InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ At First Sight ❯ Chapter 2: So close, Yet so far ( Chapter 2 )

At First Sight

 

A/N- Well, here's your chapter 2, I hope you like it and it didn't go too fast. This took alot of time to get right so I hope you like the way it's turning out. Also I don't own Sesshy or anything InuYasha, and lastly I am greatful for all the reviews I've gotten, you guys rock! Well, Enjoy!

 

Chapter 2: So close, Yet so far

Feudal Era-

 

Sesshoumaru, the lord of the West stood on his bedroom balcony looking out at his lands, his thoughts had become rather troubled lately what with the presence of Naraku and the reborn priestess Kikyou.

A crewel smirk appeared on his face at the very thought of the dead clay bitch, 'I wonder if InuYasha is still as infatuated with her as ever, it wouldn't come as much of a surprise if he decided to mate with her.'

Sesshoumaru flinched at the word 'mate' it held some sort of torture for him, he was still baffled that he had no chance of ever mating, 'which means my idiot half-brother and his bastard offspring will take my place once I am gone.'

His fist tightened in anger as he recalled the last time he had tried to sleep with an Inu Youkai bitch, he had found her slightly tolerable so he decided to give it another go, but as usual the second he touched her she burst into pink purifying flames.

It was just as his father had explained after he had rid himself of that human Inu Priestess,

Flashback-

Sesshoumaru hurried back to his father's castle, when he landed he found that he reeked of that human woman and the child, cursing silently to himself he headed to the baths. When he reached it he stripped out of his blood soaked kimono, submerging himself in the hot and soothing water, he ran his claws through his hair rinsing the sent of human's and blood out of it.

When he had finished his bath, Sesshoumaru shook himself dry and pulled his sleeping kimono on, he then headed to his bedchambers for the night.

Reaching it he planed to just lie on his bed until sleep took him, but before he reached his bed he felt a sharp pain on his forehead, thinking nothing of it he tried to ignore it but that only made the pain even worse.

He decided to have a look so he walked over to his full sized mirror and looked at himself, his eyes widened as he examined the crescent moon marking of his lineage, right in it's center a small maroon heart could be seen.

 

Growling his distaste, he left his room and made his way down the long halls of the castle towards his father's chambers, reaching them he pounded on the large wooden doors not caring if he was waking half the castle with the sound.

After a minute or so his father opened the door and stepped out, Sesshoumaru gritted his teeth as he spoke, "Father, why is there a heart on my marking, does this have to do with that Inu Priestess child I got rid of?"

His father only sighed as he started to walk down the hall motioning for Sesshoumaru to follow. "That is her mark, it's the sign that she has claimed you and now that her mark has taken on your color, part of you is now with her just as part of her is with you. This means that all hope of my line continuing rests on InuYasha's shoulder's, unless you find the Inu Priestess and mate with her, then and only then will your children continue our line."

Sesshoumaru could only gape at what his father had just said, 'a half-demon, as the lord of the West, never.'

"Father, is there some way that I can break this connection with the Inu Priestess?"

His father started to shake his head as he turned to face Sesshoumaru, "only if she herself releases you from her spell, that is the one and only way. It's getting late son, you had best head off to bed, we can worry about this all later."

His father patted Sesshoumaru upon the shoulder and headed back to his cambers leaving Sesshoumaru with his thoughts.

 

End Flashback-

 

'Why did I ever save that human wench in the first place, I must have been insane to do such a thing...' a low growl rumbled from Sesshoumaru's throat as he glared at the forests surrounding his castle.

The sun was starting to set in the horizon and Sesshoumaru knew that he would not sleep this night.

It was all because of her, that child, she seemed to haunt his very existence. He was still pissed because he had to share her pain, he had found out about that little side effect as he was in the middle of battling a demon and felt something invisible tear through his shoulder. He had somehow managed to still kill the demon before he made his way back home to find the reason to this 'occurrence.'

Sesshoumaru had found that his father had a book that told what an Inu Priestess could do, this was after his father had died trying to defend InuYasha.

That pitiful hanyou was a real pain in the ass as he grew up in the castle, Sesshoumaru had almost killed the brat several times but he would always refrain, knowing that the very fate of his kingdom rested on his 'shit for brains' little brother's shoulders.

 

Sesshoumaru couldn't belittle his brother completely though, he was the reason he found the book on Inu Priestess, he had been talking with one of the cooks demanding that they cut his brother's meat and not make him do it.

Sesshoumaru could still remember the way InuYasha looked as he stumbled into the kitchen calling out to him,

Flashback-

InuYasha had ripped his kimono and was practically naked as he walked over to stop at Sesshoumaru's feet, his hair was unruly as usual but there was a small stain of red on one side, seeing that his brother was bleeding Sesshoumaru walked over and picked up InuYasha.

Walking out of the kitchen, Sesshoumaru made his way down the hall towards the location of the hot springs that lay outside of the castle. His little brother needed a bath, badly, normally he would have let one of InuYasha's many nannies bathe him but since InuYasha was wounded he decided to take care of it.

Since his father's recent death, the servants of the castle had been wary taking his orders and more often than not, Sesshoumaru would have to personally punish them for their un-loyalty.

Hence the reason for bathing his brother, when InuYasha had run off to play that very morning he was fine and had no wounds or bruise's, but seeing him come back only hours latter wounded disturbed Sesshoumaru.

 

There had been cases of this before, but that had only been when InuYasha had teased a guard too much or was being to ruff with the other children who were about, it always had resulted in his being wounded or beaten to an inch of his life.

Being the elder brother and the lord of the castle, Sesshoumaru had to punish those who would dare do this, it was an annoyance. If Sesshoumaru had any say in the matter he would have let InuYasha deal with his problem's on his own and let InuYasha learn his lesson.

Although if he wished to be looked on kindly when the time came for InuYasha to become the new lord of the west, then he had to play the nice and caring elder brother. Reaching the small entrance to the springs, Sesshoumaru set InuYasha down and grimaced when he felt the all too familiar weight of InuYasha gluing himself to Sesshoumaru's left leg.

Suppressing the need to throw InuYasha off and beat him senseless, Sesshoumaru started forward and made his way towards the spring.

InuYasha let go when they got there and leapt into the water thoroughly soaking Sesshoumaru's clothing, cursing under his breath, Sesshoumaru removed his now soaking kimono and entered the spring at a more dignified pace than his brother.

 

After a few moments of silence passed over them, Sesshoumaru took the initiative and broke the silence, "InuYasha, tell me, how did you receive these wounds this time?"

Sesshoumaru leaned back and closed his eyes as he awaited his brother's reply, moments passed and it didn't come. Letting one of his eyes slit open, he glanced over to see that his brother was tucking something within the folds of his kimono before he turned to glance at Sesshoumaru.

Watching as an evil glare rose in InuYasha's eyes, Sesshoumaru knew that his brother was going to attempt to scare him for the millionth time that month.

Feeling a strange tweak at his heart, Sesshoumaru quickly crushed the emotion that was starting to build there, 'never, I will never allow my emotions to rule me as they did my father and this whelp here.' He waited a few moments to right before InuYasha leapt at him, moving quickly Sesshoumaru caught InuYasha in mid-air and dropped him unceremoniously into the water.

Sitting back down, Sesshoumaru watched in mock annoyance as InuYasha burst out of the water and glared angrily at him, "answer the question InuYasha." Sesshoumaru shot his brother an icy glare causing InuYasha to flinch, an evil smirk crossed Sesshoumaru's lips briefly as he watched InuYasha's ears flatten in submission.

 

"Yes brother," mumbling quietly, InuYasha walked back over to his tattered kimono and pulled out the object he had placed with in it's folds.

Sesshoumaru could make out the torn and curled edges of the book as InuYasha came to stand at his side, InuYasha was shaking as he held the book out for Sesshoumaru to take. Seeing his fear, Sesshoumaru gripped his brother's arm and tugged him towards himself, InuYasha stiffened considerably as he sat in Sesshoumaru's lap.

"What is this InuYasha?" studying the book Sesshoumaru had found the name missing, but since the book was old it had probably long since worn off.

"I found that when I was playing in father's study, it's really hard to read...brother...what is an Inu Priestess?" Sesshoumaru froze at those words, he looked down at InuYasha in complete disbelief, "where did you hear that name?"

InuYasha pointed at the book that Sesshoumaru held, "it's written several times in there, what does it mean?"

Sesshoumaru hid the blank look in his eyes by glancing at the trees surrounding the hot spring. "That word is of no consequence, forget it..." he then pushed InuYasha off of him, "bathe yourself, then we will dress your wound."

InuYasha smiled and dove into the water before Sesshoumaru; the rest of the evening went the same as all the others, except the fact that Sesshoumaru had his eyes on that book most of the time.

 

End Flashback-

 

'That was the night I found out about the exact complications of being claimed by an Inu Priestess,' turning about, Sesshoumaru walked back into his bedchamber and pulled on a kimono top before exiting the room. He would have gone barechested, but all the memories of being claimed and the heated stares from his female servants, were things he had no desire of worrying about this night.

Entering his study Sesshoumaru sighted the many letters that he had received recently, each one held the same type of content, permission for him to court the daughters of the other lords of the land and invitations to attend seasonal events.

Sesshoumaru had grown tired of sending return messages formally apologizing for being unable to accept or attend, instead he had just let them pile up. Making his way over to the desk on which the letters sat, he cursed each of the lords silently, they had recently tried to get him to choose a mate but he had refused.

Sesshoumaru would never admit to anyone his reasons for not wanting a mate, if the other lords found out then he would have to immediately hand his title over to his brother. The reason being to the fact that by now the Inu Priestess was dead, it had been at least a hundred years since he had rid himself of her, a choice he was beginning to regret.

If he had only kept her at his side then he would have had the chance to convince her to release him from her hold, or he could have kept her as his mate. After all in the book it spoke of turning the Inu Priestess into a full-blooded Inu Youkai through love.

 

But it was too late now, no human would ever survive a hundred years no matter what the situation, cursing silently Sesshoumaru pulled out a particular letter from the stack.

It was from the lord of the North Lord Heniske, the letter spoke of the request to hold the wedding ceremony of lord Heniske's daughter he at his castle, there was something mentioned about how his daughter wished to have the ceremony take place in the splendor of the West.

Sesshoumaru wanted to just rip the request to bits but knew that the other lords would think that he was avoiding them, so reluctantly he pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote his reply. Finishing a few moments latter, Sesshoumaru got up and walked out of the room, message in hand.

Waiting outside was one of his many messengers, this one was his most trusted, "Rekai, take this to the lord of the North immediately, then report back to me, understood?"

The demon bowed his head as he took the message and disappeared down the hall, 'now comes the hard part,' moving quickly Sesshoumaru headed back to his room and changed quickly into his traveling attire. Pulling on his armor and swords last, Sesshoumaru left his chambers and made his way outside to the gardens.

 

Rin was running about laughing herself silly when she saw him approach, "Lord Sesshoumaru!" allowing a slight lift of his lips Sesshoumaru glanced down at the young female as she clamped onto his leg, just like InuYasha used to.

"Good morning Rin, Jaken, fetch Au-Un."

Directing his gaze to the toad demon, which stood a couple of feet away, he sent a cold glare as he watched the look of distaste turn to fear in the demon's eyes. Jaken nodded his head furiously as he rushed into the trees close by, Sesshoumaru then looked down at the grinning form of Rin, she had always held a place in his heart but that was another effect of the Inu Priestess's powers over him.

'She must have liked little children,' looking away again, he watched as his two-headed dragon steed came walking over Jaken in tow. Rin almost immediately released his leg and ran over to the beast, "Lord Sesshoumaru, where are we going today?"

Rin smiled her toothy smile again as she patiently awaited his response, "I must find and speak with my brother, there is something important we must discuss."

"That is wonderful Lord Sesshoumaru, I get to see Kagome and Shippo again!" Rin patted Au-Un's back gently as Sesshomaru turned to look at her.

'Kagome...why does that name seem so familiar, I have never met InuYasha's wench. She was always gone whenever I would show, but her scent...fresh cut flowers and spice, to this day I still don't know why that scent calms me.'

Sesshoumaru decided not to respond as he summoned his demon traveling cloud to head to the village InuYasha was usually around. That village, it had a special meaning to InuYasha, ever since the day he decided to leave the castle and live on his own.

 

Kaede's Village-

 

"InuYasha, Sit boy!" a second latter the woods rang out with the loud cry of the hanyou as he connected with the ground. "I said it once and I'll say it again, I am taking a bath and I don't care if your brother is coming or not. Besides, you've never let me meet or see him, now stay here or I'll make sure you won't walk for three days. Come on Sango, let's go."

Turning about the woman pulled her yellow bag onto her shoulder more as she stomped towards the nearby hot springs, another woman and a small fox demon in tow.

"Kagome..." growling, the hanyou pulled himself to his feet his teeth clenched as he watched them leave, "fine, don't say I didn't warn yah."

Grumbling he turned about and leapt into the trees heading back to the village. Kagome just shook her head as she glanced at his back, "I just don't get him, everytime his brother shows he does whatever he can to drive me off, I mean what is his problem. It's not like his brother is going to just swoop down and carry me off like some sort of trophy, you get what I mean Sango?"

The woman at her side just nodded her head as they walked, when they reached the Hot Springs Kagome quickly got undressed and stepped into the relaxing waters, Sango and Shippo following right behind her.

 

Sango glanced at her friend a look of worry etched in her face, "Kagome, are you sure you want to meet Sesshoumaru? I mean, you remember what Kaede told you about your mark, he is a full Inu Youkai after all, are you sure you can handle it?"

Kagome just sighed as she looked down at the mark on her right shoulder, it was a deep maroon in color and was shaped like a large dog, behind the dog was a barely- seeable moon shaped marking.

The thing was, neither Kaede nor anyone else could tell her if the moon was crescent shaped or full. Kagome was still in a slight shocklike state, she had only just found out that she was what one would refer to as an Inu Priestess.

InuYasha had yet to be told of this little development, she was afraid of how he would react.

'I know that he likes me, it's only part of the spell I carry and it is bad making him think that he likes me on his own, but I don't know what to say. I might hurt him, besides even if he still liked me, if what Kaede said was true then he and I can't be together.'

"Kagome, hello, Kagome?"

 

Shaking out of her thoughts Kagome turned to look at her demon slayer friend, "sorry Sango, yes, I can handle it. Do you remember when Kaede asked me to accompany her on a little trip?"

"Yes, what about it?"

Sango waded over to Kagome's side so she could hear her better, "Well, we went to see a well known Inu Priestess, she was very old about 145 I think. Anyway, we asked her about my 'condition', she told me to show her my mark, so I did. We found out that I have already picked the male I want to be with, the moon symbol and color of my mark are a sign of that. You see, my mark is supposed to be dark blue, but it's not, it's maroon."

Sango's eyes went wide at that, "So is that why you want to meet Sesshoumaru, to see if he is the one you picked, but Kagome...you've never met him before. Or any other full Inu Youkai for that matter, how is it possible that you have already picked one?"

Kagome let out a deep sigh as she ran her fingers through her hair, "I know, that's why I have to find out, I plan on asking Sesshoumaru about it. He might know something, but I don't know about InuYasha, he might go berserk if I ask something like that."

"We'll just have to see," Sango turned to look into the trees as she closed her eyes and dipped her head into the water.

"Kagome, is Rin coming too?"

Kagome smiled as she remembered the little girl, looking over at Shippo she nodded her head. "That's what InuYasha said, do you miss her Shippo?"

The little fox demon nodded his head as he swam over to Kagome and hugged her neck, "I just hope you'll be okay, Sesshoumaru doesn't like human's and I don't want you to get hurt."

"Don't worry Shippo, I can take care of him, I..."

Kagome froze in place, her eyes locked to a pair of amber one's that were staring at her from the trees. Something about the eyes calmed her and gave her a sence of peace, Kagome watched in utter amazement as the owner of those eyes jumped out of the tree. He was tall, had long silver hair like InuYasha's and had a regal air about him, Kagome remembered him.

At her side Sango let out a wailing scream as she tried to grab Kagome's shoulder, but Kagome was already pulling herself out of the water, once out completely she walked towards the demon slowly her eyes never straying from his.

 

Sesshoumaru had been busy trying to pinpoint InuYasha's location when he caught a familiar scent, it was the sent of InuYasha's wench, he was going to ignore it when he felt that he needed to see this 'Kagome'.

Against his better judgment, he sent Jaken, Rin, and Au-Un ahead as he located the scent of the human, she was not alone either.

Letting his traveling cloud disperse, Sesshoumaru leapt through the trees, landing in the tree nearest the hot spring, Sesshoumaru froze as his eyes focused upon the naked form of a woman.

Next to her was a male fox kit and another female, but he didn't care, he was too busy looking at the other female. The scent came from her meaning she was the Kagome he knew of, that wasn't what caught his eye though, it was the marking on her right shoulder that had his particular attention.

There it sat as plain as day, the mark of an Inu Priestess, it was just as he remembered it.

Maroon with a faint blue crescent moon in the background. There she was the female who had claimed him the day she was born.

Sesshoumaru watched as she turned towards him as if she sensed his presence, 'that's impossible, even for her,' his thought's were cut short though as her eyes locked with his.

Sesshoumaru was trapped, he could feel her pulling him towards her as he leapt out of the tree and into the open, he heard the other woman scream but he didn't care. He watched in awe as the woman 'Kagome', climbed out of the water and walked towards him, Sesshoumaru lost the last shred of control that he had as he watched the water run down her perfectly formed body.

He started walking towards her as well, his eyes focusing on hers, they were about a foot from each other when InuYasha came bursting through the trees Tetsusaiga in hand.

 

Kagome felt InuYasha's presence and suddenly noticed that she was completely naked, she felt her face turn a deep shade of crimson as she tried to think of what to do, then it happened.

Before she could control her body, she leapt at the demon before her and tried to hide her body in his arms. After a moment she felt his arms shift about her form, something soft wrapped about her, covering her naked form. Kagome let out a deep sigh of relief as she buried her face in the chest of the demon, she knew that he was a complete stranger but she didn't care, something about him made her completely content to just be near him even in this strange situation.

Sesshoumaru was still trying to recover from the force of what had just happened, he had felt InuYasha close-by and was starting to get angry for no apparent reason, then he felt Kagome wrap her arms about his waist.

All logical thought was lost as he wrapped his tail about her naked body while his arms encircled her form, this felt right to him and it made him feel content. Turing his eyes from the woman in his arms, Sesshoumaru glared at InuYasha, a sudden need to protect welled up inside him at the very sight of his little brother.

"Sesshoumaru, let go of Kagome," InuYasha approached them slowly his eyes darting from Kagome to Sesshoumaru, Kagome shivered as she heard InuYasha's voice.

'This is Sesshoumaru...' Kagome took a deep breath, only to have her nostrils bombarded with Sesshoumaru's scent, he smelled of Sakura blossoms and had that distinctly male scent about him.

She burrowed her face deeper into his chest as she let out a sigh contentedly, "InuYasha, mind your own business." Kagome felt the vibrations of Sesshoumaru's chest as he spoke causing an unfamiliar shiver to run up her spine, his voice was deep, regal, commanding, and Kagome liked it.

Sesshoumaru felt the words pass through his lips unbidden and wondered why he had said that, looking down at Kagome he felt something strange, it was a feeling he had never before experienced. He wanted to protect the female that was clinging to him, that was sure, but he felt the odd urge to care for her needs and right at that moment she needed clothes.

Ignoring his brother, the other female, the kit, and the male, he removed his arms from about Kagome and let his tail hold her in the air. Removing the top part of his kimono, he handed it out to her, she glanced at it and then at him before she took it.

Sesshoumaru pulled her behind himself and released her, hearing the rustling of the cloth as she put it on, there was a soft touch on his shoulder as he turned about.

Kagome felt vulnerable when Sesshoumaru had pulled her away from him, when he handed her his upper kimono she took it without a second thought, then when he used himself to keep her naked body hidden she knew that he had to be the one. Touching his shoulder she smiled as he turned about to look at her, she was about to step closer to hug him again when she was suddenly grabbed about the waist.

Glancing at her side she saw that it was InuYasha, turning her head she stared back at Sesshoumaru as InuYasha set her down and pushed her behind himself forcefully.

Sesshoumaru had been too enthralled by the vision of beauty Kagome cast when in his clothes that he had failed to sence InuYasha as he grabbed Kagome and leapt off with her. Sesshoumaru clenched his fist as he turned to face InuYasha, just as Kagome was pushed behind him, narrowing his eyes Sesshoumaru glared in utter anger at his little brother.

"Sesshoumaru, what do you want with Kagome?" InuYasha tilted the Tetsusaiga as he glared back at his elder brother with as much anger swirling in his amber orbs.

"InuYasha, stop..."

Sesshoumaru redirected his eyes as he heard Kagome speak, her voice was soft and gentle to his ears, 'no wonder Rin likes her so much.'

InuYasha turned to look at Kagome in confusion, which was short lived though, because Kagome had moved from behind him and was walking towards Sesshoumaru.

InuYasha gritted his teeth as he leapt after her, landing in front of her he gripped her shoulder's angrily, "Kagome, what are you doing, your not acting like yourself. He tried to kidnap you, or did you forget!"

InuYasha suddenly felt a foreboding presence behind him, he then felt the pain as three sharp claws sank into his shoulder, "Release her at once InuYasha."

"Please InuYasha, do as he asks," Kagome's voice was enough and he let go of her, a second latter he was shoved out of the way roughly by Sesshoumaru. InuYasha whipped about and would have glared if it were not for the fact that Kagome had a hand on Sesshoumaru's chest and Sesshoumaru had a hand caressing her cheek.

InuYasha was about to interrupt when he heard the most broken voice he had ever heard coming from Kagome.

"Sesshoumaru, why...why did you abandon me, didn't you want me?"

Kagome felt tears starting to form when Sesshoumaru rapped his tail about her waist and along her neck, she took one last look into his eyes before burring her face into his tail and sobbing uncontrollably.

Sesshoumaru felt awful but knew that he had to tell her the truth, "This Sesshoumaru is sorry Kagome, I was scared and I didn't feel ready, I am at fault and if you never forgive me I would understand."

Sesshoumaru lowered his head and touched the top of Kagome's head with his chin, "I...I forgive you..." Kagome lifted her head and looked up at Sesshoumaru kindly as she leaned forwards towards his face and lips.

Sesshoumaru noticed this and did the same, just as they were about to touch, a voice called from their side. "Alright, that's it! Tell me what the hell is going on and tell me now!"

 

A/N- There you go, I couldn't find a good place for it too end so I hope this works, the next chapter is being worked on as we speak, at this point though I really not sure how to make Sesshoumaru and Kagome's relationship change, but I have a good Idea for one so I hope you'll like it.

So till then...Ja Ne!