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Winter Wind	By : inuyoukai8 Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 39773 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Sesshoumaru said nothing more as they walked the long corridors. From the corner of his eye he saw the miko looking this way and that. Her amber eyes wide in wonder.
They reached a dark corridor where not even a single lamp burned and it was here that he led her. Strange greenish demon lights springing to life as he passed. It was cold here, ice forced on parts of the walls. It was because he kept this careful eye he kept on her that he noticed the change.
Her face flushed and tiny beads of perspiration broke out over her flesh. Her breathing became more pronounced. Her eyes shut now.
“Miko?”
She looked up to find him several feet away, “Why is it so hot here?” she asked.
Sesshoumaru blinked, “It is not.” He replied.
Kagome scowled at him, it was hot enough that she felt sick. She had to get air. “It is.”
“Miko it is not hot here I assure you.”
“Maybe not for a demon” she snapped, hands on her hips “But to us mere mortals, this is way too hot.”
Sesshoumaru merely stared at the wall beside her, Kagome grew irritated about to ask what was so interesting there when she happened to glance over and saw large icicles on the walls. There was no way there was much warmth here.
“As I said” he went on, “it is not hot here.”
Kagome took gulping breaths, pressing herself to the icy stone. “I feel terrible. Sick and hot.”
Sesshoumaru lifted his head back in the direction they were heading. “I can only think the evil of the shards is affecting you thusly.”
Kagome didn’t like the thought of that. “Let’s get this done” she panted.
It took ten more minutes of walking and Sesshoumaru was starting to wonder if he would have to carry her the rest of the way. Could she do this at all?
Kagome was in hell.
The oppressive heat of fever grew ever higher, her steps uncertain. She was barely moving, but she was determined to see this done. She could rest later.
“There” He said at last and Kagome peered through bleary eyes at the dark double doors ahead of her. A massive dog was carved there, baring his vicious looking fangs at the threshold.
She nodded and moved ahead of him, Sesshoumaru called no warning of the spell that protected this place. It was fused with his youki and would recognize her.
The dog grumbled and growled but Kagome fell against the door, using every ounce of her body weight to push the door open. It refused to budge. Sesshoumaru saw the sweat plastering her silks to her body and took pity, a gentle nudge of his arm and the doors opened.
Inside was a lake. At least kagome thought it was and in the center a small island and on that island was the shards. Even from so great a distance she would nearly taste the malevolence of them. Kagome looked at the churning purple tide that protected that island. She knew it for what it was. Poison.
Sesshoumaru’s poison. She’d nearly been killed by it once. She’d been saved by it once but her body recalled the pain of that dark fire running a blistering rampage in her veins.
She felt Sesshoumaru move to her side, “I will have to take you across.”
She nodded and merely clutched his proffered arm for support as his cloud swirled into being beneath them. As they moved over the distance she wondered faintly why they hadn’t been stolen with only poison to protect them.
“My youki will not allow them to be approached, let alone stolen.”
She blinked up at him, panting, “Stop reading my mind”
He chuffed lightly, “This is a power that this one does not possess. I have no need of it.”
They touched down on the tainted back and Sesshoumaru withdrew from her. Her powers snapping to life violently. “I must leave you here” he told her, “I do not like the pull of the shards. I will not be far off.” Then he leapt into the air and landed on the opposite bank gracefully.

Kagome felt the burn of her powers against her skin. The evil was so strong. She moved on leaden feet closer to the small stone column. Her hand moving out to push against the barrier of hatred. Her powers pulsed and crackled. For ever crack she made in the barrier one appeared in her own. It seemed almost as though someone were fighting her. Funneling evil back at her.
Kagome fell on her knees, panting for air, hands clenched against the stone.
“Miko” Sesshoumaru called.
She shook her head, “Stay away!”
Sesshoumaru saw her go down hard on her knees. Kagome was now crawling forward; he could hear her pained gasps and whimpers as she went. The swirling light of her holy powers kept him rooted to the spot. He’d never seen her release so much energy. She was at this moment….lethal.
He wondered how long she could last. She’d been squared off for more than an hour. Her tiny body certainly would not withstand much more.
Existence narrowed to a pinpoint in her vision, time of no meaning. A stone that danced with the menacing black shards of the jewel and herself were all that remained in the world. Kagome forced herself to keep moving. The dark power lashed at her and she fought it back ferociously but she felt it. Weakness. She had little time to do this.
“I have to make it, have to make it, have to” Kagome grunted to herself as she forced her body to move under the barrage of illness and pain. Had even Naraku ever felt this bad? She couldn’t recall it being so.
She sobbed with relief when her fingertips touched the stone pedestal. The dark power slicing at her. She closed her eyes and used the stone to pull herself eye level with the shards. They were like black diamonds, opaque and glittery. Oddly lovely.
She forced her hand through the last stage of the barrier, feeling her flesh rend and cried out in pain but kept moving. With a final cry she slammed her hand onto the shards forcing the pure light of her goodness into them. The entire cavernous chamber groaned in protest.
And then, the evil barrier gave a final angry belch and her powers flared against them. They slammed together so hard her teeth clacked together. She forced her fingers closed over the shards and not a moment too soon as the force of the collision threw her backwards into the air.
Sesshoumaru watched as her body hurtled like a slender missile through the air towards his poison. She would die.
He leapt without thinking and snatched her from the grasp of death. The long sleeves of her robes skimming the surface of the viscous fluid and melted away. Sesshoumaru flipped easily in the air, clutching her to his chest.
As he landed in safety again he felt a fiery pain flare at his shoulder. Kagome was purifying him. His eyes bled red and his fangs elongated in response but then his beast ceased roaring angrily and paused.
No. Not that.
His golden eyes went wide as the flesh of his shoulder began to stretch and extend. It was painful but her powers were regenerating his lost arm. He glanced down at her to find her unconscious in his arm. Bloodied and unconscious. The icy cold returned to this place and the only menace of this place was his own.
He held her more tightly; the scent of her blood disturbed his beast. She needed care at once. She was still bleeding profusely and her flesh now carried the chill of this place. Her brow when he laid a hand against it was still hot as fire.
Fast as lightening he was before her doors, thought better and flashed to his own rooms. The blood of priestesses could arouse unwanted issues amongst the demons of his household. A virgin one at that. He would have to see to himself, much as he felt it was beneath him.
He moved to the onsen, laying her down gently on the stones near the heat. Then he slipped into the hot water and reached for her. He noticed her little first so tightly clenched and using his own clawed fingers gently pried open her hand. There cutting into her fingers and palms were pale shards of the jewel. Clear and pure. He carefully plucked them from her palm and pushed her collar aside to reveal the delicate chain around her neck.
He tugged it until the bottle holding her shards was visible and uncapped the small cork before placing these shards inside and resealing the small vessel. “Well done Kagome.” He said quietly. Then he lifted her in his arms and moved back into deeper water with her.
He took his time, rinsing blood from her numerous cuts. When he realized there were more beneath her gown judging by the tattered remnant of it, he gently divested her of her clothing.
She moaned softly, brow furrowing in pain.
“Be still Kagome. I must clean you.”
She didn’t even open her eyes as he cupped hot water over her bruised shoulder. “Is it…done?”
“Yes.”
Those eyes finally cracked open. “Are you…hurt?” her voice wavered and he knew she was upset by the possibility.
He held that troubled gaze and slowly shook his head. He raised his newly restored hand into her line of sight and swept her bangs from her eyes. She seemed to be too hurt and exhausted to understand fully.
Kagome sighed, “That’s good”
Sesshoumaru knew she’d not waken again for some time and so he bathed her as he pondered her questions. Pondered that small fact that he was currently holding and cleaning her with two arms. He was whole again.
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