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The Snow Angel	By : SunsetMiko Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 51190 -:- Recommendations : 8 -:- Currently Reading : 9
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Chapter 45 - The Third *Lapis lazuli* (Seven Treasures Challenge)

"Perhaps we should stop for the night," Sesshoumaru said, staring at Kagome's red, wind-burned cheeks. "It is growing dark, and the higher we go, the colder it will be."

Kagome shook her head. "No, we're almost there. If we go off searching for shelter, it'll take us that much longer to find it tomorrow."

They had spent the entire afternoon scaling a mountain while tracing the border of the Western Lands. Inuyasha hadn't been able to go as fast as he would have liked since a great deal of the distance they needed to cover was at a steep incline. Now Kagome had demanded to be put down so that she could hold Sesshoumaru's hand and narrow down the location, slowing them down even more. The miko was no mountain climber, and even with the taiyoukai's strength helping to pull her up here and there, her inexperience was showing.

After her foot slipped off of the third rocky outcropping in a row, Inuyasha began grumbling. "You're gonna get hurt, wench. You're gonna slip and fall. Why won't you let me carry you?"

"Because you refuse to stay close to the border so I can touch Sesshoumaru. If I can't touch him, I can't find the spell bag."

"I would not allow her to fall," the taiyoukai said. "I would catch her."

"Oh yeah?" Inuyasha said snidely. "How ya gonna do that? You'd have to wait until she fell through the barrier, and she'd be dead by then from bouncing off the rocks."

"I am holding her hand, am I not, Inuyasha? If she were to slip, I would hold on to her to keep her from falling." Sesshoumaru didn't like the fact that Inuyasha was challenging his ability to keep Kagome safe. He didn't want the miko to think him weak, and that's exactly what the hanyou was aiming for.

"Stop being so antagonistic, Inuyasha," Kagome said threateningly. "He wouldn't let me fall and you know it. If something happened to me, he'd probably never get the barrier down and he knows that. Why would he let me get hurt or killed?"

The taiyoukai mentally frowned. That's why she thought he would save her? For his own needs? That wasn't the case at all! He would never let harm come to her because he cared about her and she was his angel. The world would be a darker place without her presence, and his life would be empty and cold. If it were her or the barrier, he would choose Kagome in an instant. He would happily give up his title and live a peasant's life so long as it was with her. His sense of responsibility was overruled by his love for the miko, and for once in his life, he found something more important than being the Lord of the West.

They continued hand in hand, with Inuyasha hot on Kagome's heels while the others flew above them. The snow was deeper here, and the wind was frigid. The higher altitude was more than Sesshoumaru had ever wanted Kagome exposed to, but she was insistent that there was a spell bag up in the peaks, and she was determined to find it.

As she tried to climb higher, the miko found that there was nothing to hold on to and nowhere to put her feet. She let out a sigh of frustration before yelping in surprise when Inuyasha scooped her up and leapt to the next semi-flat area above them. She felt Sesshoumaru's hand being yanked out of her own, and she immediately began swatting the hanyou.

"Damn it, Inuyasha, you could have warned me! You scared the hell out of me! Sesshoumaru?" The taiyoukai leapt to her side, on the outside of the barrier, and extended his hand. Kagome grabbed it carefully, seeing the burns along his fingers. "You pulled his hand into the barrier. What is the matter with you?"

"Oh, he'll heal. It's not a big deal. Shoulda let go," Inuyasha said dismissively.

"After we just discussed how he would hold on if I started to fall? Gee, yeah, of course he should have just let go, even though it happened so fast he probably had no idea that it was you pulling me away and not me falling. Jackass," she muttered. "Will you be okay?" the miko asked Sesshoumaru in a worried tone.

"I will be fine. This Sesshoumaru will heal." As he spoke, the taiyoukai ran his free hand over his neck, finding that the scars were still there. He couldn't understand why they hadn't healed yet. In usual circumstances, they would have been gone within an hour at the most, and even that was stretching it. It had been days since the spell had been undone, and he had been returned to this form, and yet the scars from his ordeal remained. Would they be there forever? Sesshoumaru was relieved that they were hidden from view. That was something he had no desire to explain.

"I think we're almost there," Kagome said, ripping the taiyoukai from his thoughts. "It feels like it's just up ahead." Sesshoumaru nodded, and they began walking once more. Moments later she stopped, kicking at the knee high snow covering where she sensed the next spell bag. "I don't get it," she said with a frown. "It feels like it's right here, but it's solid stone."

"That don't mean shit," Inuyasha muttered. "If the guy can work this kind of dark magic, he can handle hiding something inside solid rock. I'll take care of this," the hanyou said, boasting his strength. "Just get out of the way, wench."

Kagome immediately moved closer to Sesshoumaru, feeling safer by his side at the cliff's edge than alone against the mountain face. Inuyasha noticed and growled, but said nothing. He recognized that Kagome was, indeed, safer with the taiyoukai, just in case he broke too much rock free and caused her to fall. Sesshoumaru smirked as he gently lay a hand on her upper arm as innocently as possible. She glanced up at him, a small smile on her face, before returning her focus to Inuyasha. The taiyoukai silently rejoiced in the fact that she seemed comfortable with his touch. He was obviously making progress.

Inuyasha slammed his fist down onto the cold stone, gritting his teeth at the pain before doing it again. Cracks spread from the point of impact, and after another hit, the hanyou began shoving away chunks of rock. Once he removed everything that had broken loose, he hit the rock again, ignoring the cracking sound of his fingers fracturing. He was the only one would could unearth the spell bag since Sesshoumaru could not cross the border due to the barrier. If he ever wanted this to end, he had to do this. Besides, he would heal soon enough, and maybe Kagome would stop being so focused on Sesshoumaru and pay a little attention to him when she found out he had seriously fucked up his hand for the taiyoukai.

Another hit, and then more stone was cleared away. Inuyasha knew he was almost there by the depth of the hole. The first two bags had been buried about a foot deep and he expected this one would be the same. In an effort to finish quickly, the hanyou hit the stone harder than before, sending cracks splintering out towards the edge. In an instant, Sesshoumaru had his arm around Kagome's waist as he jumped to a safer position. Turning back, they both watched as the ledge they had been standing on broke away and sent chunks of stone tumbling down the mountainside.

Inuyasha cursed up a storm as he saw not only that he had endangered Kagome's life but also that Sesshoumaru had once again come to her rescue, touching her far more than necessary. The bastard was still holding her! Her back was pressed to his chest, and his arm was around her waist like she belonged there, and she didn't look as if she intended to protest or pull away any time soon. He had also fully crushed the bones in his hand, so he wasn't in any state to make the taiyoukai pay for it, either.

Using his undamaged hand, Inuyasha pushed away a few chunks of rock, finally revealing the spell bag. Kagome rushed to his side, the taiyoukai hesitantly releasing her, and she scooped up the bag. Seeing the odd position the hanyou was holding his hand, the miko gasped and rose to her feet.

"Inuyasha? What did you do?" She tugged at his wrist, pulling his hand away from his chest, and looked it over. The whole thing was varying shades of purple with scrapes and scratches, and his fingers were misshapen and swollen to the size of sausages. "Oh, gods, Inuyasha. You broke your hand! Why didn't you use another rock to hit it or something? Oh, you poor thing!"

Inuyasha's eyes locked with Sesshoumaru's as Kagome carefully kissed his knuckles, a smug smirk showing on his face. The taiyoukai would never mean so much to the miko as he did, and he wanted to make sure that the prick knew it too.

"I'll be fine, wench. Just deal with the bag, and then maybe you can wrap it up for me."

Kagome nodded. "Yeah, of course. That might help it heal a little faster." She glanced at her other friends who had landed nearby and then down at Shippo, who was holding onto her calf. She sighed before kneeling and clearing away some of the smaller rubble before dumping out the bag. It was already getting old, looking at all of the disgusting and cruel ingredients, and so this time she refused to watch as Shippo studied everything.

"Well, let's see here," the kit started.

"Ugh, can we skip the show and tell this time, Shippo? I really don't want to hear it. I can't get that crap out of my head as it is, and I don't want more bouncing around in there."

"Sure, Mama," Shippo said, turning to hug the miko. "It's all the same type of stuff anyway. Nothing exciting, except maybe the blue stones. They're kinda pretty."

"Well, if they're anything like the others, they'll hang around so I can look at them after everything else is gone." That said, the miko turned and held her hands over the items. Her eyes flitted over the contents of the bag against her will and she groaned. "Oh, there's my owl eyes, huh?"

"Actually, they're not owl," the kit replied.

"Okay, don't need to know," she grumbled, stopping him before he added another gory image to her head. She didn't want to have nightmares again, but figured that wasn't all that likely. A small part of her hoped that Sesshoumaru would be the one to comfort her again, that bit of her mind shocking the rest.

Unsettled by her revelation, the miko focused on her task, calling up her reiki to purify away the black magic. Left behind were some beautiful blue stones, rough, uncut, and unpolished. Kagome picked them up. "These are lapis lazuli," she said while holding them out for Shippo to see.

"They're pretty," the kit replied.

When Kagome handed them to Sesshoumaru, he nodded his agreement. "Very pretty. They match your eyes perfectly." The miko blushed at his compliment, turning away in embarrassment. Inuyasha snarled but said nothing. After he had tucked the stones away, the taiyoukai looked around. "Now, to find suitable shelter. Wait here for a moment."

"I can find my pack shelter!" Inuyasha yelled, but Sesshoumaru was already gone.

"Just sit down, and let me take a look at that hand," Kagome said, coaxing the hanyou out of his anger. "It really looks like it hurts."
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