Chapter 7

Morning

Kagome's POV

I feel the warm rays of the morning sunlight on my face as I wake up. I feel two very strong arms wrapped around my waist, holding me to a warm chest. I feel warm breath on my neck, causing me to open my eyes.

I slowly turn my head around and find the peaceful face of a sleeping Sesshoumaru in front of me. I smile because truth be told I have never seen Sesshoumaru look so peaceful and relaxed, the whole time I have known him.

I bring my hand up to trace the crescent moon on his forehead. I have always wanted to touch his markings, but never dared. His eyes open, gold meets brown in a dance.

"Good morning, Kagome. How did you sleep?" He asks.

"Very well, Sesshoumaru. Thank you." I reply.

He unwraps his arms from my waist and I instantly feel the loss of his arms and wish they would return. He stands up and helps me up off the mat. I try to make my clothes even and make my hair less tattered.

I walk behind Sesshoumaru out of Kaede's hut and into the hot morning sunlight. I move my arm to cover my eyes from the blinding sunlight while following Sesshoumaru over to one of the shady trees. I see Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Souta, Gramps and Kaede talking.

Sango sees me walking a couple of steps behind Sesshoumaru and walks past him and envelops me in a hug. I hug her back.

"Oh Kagome, we are so glad you are awake." She says.

She pulls back and looks into my eyes with a bright smile on her face. I smile back at her and Shippou jumps into my arms. I hug him to me.

"I am glad you are okay, Kagome." He says.

"Aw, Shippou." I say.

I lift Shippou onto my shoulder where he settles down. I see Sesshoumaru's eyes on Shippou. He averts his eyes once he catches me looking at him.

Something then pops into my head. "Sesshoumaru where are Rin, Jaken and Ah-Un." I ask.

"They are in a field nearby." He replies.

"Okay."

"I will go make us all something to eat. Will you please help me Haru?" Kaede asks.

"Of course, Kaede." My grandfather says.

I watch as Kaede and Gramps walk past us and into Kaede's hut to prepare breakfast. Sesshoumaru walks out without saying a word to retrieve Rin, Jaken and Ah-Un, or at least that's what I'm guessing.

Sango and I walk over to Miroku and Souta. Souta comes over to me and hugs me. It surprised me since we don't do much hugging, even though we love each other dearly.

"Welcome back to the world of the living, Sis." He says.

"Thanks Souta." I slap him over the head. "But you better watch it because you could not be here soon."

He rubs his head and looks up at me with a look of annoyance on his face. "Mom wouldn't let you do that." He says.

"Oh really." I say.

"Yes."

"Well let's just see."

Souta starts to back away from me and I take slow steps towards him in a pattern, trying my best to scare the daylights out of him. I leap towards him but stop when I hear.

"Kagome, that's enough."

I look over my shoulder and find my mother and father standing by Sango and Miroku, looking right at us.

"Mom I wasn't going to hurt him." I say in my defence.

"I know you wouldn't darling. Souta quit tempting your sister." My mother says as she looks right at Souta.

"But Mom." Souta whines.

"Enough Souta." She says in a "that's final" tone.

"K."

I feel Shippou jump off of my shoulder over onto Miroku's. I look at them when Miroku starts talking.

"Shippou and I are going to go see if the villagers need any help before Lady Kaede has breakfast done."

"Okay."

With that Miroku and Shippou leave our small group. They walk into the village where the men are already hard at work in the fields.

I can feel Sesshoumaru's aura heading our way along with 2 other demonic auras that are very weak compared to his. I turn to my mother, father, and Sango.

I can see that my parents look slightly flushed and a smell flutters into my heightened senses that is coming off of both of them. Their scents are mixed together, almost in a dance around each other.

"So what happened after I blacked out yesterday?" I ask.

Sango is the first to speak up. "We all talked for hours on end. We all got to get to know your family Kagome. I am pretty sure that everyone loves them already."

"We love you guys too." My mother says in a sweet tone, totally different than the one from earlier.

"I have to agree with my mate on the Miss Sango. You all filled us in on stuff Kagome love's to do." My father says.

"I am glad you all like each other."I say.

I look over my shoulder and find Sesshoumaru, Rin, Jaken and Ah-Un making their way through the forest. Rin spots me and a smile lights up her face while she runs towards me.

"Kagome-sama." She says.

I kneel down and pull her into a hug which she returns. When we pull back a couple seconds later she looks up into my eyes.

"Hello Rin. How are you?" I ask.

"Rin is good Kagome-sama." She says.

"Rin you don't have to use Kagome-sama. Kagome is just fine."

"Okay Kagome. Rin is glad that Rin gets to spend some time with you."

"I am glad Rin."

I stand up and Rin runs over to greet everyone else. I look at Sesshoumaru and his expression has lightened. It has slightly relaxed from the cold look he had on when he entered.

"Breakfast"

We all turn to find my grandpa standing outside of Kaede's hut. Sesshoumaru walks over to me and takes my hand. We walk over and into Kaede's hut, followed by my parents, Souta, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Rin.

We all find a place to sit in the hut and my grandfather helps Kaede to pass out the soup she has made for breakfast, to everyone (except Sesshoumaru, since he doesn't eat human food) before they take theirs and sit down beside my parents.

I take the first taste of soup and it is quite good. I know Sesshoumaru does not eat human food so it looks like he is the only one not eating. We all enjoy our food and have slight conversations throughout breakfast.

Some Where In The Eastern Lands

Inuyasha's POV

I growl while pulling Tessaiga out and letting it transform. I ear Kikyou latch an arrow in her bow, ready to fire when need be. A couple hours after Kagome returned to her time I took the others back to Kaede's village then set off to find Kikyou.

I decided to stay with Kikyou for a while; we started right away looking for the jewel shards. After a few days of traveling we come across Naraku's aura traveling towards us.

So here we are now, Naraku standing in front of us with his sly smirk on his face.

"Hello Inuyasha, so quick to abandon your group?" He asks.

"Shut the hell up Naraku and prepare to die." I yell.

I jump into the air, swing Tessaiga and send the Windscar straight at him. He puts a barrier up and the Windscar hits it and dissipates.

"Such weak attacks Inuyasha, how do you expect to kill me?"

"Just shut the hell up Naraku."

I send another attack at him but it's useless. I sneak a peek at Kikyou just as she sends an arrow straight for Naraku. It hits the barrier, but instead of falling to the ground it breaks the barrier and I take the chance to send the Windscar at Naraku.

Within a few minutes we are in a heated battle with Naraku, but for some reason Kikyou is not using as much force as she usually would.

I turn my head for one second to check on Kikyou and Naraku uses that time to send a tentacle straight at me. I don't realise it until it's too late and the tentacle goes straight through my abdomen, followed by a few more.

I fall to the ground, I can feel myself starting to lose a lot of blood and my vision blurs as I try to look at Naraku. I find him and Kikyou standing over me, both smirking.

"Goodnight, Inuyasha." I hear Kikyou say.

I close my eyes, willing myself to not fall asleep, but to no avail I fall unconscious.

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