AN: Hey! Sorry I haven't updated in awhile, I hope you like this next chapter!
Last Chapter: She stepped closer and leaned down to see better, and reeled back in surprise when she realized who was on the stretcher. Kagome breathed his name as she examined his troubled features. "Sesshou."
Chapter 6: Memories, Dreaming, and Ginseng
He was yet asleep, and he shouted again. The young miko touched her hand to his forehead and realized that he was burning up with fever. She noticed that his gi was ripped, and carefully eased the cloth apart and found that he had a wound across his chest a mottled green color; a sure sign of poisoning.
Blood was sluggishly oozing from it, and Kagome knew that he was going to lose too much if he wasn't helped soon. 'Kouga must not have known he was poisoned, otherwise he wouldn't have left him like this.'
It wasn't until she'd bent down to look more closely at the wound that she saw his bloodied sleeve, and that it was lying flat against the ground instead of outlining his arm.
"Eeep!" Her eyes widened. A barely audible whisper escaped her lips. "What kind of monster would do this to you?" She felt a tear roll down her cheek, and quickly wiped it away, then scanned the forest floor around the clearing. "Where is a chi flower when you need one?" she muttered. Then she smacked herself on the forehead. 'Silly, you have some in your herb pack.'
She dropped the bow and arrows, went back to camp, and returned with her bag. Rummaging through it, she first pulled out a white vial of ginseng essence, eased Sesshoumaru's mouth open, and dripped some in.
"There, that should give your body a chance to burn out some of the poison." She said, capping the little bottle. 'It's a good thing I made more just last week.'
Then she pulled out a single blue flower. "Alright, now how did that spell go again? Oh yeah."
After carefully pushing up his sleeve to where the arm was severed, she placed the chi flower into his remaining hand, covered it with hers, and closed her eyes. The ancient and powerful spell flowed off her tongue in whispered tones, a strange echoing quality to them.
Flow for water to clean,
Fly for time to mend.
Breathe for air to bless,
Feel, for pain to end.
Her eyes suddenly snapped open glowing an empty blue. With the chi flower acting as a bridge, Kagome channeled some of her soul into him to give the spell power. Slowly, the arm began to regenerate, and Kagome went into a trancelike state.
Sango was dreaming again about her father and little brother. About the time she normally left them though, she stayed, and was running back to them again when the snap of a twig broke into her thoughts.
Her eyes snapped open, and she was face to face with a pair of molten gold eyes staring at her intently.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Kagome woke to the chirping of a songbird, her eyes half hooded against the early morning sun, and lazily wondered what she was doing outside of camp. She moved her head on the warm pillow she'd found, and— 'Wait, I didn't bring a pillow out here!'
The young miko sat up, and looked at her patient, whose stomach she'd used for her pillow. 'I must have dozed off after finishing the spell.' she reasoned. A blush staining her cheeks, Kagome checked his wounds, and was pleased with her work. The poisoned wound was already only a faint scar, and she smiled when she saw the arm completely healed.
'Hmmm...not bad, for my first regenerating.' Kagome thought to herself. 'It looks like I even took care of the fever.' She breathed a relived sigh, and examined his face in the bright sunlight. 'Even in sleep he looks so cold,' she thought sadly, 'like he doesn't have a friend in the world. So different from when we were children....'
Flashback
"You'll never catch the great Sesshoumaru, greatest bandit that ever lived!" 11-year-old Sesshou laughed while 8-year-old Kagome gave chase, blessing her mother for letting her wear some loose trousers (she couldn't run in a kimono).
"Give me back my heart! I'm warning yooooou!" the little youkai girl called. The children weren't sure how a heart could be stolen, but they'd heard Kagome's mother say that Lord Yusagi had stolen hers. They didn't know what one looked like either, so they used a rock.
"Ha! I've got you now!" Kagome cried. She had chased Sesshou across a little bridge over a spring to a pondside. She pretended to thrust the wooden sword next to Sesshou's side, who caught it under his arm and promptly fell against a willow tree, gasping in exaggerated agony as he slid down to rest his head on a root.
"You've killed me, Kagome!" He moaned in overdramatic pain. He groaned for a few seconds while Kagome began looking worried.
"Sesshou, are you ok?" she was unsure (Sesshou was a very good actor ).
"Of course I am, dummy!" He whispered around moans. "B-but...I-I have s- something..." he was back to his dying act, "to tell you, before I go." He motioned for her to move closer. She leaned down, and put her ear near his mouth.
"I love..." Sesshou broke off into coughing and wheezing that made him sound like Shippou's squeezy toy.
"What? What do you love? Sesshou?" She was pretending to cry, covering her face with her hands, but actually trying to hide her giggles.
"I love...I love y...." He broke off again in a spasm of laughing that he tried to turn into hacking coughs.
"Y-? Y- What's Y???" She began to violently shake his arm, and was trying to look panicked for her fallen comrade, unsuccessfully though, (the laugh-snorts kinda gave it away).
Sesshou groaned in 'agony'. "I w-want you to know...that I a-always, and forever w-will love...yellow cows!"
They both collapsed into giggles. "Yellow COWS??" Kagome laughed. "Where'd that come from?"
The two eventually (after a LONG time), calmed down and were at peace on the soft grass, breathing in the warm summer air.
"Kagome?" Sesshou called over to her, eyes closed.
"Hmm...yes Sesshou?" She replied, looking up into the canopy of willow branches through which soft sunlight filtered through.
"What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Kagome looked thoughtful. "Well, I guess I'll be a great adventurer, and find all kinds of ancient treasure, and visit all four castles of the Compass."
"Why do you want to see them all?" Sesshou wondered. "I think the East castle is a great place to stay."
"Well, that's where I'll slay bad demons and become one of the best youkai warriors know to youkai, ningen, and nenjo (spirits)."
"Won't you miss your family?" Sesshou asked, looking over at his friend.
"I'll visit my family at home of course, every fall, when the leaves are turning color, and the feasts from the harvests kick in." She grinned.
"Kagome," Sesshou hesitated. "Do...do you think I could go with you on some of your adventures?"
The little girl looked over at her friend, surprised. "Of course! Every warrior needs a partner when they go on adventures, or it wouldn't be as fun!" Her tone was matter-of-fact. "I was hoping you'd be there too so that we could fight the monsters and claim treasure and meet all kinds of great and famous people together."
Sesshou's eyes twinkled. "Do you think we could find out who my father sees all the time in the woods near our castle? I want to know why he smells strange when he comes back, like he was with a ningen female or something." He said, puzzled.
"I bet we could follow him, if we were careful." Kagome declared. "But we'd have to be reeealy quiet, and not let him see us."
"Does this mean you'll come visit me in the Western Lands?" Sesshou asked hopefully.
"Yup! My parent's have been talking about letting me go with you when you go back."
Sesshou wondered how she could know this. It was rare that any plans for the future was discussed while a child was present.
Kagome looked around to make sure no one was listening. "I can sometimes hear what my parents say to each-other because my room is next to theirs, even through the stone wall, but only sometimes." Kagome sighed. "Anyway," She flipped herself up to her feet and grabbed her sword. Pivoting on her foot, she pointed the tip at his chest and declared, "I, pirate queen Kagome of the seven seas challenge you to a duel!"
Sesshou grabbed up his own sword and they continued their game.
End Flashback
Kagome's smile was bittersweet as she thought back to the precious memory. That very night, Naraku had taken the castle, and the young princess had been yanked away from almost everyone she loved. She hadn't seen her friend since then, until now.
She was going back to camp to make some food for herself and her patient when he mumbled something in his sleep. It sounded a lot like "dnd leef, kwowe."
She leaned down to hear him better, but he didn't say anymore. Their faces were so close; she could feel his breath against her lips. She found herself looking at his mouth. 'What a nice mouth he has.' She thought. 'So nicely shaped and soft-looking...I wonder what it'd be like...' she thought, eyes lidding as she leaned closer. The world melted away; there was just her and the unconscious youkai below her...she was just a centimeter away from his lips...
Sorry! (dodges rotten tomatoes) I (dodge) had to do (dodge) something to get more reviews! (splat).
Heheee! I'll try to update again this weekend...
Last Chapter: She stepped closer and leaned down to see better, and reeled back in surprise when she realized who was on the stretcher. Kagome breathed his name as she examined his troubled features. "Sesshou."
Chapter 6: Memories, Dreaming, and Ginseng
He was yet asleep, and he shouted again. The young miko touched her hand to his forehead and realized that he was burning up with fever. She noticed that his gi was ripped, and carefully eased the cloth apart and found that he had a wound across his chest a mottled green color; a sure sign of poisoning.
Blood was sluggishly oozing from it, and Kagome knew that he was going to lose too much if he wasn't helped soon. 'Kouga must not have known he was poisoned, otherwise he wouldn't have left him like this.'
It wasn't until she'd bent down to look more closely at the wound that she saw his bloodied sleeve, and that it was lying flat against the ground instead of outlining his arm.
"Eeep!" Her eyes widened. A barely audible whisper escaped her lips. "What kind of monster would do this to you?" She felt a tear roll down her cheek, and quickly wiped it away, then scanned the forest floor around the clearing. "Where is a chi flower when you need one?" she muttered. Then she smacked herself on the forehead. 'Silly, you have some in your herb pack.'
She dropped the bow and arrows, went back to camp, and returned with her bag. Rummaging through it, she first pulled out a white vial of ginseng essence, eased Sesshoumaru's mouth open, and dripped some in.
"There, that should give your body a chance to burn out some of the poison." She said, capping the little bottle. 'It's a good thing I made more just last week.'
Then she pulled out a single blue flower. "Alright, now how did that spell go again? Oh yeah."
After carefully pushing up his sleeve to where the arm was severed, she placed the chi flower into his remaining hand, covered it with hers, and closed her eyes. The ancient and powerful spell flowed off her tongue in whispered tones, a strange echoing quality to them.
Flow for water to clean,
Fly for time to mend.
Breathe for air to bless,
Feel, for pain to end.
Her eyes suddenly snapped open glowing an empty blue. With the chi flower acting as a bridge, Kagome channeled some of her soul into him to give the spell power. Slowly, the arm began to regenerate, and Kagome went into a trancelike state.
Sango was dreaming again about her father and little brother. About the time she normally left them though, she stayed, and was running back to them again when the snap of a twig broke into her thoughts.
Her eyes snapped open, and she was face to face with a pair of molten gold eyes staring at her intently.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Kagome woke to the chirping of a songbird, her eyes half hooded against the early morning sun, and lazily wondered what she was doing outside of camp. She moved her head on the warm pillow she'd found, and— 'Wait, I didn't bring a pillow out here!'
The young miko sat up, and looked at her patient, whose stomach she'd used for her pillow. 'I must have dozed off after finishing the spell.' she reasoned. A blush staining her cheeks, Kagome checked his wounds, and was pleased with her work. The poisoned wound was already only a faint scar, and she smiled when she saw the arm completely healed.
'Hmmm...not bad, for my first regenerating.' Kagome thought to herself. 'It looks like I even took care of the fever.' She breathed a relived sigh, and examined his face in the bright sunlight. 'Even in sleep he looks so cold,' she thought sadly, 'like he doesn't have a friend in the world. So different from when we were children....'
Flashback
"You'll never catch the great Sesshoumaru, greatest bandit that ever lived!" 11-year-old Sesshou laughed while 8-year-old Kagome gave chase, blessing her mother for letting her wear some loose trousers (she couldn't run in a kimono).
"Give me back my heart! I'm warning yooooou!" the little youkai girl called. The children weren't sure how a heart could be stolen, but they'd heard Kagome's mother say that Lord Yusagi had stolen hers. They didn't know what one looked like either, so they used a rock.
"Ha! I've got you now!" Kagome cried. She had chased Sesshou across a little bridge over a spring to a pondside. She pretended to thrust the wooden sword next to Sesshou's side, who caught it under his arm and promptly fell against a willow tree, gasping in exaggerated agony as he slid down to rest his head on a root.
"You've killed me, Kagome!" He moaned in overdramatic pain. He groaned for a few seconds while Kagome began looking worried.
"Sesshou, are you ok?" she was unsure (Sesshou was a very good actor ).
"Of course I am, dummy!" He whispered around moans. "B-but...I-I have s- something..." he was back to his dying act, "to tell you, before I go." He motioned for her to move closer. She leaned down, and put her ear near his mouth.
"I love..." Sesshou broke off into coughing and wheezing that made him sound like Shippou's squeezy toy.
"What? What do you love? Sesshou?" She was pretending to cry, covering her face with her hands, but actually trying to hide her giggles.
"I love...I love y...." He broke off again in a spasm of laughing that he tried to turn into hacking coughs.
"Y-? Y- What's Y???" She began to violently shake his arm, and was trying to look panicked for her fallen comrade, unsuccessfully though, (the laugh-snorts kinda gave it away).
Sesshou groaned in 'agony'. "I w-want you to know...that I a-always, and forever w-will love...yellow cows!"
They both collapsed into giggles. "Yellow COWS??" Kagome laughed. "Where'd that come from?"
The two eventually (after a LONG time), calmed down and were at peace on the soft grass, breathing in the warm summer air.
"Kagome?" Sesshou called over to her, eyes closed.
"Hmm...yes Sesshou?" She replied, looking up into the canopy of willow branches through which soft sunlight filtered through.
"What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Kagome looked thoughtful. "Well, I guess I'll be a great adventurer, and find all kinds of ancient treasure, and visit all four castles of the Compass."
"Why do you want to see them all?" Sesshou wondered. "I think the East castle is a great place to stay."
"Well, that's where I'll slay bad demons and become one of the best youkai warriors know to youkai, ningen, and nenjo (spirits)."
"Won't you miss your family?" Sesshou asked, looking over at his friend.
"I'll visit my family at home of course, every fall, when the leaves are turning color, and the feasts from the harvests kick in." She grinned.
"Kagome," Sesshou hesitated. "Do...do you think I could go with you on some of your adventures?"
The little girl looked over at her friend, surprised. "Of course! Every warrior needs a partner when they go on adventures, or it wouldn't be as fun!" Her tone was matter-of-fact. "I was hoping you'd be there too so that we could fight the monsters and claim treasure and meet all kinds of great and famous people together."
Sesshou's eyes twinkled. "Do you think we could find out who my father sees all the time in the woods near our castle? I want to know why he smells strange when he comes back, like he was with a ningen female or something." He said, puzzled.
"I bet we could follow him, if we were careful." Kagome declared. "But we'd have to be reeealy quiet, and not let him see us."
"Does this mean you'll come visit me in the Western Lands?" Sesshou asked hopefully.
"Yup! My parent's have been talking about letting me go with you when you go back."
Sesshou wondered how she could know this. It was rare that any plans for the future was discussed while a child was present.
Kagome looked around to make sure no one was listening. "I can sometimes hear what my parents say to each-other because my room is next to theirs, even through the stone wall, but only sometimes." Kagome sighed. "Anyway," She flipped herself up to her feet and grabbed her sword. Pivoting on her foot, she pointed the tip at his chest and declared, "I, pirate queen Kagome of the seven seas challenge you to a duel!"
Sesshou grabbed up his own sword and they continued their game.
End Flashback
Kagome's smile was bittersweet as she thought back to the precious memory. That very night, Naraku had taken the castle, and the young princess had been yanked away from almost everyone she loved. She hadn't seen her friend since then, until now.
She was going back to camp to make some food for herself and her patient when he mumbled something in his sleep. It sounded a lot like "dnd leef, kwowe."
She leaned down to hear him better, but he didn't say anymore. Their faces were so close; she could feel his breath against her lips. She found herself looking at his mouth. 'What a nice mouth he has.' She thought. 'So nicely shaped and soft-looking...I wonder what it'd be like...' she thought, eyes lidding as she leaned closer. The world melted away; there was just her and the unconscious youkai below her...she was just a centimeter away from his lips...
Sorry! (dodges rotten tomatoes) I (dodge) had to do (dodge) something to get more reviews! (splat).
Heheee! I'll try to update again this weekend...
