It was just about five days since Sesshoumaru had taken Kagome with the intent of using her to take back Tetsusaiga. During this time, Kagome did naught but sip at soup and water from Rin and dream. Each dream was in vivid color, and each one she relished like nothing else. Here, in her private refuge, she could see, she could live; she had Inuyasha, and Miroku, Sango, and Shippo. In her dreams she did not remember the horrible words the cold voice that belonged to Sesshoumaru had told her. She began to eat less and less. Even though in the waking world, she knew the terrible truth and that never again in the realm of the living will she ever be held in Inuyasha's arms, Kagome thrived on her dreams. Living only to experience them. 'And maybe,' she thought, 'if I left this world, they will become my reality.'
But as things go, that was not to be.
Sesshoumaru walked in to the cave from a day of scouting and pacing to see Rin vainly comforting a shaken, quivering Kagome. The girl kept on whispering words that made no sense to him, her hands clawed at the ground as if she were trying to get to something, and then there were her eyes. They were wide and staring, and yet, as she looked wildly toward him, he knew she couldn't see anything at all. It was almost unnerving.
"Rin doesn't know what happened!" Rin cried desperately at him. "Kagome was just sleeping and when she woke up," the little girl looked from the teen and back to Sesshoumaru, her eyes pleading for help.
He had nothing to say, and looked blankly at Kagome. He knew that humans experienced something that they call "dreams". Visions, apparently, that they see while asleep. Humans, as he also understood, could be deeply affected by these visions. And what appeared to have happened, Kagome had one that threw her at full force into truth and reality. Something that he had been expecting to happen.
"Rin, leave now."
"But-."
"Now."
Rin left. And Sesshoumaru walked toward Kagome. He looked down at her pitiful form, crumpled and blind before him.
"Rather pathetic, eh? Whatever happened to the headstrong bitch that Inuyasha loved? What do you think he would say if he saw you now?" he said in a mocking tone.
Hearing Inuyasha's name, made Kagome moan. She curled tighter into a ball. "He...he told me not to follow him." She whispered.
Sesshoumaru was caught off guard by this. 'What in hell's name?"
"He told me not to follow, as I ran toward him," Kagome repeated. "He was fading, I didn't want him to go, but he did... My wrists...they bled." She shuddered and then fell silent.
'Of course. Her "dream". Makes sense...' Sesshoumaru snorted. 'Making such a big deal over something that never happened. Truly pathetic.'
A.N.
Yeah, yeah, it's all short, shoot me. Its just I've had writers block and a lack of motivation for so long it got on my nerves and that became my motivation. Sigh...
Thank you to all who have read and reviewed this fic. I will try to do better for next chapter.