Chapter 3: The Mysterious Mark
Unohana-taicho was in her office working on her paper work when Kira-fukutaicho slide open her door with his taicho unconscious in his arms.
The taicho of the fourth division stood up and moved over to Izuru to see what had happened to Higurash-taicho.
"Kira-fukutaicho? What's wrong with Higurashi-taicho?" She asked the distrot fukutaicho.
"I don't know exactly." He confessed. "But she was fine about a moment ago."
Unohana -taicho 'hmm'ed before she motioned Izuru to follow her into a room where she could get a better look at the young taicho.
When Izuru had barely set Kagome down on the bed, the sliding door to the room burst open to reveal a young girl with long silver hair, dog ears on top of her head, golden eyes, and dressed in a dark blue kimono and occumpaning her was a solid black inu youkai with redish orange colored eyes.
The silver-haired girl ran towards Kagome with tears that threatened to fall. The inu wasn't far behind her.
"Mama!" The girl cried out as she ran to the unconscious miko/shinigami.
"Kaori?" Unohana-taicho called the young girl's name who launched herself towards her mother.
The girl, that Unohana-taicho called Kaori, stared at said taicho with tears in her eyes.
"Yes?" Kaori replied.
"What are you doing here?"
Kaori stared back at her unconscious mother that lay on the bed.
"I was coming to visit Mama today like I normally do, but I had to run away from her because she was angry at Izuru for peeping on her," Izuru blushed at the memory. "so I went to Jushiro and Shunsui to get away from Mama's wrath."
Unohana-taicho nodded at the girl then stared at the solid black inu youkai who hopped onto the bed and sat beside the unconscious young woman.
Said inu youkai turned her gaze from Kagome to Unohana-taicho and knew what she was going to ask.
"I heard that Kagome had fainted in her quarters from Kaori when she came back to the village and I already had a feeling that something was off about Kagome today anyway." The inu shrugged. "So when Kaori entered the hut that I was in and told me what had happened I rushed over here to see if Kagome was alright." The inu tilted her head, staring at Kagome's neck and pulled some of her kimono away from her neck to what it was that had caught her eye.
When the youkai had removed some of the kimono away from the left side of Kagome's neck, Izuru blushed even more, Kaori tilted her head to the side, and Unohana-taicho just stared at the mysterious mark her friend's neck.
"What is it, Yanalii?" Kaori asked the inu youkai that she called Yanalii.
Yanalii lowered her head in sorrow, sighing with her eyes closed.
"I know why Kagome lost consciousness." She confessed after a moment.
"What caused her lose consciousness Yanalii?" Unohana-taicho asked Yanalii.
"This-" Yanalii pointed to the mysterious mark that still glowed an angery red with her paw. "-is what is known as a "mate mark" among youkai."
"What does that have anything to do with Mama passing out?" Kaori asked the inu that was practically family to her.
Yanalii swallowed, preparing for a long explaination.
"You are aware that you mother and father were mated before you were born but had no idea what that remember, correct?"
Kaori nodded, waiting for Yanalii to continue.
"Being mated to someone means that they have a bond with one another. However, if the two mates are separated for a long time then the bond between the two will slowly break and it is very painful for the female of the relationship, except for rare cases."
"Will she live?" Izuru asked, now terrified for his taicho.
Yanalii nodded.
"She will just be in immense pain until the bond is finally broken. Also, if the mate bond between your mother and father is breaking then that means that your father has most likely lost all memory of Kagome...and you as well." Yanalii whispered the last part, hoping that no one heard.
However, Kaori heard it perfectly.
"Does that mean if Higurashi-taicho is reunited with her mate again that her pain with go away and her mate will have his memories of Kaori and Kagome return to him?" Unohana-taicho wondered to the inu youkai who didn't answer but continued to stare at the unconscious woman that Yanalii considered a mother.
"I wouldn't know until Inuyasha passes on when his time comes and is reunited with Kagome once again." Yanalii explained.
"However," Yanalii paused. "You might want to be a little leary around Kagome though. If the pain worsens then, her powers will take control of her body and she will destory anyone and/or anything in her path. So, if you want to prevent that, I suggest you might want to have Zaraki-taicho or some of his best division shinigami to watch over Kagome just in case that happens when her miko powers go hay-wire." Yanalii blinked, thinking better of having that lunatic, Zaraki-taicho of going near Kagome. "Never mind asking Zaraki-taicho, I don't trust that nut-case."
Unohana-taicho blinked but the mention of a miko caught her curiousity. "Miko?" Unohana-taicho asked, in interest.
Yanalii nodded. "But you two must not tell anyone that Kagome is not only a miko, but is the Shikon no Miko."
"Why?" Izuru asked the youkai inu.
"Because Kagome doesn't want to catch any attention to any of the shinigami in the Soul Society. Not to mention that creepy lunatic Kurotsuchi-taicho will want to experiment on Kagome, which I absolutely refuse to happen." Yanalii said flatly. "Agreed?"
Unohana-taicho and Izuru nodded.
"Thank you. I appreiate it."
"You're welcome, Yanalii." Unohana-taicho replied, ushering Izuru out of the room so Kaori and Yanalii could be alone with Kagome, seeing as it looked like they wanted it that way.