Hello! A new chapter. I try to update every Wednesday. Well you didn't come here to read about me so on with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or any of the characters but I can still dream.

Warning- Transformation…

Chapter 6-

The only sound in the dark room was the water lapping on the edges of cement. The smell of salt and sea life prominent here. A small growl sounded somewhere near the bars covering the small pool making a loud echo in the quiet room. A small light bulb swung over the heads in the wet cage and made mesmerizing movements.

Sesshomaru growled again in irritation at the itchiness he was feeling all over his body. And the water didn't seem to be helping at all. The more he was in the water the more he began to itch. Over the pass three weeks no one had come into their room (at least he didn't think so) and no sound was heard, but yet many things had happened inside the room nonetheless.

Kagome herself seemed to be in shock. Ever since Sesshomaru had brought her back to the surface of the water that day long ago, she didn't talk. (If that was what you called the sounds they made when they tried to talk.) She seemed to be depressed and Sesshomaru didn't like it. Kagome had never been depressed her whole life. At least as long as he had known her and why that should change now was against his knowledge.

A sharp itch came up his legs- or what was left of the legs he had known- and he began to itch again. More or less his feet had begun to thin out and become flapper and bigger. They seemed to be flippers you used when diving and were a pain when going by a wall in the water. He had many bruises from just being careless around the wall.

His arms were now covered in the blue-black scales and the flaps on his arms were even longer. Stiffer even. The flaps seemed to have a wavy look to them and seemed to move of their own accord. The scales traveled up his arms on the back and came to his neck moving right below his ear and going around the ear traveling down his back neck and down his backside. Following the line of his spine and then splitting to follow his legs down to his now flipper feet.

'The little mermaid would be proud…'

He seemed to have color changing in his hair as well, as if his pigment had gone and now he only had silver. His hair seemed even longer now then before. A scowl came over his face and he glanced over his shoulder to see if Kagome was keeping herself aloft today or if he would have to hold her like yesterday and the day before. But she seemed to be doing fine, staring over the edge of the cage and to the door to freedom.

She herself seemed to look the same except her hazel eyes had now turned a piercing dark blue and her hair seemed to be highlighted with blue as well. She never seemed to be in discomfort and seemed to be in her on little world. Sesshomaru sighed. He never thought he would want female company but everyday he had to catch himself before he threw himself in front of her begging her to talk to him. Or even yell at him, it was better then her far off, glazed expression.

He turned away from her again and continued trying to open the cage.

"Sesshomaru…" A small voice said from behind him.

Sesshomaru felt his heart leap in response but tried to push it out. Saying over and over again that it must be some sickness. "Yes, Kagome? Did you need something?"

Kagome turned her head to look his way and he glided toward her. Her blue eyes twinkling with unshed tears. And then she was crushing herself to his chest sobbing dry heaves. Her arms linked around him and he moved his arms reluctantly around her patting her on the back.

"There, there… you'll be okay… Kagome, Kagome! I need my lungs. I can't… breath…" Sesshomaru grinned and played a faint, beginning to take them under the water all the way. Kagome squealed and held tighter to him, reaching up to grasp his hair. Sesshomaru couldn't seem to breath.

'Stupid sickness making me all light headed and absentminded.' Sesshomaru grinned down at her. "Start talking more Kagome, you don't seem to be yourself anymore. Kay?"

Kagome giggled herself and pet him on the head like a dog and he sighed happily. Just like old times… almost… okay not really since they were captured but… all right he was pretty off. Anyways it felt good to be able to talk to her again. He reached down and put his finger under her chin and dried her cheeks of the tears.

"There now…" Sesshomaru stopped, becoming more distance and being still. Something wasn't right. His whole body seemed to be waiting for something, all coiled up and ready to pounce. He was about to let it go but a pain so great- greater then any other he had experienced so far- came over his whole body and he went under the water swallowing a yelp of pain.

But Kagome heard.

"Sesshomaru…" Was the last he heard of her voice and then he was thrashing about in the mindless pain.

'What I really didn't need.'

(Break)

Kagome couldn't hold in her scream as she began talking in hurried sentences. She had never seen Sesshomaru do this before. He was always so strong and now he seemed to be moaning in pain.

"SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!" She screamed into the room. A sound from in the hall sounded and she looked up a relieved expression on her face, but it quickly died when she saw Sango and Naraku's forms in the doorway. He seemed to be grinning while Sango looked everywhere but to where Kagome waited.

Naraku's grin spread wider as he caught a glance of the thrashing Sesshomaru. Kagome saw this and also saw that Naraku was moving forward. Kagome's expression became puzzled as he unlocked the cage, and then she understood.

"NO! DON'T TOUCH HIM! I WON'T LET YOU!" Kagome was surprised to feel tears running down her cheeks and started pushing Sesshomaru to an opposite part of the cage. But Sesshomaru just started to growl at her and pushed her away from him.

"Don't come near me… I don't know what's happening and I don't want…you… to…get… HURT!" He screamed the last part and doubled over in his pain. Kagome thought he was dieing.

'He has to be dieing if he's in this much pain. Why would he be suffering so much?' Kagome looked over to Sango and tried to make her see what she was thinking. But Sango just looked over at her with sad eyes. "I'm sorry, I don't understand you. You must understand that we're different species now…"

Kagome's face fell in and she sobbed quietly gripping on to the nearby sidewall. 'Oh Sango. I should have known that I would loose all my friends in the end.'

Naraku by now had moved closer to the pained Sesshomaru and grasped him by the scruff of the hair, pulling him back to dry land. Kagome saw this and surprising even herself, began to growl. Naraku smirked at her and spoke while he worked over the writhing form of Sesshomaru.

"Don't you dare growl at me Kagome. Sesshomaru needs my help and –whether you like it or not- I'm going to help him get through this so that I can have him for my experimentation." He glanced over to Kagome. "Do you understand?" He asked in his cold and calculated way.

Kagome was in indecision, should she trust him or not. Would Sesshomaru die if he weren't helped by the proper personal? Kagome finally nodded her head and Naraku chuckled darkly.

"Good monster. Now you just stay right her on this step and sit. Otherwise I may have to put you in a deep sleep for a while."

Kagome gritted her teeth with anger and moved to where he said watching Sesshomaru, realizing he was awake. She smiled a little at him and he moved his lips to form one, but the pain had built while he was out of the water and he groaned. The groan soon turning into another scream.

His whole body seemed to be in pain. Kagome sucked in a sob and turned her head away. She couldn't watch.

(Break)

Sesshomaru never knew he could be in this kind of pain. It was like he was being turned inside out. And that vile Naraku was with him. Even worse TAKING CARE OF HIM! What had life become?

Another wave overtook him, making him arch off the ground and groaning. The pain seemed to be coming to his legs making him wonder what would happen. The itching seemed to be coming back with a vengeance. Suddenly Naraku seemed to appear above him and smiled.

Sesshomaru wanted to knock his teeth in.

"Fish-boy, I want you to begin itching. It will help the pain go faster and the transformation will take place a hell of a lot faster. Then I want you to follow your instincts, that's all I can help with unfortunately."

Sesshomaru really didn't want to follow his instincts, which seemed to be telling him to shred his shirt and pants off with irritation. "Water please…" He rasped quietly and looked on with annoyance at Sango and Naraku staring in confusion. He looked over to Kagome, seeing that she was already ahead of him. She brought a part of her torn shirt and wiped it across his forehead and arms.

Sesshomaru smiled a little at her and then began to shudder violently. Naraku looked down to him and then raised himself on his feet. "Well, I'd say that we may leave now Sango. Please lock the door after us. They won't be able to walk out of that pool ever again."

Kagome shook her fist in his direction as he walked out. "You'll see buzzard. You just wait and see."

Sesshomaru felt the itching taking place everywhere and cringed, but he didn't waste time he began to itch it. Kagome's intake of breath tipped him to something happening and he looked to her.

"What?" He glanced down at her. But she just moved her head away. "What in god's name did I do this time to freak you out? I'll stop itching if you want me to. But I may be groaning and cussing a bit more."

Kagome turned to answer but a loud rip began in the room. At first Sesshomaru didn't know where it was coming from, then he felt the throbbing in his legs and looked down to see his pants ripping at the seams. His yell echoed off the walls and he arched off the ground once again but this time he followed his instincts instead of trying to preserve his pride.

He undid his belt on his pants and ripped them off beginning to itch wildly up and down his legs. Next his shirt came torn into pieces. Kagome herself saw this and quickly turned away, blushing a cherry red. Sesshomaru felt a painful emotion that he had never felt before when he saw her reaction; he didn't understand what it was or what it signified but he didn't like it.

'What am I? Have I truly become a monster like Naraku says?'

His moan again filled the room and then he felt his ears stretching, as if they were becoming pointed, his mouth seemed to fill with teeth and he opened it to feel fangs appearing, he spit the fallen teeth out one by one. Finally over with that humiliation he looked back down to his legs. A groan filled the atmosphere and Sesshomaru couldn't stand it anymore. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"

Kagome turned then and made the mistake at looking at his legs gulping audibly, turning back around to face the water. "You really should start having more respect for me. Taking your clothes off. Go get something to wear!"

But Sesshomaru wasn't listening he was watching in mute horror as his own flesh betrayed him, his legs and feet had become a nest of scales. Every inch of his tan skin had been taken over by smooth scales that were ragged at the edges. Blue-black in appearance. His own feet were very flat and seemed to be coming together at that exact moment. Scales seemed to tamper onto his other leg and the legs were soon connected. He screamed once more, as his feet seemed to come together.

The pain left him and he collapsed onto the cold gravely floor.

Kagome turned and seemed to gawk at him for more then a few hours. Sesshomaru stared unemotionally up at her and then began to move his new self to the edge of the water, then he dived, deep, deeper then he ever thought possible, soon realizing that he couldn't even kill himself by drowning since he seemed to have gained another wonderfully freakish mutation. Gills.

Kagome watched him silently and then sighed as she surfaced to gulp in some much wanted air. She cringed when she heard what he said:

"WHY IN HELL'S NAME DO I ALWAYS HAVE THESE SHITY THINGS HAPPEN TO ME? I CAN'T EVEN TAKE MY OWN LIFE THE WAY MOST PEOPLE DO!"

And then (though she couldn't be sure) she thought she heard a small mimic of his voice in her brain,

I'm a monster and Kagome's going to fear me for the rest of my life…'

But she wasn't very sure.