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Chapter Six: The Calling

Three strands of the longest hair that Kagome had ever seen were wrapped tightly inside of a silver locket around her neck. She was clutching the locket in hopes that it would give her hope in what she was about to do.

It is her eighth birthday now and all the little kids were outside of the well house. She still remembered that day when she had fallen inside and saw the man who tried to save her life. Whenever she thought that she would be forgetting the incident, she would have a dream of the mans face. The dreams all started off the same at first. He would be there trying to get a hold of her from whatever was pulling her into the dreaded well. But as time passed, her dreams focused more on his features.

How his hair had shined silver and white in the moonlight. How the markings on his face had become jagged as his eyes turned red. His fangs were bared and his sharp claws reached for her. Trying to save her as she screamed for help and hot tears never ceased running down her cheeks. One of the scariest faces on earth should have had her heart pounding in her chest with fear, but it only served to make her happy in an odd way.

Like he was her guardian angel.

Her mother explained to her that a guardian angel would always be looking down over her and would protect her, even though sometimes she would not know it. She believed that she had met her angel that night. After all, who on this Earth, besides wrinkled up older people would have hair that shined and was that color. Angles hair could be any color, but Kagome's angel's hair was silver and white.

Still clutching her locket that held her guardians hair, Kagome looked around at all the children that was surrounding her; daring her to do something that she had never thought she would do again.

Go into the well.

If she were to go into the well, she would crowned the queen of the dare. Her last birthday was similar to this, but so much simpler. They were at the park and to win the crown, Kagome would have to climb the jungle jim and hang upside down with her feet. Even then she had clutched her silver locket and asked her guardian for hope. You could only become the King or Queen on your birthday and all the kids of the party had to pick a task for you to do. If you were too scared to do it, then you failed and were picked on until you could win it back from another kid who still had it.

Kagome never thought that she would have to go in there again, but now it didn't seem like she was so lucky. To avoid bullying and name calling, she would have to do it.

"Where is mommy?" She spoke up after her heart-felt calmer.

"There's no one here. They are all looking at us from out of the window." My friend Hojo spoke up. "If you get hurt, Don't worry, I'll take care of you."

All of the children decided to speak up and repeat the same thing as him, but then they were urging her to hurry up and go so that they wouldn't get caught. Kagome had no choice now but to go in the well. She had never backed out of a dare and she wouldn't do it now. Besides, what were the chances that she would fall into the world of her guardian anyway.

With that thought in her mind, Kagome wanted to try it now. If would be wonderful to go and see the angel that tried to save her so long ago. She would give him her thanks.

Usually the calling was not so strong, but this time it pulled on something inside of his chest. After over a hundred years Sesshomaru thought that he would get over the incident with the little human girl that he was going to protect, but after all the time that had passed, he still gets this little fluttering in his chest. When it started, it was perhaps a week after the incident. It felt as if someone were pulling his heart by a string. It was going in the direction on the well the girl disappeared into.

He transformed and without question he was on his way to the place that he didn't think would ever leave his mind.

The closer he came to the well, the more it seemed to pull him. When he made it to the well and touched the rim, it seemed as if he were a puppet. He needed to get to it. As his fingers made contact, the tugging stopped. It just vanished. To say Sesshomaru was confused would be an understatement. How could it have called him for all that time and now it would stop. Sesshomaru felt like destroying the well in his frustration. It reminded him of the one thing that he had failed in life.

Removing his hand with a growl, Sesshomaru meant to turn away, but the pulling started again.

He didn't know if the little child was trying to call him to her or not, but he would stay there and see. The pulling lessened until it disappeared. Hours had passed, but by then something in Sesshomaru felt better. He did not feel like such a failure for not being able to rescue the little girl.

Now, laying in his bed chambers, lazing the day away with strict orders that if anyone were to come knocking on his door, then a war had better be on his hands. The calling (As he had deemed it when it had started) was strong. He recalled exactly her little face and her scared little eyes. Nothing would get that image out of his head. Sometimes he could think of it all day long. It was his one serious regret in life and he didn't know how to take it.

Now that he could feel it again after so long, Sesshomaru did ont waste any time going to his well-known destination. He had not visited the place in well over a year, but having nothing to do, he could not bring himself to ignore the call.

A hand of time later, Sesshomaru was standing beside the well waiting for the pulling in his chest to stop. As time passed by and it did not lessen, Sesshomaru layed his head down on the cool grass and looked up at the cloudy sky. Snow was on the air and not before long, it did indeed snow. In a few more hands of time, it would become darker out, but Sesshoamru did not dare move, something about this particular time made Sesshoamru stay. He couldn't explain it, but he would wait it out and see if his instincts would not lead him astray.

Kagome was inside of the well now. Someone had placed a ladder in the well sometime in between the last time Kagome had fallen in the well and now. She was nervous and determined to go on with the plan. Some of the kids were still running around the yard while playing hade and go seek, but the bigger ones around Kagome's age were looking at her go down into the well. It wasn't as scary as it was the first time, but she still didn't like the darkness of it all.

She heard whispering above her as she made it to where she guessed it to be halfway.

"Kagome. We can't see you anymore, are you at the bottom," My friend Eri whispered.

"No. I think I'm almost there though."

When the last word left her mouth, Kagome realized that one of the steps of the latter was missing. Thinking that it was there, confidently, Kagome had placed her foot down thinking it was something there, but missed. The shock of her missing her step kept her from screaming as fell to the bottom of the well.

From one time to the next.

Sesshomaru felt it. That power that he had felt all of those years ago now coming back and surfacing all over his body. It was almost too much for him to handle. It felt as if someone were trying to crush him into the ground with submission and at the same time pull out his beast for an everlasting battle to the death.

A tingling sensation down his back and through his scalp felt like little burning hands were running over him.

Already on his feet by the time all of that feeling and power had crashed over him, Sesshomaru moved a safe distance away from the well, but still uncomfortably close enough to see just over the lip. Suddenly, all the power crashing through the surrounding area stopped and left it feeling surprisingly empty. With the way the noise stopped, it left Sesshomaru's ears straining for any sound.

After a moment of standing completely still, Sesshomaru heard breathing that was not his own, coming directly from the well.

"Hello?"

The little girl's voice from the well gave him pause. A million questions passed through his mind. How was she able to survive hundreds of years being alive. Surely she was a human. Then her unique smell hit Sesshomaru. One that he could not for the life of him figure out where it came from. It smelled soft and frosty like the snow that was surrounding the clearing, but sweet and nutty. It was an innocent smell that he had barely caught before she had been abruptly snatched away from him, but a smell that he remembered all to well.

When her small voice called out again Sesshomaru walked the few steps that it would take to get him to the well and looked inside.

The little human girl, perhaps a few years older was looking up at him with disbelief. And then a smile broke across her face. It shocked Sesshomaru so much that his breath caught in his throat. She was looking at him like he was the highlight of his day and for the life of his he could not want to squash the feeling in his chest.

Not wasting time, he jumped into the well and pulled the child up before she could blink. The speed would have scared most humans, but it made her giggle and look up at him again with those shining eyes.

"Hi." Kagome spoke up. She couldn't stop smiling at the situation. It was her birthday and she was finally in the presence of her guardian angel. He was looking a little confused, but it was okay. She knew that he was always going to be there for him no matter what. The first thing that he asked confused her, but she didn't care. She was to excited that she had finally gotten to hear his voice.

"What are you?" Sesshomaru asked.

Kaogme's nose scrunched up but she answered the question regardless. "I'm a girl. What are you?"

It was Sesshomaru's time to show more confusion, but he answered. "I'm a demon."

"No you're not, your my angel." Kagome was happy to speak her secret and confirm it to him. "What's your name, mine is Kagome!"

Sesshomaru just looked at her, taking her all in. He didn't hear the heart speed up with lying and he did not smell her scent spike. She really did think he was her 'angel'. It was unacceptable, but it was be okay for now, his heart was still beating at an unaccustomed rhythm and he felt a... He could say, excitement, but he would not know if it was a truth or a lie.

Maybe it was anticipation and dread, that she might be able to stay with him and he could resume where he was still her protector, but she also might be snatched away from him like before.

"My name is Lord Sesshomaru."

"Umm. Lord Seshomru?.. Can I just call you.. Maru! Yes, can I please call you that?"

It was a disaster of how she tried to pronounce Sesshomaru's name, he realized, but he could not bring himself to tell her no, that annoying feeling was still inside of his chest. He would bring her back to his home and present her to his father. He still had this feeling that she was going to be taking away from him, but he could not wait around for that.

"Come." Doing something that he had never done before, Sesshoamru held out his hand to Kagome, and she took it, smiling.

"Where are we going Maru? How old are you? Can angels get older? It's my birthday today, December twenty-six. I had my first birthday party today. I know all the letters of the alphabet! I know how to spell my name also and I can read books! My mommy says that I am smart for my age!"

All the things that she spoke made him want to ask more questions! How was she educated, where was she from, who was her mother, how does she come from the well...

"How old are you?" Was the only thing that he could think of to ask the excited child.

"Eight!"

Such a young age! How did she survive this long and only age so little!

"Are you a human?"

"Of course I am, but my mommy liked saying Homo sapien! I think it's funny. When I get older, I'm going to learn a different language!"

She continued to chatter. She was to educated. he didn't know if he wanted to take the strangely dressed child to his father anymore. He was not yet strong enough to defeat his father in battle, but he was faster. He did not want to risk the child being in danger in the company of demons, regardless of her thinking that he was her Angel.

Picking her up without warning, he took to the skies, regardless of his doubts about his home, he would present her to his father. She was a mystery that he needed figuring out.

On the way, Kagome screamed that he really was an angel since he could fly in the sky like one!

He wrapped his fur pelt over her body for protection against the cold weather and took off as fast as he could without damaging the little child.

I know it has been a LONG time and I apologise and I'll make an effort to write some more. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and tell me what you think about our favorite Lord and Childlike Kagome... This chapter is over 2500 words :)

{Reminder} As much as I read over this, I am not perfect and there are most likely and most probably are mistakes. Please advise or excuse...

- Ditto Princess