Chapter 4-

Her head banging, Kagome felt herself begin to rise from the land of the dead. Her eyes opened and she squinted into the light coming from her small window. As she slowly lifted her head she moaned slightly from the pain.

'What in the world happened to me?' She thought slowly as her mind seemed to be a little slow today. As she stood up she glanced at her watch and about blew to the roof.

"Oh my god!" She shouted out and jumped up. But the jump really didn't work. She began to do the jump and right when she was going to rise from the bed she began to tumble to the floor. As she fell she heard her door opening and she glanced up to see Sango there.

"Sango!" She yelled loudly. "What are you doing? Why have I been asleep for a week? What's going on?"

Sango quietly looked at her apologetically and then she sat down by her. But as Kagome was about to ask her what she was doing three more people came in to the room. Two she had thought she would never see again.

"Naraku, Kagura!" Kagome looked over at Sango and tried to look her in the eye but Sango just moved her head away with a muttered word that sounded like sorry. As Kagome watched, Sango lifted her up into the air and carried her to one of the beds that you would find in the hospitals.

"Sango! What are you doing? Why are you doing this? I thought we WERE FRIENDS." But Sango was turning away and running to another room in the hallway. 'I can't believe what is happening. Why won't Sango talk to me? Why in the world is Naraku and Kagura here?'

Kagome opened her mouth to speak when she heard a roar sound from a room off to the right. As Kagome turned toward the room in surprise Naraku began to swear violently and started off to see what was happening. And about then was when Kagome noticed what was happening in the hall.

It was a strange sight indeed. Many bed strollers were being rolled around in the hallways and you could hear shouting all around you. Kagome turned to a hand resting on her shoulder and as she watched the hand turned into a fin, and then Kagome felt a scream build in her throat. But she held it down until she got a look at the face.

The face seemed to be human, or what used to be human. A young woman seemed to be staring at her but all that seemed to be human was the young sapphire blue eyes staring piteously up at her. Everything else seemed to be turning into scales as she watched.

"Help me!" The thing rasped out of the morphing lips. Kagome didn't even know what the girl was changing into. Kagome began to back as far away as was possible while she was in a small bed. Kagome couldn't hold it back anymore and she screamed. She screamed as loudly as she could and began to speak rapidly saying the same thing over and over again.

But it didn't come out that way. Kagome felt her eyes widen as she touched her lips. Out of her mouth came not words, but a strange clicking and grunts. Kagome felt her body begin to shake as she looked off to where Kagura was trying to wrestle something out of a room. Kagome tried to scream again but she could see black spots starting in front of her face.

And she began to fall down but as she was she said one thing that she knew at least someone might understand, right?

"Sesshomaru… Help me please!" And then she heard something that sounded awfully like squeaks, grunts, and roars. But came out in her ears as perfect Japanese. "Kagome, where are you? What are they doing? Let go of me you stupid idiotic bastards. Don't you understand me?"

Kagome turned with as much energy as she could and saw something that looked a lot like Sesshomaru. But a strange thing had happened to him. He had begun to get scales along his arms and down his back. Kagome whimpered as they sat him down on the stretcher next to her and she finally screamed louder then she had ever in her life.

'What had they done to them? What had happened to them? Why couldn't she speak?'

Kagome glanced over slightly at Sesshomaru as he looked down at his arms. He then turned faintly to look at her. But when he saw her watching he quickly turned away. Kagome felt herself move gradually closer to him. He stiffened slightly as she moved over and then she laid her face on his back and began to cry silently. She had not cried for a long time and had no idea why she should start now, but these things are not always understood.

She could feel Sesshomaru's breath come in and out of his body and she made her breathing even out to that, as well.

"Sesshomaru?" She asked quietly, glancing over her shoulder to check Naraku.

"What?" He said in a grudging way. "What do you want? I'm kind of in a crisis here."

That just hit for Kagome and she felt her lip tremble and her breath grow shorter and then she was trying to stifle her sobs again into his back. Her hand every now and then brushing his scales. Sesshomaru began to growl slightly and turned suddenly and she found herself in his arms. And her breath caught in her throat. As she glanced up into his green eyes, but now they had changed. They were auburn, gold color and seemed to mesmerize her with its intensity.

But then it was done and he moved away to go back to planning his revenge. Kagome felt herself deflate after that incident and she fell into a deep faint. Although as she was falling into the faint she felt his eyes bore into her and she smiled slightly.

He really was a sweet heart when he wanted to be.

'What's happening? Why do I have scales on my arms and back? My voice is gone, too.' Sesshomaru looked over to where Kagome rested. She still seemed very human, her raven black hair still as glossy as ever. Her eyes had been the same color. Although scales did mar her skin. He had felt so ugly and powerless when she had called to him. Her voice had been full of pain and fear.

Kagome had even screamed in fear at himself and he had felt a sinking feeling come over him when he had seen her face. He had never thought this would or even could happen. He had always thought that he was more powerful then any other thing on this earth. Well, he was wrong, that's for sure.

Kagome whimpered in her sleep and he reached down instinctively to pat her on the head. He remembered so well the way they were in high school. Him saving her from bully like guys and then her making him laugh for the first time. It actually kind-of scared him in a way. Like she was his other part. All other females appalled him. But that just could not be.

A sharp wrenching pain came into his legs and traveled up his spine making him groan and bend over painfully. 'I feel so tired and ill. My whole body is shaking and all around me smells are coming of death and sickness.' He moved his arm a little and a flash of light caught his eyes. He then felt himself falling forward into a faint. For what he saw on his arms could not have been real. It was all just a terrible dream, a nightmare that when he woke up would be discarded with all the other ones from his 24 years of life. On his arm was beginning to show a flap of skin that was falling off his arm to reveal rows upon rows of scales that all went up to his elbow then stopped. The color was a black and sparked with some blue in it.

The sight wouldn't have made any difference to him if he hadn't been with Kagome. She had been through some much in her life and had always thought he would be the same for her but it didn't seem like that would happen anymore.

He was changing and it scared the shit clean out of him. "How could this have happened to me?" He asked into the hallway that rushed by him with the speed of the girl pushing the bed. "Wasn't I wary enough? I thought that father said he had looked over everything in this place! WHAT WAS HE DOING IF NOT LOOKING IN?" And a flash of his father giggling with his stepmother came across his mind. 'Never mind, don't answer that…'

Soon enough the stretcher came to a door at the end of the long hallway where no other being was and Naraku came in front of them. 'Whoa…wait a second, when did Naraku get here?' Sesshomaru looked over to the door and then quickly to Naraku wondering if he could quickly get him and Kagome out of this hellhole of a place.

"My little urchins." Naraku began while laughing hysterically. "I welcome you to your new and permanent home. Enjoy the quiet for now because soon you may not even have that." Sesshomaru couldn't hold it back any longer. He felt an animalistic growl coming up his throat and out his chest before he could bring it back down.

The growl fell around them with a loud rumble and many servants in the hallway began to scream in terror of the monster in front of them. Naraku just came over to him and grabbed him by the hair. Sesshomaru flinched slightly in pain but stared Naraku down just as if they were still in high school.

Naraku frowned at this and hit Sesshomaru in the face sending Sesshomaru into the lady pushing his bed. Naraku pulled quickly by him and leaned down with an evil glint in his eyes.

"I don't know who you think you are monster. But you no longer have any power over me; you aren't in your daddy's office anymore. You are now under my possession and will be my experiment. Do you hear me? Fish boy." And with that last phrase Naraku pushed Kagome and Sesshomaru into a large room full of water making a splash occur when they hit the water. Before Sesshomaru could swim back up to the surface Naraku had put a caged top on it, with just enough room to put your head out of the water for air.

Sesshomaru roared into the darkness surrounding him and Kagome, venting his frustration. 'I really am nothing more then a monster now.' And with that he sank to the bottom of the pool hoping to find Kagome down in the murky depths.

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