A Miko's Love Chapter 5: Death, an inuyasha fanfic

Chapter Five

Death

A figure lay on a large bed with royal purple silken sheets. Sweat drenched his entire being and his body temperature was way above normal. His brown hair stuck to his face, a shadow fell over the man.

"He hasn't awakened yet?" a woman's voice trembled.

"No, not for days," a blue ogre replied sadly. Both looked to the man on the bed, his expression was pained. The woman's sky blue hair fell over her face covering her tears from view.

"I-I hope he'll be all right," she whispered.

"We're not certain…" the ogre trailed off.

"Does 'she' know yet?"

"Of course not! She…she would be crushed. She'd most likely blame herself," the ogre replied.

"Yes, you're right…it's best she not know unless worse comes to worse. But she'll become suspicious….after all he was her…" the ogre held up a hand to cut her rambling short.

"The others are seeing to that, they're making sure nothing happens."

"Okay, I should have known that everything would get taken care of," the woman let out a long suffering sigh and placed a cold, wet cloth on the young males forehead. "Why, are the fates determined to make her life a living hell?"

"I wouldn't doubt it for a second. Let's just hope that he recovers from this before it can get any worse." Both left the room, the name the young man mumbled un-heard.

It had been a few days now since Kagome had found an injured Koenma in the pouring rain. Kagome had acted quite like a mother hen; he was weakened from the effects of the medicine she used to heal his wounds. When she went to the store she rushed home not wanted to leave him alone too long worried that whatever had injured him in the first place, would return to finish him off in his still weakened state.

"Your wounds are almost completely healed," she smiled as she finished re-wrapping his wounds. "You're a quick healer."

"Or it might be the one tending to my wounds that helped with the recovery," he suggested. A faint blush colored her cheeks making the young prince smile.

"Anyone could have done so," Kagome said as she placed the white box back in the cabinet. Koenma simply chuckled. She returned and sat in front of him, her head cocked to the side curiously making her resemble a puppy. Her gaze was directed to his forehead. Koenma suddenly knew just what she was looking at and flushed. Why? He didn't know. Kagome dropped her gaze sensing he had suddenly become uncomfortable. "Sorry," she mumbled in embarrassment.

"It's all right," he said gently. Kagome looked out the window and suddenly brightened.

"How about we go for a walk, I'm quite certain you must be bored to death in here! Kami knows you need some sun!" she smiled. Koenma returned her smile with one of his own.

"Sure, that sounds like a good idea." Both rose from the couch and left the house. Their walk was pleasant, both basking in each others presence. Kagome had left her worries back at her apartment along with all of her troubles. She wanted a nice walk without pondering about when the next youkai would attack in search of the Shikon no Tama. Somewhere along the way his hand had slipped into hers, but she didn't mind. All seemed to be going just perfect, then her day just had to go and collapse in on itself. A large tail rammed into her stomach sending her soaring in the air away from Koenma. She let out a yelp when she came in contact with the ground. She raised her hands into the air in an attempt to call forth her weapons, but a clawed hand came swiping at her head. Before she could react she was suddenly lifted from the ground away from the attacking dragon youkai. Koenma placed her back on the ground gently. Kagome turned to the youkai and summoned her bow and arrows. She notched an arrow taking careful aim, she let it loose. Unfortunately the dragons head had ducked and the arrow hit its tail instead. The dragon roared in pain and whacked Kagome with its tail, this time coiling its tail around her lifting the Miko into the air. Kagome groaned and clenched her eyes in pain as it started tightening its grip on her. Koenma let out a human-like growl and attacked the youkai. In the back of his mind something seemed to snap as blue light and red fire collided. An ogre, a woman, a wolf, a scepter. Koenma fell to his knees panting; the dragon fell to the ground with an audible thump. His clothes were burnt in several places; he had also drained his reiki with that attack. Kagome ran over to him worriedly, he barely registered anything beyond that point.

"Gack! P-please," the youkai gasped as the enraged spirit detective tightened his grip on its throat. "I-I'll tell you what you want!"

"Where is he?" Yusuke demanded in a low growl.

"Mi-lady didn't want him to survive," the youkai stuttered. Yusuke shook the spider youkai fiercely before saying anything.

"Are you going to say or do I have to kill you?" he yelled. Hiei was at the side fingering his katana wishing to drive it through the spider's chest.

"He-he is dead! Mi-lady didn't want him to survive, told the others to kill him she did!" the youkai replied quickly. If it wanted them to spare his life, he was terribly mistaken. The spiders head was snapped to the side, a sickening snap resounded before he went limp. Yusuke threw him to the ground before turning and punching the brick wall behind him in anger creating a small dent. He didn't want to believe it. Koenma was….dead.

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Tijiya: finally another chapter of 'A Miko's Love' is up! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did writing it! I am so happy that you all love this story enough to review! I thank all of my reviewers! On a side note Not Alone Anymore, now known as Inner Demons, is being revised. I would suggest to read the revised chapters, as I write chapters for other stories I will let everyone know which chapters have been revised. So far chapters 1-3 have been revised. Please continue to review, if it's not too much trouble I would like ten reviews before submitting the next chapter. Which will be up very, very soon. Now for the disclaimer.

Kaze mai:–holds up a blue piece of paper-

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I only borrow them to amuse myself and my readers.