Title: Help Me Threw This
Author: FairyTails
Disclaimer: I own nothing…but the plot.
Rating: M
Summery: After a battle with Naraku Kagome finds herself in the middle of no where, in a strange yet familiar body.
After an encounter with Naraku's wind witch Sesshomaru wakes feeling a bit weird. But first, when did he go to sleep in the first place?!
Warnings: um…..body switch?
Paring(s): Sesshomaru/Kagome(eventually)
Spoilers: hehe, I haven't even seen the whole series...
Key:
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
Between Kagome and Sesshomaru
'Sesshomaru's inner beast'
A/n: Just so you all know, I am starting my last year of high school tomorrow, and will be incredibly busy with school work soon. So do not expect updates to this just yet. Or Kage.
Enjoy.
Chapter: (1) Playing with New Senses
It is a quiet morning in the forest, birds chirped as they woke from the morning sun's rays. Their songs started the process of waking the rest of the forest's population. In this forest is a new occupant, asleep under a large tree. Soft rhythmic breaths raised the chest hidden under armor.
Soon the breaths started to quicken, no longer deep and even, and the figure started to wake. From under dew covered silver hair, cat-like golden eyes fluttered open.
Kagome looked at her surroundings, confusion starting to overcome her. She did not know where she was, she had not been this deep in the forest when she had fallen asleep in her sleeping bag under InuYasha's watchful gaze. Who was no where to be found along with the rest of the group. There wasn't even the tell tale signs of the fire pit that was a yard or so away from her when she had drifted to sleep.
With these realizations, she soon realized that she was no longer in a sleeping bag, and the soft silk clothes she felt against her skin weren't any she had ever worn before. With a few calming breaths she looked down at her self.
…and had to hold in a scream. She was used to seeing them at a different angle, but she was defiantly in Sesshomaru's cloths. She wasn't sure how she had missed it, but the fluffy thing he always was carrying on his right shoulder was there on her's as well. This is when she began to look her self over more thoroughly.
Kagome panicked as she spotted Sesshomaru's two swords hanging around her waist tied with the yellow and blue obi. In a state of panic she went to stand up. She had suspected the armor to be heavy as she did, but the fact that it was not, isn't what shocked her next. She had tried to lift herself up with her left hand, her right having yet to get used to the overly fluffy thing on her shoulder and wasn't mobile until she had to catch herself.
She had no left arm; it had been made obvious when she couldn't feel it or move anything to her face to see the hand that used to be there. Her heart beat quickened in her chest. She was sure her eyes could pop out at any moment with the shock she was going through.
She closed her eyes and took several deep breaths, 'Okay, Kagome. Calm down, you have been in weirder situations.'
After her heart beat became regular and she again tried to stand, this time with the aid of her right arm. As she stood and got her balance she opened her eyes finally, looking down at the ground, 'That's odd; did I grow a couple of feet? No way was I that tall.'
Then she noticed something she didn't notice before, as the armor had blocked her view in her sitting position. She was suddenly flat chest-ed, there was nothing there. "What am I kidding my self? This is the weirdest situation I have ever been in! I'm in Sesshomaru's cloths, armor and I even have his swards! And now I find that I have no….breasts…."
She trailed off. It had taken her a moment, but she was sure she had not spoken in her voice, 'Oh…..shit….'
Slowly she began to raise her hand up to look at and nearly fainted as a clawed hand with ivory skin came into view. She raised the hand to her face even slower, praying to anyone who would listen that she was wrong, very wrong.
She reached for her ears first, remembering the Taiyoukai's elf-like ears. She wanted to cry when she felt the pointed tips. She ran her hands threw her hair. Her long, silver hair- she noticed as she brought it forward to look at. She let her hand drop.
So badly, she wants to run to the nearest pond or stream, just to see her reflection. Deep inside, she already knows what she looked like. She pictured InuYasha's half brother behind her closed eyes, tears already starting to form. The smell of salt water drifted to her nose and she wiped them away with a new hope.
'If I am in Sesshomaru's body, maybe he's in mine…' She had to find InuYasha and the others. She went to take a step and realized something, "Maybe I should get used to this body first…"
At the sound of her now deep, deadly voice, she could hardly resist the urge to whip her head around to see the person she expected to be there. She knew it was her self who had spoken, 'This is going to take some time….'
She looked up at the tree tops, where the morning sun was just now starting to peek threw, 'Why do you hate me so much? What did I ever do to deserve this?!'
She knew yelling at the heavens wouldn't do any good, but it helped her a little. She raised her hand up and subconsciously started to pet the incredibly soft pelt on her shoulder. She thought on how she had come to be in her current situation. Her mind flashed back to their last fight with Naraku.
It has been three years since she had fallen down the well. After the first cam to a unhappy end, Kagome became tired of being the weakest member of the shard hunters; so she asked Sango to help her learn to use a dagger. She did so to protect her self in close combat, because she was not always going to be far from the action where she usually was to strike the enemy down with her bow.
Sango did what she could, not being the best dagger wielder. Along with this she found a dojo in her time that would help her with her blade skills while she was there, as well as tutor her for her classes. She had barely scrapped by in Junior high, but she was doing a bit better in high school as she was finally able to get InuYasha to let her go home more. With the promise of not being useless in battle, of course.
She wasn't the best, but she sure as hell wasn't helpless anymore, and was now able to jump into the fights when needed. She had killed her fair share of demons now, and even Sango admits to not wanting to go up against her best friend in a one-on-one fight.
But even with these new skills, Naraku still found a way to beat them again and again to the next shard; even after Kagome accidentally shattered it again. And yet the small groups did not loose easily when it came to fighting the spider hanyou. Kagome sighed, remembering him sprinkling him with some strange powder in the last fight when he had popped up behind her.
She had been scared shitless, but turned to slash at him with her hand crafted dagger she had gotten from Souta as a birthday gift. He had dodged by jumping back with a evil smirk, a red pouch's contents already being released on her lunging form. He had disappeared right after that, shocking the group.
If it wasn't for Kagome sneezing her brains out, the powder would have gone unnoticed, as InuYasha said it was completely odorless. She had taken a bath a short time later, scrubbing her self and her school uniform until she was sure every bit of it was gone.
That was last night. Kagome let her eyes drift shut, trying to think of something else for now and remembered InuYasha's great hearing and sense of smell. 'And if his is so great, surly Sesshomaru's will be ten times better…'
So she listened, like she had never listened before. Kagome could hear the flapping of a bird like it was on her head, but using her nose, she found it was much farther than that. She could hear autumn's crisp leaves on the forest floor lift and fall in the morning breeze, and count how many there were. Kagome gave up on that as she heard the soft flutter of a moth's wings as if floated by her.
It was like she every where at once….she felt intoxicated. After about ten minutes she could tell you how many birds were in the surrounding trees. Hell, she could tell you how many different species there were just by their chirps and tweets.
And her nose; everything had a sent, everything. Now that was like a being in a candy store. Her nose told her that not all the trees were the same, as each one gave off an aroma unique to it's self and its species. She wondered briefly if it was the same with humans and demons, remembering that InuYasha had always been about to tell them the species of the youkai they were about to fight.
She turned her head slightly as her new ears picked up the light sound of leaves crushing under the 'thunk' of hoofs. Kagome opened her eyes to see what it was and noticed a doe and two fawns come threw the trees towards where she was standing. It was interesting to watch as the mother deer would move aside some leaves and reveals a small patch of mushrooms. She sniffed them and turned her head away, and butted her children with her muzzle to keep them away from the fungous as they went for it.
Kagome held in a giggle as the two fawns seemed to pout at their mother, but obeyed. 'They must be an unhealthy kind of mushrooms….'
She took a whiff, picking up the sent of the white mushrooms. She stored the sent away as something to remember not to eat. She also made a mental note of the deer, both what a deer typically smelled like and the individuals, wondering if she would ever see them again.
Her nose picked up another scent, another deer she discovered. She turned her head slowly, as to not scare her company, to see if she could spot it. Across from where the Doe stood looking for food, is a large male deer, its large brown eyes fixed on Kagome's white-silk clad form.
She tilted her head at him, 'I wonder if I can tell his emotions…'
Kagome decided to give it a try. She directed her hearing towards the buck and listened for its heart beat, to see if it was at a fast pace. It wasn't, it was a calm, rhythmic beat. Subconsciously her nose picked up the faint sent of the doe on the buck, 'Are you her mate, watching over her and your kids? Don't worry, I do not want to attack or hurt them.'
She watched silently as the buck stepped out of the red leaved bushed it had been behind. It's six point rack scrapped against the low hanging branches and Kagome smelled a spike of what she recognized as fear come from the doe, and saw her head whip up and stare at the male deer.
Kagome saw that she recognized him in her eyes and watched her calm. Finally she turned her large doe eyes towards the miko turned Taiyoukai, as if seeing her for the first time. Kagome stayed deadly still, she was enjoying her self, using Sesshomaru's senses in way she would never be about to use her own.
The doe raised her muzzle, her nose quivering as she sniffed the air. She took a step towards Kagome, her head cocking to the side in confusion. The fawns finally noticed Kagome as well at their mother's actions and rushed forward with curiosity at the figure their mother was not backing away from.
A smile spread across Sesshomaru's usually emotionless as the braver of the two butted her leg in an attempt to scare her around, when it did not work, Kagome not even swaying from her stance, the fawns fell back, shaking his head. The other one, fell back and braced it self on its hind legs, baring her blunt teeth at the demon.
Finally unable to hold it in, she felt a laugh raise from her throat. The husky, and somewhat sexy sound shocked even Kagome, 'If I every get back to my body I'll have to force him to laugh somehow.'
Even after being startled the two fawns seemed to not want to back down and went to head butt her again. Kagome side stepped them a little ungracefully on her new legs. A fang hung over her bottom lip as the male fawn let out a frustrated cry and the female ran back to her mother.
Even in her current situation, Kagome felt a little playful and let her self to fall down to sit on her heels. At this even the male fawns ran to his mother. She closed her golden eyes, waiting to see the reaction this got. She heard the louder steps of the adult male as he walked unto her; she didn't move as she could not smell any bad intent towards her.
Non-understandable sounds came from the male as he stopped to stand next to her, but something told her it was a bit playful. A few minutes later he seemed to repeat the same sounds and a moment later the sloppy steps of the fawns could be heard. He was shocked as one head butted her, and this time she fell on her rear end.
With an 'oomph' she opened her eyes and the female fawn was on her, knocking her to her back. Sadly any further play that would have taken place was interrupted. Kagome didn't need Sesshomaru's hearing to catch the crashes and curses of someone pushing their way threw the underbrush.
Kagome rolled over as the fawn jumped off her, running with her family into the forest, leaving Kagome alone to face the intruder. As quickly as possible she pushed herself to her feet, just as the cursing figure pushed into the tiny area where Sesshomaru had rested the night before. Kagome brushed the leaves off of herself, believing she needed to keep up Sesshomaru's image to stay safe; and crushed leaves covering her body would not help that image.
It was a human that stumbled into the clearing, their back to the Demon lord's body as they tried to untangle their foot from a vine that had captured them. Kagome was thankful it was just a human, as she was not really in any mood to defend herself in a body she did not know anything about. Hopefully the human would not try anything as even Sango –who didn't have the unnatural senses that she and Miroku had for the power of demons- had said she could feel the power coming of InuYasha's half brother.
Stepping on every leaf around him, the human was making a terrible racket to Sesshomaru's ears and Kagome suddenly understood some of Sesshomaru's hatred of humans. 'If I could smell this well all the time, I'd hate them too.'
Her nose scrunched and her eyes narrowed the human was finally able to get the vine from their foot, his unclean body reeking of sake and dirt mixed with the terrible smell of human body waste. The smell almost made her eyes water, but she held it back, 'Dear god…did he fall into a out house?! Maybe I should push him into a river or something!'
'No, because that means touching him and then the sent will never leave us woman.' The sudden voice made her jump, and as the human whipped around at the sudden sound that was not his own, she had to push her wonder into the back of her mind as she slid an emotionless mask over her shock. His eyes widened at her form, but it was not in fear or shock.
Kagome finally got a good wisp of the drunken sent that nearly overtook her. In his drunken haze the human look a step forward, lust clouding his dark brown eyes; "P-pretty whore."
Sesshomaru's golden eyes widened in shock, 'What?!' She nearly choked at his words, 'I know he is somewhat beautiful looking, but how drunk do you have to be to not recognize the Demon Lord Sesshomaru and mistake him for a human woman?!'
'Human's are just that stupid.' Kagome ignored the voice this time as the drunken male took a very ungraceful step towards her. His hands were extended as if to grab Sesshomaru's very feminine kimono.
She would not have any of that and took a step backwards, away from his groping hands. She did not hold back her icy glare as he fell on his face and cursed her, "Damn wench! Stop moving!"
She felt her eye twitched, hoping she wouldn't have to touch the scum of a male, which she would have to do if she was to attack him. Though, she wasn't sure how to attack him. She was a good fighter, yes; but in her body, not Sesshomaru's male, demon one…
She was getting ready to turn and run when the voice once again spoke up in the back of her mind, 'On second thought, if you attack him it will give you practice in our body…'
As the man was currently distracted with getting up -and failing miserably mind you- Kagome finally gave the voice her attention, 'Our?'
A snort responded, 'I am this demon body's inner beast. I prefer the soul born with this body, but you will do female. For now…'
She felt a little insulted, but pushed it away, 'Inner beast?'
The voice gave a frustrated sigh and there was a flash of a vision in Kagome's mind's eye. Sesshomaru in his true for was what she saw and she understood a little better, but was still utterly confused, 'I am not another soul, if that is what you were thinking. I am of this body's dog demon blood. I will explain it in more depth for your slow human mind later, as our friend is finding his feet.'
Her eye twitched, not only did she have to live with being in Sesshomaru's body, but she got an annoying mental voice to go with it. She really felt insulted that time, but turned her attention to the disgusting human as he shockingly stood, mumbling to himself. She noted his dirt and crap covered clothes, they seemed to be of a somewhat upper-class style for this time frame. 'A little rich boy who had too much to drink, yippee…'
The inner beast snorted back, 'We will never understand why humans like sake so much.'
She quickly assumed that it meant Sesshomaru, 'It has no effect on him?'
'You aren't a slow or stupid as I thought.'
'I will try to take that as a complement…' She spoke dryly.
She got no reply and watched as the drunken man glared at her with drunken rage. "You filthy bitch, how dare you reject me and then not help me up!"
She found her self snorting at that, "I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole."
Even Sesshomaru's deadly voice did not make the man see the error's in his gender guess as he glared at her. He lunged forward with surprising speed, giving Kagome very little time to react. Instinct took over.
She felt a heat sensation in her finger tips as she swiped them at the man. She got him and he staggered back, blood gushed from a gaping hole in his chest, which grew bigger and deeper as the poison did its job.
Her clawed hand still glowing green -dissolving any blood that was on them- Kagome gagged at the metallic sent of the man's life fluid. She took a step back, as to avoid the blood from staining her white cloths. The smell was the most disgusting thing she had ever smelled and when she was sure her hand had stopped glowing she brought it up with her sleeve to cover her precious nose.
She watched as the man fell to his knees, and than he was face down on the ground, hiding his shocked face from her view, something she was thankful for. He was the first human life she had ever taken, and yet she felt satisfied.
It disturbed her slightly.
'We'd better get going before the scavenger demons get here, female.' The voice shocked her from her dark mood. Kagome turned on her heal, and ran with speed she was no longer shocked by, away from the body, and away from her sin.
!!
'You are innocent.'
It took her a moment to realize the voice had spoken as she had been running for about half an hour, slowing down to a brisk walk. And even longer for it to register what it meant, 'No. I just killed someone!'
'I know you enjoyed it, because I did too. I know you do not like this feeling, because you are a human soul. But you must ask your self female: Would you do it again should the situation call for it.' It sounded somewhat gentle with its words this time around and Kagome found herself thinking deeply on them.
'Would I?' She thought for a moment as she leaned on a tree she had came to a halt at. 'If ever offered with that situation again, even in my body…I believe I would. Yes, I would do the same thing.'
'Then why are you feeling guilty female?' It was less gentle with this question, and it angered her slightly, but she was able to keep her temper.
'First of all, stop calling me 'Female'. My name is Kagome, use it.' Before she could continue the voice snorted at her.
'I am fully aware of your name female, or should I say, miko that travels with our insufferable half brother. You are a guest in this body and I will call you what ever I damn well please.' It growled at her.
'Well aren't you the nicest voice in the back of my mind that I could ever have…' She glared at it mentally and silence over came them as she leaned lazily on the thick tree next to her.
'Well female, why do you feel guilty?'
She huffed at it for breaking the silence of her thoughts, 'If you must know…'
'I do.' The inner beast seemed to let its voice softened for her.
'I have killed more lower-class demons than I can count…but when it comes to humans, I….' She trailed off.
After a moment it finished her statement, 'You feel like you have committed a dangerous sin that will bare down on you.' It paused to let its words sink in, 'But, female, he was scum. Any human that careless was bound to get killed, if not by you, than by another demon, OR human who he passed and cursed at'
Its words were true and she knew it, 'Don't expect me to kill every human we cross…'
'I don't.'
'Good. Now teach me how to control this poison.' She raised her hand and felt the heat again as she called on the green liquid.
She was surprised by a heart laugh, 'If it means staying alive, I will teach you how to have sex as the male!'
Kagome blotched and the poison stopped glowing in her shock, "What!?"
The laugher that fallowed her out burst nearly deafened her
TBC
Ending note: This is the longest first chapter I have ever written….
I know, I know. Not another fic! Next chapter I will switch to Sesshomaru's finding out of his new 'condition'.
I blame Sugar0o for this insanity. She promised fan art, and I really liked the idea, so you'll have to live with my attempt at humor as Sesshomaru lives in Kagome's body and vise versa.. (I love cruel humor.)
Thanks for bothering to read this fic now tell me what you think!
hFT