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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 26

There was so much that Kagome didn't understand as Sesshomaru placed her upon her feet again. She mourned the loss of his warmth more then she mourned the loss of her father's messenger. The air about him had changed drastically and try as she might she couldn't find reason for it. She didn't understand the sudden distance that enveloped him nor did she understand why he refused to meet her gaze instead choosing to turn away from her as if too look at her would pain him greatly. And yet despite this she couldn't stop the instinctive reaction to reach for him only to have him pull away. His movement was slight barely noticeably if she had been someone with less keen eye sight but as it was she saw it. The tensing of the muscles beneath his skin.

"Sesshomaru what is it?" she asked concern, heartache, fear and desperation finding her at once. "Please talk to me?"

Sesshomaru winced at the turbulent emotions that clouded her voice in muddled layers. It overwhelmed him but what overwhelmed him more were the realities of what Katsurou would do with the information. Oh the ways he would use the life they had created to torture her. And if he managed to take her from him, kami forbid, he knew in all likelihood he would allow her to carry the pup, birth it, kill it in front of her while she was helpless to stop him before ending her life just as easily. It sickened him to linger within the mind of Katsurou. A mind so twisted and warped that all parental feelings and attachments the man had once held had left him. Perhaps they had been non-existent from the start. Whatever the reason the words would not leave him.

"S-sesshomaru please." she cried again like a knife tearing at him. His distance hurt her he knew but would the knowledge he had hurt her more. He didn't know but at that moment he couldn't bare to gaze upon her face as the words were pulled from his lips.

"You're with pup." his voice barely above a whisper. Her eyes widened taking an unconscious step back.

His words were solemnly spoken sending a chill down her spine. She didn't want to believe his words even while knowing the truth behind them. She had known that night that in all likelihood she would conceive but she didn't want to face it. Part of her believing that if she ignored that potential outcome it wouldn't become her reality. It was a naive hope but a hope non the less.

She didn't want to think of what her father would do with this news. Of all the numerous ways he could use and would use this to punish her for being born what she was. Even now as she stood there she was certain her father had been behind Kane's death and would be damned if she allowed him to take another child from her or anyone she cared for for that matter but everything was so uncertain. She had just found Sesshomaru again, just learned of what they had meant before, the heartache and the bliss that came from having your memories restored including things that were beyond painful to relive but yet to not do so became unbearable. Even the pain of having all of herself restored weighed heavily upon her but not as much so as her fear of loosing everything. Of losing him, the love the had finally found again, the life within her all of it.

And yet she still didn't want to believe it.

Silence engulfed the pair as each tried to sift through their warring emotions. Neither regretted what they had done or they life they had created the only thing they regretted was what the bastard would do when he learned of her condition.

Sesshomaru couldn't take the silence a moment longer not when he smelt the salt of her tears. He turned sharply pulling her against him, his arms wrapping securely around her allowing the moonlight to dance about them uncaring who saw them now. All that truly mattered in his world was her, the life they had created, Rin, the memories he held close of his beloved son and even Shippo for he had become a part of Kagome and therefore himself. The rest of the world faded from view when compared to those precious few he held above all others.

Darkness surrounded the coral hanyo as she walked throughout the forests towards the rivers edge. Her past with the inu hanyo trailing behind her unseen by others. The link they had shared in childhood had all but gone now leaving only slight traces remaining in it's wake. She wasn't sure if she wanted to revisit it again. She wasn't sure of anything anymore. Sighing she pulled her legs up to her chest watching the moonlight dance across the water's imperfect surface.

"Stupid Mikazuki." she mumbled incoherently to the wind.

She really didn't hate him for forgetting her, for finding some happiness with others. She was not a blind woman she had heard the stories and new the truth of it. She had visited him once as he was pinned to the goshinboku but only once for her heart could not bear to see him a second time like that. Lifeless and yet not. No she preferred to remember him as he had been in his youth.

Time slipped away from her with increasing frequency as of late since she had returned. She knew not how long she stayed by the riverside only that when she stood she was no longer alone. Sparing a glance behind her she was met with a pair of golden eyes stilling her breath and her cuss within the confines of her throat. She hadn't sensed him and now she was certain to regret it.

"I am to go to free this Hana and Ayumu from Kagome's old man's grasp."

Admittedly those were the last words Mijun expected to hear especially considering she was positive he hadn't met them. And even if he had he didn't know his way around Katurou's domain. She had at least lived there for a while, and as a servant Katsurou paid her little mind to engrossed in his larger plots, but with that position came knowledge of the palace that others simply wouldn't have. In fact she doubted Katsurou had such knowledge of his own property.

"Why tell me this?" she asked mutely unable to keep the hollowness from reaching her tone

Silence greeted her ears as he searched for an answer when it became clear she wasn't going to get one she turned to leave only to be stopped by the sudden clawed hand upon her arm. Her cherry eyes narrowed on him dangerously. True she wasn't an animal based hanyo possessing finely sharpened claws or ample strength but that didn't mean she wasn't dangerous...at least she was any other night beside the one she faced this night. She noticed his hardened gaze lessen when human nails adorned her fingertips, her once elfin ears becoming human, the pale blue coral horns that curled around her ears vanishing and her once pink banged short cropped silver hair was rapidly being replaced with deep copper strands that matched her deeply copper eyes.

"Happy now." she growled not liking this new vulnerability. It was every hanyo's dark secret and one they didn't take great fondness in sharing with others even others like themselves. Their night of weakness...her's just happened to be the half moon.

She couldn't take it anymore. The silence, the anger, everything coming to a long awaited collision one that the hanyo before her would bear the brunt of. She would regret her outburst later but at the moment such thought's of future regrets were blissfully absent.

"Don't pretend like you remember me," the incident in the hall earlier that day coming to mind. "I don't expect you to. I don't even expect you to believe me when I tell you that Sesshomaru never hated you, even after your father died protecting you he was the one to send my yokai mother to protect you and your human mother. He wanted you to know that there are others like you...he didn't know that my mother would die protecting yours and her sacrifice would mean little. He wasn't to know that we'd be defenseless and he wasn't to know that by the time he found you-you wouldn't know who he was."

Inuyasha blinked several times trying to take in her words. Clearly this girls pain had been building for so long she needed to vent and if that person happened to be him...well he wasn't going to deny her even if her words stung his ears. Maybe if he listened long enough he'd get some much needed answers. Answers to questions he didn't know how to voice.

"We-we got separated somehow. You pushed me out of the way when other yokai began hunting us. You always had a knack for doing so...you would even blame yourself if I scrapped my knee when we played along the rivers edge." she smiled sadly. "I tried to find you...I searched for a long time but when I did you didn't know me...you were with another. A human miko if memory serves."

His eyes widened with the reference to Kikyo along with others to his childhood as distant memories came flooding back.

"It doesn't matter now. None of it does." she breathed shaking her head from side to side. "So now you've decided to march right up into enemy territory to save people you don't even know without knowing your way around the place?" it wasn't a question even if it was presented as one. She smirked reading his bewildered expression. "Always the same with you," she sighed coming to a decision he would have no say in. "I'm coming with you."

Sakurako had been barely able to leave her daughter's side. She had felt her daughter's life force slowly return to her upon the villains death and was thankful to see that Hisako was at least up and eating even is she wouldn't be leaving the room as soon as she would like. Not with a brother as protective as Seiichi was anyway. Sakurako smiled at this remembering her and Sesshomaru's connection. It was much the same as theirs was without the direct link between them to which she was thankful.

She didn't want them to feel the others every pain and every joy as acutely as they did. Hell it was enough alone to watch such emotions warring with someone you held great affinity for never mind feeling it. Like how she felt his distress even now and knew at once as she stood what it centered on. Her eyes widened as her heart ached for him. She had never had to bear the loss of a child as he had, or suffer the loss of a mate you loved so acutely you would have traded places with them if the fates had only been so kind. Fate had never been so kind to them and it wasn't about to do so now it seemed not with her with pup and her father still after her.

'Kami grant them peace.' she prayed knowing that in all likelihood it would never be answered but she had to try.

Sleep had not come easily for Sango, she had her doubts that it would again not with all the new developments as of late. It had been one thing to learn about Kagome and Sesshomaru for she had had her suspicions about her non-human nature for quite some time. But it was a whole other prospect to take into account that the other half of what made her what she was actually wanted her dead because of it. Sighing as helplessness found her she rolled over only to groan inwardly at the soft knock of the door.

She had hoped that by forcing her breath to even and by sinking further underneath the covers that the being who saw fit to disturb her would leave but to no avail,

Groaning she stood wrapping a thicker kimono about herself before even bothering to answer. Knuckles rasped against the wood again stilling as it slid open revealing a very anxious Miroku. He didn't wait for an invitation before barging into her suite only to collapse on her bed his head in his hands.

Her brows knit together as she closed the door behind them.

"Forgive me Sango but this couldn't wait." she didn't get a chance to speak before he continued. "I came upon them tonight, Sesshomaru and Kagome," Sango's face drained of colour uncertain if she wanted to hear this especially when she took into account that the season was not yet over...not that it needed to be over for yokai to mate. "It would seem our dearest Kagome has conceived a child."

"What how do you know...it's too early for such things."

"Yokai males know the moment of conception."

"So you eves dropped." Sango stated disapprovingly waiting for Miroku's futile attempts at redemption half surprised that he made no such effort.

"Kagome is terrified about it."

"I could understand that." she sighed sitting on the lip of the bed along with him.

"No my precious Sango you do not understand...they had a child before." shock evident on her face. "A son Kane...I do not understand the total circumstances behind it but he is no longer living and Kagome believes that her father is behind the death of her little one."

Sango sifted through Miroku's words her mind instantly latching upon the night they had felt the deeply entrenched agony that coated the very air they breathed before they had heard their agonized cries and while they had heard some of the words they had spoken to each other understanding hadn't dawned until now. Even as Miroku reached for her her heart broke for her sister.

"Poor Kagome...to loose Kane and then to face the possibility your father could do the same with this child...kami no." she cried unable to control herself as she wept freely oblivious to the kit at the door who had overheard every word.

Authour's Note: Fratured Moonlight and back from the dead...lol...in all seriousness this year really got away with me and like with many things sacrifices had to be made and while it was unintentional this story along with other's got pushed to the back burner. I am more determined then ever to get this thing back onto the road towards the ending Kagome and Sesshomaru deserve and am thankful for my reader's support. Hopefully Chapter 27 will follow this shortly.

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Your Lady Fractured Moonlight