The Tale of the Miko

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Chapter 2

Kagome smiled at Sesshoumaru and it was not a pleasant one, as she returned his cool gaze.

Sango took a small step forward her hands already on her giant boomerang. She could be more vocal since Inuyasha had gone to hell with the evil clay pot; it was her place to protect her friend now. "You have no such right to demand the sword when it has showed signs of choosing its owner, Sesshoumaru."

Miroku stood silent next to Sango, offering his support as he gripped his staff.

Sesshoumaru leveled his icy glare on Sango and allowed some of his poison to leak from his claws. "You dare to speak to me in that manner, demon slayer?"

Sango tilted her chin higher as her eyes flashed. "I dare-." She started but was cut off by Kagome's hand on her shoulder. She turned and glanced back at her friend with worry clear on her features but Kagome's eyes were focused fully on the demon lord.

Kagome stepped forward and through her friends, trying to not show how much pain she was in as she gripped the sword in her left hand.

"If it is the sword that you want, Sesshoumaru, then take it." She said in a nonchalant tone as her gaze remained cool and her face void of emotion.

Kagome slowly raised the sword, blade pointing toward the ground as she held the hilt in a way that the lord could easily take.

Sesshoumaru's gaze slid from Sango to the miko before finally coming to rest on the Tetsusaiga. He reached out and grasped the hilt before being slammed back two feet from the sword and Kagome by a wave of odd energy.

His eyes narrowed. "Wench, you will hand over the sword." The lord growled in a low voice.

Kagome just chuckled and set the sword into the ground and took a step away from the sword before holding out her hands. "By all means, take it... If you can. If it will allow you to. Otherwise, the sword has chosen me to wield it and you have no claim."

He stepped up to the sword and reached for the hilt once more and was knocked back from it again.

Kagome walked forward and easily picked the sword from where it stood, keeping her eyes locked on Sesshoumaru. "I believe that the sword has spoken. You have no claim to it."

Sesshoumaru's eyes started to tint red and a slight rumbling came from him.

Miroku and Sango started forward to stand next to Kagome or to place her behind them but what happened next was unexpected.

Sesshoumaru shot forward wrapped his arm around Kagome whose eyes widened in surprise and she let out a gasp of pain before he jumped into the air and summoned his cloud.

The two friends jumped on to Kirara and took to the air to try to follow the lord who had just kidnapped their friend but it was no good. He was long gone with the speed that he had taken off, they would never catch up.

Sango brushed tears from her eyes and Miroku gave her a hug from behind. "It will be alright, Sango. The Lady Kagome can handle herself." He said hopefully but his eyes were on the horizon where she had disappeared.

Kagome had tried to wiggle around to get his claws away from her side and wound but that had only seemed to make him angrier, so she just gave up and tried to breath right as it felt like her whole side was on fire.

They had been flying for almost half the day when Sesshoumaru started to descend from the skies and came to stand before a large cave. With out breaking stride, he enters and walks into the cave. He still has Kagome in his grip, practically carrying her.

He comes to what appears to be the end of the cave before he turns sharply to his right and continues down a narrow hallway that Kagome would have never noticed. Shortly, they come to another sharp turn and she feels the tingle of a protective barrier allowing them to continue deeper into the cave.

After passing through the second barrier, Kagome almost gasps at the lavish room they enter but her pain had made her dizzy and nauseous, she was afraid to open her mouth.

Sesshoumaru walked over to the lavish bed of furs and pillows before he dropped Kagome with little ceremony on to it. He turns and walks over to a wooden screen, disappears.

Kagome doesn't move but stays where she fell, trying to regain her breathing through the pain that brought tears to the corners of her eyes. She gently placed her hand on the wound and found that it had been bleeding through; the bandage was thoroughly soaked with her blood.

Tetsusaiga gave her a warm pulse, as though soothing her and it helped to push away a good amount of the pain allowing her to breath easier. She smiled down at the sword and whispered softly. "Thank you."

The lord who had kidnapped her returned from behind the screen. He had changed his cloths out for fresh ones and he walked over to Kagome to stand before her.

He growled low, his eyes lightly bleeding to red. "I will not be mocked by one such as you and I will have Tetsusaiga."

Kagome closed her eyes on the sight of the handsome lord to breathe and to stop the room from spinning. She was weak from blood loss and the pain had come back as soon as Sesshoumaru had walked over to her.

'What did I do to deserve this treatment?' She asked herself and allowed a slight moan to escape from her lips.

Sesshoumaru was suddenly hovering over her and lightly inhaling her scent as he moved down her body to come to the largest problem she had at the moment. Kagome cracked open her eyes to watch him carefully. He froze and slid his eyes up her body to meet her gaze.

"You are greatly injured." He frowned as he straightened and shook his head as though fighting off some thought that he had had.

Kagome was more than worried now. 'How had he not scented her blood?'

"Heal yourself, miko." Sesshoumaru growled.

She looked up at him and noticed that her vision was funny like she was looking through a long dark tunnel at Sesshoumaru. Most of her pain was gone, like she was wrapped in cotton and his words had echoed just like she was really at the end of that tunnel.

Kagome smiled. "Huh, you're so far away..." She whispered before her vision was swallowed entirely by the blackness of the tunnel.

Sesshoumaru snarled but controlled his rage, soothing his beast as he gazed down at Kagome. She was not dead, he repeated to his beast. She had merely passed out from blood loss and pain that the wound was causing her.

He had done nothing to help her in any way with his rough treatment. After taking a few calming breaths he gathered supplies to bandage her wound which was in bad shape.

Once she was bandages had been replaced, he sat next to her and waited for her to regain consciousness.

Kagome felt like she was floating and glanced around her at the wide expanse of Japan spread out before her under the brilliant light of the full moon. 'Where am I?' She thought but it was actually spoken out loud.

She was dreaming and riding on a large dog demon's back.

Those realizations almost caused Kagome to scream but she knew that it was a dream. Hopefully, it would not turn into a nightmare.

The dog demon was descending and preparing to land in an open field full of flowers that only opened at night. She gasped at the beautiful sight and the dog demon slowly started shifting back to his human form.

She didn't know why, but she wasn't surprised to be in Sesshoumaru's arms. Yes, arms he had both and he was looking down at her with an actual smile on his handsome face.

He tilted his head toward the field of flowers. "What do you think, Kagome?" He asked as he bent close and nuzzled her cheek, smelling her sweet scent.

Her breathing hitched at how wonderful his touch felt before pulling away and looking into his beautiful golden eyes with a slight frown. She couldn't believe that she was dreaming of the cold lord this way.

"Sesshoumaru?" She asked hesitantly. 'Maybe it's his twin?'

He smiled and kissed her forehead. "It is alright, my love." He whispered and nuzzled her neck this time, drawing a slight moan from Kagome's surprised mouth at how wonderful it felt to have him touch her.

She heard an odd rumbling and looked up to find that he was laughing. Her eyes widened, this dream was getting to be too much.

"Sesshoumaru, what are we doing here?" Kagome asked, trying to change the subject so that she could try to sort out why she was having this type of dream about the stoic lord.

"We are here to have 'alone' time together." He whispered darkly in her ear before running his tongue along that same appendage.

Kagome gasped and felt a small shudder run through her body. 'Oh...'

He spread out his furry boa that was always on his shoulder, before laying Kagome on it and covering her body with his own.

Sesshoumaru kissed Kagome and her eyes fluttered shut at the intense pleasure that she felt.

Kagome opened her eyes to look up at Sesshoumaru and found that she had woken up from the dream that easily. She felt disappointed and ached all over.

She looked around to find herself in a cave. Her eyes landed on the lord who was the focus of her dreams and blushed slightly before she could hold her reaction in.

When he didn't make a move or commit to her Kagome frowned and looked closely at him. His eyes were glazed over and his eyes were slightly tinted red.

"Sesshoumaru?" She asked hesitantly and watched as his eyes were suddenly clear but the red was still there as his gaze snapped to her face.

He growled low and threatening, his voice came out slightly hoarse. "Don't move."

Kagome froze and barely breathed.

Sesshoumaru pushed his beast away from him and tried to not look at the miko laying so close to him, smelling of fear, arousal, and her own intoxicating scent.

He was thankful when she didn't move that would have only encouraged the beast. With one last push he was fully back in control.

Kagome felt the shift in his presence and knew that he was in control of himself. She was thankful that he had gotten control of his beast, but a part of her, the part that could get her into trouble, wanted him to lose his control.

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