Regrets by Sonny Rose

A Daiyoukais Regret

Disklaimer: I dont own the Inuyasha characters, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi

((This story is also posted on Fanfiction.net under my profile SonnyRose))

Regrets

Time.

It’s such a limited thing.

Some people think about it all the time, hurrying from place to place to get everything done.

There is a certain time limit for every being that walked on this planet, a fate that was bestowed on them from birth.

Some were unknowing of this fate and ignored the fact that in just a couple of years they soon wouldn’t exist anymore.

The almost only time they would start realize times value was when their body started to wither away, as their age caught up to them.

Then they started to think of life, the value of living. One starts to feel regret, all the things you hadnt done or done wrong. The family you left behind.

Sometimes fate plays tricks on the beings, messes with the time that they were born to have.

It takes it away with one of their ultimate ways, just as easy as when the being were created.

Humans felt it all the time. Diseases could erase those years their body were meant to have, a sickness that would take their youth from them and eventually their life.

How amusing.

He had never thought of time before himself. The word death had never bothered him as he lived from day to day and it was mostly him that took others life away.

And yet...here he was.

Chained in a dark tower, with only a small opening to let in some faint light to the circular room he was held in. The only thing that was inside with him, was a mirror.

It was right before him, so every time he looked up he could see himself withering away. He could see the effect of the magic chains that held him, that drained him of everything.

This position was something he would never had imagined that he, the great taiyoukai of the west would end up like this.

And it was all his fault. His ignorance and arrogance had put him here; his years that he would had lived being stolen from his heart.

The young demoness he had just turned his back upon as she declared her love for him and he then had sent away, wasn’t forgiving it seemed.

She had wanted his power and it seemed as if she would stop at nothing to get it.

The once proud youkai glanced up into the mirror again, ending up staring into the reflection.

He didn’t see the being he was, or rather were anymore. He wasn’t old, he was still a pup in many other rulers eyes and would had defied him if it wasn’t for his great abilities.

And yet, now he looked like he'd live thousands of years more than he had. His hair had lost its shine long ago and was  more grey than silvery white, his body had become frail and looked at it could break if he moved to harshly.

Even his eyes seemed to had dulled, a mere remembrance of his heritage in his aged face.

He closed his eyes, trying to remain strong, trying to forget that pathetic being in the mirror.

Trying to forget the reason he was here, the main reason he declined that demoness.

The one that he would never be able to tell what he truly felt anymore, the one that he truly wanted.

The one he had grown to love, even though he had ignored it, seeing it as nonsense.

Even when he had taken her into his are after the evil hanyou was defeated. When the jewel of four souls were complete and the wish made, leaving the once dead priestess alive once again and the shikons protector alone and captured in a world she didn’t belong in anymore.

Even then he ignored his true feelings, the ones that had been unconsciously made him take her in.

She had always smiled at him through her pain, always seemed to care for him even though he were his enemy for many years.

Although he never had tried to harm her, not since she caught his attention in his father’s grave.

Since then, her loyalty and warm aura had sneaked his way into his mind, managing to make their way into something he had locked up many years ago.

His heart.

He should had seen this coming, as only her simple plead had made him revive a stranger demons father.

Her strength, her passion and warmth...he wanted it.

And now it was too late.

His time was up, the one he never even had thought of until now.

She would never be his and would probably die as his castle fell without him.

He smirked slightly.

Not without a fight though. She would protect his home and subjects until she died herself...she was that loyal.

He sighed lightly before he clenched his teeth in pain as another piece of his being was torn away from him, leaving him dazed and weaker than ever.

He couldn’t even move anymore. This last draining had taken the last power he had left and he knew that the next one would end his torment.

So his eyes remained closed as he waited for what he knew awaited him, his soul aching with regret.

Then he felt a light shake in the ground. Was he imagining it?

No there was it again. Someone was fighting; he could even hear it now, even with his worsened hearing.

Then he felt a surge of power, strong and warm before it dissipated once again. His heart almost seemed to stop.

Could it be..? Was she really here?

He continued to listen, a faint hope awakened in his heart that he may see her one last time before the darkness claimed him.

Then, he heard a earsplitting scream and at first he feared it was hers.

But soon he felt her aura, warm and powerful as it spread over the building, searching. Then it hit the remains if his and immediately engulfed him, warming and soothing him.

There was something different about it, but he didn’t know what. He didn’t really care at that moment either as he took in her warmth, his aching body not seeming that bad anymore.

Then he heard her. Those light steps that ran towards his cell before stopping outside the door.

The door soon was busted open and he had to close his eyes at the sudden light that flooded in, an effect from being in the dark for so long.

Then the chains that held him, drained him, dissipated in a flash of holy light and he felt himself falling, only to get caught into a warm embrace. Soon he felt two hands cupping his face, tilting it upwards and he slowly opened his eyes.

There she was. Her warm blue-grey eyes gazed down at him, full of pain and worry.

She was just as beautiful as before, but something was off. She practically glowed in the dark, a light green glow around her form as she looked down upon him.

"Sesshomaru..."

She whispered low before a tear escaped her eyes, falling down on his deathly pale skin.

Soon more tears followed as she caressed his cheek, sending her heat into his frail skin.

She looked like an angel, an immortal with that power flowing around her and doing the impossible by making her even more stunning.

Then she did something that he never could had imagined. She pulled him closer to her, wrapping her arms around his form and placed her lips against his.

His eyes widened slightly of shock before he relaxed into her touch, a small tear of relief escaping his eyes.

Then his body became numb as his life energy seeped out of his being and he was barely aware of the rest of his body. Although as the world started to fade around him, his soul didnt hurt anymore. He used his final strength to speak those words that was long overdue, barely a whisper as it left his lips.

"I...love you.."

Then his eyes fell closed and his chest stopped moving, the tears that then fell on his skin not felt anymore.

But it didn’t matter to him anymore as he slipped into the eternal darkness.

Because now he had no regrets.