InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Redemption ❯ When...I...Saw...You ( Chapter 2 )

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Redemption

Chapter 2: When…I…Saw…You…

 

I can still remember so clearly. It's been so many human years, over two decades since your demise. You continued to be Naraku, and our nights together continued to dwindle, after I discovered your true identity. I tried to make it work but all of your shit just made it impossible. I often wished that I had met you as someone else in a different life. Then maybe we could have made it. But I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Anger toward each other over our disagreements as lovers at night spilled into our days as platonic enemies until we were eventually full time personal enemies. When you tried to hurt Rin, that's where I drew the line and things spiraled downhill between you and I even more hastily after that. Yet inspite of everything that had went wrong between us, right before you used that piece of glass to become a full blooded Yokai, my lust got the best of me and I gave myself to you one last time. I wish I hadn't, because for so long after that, I was consumed with guilt and loss. I felt like I'd betrayed Rin and everyone else, including my brother, even though I supposedly hated him and I'd felt like I'd been abandoned by you. I felt so stupid for feeling that way. You didn't even love me and you were created from a bunch of worthless yokai and a foolish human bandit with a dark heart. What else should I have expected?

 

I try not to dwell on the day that you died. It just brings up too many conflicting and tormenting feelings that I'd rather not deal with. Instead I focus on our time before my brothers reawakening. The best memories that bring me the most joy in regards to you and I…are the first time I saw you and when we first started getting to know each other. The first time I saw you, you were a vision…with your flowing hair, voluptuous lips and body that appeared as if it had been sculpted by the gods. I remember thinking to myself, `who is this exotic being and where has he been all of my life.' I'd never been so intrigued and transfixed by someone before. By the time I'd discovered you, I'd already been alone without friends, family, or mates for a very long time, with the exception of my retainer, Jaken. Over the years, I'd become notorious for being a powerful and lethal hothead who everyone feared and because of that, I'd ended up alienating myself from everyone, human and Yokai alike.

 

I lurked in the shadows, wondering through the forests like a ghost, until all that remained was the fear associated with my name. So many superstitions had arisen regarding who people thought I was. No one dared utter my name for fear that I may appear and strike them down. This was all intentional. The truth is that I just wanted to be left alone in my misery. Even as a child, I was never the extroverted type. But the moment I saw you, all of that changed for some reason. Yes, I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was casually drifting through the forest, without Jaken, absent mindedly reflecting on my life, when I caught your scent in the wind. It was enticing, so I followed it, and it led me to an isolated hot spring not too far away. I beheld you bathing in the hot spring at night, as the moon shined down on you, illuminating your creamy pale skin. I halted immediately and just gazed at you for a few seconds. Then a thought passed quickly through my mind, `What if he sees me,' and so I quickly hid behind a tree and then continued to watch you.

 

 

I thought to myself, `Dammit, I wish I had a nulling stone with me, (in order to hide my aura.) But it looks like I'm going to have to just take a risk and do things the old fashioned way. He may figure out that I am of noble blood, but I can't have him figuring out that I'm Sesshoumaru. Even if he hasn't heard of me, he may try to ask around. Then he'd probably be too afraid to get to know me.' In order to try to prevent the possibility of this occurring, (It was too simplistic, but I didn't have many options at such a short notice) I decided to create a disguise for myself, actually more like an alter ego. I stumbled upon an adult human male, roaming about foolishly through the woods, and I disposed of him before seizing his olive green kimono, dark blue obi, sandals and tabi socks. I then removed all of my armor (what a pain that was, it always is…all of that stupid elaborate armor. That's the price I pay for being fucking Lord Sesshoumaru), along with my kimono, boots and Mokomoko and I buried them in the ground. I left my hakama pants on, along with my inner garments.

 

I then put on whatever items I took from the human, and I braided my hair into one big braid hanging down my back, before heading off. Once I reached the edge of the hot spring, I decided to stand there for a few seconds and pretend like I didn't notice you. Eventually, out of the corner of my eye, I saw you look up suddenly as if you were startled and then I knew that you'd noticed my presence. I took off all of my clothes, slowly, before submerging myself into the waters below me and then I began to swim underwater in your direction. I remember how nervous I was. I was so surprised because usually nothing really moved me…but this was different…you were different. I didn't even know what I was doing. I'd never done anything like this before and yet I continued on. Finally after what seemed like an eternity, I reached you and emerged slowly out of the water until I was standing up. You just stared at me and I didn't know what to do next. Then you started to speak with a voice as smooth as cream and as sweet as honey, “This is my first time bathing here, but I didn't think I would run into anyone else.” I sighed inside with relief, “Yes, I bathe here all of the time,” (I was being deceptive. But I also think you knew that, and I don't think you cared.) “But I don't mind company, do you?” You grinned warmly, “No, not at all…This is a nice location. I can see why you'd like bathing here.”

 

I began to make myself comfortable resting my back against one of the rocks protruding out of the water with you only a few feet away resting your back on another rock. “So do you mind if I ask you for your name?” Dammit, I'd totally forgotten to think up a name. I stalled for a few seconds before replying, “Ai, my name is Ai.” “I've never met anyone with such a short name…” “My mother and father were very simple people…do you mind me asking for your name.” “Oh, no…uughmmm… Kagiwaki… my name is Hitome Kagiwaki.” You're usually such a good liar but that day, you were a little rusty. “Hm…well Kagiwaki…it is nice to meet you.” “Yea…same here…Ai.” After that you just looked at me with a curious expression on your face, “What is it,” I replied feeling a little uneasy. “It's just your youki.” “What about it?” “It's emanating a lot of power,” “Pardon me? You're the first person who's ever told me that. Most Yokai say that my youki is one of the most insubstantial forces they've ever perceived before trying to kill me. Besides my heightened sense of smell and strength, I'm pretty much like any other average Yokai. Maybe being a hanyo is causing you not to sense things correctly.”

 

You responded, sounding really offended by my comment, “What is that suppose to mean?” So I tried to reply in a reassuring way, “It isn't my intention to offend. I'm just not used to someone saying I have a powerful aura, that's all.” I noticed that you were beginning to relax again, “Well…maybe you're right…you seem pretty humble…most yokai with tremendous power that I run into are full of themselves and like to show off a lot.” I couldn't believe I actually succeeded in fooling you, but later on I discovered that you were only pretending to be fooled, but you still didn't realize I was the yokai, Sesshoumaru, so at least I half-succeeded. “So, are you an Inuyokai?” `Dammit,' I thought nervously to myself, `He just isn't going to let up, is he? I might as well give up now, and prepare to leave…no! I've never been the type to give up, why should I do it now?' So I decided to keep talking. “Well, yes I am an Inuyokai, but I'm the weakest kind.” “I've never heard of a “weak” Inuyokai before, but whatever you say.” “Just because you've never heard of a weak Inuyokai before, doesn't mean they don't exist. Maybe I am a rare species of Inuyokai, have you thought of that?” This was becoming ridiculous. “No, I guess I haven't.”

 

As you paused again for a second, I became more nervous and was just hoping that you could go ahead and say what you had to say, so that I could get on with making my next move. “You know…I apologize for being too involved in your business. Who or what you are…maybe that's not as important. But I am grateful to have someone I can talk too Instead of being lonely in this hot spring, all by myself.” You gazed at me with a shy and slightly sensual expression that made my body melt. Then you changed the subject and asked me, “Do you need some soap? I noticed you don't have any with you.” “Soap…oh yes…sure.” You tossed me the soap and I began to wash with it. I noticed the fine quality of it, “How is it that you have soap with this level of exquisiteness to it?” You replied simplistically, “I am a daimyo.” “I hope you don't mind me asking, but do the humans around you know that you yourself are not human?”

 

“Well, of course they don't know. They don't have your superb sense of smell, for one thing. Plus, it's a family secret. Only my father knew, and now he's dead. My father was a human who also happened to be a Lord, so when he died, his title passed down to me, a hanyou.” “Although I sense that you are a hanyou, I also sense that your energy is slightly different from most hanyou I've encountered.” “My father always said I was special, but I never knew what he meant. Maybe what you are sensing has something to do with it.” One thing I always admired about you my love, is your extraordinary wit and ingenuity. Hhhmmm…Anyways, after your response, there wasn't much else to ask regarding that without possibly bringing the attention back on myself again and so I just continued on in another direction, “So do you have any siblings?” “No, it's just me…How about you?” “I had a brother but he's dead now…” `…technically speaking,' I concluded in my mind. “I'm so sorry to hear that.” “Oh, don't be. We never were too fund of each other to begin with, anyways.”

 

There was silence for a moment until you started to speak again, “So…do you have a mate?” Your question caught me by surprise. That was supposed to be my line, “Well…no not really.” “Wow. That's a bit of a shock.” “Why do you say that?” You gave me this look that made my skin turn to water, “You just seem like…kind of handsome. I'm just surprised that females of all kinds aren't falling all over themselves for you.” “Hhhmmm,” I wanted to take you right then and there and I'm sure it showed on my face but I knew I had to be patient and make sure that I was reading you correctly, before I made a move or maybe you would do it for me. We continued to talk for another thirty minutes or so, before I decided that it was time to call it a night.

 

“Well thank you for letting me borrow your soap. I love how soft it's left my skin. I must be heading off…” “Will you be bathing in this hotspring in the future…because I will?” I noticed the change in your scent as your heart had begun to beat faster. I decided to play with you a little and paused for a while before I replied, which caused your heart to begin pounding even faster. I smirked to myself inside as I felt myself becoming a little erect. Finally, I answered you, trying to sound very nonchalant, “Of course I will. Like I said before, I come here all of the time, in fact every night.” Actually I bathed somewhere else every night. Like I said before, I was being deceptive, but anything to get my claws into that long luscious hair of yours. Your heart had begun to return to its normal rate, “Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow evening then.” I replied in an ambiguously seductive tone of voice, “I guess you will,” and then I swam away.