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Secrets
Twenty-nine
By: Luna
Sesshoumaru watched Kagome interact with Rin, content to wait until Rin nodded off to sleep and he'd be able to have the miko all to himself. After she tucked the child in, he rose immediately to pull her to his side, pleased when she wrapped her arms around him. She was warm in his embrace, almost too warm as she buried her face in the pelt attached to his shoulder.
He pulled back, frowning a little as he cupped her cheek, his thumb gently stroking underneath her eyes where dark circles were forming. "You are tired."
She smiled at his concern and reached up to grasp his hand, leaning into the small touch. "Yes. None of us have been sleeping very well lately."
He knew that when she said 'us' she wasn't referring to him, but pushed that worry away for another day. "He should not be pushing you so hard. You will get sick."
When her eyes slid away from his, he frowned and inspected her much more closely than before. He slid his hand up to her forehead, hissed at the warmth. Her cheeks had been flushed from fever, not his presence alone. "You are sick."
He sat down against a tree and pulled her between his knees and tucked her head underneath his chin. He wrapped his pelt around them both, and she burrowed into his warmth. He ran his hand down the crown of her head, his fingers threading through the silken tresses. "Why did you not say anything?"
"I didn't want you to worry." She said softly, her voice slightly muffled since she didn't seem inclined to move it from his neck. "It's just a fever."
Did she not know that humans died from fever every day? What did she think Inuyasha's mother died from? Was she so careless with her own life and so consumed with finding the jewel shards that she had no concern for her own health? Her negligence worried him. "Sleep." He ordered quietly. "I'll take you back in the morning."
He looked down when she didn't say anything, and saw she was already asleep. And in the morning, she was so hot with fever she shook uncontrollably, and she did not wake up.
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No, she's not dead. But she might be if you don't post a review!
Luna
