The Dark Rose

Chapter 3

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Kagome ran in the direction she sensed the killing perfection, not even caring about fully masking her scent or aura, if there was one thing that pissed her off and made her lose control was a murderer of pregnant woman or a young child, her mind unconsciously going to another time and place as she searched out the other assassin.

Flashback

The young Kagome sat in her mothers arms, content, it had been a long day, and the mother and daughter were enjoying the sunset.

"My little Kagome, I have a surprise for you," her mother said in her ear.

The young Inuyoukai turned around, "really Mom, what is it," she said excitedly.

Her mother just smiled and said, "How would you like to be a big sister?"

Kagome got thoughtful in a way only a child can, then said, "I would love to be Mom."

Her mother had held her closer and said, "well you get to be a big sister because I am pregnant with you baby brother or sister."

Kagome's eyes got real big and she said, "really," she fully turned around in her mother's arms and put a hand on her mother's belly and her face no more than an inch away and said, "hello brother or sister," then she smiled up at her mother and hugged her, "I'm so excited Mom."

end flashback

Kagome came back to her senses as the bit of aura that she was following stopped and she smirked and kept going, he would pay for what he had done.

Meanwhile, the Killing Perfection was waiting for her, he had sensed her following him for some time now, why is she blindly rushing in, this was not what she usually did, when on a job, the dark rose had the reputation of stalking her prey meticulously, now why was she coming at this Sesshomaru like an enraged elephant.

Kagome's eyes tinged in red as she approached him and though he was ready for her, attacked him head on and kept attacking, surprising him, that she was pushing him back instead of the even match they were earlier.

He noticed the slight tinge of red in her eyes, hmmm he thought, she acts like she is fighting for something or someone, he growled as he attacked again, trying to push her back.

As they fought her eyes slowly got more red when suddenly her aura pushed him back and he smirked as he watched her transform to her true form, that of a monstrously large black dog.

He smirked two could play that game, he thought, as he let go of his beast and transformed to his own true form.

They circled each other biting and nipping at each other, trying to go for the other's throat, finally Sesshomaru saw an opening, her blind rage was making her reckless, he pounced on her and pinned her to the ground with his fangs at her thoat.

"SUBMIT," he growled.

She struggled, and he bit down harder, he growled again, "SUBMIT!"

She whimpered under him and he waited for her to transform and pass out before he transformed back himself, he would find out why she would attack like that and lose control, if she attacks again I will be forced to kill her.

He set up camp and waited for her to wake, he went hunting and as he came back to camp with two boars over his shoulder, she started to stir, he knew she would be ravenous, the transformation really takes it out of you and the only thing that would sate your hunger after transforming is raw meat.

Though she did not wake, she stirred, he set one boar near her and started to devour his own, once finished he sat back to observe her.

He had noticed back when they fought earlier that her face was familiar, he did not know from where but it was familiar, that familiarity is what had saved her, there were so few to him that held such a familiarity to him, and most of them were dead.

He watched as she stirred and sat up, she scented the dead boar and immediately started to devour it and had it finished before she noticed him observing her. She growled at him, "you bastard, have you no honor?"

He quirked an eyebrow, "no honor, where do you get his information, I am the one who has not killed you, you are the one who now owes me your life. I simply wish to know why you came charging after me, in rage, when you had made known your plans to assist the kitsunes."

She glared at him, "you should know you are the one who killed them."

He narrowed his eyes at her, "I did no such thing."

She growled, "and how would I know that you are not lying?"

He sighed, and pulled something out of a pouch attached to his waist, and tossed it to her and she looked at it, it was a tiny crescent moon made of silver, "did you see one of those on one of their foreheads?"

She shook her head, "no there was not."

He shrugged, "then I didn't kill them, these crescents are the sign I use to stake the claim of the kill, where you leave your scent of roses and darkness, this is mine."

She looked down at the little crescent and sighed, she felt very foolish.

He smirked at her, "I have spared you for another reason, you look familiar to myself, I wish to know why for as far as I know this is the first encounter we have had."

She fully sat up, "I do not know, though I admit you look familiar to me as well, though I have not been able to place it."

He shrugged and looked up to the darkening sky, "what is your name, dark Rose?"

She glared up at him, "you should know I will not tell me my name, as I will don't expect you to tell me yours."

He shrugged again, "I would not ask such a thing without giving up my name as well."

She looked at him shocked, "why would you want to know my name?"

He looked at her and smirked, "if I knew your name and you mine it might clear up the mystery as to why we are familiar to one another."

She looked up to the sky, "on one condition."

He quirked an eyebrow, "which is?"

She responded, "any job in which we are to come after one another will be refused."

He nodded, "that is reasonable, I agree."

She pulled out a small dagger, "you swear on your blood?"

H responded by nodding.

She stood and came over to him, then knelt next to him and held out her hand for his, when he did she cut across his palm, then handed the dagger to him, then gave him her hand, which he cut across her palm.

They joined their cut hands and they both started murmuring a spell and a string of red light bonded their hands, shone white then disappeared and when they released hands a thin silver line across their palms where the cut had been.

She returned to her spot and nodded, "my name is Kagome Higarashi,"He inclined his head, "and I am Sesshomaru Taishou."She was the first to react with an open jaw and wide eyes, then quickly regained her composure and quickly got to her knees in front of him, "my lord."

He growled, "get up my family no longer rules the west, my father was the last Taishou lord of west, and as you well know he is dead."

She sat up.

He examined his claws, "and you would be the daughter of my father's late general, am I correct?"

She nodded, "yes."

He sighed, "it has been a very long time since we last saw each other hasn't it."She smiled, a rarity on her face, "yes, so very long, humans only remember in their histories."

"We need rest, especially if you decide to find out what happened to the kitsunes," he said.

She nodded, "yes," she jumped to one of the trees, "good night my lord," and with that reclined against the trunk.

He knew she was only half asleep, the same as he did, he sighed to himself, it had been too long since that fateful day when the rule of the Taishou family had fallen, he and Kagome had been but pups then, her father the most loyal general and his father the Lord, they had been promised to each other.

Flashback

A young Sesshomaru rushed through the halls looking for his friend, tears running down his face, he had just seen his step mother, the human Izayoi killed right in front of him, the whole palace was under attack, he had avoided being killed because he had hidden under the bed and the man who had killed her had been human.

The white inuyoukai pup, came to his friend's room and opened it only to find it empty he rushed to the next door, which was her parents room and opened it and the sight he saw was horrifying, the general and his pregnant wife were slain, apparently general Higarashi had tried to protect her and then he had been stabbed with a spear that tore through both of them, he looked around.

Suddenly he heard a whimper and he followed it and found his best friend, she was curled up in a corner of the closet, it had apparently scared her horribly to see her parents die.

Sesshomaru grabbed her hand, "come on we need to get out of here!"

She let herself be drug out of the closet and raced down the hall with him, trying to get to the exit located in the kitchen. Suddenly they had heard tromping feet and they quickly tried to hide in another room, but it was too late they had been seen and the soldiers had each grabbed one Inuyoukai pup, yanking them out of each others arms, that was the last time they had seen each other.

end flashback

Sesshomaru sighed, he never thought he would ever see Kagome ever again, honestly he had thought her dead, now here she was in front of him, as grown up as himself and surprisingly in the same profession, and more than likely had entered it for the same reasons as himself, revenge, though she probably had not had a chance for it, as he had not either, he would stay with her as she went to the village and found out what happened to those kitsunes, if for nothing else than to learn more of his childhood friend.

Meanwhile back at that village, a man with black hair and red eyes sat in a room in the inn sharpening his daggers, that had been too easy, he thought, the two fighting inus had only made it easier for him to kill the hanyou Sakura and her mother for the one who wanted them dead.

He smirked and pulled out a bag of coins, that Dark Rose was a fool to let her pity get in the way of such easy gold.

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OOOh can you guess who that is? hehe..