Sesshomaru quickly carried his twin to her bedroom. He gently laid her on her bed.

"Where is the Healer?!"

"She's on her way, milord."

Moments later, the healer quickly came in with her bag of medicinal herbs. The healer was an old inuyoukai. She was the head healer for the noble inuyoukai family since Inu no Taisho's father was the ruler of the Western Lands of Japan. She examined Inuhime as per usual. She hadn't found anything that could cause her 'illness'.

"Myouga, are you here," asked the Healer.

"Y-yes, milady."

"Could you tasted her blood to see if there's any abnormalities?"

"Of course, I'll do anything for Lady Inuhime."

Myouga hopped on top of Inuhime and then hopped to her neck. He pierced her flesh with his tiny mouth. He sucked more than enough for him to analyzed on what he had tasted.

"Awe, how I miss this tasty inu blood."

"Well, Myouga. What is it? Poison," Sesshomaru asked with impatience.

"No, it's normal and quite tasty, too. mmm."

"You are dismiss, Myouga."

He hopped off of his lady's neck, but stayed around.

"Well, this is odd, milord. I never had a case of ailments like this before. I found nothing that could explain this, but I know someone who may help, but she's a two-day journey from here."

"Who or what is she?"

"She's my sister and a miko-youkai."

"impossible."

"Impossible, you say? How do you explain your twin's power, then. Don't you know that she's also a miko-youkai?"

"Very well. You'll be escorted by her bodyguards. Meet them at the front gates with whatever you will need for your journey there. Is that acceptable?"

"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru."

Before the Healer left her lady's room. She looked at her with concerned eyes. For the first time in her long life, she felt helpless. The feeling of helplessness is a feeling that a healer or anyone for that matter has the unability to help someone because the unknown reasons. Sesshomaru was left alone with Myouga and Inuhime.

"Myouga?"

"Y-yes, milord."

"Go fetch my mate."

"Y-yes, milord."

Myouga left to find Kagome. He sensed her in the library.

"Myouga, is that you?"

"Yes, Its me. Lady Kagome..."

"Myouga, you know that I don't like to be address with a title."

"Yes, La...I mean...Kagome. Lord Sesshomaru asked to me to come to bring you to Lady Inuhime's bedchamber."

"Is she alright?"

"We don't know, unfortunately. There's no scent of illness or no traces of poison or any other abnormalities in her blood."

"Alright, lead the way."

Kagome with Myouga on her shoulder ran to Inuhime's bedchambers.

"Sesshomaru, what happened to her?"

"She fainted and now she unconscious."

"Lady Kagome, the healer had already checked her. She'll be leaving on a two-day journey soon. She has a sister and a miko-youkai like Lady Inuhime."

"I see."

Kagome walked on the opposition side of the futon. Kagome learned how to sense malevelent supernatural powers if any being perform on one's aura and such.

"Kaeda taught me how to sense evil in or around anyone's aura. Sesshomaru do you trust me?"

"Hm."

"Hm? You had always answer my questions as 'hm'. A specific answer would be nice, you know, like 'yes', 'no', 'maybe so', or 'never'."

"Miko..."

"My name isn't 'miko'. It's Kagome. Ka-go-me."

"Kagome...yes. Yes, I trust you."

"Now, anata, was that so hard?"

"Hm."

She shook her head as she gave him one of her sweet, secretly triumphant smiles as he smirked since he got the last word. She placed her hands just above her unconscious sister-in-law's body as she closed her blue eyes. In her mind's eye, she can definitely feel a taint of evil in her aura, but it's foreign; not her natural taint.

"I am surprised that you are not escorting her, yourself."

"Why would you say that, omae?"

"Because you don't trust no one that you don't know. Hell, you don't even trust your own mother around Inuhime much less a stranger. Have you met her sister before?"

"She has a point there," thought Sesshomaru.

"Hm."

"Hm? That's all you are going to say."

Sesshomaru thought to himself, "Here we go again."

"You could at least say 'yes' or 'no'. You...you...*she was pointing her figure at him*...you drive me crazy when you do that. Are you going with her?"

He looked at her with an expression of, 'what do you think?' on his handsome face.

"Yes, you are going." He smirked and nodded.

"Well then. I am going with you."

"No, you do not need to go."

"Yes, I am going."

"No, you are not."

"Yes, I am."

"No, miko. I said 'no' and I mean 'no'."

They both gave each other death glares and Kagome stubbornly said, "Sesshomaru, I am going."

Sesshomaru was trying to hold back his anger. Even though he liked it when she was defiant, but this was not one those times. He doesn't what to waste time arguing.

Sesshomaru got turned around. He looked over his left shoulder and said, "NO!" He sounded almost like a roar.

Kagome tilled her head showing that she submitted. Afterwards, he left to go to the front entrance.

Meanwhile in the Southern Lord's palace, the father of the lord, scried for the location, where his son's mother would be. The scrying crystal immediately found her.

"Well...well...well, there you are, my dear," the Father of the Lord said.

His son walked in on him.

"Well, father, it seems that you found mother. Where is she?"

"She's located in the heart of the Western Lands. Soon, son, we will retrieve what is ours. Then we will bring Sesshomaru down and send him to Hell."

They both chuckled darkly.

In the Western Palace, the head healer and Inuhime's bodyguards were almost to the front entrance of the palace, where Sesshomaru stopped them.

"Milord, we are on our way to fetch my sister for your twin," said the Healer.

"I changed my mind. I realized that her bodyguards are not needed. Returned to your post."

They guards bowed and walked away. The Healer was going to walk away until Sesshomaru stopped her.

"Healer, I did not dismiss you."

"My apologizes, milord." She bowed as she said it.

"I will personally escort you to see your sister. I realized that I had not met your sister, correct?"

She nodded. About that time Kagome ran to him.

"You are not going without me."

"Miko, I do not repeat myself."

Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Listen, Sesshomaru. I am going with you."

Sesshomaru grabbed her hand and walked hastedly down the hall. He told her surprisingly calm as he has his hands on her shoulders.

"Listen, Miko and listen well. You are right. I do not trust anyone except for you. I need you here. I trust your judgement. Please, omae, stop this futile arguement. Inuhime needs help. I know that if you could you would help her. I'd never asked you to help her. Not that you are not powerful; you are only inexperienced. You know this. The healer and her sister are very old. They were here when my grandfather was starting to rule the West." As he said that he had his hands on to hers.

"Wow, that long. Ok, I'll stop. I guess I am just scare...no nervous being here without you. It's my first time ever being a lone."

"Ah, but you are not a lone, here, my mate. Jaken, Rin, your Shippo, and my mother are here with you. My mother would probably want to get to know you. She's trying to get past her hatred of humans, If anyone could help her with this; it would definitely be you, omae. I'll return in four days."

"Four days? Oh...right. Two to get there and two returning."

He nodded and gave her a deep passionate kiss on the lips. Then she watched him and the healer exit the palace. She ran to the study, which there was a window looking out to the front gates. She watched them left the estate in their orb forms.

Inuyasha (c) Rumiko Takahashi

Fanfiction & OCs (c) ladytari