Chapter 10: To Me, You Are The World
Lake by Eastern Lands
Kagome was still in the water up to her stomach and been that way
for an hour. Now the water was getting colder, and her body was
shivering. Her eyes were also getting heavy. While in the water, she
noticed the tigers were two different colors. The female was white and
the male was orange.
There was a flash of light, and the tigers transformed into their
humanoid forms. The female looked at her mate, "Dear, she's cold and
frightened. We need to get her out of the water before she freezes to
death!" With stealth the
male youkai was picked Kagome's shivering
form out of the water and carried her to land. Sitting her down the male
youkai took his outer kimono and wrapped it around her to warm her up.
The female started talking to Kagome to keep her awake till she got
warmed up. "My name's Yukiko It means Snow Child in Japanese, and
this is my mate, Kaori It means Add A Man's Strength in Japanese.
We're the Lord and Lady of the Eastern Lands, which are just behind us,"
Lady Yukiko said. "What's your name child? Also, why are you out here
without anybody to protect you?" Lady Yukiko asked.
"M...m...my name's Kag-Kagome."
"Are you the miko from the village by the Boner-eater's Well?" asked
Kaori.
"Yes!" Kagome said trying to keep her eyes opened.
"There are many people out looking for you!" Lord Kaori said. While
Kaori was speaking she noticed Yukiko had a red rose bud with a
lightning bolt going through it on her forehead and Kaori had a
Lightning bolt on his forehead. She just had to close her eye to sleep.
"We need to get her to the village," Lady Yukiko said to her mate.
With both in agreement, Lord Kaori picked Kagome up, who was still
wrapped
in his outer kimono, and walked west toward the village when he sensed
the Western Lord.
Lord Kaori handed his mate the sleeping Kagome. "Stay here with the
sleeping girl. I'll go greet the Western Lord." Kaori walked swiftly
towards the Sesshomaru. Kaori came into view of the Western Lord.
"Greetings, Lord Sesshomaru forgive this Lord for coming onto your
lands unannounced. My mate and I were hunting by the lake behind me when
we came upon the miko that everyone's looking for. When we came upon
her, we
were in our true forms and it frightened her. She backed up into the
lake to get away, and she stayed there so long that I had to get her.
When I did, she was shivering and could not keep her eyes open. I
wrapped her in my outer kimono to warm her up and it has not done much
good. My mate is with her now. We were bringing her to the village
where she came from when we came
upon your scent. Please follow me back to my mate and the girl."
Sesshomaru followed him, and saw the demoness sitting with
Kagome's head on her lap with an elegant kimono wrapped around her form.
From where he stood, he could see Kagome shivering badly.
"Kami-sama!" Sesshomaru thought. He untied his sash, unbuckled his
armor, slipped his own outer kimono off and knelt down to the trembling
girl. The demoness unwrapped the girl from the kimono and lifted her up
so Sesshomaru could rewrap her in his kimono and his tail.
After, he put his armor and sash back on.
"Lord Sesshomaru, we'll take our leave of you." With that, they
transformed and headed back to their lands.
"Kami! Kagome, why did you not run towards my castle? You'd not be
cold right now." Sesshomaru brought her up were her head was under his
chin.
"Kami, please have her stop shivering and wake up!" Leaning away from
her he looked down and touched her forehead where his family crest would
show if she became his mate and took his finger tip and traced a
Crescent moon on the spot as if one was there. He whispered "Kagome,
it's me, Sesshomaru. Wake up, dear one. Rin needs you, your pup, Shippo,
needs you, and I.. need you." Bringing her to his chest, again he voiced
in his
mind, "Kagome... to the world you maybe one person... But to me, you are
the world... But how can I come out and tell you how I feel?"
Towards sunrise, Kagome started shivering. Sesshomaru was
remembering all that she had said about him since he saved her, that he
was handsome and all.
When he was pulled out of his thoughts, he heard Kagome mumbling
something in her sleep that he could not hear. But he felt her scalding
tears soak through his kimono. Examining the breeze, he could tell that
it was almost sun up. Making sure Kagome was secure, he slowly got to
his feet and turned to the village and her friends.
Inside Kaede's Hut
Kaede had breakfast done, when Sango woke up with a beaded hand on
her butt. Sango sat up. Grabbing her boomerang, she whacked Miroku so
hard with it that he flew out the matted doorway landing outside. "Damn
that monk!" Sango walked over to Kaede. "Morning, Kaede. Would you like
any help?"
"No thanks, but thank ye, Sango." Right at that moment, Kirara, the
once again hanyou Inuyasha, Sango, and Kaede looked at each other.
"There
be a strong youkai headed this very way!" Kaede warned.
Kirara stayed inside with Rin and Kagome's family.
Sesshomaru walked out of the trees carrying a bundle in his arms.
When he got upon them, he asked "Where might I lay her down?" That's
when everyone noticed that he was not wearing his outer kimono and that
the bundle was Kagome wrapped in his kimono.
"Right this way. What happened?" Kaede asked. Sesshomaru followed
the old woman and everyone else followed him.
"I'll tell you once she's by the fire. Lady Exterminator, please
remove the children from the hut. She needs her rest," he told her. They
got to the hut and saw the children and Jaken coming out of the hut with
Kirara, a sleeping Shippo hanging from her mouth.
He walked into the hut and over to a mat by the fire. Kneeling down,
he placed the kimono wrapped bundle on the mat. He reached down to push
the fabric away from her face while gently stroking her cheek. He stood
up and walked to the door motioning for the others to follow, but he
looked back at Kagome once more before exiting the hut.
Once outside Inuyasha spoke. "What the fuck happened to Kagome and
why is she wrapped in your fucking kimono? You better not of done
anything to her or you'll meet Father in the spirit world!" Inuyasha
yelled.
"Inuyasha, shut your noise maker and watch what your saying! There
are children around" Miroku was saying, shaking his head.
"Little Brother, you were both ignorant and ill-advised to even
think about entertaining the thought of killing me!" he said
sarcastically.
"But no, I did not hurt the girl." Sesshomaru told them what had
happened.
"We're just glad that Naraku or his offspring
did not find her, or we would not have her back in one piece.
"Yah, but that still does not explain why she was in his kimono.? Or
why he made sure the fabric was not in her face and stroking her cheek.
Then he turned back to look at the wench again before going outside!" He
turned to Sesshomaru and asked, "Are you becoming like Fath..." THUD!
"SIT, BOY!!!" was heard coming from the hut. Kagome was standing in
the door of the hut, still wrapped in the kimono.
"Kagome, shouldn't you be laying done?" Sango went over and wrapped
her arms around her friend.
"I'm fine, just loud mouth over there woke me up, is all." Kagome
glared at Inuyasha. She looked at Sesshomaru. "Sesshomaru, thank
you.........
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