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The Departed	By : ryotgurl19 Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 2809 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N SORRY THIS TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET OUT! I moved into a
new place and through all the packing, moving, and unpacking, I completely
spaced! Sorry! Hope you enjoy this!

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�Inuyasha!� She strode forward quickly, following the
white head of hair that seemed intent upon eluding her. �Inuyasha, wait! Where
are we going?�
She was confused, he
had never acted like this before and she wondered if something terrible had
happened. She had been sitting at camp, staring into the fire while the others
slept when she looked up to see Inuyasha staring in at her from the edge of the
forest. He had told her to follow him, and while no explanation had been given
she trusted that it was important and offered no protest as she rose to follow.
But now she was
becoming wary, they were much too far from camp and the hanyou showed no signs
of stopping anytime soon. As she looked around she saw that the trees were too
thick to see a clear path to where he was taking her, which only caused her
worries to increase.
Abruptly he stopped
though he did not turn to face her.
She waited for a few
moments hoping that some explanation would be given for their quick departure
from the others. But no answers were forthcoming, instead he started to laugh.
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Kagome awoke, startled and disoriented, knowing nothing
about where she was and how she got there. She felt that she was on something
soft, maybe a blanket or grass, but her pounding heart distracted her from
looking around her to figure out where she was. Instead she rolled over and
buried her face into the overly large kimono she was wrapped in and curled up
into the tightest ball she could manage. The position brought her some comfort,
closing in the world around her until all she knew was the dark space between
her ribcage and her knees.
She always had this dream and always she woke up in the same
manner. It terrified her to think of what happened next and still she couldn�t
figure out exactly what had occurred. She knew it was terrible. That it led to
where she was now, but the thought of looking back and figuring it out caused
her to mentally run in fear.
It wasn�t until she had calmed somewhat that she realized
the soft silk of the garment she was laying on was not the same as the tattered
cloth she had covered herself with for months. She opened her eyes slowly,
warily, before lifting her head from its cradle and looking around at the
bright green grass and the thick dark brown trunks of the trees surrounding
her.
This was not the same place.
She was free.
But how?
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Sesshomaru stared straight ahead and out into the forest
surrounding the clearing where he was guarding the miko. He had placed himself
in a spot where she would have to fully turn in order to see him as he didn�t
wish to completely startle her when she awoke. The last time he had seen her
and her group they were on better terms, but they weren�t exactly friendly. He
assumed that her first reaction to his presence would be one of fear as he
figured that she would be extremely disoriented when she woke.
Unfortunately his resting place had put her form in his
direct eyesight and every few seconds his gaze would travel back to her
slumbering form. He was still trying to figure out how she had ended up at the
mercy of the Northern Lord. While the panther demon was not particularly
clever, his capture of the miko indicated some deviousness on his part.
Either the capture had been by coincidence or it had been
planned.
Neither option sat well with the Daiyoukai.
His theories ranged from the miko being stupid enough to
wander off on her own or she was lured from her group by either friend or foe.
He could not be sure of any of his guesses until the girl awoke and was able to
account for her condition personally.
Even as he was thinking about these possibilities his
instincts were screaming that there was something more going on behind this
whole affair. He could not say what but he had learned that his instincts were
rarely wrong and that they should be heeded in all conditions.
His gaze quickly shifted to the miko as he heard her stir
from her sleep. She was muttering nonsense about Inuyasha and trees when she
awoke and did the most peculiar thing. She huddled in on herself, curling up as
a child would after a terrible nightmare and whether the motion was for
protection or comfort the Lord could not tell. He watched her form tremble and
decided it would be best for her to relax on her own as his presence would
probably terrify her more in her current state.
He waited patiently until her muscles relaxed and she moved
her head to gaze out at the vegetation covering the land they were currently
using. He stayed silent as she sat up and gazed around in wonder, slowly
turning her head from side to side as if in disbelief.
He figured this would be the best time to announce his
presence. Standing, he quietly made his way until he was a few feet behind her.
He waited for her to settle before speaking.
�Miko.� She whirled around so fast
that she toppled over in her attempts to see who was speaking. Straightening,
she gazed at him in the same wonder that he had seen only moments before but
said nothing. �Miko, this Sesshomaru released you from your imprisonment.� He
watched the emotions flow across her face openly; curiosity, fear, terror,
relief, and once again hope.
But still she did not speak.
�Miko, tell this Sesshomaru how you came to be in such a
state.� He leveled his gaze at her, taking in her too thin frame and taught
skin where there had once been a healthy amount of flesh. �She shrugged but still did not say anything.
He hid his surprise and merely blinked at her, waiting for some sort of
explanation beyond the physical motion.
Seeing that none was forthcoming he motioned with his hand
toward the food that he had placed beside her. He had hunted and prepared the
rabbit so that she would have food when she woke in order to correct that
malnourishment that her body had been subjected to for obviously quite some
time.
She turned her head towards the meal and quickly turned her
gaze back to him and once again giving him that smile that had him wondering
about her sanity. She nodded her head once and picked up the spitted rabbit
before delicately tearing off a piece of the meat and bringing it to her mouth.
She sucked the juices from the cooked meat before popping the object into her
mouth and chewing slowly.
He watched her swallow and then immediately roll to empty her stomach onto the cool grass. Apparently
her body had been without substantial food for such a long time that it was
rejecting anything that she sought to eat. He mentally sighed; this was going
to take more work than he had previously anticipated.
Making a quick decision that he refused to analyze he knelt
beside her prone form and pulled her back into a sitting position. He tore a
piece from the rabbit, smaller than the one that she had consumed, and held it
to her lips. After a slight hesitation she opened her mouth and he placed the
meat inside and watched her chew slowly and then swallow.
Waiting a few moments until he was sure she would not again reject the food, he
tore another piece from the carcass and waited for her to accept the morcel. He continued this process until he decided that she
had had enough to eat without overdoing it.
Standing and moving away from the girl he still refused to
analyze his actions as he understood they were severely out of character for
him. Sesshomaru glanced back to the girl and watched as she slowly stood on
shaky legs before looking up at him in question.
�Come, miko. We must depart.� Gracefully he began to walk
forward at a pace that the weakened girl could keep up with. She needed to
regain her strength or she would never endure the trials that were to come,
trials in which she must prevail if the world was to survive.

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A/N SO�..tell me what you think, I know it�s
super short but I�m getting there!
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