Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru's expressionless profile. She wondered how he expected her to explain one of mortal's greatest mysteries to him. Love. It was a mystery to her too. Who was she to say when the man, well hanyou, she cared about chose another? Kagome wasn't sure if what she felt for Inuyasha was real love or remnants of the love Kikyo's soul felt for him. It was all very confusing to her. Shaking her head in frustration she sighed. It shouldn't matter anymore since Inuyasha chose Kikyo. But yet it did matter, because it hurt.
Sesshoumaru studied the girl as she seemed to stare into nothingness, lost in her thoughts. To his superior senses, he could almost see a glow around her that shone with the color of her emotions. Her ki, her life's energy, seemed to flow constantly, changing in moments. While Rin's ki was often filled with the brightness of life and affection for himself, Kagome's ki was a chaotic mix of emotions. That warm emotion she held towards Inuyasha reminded me of something. It's something I have experienced before at one point.
Focusing his energies, Sesshoumaru studied the swirl of emotions around Kagome but couldn't seem to understand why the girl felt as she did. Subsiding for the moment, Sesshoumaru studied the human girl and her strange appearance. She is different somehow from every other human I have met thus far. Sesshoumaru watched as Kagome's hair moved with the wind. Her scent is not that of others. Every other human I have encountered reeked of sweat and combinations of odors. But her, she has a pleasant scent. But it's not only her humanity that made her different. It was her. At first I thought she was frightened of me and hated me because I was a youkai. But that assumption does not seem to fit. I thought that she would be wary of Rin just because she is with a youkai as others, human and youkai, are wary. But it seems as though that does not matter to her.
"What is your name, human?" Kagome started, as she was distracted from her thoughts of Inuyasha together with Kikyo. For once, she had reason to be thankful to Sesshoumaru.
"Kagome."
"So tell me, what is it that causes you such mind-numbing pain? And how you are able to hold such warm emotions in the midst of such pain?" Sesshoumaru watched as emotions flashed across the girl's face. He saw that the girl was shocked that he would ask such a question of her. But she also seemed to want to talk about it for reasons of her own.
Kagome studied Sesshoumaru's passive face as she tried to think of the words to say. I don't see why I can't tell him. It's not as though he cares either way and there's no one I can talk to about my problems except him now. Shrugging her shoulders Kagome began telling Sesshoumaru about her relationship with Inuyasha. During the story, Kagome expected Sesshoumaru to tell her to get to the point at anytime and stop with the foolishness of the story of her and Inuyasha's romance but he did not. Sesshoumaru interrupted once to indicate that they would be continuing their journey and that she was to continue her story while they walked.
Sesshoumaru trained his senses upon the girl as she told her story filled with happiness, sadness, triumphs and failures. The swirling emotion around her changed with her feelings as she relived each happy or sad moment. And with her, Sesshoumaru also felt what she felt as she relived each moment. When she finally reached the end of her story, Kagome went silent as she experienced the pain as if it was new.
Sesshoumaru eyes widened in shock. I...can feel her pain.
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