A/N: Here I am, right here to give you the next chapter to this story. Yes! I am feeling better and I am doing well in school again, hurrah! Anyway, I hope that you will all enjoy this section of the story and here we go. Right now there are a lot of questions that will be answered, believe me, but just hang in there!
---Chapter Six---
Possession of the body
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Sesshomaru stared at hr fully, getting in the burnt clothes and melted skin. Her body was mangled but was still able to hold the crying child. He had never really seen a full spirit, just a little ball of light that was blue and could be considered a soul. But here he was, staring this woman right in the eye, having nothing but bad feelings coursing through him at that moment.
She looked down briefly at the sobbing child, and back at the boy lying beside the fallen Kagome. Her frown turned into a smile as she tilted her head to side and observed the boy fully.
Her gaze left the boy and fell upon Sesshomaru again, her smile faded and she glanced at Sesshomaru fully, taking in his appearance.
"You promised."
Sesshomaru flinched, keeping a cool gaze but was still unnerved by the woman in front of him. He couldn't explain it, but a deep sorrow was slowly making its way into his mind, like he wanted to cry. Like that will ever happen he scoffed mentally, taking a defensive stance.
Sesshomaru blinked, and blinked again. She was gone, and Kagome and Rin were now waking up. "Strange," he murmured to himself, "where did she go?"
Kagome looked up at Sesshomaru, rubbing her eyes and yawning. Taking a good look around her face turned bright red out of embarrassment. "What am I doing in the hallway?" She asked, sitting up fully and looking around her again.
She looked down at Rin and pulled her into her lap, fussing over her immediately. "What is Rin doing here? What am I doing here? In fact, what are you doing here?" She asked frantically, standing up, holding Rin and the carrier with Sakuya in it.
"I don't know," Sesshomaru replied, "but I want to know what you remember before you passed out."
Kagome furrowed her brow in concentration, trying to recall what she was doing before she passed out. Kagome sighed, not coming up with anything.
"I don't know," she said softly, "I can't remember…but I am tired, I think I wan to go to my room." With that said, she left.
Sesshomaru sighed, turning around and walking back to his room for a little bit of rest as well.
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Kagome shut the door to her room silently after putting Rin and Sakuya in their proper rooms. She was tired, and didn't feel right.
Kagome gasped, slumping against the door she clutched her head in pain as a sharp wave hit her full on. She felt like she was burning, a very high fever perhaps.
Kagome moaned in pain, trying to wipe the sweat from her forehead, but it was no use; she was just so hot it was unbearable.
"What is…h-happening to me?" She groaned, sitting herself on the cool wood. A sigh escaped her lips as she felt the cool relief. It was short lived when the wooden surface soaked in her heat and it became unbearable.
A sharp pain erupted in her chest as she sat up again, not to mention a migraine was starting to form, making her feel horrible. Suddenly it stopped, and Kagome was breathing regularly again.
She looked up, eyes completely calm and all pain erased from her face. She stood up slowly, looking around herself to see where she was.
"Now," Kagome whispered, "where is Sesshomaru hiding?"
She opened the door and walked out casually.
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"Come to back to the Western Lands," Sesshomaru muttered to himself, "sure why not. You want to be a soldier in my army, okay." After the first couple hundred papers to sign, he was beginning to agree to everything that was on there.
He stopped when a sharp knock sounded roughly at his door. Secretly rejoicing at the interruption, he stood up and answered it casually.
Kagome stood there, and for once did not have Sakuya.
"Hello Sesshomaru," she said softly, looking up to see him full on. She had shivered with excitement as she caught the golden gaze staring back at her.
"What are you doing here woman?" He asked sharply, somewhat annoyed to see her. Kagome raised an eyebrow, slipping into the room so Sesshomaru could close the door.
"Is that how you greet people?" She asked, brushing her fingertips over the top of his desk and turning to face him, eyes flashing. Sesshomaru bristled uncomfortably, not at all liking her presence.
"That's how I greet you," he replied bluntly, watching her movements carefully. She smiled sweetly at him.
"You can be so mean…Sesshy," she giggled. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow at the nickname, not feeling at all amused by it like she seemed to be. Her giggles ceased and Kagome turned to look at him.
"You have gotten so cold and heartless," she whispered, shuddering slightly out of discomfort or excitement Sesshomaru was unable to tell. His eyes narrowed at her.
"I suggest you leave," he hissed, "now."
"I didn't need you to tell me that Sesshy," she said, "I was going to escort myself out." She sighed softly at that and stepped towards the door, brushing Sesshomaru on her way out. Before leaving Kagome turned back to face him.
"She really was cute."
And she left, the door shutting with a soft click. Sesshomaru stared after her, not knowing at all what that just meant.
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Kagome looked around herself, the dark surrounding her every being. "He really has grown cold, hasn't he," a voice echoed throughout the dark. It was mellow, soft and caring, but with a hint of sadness held within it. Kagome blinked, stopping in her tracks, feeling useless wondering in the dark like she was.
"Who are you?" She called out, hoping whoever was talking would answer her. Though she shouldn't trust the voice, her mind was telling her that she didn't want to be alone. Kagome shivered, sitting down on what felt like ground, but was unsure.
"Are you cold?" The voice asked again.
Kagome shook her head, not wanting to be the target of worry.
"Perhaps, being cold is better than being hot," the voice said softly, an image of a woman taking shape in front of her. Kagome blinked, feeling too tired and lost to care.
"Are you afraid?"
"Sort of," Kagome whispered, "I don't know where I am, wandering in darkness is just…scary you know." The woman sat down beside her, breathing softly in relief.
"It feels better when you have your baby with you," the woman whispered, "but I can't find her, I can't find my baby." Kagome looked sadly upon her, watching the woman glance around herself in hopes the baby would suddenly turn up.
"I can't find my baby either," Kagome said, hoping to ease the woman beside her. It was then that she noticed this woman was burning hot.
"Do you have a fever?" Kagome said, worry lacing her voice. She reached out and touched the woman, pulling back immediately with a gasp of pain. The woman was on fire, not literally, but she felt like it.
"Sometimes," the woman said again, turning towards Kagome, "it is better to be hot than cold."
Kagome was engulfed in flames.
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Kagome shot up in bed, clutching at her chest, the burning sensation still there. She nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard Sakuya's wails of hunger and attention seeking. The woman shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts, but getting up and going to aid her son.
When she reached the room, Sakuya lay in his everyday carrier, like he had been earlier that day. "What the?"
Kagome raked through her memories, trying to remember what had happened earlier in that day. Surely she had put Sakuya back in his crib sometime during the day. Whatever she though, picking up the child again.
Her blood froze when a bitter voice rang out.
"Sometimes it is better to be cold than hot."
Everything went black.
---TBC---
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