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Chapter Fourteen
"So, she has found love with the monk..." Sesshomaru spoke quietly, looking at Jaken, who looked pleased that he had spied without getting caught. "Are you certain of this?"
"Yes m'lord," Jaken answered. "She was on his back as they walked & they shared the look only lovers have been known to share. May I ask m'lord... Why was I sent to spy after the girl?"
"Because she was a gift to Rin & they stole a gift given by me... I don't like it when things are stolen unless by me or my servants for a purpose," Sesshomaru snapped, his eyes narrowing as he cracked his wrists.
"Rin has been asking me questions about what I find out... Should I tell her anything?"
"No... she won't need to ask anymore soon, because I'll have Takara back here before she knows it."
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"Takara, wake up, are you okay?" Miroku asked, worried as he knelt next to the unconscious woman. She had fallen unconscious after a few hours of complaining about a terrible migraine. Her head hit a small rock during the fall so he was more worried about her than he felt he should be. "Takara, please come to," Miroku begged, holding her head in his lap. When he eyes slowly fluttered open, they met Miroku's & then it all came back to her & she felt terrible.
"Sesshomaru," she muttered as she pulled from Miroku's grasp, struggling to her feet. Everything she'd said to him when she saw him again, the look in his eyes. The lies they told me... she growled to herself.
"What about him? What's wrong Takara?" Miroku asked, seeing the sudden anger in her eyes, the look that could slice through hades if even glanced upon. "Ta-Takara? What's wrong?"
"You..."
"Me?"
"You! I betrayed him with you!" she rushed him & grabbed him by his neck. This time he had no staff to save himself with. "He'll never have me again!" She yelled as she hurled him against a nearby tree, her eyes turning along with her features but they were slower at turning.
"Takara! No!" Kagome cried as she rushed from the clearing. She'd had a bad feeling & had followed them but stayed hidden until she knew Miroku would need help. Kagome shot an arrow at the turning woman, hitting her in the shoulder, driving it through her chest, stopping the transformation as she fell to the ground, wounded.
Miroku had been knocked out by the blow to the back of his head upon hitting the tree. But as he slowly came to, he saw Takara, lying in a small puddle of blood. "What happened?" he demanded, looking at Kagome.
"I had to shoot her Miroku! She was going to kill you."
"But you shot her through the heart!"
"I didn't mean-" Kagome was cut off when she was thrown from her spot by a wind blast from Takara, who had come to & was starting to get up.
"Takara..." Miroku said softly, looking at her. Why does she have to remember today? Why now? She could have a child starting & if she leaves, I'll never know!
"You shall die, but not today... I will kill you when we meet again," Takara spoke before she fled, leaving behind her the smell of blood.
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Sesshomaru had been taking an afternoon doze when a strange scent filled his nose & his eyes opened his eyes, but no one was in his room. He closed his eyes & inhaled deeply, trying to get more of the scent, but it was gone. The short breeze that had brought it to his window was gone. He rose from his bed & was soon gone from the palace, having found the scent once more. He followed the scent not too far from the castle, stopping when he came upon a body that had barely any pulse that he could hear. The body lay limp in a small puddle of blood that he guessed was from a wound. He turned the body over with his foot & felt his heart stop when he saw who it was he had just turned over. "Takara," he whispered as he knelt down & picked her up into his arms.
Once he returned to the his home with her, he brought her to the room she occupied during her earlier time there & laid her on her bed. Removing the kimono from her, he searched for the wound that was bringing her so close to her death until he found the hole that went through her chest, heart, & out her back. Now that he found it, he began to work on healing her to way he had seen his father heal Inu Yasha's mother in the early few years they had all been together. He knew this would heal the inside, but the outside would take a little bit longer.
Takara moaned & arched her back as he explored the warm folds of her flesh with his erotic mouth. Her head fell back in surrender as he savored her with his lips & tongue. When she arched against him, he got a better grip, making it so she was trapped for him. With expert skill, he lapped slowly at her, his hot tongue stroking her in heated throbs, pleasing the throbbing, quivering bud. She brought her hands to his hair, desperately clutching. "Miroku, please!"
She awoke to the feeling of fingers running through her hair & a soft humming sound that belong to a semi-deep voice. She tensed, praying for Miroku's safety that it wasn't him, but when her nose filled with the familiar scent of Sesshomaru, she relaxed & opened her eyes. She looked at her solemn face with closed eyes, relaxed features, & smiled, feeling as if she was at home. "Sesshomaru?" she whispered.
His eyes opened & he looked down at her. "You're awake," he whispered. "That's good... How are you feeling?"
"Terrible," she replied, closing her eyes.
"How were you so badly wounded?"
"I was shot with an arrow... One of Kagome's arrows. I take it you found me in the field? I would have made it back here, but I was too weak."
"It's quite alright Takara," he quieted her. "I do not blame you for your delayed return, because you could not control it." He noticed the sadness & hurt on her face & his mouth formed a frown. "What is wrong?"
"My Lord, I beg of you... Please kill me."
"What?"
"Kill me Lord Sesshomaru, for I have betrayed you."
He then realized that she was talking about what Jaken had told her, but he decided it best to act like he knew nothing of what she meant. "What have you done to betray me?"
"While I was gone, I took bed with a man. A human..."
"Who?"
"The monk that travels with Inu Yasha. I'm terribly sorry my Lord & I would understand & be grateful if you were to kill me right now." Takara closed her eyes, hoping he would use his Dokkasou on her to make her suffer a slow & painful death, but instead she felt him wrap his arms tightly around her & hold her close. "Lord Sesshomaru?" She opened her eyes.
"It's alright Takara. I do not hate you, I couldn't if I tried," he replied, looking into her eyes.
"I feel the same my lord, but you should hate me after what I said & did to you." She looked down. " would be worthy of no other punishment but death. Please..."
"I'm not killing you Takara."
"Why not?"
"I can't bring myself to do it. I never could. Never in a million years."
"You should-"
"But I refuse to. Takara, I care not that you were taken by a human, it wasn't your fault at all, but only that you are here, living with me."
"Lord-"
"Don?t," he placed his finger over her lips. "Please call me Sesshomaru? No 'Lord' to it. Can you do that for me?" Takara nodded & he kissed her softly. "Good."
"Have you given such privilege to Rin or any other?"
Sesshomaru smiled. "I've done better."
"What have you done?" Takara questioned as she turned her head to better look at him than just out of the corner of her eye.
"Wait here for me," he spoke as he rose from the bed & left the room, leaving Takara by herself.
He should kill me for what I've done... she thought to herself. But then again, he is right, it's not my fault. I lost my memory when that cursed monk continued to hit me over the head so many times. I'm going to kill him if I ever see him again... Takara's attention was taken from her thoughts to the doorway where Sesshomaru appeared with Rin.
"Rin, why don't you go over there & tell Lady Takara what you've been told you have permission to call me?" He smiled down at the young girl who giggled & ran to the bed where Takara lay.
"Rin's allowed to called Lord Sesshomaru 'Papa'!" she giggled, smiling a wide, toothy grin that melted Takara?s heart as she stared as Sesshomaru, who nodded & walked to the bed, hoisting Rin onto the bed where she sat next to Takara, who was still laying down. "Papa told Rin that you were hurt."
"Yes, but it's nothing Rin. You don't have to worry about it."