The Daedalus Design

by lyrainthedark

Sequel to The Icarus Factor. Three years later, Naraku and Kagome have taken steps toward bliss - but there is a price to be paid for returning to a future where the fires of industry burn, returning with a great and growing power...and the shikon no tama, burning in her blood...and the past, and its sins, still heavy on his soul... NOW COMPLETE.

35. Knot

- Drabble Collection: The Daedalus Design -

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Knot

There is a Gordian Knot of panic in Kagome's belly; she keeps her eyes on her sons and her hand wanders without her will, rests at her collarbone covering the shikon no tama that hangs there, hidden beneath her shirt.

She has been half-fearful since the day she returned from the past; on a few past occasions she has met with youkai in Tokyo, but that was years ago and since the jewel was made whole and returned to her guardianship, no terrible things have come to pass.

The fear inside her warns that those terrible things will soon be waiting at her doorstep.