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My blood ran cold when Sesshomaru's name was screamed out into the daylight. We both turned to stare at the castle and frowned. It hasn't sounded like Kagome. There was a note in the woman's voice that had desire and pleasure in it. It was almost a really, really loud moan.

A blush crept up my neck as I glanced at Sesshomaru. He looked over and caught my eyes and we both glanced away at the same time. We jumped when another scream sounded, but this time it was no doubt that it was Kagome. There was panic and pure fear in her voice.

"INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed my name as my feet hit against the ground as I ran to my hanyou's cry, my brother hot on my heels.

Laying Amongst the Dead

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

I stared up in horror as Sesshomaru's long silver hair shortened and darkened to a sleek black. His golden eyes faded to a black that seemed to go on forever. So deep that I could see the blackness of his soul. The pure oblivion that accompanied the man that knelt above me. He grinned and my very blood went cold. I knew who the man was. It was Death.

"You tricked me," I breathed, trying to scramble out from under the disgusting skeleton of a man.

He simply laughed and collapsed a top of me, pinning me beneath him. "Was I really all that bad? I could have sworn I heard you scream," he said with a wicked smile curling his paper thin lips.

I growled and clenched my fists. "If you didn't hear well enough, I screamed Sesshomaru's name. Not yours. I will never scream yours. You disgust me, Death, and always will," I snarled in his face, wiping his grin from his face like he's been slapped.

"You are mine now, my pet, and what you think of me does not matter to me. I have made you my mate, Kagome, regardless of all else," he murmured in a soft tone that made my heart race.

No. I couldn't be his…mate! I would never get to see InuYasha or Sesshomaru again. I'd never get to tell them that I'm sorry.

"You're lying. You have to be," I sobbed, pushing against him and squirming underneath him with all my might. I had to get to InuYasha. I had to see him at least one last time.

"They will not get hear in time to save you, my sweet, for it is time to leave," Death breathed, wrapping his arms around me and standing.

I screamed and struggled in his hold, my gaze locked onto the door, praying that Sesshomaru would come through it and rescue me like he had the skeletons. My chest felt heavy as a red wind started swirling around us. My eyes widened when I realized that he was taking me to hell with him. Strange how Kikyo was like Death. Both trying to bring people to hell with them.

The thought panicked me. My eyes drifted down and saw a hole that seemed to go on forever. Red hands outstretched from the walls of the hole, the eerie sound of moaning and soft screaming suddenly filling the room. A screamed vomited from my throat as I frantically started pulling at the arms that locked me to a man that I did not love. A man that I wanted nothing to do with.

"I'm taking you away from the living world, my love. You'll be laying amongst the dead, Kagome," the vile man whispered in my ear.

I jumped and my eyes swung to the door as InuYasha and Sesshomaru staggered into the room. I felt something soft and liquid feeling wrap around my body and glanced down to see red silk hiding my nakedness from the world. I screamed and started kicking and pulling at the cloth.

My eyes darted up and met InuYasha wide frightened amber eyes and I saw the lose clearly there. I looked away from his painful eyes to meet Sesshomaru's hurt amber orbs. I sobbed and as if a ton of rocks were being pressed down on my chest. My heart hurt to see such a look in his lovely eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Sesshomaru. I didn't mean to…I'm so sorry," I babbled, tears flowing down my cheeks to drip off my chin.

His eyes looked away from mine to look over my head and I watched as they darkened. "Your head is mine, Death," he growled, his eyes reddening as his fangs flashed long and glistening white, "You had no right to take her from me."

I trembled at the hatred that his voice was smothered in, but Death did not fear him. "I have business to attend to, child. If you ever die, be sure to visit us in Hell," Death said with a laughter.

InuYasha suddenly gasped. "Hell? No! I won't let you take her," he growled.

I looked over at him and sobbed. "Its ironic how instead of Kikyo taking you to hell, Death's taking me," I whispered as I noticed that we were slowing lowering into the hole and that the red wind around us was thickening, "take care of Sesshomaru, InuYasha."

I let out a scream when we were suddenly swallowed my redness. I went limp in Death's arms and cried. "Sesshomaru," I yowled as the arms of the dead surrounded me and brought me down to lay amongst them.

The End…

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