Back at the stone wall
As the sun was almost down passed the mountain, the magic of the sutras had worn off the frozen statue and was once again able to move.
"You Bastard, Miroku!" Inuyasha looked around to see that no one was around. He walked back towards what was going to be camp earlier that day and heard talking so he listened in.
"Yes, it should be easy to over take the shards now that my reincarnation is out of the way. All I have to do is suggest, that I take over holding the shards and the hanyou will hand them over no questions asked." Kikyo said.
"So, the hanyou has no clue as to the truth about what happened here and no chance of him and the miko joining forces again?" A deep voice spoke.
"Naraku!" Inuyasha voiced to himself in his mind. Then he listened closer.
"After the hanyou throw my reincarnation into the rock face of the cliff full force and she crumbled to the ground covered with blood. There's no chance for that ignorant and stupid and easy to control hanyou and my reincarnation to join forces again because the way she looked more than likely she will be dead by early morning and I'll have my soul back." Kikyo laughed evilly. "No one knew I took the arrow out of Kagome's quiver of arrows and used it on myself for the hanyou to believe Kagome attacked me!"
"You want to bet! Why Kikyo, Why did you do this? How could you betray me like this? I thought, I thought that you!" Inuyasha was cut off.
"Well, well, Inuyasha, welcome. I've got to hand it to you on how you were betrayed by your first love, then you go and betray and mortally wounding your friend that young miko. Did you really think Kikyo here really loved you and wanted to help you? When she has been working for me and giving me information about everyone's strengths and weaknesses. "Like you can't fight well without Kagome around and many more things. Like your mother's name and the location of the burnt down castle were you were born at!" Naraku chuckled.
"You Bastard!" Inuyasha leapt forward to attack Naraku when Kikyo pulled her bow and notched and fired a arrow that landed at Inuyasha's feet.
"You see, Kikyo cares nothing for you as your friends tried to tell you!" Naraku and Kikyo laughed as they disappeared.
When they were gone Inuyasha dropped his sword on the ground and went to his knee's with his head held in shame then throw his head back and screamed "KAGOMEEEEE!" As tears streamed down his face. He looked at the sky to see black storm clouds moving in but he did not move for he did not care.
Kaede's Hut
Kirara and her passengers the monk and the youkai exterminator neared the village as the sun left the skies as it started to turn pitch black due to the black storm clouds moving in from the north.
"Looks like we made it here in impeccable timing. Wonder if Inuyasha has found shelter?" Miroku said looking at the storm clouds.
"Right now, monk, I could care less if he did or not after what he'd done to Kagome." Sango told Miroku as Kirara landed in front of Kaede's hut. As they slide off of Kirara and she changed into her smaller self a orange fur ball ran out of Kaede's.
"Kagome!" Shippou rang out but looked around. "Hey, where's Kagome? Why is she not with you? Did she, did Kagome, NO! She didn't die, she can't, She's just can't!" Shippou started crying. Sango and Miroku looked at each other then back at Shippou. Miroku moved forward and knelt down.
"Shippou, why don't we go inside,we'll sit down and talk alright?" Miroku patted Shippou on the back. Shippou nodded and Miroku picked him up and went inside the hut. Then placed Shippou on the floor.
"Welcome back and by the looks of it outside you made it here before the storm has hit us. For it won't be long till the rain hit here. Do you have any news of the journey ye just now returned from?" Kaede said as put water on the fire to boil for tea.
"We do, lady Kaede!" Miroku answered. As he and Sango walked over by the fireplace in the center of the hut next to Kaede.
"This old miko sees ye must of found the place or young Kagome would of been with you upon returning." Kaede mentioned.
"Yes, lady Kaede, we had indeed found lord Sesshoumaru's castle! It is a magnificent fortress. We arrived at the fortress and two guards stopped us at the gateway. We stated we are seeking to talk to his lordship and the guard left. Then not long afterwards, the guard showed up with Sesshoumaru. Seeing Kagome and hearing she was bleeding inside, Sesshoumaru told us to follow him to a room in the royal wing of the castle. Sesshoumaru asked what caused Kagome to become the state she was in, and I told him. Let me just say, that I did not like the aura that he gave off when I told him what happened. He'll be using his sword tensaiga to heal her and will send word when she is healed. He also asked were Inuyasha was and I told him that information as well." Miroku told of the happenings of
earlier to Kaede and also Shippou.
Sesshoumaru's Castle
Sesshoumaru had used his sword on the miko and was now standing at the balcony window looking out as two servants looked over Kagome and washed her and they were now dressing her in a woman's sleeping kimono.
Flashback to using Tensaiga
Sesshoumaru watched as the monk and youkai exterminator walked up to him as he opened the chamber door and the monk bowed his head towards Sesshoumaru. Then watched as they followed one of his guards towards the stairs. When he sensed that they had left his castle he walked over towards the futon and looked down at the badly injured miko who he had just kissed the second time just as dawn was approaching when she was in the woods getting wood to rekindle the campfire and cook as well remembering while kissing her neck that his eyes turned a deep red and his fangs grew longer and scratching her skin where her blood beaded up and he pushed her away and remembered what he said "Kagome, leave NOW! Get your wood and return to your camp!" He growled out and pushed her away. Then she walked back unafraid and asking "What's wrong?" Then remembering him turning and facing her in the state he was in before she ran back to the camp.
"You will NOT die, miko! You will live!" Sesshoumaru drew tensaiga and made a half circle slash over Kagome then sheathed his sword. Then walked towards the door and opened it and summoned two servants. When they showed up they bowed. "Watch over the miko, wash her and find a woman's kimono and dress her." Sesshoumaru turned and walked over to the balcony window and stood looking out while the servants checked her, bathed her, and dressed her.
End of Flashback
When they were done one of the servants walked up behind Sesshoumaru and bowed and spoke. "We are done, master." The servant said.
"The miko's health how is it?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"There was a deep purplish discoloration from her belly to her back, but as we were bathing her the discoloration started to disappear and color started to return to her face!" The servant answered.
"That will be all. As you leave across the hall two chambers down is my ward's chamber go there and tell her servant that I wish to see my ward here in this chamber, and have her enter quietly. You now may leave." He listened as both servants opened the door and walked out closing the door behind them. About five minutes later there was a slight knock and then the door opened and his ward's servant came in with Rin.
"My lord, you ward is here!" The servant spoke. Sesshoumaru turned and faced them.
"You may leave. I'll return Rin to her chamber when I'm finished here." He said dismissing the servant.
"Yes, sir!" The servant bowed then left.
"Why does Sesshoumaru-sama wish to speak to Rin in this chamber?" Rin asked.
"Come close this Sesshoumaru needs to talk to you!" He knelt down onto one knee as Rin walked towards him in front of the futon. Once there he raised his right hand and placed it on Rin's shoulder. "Rin. this Sesshoumaru needs you to watch over someone who has been very badly wounded and has not waken up after I used my sword of healing. This Sesshoumaru would like if you would watch over her during the day and let me know if she wake up." Sesshoumaru said.
"This Rin can do it Sesshoumaru-sama! But who is it?" Rin's asked.
"Come I'll show you." Sesshoumaru stood up and took Rin's hand and lead her to the futon and let go of her hand to pull the covers down passed the miko's shoulders.
"Kagome-chan!" Rin looked from Kagome to Sesshoumaru with tears.
"Yes, Rin. Now we must get you back to your chamber and lay you back in your futon to sleep. Come!" He walked to the door opening it and walked out with Rin behind him shutting the door and heading to Rin's room. Once there they went in and Rin laid down and covered up. "Sleep well." He said as he turned and walked back out of the room and closed the door and headed to his chamber.
Old camp by stone wall
Inuyasha was still on his knee's where he dropped his sword and went to his knee's when he learned that he had been betrayed from the one he thought loved him and got the shocking statement that his Kagome might not live due to him. This whole time he's been on his knee's with tears streaming down his cheeks and his head held in shame and has not even moved under any kind of shelter as it started to rain and is still there in the rain.
"Why did I let my anger get so out of control? I promised Kagome at my father's tomb that I'd protect her! Now look what I've done she's probably dying or dead by now because of me! Even if I was to get to the village the other's won't let me get close to her to help and if I did how could I help and keep her from dying? Even if I did would we still be friends or would she leave me and go back to her era? I'll have to take that chance!" Inuyasha pounded his fist into the ground. Then stopped "Wait ,that's it! I could take her to her era and she will be made healthy. But I'd have to face her family and say what happened because they would find out anyway." Inuyasha grabbed his sword and stood up and sheathed tetsusaiga then leapt into a tree and headed back to Kaede's village to face everyone. "Hold on a little longer, Kagome, and I'll take you to your era, to your family for help to heal you!" He spoke openly as he jumped from tree to tree. While heading towards the village his mind played back to him everything that the group tried to tell him over the several weeks since Kikyo joined the group about them trying to tell him to not trust Kikyo that she was still working for Naraku.
Kaede's Hut
Outside the hut stood the monk and Shippou were getting wood so that it wood cover the whole night at keeping the cold at bay.
"Come Shippo I think we have enough wood anyway I'm getting soaked and cold." Miroku stated to Shippou.
"Alright!" Shippou answered as he put the last log he picked up onto the others he had in his arm and they turned and walked around the side of the hut and through the mat covered door. "Here you are, Kaede, more wood."
"Both of ye come and sit by the fire and get ye dried and warmed up! I'll make some herbal tea." She went to her herns and the hot water and made the tea and brought it back to the two. "Here ye are! Drink up." She handed the tea to them.
"I'm glad, we're not out in this looking for shards!" Sango came over bringing a blanket and put it over Miroku's shoulders then sat down by him.
"I would have to agree with you on that, Sango." Miroku said. "We won't always be this lucky to find such warm area's such as this hut all the time to get out of the weather." Miroku then sipped his tea.
"Miroku!" Shippou looked up at the monk as he sat by Kaede. "I wonder, how long it will take for Inuyasha to understand that the woman he loves is betraying him?" Shippou said as the mat on the door of the hut moved.
"I already have!" A voice said out full of shame. Everyone turned and looked at the door and saw Inuyasha standing there all soaking wet and his eyes were down cast.
"INUYASHA!" Sango yelled as she got to her feet and stormed over to the hanyou. Inuyasha looked up just as Sango got there and raised her hand and brought it down across his face as hard as she could. "How could you of done what you did to Kagome!" She yelled with a flaming hot temper. She went to strike him again when two arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her away from Inuyasha.
"Where's your dead lover? The one who you claim could do no wrong Inuyasha!" Sango bit out. Inuyasha looked around the hut not seeing Kagome anywhere and his ears went down against his head.
"So, what Kikyo and Naraku said was true! I did mortally wounded Kagome and that she had died by early morning!" Inuyasha sunk to his knee's.
"What do you mean that they told you?" Miroku asked.
"It doesn't matter now! I'm too late to save her and nothing I say will bring her back. But when I was able to move and saw no one around I headed to the camp thinking everyone would be there. When I neared were the camp would of been I heard Kikyo talking to someone then when the other person spoke and it came to be Naraku I listened carefully and heard what Kikyo had done and all and I came out in the open and confronted them. Then that's when they told me of what I'd done and that Kagome was dead or will be by morning. I went to attack Naraku but Kikyo fired a arrow at me then they both laughed and then vanished.
"Inuyasha, if it help's Kagome is not dead!" Miroku told Inuyasha. Inuyasha looked at him with a look of a mixer of both pure relief as well as a look of confusion.
"What do you mean? Did she go back to her era?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes, Kagome was mortally wounded when we brought her here for Kaede to check her but Kagome had six broken ribs which should of been more by as hard as you throw her against the stone wall face of the cliff. She was also bleeding inside her body Kaede said because it was to soon for any brushing and we needed to get her some help fast or she would of died and since we did not know if you would of helped and because you were frozen because of the sutras and since we only knew as of so far that only you and Kagome are only able that we know that can go through the bone-eater's well and we need to act fast so we took her and looked for your brother's castle in the western lands. We sought him out to see if he would heal her with hie sword. He has agreed to use the tensaiga to heal her and then when she's healed he'll send word as such to us!" Miroku told Inuyasha.
"YOU WHAT! You took her to my fucking half brother! Are you guys idiots!" Inuyasha said a bit touchy.
"Oh so, then you did not mind that she would of died then! What else could we of done?" Sango asked bitterly.
"Enough with ye! Inuyasha, come over by the fire and warm ye up then we will all go to sleep and talk in the morning. Tomorrow is a new day." Kaede said. After Inuyasha warmed up and dried he went to the corner by the door were he always sleeps and went to sleep. Everyone else did the same.
A Week Later...
Sesshoumaru's Castle
It was night and Sesshoumaru had finished his duties in his study and went down to his ward's chamber to bid her a good night but upon arriving at the door he sensed that she was not there but her servant was. So he opened the door and had the servant follow him down to the room the unconscious miko was. His ward has been coming to the miko's chamber from the time Rin wakes to the time either her servant or himself carries her back to her chamber. Rin would not leave Kagome's side not even for food at lunch or dinner. It had to be brought to her or she would not eat.
When Sesshoumaru and his ward's servant entered the chamber they were faced with the scene of Rin laying half on the floor and half on the futon. She had her upper part of her body on the futon with her hand laying on the waist area of Kagome while Rin's lower half was on the floor. Sesshoumaru walked over to the child and knelt down and slowly turned Rin onto her back then motioned for the servant to come over to get the child. Once the servant had Rin in her arms she stood up and left the room closing the door.
When Sesshoumaru was left alone in the chamber with the still unconscious miko he knelt back down next to Kagome's limp lifeless body. Sesshoumaru was perplexed and thought to himself "Why has she not awakened yet; for she has been unconscious for a week." Kagome's skin was pale when the youkai exterminator and monk brought her to him and now has somewhat most of her color back but still has not woke up.
At night when everyone in his castle was asleep he would go and sit on the edge of the futon and held her hand asking Kagome to wake up. This night was no different.
Flashback
Previous nights since he had used tensaiga on the miko Sesshoumaru would come and sit beside Kagome. He would lean own close to Kagome and would grab ahold of Kagome's hand into his and bring her hand up and rubbed her hand against his cheek. A few times a tear had slipped out of the corner of his eye and slid down his cheek.
He would sit there holding her hand saying "Wake up, Kagome! Everyone of your friends are worried about you. Your ward, the kitsune pup needs you. Rin's worried about you and will not leave your side during the day, and I, Sesshoumaru am worried about you. You have to wake up. You who's challenged me to no end and whom I have not killed because of it, You who have stood up to me without any fear; You a human besides my ward whom I have ever let get close to me and let into my heart ;who's proven that not all humans are the same. So, don't you think about dying. Wake up and prove to the half breed that you are strong!" He would say while sitting there a little longer.
End of Flashback
Sesshoumaru bent down and kissed her hand then placed it back under the gold silk blanket, and stood up and walked over to the door and opened it but before stepping out he turned and looked at the miko once more then turned and walked out shutting the door and heading down to his chamber.
As dawn of a new day arrived the great Sesshoumaru left his castle to patrol his lands. Upon searching the southern part of his lands he came upon the old miko's village by the dried up well. He glided towards the village and landed on the other side of a small bridge and watched as a village man rang out alerting the village.
"A demon has entered our village!" The man shouted. The women grabbed their children and ran into their huts and the men came to defend the village. Then out of a hut by some stairs leading up came the youkai exterminator, monk, the old miko, the fire cat in battle form along with the kitsune on her back, then lastly the half breed.
"What the hell you doing here?" Inuyasha growled.
"Inuyasha, control thy temper! As priestess of this village all are welcome in this village if they are not here to harm or seek the jewel." Then Kaede turned back to face Sesshoumaru "Young lord of the western lands what brings ye to this village?" Kaede asked.
"This Sesshoumaru brings news of the miko known as Kagome!" He voiced.
"Please come in and we can discuss this inside." Kaede turned and walked towards the hut and went inside. Everyone followed after Sesshoumaru and entered the hut. Once inside Kaede poured a cup of tea for Sesshoumaru tea was already made before he showed up and handed it to him.
"Half breed, I see that your human companions have shown you mercy and trust to have you back amongst them after what you've done towards the miko and not killed you! Where as I would not of shown you mercy!" Sesshoumaru stated. Seeing how Inuyasha reaction to what his brother said Miroku stepped in.
"Sesshoumaru, you mentioned you had news of Kagome!" Miroku asked.
"The news is that the miko has not woke up yet. This Sesshoumaru used the tensaiga and there is no fear of her dying and no sign of being wounded. Now, I must return to my castle. Upon any change word will be sent!" He said as he left the hut and disappeared.
"That's sure good to hear that Kagome is not going to die!" Sango stated.
"It sure is. Yea, we will have Kagome back again soon!" Shippou said jumping up and down happily.
Sesshoumaru's Castle
When Sesshoumaru landed in his courtyard and walked to the main door of his castle and it was opened for him as he walked in he was greeted by Jaken running down the stairs.
"My lord, your humble retainer welcomes you home. But I must inform you that the other three lords are in your study awaiting you." Jaken greeted his master saying with a bow. Sesshoumaru passed Jaken and headed up the stairs towards his study in not a too big of a hurry to get there. When he arrived at his study and walked into his study and he was greeted by the other lords.
"Greetings, Western lord. Forgive this intrusion upon your lands." The lords said. Sesshoumaru just nodded.
"What brings you to the western lands?" Sesshoumaru asked.