Sixty-Nine.

Despite Sesshoumaru's insistence, she didn't want to bind him with an arrow – who knew what the outcome would be, considering what happened to Inuyasha.

So she discharged her bow and, as the beast kept throwing himself against her barrier, becoming angrier by the second, she joined her palms together as Miroku had taught her.

With her eyes closed, Kagome focused on the reiki rippling restlessly deep within her core. She managed to calm herself enough that the stormy sea of her power turned to a placid lake barely disturbed by the breeze, and then she began to tap into it.

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(100 words.)