InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Between Sesshoumaru and Pinocchio ❯ Releasing Sesshoumaru ( Chapter 2 )

BETWEEN SESSHOUMARU AND PINOCCHIO

Author: pratz

CHAPTER 2: RELEASING SESSHOUMARU

The first thing that crossed Kagome's mind was how someone could be alive with an arrow embedded in his chest. He was alive, she knew it and yet she couldn't believe.

But that wasn't a 'someone'. That's a youkai.

She swallowed nervously. Here I am, standing in front of a youkai-not to mention that he's also a lord, still in my pajamas. She glanced down, seeing that her feet were still bare and her pajamas' bottom was crumpled and a bit dirty. Great. Just wait until that youkai lord sees me.

"Kagome-sama," someone-or something-tapped her cheek softly. She recognized it. Myouga. The flea youkai. The one who had brought her here in complete stranger place and situation.

She raised a questioning brow at the flea.

"That's Lord Sesshoumaru," the flea pointed to the sealed youkai. "Now, Kagome-sama, it's time to unseal him."

"Why should I?"

"First, you asked me why you had to, and now you ask me why you should. Such a quick change, isn't it? But I will never change my answer, Kagome-sama. It's Lord Inutaisho's last wish. So, you have to follow his wish. Besides, Lord Sesshoumaru may know how to send you back home."

Kagome grumbled softly. "How?"

"To free Lord Sesshoumaru? Just pull the arrow on his chest."

"That easy?"

"That easy."

"Fine," Kagome stated. She started to climb the giant tree, branch by branch, until finally she was chest level with the sealed youkai. She drew a deep breath before exhaling it in short. Her fingers traced the arrow's stalk while her gaze concentrated on the youkai lord's face. "I just have to pull this out, right?"

"Hai."

"And?"

"Lord Sesshoumaru will be awake, I supposed."

"What do you mean by you supposed?"

"Err... Lord Inutaisho didn't tell me what would be happen after Lord Sesshoumaru awoken."

"Great."

"I think he supposed to follow your words."

"Follow me?"

"Yes-instead of obeying you. To obey someone isn't a part of Lord Sesshoumaru's nobility."

Kagome sighed, she gazed back to the sealed youkai again. Well, he's unconscious, so hopefully there won't be any trouble.

Her hand gripped the arrow's stalk, trembling slightly. When her palm finally held it fully, she felt a powerful yet peculiar aura pass through her body, jolting her entire being. What was that? She took no heed to it and tried focusing on her attempt to pull the arrow. She was ready to withdraw the arrow when suddenly a pair of eyes opened.

The eyes of the sealed youkai.

She gasped in surprise, nearly losing her balance and all about to fall down if only she didn't grasp a branch beside her.

Her words left her as a pair of golden eyes pierced into her eyes, stabbing her right to the soul. It felt like her heart stubbornly refused to beat for a minute. She was so close-too close. She could feel his breath upon her face and his cynical yet dangerous gaze on her.

"What," the sealed youkai started to talk, "are you doing?"

The youkai lord's voice was so flat, so cold, and yet so deep. It rang throughout her ear like a voice from something heavenly.

Heavenly?Hah! He's a youkai, Kagome. A demon couldn't be from Heaven.

"Get off, human."

She snapped just as quickly. "Gomennasai."

"What are you doing?" he asked the same question again.

"I..."

"Sesshoumaru-sama, glad to see you again."

The sealed youkai turned his head as far as his trapped body letting him. A flea had just jumped onto his left cheek, griping itself onto his skin.

"Myouga."

"Hai. Finally I could talk to you again, Sesshoumaru-sama. Seventeen years is not a short time," the flea nodded in appreciation. "And you might be free after all. Kagome-sama will help you."

"This human?"

"Yes."

"I did not ask for a human's help."

"You still haven't changed," Myouga smiled. "Such a high opinion of yourself."

He snarled lowly.

"Sorry," Kagome entered. "So you are Sesshoumaru?"

His eyes twitched.

"I don't think there's another Sesshoumaru other than myself."

She rolled her eyes. "*Man. A proud being as always*."

"Get off me, human."

"You don't want to be free?"

"No-if it means I am helped by human."

"So your freedom is nothing compare to your pride?"

His eyes narrowed dangerously. If he hadn't sealed onto the tree, surely she'd be laying on the ground lifeless.

"Let's see..." Kagome said sarcastically. "I want to see your face when you're free from this seal."

She took a tight grip on the arrow and pulled it slowly-in purpose, of course, since she saw the youkai lord winced slightly.

"Hurts, doesn't it?"

Finally, the arrow was completely removed from the Sesshoumaru's chest. She waited for a chance, yet she found the youkai lord was unmoving even an inch from his place.

"Ka-Kagome-sama..." Myouga bounced from Sesshoumaru's cheek. "I think you should back off."

"Why? I want to see this jerk's face when he's..."

"There's no time to have a talk now! Please! Ba-..."

There was a deafening boom as her surroundings exploded. Woods and leaves were all around her. She didn't know what had happened as she was thrown away into the ground, almost two meters high.

"What the..."

"Kagome-sama!"

She coughed once from the mass amounts of dust and splinters of wood everywhere. Myouga's voice seemed so distant from her. She began to panic as she couldn't see anything.

There's a collision sound, loud enough to be heard, and then, "Ofgh!"

"Watch your step, human."

Without a clear reason, she chilled ever so sudden. She knew she had shoved into something. And that 'something' was clearly talking to her.

Gosh.

She raised her head, half in curiosity and the rest in anxiety.

It was the now freed youkai lord with the silvery white hair, which reached to the back of his knees. Kagome estimated that he was standing about hundred and eighty centimeters or more-so much taller than her-but he was too thin. She noticed his pointed ears, remembering her of the vague images of demons from stories. His stoic and vacant expression was on his face, which was a very good opus of mother-nature. But what made her gape wordlessly were his eyes. His eyes... they were... amber? No. They were gold-a pair of golden eyes. Behind them, she saw nothing.

Just emptiness... and...nothing.

She was still slightly unconscious until she felt something sharp on her throat. In no time, she realized that it was Sesshoumaru's clawed hand on her throat.

"I do not owe you anything for your having unsealed me, human." The youkai lord said. "But I will grant you a choice for your death. Which type of death do you choose? A painful one or the opposite?"

"You..."

Sesshoumaru tightened his grip on her throat, digging his claws into her skin and drawing blood. She had dared talking impolitely to him, so she deserved to die. Still keeping his tight hold on her, he began to talk once again.

"You will not talk that rudely to me, human. Now answer my question. Since Myouga knows you, then you must not be a mere, ordinary human. Who are you? Why were you able to unseal me that easy?"

"J-jerk... I won't talk to you if you don't let go of me."

He growled low in his throat. "Then you ask for your own death."

"Kagome-sama!! Sesshoumaru-sama's forehead! Touch his forehead!!"

She didn't even think twice when she heard Myouga scream. Quickly, before Sesshoumaru could stop her hand's movement, she put her palm on his forehead.

Sesshoumaru roared as a ray of light emerged from his forehead. Both of them closed their eyelids in order to protect their eyes from the blinding light. A minute later, the light slowly faded and finally vanished all the way. What had happened just left a mark right on the center of Sesshoumaru's forehead-a dark blue crescent moon.

The youkai lord blinked once, tightening his hold even more. In no time, he himself suddenly felt his throat was choked he almost couldn't draw a breath. He glared angrily at the woman before him.

"What..." he hissed, furiously, "had you done to me?"

"Do you think I know?!"

"You..." His hand made a move, intending to crush her neck into of flesh and blood, but once again he felt the choking sensation on his own neck. He smelled blood, not only from her tore skin but also his.

"I suggest you not do that, Sesshoumaru-sama." Myouga appeared from the behind Kagome, now standing on her left shoulder.

"This must be your work, isn't it, Myouga?"

Kagome blinked in surprise finding that he also said the same sentence as hers in the same time.

"No," the flea shook his head, finding himself was amusing at the sight. "It's Lord Inutaisho's."

Sesshoumaru growled, still not wanting to let Kagome out of his grip.

"I think Lord Inutaisho had created a kind of magic for Kagome-sama, Sesshoumaru-sama, and I believed it supposedly used to keep you in control."

"How dare you!"

"Please forgive this Myouga, Sesshoumaru-sama. I'm just doing what your father had told me to."

"Keep you in control, huh?" Kagome said harshly. "A kind of reins, I guess."

"Quiet, human."

"Just let go of me!"

"After you do all of this to me? No. Remove this mark and magic from me now."

"Even if I know how, I will never remove it from you!"

She swore that she could see his veins pop out on his neck and face as he restrained his anger and hatred. Slowly, Kagome placed her hand on top of his. Half-heartily, he took his hand off her throat, licking the blood off his claws. Kagome took a deep breath. When her breathing became normal again, she gave him her most frightening death glare.

After a glaring contest between Sesshoumaru and Kagome for a few minutes, Myouga finally spoke.

"Lord Inutaisho had planned all of this before his de-..." Myouga stopped suddenly when he noticed an angry glare from Sesshoumaru, and then, "before the fallen of the Western Palace. What he wanted me to do was to get Kagome-sama to Sengoku Jidai and to get her to free you, Sesshoumaru-sama. That mark on your forehead is also a part of Lord Inutaisho's plan as well as another mantra to keep you in con-..."

"What other mantra?"

"I myself do not know what mantra it is, Sesshoumaru-sama. Only Kagome-sama knows it."

"What mantra? Listen here, I never heard even one damn mantra to control a youkai," she glanced toward Sesshoumaru, "especially a youkai like him."

"A mere human like I'd thought."

"What did you say?"

"Please, you two!" Myouga shot out. "Kagome-sama, Lord Inutaisho would be coming in your dream to tell you the mantra personally. I don't know when but surely it will be happening soon."

"Before she can dream, I'll kill her."

"You will never be able to do that, Sesshoumaru-sama. The mark on your head is the first magic. Everything that happens to Kagome-sama will have an affect to you. In other word, every cut, every wound, and every injury that happen to Kagome-sama will be returning to you physically."

"I'll kill you for this, Myouga."

For the second time, they said the same sentence in unison.

Myouga laughed heartily. "I guess you two had begun to be a companion for each other."

"Never, in my life, had I dreamt of having a human as a companion." Sesshoumaru stated.

"Me?! Being a companion to you?! Dream on!" Kagome shot back.

"Don't add more fuel to this already aglow flame, human."

"Sure, Sesshoumaru-san!!"

"You will learn how to talk to me."

"Fine! Whatever you want!"

With that, she turned on her heels and started to walk away, leaving a furious youkai lord and a crushed flea youkai curtesy of the angry youkai's lord.

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* inspired from the quote 'Man is a proud being' from G-Cleft's Flame of Recca fic, The Paradox of Attraction.