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Tossing and turning I finally sat up with a muffled cry. I struggled to calm my heart with the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I clutched my chest reflexively before I looked around the camp to find two pairs of eyes staring at me. The dream I'd had only moments before was already slipping from my mind.

"What ails you?" Sesshomaru asked quietly into the night.

"Are you alright, Kagome?" Kikyo asked.

"Yah... I'm fine, it was just a bad dream," I said while the last bit of the dream's memory disappeared. Usually my dreams were easy to remember so the fact that this one evaded my memory only minutes after waking up was strange.

"What was it about?" Kikyo asked while adding a piece of wood to the fire.

"I-I can't remember it at all now," I admitted. "That's never happened to me before."

"Hn..."

I glanced over at Sesshomaru and found him deep in thought with his eyes narrowed. He looked up at me then from his spot under a tree not too far from me. I wanted to crawl over to him and go back to sleep, but a part of my pride convinced me that it wasn't the best idea. In fact there was a deep feeling that I should keep my distance from him bubbling in my mind. I clenched my fist and silently chastised myself for my change of heart because the night before I had decided my feelings for him were great. I couldn't let myself be dissuaded now. I looked down at my fist, which my knuckles had surely gone white from the force of my grip on the air, to see Sesshomaru's hand cradling it.

"Is something wrong, Miko?" he asked quietly into my ear, his lips so close that I could feel his breath.

"No, of course not," I said in a rush to recover from my dazzled state. I could see his golden eyes flash in the dark and narrow at me. I shook my head and, with a small sigh, glanced over at the dying fire. I wanted that fire to burn brightly and remind me of why I had a heart to begin with.

I looked back at him and, without warning, he seized my lips in a passionate and fierce kiss. I laced my fingers through his silky hair and brought myself closer to him.

He finally broke the kiss and then leaned against a tree. I leaned down against him and rested my head on his chest. I didn't remember falling asleep again, but with him by my side I felt ready to take on any nightmares that were sure to come.

The next time I awoke I was drenched in a cold sweat that mirrored the fear I had felt only moments before in my dream world. Sesshomaru was still next to me with his eyes fixed on something in the distance. He looked down at me and brushed a strand of hair from my face, trying to quell my fears I suspected.

"Have you forgotten your dream again?" he asked quietly as if someone would over hear us.

"Not completely," I replied equally quiet.

"What was it you dreamt of?" he asked quickly.

"My death..." As soon as I said that the dream disappeared completely.

"You have been bewitched." He stood up and helped me to my feet.

"What? By who?" I asked incredulously.

"A demoness by the name of Inuhana," he replied. "She is known as the dream keeper for a reason."

"Oh come now, that's no way to introduce your fiancée," a woman's voice called from the forest. "It is true that I have been controlling and keeping her dreams."

"Your fiancée?" I asked kind of hurt by the fact that he had used me.

"Do not be fooled. It was my mother's wish that I marry her, not mine." He placed his hand on tokijin and drew it from its sheath with one graceful move. He growled low when the woman made her appearance.

She was thin and regal looking with short and curly white hair. Her kimono was elaborate and beautiful with woven designs of flowers and clouds, but the thing that stood out the most to me was the blue crescent moon. She was wearing Sesshomaru's mark on her silk cloth. What surprised me more than that was her own markings which was a red star on her forehead with black flowers on each side. Her eyes were even a strange beautiful blue.

"Sessho, why do you insist on refusing what is practically set in stone?" A growl pierced the air at the shortening of his name.

"Whoa, ok just calm down people. Let's just talk this out without fighting," I said while stepping between them.

"Do not interfere, Miko," he said lowly.

I shook my head in silent defeat then looked over at the demoness who was now surrounded by saimyosho. Now I understood why he wanted to start a fight. She was in league with Naraku.

"Is she all that stands in my way? Do you care for this human, Sesshomaru? I had heard stories about a little human girl that you kept with you, but this is just too much."

Before I knew what was going on I had been swept off my feet, in a very unpleasant way I might add, and taken to a hidden cavern that lead deep within the earth. Inuhana stopped her fast movement when she arrived at a shrine that was lit by a few candles. I struggled to be free of her grasp which only made her claw into me harder.

"Naraku, I have brought her as you requested. Now will you make Sesshomaru mine?" she asked into the darkness.

"As soon as he arrives, you shall spend the rest of your days with him. As for Kagome, her eyes will be mine. "

I knew his voice anywhere and my fear grew as Inuhana tossed me before the shrine. I growled at myself inwardly when I realized that I didn't have my bow and arrows. I backed away from the shrine when I felt Naraku's aura unmask itself in the dark. I could also feel Sesshomaru's demonic energy approaching. I stood from my spot deciding that if I was going to die that I wasn't going down without a fight. My power rippled and built itself up beneath my skin, ready to purify anything that got near me.

"Kagome, do you plan to fend me off? It's futile I assure you," Naraku laughed as he stepped into the light of the candles. "Ah, Sesshomaru nice of you to join us."

I turned to see Sesshomaru with his eyes red and his body glowing in unearthly light. He glared at Naraku and prepared himself for battle.

"Sesshomaru! Come, let us leave this place. Marry me and forget about that human girl! I'm the one who truly loves you. No one else shall have you if not me." Inuhana clung to his kimono as she spoke which he quickly shook her off.

"Get out of my way," he growled at her.

"Inuhana, as I promised. You shall spend the rest of your days with Sesshomaru. Unfortunately your days end here." Naraku released his miasma into the air, which I had difficultly evading, and when the cloud dispersed I found myself next to an entangled Inuhana. She fussed furiously in Naraku's grasp before her scream pierced the air.

I stared wide eyed at Inuhana's corpse as her blood dripped down my face. She had loved Sesshomaru and had also met a horrible death. My fear of loving Sesshomaru increased, and unfortunately so did the miasma in the cave.

"I had wanted your eyes, but it might be better off if you died, Kagome. I will use Kikyo's eyes instead," Naraku said as the miasma intensified.

"As if I would let you kill her." Sesshomaru's arm wrapped around my waist and pulled me snuggly to him. "Your demise will come long before hers."

"Hahaha, how amusing Lord Sesshomaru. Have you fallen for her then?" He laughed again. "We shall see, but first you should worry about getting out of this cavern alive."

There was a loud crash at the cavern's entrance before Naraku disappeared into the darkness again. I coughed and tried to breath, but the miasma was becoming too strong. My head started to become fogged as my sight got blurry.

"Do not give up just yet," he growled into my ear lowly. He carried me to the now blocked off cave entrance and unsheathed tokijin. "Hold on to me."

I did as he asked and felt him poise his sword. There was another loud crashing noise and Sesshomaru quickly picked me up into his arms. We were outside the next thing I knew and so I let my mind go dark with the threat diminished. The dreams I had during that sleep were remembered with the dream keeper now dead. Her death replayed in my mind along with my own. Soum was always there warning me of the danger, but I was too naive to listen to him.

To be Continued...

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