Inuyasha doesn't belong to me if it did this paring would not be fiction.

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Chapter 15:

Kagome sat there still dumbfounded at Hatchi's words.

"kagome…" hatchi slowly said.

He watched as more tears fell from her eyes.

"Hatchi I-" she was cut off as dust flew at them, she formed a protective barrier out of instinct and brushed the dust and tears out of her eyes.

"Kagome? Is that you?"

Kagome looked up through the dust.

"Koga!"

"Kagome"

"What are you doing here Koga?"

"No time to talk kagome get on my back"

"What?!"

"Look Kagura is headed towards the west and there is only one reason she would be headed that way"

Kagome froze her eyes as wide as saucers. "no…"

"Get on!" he yelled at her again.

She ran towards Koga every inch of her body filled with adrenaline 'How could I have not realized' when her path was blocked by something white and fluffy. She looked up, and if it was possible her eyes would have gotten even wider.

"Sehssomaru!" 'oh no if hes here then' she stepped back a few feet "What the hell are you doing here?! I ran away! Rin should have given you my message!"

"Yes Kagome Rin did indeed give this Sesshomaru your message"

Koga stared at the two; he was worried for kagome and what the ice lord might do to her with his memories gone. Koga was another who knew of kagome's previous history with the great lord of the west.

"Then you shouldn't have followed me! I am no longer your guest or your ward and I am defiantly not your mate so why in the world would you-"

She was cutoff as Sesshomaru grabbed her shoulders and pressed his lips to hers.

Hachi and Koga stared wide eyed at the two.

He parted from her and held his face close to her ear "Are you certain about that?"

Kagome felt him peel her makeup pad from her neck that hid her crescent shaped mark.

His hands loosened from her arms. He watched her take and few steps back and slump to the ground staring at him. Her mouth opening and closing, apparently having a tough time finding the right words to say. He looked at her neck where his mating mark stood out vividly against her pale skin.

"No… no, no, no." She held her hand up to her neck covering the mark. 'How? How!?' she screamed in her head. Her body physically froze again she had suddenly remembered what she had been doing before. She began to run towards Koga again. Sheshomaru blocked her way once again. This time she shoved past him and jumped on Koga's back "Go!" she yelled he did no hesitate and he ran back the way she had come.

Sesshomaru looked down at hatchi

"Eeep! He yelled he turned over onto his back at attempted to crawl away before Sesshomaru stepped on his tail. Sesshomaru picked him up "You will explain to this Sesshomaru when this is done"

Hachi nodded quickly and then he was lying in the field alone.

Inuyasha ran back towards the castle close on Kagura and Kanas tail. 'What the hell is Naraku up to now?'

Then he smelt something that he hadn't smelt in a long time. He turned his head and saw the familiar cyclone gaining ground behind him.

"Hey wolf!"

"Hey dog turd, long time no see"

"Hey you mangy wolf what are you doing with kagome?"

Koga ran up beside him.

"I am going back to the castle and Koga has kindly agreed to assist me in getting there faster."

Both he and Koga stopped and faced each other.

"Koga!" Kagome yelled at him, "There's no time to stop and fight we have to go now!!"

he just brushed her off.

"Give me kagome!"

"Not on your life dog breath"

Kagome stood between them, "Inuyasha! Koga! Stop fighting!"

Suddenly a white blur flew in between them and kagome had vanished.

"Kagome!" The bickering two yelled.

Kagome sat on Koga's back anxious to get back to the castle when she spotted a familiar red figure running ahead of them, "Koga go around him if you can please" but it was too late Inuyasha had spotted them.

"Hey wolf!"

Kagome rolled her eyes as the two bickered. She pulled herself off of Koga's back and ran between the two of them.

"Inuyasha! Koga! Stop fighting!" her eyes widened as she saw a white blur coming at her.

She heard the two men call out her name. She looked up at her captors face, glaring at him. She turned away from him seeming like the millionth time she had cried today she held her tears in, her mind still swimming with questions.

Sesshomaru looked down at her and smelt the tears that she would not let fall. He smelt her anxiety and confusion, and Naraku. He looked up and spotted Kagura flying towards his palace. He picked up his pace ignoring the eeep of the priestess in his arm. He cursed his brother once again for ripping off his arm. He jumped onto a nearby tree branch and placed kagome upright while he crouched down.

"Get on" he said coldly

Kagome could hear the anger and frustration in his voice. She just turned her back to him and crossed her arms her bow and arrows still strapped to her back.

"Why should I?"

"You should do as I say because even as we speak Naraku's incarnations, Kagura and Kanna, are approaching the castle"

Her body stiffened once again 'This has to be the worst day of my life!! How could I forget!?'she jumped quickly onto his back. "Go fast Sheshomaru! You must hurry!" 'And how could he remember!?'

Shippou blinked a few times his vision still blurry from the poison. He could easily recognized the female figure in front of him though. He placed his arms around her and pulled her into a hug, Akia didn't pull back and silently sobbed on his chest. After a few minuets shippou saw his vision clear and felt the poison leaving his body 'good old fox youkai blood' he smirked.

Akia pulled her self up and wiped the few remaining tears from her eyes, "Shippou-kun, are you aright?"

He smiled at her, "Yeah I'll be fine. My youkai blood removed most of the poison from my body, and whatever you put on my neck removed the last of it. He he he."

Akia smiled and enveloped him in a hug. Shippou smiled, hugging one of his arms around her back.

Akia placed her forehead against his. He smiled at her bright green fox eyes, which where even more beautiful up close. "Akia, I know what its like to be alone, I know what its like to be the only different one in a group too. And I-"

Akia placed her finger over his mouth silencing the young fox demon. She looked down at her other hand

Shippou looked at her, a confused look on his face.

She pulled her hand into her lap.

Shippou said nothing and placed a hand onto hers. She lifted her head staring at him.

Shippou pulled her closer and placed a soft kiss on her lips.

Akia was shocked and couldn't move.

Shippou pulled back her face was blank. He sighed, "I'm sorry."

Akia grabbed his cheeks and crushed her lips onto his.

Shippou's eyes widened for a moment, and then he absorbed himself into her kiss, wrapping both his arms around her, pulling her closer to him.

Kagura looked down at the castle beneath her and looked over to her sister "Kana, are you ready?"

The silent girl nodded.

"Alright then" Kagura lifted her fan "Dance of Blades!"

The castle started to shake. The two foxes separated. Shippou glanced at the ceiling and back down to where Naniko lay. He jumped up and grabbed her as the roof fell in. shippou tossed Naniko over his shoulder and grabbed Akia's hand.

"Come on!" Shippou shouted

"Wait, the baby!" Akia shouted. Shippou looked back at her a serious look on his face, "I made a promise to lady kagome! I have to go get him!"

Shippou looked around as another part of the roof caved in behind him, "Let's go!"

They ran as fast as they could through the falling rubble. Akia ran ahead of shippou and into Hillttaka's room. She screamed. Shippou ran in next and a familiar sent reached his nose. He stopped in the doorway his eyes gleaming with anger. Akia was on the ground screaming in pain as kana sucked out her soul. Hillttaka was crying in the crib behind her. The child easily sliced the wooden bars on his crib. Hillttaka ran behind Shippou and clutched to his leg. Shippou may not have ever met this child before but the child could certainly tell who the "bad guy" was.

Kanna looked at the child, forgetting about the other fox demon. Her soul was released from the spell and she fell to the ground unconscious. Shippou picked up the crying child and slowly walked over to where Akia lay, not taking his eyes off of kana. He picked up akia and threw her over his other shoulder, "Get on my shoulder kid, now."

The child did not hesitate and crawled onto shippou shoulder shippou whispered to the small haynou relying on his sharp dog ears to hear him "Hang on"

Shippou ran through the castle avoiding the rubble. He stopped outside the front door, Kagura was fighting the castle guards and destroying the castle in the process. He jumped away dodging a stray dancing blade he past over the wall and kept running in the direction that sheshomaru went, following his sent.

Kagura looked down at the fox running past the battle with two women and a child on his shoulder, 'Kana you failed' she gritted her teeth and cut the head off of another solider

He felt the child claw into his shirt sleeve and part of his flesh. Shippou gritted his teeth and pressed on, the child probably didn't even notice. He just kept crying and saying, "I want my mama, I want my mama."

"I'm sorry kid," shippou said to him, "But your mama is still at the castle, we can't go back for her"

"No!" he shouted "I want my real mama. I want my REAL mama!"

"What do you mean kid?"

The kid screamed. Shippou collided with something and fell to the ground.

"ku ku ku ku ku ku"

Shippou's spine went cold as he looked up.

There he was in all his tentacle glory.

"Naraku!" shippou grit his teeth.

"mmmm," Naraku cackled, "So we meet again"

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