this chapter is dedicated to YueYoukaiEclipse, arcgirl, Envy's Love, Jennylucia, and yoli05 ! Why? they added this story to their favorites! WONDERFUL! Now I can dance about and sing about happy things! Like Sesshou taking me as a mate...drool
Chapter 12: Rage and Truth
After the bath Kagome was gasping for air. Shippo had run ahead to get the others as she slowly tried to make her way to them on her own. Her feet drug in the dirt and her hair lay damp on her back and shoulders. Her knees felt as if they were about to give out at any moment, however she trudged on.
It was only seconds later that Sesshoumaru was at her side, helping her keep on her feet. Miroku and InuYasha were running down the path towards her, Shippo sitting on Miroku's head. Sesshoumaru carefully checked her temperature, only to pull back his hand quickly. Had she been some how poisoned by Michi? No, she had not been touched. She was, however, burning up. Her skin felt as if it were litterally on fire, and she was flushed. Her eyes were dull and she was weak. What was going on?
Miroku was immediatly there putting prayer beads about her neck, wrists, even her ankles. He chanted in a foreign tounge as he did so, something about the soul. Sesshoumaru growled, wanting to know what was going on, however the monk was busy helping Kagome, who already looked a bit better.
InuYasha, however, was not so thoughtful. "What the fuckin' hell is wrong with the wench?" He snarled out and was abruptly hit by a flying little kitsune. Shippo was then running in circles around the party for his life as InuYasha gave chase.
Shippo, being a kitsune, was unusually smart when it came to spiritual and magical matters. Kagome's soul was being taken some how, by whom and why were the questions that needed to be answered. Shippo jumped up, kicking off of Sesshoumaru's shoulder, and attacking a white snake like demon. A soul stealer. Yes, they wanted her soul. But why!
Sesshoumaru watched the kitsune take out the soul stealer and growled. Now he understood. Before long Kagome went limp in his arms and the many parts of her soul, the very things that made her HER, began to try to leave her body.
Kagome's mind was racing. What was going on! She could see something, a white puff of cloud in a grey nothingness that was getting smaller by the second. Without thinking, without even understanding what was going on, she ran to it and touched it, only to see other beings touching it with her. A woman in old fashioned armor with a hole in her chest. A woman with silver hair and a small golden horn in the middle of her forehead, with claws of green. A silver haired male that bore a great resemblence to Sesshoumaru. A human woman with a kind face and layered kimono.
Through the misty white cloud she could see one other woman, an angered look adorned the womans face. Brown eyes that held no happiness or love, only hate. She looked much like Kagome, only she looked much more proud. Full of greed and hate this woman was trying to take the white cloud it seemed.
Kagome grew angry, for some odd reason, and the white cloud began to pulse. The others looked to her in surprise as she pulled back the white bits and drew them into a tight ball, only one small piece escaped. Enough to make the brown eyed woman smirk.
Kagome gasped for air and her eyes opened to see the 'white puffy cloudy thingy' as her mind put it, fly off in the claws of a white snake...thingy... She looked around to find everyone staring at her with worried expressions.
"Um...ok...what just happened?" Kagome asked and everyone let out a breath they didn't know they had been holding.
Shippo, growling, looked around the sky for the soul stealer. Where had it gone!
In a dark cave Kikyo awakens with a start. She stood and looked down at her body. Partially dried semen stuck to her thighs, and she realized her face as well. A dull ache between her legs and her anal area made her eyes water. She turned to the nearest person to her, a man who she faintly recognized but she didn't know from where. She just couldn't place it.
"What happened here?" She asked and the man shook his head.
"InuYasha had attacked you. You pinned him to a tree for a week, but he got loose some how. You were in the village healing, you could have died if it weren't for a miko who healed you mostly. InuYasha went after you again while you were unconcious. He made me bring you here, he raped your body continuously. I do not understand why he would do such a thing, Kikyo, he was always kinder to you before..." The man said in a sad voice. A small albino girl walked into the cave and stood beside him. She held a mirror tightly and looked up at the priestess with emotionless eyes.
"InuYasha sent the miko to heal you before he did this, she was a tainted miko that looks much like you, Kikyo." She whispered in a monotone voice and Kikyo nodded.
"Where is he now?" She asked them and the girl turned her mirror.
An image of InuYasha taking a miko in odd clothing in a forest showed. "They are within the Western boundaries, priestess." She said and handed Kikyo some clothes.
Kikyo hurriedly dressed and left. He would die.
Ah-Un had returned with Jaken and the guards several hours later, saying that Michi was once again in her watery prison. She could, apparently, breath under water, however she was in her lowest snake form and tied about a rock, meaning she would have to find someone to help her, or latch on to a fish.
Kagome was carefully placed onto the back of Ah-Un with Miroku sitting behind her, chanting away evil spirits and such. InuYasha sat behind Miroku, and Sesshoumaru flew with the kit in his arms. They made it to Sesshoumaru's 'palace' in no time.
Sesshoumaru's home had been carefully carved into a mountain side. Not like a cave, but rather caved with intricate designs on the outside, with small windows and a large double door. Wrapping the entire front of the mountain, from one side to another, was a handmade stream that also went inside the moutain on either side, which struck Kagome as rather odd but nice. Metal bars made sure that no one could enter the palace through the stream, and a bridge seemed the only way in it seemed. The area between the palace and the stream was a lush garden with many foreign plants, and a large caged area with parrots of all kinds on the left. In the garden were many animals, guarding the area.
A zebra with a long silver horn adorning its forehead stood in plain view seemingly smiling at Sesshoumaru. A few white dogs and wolves were scattered about the area also staring at Sesshoumaru. Two large silvery snakes lay on either side of the double doors, again staring.
Then there was the youkai. A pale man stood at the bridge, his dark hair and long black fox tail making him look a bit wicked. His red eyes turned to Sesshoumaru and a small smirk appeared on the man's face. He flicked away a weed he had been chewing on.
"So...Sesshoumaru-sama, what's with the new tagalongs?" He asked and looked directly at Kagome. Shippo hopped over to her and she caught him effortlessly coddling him softly.
Sesshoumaru growled. "Do not scare my future mate, nor her kit. Her companions are of no use to me, however if she says anything to stop you or anyone else in the castle from attacking them, than you listen as if she were myself, do you understand?"
"Hai, Rage and Truth understand." The kitsune male said and Kagome blinked.
"Rage and Truth?"
Sesshoumaru nodded. "This is Truth, his alter ego and form is named Rage. Careful not to anger this one, Kagome, or I will have to save you myself."
Miroku nodded, understanding, while Kagome remained confused.
As they entered the palace gardens all the animals came up to them, bowing their heads to Sesshoumaru and looking at Kagome strangely. The Zebra-Unicorn thing stopped Ah-Un and looked Kagome in the eyes. Shippo hissed a bit at the animal, but it payed him no mind. It changed shape into a beautiful woman who looked very much like Sesshoumaru.
"Fluffy-chan! What a wonderful little mate-to-be!" She said and quickly tackled Kagome in a hug, right off of Ah-Un.
Kagome was quick enough to toss Shippo up in the air before being tackled, and he had landed on Sesshoumaru's shoulder.
"Eh hehe...This must be your wonderful cousin you talked about before!" Kagome said and the woman looked up at Sesshoumaru with a smile.
"Awwww! Fluffy-chan talks about meee!" She squealed and was about to pounce on him as well, only to be stopped by Truth.
"You shouldn't be pouncing on our lord, especially in front of his future mate, Kaya."
Kaya pouted and danced about on her feet. "Why noooot! Fluffy-chan loves me! Don't you Fluffy-chan!"
"Not if you keep addressing me by that annoying pet name, wench."
