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Kaname P.o.v.

He was not amused. No. Not. At. All. The long talk he had with Kagome had left a bitter taste. But now he knew more of the girl he'd briefly met five hundred years ago. A time in which he had not concerned himself with the world of man or demon. Keeping to his own in the dark. A time when he and the others were more violent, though not less cultured than they were now.

It disturbed him, the wounds she hide so well. Her little adventure for a powerful jewel neither he nor others of his kind did not need was legendary. The Council of Elders would try to force her into a marriage if they knew who she was, even if she was a threat to them. That Jewel was Kagome herself. Because of that half breed, Naraku still had a portion of it. And his uncle Rido would want to make that deal to get the power to rid himself of many and make Vampires the dominant race since all other demons lived in the Makai proper on the other side of the barrier. Safely, happily under Kagome's keeper, guardian, and Lord.

Sighing aloud at that thought, Kaname felt the gaze of several of the Night Class Students. Takuma was next to him, so he just shook his head as he stood. Book in hand, Kaname walked to the stairs. Pausing briefly to tell the others he was retiring when a soft, familiar knock resounded on the doors of the dorm.

"Kagome?" he asked via their link, only to receive agitated silence.

When Senri opened the door, revealing not only Kagome but Yuuki, Kaname moved swiftly to stand before both girls. Senri wisely moved back. Yuuki's brown eyes worried as she fidgeted before him. Kagome was glassy-eyed, and her face was vacant. Her lips the only real color in her face as she stood there. Unseeing.

"Kaname-san, Kagome..." Yuuki said her voice nothing more than a whisper.

Quickly he motioned for Yuuki to take the raven-haired girl to the couch. Already he could sense the air becoming charged. The others were curious and tense. Every one of them aware of what Kagome was and that Yuuki was not.

"Yuuki, explain what happened," Kaname asked of the short girl.

Yuuki looked up at him and spoke, stumbling over her words, telling him how Kagome had accompanied her and Zero on their routine evening patrol at the behest of the headmaster — encountering a few level E vampires. who had taken notice of them, before running instead of attacking. Only to have Zero chase after them. Just to have a large black shadow jump out at them, or rather, Kagome. Who just became catatonic after it touched her, vanishing. And then bringing her to the Night Class Dorm because it was closest.

Narrowing his eyes, Kaname quickly ordered Takuma to go with Yuuki and bring the Headmaster Cross. The moment the two were gone, Kaname pressed his fingers to Kagomes temples. Only to jerk them back and stare. There dripping from his fingertips was inky blackness. It smelled foul and had his flesh crawling.

Kagome P.o.v.

Something felt wrong all day. It had her on edge as her instincts flared to life. So, after dinner, Kagome was a little surprised by being summoned to Kaien's office. Where she, Yuuki, and Zero were informed that she would be joining them on their patrol. She'd been elated but knew he had sensed that something was off as well.

It had gone fine until the patrol took them past the night dormitory. That feeling suddenly amplified as Level E's appeared. When they saw her, they ran through. It was odd since they had little to no intelligence. Fear shouldn't have been a thing they recognized. They should have attacked them. It wasn't questioned as Zero to give chase. Leaving Yuuki to guard and defend her.

Shortly after, Kagome found herself smothering her Reiki as a shadow appeared. The demonic aura of it. The last thing she needed to do was kill it and alert everything in an 80-mile radius to her existence and having to wipe Yuuki's memories. She tried to get a barrier up to warn it away. But Yuuki had turned weapon drawn and ready to attack, which caused her to hesitate — allowing the disgusting thing to connect with her body.

Now she was trapped in her head, doing her best to keep the damn thing from causing her powers to flare and kill every damn member of the Night Class sans Kaname. Kagome adored Yuuki but taking her in her current state to a nest full of Vampires, a bad idea because that shadow was happy at where Yuuki had brought her. Unable to even talk mentally to Kaname, as she heard him send Yuuki with Takuma to get Kaien. Kagome felt a tear fall down her face after Kaname pulled his fingers away from her temples.

"You'll give me what I want," The shadow hissed in her mind. "Or I'll have you kill them all."

The feel of it trying to access her memories, Kagome already knew what it wanted. Knew, who had sent it to attack her. It was so predictable that that bastard would do this kind of underhanded tactics. He'd never be happy until he possessed all of the Jewel. But he couldn't. Not ever. After that last battle, Kagome had fused the Jewel back into her body. Three-fourths of an artifact that was sentient became a part of her actual soul — making her immortal. And it took a lot of training to control the damn thing.

As the icy cold of the shadow pierced her surface memories, causing her body to shudder visibly. Kagome used it to her advantage as more tears fell down her face. Slowly moving her lips, she formed the words to tell Kaname to get into her pocket, right over her right breast. Knowing he'd do as asked. She knew he'd know what to do with the small slips of paper she had there. Having had explained it to him very carefully in case of an emergency like this... Though... she was sure hadn't expected it to be so soon.

Sighing as the last one was in place, hearing Kaname tell everybody to get away from her. The last piece being affixed to her chest over her heart. Kagome allowed the inner barrier to go down. Her powers would be contained and not felt too much, outside the fuda circle. She was letting a feral grin curl her lips as the shadow took her dropping her mental barrier as a victory. Kagome saw the looks briefly on everyone's face before her vision was a wash of lilac and silver. Both power and soul were exploding out of her body violently.

"No... What are you..."The shadow screeched as she obliterated it.

"Letting your master know it won't be that easy," she laughed at it. She was feeling Kaname there as she did so.

Once her vision returned to normal. Her power and soul back and sealed in her body, Kagome knew she smelled of burnt paper. Catching Kaname's gaze, Kagome smiled as she passed out from the sheer exertion of all of it. She was letting gravity pull her body forward and off the couch. Hoping somebody, anybody would catch her before she hit the floor.

? P.o.v.

I was in shock, plain and simple. It'd been two weeks since the Elder Ichijo had visited. And it was glaringly apparent after Kaname had spent some time speaking to the girl in his privacy of his room, that he had been bothered by whatever she'd told him as often as he'd sigh aloud. A thing that was outside Kaname's normal, reserved, and stoic self.

But the sight of not just Yuuki, but an unresponsive Kagome was unsettling. And after hearing Yuuki's story, I couldn't help feeling there was something that was missing. Because it made no sense for whatever the shadow was to attack the girl who was not an obvious threat. That thought ran through my head as I watched Kaname jerk his hands from Kagome's face, covered in what looked like black ink. The foul smell that came from it had my stomach-churning.

Though I couldn't help tensing my body as he reached into the pocket over her right breast. He was forcing me to bite back a growl. Only to feel curious by the piece of paper he pulled out. I was tracking him as he placed each piece on a surface until they formed a perfect circle. The last piece was stuck over the girl's heart.

The moment he instructed them all to move back, I did so. Watching as Kagome's body seemed to explode outwards in a swirl of lilac and silver. It was both breathtakingly beautiful and utterly horrifying to my senses as it rolled and crashed against an invisible barrier provided by the slips of paper. But it was the dark, feral smile I had seen before that light-filled that space, that had me fighting internally. It had made the girl in that second truly ethereal and enticing.

My shock was blown away as a shrill, pained, inhuman scream resounded from inside the barrier as the light receded. The paper smoldering to nothing leaving as a smokey smell in the air as Kagome became visible again. Sweat had beaded on her pale flesh as she smiled a gentle smile at our leader. She was causing me to bite back another urge to growl, as she passed out, body falling forward. I wanted to move and catch her, but a tug stopped my body on my sleeve. I was looking over to see who stopped me, to see Ruka. Her eyes were wide and fearful. It had me feeling at war with myself as I turned to see Hanabusa holding Kagome to him.

The worry in his blue eyes as he looked up at Kaname. Saying she was ice cold, left a hollow feeling in my chest. Just as the doors to the dorm burst open, revealing the Headmaster, Takuma, Yuuki, and a very angry Zero, who had his gaze focused solely on Kagome. Letting me know it'd be a very long night as I grabbed Ruka's hand, squeezing it to comfort her.

TBC!