That last chapter had me going insane while typing away, my word. Hope you all liked it and I hope it got your suspense moving! If you liked it, please let me know. Reviews keep me going, after all. Here's the next one!

Kagome could barely register what was going on. Crying silently, the pain intensified. Groaning, she opened her eyes feeling arms being ripped from her. Falling to the

ground on her side, she could feel the blood pouring from the wounds on her chest. Looking out in front of her, she noticed the demons, her captors, fighting with a much

larger demon with red, feral, eyes. Taking a mental note of the demon, she looked at its appearance. She noticed that it was a large white dog with certain markings, that

vaguely, through her haze, she could remember. "Sesshomaru...", she whispered as she reached out her hand to him. The demon seemed to hear her and barked in her

direction, as if reassuring her that things would be okay. "Are you holding back on us, bastard!" the lizard demon leader yelled as he jumped out of reach of a large paw that

slammed to the ground. Angered at how long the fight had already taken, and becoming rather bored, Sesshomaru snarled, jumped into the air, and pounced onto two of his

victims, crushing them under the weight of his large paws, acid eating away at them and dissolving them. Sesshomaru stalked his next victim who was now, as it seemed,

pleading for his life. "P...P...Please, look, I was just playing around. The master, you know how he is. He wants all Miko's dead. I wasn't going to actually k..." before the

leader could finish, Sesshomaru ripped off his head in a gory scene of blood, with his teeth. Kagome was barely awake now but continued to fight against herself to stay

awake in order to see him. Sesshomaru howled into the sky at his conquering of the three demons. Changing back into his humanoid form, he shook his claws of access blood

and walked over to where Kagome lay on the ground covered in blood. Stooping down he held her chin between her fingers as he gazed at her. "Under certain circumstances,

it would have been nicer to see you. However, I suppose I shall take what I can get." Kagome smiled at his unusual words of emotion. "It's good to see you too...but...I'm

afraid...I'm so tired, Sesshomaru." Sesshomaru picked her up and started to walk away. "Where are we going?" Kagome asked as she coughed up blood, staining is haori.

"Sorry..." she whispered, knowing he liked looking in pristine condition. Sesshomaru merely snorted at this. "Do not be sorry, Miko. As to where we are going, we are going to

get you help. You are on the verge of dying. You have lost too much blood." With that, Kagome smiled and fell into a blissful unconsciousness.

Groaning as the sun shown in her face, Kagome opened her eyes to see a straw roof above her. 'Where am I?' she thought to herself. "You are in a nearby village."

Sesshomaru said, stepping in, as if he heard her un-spoken question. Kagome went to sit up and cried out in pain, falling back down on the futon she was resting on.

Sesshomaru sighed and walked over to her, bending down, and put an arm around her back to help her up. "You need to be careful. You were critically injured. You are still

healing, and because you are human, you will be for some time." Kagome smiled at his random act of kindness and allowed him to prop her up on some pillows behind her.

"How long have I been asleep?" she asked eying him carefully. "About a week now. The doctor of this hut questioned whether you would awaken or not. This Sesshomaru told

her otherwise." Sesshomaru said gazing down into her blue eyes. Kagome blushed at his intense gaze. "Of course you would know." she said laughing softly. "I'm not...i'm

not entirely sure why I am back here. I was doing some research for my University and I ended up...well I ended up back here in a field a ways away." Kagome said

explaining how she had gotten there in the process. "So your powers have not returned, yet you were able to travel back here? How can that be?" Sesshomaru asked, clearly

confused. "I sense power within you, Kagome. It is strong, and even more powerful than when you left. You radiate pure unknown power. Your aura alone attests to that

fact." he said while sitting down regally next to her. Kagome pondered this while feeling a bit self conscious for her state of dress and...wait, her state of dress! When

Sesshomaru had found her, her top was completely bare! 'Oh Kami.' Kagome thought to herself groaning in the process. Sesshomaru seemed to sense her unease and

cleared his throat. "Are you okay?" he asked, almost as if he was worried. No, that couldn't be it. The great Lord of the West never worried for anyone but himself, and Rin, of

course, right? Kagome shook her head of troubling thoughts. "Yeah, just thinking. You say you can sense power in me. How am I supposed to know? I don't even know why

I'm here!" she said exasperated as she threw her hands in the air. Sesshomaru arched an eyebrow at her act of annoyance. "We will find out soon enough about your power.

As for why you are here, I have a theory, though, this Sesshomaru might be wrong." Kagome gasped. "No! The mighty Lord of the West, wrong? It can't be!" she said

laughing loudly. Sesshomaru smirked at her which cause Kagome to stop laughing. "I assure you, Miko. I am never wrong. It is merely a theory. No truth has been claimed to

it, as of yet." he stated matter of factly. "Okay, so tell me this theory of yours." Kagome stated while smiling at him. "There is a prophesy, a story of sorts. It involves a Miko,

a very powerful Miko. In fact, she is said to be the most powerful human in the world. One who does not age. It is said that she comes from another world. The evil that

permeates the world, one being who wishes to enslave the lesser demons and exterminate humans all together, is said to take form as a demon itself. The Miko's mission is

to destroy and conquer this demon, in doing so, freeing all demons and humans from its grasp and, in essence, "save the world". It is also said that when she has completed

her destiny, she will be disappear and no trace of her will appear for a very long time." Sesshomaru finished staring off out the window, seemingly in thought. Kagome played

his story over and over in his mind. 'It's not possible. I already had a mission. I completed my mission...but what if that was only to get me ready for this one? What if that

mission was training me, training me for something bigger?' Kagome thought. "What if the prophesy is right? What if it's about me?" Kagome asked as Sesshomaru turned

towards curiously. "I suppose there is only one way to know, Miko. We must go about getting back your powers." he said to her as she in turn nodded her head at him. It

would make sense to do that first. After all, look what she had gotten herself into. She had been living on laziness and security for so long that she had forgotten of such

evils. Now she was all too aware. "Get some rest. You will need it. Tomorrow we set off to my home. The Western Palace."