Chapter 12
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Nyoko lay curled in a tight ball on her bed not opening her eyes as she listened to the voices around her. She wanted to uncurl and move but she…she couldn't.
"Will she be alright?" Inuyasha's voice drifted to her ears.
"Yes." Kagome said and Nyoko could feel her hand running down her back. "She's just tired. From what I was able to tell, the pendent is acting as a sort of communication device between her powers and her mind. Kind of like the Shikon."
Nyoko thought for a moment before remembering that the Shikon was a jewel that granted a lot of power to whoever wished upon it. "Sort of." She mumbled into her knees.
Kagome's hand paused and Nyoko felt another hand touch her on top of her head. "Nyoko love?" Yasu's voice came from right by her head. It was then she felt the heat of a body that she was curled against. She looked up slowly to see Yasu peering down concerned at her. "Are you feeling better?"
Nyoko nodded and moved to sit up. Yasu helped but pulled her so that her back was supported by his chest. "Yasu…" She murmured quietly. "Can someone bring Mika to me? I…I want her right now."
Inuyasha disappeared out of the room and returned moments later with the infant held delicately in his hands. "Here. She started crying when you collapsed apparently. She stopped about the same time you woke up." He handed the infant to Nyoko who held her tightly, feeling the same calm aura from her sister that she always had.
"What I meant by sort of…was that the fire is not a part of me. I guess you could say it is it's own spirit that just happens to really like me." Nyoko chuckled at the pleasure she felt pulse from the necklace. "It showed me, in the only way that it knew how, that I have always had some control of fire. When…when we were in the accident, the fire stayed away from us. It made me go back into my memory. I was in the car when we got in the accident. I heard the engine explode again and…" Her eyes went a bit unfocused as Inuyasha, Kagome, and Yasu stared at her steadily waiting for her to continue. "I could feel the fire's joy at being able to feast. There was no evil at the lives and destruction, just joy at being. But it stayed away from me and Mika. I was able to throw us from the car and it continued to eat, but it never once came close to us." She said running a hand along Mika's back.
Yasu kissed the side of her head gently noticing her brief shiver. "I'm happy you were safe."
Nyoko chuckled and leaned to pulling her shirt up to reveal her side and part of her back. They all bit back sounds of pity at the scars that crisscrossed her skin. "The glass in the automobile, unfortunately, doesn't respond to the same power." She held Nyoko tightly to her and smelled her hair. It never failed to calm her, the delicate scent of the baby's body. She laid Mika beside her on the bed and her head whipped to Inuyasha at his next words.
"The necklace didn't burn her." Inuyasha said studying the baby that Nyoko had just set down.
"Burn? Necklace?" Nyoko asked her eyes wide and panicked. "There was a chance the necklace would burn the baby and you let me hold her up to it?" She chucked a pillow at Inuyasha and looked over Mika carefully.
Yasu laughed as Inuyasha dodged and turned Nyoko to look at him with a finger on her chin. "We were sure it wouldn't burn her Nyoko." He let his finger trail down her throat to rest on the necklace himself. It was pleasantly warm and he could have sworn he felt something like a purr come from the entity inside the crystal. "It won't burn me, so we were sure she would be alright."
Nyoko could definitely feel the purr from the necklace and her eyes widened. Blushing she looked away. "So…Kagome! Who did it burn?" She asked in a desperate plea for subject changing.
"Everyone but Yasu and Mika. It wasn't as bad a burn on me and Inuyasha as some of the others." Kagome answered sitting on the floor and giving Mika a finger to grab and play with. "I would suggest that the fire is showing who it knows you trust. For example: you know me but you haven't for very long. I would not be the first one you were so call if something happened. But I might be one of the first judging by the degree." Kagome grinned as the baby gurgled at her. Her eyes traveled to Inuyasha and she felt her face heat up at something she wasn't able to name in his gaze.
Inuyasha looked away after a moment and motioned to Yasu to step out into the hall with him. Seeing Kagome holding and playing with a baby had made his mind fill with images of Kagome playing with his babies and he was startled by how much he wanted that. Yasu followed him after disentangling himself from Nyoko and followed him down the hall to his fathers room. "Sesshomaru wanted us to get him when she was awake." Inuyasha murmured distractedly. Yasu nodded and said nothing lost in his own thoughts.
"Why did they leave?" Nyoko asked looking at the now closed bedroom door. Her mind was racing a thousand miles a minute, it was very hard to stick to one subject. Her mind bounced from the memory of the fire, to the fire in her necklace, to Kagome and Inuyasha's shared look, to Yasu being able to touch the fire. Her eyes settled finally on a brace of candles across the room. She could vaguely hear Kagome telling her that Sesshomaru had wanted them to let him know she was awake but she didn't respond when Kagome trailed off. She could feel something tickling inside of her, she would have said clawing but it wasn't painful…just…determined. She narrowed her eyes on the candles and flicked a finger at it letting some of the pressure shoot from her finger.
Her eyes flew open when a burst of flame shot from her finger to slam into the candles and half melt them instantly. The table cloth beneath caught on fire and Kagome was quick to throw the glass of water she'd brought up for Nyoko onto the dresser and the two of them stared in shock as the fire finally smoldered out. "Remind me not to point at someone again." Nyoko said in the sudden silence. Mika started giggling as Kagome burst out laughing.
"She's awake?" Sesshomaru asked looking up at his son and brother as they walked into his office.
"Yes, and we were right about Mika. She held the baby and there was no burn." Inuyasha said leaning against the back of one of the chairs.
"She said that the fire tried to show her that her ability to control fire had always been there. It pulled her into the memory of the accident that killed her parents and she remembered the fire staying away from her." Yasu said. He opened his mouth to say more when a whoomp sound came from the direction of Nyoko's room. The three of them were out of the door within a breath as they began to smell smoke as well. They gazed in surprise at the two laughing women and one giggling baby. When the girls saw the three of them in the doorway ready to fight, they only began to laugh harder.
"What happened?" Yasu asked looking at the scorched wall and burned cloth.
Sesshomaru studied it and then peered at Nyoko. "Did you do this?" He asked his eyes almost smiling. If she had learned some type of control already, then it boded well that she would learn quickly.
Nyoko nodded still giggling. "I was kind zoned out and…pushed some kind of pressure out through my finger. It made the candle explode. I used too much."
"The fact that you can use any of it so quickly is amazing in itself." Yasu said coming over to kiss her cheek. Nyoko blushed and Kagome giggled picking Mika up in her arms and waving.
"I'll go get her some food." Kagome said and headed downstairs. She could hear talking in the room behind her and smiled. Nyoko was still slightly worried but you could see she was beginning to trust them. She hadn't fought Yasu's grip or hit him for his loving gestures. She'd tried to use her powers with Kagome there and whether she recognized it or not, that showed Kagome she was trusted to be able to help if something were to go wrong.
Kagome set Mika in the baby swing Kagura had put in the kitchen as she dug in the refrigerator for milk. She moved to the stove and started to warm up the bottle loving the simple yet life sustaining activities needed to feed a child. She let her mind shift to thoughts of her own future with Inuyasha. With a sigh she turned and stopped in shock almost dropping the bottle as she looked out the back door across the room from her.
A man was standing there, one she knew very well. He was leaning against the frame of the door but didn't enter the room. Kagome saw the shimmer and realized there was a barrier keeping him out but he'd managed to open the door without her hearing. She stared at him in shock for a moment. "What do you want?" She finally asked realizing that if she stayed out of arms length she should be fine.
"Oh Kagome…I want the same thing I've always wanted." The man's voice was slightly husky but the tone was one she recognized.
Tears sprang to her eyes and began to trail down her cheek. "I'm so sorry." She a pinch of sadness in her heart as she met eyes that were no longer holding the kindness she'd always seen in them. "Hojo, I am so sorry."
Please review! Did the ending make sense to you all? If not it will be explained more fully in the next chapter I promise!! Did it surprise anyone? LOL tata!
