This Miko was broken beyond repair and it was suprisingly hard to see someone that had been so full of life in so much pain. I don't know what she's done to me but whatever spell she's chanted had worked. The word friend circled my mind constantly, none stop, ever since that moment at the lantern release.
Is this want friendship is? This feeling to comfort her while she's like this? If so then...
I sat there and let her cry. I let her cry and didn't try to asked what was wrong. By the time the sun came up she fell asleep with tears falling, crying in slumber. I brushed the hair away from her face and realized how beautiful she was. I'd noticed before while watching over Rin but now I'm really seeing what makes her beautiful. My heart thumped when she whimpered and I placed her on her sleeping pallet more comfortably before trying to leave. What I hadn't realized was that she held to my Mokomoko tightly. I gently pulled her hands away and walked out of her sleeping quarters. When I'd opened the door, the small fox fledgling was beside it sleeping. He usually slept with Kagome whenever he came here on visit but that wouldn't be appropriate now. Rin came running to me with concern and started asking me about her.
"Is she okay? What made her so sad? She was fine before!"
"Rin, let the matter be for now."
"But Lord Sesshomaru she-"
"Enough Rin." She looked sad but nodded and looked to the womans door before running off again. I walked over to the old woman and she looked at me with knowing eyes but said nothing.
"It would be wise to leave the matter, revolving around her sadness, be; for now, at least."
"I know as much." I nodded and walked out of the hut to do something.
InuYasha
I smelt Kagome's blood and instantly grew worried. It didn't smell like much but it smelt like enough to have me worried. I rushed to Kaede's and saw she, and Rin, looking concerned.
"Hey, where is Kagome?"
"InuYasha, you have returned I see," Kaede said with suspicion.
"I smell Kagome's blood, is she okay?" Rin was about to speak but Kaede stepped in.
"Ye can go and check yourself. She hadn't left the room since last night." I went to Kagome and saw Shippo at the door just sitting there.
"Shippo?" He looked up at me and gave me a small smile of relief.
"InuYasha!" He jumped onto my shoulder and cried like he usually did when something was wrong.
"Kagome won't come out of her room! She's been in there crying but won't talk to anyone, not even Sango."
Could she have... not, I would have smelled her near us.
I grabbed Shippo and put him down and went inside of Kagome's room, him right on my tail. She was sleeping with tears falling from her face and her hands balled up, shaking violently.
"Kagome?" I walked over to her and tried to wake her but it's as if she was put under some type of influence. I unraveled her hands and saw the blood from her nails pressing into her palms.
"She's been doing that since she came from her walk."
"Sesshomaru?" I looked up at him as he walked to her other side and place a damp cloth in both her palms. She balled her hands into fist again but her nails were blocked by the rags.
"She hadn't spoken a word to anyone since her return last night. One can only imagine what has happened to make her like this."
I watched her whimper in her sleep and all Sesshomaru had to do was place his Mokomoko around her and she'd stop and calm down a little. I won't lie, jealousy hit me in a wave that I don't have the right to feel. I was going to brush the hair from her face but she sat up quickly and worry was etched into her features.
"I'm such a terrible person," she exclaimed but then she saw me and a look of sadness replaced the look of worry.
"InuYasha?" She stood and kept her gaze from me.
"Sesshomaru, something has happened to Koga and his wolf demon tribe. Could you please come with me?"
"Why ask him? I'm-" she left the room, leaving me sitting there. Sesshomaru stood and paused only to give me an amused smirk.
I went after them and planned on making Kagome speak to me but stopped when I listened to what happened to Koga.
Kagome
I explained to Kaede what Ginta and Hakkaku told me and we were now on the way there. InuYasha was going to tag along but Kaede told him to go get Sango, Miroku, and Kohaku, leaving the children with Jinenji. When we got there, the guys ambushed me with happy tears.
"Koga, woke up!"
I went to where Koga was and saw he was, indeed, awake but grief stricken. I wouldn't blame him, though.
"Koga?" I got no response from him. He sat there, unmoving.
"Koga, talk to me. I need to know what happened." I still got nothing. I sigh and just went to check his injuries. I put some medicinal herbs on them and rewrapped them. When I got ready to leave, he grabbed my arm tightly.
"Where is the mutt," he asked.
"What?"
He yanked me down to my knees, right in front of him but I avoided touching him so I wouldn't hurt him.
"InuYasha, where is he?"
"He's on his way. Koga whats-"
"I need to see him now."
Koga wants to talk with InuYasha? That can never be good. I watched his face and saw a look of fear cross it. His breathing got heavier as well.
"What business do you have with my little brother?" We both looked to see Sesshomaru before us.
"Sesshomaru?" Koga went to stand and I protested against it but he wouldn't listen.
"Koga, you shouldn't get up!"
"I'll be alright." He got to his feet holding the wound on him abdomen, clutching it in pain.
"I remember you, your his older brother." Koga began to cough and stagger so I held him steady.
"I thought... there was only two of you."
Only two of them? What's he mean by that?
"Do you have another brother?" The question was unexpected. I looked to Sesshomaru and saw his eyes became more piercing then usual.
"How did you know that?"
"He was the one that attacked us. Apparently, before marrying me, Ayame and her pack were left in charge of protecting a weapon. The man who asked them to was your father. Is this correct?" Sesshomaru just glared at him coolly. Koga coughed more before falling.
"Koga! See, I warned you to take it easy. Your so stubborn." I sat him down softly and layed him back onto the ground. I placed his head in my lap and cleaned the blood from his mouth.
After treating Koga, I put Ginta and Hakkaku in charge of watching him so that I could talked with Sesshomaru alone while cleaning bandages.
"Is it true? Do you and InuYasha have another brother?" He was looking out over the water and spoke, not facing me at all.
"Yes, although my father and mother had sealed him away before InuYasha was born."
"So does InuYasha know?"
"No, it was irrelevant at the time."
"I see. Why did your father seal him away? Was he that big of a threat to him?" There was a brief moment of silence between us. I finished cleaning the bandages now and waited for his answer.
"His name is Keiji, he is the second born son of my mother and father. Keiji was a seed that was so hungry for power that he had a weapon made to take the powers of a priestess and turn that power into demonic power. After my parents found out they took the weapon away and sealed him away. I don't know how he managed to escape but he must die soon."
"Die? You'd kill your own brother?"
"If it rids this world of him then I shall gladly take his life."
Sesshomaru is willing to kill his own brother? This is de javu.