It had been a few
hours, and Sesshomaru was still sitting on the ground in the
emergency waiting room. Glancing from picture to picture, he searched
for the answer he has been longing for.
There was something
there, something that he had been missing. Knowing that he would not
get any further with the pictures, he decided to try looking through
her letters. There were more than a normal teen should have.
Nowadays, most teens would use the internet instead of actually
writing. Scanning through the letters he soon realized that they were
all from different people. Looking at the stamp on the envelope,
Sesshomaru reads the date; January, 23, 2002. The last letter was
sent almost two years before hand. Opening the letter he read its
content.
Dear Kagome,
I don't know who you are or why i
know your address, but i know that something bad is going to happen.
There will be a great disaster in your life in the near future and
you will not know how to handle it. If you don't learn how to control
yourself all of the people around you will parish. I say this to you
as a warning, please do what is needed.
I am sure that you are
reading this and are not sure what i am talking about or how i know
the things that i do. All i can tell you is that they came to me. It
didn't come to me on a dream, or even in something in the mail. It
hit me before school while i was taking a shower. I saw it all
happen. When the vision finished a large amount of time had passed;
school was already over. However my skin did not prune.
I'm sure
that this wasn't something that i imagined.
Take my words to
heart.
Yaminaru
Sesshomaru sat there, not surprised. He
expected this. Her miko powers had reached out and warned people of
what was to come. If something happened to kagome it would affect
all. If she were extremely sad, her negative energy would drain the
citizens of their energy, or take their happiness from them. It would
cause a mass depression that can engulf the entire city. Not very
many people knew of this however. There hasn't been somebody this
powerful for 500 years. As a matter of fact, he was there when she
was born. Her name was Midoriku. She was the daughter of the northern
land's king. Being that the baby was considered a treasure throughout
the land, the king had a ball the night of the baby's birth.
Hundreds of noblemen and woman sat in the ballroom quietly waiting
for the first cries of the baby. Everybody within 50 miles of the
pregnant queen would have dreamed of baby's power. It was a mass
warning of the world changing events to come. It ended up that she
saved thousands and was thought of as invisible. Her death fit her,
for she died bring her son into the world.
"She was amongst
the first of the humans that gained my respect." Sesshomaru
stated quietly under his breathe.
Although he said it under a
whisper, Inu Yasha heard it. Leaning forward he looked at the letter
that Sesshomaru held limply in his hand. Giving up and trying to read
it he closed his eyes and sighed. "Who were you talking
about?"
Putting the letter down and reaching for the diary
Sesshomaru replied. "Midoriku"
Knowing better, Inu Yasha
decided not to ask questions. He knew the story of Midoriku. Inu
Taisho, his father, had told him the story many times, but always
left a part out that he told to him when he knew no one could hear;
the part where Sesshomaru considered Midoriku as a sister. He would
never admit to it, but he loved her more than anything, and in the
end he couldn't protect her.
Three days later...
Inu
Yasha walked threw the large door and headed straight for the window.
Throwing open the curtain the sun lit up the room, brightening the
beautiful girl laying unconscious on the hospital bed. From there he
walked to the small table resting at the side of the bed. Putting
down the bag that he held he sat down and smiled. For three days
before and after school, Inu Yasha had visited kagome at the
hospital. Now that he knows that she had the jewel, He wouldn't leave
her alone for too long. Her being unconscious and helpless would
attract the wrong kind of people.
Smiling, Inu Yasha reached
forward and moved the hair from her face. Normally he wouldn't be
this careful with anybody, but for some reason this girl drew him
toward her. She had been threw so much. He couldn't figure out how
somebody so fragile could live after what she had to face.
Suddenly,
a strong force started to form around kagome. Any normal person
wouldn't feel it but being half-demon, he was well aware. It lasted
for just a few minutes, then disappeared. Inu Yasha sat there,
slightly confused to what just happened. Being that she was a
powerful priestess with the jewel inside of her, strange flows of
energy didn't concern him too much. He continued to stare at the
girl.
Everything had happened much faster than Inu Yasha would
have liked. In one day he met a girl, had her over for dinner, became
her guardian, felt her pain, caught her being raped by her father,
and carried her to the hospital. He had tried to go to school, but
found his thoughts on this girl. He repeated the letter over and over
in his head. He couldn't figure out how she could have handled that
and not turned out worse. He didn't know why, but he had to protect
her. Nothing so small and fragile could possible handle all of that
on her own.
Yawning, he stood and left the room in search of a
bathroom, unaware of the dark figure that slowly crept into her room
and up to her bed.
