Drabble # 42 Majestic
Title: A Woman’s Heart
Author: marishaten
Word Count: 425
Prompt: Majestic
Genre: Angst/Romance
Rating: K
Warnings: Character death
Characters: Kagura, Sesshoumaru (implied)
Summary: When she was free, she longed to be bound.
Majestic, thought Kagura as she looked up at the figure in front of her. Tall and fair beyond measure, his silver hair fluttering in the morning breeze, matching the flowers strewn on the field - the aristocratic son of the great dog-general.
I thought I was going to die alone, she thought to herself. A faint smile appeared at the corners of her lips.
“I came following the scent of Naraku’s miasma.” His voice was a deep, rich baritone.
The sound of it caused her heart to skip a beat, pulsing Naraku’s venom faster into her veins. Kagura was quite enjoying this new sensation - the quickening of a pulse, the insistent beating of the organ called the ‘heart’. If only she had more time - if only she could be with him…
But then he was not looking for her in the first place.
“Are you disappointed that I’m not Naraku?” she smiled without humour. A thought entered her head. Was the ‘heart’ was even something worth possessing? So far it had only caused her to daydream and believe in things that couldn’t possibly come true.
“I knew it was you,” he replied quietly.
The wind died down in the field. Not even a bird was chirping.
Only her regret echoed with the malicious twist of destiny - at long last she got to hear the words, but at the moment when she was doomed to fade away from this world. All her life she had longed for freedom, and now that she was free, she wished nothing more than to be bound to him for all eternity. If only she had eternity…
“I see, you came knowingly…” words were too shallow, too trivial for what she was feeling. Feelings - most likely the by-products of ‘heart’. What was the use of them now?
“Are you going?” his voice trembled slightly.
Kagura was surprised - she had never expected the taiyoukai to betray human emotions. Maybe he did not want to hold back, safe with the knowledge that his momentary weakness would dissipate in the wind with her, never to be known by another soul. Kagura smiled, she would always keep his secret safe with her.
“Yes, it’s time.”
I’m glad I got to see you, before the end…
His eyes were over-bright. Her’s faded as nothingness threatened to claim her. There was a movement among the bushes - probably Inuyasha and his group were coming to rescue her. Too late.
The glass mask was settling over his face once again. So conscious of his image.
Kagura laughed one last time.