InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ As Time Will Tell ❯ Frail Euphoria ( Chapter 1 )

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As Time Will Tell

 

Chapter One: Frail Euphoria

 

“Kado get back here!” Kagome yelled as she chased a young mud covered child. The years had passed when she first started her adventure in the Sengoku Jidai, she was no longer a naïve fifteen year old, but she was now a young woman of twenty-two. Womanhood had been very generous to her. Her face grew more elegant and flawless. Her original looks of beauty that once hindered her appearance and forced her vestige to be compared to a walking corpse, but no longer, for she grew out of the look of Kikyo. The truth was she had transcended Kikyo, her magnificence was all of her own and that greater. Her penetrating ice blue eyes still held the sparkling splendor and innocence that held all onlookers captivated.

 

Her almost waist long raven hair bounced fervently as she chased the filthy whelp. She was dressed in a kimono befit for a hime and it was molded to show her perfect form. She was taller and slimmer, as the years chasing shards had shaped her form into that of a sculpted piece of art. Everything was in perfect proportion that could make the gods envious. The moonlight blue kimono virtually glowed of it's own accord under the blazing sun, and her grey obi began to loosen as she refused to stop chasing the child. She continued to pursue the young pup as well as she could, but the pup avoided her easily.

 

Kado continued to run circles around her using his inherited gifts to his advantage. His usual lustrous silver hair that reached his waist and flowed easily with the calm wind was covered in red dusty mud. His frosted blue eyes sparkled with mischief that came easily to a young pup. His perfect face nearly hidden beneath the muck. His blue crescent moon on his forehead was gone from view and the one maroon stripe on each cheek remained the only visible proof of his heritage. His fangs glistened in the sunlight as he smiled knowingly at his slow mother. He tucked some loose hair behind his pointed ears and stuck his tongue out at her.

 

“Okasan! You'll never catch me and I won't ever have to take another bath!”

 

“Come back here, you're covered in mud! Kado I mean it! Oh I give up!” She turned to look at her mate, his thick long silver hair moved gently with the wind while he stared at her with his great gold mesmerizing eyes. He held a partial grin on his aristocratic, elegant face. He was enjoying their time together and the fact she failed catch the young pup. He found it amusing. His clothes billowed frictionless as he stalked closer, embracing her into a warm loving hug. “Will you do something about your son? It's time for his bath and I can't seem to catch him and I know for a fact that you wouldn't want him smelly now do you?” She smiled as he bent down to kiss her.

 

“No I don't, but it is not my fault you are human.” He said as he broke the kiss. Kagome fabricated a hurtful look, but she knew that it was just his way of teasing her. He loved to point out her human flaws and she did his. He released her from his grasp and chased after his pup. To the naked eye he disappeared but he was only using his true youkai speed, he easily caught the pup. She turned to watch her son as he was suddenly picked up and disappeared as fast as it happened. Then her mate reappeared, he was holding their son affectionately, but then suddenly he had a look of agitation on his handsome face. A look she knew well, whenever he smelled something he did not like, he would always freeze up.

 

“Otousan what's the matter?” The young pup asked as he sense his father's discomfort.

 

“Quiet Kado.” He ordered passionlessly. The young immediately quieted, as he knew not to bother his father is such a state of mind.

 

Kagome stepped forward with her hand reaching out for him, hoping her touch would ease his troubling mind. She felt a dark aura approaching and she instinctively grasped the completed Shikon no Tama from around her neck in a firm hold. Before she could react she felt a horrible ripping pain shoot through her entire body. Her eyes bulged and she looked down at her chest, a bloody clawed fist was through it. She looked up at her mate and their son each with their look of horror on their faces.

 

“Kagome!” he yelled. She grunted as she felt the hand pull itself out of her body and she fell to her knees and her arm fell to her side while the other held onto the jewel.

 

“Sesshou…” she attempted with blood running down her mouth. He rushed forward and rammed his claws into the fleeing assailant's neck. He cleanly decapitated the neko's head as his claws sliced into bone, flesh and blood. He enjoyed watching his head roll of his shoulders and witnessing his blood flow from his neck like a fountain, erupting for the last time. He heard her try to say his name again and he rushed back to her side. Kado was eerily quiet in his father's other arm, he tried to jump from his clutches but Sesshoumaru held on.

 

She fell onto her back, with her blood gushing everywhere; she landed a growing puddle of her own crimson blood. He kneeled next to her and licked the blood off his claws and rested his hand gently, with his thumb running over the curve of her paling cheek. He could hear her heartbeat slowing, she was dying and he couldn't do a goddamned thing.

 

“Okasan will be okay, right Otousan?” Kado looked up to his father whom made up half of his small happy world but he sensed that his mother wasn't all right, and it terrified him. “Okasan, I will bathe all the time if you get better! I'll be the bestest son!” Sesshoumaru's hold finally lessened and allowed his son to jump from his knee. He moved to the other side of his dying mother and he lost his small clawed hands in her torrent of sweaty, bloody raven hair as if fanned around her milky face.

 

Kagome raised her own arm and placed it on Sesshoumaru's cheek with her hand running along his striped cheek, in the same manner as he. She turned to look at him with her out of focus dimming blue eyes. “Sesshoumaru I love you. Please take care of our son.” She withdrew her hand and began to pull at the accursed Shikon no Tama that hung loosely around her neck.

 

“Kagome?” Sesshoumaru whispered softly, not understanding what she was doing.

 

“Kado?” She continued to stare into her mate's eyes, and with moment passed his heart was breaking with every minute her life dwindled before him. Then she tilted to look up at her precious young pup.

 

Her pup turned his attention to his mother, “Hai Okasan?”

 

“Kadonomaro…” Blood once again ran freely from her cherry lips, and Sesshoumaru immediately wiped the blood off with his white silk haori sleeve. “Kado, I wish for you to become…” cough, cough, “I love you Kado, protect the Shikon no Tama.” She finally plucked the pink jewel and placed his tiny hands.

 

“Kagome?” Sesshoumaru tried. Kagome turned her focus back to her mate when he said her name as a painful whisper and she smiled and reached out for him. He grabbed her hand with his other hand and intertwined their fingers.

 

“Sesshoumaru help him. Protect the jewel. Don't let it…,” Cough, cough, “I love you Sess…” He heard her heart finally fail, and her cooling hand grew limp. He looked at her angelic face covered with blood; he again wiped her vestige clean with his kimono. Her intense cold eyes haunted him at way they stared at him, somehow making him feel responsible for her death. He carefully closed her eyes and bent down to kiss her one last time. Kado jumped into his father's arms and cried against his chest. He knew something was every wrong and he was terrified over his mother and father.

 

Sesshoumaru hugged his son while trying to keep his own emotions over taking him and losing himself to his anger and grief but was failing horribly. “Kado?” His son continued to cry making him closer to losing his control. “Kado!” he snapped. His pup looked up suddenly and in his weeping eyes, he regretted yelling at him, but he had to remain resolute. “Go inside and find Shippou and Rin. I need you to remain there until I come back.”

 

“Come back? Where are you going?” Kado asked while sniffling back more tears.

 

“Kado worry not, I will be back.”

 

“What about Okasan?” Sesshoumaru glanced back at his dead mate and felt the urge to run his fingers through her midnight silky mane.

 

“Kado do as I say. Inform Shippou and Rin what happened. They will tend to her.”

 

“Otousan are you leaving me too?”

 

“Kado now!” Sesshoumaru yelled, his usual calm collective self was on the verge of breaking. He placed the pup on the ground and forced himself to try to regain the cold unemotional mask that Kagome once shattered. The pup inched closer to the palace with a death grip on the Shikon no Tama that his mother had given him just moments before. “Kado I said now!” he roared. The smell of tears, sadness and blood nearly drove him mad.

 

Kado looked at his father and saw his father's eyes turning blood red. He suddenly feared his father, he never seen him so angry and for a moment he thought it was because of him, without another thought, with all the strength of being a hanyou to his use, he ran to the fortress leaving his mother and father behind.

 

Sesshoumaru turned his back on his palace and brought up the barrier and kneeled next to his beloved. `How could they do this to me? Those bastards will pay!'

 

He pulled Kagome's body to him and of all the years of pent-up passion and with Kagome melting his heart, his beloved's death was the last straw to his unrestrained emotions, he broke down and cried onto her shoulder. “Kagome I'm sorry. I will make them pay for taking you away from me.” He tried to inhale her sweet scent, but her fresh exhilarating scent was fading away, leaving the strong smell of blood and tears. “Damn it Kagome come back! I love you so much beloved. You can't leave me!”

 

The very last of his control gave way. He gently laid her back on the ground onto a fresh patch of grass and transformed into his true form. Hs dazzlingly silver fur, glistening in the setting sun, and a giant shadow overspread much of valley that he was in residence of. He howled for all he was worth, allowing anyone within hundreds of miles to hear his grief and turmoil and as set as a warning to all. He bent down and clamped down on the still body of Kagome's killer and ripped his body apart and gnawed brutally on his appendages. He tasted cartilage mixed with the addicting savor of plasma. He ripped, mutilated and slashed all he could, before dripping acid from his mouth upon the mangled parts of the foul youkai that dared to destroy the sanctity of his family. He would not allow anything to remain of the puppet that worked for his most hated enemies.

 

Still he felt anger, grief and sorrow even after obliterating all that remained of the assassin. What was he to do now that the first person he ever loved was dead? Thoughts of revenge ran rampage through his head. The other lords will pay for their offense. They killed his mate, lover, friend and his beloved, nothing less than their lives to be paid in full for their transgression and for his loss. Kagome will be avenged, for she didn't deserve to die. She was a pure innocent soul. Such a person should be preserved not destroyed.

 

`She will be repaid in kind by my hands. Their blood will drip from my class and they will feel my pain.' With one last excruciating look at his beloved, he ran into the cover of his forest and headed for the Eastern Lands. Gonnohyoe the Eastern lord would be the first to feel his wrath…

 

Kado ran inside screaming for help, wishing anyone to come to his aide. “Help! Shippou! Rin! Jaken! Okasan's hurt! Jaken! Anyone!”

 

Shippou appeared immediately, his red shoulder length hair was disheveled and wet and it was free of its customary tie, as he just exited the baths. In short seven years, he had grown into a handsome kitsune teenager. He was no longer a weak youkai like when he was still a cub, but now he on longer needed assistance against a foe. He kitsune tricks and magic and strength had increased and he was also a nearly master swordsman, as Sesshoumaru would have nothing less of perfection. His usually brilliant cheerful eyes were now replaced with hesitation and worry. His clothes were barely hanging on as he rushed to get dressed as he heard Kado's cry for help. “What's wrong Kado?”

 

“It's Okasan, someone hurt her and she was bleeding a lot!”

 

“Kado where's Otousan?”

 

“Otousan went away.”

 

“Shit! Ok, Kado stay here and wait for Jakan and Rin. I'll come for you.” Shippou barely waited for Kado's response and ran out of the place and where his adopted mother's scent lingered. He bypassed the newly erected barrier with ease and the scent of blood jolted his senses, and his heart grew weary. He saw his okasan lying on the ground next to a drying pool of blood. “Okasan!” Shippou fell to his knees next to Kagome and he grabbed her shoulders. He could only smell three things, Sesshoumaru, his tears and her blood. Her heavenly scent smelled old and faded, and his heart broke. It meant only one thing. He couldn't hear her heartbeat and he knew she was dead, tears flowed freely and his own eyes began to glow blazing red, but he kept his control. He picked up her small, virtually weightless limp form gently in bridal style and walked back to the palace, and not wanting to tell Rin and Kado the news that their mother was dead.

 

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Teaser:

 

“But she's my Okasan! I want to see her!”

 

“Kado no. We're taking huge risk just by talking to her and I will not allow the timeline to be skewed any more than necessary and the fact that you are her son might disrupt your future. I will go alone. She knows me but you might slip out a few too many details.”

 

“No I won't.”