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Edge of Paradise	By : QueenoftheDream Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 5325 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The two women shortly reached the outskirts of the village, both with uncertainty etched upon their faces. Sango guided the young miko into a small space between two huts.
"How are we going to do this," Sango asked breathlessly, her voice slightly pitched up in worry.
Kagome's eyes widened. She hadn't thought that far in advance if she was to be completely honest with herself. "All I know is that this," she hoisted the severed head up to be planted more firmly under her arm, "needs to be returned to the demon. Hopefully that will complete the curse and bring the demon to rest." Sango looked like her jaw would drop, but she hastily replaced the staggered expression with one of stony resolve and leveled her gaze to stare into Kagome's wide, panicky eyes.
"So you're saying that you will need a distraction, correct? I think I can manage that."
Kagome paled. She could feel her lips trembling and dared not speak, for she feared that her voice would further betray the fear that was threatening to overcome her sanity.
Sango, seeing the priestess's fear and nervous demeanor, sighed heavily. "We passed the time for hesitation long ago. We will do what must be done." Kagome looked up to the slayer, attempting to regain her poise.
"There must be another way to accomplish this without you putting your life on the line. It-" She was cut off when Sango raised her hand, effectively silencing the younger woman.
"If there was another way, we have passed the point of discovering it. We have no time left. The demon approaches." Surely enough, Kagome could hear light footfall coming from the direction of the forest.
"You cannot use your bow with one hand holding the… that thing. I will distract him as best I can. You, on the other hand, have to figure out how to get that thing's head back on its shoulders without losing your own in the process." Sango's lips stretched into a small grin, and Kagome's confidence increased as the slayer's visage took on an air of determination and ferocity that only an impending battle could produce.
"Be careful…"
"There's no need to fret. My blood won't end up on your hands. You can count on that, Kagome-chan." Sango winked before stepping confidently into the dim moonlight to confront their enemy. A careful smile graced Kagome's lips, but it was quickly exchanged for a countenance of hard resolve as she saw the demon appear from behind the trees. She quietly came forward, making sure that her position would not hinder or compromise Sango.
The slayer squared her shoulders and shifted her stance. The demon continued walking forward, and with a loud yell, she hurled her weapon with the intent of severing a limb.
To her horror, however, the demon, by some preternatural means, dodged the weapon and darted toward the slayer in a blur of white. Kagome yelped and sprinted toward the tree line, watching their plan crumble to ash in terror.
Before the stunned slayer could reach for the wakizashi secured at her side, the demon lashed out, striking the woman with its forearm and sending her crashing into a tree with a strangled cry and a sickening crack. As she slid to the ground, Kagome saw that she left a dark smear of blood along the bark.
In the time that it took to shift her panicked gaze away from the fallen warrior, Kagome saw her world tilt as she was pushed backward with a powerful swipe of the demon's hand. The back of her head slammed into the base of a tree, and her vision alarmingly blurred. She was barely able to make out two swaying duplicates of the white-clothed demon slowly approaching her.
The incapacitated girl was helpless as the demon pounced on her prone form, digging the long claws of his left hand into her shoulder, effectively pinning her to the ground. She could feel warm blood bubbling up from the deep puncture wounds, and a scream almost flew from her lips until the demon's other hand came up to ghost over her throat.
The demon's knees bored painfully into her thighs, preventing escape. She saw it bring its right hand back, the index finger emanating pale green light.
As he swung his arm down, the world slowed. Vision suddenly clear, she forced the pale head from under the crook of her arm and into both hands and heaved her hands above her head. Looking over the demon's broad shoulders, she saw the crescent moon glowing just above the center of the torso.
Following the moon's beacon, she threw her hands forward and slammed the head upon its shoulders just as a glowing claw grazed the base of her throat, causing the skin there to slightly sizzle. The demon froze in place. Kagome could vaguely hear the eerie howling of a wolf in the distance drift through the thick silence that had fallen.
She watched in equal parts sheer terror and morbid fascination as the flesh of the neck fused with that of the shoulders. The demon removed both hands from her body, his claws pulling out of the deep wounds in her right shoulder and eliciting a small cry from her lips. Her left hand flew up to cover the wound, which was soaking through her hakui and staining the earth below her.
Her blood ran cold when, instead of turning to ash or vanishing, the demon's eyelids snapped open, revealing haunting golden irises that bored into her like discs of burning fire.
His face contorted into a deadly sneer, and delicately arched eyebrows sank dangerously low upon his brow. "…Kikyou," he rasped lowly, his vocal chords gravelly and rigid after fifty years of severance and dormancy. He sprung backward, landing deftly upon his feet before crouching back into a striking position.
Quickly scrambling to her feet, Kagome shook her head rapidly, causing her to reel like a drunkard before catching herself on another tree trunk. With rising dread, she watched her longbow and quiver fall from her shoulder, both smashed and broken to pieces beyond repair from her fall. Her eyes gravitated back to the demon, who was furiously growling. In the back of her mind, Kagome realized that the odds of surviving this encounter with an enraged and feral daiyokai had dropped to zero.
"How dare you show your face again, treacherous sorceress," he snarled, the whites of his eyes bleeding to crimson.
Shaking her head once more, Kagome managed to utter a shaky response. "N-no. Forgive me, but you mistake me for another. I know not of any 'Kikyou,' but I have restored life to you. I… I humbly request that you leave the village, for there is no reason to linger and continue your torment." She fell to her knees and bowed as lowly as her battered body allowed.
To Kagome's despondency, this only appeared to anger the demon further. "You lie," he ground out, his face contorting into an expression of raw malice. "Where are my swords? A vile shrew such as yourself is not worthy of the touch of my bare hands." A small voice in the back of Kagome's head itched to point out her scarred left hand and new burn at the base of her throat, but she chalked it up to delirium brought on by blood loss and ruthlessly squashed it. Instead, she opted for gaping like a fish, grasping for words that were so out of reach.
Before the demon could get in another word, or perhaps more likely a strike, uneven thumping footsteps could be heard approaching at a rapid pace. Turning her head to the left, she could see Kaede hobbling toward them as fast as her old bones could take her.
"Sesshomaru-sama, you must stop," the old woman wheezed as she came to a stop in front of Kagome, whose vision was becoming increasingly hazy and swirling.
The demon's lips curled back in a snarl, displaying sharp canines that glistened in the moonlight. "Who are you to command me, human?"
Ignoring the insult completely, Kaede continued. "Yon Kagome here has managed to revive you after fifty years of dormancy. She surely does not deserve to be meted punishment by you for such an act. Kikyou… Kikyou is dead, my lord." The old woman held her head up high, but Kagome could vaguely see her throat bobbing nervously. The last thing Kagome saw was this "Lord Sesshomaru" turning to look at her, the alarming blur to her eyesight lending a seeming glow to his white-clad form. She then promptly crumpled to the ground with a dull thud. In her unconscious state, she realized not how close she had come to death.
The demon lord darted forward to the prone miko, turning her limp body over with his booted foot. As he bent over to examine her more closely, he seemed to have come to a conclusion judging by the sidelong glance and accompanying scowl: one that indeed confirmed the aged priestess's claim. With a flare of his nostrils and a spiteful glance at the unaware young girl's face, he spun on his heel and disappeared into the forest, leaving the stunned Kaede to attempt to rouse the battered miko and slayer and wonder what manner of foul beast had been unleashed from its cage.
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