Without You | Sesshomaru

Chapter 54

Lyra actually felt like a koala bear as she clung onto the tendril, however, it was her only lead to her son. It seemed as though a lifetime had passed by but soon she could hear it. The sweet sound of a baby's cry could be heard in the distance. She knew instantly that it belonged to Mikazuki. He still had the same cry as when he was born and it broke her heart that she had been separated from him for a whole month.

Mikazuki, too, could sense his mother. He cried for her, calling for her to save him. Finally, she saw him. He was just lying on the flesh, swaddled up in a cloth. Overwhelmed with joy, her eyes filled with tears and she jumped off the tendril to make the final part of the journey herself.

Lifting him off the ground, she wrapped her arms around him and held him to her chest. Holding him again was another feeling on its own. It was indescribable. Feeling that bond with him was so powerful.

"Mikazuki..." she breathed his name as if she had just come from the dead.

She held the back of his head and embraced him as much as she could without hurting him. She hushed him softly and his cries slowly called to a quite whimper. However, she herself continued to cry silently.

"Shh, Mikazuki. It's okay. I'm here now."

As he calmed down, she lay him across her arm so she could look at his face. She was half expecting to look really skinny and sick but she was surprised. It made sense. Naraku clearly had looked after him as he needed the baby to remain strong for his own goals. She couldn't help but kiss him all over his face, making up for the time she had lost with him. When she was done smothering him with kisses, she looked down at him.

Mikazuki opened his eyes and she couldn't help but smile as she sat on her knees. His eyes were just like Sesshomaru's. The way he looked up at her just filled her heart with warmth. It was as if she had never been away from him, like the past month never happened.

"Oh, Mikazuki. I'm so sorry I was away for so long. I promise I'm going to get you out of here."
"I don't think so, Lyra," came Naraku's voice.

She gasped as an image of his face formed out from the flesh. Mikazuki began crying again and she could tell it was out of fear. She held him closer to her and glared at Naraku's face.

"Mikazuki will be staying right here," he said confidently.
"No, Naraku. Your time is up."
He chuckled. "Is that so?"

Suddenly, a sharp tendril like the one before shot straight for her. Not wanting Mikazuki to get hurt, she held her hand out and turned away. But then the strangest thing happened. There was no pain. No sound either.

"What?!" Naraku growled.

She looked back and saw a blue forcefield surrounding her and the tendril had been completely destroyed. She couldn't understand where it had come from but she was grateful. Her eyes only widened in surprise as Naraku tried throwing attack after attack at her but the moment anything touched the shield, it would disintegrate.

Taking the opportunity, she ran. The attacks continued but somehow the forcefield was still active, protecting her and Mikazuki.

As she was running through the fleshy tunnels, the ground began to rumble and shake. She almost lost her footing a couple of times but she had to keep going. But then soon she saw sparks of green lightning running along the flesh.

'Could it be-'

"AHH!!"

The ground suddenly crumbled away right from under her feet. She gripped onto Mikazuki as she fell and his cries became even louder. There wasn't even anything to grab onto to catch herself. Just as she began to lose hope, she suddenly stopped falling.