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Happy Fourth of July!...Sorry it took so long for me to get back to this story had a lot of things to deal with in daily life. However this story will continue but I may have to write for this story once or twice a month, maybe more if I have time for it. However I know you guys and gals have been waiting for this so patiently. Since this is a holiday...I have a gift for you!...SURPRISE! Another long chapter! I hope you all enjoy this one, and remember to write your thoughts and opinions about this story in the reviews. I really do appreciate it. So without further ado let get back to the episode SHALL WE!?
Previously on Great Dog's Devotion:
(Sesshomaru quickly follows after Mukotsu as he will be paying a high price...the cost?...His life.)
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Sesshomaru P.O.V.
After the whole thing of Jaken talking nonsense and smacking him for it, I continued on the journey of finding Naraku. After sometime, I heard something in a distance buzzing loudly more than it should be.
Then I saw the demon wasps, I knew that I had to follow and see where they would lead me as Kohaku was not with them but his scent was. "Jaken" I said as he flinched a little and came to me in a slight bow.
"Y-yes my lord?" Jaken asked cowering a bit. "I want you to stay here and keep Rin in your sights, I will leave Ah-Un here." I said as he nodded in understanding.
Then I went after the wasps and I found them. Then I saw three of them flying in another direction as I followed them.
For some time as I was following them, when suddenly I felt the tangible connection strung tightly in my chest. "Nikko." I thought putting my hand to my chest as her feelings came to me full force. Her Confusion, determination, lost and fear.
At first I was unsure why of those two last feelings appeared in her. "Is she in danger or is something happening to her?" I thought but it was interrupted when I saw the demon wasp disappear as I came upon a hut that was protected by a poison barrier.
Which is no problem to I, Sesshomaru were immune to any poisons. Suddenly, I felt terror struck me like a bolt of lighting.
Then I heard it...a voice. "Sesshomaru!" It screamed. It was Nikko's but not out loud only in my mind.
"Nikko!" I thought as I quickly came to the hut, sensing she was here like a tether being taunt. I was at the doorway when I saw a short rounded man shaking something in rage.
I seen enough of this and I wanted answers now. So I brought out my claws out with poison and slashed him.
The rounded man suddenly stiffens and yelps from my attack but doesn't fall but lets go of whatever he was holding. Which surprised me of how this man was still alive.
I slash him again and then he falls onto the floor with a thud as much as I heard another thud and coughing. Then I through the door, seeing what's inside the hut itself.
I saw Inuyasha's group on the ground effected by the poison, I was going to ask where Inuyasha was but then I look down and saw Nikko on the ground, looking up at me, gaping in awe. I look into her blue eyes and my heart started to thud and ache in my chest.
Then I felt her emotions: Relieved, joy and glad, which means that she's alright but then I look at her face and saw a dark red mark on her left cheek, then I look at her neck and saw dark marks on her neck.
Seeing her with those marks on her...Made the beast within me howl in anger and in fury as I was barely containing my anger. "WHO. DARES. TOUCH. NIKKO! and harm her with their hands! She should be treasured, NEVER harmed in anyway. She is OURS! and ours alone!" The beast said.
Quickly, I breathe sharply and caught the scent of the one who harmed her. It was the one who was in my way when I got here...the short round man.
I growled in fury as I quickly turned to look at the short round man as he grabbed he carrier full of poison containers and runs out of the hut in fear. I quickly went after the man as he ran out of the hut in fear for his life...and for that he should be.
"You been hit with my toxic claws and yet you are still standing and breathing...WHY?" I asked in fury as the man stopped as he was close to the forest and turned to me with to poison containers under each arm as he laughed. "Take this!...taste my poison!" Mukotsu said as he blasted the poisons at me, however it had no effect on me.
When the poison cleared as I was still standing, he looked at me with fear in his eyes and sweat rolling off of him. I quickly stepped closer to him as he tossed the containers away, knelt down and curled in a ball, shaking in fear.
"Wait...Please wait...I'm sorry, I was too hasty..Please spare me, don't kill me!" Mukotsu said whimpering in fear. I growled as I was tempted to grab him and make him suffer slowly.
"Oh there will no mercy for you today...dead man as you will return to whence you came." I thought as I remembered the marks on Nikko. "You have touched and harm something that doesn't belong to you...For that you will suffer for what you done." I said as I growled at him again.
Mukotsu stopped shaking and unfurled a bit as he looked at me in confusion. "What do you mean I touched and harm something? Oh... you mean the feisty woman...isn't it?" Mukotsu said as I snapped my eyes at him and cracked my claws ready to cut him deeply again.
"She is something to you...isn't she?" Mukotsu said lightly as I said nothing as I stepped closer to him again. He whimpered like a dog as he cowered in fear.
"I didn't mean anything like that..Please...mercy!" Mukotsu said as I observed him and he noticed that. "To show you my sincerity..here's a little present." Mukotsu said as he quicky grabbed a large container, out of the bushes and blasted the poison onto me.
He laughs as the poison hits it's target, thinking he has won. "Good Bye my friend, this poison even kills demons like you...Perhaps, I should finish her off. You are foolish to not have her as yours...She is such a fine beauty, that anyone would be lucky to have. Too bad she rejected me, but since you are going out of this world, I should let her join you in pity." Mukotsu said.
When the plume of poison disappears, I was still standing and unaffected, which it shocked him. "It's not working and yet it was my finest poison." Mukotsu said deflated.
I had enough of this man's tricks and words, so in a swift moment before the man could blink, I brought out Tokijin and slashed him. He flew up into the air as he was sliced in half from the attack and his flesh turned into dust as a sacred jewel fell from his neck as his remains fell into the bushes.
"Your concoctions are no match for my superior powers." I said as I turned to the hut and quickly went inside to get Nikko as I'm sure that Inuyasha is not far behind...I will get the information I need from him about Naraku later... Right now I have to get Nikko...
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Nikko P.O.V.
Sesshomaru came back into the hut and looked down at me as I looked up to him as I still couldn't move much. To be honest I wanted to cry at that moment that he was here before anything happened to Kagome or me, as to say the nightmare seem to be over...for now.
He was here when I needed him the most. "You can't move...can you?" He said as we stared at each other, "No..." I said in a hoarse voice as I lay on the floor limp like a doll.
Slowly, he knelt down to my level and tucked his arm under me, lifting me up to a bridal style as I laid there limply with my cheek pressed to his chest and my ear close to his chest hearing his strong heartbeat. His heart was beating at a steady rate but then I may have heard a skip when I came in contact with him but then it went back to it normal pace so quickly that I may have imagine it.
Then I seemed to have sensed feelings that weren't my own: Anger, relief, regret, heartfelt and calm.
'Relief, regret?...Are these his feelings? Is he relieved that he was here in time to save us.' I thought as I looked across me as we were leaving the hut as we were flying in the sky. Then I realized that Kagome and the others were still in the hut but then I saw a red thing heading to the hut.
I was relieved that Inuyasha was getting Kagome and the others but I was still worried that the poison was coursing through our veins and our time was running out.
Sesshomaru heads into the direction of the forest. After while when Sesshomaru thought it was safe, he descends down to the ground still holding me in his arm.
He walking around for a bit until he placed me on a large stone on my back with the gentleness I have seen him do with Rin.
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He walked a little ways as he tried to figure out what to do as I felt my life slowly ebbing away from me as the poison was running it's course. There are so many things that I need to say to him but the most important thing I have to say is now while I still have a chance.
"Sesshomaru?" I said weakly as he stopped walking, turned and came to me. "You shouldn't be talking." He said even with no shown expression but I knew that he was bothered about me.
I smiled weakly about him being concerned about me. "You always... care even when... you're trying...not to." I said hoarsely as I was laying on the warm stone, looking up at the sky while the trees swayed in the wind, it looked to be close to be late afternoon, almost evening.
He said nothing but I knew he was still looking at me. We stayed like that for a few moments as I continued to look at the sky.
Then I felt something touch my cheek..it was his hand caressing my face and trancing it as if it he was trying to remember every detail of it. I closed my eyes for a moment basking in his touch.
"I have...something... to say...to you... it's...important." I said hoarsely as he continued to touch me with such gentleness that it was calm and comforting.
I took that his silence said nothing of protest as I opened my eyes again and turned my head to look at him as he still was staring at me. Those lovely golden eyes showing me in their reflection as I looked back to him.
I tried to breathe as it was getting harder to get air into my lungs. So I gather as much courage I could to finally tell him how I feel as if this maybe the last time.
"I...I...Lo-" I tried to say but suddenly things around me started to fade to a murky black background on the outline of my vision until I look to the sky and the last thing I saw was a crow flying over head of me.