Chapter 7

"Kikyo?!" Kagome said turning her head to look at him. Kagome was so surprised she lost her balance. She fell backwards into Sesshomaru and then she lost all consciousness. The last thing she thought was how warm Sesshomaru was.

"So you haven't seen her?" Inuyasha said to Kaede.

"No. She has not been here since last time you were here together."

"So what did you do to Kagome that made her so mad as to leave you again?" Miroku asked.

"Yeah! You just went over there to make up with her and then you make her mad again! You can be such an idiot." Shippo said. The little fox boy was pacing back and forth on the floor.

Inuyasha had no time to get mad at them. He simply said, "Are you going to help us find her or not?!"

"I'm helping." Miroku said as he got up off the floor.

"I'm going to help find her." Shippo said after he stopped pacing.

"Okay. We can all take a direction. And Miroku, could you save your perverted side for another day? We really need to find Kagome."

Miroku stood there for a second and then said, "Alright..."

"Good." Inuyasha reached in his pockets and pulled out three more walkie-talkies.

"How many of those do you have Inuyasha?" Kikyo asked.

"I bought a bunch for us all. I just thought they were sooo cool!" He taught them all how to use them and then they were off. Kikyo searched the west. Miroku the south. Kaede and Shippo the north. And Inuyasha the east. Inuyasha really didn't want to but he was heading to Koga's to ask him to help. Of course if he found her before Inuyasha and did anything to her then he would have to kick his ass. But besides that little detail Inuyasha told Koga what was going on. He handed him another walkie-talkie.

"So you let Kagome go running off by herself? What kind of mutt are you?! She could be anywhere! She could be dead!" Koga was definitely pissed off.

"Yeah, I know. That's why I came to see if you were going to help. So are you?" Inuyasha looked sad and Koga saw that.

"You really love her don't you." He said.

"Wha?! NO! Of course not! She's just a jewel detector!"

"Yeah sure, keep telling yourself that. I'll help, but afterwards, we have a duel to see who gets Kagome." With that he ran off in a whirlwind.

"Girl..." A voice said. Kagome was slowly opening her eyes. She didn't see anyone in front of her.

She sat up quickly and yelled, "My name is Kagome!" She bumped heads with the voice's owner, Jaken. She was holding her head and when she looked around, Jaken was on the floor and she was in her room. The room she had been in the night before. The room she got the gown from. Kikyo's room?

The door to the room opened. "Are you awake?" Rin's head popped out from behind the door.

Kagome smiled warmly. "Yes Rin, would you like to come join me?"

"I would but Sessy-sama said that I should wake you for Breakfast." Rin said with one finger in her mouth.

"Well that's okay. Why don't you take Jaken and go wait for me at the table?" Kagome said stepping out of her bed.

"Okay!" Rin said excitedly. She grabbed Jaken and ran out the door. Kagome giggled as she saw Jaken's evil look that said, 'I'll get you for this.'

Kagome closed the door and slumped against it. She looked around the room. It did smell a little like her and Inuyasha said at the beginning that Kikyo smelled like her. She went to the closet and picked out a short Kimono dress. It stopped half way down her thighs. It was a pretty light blue color and has pink and purple flowers on it. It had a sash to go with it except it had gold and silver on it instead of flowers. It had very short sleeves. It seemed like the sleeves weren't even there. She admired herself in a mirror and noticed something was out of place.

"My hair...." She said aloud but more to herself. She looked around and found a dresser. She looked in it and found a brush and many other hairs things. She brushed her hair then took a light blue ribbon out of the drawer. She tied her hair back loosely like Kikyo wears her hair. She looked in the mirror again, blew herself a kiss and said, "Magnifico!" She then opened the door and walked around looking for the dinning hall.

20 minutes later, "I'm doomed! I can't find the dumb dinning hall! I can't find a person to help either! What am I going to do?!" She sat down on her legs and tears were welling up in her eyes. She could try to retrace her steps but she was sure that she would end up even more lost. She stood up and said, "What good is it going to do if I just stay here?!" Kagome started looking around for doors. She saw one to her left. She opened it and walked in.

"Hello? Is anyone in here? I'm sorta lost and-" Kagome stopped and looked at the wall across from the door. She walked all the way in and stood there dumbfounded by a huge painting of Kikyo on the wall.

"Damn." Inuyasha came out of a bunch of bushes all scratched and bruised. "How did all this happen? How did it come to this?" Inuyasha thought back to his fight with Kagome. He cringed at the thought. "Maybe I should think before I start doing or saying things." Inuyasha paused for a second and then said, "Nah. That would totally not be me." He kept trudging through the forest. "Now if I were Kagome, I'd probably be in a dangerous place. In this direction, what is a very dangerous place?" Inuyasha thought about it. "Sesshomaru's place." Inuyasha flew off into the forest faster than before. 'I just hope that Kagome is alright and that she is not there.'

Kagome sneezed and rubbed her ears. She was still starring at Kikyo's huge picture. There was a quiet noise behind her. Kagome turned her whole body around. There in the doorway was Sesshomaru.

"I see you found Kikyo's picture." He looked at her. "Are you okay girl?" He saw her rubbing her ears and they were starting to turn red.

"Yeah I'm fine, my ears just burn." She said rubbing them more and turning around to face the picture.

Sesshomaru came up behind her and placed his hands over her ears. His hands were almost as cold as Kikyo's. Almost as cold as death. But it felt good against her ears. Her ears stopped burning soon after.

"Thank you." She said taking his hands off her ears.

He didn't answer her, he just walked up to the picture. Kagome looked at the two. They didn't look that much alike.

"Um..." She said. She didn't want to be rude.

"Yes. I know, we don't look that much alike but we truly are brother and sister. She was given away to that village because her demon blood wouldn't awaken." Sesshomaru looked up at Kagome. "Father wanted her to have a normal life, to be able to fit in. There, at the temple, she was able to be a priestess and she met Inuyasha." Sesshomaru started choking on his words. He turned around and looked at the picture. "Yes, that flee bitten mutt." Sesshomaru lifted his hand to the picture.

"Why do you hate your brother so much?" She asked without realizing it.

"Because," He walked back to her. He placed his hand under her chin and lifted it so she was starring straight into his eyes. "He truly is the reason that Kikyo died."

"But Naraku-"

"Naraku did nothing!" Sesshomaru banged his hand on a table that was close to them. He was still starring her in the eyes. He saw fear in her eyes. "It was Inuyasha that one handedly killed her, merely by them falling in love. You do not know the real story. Everything you were told about that incident was a lie." Kagome looked like tears were welling up in her eyes. Sesshomaru whispered in her ear. "The only person who really knows what happened...is me." Kagome backed away from him.

"W- what really d- did hap- happen?" Kagome was so shaken up she could barely speak.

"Kikyo... committed suicide." Sesshomaru said. His eyes were dark.

Kagome fell to the ground. She covered her mouth because she didn't want her screams to fill the castle walls.

TO BE CONTINUED