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Song of chapter: Sail by Awolnation

Chapter Two: Battle Strategy

Kaminari entered the room to examine her belongings, nothing had been moved, and she had a firm belief that no one had entered the room save Sesshomaru since she had left. If not for the scent of her brother on her bed she would have written it off, but he could not deny that his heart ached for her while she was missing. Thinking over the events she knew that war would arise with the dragons when they realized she woke, inside she was glad they were not there waiting for when she woke.

Freshly made kimono hung in her wardrobe of the finest silk. Removing the one covering her she walked naked into the attached spring for a quick dip. Being under a waterfall for three hundred years had not deterred her from a nice soak. Tension evaporated with water as she reclined into the bath.

She heard the servant scurry into her room and remove the kimono she had left in a heap on the floor. It was something that she had missed in those years alone. With nothing but her own thoughts for three hundred years she wanted desperately to sit and listen to someone else for a while. She stood from the water grabbed a yakata and headed down the hall.

Kagome grabbed her supplies as Sango stood at the door waiting for her; they slipped into the hall and walked the short distance to the in house spring. Opening the door Kagome squeaks when she finds Kaminari looking at them from the water. "Sorry, we will come back." She stammered.

"No, there is plenty of room. I have not had company in many centuries." Her smile warms the girl and they enter without another thought. Kagome and Sango strip down and slip into the water with the princess. Groaning Kagome reclines into the stone wall as Sango scrubs at her sore arms.

"You do look like him." Kagome murmured glancing at the demon.

"I know," Kaminari rubbed at her tender muscles. "I was under that waterfall for three centuries, and alone to boot. I hope I am not too bold," She looked to the slayer. "But how did the two of you meet?"

Kagome glanced into the water, staring at her feet as Sango stopped scrubbing, they turned to one another for support as Kagome opened her mouth to begin the long story of Naraku for the princess of the west to hear. At the end, which had successfully turned them all into prunes in the warm water, Kagome watched Kaminari lean forward with a set determination in her eyes.

"I will help you slay Naraku."

Kagome and Sango parted with Kaminari in the hall at her door, continuing down to their rooms. Sango entered hers, wishing Kagome pleasant dreams before leaving the miko to walk the short distance to her own room. Pausing at her door Kagome decided to check on Sesshomaru before turning in for the night, it took a few minutes to find his door. Knocking she waited until the door opened to show Sesshomaru pulling a haori closed.

"I just wanted to check on you before going to bed."

"I am fine miko." He growled trying to close the door only to have her grab it and stare at him with large sad eyes.

"Don't do that," She whispered reaching up to touch his face and watch him give a slight pull away before she made contact. "Don't push me away again Sesshomaru. I know you care for me and I am not going anywhere, Kaminari mentioned your caring to me."

"Kagome." He closed his eyes and leaned into her touch before pulling her into the room and closing the door. He sat with her at the foot of his large raised bed nuzzling her throat and growling as she ran her fingers through his hair and rubbed his ears. "This one is sorry for hurting you."

"I just want you to know that I am here and you don't have to hide from me." Sesshomaru nodded against her chest as she chuckled at his reluctance to release her. "I need to go to my own room before your servants start talking."

"If you leave now they will think you a whore, stay and they will think you mean more." He leaned them back on the bed and curled her against his warm side before closing his eyes and relaxing. Kagome went to lean up only to have him pull her back down against the bed and his chest. "I will not let them assume wrong." He growled pressing a kiss to the underside of her jaw.

They met in the dining hall the next morning, eating a light breakfast before heading down to the general's office to devise a plan of attack against Naraku. Kaminari entered as they narrowed down the field from the northern kingdom. "So, have any of you seen him to the south?"

"This is our battle Kaminari." Sesshomaru watched her walk around the table to stand at his side and examine the maps. Touching the tip of her claw to the paper she burns a mark at a water source. None had to ask that the location was where she had been all that time.

"We will begin moving from north east to south west. He is not in the western lands; the patrols would have found it by now." Sesshomaru growled at his twin for inserting herself in the situation. "You know that I could never keep out of a battle, so stop the growling."

Kagome felt a laugh bubble up; she bit back and saved the image of the two glaring at one another for later. Placing her finger on the South West she looked up at the demons. "I feel like he is here." They spoke for several moments before declaring the place something to be searched.

Packing Kagome and the others waved back at Sesshomaru's ward and Shippou as they stood in the palace gates. Adjusting her pack Kagome walked directly behind Kaminari and Sesshomaru, admiring the way they were in perfect tempo with the other. Even with the years apart they seemed to function like a well oiled machine, firing at the perfect times.

Two short chapters equals a large right?

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