Bring me to life
Summary-
Kagome comes back from her time to find Kikyo has joined the group and Shippo is missing. Kagome is forced to travel with Kikyo in the group as they search for the jewel pieces. Sesshomaru tells Inuyasha that he is joining the group to fight Naraku who has kidnapped Rin, during the fight with Naraku Kagome is shot by a poisoned arrow and something magical happens to her.
Chapter 2- Sesshomaru
Kagome jolted awake in a cold sweet, she quickly sat up and in doing so she ripped her ear bud out of her ear. She looked around Kaede's hut to see that she was the only one up. She scrambled out of her sleeping bag and walked through the make shift door to go outside and saw that the sun was just about to come up, she sat down and leaned up against the wall of the hut and pulled her knees to her chest and buried her face into her knees. 'What just happened?' She thought.
'That, Kagome, was a vision.' The voice said, Kagome could tell that the voice kind of sounded like a male, but it was still too soft to be certain. Kagome sighed and tried to will herself to not cry, those kids needed her to be strong.
'Think about how Sesshomaru must be taking this.' Kagome thought, she lifted her head to watch the sun rise but was instead greeted with the worried face of Miroku, she jumped back in surprise.
"What's wrong Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked as Kagome grabbed her chest to try and calm her racing heart.
"Nothing, Miroku. I just had a realistic nightmare and came outside to get some fresh air to calm my mind, that's all." Kagome said after her heart had stopped trying to jump out of her chest. "I'm sorry if I woke you." Kagome said.
"Oh, do not worry Lady Kagome, you did not wake me, I was just coming out here to meditate while the sun rose and was surprised to see you were already up. You are normally asleep when I get up, so I wanted to make sure everything was alright." Miroku said sitting down next to Kagome but left enough space between them for her to know that he was not going to grope her. They sat in a comfortable silence watching the sun rise, well, Miroku was watching the sun rise, Kagome was watching Miroku out of the corner of her eye to make sure he wouldn't do any thing. Suddenly Miroku turned to look at her. "Would you like to talk about it?" Miroku asked braking the silence.
"What?" Kagome asked turning her head to look fully at Miroku.
"The dream. Would you like to talk about it? I know I'm not Sango, but she won't be up for another half hour or so and it seems like it really bothered you. I know that sometimes talking about things like this can help someone over come it, and if you want me to keep it a secret I will." Miroku said and Kagome started at him for a few minute thinking about his offer, after she thought about it she smiled at him.
"Thank you for that offer Miroku, but I don't want to talk about it right now." Kagome said and Miroku opened his mouth to say something, "But I will promise that if it starts to get bad I will talk to someone about it. Deal?" Miroku closed his mouth and smiled at her.
"Okay, you know me and Sango are always here to listen to you, even Kaede is here for you, please don't forget that." Miroku said and Kagome nodded then headed into the hut towards her backpack frowning deep in thought.
'Why didn't I tell him?' She thought.
'I don't know, why don't you tell me?' The voice said and Kagome thought about it for a second as she dug out her bathing supplies.
'I guess I didn't want to give him false hope in telling him I know where Shippo is, when in reality all I know is that Naraku has him locked in a dungeon, but where that dungeon is, is still a mystery.' Kagome thought.
'I see, and why did you not inform him of little Rin's kidnapping?' The voice asked as she stood up to walk out of the hut.
'Because until we know where they are, we can do nothing to help them. So telling Miroku Rin has been kidnapped right now would only be a waste of time.' Kagome thought and stopped right before she exited the hut her eyes wide. 'That sounds so cold heart-ed.'
'But it's the truth and you know it.' The voice said, to Kagome it sounded some what sad.
'It may be the truth, but it still sounds so cold heart-ed.' Kagome thought as she continued walking out of the hut.
'Some times the truth hurts.' The voice said.
"Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked looking up at her from his spot on the ground snapping Kagome out of her thoughts. Kagome looked at Miroku and forced a smile onto her face pushing the voice into the back of her mind.
"I'm going to go take a dip in the hot springs and freshen up, if I'm not back before the others wake up, please inform them of where I am." Kagome said.
"I will." Miroku said and Kagome nodded at him before walking towards the hot springs.
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Sesshomaru was pissed. He was pissed at Naraku for kidnapping his ward. He was pissed at Jaken for not being strong enough to protect her while he was not near her. And he was pissed at himself for not being able to get back to her in time. He roared in anger for like the twentieth time that night, or was it day now, the sun was up so it had to be day.
Last night started off normal, he had ordered Jaken to start a fire and to watch Rin as he went to go fetch the girl some food for the night. After that was done he stayed in the camp site until she was asleep, he then ordered Jaken to watch Rin as he went off into the woods to scout to make sure there was no weak and stupid demons close to his camp that may think to try and harm his ward.
When Sesshomaru had been a good distance away from his ward he had been ambushed by Naraku's demons. Sure they had been weak, and no match for the great Demon Lord of the West. But there had been a great number of them and it had taken some time before Sesshomaru was able to defeat all of them. When they had been defeated he ran straight for his ward to make sure she was okay, when he had gotten back to the camp site he found it in ruins and his faithful dragon, Ah-Un, had been badly injured, no doubt trying to protect his ward. But Jaken and Rin were no where to be found, and he roared in anger because Naraku's nasty scent was all over his camp site.
Sesshomaru had followed the two scents for miles and found Jaken knocked out with his staff a good three feet from him. Sesshomaru could tell he had tried his hardest to protect the girl from all the scorch marks around him. But Rin's scent had continued on with Naraku following quickly after her. Sesshomaru quickly followed her scent for a few more miles before both hers and Naraku's scent disappeared.
Sesshomaru roared in anger once again and punched a near by tree sending the poor thing to the ground with a huge hole in its trunk. He was angry and he knew that he had to do something to calm himself before he did something stupid and got not only himself killed but also his ward killed. Sesshomaru smirked to himself, he knew just the thing to calm himself down.
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Kagome sighed as she walked back to the hut, that had been a nice and relaxing bath. 'What a good way to start the day.' Kagome said with a smile. Once she got to the hut Inuyasha jumped in front of her pissed.
"About damn time, wench, because of you we lost an hour of time when we could have already been searching for jewel shards." Inuyasha yelled.
"Inuyasha," Kagome started as she walked around him, "Sit boy." She finished walking up to Sango who was holding her backpack out for Kagome to take and Inuyasha fell to the ground creating a Inuyasha size crater. "Thanks." She said taking the backpack from Sango and placing her stuff in it. Kagome turned around strapping the bag onto her back and saw Miroku holding out a cup of Ramen for her to eat as the traveled.
"Here is your breakfast Lady Kagome." Miroku said.
"Why thank you Miroku." Kagome said taking the Ramen just as Inuyasha dug himself out of the crater with the help of Kikyo.
"We're heading out now!" Inuyasha said bending down so Kikyo could climb onto his back. Kagome stuck her tongue out at Inuyasha childishly then climbed onto Kirara who had transformed into her larger self.
An hour later Kagome could tell Sango wanted to ask her something. "What is it Sango?" Kagome asked the woman in front of her.
"Well, Miroku told me that he found you awake early this morning, and he told me that you told him that you had had a realistic nightmare and had gone out there to calm down. He also told me that you wouldn't talk to him about it, so I was thinking that maybe it was because he was, you know, Miroku. So I was wandering if maybe you would want to talk to me about it." Sango said and Kagome sighed and then smiled at the woman who had turned to look at her.
"I appreciate the concern, I really do, but I'm just not ready to talk about. But I will promise you the same thing I promised Miroku this morning, I promise that if it starts to become too hard to handle that I will talk to someone about it. Okay?" Kagome asked. Sango smiled a small smile at the Kagome and nodded her head.
"Okay." Sango said then stiffened up and smacked Miroku knocking him off Kirara, luckily they were not in the air. "PERVERT!" She yelled. Kagome shook her head laughing at the two of them glad that Sango's mind was now on something other than her.
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Sesshomaru sniffed the air again and smirked as he got closer to the person who would be able to calm his anger. Soon, he would be able to see her, the only human, besides his ward of course, that was able to calm the Demon Lord down. Her scent was enough to calm him down enough to get his beast to not want to go on a man hunt for Naraku, but it wasn't enough to ease his anger all together.
It had taken Sesshomaru almost two years to admit to himself that he had fallen for this human. He had had many fights with his inner demon, almost causing him to go mad. But the last time he had seen her she had done something that made him admit to himself that he was in love with her.
He had been in a fight with the Alpha of her pack and her Alpha was about the use an attack that would have injured him, not not very bad, but right before he could attack she had ran in between him and her Alpha and refused to move. She had protected him from her Alpha even thought he did not need it, and had almost got killed in doing so.
The thought of her dying was what had him admit that he was in love with her, he had hated the thought of her dead. For that split second when he thought she was going to die, he had thought of killing himself just to be with her in the world of the dead. But after he realized that her Alpha had stopped his attack just in time he had realized that that thought was ridiculous, who would have taken care of Rin if he had killed himself?
Sesshomaru smiled as he thought of her, she was beautiful, strong, intelligent, caring, and had a lively spirit, she was perfect. She was not afraid to deny her Alpha if she thought she was in the right, but she also knew where she stands in her pack, and that was as the Alpha female. Though she was not her Alpha's mate, she was still the Alpha female because she took care of the pack. She had adopted an orphaned demon when no one else would and she raised him as if he were her own. To Sesshomaru that showed that she would also gladly take Rin as her own, and Sesshomaru was glad because he would not leave Rin for anything.
Sesshomaru slowed down and masked his scent and presence as he neared the camp her pack was staying at for the night. He hid behind a tree to make sure her Alpha would not notice him, no need for a fight right now. He saw her by the fire cooking the pack's meal, his eyes narrowed as he took in her scent, she was angry and he wanted to know why. He took a look around her camp and saw nothing out of the ordinary until he got to where her Alpha was sitting, there on his arm was a new pack member.
Sesshomaru instantly knew why she was pissed, someone had just walked into the pack and had taken her place as the Alpha Female. By becoming the Alpha's mate, that woman was able to bump her out of the Alpha Female position. Sesshomaru just barely caught himself from growling and giving away that he was there. Something had to be done, no one took the place of her, he would teach her Alpha a lesson by taking his pack away form him.
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Kagome growled quietly to herself as she made everyone's Ramen, she had a headache and she just wanted to take a nice relaxing bath in the near by hot springs. But wait there was no hot springs near by because Kikyo wanted to camp out here for tonight. And what ever Kikyo wanted Kikyo got. So Kagome couldn't have her nice relaxing bath, which she needed after the day she had. Every chance Kikyo and Inuyasha got they put her down, and no matter what Sango and Miroku tried to do didn't work, plus Kikyo had taken Inuyasha's beads off so she could no longer sit him.
After dinner was through Kagome stomped over to her bag and pulled out her sleeping bag and set up her bed, she walked behind a near by tree and changed into her pajamas. She walked over to her sleeping bag and sat on it pulling her knees to her chest and sighed. "Goodnight Lady Kagome, I hope you have sweet dreams tonight." Miroku called to her.
"You too Miroku." Kagome said.
"Good Night Kagome." Sango said, "Tomorrow will hopefully be better than today."
"Lets hope." Kagome said then laid down and was instantly pulled into another dream like sleep as soon as her head hit her pillow.
\\'~'/ Dream Sequence \\'~'/
Rin was huddled in a corner that Shippo had gently pushed her into a few minutes before the two demons had entered. She had tears running down her cheeks as she had to watch as the two demons beat Shippo up. They had originally come in to beat her, but they were stopped by a ring of flames that shot up from around her. Rin looked down at the dark circle that she was standing in, the flames had shot up from there. As Shippo had pushed her into the circle and corner he had said something about it protecting her and for her to stay in the circle until he told her to do otherwise.
Rin's head shot up when she heard the dungeon doors open to show Naraku followed by Kohaku and Kagura. Rin quickly looked over towards Shippo to see that the demons had stopped beating him and were holding him up by his arms so that he was now dangling in the air, she then looked back at Naraku. Naraku looked Rin up and down and his eyes fell on the circle around her feet, he turned to Shippo and snarled at him. "How long do you think that will keep her protected?" Naraku asked.
"Long enough for her to get rescued." Shippo spat out at him. Naraku growled at him then slapped him causing Rin to cry out. She felt useless, but then again she had never seen anything like this,whenever her Lord had to fight he made sure that Jaken had taken her somewhere so she would not have to see anything. She wanted to help Shippo, she didn't know what she could do but she would do anything if it would help him, so she took a step towards the edge of the circle and both Shippo and Naraku turned towards her.
"What do you think you're doing. I told you to stay in the circle." Shippo said his voice sounding deeper and darker then usual, but Rin chocked that off as him being in pain.
"But I want to help you." Rin said.
"The only way you can help me is by staying in that circle." Shippo said and Rin took a step back towards the center of the circle. Naraku and Shippo turned back to each other to continue to glare at each other.
"That circle of yours won't protect her forever." Naraku said, "The magic will eventually run out."
"It won't as long as I'm still alive." Shippo said.
"And who says you'll be alive much longer?" Naraku asked with a smirk.
"I'll stay alive until I know she is safe again." Shippo said with a smirk of his own.
"You are nothing in this form and everyone knows it." Naraku said before sending one of his poisonous tentacles into his gut."We'll see how long you can last with my poison running through your pathetic body. You can't even fight off the poison with how weak you are in this form." Rin cried out when the tentacle went through Shippo's body and tried to run to Shippo, but before she even got out of the circle she was gently blown back by a warm wind that reminded her of summer days in a field of flowers as she played with Jaken.
"Stay in the... damn circle... how hard... is it... to... follow that... simple fucking... command?" Shippo gasped out and Rin gasp at him because his voice had changed completely, it wasn't sweet and innocent like she was used to, now it was deep like her Lords voice and it sounded hard like he had seen many people die, and he may have been the one to kill them. She backed away further into her circle and corner to try and get away from this new Shippo, she didn't like this Shippo, she wanted the old Shippo back, fresh tears rolled down her cheeks.
Naraku kicked Shippo for good measure before he left the dungeon, Kohaku walked in and sat a tray of food in front of Rin's circle before leaving with the two demons following him. Kagura shut the door and darkness fell on the two.
"I'm sorry... that... I snapped... at you." Shippo said after a few minutes, his voice had gone back to normal. "I just... didn't... want Naraku to... get... his hands on... you."
"I-I forgive you, just please don't use that voice again." Rin said.
"Voice?" Shippo quietly asked himself, his eyes widened a bit before they closed and he laughed a hearty laugh confusing Rin, he stopped laughing to cough up some blood, "I'll try... not to,... I can't promise... much though,... but I will... try my hardest... not to use... that voice." Shippo said. Rin was silent for a few minutes not liking that answer, but knew that that was the best she was going to get.
"May I come out of this circle?" Rin asked.
"No." Shippo said.
"But what about the food?" Rin asked.
"Its poisoned. . . I can smell. . . the poison from. . .here." Shippo said, "Now. . .Sleep." Rin's eyes widened as she felt someone press their fingers into the back of her neck. She knew it couldn't have been Shippo since he was all the way over there, the last thing she saw as she fell backwards before she passed out was a man with long black hair and midnight blue eyes staring at her ready to catch her as she fell.
TBC. . .
