closed as his bloodied hands ran along her spine.
"I won't let him take me!" she whispered finding herself doing the same, holding him close her head against his chest hearing the steadying beat of his heart.
"I lost control." he stated simple chastising himself for his lack of restraint.
"You've lost so much, suffered so much." she whispered softly as tears dampened his skin.
"We've lost so much." he corrected slowly suddenly smelling her fatigue. "You should sleep for tomorrow for rest will be hard to find." he said easily lifting her and placing her in the bed, pulling the covers around her.
"Will I look much different then I do now?" she asked through a yawn.
"Not by much, your hair is longer and your eyes are silver but other than that you are still you." he stated. "Sleep."
"Uh-huh." she agreed as another yawn fell from her lips before sleep found her while he soon found himself sliding under the covers to join her. He didn't know how long he had laid there, propped up against a pillow or two, watching her rise and fall with every breath he took. He couldn't remember the last time peace in it's purest from had found him untainted by memories of a time long since past.
Sighing he watched her eyelashes flutter with the promise of the dreams they kept hidden from him. He watched her as if this was the first time he was truly seeing her for all that she is and all that she meant. Slowly his eyelids grew heavy, so slowly in fact that he hadn't even noticed he was loosing sight of her until they closed and sleep found him.
It wasn't to last as her scream tore through the bliss of what had occurred between them in this room. And then a second forced his eyes to snap open and focus on the form of his love as she whimpered in the corner of the room. At first glance only her cheekbones were flushed but on a second he could clearly see that it stretched over the whole length of her naked body as she rocked on her heals, back and forth, with her knees pulled against her chest.
She whimpered again as he approached causing his heart to jerk painfully and twist violently as he reached for her. Which only stabbed his heart further when she withdrew quickly before he could even touch the skin that even now radiated a heat. Looking towards the softly parted balcony doors he could surmise that it was roughly two o'clock in the morning with mating season nearly a whole seven hours away. Give or take an hour or so depending on the species of yokai. Sighing he realized that he should have prepared for this, he should have considered the possibility but sadly he had not.
When he called her name the second time a pair of hesitant eyes turned his way, tilting her head on her knees. His breath hitched as the red glow of heat overtook their surface before she pulled away again. He wanted her to look at him, to scream at him even, to do anything but shiver and tremble in the corner.
"Kagome," he whispered unsure of himself and his actions. "Kagome, love, look at me."
His voice echoed throughout her eardrums that sounded similar to the way she heard things underwater. Unclear, unfocused and gar-belled but one thing did ring throughout the distortion. His love untainted and untarnished throughout the passage of time, a love that compelled her to look at him despite the pain that tore through her with every breath.
She watched him slowly move away as another rack of torturous tremors snaked throughout her body in ripples that tore from her another series of screams. She didn't see him pull on a loose pair of hakama and move towards the door, she didn't hear him tell the guard to find Kage and she didn't hear it close behind him. There was a lot within the first few hours that Kagome didn't see or hear. Like the tender things he whispered to her hoping in some way to ease her pain. Like the way in which he ran his fingers throughout her hair praying that this didn't have to be her reality. She didn't hear the heavy knock that graced her door and she didn't see the guard pass Kage's unconscious form to Sesshomaru but she did feel the pain intensify tenfold as they stepped closer.
She didn't see Sesshomaru move cautiously towards her lining Kage;s body alongside hers before moving to do what needed to be done.
He wasted no more time debating the consequences of what needed to be done as he pulled her out of the corner to stretch her out across the floor sprawling her on her back. He wasted no time before sliding out of his hakama lowering himself over top of her. He needed to do it, he told himself again, or face watching her life slowly slip through his fingers as she descended towards her death. A death he could have prevented and that was a reality even he could not face.
He felt her heated skin begin to consume his own just as he heard Kage whimper and moan forcing his hesitation to fly away. If had fallen to his fears it wouldn't have negated the severity of the life and death situation they faced and thus thrust forward wishing that for this he had been born without the gift of hearing. Wishing that they could share what had been shared just hours before, praying for anything but this. Taking her while she was blind to everything but the pain that consumed her and for long torturous moments this is how it stayed. Their screams of torture grating against his sensitive eardrums as their bodies began to merge forcing him to continue his pace driving forward before her arms slowly moved to encircle him.
"Sesshomaru," she whispered, her voice soft, dry and devoid of anything but the pain that consumed her. "Save me." she whimpered as he thrust forward again relief flooding him for the briefest of moments. "Help me!" she cried as he embedded himself within her tearing from her an orgasm that forced him to empty himself for the second time in nearly three hundred years.
"SESSHOMARU!" she cried from rose hued lips as the searing pain she remembered coursed through the mark upon her neck as his fangs sank down into the tender flesh.
"Kagome." he murmured licking up the blood that bubbled towards the surface to which he was thankful that her breath began to even out as they remained joined at the hips. Hesitantly he shifted himself to look at her taking in the single slash of violet that graced each cheek just as he remembered it from all those years prior to this moment. Relief flooded him as her thick eyelashes began to flutter softly with the promise of opening. "Kagome." he tested again allowing his clawed fingers to run along her porcelain cheek.
"Sesshomaru," she breathed as her eyes trained themselves on him studying him with her stunningly silver gaze.
"I love you." he whispered pressing his forehead to hers breathing in her delicious scent.
"Sango," Shippo whined from her bedside forcing the taijiya to open her eyes and stare into frightened emerald seas.
"What is it Shippo?" she asked suddenly completely awake and sitting upright.
"I couldn't sleep."
"How come?" she asked moving to embrace the child carefully.
"The castle screams at night." he stated irking the slayer to no end. Clearly she had misjudged the full range of yokai hearing.
"I'm sure this is a one time thing." she tried to reassure before she found herself quickly trapped by the clever kit.
"How can you be so sure?"
"Ask me about this when you're in your twenties until then just trust me okay." she ventured praying against hope that the kit would leave it hanging.
"Can I sleep with you?" he asked.
"Only for tonight." she smiled helping the kit into the large four poster bed before helping him underneath the sheets. "Do you think I'll get to play in the garden tomorrow?" he asked hopeful and without fear.
"We shall see but for now you must sleep or else there won't be any energy to do much of anything tomorrow."
"Ya, Goodnight." he yawned in agreement curling into the slayer to rest his head on her shoulder.
"Goodnight." she mumbled in return before sleep reclaimed the both of them.
Katsurou's room was dark and stuffy by the time he was through with her the sun had almost risen. Sighing Kaminari rolled over pleased to see that her performance beneath the sheets had left the vile creature unconscious and barely breathing. That would make her next potential fatal moves less likely to fail although living as she had for as long as she had really didn't leave much room to hope for much of anything. Still here she was reaching for the keys to the dungeon that he kept stashed beneath a crooked floor board beside the bed.
Success. She smiled briefly as she placed the broken board back in place as though it had never been touched as she stilled the keys from making a sound. The soft knock on the door alerted her as to the hour. She would have cussed if the action wouldn't have had the potential to awaken the being that could order her death before she could even blink.
Rising she quickly scurried towards the door noticing that once again Kenichi lurked awaiting his lords leftovers. A thought that made her skin crawl but a reality that was about to change not that Kenichi had a hells chance of escaping her.
"Kaminari, you know what to do."
"Of that I am only to aware." she smiled extending a single hand towards his face. An action that he took as an invitation and thus pressed her into the wall opposite the door. He was to busy running his lips along her neck column and tearing her kimono top to expose her pale skin to notice the slowly building charge of electricity that coated the air until it was to late.
Shocked eyes locked onto hers only to met by the softest of smiles before a volt powerful enough to split the flooring at her feet until it met the foundation filtered from the surface of her skin into his flesh. She watched as it singed and burned to quickly to leave any smell until her former commander was little more but ash beneath her feet. Her smile deepened as she ran down the corridor knowing what to do and where to go.
She slipped down through an entrance hardly any occupants that remained now knew of except for she and Katsurou. She slipped down the darkened passageway that led to the cells in the underbelly of the grounds. Although it wasn't long before the smell of stale water, moss and incalculable amount's of mold met her nose. Leaving her to conclude that like everything else that surrounded her her master had neglected to keep these facilities in working order despite their overwhelming use.
Still she trekked forward despite the thought of her own demise hanging precariously over her head with a dangerously ominous air that she refused to heed. What good could come of it when she had already committed treason by taking the wretched keys in the first place. Taking a deep breath she turned the key and listened to the heavy stone creak against the stone floor with her efforts.
She was slightly surprised to find that the guards that lined the hall had put up little resistance to the bolts of lightning she sent their way. It was as if they yearned for the very escape she offered to them freely. An escape she admitted she too had entertained on more then one dark occasion. This moment was not a time to entertain such thoughts she chastised as she sent another wave of deadly bolts towards the last dozen or so that tried to intercept her path. All falling to her whim.
Kaminari really wasn't one to have a vicious streak, despite her kinds known raging tempers, but then again there were times in which desperation led one to do such things for the greater good of all. Realizing that her time had been cut in half she bolted for the door holding the blood ookami Ayumu. She practically threw the door open the moment the key unhinged the lock startling the demon out of unconsciousness.
"Whose there?" he demanded nearly growling before drawing back as the light from the lanterns behind her burned his crimson and teal coloured eyes.
"A friend." she replied simply stepping just within the threshold. "A friend who has come to set things right."
Authour's Note: Alrighty another chapie. No much to say really except more questions and little answers are found in this one.
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Your Lady Fractured Moonlight