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Last time:

I smiled as I thought of the only person I knew of that would and could draw poison out of a hanyou. 'Myoga, thank you. Hopefully he can get enough of it out for me to regain my powers and help my baby.'

As I sat there smiling and waiting the glow grew brighter and bigger as though reaching for its master.

'Hurry Myoga. I have a feeling there's not much time.' And with that thought my smile slowly faded away into nothing.

Chapter 26: My Sister

I had gathered the herbs that Myoga needed, and he had put together this nasty smelling brew that he said she needed to drink. That was almost an hour ago. All we could do now was wait for it to take effect.

Myoga had passed out from side effects the poison and exhaustion. He said he wasn't going to be out long, but who knew with that old flea. I just hope the concoction we cooked up helps her.

I was sitting on the floor of the cave with Kagome in my lap, waiting for her to wake up. The glow from the fire gave her skin a healthier color than she had in days. Every minute that passed was another minute of torture. I needed her to wake up, to open her beautiful eyes that shone like stars. I needed to hear her voice, hell I'd be happy to hear her yell at me right now and 'sit' me into the seven hells.

I ran my fingers lovingly through her hair between her ears.

"I miss you Kagome, you need to wake up. If not for me then for yourself, and if for yourself then for our unborn child. Please. Please wake up." My voice cracked at the end as my eyes filled with moisture. I continued to bury my fingers in her hair as I tried to hold myself together the longer she didn't open her eyes.

Myoga had said that it may take a while before she woke up since her miko powers needed time to build back up after not having access to them for so long. Apparently it could be really bad for a miko not to be able to use her power since it was a part of their life force as well.

I almost jumped out of my skin with excitement when I looked down to see her eyes open and staring into mine, and that she was smiling and full of joy.

I gathered her up close to me and buried my face in her hair. "Never do that to me again. I missed you so much."

"I could say the same thing about you." She sounded tired and weak even though she had just spent almost three days sleeping. "How are you feeling Inuyasha?"

"What do you mean how am I feeling? How are you feeling?" I held her face in my hands and looked her over, checking her eyes for any sign of pain. "You just spent almost three whole days in a coma because of a poison."

She smiled at me and placed her hands over mine leaning into my touch. "I'm fine Inuyasha, we're fine." She looked happy giving me a knowing smile.

I looked at her in shock. 'She knows? About the baby?'

"You know about the baby?" I asked confused, 'How? I just found out from Myoga.'

"Yes, it's what kept me lucid inside my own mind and try to find a way to come back to you." She looked a little haunted by what had happened, or whatever had happened.

"What's wrong Kagome?" I rubbed my thumb across her cheek as a tear came free.

She looked me in the eye. "This poison that Naraku used, it took away my powers, and it hurt Inuyasha. I had no defenses against such a poison. I had no way to stop it from taking them away from me and t-the baby, the baby, we could have lost it before we even got to hold it." She looked so scared and sad that all I wanted to do was take her as far away as I could away from danger. "What if he used it during battle? He could knock me out in seconds and I would be stuck there all over again. With no way to escape. Or what if you're not there and he knows?" I thought of the pendant that Totosai had made for her and glanced at her throat. Then I remembered that she didn't have it on in his layer either.

"Where did the pendant go?" I asked.

She dropped one of her hands from over mine to her throat feeling for the missing pendant, and her eyes grew wide when it dawned on her that it wasn't there. "I had it when I left to find you, I swear." She hand seemed to refuse to leave the base of her throat as if it would magically appear there from thin air. "I-it must have fallen off when Kagura showed up." Her eyes grew distant at the memory.

"Then we will look there for it, if you want, when you are healthy enough to travel."

She only nodded before resting her head on my chest and circling her arms around me. "I'm just glad to have you back."

"Me too, me too."

Kanna's POV:

A week has gone by since we arrived here and Kagura seems to be slowly getting better every day with help from Lord Sesshomaru.

She called for me often, like she was worried I would disappear or something. She claimed that it was to make sure that I was alright which might be true, but I had a feeling there was something else she wasn't telling me. I wasn't going to push her though, she was allowed some secrets of course. Just so long as she got better.

I would catch her staring off into space every now and then until she noticed that I had, then she'd start up a conversation to distract herself. She never brought up the bundle she brought back with her and I never asked, though secretly I wanted to know what had happened, but then again I also hope that she has forgotten the traumatic event. I guess I'll never know unless she decides to tell me.

Right now I am sitting on her bed as she eats her dinner that Lord Sesshomaru brought her, while mine sat on the table by the window. It was some sort of stew with rolls. There were vegetables on another plate with what looked like some sort of sweet of to the side.

"Kagura, are you going to mate Lord Sesshomaru?" I asked while looking down at the blanket and picking at it.

I heard her gently place her spoon back in her bowl and sigh before answering my question. "I might. I know that he placed the mark of an intended mate on me but that does not mean I have to comply." She reached over and lifted my chin with her fingers so that I would look at her. "Why do you ask this Kanna?"

"I was only wondering what would happen to me if you do?" I confessed, "Where would I go?"

"What do you mean where would you go? You would stay here with me of course. You are my sister and I wouldn't allow you to be elsewhere." Her eyes grew soft as she spoke softly.

"Y-you would still want me around?" I asked. "To live here with you and Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Of course I would, why would you think otherwise?" she looked genuinely confused.

I had to look back down at the blankets. "I thought that maybe you would want to start your own family, without me. That maybe you would ask me to leave so-"

She cut me off midsentence, "Kanna, you are my sister like I said before and nothing, nothing, is going to ever change that." She set her dinner on the small table beside the bed and gathered me into her arms. "Lord Sesshomaru will protect us from Naraku, from anyone who would do us harm. When he told me how he had marked me to save me he asked if I would like to keep you here also for your protection. I told him I wouldn't want you anywhere else."

I threw my arms around her before whispering in her ear, "Thank you Kagura." I pulled away from her to reach into my pocket of my dress. I pulled out a small pendant that I had found outside Naraku's layer after she had come back with Kagome.

"What is that, Kanna?" she asked with her head cocked to the side.

"I do not know, I found it when you brought Kagome to Naraku. I was going to ask if you knew." I held it up for her to see better and she reached touch it with her fingers.

Just then Lord Sesshomaru decided to come in the room. His eyes first went to Kagura as he noticed I was in her lap and he looked a little disapproving but it passed when his eyes landed on the pendant hanging from my grasp. My hand quickly went into my lap as though I did something wrong.

His eyes grew wide in recognition, "Where did you find that?"

"I f-found it when Kagome was brought to Naraku." I answered quietly. "Do you know what it is?"

"It's what protects Kagome from being found by other demons not from her new family." He came to the side of the bed and gestured for me to give him the pendant. "Kagome is extremely powerful, which attracts a lot of demons, not as many as if she would if she were still unmated, but still a lot." He held it up as though to make sure it was still in one piece. "It also blocked her from Naraku finding her."

I looked at the small thing that he was holding, 'That little trinket is what blocked me from finding her?'

"I must find them before something else finds them." He bent down and placed a kiss on Kagura's forehead and left.

I looked at my sister as though she might have an answer to why he was in such a hurry.

"Sesshomaru said that when he was with them last Kagome had been poisoned and that she was pregnant. And that neither of them knew, though they should by now."

'Oh.'

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