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 3- Shippo

Kagome shot up gasping for air gaining the attention of Miroku who had been meditating. He got up and ran over to her to see if she needed any help. "Lady Kagome!" Miroku cried as she started to gag, this woke Sango up and got Inuyasha and Kikyo to watch what was happening. Once Kagome got her breath back she whipped away the tears that had started to fall from her eyes.

"I'm, I'm fine" Kagome said.

"What the hell happened there Kagome?" Sango asked.

"Did you have that nightmare again Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked his hand resting on her back, he was worried that she would start choking again.

"No." Kagome said and stood up on wobbly legs, Sango instantly stood up to catch her encase she fell, but she didn't. Kagome walked over to her bag and pulled out a change of clothes, she then stood up straight and turned and began to walk towards the tree line closest to her sleeping bag. She stepped around a tree and came face to face with Sesshomaru, she screamed in fright and stumbled backwards. He reached out and caught her before she could fall to the ground, just then they were surrounded by the rest of her group.

"What the fuck do you want asshole?" Inuyasha asked pointing the Testsiga at Sesshomaru who still had Kagome in his arms, Sesshomaru snarled at him.

"I have come to challenge you for your group." Sesshomaru said and Inuyasha growled at him.

"Why the fuck would you do that, you hate humans!" Inuyasha yelled.

"As Alpha of this pack you can not deny any challenge for the position of Alpha, Inuyasha, I challenged you for the position of Alpha of this pack, you must fight me." Sesshomaru said.

"Fine, I accept this challenge." Inuyasha growled out, "Kikyo get to a safe spot." Sesshomaru turned and looked at Kagome.

"Kagome, go with the Slayer and Monk to a safe place too, I do not wish for you or them to get hurt." Sesshomaru said then let Kagome go, she ran over to Sango and Miroku. Once she got to them Sango took her hand and called Kirara who ran over to them and transformed into her larger self. The three of them climbed onto her and she flew into the air, once Kirara thought they were high enough she stopped and Miroku placed a barrier around them.

"You're going down asshole!" Inuyasha yelled pointing his sword at Sesshomaru before running at him intending to kill him.

'No!' Kagome thought even though she knew that Inuyasha wouldn't hurt Sesshomaru suddenly Kagome felt very weak and felt her like her soul was being tugged at, not like when Kikyo or a jewel shard was near. The last thing Kagome saw before her world went black was Sesshomaru slicing Inuyasha's shoulder.

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Rin woke up with her head laying in Shippo's lap like the first time she had woken up in the dungeon, his fingers were running through her hair as if petting her. She turned to look at him half expecting him to be watching her like last time only to find him staring intently at the wall in front of them as if the wall held the answer to life itself.

She laid there and stared at him, she noticed that he did not look the same as he did when she first got here, he had changed, he looked as if he had grown a few years older. His face looked more mature and his hair had even grown a little, he looked really handsome to her. suddenly his eyes shot to hers with a hard look in them.

"Stop right there." He said in a strict voice, even his voice sounded older. Not like the other time when he snapped at her, but like he had just gone through puberty.

"Stop what?" Rin asked.

"Stop that train of thought, do not let it go any further." Shippo said and pushed her off him kind of roughly.

"Ow, Shippo-kun, what has gotten into you today?" Rin asked setting up

"You are not to fall in love with me, you will only end with a broken heart if you do." Shippo said and stood up, he was even taller like he had grown a few years.

"What, why?" Rin asked standing up too, she walked over to him and gripped his arm. Shippo looked at her, his eyes softened before hardening once again, he roughly gripped her hand and flung it off of him causing her to stumble and fall to the ground.

"I will not survive, remember that." Shippo said as Rin picked herself off the ground.

"What do you mean?" Rin asked.

"When Kagome comes here, she will only rescue you, not me." Shippo said.

"That can't be true!" Rin yelled, "Kagome will also rescue you too, she will not leave you here! She loves you like a son!" Shippo closed his eyes and sighed.

"No Rin, I will not be rescued. It is fate that I will die in here, and by the hands of Sesshomaru." Shippo said.

"What? Why would Lord Sesshomaru kill you?" Rin asked.

"Because it must be done." Shippo said.

"No! I won't let that happen, you cannot die I'll make sure of it!" Rin yelled tears in her eyes. She could not let Shippo die, he had been so nice to her and, and, and she was falling for him. Shippo's eyes darkened right before he walked over to her and slapped her.

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO FALL FOR ME WENCH!" Shippo yelled his voice sounding dark and cold just like when he snapped at her when Naraku was in the dungeon. Suddenly a dark chuckle rang through out the room, Shippo growled and a strong hot wind wrapped around Rin and carried her to the protective circle and harshly dropped her in, Rin cried out in pain and tears fell down her cheeks.

"Well, well, well, it looks like running around Japan collecting jewel shards with Inuyasha has begun to rub off on you. You would have never dared to lay a harmful finger on a woman before now." Naraku said as he walked out of the shadows. Shippo said nothing as Naraku walked around him and toward the protective circle and reached out to try and touch Rin but was meet with a wall of black flames. Naraku snarled and walked back to Shippo and looked at him, "I don't know how you managed to survive my poison nor how you managed to heal yourself with out taking power from that circle of yours, but I will find out."

"I told you Naraku, I intend to live until Kagome comes here to rescue Rin. And I promise you this, she will be unharmed by you when that time comes." Shippo said smirking at Naraku.

"She may be unharmed by me, but will she remain unharmed completely?" Naraku asked waiting for Shippo's smirk to fall into a snarl, but when that didn't happen his eyes widened. "So that is how you plan to get Sesshomaru to kill you, you plan on harming her in front of him making him kill you."

"Bingo, this is all part of the plan to make sure you fall." Shippo said.

"Hn, we'll see about that, now that I know of your plan, I can make sure it never happens." Naraku said.

"Oh, it'll happen, I've seen it." Shippo said and Naraku vanished, once Shippo was sure Naraku was gone he walked over to Rin and roughly tilted her head to the side to look at the cheek he slapped, there was a nice size bruise there. He smiled a sadistic smile when he saw it, "That should still be there when they come to fetch you." Shippo said and let her go.

"Why, Shippo, why are you acting like this all of a sudden, where did the Shippo I know go?" Rin asked still crying.

"I'm acting like this so that you will be alive when Kagome comes here to rescue you. The Shippo you know is still here, he is just sleeping until the time comes to awaken him once again." Shippo said then walked to the other side of the dungeon and left Rin by herself to cry herself back to sleep. 'I'm sorry Rin, I swear to make this up to you when we meet again.' Shippo thought watching her.

\\'~'/ During Kagome's vision \\'~'/

"KAGOME!" Miroku called as she began to slip off of Kirara, this caught the attention of Sesshomaru who saw Sango and Miroku try and catch the falling woman. Sesshomaru jumped into the air trying to get to Kagome and unknowingly dodged an attack from Inuyasha. Before Sesshomaru could get to Kagome he sensed Inuyasha do his blades of blood and moved to get out of the way from one that would have hit him. He noticed that a few blades were heading toward Kagome, he also noticed that he wouldn't be able to get to her fast enough, he watched in horror as the blades got closer to her. Just as the blades were about to hit her she unconsciously called up a barrier around her to protect her. Sesshomaru flew and caught Kagome and landed a few feet away from Inuyasha, once he made sure she was okay he turned and snarled at Inuyasha before he pounced on him and bit his shoulder nearly taking his head off.

"You've lost mutt, I am now the Alpha of this pack and you have been dropped down to being omega!" Sesshomaru growled and Inuyasha glared at him but knew that he had lost and could do nothing about it until he had heal. Sesshomaru hopped off of Inuyasha and ran toward Kagome who now had a nasty bruise on her left cheek and tears were falling from her eyes.

"Shippo, no, don't" She began to mutter as she tossed and turned. Sesshomaru bent and tried to reach toward her to comfort her but a blast of ice cold air knocked his hand away from her.

'What the?' Sesshomaru thought and tried once more but the same thing happened, his eyes narrowed as he caught a sent in the wind that was not Kagome's but was similar to hers, 'What is the meaning of this?'

'Mate needs help, comfort her!' His beast howled out and Sesshomaru tried once more but his hand was blown away once again, he growled and tried to push his hand through the freezing air trying to get to Kagome. Kagome winced in pain and her eyes opened and looked toward Sesshomaru, but Sesshomaru could tell that Kagome was not fully there.

"Lord Sesshomaru," Kagome started, but her voice was not the same, it sounded as if her and a male were speaking at the same time. "It would be wise to take my hint and not touch Lady Kagome right now. But if you wish to continue to try and reach her be my guest, I surly won't mind freezing that puny body of yours" After that was said Sesshomaru was flung away from Kagome's body and into three trees knocking him out.

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A man with long black hair with his eyes closed sat in a room with nothing but a bowl of water in front of the man and a silver coffin behind him. He looked as if he was meditating, the door to the right of him slowly slid open and a man with long black hair and midnight blue eyes walked in. He quietly shut the door and stood watching the man with hard eyes, as if studying him. "What do you want Kenta?" The meditating man asked.

"Hn" The man said before walking over to the man and looked closely at his arm to see a silver cuff that that was connected to a long chain that lead to the silver coffin, "It hasn't gone away." Kenta said.

"I've very aware of that." The man said never opening his eyes.

"You said that it would go away once she was back here." Kenta said, the man opened his eyes to revel ice blue eyes.

"No Kenta, I said that they would go away once she is fully awakened." The man said.

"But you said she would awaken once she was back here." Kenta said and the man stood up to be face to face with Kenta, he lifted his hand and rested it on Kenta's cheek.

"No young one, I said that she may waken when she was back here, and she had started to waken until that witch took her soul out of her body. But all is not lost she is slowly starting to wake again." The man said.

"What if she doesn't wake up Taiki, then what?" Kenta asked moving out of the man's reach, "Will you be forever trapped here at his tome? Will you have to spend the rest of you're long life forced to watch over that asshole's body?" Kenta asked yelling.

"Kenta, love, calm down, she'll will waken, I will see to it that she does." Taiki said.

"How when he has forced you to stay by his side even when he is dead." Kenta said glaring at the coffin, Taiki looked to where he was looking and walked over to the coffin and opened it to show a young looking man with long fiery red hair, two fox ears on top of his head and a fox tail wrapped around his waist. "I thought that once he was dead you would be free from the curse he placed you under and you would be free to live your life." Kenta said walking up behind him and wrapped his arms around Taiki's waist, "Free to live your life with me." He whispered in his ear and he shivered.

"I'm still trapped here with him because he isn't dead." Taiki said and ran his hand down the cheek of the man in the coffin, Kenta growled and pushed away from Taiki.

"What is the meaning of this, after all that he did to you, you still love him!? And how can he not be dead, I saw that woman stab him in the heart!" Kenta howled.

"I can't help but be in love with him, he is my best friend after all, but the love I feel for him is only a love for a brother, unlike the love I feel for you." Taiki said, "And for the reason he isn't dead is because the woman cursed him. His body may be here with no heart beat, but in all truth it is sleeping, waiting for his soul to return to it, all the while his soul is forced to take on the form of a little kid, forever doomed to stay a kid. That is until he finds the Demon Lord who holds the sword of life in his hands to swing and brake the curse." Taiki said then turned away from the coffin and turned to look at Kenta. "So, how was you're trip to see if Rin was safe?"

"It went well, she is safe. It seems as if Naraku has also captured a little fox kit too, he is doing a great job at protecting her. Why, I do not know." Kenta said.

"A Fox Kit huh?" Taiki said then turned to look back at the man in the coffin. "It seems you've found away to help us without even knowing it." The man in the coffin seemed to smirk for a split second before it vanished leaving Taiki wondering if he had just imagined what he saw.