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Panic

The first thing that Kagome noticed when she woke up was a cold feeling around her wrists and ankles. Also, she noticed that she was positioned on her stomach with her upper torso exposed. She tried to look around her to find out where she was but she found that she could hardly turn her head because her neck was so stiff from not being moved in a while.

The more aware she became the more panicked so became. She then started thrashing trying to get free and tried raising her reiki but found that it didn't even raise, something was suppressing it, most likely the cuffs that restrained her. In fact she could not even feel her reiki, and not feeling her reiki was like a youkai waking up finding themselves a human, and this caused her thrashing to increase tenfold. Since she was panicking so much she didn't realize that her thrashing had caused her wound on her back to reopen.

By the time the healers came in she was practically out of her mind, she felt helpless and the fact that she didn't know if Souta was alive or not did not help.

"Chieko, get the guards in here I can't hold her down any longer!" A sweet bell like voice told Chieko.

Doing as she was told she left the infirmary and got the guards that were stationed nearby. Pulling the guards into the infirmary the head healer addressed them.

"I need you guys to hold her down and do not let her move!"

Without needing to be told once one of the guards went towards Kagome's head and put pressure on shoulder blades but being careful not to though the claw shaped wound on her back. The other guard went towards the middle of her body and put pressure on her hips effectively pinning her down.

Chieko, stepped forward to offer her assistance but Kiku, the head healer, just told her to fill the lords in on what had just transpired. Hearing this she stood frozen in her place for a second before Kiku ordered her to go. It would have been the understatement of the year if someone said that Chieko was not nervous about giving the news to the lords. The closer she got, the more nervous she got. Coming up to her lord's study she knocked on the door and waited for a response.

"Come in."

Walking into the room she saw that Lord Toga was not alone, her eldest, Sesshomaru was also there as well as General Katsuo, which didn't do anything for her nervousness. She was so nervous, in fact, that she almost forgot to bow to them, but luckily she remembered.

"You may rise." Once permission was granted Chieko stood up but kept her eyes in a downcast for they were superior to her and did not want to disrespect. Waiting for her lord to give her permission to speak she tried to calm down so that way when she did speak she did not sound like an idiot. Seeing Lord Toga make a hand gesture that basically said speak, she began.

"The girl you brought here has woken up, but I am afraid that she went into a panic attack and reopened her wound on her back. We had to call the guards in to help hold her down and I am sorry to admit the boy is still in critical condition." After she gave her report, she breathed a silent sigh of relief in her head, for she did not sound like an idiot.

"Very well, I shall come down and check on their progress later in the day, if that is all you may go."

Giving another bow she quickly left the room. When she got back to the infirmary she was shocked to see the girl restrained even more, there were straps going across her legs and back, being careful of the wound mind you. Also she noticed that the original restraints on her ankles and wrists have been switched to a stronger hold, and she could see the remains of the previous ones of floor, broken. She felt pity for the girl having to be restrained in such a manner. She must have done something really bad if Lord Toga said to restrain her because Lord Toga was known to be a fair lord and only restrained a person, especially a female, if there was no other choice. Pulling herself out of her thoughts she went to check on the boy again. Sadly his status had not changed and if he stayed like this it would only be a matter of time before he died. After checking on him she went to see to her other patients and continued on with her day.

~Back to before Kagome went unconscious~

"IT WAS YOU THAT DID THIS; YOU ARE THE ONE THAT KILLED HER! IT WAS YOU WASN'T IT, SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE, WHY DID YOU DO THAT YOU SICK BASTARD!"

Hearing her say this Lord Toga knew that he had to put a stop to her right away. From what she said he could only assume that she was the result of what happened on that day 52 years ago. It was a good thing that they had kept the matter quiet, so right now everyone else was just think that she had really gone crazy. Moving quickly he came up behind the girl and gave a hard pinch where her shoulders met her neck, making her pass out.

Looking down at his general to see if he was fine he could only see the shock all over his face. He had come to the same conclusion that he had, she was his pup. After seeing he was fine he ordered the soldiers to bind her in case she woke up. When that was being seen to he looked to where his son had gone. He found Sesshomaru standing over the body the girl had been protecting. Making his was over he saw that the boy was still alive but very weak. As to who this boy and the relation he shared to the girl he did not know but he did know that it would be wrong of him jus t to leave the boy here. Looking over his should he told some of the soldiers to start making a stretcher to carry the boy.

After the girl was securely restrained and the boy ready for travel they left and headed back for the palace. Fearing for the boy's life they traveled fast and did not stop for anything. They had arrived back at the palace when the sun was just coming up over the mountains bathing the ground in an orange glow. As they were approaching, his head servant, Sango, walked up to him to receive any orders that needed to be carried out.

"The boy is in critical condition and needs to be seen immediately. As for the girl, she has some wounds that need to been seen to but is less urgent than the boy. Also, the wound on her back is laced with my son's poison that needs to be removed." Sango just nodded and walked ahead of him towards the infirmary to prepare them on what was to come. Once their new patients arrived they went to the boy's side first. Assessing the damaged they did all they could to keep him in a stable condition, and after doing all they could for him they moved on towards the girl.

Looking her over, Kiku saw that Sesshomaru's poison had started seeping into the girl's blood stream. They were lucky that they were able to remove it for it they had gotten their an hour later the poison would have been throughout her whole body and then there was nothing that they could do. After putting an anti-inflammatory poultice on the wound they wrapped it up and moved onto her other wounds. Once they were almost done their lord came in was a pair of restraints.

"Once you are done bandaging her I want her restrained."

After hearing that statement all the healers looked at their lord in shocked. Never once had he told them to restrain a youkai, female no less, in the infirmary, but not wanting to question his decision Kiku stepped forward and took the restrains from him. After they were taken Lord Toga left the room for he could not stand there and watch them restrain her, he would have lost it, so he just returned to his study.

Upon opening the door he saw Sesshomaru and Katsuo there waiting for him and before they could say anything Lord Toga spoke.

"I gave Kiku restraints to put on the girl." Even for people who did not know him you could tell that he was not happy that he had to do such a thing. A pregnant silence soon followed before Katsuo spoke.

"I am sure it was for the best milord, we would not want her attacking the palace, for we do not know who will be in control when she wakes up." Katsuo had tried to keep his voice emotionless to hide the fact that he was not happy about the situation either, and also he didn't want to give anything away to Sesshomaru that could lead him to finding out the truth.

Well they didn't have to wait long for Sesshomaru was smart and had already started to piece together the truth on his own. "It was you General Katsuo who had raped the reiki youkai and that girl is most likely the result of that action." By his tone of voice it was not a question but rather a statement.

Both, Lord Toga and Katsuo just looked at Sesshomaru and then at each other. Giving each other a silent nod they figured that Sesshomaru should know the truth, even though he had got most of it already, but before they could tell him there was a knock at the door. Lord Toga recognized the scent as that of Chieko, one of the palace's younger healers.

"Come in."

A young girl with short dark brown hair entered the room, and he could tell from her scent that she was nervous and almost forgot to bow, but caught herself quickly enough.

"You may rise." Watching the girl before him come out of the bow he waited for her to speak but then remember that he still had yet to give her permission. Motioning with his hand she started to speak.

"The girl you brought here has woken up, but I am afraid that she went into a panic attack and reopened her wound on her back. We had to call the guards in to help hold her down and I am sorry to admit the boy is still in critical condition."

"Very well, I shall come down and check on their progress later in the day, if that is all you may go."

He watched as she bowed again and quickly left them.

Putting his attention back on to Sesshomaru he started to tell he the story of what had happened that dreadful day and their reason for keeping in a secret. At the end of the story Sesshomaru's facial expression had not changed. He understood their reasoning and would have made the same choice if he had been the one to make but in a way he was kind of glad that it had happened. For if it had not then he would have never met the girl, assuming of course that she was the result of the incident. What intrigued him was that he felt his beast start waking up from its long slumber of 10 years and he wanted to know why that this girl was able to wake it up. Right now he was just thinking that it was because the girl was skilled in combat and had been able to wound his otou-san.

With nothing more left to discuss the three youkai got up and headed down to the infirmary to check on the progress of the girl and the boy.

The first thing that Lord Toga noticed was that the girl, who was lying on her stomach, had been restrained even more. He also noticed that the original restraints that he had given to Kiku had been replaced with stronger ones; ones that would hold even restrain him for a while, just how powerful was this girl? As if reading his mind Kiku walked over to him to explain and the first words out of her mouth had shocked them all.

"She broke the first pair of restraints, milord. So we had to get her a stronger pair but she still thrashed about so we had to strap her down so that she could not reopen any wounds." After receiving that piece of information he was about to ask about the boy but she beat him to it, "there is still no change with the boy, and it appears that even with our medicines he will not live."

Just nodding his head he turned his attention back to the girl. He could hear her heart beating and from the faster pace of it he could tell that she was awake. Noticing this he started walking towards the girl with Sesshomaru and Katsuo following him. Kiku made a move to follow him but he just dismissed her with a wave of his hand and told her to give them some privacy so that they could speak with her. He sat down in a chair so that he was eye level with and was about to speak but she beat him to it.

"Where is he?" Her voice was that of a whisper because she had none of her strength.

"He who?"

"Souta, my brother."

"Is he by any chance the one we found you crouched over?"

"Hai, and please do not lie about whatever condition he is in, I know that he was already weak when I found him."

"I am sorry to tell you that he is in critical condition and it does not look like he will survive. I'm sorry." Lord Toga did not know why he was telling her this for it could awaken her beast again but something about the look in her eyes told him that it was better not to lie to her. He could see her trying to blink back tears.

"Take my restraints off."

Lord Toga just looked at her like she was insane that he would do such a thing and noticing the look in his eye she explained further.

"I can heal him, I can't let him die, he's all I got left." He quickly took a sniff of her scent and found that she was telling the truth.

"Promise me that you will not harm anyone nor will you run, and I will remove them."

She just nodded her head but he did not move, he seemed to be waiting for something, and she was guessing that he want a verbal answer, "Hai, milord."

With that he got up and started to remove the restraints, starting with the straps across her back, then the ones on her ankles, and finally the ones that were on her wrists. As the last of them were removed they felt a tremendous amount of power rush into the girl's body, and right before their eyes they saw the wound on her back close up, with speed that amazed the three inuyoukai.

Sitting up, she searched for her brother's reiki and before they could stop her she rushed to his side. A healer started coming up behind her, and she gave a warning growl, and the healer did not try to approach her again. She looked down at her brother and started concentrating her reiki to her hands and then to Souta's wounds and right before their eyes they saw his wounds close up and heard his heart beat strengthen. It was only a couple of minutes later and Souta seemed completely healed. As he started waking the first thing he saw was his sister, Kagome, falling to the ground, passed out.


Well there you go, longest chapter, Souta is alive, but Kagome is passed out again don't worry this should be the last time she passes out for a while. Also with the conversation between Toga and her, she could only see Toga, as she had minimal line of sight, so that is why I didn't say anything about her seeing Sesshomaru or Katsuo.

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Meanings

Chieko wise child
Kiku chrysanthemum