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'
'Sesshomaru's inner beast'
"Kagome and Sesshomaru mental conversation"
A/n: Someone else joins Kagome and Sesshomaru in their world…read to find out who that is.
Now for the real reason you are on this page…
Chapter: (6) Separated and Not Alone
Kagome wanted to kill something, anything. Well not anything, Naraku would suffice just nicely, but unfortunately he was no where to be found. Her one clawed hand clenched and unclenched, and anger threatened to boil out of the mask she worked so hard to keep in place. While she, Fluffy and Sesshomaru were starting to fine tune their newly discovered ability to communicate without speaking aloud, this did not keep Naraku from continuing to find new ways to hurt them.
Across from their small camp ground Sesshomaru stared at her with blue eyes. He seemed to glow in the fire light with Kagome's tan skin. "What is it now Miko?"
She had to hold back a growl and a tired sigh. They refused to let Naraku know what they were saying, and hardly ever spoke out loud anymore. It had become a habit over the last week that they did it without thinking about it. They couldn't read each other's minds like Fluffy could, but they could project what they wanted to say to the other's mind.
Kagome brought up her one arm and laid it across her one raised knee, that's when she realized it was glowing green faintly. She saw Sesshomaru raise a brow out of the corner of her eye but concentrated on dissipating the poison. A low growl emitted from her throat, "First Shippo's scent, and now his blood. If he laid one claw on my Shippo I will personally torture him to death, very slowly and very painfully."
In the fire light, Sesshomaru was suddenly standing, "Only if I me right next to you Miko."
In both of their minds Fluffy's thunderous growl broke through, low and threatening, 'If he hurts on hair on Rin's head….'
Apparently he heard something from Sesshomaru that Kagome could not, and he guessed that a sweet smelling female blood that flinted through the air was Rin's. At the thought of Rin or Shippo getting hurt, one clawed hand started to glow again. She cared very deeply for her kit and the same feeling was over coming her where Sesshomaru's human ward was concerned.
With her body's now very sensitive nose Sesshomaru was able to smell the acid of his body's poison and he glance at the glowing hand. Kagome on the other hand, could feel her miko energy pulsing around Sesshomaru's hands, and it made the hairs on the back of her neck rise.
They both wanted to kill something.
Naraku was at the top of their list.
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Glowing golden eyes stared down at the water of the large lake before them. Rage washed over Kagome as she tried to calm down on control her emotions. Needless to say, it wasn't working. Naraku had separated them. In their opinion it was because he felt they were gaining too much control, and he was right.
They could still talk mentally, but they could not find one another. They had finished each other's training under the other, so weren't really that worried abut defending themselves. No, they were just pissed that he could control them like he did; it made the demon blood of her current body boil. If she found anyone in this newer world that Naraku had pushed her into and they threatened her person, they would die instantly.
Her normally caring and kind hearted demeanor was gone; in its place is her anger and cold hearted mask. She believed she had been around Sesshomaru and Fluffy too much, they were changing her. Not that she minded much. The caring Kagome was still there, just hiding behind the new Kagome who embodied her strength and skill.
The smell of acid reached her nose, but she didn't care. It was her poison, dripping to the ground from her clenched hand. It mixed with blood from her claws steeping into her palm. In her mind, she no longer distinguished her body from his. Sesshomaru's body was now hers, just as much as her body was his, they had bonded in a way that no one else would ever be able to bond with them.
She stopped ignoring the fact that she had fallen hard for the other person trapped in their twisted reality. "Miko?"
She even ignored the fact that he still refused to use her name, but he is the only person that would ever be allowed to use miko as anyone else would use her name. To him, the way he spoke it, Miko is her name, "Yes Sessho."
So she refused to use his full name. But it didn't bug him anymore and it helped her feel closer to him to know that he would allow her the honor of giving the great Western Taiyoukai a pet name. No one else would be allowed to do that by penalty of death.
"Calm your self." While her voice was on the verge of a growl, his was calm. Even she had a hard time catching the anger that lay just under the surface, "Clear your mind, this Sesshomaru refuses to loose his body because you lost your self to emotion."
She wanted to shout at him that she is just human; emotions make her who she is. But she knew he was right, and it was his odd way of saying, 'Don't die on me, I don't know what I would do without you.'
She forced her self to close her eyes and take several deep breaths, after a moment she looked up at the crescent moon above her. Its soft glow helped her clam down even more and her breaths became shallow again and her shoulders relaxed. In return she became more aware of her surroundings, the sounds of the night filled her ears now that she wasn't focused on something else, and nose latched on to the scents around her.
She looked around her self, where before, she had almost been ignoring her surroundings. She sighed and walked over the green grass that grew around the lake, she hadn't noticed the flowers before, as she stormed to the lake in her anger but now they brightened her mood a little. Walking up to a tree she leaned against the hard bark with a tired sigh, "Thank you Sessho."
In return she got the mental equivalent to curt nod, it wasn't much, but it was more than anyone but Rin would get and it made her smile behind her mask. 'I believe that meant. "I'm glad you are okay, Kagome."'
Sesshomaru growled in their connection at Fluffy's remark and Kagome rolled her eyes at their attitude to each other and laughed softly to herself. She felt them going off into a conversation in Sesshomaru's mind so the miko took to studying her new surrounding. The trees looked familiar, and now that she really looked at it, so did the lake.
Golden eyes frowned, trying to decipher what it meant. Slowly, she stepped through the forest and took in the species of trees, hoping to recognize them and locate herself. Sending out her senses to search for any one else, she wasn't really expecting to find anyone. Kagome pulled in a sharp breath when her senses fell upon another aura in the forest around her. To big and complicated to be the animals she and Sesshomaru had been feeding off of for the last few months.
She became a silver streak between the trees as she ran to the aura, a ghost in the night. She checked her self and stayed down wind and made sure to mask her own aura and scent; she wasn't about to get careless.
"Miko?" came Sesshomaru's curious voice, soon fallowed by Fluffy's worried, 'Kagome?'
Both of them called out to her as she jumped to the trees, sharp eyes looking around for the origin of the aura she felt close to her person, "I'm not alone."
She could feel their shock, but tried to ignore it as she hid in the trees, eyes landing on a figure standing not to far from her on the forest ground. They stood in the shadows created by the little light given off the moon and it was only her youkai enhance vision that she was even able to see the lean figure, no details could be made out.
"Careful." Kagome smirked to herself at his softly spoken voice, glad that his mental voice was his own, not hers. It reassures her that she could defend herself.
Swiftly she moves around in the trees, hoping to get a better look at the hidden figure. She stayed down wind and would not dare let her aura or youkai flare out. She stayed hidden, using her hears and nose over her eyes as they became useless as a cloud covered the moon. She closed her eyes so the glow of the gold could not be seen by the other.
Her ears told her the figure moved as soon as leaves crunched under their feet. She didn't even bother to open her eyes as she jumped out of the way, an explosion sounded from the tree where she had just been. A growl of frustration did make her open golden eyes to look up from the ground where she had landed to spot the black shadow in the tree, glowing claws carved into the bark.
The blue glow of their hand let her pick out the smooth features of a male with dark hair and feline like eyes that matched the glow of his youkai. For a moment his scent flared out from his control, telling her his species. The male neko youkai's hand stopped glowing as they stood on the branch Kagome had just been on, but she could still see his glowing blue eyes as they glared down at her.
A low growl forced the hairs on the back of her neck to rise, "Sesshomaru, you're mine."
It was a battle cry, the low tone, and it gave Kagome just enough of a warning to jump to the side as a dagger imbedded its self in the tree behind him. Just to be met by her new foe with claws ripping through Sesshomaru's kimono sleeve. Kagome held back a growl and tried to stay calm as she was again forced to dodge, "Who the hell is that Fluffy? He knows me, but I don't know him!"
'Shit.' Was Fluffy's reply as Kagome dodged glowing claws again, quickly fallowed by Sesshomaru's simi-worried voice, "Well, who it is Fluffy!?"
If it wasn't for the sudden seriousness of the situation, Kagome would have laughed because Sesshomaru used his beast's nickname, but she was not laughing. She was getting tired of dodging, and her one hand was glowing green, ready to strike and kill.
'Attack Kagome! Don't just dodge! That's Chishio; he will kill you if he gets the change!' Fluffy's voice urged her on, if not peek her curiosity.
She did a flip into the tree behind her and spun with Sesshomaru's green poison whip making a circle around her, just in time to block Chishio as he jumped at her. He hissed as he barely dodged her attack and did a flip to land on the ground on all fours. Sesshomaru's sudden voice nearly distracted her with his dangerously low growl of the feline's name. Kagome wanted to ask just who this person was to Sesshomaru, but didn't want to chance getting killed in return for her curiosity as it sounded like a topic Sesshomaru wasn't about to share with her.
Golden and blue stayed focused on each other, waiting for the next attack as Chishio spoke again, "So you aren't going to run away like a scared puppy this time Sesshomaru?" A smirk could barely be seen in the little moon light breaking through the tree tops, "Good, I look forward to killing you this time!"
A jewel on the felines hand suddenly glowed a dark red and Kagome caught the same glow out of the corner of her eyes and looked just in time to see the dagger that had been thrown at her earlier go to the feline's hand, only to be thrown at her a second later. She jumped to the forest ground and ran towards the border of the trees; she fought better with no obstacles around her.
"Running you coward?!"
The glow again, and the dagger once again hit a tree where seconds before her head had been. She could hear nearly silent feet on the ground behind her and then in the trees, she was being chased from the branches above. Kagome leaned forward to run faster, daring not to look back; she had to get to a clearing where her attacks had more room to take effect. But she needed more information, 'Who is this person Fluffy?'
It took him a moment to answer, 'A pup hood friend who witnessed Sesshomaru kill his older sister when their father assigned her to assassinate us…'
She could feel the feline atop her and stopped just in time to not be tackled with a dagger meant for her back. Chishio recovered quickly and snapped around to throw the dagger at Kagome, who was gone already, taking a different route through the trees, she paused for only a moment when he let out an angry hiss, 'Does he know the truth?'
It was Sesshomaru who answer with barely controlled anger, "This Sesshomaru never got the chance, we were young and Father took control of the situation as soon as he happened upon me standing over her dead body…"
Fluffy's spiteful voice finished as Sesshomaru grew quiet, 'I doubt Chishio ever heard the truth, to blinded by what his father's advisers told him to even care about our side of the story. The fact that Inu-Tashio had his father killed for the murder attempt on us didn't help either.'
Kagome didn't like the idea of killing Chishio suddenly, but didn't have chance to think on it as the feline caught up with her as she reached the edge of the trees. They were washed in moonlight as she whipped around to block an attack from Chishio's dagger withTokijin. The evil blade nearly sung to her with happiness at finally seeing a fight.
As Chishio was flung backward with Tokijin's youkai Kagome took the chance to jump back a few times to gain distance. She was bathed in the full light of the moon with not trees to block its gaze. Silver hair, pale skin and white clothing shined in the light, giving an unearthly appearance to Sesshomaru's body.
As Chishio slandered towards her from the forest it gave her the time to study her opponent. He was dressed in a completely black Kimono like Sesshomaru's with a dark red obi and light grey sash. On both red clawed hands is a black glove with a large ruby set in silver on them, the stone that had glowed earlier. In both hands he carried twin daggers with a large ruby at the end of each hilt, 'What ever you do, do not try to take those blades from him; they are triggered to attack anyone who touches them but Chishio.'
Kagome filed this away for future use and continued her study. He stood at the same height as InuYasha, a few inches shorter than Sesshomaru. She realized now, in the moon light, that his hair is not black like she had thought, but a dark, blood red. She guessed that that is where he got his name. Both of his lips are painted black to match the black eyeliner around each of his eyes. A ruby is also set in the middle of his forehead.
He stopped walking yards away from her and glared, "Who are you?"
Kagome felt her eye brows twitched, 'Seriously?! After all that?'
Chishio repeated his self, leaning forward in poised position to throw his blades at her, "Answer me damn it!"
"This Sesshomaru…is this Sesshomaru." She replied with a slight glare, not believing the nerve of the guy.
A dagger was tossed, easily dodged as it wasn't really aimed to kill, "Liar! You must be an impersonator!"
Kagome ignored Sesshomaru as he spoke in her head, "As if anyone can impersonate this Sesshomaru." Fluffy snorted in agreement.
She allowed her self to glare at the neko, raising Tokijin threatened, "You dare call this Sesshomaru a liar?"
The dagger was called back with a glow of Chishio's rubies; he growled at her with narrowed eyes, "The real Sesshomaru would go no where without his mother's pelt!"
Kagome hid her shock well, 'That is what gave me away!?' She really hadn't thought much of it when she gave the pelt to Sesshomaru on their first night in their prison.
But apparently Chishio saw the little shock that shined in Sesshomaru's golden eyes because he smirked and stood straitened, "Well, I ask again, who are you?"
'Should I tell him the truth?' Sesshomaru started to reply no, but Fluffy cut him off.
'Yes, use those wonderful skills of yours Kagome, the ones where you seem to befriend anyone you meet.' He sounded serious, and it made even Sesshomaru shut up.
'And if he only sees this as a chance to kill me?'
'Kill him.' "Kill him." They replied as one to her question. She wasn't sure if she wanted to kill the misguided feline, but she would if given no other choice.
She lowered Tokijin and spoke, "I am Sesshomaru," the neko started to cut her off, but she didn't allow it, "In body only. In mind, I am different."
He glared at her and raised his daggers again, "Do not lie to me."
Kagome glared, "I am not. Have you heard of the hanyou Naraku?"
That got a deep growl and a flash of hatred in those blue eyes, "That bastard is the reason I am trapped here in this damned world."
She understood his anger and smirked to herself; "Good, I didn't want to explain who he is." She sheathed Tokijin and it hummed in disappointment, but she did not take her hand from the hilt, "Naraku used a powder on me and Lord Sesshomaru, he switched our souls. I am in his body, and he is in mine. Then he dumped us into our own prison. He separated us hours ago, putting me here, probably with the hopes that you would kill me."
Chishio had stood strait and his glare lessened, but did not disappear. He was thinking on what she had to say and she hopped he believed her. After a moment all anger vanished from his charming face and he sheathed his daggers in their sheaths on either side of his hips. "I believe you," he started, "Because it is Naraku who we are talking about, and that Sesshomaru wouldn't bother to talk me out of fighting him."
Kagome found herself snorting, "I doubt he would even bother to talk."
Chishio smirked at her, "True." He became serious, "Now, who are you?"
Kagome eyed him for a moment as he stepped closer, "I am Higurashi Kagome, the Shikon Miko."
His eyes widened in shock, "The Shikon No Tama? Sesshomaru switched bodies with the Miko guardian of the Shikon No Tama?"
Kagome fought the urge to mutter darkly to her self, wishing Sesshomaru and Fluffy would talk to her instead of giving her their silence, "Unfortunately, yes. I don't know how many days have passed in the real world, but we have been trapped her for nearly three months." When he walked closer her hand shot to Tokijin's hilt and she glared.
The neko stopped and raised his hands in a sign of peace, "I will not stoop as low to kill Sesshomaru when it is not him I am fighting Lady Miko."
She relaxed but kept an eye on him as he stepped even closer. She sensed no lie from him but did not trust him. "You know," she started in a low voice, "You are the first demon to ever label me so highly."
He grinned and she finally let her hand fall from Tokijin's hilt at the sight, "I have heard you are the strongest miko since Lady Midoriko, and for putting up with Sesshomaru for the last couple of months I believe you disserve my respect." He cocked his head at her, "What does the ice prince call you?"
She held back her own grin, keeping up her emotionless mask, "He 'lovingly' calls me Miko; I have accepted that he is incapable of calling a human by their given name.
In her mind Fluffy started to laugh and Sesshomaru glowed at her, but she could tell there was no malice in his tone. These simple actions let her know that she isn't alone and they didn't leave her. Until that moment she didn't realize how much she depended on the presence of the Taiyoukai.
She looked over Chishio as he looked over her; finally she spoke, "How long have you been here?"
He had had an eye on Tokijin, but they snapped up to her face when she spoke, "Like you, I have no clue how much time had passed in the real world, but last time I heard, Sesshomaru did not have that sword."
She knew why he had been looking at the demonic sword know. She glance down at the blade before looking back up at the feline standing not a yard from her, "Then you have been here a while Chishio, he has had this sword for nearly three years."
The feline blotched at her and had to step back to catch himself, "Three years," he paused and narrowed his eyes, "Wait, I never gave you my name."
She raised a brow at him, "With his body, I got his inner beast."
An unidentifiable look went over the feline's face, "Then you know…"
She cocked her head and silver hair fell like silk across her back and armor, "His side of the story."
He glared at her; in anger again, "Lies."
It was Kagome's turn to glare, "Do you even know his side of the story?"
Sesshomaru's growl of 'Miko' in her mind almost made her not notice Chishio's sudden movement to jump at her. Her hand whipped out and grabbed the hand that had been directed at her neck. He hissed in pain as her claws glowed green, but none-the-less he glared at her, "Do not dwindle in affairs that do not concern you human."
Her grip tightened and he fell to the ground as she twisted his arm, he hissed out in pain and shut his eyes tightly as her claws dug in to his flesh. She growled down at him, "Let's get one thing strait Cat Boy, I am in Sesshomaru's body. His business is my business just as much as mine is his. Our lives depend upon each other." Her tone grew so dangerous she saw him flinch under her gaze, "If you wish him death, than you wish me death. You do not want to be on my bad side. I don't care how strong you are, or how you believe Sesshomaru killed your sister for the fun of it. I could care less. I have been nice so far, I have not attacked you with intent to kill, but I will if you try to attack me again."
She leaned down and whispered into his elfin ear, "Is that clear Cat Boy?"
He nodded his head and she could easily pick out his fear. With a satisfied nod she let go of him and stood back. Chishio stayed on the ground in a show of submission and held his aching wrist, he was powerful, she knew this, but Sesshomaru was no push over either, and she had let his youkai curl around Chishio, that is what made him stay on the ground and listen to her words.
'I didn't know you had it in you Kagome…' Fluffy sounded shocked, and she pushed him off, disgusted with herself; she feared she had lost herself.
"You are you, Miko. Nothing can change that." Sesshomaru's words calmed her and she grew his youkai back around herself and hid it again. She wanted to be near the Taiyoukai again, it hurt her to be so far away. Hiding her sadness and without sparing Chishio a look she started to walk away, along the shore of the lake, towards a large bolder that dented the shore. She sharp ears caught the sound of grass being crushed and a thud, and knew he had sat all the way down. He would not attack her, and she hoped he didn't spite her for what she had just done.
She had enough enemies; she really didn't want another one.
TBC
Ending note: If you didn't catch it, Chishio means Blood. Do you like him? Did I tastefully add him into the story?
Thanks for reading,
~FT
[Edit] Sorry guys, about the bold lettering at random times. Not sure how that happened. I tried to fix it.