Chapter 10: Torment of others.
Sesshomaru lied back, holding Kagome to his chest, let Kagome’s body rest from their brutal heaven session and enjoyed the scent of his seed soaked into her lovely skin. Even in her sleep, Kagome had moan and gasped as he had enjoyed her sweet body, he had liked how she hadn’t protested because she was asleep. He listened to her heartbeat, enjoying the sound of it until he noticed that it was getting slower. “Kagome,” he said, hoping to wake her from her deep slumber.
But she didn’t answer him; the poison was working its deadly magic on her body. It rushed through Kagome’s veins like an animal chasing down its prey, ripping through her body and organs as it made her sleep. It was going to give her a death that would turn painful when it was too far gone to be cured.
“Kagome, wake up.” Sesshomaru ordered, he didn’t like how she wasn’t responding to him and worry started to fill him as the seconds went by. So the worry was too much for him, quick to get dressed, Sesshomaru went in search of his mother and daughter to have the taken care of. He found them in his mother’s rooms; his mother and her handmaidens seemed to be playing with some of the thousands of stuff dogs that she had made for his child. His little Moonlight watched as her grandmother and her handmaidens put on a little play with the toys for her, giggling when one of the stuff dogs come up to her and act like it was licking her face; Sesshomaru watched his little girl, happy that she was content at the moment and grateful to Kagome for birthing their little perfection.
Nori didn’t even notice her son as she and her handmaidens put on a little play for her wondrous little granddaughter, who watched them with delight playing in her beautiful ocean blue eyes. “The one doggie played in the meadow with her mother and father all day long,” Nori said before tickling her little granddaughter with the stuffed animal. “Mother.”
Nori was surprised by the sight of her son then look back at Mizuki and the stuffed animal in her hand before looking back at her son again, and tossing the stuffed animal over her shoulder like it had never been there. “Sesshomaru, do you need something?” His mother asked as she picked up his daughter as he eyed her…Sesshomaru was a little weirded out that his mother had acted like that with his little girl. “I’m worried about Kagome’s health…her heartbeat seemed slower than normal. I want you to have the physician check on her health as I do something work.” Sesshomaru said before snatching Mizuki from her grandmother to spend some daddy and daughter time alone.
Nori frowned at her son for a moment as he walked away with his daughter in his arms.
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Sakura’s spy smiled when it saw Sesshomaru leave his concubine’s rooms and begin his search for his mother and child. It slipped into the rooms and looked over its work, Kagome sleep on her futon, her heart slowing to a stop because of the poison before it would wake her from her peaceful slumber to giving her a horrifying death. After checking that everything was going as needed with the poison, it turned and left before anyone would notice that it had been there to begin with.
Moving quietly, it moved through the palace and gathering knowledge for its other master, Lord Takashi when it felt the summons of Lord Takashi.
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Nori wasn’t sure what was wrong with Kagome, but had the physician come and tend to her until she realized that he was a stupid fool that didn’t know what was wrong with her son’s concubine. The fool was wasting time that could be used to save the mother of her granddaughter and future grandchildren. She took pleasure in kill the worthless fool before going to Sesshomaru about the current problem of Kagome’s health; she refused to settle with just one grandchild…no matter how prefect the little sweetie was.
Rushing to her son, she tried to think of who would want Kagome gone. Nori doubted that it would be the other Lords, they had seen Kagome birth a full demon female, so they knew that she was too important to simply kill her like she was a mere human. The Lords would want to take her and use her until she couldn’t give birth anymore…or died in the process of birthing. The only ones that she could think of that would want Kagome gone was that stupid mate of her son’s and the Ladies of the other Lords, after all no one would want their child to placed second by a concubine’s child.
But for Sakura…it would be more about the power play involved at the moment. Kagome had proven that she could give birth to full demons and females as well, that coupled with the power that she had, made her a possible mate for Sesshomaru if anything happened to Sakura. Nori knew that it was driving Sakura crazy that Kagome was able to so many things that she, herself couldn’t do and how Sesshomaru was growing fond of the mother of his daughter. She knew that her son was barely have Heaven sessions with Sakura at the moment, telling both Sakura and everyone else with a strong sense of smell, that Kagome had more favor with him than his mate did. But Sakura wouldn’t kill Kagome at the moment; Kagome was needed to bear more children.
Mizuki was prefect in every way, but she was female and it would not do to have her rule when Sesshomaru felt that it was time for her to do so. He needed a son, a male heir to rule after him or his line would be seen to come to an end.
She refused to allow that to happen, she refused to have her line end after all the pain and suffering her went through to see it begin. She wasn’t about to let some sterile bitch end her legacy or her son’s, and Kagome was the key to that legacy’s survival. Finally finding her son in his study, she went in to be greeted by the adorable sight of her son gently rocking his daughter to sleep in his arms, it was the prefect image of the loving father that he was. It almost broke her heart to step into his study and ruin it, but Kagome’s life was at stake.
Sesshomaru noticed his mother and the frown on her lovely face. He looked at his daughter, innocent and sweet, playful, but well-behaved, and he had made this child with Kagome; it was odd, but he didn’t think he wanted to create more children unless they had come from her womb. It just didn’t seem right to him if he was to take another concubine if Kagome died, and he knew that it would affect his prefect little girl. “What is wrong with her mother? Has the physician learned of the cause and taken care of it?” He asked when his mother reached his side. Nori looked at the sweet baby in her son’s arms, and knew what her son was thinking. She liked Kagome as well and would be greatly saddened by her loss if she didn’t survive, but she would also make plans if that was the case as well. “I believe we need a human healer…like a priestess or physician to help Kagome. The physician that we had was lacking in understanding, it seemed.”
Sesshomaru’s eyes turned red at his mother’s words, so the physician had been lacking when it came to Kagome…he was not happy with the knowledge. “I know of a healer that will do the job.” Sesshomaru told his mother as he handed his little Moonlight to her before changing into a ball of light and flying off, leaving them there in his study.
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Rin sorted the dried herbs as Lady Kaede and Sango helped Inuyasha and Miroku prepare for the journey that they were about to take to get Kagome back from Sesshomaru. The young girl hoped that Inuyasha and her Lord Sesshomaru didn’t kill each other when they met. Rin knew that her Lord had taken Kagome from Inuyasha that she had even given birth to his first child, she was truly happy for her Lord and Kagome. She smiled as she remembered wishing to be with her Lord forever and ever as well as wishing that Kagome would be with her Lord.
It would likely seem odd to others since it appeared to a number of others that she was in love with her Lord, but she wasn’t. She saw him in a very different light than that, she saw him as a friend…and as a father. When she cared to think about it, her father had been very much like Lord Sesshomaru, both were kind, gentle, and very sweet to her. They were both quiet people that had difficulty telling others what they felt, but she had always been able to tell what they were thinking. She also thought of how her mother and Kagome were alike as well. Kind, gentle, strong and stubborn as mule, both her mother and Kagome were so alike in their personality that Rin had been truly drawn to Kagome.
Half-heartedly, she listened to Inuyasha and Miroku talk about what they were going to do to get to Kagome. In so many ways she both hoped that they were able to bring Kagome back and that they would fail as well. Her Lord was different when Kagome had been around them though they were few and far in between; the light that would come to Lord Sesshomaru’s eyes had been very much the same as when her father looked at her mother.
She hoped to see the future that they would have together…good or bad.
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Takashi grabbed his spy by the neck, enraged by the actions against Kagome that had been done. He couldn’t believe that his sister was such a fool that she would do that to him…it was clear that he had been too gentle with his stupid whore of a sister. Sakura needed to be punished for her foolish actions; she needed to be punished for almost ruining his plans for Kagome, for ruining his plans to grow his children from her womb and to rule the world of demons.
His sister needed to be punished very harshly and his spy needed to go and save Kagome before it was too late to do so. Let his spy go, he looked at the cowering creature before him. “I want you to return and save Kagome. If she dies then I will see to it that you do as well,” He warned his spy before it left to do as ordered. With the rage still flowing in his veins, he got up and left his throne room, needing to kill something innocent. Maybe he should go to the servants’ rooms and take one of the servants’ children to torture and mutilate it until its dead or his rage faded away with the sweet screams of the frightful child’s voice. Or better yet, go to a human village and take a woman in similar appearance to his pet, Kagome, and take her body against her will like he would Kagome until her sanity breaks or Kagome is within his grasp…yes that seemed like the better idea.
The servants would be happy that they would not have to replace the child and he would be content to bring pain to his little virgin whore of a human. It was always fun for him to break the spirit in the weak-minded women that humanity had; it was delightful when they would scream in pain of his touch, and beg the gods and the goddesses for death as he took them. Takashi also like to make his toyssuffer if his seed took root in their weak bodies…after all, nothing was sweeter than the flesh of a newborn babe, fresh from the mother’s womb and he had no need for a worthless half breed. He loved the look on the mother’s face as he enjoyed his treat right in front of her as every part of her was shattered beyond repair.
Humans were so weak when compared to demons, gods or even other animals since in his eyes; they were after all less than worms in the ground.
But it made him wonder if Kagome would be so easily broken…he had some priestesses in the past, they were a little stronger than common village women and were a hell of a lot stronger than simple minded noble women. Takashi thought back to the birth though…thought back to how Kagome had defied the tradition of remaining silence during the birthing. He thought of how she had defended herself from his sister’s words with her power, he thought of how she was clearly of stronger stock than that of this era.
Thought of breaking her will and turning her into his pet, made lust grasp his manhood and darkened his eyes in hunger of her flesh. He looked down at his need and was quick to leave his palace in search of his new toy, wanting her to scream in pain as he released his lust on her virgin state.
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Inuyasha and Miroku said their goodbyes, and started journey to save Kagome…with Inuyasha dragging a tied up Jaken to guide them to her. Inuyasha and Miroku said nothing as they thought of the journey ahead of them, though Jaken would not shut up about how his Lord Sesshomaru would save him from them until Inuyasha started slamming him against trees.
He didn’t want to hear his older half-brother’s name, he didn’t want to feel the rage that hearing it brought him. Inuyasha wanted nothing more than to hold Kagome in his arms and protect her against his brother. He wanted to free her from the cage that his brother had trapped her in, and let her spread her wings again as she smiled at him.
But he wondered if that was at all possible since she would forever be reminded by her child.
He slammed Jaken against another tree as he thought of his new family member, a little girl named Mizuki. He knew that Kagome would never leave her child behind, but he was sure that she would forever be tormented by the little girl’s existence. So it left the question of what to be done, and what he would do for Kagome. Would he be able to do such a horrible and unforgivable act for the one woman that he loved or would he let her forever be in torment by his brother’s seed?
Inuyasha had always desired to simply take care of Kagome’s babies since Kikyo’s death, even if they weren’t his children, but another man’s children. But he knew Kagome, he knew that she loved him and not his brother, that it was his children that Kagome had wanted to bring into this world and his brother’s. It torn at his soul to know that the woman he loved had had her legs spread against her will and birthed the seed of his brother. Inuyasha looked to the sky, wondering why the gods like to fuck with his life so much.