InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decrepit ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

Title: Decripit

 

Author: Anonymous Fangirl

 

Summary: Because she had no other option. . . (Sesshoumaru x Kagome)

 

Genre: Angst/ Romance. I am in a very angsty mood

 

Rating: Mature

 

Etc: This story is dedicated to Bryan Wiks. While I was tapping away at my computer, he was losing himself in a sea of dispair. Though you are gone, you will always be remembered. I'm not sure why you did what you did, but you will be greatly missed, Bryan.

 

 

 

Chapter One

 

 

 

He would come to her, because she would claim that she had forgotten.

 

But the horrible truth, the truth she could barely stand to admit to herself, was that she hadn't.

 

But he wouldn't have expected her to.

 

He was a bit of an engima, she knew. But that was fine by him. She happened to be something of a mystery to him as well. What manner of creature cares for others above their own safety? Nothing human, to be sure. And it certainly whatever species she would call him. She was. . . different.

 

And she was late.

 

“Kagome . .” He whispered her name on the wind in a dragged out voice, emphasizing each syllable and he knew she would come. She had no other choice. Her nature compeled her to. . . just as his demanded that he claim her for his own.

 

She was stirring in the camp, getting ready to come to him before she awoke. And she would come. She had no other choice.

 

But she did. There was another choice for her. But it was an unacceptable one, he knew, and she would not chose it. Which was why he wasn't worried. She would claim to have forgotten. . . claimed that she didn't know he had come for her. . . she had before, she would again. But as long as she remained as she was - and she always would - he knew he could have her whenever he wanted.

 

And he wanted her now.

 

She became aware of her surroundings when cool beads of water began to drop heavily on her face. She knew that he hadn't made it rain, but sometimes it seemed that he had an uncanny flair for dramatic entrances.

 

But she made great exits.

 

The spell he had woven over her was thick, leaving her no chance of escape. She knew what that meant. . . something had changed. He had always left room for her to escape before, whether intentionally or not, and it meant that tonight, he wasn't just going to take her. . .

 

He was going to take her away.

 

When she saw his face, a picture of serenity in the vast sea of dark water falling from the sky, she thought of her friends. She had never hated before, but. . .

 

If they had truly been her friends, they would have known. Hadn't they seen how much quieter she had been? Hadn't they noticed that her reserved nature, and realized that something was wrong? No. . . they noticed the jewel. If they had truly been her friends, they would have noticed her too.

 

He stepped out of the shelter of the trees and towards her, making quick steps across the clearing. “You didn't come to me.” He said quietly. Kagome stared at him enviously. Oh, to be someone like him! To be so powerful even the rain wouldn't dare fall on him! Now, Sesshoumaru was someone who could protect his friends, his family, the people he cared about.

 

But at what price? She had often wondered. What had he given up? Everyone gave up something. For her friends well being, Kagome gave up her life. Sesshoumaru seemed as if he had nothing to lose.

 

If only she had known it was because he had already lost it all.

 

“I forgot.” She lied between her teeth. How could she have possibly forgot? He was always there, a wisp of fog at the front of her mind. He took away everything from her. . . even her last few days of freedom.

 

If he had a smile left in his soul, he would have given it to her. If he had a chance at happiness, he would have reached out and soothed her hair away from her eyes. If he had cared, he would have left her alone.

 

“No you didn't.” He said simply, and glanced disapprovingly at her clothes. “You are no common whore, Miko. Do not dress as one.”

 

Kagome felt her angry simmering to a boil. “No, not a common whore, Sesshoumaru. Just yours.”

 

Sesshoumaru moved so quickly Kagome didn't see it. He was simply. . . there, He grabbed her arm in a warning, letting a breath of acid seep out, etching the print of his hand much deeper than any slap could have. Kagome's face contorted in pain even as she congratulated her self on not crying out in agony.

 

“You are not a whore. You are my mistress. I expect you to remember that.” Sesshoumaru said with a sneer.

 

Kagome nodded solemnly, knowing that there was nothing she could do now. Nothing she would do to get herself out of the situation at hand.

 

“If you had just let me take his life, you could have lived.” Sesshoumaru said, nto bothering to glance at her as he moved slowly deeper in to the forest. He knew she would follow.

 

Kagome shook her head and followed as she was supposed to. “You swore an oath to me, Lord Sesshoumaru, that you would not harm Inuyasha or anyone I care about.” Kagome whispered. “And what proof will I have- no, what proof do I have- that you will not hurt them anyways?”

 

Sesshoumaru was silent in his walk. He made no move to answer her, and she made no move to push him. But then, that was the way they worked.

 

She knew it was pointless to wait for a response. That if she was waiting for him to give her proof that he wasn't a double-crosser, she had better not hold her breath.

 

Which made it very odd when he did answer her.

 

“You have no proof. But then, I don't need to give it to you. I could kill them, right now, and still take you with me. Don't ever forget that I am simply granting you a boon right now, miko.”

 

She followed him because she had no other option. As she watched him walk before her, his hair swaying to the rhythm of his movements, she swore that she would hate him forever.

 

But then, she had no other option.