Disclaimer: I do now own Inuyasha or any other characters (except Katsurou).

Absorb

The group remained tense throughout the next day. The sun was close to setting and Katsurou was becoming anxious.

"Miko, remove the beads. This Sesshoumaru will handle it."

She sighed with defeat.

Kagome pulled her son into a fierce embrace.

"Katsurou, I'm going to take off the beads." Her hands went to his beads around his neck, but Katsurou backed away.

"No!"

Sesshoumaru watched curiously. The child preferred the beads?

"It's alright. Sesshoumaru-sama is here to help us."

Kagome slowly lifted the beads over his head with a small discharge of reiki. Sesshoumaru's eyes widened in shock; for just a split second, he could have sworn that small bit of reiki ran across the child's body and absorbed the miko's reiki.

"Miko, did you see that?"

Kagome looked back at Sesshoumaru.

"Huh? See what?"

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