MY SILVER DOG
Title : My Silver Dog
Rating : R
Disclaimer: The characters are NOT MINE.
Chapter : 1/??
Words : 2,641 words
Summary: Thanks to her healing miko power, Kagome find herself being followed by an overprotective HUGE silver dog, complete with amnesia on his part. What should she do?? SessKag
Pairing : SessKag (obviously, others will be decided later)
A/N :
Okay...this's my first time in trying to write SessKag fics. Be nice please. And I want to warn you ... MY GRAMMAR IS HORRIBLE. I'm more an artist than a writer, really. –sighs-
This chapter is betaed by my temporary beta, dear Tiffany, who works hard to make this a decent chapter for u all. She gave me many MANY red marks all over this u know. I guess I need to train my english more... –sheepish smiles- Still, thank u, dear!! –hugs Tiffany- Anymore mistakes are mine alone then.
If u're interested to be my betas, please let me know in review. I'll contact u asap! Thanks! And last, enjoy the chapter!! –smiles-
- Izky
My Silver Dog
Chapter 01 The Meeting : 2,641 words
It had been 3 years since the start of their journey to collect the Shikon shards and the war to defeat Naraku, the evil doer of all. It wasn't an easy task. Naraku's minions, power-hungry youkai, and malevolent humans had tried to steal the shards for themselves. So far, they had re-collected nearly half of the jewel.
And what a long three years it had been. Kagome sighed.
Now here she was, nearly 19 years old and trapped in what seemed like a never ending journey, But at least she was with all of her friends. She had finished high school only months ago, and after much thinking and discussion with her family, decided to postpone her college life until she finished her duties back in feudal era. It was her responsibility to collect all of Shikon shards, and she would do it, no matter what happened.
Looking at the faces of all her companions, Kagome could feel her decision was for the best, and she didn't regret it. She couldn't imagine leaving all of them behind in her pursuit of college, knowing they fought for their lifes 500 years in the past.
These three years had been filled with many things… sadness, regrets, anger, hope, happiness, and in a way, all of them had grown up a little. Some more than others.
For one, the once tiny Shippou had gained a few inches in height. He could no longer perch on anyone's shoulder as he now reached nearly their thighs. Yet, it seemed that his love toward sweets matched the growth of his tiny body, and he devoured mass quantities candy when allowed.
Miroku was still more pervert than monk, but anyone could see how he no longer groped anyone other than the Taijiya beside walking him. Regardless of his antics, he was still the most reasonable and the intelligent one in their little group.
Sango was still the same strong-willed girl Kagome met years ago, but she could tell the slayer was more lenient...towards other people, particularly the monk beside her. Kirara was as faithful as ever, and followed faithfully beside her mistress.
And Inuyasha... Well, he was the still same brash, rude talking hanyou he always was, but anyone who knew him knew he was more tolerant than before. Instead grumbling and forcing them to walk faster and faster to balance his much stronger and faster walk, he walked slightly slower, waiting every few feet ahead of their group. The grumbling was still there, but the impatient look was dimmed a bit as his lips twitched every few seconds.
It was...sweet in his own way.
For herself, she was no longer the innocent, defenseless teenage girl she had been three years ago. The hard battles, often bloody and accompanied by the death of innocents, had changed her in more ways than she imagined. Having been taught by Kaede, she could now control some of her miko powers inside of her and summon it upon her will. No longer dependant on her friend's help, she grew into a more patient and mature young woman, something that the others pointed out to her – although Kagome wasn't so sure herself.
"Wait a minute. Stay back everyone!" The hanyou froze for a second, then sniffing the air before them.
Inuyasha's sudden shout broke Kagome from her musings, as the silver haired hanyou quickly jumped away into the forest lands before them. Kagome glanced at Miroku and Sango, both nodding to her as they readied for the upcoming battle – whatever it was.
"WHAT THE HELL...!?"
Inuyasha's scream of rage shocked all of them in to running faster towards the sounds of battle. When they arrived, the sight was something they had never expected.
There, a few hundred meters away, a purple haired woman was staring down Inuyasha, who had a fully transformed Tetsusaiga ready to do battle in his claws.
"Move out the way, half-breed!" The woman shouted as she glared at the hanyou who had suddenly appeared before her, stopping her from landing a final blow against her target.
"No way in hell!! What do you want with him anyway!?" Inuyasha shouted back, countering a sneak attack made by the witch with one slash from the Tetsusaiga.
"He's taking away the human for my ingredient!! I need that little girl and that's not your problem. Now step aside!!"
Knowing the battle was far from done, Kagome's eyes shifted at the object sprawled on the ground a few feet away behind Inuyasha.
Her heart nearly stopped at the sight.
There he was, a bleeding and unsconcius Sesshoumaru laying on top of an obviously frightened and crying Rin.
"Kagome-sama!! Wait a minute!"
"Kagome!! It's too dangerous!!"
"Kagome-okasan!"
The cries of her companions were ignored as Kagome felt her legs move, bringing her toward the fallen figures in the middle of the battle field.
Sesshoumaru!! Rin!!
Quickly, she knelt beside the broken form of Sesshoumaru, and with some difficulty, rolled his heavy frame on to her legs so little Rin could get out from under him.
"Kagome-neesan!! Sesshoumaru-sama was trying to protect Rin!! Is he alright?" Rin sobbed, scrambling away from Sesshoumaru's form and hugging Kagome's front side fiercely, her eyes never leaving the figure on the ground before them.
Kagome could feel something twist painfully inside her as she assesed the damage done toward the silver haired inuyoukai now cradled in her lap. Sesshoumaru's armour was broken in many places as wounds scattered over his form, filling his previously clean white kimono and hakama with dark red blood. His calm and emotionlessly handsome face was filled with pain as blood seeped out from his mouth, falling onto Kagome's thighs.
"No one can walk away from me without death!"
The cruel laugh of the woman stole Kagome's attention and she saw Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku circle and attack the obviously not human woman with their combined strength. Their attacks, however, were reppeled back by a dark barrier around the smirking woman.
How dare she do this!!
And then it struck her. She knew that face.
"Tsu...baki!? How are you still alive??" Kagome shouted in disbelief.
All their companions blinked, finally recognizing the face of the woman before them. It had been a year or so since they had defeated the dark miko.
"Damn! Don't tell me Naraku ressurected you again, you bastard!!" Inuyasha growled.
The woman, Tsubaki, simply smirked and nodded behind the barrier. "Naraku gave me the shards and I've managed to eat quite a few mikos around here, increasing my power. I am more powerful and beautiful than I ever was...!!"
Miroku grimaced at her admission, "Ugh.. no offense, Tsubaki-san, but to us you seem worse. You're simply a corpse used by Naraku now."
Tsubaki was enraged, "Shut up, fools!"
"Inuyasha!! There are ten shards on Tsubaki's upper back!!" Kagome shouted, preparing her own arrows.
And the battle began.
It seemed like hours before finally Tsubaki was sent to hell once again. The combination of Kaze no Kizu and Kagome's holy arrow purified the dark miko, sending her back to the world of death. The shards found in Tsubaki's ashes were now finally safe, hidden in Kagome's glass bottle.
Now, more tired than ever, Inuyasha and others finally got back to their next problem.
"It seems that the wounds are eating him from the inside and his body refuses to heal itself." Miroku frowned at his discovery.
"What the!? He should have been awake and moving by now! What the hell is wrong with him?" Inuyasha cursed, kneeling before Sesshoumaru's prone form. It was obvious that despite their differences and all, he somewhat cared for his half brother's well being.
Rin, hiccuping and grasping at the unmoving claw of her caretaker, answered. "Sesshoumaru-sama protected Rin from the mad miko's attack with his own body. And then the mad miko chanted something strange and Sesshoumaru-sama was in pain. Rin couldn't do anything because Sesshoumaru-sama was above Rin."
Miroku nodded, "I see. As powerful as Sesshoumaru is, he's still a youkai. Most youkai are weak against miko's purifying power, especially a dark miko with ten Shikon shards to back her up like Tsubaki. It's a miracle he's alive until now."
Sango nodded at his explanation, "That's right, a normal youkai would be dead in instant at her purifying dark power. It's incredible how Sesshoumaru could hold out until now."
Shippou, trying to calm the hiccuping little girl beside him, looked up in worry toward Inuyasha. "Then what should we do? Although he's evil, he's still your half-brother, right Inuyasha?? We should save him, right?"
Inuyasha silently cursed again, not answering the little kitsune as he turned toward the girl who held his half-brother's form in her lap. "Kagome? Can you do something??"
Kagome hesitated, glancing at Sesshoumarus's face. The silent pain shown there was terrifying her for reason she didn't know. "I...don't know, Inuyasha. I've never used my miko powers the heal something this extreme before."
All of them were silent for a moment, until Miroku broke it. "I've sensed the dark energies from Tsubaki in his form. Can you sense it, Kagome-sama?"
Kagome focused her senses on the inuyoukai's form and noticed the black liquid-like fluid coursing inside Sesshoumaru's blood vessels, circulating inside his body. It had Tsubaki's aura inside of it. "I...see it, Miroku."
Miroku nodded, kneeling on the other side of Sesshoumaru's form. "I know there's a risk to this, but Sesshoumaru-sama's life is at the stake. Can you ... wipe that dark aura off with your power, Kagome-sama?"
Kagome blinked at the monk's words, shaking her head. "It's...too dangerous. I can risk purifying him in the process. I can't kill him, Miroku."
Miroku put his hand on Kagome's shoulder in show of support. "I know it's dangerous, but there's nothing we can do. You have a healing holy power inside you, Kagome-sama. Think and concentrate to 'heal', not to 'purify' him. I will help and guide you. Has Kaede taught you how to heal a youkai before?"
Kagome gulped, recalling her healing lessons from Kaede, and tried to call her power into her hand, lying it over Sesshoumaru's chest. A pinkish light came out of her hand, circling Sesshoumaru's chest slowly – feeling its surface before seeping into the skin.
"There is a way for a miko to heal a youkai, Kagome," the old miko had said, nodding at the determined look on Kagome's face. She had tried her best to learn all she could from Kaede knowing that the ability to heal a full youkai like Shippou or a hanyou like Inuyasha would come in handy in the future. "It is not an easy thing, though, do it carefully. To begin with, you have to concentrate on your powers, child, and call them to life and intensify them."
"Gather as much of it to you as you are possible to hold. This will immediately call forward the youkai's youki. Remember! Don't be afraid and let it overwhelm you! Take care not to purify him."
Even though she had done this before to Shippou's and Inuyasha's small wounds, it was far different to heal a taiyoukai like Sesshoumaru.
Please...I want to save him...
As soon as her pink aura touched the dark aura of Tsubaki's, another dark reddish aura came out, immediatelly circling Sesshoumaru's form in a fiery blaze. The unsconcius youkai bucked on her lap, growling low in response as his youki rose.
Hot.
That was only how she could describe the reddish aura mere millimeters away from her touch.
"The reddish aura you feel is Sesshoumaru's youki trying to protect Sesshoumaru from your purifying power. Don't fight it, Kagome-sama. Circle it with your own, soothe it, tell it that you meant no harm." Miroku's voice seeped inside Kagome's mind as she closed her eyes in concentration, folowing what he said.
Kagome gathered her power again, drawing them close. In response, Sesshomaru's youki intensified. Kagome was breathless and severely shaking by now, but she held her ground. Slowly but surely, she stretched her power wide, covering both of them in its pinkish glow.
Please...I meant no harm...please let me help you...
Please... I don't want him to die...please...
In a heart stopping moment, the reddish aura paused, then unfurled in an awesome display. Instead of dominating Kagome's energy, it circled them both in a red-pink barrier, completely engulfing both of their forms. Warmth and hotness covered every inch of her, but Kagome didn't stop. She ignored the gasps around her as she focused back at the black liquid-like flowing inside Sesshoumaru's vessels.
Warmth and hotness covered every inch of her, but Kagome didn't stop. She ignored the gasps around her as she focused back at the black liquid-like substance flowing inside Sesshoumaru's vessels.
There...We must wipe it off. Together. Please.
As if hearing her will, the combined coils of energy pushed at the black substance, forcing it to retreat from the taiyoukai's body.
Kagome felt like hours had passed, so far absorbed in what she was doing that she wasn't aware of anything but the warmth flowing around her and Sesshoumaru.
As the last drop of the dark miko's black energy vanished, Kagome took a shuddering breath and opened her eyes. The surprised countenances of her companions greeted her blurry-eyed gaze.
"He's okay."
And the world went black.
It's warm...
...and cuddly...
Kagome wearily opened her eyes, immediately wincing at how sore her body was. "Ugh..."
"Kagome-okasan!! You'ra awake??"
"Kagome-sama!!"
"Kagome!! Can you sit up?"
"Kagome!!"
Kagome blinked, her eyes landing on the fluffy blanket hovering above her. Now that she noticed it, it seemed like she couldn't. "Uh...can somebody take ...this...off me? I can't move at all."
Her eyes turned to her side to see a disgruntled Inuyasha, sitting a few feet away from her lying form. "Feh! He refuses to move away from you and I can't move him without throwing you in process."
"He has a tight grip of you with his...paws, Kagome." Sango added, a worried look on her face, standing behind Inuyasha.
"We want to move you, but he growl and it's scary! Are you alright, okasan!?" Shippou added.
Huh? Paws? Growls? What the...
Trying to sit up on her own, Kagome's nose encountered a black snout, and a pair of deep red eyes. She blinked at the sight. "Uhm...hello?"
The red eyes blinked at her. and the next thing she knew that huge snout and large set of jaws started nuzzling her neck. Kagome couldn't help but giggle at the ticklish feeling of its soft fur and she completely missed the shocked looks from her travel companions. On reflex, she pushed her fingers into the fur around the animal jaws. Treating it like a dog from home.
It's... soft
Feeling very safe for an unknown reason, Kagome was finally aware that she was lying on the ground with a HUGE overgrown silver-white dog on her person. She should have been scared, but the dog continued to nuzzle its head against her, purring deep in its chest. The sound it emmited was making her drowsy and relaxed. She smiled at it and asked, "Uhm...can you move aside? I can't stand...please?"
The dog seemed to understand as he nuzzled her one last time and removed itself from her. Kagome stood, and encountered the disbelieving stares of her group and a giggling Rin.
"So...anyone care to let me know where we found this cute dog?" Kagome asked as she patted one of the huge paws behind her. In response, the dog simply whuffed at the back of her head. Kagome giggled once again. The dog was HUGE, much bigger than usual dogs as it easily towered over her on all fours.
Inuyasha seemed broken from shock. "WHAT THE HELL!? KAGOME!! It's SESSHOUMARU for the hell's sake!!" he bellowed, pointing at the huge dog behind her.
Kagome blinked, "Huh?"
Tbc...
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A/N :
So...what do u think so far? I'll explain more in next chapter! If u have any questions, I'll be happy to answer! And don't forget, review please!! –bows-
- Izky
