Chapter six - Golden

Morning arose and Kagome's condition had remained the same no better, but no worse. Her fever continued adding a flushed look to her face. Sesshomaru had little sleep as he couldn't relax with her whimpering in her sleep, and was glad when the rain had stopped meaning that he could go stretch his cramped legs. He left the girl in the hollow and stepped out into the forest and breathed in the fresh air, the rain always left the forest with an amazing scent. He looked back to where the girl still slept and he frowned. His pelt would smell like her for days after she had been wrapped up in it. She smelt pure like the rain, but with a slight sweetness to it. For a human it was bearable. He then wondered as to what he would do now. With his check over his lands done he was on his way home when it had begun to rain. What would he do with her? Just leave her there? She had shelter so she would be fine, not that it mattered to him. But it does matter, answered a part of his mind. He brushed away the thought and went to walk away. Again he failed, he couldn't do it. So he went and grabbed her fur and all and set off on his cloud fuming the entire 'flight' over the fact yet again she had got into his head.

"Push Kagome, you can do it!"
"Kaede it isn't time, the baby can't be born now!"
"You have no choice child the babe still has a chance, push harder now!"
"I can't, it hurts so much."
"The next contraction will come in a few seconds, get ready to push!"
"Arghhhh!"
"I can see the head, a head of silver hair!"
"Just like Inu- Arghh!"
"Nearly child, the shoulders are nearly out!"
"Arghhhhhhhhh!"
"Well done child the babe is born!"

Silence.

"Kaede?"

Silence.

"You had a son dear child, just like his father."

Had?

"Did he? Is he not?"
"Sorry my dear, he doesn't live."

A bundle was handed to her, a tiny baby with silver hair and small claws. A beautiful boy, who looked as though he was sleeping though his body was losing heat from being outside of her body.

Heartache, heartbreak and pain beyond any that she had imagined. It went dark she could hear screaming, was it her? She could hear InuYasha's pain when Kaede left the birthing room to tell him. It hurt so much she wished for death, death so she could be with her child in a eternal sleep in her arms.

Kagome awoke to the sound of her screaming and found herself in a dark room in a huge bed. The covers were fur pelts and she felt hot. Where was she? That thought managed to pull her from her horrific reminder of her son's birth. The door swung open letting a flood of light in when guards entered the room she was in.
"Where is the danger are you okay?" One of the guards said, he was a rhino demon.
"No sorry, I just had a nightmare." She replied sheepishly
"Um where am I anyway?"
"You are in the Western palace, Lord Sesshomaru brought you in for treatment."
"Oh."
Sesshomaru had brought her here? She remembered seeing him in the hollow before her memories overwhelmed her but after then it went blank until now.
"Now that you are awake ill go get him as he wished to speak to you."
With that the guards left the room leaving a bewildered Kagome panicking as to what she should do.

Soon enough the cold lord stood at the door closing it behind him and began lighting a lantern.
Once light flooded the room she could see him better and he had a strange look in his eyes.
"Do you remember telling me of your son?"
Kagome blanched white and whispered softly.
"No."
"They would have been golden."
"What?"
"His eyes you wondered what colour they would have been, as a descendant of the silver Inu they would have been gold."
What Sesshomaru didn't expect was her reaction to him answering her question.

Kagome leapt from the bed and ran towards him and before he knew it she had her arms around his waist and was crying into his chest. His armour was hurting her but she didn't care, he had given her the colour of her sons eyes the only part of him that wasn't burned into her memory and now the picture was complete. She could see her son looking up at her as if he had lived.
"Th-Thank you!" She cried.
Sesshomaru was frozen. He should cut her head off for touching him. But he found himself raising an arm and placing it on her back, as if he was hugging her back. She was warm as he could feel her through their clothes. He felt almost content to hold the crying priestess and her body shook with pain. They stayed like this for awhile, maybe an hour, then when she stopped crying she pulled away and looked up at him, her brown eyes sparkling as she said thank you again. He simply nodded and nearly ran out of the room. He had to get away, what was happening to him. What was she doing to him that caused him to care?