InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Lifetime Loving You Part 1; Seasons in Owari ❯ Inu-yasha's Tears ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2; Inu-yasha's Tears

(Inu-yasha)

Sunlight never looked so good. Even better than the morning after a new moon, I never thanked the gods so much for warm, golden, sunlight. However, even with all that wonderful sunlight, my body never felt colder. What I wouldn't have sacrificed just to have Kagome back in my arms again. I would have done anything to know at that very moment that everything that had happened the night before was just a nightmare, but I couldn't fall asleep for the rest of the night and get out of it.

I watched that golden sphere appear half way before I checked the place where Kagome had been sleeping before. Still empty! Just a blanket a fresh sap poring out of the tree I was perched in. I watched and waited.

Miroku had stayed up with me as Sango slept with Shippo to keep him calm. Luckily that fox kit went back to sleep after all the panic and worry of the night. I thanked my lucky stars for Sango's company that night, but I was sure Shippo would have given anything to know that Kagome was alright. Miroku stayed on the ground and kept his staff close to him. He looked up at me as I hugged my legs to my chest like a child and rocked myself. He knew I was miserable, and I showed it like a sore thumb.

Miroku looked up into the first morning rays and leaned up against the tree. He closed his eyes and bowed his head. "Have faith, Inu-yasha! She's bound to be close by."

Even though the words were said to comfort me, they felt like knives stabbing away at my heart. "I shouldn't have climbed into this damn tree. I should have stayed on the ground. Everything inside of me told me I should have stayed by her last night, and I ignored it."

Miroku shook his head. "It's not your fault, we all should have heard something on the ground here."

"You were in a deep sleep though," I said finding more reasons to kick myself. "I drove you guys out this far and now I'm paying the price."

Miroku looked at me. "The earth will warm up soon enough. We'll find her!"

I looked at the sunlight and felt a tear form in my eye. Immediately, I buried my face into my knees and let them fall silently. I was just so cold I couldn't think about anything else but her. I wanted her to be alive and unharmed. I just wanted to scoop her up into my arms and hold her close to my heart. I'd failed her so many times being so strong and noble. My body begged for rest, but it begged for Kagome's presence and scent. She had become a drug to my body. I could live without her! I had forgotten about Kikyo entirely during those painful moments. All I cared about was getting her back. Oh, please sun hurry up and warm the earth?

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(Sesshoumaru)

I've never understood him. I never have and never will perhaps. Inu-yasha was always Father's favorite and for reasons I'll never know. But why was he the favorite when he never came to aid him in our battle. Father died in that battle, and it was all because of that human woman my little runt brother adored so much. Then, he died and that woman of his too.

Years later, Jaken told me there was word of his awakening. Like he wasn't drawing enough attention to himself enough, now he can rise from the dead. If that wasn't all, a new woman had entered his life. Oddly enough, this one seems to make him stronger and faster, though. Yet, he would never be my equal.

I never really did remember any of it. In fact I didn't find out until a few years later. When I awoke that morning, I knew instantly that I was not in the area I had decided to rest in for the night. After that, I felt the enormous headache in my head. I felt like I hadn't slept in days. My body felt like I had been restless through out the night, and felt like I had no energy at all that morning.

When I awoke, I was at a river's edge by a waterfall. The sound of the water made me want to get closer to the water and I dipped my face into the water to wash it and drink. My throat felt like it was burning and my eyes were hurting as well. The sunlight seemed to make it even more painful.

I washed myself not long after in that river water, and placed my robes to the side as I waded into the water. I felt so weak, and it was the first time I felt weaker than normal but with the ability to still stand on my feet. I must have believed the river water was washing away that feeling.

However, my mind felt like it was lost. I was full of this black haze, and my eyes couldn't hide it. It was all over me.

I dressed slowly trying to think. Everything in my body told me something had happened during the night. I had been tampered with, or at least my mind had. I couldn't figure it out. I, Lord Sesshoumaru of the Western Lands, couldn't figure out anything. I felt lost! Something was missing from my memory, like it had been erased or it was a black out.

It picked up Tensiega and tied it too my sash. My mind still caught in its fog, but now I ignored it, and I would do this for many years to come. I ignored it because of the voice I heard next.

Rin!

I turned to spy her rushing towards me with Jaken huffing and puffing away not far behind her. Even for a being with a staff he could not keep up with that girl.

"Fluffy! Where have you been? You didn't tell me where you were going this morning."

I left this morning? Maybe I fell asleep on the way to the river. Sleepwalking? Perhaps!

"I needed to bathe, Rin. You should think of bathing soon as well. We've been on the road for awhile."

Jaken wheezed as he made his last few steps toward us, and immediately fell forward. "I'll never get used to this at this rate. Why couldn't my master have chosen a more sluggish child to raise?"

I heard this and cracked my knuckles, but I rejected my intuition when I almost frightened Rin.

Whatever had been on my mind before was left behind. It wouldn't bother me until time turned its ugly head to spit at me again.

However, as I waited for Rin to finish bathing, my nose caught the scent of blood in the air and it got warmer with the rising heat of the morning. The dews were fading and the scent was getting stronger.

Human flesh, but it was still very much alive. I knew that scent. The woman that stayed by Inu-yasha was near. Then that half-breed was near, too. I wanted to hunt him down, but I thought I had put Rin through enough worry. After all, I still felt weak and the river water didn't seem to release any of the pain in my body. I must have been completely restless in order to feel like this. Something happened, but I was too tired to think. I slept that morning as Jaken kept Rin out of trouble.

I would not think of this day again, until a new scent caught my nose.

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(Inu-yasha)

I sat in that tree, watching the dew disappear into the air. The forest seemed so innocent now, as if it had nothing to hide. I waited and hoped that wherever Kagome was that the winds were not blowing her sweet scent away from my nose.

My heart was pounding as I waited for the slightest scent of anything. I hated the fact my nose of all things had failed me in the night, and was now my only means of finding Kagome. I found myself controlling my every breath and analyzing every scent.

The dews were gone and the sun was finally over the trees and steam started to come off the ground where the moisture was warming the ground. I waited, inhaling and exhaling over and over through my nose.

Miroku awoke Sango and Shippo, and the fox went out to the field to look around and sat down in the grass and whined. He formed his own set of tears and sniffled. "Kagome, where are you?"

He sniffled a little more, and it killed me inside as I pulled my face down again. Kagome, please be alive?

Then, Shippo sniffled a loud one and whipped his nose on the back of his hand, but just as he did, he froze and his eyes shot open. They were glazed with tears, but this was not what concerned him.

A Scent!

"Blood!" the fox cried. I sat instantly and jumped down from the tree. Miroku and Sango watched as the fox jumped to his feet and huffed. "It's blood! The air reeks of blood!"

I dashed up to where the fox stood and sniffed franticly at the air. It was sweet and warm!

"No!" I said softly, feeling my heart skip a beat. "Shippo, stay here with the others!"

I dashed into the forest and Miroku and Sango rushed up to Shippo's side. "What is it? What did you smell, Shippo?" Sango asked.

The fox demon wiped his eyes and looked at them, "I smelled the scent of blood in the air. I can't figure it out quite yet, but I think its Kagome!"

Miroku and Sango looked out into the wood where I had fled to find Kagome. Miroku took a deep breath, "Oh, gods, please don't let it be so!"

I dashed through the wood following that scent. I lost it five times, having to zigzag back and forth to find it again. It got thinker and warmer, as I got closer though. The scent of life was in it too now, but it was fading as the scent got thinker. Please, Kagome, just hold out a little bit longer?

I rushed panting and my heart pounding against my chest. I had gone crazy with the scent of Kagome flooding around me. She was fading! No! Please, don't die! It's my fault! She's dead! It's my entire fault! Everything is my fault!

Then, I stopped short and there she was. Stained with her own blood, and clots of it in her hair. My kimono was torn to shreds, but it didn't concern me anymore. I fell on my knees as my heart felt pressure build up inside of it. Gods, no! Please still be alive?

I picked up her body and held her close to my heart. Her eyes were closed and I could still hear her breathing just slightly, but it was so weak.

"Kagome?" I whispered. No response. I wanted to die at that moment; at least all this pain would leave my body. Still, even with her blood clotting over her body she smelled so sweet.

I let the tears stream freely down my cheeks now and held her close to me as I wept. I didn't want to see this day, I never did. I when I say, I never did, I mean, "I never did" see that day.

I looked at her face and brushed all of the hair from her face and looked at her. "Please? Please don't leave me alone? I don't want to be alone a third time."

I watched one of my tears roll off my face and on to hers. It touched her lips, which were still as beautiful as the first and last time I had seen them. I bowed my head and kissed her.

Kagome's lips were still warm. I savored that moment as I felt my body tremble. My eyes filled with tears, wondering if this would be the only kiss I would savor with her. I wondered if she could even feel it.

Suddenly, glowing light came from her middle. It was soft glowing golden light from the very center of Kagome's body. I broke my heart broken kiss and only caught a glimpse of it before it faded back into her body.

The event that followed, I've always said was a miracle. Kagome's eyes opened and she took a deep breath of air. I could have jumped out of my skin. She was alive, and her scent was flooded with it.

Only a moment later she fell into my body and I held her close. "Inu- yasha?" she said.

"I'm here Kagome! You're save now!"

I picked her up into my arms. Kagome lifted her head painstakingly and struggled with words, "I...I'm sorry! You must have been so worried!"

She brought her head back down to my chest. "Don't try to speak! You're safe now! Everything's gonna be okay now, Kagome. I'm here now!"

"Sesshoumaru!" she said through her weak lips as her eyes closed again. My ear twitched with the sound of my brother's name echoing in my ear. I listened to the last few words.

"Sesshoumaru! Naraku! Spell!"

Two names I despised and one word that didn't seem to connect the two. Kagome was too weak though.

"Enough! Just stay with me okay? We're going home, Kagome."

I struggled to my feet as I clutched Kagome in my arms; I dashed off into the woods following the scent of Sango and Miroku. There was no time to dilly-dally. I had to get Kagome to Kaede and fast. The wounds didn't seem severe, but her loss of blood was failing her body's recovery.

I had to get her home, and I wouldn't thing about the golden light that came form her middle again, at least not in the weeks to come.