Chapter 11. Changing Into a New Person.

/ \ Kagome's POV / \

I ran, and ran, and ran. Trees seemed to blur by, and the sun crossed the sky completely uncaring that my time was running out.

Yes, my time was running out. I could feel myself getting weaker and weaker, pain stabbing me everywhere. It went from knives, to burning, to lightning bolts. And then there was only pain, ripping through me with never ending intensity I hadn't imagined possible.

One thing I did notice, was that I was running. I mean running really fast. Inhumanly fast.

"Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, anyone?" I yelled over and over again in desperation.

I slowed down a little bit and wrapped my arms around my body suddenly, noticing I was getting cold. Really cold.

"Someone please help me." I whispered and exhaustion swept over me like a tsunami. But I knew if I sat down and let sleep take me, I'd never wake again.

So I kept running. But then did I realize that Shadows were surrounding me and laughing. Except these weren't something that looked two-dimensional; these looked alive.

/ \ Sesshoumaru's in the Woods of Inuyasha. Also where Kagome's body is. / \

Sesshoumaru walked through the woods, nothing bothering him because everything seemed at peace… until he smelled it.

"Kagome," Sesshoumaru muttered.

He started running towards the scent and what he found was a shock. Kagome was lying on the ground in a heap, and she was pale white. She was normally pale but this, this was bone white pale. She stared out into the beyond with glassy eyes and she had lost that shine she had in her hair.

"Kagome?" he asked, hoping for a response.

Nothing happened. Sesshoumaru didn't move nor did Kagome, "Kagome?"

Then something stirred. Kagome got up and looked at Sesshoumaru with those glassy eyes, red eyes.

"Sesshoumaru…" She murmured in an emotionless voice.

She walked over and placed a hand on Sesshoumaru's chest and smiled at him. She caressed Sesshoumaru's cheek and got up on her toes and moved her lips to his. Sesshoumaru was still in shock and didn't pull away.

Kagome did, however, and she fell to the ground, her eyes flashing from red to brown and back. She had a blank look on her face and she didn't move an inch.

"Kill him," A voice commanded in her thoughts.

Kagome eyes flicked once more brown and then they stayed the glassy red and she rose from the ground. She called for her bow and arrow, but they didn't come. Little did the body of Kagome know, the real Kagome's spirit, bow and arrows were coming. Quickly.

/ \ Kagome's POV, somewhere lost in the forest / \

"SESSHOUMARU!" I yelled as the Shadows followed behind closely. "Sesshoumaru, don't trust her!"

I was being pulled by the bow and arrow I held, and I let them take me to my beaten, almost lifeless body. Almost in a flash I found myself looking at my body and Sesshoumaru.

"Sesshoumaru," I muttered, and Sesshoumaru casted a glance at me. He shrugged, deciding it was his imagination. "Sesshoumaru, listen to me! I'm right here. Help me, save me! My body needs to be purged of the controlling poison!"

He still only focused on my body, and as the bow and arrows finally pulled me out into the clearing, I resisted giving them to myself. And Sesshoumaru noticed. I started walking away when my body came walking towards me; or rather the bow and arrow.

I rolled my eyes. My body was just as useless without me in it as a post. I walked over to Sesshoumaru and slung the bow and arrows on his shoulder. Then I grabbed his Tensiega, which caught him by surprise.

"Oh body of mine." I crooned with a smirk. "Come and get me."

My body walked after me and I simply side stepped as it tried to reach for me. I started prancing around, getting cocky.

"Kagome, I believed you would have been dead by now." My body said, making me smile.

I brought Sesshoumaru's sword to my lips, spoke to it, and soon it was flying around of its own accord. I started to laugh and looked at the very confused Sesshoumaru. Every emotion swirling wildly on his face.

"So, body of mine are you gonna kill me yet?" I asked.

She started to swipe at me with glowing claws that I could only assume were coated in poison.

"Tensiega now!" I yelled.

The sword straightened itself from its crooked position, and pointed at my body. It flew like a torpedo at my puppet body, and struck it in the back.

As the sword of life sailed through the shell of my body, I felt my soul being pulled back. And then suddenly I could feel the warmth again. Growing and growing, and suddenly I was encased in a glowing white light that glared off of everything making it hard to see. When my vision cleared, I was looking at a beautiful woman with flowing deep clear blue hair with white tips like waves and eyes of lapis lazuli ((Blue with gold splashes in it for those who don't know)).

"Kagome," She said softly smiling at me. "Welcome."

"Where am I?" I asked.

"You are in my ocean…" She stared at me for the first, and last time. "Kagome, do you know who I am?"

I shook my head, and then noticed that she had some of the same features as me. If you mixed my father's black hair and brown eyes… you would get the same hair and eyes as I had. This lady, she was just more beautiful than me or anyone I've seen before. Don't you recognize your mother?" The woman said with a soft smile.

"Er… um… My mother lives in a different time…" I responded.

The woman giggled softly closing her eyes and covered her mouth. "I am your mother. I have always been. You were born in this time, but for your safety we brought you to the future. Your mother there, she is simply one of my human friends that loved you almost as much as I did. So she took you and left."

"My safety?" I asked. "I don't understand."

"You were always so difficult to deal with. But it's time I tell you the truth. You are, and always have been an Enkai-Youkai. It has just been hidden to make you appear human by. Born of a Miko-Enkai-Youkai and a priest, you are a Miko-Enkai-Youkai." She said, rolling her eyes. "So pretty much an ocean demon with strong Miko powers combined with demons."

"Okay, that makes me sound like I'm bursting with power." I replied after a moment my mind spent in a daze.

"Tell me," She murmured, "What do you wish?"

I thought hard about this, and I just suddenly knew. "To stay… here, with my friends."

"And do you know what will happen when the Shikon no Tama is finished?" She questioned.

I casted my eyes down to my feet to my feet and spoke quietly, "Yes, I will be taken out of this time and into mine. Then the well will seal over."

"Right on the dot, but do you know how you can stay?" The woman asked.

I shook my head, "Who are you?"

"Suki. Lady of the Ocean," She stated smiling. "And do you know how you can stay?"

"No,"

Suki looked disappointed. "You have half of it done already."

"Huh?"

"You have to find and secure a mate. Even the Kami won't separate two souls bound together by such a strong bond of love. And, you're well on your way in accomplishing that." She replied, her voice softening slightly. "Now, do you want to know you're true self?"

I blinked, then again and again. "Mother, I-I don't-,"

She looked at me frantically and then she whispered. "Kagome, you must choose quickly, I must leave soon."

"I accept!" I said in fright as her body flickered.

"I, Suki May Higarashi, demand the spell on my daughter Kagome Higarashi, to be removed." She demanded loud and clear, and with a blink she disappeared.

The world was suddenly whirling around me at breakneck speed. My sight was taken from me once again, and all I could feel was the endless emptiness of space. Just as I started to relax a bit, I heard a loud crack, and I could feel my bones and muscles shift and change.

"I, Suki May Higarashi, demand the spell on my daughter, Kagome Higarashi, to be removed." My mother's words still rang loud and clear in my mind.

Pain sizzled and burned in my veins, my head, my heart, everything, and everywhere. As suddenly as it started, it stopped, and I opened my eyes to see Sesshoumaru kneeling over me with a look of sorrow and concern in his eyes.

And then that concern and sorrow disappeared, and confusion replaced it.

I smiled at him and felt as if the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders. I got up without his help and stretched. I felt awfully stiff. As I did, I noticed I was taller, I had sharp, long nails. My hair was still raven-blue, but the blue stuck out more, fading into a glistening white at the tips. It looked like crystalline waters white capping on the beach, and waved identically to the tide it represented. I was pretty sure my eyes were clear bright blue.

"Hey Sesshoumaru, why do you look so weird?" I asked in a different tongue than I was used to.

He raised a graceful eyebrow as if it were obvious. I rolled my eyes. "Oh, are you thinking about the new look? Like it? I think it makes me look fabulous!"

"Same old Kagome, different look but same comments." Sesshoumaru said with an amused expression.

"Yup," I said, "but you're stuck with me."

"What do you mean?" He asked.

I walked over and closed the distance between us and pressed my lips to his. He returned the kiss, and right away I silently asked entrance into his mouth. He obliged, and soon our tongues were entangled in an ancient dance. Until it turned into a fight for dominance, that is. Of course Sesshoumaru won, but only because he cheated and grabbed my ass to distract me. I gasped as he did this. He took complete advantage of my surprise, and wasted no time deepening the kiss, drawing me in as close as possible for the moment.

Only when we broke the kiss to pant from the lack of air did we speak.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow again. "How did this happen?"

I told him everything. Soon it seemed like an eternity before he answered, because his lips crashed down on my mine.

"I love you," I whispered.

He smiled with a hint of joy and shrugged, kidding around as if to say nonchalantly 'Make me love you, make me say it back. Just see if you can.'

"Jerk," I said, and playfully hit him in the shoulder.

He winced. "Ow."

"Sorry about that." I replied in return.

"Its fine," He muttered and grinned, "I love you too."

"Wow, you think I will accept that?" I said. "Especially after you didn't respond right away?"

He smirked, "Yes, yes I do." And his lips met mine as I smiled.

'Hey, he's right.' I thought.

Then, there was a rustle in the bushes. Sesshoumaru and I unlocked from each other and turned to face the noise.

The new arrivals clambering through the bushes surprised us. It was Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara.

"Hey Kagome!" Sango chirped, "I missed you!"

I ran right into Sango's open arms and hugged my best friend with open warmth. I then hugged the rest of them, Miroku included. I was thrilled to find out about Miroku and Sango who were getting married.

"So fast?" I asked.

Miroku and Sango nodded. "Yes, we don't want to be parted before we marry, if something happens… well… you understand, right?"

"Yes… But how did you know that I'm me?"

Shippo spoke this time. "Because we got here just in time to watch the transformation!"

I nodded and smiled as Shippo jumped in my arms.

"Sesshoumaru, do you want to stay with…?" My sentence dropped off as I turned to see Sesshoumaru gone. "Where did Sesshoumaru go?"

/ \ A/N / \

Okay I thought my other chapter of this was pretty crappy so I changed it up! I have a sentence in mind for further along in the story… I don't want to be a spoiler so I'm not telling. ^_^ One last thing…. REVIEW OR ELSE I WILL FIND YOU! (Not really I just want you to review it really boosts my confidence in this story!)