The Moon Hides Its Light from Me

FadedMoon (Jiraiya's editor)

Disclaimer: Woe be to everyone! I own Inuyasha! Haha, just kidding. I still don't own Inuyasha, but if I did… woe be unto everyone. Oh, and you might notice that this whole water cave scenes are from GTO. And if you do, THAT'S FREAKING AWESOME! Well, actually, I lied. It means you're cool. And I'm awesome. XD

Chapter 13

Through the Darkness

Kagome turned to the man behind her and pointed to her left, "I think they're that way!"

Sesshoumaru peered down the way she was pointing. His eyes grew wide.

"Kagome!"


Suddenly, Kagome was yanked backwards just as a huge wave of water shot by. The water was so high that it touched the cave ceiling. Kagome stared with wide eyes at the spot she had just been merely a second ago as she fell onto the ground.

'I could have just died…' she realized with disbelief.

The human Sesshoumaru was also on the ground behind her, breathing heavily- his whole body was hurting from his split-second reaction. His arms were still around the shaking miko. Er… well they weren't really 'around' her. Sesshoumaru recovered from the shock first as he noticed that his hands were moving with the miko's short breaths.

'Oh crap…' he realized, 'Please… don't let me be grabbing that part of her…'

Peeking around the girl's shoulders, his fears were confirmed- when he grabbed Kagome away from the path of the roaring waters, his hands had grabbed her chest.

Sesshoumaru's face turned several shades of red as he realized that he liked the feeling of- 'WAIT!' he panicked, 'I am NOT having these thoughts!'

Less than a second later, he let go of her and quickly stood up- trying to make the red go away. He took a quick peek back at the girl- it seemed as if she was still in shock and hadn't noticed the fact that he had even touched her- and all the less, touched her in an off-limits area.

As soon as he felt his rapid heartbeat start to calm, he turn to her again.

"Ka… Kag-," he stopped himself when he realized he was calling her by her name, 'Oh heck no, I am not calling her by her name!'

"You there… wench," he spoke, clearing his throat. Kagome slowly turned around- her eyes looking devoid of all emotions except fear.

"Are you okay?" he questioned her, trying not to sound caring. Kagome only nodded. Sesshoumaru moved towards her, then pulling her onto her feet by her collar, he took her hand by the wrist.

"Come on," he said, not looking at her, "It'll be safer and faster if we go like this."

Kagome's shock of having just been saved from dying turned into shock of a Sesshoumaru holding onto her wrist.

Her eyes traveled from their hands to his face.

"Ano… Sesshoumaru?" she timidly called his name, "Which way are we going?" They were standing at the center of the cross-section again.

"The water came from that way…" he spoke calmly as he thought, pointing to the right, "Then it went that way…" he pointed to their left, "The air smells a bit more stale from this way…" he pointed to the path ahead of them.

"We should go the way the water came from, right?" Kagome asked, "Since that means there must be an opening from where the water comes from!" Sesshoumaru nodded in agreement. "But it will be more dangerous if we go that way." The two peered into the dark depths of the cave.

"We should hurry… the water might come again…" he stated, tightening his grip on her wrist causing Kagome to wince at the pain. Using she her free hand, she gently, yet forcefully, pushed Sesshoumaru's hand down so that they were holding hands.

But Sesshoumaru didn't notice as he began hurrying them down the dark passageway.

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Kagome's breaths were getting shorter and shorter. And from what she could tell, Sesshoumaru wasn't holding up too well, either. 'I KNEW I should have joined the cross country track team back in middle school!' she thought regretfully.

"Sh-Se-" she tried to catch enough air to speak, "Ses-Sesshou…" 'For the love of Kami, his name is freaking long!' she cursed.

"What?" he practically gasped, not caring that she couldn't finish his name properly.

"I… I… think-" she tried speaking again.

"Shorter," he commanded. Kagome nodded, her head bouncing to their rapid pace.

"Need… stop," she finally got out.

Suddenly, Sesshoumaru halted, causing poor Kagome to collide with him, knocking him over.

"Go-gom-men…" she panted, on top of him, giving futile attempts to push herself off him.

Sesshoumaru, however, didn't seem to mind as much. He just merely rolled onto his back, causing the girl to fall off- however, Sesshoumaru's head ended up on Kagome's abdomen.

"Sess-Sessho-" she tried to catch her breath again. 'He SERIOUSLY needs a new name!' she thought, annoyed this time.

"Can't- Can't… breathe!" she gasped- partially because the weight of his head was giving her diaphragm too much to deal with and also because if you know the game where you try to see how many people you can line up by having each person lay their head on another person's stomach… it seriously is NOT easy. Why? Because it tickles like crazy and the person can't stop laughing.

And that's exactly what Kagome did- she laughed.

Like crazy.

"AHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!"

Sesshoumaru was bewildered by the girl's strange reaction. Just when he had finally found a comfortable position that he actually liked- except for the fact that it was a human's stomach that he had his head resting upon- it was actually much more pleasant than what he had to do with since he was devoid of his usual makeshift pillow/fluffy tail.

"What's… wrong… wi-you…!" he sat up, turning to face her on his knees. Annoyance and confusion were written all over his face.

Kagome, however, just rolled over on the damp ground, and continued to laugh her head off.

'Maybe the laughing demon has possessed her,' his mind thought the crude joke while he just stared. (A/N: teehee! Can you imagine? Fluffy-chan making jokes? LOL!)

Soon enough, the girl's laughs began to die down. "Sesshou- Sesshoumaru-sama," she said, suddenly sitting up, her laughter stopped.

Sesshoumaru turned his dark grey eyes to her- finally relieved that she had stopped. But he actually liked hearing her laugh.

'It is… pleasant,' he concluded.

Suddenly, she broke out laughing again.

Sesshoumaru stared again, but he was happy to hear her peals of laughter ring through the cavern.

'Oh… shiii…' he stopped himself. They had been running for about fifteen minutes- 'But how long have we been resting? The water should be coming soon…' he calculated. He turned to the laughing girl nest to him.

"Kagome," he spoke, before he could catch himself.

"You need a new name, Sesshoumaru-sama!" she spoke, still laughing.

"The water!" he said, standing up.

"Your name is just too long!" she laughed as he moved towards her.

"Okay, okay…" he spoke, pulling the girl onto her feet by her collar, "Choose whatever, we need to keep moving."

And they began running again, hand in hand.

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Minutes later, the two began to feel themselves beginning to tire again. It was definitely NOT a good sign.

'How freaking long is this freaking tunnel?' Sesshoumaru growled as they flew through the darkness. (A/N: Fluffy-chan growled as in a human growling. No doggie growling for him)

Just as his mood was about to become even worse…

"Sesshy!"

It took a few moments for the word to register in his mind.

'Oh, HECK NO!' his mind screamed in outrage, 'she did NOT just call me that- that… THAT THING!'

He suddenly stopped, whirling about on her.

"What the HELL did you just call me?"

Kagome looked offended, despite her winded-ness.

"You… You… said… ANYthing!" she retorted.

Sesshoumaru was in a hellish fury.

But not for long.

"The voices…" Kagome said, her attention diverted from the hot pissed man in front of her. Sesshoumaru turned so he could hear better, loosening his grip on her hands as he did. Kagome walked to his side.

"You… hear it too, right?" she asked softly.

Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed.

"Those aren't voices."

Suddenly, it hit him.

'Oh. Shit.'

HE grabbed onto her hands, and began racing towards the noise that was rapidly becoming louder.

"Sessh-?" Kagome asked, completely confused.

Sesshoumaru was cursing in his mind- cursing very rapidly to be exact. His eyes flew from his left to his right- looking for any sort of opening.

The noise was getting louder.

The string of lovely curses continued.

Left.

Right.

Left.

Right.

The noise was almost deafening now.

Left.

Right.

Kagome's eyes widened as a huge wall of white appeared before her.

Right.

Left.

'LEFT!'

Kagome felt her body get impaled onto a wet, hard and cold rock surface. What was left of oxygen in her windpipes were knocked out of her. But that didn't matter as much- she thought she was dead anyways as she heard the vociferous water come but she hadn't felt its pain.

That was… she thought she was dead until she realized there was a warmth from something pressed against her front.

She slowly opened her eyes.

Kagome found herself staring at soft-looking skin.

She blinked several times.

Now she found herself staring at Sesshoumaru's neck.

'Oh… Great.'

She peered upwards.

'Sesshoumaru's chin?'

That's when she realized that her head hadn't hit the rock behind her- Sesshoumaru's arm was wrapped about her head, pressing her towards him. However, that wasn't the only thing she realized. There was a lot of him touching a lot of her.

"Sesshoumaru?" she asked, nervous of their intimate contact. (A/N: yes, its 'intimate' to her. Chill.)

Suddenly, his whole body weight seemed to fall onto her, pressing their bodies even closer than before.

"Sesshoumaru?" she panicked now- his body had gone completely limp.

"SESSHOUMARU!"


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