Chapter 80

[Flashback Continued]

Energy finally failing, Kagome dropped her protective barrier.

A cacophony of 'Sesshoumaru-sama!' followed as the barrier's occupants rushed toward them. At the stirring of the body beneath her, Kagome carefully sat back on her heels—hands dropping to her sides—to dully watch the respectively sweet and comical reunion of Rin and Jaken with their lord.

Sesshoumaru roused himself in time to thwart Jaken's groveling embrace. With Rin, whose arms windmilled as she respectively lurched to halt a short distance from his side, he laid a tender hand atop her head in greeting. Then, his attention turned to the battlefield.


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