-1Last ch.: With great force he heaved his back against the wall and let out a roar causing the small room to shake with his anger. Tears of frustration poured from his eyes as hours passed. New cuts shown on his arms and legs from where he tried to rip himself free…still he could not prevail. Soon any light that could be seen in the tight space disappeared and he was in the still darkness once again. Alone.

Chapter 7:

"Dear we need to go…" Sesshomaru nudged Kagome awake. She glared at him but got up anyways. An unimaginable urge to get sick over powered her and she lurched all over his white kimono. "You bitch!" He screeched at her as he went to a near spring, "I'm sick of this Kagome! You've been getting sick for the past week! I'm cleaning up!……Don't bother waiting."

Tears began to pour from her eyes first as ice then snow. Sesshomaru had been acting this way with her since two weeks ago when they had made love. She felt like a used cow, and Sesshomaru was the bull...When a bull is intimate with a cow after they do, the bull never wants to be around or with that cow again… Now she was a cow. She let out a scream in her hands. With shaky fingers she clutched her orange bag to her chest and walked from the clearing. Something drew her back, she had no knowledge of what, but she turned toward where Sesshomaru had gone.

Silent as a mouse she stepped over sticks and stones walking through the thick brush. Her footsteps sank through the mud, her breath held in tightly she caught her gasp.

Her Autumn colored eyes stared at the two before her,

What…

only speaking and yet still it was enough…

no…not him,

Enough to bring her pain,

not her…

break her trust,

Not…

and reopen every scarred emotion,

……again.

Her eyes turned into an icy blue to match her heart and snow began to fall from the clear sky. Her feet began to take her away. Mind gone blank and everything behind her she followed a narrow snowy dirt covered path.

Her feet became amazingly interesting to her eyes of ice as she walked up the mountainside winding and curving with the path she had found.

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Inuyasha roared in his cell of chains, "Kikyo! You fucking bitch! How could you?" He let his head fall to his chest. It took so much strength out of him to yell, or scream. He was starving, tired, and sore. Somehow his wounds weren't healing, and he couldn't tap into his inner demon. His eyes closed as he remembered when he found that Kikyo was responsible for him being here,...chained,...hung on a stone wall naked.

Flash-back

Kikyo entered the cell staring straight ahead at Inuyasha's lifeless form hanging so weakly. She glided over to him on her two feet; thanks to her new so to speak 'partner in crime'. "Who does your heart lie with Inuyasha?" She asked after slapping him awake.

At first he had been dumb struck, only able to say her name. Kikyo was repetitive and spoke her words over and over. "Kikyo…How can you question it? My heart is with you." His face turned soft under the caked blood.

"Inuyasha your ignorance amazes me, no…your inconsistent half truths…"She held his cheek in the palm on her hand and squeezed it harshly making him look her in the eye. "Goodbye Inuyasha…you will die on this wall, in these chains, alone." Then with only the sound of her clicking wooden shoes, she left.

End Flash-back

Inuyasha let go of the outer world accepting his defeat. He was to die in this Hell hole.

But then…

Knock…knock…

Could it be? Someone was there…if only he had a chance of reaching them. He banged his back against the wall, for what must had been the thousandth time. He was happy to feel the locks release and he fell onto the hard stone blood covered floor with a thud. His eyes closed as he passed out.

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Kagome stepped into a small porch area. The surroundings were miraculous beautiful gardens surrounding a white stone cottage with lush green ivy growing up it to its roof all over. She couldn't help but let a few pieces of ice melt from her core. Slowly she stepped up to the door and knocked once…no answer…twice…no answer. She let the door opn ajar to peep inside. Everything was dusty and in need of a terrible cleaning. This is nice…just needs fixed up a bit. She couldn't help but smile as she thought of one of her childhood movie, Snow White and The Seven Dwarves as she stepped inside the home. There was only one room, with a couch against a wall with a coffee table in front of it, and a fire place with room to cook on it in front of that, a sink in the corner and a restroom area blocked off with a curtain, all of course covered in dust and grime. She looked in a corner, and found a broom, and began to clean up the place, but found the work tiring. She let herself fall on the couch…but, was it a mistake?

The seat she was in strapped around her and flipped upside-down and released her upright in a gloomy watery dungeon. Everything was so dark around her except her entire, it gave off a soft glow giving her light. She turned every which way…"Hello?" She called out into the darkness. That's when she saw it… She bit back tears as she bit her bottom lip in attempt to stop it from quivering. The form of a sleeping human could be seen from the corner of her eye. They had been chained, and beaten brutally. Whoever he or she was or had been, for she couldn't see if they were alive. Black hair and blood was all that she could make out. She grew closer to the person.

Inuyasha's eyes flicked open and he tried to speak, "Wh…" Only blood spluttered out.

Kagome heard the splatter of blood hit the floor. "Hello? Are you okay?" She walked forward and grabbed up the, she noticed, man using her demonic strength and carried him up the stairs she found on the side of the room. She walked up until she reached a latch, when she came up from the hole she found, she was right in front of the front door. Her feet made heavy, muddy footprints on the floor. She heaved the man onto a couch and looked him over, slowly coming up from his abdomen to his face. "Inu..yasha?" She spurted out loud when she saw his face. She made water come to her from the sink and splash all over his naked form. "Wha…what.." Inuyasha asked as he awoke from his last pass out. Kagome gently caressed his cheek, "It's alright Inuyasha." He grabbed her hand from his face and held it weakly in his palm, "Kagome it's not safe, we have to get out of here."

Kagome looked at him questioningly, but helped him limp out the door anyway. "And where might I ask are we going to head Inuyasha?" He rolled his eyes at her, "Stupid girl, toward the West…" Kagome had her ideas of who they were going to go to, but then why in the Hell would Inuyasha ever want to see Sesshomaru? She helped him limp through the forest to the west.

---That night--

Kagome had made a nice warm fire, and made a little ramen for herself, and Inuyasha, after cleaning his wounds of course. Inuyasha was now laying against a tree root. "So, Inuyasha, who did that to you?" He looked at her for a moment and quickly reverted his gaze, "K…Kikyo…" She let out a gasp, and came over beside him so she could hear him better. "She doesn't believe I love her. She left me to die there. You know, I actually thought Sesshomaru was chained there too when I first woke up, but I never saw him in there again. Wait, shouldn't you be with him?" He looked almost sympathetic as her face changed, expressing saddened features with the mention of his brothers name.

"We haven't been exactly getting along," Her eyes let a small piece of snow fall down from one eye, "it's almost as if he's someone else completely. Earlier I saw him talking with Kikyo. After that I just left." Inuyasha went white at the mention of the dead priestess's name. "That doesn't really sound like something he would do, he's always hated Kikyo, even more than most humans." Kagome sighed and slid down beside him, and turned to her side, letting sleep take over her mind in a blurry haze.

---Earlier with Sesshomaru---

He stormed off from Kagome, not bothering to quiet her tears. Kikyo was near the spring, "There you are, you bitch. Nothings working! First the muffin! She was supposed to get depressed! She doesn't seem depressed to me! At least not about changing! And fucking Sesshomaru! He wasn't as infatuated with her frailty as I thought, what the fuck is up with that? And you know I can't keep him locked in a virtual memory forever! It's been long enough! I helped you with your fucking Inuyasha problem! Where's my results?" Sesshomaru suddenly formed into Akemi as he spoke to the dead miko.

Kikyo rolled her eyes, "YOU, Akemi are the one with the dumb muffin idea. You would have to be ridiculously ignorant to assume something like that would work. All you have managed to do was make Kagome more powerful, and Sesshomaru crave her more. As for Sesshomaru, he can and will stay in that little world you've created in his mind for the rest of his life if we need him to. All we need is to get that little Kagome to fall for you…" Kikyo paused noticing the expression on his face, "What?"

Akemi brought one hand around his neck as if thinking whether it'd be a good idea to say what he was planning. "I've decided…she and I aren't exactly compatible…" He put a huge smile on his face, "The sex was great though only once, " His smile faded, and Kikyo looked a bit disgusted. "But I've already been with her now…There's nothing more really to work for."

Kikyo scoffed, "Fine Akemi do what you want, I already got my end." With that she disappeared leaving a fuming Akemi behind.

--With the real Sesshomaru--

Sesshomaru lay sprawled out on the dirt floor unmoving for almost three weeks now. Only events played in his mind…

He stood high on mountain watching as the endless hoards of beastly demons came for him. He couldn't remember anything but this fighting, as if this was his life. As if he lived for fighting these creatures, and killing them was all he needed. No sleep, no rest, nothing just the endless slaughter of these beasts. He rose his sword high ready to slash through the first wave of beasts. Carefully he aimed and with one swoop a thousand demons were slain. Their blood shot into the sky, as if it would reach up and paint the moon. Then it fell around the land covering it with bloody body parts. Just as soon as that wave's blood and guts came down another went up in an endless slaughter. Sesshomaru smiled all the while watching the hell he put the beasts through. But he felt incomplete standing up there slaughtering, he felt as if he had lost something, some part of him.

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Kagome awoke the next morning with her stomach churning. She ran behind a tree and heaved, last nights ramen now in to tiny pieces mixed with stomach acid were splattered against the tree trunk.

Inuyasha woke up to the precious sound of her heaving, "Oh gross…" He spoke sleepily. For some reason after he left the cottage his wounds had begun to heal, only a couple more days till he would be in full health. He went to a small spring and wet a small rag, bringing it back to Kagome. "Here." She smiled and said thanks before washing her face off with it. She tried to push away a new lingering thought in her mind, but it constantly kept reentering and disturbing the peace. They walked toward the west in silence, but after about an hour Inuyasha couldn't stand it. "Get on my back." He said while grabbing her back pack from her. She looked at him and let out a laugh, "Are you insane? Inuyasha, you're hurt, and you wont fully be healed for a couple of days. I am not riding on your back." He groaned, knowing he would never win this battle. After being with her for years, he learned issues like this one were best left alone. Kagome looked at him for a moment, and then at the ground. "Inuyasha, why are we heading west?" He looked at her, and smiled, "We both need to see Sesshomaru." Her eyes grew big, "Why? He's a jerk! If he wants me back he can come find me!" Her face grew red.

Inuyasha looked at her with lowered ears, "Who ever you were with wasn't Sesshomaru, Kagome."

"How would you know Inuyasha?"

He stared down the road, "For one Sesshomaru wouldn't have been talking to Kikyo, and I can't smell him on you, at all. It smells more like the man that has been with Kikyo…" Inuyasha didn't want to upset her any more with what else he smelt…

Kagome held back tears, and remained silent for the rest of the afternoon, as she soaked in what he had said.

--At the castle--

Jaken comforted a crying Rin, "They…They said they…would be back…" She sobbed. "L..Lord Sesshomaru never stays gone so long….What if…What if…" She began crying harder and harder until a guard came to the door.

"Master Jaken," The guard spoke, "We have important news about our Lord, from a strange human in a white and red kimono. We asked her to stay so she could speak to you personally, but she refused and no one has seen her since." Jaken sat Rin in her bed as she had cried herself into a deep sleep. Then quickly he ushered the guard to his own office. He took a seat in his desk, "Continue." The guard stood in respect and spoke, "She spoke of our escaped prisoner, Akemi. She said he had Lord Sesshomaru-sama in a cave near the north. She also said he is under some sort of mind control, he can't come out of it on his own." Jaken looked a bit shaky, "Take ten men and look for our Lord. This is top secret only the men on the mission must know, no one else. It will be your head if news gets out." The guard bowed and left Jaken's presence.

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Kikyo went to the cottage only to grab a single vial of a opal colored liquid. She hurriedly snatched it up. Akemi had put it there for an emergency in case they would need to awaken Sesshomaru. She didn't bother to check on Inuyasha, according to her he should be either dead now or dead pretty soon. She called for her soul stealers to carry her away, toward a hidden cave in the north.

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Sesshomaru's form was silent, unmoving, almost as if he was dead. Kikyo took the vial's cork out and poured it into his mouth. He reacted, asleep still, coughing, and sputtering. She finally got it down him though. "And you should be awake in a day." She rose from her place on the dirt floor and left the cave.

----The next day----

Sesshomaru's head pounded like a gravel iron hit it a million and one times. He rubbed his temples as he looked around at his surroundings. His mind immediately went into 'Where's Kagome' mode. He sniffed the area, but found no trace of her ever being there. Only the faint smell of Kikyo. He began to remember the events of his incounter with Akemi. Images of fighting with him and getting shot by a dart from behind. He felt weak by getting caught so easily. He stretched his muscles while he was down to relieve the stiffness. His hands slid through his wavey hair as he got up. He needed to find Kagome. His mind raced with questions about her wellfare. He immediately made a transportation cloud to start his search.

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Inuyasha and Kagome were only about three hours from the Western Palace. Kagome wouldn't speak a word. She missed Sesshomaru, and worried about him, and was curious as to just what had been going on these past few weeks.

Her eyes consentrated on the road ahead. She had to focus on the horison to keep her self from crying. She gasped when she felt something grab her from behind and twist her to face them. Two arms enveloped her and pressed her to their chest. She began crying uncontrollably letting out snow flakes. "S..sess.." She tried to speak but she couldn't get the words out. Sesshgomaru held her longily, all his fear melted away. He held her close to him not ever wanting to let go of her ever again. "Your safe…your safe…" Kagome clutched onto him while she cried, not ever wanting him to leave her again. Inuyasha stayed silent for the moment, knowing they had been separated for a long while.

Sesshomaru breathed in her sweet scent, through her hair. As soon as he had, he pushed her away, growling emensly. "What have you done!" He asked her with cold eyes. She slid to the ground still in tears of snow, "I don't know…" Sesshomaru knelt down swiftly and picked her up, pinning her to a tree, "Do not act as if this Sesshomaru is ignorant Kagome!" Her shoulders shook while she sobbed, her back against the tree, and her head lowered down. Her arms lay dangling in the air at her sides. He stared at her for a moment, asking himself if this was all real, or some sick joke. Pain coiled in his stomach at the thought of what he knew she had done. He could smell it inside her womb even if it was only a couple of weeks old. He watched her, pinned to a tree, and crying, sobbing. He couldn't take it, he let his grip loose and watched her fall to the hard ground, and walked away.

Kagome felt herself fall away from him to the ground. Her eyes came up to see his decending form walking away. "I thought…I thought, he was you." She whispered the words to the air. Sesshomaru heard her speak, and paused for a moment before continuing to leave. He still felt so broken, smashed into a million pieces by such angelic hands. He felt a single drop of wetness on his cheek. Only one, and he would not let himself admit this wetness was a single tear. He would seek revenge for Kagome, and himself. He would kill Akemi. It may not solve all of his problems, but it sure as Hell will make him feel better.

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Kagome watched as her love walked away. She knew what he spoke of. She may have thought she was giving herself to him, but it wasn't, not even close. A tiny relevance in her mind had known since that now terrible night she had to of been pregnant, and now by his reaction, it was proven. She couldn't help but to feel as if what was inside of her was a parasite. It was set into her without consent. She stabbed herself using her claws, ripping into her stomach.

Inuyasha had stayed away until now. The fresh metallic scent of her blood brought him to her. "Oh, god…" He ran to her and lifted her up, propping her up into his lap while rummaging in her backpack for gauze. She felt weak, so weak. Her body was limp like mush in his hands. She smiled and tried to let out a laugh, "I fixed it, Inuyasha, I fixed it." Her blood soaked Inuyasha's clothes as she passed out.

Guys I hope your happy! This chapter weas out amazingly fast! It's only 13 printing pages though... But thats okay because I think I ended this one at a good spot. Okay well thats just about all I've got to say about this one, so as allways, REVIEW PLEASE!