InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In the Night ❯ Meetings ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1: Meeting In the night

It was a very peaceful night. The stars were bright in the almost dark sky. It was the middle of November and the cold wind was blowing restlessly.The gang was resting around the fire in a small cave in the center of a forest. They were all tired for the never ending journey to destroy Naraku. Shippo was cradled around Kirara, the fire cat protecting and heat him from the cold night. Sango was cleaning her renewed hiraikotsu with bright eyes, Miroku, writing new ofuda for their future battles, while chatting lovely with her. The fire was projecting amazing shadows on Kagome's face while she was looking meditative at the stars outside, thinking about a lonely hankyou out of the cave. It was almost 30 minutes from when he has gone to look for some food and chocks for the fire. She had tried so hard to concentrate on her study but the thought of him alone was too sad. She knew Inuyasha has not restored yet from Kikyo's death. A month has already gone since that day and she has done her best to stay with him, helping him, loving him discretely in her own way. He pretends as usual to be fine, but simply he is not, not yet... maybe even no more... At this thought, Kagome's heart lost one bit and got even sadder. In a moment her mind was shuttered in a bloody red sundown, Inuyasha, tears running from his golden eyes, kissing a dying Kikyo, cradled in his lap, with all his breaking heart. She had understood. She had felt. She had been broken. The bond existing between them... Them...Yes, not me. Absolutely not US. I am always been a simple beholder, an intruder. And now, he feels alone. Again. Even if I am here... just for him... no shards...no Naraku... just for him. I really don't know what else I can do to help him if he doesn't want to be helped... if he doesn't want me...want me... I definitively lost him, am I not? Had I ever had him? No, not even once. He has always seen just a mere copy of his true love...A single hot, broken heart tear slipped from Kagome's dark grey eyes."Kagome?!?! What's wrong? Are you hurt? What happened?" viewing her sad face in the fire, Sango run to her side and embraced her. "It's his fault, isn't it? What happened? Why are you crying?" she insisted."Oh...no... it's nothing really... nothing...I was just a bit tired... really... don't worry Sango...it's just..." Kagome almost pleaded trying to smile reassuringly. "Oh...yes...sorry... maybe sometimes I am overprotective on you." Sango laughed timidly."Oh my dear Sango, we are all too tired, maybe it would be better to have some rest before dinner, don't you agree Kagome-sama?" Miroku glanced at the sadness in the miko's eyes sympathetically. He too has seen her melancholy glance, but sometimes loneliness is the only remedy.

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A cold breath of wind had played gently with his silver hairs dancing in rhythm in the air, while preparing to rest for the night. At what would have been their tonight camp Rin was taking some berries and Jaken was preparing a couch for against Ah-Uhn. Kohaku, with a deep glance, looked over Rin as he had learnt to do in the period Sesshomaru had gather him.The insolent breeze had then curled against his upper white haori. He had caught his breath. The single breeze still playing around him in circle. He has stood up quickly "Jaken, take care of Rin and Kohaku, till my return" "Yes, Sesshomaru-sama, count on me! I will protect her! I will..."The sound of the little youkai's voice lowering with distance. He has gone far, using his power for running away, away from that abnormal cold wind. He did go on till he reached a cliff finishing on a stormy ocean. The fog was rising from the water in a mystic sensation of detachment. He stopped abruptly. The cold, the fog, the blustery water, were somehow soothing his temper. And then the wind, that wind, again. Playful, overwhelming, arrogant, irresistible wind teasing him and only him. The wind was pushing him in different directions, in an abnormal way. It was teasing him. He closed his fists with anger. Don't push this Sesshomaru! A gentle breeze stroked gently his cheeks. The irritating sensation stopped abruptly."Kagura...", her name, in a whisper, left his lips, suddenly replaced by a warm almost faded breath. Kagura. His eyes closed, motionless as a divine statue, in the rising night. A twist of black hairs and purple eyes gazed to his memory, while a reassuring reborn sensation stroke his body deeply as a caress. Not opening his eyes, he allowed his figure to relax, allowing the powerful feeling to deep. It's her... I cannot smell her scent. Her arrogance. A smirk appeared in his icily, handsome face at the thought. Yes, he could feel her arrogance anyway, even now, even in this way. A lightly twirl playing with his air.I'm still here, you, dumb-ass. You can feel me I know. As I can feel you. Let me touch you, Sesshomaru, with my wind if not with my never really owned body. Let me touch you as I would have done so many times. Let me feel your strength, your power, your warm. Let me caress your lips, as I would have kissed them so many times. Let me stay with you, near you. Just looking at you. "Kagura, you..." his eyes shot open at the faint hope to have her there. "I know it's you, wind sorceress. You still belong to this world. What do you want from this Sesshomaru?" instant venom, running through his body. Ah...Sesshomaru! You egoistic, presumptuous, full of yourself, bewitching jerk. You cannot understand isn't it? The cold wind roughly back, pushing him around, entering his haori, ruffling his silver hair, riffling his garments. I want just be with you. I want ... you...All of a sudden nothing. No more wind, no more overwhelming sensations, no more warm. Only emptiness and his loneliness. His only hand trembling his eyes closing. I want ... you... He had listened. No, it was not true, he had not listened to her words, he had felt them, as in his inner mind, as if his. The shock visible in his usually icy golden eyes. Sesshomaru stood in the foggy cliff overlooking the water with intense glaze.

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He wanted to be alone, he needed to think back at the last month. Naraku's webs corrupting Both Kikyo and Kagome, the quest for the string bow, the battle... the death...and then again his sorrow and...Kagome. Her sweet scent, her big, enormous heart, her tears while saving him from that flowers demon, her heartbroken glance ... Since HER death...Kagome had had that forlorn look... Her sweet smiles had never reached her eyes since then. Inuyasha was trying to hunt another fat rabbit in the forest. He had already one but he didn't want to come back at the camp, not yet. He needed time and hunting was a great excuse. The brown rabbit was near, sitting on two forefeet, sniffing the air being on the ball.He thought back to the temple in which he had brought Kikyo when she was affected by the webs. She was so beautiful, so pale, so delicate. There, she was the woman we had fallen in love with. His woman. His first love. And then, as had happened in his life, Kagome has erupted in, saving them at her own risk. She had been tainted rescuing them. He knew she had seen something. Her incredible dark grey eyes had lost their light in that moment. It's my fault. Everything is just my fault. She doesn't belong to this place, even not to this time, but she is here, for me, I know, she helps me every day, no only detecting the shards, she...is ... incredible.... I was so afraid when she collapsed inside the temple. Afraid for her, scared to have hurt her more then physically... And then Kikyo, behind me, dying... everything has happened so quickly. I didn't have time to think, just to react, and feel ... my heart ripped apart. One part with each of them. She had been amazing, as every so strong... once more. She had conquered that string, against everything... to save... Kikyo. That would have been my charge, not her. I should have saved her. I should have protected...THEM! "Dammit!" he said jumping on the rabbit a little moment after its movement. Good-for-nothing, am I? With a sad look, he went on, after the run away rabbit. Deep in the forest, a little girl and an older boy were shivering in the cold night, warmed only by the two strange demons next to them, a little green one and an unusual cow with two head. Sniffing in the air, Inuyasha entered the glade. He was picking two fat rabbits and some chocks. Rin? Jaken... where is that bastard? I cannot smell him anywhere near. He cannot have left her here...and without a fire! That bastard is the usual selfish asshole! She is freezing. ... WAIT! KOHAKU!!! Kohaku...you are here...You have been with him... Thinking about Sesshomaru Inuyasha approached to the sleeping children. Kohaku's eyes got open immediately. "Inuyasha!" "Where is him?""He has gone before sunset. I don't know where. He just left", the little boy said nonchalantly, his expression still."You two are freezing. It is not safe to stay here for you. Naraku is still looking for you. Come with me to our camp." saying so Inuyasha looked at Rin, her lips were almost blue for the cold and she was quivering. He sat near her, took her in his embrace, trying to cover the little dark haired child in his haori, and woke up Jaken in a bad manner "Stop sleeping you, wastage brat! She has almost frozen! What were you thinking about? She is not a demon!". Jaken suddenly sat up, frightened for the hankyou's words. "You! What do you want? What do you care? Sesshomaru-sama will be back soon!" Dammit! This stupid is right! Rin is freezing.. If Sesshomaru-sama would come back now I would be dead...He would kill me for letting her cold"Come on! Take your things and that ... thing " Inuyasha said nodding at Ah-Uhn " and follow me! Ah! Take also these!" and saying so nodded at the rabbits and the chocks he had left nearby.Without any further comment, Jaken ran throw the grass, took their few belongings and Ah-Uhn and followed him, Kohaku still walking at his right.

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