Here is chapter number 9!! I am so proud of myself!!! Lol I never thought I could actually write a story for so long!! Well I hope everyone enjoys the chapter!!

Kagome's thoughts—Italics

Soldiers thoughts/emphasis—Bold Italics

Regular—Regular

Recap:

As he had tucked her in and began to close the door, she suddenly felt as though she had to say something, anything, to acknowledge him, so she settled for the most polite thing and grateful thing she could think of before he closed her door and before she drifted off the sleep.

"Thank You"

Chapter 9

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Kagome wakes up in a field filled with the scent of flowers in bloom.

It's spring.

Happy birds are chirping in the trees, in the skies, everywhere. She can hear children laughing, she can hear the stream bubbling tranquilly, she can hear everything. It is spring and everything is as it should be. Peaceful. Tranquil. Perfect.

Kagome blinks.

The happy sounds disappear. No birds, no children, no laughter, no stream.

No peace.

No spring.

Kagome blinks again.

The sounds are back. But they are no longer happy sounds they are sounds of pain, hatred, and ambition. Soldiers surround Kagome. All of their thoughts, their hopes, their goals, their dreams seem to be jumping at her. Her head felt as though it would burst. Too many voices. Too many needs. Too many thoughts whispering in her head!

"I just want to make it home unharmed."

"I don't want to kill anybody."

"I want honor for my family."

"I will protect my fellow soldiers."

"I will not die."

"I will die honorably."

"I will protect my family from this war."

"What am I doing here? I just want to be with my wife and our child."

"I will protect the weak from harm."

"I—

"STOP IT!"

"Why stop it, child? Thay all want the same things you do. They will all die fighting for these things, just as you will, because they did not listen to the wants, and needs of others."

"What did I not listen too?? Who did I not listen to?? I will fix it!! Just make the noise go away!!"

"We will child. We will even show you what will happen if you choose to keep ignoring those most precious to you."

Tears pour down Kagome's cheeks, she cannot handle all of their thoughts at once, if the voices don't make the soldiers' thoughts go away she felt like her head would explode. Kagome's hands hold her ears while the thoughts continue on. Her blood is pounding in her ears:

Louder,

Louder,

Louder.

A horse whinnies.

The voices stop.

Silence.

A war cry is issued by someone among the soldiers. Kagomes eyes dart toward the area in which the sound was issued only to see no movement.

Suddenly, a single man with red hair and gorgeous emerald eyes burst's from front line of soldiers from Kagomes left. He sprints toward the front line of the enemy forces, with his sword raised, a crazed smile on his face. The final baritone voice sounds in Kagome's head.

"All I want."

He makes it to the enemy lines and slays the first man he comes to contact with while blocking the attack of the now moving soldiers.

"Is my Mother."

With that last thought one of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers was able to pierce the man's armor, and then another, and another, and another. He yelled and fought until he finally went limp, his body run through too many times to be healed, and still the soldiers stabbed him more. Kagome finally feels her heart break and her mind go hazy.

He is dead.

NO!! How can he be dead!?

Kagome's mouth opened to screamed soundlessly before she faded completely into darkness. Her words lost to the over bearing silence. The only word that mattered to her at that moment, running through her head.

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Sapphire eyes snap open as her upper body shot up in her bed. Confusion, fear, desperation. All emotions left over from her nightmares.

Kagome closes her eyes once more. Fading images flash before her eyes forcing them to once again snap open.

Kagome screams, long, loud; heartbreaking.

"Shippo!"

Tears flowed uncontrollably down her cheeks as she grieved for her son, Kagome hugged her arms to themselves, and rocked back and forth in her bed. Only when the door to her bedroom slammed open and two strong, muscled arms held her did she allow herself to calm down.

"What did you dream of?" the man asked softly, trying to breech the subject as gently as he could.

"Of you." She said pausing slightly when his body tensed up in confusion, to look him in the eye.

Emerald met sapphire in confusion and hurt, waiting for some other explanation.

"Of you...dying..." she whispered sadly as tears fell shamelessly down her cheeks to drip off from her chin. Her hand cupped his cheek when he looked at her in confidence, shaking her head sadly. "Because of--me."

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