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Ch 20
" WHAT........why didn't you tell me this earlier....we have to go now.." Kagome rushed about her room collecting things to throw in her oversized yellow bag.
Inuyasaha grabbed ahold of her arm, stopping her rant about her room. " Wait Kagome........you know this is a trap don't you.....he wants the jewel and I don't think he will mind killing you to get it...." He spun her around to look down into her doe brown eyes.
" Inuyasha.....I...."
His face softened and there was a light pinkness to his cheeks, " we'll get him back Kagome.....you don't have to be put in danger again"
Heat rose in her cheeks as she looked into his soft concerned amber eyes. " Inuyasha I can't stay here knowing Shippou is in danger, Please I have to go to him.....he's like a son to me" a tear slid down her cheek and she turned her head from him, braking free of his embrace.
" There really is no way to get you to stay here is there?" he watched as she gathered the last of her things shoving them into her bag, squashing down a few more bandages with her foot. She heaved the overstuffed bag on to her back, " ok let's go Inuyasha" She turned and headed out the door.
Before she made it half way she was pulled back, the yellow bag lifted from her shoulder. She looked back to see Inuyasha tossing it over his shoulder, " ikimashou ka?" Kagome nodded climbing on his back and the two lept out the window and down to the old well.
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" Stop squirming you little runts" Tenishi continued to wrap the rope around the two children securing them to an old willow.
" Let us go.....what do you want with us anyway" Shippou tried to wiggle an arm free once the eastern lord had turned his back to them.
" It does you know good, little fox.....I can read your thoughts....and I suggest you keep your arm right where it is" Tenishi turned to face the two children his silver eyes casting an insane gleam before it slipped away and his regail facade took over.
" You two are going to help me get my kingdom back...once Naraku has the jewel, that miko is out of the way and Sesshomaru is dead it will all be mine",..... an image of a small lizard with a puffy tail manifested in his mind.
" go ahead and try it kid...your fox magic will not save you.....I have enchanted those ropes...your magic is useless" He looked at the two a half crazed smile spread across his lips. - now we wait....I have waited so long for this Sesshomaru.....soon I will have my kingdom back-
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" Master I beg you..... she is not worth it" Jakken shuffled behind his master on his knees. Sesshomaru continued out the gates of his castle pulling Jakken behind as he clung to his masters hakima.
Sesshomaru stopped just outside his castle walls, " Jakken"
" Yyyes master" the stubby little toad looked up into hard gold eyes and then down to his small green hands clutching ahold of white silk.
" oh..sorry master" Jakken quickly released Sesshomaru and made to smooth out the wringles he had caused with his scalely little hands.
Without another word Sesshomaru disappeared into the denseness of the forest. - Tenishi.....do you wish to reclaim your land...by workingwith Naraku- Images of the first time Sesshomaru had the misforturn of meeting that dispicable half breed enter his mind. - you fool...you will only cause your own demise.....you are blind Tenishi-
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Naraku sat in the darkness of his castle the silhouette of dead bodies could be seen shadowed on the shoji screens.
" Kagome has returned Naraku" Kanna held up her mirror, reflected in it was the image of the Kagome struggling to climb out of the well.
" Perfect....by tomorrow she will be my willing slave...kukuukuku" he held up what looked to be a fragment of colored glass.
" It is only a matter of time Kagome....." a wicked smile crept around his face as he thought of the look on Kagome's face when she finds out he still held the last fragment of the shikon no tama.
" That little spell I place on that crystiallized Maisama created the whole illusion of a pure complete jewel and thanks to that conniving witch, Kikkyou, there was a completely convincing Midoriko...kukuukuku"
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The old badger Hii ji sat crossed leg on a large rock just outside his old tree home. As he sat he thought about the predicament of the eldest son of the great dog demon. - That poor fool.....if he only listen to .....- suddenly his skin curled up his back his hair following the wave up to his neck, his foot automatically inching up to his side. He let out a sigh of relief as his back claws came in contact with is gray fur in a deep scratch.
A small black dot bounced from his hind corners, " Miyouga jiji?" Hii ji watched the old flea bound from his fur to his hand. " What brings you here old friend?"
" I heard Sesshomaru sama returned the medallions to you.....what has happened Hii ji sama" Hii ji scrached his chin with his four front claws thoughtfully, " the old fool has gone and give up his one chance to be with that woman".
Miyouga's eyes grew wide with the thought of Lord Sesshomaru being in love with anyone, especailly a human, or who use to be a human.
" but, Hii ji sama.....didn't he need her soul to survive.....where did he go"
Hii ji stood from the rock stretching his tired old limbs, "We best go inside, it is going to rain soon, I'll tell you what I know"
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Kagome clung to Inuyasha's back trying to hide her face from the freezing rain now beating down on the group heading east.
" Inuyasha...how much further till the clearing?" she tried to yell above the howling winds. She didn't have to yell very loud, for Inuyasha's sensitive ears twitched. " I am not sure I can't smell him out in this rain"
" Inuyasha.......do you think we can find them in this storm" Miroku who was riding on Kirara in front of Sango, by a force request by said demon extermiantor, yelled across the wind.
" I just said I'm not sure" Inuyasha growled in furstration.
" Sorry Inuyasha......we don't have your sence of hearing.....we can barely hear each other" Sango called out in their defense.
Sango looked over to Kagome her face buried in Inuyasha's back- poor thing....first she loses Sesshomaru..that jerk...now Shippou-
" We'll get him back Kagome don't worry" Sango shouted over the howls of the freezing wind.
" Thanks Sango...." Kagome yelled back over to the woman whom she would consider her sister and then back up to Inuyasha. A thought came to her mind about the letter Tenishi left for them.
She turned her face away from Inuyasha to bury it back into his hidori, " Inuyasha........what happened with your mother and Tenishi"
She could feel his back and arms stiffen around her. " You don't have to tell me Inuyasha if you don't want to"
His voice was low and soft as he made to answer her, she had to strain her ears just to hear him over the winds.
" It was a long time ago, several years after my father had taken over the western lands from Tenishi, Tenishi saught revenge on the whole inu family........he attacked the village my mother and I were living in.....the villagers blamed my mother for the destruction of the village and chased her out, We came out ok, but my mother's head was bleeding from a sharp rock some village brat tossed at her" he became silent for a moment before he continued, " My mother became violently ill, because we were forced out into the snow." " I went out to find her the herbs to make her better"
- oh yeah I remember those, yuck- Kagome stuck out her tongue just remembering the stuff Inuyasha made for her when she was sick.
" While I was gone, Tenishi came looking for me.........he murdered my mother, When I came back I could smell his scent everywhere, she laid there her stomach slit holding her insides........that bastard had no reason to kill her.......he was after me..."
" Inuyasha.....I'm so sorry" tears began to well up in her eyes for the pain her friend had gone through and was currently reliving.
" kaa, it is nothing you could have done anything about"
She buried her face further into his fire rat coat, a sympathic smile across her face - poor guy....he tries so hard to hide his feelings, but I can tell he is in a great deal of pain.-
Kagome was julted from her thoughts by a sudden stop, " what's the matter Inuyasha...." she heard a low growl rumbling through his back.
" what is it Inuyasha?"
" Naraku" Inuyasha growled out his name setting Kagome down but keeping her close.
" SHOW YOUR SELF YOU COWARD" " kukukuku........Inuyasha...I see you have brought me my slave" Naraku's voice carried through the woods from all directions.
" Shut up you bastard......." Inuyasha pulled tesiga free from its scabbard. He stood ready for the baboon clad pain in their necks to finally take his final medicine.
" kukuku,......in a hurry to die Inuyasha"
From a dark corner of the forest a white clad figure stood watch over the small group of humans and demons. -Kagome....-
Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes as he watched the evil half breed, - you think you are safe Naraku......I will kill you for you insolence-
He continued to watch the conversations between Naraku and his brother. He watched as Kagome stepped from behind the protection of Inuyasha's back. His gaze shifted from Kagome back to the baboon pelted demon hiding mere feet away from the group. - foolish half breed can't even tell Naraku is right next to him-
He watched Naraku lift his arm as he continued to taunt Inuyasha, - sore wa..........shikon no tama ga.....but how- His attention shifted from Naraku back to Kagome, he watched as she clenched her chest and fell to the ground. He could not stand by any more he lept from his perch and landed next to an unconscious Kagome.
"kukukuku.........I was waiting for you Sesshomaru....don't worry she will be quite familar to you soon" A scream ripped from Kagome's lips as her body arched from the ground.
Inuyasha watched in horror as Kagome writhed in pain her skin flashing from the purest white to the darkest black and finally settling on a pale gray. " What have you done to her........" "kukuku......you are all fools...you never had the whole shikkon no tama.......I fused a piece of my crystallized maisama to the near complete tama, and now that she is here I have fused my blood with the last shard, and in her body the tama will become whole, completely corrupted by my blood.kukukuku.........you will both die by the hands of your beloved" his laughter faded from the forest and all attention fell on Kagome.
Her body continued to writh under the strain of the jewel," aaaaahhhhhhh" before anyone could react Sesshomaru wisked Kagome up and took off into the night, " I leave saving your fox cub, and Rin to you...... Tenishi is 700 paces to the west.." with that he vanished into the dark sky still carrying Kagome's twitching body. Her painful screams carrying through the night.
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If any of you are still wondering where I am going with the monk and bat demon in the last chapter, just wait I will work it in there to make sense I promise. Thanks for reading Ja ne