Ch. 16

"Damn you Loki…" Kahn starts talking in his sleep. "Nobody likes you…"

Oliver comes walking down the hallway, a group of demons behind him. "Well this is a nice sight. Khan sleeping in front of the door; talking to himself." Oliver shifts Khan away from the door. "Geez Khan! You sleep like a rock!" He's able to move Khan completely out of the way without having to completely drag Khan away from the door. "Lady Kagome is inside, she needs new bandages and help to heal." He opens the door to find Sesshomaru asleep in the chair beside Kagome, leaning on the bed holding her hand. "Umm… Lord Hiroto? Lord Sesshomaru is in here." The dragon demon Lord enters the room.

"Aww… how cute. This is great blackmail."

"My Lord!" Oliver glares at Hiroto.

"I was only kidding Oliver. I'll take Sesshomaru to the living room." He picks up Sesshy and throws him over his shoulder, carrying the sleeping Lord out of the room.

"Alright people let's get to work." Oliver takes charge. –Lady Kagome?-

-…Oliver…-

-I've brought the healers from the South. We're going to help you ok?-

-…Sesshy…-

-He's sleeping. Lord Hiroto is taking care of him.-

-…Khan…-

-Is sleeping like a rock in the hallway.-

-…ok…-

-Do not be afraid, everything will turn out ok.-

-I… trust… you…-

(A few hours later)

Sesshomaru opens his eyes to find himself on a couch in the living room. "WTF?" He immediately sits up and looks around the room quickly.

"Easy Sesshomaru, everything is exactly the way it was when you fell asleep." Hiroto is sitting comfortably on a couch across from Sesshy. "Khan is still sleeping."

"What are you doing here Hiroto?"

"Oliver came for the South's healers. He left her last night and returned a few hours ago. I don't think I've seen him run so fast, he was really worried. So I fallowed him. He explained everything to me on the way here. I'm sorry."

"My half brother wasn't any of your concern."

"Would you tell me what happened? I would like to here it from you."

"I should've never left her side." He stares at the floor.

"You didn't know what was going to happen. Stop blaming yourself Sesshomaru."

"Zzz… I like chicken with a side of rice pleazzz…" Said Khan.

"He's talking in his sleep again." Sesshy rolls his eyes.

"I took the liberty of moving him in here as well. I didn't think he'd appreciate someone accidentally stepping on him."

"yes… we shall burn the Eastern castle… zzz…" Khan unknowingly whispers.

Sesshy looks over at Hiroto. "You can ignore that comment. He has no idea what he's saying. I'm sure what he's saying is completely random."

"You do not have to apologize for Khan, Sesshomaru. My aunt was your mother, we're cousins as well as friends. And I like the idea of burning down the Eastern castle, it sounds like fun."

"You never really change do you?" Sesshomaru shakes his head.

"I wouldn't be me if I changed."

"That's true."

"Besides, I don't like Loki one bit. She's so stuck up!"

"Yeah, no kidding."

"If she's not the center of your world she get's pissed! And she's WAY too clingy! If she doesn't get what she wants from you, which is usually your undivided attention every waking second, she bitches at you!"

"I know."

"You're never able to get any work done! And she's not smart at all! She only knows something if it pertains to her like what color her hair is of something! She's completely brain dead!"

"Why are we talking about Loki? This is stupid, we hate her."

"I don't really know." He seems to be thinking. "Anywho, my healers are with your mate right now. So tell me what happened, I know she's dying."

Sesshy sighs. "Where do you want me to start the story?"

"At the beginning of course." Hiroto resituates himself on the couch across from Sesshy's. "Ok, story time."

"Whatever. I will tell you everything from the time I first saw my mate. It was several years ago, when I heard that my half brother had been awakened. A powerful miko had appeared and released him. They thought she was the reincarnation of a dead priestess, for she carried with her the Shikon No Tama; the jewel of four souls. Hearing of my half brother's resurrection, I went after him, looking for my Father's grave. I knew my Father had left a powerful sword behind, like Tetseiga. But that instead of healing 1,000 men, it could kill 1,000 demons. The Tetsiega. It was the ultimate sword. I saw a human female was traveling with him and scorned him. I told him he was weak, like Father, to be going around with a human. We fought inside Father's grave. I tried to take the sword, but there was a powerful binding spell on it. So when I touched the sword I was electrocuted. When Inuyasha touched it, nothing happened. But he couldn't pull it out of the stand. While we were fighting I told Jakken to get rid of her. She grabbed his two-headed staff and beat him with it. She didn't try to pull the Tetsiega out of its stand, she simply picked it up. It was strange, how could a mere human be able to wield a sword that powerful? That intrigued me. There was more fighting, Inuyasha learned how to wield the Tetsiega in it's true form by the help of the miko and I tried to kill her. Then I left because Inuyasha had somehow managed to cut off my arm. I attacked them several times in order to get the Tetsiega but as long as she helped him, he always won. She was the reason why I couldn't kill him, she was fascinating to me. I fallowed them frequently in their travels, staying a good distance behind them so Inuyasha couldn't smell me. Kagome could sense me though, she knew when I was fallowing them, yet she never told Inuyasha. I noticed that every night she would take a walk. She would leave camp shether or not Inuyasha would let her. She would 'sit' him into the ground and walk off when he wouldn't let her go. One night I confronted her. I appeared in front of her, picked her up by the neck and threateningly asked her why she had not told Inuyasha that I had been fallowing them for quite some time. She didn't answer me, so I growled at her only to find that she was crying. I couldn't stop myself from asking why. Her voice was hallow and sounded a bit creepy when she finally answered 'he's with her again'. Then she yelled out 'screw the consequences!' and hugged me. She just threw herself at me and hugged me, her tears littering the ground. It completely shocked me, that someone would have the ordacity to do that. My instincts took over and I wrapped my arms around her and drew her closer. I could feel her pain and I hated it. Thoughts on what to do swirled around in my head and I thought of mutilating Inuyasha. He had made this powerful, smart miko cry. And I liked her. She never feared me or ran from me. She accepted who I was right away and didn't care about the past fights where I had tried to kill her. We became friends, which was kind of awkward because I wanted to kill Inuyasha and she was traveling with him. It wasn't a problem to keep Inuyasha from knowing, he was too busy with the dead miko to even think to care about where Kagome was disappearing to, or who. He really hurt her, going to that dead bitch when he kept telling her that he loved her. His lying words made me sick. I couldn't stand watching her with him. He was not worthy of such a gentle creature. But she kept returning to him, loyal as she was. I'd sit in a tree and she'd sit on a tree root below me and talk to me. I wouldn't give her much of a response but she didn't care, she knew I was listening. When I was here, at night I would run to where ever they were so that I could see her. When she was crying, I would hold her and try to comfort her. And when I held her, I felt like I never wanted to let her go, I never wanted to. But when dawn came she would have to leave to go back to my half brother. Watching her leave, watching her go back to Inuyasha, that killed me. Kagome had healed my arm a while ago and I wanted to kill Inuyasha. Poke out his eyes, punch a hole in his head and rip out the piece of brain he had. Then I'd grab hold of his ears and burn them through with acid –"

"Can you stop describing that and get back to the story please?"

"…oh fine. You're no fun."

"Just continue the story."

"I was, you interrupted me."

"You were starting to get descriptive on how you would supposedly kill your half brother."

"That's not supposedly anymore. I did kill him and my description is how he died. Of couse I added to it, but that is how he died the other day. My foretelling of his death was very accurate."

"Seeing as it's you who said that and killed him, I'm quite sure that you were deadly accurate in your killing."

"Of course I was. He paid for what he did to my mate."

Khan wakes up and looks around. "I've been moved…"

"Lord Sesshomaru?" Oliver pokes his head in.

"Yes? What is it?" Sesshomaru pauses. "Did something happen to my mate?"

"She…"