Blood Offering

Kikyou walked she was still in the eastern lands she hoped that she found Kagome soon she stopped by the river and splashed some water on her face. She untied the ribbon that held her hair together and letting her hair hand loosely. Kikyou continued on her journey to find Kagome.

Kagome was currently sitting in Lord Sesshoumaru’s study beginning her lessons. Akira was surprised to see how much Kagome knew already.
“Kagome who taught you how to read and write?” Akira asked her.
“Kikyou-sama.” Kagome said to her. “And Naraku-kun taught me how to catch fish and Kaede was teaching me about different herbs.” she told her.

Sesshoumaru listened as he looked over some scrolls. “Master Kagome doesn’t need any lesson in her reading and writing she was taught well.” Akira told him.
"Then teach her the ways of the inu-youkai." Sesshomaru told her in a bored tone.
"As you wish." She responded. Akira walked over to the book shelf and grabbed a large book and placed it in front of Kagome. Akira took the reading and writing books from Kagome and put them back up.
"Kagome, you will be learning about Inu-Youkai laws, rights, ceremonies, and so forth." Akira told her.

"But why?" she asked as she opened the book.
"This is your home and you need to be taught about the lands their are different rules for demons." Akira explained. Kagome read some of the book and slammed it close making Sesshoumaru look up at her.
"That's so cruel how can demons be so mean to half demons?, demons won't accept half demon like Naraku, Suri." she said. "Lord Sesshoumaru can you change this law?" she asked him. Sesshoumaru looked at her.
"Kagome read the book it is the law all half-breeds are dirty." he told her.
"But their not Naraku-kun's parents loved him. Kikyou-sama says that Naraku is special, I bet he's lonely now." she said. Hiroshi came into the study with some papers for Sesshoumaru to sign. "Hello Kagome." Hiroshi said to her.
Kagome ran out the room she wanted to go home. Akira's eyes went wide as Kagome ran out the room.

"Akira, since you can not control a child, you will be sent to the kitchen to work." Sesshomaru told her. "Yes master." Akira said and left the study and walked towards the kitchen. Sesshomaru signed the papers and stood up. Sesshomaru left his study and walked out into the hall.
"Damn human is making it hard for me to control myself." Sesshomaru thought to himself as he followed Kagome's sweet scent. "Naraku, where are you?" Kagome cried into the wind.


Kira nodded as she saw Sesshoumaru. "She ran out to the gardens." Kira told him.
Sesshoumaru growled as he walked out the castle and into the gardens. He followed her scent and found her trying to climb the walls.
"Kagome you were told not to go anywhere without me." Sesshoumaru said to her.
"I want Naraku, and Kaede and Kikyou." she said with tears in her eyes.
"I told you before they are the past." he said as he walked over to her.
"I want to go home please let me go home Lord Sesshoumaru." she said.
"This is your home now come back inside." he said to her.

Hiroshi came outside. "Perhaps Kagome would like to play she is a child after all." Hiroshi said to him.
"Go back inside or be punished the choice is up to you." Sesshoumaru told her.
Seeing that there was no one on her side she slowly walked back inside the castle.
"The Priestess Kikyou has left the village and is searching for her as we speak." Hiroshi said to him.


"Oh, well then go seek out this Kikyou and kill her." Sesshomaru said to him in a dangerous voice. "Yes, Mi'Lord." Hiroshi said and left in search of the one they called Kikyou.

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Kagome ran up to her room, she grabbed all her perfume bottles and smashed them into the floor and onto the walls. Once she made sure that the room was to intoxicating for her to breathe, she left though the window. Kagome climbed on top of the roof and crawled to a near by tree and grabbed a hold of it. Kagome climbed down the tree and ran towards the gate where she saw a small hole in the bottom of the gate. Kagome was able to fit through it. Kagome took of running back towards her village.


Kagome kept running she just wanted to get back to her other family. Kagome came across a bridge she ran across it . "Naraku!, Kikyou!", Kagome yelled as she ran. Kikyou was sitting in the clearing resting when she heard someone call her name. Kikyou stood up.
"Kagome!" Kikyou yelled as she saw her come into view.
“Kikyou." Kagome said as she ran to her. Kikyou hugged her.
"Oh Kagome are you ok?" she asked her.

Sesshoumaru walked into Kagome's bedroom to see broken perfume bottles on the floor and Kagome gone.
"Tricky, tricky." Sesshomaru said to himself. Sesshomaru had to cover his nose.
"Should we go after her My Lord?" The guards asked him.
"No, let her think that she got away." Sesshomaru said to them. "And get some one to clean up this room." Sesshomaru told them and walked back to his room.
"Um, I wonder if Hiroshi will find Kagome with Kikyou, I wonder if Hiroshi will be killed by this priestess." Sesshomaru thought to himself as he changed his clothes.


Kikyou held Kagome's hand as they began to walk back home. Hiroshi was walking through the forest when he saw the prestress Kikyou as well as Kagome.
Kikyou stopped and pointed her arrow at Hiroshi. "Leave I will not let your Lord have her." Kikyou told him as she placed a barrier around Kagome.
"He will have her Priestess don't make this any harder." he said.
" She is just a child what he has planned for her is horrific, I know you've seen what he did to those last children how long did they live?" she hissed.

"A few hours." he said softly.
"Then let her go, let her live I will wound you sightly you can tell him you tried to take her back but you were outnumbered." Kikyou told him

“You expect me to just let you wound me?" He asked Kikyou.
"It's better then you losing your life." Kikyou told him. .

“Very well then, just don’t hit my face." He told her.
"Kagome, close your eyes." Kikyou told her. Kagome did as she was told and closed her eyes. "We can go know, he's gone." Kikyou told Kagome a few seconds later. "Come on, I want to see Naraku!" Kagome told her.
"Of course." Kikyou said to her.


Kagome ran further to she saw her village. "Naraku!" Kagome yelled when she came all the way into the village. Naraku ran out of Kaede's hut.
"Kagome!" Naraku yelled as he ran to her. "Are you okay where were you?, why do you smell different?" he asked her.
"Naraku she is fine , she just got lost." Kikyou said as she took the two back to the hut where Kaede was sitting. "Kagome we''re glad you're safe." Kaede told her.
"I missed you all." Kagome told them.
"You two stay inside." Kaede said as Naraku held onto Kagome's hand. Kikyou and Kaede stepped outside.
"She found me, Kagome is safe for now we have to out up a barrier to keep her and all the children safe." Kikyou said to her.
"Then let's get started. "Kaede told her.


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Hiroshi limped back into the castle and up to Sesshomaru's study. Hiroshi knocked on the door. "Enter." Sesshomaru said from the other side. Hiroshi limped into the study. Sesshomaru raised an eye brow at him. "A female kicked your ass." Sesshomaru told him with a bit of amusement in his voice. "She was powerful." He responded.

"I see and was my little treasure with her?" Sesshoumaru asked him.
"She was." he said.
"Do you want me to gather the guards and go and get her back?" Hiroshi asked him.
"No I will have her in time,." Sesshoumaru said to him.
Hiroshi nodded his head. "Forgive me for asking this but if you leave her there isn't there the chance she might fall in love with this Naraku . won't that make it harder to take her from the village?" Hiroshi asked him.

"No, if she falls in love and marries Naraku, I will simply put an end to his life, besides I am the lord and master of these lands." Sesshomaru told him. "And if she moves to a different village?" He asked him. "Then I will burn every village, kill every villager until I have her." Sesshomaru responded. "And what if you cant find her?" He asked him. "I will find her." Sesshomaru said in dangerous tone. "Of course you will." Hiroshi responded.

"Well now that we settled that I'm going to get this looked at." Hiroshi said. "I must say she seemed rather happy till I found her, this Kikyou is very powerful she placed Kagome in a barrier while she attacked me." Hiroshi told him.
"Hmm humans don't live but so long by time Kagome is older Kikyou will be to old to protect her." Sesshoumaru told him.
"Sir maybe you should let her be, I don't understand why you didn't kill her when she was bought here." he said.
"That is because Hiroshi the older she gets the better her blood will be." he told him.
"She's just a child her parent's died Mi lord why not let her go you're already a feared Lord." Hiroshi said to him.
"Do you have a death wish?!" Sesshomaru growled. Hiroshi ran out oft he study and down the hall. Sesshomaru sighed. "Indeed, Kagome will have stronger blood when she gets older." Sesshomaru thought to himself.


Naraku and Kagome held hands as they waited for Kikyou and Kaede to finish putting up the barrier around the village. "Naraku, I was so scared, and I felt so lonely." Kagome told him. "Well you never have to feel that way again. I am here for you, I always will be." Naraku told her.


Kagome laid her head on his shoulder. Naraku was happy his girl was back and she was safe he looked at her hand and saw a small cut that didn't look ver y old. "Kagome how did you get that?" Naraku asked her as he looked at her hand.
"I don't want to talk about it.” she said closing her eyes. Naraku looked at her and kissed the top of her head. Kikyou came in the hut a while later to see the two sleeping she bent down to get a better look at Kagome when she saw Kagome's hand bleeding. Kikyou closed her eyes.
"Damn you Sesshoumaru.' Kikyou said as she looked at the cut. Kaede came in to the hut to see Kikyou hands balled up."What is it Kikyou?"
"He's tasted her”" Kikyou said as she walked out the hut.

"Oh, poor child." Kaede said.
: "I'm going after him before it's to late." Kikyou said to her.
"No Kikyou, don’t be foolish, if he has indeed tasted her blood, he is still feeling the effects of it. Give it a few months." Kaede told her.

"For now I think that you should worry about keeping Kagome and Naraku safe." She told Kikyou. "Poor Naraku. He was brought in to a world of chaos. We must see to it that Naraku and Kagome never marry." KIkyou told her.
A few days went by Kagome was back to picking her flowers but she wasn't allowed to go anywhere by herself Kikyou or Kaede were always beside her. Kagome seemed to want to be around Naraku more and would cry when he would go back to his own home. "Kagome do you want to talk about what went on at the castle?" Kikyou asked her. "He never hurt me but I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without him , he said I wasn't a slave or servant." Kagome told her. Kikyou hugged her. I'm sorry that you had to be there please forgive me." Kikyou said to her. "It's okay Kikyou I'm okay now." she said.


Sesshomaru was currently pacing back and forth in his library. "I cant believe that power lasted so long." Sesshomaru said to himself. "I can still feel some of the effects." Sesshomaru thought to himself as he stopped. "Um" Sesshomaru said as he continued to pace again. "Damn, I want her now!" Sesshomaru growled.

Kira walked into the study to see an angry Sesshoumaru. "Patience master she will be a young woman before you know it." Kira said to him as she took a seat. "Just think you're the only Lord to ever lay eyes on her all other lords have tried to find her but failed, you actually had her in your grasp, seen her face tasted her blood. " she said . "I think Akira and Hiroshi have taken her into their hearts seeing as the two have tried to have a child of their own." she said smiling knowing Sesshoumaru had forbidden the guards to have any affairs with his servants.


"Kira out before I end your pitiful little life!" Sesshomaru growled at her. "Master, allow me to release some of that anger you have built up." Kira said to him as she stood up and waked over to him. Kira placed her hands on his chest. Sesshomaru growled and threw Kira towards the door. "I said leave." Sesshomaru hissed.

Kira ran out the room. Sesshoumaru walked out his library and went to find Hiroshi . Hiroshi was laying on his bed. Sesshoumaru walked into the room slamming the door behind him . "Hiroshi what are the rules around here" Sesshoumaru asked him.
"There are so many Lord Sesshoumaru." Hiroshi said.
"One important one is for my guards not to have any relations with my servants!": he yelled. Hiroshi swallowed.

“Forgive me lord Sesshoumaru I couldn't help myself. Akira is so beautiful." he said

"Beautiful? Lets just see how beautiful she will be once I get done with her!" Sesshomaru yelled and left.