Disclaimer: As I've said before, I don't not own this series, and I'm obviously not claiming to own it.

Guess who's going to be narrating half this chapter? Sesshomaru! I thought my stopping place on chapter five was good for a POV switch. This is not where we left off, it is starting at the beginning, but with Sesshomaru's POV.

By the way, I can be bad at being evil, It may come out sounding stupid and so typically villian-ish, but I am bad at being a villan...ugh...How do you spell that word? Is it villan? Villian? Or villain?

Okay, I have another riddle!:D

What is a full word that only has one letter, it begins with the letter E and ends with the letter E?

Answer at the end of the chapter

I did not expect to get attacked so very soon.

It was some ogre that attacked me, I wasn't expecting it and it managed draw blood by only clawing it's hand and scratching my arm, I did not understand why exactly it wanted to attack me, I didn't provoke it or anything, it just did. Though before it could try to throw another attack, something black that gave off a poisonous scent had struck the creature, then just burned it.

I looked up to just see a man, I didn't know when he had came here, he seemed to come right on cue, which made me slightly suspicious. The man was wearing this black kimono with a blue vest, he had black hair that was just so frizzy, and blood red eyes.

I did not know who he was, or if he had come to attack like the ogre had, so I ended up going into a defensive battle stance.

The man chuckled, then simply smiled. The smile seemed real, the person was either a good actor or not faking it at all.

"I have not come to fight"

I understood him, I hadn't really expected to, but I did.

"You do not need to be so defensive"

I found myself lowering my stance a little, but I was still remaining defensive.

The man took a step towards me, though I narrowed my eyes and remained in my stance.

"You do not have to be afraid" He said reassuringly "I will not harm you"

I have no idea what compelled me to trust him, but I found myself completely dropping my defense stance and I stared at him.

"What do you want?" I demanded in the only language I knew how to speak.

The man stared at me for some moments, then smirked widely "Why, I only want to help you heal that wound" he motioned to my arm "Even a powerful being like you could get an infection, and that would not be very nice, would it now?"

I widened my eyes. Not only did he understand me, but he seemed like he knew what I was.

"That's right" He continued, looking as if he was taking note of my expression "I understand you, and I know exactly what you are...And if I had wanted you to be destroyed, wouldn't you think I would have tried already? You are the superior being, and don't you believe that you are more powerful than I am, if something happens with me attacking you, wouldn't you know that you would win?"

I frowned and eyed him suspiciously. His aura seemed very powerful, but I was able to tell that I was still stronger. Maybe he really did only want to help. I couldn't be paranoid over everything. Maybe he was someone in this realm who knew about my task, maybe he could help...

"Alright then..." I said slowly.

"Come follow me. My castle is nearby. I will send a healer to clean your wound."

My wound would heal on its own, I knew that, but I still wanted to speak to this person, so I kept silent.

We had finally arrived at a large forest clearing. The trees were bare of leaves, but the white covering of snow topped them all, as well as the ground.

'There's nothing here' I thought 'But he said his castle was nearby...' I sensed magic around, strongly.

The man walked forward and stretched out his hand as if to touch something. When he did, the air at the tips of his fingers rippled in like a mirage or an illusion. I looked curious at that.

'A barrier...' I figured.

The man stepped inside the barrier and motioned for me to follow. When I passed, a dark castle was visible in front of us. It felt evil, every part of it. I felt like I should just leave, but my curiosity ended up moving my feet for me toward the castle, following the odd man.

"You have just entered this realm, haven't you?" He asked.

"What of it?"

He just chuckled "I already know, I was only trying to start up a conversation."

I felt myself frown for another time that day.

We entered the castle. It seemed oddly vacant, there weren't many people around. Once, I had seen a woman who had her hair tied in a bun and had red eyes the same color as the man who was leading me around. She didn't say anything though.

The whole castle was dark, with some candles here and there. The place really did look frightening, but I refused to let it show.

"Do you wish for something to eat?"

After those words, I can't seem to remember anything starting from that moment. The memory felt fuzzy, my head hurt, I felt seriously ill and dizzy.

I found myself laying on a futon in a dark room. My wounded arm was bandaged, but I guessed if I only removed the cloth binding the wound, it would be healed, as it always usually was.

'What happened?' I also wanted to know who that man was, why I felt awfully sick, and why I felt so very exhausted.

"Sesshomaru-sama!" Called a voice.

The voice was familiar, it took awhile to finally recall it, many names seemed to blur in my head which caused it to hurt so much more, everything seemed to have three versions. I closed my eyes, then reopened them.

"Sesshomaru-sama!"

"...M-Myouga?" I asked softly.

His image seemed blurry, but I was able to see a tiny creature with chubby and tiny wings bouncing up and down, waving his arms energitically, trying to get my attention.

"Sesshomaru-sama, do you have any idea what is happening?" He asked quickly, taking a high jump and floating on my shoulder.

"That's what I want to know" I replied, though my voice sounded distant and I felt like vomiting.

"Don't you remember? Do you even know that man's name? Do you even remember what you told him?" He sounded so frantic. To be honest, it scared me, though I refused to let it show and remained calm.

"No, I can't seem to recall that, though I feel so ill..."

"Oh no..." Myouga placed his head in his hands "This is terrible. He must've drugged you or gave you too much sake, or maybe both. This man is only out for power! You are a powerful being, he has the power to absorb power, and he has completely absorbed other celestial beings! He's looking for the Shikon no Tama, and with what you told him while you were drunk, you gave him plenty of information and clues! And now you cannot just go fight him!"

"Why not?" I demanded.

"Because he has already absorbed most of your power, most likely! Now he is much stronger than you, since he had stolen your power!"

That was probably one of the worst things I could hear. I hated the feeling of helplessness and feeling weak, but it was too late, and now I had the awful feeling of feeling stupid.

"You must leave as soon as possible, but please remember to never use our language unless you are given instructions to, it's too dangerous."

"Then how will I even be able to communicate?"

Myouga quickly pulled a little quill out of his pocket "Well, you can write..." he began drawing these three pictures on the floor, then when he was done, he looked up "See? That is how you write your name. It says 'Sesshomaru', though I don't believe we have time to learn anything else. Perhaps the kami will grant you the ability to use the mortal's tongue after you've associated with the mortals a little more, but for now, maybe you aren't supposed to communicate...In any case, you know the spell to hide your wings, get out of here as soon as possible, and use it"

"Oh, that will not be necessary" Cooed a voice from behind us.

I suddenly heard a cry of pain, and I widened my eyes when I recognized my own voice hosting it, I was the one who was making the sound.

"Sesshomaru-sama!" Myouga yelled, but for what...?

That's when I felt something warm, sticky, and wet run down my back. Blood...And I then realized what happened. The power-lusting bastard from earlier had just sliced off my wings!

(AN/: I am ending the narrating thing, and I'm going to do third person now or else I'd have end the chapter here)

The man (AN/: Naraku obviously, I know it, you know it, we know it, but they don't know it, so shhh) simply watched the two now dead wings fall to the floor, then smirked over at Sesshomaru.

"Well now," Naraku began, sounding so sickeningly amused as he held up his bloody claws which he had just used "It seems that you will be even weaker than before. Though, you still have much power in you, and it will be all mine..."

"Sesshomaru-sama, you need to find a way out!" Myouga shouted out the obvious, starting to hide behind the futon bed.

Sesshomaru inhaled a shaky breath, trying to find strength to stand. It hurt, it was so very painful. In fact, he was lucky to be alive. Though, at least his wings were sliced off, not plucked off which was the main reason he was alive, but it hurt so much worse than it would have even if his arm were cut off.

Naraku suddenly darted his eyes to Myouga and glared fiercely. The little creature gulped and was suddenly gone in a poof of white.

Sesshomaru was in too much pain to care that Myouga had left. The coward had only been useful for the first five minutes anyway.

Naraku had came forward and just punched Sesshomaru in the gut, which made him only grunt this time and shut his eyes, forcing himself to block out the pain even though it was extremely difficult.

Sesshomaru felt the stinging pain of being scratched in the arm, in both arms and felt himself fall to the ground, though before he could get up again, Naraku had grabbed him up by the neck and slammed him up against the nearest stone wall. Even though that hurt terribly, Sesshomaru bit his tongue to keep from making any noise, and made his face look totally emotionless, not saying a word, though he just stared at Naraku expressionlessly.

Naraku chuckled "No sign of fear, huh?" his reply was just emotionless and unfocused golden eyes eyeing him oddly when he started moving closer.

Sesshomaru's eyes went from the expression-lacking state to totally wide the moment Naraku placed his disgusting lips over Sesshomaru's own. This was not only wrong, it was disgusting, despicable, and it made Sesshomaru just want to vomit and vomit again, it was simply gross!

Sesshomaru grabbed onto any bit of power he could find within himself. A green poison came out of his nails and struck Naraku in the stomach, successfully pushing the disgusting psycho creep away.

It was odd, but the moment that happened, everything seemed to flash by like a dream. And suddenly, Sesshomaru was no longer in the castle, but rather outside in a forest. The fresh air smelled like heaven compared to the castle's foul stench. The dark castle was no where in sight.

It was morning, the sun had yet to rise. He felt a trickle of blood come out of his bottom lip, Naraku had probably bit him there, it really was disgusting, though he didn't vomit. Instead, his knees felt weak and he collapsed face-first in the cold snow. Though he hadn't expected to dream, but the dream became a nightmare with memories of the earlier painful moments in Naraku's castle.

(AN/: Alright, just a quick authors note for the middle of this chapter. That really gross kiss wasn't my idea. My friend Eri has recently been into yuri and yaoi, and when I started this fanfic and came to this part, I was stuck on it, and she gave me the idea to make this oddly one-sided yaoi-ish scene. She didn't write it since she doesn't do it right, only reads. I wrote it, but I really didn't want to so it didn't have much detail, thank goodness. I myself thought it was gross, considering I'm not into yaoi at all. Oh yeah, and I made Myouga disappear because I couldn't think of anything else to do with him, and this chapter may seem like things are passing by quickly, I don't have much time. Ohh, and one more thing, Sesshomaru does not know Naraku's name or who he is, I just wrote Naraku so many times cause it beats typing up 'the man' over and over again, then things get confusing...so yeah...I'll shut up for now)

Sesshomaru heard a song being song by a rather beautiful voice and felt like he was being carried somewhere. His eyes cracked open and he only found his chin resting on a shoulder. There was black hair in his vision, though that was all he saw and he closed his eyes again and fell asleep.

More nightmares came, though he felt the warmth of someone's hand holding his through it all, so it wasn't that frightening at all.

When he woke up again, he found himself laying on a futon bed, looking at a white roof.

"Oh, you're awake!" A voice exclaimed.

Sesshomaru's eyes darted over to the sound of the voice and saw a girl about seventeen smiling brightly at him. He was feeling much better than before, quite rested, yet he did not feel as strong as he normally did. Probably because of the psycho man from earlier. He really had lost much of his power. To be honest, he was really hoping that this had all been a big nightmare.

Seeing the girl's smile reminded him of yesterday? Or was it only earlier today? Or was it even two days ago? Whatever, that small detail did not matter at the moment. In flash of white, Sesshomaru rushed to the other side of the room.

"What's wrong?" The girl asked with a frown and a slightly nervous tone in her voice. She got off her chair and began to walk towards him.

Sesshomaru immediantly took a step back. He didn't know what went on in the brains of mortal girls, but he wasn't about to take chances again. The girl stopped walking.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not going to hurt you"

"You do not have to be afraid, I will not harm you"

The words were practically the same thing. And they were said in the same tone as well.

A knocking sound came from the door.

Sesshomaru turned his head towards the door in time to see a little girl that looked like a mini-version of the one he woke up to see.

"Kagome-neesan!" The small girl cried, running to the seventeen year old girl known as Kagome.

'Kagome?' Sesshomaru thought with surprise. A feeling of relief washed over him, and he even let it cross his face, somehow he had found the person he was looking for. He did not know how exactly, but he had.

"Some of the servants told Rin that you would be in here! They said that you helped a strange man and-Oh, is that him? Rin thinks he looks like an angel, can we keep him, Onee-san?"

Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. Keep him?

Kagome laughed "I don't know, Rin-chan. He may need to get home. He's just here so we can heal him."

'I'll be here much longer than you think'

The girl called Rin looked down, then brightened all of a sudden "Oh! But I know! Rin will bring him some flowers. I'm sure he will like them."

"Alright, Rin, you go do that"

Rin smiled hugely and looked back at Sesshomaru "Goodbye!"

Sesshomaru smiled softly at her. She was one of the people you couldn't help but smile at, such a cheerful little girl.

Rin's own smile brightened when she saw Sesshomaru's and with that, she left the room.

Sesshomaru looked back at Kagome. His look of relief that he didn't have to go searching high and low for her was still on his face.

"Hey, do you have a name?"

He remembered what Myouga said about not using his own language. It was odd, but he could understand mortals, he just couldn't speak their language. He wasn't blessed with the ability yet. And besides, using his language could make similar situations like the psychopath from earlier appearing happen again, maybe not as bad, but Sesshomaru didn't want to go through that again. So, without saying anything, he just stared at her.

"Hellooo? Can you understand me?"

Sesshomaru nodded, maybe he could use something like this. He wouldn't be saying anything, but it would make him seem mute, right?

"Can you speak?"

He only stared at Kagome blankly.

"I'll take that as a no" Kagome sounded really disappointed, but she sighed and continued "Okay...do you have a name?"

Nope, he wasn't going to say anything, though he nodded in the same way as before.

"What is it?" She asked.

Sesshomaru remained silent.

"Oh...oh right!" Kagome walked over to a desk and grabbed a quill and piece of paper, then handed them over to Sesshomaru "You can write, can't you?"

Sesshomaru took the paper. He only knew how to write his name, thanks to Myouga, and was even surprised himself that he recalled the pictures, he drew them on the yellowish parchment, then handed it back to Kagome.

Kagome's eyes scanned it "Sesshomaru...Your name is Sesshomaru?"

Again, Sesshomaru nodded.

"All right...So where did you come from?"

He didn't know how to write, and he wasn't going to tell her, so when she handed him the paper, he didn't take it.

"Look, I only want to know where you come from so I can tell my father, and we can help you get home."

'That would be impossible for you'

"Nevermind..." She sighed "I can't see the big deal...do you no longer understand me or something?" when he still gave no response, she continued "Okay...Well, my name is Kagome, I am the princess of the eastern lands, and daughter to Lord Higurashi"

Kagome did a curtsy "There's a bathing room not to far from here. I can ask a servant to take you there...That is, if you would like a bath?"

'That would actually be nice...' He nodded. Kagome smiled faintly and led him outside.

He had taken the bandages off his arms and back which some healer who worked for Kagome had apparently put there, then he washed the dried blood around the large oval scars on his back where his wings used to be. There was some skin still there, though it felt too sensitive to try taking off or even touching, though he cleaned the wound out a little more.

A servant had left a plain simple white kimono around the area where Sesshomaru had been bathing. The water wasn't so heated, but it didn't really matter.

Soon though, Sesshomaru had left the large hot springs-like tub and dressed in the kimono the servant left. It felt just a little big, but it felt comfortable enough.

Though, the moment he finally finished, he noticed something green at the corner of his eye.

Slowly, he turned his head towards the green thing to see a toad creature who was wearing a small brown kimono was staring at him in surprise. He sighed and turned to leave, when suddenly, in the most annoying voice ever, the green thing began shouting something like loud annoying praises.

The creature's eyes lit up with...stars? And he just wouldn't shut up.

Sesshomaru decided that he just needed to leave the room and the creature would be silent, perhaps...hopefully.

But apparently not.

It followed him! Everywhere! He was trying to locate Kagome's scent wherever she was, but the thing was right on his heels. Finally, so annoyed, Sesshomaru just whacked the creature over the head. Maybe it would finally be quiet.

But it didn't.

"HELLOOOOOO?" The toad yelled "WHAT IS YOUR NAAMEEE?"

Violence did nothing for it, didn't it? Because Sesshomaru ended up punching it like several more times, and yet the toad still remained following.

"WHAT IS YOUR NAME, GREAT ONE? PLEASE AT LEAST TELL ME! I MUST KNOOOW!"

Finally, he caught Kagome's autumn-like scent and followed it into a room that was filled with many different books, scrolls, and other things. A library, no doubt.

Kagome was talking to Rin and she looked up when Sesshomaru entered.

"Oh hello!" She greeted warmly, though Sesshomaru simply in one of the chairs the moment that the toad followed as well and came waddling in.

Sesshomaru closed his eyes and started taking deep breaths and kept telling himself to not kill the toad.

"WHAT IS YOUR NAME?" The toad shouted with closed eyes and his beaky mouth opened wide.

"Jakken, shut up, and leave him alone" Kagome snapped angrily, her eyes were widened more than usual as Jakken continued ignoring her and shouting so very loud.

"What is wrong with Jakken?"

"I...don't know..."

Jakken continued shouting.

Sesshomaru's eye twitched 'I swear, if he doesn't shut up right now, he won't get to see the next minute'

"His name is Sesshomaru" Kagome said, unknowingly saving the toad's life.

Jakken finally stopped shouting "Um...Sesshomaru?" his beaked mouth opened once more and he was about to start shouting, but Kagome thankfully threw a pillow at him and shoved him out of the room. He was still there and yelling, though after about a minute or two, he finally gave up and left.

"So, you're name is Sesshomaru?" The girl known as Rin piped, running towards Sesshomaru.

"Hn"

"Rin is Rin, I'm Kagome-neesan's sister. Here. Rin made this for Sesshomaru"

Sesshomaru took the picture and examined it.

"Are you an angel?"

Sesshomaru looked up in surprise. She couldn't have figured it all out that easily, could she?

"Mommy used to tell Rin stories about angels...you look like one...are you?"

He smiled then. A child's innocence, that's all it was, he ruffled her hair and Rin giggled. The girl then just skipped out of the library.

Then there was a silence for a few moments.

"You know," Kagome spoke up "I wonder who did that to you. You were really wounded earlier. I mean, your wounds seem pretty much healed. Are you a youkai or something?"

Sesshomaru looked down at the floor. He didn't exactly want to be reminded. His eyes slid to Kagome, then looked back at the floor.

"What...what are you?"

Sesshomaru felt a smile crack on his lips. He really wasn't used to smiling this much, but he also didn't expect to be accepted so easily and treated this nicely by people he did not even know.

Faint voices came from behind the door, then it opened.

"Kagome, what's that?" A girl who looked similar to Kagome, but had longer straight hair instead.

"Oh, that's Sesshomaru. He's the person I saved earlier. Didn't some of the servants tell you?"

"Wow really?" Souta said, walking over to Sesshomaru and begun to circle him "He looks interesting...Is he a youkai?"

"I don't know"

"Are you a youkai?" Souta asked Sesshomaru, leaning closer. Sesshomaru stared at the boy, not even bothering to try to give an answer.

"He's apparently mute"

"He is not a servant, is he?" The other girl demanded, Sesshomaru was beginning to not like this princess.

"No, of course not" Kagome answered.

"Then why is there a demon under the same roof I am under if he is not a servant?"

Sesshomaru disliked her. That was official.

"Because he was hurt and needed help, so I helped him"

"You should have left him there"

"Why?" Kagome demanded in anger.

"Uh-oh..." Souta mumbled. Sesshomaru silently agreed with Souta, but didn't look at him and kept his eyes on Kagome.

"Demons are nothing but filth. Perhaps this is why you were never accepted in becoming a priestess"

"No, I didn't become a priestess because I didn't want to, that's all. Besides, I'm not even sure if he is a demon. His aura seems really pure"

"Of course he is" The other princess laughed, though it lacked humor "What else would he be? A monk? An angel or something...?"

"Well Maybe!"

"Pathetic..." She simply turned and walked out of the room.

"Hey, I think I'm just going to go find Rin." The boy spoke up "Oh, and Kagome? I believe father's coming back from the north tomorrow, by the way..."

"Uh-huh"

Souta left, and Kagome and Sesshomaru were alone once again.

Sesshomaru looked down at the carnation picture. He knew a certain trick to make the flower real and only stared at the drawing as he listened to Kagome's voice.

"Kikyo can be mean...She doesn't like youkai. I don't know why, I don't even think she has a reason. Well, my father's coming home tomorrow. I wonder if he's got that treaty with Lord Naraku, I hope we don't stay enemies, whenever Naraku attacks, it's always full of demons here, attacking everywhere...quite annoying really...Maybe when we're allies, all will be peaceful, since we're already allies with the main south and west kingdoms as well...Sesshomaru?"

Sesshomaru looked up.

"I'm going to be going now. You can stay here and read if you'd like, or just go back to your room. Alright?"

"Hn" He'd probably just go back to his room, seeing as he didn't read this language.

Kagome sighed and left.

I think I wrote the first part really really badly.

I will be stopping here for tonight. I would've had this chapter up earlier but Christmas shopping and all that was kinda in the way. I hope this chapter was too bad. Oh, and I want to thank BMalone93 for answering my question! Thank you!:D And I was wondering if someone could answer another question I have...Is there a way to save those documents that get deleted?

Answer for riddle: Envelope

Alright, bye and thank you Eri for your little bit of help!:)

-Katherine