InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A New Life ❯ War ( Chapter 24 )
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By: FranklinBe 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.21.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 436 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.21.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 436 | Status: Completed
Chapter 24
"Lord Takoro of the Eastern Lands has sent me to you, the Lord of the Western Lands to declare war. Using the formal tradition of an act of war he sent I the Princess of the Eastern Lands in a messengers stead." Shiro said in proper inu edicate.
Sesshomaru noted the way Shiro held herself with her hands trapped to her sides and her back rigid, sure signs of discomfort and fear. He surpressed a grin but when she told him what she had come to deliver his amusement vanished to be replaced by anger and foolishness at the Eastern Lord.
"You willingly delivered this message knowing that I had the right to kill you if I so chose it?" Sesshomaru asked as he stood from his place at his desk and walked towards Shiro.
"Yes milord but I only wish your assistance in helping my father" Shiro spoke softly with a hitch of fright in her voice as Sesshomaru closed in on her, suffocating her.
"Assistance? When your father has declared war on I?" Sesshomaru asked with a raise of his eyebrow and hard set of his features.
"Yes, I truely believe that my father does not wish to engage in a war but his mind and actions have been clouded as of late."
"What is it that you speak of?" Sesshomaru asked with agitation in his stoic voice.
"A couple weeks ago a strange man dressed in a white baboon suit appeared at the castle and demanded to talk with my father. I do not know what was said but I know that that half-demon had an evil aura about him. My father has been acting strange since that encounter, he has ill intent towards you milord and says that he will stop at nothing until.." Shiro spoke but became hestiant as she came to the worst part.
"Yes?" Sesshomaru asks patiently as his aura flares slightly.
"My father had heard from this half-demon that you were courting a human woman that would soon be your mate and became outraged. He declared war because he plans on killing Kagome-sama, milord." Shiro waited expectantly for her untimely death but after a minute and it did not come she looked up.
Sesshomaru's anger spiked at the Eastern Lord as his eyes began bleeding red. Getting ready to lash out at Shiro he was suddenly stopped by Kagome who held his hand in her own, calming him. He looked down at her to see her shake her head and look at Shiro with a sad and slightly confused look.
"Will you not take your anger out on me, milord?" Shiro asked fearfully as she looked up at the now calmed lord.
"Doing so would only result in Takoro's pleasure. You can be of more valuable assistance against your father." Sesshomaru resumed his seat at his desk and motioned for Shiro to leave. Once she did Inuyasha marched up to Sesshomaru's desk and slammed his clawed hands against it.
"What was that all about? You were going to kill Shiro if Kagome didn't stop you! And that bastard Naraku is the one that is behind all of this, not Shiro!" Inuyasha yelled enraged.
"What I do and cannot do is no concern of yours, little brother" Sesshomaru said as he held his throbbing head in his hands.
"The hell it isn't! You just can't tell me what to do even if you are my brother!" Inuyasha was visably shaking for reasons he himself did not comprehend.
"Inuyasha, calm down, violence isn't going to solve anything" Kagome reasoned softly as she lay a hand atop Inuyasha's shoulder.
Inuyasha calmed down instantly as if Kagome had cast some spell on him. Sighing in near defeat he turned from his brother and walked from the study with one last glance at Kagome.
"Are you okay Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked concerned as she came up behind him and lay her hands on his wide shoulders.
"Hai, though it is too bothersome for a war to start in this day and age. Yet I cannot decline this act of war, it will only lead to more trecherory among the other lords."
"I agree but Naraku is involved in this and I can't just let that go unnoticed. Naraku is mine and Inuyasha's sworn enemy and we cannot let this lead go to waste." Kagome said this but she felt as if her heart became heavier because it would mean leaving Sesshomaru and possibly never being able to return.
"So you will leave to the Eastern Lands? I cannot let you go seeing as Takoro is after you."
"Yeah but..."
"Iie, it is for your own safety if you stay here. You will stay by my side throughout this war so I can assure that no harm will come to you" Sesshomaru stated leaving no room for options.
"You can't tell me what to do Sesshomaru. We may love each other but that still gives you no right to just make decisions for me." Kagome said defiantly as her hands visibly tightened on his shoulders.
"And you should learn that I will not let you go anywhere without me there to protect you" Sesshomaru replied with a slight hint of annoyance in his voice.
"I understand that you want to protect me but keeping me here against my will isn't going to help with anything!" Kagome said with her voice rising higher in volume.
Sesshomaru growled in anger and annoyance that Kagome would go against his wishes. He knew that she was a stubborn woman and had encountered her stubborness on many occasions but he still expected her to follow what he thought as best.
He would not have his mate to be to become demon food to a possessed demon lord!
"Can't you see that I don't want you getting hurt, you cannot fight this battle on your own!" Sesshomaru stated with a loud booming voice.
Sesshomaru instantly regretted yelling at Kagome as he smelt the slight hint of salt water on the air. He turned around on his seat to look at her. She had her eyes tightly clenched as well as her fists as she tried constraining her tears but was losing the battle. Her breathes were large and uneven as her chest expanded and deflated with the effort. Without much caring for if anyone were to walk in on them he stood from the floor and took Kagome into his arms.
This was the first time that he had truely ever embraced a woman who was crying because of something he said. He placed on hand in her luscious hair and the other on her back, rubbing softly in an effort to soothe her frayed emotions.
"You have my apoligies" Sesshomaru whispered in her ear after her tears had diminished.
"Iie, I'm sorry, I should not have provoked your anger by going against your wishes but I have to do something!" Kagome said as her head came up from Sesshomaru's chest and looked into his eyes.
"Shh..I know, we will think of something in time so do not worry about this new problem. Come.." Sesshomaru took Kagome's hand in her crook of his arm and walked with her from his study and up the stairs. He did not care for the weird looks that he was recieving as he walked with a ningan woman through his castle.
Sesshomaru soon came to stop in front of his bedroom door and opening it, guided Kagome inside. He shut the door behind him and locked it so anyone who came looking for him would know that he was busy.
Kagome looked up from where she was watching Sesshomaru's shoes as he walked, when that stopped and entered a room. She gasped when she realized what room she was currently in. She had never been in his personal bed chambers before and she found that it highly embarassed her.
The room was decorated in the royal purple and yellow that shone all over the room. A large western style bed was situated on the far right corner of the room, covered in gold and purple silk sheets that were fit for any king. Opposite the bed was the closet and a large full length mirror beside that. At the wall from the bottom of the bed there was a large fireplace that was remarkably furnished in shining gold trimmings. The floor was the usual white marble but was overlaid with a large white fur that ran the length of the room. It was truely amazing and yet quite homely at the same time.
"Why did you bring me here?" Kagome asked with surprise and curiosity laced in her voice.
"To escape my duties for a while and let you have some time to yourself" Sesshomaru immediately replied as he took off his black boots.
"Sit down" Sesshomaru ordered gently to Kagome towards the large bed.
Kagome obeyed and sat down on the edge of the bed as Sesshomaru walked over to her. He knelled on the floor and gently took the brown shoes from Kagome's feet and the knee length socks that easily slid off. Kagome looked on in surprise when he did this for she was sure once upon a time that he did not have one nice bone in his body. She did not think that he would lower himself to make sure that a human woman was comfortable. But she was proved wrong once more by the chivalry that he possessed when they were alone.
Sesshomaru rose from the floor and sat down beside Kagome on the bed. Taking the initative he placed his arm around Kagome's waist and pulled her flush against his body. Kagome's heart beat sped up in cresendo and her pulse raised beneath her skin.
"Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked worriedly as he lay his head on her shoulder, keeping as much weight off of her as he could.
"I am fine" Sesshomaru replied though his voice sounded like he was far from okay.
Kagome moved her arms from her side and ran her hand through his silver locks. He purred in contentment after a while, Kagome could feel the tension in his neck and shoulders and went to do something about it. She slipped out from under his arm with a small growl from Sesshomaru and moved behind him until she was sitting on her knees facing his broad back.
Her hands began massaging his shoulders and neck very slowly. After a while the tension started to slowly melt away and it was not long after that that he was relaxed completely. Kagome then lay her head against his silver hair and breathed in his heavily manly scent that smelled of the earth after a thunderstorm, fresh and clensing. Her arms came around her waist the rest on his muscular yet soft stomach.
Sesshomaru was surprised at how much tension left his body and how good he felt afterward. It was like she erased all of his problems from the many centuries that he had been alive. When her small hands encircled his stomach he felt his heart sped up slightly but so small that you could only hear it with a stethoscope. His hands rested on hers after a fleetingly second and caressed the soft skin and bumps from the veins on the back of her hands.
After a few silent and relaxing minutes Sesshomaru heard Kagome's breathing even out and her heart lose it's steady beat. She had fallen asleep. Being gentle and careful not to wake her up he turned around and picked Kagome up in his arms. He moved the covers aside on his bed and placed his mate to be within the silk coverlets. Taking off his white hakama and slid into the bed next to her and gathered her up in his arms, content and at peace for the time being.
He drifted off into his dreamland where anything was possible beside the woman that he was soon to completely make his own.
"Lord Takoro of the Eastern Lands has sent me to you, the Lord of the Western Lands to declare war. Using the formal tradition of an act of war he sent I the Princess of the Eastern Lands in a messengers stead." Shiro said in proper inu edicate.
Sesshomaru noted the way Shiro held herself with her hands trapped to her sides and her back rigid, sure signs of discomfort and fear. He surpressed a grin but when she told him what she had come to deliver his amusement vanished to be replaced by anger and foolishness at the Eastern Lord.
"You willingly delivered this message knowing that I had the right to kill you if I so chose it?" Sesshomaru asked as he stood from his place at his desk and walked towards Shiro.
"Yes milord but I only wish your assistance in helping my father" Shiro spoke softly with a hitch of fright in her voice as Sesshomaru closed in on her, suffocating her.
"Assistance? When your father has declared war on I?" Sesshomaru asked with a raise of his eyebrow and hard set of his features.
"Yes, I truely believe that my father does not wish to engage in a war but his mind and actions have been clouded as of late."
"What is it that you speak of?" Sesshomaru asked with agitation in his stoic voice.
"A couple weeks ago a strange man dressed in a white baboon suit appeared at the castle and demanded to talk with my father. I do not know what was said but I know that that half-demon had an evil aura about him. My father has been acting strange since that encounter, he has ill intent towards you milord and says that he will stop at nothing until.." Shiro spoke but became hestiant as she came to the worst part.
"Yes?" Sesshomaru asks patiently as his aura flares slightly.
"My father had heard from this half-demon that you were courting a human woman that would soon be your mate and became outraged. He declared war because he plans on killing Kagome-sama, milord." Shiro waited expectantly for her untimely death but after a minute and it did not come she looked up.
Sesshomaru's anger spiked at the Eastern Lord as his eyes began bleeding red. Getting ready to lash out at Shiro he was suddenly stopped by Kagome who held his hand in her own, calming him. He looked down at her to see her shake her head and look at Shiro with a sad and slightly confused look.
"Will you not take your anger out on me, milord?" Shiro asked fearfully as she looked up at the now calmed lord.
"Doing so would only result in Takoro's pleasure. You can be of more valuable assistance against your father." Sesshomaru resumed his seat at his desk and motioned for Shiro to leave. Once she did Inuyasha marched up to Sesshomaru's desk and slammed his clawed hands against it.
"What was that all about? You were going to kill Shiro if Kagome didn't stop you! And that bastard Naraku is the one that is behind all of this, not Shiro!" Inuyasha yelled enraged.
"What I do and cannot do is no concern of yours, little brother" Sesshomaru said as he held his throbbing head in his hands.
"The hell it isn't! You just can't tell me what to do even if you are my brother!" Inuyasha was visably shaking for reasons he himself did not comprehend.
"Inuyasha, calm down, violence isn't going to solve anything" Kagome reasoned softly as she lay a hand atop Inuyasha's shoulder.
Inuyasha calmed down instantly as if Kagome had cast some spell on him. Sighing in near defeat he turned from his brother and walked from the study with one last glance at Kagome.
"Are you okay Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked concerned as she came up behind him and lay her hands on his wide shoulders.
"Hai, though it is too bothersome for a war to start in this day and age. Yet I cannot decline this act of war, it will only lead to more trecherory among the other lords."
"I agree but Naraku is involved in this and I can't just let that go unnoticed. Naraku is mine and Inuyasha's sworn enemy and we cannot let this lead go to waste." Kagome said this but she felt as if her heart became heavier because it would mean leaving Sesshomaru and possibly never being able to return.
"So you will leave to the Eastern Lands? I cannot let you go seeing as Takoro is after you."
"Yeah but..."
"Iie, it is for your own safety if you stay here. You will stay by my side throughout this war so I can assure that no harm will come to you" Sesshomaru stated leaving no room for options.
"You can't tell me what to do Sesshomaru. We may love each other but that still gives you no right to just make decisions for me." Kagome said defiantly as her hands visibly tightened on his shoulders.
"And you should learn that I will not let you go anywhere without me there to protect you" Sesshomaru replied with a slight hint of annoyance in his voice.
"I understand that you want to protect me but keeping me here against my will isn't going to help with anything!" Kagome said with her voice rising higher in volume.
Sesshomaru growled in anger and annoyance that Kagome would go against his wishes. He knew that she was a stubborn woman and had encountered her stubborness on many occasions but he still expected her to follow what he thought as best.
He would not have his mate to be to become demon food to a possessed demon lord!
"Can't you see that I don't want you getting hurt, you cannot fight this battle on your own!" Sesshomaru stated with a loud booming voice.
Sesshomaru instantly regretted yelling at Kagome as he smelt the slight hint of salt water on the air. He turned around on his seat to look at her. She had her eyes tightly clenched as well as her fists as she tried constraining her tears but was losing the battle. Her breathes were large and uneven as her chest expanded and deflated with the effort. Without much caring for if anyone were to walk in on them he stood from the floor and took Kagome into his arms.
This was the first time that he had truely ever embraced a woman who was crying because of something he said. He placed on hand in her luscious hair and the other on her back, rubbing softly in an effort to soothe her frayed emotions.
"You have my apoligies" Sesshomaru whispered in her ear after her tears had diminished.
"Iie, I'm sorry, I should not have provoked your anger by going against your wishes but I have to do something!" Kagome said as her head came up from Sesshomaru's chest and looked into his eyes.
"Shh..I know, we will think of something in time so do not worry about this new problem. Come.." Sesshomaru took Kagome's hand in her crook of his arm and walked with her from his study and up the stairs. He did not care for the weird looks that he was recieving as he walked with a ningan woman through his castle.
Sesshomaru soon came to stop in front of his bedroom door and opening it, guided Kagome inside. He shut the door behind him and locked it so anyone who came looking for him would know that he was busy.
Kagome looked up from where she was watching Sesshomaru's shoes as he walked, when that stopped and entered a room. She gasped when she realized what room she was currently in. She had never been in his personal bed chambers before and she found that it highly embarassed her.
The room was decorated in the royal purple and yellow that shone all over the room. A large western style bed was situated on the far right corner of the room, covered in gold and purple silk sheets that were fit for any king. Opposite the bed was the closet and a large full length mirror beside that. At the wall from the bottom of the bed there was a large fireplace that was remarkably furnished in shining gold trimmings. The floor was the usual white marble but was overlaid with a large white fur that ran the length of the room. It was truely amazing and yet quite homely at the same time.
"Why did you bring me here?" Kagome asked with surprise and curiosity laced in her voice.
"To escape my duties for a while and let you have some time to yourself" Sesshomaru immediately replied as he took off his black boots.
"Sit down" Sesshomaru ordered gently to Kagome towards the large bed.
Kagome obeyed and sat down on the edge of the bed as Sesshomaru walked over to her. He knelled on the floor and gently took the brown shoes from Kagome's feet and the knee length socks that easily slid off. Kagome looked on in surprise when he did this for she was sure once upon a time that he did not have one nice bone in his body. She did not think that he would lower himself to make sure that a human woman was comfortable. But she was proved wrong once more by the chivalry that he possessed when they were alone.
Sesshomaru rose from the floor and sat down beside Kagome on the bed. Taking the initative he placed his arm around Kagome's waist and pulled her flush against his body. Kagome's heart beat sped up in cresendo and her pulse raised beneath her skin.
"Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked worriedly as he lay his head on her shoulder, keeping as much weight off of her as he could.
"I am fine" Sesshomaru replied though his voice sounded like he was far from okay.
Kagome moved her arms from her side and ran her hand through his silver locks. He purred in contentment after a while, Kagome could feel the tension in his neck and shoulders and went to do something about it. She slipped out from under his arm with a small growl from Sesshomaru and moved behind him until she was sitting on her knees facing his broad back.
Her hands began massaging his shoulders and neck very slowly. After a while the tension started to slowly melt away and it was not long after that that he was relaxed completely. Kagome then lay her head against his silver hair and breathed in his heavily manly scent that smelled of the earth after a thunderstorm, fresh and clensing. Her arms came around her waist the rest on his muscular yet soft stomach.
Sesshomaru was surprised at how much tension left his body and how good he felt afterward. It was like she erased all of his problems from the many centuries that he had been alive. When her small hands encircled his stomach he felt his heart sped up slightly but so small that you could only hear it with a stethoscope. His hands rested on hers after a fleetingly second and caressed the soft skin and bumps from the veins on the back of her hands.
After a few silent and relaxing minutes Sesshomaru heard Kagome's breathing even out and her heart lose it's steady beat. She had fallen asleep. Being gentle and careful not to wake her up he turned around and picked Kagome up in his arms. He moved the covers aside on his bed and placed his mate to be within the silk coverlets. Taking off his white hakama and slid into the bed next to her and gathered her up in his arms, content and at peace for the time being.
He drifted off into his dreamland where anything was possible beside the woman that he was soon to completely make his own.