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Chapter 14

He woke with a jolt, looking around and feeling around for Kagome. He touched her side, and he pulled her close to him, breathing in her lavender and jasmine scent. The dream felt so real. He really thought he lost her.

He locked his arms around her so that even Amaterasu and Jurou would have a hard time getting them unhooked from her.

Kagome felt the shift, and woke up. She looked up at him tiredly. "Inuyasha?" she asked, mumbling it out. "What's going on?"

"Nothing," he told her. "Go back to sleep."

She shook her head. "No. It's not nothing. You never wake up in the middle of the night and practically anchor me to you." She was more awake now.

"I'm fine now," he stated.

She gave him a scrutinizing look. She didn't see anything out of place for as much as she could see. "Okay." She pressed her face into his chest and wrapped her arms around him. "What was it?"

"Nothing you want to hear about," he told her. "It wasn't pretty." He pressed his nose into her hair. "Let's just go back to sleep."

She nodded into his chest. She yawned again and snuggled her face into his shirt.

Inuyasha kept his face pressed into her hair.

The next morning when they all woke up, they got changed, grabbed something quick to eat, and went to Sango's house.

Miroku, Sango, and Amaterasu went to Miroku's house to start getting his things, all of the clothes, his computer, and anything else that he owned. They were going to go back and forth and Kagome, Jurou, and Inuyasha were going to move it into the room, but they'd let Miroku and Sango decided where his clothes would go. They just moved the furniture and the boxes into the room.

After an hour, a couple of people switched. Amaterasu, Jurou and Miroku kept going over to his house, and Sango, Kagome, and Inuyasha stayed, and Kagome and Inuyasha helped Sango unpack Miroku's things.

By the time it was one o'clock they were finished, and Kagome felt really tired and sick. She just wanted to go home.

The others were going to go out, but Kagome didn't want to. She grabbed Amaterasu's wrist and pulled her away so that Inuyasha wouldn't hear.

"Amaterasu, can you take me home?" she asked her. "I don't feel so great." She gave her friend a pleading look. "Please?"

"Why don't you tell Inuyasha?" she asked. "He's gonna kill me if I don't tell him, sunshine. I really want to live to see my boyfriend again." She smiled at Kagome.

"I don't want him to go home with me," she told Amaterasu. "He's been so stressed lately with me and I don't want to stress him out even more with being sick." She held her hands out in front of her, pressed palm to palm. "Please Amaterasu? I'll owe you one if you took me home."

Amaterasu looked at her. "You do realize that as soon as I come back and he realizes you're not there, he'll kill me, right? Your presence will not go unnoticed. I'll be dog meat as soon as I come back, and he'd just go to your house anyway, sunshine," she told her.

Kagome sighed. "You can take him. Plus, Inuyasha likes you, you're his friend, he won't hurt you."

Amaterasu gave her a wary look. "Seriously? You were at the prom last year, right? You saw him kill Naraku?" Amaterasu asked. "Sunshine, I suggest you tell him that you don't feel well. He might let me take you home."

"Fine," Kagome said. "I'll go talk to him. I don't want him to come with me though. I'll go get you after I talk to him."

"You know I have to stay with you. So if it isn't Inuyasha, it's me, or someone else," Amaterasu stated. "We told you we weren't gonna let you be alone."

Kagome glared at her. "I know."

Amaterasu then remembered she had to do something. "Kagome, I'll be back in a couple of minutes, so take your time explaining to Inuyasha," she stated. Not that she though Inuyasha would let her go home without him if she was sick, he'd be right there with her. And he'd put up a fight to stay with her, and she'd put up a fight to have him stay here. So Amaterasu assumed she had a little more than ten minutes. "Be back sunshine." She didn't give Kagome time to argue, she immediately disappeared.

And appeared in the Lab where Dr. Mori was, reading a book at the desk. He looked up a moment after she appeared, and his face wasn't cheerful as it always was.

"Amaterasu," he said. "How are you?" He wasn't like a grandfather anymore, he was guarded.

Amaterasu tensed, ready for what she was about to find out. "What's the matter?"

"I have… found a possible cure. But not for people who were born with it. The cure attacks the gene, but the gene fights back against the cure, and kills it," he explained. "But I will continue searching. But I need to know how much stronger the darkness has gotten in you."

Her calm mask shattered. "What?" she squeaked. She felt like she couldn't breathe. "How much stronger?"

Dr. Mori looked at her sadly. "Yes. I didn't want to tell you, but I have kept a file of you since you were young… and the gene has gotten stronger from the last time I took blood from you at the age of fifteen."

She looked inside herself, there were times she could sense it, other times should couldn't, and right now she could clearly sense it, and almost see it behind her eyes. It was almost like a forming storm cloud.

She composed herself again. She couldn't show her weakness in front of anyone, not in front of her people and Council. "How long do you think it will be until I become like Kurono, Doc?" she asked.

He looked at her like he always did, like he has since she was a child. "I would estimate it to the next thirty years if something that brings out the fear doesn't happen before then," he told her.

Right, like that would happen, she had fear following her where ever she went, whether it was her worry for Chiyo, her relationship with Jurou that was hanging from a thread at the moment, or Kagome and her friends. So no fear was out of the question. It was a daily part of her life, if it was with the Wind demons or Mayonaka, or the scars from her past that she was still trying to rise above of, but the fear was always there, just underneath her calm facade.

"What do you mean about the fear coming out?" she asked carefully.

"I mean that if you should ever become so frightened to bring out that gene for any length of time, have a mental break down, if you will," he said, "you can become like Kurono much sooner than thirty years. I it would reduce to about five."

"Because I was born with it?" she asked. "Since I was born with it it's strong in me than it was in Kurono?"

He nodded. "Extremely so, my dear. You are more power than any Wind demon I have ever seen. Of course it is only because of what Kurono did to himself, but even with it you are so much strong than him. It should only be a slight difference, but it's more so than a slight difference. It's a giant leap from Kurono," he explained. "I think even if you didn't have the gene you'd be strong, Amaterasu. This could be a good thing for a leader to have, they'd be able to enforce laws with no trouble, and keep the peace between the groups, and you must have a child to continue the line of Leaders. Then next could be as powerful as you, or maybe more because of who your partner is."

"You think I will pass this disease to a child? A little helpless baby? I would never because I wouldn't want my baby to hate me like I hate my parents, Dr. Mori. I will never be like my father or mother," she snapped. Her hands were clenched in fists at her sides as she glared at him.

"My Lady," he said holding his hands up, "I'm only throwing out that suggestion if we ever find a way to eliminate the after affects of the gene. Then you should be fine. You might want to bring it up to the Council the next time you meet. It would be better if you had more than me looking for it. You could invest in that, or any other thing you might want to use for policing the demons," he said, giving her a pointed look.

Amaterasu calmed and smiled at him. "You're right," she told him. "The next meeting is in a couple of days, I'll bring it up then." He could read her mind about the holding facility she wanted to create as a jail to keep the Wind demons in.

"I'll be seeing you Dr. Mori," she said, then disappeared back to Kagome.

And she was right about having more than ten minutes.

Kagome walked over to Inuyasha, planning on telling him she was going to go home and that he should stay there and have some fun with their friends. But it didn't go exactly as planned.

"Inuyasha," she said sweetly. "I'm not feeling so well, and I'm gonna have Amaterasu take me home. You should stay here-"

"I'm coming with you," he stated before she could finished.

"You should stay here," she said. "You deserve some fun. You've been so worried and busy protecting me-"

"And I will still be busy protecting you," he told her. "You aren't going anywhere without me."

"Inuyasha, I just have an upset stomach, it'll be gone in a couple of hours," she told him. "Why can't you just have some fun?"

"We don't have time for fun right now," he snapped. "We need to focus on who's trying to get to you, and if Mayonaka and her friends are working with Kikyo and Kagura and the white haired girl."

Kagome glared at him. "We can have fun!" she yelled, getting the attention of everyone in the room. "We can't just sit around like ducks and wait for them to tell us or kill one of us!" she screamed, getting angrier with each word.

"Well, what are we supposed to do, Kagome?" he demanded. "Are we supposed to look for them and bring the thing they want to them? Are we supposed to have tea with them or have them join us to dinner?"

"That's not what I mean!" she yelled. "I just want you to stop worrying about me for a moment. It's wearing you out." She had tears in her eyes. "Why won't you let yourself be happy?"

Inuyasha looked at her, horrified at the tears that he was causing. "Don't cry!" He reached toward her but she moved away from him, and stomped over to sit in between a wide eyed Sango, and a frozen in surprise Jurou.

Inuyasha followed her, begging her not to cry. "Come on Kagome, I didn't mean to make you upset." He continued on trying to get her to talk to him for the next couple of minutes.

And in those next minutes, Amaterasu came back, and took in the seen around her. She was very surprised at how the fight went down.

As soon as Kagome saw Amaterasu she hurried to her, and grabbed her hand. "Take me home," she sniffled.

Amaterasu nodded. "Alright." She locked eyes with Inuyasha, who gave her a betrayed look. "I'm sorry," she mouthed. She disappeared with Kagome.

Back at the house, Kagome just lay down on her bed, and after a few minutes, she fell asleep, and Amaterasu just stayed there and watched her sleep.

She couldn't help wondering the reason why Kagome was getting sick. She didn't think it was possible, but Kagome did smell like Inuyasha, but, she always did anyway. Amaterasu pushed it aside, telling herself she was being ridiculous.

Amaterasu fell asleep soon after.

When she woke up, Kagome wasn't in the room anymore, but Amaterasu was sure it she just went to the bathroom.

She walked out, and to the bathroom door, which was closed. She waited.

Then door opened a few minutes later, and Mrs. Higurashi walked out, but stopped when she almost ran into Amaterasu.

"Amaterasu," she said, holding her hand to her throat. "You scared me. I didn't think you were back from Sango's."

"Well, we all aren't, but Kagome wasn't feeling well," she stated. "I'm watching her. Do you know where she went, by the way?"

She shook her head.

Amaterasu felt her stomach churn uneasily, her worry starting to peak. She listened to the movements in the house. She heard someone walking down the hall, and went to it, but when she turned the corner, she immediately froze.

She saw a mirror image of herself, only with a few exceptions.

The mirror image had red and black eyes, and her hair was flowing lightly off her shoulders. She had a soulless face, and a cold, heartless smile. The mirror image walked toward Amaterasu, and Amaterasu thought she couldn't touch her. But she could.

The mirror image grabbed her arm and threw her at the wall. She walked over to her and knelt at her head.

"Who are you?" Amaterasu asked, appearing in a standing position in from of the mirror image.

"I'm you, sunshine," she said with a cold smile. "Can't you tell? Well, of course I'm the darker version of you, the one you're afraid of." She stood up to be face to face with Amaterasu. "I'm the one you want to get rid of, remember?"

Amaterasu backed up. "Yes. I remember, but I didn't realize there are two of me. I never thought I had a twin," she sneered.

"Oh, don't get your hopes up sunshine," she stated. "I'm only here to shake you up a bit."

Amaterasu froze. "You're an illusion." She ran through the mirror image this time. She turned, and it was gone.

She turned back to the hall facing her, ready to appear to where she smelt Kagome, when she heard her scream.

****Author's note: hey guys, another cliffy, but don't worry; I think this might be the last. Maybe. The next chapter might be really long, so it might take a while. I hope you like it and please review!