We all love HOTM–that goes almost without saying–but I wanted to take this opportunity to gush about another Resmiranda favorite of mine: Fugue. 

What is it like to live on after the life you’d thought you’d lead is over? Resmiranda explores the dimensions to this question with her trademark beautiful imagery.

Some time during the night, she fell asleep and dreamed herself into a web of silver hair, into the middle of the ocean, in the cold, disturbing stillness beneath the ravenous waves, and Sesshoumaru floated in front of her, neither demonic nor angelic, but inhuman all the same, as luminous as any ghost seen drifting through the worlds.

This was my first introduction to Resmiranda’s work, and it’s really stuck with me through the years. Fugue is a story told in three parts. But don’t let the small number of chapters fool you—at over 90k words, this fic is an epic in its own right.

As the title suggests, Fugue is a tale of lost identity. Set in the Modern Era, this canon-verse AU picks up ten years after Kagome’s first trip through the Bone-Eater’s well. Cut off from Sengoku Jidai after the destruction of the Shikon no Tama, Kagome unexpectedly re-encounters a spell-bound Sesshoumaru during a hiking trip with her medical school friends. Her reunion with him throws her tenuously re-constructed post-Sengoku life into total disarray.

A journey through loneliness, guilt and grief, Fugue is a story of expiation, of the breaking of a heart, and of its slow and painful mending. Sesshoumaru serves as the catalyst for Kagome’s self-reconstruction. His sudden reappearance in her life sets her down a path of personal discovery, as she revisits and re-examines all the lives that have touched her own and comes to terms with the past she can’t just can’t seem to leave behind.

Apart from being an incredibly thought-provoking meditation on the time and its transformations, Fugue is a mind-blowingly sexy fic. Ancient, demonic and heart-breakingly familiar, Sesshoumaru forces Kagome to reconcile her two lives, her two selves and, as the story progresses, her two loves.  The tension builds to an absolute fever pitch in the later parts of the story–I’m talking 10/10 on the hotness scale, people! Resmiranda doesn’t hold back here—the passion between our two main characters is raw, red-hot and deliciously relentless. And simmering beneath it all is a depth of feeling that transcends death and time.

Vivid, heart-wrenching, and ultimately hopeful, Resmiranda’s Fugue is a story of rebirth through loss and love. So if you’re in the mood for some smoking-hot SessKag catharsis, this may just be the story for you.

What are some of your SessKag favorites? Feel free to share in the comments! <3