Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, wish I did however, but the little OOC in the story is my
fault, and I'm sorry. I'm working on getting over OOCness, and I'm getting better, so it shall
only be a while before I have it right, hopefully. I also don't own I'm With You, that belongs
to Avril Laviegn.
A/N: I will still be working on the other stories as well, and I just put up two more chaps on
Road Trip. I'm working on it, believe me. Okay? Good! Thanks for reading! *^-^*
~*~Mel~*~
Kagome sighed as she sat on the ledge of a bridge in Sengoku Jidai, crying. She had run from
the bloody scene of where Inuyasha went with Kikyo to hell. The well had ceased working when
they finished the Shikon Jewel after killing Naraku. Kikyo made Inuyasha fulfill his promise
of going to hell with her, but only after telling Kagome that she needed to find someone that
she could love, that would love her in return.
Sango and Miroku had gone with Kirara to bury Kohaku's body with the rest of his family's. Shippo,
the kitsune child, had stayed in the village with Kaede to help her with the wounded. Kagome,
had run, she couldn't bear all the loses, not being able to go home, the death, and the fact
that except for friends, she was alone now.
Suddenly, in her crying state Kagome began to sing.
"I'm standing on the bridge.
I'm waiting in the dark.
I thought that you'd be here by now.
There's nothing but the rain.
No footsteps on the ground.
I'm listening but there's no sound." she sang while it started to rain, the clouds covering the
full moon.
What Kagome didn't know is that her legs and arms were bleeding from some pricker bushes in her
haste to get away. And the smell from the copper in her blood had attracted two demons. One
for her blood, and one investigating the scent of blood and dispair. But the two demons had
stilled when her angelic voice had started to sing.
"Isn't anyone tryin' to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night,
Trying to figure out this life.
Won't you take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are, but I...
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Hmm..." she continued singing but then stopped when she heard a maniacal laugh and sensed the
aura of a youkai.
"Who...Who's there?" she called out just then realizing there was another, strong aura that
she recognized a little too well coming from the tree on the other end of the bridge, where she
had come running from.
"'Who...Who's there?' My for a miko you certainly are afraid." the demon said as he came into
view. He was a viper youkai. He had long greasy hair and glowing orange eyes. His skin was
covered in scales and black. He was grinning evilly and it sent chills down Kagome's back.
"Back off...I'll turn you into youkai powder if you don't knock it off." Kagome said her hand
going to her back to empty air. 'Oh no!' Kagome's mind screamed, 'I must of dropped my bow and
quiver of arrows when I was running!'
"I don't think so." the viper youkai said and jumped at her but Kagome's arms were in the air
and she subconciously created a barrier knocking the youkai back.
"Stay away from me!" she screamed feeling a bit better when the barrier stayed strong as the
youkai repeatedly flung himself at it ripping against it with his claws.
"I'll get you in good time miko wench. You are too weak to hold this up long enough." said the
viper.
"I. Am. Not. Weak!" she growled and forced her miko powers to turn the barrier into purifying
energy, converting the energy into a ball and sending it at the youkai, only to watch him dodge
it and come at her. Another problem was that it took most of her energy to convert the barrier
to a ball of energy.
"Die now Miko!" the viper youkai shouted his claws poised to slice her into small peices.
"Ahh-huh?" Kagome blinked when she saw a flash of white and then felt a single arm and something
soft and fluffy wrap around her and pick her up lifting her away.
"Silence ningen." a cold steely voice said and she looked up into the emotionless face of the
inu taiyoukai of the west.
"Sesshomaru..." she muttered and closed her eyes praying to any god or deity listening that this
was a dream.
After a few minutes the jerking around she had felt while Sesshomaru killed off the viper
youkai ceased and she was set onto shakey feet. Opening her eyes she tentatively released the
deathgrip she had had on Sesshomaru's tail and caustiously looked up at the taiyoukai.
"Thank you Sesshomaru-sama..." Kagome said bowing low in respect.
"Ningen, what are you doing on my lands?" Sesshomaru growled and watched when Kagome winced.
"I...I didn't realize I was on your lands Sesshomaru-sama." she said bowing again even lower,
causing her back to pop.
"You are Inuyasha's wench," again another wince from Kagome, "are you not? Where is the half
breed?" he demanded.
"I wasn't Inuyasha's wench...Or mate...Or anything else of that thing. And Inuyasha died, in a
sense..." she said, her sadness returning with full force.
"So, the half breed has died. One less deformity to worry about." Sesshomaru said and suddenly
his head snapped to the side as a faint sting consumed his cheek.
"You...You...YOU BASTARD!" Kagome growled her hand still poised and stinging from when she
smacked the taiyoukai.
"What was that ningen? You DARE strike this Sesshomaru?" he growled picking Kagome up by her
throat.
"Yes, I dare strike you. He killed Naraku, he could have killed you more than once, he nearly
killed me when I first met him, but you know what, he didn't! And he died because of a promise
he made to a woman who was supposed to be dead! She dragged him into hell! And he was your
BLOOD relation. Your brother! And you don't care! You bastard!" Kagome screamed while kicking
Sesshomaru in the chest with her legs as they got weaker from lack of oxygen.
"He was a half breed. He was nothing to me. He may have been my little brother, but I never
cared for him wench. Never. Now, for your crimes, you shall be executed tomorrow morning at
sunrise." he growled shaking her a bit.
"Why wait? You could kill me now, do me a favor." she growled her eyes begging him not to even
though her words said different.
"You die tomorrow! End of this argument." Sesshomaru growled and knocked the miko unconscious
before gathering youki to form his red cloud and flying off to his palace where he locked the
miko in a chamber in the highest tower.
"Milord! Milord! Milord you are back!" Jaken, a toad youkai, screamed as he came running down
the hallway to stumble to a stop at the taiyoukai's feet.
"Jaken. Tell Rin to go to bed, and then I want you to get Naika to gaurd this room." Sesshomaru
growled, a glare on his face as he suddenly realized a few things.
"Milord?" Jaken asked watching as his lord walked off to his study.
"Do it Jaken." Sesshomaru said and slammed the door to his study shut.
"Wonder what his problem is, the ungrateful youkai...Wonder what he wants guarded in here?" he
asked before opening the door to the room Kagome was locked in and screeched when Kagome kicked
him backwards.
"I'll kill that bastard. Think he can lock me up and kill me. I don't think so." Kagome
muttered and grabbed the staff of heads from Jaken when he raised it to hit her and hit him in
the head with it knocking the toad out.
Dropping the staff of heads Kagome took off her shoes and ran, stocking footed, carrying her
shoes she made it as far as five feet past Sesshomaru's study before it happened. Sesshomaru
had smelled Kagome as she ran past his study. He had growled, opened the door and grabbed her
hair jerking her backwards with a cry of pain.
"BASTARD! Let me go! LET ME GO!" she cried out, thrashing and then stilling when his claws
pressed lightly against the skin of her throat. "Or not..."
"I'm locking you in a room where humans can't get out." he growled and pulled her to the said
room, beside his, and locked her inside.
"LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!!" Kagome screamed while slamming her hands off the door until she
finally fell to the floor and cried. "Let me out. Let me out."
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Sesshomaru growled from where he sat at his desk, his head in his hand. His long silver locks
falling onto the desk, his golden eyes shut in confusion. The stripes on his hand and cheeks,
along with the blue crescent moon on his forehead seemed to glow against his milk white skin.
"Why is it I didn't let her be killed?" he said while squinting at his desk. "And why did
I let her treat me the way she did. This Sesshomaru doesn't take abuse from a ningen like
that. Although I have two less half breeds to worry about. She's still crying I see...And still
bleeding. Oh well. She wants to do those things, she can, I don't care."
Although he said those things aloud his mind was saying other.
'You didn't let her be killed because she has a beautiful voice, even for a ningen. And her
eyes, cerulean blue, were filled with nothing but sadness. It attracted you. And her raven hair,
dripping wet surrounding her face. You've had feelings for her ever since you met her. Don't
you remember how whenever you saw her you got aroused? Oy, I'm the subconscious of an idiot!'
his mind said and he growled at himself.
*Shut up, you don't even know what your talking about.* Sesshomaru growled inside his mind while
if someone were to look closely enough they would see the light blush covering the youkai lord's
cheeks.
'And about Inuyasha, you do care. You're going to miss fighting him. Love, you never loved
him, but you did care for him. He was your brother after all. And you don't want the girl to
cry or bleed anymore. So go and take care of it!'
*Shut up.*
'Why should I?'
*Because its not healthy to talk to one's self.*
'Than you should quit talking to yourself.'
"Milord?" Jaken peered around the door and jumped when the demon lord's head snapped up and
glared at him.
"What is it Jaken?" Sesshomaru growled at him causing the toad to pale.
"The captive ningen wench is leaking blood into the hall from her locked room." Jaken said and
was suddenly facing an empty chair when Sesshomaru ran from the room to the locked room where
Kagome was.
Sesshomaru walked into the room and saw Kagome clutching at a cut on her arm which had gotten
larger when she had tried to pull a pricker from it and had accidently ripped it more. She
had a determined look on her face as she bit her lip to keep from crying out. Her hand wasn't
covering the cut very well, hence the fact of why her blood was everywhere.
"Your bleeding." Sesshomaru said, stating the obvious.
"Very astute of you Sesshomaru." Kagome said through clenched teeth as she tried to heal her
wound.
"Sesshomaru-sama, Rin wanted to see you before Rin went to bed. Kagome-neechan! Rin missed
you! Kagome-neechan? Kagome-neechan you're hurt!" Rin cried out as she came running into
the room where she sensed Sesshomaru.
"I'm fine Rin-chan. Why don't you go to bed before Sesshomaru-sama chases you there." Kagome
said forcing herself to talk softly before wincing in pain.
"Okay, night Kagome-neechan. Good night Sesshomaru-sama." Rin said and left for bed.
"You lied to her." Sesshomaru said.
"Don't patronize me right now Sesshomaru. Some things a child shouldn't have to worry about."
she said and gasped in pain as the taiyoukai pulled her hand away to look at her wound. "Ow."
"Wench, silence." he said as he leaned down following his demonic instincts using his mouth, he
cleaned off her bloody arm and his saliva used its coagulant to heal her wound.
"...Thank you Sesshomaru, but I do have a name you know. You might try using it!" Kagome growled
and chewed on her bottom lip hiding behind her hair when a blush took over her cheeks.
"What is your name, you have never given it to me."
"Oh...Kagome."
"Okay." Sesshomaru said while thinking how beautiful a name it was, even if it were for a human.
They sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes before Kagome shifted her legs out from under
herself and started to clean them with the sleeve of her shirt she had ripped off to try and take
care of the wound in her arm. When she winced involuntarily because she accidentally pushed a
pricker farther into the cut Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow.
"You can't even do a simple task as such cleaning a small flesh wound." he said and she glared
at him.
"You think you can do better, do it yourself." Kagome said while still glaring at him.
"Fine then, wen-Kagome." Sesshomaru said and pulled out the pricker on one of the scratches on
her upper thigh causing her to gasp in pain as the blood flowed freely once more.
"You made it worse, Sesshomaru." she said through clenched teeth as she battled crying in pain.
"Hold still." he said leaning down to her thigh, keeping eye contact with her, and lapped at
the wound with his tongue, his saliva's coagulant healing her wound.
After doing that to all her leg wounds, she had five more on her right leg and seven on her
left. Sesshomaru pulled away from her and went to a closet in the corner of the room and pulled
out a servant's kimono and threw it to Kagome. She caught the kimono and blinked at it staring
at the taiyoukai with a raised eyebrow and questioning face.
"Put that on, that way I don't have to smell your putrid blood any longer." he said to her
shoulder, not looking at her face.
"Sesshomaru, you sound like your brother. But not in a bad way!!" she added when he glared at
her, his claws glowing green.
"Do it Ningen. You die at sunrise." he growled and left the room, the door slamming and locking
shut leaving Kagome steaming in the room.
"Dickwad." she muttered and Sesshomaru paused where he stood outside the door.
'What on earth is a "dickwad"?' he asked himself in his mind and then continued on down a few
feet into his room.
~*~In Kagome's Room~*~
Kagome had just removed her old school uniform and set it on the futon bed and pulled on the
kimono when she felt as if someone were watching her. Pulling the kimono shut quickly she spun
around searching the room not being able to find anything. Blinking she shrugged her shoulders
and pulled shut the kimono with a single tie, a little upset that she couldn't use an obi, but
Sesshomaru wasn't going to let a human wear something so fancifull, unless it was Rin.
Kagome sat on the edge of the single- barred -window looking out at the rainy scene, thinking
how much the weather matched her mood. Sighing the time traveling miko rested her head on the
glass of the window and started humming the song she had been singing on the bridge. When she
got to the part where she had stopped she started singing again.
"I'm looking for a place.
I'm searching for a face.
Is anybody here, I know?
Cause nothing's going right.
And everythings a mess.
And no one likes to be alone." she sang, her eyes closed as a single tear fell from her eye
going down her cheek to rest on the side of her jawline.
~*~Sesshomaru's room~*~
Sesshomaru had lost his battle with his 'almost human' side and had sat infront of his mirror
in the corner of his room. When he sat down the mirror glowed for a second and showed him what
was going on in Kagome's room. When she had been changing and had sensed someone watching her
he had almost smirked, almost.
"So the ningen can sense better than most others. Ah well. She is a miko after all." he said
to himself and watched as she had gone to the window and was staring out.
When she started singing he had stared at the mirror, his jaw going slack at the memories that
had jumped from her mind and into his head.
~*~The memories~*~
"INUYASHA NO! PLEASE NO!" Kagome screamed with tears streaming down her cheeks as she fought
with the trees that were keeping her from reaching the one she loved most.
"Kagome, look for someone who will love you in return. Anyone will love you, but I love Kikyo,
and I promised her. I'm sorry, but I promised her. Turn away, please." Inuyasha said his arms
around Kikyo, facing Kagome until he said I'm sorry, then he turned his face down to look at
Kikyo.
"Inuyasha...Inuyasha! INUYASHA!!" Kagome screamed as the hanyou and dead miko went into hell.
Kagome ran hard through the trees that had been holding her back, the branches, and ran to the
crater that was the hole through which the one she loved had gone through closed off. When
Kagome reached the hold she slammed herself down onto the crater, pounding her fists off the
ground and screaming. She slammed her fists so hard that she created bruises on her wrists and
hands.
"INUYASHA!! NO PLEASE COME BACK!! KIKYO GIVE HIM BACK!! HE'S NOT YOURS! PLEASE! GIVE HIM
BACK!!" she had screamed punching down hard on the ground and crying in pain not from physical,
but emotional.
"I can't believe this...I don't want to. Kikyo, why did you do this? Why did you have to be
so selfish?" Kagome muttered to herself, and thats when she ran. Ran hard from what she had
seen. She had run hard through everything and anything in her way. Her strong, long legs
carrying her a great distance in a short amount of time.
~*~End Memories, with Sesshomaru~*~
Sesshomaru jerked himself from the thoughts that had been in his mind, pulling himself from the
mirror, where he saw Kagome had stopped singing after the verse she had sung. Right then she
was crying, her hands holding onto her sides as if she were trying to pretend they were someone
elses arms. Her fingers were digging into her flesh through the thin kimono and her eyes were
closed as she cried.
"Brother, why didn't you see what you had right in front of you?" the Great Taiyoukai of the West
asked the air around him as he walked swiftly from his room and the few feet to the crying ningens
room.
Sesshomaru opened the door of Kagome's room and she didn't seem to notice, or care. When he
walked in and over to her grabbing her shoulder she didn't even move. She just continued crying,
as if she had no sense as to his presence. She then started to sing again, still crying.
"Isn't anyone tryin' to find me?
Won't some body come take me home?
Its a damn cold night,
Tryin' to figure out this life.
Won't you take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Yea..."
"Kagome." he said softly and she froze.
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I should have turned away." she muttered before she wiped her eyes and
looked up at Sesshomaru. "Can I do something for you Sesshomaru?" she asked her voice hoarse
from crying.
"Be Rin's care taker." Sesshomaru said and she blinked.
"Would be kind of hard as to the fact that your having me killed tomorrow." she said softly and
he smirked at her daring to tell him what he was going to do.
"You will live. And you will take care of Rin. That is an order. And, you will forget about
my hanyou of a brother." he said and she tilted her head to the side.
"How did you know?" she asked softly.
"I'll tell you all you need to know after you get some rest." Sesshomaru said and with his hand
still on her shoulder left the room to the one on the other side of his, where his mate was
supposed to be staying.
"Where are you taking me?"
"Your new room. Jaken will bring you new clothes in the morning." he said softly and turned to
leave for his room before he paused when she said something.
"Thank you Sesshomaru-sama. For taking me in. For saving me from the viper youkai. For healing
my wounds. And for giving me a reason to live on." she said softly, her head bowed in respect
for him.
"Thank you Kagome." Sesshomaru said and again started to leave when she grabbed a hold of his
wrist.
"What do you mean? For what?" she asked, her eyes questioning, a single tear falling down her
cheek.
"For showing me." he said and left to his room where he heard her cry and finish her song.
"Oh! Why is everything so confusing?
Maybe I'm just out of my mind!
Yeah...
Yeah...
Yeah...
Yeah...
YEAH..." Kagome sang, tears falling down her cheek as she thought of all her questions, like
why was it her that had gotten pulled into Feudal Japan? Why was she Kikyo's reincarnation?
Why did she have to be the one that had to protect the Shikon no Tama? Why her? Why?
"Its a damn cold night,
Tryin' to figure out this life.
Won't you take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new?
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you!
I'm with you!" as Kagome sang Sesshomaru sat on his bed looking at the mirror in the corner of
the room, thinking of questions he had to ask himself, like why was it that he took in the
ningen woman-child Kagome? Why had he spared her life? Why had he saved her life? And why
had he felt happiness when she smiled just a little at him? Why him? Why her? Why?
"Take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you!
I'm with you!" Kagome had so many questions running in her mind. She had felt something when
Sesshomaru had told her she would live. She would be taking care of Rin and helping as much as
she could to stay living. She would do what Inuyasha told her to, she would move on. She would
find someone to love her, and she would work hard to leave behind how much pain she went through.
"Take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you, oh...
I'm with you...
I'm with you..."
In the palace of the Inutaiyoukai of the Western Lands two people were wondering. Wondering if
they would be able to work together. While a kami in the heavens above smiled. One would learn
to leave some of her past behind, and find happiness in her future. While the other would learn
to love.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Tell me if you want me to write another chapter to this. Because I have an idea. And don't worry
I'm working on the other two stories as well. Promise.
~*~Mel~*~
fault, and I'm sorry. I'm working on getting over OOCness, and I'm getting better, so it shall
only be a while before I have it right, hopefully. I also don't own I'm With You, that belongs
to Avril Laviegn.
A/N: I will still be working on the other stories as well, and I just put up two more chaps on
Road Trip. I'm working on it, believe me. Okay? Good! Thanks for reading! *^-^*
~*~Mel~*~
Kagome sighed as she sat on the ledge of a bridge in Sengoku Jidai, crying. She had run from
the bloody scene of where Inuyasha went with Kikyo to hell. The well had ceased working when
they finished the Shikon Jewel after killing Naraku. Kikyo made Inuyasha fulfill his promise
of going to hell with her, but only after telling Kagome that she needed to find someone that
she could love, that would love her in return.
Sango and Miroku had gone with Kirara to bury Kohaku's body with the rest of his family's. Shippo,
the kitsune child, had stayed in the village with Kaede to help her with the wounded. Kagome,
had run, she couldn't bear all the loses, not being able to go home, the death, and the fact
that except for friends, she was alone now.
Suddenly, in her crying state Kagome began to sing.
"I'm standing on the bridge.
I'm waiting in the dark.
I thought that you'd be here by now.
There's nothing but the rain.
No footsteps on the ground.
I'm listening but there's no sound." she sang while it started to rain, the clouds covering the
full moon.
What Kagome didn't know is that her legs and arms were bleeding from some pricker bushes in her
haste to get away. And the smell from the copper in her blood had attracted two demons. One
for her blood, and one investigating the scent of blood and dispair. But the two demons had
stilled when her angelic voice had started to sing.
"Isn't anyone tryin' to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night,
Trying to figure out this life.
Won't you take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are, but I...
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Hmm..." she continued singing but then stopped when she heard a maniacal laugh and sensed the
aura of a youkai.
"Who...Who's there?" she called out just then realizing there was another, strong aura that
she recognized a little too well coming from the tree on the other end of the bridge, where she
had come running from.
"'Who...Who's there?' My for a miko you certainly are afraid." the demon said as he came into
view. He was a viper youkai. He had long greasy hair and glowing orange eyes. His skin was
covered in scales and black. He was grinning evilly and it sent chills down Kagome's back.
"Back off...I'll turn you into youkai powder if you don't knock it off." Kagome said her hand
going to her back to empty air. 'Oh no!' Kagome's mind screamed, 'I must of dropped my bow and
quiver of arrows when I was running!'
"I don't think so." the viper youkai said and jumped at her but Kagome's arms were in the air
and she subconciously created a barrier knocking the youkai back.
"Stay away from me!" she screamed feeling a bit better when the barrier stayed strong as the
youkai repeatedly flung himself at it ripping against it with his claws.
"I'll get you in good time miko wench. You are too weak to hold this up long enough." said the
viper.
"I. Am. Not. Weak!" she growled and forced her miko powers to turn the barrier into purifying
energy, converting the energy into a ball and sending it at the youkai, only to watch him dodge
it and come at her. Another problem was that it took most of her energy to convert the barrier
to a ball of energy.
"Die now Miko!" the viper youkai shouted his claws poised to slice her into small peices.
"Ahh-huh?" Kagome blinked when she saw a flash of white and then felt a single arm and something
soft and fluffy wrap around her and pick her up lifting her away.
"Silence ningen." a cold steely voice said and she looked up into the emotionless face of the
inu taiyoukai of the west.
"Sesshomaru..." she muttered and closed her eyes praying to any god or deity listening that this
was a dream.
After a few minutes the jerking around she had felt while Sesshomaru killed off the viper
youkai ceased and she was set onto shakey feet. Opening her eyes she tentatively released the
deathgrip she had had on Sesshomaru's tail and caustiously looked up at the taiyoukai.
"Thank you Sesshomaru-sama..." Kagome said bowing low in respect.
"Ningen, what are you doing on my lands?" Sesshomaru growled and watched when Kagome winced.
"I...I didn't realize I was on your lands Sesshomaru-sama." she said bowing again even lower,
causing her back to pop.
"You are Inuyasha's wench," again another wince from Kagome, "are you not? Where is the half
breed?" he demanded.
"I wasn't Inuyasha's wench...Or mate...Or anything else of that thing. And Inuyasha died, in a
sense..." she said, her sadness returning with full force.
"So, the half breed has died. One less deformity to worry about." Sesshomaru said and suddenly
his head snapped to the side as a faint sting consumed his cheek.
"You...You...YOU BASTARD!" Kagome growled her hand still poised and stinging from when she
smacked the taiyoukai.
"What was that ningen? You DARE strike this Sesshomaru?" he growled picking Kagome up by her
throat.
"Yes, I dare strike you. He killed Naraku, he could have killed you more than once, he nearly
killed me when I first met him, but you know what, he didn't! And he died because of a promise
he made to a woman who was supposed to be dead! She dragged him into hell! And he was your
BLOOD relation. Your brother! And you don't care! You bastard!" Kagome screamed while kicking
Sesshomaru in the chest with her legs as they got weaker from lack of oxygen.
"He was a half breed. He was nothing to me. He may have been my little brother, but I never
cared for him wench. Never. Now, for your crimes, you shall be executed tomorrow morning at
sunrise." he growled shaking her a bit.
"Why wait? You could kill me now, do me a favor." she growled her eyes begging him not to even
though her words said different.
"You die tomorrow! End of this argument." Sesshomaru growled and knocked the miko unconscious
before gathering youki to form his red cloud and flying off to his palace where he locked the
miko in a chamber in the highest tower.
"Milord! Milord! Milord you are back!" Jaken, a toad youkai, screamed as he came running down
the hallway to stumble to a stop at the taiyoukai's feet.
"Jaken. Tell Rin to go to bed, and then I want you to get Naika to gaurd this room." Sesshomaru
growled, a glare on his face as he suddenly realized a few things.
"Milord?" Jaken asked watching as his lord walked off to his study.
"Do it Jaken." Sesshomaru said and slammed the door to his study shut.
"Wonder what his problem is, the ungrateful youkai...Wonder what he wants guarded in here?" he
asked before opening the door to the room Kagome was locked in and screeched when Kagome kicked
him backwards.
"I'll kill that bastard. Think he can lock me up and kill me. I don't think so." Kagome
muttered and grabbed the staff of heads from Jaken when he raised it to hit her and hit him in
the head with it knocking the toad out.
Dropping the staff of heads Kagome took off her shoes and ran, stocking footed, carrying her
shoes she made it as far as five feet past Sesshomaru's study before it happened. Sesshomaru
had smelled Kagome as she ran past his study. He had growled, opened the door and grabbed her
hair jerking her backwards with a cry of pain.
"BASTARD! Let me go! LET ME GO!" she cried out, thrashing and then stilling when his claws
pressed lightly against the skin of her throat. "Or not..."
"I'm locking you in a room where humans can't get out." he growled and pulled her to the said
room, beside his, and locked her inside.
"LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!!" Kagome screamed while slamming her hands off the door until she
finally fell to the floor and cried. "Let me out. Let me out."
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Sesshomaru growled from where he sat at his desk, his head in his hand. His long silver locks
falling onto the desk, his golden eyes shut in confusion. The stripes on his hand and cheeks,
along with the blue crescent moon on his forehead seemed to glow against his milk white skin.
"Why is it I didn't let her be killed?" he said while squinting at his desk. "And why did
I let her treat me the way she did. This Sesshomaru doesn't take abuse from a ningen like
that. Although I have two less half breeds to worry about. She's still crying I see...And still
bleeding. Oh well. She wants to do those things, she can, I don't care."
Although he said those things aloud his mind was saying other.
'You didn't let her be killed because she has a beautiful voice, even for a ningen. And her
eyes, cerulean blue, were filled with nothing but sadness. It attracted you. And her raven hair,
dripping wet surrounding her face. You've had feelings for her ever since you met her. Don't
you remember how whenever you saw her you got aroused? Oy, I'm the subconscious of an idiot!'
his mind said and he growled at himself.
*Shut up, you don't even know what your talking about.* Sesshomaru growled inside his mind while
if someone were to look closely enough they would see the light blush covering the youkai lord's
cheeks.
'And about Inuyasha, you do care. You're going to miss fighting him. Love, you never loved
him, but you did care for him. He was your brother after all. And you don't want the girl to
cry or bleed anymore. So go and take care of it!'
*Shut up.*
'Why should I?'
*Because its not healthy to talk to one's self.*
'Than you should quit talking to yourself.'
"Milord?" Jaken peered around the door and jumped when the demon lord's head snapped up and
glared at him.
"What is it Jaken?" Sesshomaru growled at him causing the toad to pale.
"The captive ningen wench is leaking blood into the hall from her locked room." Jaken said and
was suddenly facing an empty chair when Sesshomaru ran from the room to the locked room where
Kagome was.
Sesshomaru walked into the room and saw Kagome clutching at a cut on her arm which had gotten
larger when she had tried to pull a pricker from it and had accidently ripped it more. She
had a determined look on her face as she bit her lip to keep from crying out. Her hand wasn't
covering the cut very well, hence the fact of why her blood was everywhere.
"Your bleeding." Sesshomaru said, stating the obvious.
"Very astute of you Sesshomaru." Kagome said through clenched teeth as she tried to heal her
wound.
"Sesshomaru-sama, Rin wanted to see you before Rin went to bed. Kagome-neechan! Rin missed
you! Kagome-neechan? Kagome-neechan you're hurt!" Rin cried out as she came running into
the room where she sensed Sesshomaru.
"I'm fine Rin-chan. Why don't you go to bed before Sesshomaru-sama chases you there." Kagome
said forcing herself to talk softly before wincing in pain.
"Okay, night Kagome-neechan. Good night Sesshomaru-sama." Rin said and left for bed.
"You lied to her." Sesshomaru said.
"Don't patronize me right now Sesshomaru. Some things a child shouldn't have to worry about."
she said and gasped in pain as the taiyoukai pulled her hand away to look at her wound. "Ow."
"Wench, silence." he said as he leaned down following his demonic instincts using his mouth, he
cleaned off her bloody arm and his saliva used its coagulant to heal her wound.
"...Thank you Sesshomaru, but I do have a name you know. You might try using it!" Kagome growled
and chewed on her bottom lip hiding behind her hair when a blush took over her cheeks.
"What is your name, you have never given it to me."
"Oh...Kagome."
"Okay." Sesshomaru said while thinking how beautiful a name it was, even if it were for a human.
They sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes before Kagome shifted her legs out from under
herself and started to clean them with the sleeve of her shirt she had ripped off to try and take
care of the wound in her arm. When she winced involuntarily because she accidentally pushed a
pricker farther into the cut Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow.
"You can't even do a simple task as such cleaning a small flesh wound." he said and she glared
at him.
"You think you can do better, do it yourself." Kagome said while still glaring at him.
"Fine then, wen-Kagome." Sesshomaru said and pulled out the pricker on one of the scratches on
her upper thigh causing her to gasp in pain as the blood flowed freely once more.
"You made it worse, Sesshomaru." she said through clenched teeth as she battled crying in pain.
"Hold still." he said leaning down to her thigh, keeping eye contact with her, and lapped at
the wound with his tongue, his saliva's coagulant healing her wound.
After doing that to all her leg wounds, she had five more on her right leg and seven on her
left. Sesshomaru pulled away from her and went to a closet in the corner of the room and pulled
out a servant's kimono and threw it to Kagome. She caught the kimono and blinked at it staring
at the taiyoukai with a raised eyebrow and questioning face.
"Put that on, that way I don't have to smell your putrid blood any longer." he said to her
shoulder, not looking at her face.
"Sesshomaru, you sound like your brother. But not in a bad way!!" she added when he glared at
her, his claws glowing green.
"Do it Ningen. You die at sunrise." he growled and left the room, the door slamming and locking
shut leaving Kagome steaming in the room.
"Dickwad." she muttered and Sesshomaru paused where he stood outside the door.
'What on earth is a "dickwad"?' he asked himself in his mind and then continued on down a few
feet into his room.
~*~In Kagome's Room~*~
Kagome had just removed her old school uniform and set it on the futon bed and pulled on the
kimono when she felt as if someone were watching her. Pulling the kimono shut quickly she spun
around searching the room not being able to find anything. Blinking she shrugged her shoulders
and pulled shut the kimono with a single tie, a little upset that she couldn't use an obi, but
Sesshomaru wasn't going to let a human wear something so fancifull, unless it was Rin.
Kagome sat on the edge of the single- barred -window looking out at the rainy scene, thinking
how much the weather matched her mood. Sighing the time traveling miko rested her head on the
glass of the window and started humming the song she had been singing on the bridge. When she
got to the part where she had stopped she started singing again.
"I'm looking for a place.
I'm searching for a face.
Is anybody here, I know?
Cause nothing's going right.
And everythings a mess.
And no one likes to be alone." she sang, her eyes closed as a single tear fell from her eye
going down her cheek to rest on the side of her jawline.
~*~Sesshomaru's room~*~
Sesshomaru had lost his battle with his 'almost human' side and had sat infront of his mirror
in the corner of his room. When he sat down the mirror glowed for a second and showed him what
was going on in Kagome's room. When she had been changing and had sensed someone watching her
he had almost smirked, almost.
"So the ningen can sense better than most others. Ah well. She is a miko after all." he said
to himself and watched as she had gone to the window and was staring out.
When she started singing he had stared at the mirror, his jaw going slack at the memories that
had jumped from her mind and into his head.
~*~The memories~*~
"INUYASHA NO! PLEASE NO!" Kagome screamed with tears streaming down her cheeks as she fought
with the trees that were keeping her from reaching the one she loved most.
"Kagome, look for someone who will love you in return. Anyone will love you, but I love Kikyo,
and I promised her. I'm sorry, but I promised her. Turn away, please." Inuyasha said his arms
around Kikyo, facing Kagome until he said I'm sorry, then he turned his face down to look at
Kikyo.
"Inuyasha...Inuyasha! INUYASHA!!" Kagome screamed as the hanyou and dead miko went into hell.
Kagome ran hard through the trees that had been holding her back, the branches, and ran to the
crater that was the hole through which the one she loved had gone through closed off. When
Kagome reached the hold she slammed herself down onto the crater, pounding her fists off the
ground and screaming. She slammed her fists so hard that she created bruises on her wrists and
hands.
"INUYASHA!! NO PLEASE COME BACK!! KIKYO GIVE HIM BACK!! HE'S NOT YOURS! PLEASE! GIVE HIM
BACK!!" she had screamed punching down hard on the ground and crying in pain not from physical,
but emotional.
"I can't believe this...I don't want to. Kikyo, why did you do this? Why did you have to be
so selfish?" Kagome muttered to herself, and thats when she ran. Ran hard from what she had
seen. She had run hard through everything and anything in her way. Her strong, long legs
carrying her a great distance in a short amount of time.
~*~End Memories, with Sesshomaru~*~
Sesshomaru jerked himself from the thoughts that had been in his mind, pulling himself from the
mirror, where he saw Kagome had stopped singing after the verse she had sung. Right then she
was crying, her hands holding onto her sides as if she were trying to pretend they were someone
elses arms. Her fingers were digging into her flesh through the thin kimono and her eyes were
closed as she cried.
"Brother, why didn't you see what you had right in front of you?" the Great Taiyoukai of the West
asked the air around him as he walked swiftly from his room and the few feet to the crying ningens
room.
Sesshomaru opened the door of Kagome's room and she didn't seem to notice, or care. When he
walked in and over to her grabbing her shoulder she didn't even move. She just continued crying,
as if she had no sense as to his presence. She then started to sing again, still crying.
"Isn't anyone tryin' to find me?
Won't some body come take me home?
Its a damn cold night,
Tryin' to figure out this life.
Won't you take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Yea..."
"Kagome." he said softly and she froze.
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I should have turned away." she muttered before she wiped her eyes and
looked up at Sesshomaru. "Can I do something for you Sesshomaru?" she asked her voice hoarse
from crying.
"Be Rin's care taker." Sesshomaru said and she blinked.
"Would be kind of hard as to the fact that your having me killed tomorrow." she said softly and
he smirked at her daring to tell him what he was going to do.
"You will live. And you will take care of Rin. That is an order. And, you will forget about
my hanyou of a brother." he said and she tilted her head to the side.
"How did you know?" she asked softly.
"I'll tell you all you need to know after you get some rest." Sesshomaru said and with his hand
still on her shoulder left the room to the one on the other side of his, where his mate was
supposed to be staying.
"Where are you taking me?"
"Your new room. Jaken will bring you new clothes in the morning." he said softly and turned to
leave for his room before he paused when she said something.
"Thank you Sesshomaru-sama. For taking me in. For saving me from the viper youkai. For healing
my wounds. And for giving me a reason to live on." she said softly, her head bowed in respect
for him.
"Thank you Kagome." Sesshomaru said and again started to leave when she grabbed a hold of his
wrist.
"What do you mean? For what?" she asked, her eyes questioning, a single tear falling down her
cheek.
"For showing me." he said and left to his room where he heard her cry and finish her song.
"Oh! Why is everything so confusing?
Maybe I'm just out of my mind!
Yeah...
Yeah...
Yeah...
Yeah...
YEAH..." Kagome sang, tears falling down her cheek as she thought of all her questions, like
why was it her that had gotten pulled into Feudal Japan? Why was she Kikyo's reincarnation?
Why did she have to be the one that had to protect the Shikon no Tama? Why her? Why?
"Its a damn cold night,
Tryin' to figure out this life.
Won't you take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new?
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you!
I'm with you!" as Kagome sang Sesshomaru sat on his bed looking at the mirror in the corner of
the room, thinking of questions he had to ask himself, like why was it that he took in the
ningen woman-child Kagome? Why had he spared her life? Why had he saved her life? And why
had he felt happiness when she smiled just a little at him? Why him? Why her? Why?
"Take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you!
I'm with you!" Kagome had so many questions running in her mind. She had felt something when
Sesshomaru had told her she would live. She would be taking care of Rin and helping as much as
she could to stay living. She would do what Inuyasha told her to, she would move on. She would
find someone to love her, and she would work hard to leave behind how much pain she went through.
"Take me by the hand,
Take me somewhere new.
I don't know who you are,
But I...
I'm with you, oh...
I'm with you...
I'm with you..."
In the palace of the Inutaiyoukai of the Western Lands two people were wondering. Wondering if
they would be able to work together. While a kami in the heavens above smiled. One would learn
to leave some of her past behind, and find happiness in her future. While the other would learn
to love.
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Tell me if you want me to write another chapter to this. Because I have an idea. And don't worry
I'm working on the other two stories as well. Promise.
~*~Mel~*~