Title: Help Me Through This
Author: FairyTails
Disclaimer: I own nothing…but the plot.
Rating: M
Summery: After a battle with Naraku Kagome finds herself in the middle of no where, in a strange yet familiar body.
After an encounter with Naraku's wind witch Sesshomaru wakes feeling a bit weird. But first, when did he go to sleep in the first place?!
Warnings: um…..body switch?
Paring(s): Sesshomaru/Kagome(eventually)
Spoilers: hehe, I haven't even seen the whole series...
Key:
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
Between Kagome and Sesshomaru
'Sesshomaru's inner beast'
A/n: I am sorry those of you who expected there to be a chapter like the first for Sesshomaru. I would have done it, but he was not alone like Kagome was, it would have been far harder and no matter how many times I tried, I could not get it right. So please stop yelling at me.
I have tried to show as much of Sesshomaru's feelings as possible in this chapter, so maybe it will make those mean people happy.
Now enjoy.
Chapter: (3) Linked Together
Sango looked around to village around her, and the damage that had accumulated in a very short amount of time. Dead bodies lay on the ground, many with their innards sprayed across the dirt roads of the village. Some of the village members lay on top their fellow kinsmen who had died, half eaten or even ripped in half.
The Demon slayer felt a tear fall down her cheek. It was freak attacks like this that her village had dedicated themselves to killing demons. To stop the suffering was their goal, and yet, she could not help feeling as if they had failed, like she had failed.
A hut next to her collapsed, it main support bars finally cracking under the weight of the heavy roof, the exterior walls already crumbling. She didn't even flinch she was so involved in her mind. It was a firm hand on her shoulder that snapped her out of her reeve, "Sango-san?"
She turned her head towards Miroku and his calm, yet saddened face. She turned and collapsed into his awaiting arms, tears now falling at full force, "Why Miroku? Why do we have to be surrounded by so much dead?"
He didn't have an answer for her; the monk knew he would never have one for he often wondered the same thing. He just pulled her in her into a deeper hug until she stopped sobbing into his robe. When he felt the moment called for it, his hand drifted lower down her back. It was like a habit for them now days. For him to do it was his twisted way of getting her in a better mood.
He smiled as his hand made contact and he felt her go ridged. Less than a second later he swayed back as a smack sounded. He caught a small smile on her angry face before it disappeared; it was her of saying thanks.
Rubbing his sore cheek, they looked around for InuYasha and spotted his red fire-rat coat near Kaede's hut. Evading the grieving villagers they made their way to the inu hanyou. Before they even got there, the demon slayer noticed something. She stopped and stared at Miroku with a frantic expression, "Where is Sesshomaru?!"
He did a once over and didn't spot the black and red outfit Sesshomaru had changed into to get out of the green and white school uniform. He didn't see it and rushed with Sango towards InuYasha, who had Shippo sitting firmly on his shoulder. As they came to a halt they gathered the attention of their companions, "Have you seen Sesshomaru since the battle started?!"
InuYasha's eyes widened and he lifted his nose to test the air. He let out a frustrated growl, "There is too much blood, I can't pick Kagome's scent out."
A second later he let out a soft bark of happiness and fallowed his nose at something he suddenly caught, "Sesshomaru! His scent! Kagome was here!"
Everyone jerked around at this, their eyes desperately searching for the customary outfit that the Inu Taiyoukai is always wearing.
Unfortunately, they wouldn't find Kagome, or Sesshomaru.
!!
Sesshomaru sat up and groaned to himself, holding his head which pounded its disagreement in his temple, "What they hell?"
"Like I would know…" His head whipped around to find his body sitting on the ground next to him, his one arm raised and rubbing a lowered head. Slowly, annoyed golden eyes raised and looked into blue, "Fluffy says 'hi'."
Sesshomaru raised a thin eye brow in confusion, "Fluffy?"
Kagome sighed, glad that her head ache was disappearing as she answered, "I told you, he never shuts up."
Sesshomaru smirked, understanding, "And now I'm not the only person he annoys."
Kagome snorted in response and moved her hand to her knee, pushing up to stand, unlike before, the armor seemed to weigh her down; Kagome ignored it as her head swam, "Lucky me…"
A bit slower than she did, Sesshomaru stood, brushing off the black pants and red tank top he wore, readjusting the white sash that held the dagger at his hips. Kagome finally noticed the change of clothes and smiled, "My school uniform not doing it for ya?"
Sesshomaru gave her a silent glare but instead of retorting he opted to look around instead. It seemed as if they were in a forest, but that was all he could decipher. Frowning he looked back at Kagome, who had fallowed the example and was testing the air with his nose. "Do you smell anything you recognize?"
Kagome spared him a look out of the corners of her eyes but other wise stayed quiet. She didn't recognize anything around them at all; she didn't even recognize the chirps of the birds in the surrounding trees. It made her feel uneasy, "That's so odd…"
"What is?" Sesshomaru didn't like the tone of her voice, even he was growing worried with their current situation.
She looked at him with wavering eyes, "It's as if we are in a different land. I don't recognize the scents of any of the trees, and the bird species sounds are way off."
Sesshomaru rested a hand on Kagome's dagger, trying to calm himself with the sharp blade's protection. Other than her words, something else worried him.
He had felt something tingle at the edge of his mind and soon recognized it as the pull of the jewel shards. It was not the pull he had grown used to while he was a demon. When he had first felt it, a few days ago, he had been shocked by its needy pull. It was as if it was asking, pleading to be saved; not the demanding pull with a promise of power he had learned to block.
The Taiyoukai glanced around, searching for the direction of the pull, and quickly found it, "There are Shards here, where ever we are."
Kagome blinked in confusion for a moment, and then it dawned on her that he could since the pull of what she could no longer feel. She flexed her clawed hand, and shifted on her feet uneasily, "Where is it coming from?"
Sesshomaru clenched the dagger in his hand but did not pull it free of its sheath; with his other hand –something he was still overly happy to have- he pointed behind Kagome, "It's faint, but it is coming from that direction."
She nodded and turned from him, continuously testing the air with her nose, hoping to recognize something. Sesshomaru stepped up next to her, pulling more calmness from the strong presence of his body. He looked side ways at Kagome. He noted that if it was not him looking, he would not have seen any changes in his appearance. The Miko's stance was that of a dangerous power, she held her chin high, and her shoulders slack. A cold, emotionless mask hid all emotion from her face. Sesshomaru could only see her worry in the eyes he was used to only seeing in the mirror.
He felt as if he had underestimated her, Kagome could have fooled any one she wanted to with just her body language. He sighed and looked away, "We might as well go check it out."
Kagome raised her clawed hand to pet the furry pelt on her shoulder subconsciously, "It doesn't look like we have anything else to do."
A cold breeze weaved past them, making the fall leaves dance at their feet. Next to her, Kagome saw Sesshomaru shiver. She felt a little bad, realized just how little clothing he was wearing compared to her. They weren't even her clothes to begin with, 'They're his.'
She pats the pelt one last time before starting to unwrap it from her shoulder. Sesshomaru noticed the movement next to him and shifted his attention back to her. He took the offered pelt with a little bit of shock and confusion, "Why…?"
Kagome smirked at this, "It's not even mine to begin with, and you need it more than I do."
After a moment he wrapped the pelt behind his neck and over his shoulders, it would be little use against the cold to wear it like he normally would. When it was firmly in place, the ends under his arms -holding it down in the wind- he looked up at her. It was the first time he actually noticed the height difference, "Why are you being so kind to me? Even your friends didn't trust me when they found out."
She smiled at him, "You'll find that I am a bit more trusting than my friends, Sesshomaru. Whether you see that as a weakness or not, you will have to admit we will have to trust each other to make it through this."
He understood, but it still confused him. He knew that she was right, he would have to trust her with the information only the other lords and him knew it. He pulled the pelt closer around himself as another breeze raised a new layer of goose bumps on his shivering human skin, "Don't expect that from me."
"I didn't. I'm not as stupid or naive as I was when we first met." He snorted to himself; she had proved that alone by how she was acting now. She placed a hand on his shoulder and he glanced at the thick, white claws he used to kill heartlessly with. It made him feel weaker and he gripped his dagger again.
"Fluffy is daring me to do something."
Sesshomaru's eyes rose to Kagome's face, "Knowing him..." His eyes widened at a playful glint in his golden eyes, "Please don't tell me you are going to do it."
A small smirk, "Oh, I am."
Before he could object, the miko had slid her arm around Sesshomaru's waist and pulled him close against her body. His arm flung out and around Kagome's neck in an attempt to balance himself. He gasped as that balance seemed pointless as suddenly he was in the air. The other arm flew to connect with his other arm around the neck he is using as a life line.
From the side, he snaked his long legs around Kagome's waist above the yellow and blue sash there and hooked his ankles between his swords and armor. He heard a hearty laugh and glared up at Kagome as she smiled at his antics. They stood on a high branch of a tree, that he hadn't even remembered landing on. He took the moment to calm his franticly beating heart, but the moment didn't last long.
Kagome leaned forwards, arm held tightly against her body's back so as not to drop Sesshomaru. Though she doubted she would with how tight he was holding her. She elegantly leaped again, "Point the way."
It took him a moment to get what in his current state of mind. He glared up at her, his cold voice holding an edge of fear; "You are going the right way, but is this necessary?!"
She landed on another branch yards from the last one, "I don't know about you, but I want to find out what is going on, and quickly." She stopped and turned determined eyes to her own blue ones, which held an uncharacteristic coldness in them.
Sesshomaru glare did not weaken, "And rushing in to battle like my foolish brother does will solve this?!"
Her voice grew hard, "You said the pull was faint. What use is it to study the enemy when we can't even feel who it is? I can't even smell them as we are currently down wind of the area you pointed to. You of all people should know how horrible that is when we don't even know where we are."
Again, he had underestimated her. The miko had not been planning on rushing into battle; she had only wanted to get closer to get a better hold on the situation. The quicker they did that the better off Kagome and he would be. He knew very well how bad it was when he could not smell the enemy. Sesshomaru felt a bit ashamed for assuming her an idiot, "Can you at least put me down. I can walk."
Silently she released him and he stood next to her on the tall branch. They both stood there for what seemed like forever. The silence deafened Sesshomaru, who believed it couldn't get any worse. For once in his life, he missed the annoying voice of his beast. His beast had always been his leaning post, even as a child, with a mother who hated him and a father who he never really knew.
Sesshomaru had grown up alone, like most demons. But unlike most demons, his family was around him at all times, and yet, they were never there. So close, yet so far away. The Taiyoukai felt a ping in his heart that he had not felt in so long. 'Helpless' was they only way to put it in one word.
He sighed to himself, and let his head hang. In his mind, many scenarios passed through of how this could turn out, all of them bad. He could not grasp the thought of returning to his body; even as it stood next to him, he felt it slipping away.
"Sesshomaru?"
His head snapped up at the concerned voice to face Kagome as she looked down at him, 'Concern? It seems so foreign coming from my mouth…'
Sesshomaru watched in confusion as the miko sat on the sturdy branch she had landed on less than a minute ago. She faced the forest in front of her, looking down at the ground, "You know, I was once terrified of highs? Fluffy has yet to stop laughing at me for it."
Sesshomaru stood there in confusion, 'Has she finally lost her mind?'
A small laugh escaped from Kagome and let it's self be heard; it was dry and half hearted. She looked up at him from where she sat. "I believe this is when you reveal something about yourself." She looked away with another laugh, this time more heart felt, not nearly as unsure of herself as she was a moment before. "Fluffy believes you won't."
Sesshomaru frowned, not getting the human one bit, 'She continues to perplex me!' He grunted, "And he is right."
She smiled at the something invisible before her, "I know, so I guess I will share something with you that no one out side of the shard collectors know." She looked to him with darkening eyes, "One of my deepest secrets."
He stayed quiet, 'What could she possibly hold so secretively to make me tell her anything?'
With his silence, she started, "You know the Bone Eater's well, do you not?"
"Yes." Now he was confused.
She smirked, though he did not know why until he realized she could scent his emotions. He hid them quickly and the miko looked away. "On my fifteenth birthday I fallowed my little brother into an old well house on the property of my family's shrine. The well had been dried out for as long as I could remember, and has been sealed off for just as long. My little brother had believed our pet cat was in there, having heard scratching noises. Boy was he wrong…"
She paused, trying to pull together her thoughts on how to continue. Next to her all Sesshomaru was trying to process was that she had family, 'I have never seen them before…'
Before he could think much longer on the topic, Kagome started again, "Our cat had never even been in the well house. And what was inside it was not human, and at first I believed I was dreaming when Mistress Centipede dragged me down a well that had been useless for so long." She looked at him with a side ways glance, "Sesshomaru, I need for you to understand that I grew up in a world where I believed demons were just part of the legends my crazy grandfather told me as a child."
He stared at her, 'Did she grow up in a pit?'
She saw the disbelief and misunderstanding on his face and sighed, "When Mistress Centipede dragged me down the well…she dragged me five hundred years into the past." She closed her eyes, "I am from a future where humans have made demons completely disappear."
Sesshomaru nearly fell out of the tree, 'She has to be lying! How could humans do such a thing to such a powerful race?'
She didn't even look at him as he processed the information she just gave him. His gut told him she had not lied; he would have been able to tell it in her voice, even if it was his own. "How is that…?"
He couldn't even finish the question he was so in shock. He let himself fall to sit on the branch, holding tight with his legs and hands until he had caught his balance. A firm hand landed on his shoulder to help and he turned blue orbs to face Kagome as she spoke, "How is it possible? I have no clue how to answer that. I'm not the immortal one-"
She stopped short, 'Shit.' She looked away, remembering whose voice she spoke with, "Sorry…"
He understood her apology, but he found himself not caring, "We will get our bodies back."
Kagome turned to him; nearly falling out of the tree herself as the emotions she saw flow through his eyes. They held a determination, a hope that she had nearly given up on. She soon found a large smile nearly blind Fluffy in her mind. "Alrighty."
Not looking at Sesshomaru she stood with a grace she had never had before; once standing she looked down at him. She held out her clawed hand for him to grab, "I can wait for your turn of the sharing game. For now we will work together," She pauses and let her mental smile shown through her emotionless mask that had never faded before, "I help you, and you will help me through this in return."
He stared at her hand, after a moment of hesitation he reached up and took his own clawed hand in her's and spoke, "Together we will defeat this, that was forced on us."
His face stayed emotionless, but his voice and eyes mirrored her own emotions and Kagome nodded as she pulled Sesshomaru to his feet, "And understand more of each other than we ever wanted possible."
A sarcastic smile marred Kagome's human face as Sesshomaru found he liked the words she used, "And finally, never tell a soul about it."
Kagome pulled Sesshomaru close to herself again, wrapping her arm around his waist. This time he was ready for it and one arm slipped across her back and the other gripped her wrist. She shared her own smirk with him as he looked up at her, "Of course, I would have it no other way."
With that she bended her knees, her muscles coiling, ready for the jump she was about to do, against her Sesshomaru fallowed her motions and stance, "Let's go."
As her legs sprung strait again she wished she had another arm to solute him with as she muttered a, "Yes master" under her breath, so that he could barely hear her.
Twenty miles away Naraku waited for them, an evil smirk drawn on his face as he watched them through Kanna's mirror, 'Well, isn't this interesting…'
TBC
Ending note: Short, I know, but are you happy now, those of you who believed I did not give you Sessho's reaction as well as you believed I should have?
I am not sure how much Sesshomaru knows of Inu's and Kag's past, as I have mentioned, I have not read or seen the entire story. So I made up the amount he knows…
!!Please Read this!!
I wanted to let you all know, when I get to the point of Kagome and Sesshomaru getting to the future…I am much inclined to turn this in to a cross over with YYH. But not to the point of the Spirit detectives are dragged into the past or Sess and Kagome getting dragged off to Spirit world, but with Kagome going to the same high school as Kurama.
Like having Kurama being wirily of Sesshomaru and Kagome, just using him as a side character. I don't plan on getting far into YYH unless I do a sequel to this, because this is purely for the sake of Kagome and Sesshomaru being in the other's body.
Let me put it this way. I like the ideas of Demons being in the future, and the YYH universe is a great way of making that so with out making my own BG for the info. And let's face it, the idea of Sessho and Kagome having this back ground info when they finally get pulled into the full blown YYH universe…it would make for a very interesting story line.
Of course, by the end of this fic, they WILL be mated.
!!I'm done now!!
Thanks for bothering to read this fic now tell me what you think!
FT