Ch. 9

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Votes:

Poison: 3

Stab in sleep: 7

Push down stairs: 6

Purify in sleep: 4

Thank you guys for all of your help. I'll take a few of the hints some of you gave me. I decided to do a combination of the top three...

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'TALK' Demon Kagome

'Normal' Normal Kagome

"Talk" Regular

'Thinking' Everyone

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Sango sat up in bed. She looked down at the sleeping girl by her side. She could tell through the past week they have been working together that her feeling for her were growing. She smiled at the thought, because now she knew for a fact that at least she had feeling for her also. Well subconsciously at least. She carefully untangled herself from Kagome, and walked to the dresser. She was just getting her clothing out when she heard Kagome whimper. She quickly set her clothing down, and went to her side.

"Wake up Kagome. I'm taking you outside to play today." she said. She gently started to shake her shoulders. "As soon as we take a bath we get to pick some flowers for Mom. She wanted you to pick something nice for the dining room." When Kagome wouldn't wake up she decided to fake cry. That always got her what she wanted from her. She only did it when Kagome wouldn't get out of the tub, or wouldn't wake up.

Kagome smelled her tears and sat up quickly. She made a whining noise in the back of her throat, and climbed into her lap. She placed her hands on her shoulders, and carefully started to lick the tears away. "No crying...pl..pleee...please Sango?" she asked her.

Sango quickly sniffed and stopped her facade. "Ok...but only because you asked." she said. She leaned down, and gave her forehead a kiss. She could see a very faint blush on her cheeks, and a confused look in her eyes. She pulled her closer. "Come on...lets get you in a bath, and then we're going to the gardens." she said. She went back to the closet, and grabbed Kagome a pair of shorts and a loose shirt. She grabbed her clothes, and started to the bathroom.

Kagome got up quickly and started to follow her. She carefully took off her clothing, and sat back to wait for Sango. She could hear her demon side in her head. It wasn't anything like the other two. It could talk perfectly, and seemed to be only after what it wanted. It also was very overprotective over what it thought it was hers. She was arguing with it right now.

'I think you should take her right now. At least let her know how you feel completely. She would be the perfect mate.' it said in a harsh voice

'No...she fr...friend. Me no hurt Sango. She take care of me. Me love her...but..no mess up...friend thing.' she said all in her head. She continued to silently wait for Sango, but her eyes couldn't stay off of her body.

A growling noise went off in her head. 'Why not? You know that one of these days I'll come out again. I won't hurt her what so ever. She's perfect for you girl. Kind, loving, and oh so warm. Her chest is the most comfortable spot. But I won't argue over it anymore if it will make you feel better. But I will come out if someone tries to harm her. Deal?' he said to her.

Kagome thought about, and nodded a bit.' Deal.' and that was the end of the conversation. She got up, and got into the tub. She had watched Sango the whole time, but wasn't really looking. She shook away her thoughts, and sat down in Sango's lap. She watched as a red color started to come across her cheeks.

Sango shook her head to get the bad thoughts out. 'Don't think of her that way. But...maybe she'll feel that way...or maybe not. I'll tell her tonight if I don't forget.' she told herself. She grabbed the shampoo, and started the bath. (Not going into details. They aren't that important.)

While they were getting dressed Sango looked over and noticed that she was having trouble with the shorts. She had never worn them before. She had them on right, but the button wasn't the one where it would flick into place. Sango sighed, and reached over to button them. A faint blush came to her own face, but she tried to keep the thoughts out of her head. She leaned back up when she had it.

"There, now come on." she said grabbing her hand. She dragged her out the door, and down the stairs. She glanced back, and noticed Kagome just staring at all of the paintings on the walls. She drug her out a pair of big oak doors that led to the back of the house. She let her eyes adjust to the sun, and smiled closing her eyes. She heard Kagome gasp behind her.

The 'backyard' was a gigantic field. Flowers were arranged in a sort of garden, but after 30 feet of it, it let off into field. Far behind it was a forest. Their estate was on the edge of town, and next to the forest. The family always loved the nature, and that was one reason why they chose this place.

Kagome just stared at all the flowers, and butterflies that came from everywhere. The smells were starting to overwhelm her senses, but she didn't move. She looked at Sango to see if it was Ok to go out there.

Sango looked back, and noticed that she was staring at her. She smiled at the unasked question, and pulled her happily into it. They ran around for a little bit before heading back towards the house to pick some flowers. Kagome walked around finding only the ones she thought were the best looking, and most colorful. Sango just sat by a tree and watched her with a smile on her face. When she heard Kagome yelp she got up and went over to her. Kagome had squeezed a rose stem too hard, and it had poked her hard enough to cut though the skin. She was just staring at the rose she dropped. Sango shook her head, and grabbed her hand. She dug in her pocket for a rag or something. She found one of the handkerchiefs her mom made her carry. She ripped it in half, and held onto it. She put Kagome's offended finger into her mouth to lick off the blood, and quickly wrapped it in the cloth. They didn't notice the pair of eyes watching them from a window.

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A figure glared at them and continued on her way. She had watched them from since they had gotten outside. 'Ugh...it disgusts me how that half-demon actually lives here, and that Lady Sango brought her in.' the figure said. It stepped into a beam of light to show the servant Kikyou. She had a grimace on her face from looking out the window. She had a plan scheming in her head about how to take care of both of them. "They won't know what hit them...tell they're dead." she said and started to laugh cruelly sending shivers down anyone's spine that was unfortunate to hear it.

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Kagome looked down at her bandaged finger and then at Sango. She flashed her smiled, and looked at the rose she dropped. She had only wanted it so she could give it to her. She reached down, and picked it up so it wouldn't cut her again. She took a claw and started to scrape off all of the thorns. She smiled at it when she was done, and handed it to Sango.

Sango looked at her when she saw the rose being held up to her. She took it from her hands, and placed it in her hair. She then looked at Kagome with a bright smile on her face, and pulled the younger girl into a tight hug. "Thank you Kagome. I love it." she said.

Kagome smiled, and hugged her back. "You...pretty Sango." she said. "What...what's ll...llooo...love?" she said. She pulled away and looked at her. She remembered talking about it, but never understood it at all.

Sango looked at her, and smiled. She knew she remembered the conversation, and her saying she loved the flower brought it back. It must have confused her. "Well...love is a lot of things. Like me saying I love this flower. It was special to me that you picked it out, and instead of liking it I thought of a better word. Like is ok...but Love is beyond that. Like a love between two people can make another stronger, and feel happy." she said. "Do you understand?" she said. She wasn't even sure if she understood what she said herself.

Kagome looked at her, and nodded. She kinda got the drift of it. "So...you love my pretty fl..flow..flower." she then remembered what she said about the love between two people, and her talk with her demon side. "Do...do you 'love' some..one." she asked her quietly.

'There you go kid. 'Bout time you asked her. Though I know you loved her from the moment you saved her in that alley.' it said snickering at her.

'Shut..up. Me could no...let her...die or...worse. But..fine...me like her then.' she said admitting to it. She could hear the demon side laughing at her, but it went away. She turned back to Sango to hear her answer.

Sango looked down blushing not noticing she was having a conversation at the moment. She spoke when she saw her paying attention. "Yeah...I do love someone, but I don't know if they like me back so..." she said her blush getting darker.

Kagome looked at her and smiled. "Ok..." was all she said. She was sure Sango would tell her when she felt like it. She bent back down, and started to pick up all of the flowers she had. When she looked back up she noticed that it was getting dark out. They were out there all day without noticing it.

Sango looked down at her and smiled as Kagome picked up all of the flowers. She had enough to decorate the halls and dining room. "Come on Kagome. We gotta go find some vases for those pretty flowers you picked." she said. She picked up some of them, and grabbed Kagome's hand with her other one. She dragged her lightly through the house, and found her mother in the kitchen. Sango showed her the flowers, and set them on the counter for her mom to prune later. She grabbed both her and Kagome a couple of snacks, and then went upstairs to bed. She was worn out for the day.

When they got to the room Sango went to the dresser, quickly stripped of all of her clothing, and put on the first pieces of clothing that came into her hand. It was a mall pair of shorts, and a small tank-top shirt. She threw Kagome her pajamas from the day before. She then laid down on the bed, and fell asleep. She had barely made it under the covers. Her upper body was still on the outside of it.

Kagome could only watch as Sango fell asleep. She gave a small whimper as she looked down at the clothing. She put the clothes on the bed, and pulled off the top half of her clothing. She exchanged it for her pajama top. Then she looked down fearfully at the button. She reached down trying to remember how Sango did it. After a few minutes she gave up. She looked at Sango and hoped she wouldn't be mad about what she was going to do. She took one of her claws, and cut the button off. When it hit the floor she pulled the rest of the shorts down. She put on her other pair of shorts, and climbed on the bed next to Sango. She carefully laid down on Sango's stomach, and curled her legs so she looked like she was in the fetal position.

An hour after they had fallen asleep a figure dressed in black came through the door. (Guess who.) It quietly walked towards the two laying on the bed. A flash of metal showed in the moonlight from the balcony. They had never noticed that Kagome's ears were twitching, and a low rumbling was heard throughout the room. It just raised the dagger in the air, and brought it down hard toward them to hit...nothing. Kagome had rolled both of them out of the way fast enough to dodge.

Kagome gently set Sango back down, and kept her hand over the now awake girl's mouth. She let out a low growl again as a warning to the person to leave. When they didn't the growl increase. She could feel her demon half starting to take over. She knew the attacker was a female, and for some reason the scent was sort of familiar.

Sango could only stare. She recognized they cold eyes of the attacker as belonging to Kikyou. She reached up, and pulled Kagome's hand down to show she got the message, but didn't let go of her hand.

Kikyou whirled around, and swiped at them again, but only succeeded in nicking a piece of Sango's arm. She pulled back with a sneer, and swiped again only to get stopped by a hand on the blade of the dagger. The point was only 5 inches from going into Sango's neck. She turned towards the other girl, and gasped in surprise. A bright blue light was shining around her. Silver sparks were coming off and she could hear a deep growling noise. When Kagome's head shot up she let go of the dagger, and started to back away in surprise.

Kagome's eyes were a bright silver, and had small flecks of blue in them. Her fangs were much longer and sharper than before, and her cheeks had two jagged blue stipes. Her claws became sharper and much more deadlier as the same blue stripes came to appear around her wrists. The most surprising thing was that a symbol appeared on her forehead. It seemed that she belonged to youkai royalty. It was the symbol of a small heart on top of a eight point star. The Northen Lands symbol. But what was the most surprising was, to Sango, is that she could talk perfectly.

"You dare to harm her, and me? I'm of higher rank than you. (Demon side knows she is the heir to the northern throne...just in case.) One as insignificant as you should never touch, or even dare to harm someone of higher rank. I would have let it go if it was me, but you tried to harm my Love. She is going to be my mate if I have anything to say about it." she gave a small pause as an evil smirk came to her face. "As for you...your going to die." she said. She slowly started to walk toward Kikyou. Her hand glowed as purifying energy gathered in her claws. She swiped at Kikyou cutting along her stomach. The marks started to purify her evil body.

Kikyou started to back up holding her stomach. She couldn't believe this half-demon was also a miko. Soon she was out of the door, but didn't stop. Kagome still had that smirk on her face as she followed her. She could see Sango was in a daze about what Kagome had said. She only stopped walking when her foot had reached the top of the stairs. She looked at Kagome in horror. That only made her smirk widen.

"Time to die...bitch." she gathered most of her miko energy into a ball. She threw it straight into Kikyou's chest knocking her down the stairs. If the blast didn't kill her, then the fall down the stairs would. What Kagome didn't know was that on her way down Kikyou was slowly disintegrating. When her body reached the bottom of the stairs all that was left was a pile of dust.

Kagome smiled and went back to the room. Her demon side hadn't gone away yet. She had to talk to Sango before she let Kagome take over again. She walked over to Sango and pulled her into a hug. She then picked her up, and set her on the bed right next to her. "Sango I have to tell you something that we have all decided." she said.

Sango looked at her and just stared. Inside she felt like she could explode with happiness. She looked at the demon side of Kagome, and couldn't stop staring. "What is it?" was all she could say. She could barely stop looking at the beautiful demoness before her.

Kagome just laughed, and looked her straight in the eye. "I needed to tell you that all three of us love you greatly. Yes I say three because of her human side. Even though it's even more pitiful that the half part." she mumbled under her breath. "You gotta take it slow with the girl. She is still trying to learn, and she will learn the best from you. She loves you and always will, but she needs to here the same from you." A smirk graced her lips. "No denying it either. I can smell it even though she has no clue what it is when she lands on your chest or something. You got her addicted to your smell." she said.

Sango blushed harder than ever. "Ok...I'll tell her as soon as she comes back. Thank you for saving me." she said. Kagome just smirked and closed her eyes. All fo her features disappeared like they were never there. The only proof was the healing cut on the palm of her hand that nobody had noticed before. Kagome fell forward into Sango's chest exhausted. "Kagome...wake up a bit. I want to tell you something and then we can sleep all we want." she said lifting her up a bit.

Kagome just murmured and sat up looking at her sleepily. She had never done anything like that before, but was able to watch what her demon side did though she had no control. She leaned against her wanting to just sleep.

Sango looked down at her. "Kagome I love you. I would love to be your mate, but we'll take it real slow so that you can understand and learn things as we go. Does that sound okay to you?" she asked Kagome just nodded her head. "Ok sleepy head. We'll talk more about it after we both get a good nights rest." she said. She leaned back against the pillows pulling Kagome up on top of her. She let her lay between her legs, and use her chest as a pillow. When she looked down the girl was already fast asleep. Sango just chuckled and gave her a good night's kiss on the lips. "Night my love." she whispered and fell asleep behind her.

For those who want to know what happened to Kikyou's dust? She got swept up by a maid that was on night shift, and thrown away to be never heard from again.