Seven Sins

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Kagome looked over at Sota then Miroku, and back again.

"Ready?" she asked.

Miroku and Sota wordlessly nodded their heads and watched as Kagome closed her eyes. She concentrated, as hard as she could, imagining everyone's bodies covered in a pink cloud.

Kagome continued to concentrate for a good 5 minutes, but she didn't feel any different.

"Did it work?" Sota whispered, afraid that if he spoke to loud something would go terribly wrong.

"I don't think so." Kagome said.

"Try focusing your power into the clouds." Miroku suggested.

Kagome nodded and did what he said.

Kagome watched the pictures of everyone and the light pink clouds that surrounded them and imagined the clouds getting darker, her power filling the clouds.

"Is it working?" Sota asked, again.

Kagome waited a minute or two before answering, "I think so."

She opened her eyes and saw that her vision was blurry. She put her arms out, to steady herself, and blinked rapidly.

"Kagome." Miroku said, rushing to her side and grabbing her waist to steady her.

"Are you ok?" Sota asked, going to Kagome's other side.

"I thought I was suppose to feel the same for a while." Kagome said, running a hand through her hair.

"You were, but maybe you focused on too many things."

Kagome groaned, as her head started to ache, and her knees started to give out, and breathing became slightly harder.

"I think I should lye down." Kagome said, trying not to collapse.

Miroku nodded and he and Sota helped her over to a chair. They gently put her down on the chair, then, put chairs on both sides of her, making a line of chairs, letting her lay down.

"Want some water?" Sota asked, fully prepared to run down to the kitchen to grab some water.

"No." Kagome said, wincing as the slight movement caused her stomach to ache.

Miroku gently put his hand on her head and retracted it as if it stung to touch her.

"My god Kagome! You're burning up."

"What do we do?" Sota asked, wanting to help his sister.

"Um…we have to cool her down. Go get ice, a lot of ice."

Sota nodded. "Do we tell anyone?" Sota asked, knowing this wasn't the time, but still, he had to know.

"Uh…no, don't tell anyone, except Inuyasha and Sango. But only if they ask what the ice is for."

"Why only Inuyasha and Sango?" Sota asked, curious.

"This may be just what they need to bring them back.'

Sota nodded and dashed out of the library.

"Kagome?" Miroku asked, brushing her bangs out of her face.

Kagome groaned, indicating that she could hear and was listening, but she didn't talk, afraid it would make everything worse.

"You're going to be ok. Just hold on. Ok? Just hold on." Miroku said, grabbing Kagome's hand and gently rubbing his thumb over her hands. "It'll all be ok."

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Sota dashed through the house, careful not to run into anything, and dashed into the kitchen. Sota ran over to the fridge, glad the kitchen was empty, and opened up the freezer side of the fridge.

Sota quickly scanned the contents, looking for ice, but didn't find any.

"Crap!" Sota cried, once again glad that no one else was in the kitchen.

Sota closed the door and started to pace around the room. "What do you do when you don't have ice?" he said, talking to himself, scanning the room for a solution.

"Hey Sota." Inuyasha said, walking into the room with Sango right behind him, them having just came back from discussing how they were going to make things right.

"Can't talk." Sota said hurriedly, running over to the sink. He quickly grabbed a bowl from one of the cabinets and ran cold water into it, grabbing a washcloth and dunking it in the water.

"What's the hurry?" Sango asked, taking a few steps towards him.

"Um…Miroku said I could only tell you guys. But I'm not suppose to tell you until you ask what the ice is for."

Sango sent a questioning look over to Inuyasha and hesitantly asked, "What's the ice for?"

Sota turned off the facet and turned to face Inuyasha and Sango, bowl in hand. "Kagome." He said walking as fast he could out of the kitchen without spilling the water.

Sango and Inuyasha both gave each other confused and concerned gazes before following Sota.

"What do you mean the ice is for Kagome? And what ice?" Inuyasha asked.

"Be quiet. I'm only supposed to tell you."

"Then tell us something." Sango said.

"I can't. Someone might overhear."

"Where are you going?" Inuyasha asked.

"Library."

"Well is Kagome ok?" Inuyasha asked.

"…"

"Sota?" Sango questioned. "Is she ok?"

"…I think." He finally said.

"What the hell does that mean?" Inuyasha asked.

Sota sighed as he saw the library door not but a few steps away. "It means I think she's ok but I can be wrong." And with that the three entered the library.

As soon as Sango saw Kagome she gasped, stopping in her tracks, Inuyasha slowed for a second before speeding up again, and Sota just kept right on going.

"What happened?" Inuyasha asked as he got on his knees beside Miroku.

Miroku, ignoring Inuyasha, turned to Sota and asked, "Where's the ice."

"They didn't have ice so I brought cold water."

Miroku nodded, grabbed the washcloth, squeezed all the extra water out, and laid it on Kagome's forehead. He dipped his finger into the bowl and flicked some water on Kagome, wanting to cool down her face.

"What happened?" Inuyasha repeated.

"A spell gone wrong." Sota said, watching in fear as Miroku kept sprinkling water over Kagome.

"Here." Sango said, getting down on the other side of Miroku. "Tell me what's wrong with her."

"Headache, Stomachache, she's burning up, and whenever she moves she hurts something else."

Sango nodded and quickly grabbed the washcloth off Kagome's forehead, lightly put it back in the water, and then covered Kagome's while face with it.

"Is she going to be ok?" Sota asked, even though the only thing they did different was put a damp washcloth on Kagome's face.

"I think so." Sango said, unsure.

"What the hell does that mean?" Inuyasha asked.

"It means I think she will be but I could be wrong."

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"Now what?" Koga asked, staring forward, the picture of Kagome no longer coming in.

"We attack." Kagura said confidently.

"But we haven't healed completely." Yura said, looking down at her arm.

"Kanna." Naraku said, turning towards her.

"Yes?" Kanna asked, turning her attention away from her sisters.

"What do you think?"

"In battle, when we get injured, it takes no more then a few minutes to recover, an hour if the attack is powerful enough. But we are still healing, hours after the battle. To go into the house, blindly, would be suicidal."

"But this is our chance. The spell said that Kagome would be weak after casting it."

"She was weak before." Kanna said, wisely, looking towards Koga. "Besides, we don't know if she put the spell on everyone or just the house."

"What? She put it on everyone. We can't see anything." Yura said, running a hand through her silky hair.

"But…if she cast the spell on the house we wouldn't be able to see anything too. At least not as long as they stay inside." Kagura said, getting what her sister was trying to say.

"Precisely." Kanna said.

Everyone turned their attention towards Naraku, waiting for what he said would be done.

"Prepare an army." He finally said. "Yura, you and Kanna are to find demons, strong and weak, all willing to fight. Kagura, you and Koga will train the demons. We'll give Kagome a war."

"Why would you want weak demons?" Yura asked.

"Because I'll have Koga and Kagura train them."

"How many demons?" Kanna asked.

Naraku thought for a minute then answered, "As many as you can."

"Why would anyone fight with us?" Koga asked.

"You'd be surprised what a demon would do for a medallion."

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Done! I hope you guys liked this chapter. This one is like the beginning of the end. Or the beginning of the beginning. Either way, all depends on how you want to look at it. Read and Review. Till Next Time…