Sorry for not updating sooner, I had this chapter sitting around, unedited, and, ugh, I just got lazy. Sigh, here's the next chapter.
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"Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life,
But I will be your moon that shines during your darkest hours."
-Unknown
Memories
Moon could no longer stand by and watch, he desired to be with the girl he had been watching over for such a long time.
He made a deal with Night & Sun. He wanted to have a physical form similar to that of humans, Sun wanted to be the one watching over the earth, bringing warmth over them. Sun was kind and desired to watch over the earth's humans, he wanted the time he spent with them called 'Day'.
On the other hand, Moon wanted Sun to call forward other suns, except he wanted Sun to keep them at a distance to make them seem smaller, so that millions of them could light up the Night as Stars. Moon then called forward Luna, his mother, and told her to replace him as moon.
The other dealer, Night also wanted something. Night secretly held a grudge against Moon, he had lit up the darkness that caused fear to humans, the ugly creatures he hated. Moon knew this, he tried consoling with Night. After all, Moon wasn't very fond of humans himself, all except one of course.
Night eventually agreed to make a deal with him, with his powers he could give him a body, however, since it was made from the dark prince Night, it would be a creature of the darkness. Night told Moon this creature was 'demon'.
...
The raven haired girl by the name of Kagome sat in a meadow with tall lush grass, Wind was by her side, now physically. How this happened, is a different story.
Kagome stood up and gleefully ran hand in hand with Wind, there was not a care in the world that could separate them from one another. Or so they thought.
They came to an abrupt stop in their little run, instead their eyes stared far ahead at the many plains of lands. Both were deep in thought. Both were thinking about someone they cared for.
The lovely girl with sapphire orbs that glimmered, had noticed a change in the moon. She was secretly sad that her night companion that watched over her was gone. Of course she had noticed him following her, watching her, but he never spoke. Kagome never spoke to him either, and now she regretted it.
'What are you thinking about, Kagome?" Wind asked, he had noticed the faraway look in her eyes. Kagome looked down at the tall grass tickling her feet. 'Someone I care for. I believe I've just lost someone very important to me, and I feel it is partly my fault for not telling him what he meant to me.'
...
"Woah!" the tall muscular man -still wearing his blue bed robe- nearly jumped back at what he saw. There, in the middle of the ballroom floor, stood the silver haired man's son.
The silver haired man was giving orders to the servants, his voice loudly echoing around the huge room leading to the entrance.
Inu Taisho leaned on the railing with his arms crossed.
A grand stair case went up, and parted two ways, and on the left side of the parted staircase, on the railing, was where the pony tailed man stood. "What's got you so excited Sesshomaru?" He called out -with a grin plastered across his face- down towards the poker faced man.
Though his son seemed to hold no emotion in his face, Inu Taisho knew better. There was a small, but still there, difference in Sesshomaru's facial features. "What do you mean father? This Sesshomaru does not feel such emotion." the silver haired man replied before giving out more orders to a couple of more servants.
Inu Taisho chuckled, then sighed, He is totally denying it.
"Master Taisho, here is your morning coffee." the said sire turned his head to find a maid standing there, the blonde holding a silver plate in her hands, a coffee mug placed on the silver tray.
"Oh thanks Yuri." Inu Taisho took the hot mug and turned his attention back down below at his son and the working maids and butlers as they cleaned every single spot & corner in the grand ballroom. Wow, we really haven't cleaned this room in ages. When did it become so unwell kept? Taisho thought, as he blew on the brown liquid inside the blue mug.
"Hey son, what sort of special event are we holding? We haven't held any events in ages-" Inu Taisho stopped when he saw the expression on his son's face. The Inu gulped then began sipping on his coffee. Sesshomaru couldn't help the glare he was giving his father, "Don't tell me you forgot what the event transpiring today is, father?"
At his father's blank face, as he kept on sipping his coffee, Sesshomaru sighed, placing a hand on his left hip, and pinching the bridge of his nose with his right hand.
Yuri, who quickly realized that the master didn't know, took a few steps and whispered into the clueless Inu's ear as he took in some more coffee.
At the end of Yuri's hushed reminder of what day it was, the Inu splurt out his coffee over the railing.
A maid hurriedly ran and began to mop the mess up from the floor down below. "Why didn't anyone tell me?!" Inu Taisho asked while looking down at the servants accusingly. Sesshomaru shook his head at his father, "It is your own fault, father, for not taking note. I informed you countless of times before and you waved it off saying that you wouldn't forget."
"Pssshh, lies." Inu Taisho chuckled nervously.
Today was the 'Marked One's' eighteenth birthday.
Why today of all days?, Kagome thought in the back seat of the shiny black limo.
The same anger she had felt those many years ago on her eighth birthday was all coming back to her...
~(10 years ago)~
A young girl slept peacefully inside the warm comfy covers of her bed. She was prodded awake by a familiar gentle hand that belonged to her mother.
Her black lashes fluttered open, revealing deep blue hues. Kagome sat up and rubbed her eyes and her vision cleared, "Mama?"
Her mother sat on the edge of her bed. "Do you know what day it is today sweety?" Kagome blinked confused at her mother. She then gasped, remembering. "It's my birthday!" she said, excitement filling her blue orbs. "That's right Kagome. You are now eight years old, my big baby girl." her mother kissed her daughter's forehead.
Kagome giggled then spread her arms out to receive a hug from her mother. Her smile faded when she didn't receive it, the reason why being that her mother was staring with curiosity at the purple Crescent Moon Mark printed on Kagome's right hand. Mama Higurashi gently pulled Kagome's right wrist towards her to get a better look at the mark.
"What is this, honey? Is it some sort of tattoo?" Mama Higurashi wondered. Her daughter didn't use fake tattoos.
Kagome shook her head with blush tainting her cheeks. "No," she pulled her hand away from her mother's gentle grasp, then held it towards her chest while her left hand cupped her right protectively, "it's a Mark. Sesshy gave it to me." "Oh. He did? Hm." her mother smiled, like most people, she knew what getting a 'Mark' from a demon meant. But unlike those other people who would be surprised to find out Sesshomaru was the one who marked her, Mama Higurashi knew better.
She had seen the way the young dog demon looked at her daughter with those glimmering golden eyes of his, they showed emotion only when he was around Kagome.
...
Sesshomaru & Inuyasha had told Kagome the day before that they had something to tell her the next day on her birthday. Well today is her birthday, she had waited for them until night time, but they never came.
She didn't see them ever again.
Her mother chose not to cause her more pain by mentioning anything about them. In fact, as the years went by she sort of hoped Kagome had forgotten them, hoping that Kagome's memories with them had vanished, just like the Crescent moon Mark.
But that was about to change many years later.
~(Present Day)~
Kagome sighed at the past.
Earlier that morning she had been given barely enough time to change into a more proper attire. She just threw on a high waisted pastel pink knife pleat type of skirt, a white shirt she tucked in, and a black cardigan, along with a pair of black flats.
She was rushed, and was told by the same tall guards that had barged into her home, that they would bring her stuff to the 'Castle premises', the place in where she would now live.
Kagome was forced to walk herself -a long with a pair of bodyguards, one at each side- to the limo, where the door was opened for her.
She was more nervous and uncomfortable at the thought of reuniting with the current Moon & Wind than she was when she was the center of every passerby's attention as she was escorted to the limo. Where she was currently at, at the back passenger seats.
The beauty stared at the many buildings they passed through the black tinted window.
Her right hand was propped up so that her chin and cheek could rest on it. Speaking of her right hand, the purple Crescent Moon no longer hurt.
Kagome knew the Mark was probably now permanently stuck on her right hand.