InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forever Yours ❯ Chapter 3

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

A single scream tore from her throat filling the still night air. Her limbs flailed about in her attempt to find something, anything, to grab ahold of. And yet when she turned her head, she saw nothing but the fast approaching earth below her. Filled with panic and increasing dread she looks back up to the moon her hand stretched out as if to grab the sphere.

Was her happiness only to be found in death?

Overcome by the fear and panic Kagome fainted leaving her to idly fall towards to the earth below.

~o.O~O.o~

Golden eyes the same shade of butterscotch shot upwards as a single scream rang out into the night. Stepping out of the treeline, those same eyes narrowed staring at what he perceived to be a humanoid figure plummeting to what could only be certain death. And just as he was to move to catch them something strange made him freeze.

Figments of flickering light appeared as if out of thin air to swirl and dance around their body forcing their descent to slow as if they were nothing but a leaf as it drifted slowly to the ground.

Curiosity forced him to investigate, walking further into the clearing he watched as the humanoid, he now assumed to be female from their shapely figure, descend slow to a stop right in front of him. The figments of lights danced around the girl similar to lightning bugs.

'Catch her,' a feminine voice demanded.

In a flashing, the light disappeared, and her body began to fall once more, his arms shot out without thought, catching her before she could actually fall.

'Protect her,' the voice demanded once more. Inutaisho had heard it before but could not place it, whatever the case he knew the voice couldn't be malevolent. For now, he would indulge them.

Eyes narrowed once more, he took his time in studying the being that looks both human and not at the same time. The girl smelled of a full-blooded dog demon, in fact, she carried several being's scents: a young fox, a couple humans, a half-demon along with the faint smell of his son. Her aura vibrated with unlimited ki similar to the feeling of miko-ki, a power known only to be possessed by a select few human women. Claws tipped her fingers while her pierced ears, compared to his own, ended in a small point. Her pale heart-shaped face glowed in the moonlight allowing him to see the features of her face. She had high cheekbones with pink pouty lips and a small nose.

Yet what captivated him most about the strange girl rest on her brow. Seemingly tattooed onto her skin rested a lavender colored diamond symbol that he had not seen in many decades.

His mind reeling with the knowledge and the realization of who that voice belonged to.

This girl would be an intriguing mystery to solve.

Turning on his heel he began his short journey home, he'd have his son finish the patrol as he consulted with his mate about what to do with the girl.

~o.O~O.o~

Eyes of searing gold flashed heatedly as he witnesses he sire approach the palace. The figure dangling in his arms not going unnoticed by those oddly cold eyes that were so different from their warm coloring. Billowing stands of silvery hair glistened against the moonlight, making the young demon look dreamily and as much the aristocrat as his status.

"Father must you break mother's heart so," the demon whispered into the breeze his only companion on that evening. His mother wallowed in sorrow as she waited for her mate's return. Her heart would undoubtedly break at such a sight, the rumors finally realized after years of speculation and lies.

He heard them, from childhood, how his mother had changed after his father had failed in his duty to her. They never devolved further when they noticed him. And his mother never mentioned anything on the matter when he questions her, but the prolonged sadness he witnessed pulled at his heart. After that moment he made a point to ever again speak on the matter yet, he would see that look whenever she looked off into the distance.

Turning from the ledge, the young prince made his way back to the palace.

His father was the one to give her that sadness, and for that, he would not forgive him. Whatever the case he would see to his mother happiness and would not tolerate his sire disgracing his mother with bringing his mistress onto their estate.

He would surpass his father, and when that time came, he would erase all signs of humiliation and sadness his sire brought upon them.

~o.O~O.o~

The task of returning to his home went by quickly enough, within two hours of having switched to a run, he had entered his home to be greeted by various servants. Making his way further into the palace he spotted his mate standing at the foot of the curved staircase that leads to the second level of his lavish home. He paused in step for only a moment as he took the opportunity to gaze at the beauty that happened to be his mate.

Natsuki stood in a two-layered kimono, the first being plain white, the second with the base color is a pale red with azalea flowers lining the edges of the fabric. Over the kimono, she wore her mokomoko in the form of a teal outer kimono with white fur lining the bottom and the top as it hung just under her shoulders. Having let her hair down it cascaded down her back in silvery white falling to about her knee while her bangs, parted in the middle to show his crescent mark, fell to the tops of her cheeks that were marked with a single jagged maroon line. Her ochroid gold colored eyes looked him up and with the slight upturn of her red lips turning down as her eyes came to the girl in his arms.

"Hello my dearest," he greeted her as he usually did, walking up to her in an attempt to kiss the crescent moon on her forehead per usual upon his return. She leaned her head back with a glare set on her face as she looked him in the eye.

"Whom have you brought into my home?" She growled out with a low tone of jealousy and anger in her normally sweet song-like voice.

"I know not whom she may be only that she fell from the sky," He told her with a small smile which left her raising an eyebrow at the seemingly ridiculous comment. He immediately knew this would lead her to assume his unfaithfulness, as she had been doing more so as of late. She had been becoming bitter as of late and becoming different than the woman he had fallen for all those centuries before.

In all honesty, the accusations were tearing at him. He knew the demoness who created the rumors out of spite, he has denied the demon's advances for centuries, despite the often reassurance he offered his mate; she didn't believe him.

"You expect me to believe such an absurd story as to why you've brought your mistress into our home!?" She huffed, he watched as tears grew in her lovely ochroid eyes and wished to take her in his arms to reassure her of his deep feelings for her.

He spoke softly as he leaned forward rubbing his cheek against hers. "There is no other woman beside you my treasure. You are who I love and will ever love, my existence begins and ends only with you," he whispered with a purr against her hair. He heard her intake of breath and pulled away to see her smiling softly.

She caresses his cheek, and he greedily accepts the affection, nuzzling her palm while placing a kiss on her wrist. He took a moment to take in her scent of lilacs and lilies. Her worry and suspicion have been smothered for the time being.

He had to attempt, at least to himself, he had been madly in love with this woman. And he would spend the rest of his life and his next loving her and make up for the sorrow he had brought her all those years ago when he could not save her beloved sister; Midoriko.

"So who is this girl?" Natsuki asked again while taking back her hand her suspicion now returning. He resisted the urge to sigh.

He looked down at the girl. "I know nothing other than she had been falling from the sky. I had hoped she would be willing to answer some questions when she awakens, especially about her mark and parentage," he told her honestly.

She looked up at him with a raised elegantly sculpted eyebrow.

"Her forehead,"

Natsuki brushed back the girl's hair with her hand and with a single look at the lavender diamond she jerked her hand back as if she had been bitten. She was physically shaken as she looked from the girl to him with fat tears quickly forming in her eyes. "But Midoriko didn't have children," she whispered brokenly from behind her hands her eyes swirling in sorrow and wonder.

He nodded in agreement he did not remember her or Koroshiya mentioning anything about a pup. They both looked down at the mystifying girl; an interesting mystery she was indeed.

With his mate walking close beside him, they made their way upstairs and laid the girl in what would be his second child's room whenever he and his mate decided on having another. He laid her out on the medium-sized futon dressed in white blankets.

Natsuki's hand that had been holding his forearm fell down the rest of his arm as she walked over to the bed. His mate looked down at the girl with large teary eyes her hands moving to cover her mouth as she tried her best not to cry, but the tears fell on their own. Soft sobs shook her shoulders, her heart breaking all over again.

InuTaisho placed a hand on her shoulder, trying to offer her some form of comfort in her moment of sorrow. She looked lost as she looked at the girl that looked so much alike and un-alike from Natsuki's beloved adopted sister.

"Let us head to bed, we can figure out everything tomorrow." Inutaisho offered, but his only response was a shake of her head as Natsuki moved and got into bed with the girl draping her mokomoko over them. She hesitantly caressed her face to move her hair out of her face.

Instead of leaving he took a seat in a chair to watch over the two. Patrol could wait until tomorrow.

Natsuki gazed into the heart-shaped face of what could only be her sister's daughter. The girl even smelled like her with her scent being that of rain with the difference being that this girls' was sweeter with an added mix of black raspberries and vanilla. Her black raven colored hair mimicked the same unruly wavy curls that Midoriko had once fought to tame. And then there was the lavender marking that had been Midoriko's and hers alone to have and give.

The girl leaned into her touch and Natsuki all but whimpered as she continued to cry. She would fall asleep looking into the face of what looked to be Midoriko's only child.

~o.O~O.o~

Natsuki sat on a bench looking out into the gardens of her childhood. A bright sakura tree loomed over her with bright pink blossoms with a few pedals gently falling around her. Off to the side opposite of the tree on the other side of the white stone of the walkway was a small pond surrounded by various flowers, swirling in the clear water were several brightly colored koi fish. Specks of bright lights danced around the landscape along with butterflies and a few small birds that she could hear chirping in the background.

It was beautiful but a dream for outside the garden she could see nothing but darkness, she had to be dreaming for she remembered the unnamed girl. She sat there confused.

"It's been a long time, Natsuki," Her voice came as a gentle coo on a breeze. The pedals from the tree swirled and fell rapidly.

Natsuki's head whipped around to look at the face of her sister, a face she had longed to see once more. Golden ochroid and velvet-red met in a clash of mixed emotions. It took only a moment before Natsuki flung herself at the woman, wrapping her in an embrace that was quickly returned. They both cried as they held tightly to the other falling to their knees as they do.

Natsuki pulled back to cup Midoriko's face to just look at her. "I should have been there," She cried. "I should have done more to help you and Koroshiya," the guilt ate away at her heart. She should have demanded her mate to allow Koroshiya to stay in the village instead of leaving it only for Midoriko to protect. Midoriko lost her new mate and then died protecting the village they grew up in. "I'm so sorry-"

Midoriko shook her head and placed a finger to her lips forcing her to stop. "It's over now, let's not dwell on what ifs',"

"If you could have visited, why have you never come to me before?" Natsuki asked whipping at her own tears now.

Midoriko looked away and shook her head. "I would have if I could, but at that time my soul had become a prisoner to the jewel that I had created in that final battle,"

"Then why now, the jewel is still in the village,"

"I am free, my daughter has freed me," Midoriko smiled fondly her eyes taking on a dreamy look full of pride.

"So she is your daughter, how? Why did you not tell me?"

Midoriko shrugged before looking at her hands. "I had lost my mate just after finding out I was with child and…" her voice trailed off as she looked to the pond.

Natsuki looked at her sister and saw the heartbreak within her eyes. She grabbed her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. Whatever the reason she would not hold it against her, towards the end of Midoriko's life they hadn't been the closest.

That's what hurt Natsuki the most. She had been so wrapped up in her mate and her new life as the Western Lady in the western palace that she had lost contact with her family and friends and the life she had before all the power.

"Kagome is confused, untrained and so alone right now. I wish I could be there for her," She said with her head down and fresh tears twinkling in her eyes.

"I'll look out for her," she promised. Natsuki knew how badly Midoriko had wanted children and how she had wanted to be there for them unlike her own parents; one has died and the other absent. And could only imagine how hopeless she felt being unable to be there for her child. She knew that she would become bitter if in the same situation.

Squeezing her hand tightly and offering Natsuki a small smile Midoriko whispered "Thank you,"

~o.O~O.o~

Miles away flying through the sky on a ball of fire, a large yellow cat with black markings including a black diamond on her forehead, rushed to the western palace with word from her master that her daughter would need her protection. The demon two-tail knew not who her master's child was only that she'd follow her request. And maybe she could get an answer as to why the Shikon No Tama had disappeared.