Chapter Eleven- Panics Action
Kagome's face grew deathly still as she ran back to the castle, a good two hours run at the speed she was traveling. She didn't remember that she was holding Shippou in her arm's nor did she notice that Kilala was riding behind her, although not as fast, Kilala could still keep up as much as not to lose her scent as she carried Sango and Miroku on her back
Two hours went by quick and Kagome was tiring, finally reaching the gates she could see the destruction that went on before her eyes. Naraku's demons surrounded the castle while many good demons were dying trying to save their lord. Kagome put down Shippou and ran to the middle of the battle field, putting up a strong barrier around the whole palace, taking more of her energy.
"Your fight isn't with them Naraku!" Kagome screamed from the ground, releasing more of her energy, trying to fight off the demon's that flew towards her attempting to injure her in some way.
"You will die Kagome-…" Naraku whispered as a shriek entered the air. Kagome twisted around seeing Sango in one of Naraku's tentacles.
"Leave them alone and fight fairly you bastard!" Kagome drew her ken and disabled the tentacle in one swift movement. Move demons moved in on her and one struck Kagome, skinning the back of her head as blood started to drip down her neck. Kagome knew the only way to keep fighting was to take them away from the castle. With one last blast of power Kagome turned and bolted it through the gates and back through the forest, her legs exhausted from so much running and her head was pounding, a headache started to form and Kagome's conscious began to fade. To her surprise Sakai joined her, allowing Kagome to jump on the neko, regaining energy quickly and watching as Naraku started to follow her through the forest, but he was gaining on her much too quickly causing Kagome to jump off Sakai and faced the demon head on. Letting her miko powers flow through her ken she ran towards Naraku and at the last moment skidded to a stop throwing her ken into the air, focusing her miko powers as she guided it up into Naraku's body.
The movement was too fast for the figure to catch, letting out a shriek of pain the figure of Naraku fell and Kagome cursed herself for wasting so much energy on a puppet. Sakai returned her side and started to nudge her, this time Kagome understood that she needed to return to the palace if she was to protect her friends. "Alright lets go home." She whispered to Sakai who just purred loudly, happy she wasn't to only one who realized what the priestess had to do.
The walk back to the palace was silent and Kagome thought of what she would do about the whole 'royal' conference, she knew she didn't know how to act royal and after being with Kyouko, fighting for her life for two years she wasn't sure she could act all that lady like. Sure she could sound like it but that wasn't the same.
Shaking her head Kagome let out a loud sigh, sounding as if it was echoing Kagome looked around. 'Never a dull moment around here is there?' Kagome mused to herself and smiled. Sakai wasn't cautious so Kagome let it go. At the moment she was just glad that everyone else was safe.
"Every time you think things will be alright dear Kagome I will make them go terrible wrong. Just because my puppets and demons weren't able to kill you, doesn't mean I won't be able to and when I do I don't care if my life is over, once I get what I want out of you I will dispose of you and then nothing will stop me from getting the rest of the jewel and killing your pathetic friends."
The words whispered in Kagome's ear and she looked around, trying to feel anything out of the ordinary, but nothing came to mind. Then wind started to blow and rain started to pour down, drumming on the back of Kagome's head, causing her forgotten cut to throb.
"Can we move any faster Sakai?" Kagome asked faintly. Sakai let out a loud yowl and sped up, moving faster through the forest until Kagome was able to see the gates approaching.
Once inside the gates Kagome took another look at the damage that was done, nothing to serious had taken place, though a few good guards had died and some others were injured Kagome knew that they could be fixed up by the healer.
'Healer' the words echoed in her ears again and Kagome's head began to throb immensely. Sakai looked at her in worry and started to move quickly into the palace, snorting as shaking her head at the scent of so many youki. With another yowl the palace seemed to quiet down and Kagome's eye lids started to get heavy. She barely noticed the quickening foot steps and two strong arms grabbed her, telling her not to fall asleep.
'Sleep Kagome sleep.' Words echoed louder in her head, getting her to whisper them.
"No Kagome Listen to me, don't go to sleep, I will find Sesshoumaru and a healer, but don't go to sleep."
"Sleep."
"Kagome, don't you dare go to sleep or I will hurt you so bad."
"Hurt you, I will hurt you."
"Kagome stop it, what's wrong with you, you have to fight whatever it is Kagome don't give in on my now."
"Fight Kagome, fight."
"I love you Kagome." Kagome mumbled a few words as the male voice kept telling her he loved her, keeping the poisonous voice out of her head.
Kagome closed her blood shot eyes and started to drift when a sharp pain when through the top of her head. Kagome let out a little yelp only to receive a warning voice "Kagome don't you dare fall asleep on me you silly girl. I love you and I am not going to let you die again."
"Die."
"Dammit stop it already-…Lord Sesshoumaru I need your best healer."
"What for?" Kagome felt herself being offered like an offering and brought back to the warm body. Snuggling towards the heat Kagome heard a growl come from someone's throat.
"I'm-…Sesshoumaru-…fault." The male voice said in a sorry tone as Kagome started to drift further into sleep, the words cutting in and out.
"Kagome, it's alright, you'll be alright Kagome." The soft voice started to fade when it started to go again, this time booming. "You! Send for a Healer for lady Kagome, if she dies this Sesshoumaru will have your head."
'Sesshoumaru, Sesshoumaru where are you?'
"Kill him kill Sesshoumaru.
'No, I love him.'
"Kagome, my love this Sesshoumaru needs you to stay awake." Kagome felt herself being transferred, she was lifted and settled in someone else's arms, saddened because she had lost her heat source, but happy when she found another one, snuggling close to the new male.
The door closed and threw the tiny slits in her eyes Kagome could make out the room. It was her room, the one given to her by Sesshoumaru himself.
"Kagome-...Leave me. Please don't leave me." Kagome opened her eyes up the tiniest bit, confused at his words. Soon she heard the door open and close and someone ran up to her, looking at her then poking her around the skull, hurting her.
"Stop, stop it." Kagome murmured quietly, gathering the healer's attention. Short minutes later the healer started to poke her again. "Stop please, you're hurting me" Kagome mumbled again, but the healer didn't look like he was going to stop poking and prodding. Panic ran through Kagome's veins and straight to her heart. "I said STOP IT!" Kagome's aura flared, bolting up in bed, her eyes deep purple, looking almost black. The healer and Sesshoumaru were thrown backwards by the raw power. Kagome stared into Sesshoumaru's ember eyes, noticing the look or worry and fear in his eyes once more. The power stopped and Kagome frowned. Fear did not belong in his eyes at all, it didn't look right. Kagome's eyes turned back to their light violet color and she felt like crying. Falling back into her bed Kagome sat there and just let her head throb. She had hurt him yet again. But the pain reminded her of why she left, Sesshoumaru's childish words came rushing back and Kagome said then to herself slowly, forgetting she had company watching her.
"An inu demon can never truly love someone. We inu demons do not mate for life and we do it for a reason, we never truly fall in love." Tears fell through closed eyes as she remembered the look of pure hate on young Saito's face, why was it that Saito hated her now? What did she do wrong?
"Kagome?" The voice what was once soft was now hardened and strong slightly scared of what she was pointing towards. "Kagome where did you hear those words? Who told you that?"
"Is it true lord Sesshoumaru?"
Sesshoumaru looked at the healer who was looking at both of them in confusion and Sesshoumaru gave him the 'I will talk to you later' look. "Kagome I need to know what happened when you were in that room."
"She is right isn't she? Your little sister, Inuyouki never really fall in love do they. They don't want to have to commit-…"
"Kagome." Sesshoumaru warned in a cold voice, telling her to stop talking, but Kagome ignored his warning and kept on talking.
"Too mate with one being, they use their mate like some kind of prostitute, and then leave them for a better bitch-…"
"Kagome stop it." Sesshoumaru let out a growl, mad that she didn't listen to him when he first warned her.
"That's were men got the idea, I remember when I thought Shunsuke was the one I loved, but then I found out he cheated on me with my friend and then tried to rape me. Then there was Inuyasha, always with Kikyou, all men are the same-…"
"Kagome do you really think I would have wasted every spare minute I had sending search parties out looking for you if I didn't love you?" Sesshoumaru's face was red with anger. 'Why can't this woman see that I care for her!'
"Wasted? Is that what you thought of it lord Sesshoumaru?"
"You know that's not what I meant Kagome! I searched for you because I care for you!"
"But you didn't search yourself, you were too busy for me. I would have come back if you would have searched yourself."
"I did search Kagome. Every time I went to check the villages on the border I looked for you, hoping I'd see you or at least recognize you."
A guilty look appeared on Kagome's face, she knew what she said was a lie. "You did find me though. I was in one of the villages you checked on, you didn't see me, but I seen you but it was too soon and I had to be with Kyouko. After we found Saito he was worried about her. She warned me that coming back would be hard and that nothing would be the same, she jinxed me, after she had said that it was all I wanted to do, come back here to be with you again."
"Where did you see Saito-…?"
"I sometimes wish that I had never met you and at the same time I was mad at you for not coming after me when I left."
"Kagome-…"
"Why didn't you come for me Sesshoumaru? Why didn't you stop me from going away? If you loved me why didn't you chase after me-…?"
"Kagome kami knew I wanted to, but you needed to find your own way-…"
"It's because you didn't truly love me." Sesshoumaru gripped Kagome's shoulders and pulled her into his chest, letting her sob into his hoari. Her body jerk as new sobs came from her mouth.
"Kagome I love you, and I was wrong when I said that inuyouki never truly love someone. That's the reason my father died for lady Izayio, he loved her, Saito and I just didn't understand why he didn't want to be with us anymore." Sesshoumaru took a breath, trying to explain what happened that night when him and his sister hid in her room as his father went off to fight for Inuyasha's human mother. "But I know now it is because we were old enough and at that moment we did not need his help, I was strong enough to fight for my little sister, but Izayio and Inuyasha were defenseless. They needed my father's help."
"Just like I need your love right now?" Kagome whispered looking up into his soft kind face. It was rare that his face showed any kind of emotion, but Kagome was over content when he smiled at her and nodded.
"Kagome, my love you will always receive my love." Kagome smiled and her still teary eyes met his as they locked. He dipped his head and their eyes closed automatically. Letting their lips meet in a sweet kiss.
There was a knock on the door and a growl came from Sesshoumaru's throat, but he did not release Kagome from the kiss instead he deepened it, nibbling on her bottom lip as she gave his access to her mouth.
The knock on the door was louder now and with more force, Sesshoumaru growled again, he had waited two years to kiss her like this again and he was not going to stop now. Then the door burst open and Inuyasha stormed in and walked around to where Kagome and his brother were kissing. He grabbed Kagome by the wrist and pulled her away from Sesshoumaru, receiving more than a warning growl. The edges of Sesshoumaru's eyes were tainted blood red, but Inuyasha didn't care at the moment.
"What did you do you her!"