Name of Story: Misa
Summary: Now that I have been freed from the geisha house, I can continue my journey with the fearsome Sesshomaru. However, it's no picnic. Demons are after me because of my abilities I have just recently discovered. Including Hisao, a demon I thought was dead.
Authors Note: Well, after a two year hiatus, I am back! This chapter was hard to think about, but it is here, nonetheless! And I hope you enjoy it! I had notes on this but in the midst of life, they mysteriously disappeared. Oh! Please bear with me with all the time changes! I'm anxious to get this story done! Anyway, R&R Kindly please!
Name of Chapter: Fire Talk
It has been a month since I left my village for my travels with Sesshomaru, a fierce some dog demon. Other than a few weak demons attacking us, our travels so far have been mundane.
Out of the eight weak demons that appeared, I killed three of them. The others, I helped Sesshomaru kill. If either of us cared to admit it, we would make a great team. It helped a great deal that in our spare time, Sesshomaru gave me some pointers on how to fight, or rather defend myself. However, in a worse case scenario, I could fight. I was grateful to him, in more ways than one.
"Remember what I told you about your stance," Sesshomaru said to me now, showing me some positions that are best to fight in.
"Got it," I replied, bending my knees in the way he taught me. I blush, suddenly feeling him come up behind me and moving my arms higher. We haven't been this close in a while, not since my father caught us almost kissing in the forest. That was when I was ill and Kayo had brought me out to see Sesshomaru.
"You need to rest."
I spin around, recognizing the cold toned voice. My heart stops then beats fast.
"Sesshomaru!" I run to him and fall into his outstretched arms. Literally. As I was running, my ankle rolled and I lost my balance.
"Careful, love," Sesshomaru chides, catching me and wrapping his arms around me, adding extra warmth. I smile and rest my head on his broad chest, blinking back my tears.
"Did you bring me here?" I ask.
"Aye, I thought it would be best if you got care here." He replies, gently lifting my chin to match our gazes. "I found Kayo's scent and followed it to here."
"Didn't anyone see you?" I ask, fear in my voice. The villagers would have turned him away, along with me.
"No, I set you near the huts, and hoped someone would find you." Sesshomaru laid a hand on my cheek. "You're so warm. Why didn't you tell me you were ill?"
"I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking right." I say, feeling a tear slip from my eye. Sesshomaru wipes it away with his thumb, careful of his claws. "I just didn't want to post pone your quest any longer." I smile sheepishly at him. "I thought it would pass. Something that I ate."
"Foolish, human. How could you ever think this quest is more important than your health?"
"But..." I look at him with wide eyes. In my mind, I'm wondering if I was still asleep and dreaming.
"You are more important than any powerful sword." His gaze is so intense as he caresses my hair and inclines his head towards mine.
I know what is coming and I close my eyes and automatically part my lips.
"Misa." My eyes snap open and my heart stops. Sesshomaru wraps his arms more securely around me as my eyes land on a man behind me.
"Father." I detach myself from Sesshomaru's protective arms and face the man I call my father.
"You whore."
Now, I wanted to do nothing more than to fall back in his arms and kiss him until my heart is content, maybe until the day I die.
However, Jaken was with us.
Jaken doesn't know about our kiss and I will be happy if he never does. At least, until mine and Sesshomaru's relationship progresses further.
I want to kiss him again.
"Pay attention, Misa," Sesshomaru said now, breaking me out of my dream of little babes running around with silver hair. Sesshomaru had a stick in his hands and thumped me on the side with it. The training resumed.
"You are doing very well," Sesshomaru told me later that evening as we sat around the fire, after a small dinner of wild duck that I captured. I warmed my hands, as the night was chill with wind. In just a few short weeks, winter would be upon us.
I smiled and nodded slightly. It felt good to get praise from him, even if it was small. He rarely gives praise
Silence blanketed us, disturbed slightly by Jaken's snores. I watched the flames, entranced by their power. Was it only a month and a half ago we encountered Ryuu the fire demon? Seems longer than that.
"How are your burns," I asked Sesshomaru. Despite his being a fast healing demon, the burns cursed by Ryuu, healed extremely slow. For whatever reason, only the herb I put on him sped up the healing process.
"Better," he replied, sitting against a tall thick tree. He liked trees, I observed in our travels.
"I'm glad." I looked at him, locking my hazel eyes with his golden ones. My heart skipped a beat as I smiled, and he gave me a small one. Calming nights like this, I felt it was the easiest to talk to Sesshomaru. He smelled no impending danger, our injuries were healed, and Jaken wasn't being a pest. I could use more of these nights. I stretched out, my knees popping from sitting too long in the same position. I looked up at the clear sky, seeing tiny stars.
When Kayo, Mikio, and I were little, we'd spend hours just looking up at the sky, wondering what our future held for us. I often wondered if I would marry Mikio and have a family with him. I'd imagine our children, running around, playing with whatever children Kayo had, causing chaos. All of us were happy.
"Have you ever loved someone romantically, Sesshomaru," I asked him, surprised by my own words escaping my mouth. I've wanted to know this since we first kissed, since I've started falling for him. In our time together, I've slowly gotten to know him, but nothing as personal as this. I know about his father and his human mate, with child that was to be born in the next month and a half. I had asked Sesshomaru if he was happy about being a big brother, he practically sent me into hiding with one of his signature death glares. I resolved to never ask him again.
Minutes passed, the only sounds I heard was the fire crackling and Jaken's snores. I looked at Sesshomaru, watching his icy golden eyes watch mine. I shifted closer to the fire, seeking the heat from it. Sesshomaru stare was cold, but I could see in his eyes, he was surprised I asked such a question.
Finally, Sesshomaru spoke, his voice with no hint of emotion. "No, I have not."
I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding in. I was silently glad of this.
"Who is Mikio," Sesshomaru asked me and I looked at him, shocked he would ask me about my childhood love. How did he even know about him? I never spoke to him about Mikio. "You speak of him in your dreams at night. I am merely curious."
I let out a shaky breath, I knew I dreamed about him often, but did not realize I spoke in my sleep.
"When I was little," I began, looking at my hands, "Mikio was my best friend, next to Kayo. He was also my childhood love. Frequently, I'd wonder if I would marry him and have children with him, he was the one human I was willing to marry." I paused, suddenly feeling my eyes and nose burn with oncoming tears, I blinked them away. "About two months after Kayo was kidnapped, he told me he was going to marry a girl from another village.
"I was heartbroken. I told him I loved him, however he didn't care. He left, and I felt like the world hated me. Kayo was gone, Mikio was getting married, and my father was being abusive to me." I sniffed, wiping my nose on my sleeve. I felt the hot tears roll down my face; I didn't care if Sesshomaru saw anymore.
"That is when you did not want to be human anymore," Sesshomaru stated when I was trying to catch my breath.
I nodded, wiping away my tears now. I gasped, feeling Sesshomaru's arms around me.
He didn't say anything, just brought me closer to his chest, minding his spiked armor plates. I didn't hesitate to rest my head on his chest, armor or not. This is the closure I have been looking for, just to be held close to him.
"You're happiness will be short lived, Misa," a figure spoke out loud, watching Sesshomaru embrace Misa from a looking glass. He laughed manically. "You will be mine and your lover shall die."
To Be Continued…
Whoo-hoo! Chapter done! I want to thank my Muse BlackRosetheVampire for awesome words of encouragement and ideas! Off to work on another story now!
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