Silver in the Moonlight

Chapter 9

Silence, the musing, the eloquent and dramatic speech I had been putting together vanished. I stood there staring at him, with wide eyes and a slightly part mouth.

Blinking I snapped my jaw. Say something.

"Come in." He spoke as his hand gripped the wooden door firmly. I walked in, it was perfectly Sesshomaru. A desk towards the back of the room, shelves lined the back wall. It was impeccably clean. Papers and writing utensils perfectly symmetrically aligned on his desk. Padding on the dark wooden floor with bare feet.

I turned to look over my shoulder at him, he had shut the door. He looked at me as he walked beside me.

"Sit" He gestured at the sitting table. Complying I sat down, haloing my kimono around me.

Looking up at him, expecting him to sit on the other end of the table. He walked to his desk and sat down.

Sighing, reigning in the rising anger. Would nothing be simple, easy with him even a damned conversation? Looking out the giant windows that lined, soldiers ran around in the courtyard below. The clang of swords, pull of bows drifted to the open windows as they trained below.

"My lord, will you give me the honour of your presence?" Irritatedly speaking.

"You cannot leave." Answering without even looking up at him from his writing. My mouth gapped open I wanted to scream and shout and throw the damned kettle that sat on the table at his head.

Taking a deep breath, collecting my thoughts I spoke. " Cannot? That seems like a command . I believe you forget yourself, my lord, I am not your subject."

He sighed and looked up at me. " The West is now your home."

Standing up, I glared at him. " Home, why do you know of a home? From all that I have witnessed and heard, you have not even known a home. Was the open ever-changing forest your home. My Lord." I spat at him angrily as I slammed my hands on his desk.

Rising he came to stand in front of me, looking down at me. Physically I was at a disadvantage but I was not someone that would be looked down at.

" I have known a home, Kagome. My home was not of four walls and a roof, my home laughed and wove happiness all around her." He spoke as he stepped closer to me. Instinctively I stepped back. I had become mesmerized as my name rolled off his lips. The way it sounded coming from him.

He had spoken in past tense he must be speaking of Rin. " If you know let me go, I don't know what you've caught me into but I want no part of this. " I spoke placing my hands flat against his chest, stepping closer.

"I will not allow the west to fall because you choose to be away from me." He spoke leaning down.

" The west? I promise you I will never enter the west again. The west will be fine without me in it." Speaking as I looked down where my hands were. Quickly pulling them back as though I had been shocked.

There was this pull. It felt as though when you hovered two magnets near each other and they pulled to be together.

" Have you not the slightest idea of what is going on? Of what you have begun?'" He asked as he loomed over me, searching my eyes.

" Was it my screaming or the hitting that lead you to the conclusion of my unawareness?" Sarcastically answering. Begun I had not begun anything it as him that came to me. It was him that was all half dressed in a forest, mumbling my name. Sure I wasn't an innocent party in this but I shouldn't be suffering this much more a short make out session.