Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Gee, you would think someone would remember…
Author's Note: Okay, there is one cuss word in this one… Oh, and I tried to work ina little SesshieKag romance.
Chapter 8: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes part III
With Sesshomaru…
Sesshomaru felt himself diving into Kagome's mind, thoughts; he was engulfed in all emotions, her fear, sadness, happiness, anger. Suddenly he landed, on something vaguely solid, he looked around, and he was in the middle of a green field. But the sky wasn't its normal blue; it was colored with black, of hatred and sadness. A small scene played out on the grass, Sesshomaru slowly walked toward it, as his vision cleared, he saw what was happening.
Kagome, standing in the middle of the field, was weeping. The sound pulled at Sesshomaru and he walked more quickly. Inuyasha was standing and yelling at her, bearing down upon her with red eyes. 'Red eyes?' Sesshomaru thought, 'That doesn't make sense, if he's in his demon form, he would've killed her by now. This must be Naraku; his miasma got into her system and he's trying to break her by posing as Inuyasha.' Sesshomaru ran to Kagome, but was immediately zapped by some weird force field around the scene that was playing out. Kagome didn't spare him a glance and continued crying. Sesshomaru heard her crying something under her breath.
"Someone… please…Sesshomaru..." Kagome whimpered. Sesshomaru slammed against the force field with his fists in anger.
"Don't do that, you can't get past. Kagome must fight me on her own, bad luck, ne? Kukuku…" Naraku said in cold amusement. Sesshomaru clenched his teeth. There must be something he could do! 'I inherited a mind-reading ability from my mother,' Sesshomaru thought desperately, 'But it might have made her coma worse if I'd tried reading her mind while she was trying to stand strong, it would've shocked her too much to hear my voice in her head. And I'm not sure how mind reading works while you're in someone's mind.' –You've got to at least try- For once, Sesshomaru agreed with his annoying conscience. He closed his eyes and reached out for Kagome. 'Kagome…' he thought, to his surprise the words were spoken, not really spoken, as his mouth wasn't moving. But they were somehow amplified. –I guess there are no thoughts kept to oneself in someone's mind…- Kagome finally looked toward him and actually stopped crying for a moment. Then Naraku (posed as Inuyasha) slapped her across the cheek.
"You never were very smart Kagome, and always useless. Give me the jewel shards you ugly reincarnation of Kikyo." Naraku reached for the jewel shards and Kagome pulled back, but each time Naraku was reaching for them, it was getting harder and harder for her to fall back. 'It's working…' Sesshomaru thought with a snarl, the words amplified and even Kagome heard them, but she was still trying to hold her mental stability.
"You're not Inuyasha! You're not… Inuyasha…" Kagome said, over and over again, trying to convince herself. Sesshomaru decided to do something now in this momentary lull. 'Kagome,' Sesshomaru thought, the words amplified to maximum, Kagome's head snapped toward him, 'Kagome, listen. This is not Inuyasha, this Naraku, he is trying to break you, don't let that happen. He wants the pleasure of seeing you broken, don't let him.' Sesshomaru saw Kagome momentarily strengthen, so he continued, 'He is not physically strong; he is trying to break you emotionally, by using Inuyasha' Kagome's eyes started to glow and she looked at Naraku, she was still crying, but she knew what she was going to do. She slowly walked toward Naraku/Inuyasha, and her body started to glow white. The white light seemed to force back Naraku and he snarled and lunged at her.
"Bitch!" He shouted. He was about to connect his tackle when he froze in midair.
"Inuyasha," Kagome said softly, "I'm so sorry…" The figure that had posed as Inuyasha was purified in a split second, now dust in the wind. Kagome collapsed, and the force keeping Sesshomaru out disappeared. Sesshomaru was by her in an instant. Why did he feel this way for a human? This Sesshomaru was getting really confused. His thoughts were put at rest momentarily as Kagome stirred. She looked up at him. "Thank you, Sesshomaru…" she said with gentleness and gratefulness in her soft voice, she smiled at him. 'He's so gorgeous…' His hair was blowing in the chilly night wind, and the crescent on his forehead shone in the moonlight. And his eyes, his eyes stared back at hers with something, something softer than the usual cold, hard hate, anger, or annoyance, something soft as gold. She felt something changing inside her, she had no clue what it was, and she had no idea why Sesshomaru was in her mind. But she decided that could wait. Kagome rested her head against his warm chest. Thunk-thunk, thunk-thunk, was what she heard. 'So whaddaya know? He does have a heart, and a nice one too …'She yawned and had one last thought before she fell asleep, 'I guess he's not as cold as I thought… In fact he's rather comfy…' she yawned again and drifted off. She was so tired that she didn't realize that every one of her thoughts had been heard by someone other than herself. Sesshomaru blinked. 'Did she just think I was… gorgeous?' he thought, 'A nice heart? Why is she not afraid of me?' –First of all, you just helped save her life. Second of all, you're holding her bridal style- Sesshomaru wanted to just drop her so that the persistent voice would stop, and he would be free of helping a dirty human. But he couldn't bring himself to drop her; she was just so… innocent, and graceful. Sesshomaru just sat down with Kagome in his arms and held her tiny frame against his chest. For some reason it calmed him down, he gently stroked the black hair on the back of her head. She was so small, yet so strong, dealing with Inuyasha after he had betrayed her trust multiple times. Sesshomaru felt a sudden sure of anger toward his brother, this time it was not for the Tetsusaiga. Kagome stirred slightly, and he calmed down. He was also a bit distracted by the fact that Kagome had gotten hold of his tail, and fallen deeply asleep with her cheek on top of it. The tickling feeling that Sesshomaru felt from it was not necessarily bad. And for the first time in precisely 200 years, he smiled. Kagome snuggled closer to him, she could kind of feel Sesshomaru's eyes on her head, but strangely enough, it didn't make her uneasy like Inuyasha staring at her always did. She felt him smile, and for a moment wanted to turn back up to him, just to see how beautiful he was, but she didn't move, because she liked the feel of this fluffy thing under her cheek. Sesshomaru, so calmed down by Kagome's scent, started to sleep, as a youkai; he didn't need regular rest, but it was so comfortable. Besides, the doctor would soon wake them. So the pair sat there, calmly sleeping in each other's embrace.
In the Morning… (The doctor decided not to wake them up.)
Kagome slowly opened her eyes as the sun peeked in through the window. She was in a very strange room… Kagome assumed that it was a doctor's room because the entire left wall was covered with herbs, medicines, and things in jars that should be left to the imagination. On the wall in front of her, there was a nice chair, and a mirror next to it and next to the mirror was a rather large hole in the wall. 'I wonder what did that…' She thought. The right wall of the room was adorned with one simple window, but it was very beautiful as it was seemingly illuminated in the morning light. Kagome felt odd, different, and a little worn out. She also felt something warm resting next to her; she turned to look at what was lying next to her on the left. Sesshomaru's head was resting right next to her left shoulder, he was… sleeping. 'He looks so peaceful…' Kagome thought, and she reached out a finger to gently caress his striped cheek. Sesshomaru leaned in a little toward her finger. Kagome giggled silently and lightly touched the crescent moon on his forehead, his skin wasn't freezing cold or stiff, it was remarkable soft… Sesshomaru suddenly snatched her wrist and looked her in the eyes. Kagome couldn't help it, she giggled. An arched, snowy white eyebrow was her response. Sesshomaru lowered her wrist down, and said very calmly:
"Kagome, I believe you might want to look in the mirror…" Kagome grumbled.
"Yeah, yeah, I know I look awful, in my world, we call it 'bed head'," she muttered. Nevertheless she looked in the mirror. Not expecting what she saw.
" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
End of Chapter
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