Red As Blood

Chapter 8

Giving it up for you

Sesshoumaru could only see inuyasha, then a small voice whispered his name. His head snapped to the side were his heart dropped, kagome on the ground, arrow in her heart and dagger at her side, looking at him. Then her eyes closed, anger flashed through him and he pushed inuyasha to the grounds and ran to kagome. Kikyou had an arrow aimed at him which made him slow down. Sango came out of no were throwing her boomerang which sliced through kikyou, a loud screech echoed through the clearing as she turned to dust. Sesshoumaru ran to kagomes side and picked her up.

"Use the Tensaiga on her!" sango yelled while running up to them. Sesshoumaru then unsheathed his sword and killed the soul stealers. He waited for her to start breathing, but it never came.

"Wh..why wont it work!" souta asked in panic. Sesshoumaru then looked at his sword and then to jaken. As fast as he could he sent an attack with his other sword towards jaken, his body fell to the ground limp. Sesshoumaru then ran to him and used the tensaiga on him, jakens eyes flew open and he gasped. Sesshoumaru started to panic, he went back over to kagome and held her tightly.

"W...why wont it work, it worked on that toad! Why!" souta yelled while tears streamed down his cheeks. Rin woke up when she heard souta and ran to him, her eyes filled with happiness but turned to sad when she saw kagome on the ground with the arrow in her heart.

"Wh..what happened to okaasan?" she then went closer.

"But..you can use the tensaiga on her...right lord sesshoumaru?" she asked innocently. He shook his head.

"He already tried, it wouldnt work." souta whispered. Rins eyes became watery and she looked at every one sadly.

"No..no...she has to be alive...she has to." rin almost yelled. Souta then hugged her. Both cried, sango already had tears in her eyes, looking at kagome with shock. Sesshoumaru pulled the arrow and dagger from her body and still held her. His heart slowly ripped apart, and his life started crashing down. Miroku pulled sango to him as he also looked at kagomes corpse with shock and sadness. Kohaku sat there, eyes wide, not saying anything. Shippo soon waked up when everything went quiet but soon started crying.

"Why wont it work!"

"Its because kikyou put some kind of spell on the arrow she shot." Inuyasha's voice cracked as he approached the group holding his side.

"How do we fix it!" inuyasha just shrugged at miroku.

"We have to, there's always a way!" souta cried.

"Yea, maybe...a miko...or something!" sango whispered in Miroku's shoulder.

"Kaede!" shippo yelled. Sesshoumaru then got up with kagome still in his hands and ran his fastest to the old women. Miroku pulled sango up with him and looked at Kirara.

"Take us to kaede." Kirara mewd silently. Miroku got on top of Kirara with sango in front, and kohaku behind him. Shippo perched in Sango's lap, rin and souta got on ah and un while jaken jumped on the back. Inuyasha just stayed there silently watching as his ex-group ran after kagome. After every one was gone, a single tear fell from his eyes.

It was close to dawn as some of the group fell asleep. Sesshoumaru stayed awake, watching kagome. Kaede said there was a way to bring her soul back, but he didn't know if he should risk it. Every one but sesshoumaru and kagome were in the small hut. Her corpse laying in front of him, as if she was sleeping.

'She's even beautiful when dead.' he shook his head, now is not the time to think that, there has to be a way to bring her back. The old lady wobbled in the hut soon after the sun shown above the horizon.

"Ye still up?" he nodded at her.

"So have ye decided?" she asked, he just looked at her.

"Tell this sesshoumaru what there is to do."

"Well there's 2 parts to this. The first is finding half her soul and giving her another, strong enough to help her live. Second is to give her the memories of her last life and her lives before her."

"So we have to find the soul the clay pot took from kagome, then give it to her. I will give her mine as well," he lowered his head.

'I'll give it up for you to live.'

"And then you will give her the memories of her incarnates?" kaede nodded. She walked up and sat beside kagomes head.

"Are ye sure you want to give her some of your sould?" he nodded.

"This means ye will die and be stuck in the living world and dead." he nodded.

'Anything to give her happiness.'

"Ye must recover the ashes of me sister, bring it back here and I will bring the soul from it." sesshoumaru took off to get the ashes. It only took 10 minutes for him to come back, he had both hands full with brown ashes, he gave it to the old women and she put it in a small pot. Closing her eyes she put one of her hands on kagomes heart and the other over the pot. Before sesshoumarus eyes he say a small whitish figure then it was absorbed into kagomes body. Kaede sighed and pulled away. She looked at sesshoumaru,

"lay down beside kagome." he nodded and did as she told. Slowly she rose her wrinkled old hands to both kagomes and sesshoumarus heart, closing her eyes, she heard the intake of breath from sesshoumaru and the feel of kagomes heart. Pulling away she saw an unconscious sesshoumaru and a breathing kagome. Soon the younger mikos eyes snapped open and she breathed heavily through her mouth. Her eyes searched the hut and then stopped at sesshoumaru.

"W..what's going on? Why is he laying there like that? Why isn't he breathing?" her eyes pleaded as they searched Kaede's.

"Ye died. Sesshoumaru found part of your soul, then gave you half of his. He is in a state of unconsciousness, in the middle of the living and the dead. Now lay down so I can complete your soul." kagome nodded slowly, her eyes watering as she laid down.

'Im so confused.'

"What are you going to do?" she asked aloud in a shaking voice.

"Give you your memories of before, then your incarnates memories. I will awaken the others in you." kagome nodded.

"Is there a way to bring him back?"

"Only by ye. But I must complete this." kagome nodded again and closed her eyes, reading herself for what would happen. Blackness faded around her and she could see images, flashing violently until everything stopped and she was standing in a clearing. Emotion overwhelmed her, but she couldn't move or speak. Then inuyasha flashed in sight, yelling kikyou. Warmth spread around her and noticed Inuyasha embracing her.

this is what happened with kikyou. Im kikyou! Wait what's going on everything then changed and it's a new scenery, inuyasha, naraku, kaede. memories flashed before her. Then everything stopped, a pain and stinging scared her shoulder. Then she saw inuyasha running, without thinking kikyou rose the arrow, kagome yelled in protest but nothing was heard. The arrow flew and pierced inuyasha in the heart. Tears welled up in Kagome's eyes, but nothing came out, she was in Kikyou's body. She felt betrayal, hurt, regret, and hate. Then right before blackness faded, Kikyou's life flashed before her eyes, the pain surrounded her more, then everything went black. Panicking kagome looked around, before she could gasp she was in another body. A boy, white hair, no dog ears, but the golden eyes. Kagome gasped, not surprised when the person she was in didn't do anything. She didn't know what she was, then looking around more she noticed the boy was a little older than she was. The forest they were in was scattered with blood and arrows, bodies laying dead, arrows pierced there heart. The boy looked at her sadly.

"What did you do Katana-chan?" his panic voice yelled. When she spoke it was light, then it hit kagome, she was only 13, the boy was 15, and he was a demon.

this must be one of sesshoumarus or inuyasha incarnate. Then that means this is way way long ago!

"im sorry Nami-chan! They..they were attacking me!" Kagome's eyes widened as a wave of emotion filled her. Tears streaked down Katana's cheeks, but kagome was too shocked to think.

what's going on. katana then staggered forward to the boy. He backed up, horror written on his face.

"Im sorry! They were ganna kill me! Im sorry!" she screamed, everything going blurry because of the tears. He shook his head and looked at her again.

"Y..you killed okaa-san! You killed her!" he yelled back, tears now streaking his face.

"She tried to kill me! Im sorry! Im really sorry. Please don't leave me! You're the only one...the only one I have left!" she yelled. The boy then started backing away, then before she could think he was gone. Everything changed again, the scenery changed, she was by a lake, looking into the water Kagome's eyes widened. Katana was beautiful! She was now at least 20...well at least what she looked like. She was wearing a warrior miko garb. Except the long red pants were a long red skirt, she had armor on. Somethings put the whole appearance off as she saw the look in Katana's eyes. Its like she was dying, looking frantically around, no scar or blood was on her. Then a new wave of emotion played in her mind as she heard a voice.

"So you have come Katana-chan." katana then turned slightly to look upon the boy, except now he was a man. He had shortish white hair, golden sad eyes. He held a long sword in his hands, shaking ever so often. She smiled weakly at him.

"I don't want to fight you Nami. What happened in the past..is the past, I don't want to hurt you. Im sorry!" she then turned fully to him. He looked shocked but shook it away to point his sword to her. A singly tear fell from her eyes as she lunged forward to embrace the demon, Nami. He was shocked and didn't respond. A smile crept upon her lips but then haltered. A searing stinging came from her back, stumbling back she looked at the small dagger stabbed into her back. Her eyes met his, sorrow and hurt were filled in his golden depths. Slowly Katana smiled and quickly shot an arrow at him, he was too shocked to realize what she did, and found his self sprawling across the small clearing. She shot another arrow the pinned him to the ground. Unsheathing her sword she stabbed his heart with it, then she took his sword from him and smiled sadly.

"My love, I wished so deeply you wouldnt do this. I had to kill you, I saw the suffering in you beautiful eyes, it hurt to see you like this and realized I did it. I love you, and we will be joining the next world together."she then stabbed in sword into her heart, pain overcame kagome and she found herself gasping for air. Then Katana's life flashed before Kagome's eyes. Then everything made sense to her.

katana and Nami were childhood lovers, until his family slaughtered hers. They came after her, but she defended herself, Nami found out that his lover killed his family. It hurt him so much. He was a demon, she was a human. It was more wrong back then if human and demons fell in love, so thats why his family killed hers. He wanted revenge, but he still loved her, so thats why he didn't stab her through the heart with the sword, he only stabbed her side. She killed him then herself because they both were always in love, but he would always push it away, because she killed his family. kagome felt guilt for Katana. Then everything faded again. When she opened her eyes, she came face to face with an almost clone of sesshoumaru. Except her was bigger, his eyes held lust, and anger. pain filled the being she was in. A shiver went down Kagome's spine as she growled at her.

"You will die! I just sealed your soul, so no demons will be released to this time!" she yelled, her voice sounded a little more womanly and strong. The demon in front of her lunged and pinned her to a tree.

"You only sealed my demon, you didn't seal the demons I will send out into the world to kill all the humans! But you will also die tonight, bitch!" he then smiled at her.

"You used too much of your damn miko powers to go on, you will die with me and knowing you have lost this battle! My demons will come from the soul you just freed.!" he then ripped her shirt. Then images flashed in her mind, her name was Katsume, a great miko warrior, the first ancient miko to walk the earth. She was trying to kill the first strong demon, happened to be sesshoumarus incarnate. Sadness and fear wept throughout Kagome's body at the thought. Then a pain came to her lower half, a scream pierced through the dark forest kagome couldn't see much of, only the glowing of golden eyes, staring lustfully over Katsume. Tears rolled from her eyes, and soon kagome found the pain harder to deal with. Her senses snapped and reality came in.

he's raping her! He's Freakin raping her! kagome wanted to leave, the pain in her stomach was growing down. Katsume whimpered and started to cry out. But then everything went dark, there were no feeling in kagome or anything.

Kagome+ shot up from the futon and gasped for a breath. Looking down she saw her original cloths in, no blood, nothing only her. She turned at the feeling of being watched and screamed. Golden eyes watched her with worry. Sesshoumaru came closer, but stopped when she backed away and whimpered. Tears streaking her cheeks.

"Get away! Stop, leave me alone!" she yelled while pushing herself against the wall of the hut. New figures appeared at the door, shock and worry in there eyes. Sesshoumarus eyes held hurt, slowly he tried to come closer to her but she whimpered and more tears streaked down her cheeks.

"Maybe you should leave sesshoumaru." sango said quietly while walking over to kagome. First kagome jerked away but sango pulled her friend and sister into a hug. Silently sesshoumaru left, hurt in his soul was ripping at his heart. Sango tightly held kagome to her chest.

"What's wrong? Are you ok?" sango asked her friend. Kagome nodded as tears clouded her vision. She then looked up at Sango.

"C...can I talk to you...alone?" sango nodded and looked at every one who entered the hut, making them all leave. Smiling she looked down at Kagome.

"Every things alright." Kagome shook her head.

"Kaede gave me back the memories from my last life! And in every one, I fell or knew an inuyoukai or hanyou." kagome breathed out and wiped her cheeks and eyes.

"And...?"

"And well...s...s...sesshoumarus last life! He was...was with me..he..he raped me!" A shiver went down Kagome's spine as she shook her head violently. Sango's eyes softened.

"Kagome. That was your past life! Do you really think he would do that to you?" Kagome's eyes widened.

"N..no, but still."

"While you were...er...dead he stayed by your side! Kaede told us how he gave you part of his soul to purify, he still stayed by your side no matter what."

"I thought he was dead...or in the middle." Sango nodded her head.

"Yea well he was, but you remember his sword, tensaiga, it worked on making part of his soul whole, remember thats the life sword, not death. Sesshoumarus its master too." Kagome nodded.

"Yea. Im just still shaken from that memory."

"Well you sure shook sesshoumaru." Kagome's eyes widened and tears were ready to spread again.

"I...I hurt him! I have to go find him..now." she then stood up, having a little trouble but sango helped. Going out side every ones eyes snapped to them, but no golden eyes were in sight.

"Sesshoumaru." Kagome whispered.

A.N. hey guys I hope you liked this fic. Sorry about the hold on this fic, I decided I cant write another new story, I will stick to this one. Ok I need some advise on the next chapy, you think it should be a lemon, half lemon, or lime?