InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decrepit ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )

Title: Decrepit

 

Author: Anonymous Fangirl

 

Summary: Because they have no other choice

 

Rating: Mature

 

Genre: Romance, Angst

 

Pairings: Sesshoumaru Kagome

 

Dedicated: Noacat

 

Disclaimer: (Insert proper disnouncation here)

 

Etc: I'll just let you get on with it then.

 

 

Chapter Ten

 

“Sesshoumaru!” Totosai screamed in a high pitched tone that indicated his horror. He remembered the last time they had meet and Totosai had refused to make him Tokijiin, Sesshoumaru had sworn he would kill the old swordsmaker. He fled behind Kagome, for whatever safety she provided. “Protect me, Kagome. You were right. I am decrepit.”

 

“You're a coward is what you are.” She hissed at the old man under her breath her eyes steady on the demon lord who stood before her. Whoever had said that you never turn your back on your enemy was a wise man, and Kagome intended to follow his instructions. She barely even blinked. All at once, her need to see him again, her need for answer, and her love for him, melted away - there was no room left for any emotion but hatred for his abandonment of her before she had even realized that he had stolen her heart. “What are you doing here, Lord Sesshoumaru?” Kagome demanded coldly, in a tone that seemed to have fit Sesshoumaru so much better than it fit her.

 

Sesshoumaru smirked, but the expression must have been foreign to his face, because it disappeared quickly and once again he looked as cold and unfeeling as Kagome thought him to be. “No, Kagome. What are you doing here? I left you in the care of my brother.” Sesshoumaru took a step forward, then another. “Did you think to try to find me, little miko?” He asked, his voice softening with every word.

 

Kagome would have bitten off her tongue before she would have answered that, and he knew it. Sesshoumaru closed the remaining distance between them and grasped her chin in two clawed fingers. “You came to me.” He stated simply, as if he knew it to be a fact. As if she couldn't resist.

 

Kagome tried to reel back, but his fingers held her in place. “I didn't come to you before, and I didn't come to you now. You came to me.” She pointed out. “Both times!”

 

Sesshoumaru ran a finger over her face, and if Kagome didn't know any better, she would have thought that he had missed her. If Kagome didn't know any better, she would have thought that he cared. If Kagome didn't know any better, she would have thought that he loved her.

 

Kagome slapped his hand away. If he kept touching her like that, her anger was bound to melt away and leave her the simpering female she always was whenever he got his hands on her. “I'll never come to you, Sesshoumaru. I don't care for you. I don't.” She said it once to assure him. She said it the second time to assure herself.

 

Sesshoumaru gathered both of her hands in his one, his grip threatening to break her in two. She bowed her back and glared up at him, angry with him that he could still bend her to his will, and angry with herself for hoping he would. But staring down in to her eyes, his brows creased in frustration. “You're a liar.” He told her in a voice that said his word was law. Kagome's eyes widened, and she was about to tell him just where he could stick his assumptions, but he continued. “You are a liar; you do care. You care too much. You're afraid of me, of everything. And you're weak.” To prove this, he squeezed his hand, and Kagome felt her wrist crack. She winced, and bit back a groan of discomfort. “You're too weak. . . you're too small. . . and you're far too human.” His scowl only deepened, and Kagome expected him to continue belittle her. “. . . and you can't seem to understand how very much you mean to me.”

 

Kagome's body went limp in his grasp. There was no way, no way Sesshoumaru Taisho, stoic demonic Lord of the greater part of Japan had just said that. Sesshoumaru wasn't romantic. . . and Sesshoumaru wasn't the kind to talk about unneccessary emotions. But there it was. . . You can't seem to understand how very much you mean to me.

 

Whoosh! That certainly did something funny to Kagome's stomach. All the emotions she had been expecting to feel when Inuyasha had told her that he had once loved her. . . all of them swept over her in that instant.

She must have looked like she was going to faint, for Sesshoumaru released her hands slowly and whispered her name, as if to draw her out of her shock.

 

As soon as the grip on her wrists were gone, Kagome flung herself at Sesshoumaru, nearly implaing herself on his armor when she wrapped her arms around him in a full kiss.

 

She could faintly hear Totosai's sounds of shock from somewhere far behind her, but she paid it no heed. She had been waiting so long - or maybe that was him? - to feel something like this. And now, she did.

 

“I love you.” She whispered when he pulled away for a breath. “I love you.” She said again when she kissed his cheek. “I love you I love you I love you I love you!”

 

Sesshoumaru wrapped his own arm around her and bit her neck gently. “I've waited so many years to hear you say that again.” He whispered quietly, before he realized he was even going to say the words. Immediately, he prayed se hadn't heard them.

 

But she heard him, and she froze. “What do you mean?”

 

Sesshoumaru didn't speak. . . but Kagome was used to that. “I said, what do you mean?”

 

“Maybe I should go. . . I'm sure you know Sesshoumaru well, Kagome.” Totosai said as he climbed on to his cow. “And I'm sure he can protect you better than I from any demons you might happen across so. . . tata!”

 

Neither of the two noticed him leave.

 

“What do you mean!?” Kagome demanded once more.

 

Sesshoumaru didn't speak for a long moment. . . but something in his eyes had told Kagome that he was planning his next words carefully. “Would you like to hear a story, Kagome?”

 

Kagome reeled back in distaste. “Why is it always stories with you people?! Why? And why am I the only one who seems to get in trouble because of these stories?!”

 

“Once upon a time there was a Lady who was so beautiful that - “

 

“I don't give a damn!” Kagome cursed in a very unchareteristic fashion.

 

“A demon lord wanted nothing more than to make her his bride. They were very happy together, but on the night before their wedding -“

 

“Stop it!” Kagome screamed, beating her hands against his chest. “I don't care! I don't want to hear it! It's just a fairytale!”

 

“ - She was murdered.”