InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lost Heart ❯ Waking ( Chapter 2 )

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Lost Heart
Chapter 2: Waking


For a week he had watched over the miko, and she still had yet to awake. He was in his study looking through all his scrolls he had on miko’s and still could not figure out the reason for her power. Myoga had informed him that she was the Guardian of the Shikon, but that still didn’t explain her power. She didn’t have any shards on her so she couldn’t have drawn it from them. The power was all her own. When Myoga said that she was untrained in her miko abilities, he figured that they just had built up because she didn’t have an outlet to them. But that couldn’t explain it because if that was true then rutting with his brother should have served as an outlet for her powers, but it did not. He had not sensed any magic while they mated.

He hated being curious as he was. Not only was he trying to figure out were her powers had come from, but he also was trying to figure out the changed that had occurred. Two days after he had brought her to his castle, he was sitting in his study looking through scrolls when he heard a pain filled scream. He took off toward the mikos chambers and threw open the door. What he saw was unbelievable. She floated off the top of the bed and hung in the air. Swirls of blue and light pink energy wrapped around her. Her body started to shift and change causing her great pain. Her screams, he was sure could be heard through out the western lands, caused his ears to ring and hurt. All he could do was watch, as her hair grew longer. Then blacker with dark blue strips going through it. A black tail then appeared then claws, and then a pair of solid black wings. She grew taller and more filled out. Dark blue strips appeared on her face, and a black star formed on her forehead. He sniffed the air and his eyes grew slightly wider. She changed in to an inu-demoness.

But why? That question had been running through his head since he witnessed her change. After her screams died down and she was once again on the bed, he walked to her bedside and took a good look at her. She was beautiful. Still even through the change she had yet to awaken. He was starting to get impatient. He needed her to wake so that he could question her. As if hearing his silence demand, he sensed her stir in her room.

Sesshoumaru made his way toward her chambers. He walked in and saw her. She was sitting on the edge of the bed staring out the balcony window. Before he could say anything she spoke up. “He is dead.” Her voice had grew deeper more sensual but cold. “Our protector is dead.” “And who was your protector miko.” “Inuyasha” “How do you know?” “The part of my soul that was stolen by Kikyou has returned. He went to hell with her.” “That still doesn’t explain the change.” “The Shikon changed me.” “Why?” “Like I told you because our protector is dead.” “Then how could the Shikon change you if you didn’t have any of the shards with you?” She slowly turned toward him and looked at him with cold twilight blue eyes. “I was not her reincarnation. I was created from the Shikon. I am a part of it as it is a part of me. It does not matter that it is not with me, because we are one. It changed me so that I will be able to protect it on my own, and so that I will not have to go through the pain of being betrayed again.” “What other changes have occurred miko?” “I am now Immortal and can not die until the day that the Shikon is taken from this world. When that day comes I’ll then be just a regular demoness with great power. I am the last and final guardian.” “I would like to ask more questions after dinner in my study. Until then I’ll send a servant to show you to the hot springs so you can bath.” She only nodded once and turned back to stare out the window.

He had left the room satisfied that his questions had been answered, but in the process of getting the answers about a hundred more questions took their place. He shook his head to clear away his thoughts. He just had to wait until later to get answers to those questions.

A servant showed Kagome to a beautiful Hot Springs. She normally would have been excited about getting a bath and in awe of the beauty of it all, but she was not the same person she was before. She not only changed on the outside, but on the inside as well. It was if she had grown up in the time she was asleep. She was no lovesick teen anymore. Even threw fighting demons and dealing with evil she had stayed young and naive. But now she was a grown woman. Inuyasha’s betrayal had opened her eyes to the world. Never again would she blind to how things worked. Her love for the hanyou had cost her everything. The biggest thing was her heart. Now it was nothing more then an organ beating within her chest. No longer would it be the outlet of her emotions. She had no use for that kind of heart anymore. What would be the use if she could never love again?

Kagome finished her bath and was shown back to her room. She changed in to an elegant kimono that was waiting for her. Then followed the servant to the dinning room. As she entered Sesshoumaru watched her like a hawk and directed her to sit to his left. He was glad that Rin had eaten an early dinner and he wouldn’t have to worry about having to answer her questions tonight. He looked Kagome over. She was beyond beautiful. He looked at her aura and saw that it just showed the colors of being calm and collected. He knew from the last run in’s he had with the miko that she was never calm and collected. She had always been a river of emotion. He had watched many times in his battles with Inuyasha were she would switch emotions so often and so quickly that it would give him a head ache from trying to keep up with them. But now she was different. She had lost something in her when his hanyou brother betrayed her. And he wasn’t too sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Kagome and Sesshoumaru ate in silence. Him watching her and her staring off in to space. When they were both done eating he escorted her to his study and told her to have a seat. Kagome sat in silence awaiting his questions. After a few minutes of silence he spoke up. “I would like to know were you come from miko.” “Kagome” “What” “My name is Kagome and I would appreciate it if you would use my name.” He had expected her to yell and throw a fit when he didn’t use her name but instead she stated it politely, but firmly still keeping calm. “Fine Kagome were do you come from?” “I guess I should start from the beginning. The day I turned 15 years old was the day I fell throw the bone eaters well....”

Then she proceeded to tell what she had been through for the last two years. She told him how the Shikon came back, and was shattered. She told him how everyone had met and about all she knew about Naraku. By the time she was finished it was later on that night. Sesshoumaru sat there and never once interrupted. He was amazed even if he didn’t show it. She had been through so much. He was a little more shocked when he found out that this was not the first time Inuyasha had betrayed her somehow with the clay pot. He had even compared her to the undead priestess and called her the weaker one. Yet even threw all that she stayed. She stayed loyal to his brother, as well as loved and cared for him.

By the time she was done Sesshoumaru had a newfound respect for the former ningen. She had given up her life to help his brother, and had almost died more then once because of her decision to stay. He had never met a human like Kagome. She was the total opposite of all the other humans he had ever encountered. Well with the exception of the demon exterminator and the monk. But even they were not as different as Kagome was. She had even adopted a kit as her own. Were most would have left him to die or killed him. Hell not many demons would take in a pup that was not their own. Yet she had. She had also lost her home. Apparently two days after Naraku had attacked and destroyed the well in a battle, was when she said that Inuyasha had asked her to mate with him and it was that night he cried out the name of the other. She had nothing left but the kit. She still had the two humans, but now since she was a demoness she would have to watch them die.

Kagome waited quietly until he spoke. “Kagome if you would like I can train you in your new powers and abilities. I can teach you all I know about being a demon. It is up to you.” “If I stay may I go get my kit so he can stay with me. I also need to pick up my shards from the village.” “Very well.” “Thank you and if you don’t mind I would like to go to bed now. It’s kind of late.” Sesshoumaru only nodded his consent and turned to his paperwork. He wondered if it was a good idea to suggest him training her. He also had to remember to introduce her to Rin.