Catch A Falling Star by Kandy Kid

Chapter One

Sesshoumaru looked out towards the Western Lands, his lands. The sun disappearing over the mountain as if saying good-bye to another day. The sky painted with yellows, oranges, and reds spilled here and there. But the taiyoukai wasn't focusing on that, no, he was trying to figure out how he got himself into this mess. That now, he had house that bitch, Inuyasha's bitch to be exact for a year. Clawed fingers pressed against his temples as he tried to think back to that meeting and wondered how he got into this predicament.

FLASHBACK

"So the miko travels with the half-breed, Inuyasha?" A voice boomed as his aqua colored eyes looked to the demon who told him.

"Yes, m'lord. So is very powerful and holds the Shikon No Tama. She beat the hanyou, Naraku with the help of her friends but many do not know what happened. There was light and then the hanyou was dead." Came a more calmer but very timid voice.

"But he was only a hanyou, how could this demon Naraku be so powerful?" The Inuyoukai asked, his tall frame intimidating so that everyone at the table cringed whenever he talked.

"I-I don't know. Sesshoumaru dealt with him before and was there at the battle to help kill Naraku. Maybe he has a better incite to the miko and Naraku." Akira answered as he looked around to Sesshoumaru and gave a little smirk.

All eyes turned to Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands, and he hated being here and the center of attention. Why he dragged himself here, he still did not know. But it was required because of some prophecy. Amber eyes looked to his great-great grandfather, his face impassive as he spoke.

"The miko shows no harm. I, Sesshoumaru, do not know how she killed that half-breed but it was the Shikon No Tama not her."

"Yes, but wasn't it she that always helps you half-twit brother obtain the Tetsusaiga so many times before?"

Sesshoumaru turned to the voice and wanted to slash his cousin's neck. Akira always had to bring his name into it. Family what a joke. He couldn't careless if he had to see all these dog-demons in a thousands years it still would be too soon. The Lord of the Western Lands stayed impassive and emotionless though he thought of a good way to kill his cousin, slow and painful.

"I am demon. So the sword won't let me touch it. Just like you, Akira and so many females?" Sesshoumaru replied back cool and calm.

Akira emerald eyes tinted to a shade of red as he was about to make a rebuttal but was silenced by the oldest there.

"Since Sesshoumaru had experience before with miko then he will capture her and bring her here at this time, next year." Slowly the old demon got up, so to say that the discussion was over. No one dared question the oldest and Sesshoumaru knew this.

Amber eyes looked to his grandfather leave, the oldest of them all. He was suppose to be the wisdom here and now he had to get that stupid miko and keep her with him for a year. What wisdom. Sesshoumaru growled in frustration as everyone started to scatter away but his stupid cousin stepped beside him.

"Hope you don't make the mistake that your father did. I heard she is very beautiful." With that he was gone and Sesshoumaru couldn't make a quick comment. He was left to his thoughts in how was he going to handle the wench for a year.

END

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The jewel felt cool as it rolled back and forth against her palm. Cinnamon eyes just watched the pink colored jewel and sighed in frustration. How did she come from Kagome, a normal teenager, to Kagome, protector of the Shikon No Tama? Now that it was whole, demons from miles around would be coming to get this thing.

"Why do you bring so much problems and pain to the people around you?" The girl asked and sighed in defeat knowing it will never talk back. She has been doing that a lot with the jewel and wondered if she will ever find happiness. Kikyou, when protector of the jewel, fell in love with Inuyasha and both ended up being tricked and killed. But now, that she didn't have the jewel. Her vision started to get blurry and she felt tears welling up had suppressed them as she tried not to think of that. But how could she not think that? She sees it everyday, Inuyasha and Kikyou hugging or kissing. Now that Kikyou doesn't have the jewel she has Inuyasha and. . .a drop of liquid fell on her palm as she looked up and down but the sky was clear and the sun beamed down on the clearing. With her other hand, she placed her fingers on her cheek and figured out it was she who produced the liquid, she was crying again.

"But Inuyasha is happy. He is about to be a father." With Kikyou, not you. You were worthless. Kagome hated that negative part of her mind. Inuyasha couldn't let go of the past of what could of happened so she asked the Jewel to spare Kikyou and give her another chance. And you could of had a chance with him if you weren't so selfless. But he is happy and so am I. So why are you crying?

"I can't let go of the past either." She mumbled as she wrapped the jewel around her fingers and started to cry. The sky was getting dark as tried to wipe away the last pieces of her sorrow. She had to let go of Inuyasha and any dreams of them being together. She granted him happiness with the one person, he truly loved. It wasn't her either. The miko bit down on her bottom lip and shuddered as a cool wind passed and The Sacred Tree swayed in the summer's wind. Her brown eyes looked to the Bone Eater's Well and wondered now that she had the whole Shikon No Tama, why couldn't she go home? Why couldn't she go home and leave the past and her hurt feelings here?

"I guess all you do is bring sorrow and pain, huh?" She asked the jewel again. "The Great and powerful Shikon No Tama" she mocked, "is only a worthless piece of junk to its owner." She bit down on her bottom lip harder, breaking the skin and tasting the copper flavored blood seep from her wound as she tried not to cry again. So much for happy endings or everyone else had a great ending except her.

"Stop wallowing in self-pity. Miroku and Sango are together and married. Shippou is growing up fast and soon will be able to find a mate of his own. Inuyasha is happy and about to be a father. With all the hell Naraku put on all of them, even Kikyou they found happiness." Kagome pounded her fist on the ground to her side and nodded. She shouldn't be sulking, she made everyone else happy. Before she could get up to leave a tingle went up and down her spine.

"A demon." She whispered, having these feelings a lot now since the jewel was whole. The bow and arrows by her side as she got up and grabbed her weapon. Already stringing the bow and notching the arrow waiting for the demon to come make itself known but she was dumbfounded when the demon appeared. "Sesshoumaru?"

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Sesshoumaru decided to get the girl now just incase she disappeared again. As he tracked her scent and headed to Inuyasha's Forest. He thought he never have to see that half-breed and his friends again but he was wrong. He hated being wrong. As he got closer, the miko's scent got stronger but though it was sweet it was mixed with sorrow. What is wrong with that wench? He couldn't careless, he came for her so she can be killed. He kept his word even if he disapproved it. As he came into the clearing, he looked to wench with her raven tresses blowing in the wind and her weapon prepared. Like that is going to bring down, the Lord of the Western Lands. But he knew not to be so confident around her, he remembered how powerful she was in battle. The blue glow around her the miko's power have grown since the battle so he took some precautions.

"I come for you." He said coolly as he looked to the arrow and the tip already turning a pinkish hue.

"Why?" She asked, the arrow pointed right at heart. If he has one.

Sesshoumaru for a second. Why? That in a year's time, she is suppose to be killed because of a prophecy? No, he couldn't tell her that. The long silence was broken as he spoke, "Rin needs a teacher."

"And you expect me to go?"

"What do you have here? My idiot half-brother has a mate and it is not you. The other two have each other. And the kitsune is old enough to not need you anymore."

Kagome lowered her arrows slightly as she tried not to cry again, she was trying to do that less and less. But Sesshoumaru told the truth. Who needed her anymore? Everyone would be fine on their own, right? Rin needed her atleast someone did. It was Sesshoumaru, why should she trust him?

"I don't believe you, Fluffy." She spat out.

Sesshoumaru tried to cool down and not to be so hotheaded like his half-brother. But with his demon speed, he pressed the girl against the tree, her neck in his hand as his honey eyes looked into her brown ones. His clawed finger pressing into her flesh until a bit of blood seeped from the cut.

"Fine. But no one will need you here. You will not be harmed in my care." He let go and stepped back as the moon washed over the two. The beams highlighting his long, silver hair and noble features.

Kagome never trusted Sesshoumaru but he was one to always keep his word no matter what. The miko stood awestruck by his beauty. For a second, he reminded her of Inuyasha being proud and arrogant. She looked away trying not to cry again as she finally made her decision.

"Fine, I will help teach Rin."

He turned back to her and caught her scent once again before answering, "I will get you tommorrow." Sesshoumaru turned to head back into the forest but Kagome found her voice again.

"What time?"

He never turned around as he replied, "When the moon is the ruler of the sky." Then he was gone. Kagome had to sit back on the bark of The Sacred Tree and ponder her choice.