Agony in the Garden
Kagome was half asleep when she finally made it back to her room and nearly screamed at what met her eyes.
InuYasha sat on her bed, reclining as if it were his own.
"'Bout fucking time!" he snarled. "I thought you would never show. Figured you might spend the night with fuzzy-butt." InuYasha stood, drew the Tetsusaiga, and approached her slowly.
With InuYasha raising the sword above his head, Kagome said the first word that came to her mind. "SIT!" InuYasha's face hit the floor with bone crushing force.
"Damn it! I thought Kikyou took the spell off these fucking beads," he growled as he fought against the seduction spell.
"I guess it didn't work," Kagome muttered, irritation rising.
Kagome squeaked as the door was thrown open. There in the doorway was Sesshoumaru. "What are you doing here, half breed?" He snarled.
"Trying to take a certain Miko off your hands, mutt."
"The only Miko you need to dispatch is yours, hanyou!" he growled as he drew his Tokijin.
InuYasha broke through the seduction spell and charged, his fang raised. Just as InuYasha pounced, a blinding blue light flashed across the room and InuYasha was gone.
"What just happened?" Kagome panted.
"His Miko must have brought him back. Apparently, she still needs the pathetic half breed."
Kagome remained silent as Sesshoumaru was about to leave the room. "Than k you," she whispered quietly, knowing he would be able to hear her perfectly.
"INUYASHA!" Kikyou shrieked. "How could you not kill her? She was right there! Next time, leave the girl to me; you obviously can handle the young, experienceless, weak, human girl."
"Kikyou, Sesshoumaru showed. There was nothin' I could do."
"These curst beads." She said more calmly. "My sisters gift, yes?"
"Yeah."
"Pity," Kikyou muttered. "They looked good on you." Quicker than InuYasha could respond, Kikyou grabbed the strand of sacred beads and tore them from his neck, severing the last bonds InuYasha had with Kagome. "Now we don't have to put up with those damned things." She said as the beads hit the floor, with a sound like falling rain.
Yes, now the bond was severed… but why does he now have a slight ache in his chest?
Kagome woke, too groggy to think strait. Swinging her legs over her bed, she stood and tripped over the tangled sheets, falling to the floor. And there she sat, head spinning.
She was still sitting on the soft, black fur carpet, leaning against the white silk sheets on her bed when jumped at a knock at her door.
"Yeah?" she called.
"Are you decent, Onna?" Sesshoumaru asked from the other side.
"Yeah, what-" before Kagome could finished her question, Sesshoumaru entered her room. She gasped and silently prayed he hadn't heard. If he had, he paid no attention. "Do you need?" she finished her sentence after getting over the shock of his shirtless state.
"What is your greatest fear, Miko?
"Why do you ask?"
"I wish to know."
"Um, I honestly don't know," she said after a moment. He raised an eyebrow at her. "What?"
"That is not a real answer, Miko," he said.
"It's the best I've got."
"Why were you not afraid of InuYasha's intrusion last night?"
"Well, I… guess I was just shocked… but I've known InuYasha for a long time, I'm just not used to fearing him."
"Why did you not subdue him when he attacked you and your companions?"
"Well," Kagome replied, "it didn't occur to me, I was panicking and it's kinda hard to breathe when someone's crushing your windpipe, ya know?"
"What-?"
"Why so many questions?" Kagome interrupted.
"Sesshoumaru!" his question went unasked and Kagome's went unanswered as the voice of a little girl flooded the room. Sesshoumaru winced at the abuse of his sensitive ears.
"Yes, Rin?"
"Can Kagome come play?" she asked sweetly.
Kagome smiled at her as Sesshoumaru gave his "yes." Rin grabbed Kagome's hand before the word was even out of is mouth and led her to the garden.
"Where are you from, Kagome?" Rin asked.
"I'm from Tokyo," she replied.
"I've never heard of T-O-K-Y-O before," Rin said, trying the unfamiliar word.
"I didn't expect you to. Very few people here have."
Kagome spent most of the day playing with Rin in the garden, playing tag and hide and seek, and, eventually with Sesshoumaru's permission, out side the gates and into the forest. But their play was cut short by a disturbance Kagome noticed not too far off.
"What is it, Kagome?" Rin asked.
"I don't know. We have to go. NOW!" Her warning was too late. A huge youkai burst through the trees bloodlust etched clearly on its face. It wanted the jewel shards… and Kagome had them.
"Rin, RUN!" Kagome shouted giving the girl a slight shove. "Go get Sesshoumaru! NOW!"
The young girl started toward the castle, but the monster was too quick and blocked her path. "Rin. NO!" Kagome picked up a rock and threw it. Hard. It bounced of the demons head and it turned to her. "GO!"
"Give jewel shards!" it grunted, saliva dripping from its disgusting lips.
"NO!" Kagome yelled. It grabbed Kagome around the waist and lifted her off the ground.
"GIVE JEWEL SHARDS!"
"INUYASHA!" she screamed. The monster raised Kagome to its lips, opening its mouth wide. "NO!" she screamed and held her hands up to protect herself; subconsciously knowing it would do no good. Before she realized what had happened. The creature had dropped her, both hands over his eye; witch was oozing white goo and blood.
It yowled angrily and raised its fist; ready to strike her… one blow was all it would take…
And then it was falling. Falling forward. When it finally hit the ground, she saw a huge, bloody gash in its back and Sesshoumaru standing behind it, holding a bloody Tokijin.
'How could I have thought…? InuYasha wouldn't…' she couldn't make herself think InuYasha wouldn't have saved her, that would confirm what she would refuse as the truth. InuYasha would never save her again. She fought those thoughts from her mind, but was losing terribly. They were so unbearably terrible, yet they managed to battle their way into Kagome's mind. Trying too hard to block the truth she knew, yet rejected was too much for her already weekend, stressed self. She fainted, unable to stand the agony.
Sesshoumaru dashed forward and caught her before she hit the ground. "Onna…" he muttered as he turned back to the castle.
