A/N: Well, I thought about how to explain the situation of how Rin spontaneously got spiritual powers and came up with this huge thing on it that will pretty much sculpt the whole fan-fic. And my gosh, it took forever! I spent 3 days in school making sure that everything fit perfectly. This chapter is not as eventful as the other ones because it is mostly describing how Rin obtained spiritual powers, but I have added in a little something. wink wink

Previous: Rin positioned herself in front of the regular target and shot her arrow. It went off course and only grazed the side of the target. But instead of flopping harmlessly down onto the ground, the arrow glowed and completely disintegrated the target. And it didn't even stop there; the arrow went on and penetrated right through the barrier enveloping the castle. Kagome stared in shock at Rin.

But she was not able to say anything because in an instant, Sesshomaru was on top of her.

"Wench…" Sesshomaru's face was completely emotionless and his voice gave away nothing. But Kagome could tell that he was definitely angry.

Growling, Sesshomaru forced Kagome to the ground, saying 'utsu' at the same time. Kagome went headfirst to the ground and turned up to see Sesshomaru on top of her. Right now would be a very good time for Inuyasha to make one of his miraculous rescues popping out of no where, but he didn't come. Kagome found herself beginning to give into fear.

Sesshomaru smirked as he smelt the miko's fear rising. She has incurred her own punishment upon herself.

"Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin shouted out at Sesshomaru, about to tell him that it had been she who had accidentally broken the barrier.

"Rin, silence."

"But Sesshomaru-sama!"

"Quiet!" Sesshomaru's voice wavered dangerously and Rin fell quiet.

Sesshomaru returned his attention to the frightened miko beneath him. He placed his claws around her neck and pressed.

"Sess—" Kagome was not able to finish the rest of the sentence because she found herself cut off from air. She struggled against Sesshomaru's strong grip, but was held down.

Sesshomaru inserted the tip of his claw into Kagome's neck and pressed down harder. Kagome found herself completely paralyzed. Then she felt her energy slowly slipping away from her. It felt like she was sinking in quicksand, darkness was starting to engulf her mind. Rin was shouting behind her, but she did not notice. She felt Sesshomaru put more pressure on her and gripped at his hand. Kagome made a final attempt to ward off the powerful youkai, but found that she could hold on no longer. She blacked out to everything around her and gave into the comforting darkness.

"oww…I feel like someone stuck me with a pin in my neck…" Kagome rubbed her sore neck and slowly propped herself up. She was in her housing room, sitting comfortably in her four poster bed. Her vision slowly retained its clarity and she could see clearly again. The first thing she noticed was that she was in her night gown. The second thing that she noticed was Sesshomaru, standing in front of her bed. He wore a smirk on his face that really annoyed Kagome.

"What happened? I don't remember getting in bed…"

"Baka"

"Hey! Don't call me that!" Kagome slowly started remembering what had happened. Sesshomaru had done something to her to make her pass out…

"You jerk! What did you do to me!"

"Nothing, I simply used a portion of your power to infuse the barrier. You will not be able to break it now."

Kagome stared at the youkai. "It wasn't me who broke it! Rin did it by accident! Why didn't you tell me she had spiritual powers?"

Because I didn't know. But of course Sesshomaru did not voice this out loud. He simply sneered. "That is none of you concern. At least not of yet."

"What do you mean?" Kagome made a motion to get up.

"Do not try and get up. You are still drained of your powers and too weak to support yourself."

Too weak my butt! Kagome determinedly got up and made her way to Sesshomaru. At first she felt nothing, but then she started to feel slightly woozy. She leaned against the bed post for support.

"Sit back down."

"No!"

"Utsu!"

This made Kagome 'sit.' Well really more like 'hit' but whatever suits the situation.

"Stop it!" Kagome now knew the true annoyance of the stupid rosary. She knew that the imitation wasn't even half as powerful as the real one, but it still hurt a lot.

"Sit back down wench." His voice was calm and masked, as was his features. Sesshomaru gave no notice of his annoyance at the disobedient miko.

"No!"

"You will obey my word."

"Make me!" Kagome spoke these words without thinking, and considered in a second that it might have been a little too much.

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes dangerously. How dare this insignificant wench challenge him! "Damare"

This silenced Kagome. She had never heard Sesshomaru tell anyone to shut up. But she was not about to let this jerk control her. She moved forward quickly, before she could think against it. Kagome walked towards Sesshomaru, determined to give his a taste of her anger without words, when she started to feel dizzy and sickly. Kagome sped up towards him and felt her legs give way beneath her. The spell must have really drained a lot of energy from her.

That idiot. But before Sesshomaru could think of anything else, Kagome fell forward. He watched her fall towards the ground. Then without really thinking, or having a real impulse, Sesshomaru moved forward and caught Kagome.

What is he doing?

What am I doing?

Sesshomaru felt Kagome's warm body fall into his chest and heaved a sigh. He really didn't know why he caught her; it was probably just a freak reaction. Maybe he was simply saving Rin too often. But, for the first time, Sesshomaru noticed Kagome's beauty and began to understand why his brother was so infatuated with the miko. Of course, Sesshomaru felt nothing towards the girl; he had no place with humans, even if she was a miko.

At the same time, Kagome felt what it was like to be in the youkai's strong arms. She fell right into his chest almost as if she had aimed there from the start. She felt butterflies rise in her stomach, mostly out of nervousness. The youkai was strong, and handsome; she would give him that much. Wait, what am I saying? There is no way that I like Sesshomaru! But Kagome could not fight off the thought; yes Sesshomaru was indeed strong, and she began to feel a little safer with him. What am I doing? Just because he caught me doesn't mean that I should trust him! Snap out of it Kagome!

Sesshomaru stood still for a moment, and then caught himself. What was he doing holding Kagome like this? She was still a stupid miko and did not deserve to have his protection. He quickly thrust her onto the bed and gave her a cold stare.

What? If he was just gonna throw me down in the first place then why did he catch me! Kagome looked up at Sesshomaru and gave him one of her famous 'stubborn' stares.

Sesshomaru looked at Kagome's deep dark eyes and smiled. The girl had spirit and was just what he needed to make Rin an honorable woman.

"Rest for now until your body has recovered. The incident outside will not occur again, on your part or mine." And with that said, Sesshomaru walked out the room, shutting the door after him.

"I guess that was 'sorry' in Sesshomaru language?" Kagome stared at the door where the youkai had just departed. What had she just felt when he caught her? It was probably just nervousness. Yes, that was it, nervousness about what Sesshomaru would do to her for talking back. Even though Kagome said this, she knew that is was something much more. But she pushed it out of her mind, well technically to the back of her mind because she simply could not forget about the incident, and lay down in her bed to rest.

Why did I catch Kagome? The question rang in the youkai's head as he walked down the hall. He had felt nothing towards her and still felt nothing. It was probably just because Kagome resembled Rin…Rin…yes there was that matter as well. How could Rin have all of a sudden obtained spiritual powers? This Sesshomaru would have noticed it if Rin was a miko. He had not, and therefore, Rin had just gotten her miko abilities without him realizing it. Was it possible to obtain a new spirit without true rebirth? Sesshomaru found himself making his way to the library, there had to be scrolls on rebirth in there. His very father had written them, they had been in his castle, but Sesshomaru found use of them by moving some of the scrolls into his castle.

He entered the room; it had a scroll as a doorway that was hinged on with string. The inside was a red, with various pictures of Sesshomaru's father on the walls. One by the bookcase depicted his father in his true form, a large dog demon, looking exactly like Sesshomaru. It was growling fiercely, and had a significant beauty to it, despite his appearance

Sesshomaru disregarded the pictures and walked over to the bookcase. He lit a candle to illuminate the room with a florescent light. Carefully walking the three rows of book cases, Sesshomaru looked at the scrolls. There were numerous scrolls on fighting techniques and enchantments, but apparently not much about rebirth compared to the quantity of everything else. Sesshomaru gave everything an extra careful look and began taking out all the scrolls that had anything to do with rebirth. He ended up with 32 scrolls and began shifting through them, this would take all night.

"Inuyasha wait up! What is with this renewed hurry! I thought that we agreed to take things one step at a time!" Miroku's voice rang out in the mountains for the ten millionth time. This was really getting old.

"Get off my back!" Inuyasha jumped from rock to rock, determined not give into the weariness that threatened to bring him down. I smelled Kagome, I just know it! It was faint, but I got her scent carried in the wind.

The reason why Inuyasha had picked up Kagome's scent was because Rin had momentarily dispatched the barrier. Now he could not catch a single whiff of Kagome because Sesshomaru had restored the barrier and it was really frustrating him.

"Forget it Miroku, Inuyasha isn't going to give up. And I think I smelled Kagome a while ago. It was in the morning of course and it the sun is just setting so I think that Inuyasha is frantic to get to Kagome before he gets too far away from her."

"Do you really think so Shippo?"

"Yea, I'm pretty sure." The young fox demon ran along side Kirara, he was now too big to ride on anyone's shoulder and fast enough to keep up with Kirara. Shippo was actually faster than the feline, but still fell short compared to Inuyasha.

Kagome, now I have a trace of you. Please be alright. I promise that I will come for you soon and rescue you from my dirty brother. Just don't' loose faith!

Tweet tweet chirp chirp chirp

Stupid birds. Kagome groaned and put her pillow over her head. Who knew that birds could be such a nuisance! Grumble growl

"Huh? Oh that was my stomach…I must have slept through dinner last night…" Kagome got up and dressed, she was feeling a lot less dizzy and sick than yesterday. She wore a silk kimono that was a yellowish-orange color. It looked plain and casual, she liked it. Kagome tied the ribbon on the back to keep the kimono from dragging on the ground. Brushing her hair, Kagome walked out of her room almost colliding right into Jaken.

"Ignorant human!" The green toad minion waved his staff around angrily.

"Opps…sorry about that."

The green toad disregarded the apology and started forward. Kagome followed, hoping that he was leading her to breakfast.

"Here, you are to eat here." Jaken motioned to the same place that she had eaten the other day. She sat down and picked some bread for her plate.

"Kagome-sama! Rin is glad that you have finally arrived!" The young girl came racing up to Kagome.

"Good morning Rin-chan." Kagome nodded at the girl and took a bite out of her bread.

"Kagome-sama?"

"Yes"

"What happened yesterday? Rin is sorry that Rin broke the barrier, Rin will not do it again…"

"That's okay Rin-chan, you didn't know."

The girl paused for a second, then went on with her question. "Kagome-sama, what happened after Sesshomaru-sama took you inside?"

"Huh? Wait, you mean that you weren't with him?"

"No…"

Ahhhhhh! I was in my night gown when I woke up! How did Sesshomaru get it on me without taking my clothes off! He is going to pay!

"Kagome-sama, is something wrong?"

"Huh… oh Rin-chan, do you know if Sesshomaru undressed me to get me in bed yesterday?"

Rin looked slightly shocked by the question. "No, Rin is sure that Sesshomaru-sama would never do something so disgraceful!"

"Mm…"

"Kagome-sama?"

"Yes Rin-chan"

"Are you still going to teach Rin archery? Rin wants to learn more about spiritual powers…"

Kagome looked down at the child. She had a strong spirit and did not give into things easily. "Yes, I will keep on teaching you Rin-chan. How about I teach you about a miko's abilities after I finish eating?"

"Yes, Rin would like that very much!"

Wow, I'm actually doing this! I'm really teaching someone and earning their respect! For the first time in a while, Kagome felt herself swell with pride.

The process of rebirth involves the soul of one transporting through another dimension where…

No that wasn't it…Sesshomaru had been at the scrolls for a whole night and found nothing. There were 4 more scrolls that lay before him; he would go through them before leaving…

When one goes through rebirth, the previous life is forgotten and…

No that wasn't right either, Rin still had her memories.

When one is reborn into another spirit without transferring souls, numerous powers can be obtained with a number of steps…

This looked interesting. It had something to do with what Sesshomaru was looking for, but he would need to find out how the spirit transferring was done…

The next scroll looked different, it had a different color variation to it. Sesshomaru opened it up to find the scroll titled—

Rebirth And Manipulation of a seshin

In the process of rebirth and manipulation through two spirits, neither is harmed and both obtain new powers. In this process, the spirit of a miko is doubled and transferred to the spirit of one with a manipulated soul. The one with a manipulated spirit losses their original spirit and obtains the double part of a miko's spirit. Then the spirit of the miko is manipulated. The manipulated part of the spirit can only be provoked in a dire situation, or when their blood is tampered with. The more the one with the manipulated spirit transforms, the more they will be able to control the transformation. The manipulation, in most cases does not harm the original miko, but only enhances special ability upon them. The whole process happens when the one of a manipulated spirit and a miko make contact. It is impossible to reverse and a rare situation that should be treated with care. However, if a certain process is repeated over and over again the………………………………….

The rest of the scroll was washed out in a red substance. It looked like blood, but Sesshomaru couldn't really be sure. The scent was too old to pick up. He stared at the scroll, this meant that Kagome now had a manipulated soul and Rin was a miko. A manipulated soul…what did it mean? However, Sesshomaru wassurewith one thing, he would have to clear this with the two mikos, neither of them would be the same after the incident. He did not know what would happen to Kagome, although it really wasn't his concern, since she was his brother's woman. He was simply worried about Rin and how this might affect her.

"Jaken…"

The green toad minion popped up out of nowhere and answered. "Yes M'lord."

"Summon Kagome and Rin at once."

"Yes M'lord."

A/N: There's the 7th chapter! It took so long to write! I just could not end it because the only way I could continue it on was to end it with Sesshomaru summoning Kagome and in order to do that, I had to bring the story on to the next day because it was already too late in the day for Kagome and Rin to listen to some long story about soul manipulation. Sigh.. well, I hope that you enjoyed it! Please review!

Reviewer responses:

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