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Chapter 1: Hearts Separation
“Kagome my kiz, relax, you are almost there,”
“I know Asil...but…”
“No buts,” he responded gently but firmly, “There is no way you will be discovered, I made sure of that.”
Leaning back against the cushioned air seat, Kagome sighed and looked out the airplanes window, the silhouette of Istanbul rolling under the private jet's wings. Running her hand over her bandaged arm, the demoness fought back tears as she remembered exactly why she was on an airplane with her estranged father, heading for his private home in Turkey’s capital. Trying her best not to cry in her current predicament, she reached over and gently placed Socrates in her lap, the cat only offering a short cry in response to being moved from his spot. Thankful she had been able to snag him from the pet hotel before boarding, Kagome delicately stroked the seal colored Himalayan, bringing his head up to her face as a few hot droplets of salt water made its way out of her eyes.
As the attendant alerted them that the jet was landing, Asil let out a sigh of relief at finally being out of the proverbial hells fire, the shit storm that followed behind his daughter’s most recent escapade still shooting venom straight into his veins. Examining her while her face was buried in the fur of her cat, the Turkish dog let out a silent prayer of thanks to the swordsmith who had done the impossible and found a cure for his daughter’s conflicting auras at long last. Her body was still getting used to the surgical blocks from the looks of things, as evidenced by her random shudders as the implants inside her worked their magic to filter out the holy energy that had caused her pain for so long.
“Kagome….” he softly called, garnering her attention and earning a sniffle as she tried to appear brave in his presence.
“What?” she asked softly, Socrates still held precariously in her arms, she quietly looked at her foreign sire.
“There are some things we need to discuss once we are at my home,” he began, “The first of which being what you intend to do after you are settled and had a chance to fully heal.” Glancing over her body, he damned his chronic stubbornness which she had inherited from him, her broken body was far from ready to handle a long travel especially a twelve hour flight halfway across the world, but he had been beyond excited when she had called him of all people to help her leave Japan unnoticed. He had taken a few personal days off from work to rush all the way to Tokyo to retrieve his broken daughter, though he had to promise not to take vengeance on the man who had done this to her.
“Wha….What do you mean?”
“I mean what will you do? That lowly cur and his father most certainly cannot be allowed to get away with what they’ve done to you, all I need to do is make a few phone calls and….”
“No syndicate assassinations,” Kagome suddenly called out hoarsely, it still hurt to talk louder than a whisper for the moment, “No war, no media storms, just leave it alone Asil….”
“Kagome,” he responded, his heavy accent returning with his frustration, “Inu no Taisho, a grown ass man, beat the shit out of my daughter, a helpless twenty-year-old! One who is chronically ill no less and already traumatized by life as much as it is. Are you honestly telling me you expected me to just pull you from that Asian stool pit and do nothing else?” he eyed the demoness incredulous while off-handedly putting on his seatbelt, seeing the light had come on while he was talking.
“Yes….it is the least you owe me,” she responded, a coughing fit overtook her after she answered, causing her to drop Socrates and grab her ribs in pain which still ached to the touch. Nearly a week and a half had passed since that horrible incident and her body was still in such a fragile state. The four-day coma had been nothing compared to the medication free days where every movement she made caused her to feel like she was dying inside and out. In the back of her mind, she once more felt the pull of Sesshomaru who had been attempting to mentally call her for two days straight, she had refused each and every one of his reaches, keeping her walls up even though it cost her severe mental strain to do so.
“My kiz….”
“Father…,” she ground out, silently pleased when his eyes became wide at hearing her call him that, “Whatever you do to Inu no Taisho and his family…..it won’t be enough….he will rationalize each and every action he does, the chances of the syndicate killing him privately with no consequence is nearly zero and you know it….if you fail it won’t make him feel guilty for what he’s done, it’ll just piss him off and then you will have to deal with him possibly going after you in retaliation. I called you to help me leave not start an all-out war between the nations.”
“Kagome…..” his eyes watered with tears as he stared at his full grown daughter, she had changed so much since the last time he had seen her, “You’ve grown up so much….I can’t believe….in my mind, you're always four I never…” his words became garbled as he failed to find the ones that would enable him to express himself the way he wanted to.
“I know….the plane is about to land,” Picking up the nearby carrier for Socrates, she gently coaxed the animal into the cage, ignoring his howls of displeasure at being locked up in a confined space, “we can talk about all of that later, right now I just need to lay down in a bed….”
“Yes…”
“Who knows...this may be a blessing in disguise, consider this a new start….” Securing her own seatbelt, she offered Asil a small smile of encouragement, though she ignored the foreboding in her heart as the plane began its descent. As the jet’s wheels touched the ground, Kagome looked outside in surprise when she heard a sound unlike the pained howls of a dog which sounded surprisingly similar to her Anubis, and though it was so clear she knew she had to be imagining things. ‘Just the wind’ she finally surmised, leaning back in depression she sighed as her mind reminded her that it was a sound she would never naturally hear again.
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“Where is she!”
Grasping the hand that held the lapel of his lab coat, Teruo tried his best to explain the situation to his lord, “I don’t know Sesshomaru-sama, she just left the hospital without properly discharging, we…”
“You’re useless!” Throwing him away from his person, the dog demon took off down the hall, Teruo right on his heels as he headed for Kagome’s hospital room. Empty. It was as though she had vanished into thin air. Even her clothes were gone. Breathing in her scent that was mixed in with the smells of antiseptic and medical equipment, Sesshomaru nearly collapsed on her bed, the pain in his heart causing him to audibly whine in agony. She was gone. But where?
“Sesshomaru-sama…” the owl demon muttered low, “Wherever she is she left willingly, apparently she disappeared during the hospital's shift changes around midnight….” he didn’t want to tell the western heir the truth, but a lie would have been more heartbreaking.
“Why?” he asked no one in particular. She had seemed fine yesterday when he saw her. Though Kagome had been afraid at first of having him near her, she had soon calmed down and had even been spending the night in his arms when her pain became unbearable and her medications wore off. After she had suffered her first-night terror, waking up screaming and in the midst of a panic attack, he had been told she would need extensive therapy to work through the traumatic experience she had been through. He had promised her his father would pay dearly for what he had done, he had made sure of that.
“I don’t know why Sesshomaru-sama...She didn’t even leave a note or tell me….” Watching as the young lord gripped her pillow in his hands to hold tightly to his body, Teruo sighed at the pitiful sight of the western heir who was probably completely wracked with sorrow by now.
Pulling back the bed sheets he noticed the glint of something silver near her pillow and quickly grabbing the object growled low in his throat when he saw the crescent moon necklace that he had given her only a short time ago. She had sworn to never remove it. How could she? Gripping the object tightly in his hand, Sesshomaru threw back his head and released a howl so powerful that it shook the hospital and caused every baby within pre natal care to scream in terror at the sounds of the western lords now broken heart.
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In Istanbul, Kagome snuggled deeper under the beautiful Egyptian cotton sheets that covered the emperor size bed in what was now her new Turkish bedroom. Asil had come and gone, having his servants obtain a daybed for Socrates that the feline had wasted no time in making his own. Pulling at her monogrammed pajama shirt which held her initials, she sighed as she realized her life as of the last few months had been filled with nothing but the most luxurious of accommodations for her for one reason or another.
Asil had ordered her to rest while he took care of some official council member business, and after a bath in her private bathroom and a quick rewrapping of her bandages, Kagome had been forced into bed with an armed syndicate member watching the door from outside her room. The demoness forced herself to relax her body, once more ignoring Anubis’s pull who had by this time realized that she was indeed missing from Japan.
It had been a bad move on her part to continue to lead him on while she secretly planned her escape from Japan once and for all. They had already argued about everything that had occurred, Taisho had been in the hospital at the same time as Kagome, Sesshomaru having nearly placed his father in the morgue after attacking her the way he had. She had assured him over and over that she did not blame him for what his sire had done, and he hadn’t believed her, using the way she had flinched at his touch for the first few days after waking up as proof that she now hated him as much as she did his parents. Their fight had only gotten louder when she mentioned moving to China to work for Jun-Long after graduating, even showing him the papers his father had signed, allowing her to leave his province in favor of another. He had destroyed them in a rage and Kagome had slapped him in anger.
Everything had been said and done, but it had been his declaration their last night together that had finally given her the kick she needed to actually abandon the only man she had ever loved. Even though she wished she could take it back, while she tried to relax in his arms he had slowly seduced her into letting him touch her more intimately than before. She had allowed him to pleasure her body within that hospital room, Sesshomaru taking care not to aggravate her bruises or put too much pressure on her hips or other sensitive areas, it was only after she had found release that he had admitted to her what he intended to do if she would not stay with him after all of this was over.
“I refuse to take another as my mate...Inuyasha will be held responsible for continuing our families line, my legacy lives and dies with me alone.”
If she had stayed she knew in her heart he would have done as he claimed, he would never have agreed to a platonic relationship, and after leaving her a shuddering orgasmic mess she knew she wouldn’t have either. They had crossed a line that couldn’t be undone. There had been no other way.
Closing her eyes, Kagome silently hoped that Sesshomaru would be able to move past this sooner rather than later, perhaps if he let go she would be able to do the same. As she drifted off to sleep, the demoness heard her inner beast fighting her rationale for abandoning her alpha, her basic instincts begged her to return to him and ask forgiveness for disobeying his wishes. And though nothing would have made her happier than to do as it asked, Kagome only turned to her side, her tears soaking her pillowing as she cried herself to sleep once more for what felt like the millionth time in her life.