Catalyst

by Fyuu

She was a catalyst for change, created for the sole purpose of bringing it about. And seeing that young boy and knowing what fate had dictated as his path, her heart could not help but bleat for he who saw things so clearly in black and white. And so she chooses to be a catalyst one last time… perhaps changing her own fate in the process. Kagome/Shinobu Sensui Drabble Story.

38. Chapter 38

She could barely make him out in the near wall of rain dropping heavily around her, though she couldn't see him she could certainly feel him, and he didn't feel right.

Like… like someone took a jigsaw puzzle and just… smashed the pieces together regardless of whether or not they fit.

The fact that he was in pieces to begin with made her shudder. She approached cautiously feeling a great deal of concern, though not for herself. As she stood before him her hand reached out to touch him. "…Shinobu..?"

"Don't touch me!" He practically snarled even as he reached out taking her hand tugging it and her forward almost harshly as he pressed it against his face. She didn't hesitate to move the rest of the way forward, pulling him into a hug made awkward with her one hand still clasped in his. It was several long moment before all at once he released her hand and his anger, slumping forward to engulf her in his frigid form.

His body shuddered and convulsed spasmodically as she held him and attempted not to give under his weight. "C'mon Shinobu let's get you inside and warmed up." He neither helped nor hindered her as she maneuvered them toward the front door. Shinobu had shifted from hugging her to practically using her as a crutch as they both made their way inside, stepping carefully as to not trip over anything in the dark.

She closed the door to her room silently and immediately began stripping the cold man down to his underwear, shoving her modesty aside for it had no place in her mind when he was in such a sorry state.

Itsuki should have brought him inside the moment it started to rain. She could help but scold, as her body went through the motions of a healer checking him over, relieved to find no injury. Though that doesn't explain the blood staining his clothing.

Shinobu was cold, his lips were blue, and the shuddering his body had been doing outside had in no way subsided. Body heat he needs body heat. Ignoring the way she blushed she stripped herself down to the bare essentials before pushing him to her bed climbing in soon after, and tucking them beneath several of her blankets.

He instantly curled up to her tiny form drawing her close as his face nestled in her abdomen, he quietly began to sob, her hands dancing with a pink light as she swept them through his hair cooing quietly to him.

Oh… Shinobu.