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Chapter 6: looking for the way to save their friends(part 1).
After explaining to Sesshomaru what happened Shippo and Kagome decided to stay at his castle and try and find out how to help their friends without having to purify them.
As she was walking through one of the hallways Kagome sighed, they hadn't gotten any closer to their goal and Sesshomaru seemed to be avoiding her. Growling in frustration she continued walking towards the gardens to relax. It was night time and she couldn't sleep so she decided to go for a walk and stargaze.
She got into a slight daze while in her thoughts and soon found herself sitting on a bench in the gardens looking at the large moon. "what are you doing here?" she heard someone say making her jump. She turned to see Sesshomaru and stifled a gasp, he wasn't wearing armour or his fluffy thing and the moonlight was shining onto him, giving him an ethereal look.
Hiding a blush she turned back to the sky. "I couldn't sleep and I was thinking about how we were going to lift the taint off my friends heart's." she tells him silently and he moves to sit next to her. "and why are you here?" she asks, looking at him from the corner of her eye.
"I have no need for sleep and I smelt you heading towards the gardens from my study." he plainly states making Kagome sweatdrop. "i see..." she says before yawning. "guess i'd better head of to bed." she says with a slight laugh while standing up, Sesshomaru following her example. "I will accompany you." he says and the two head towards her room in a peaceful silence.
Once they reached her room Kagome smiled "thank you Sesshomaru." she says and turns to open her door but trips on her sleeping kimono, reacting quickly Sesshomaru grabs her by the waist, holding her up, opening her eyes Kagome blushed at the close proximity, his arm was wrapped around her waist pulling her into his chest and he was bent down slightly, their faces close together.
After a short silence they stood up straight, Kagome quickly thanked him before running into her room and jumping onto the bed, her face red with embarrassment.
While on the other side of the door Sesshomaru stood stiff. When holding her to him he had noticed how small she was compared to him and he felt a strange feeling in his chest.
Shrugging it off for the moment he decided to return to his study to think about it, subconsciously noticing that her scent had wrapped around him during their short embrace and how nice she smelt, moon flowers and sakura blossoms were her scent, it was mixed with some of Aoimoi's scent as well.
Sighing through his nose Sesshomaru silently walked down the hallways and soon reached his study where small piles of paper work awaited.
The next morning Kagome woke up with a slight blush remembering what happened before she fell asleep. Stretching and standing she decided to ware her black kimono with blood red sakura petals and picture of the shikon on the back. Tugging the inner kimono's sleeves over her hands she walked out the room to head to the library.
She took out her bladed fan-which was stashed in her sleeve-when she felt an unfamiliar and strong aura enter the castle while she was reading, she stood up and headed to where she could feel Sesshomaru heading to, so she could greet the guest, but not before masking her scent with Aoimoi's.
The closer she got the more confused she got, the aura felt similar to Sesshomaru's and Rin was also there, normally Rin doesn't come to greet guests. She was soon joined by Yorokobi wearing his navy green kimono with a light orange inner kimono, the outer kimono had a single red fox on the back with blue fire surrounding it, the obi was darkish blue.
Once they entered the room they were headed to their eyes widened in slight shock. In front of them stood someone who could only be one person, Sesshomaru's mother. Her name was Inukimi and as they could see, she was powerful.
Aoimoi bowed towards the strong demon followed by Yorokobi. "my name is Aoimoi, this is my son Yorokobi, it is a pleasure to meet you...?" she said and Sesshomaru's mother replied saying "Inukimi. Sesshomaru's mother." nodding her head towards the two as they rise.
"i was wondering why you allied yourself with humans but I see why now..." Inukimi said looking at her son. Ignoring the remark Sesshomaru asked his mother a question. "do you know how to purify a taint off of someone's soul without killing the individual?" he said making his mother raise an eyebrow. "why do you need to know?" she asks and Aoimoi steps forwards and explains to her the truth.
"i see..." the female demon says, slight anger showing in her eyes. "i know who can help you but... he is hard to get to. He goes by Ryu. He is a dragon demon and he knows more about mikos, monks and demons than anyone, he is found in a cave hidden in a large lake, i'm not sure which, he usually comes to me, but what I do know is that black lily's grow on that lake." she tells them, before looking out the castle window.
"you can control nature correct? Ask the plants where to find them, were you can find the black lily's." the demoness states and Kagome nods. "i will, I will do so in the morning and then me and Shippo will leave, we will be taking all our weapons and items and returning once we have found what we need." Kagome declares and her small audience agrees, bidding good bye to Sesshomaru's mother, Kagome heads back to the library to finish what she was reading.
That night after dinner Kagome packed, just as she finished Sesshomaru entered her room. "you have finished?" he asks and Kagome simply nods saying "yes." there was a long silence before Kagome turned to ask him to leave, but keeping silent when he appeared right before her.
Sesshomaru bent down slightly, so his head was closer to hers "be careful on your journey." he simply states before leaving a flushed Kagome alone with a racing heart. 'what just happened?' she asked herself falling over onto her bed with a beat red face.
On the other side of the mansion stood Sesshomaru, frozen in place. 'why did I do that?' he asked himself. Without realizing it he had appeared before her and leaned down before saying that, he had unconsciously followed what his instincts told him, he took a deep breath to calm himself only to find that her scent had once again lingered on his body.
Sighing through his nose once again he headed to his room for a well deserved rest and to clear his head.
That night everyone slept knowing that the blue eyed miko and her son would be leaving for a short while, the servants not knowing why exactly but the others knowing full well why.
Little did they know of the surprise both Shippo and Kagome would find on their journey, while meeting this Ryu-character.
