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Chapter 1
A thick purple fog of miasma filled the clearing where Sesshomaru and the Inutachi fought off another of the Naraku's attacks.
The miasma choked the air and made seeing nearly impossible for the human fighters to see. It would have been nearly impossible to breath as well, but they had come prepared Kagome Miroku and Sango put on their masks as soon as Inuyasha caught the scent of Kagura and Kanna.
"Dance of Blades!" Kagura cried out, she aimed at Inuyasha hoping to draw him away from the rest of his pack.
Inuyasha hefted his fang off his shoulder, and ran toward Kagura and away from Kagome,Sango, and Miroku. He swung his massive blade at the wind witch. But each time Kagura would block with a blast of air and take a small retreat. She teased and taunted him into following her further and further from the members of his pack. He was simply not able to get close enough to deliver a solid blow on her.
She would fly in close taunt him and just as he would send an attack her way she would dodge away. He really wanted to finish her off quickly, but it just wasn't going the way he intended it to go, but then very few things ever did.
He took a hit from Kagura's dance of blades directly to the stomach. Blood flew in all directions. He needed to end it. He was hurt and starting to tire.
Sesshomaru arrived leading Rin and Jaken atop Ah-Un. He had been tracking Naraku for several days and his trail lead him here. Sesshomaru flew at Naraku. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the priestess run to his wards side, she carried her own with her. She quickly put one of the slayer's masks on the little girl.
Naraku noticed his momentary lapse in attention. "Concerned about your pet humans, Great Western Lord?"
"My business is my own halfbreed." His stoic exterior refused to crack.
"Oh it would be a shame if anything were to happen to your ward and retainer." Naraku laughed.
Sesshomaru refused to look as Naraku sent a wave of lower level youkai at Rin, Ah-Un and Jaken. He had to trust that they could take care of themselves. He heard the unbridled roar of his dragon and he knew that Rin had taken Ah-Un's muzzles off.
He needed to focus on Naraku and end this once and for all. He couldn't allow his attention to waiver from his prey.
"Huh, I thought the little girl meant more to you then that. Oh well, it appears you really are the icy hearted bastard everyone says you are." Naraku sent his tentacles at him. He dodged to the left and was able to catch a small glimpse at the priestess using her bow.
"Or perhaps it's not the girl but the woman who has you distracted Sesshomaru-sama." Naraku continued to bait him.
Sharp javelin like tentacles shot at his small pack. Sesshomaru flew to intervene. He knocked the projectiles aside with Tokijin. He was beginning to lose his patience with the entire ordeal.
He flew at Naraku again. He slashed his sword through the air sending a energy attack. Naraku took the blow on a mass of tentacles. Before Sesshomaru was able to take advantage of the opening, the limbs grew back.
The two dodged and hit over and over. Soon Naraku had several deep unhealing wounds.
Sesshomaru was actually bleeding from several places himself. Blood splattered his normally white silks.
Over and over Sesshomaru swiped at the spider with Tokijin. But the powerful demon lord just couldn't seem to get close enough to deliver a killing blow.
Sesshomaru wanted nothing more than to make the vile half breed kneel at his feet. He would cleave his head from his body and use his poison to melt the abomination into a puddle never to bother the rest of them again.
Sango and Miroku battled the ever-increasing waves of lesser demons that Naraku summoned. The evil being knew that if he was able to take out one of the weaker members, the youkai in the group would be distracted and make mistakes.
Sango threw Hiraikotsu over and over to clear massive sweeping tracks of lesser demons. Miroku used his wind tunnel to suck up any who couldn't keep their footing.
They were successful in keeping the hoards of lesser demons away from the main fights and children. Miroku did his best to keep the bodies of the fallen from being revived by Kagura’s "Dance of the Dead" by using his wind tunnel to clean up any that were felled by the others.
The children were being guarded by Jaken, Ah-Un, and Kagome. She concentrated on keeping the hordes of demons back from her own adopted son and Sesshomaru’s retainer and ward.
Ah-Un had his muzzles off, biting and sending flashes of lightning at any enemy who got within his range of attack.
"You will all pay for daring to attack the Vassal and Ward of the Great and Powerful Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken waved around his staff of two heads yelling.
Sesshomaru slashed at Naraku with Tokijin. But the ever-elusive evil hanyou dodged the blow, taunting the Daiyoukai.
“Ku Ku Ku, watch oh mighty Lord Sesshomaru as Kanna takes that which is precious to you. The souls of your little ward and the Shikon Miko.” Naraku disappeared in a cloud of thick miasma.
Sesshomaru turned toward the location he had last seen the miko and Rin, seeking them out through the battlefield teeming with bodies. He watched as Kanna of The Void step from the shadowed trees directly behind her “sister” Kagura.
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Kagome saw Kanna come out of the woods directly behind Kagura and watched as she raised her mirror and turned to face the direction of herself and the children. She yelled to Ah-Un to take the kids and fly away.
Kagome drew a sacred arrow and just as she was about to release it she was plowed into by the heavyweight of Sesshomaru. The force of the impact made her fingers let go of the string and letting the arrow fly free.
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He rushed at the miko as he felt the pull of the void from Kanna’s mirror. Just as he reached her he heard her whisper, “Hit the mark.”
Kagome’s arrow hit the mirror and there was a massive explosion of energy. Both Kagome and Sesshomaru fell to the ground in a crumpled heap of limbs fur and armor. Kagome’s bow flew from her grasp as her hand hit the ground.
Kagura pulled her feather from her hair and watched it enlarge before she wrapped her arms around the comatose form of her sister. The girl clutched her broken mirror to her chest. Her normally dead eyes even less responsive than normal. She flew away before the pack was over the shock of the explosion. She knew there would be hell to pay once the miko and Daiyoukai woke up. She for one didn't want to be anywhere close by.
Inuyasha chased after the two demon females for a few minutes before giving up and running back to the clearing to see what had happened in those last few moments of the battle.
Sango and Miroku quickly took care of the remaining lesser demons and ran over to the spot where both Sesshomaru and Kagome were laying on the ground unmoving. Ah-un landed with the young ones and they ran to their guardians. Rin ran up to Sesshomaru and gently shook him.
“Sesshomaru-sama, Sesshomaru-sama! Please wake up.” Rin’s eyes began to fill with tears as she used both hands to shake the unresponsive demon lord. Rin bit her bottom lip and looked around at the rest of the pack.
“Kagome, wake up. You need to wake up now please.” Shippo jumped on to his adoptive mother and nestled into her chest shaking with repressed tears. He wouldn't cry. Not in front of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. He had to be strong like they were. He wouldn’t dishonor his mother with tears.
“Keh, they are fine runts! They are still breathing and I can still feel their energy just give them a minute.” Inuyasha chuffed as he crossed his arms over his chest and stared down at his brother and HIS miko.
Why would Sesshomaru try to save Kagome like that? It didn't make sense. He had heard those parting words from Naruku and he thought the evil hanyou had to have a screw loose to think that Sesshomaru felt anything at all about Kagome. After all, she wasn't anything special, just a crappy copy of Kikyo. She wasn't strong and she was always so clumsy. She couldn't even hit what she aimed at most of the time.
“But Inuyasha, something happened with Kanna’s mirror, otherwise they would not have been knocked out like they were. Surely you saw that massive release of energy that took place when Kagome’s arrow hit it?” Miroku ever the peacemaker pointed out calmly. He crossed his arms over his chest attempting to look calm and wise.
“I can still sense both of their powers so they can't be hurt that bad. They must have taken most of the energy from that exposition, just give them some time. They are bound to wake up. No need for the brats to cry about it.” Inuyasha didn't like this. No not AT ALL.
Sesshomaru had taken off to save Kagome without even a backward glance at his opponent and that was just not like his cold-hearted bastard of a brother. Not only that, Sesshomaru really shouldn't have been knocked out by that wave of energy it didn't affect any of the others, only Kagome and Sesshomaru.
A moan escaped Kagome as she slowly sat up holding her head. The young woman looked around and her eyes narrowed. Shippo yelled happily and hugged her close.
Just then Sesshomaru also began to stir, he sat up and looked around. His eyes widened comically as he looked at the young woman next to him holding the fox kit.
“So what happened, Bastard?” Inuyasha said stomping over to his brother. His arms were crossed and his ears were pinned to the top of his head. He really wasn't liking the mixture of scents coming off his brother and HIS Miko, the scents were weird and confusing and he didn't want to even try to figure them out. He could smell confusion, fear, anxiety, and under it all desire.
Kagome was sitting quietly as she patted poor Shippo on the top of his head. The little kit had been very worried and once his mama sat up the tears he had been holding back came out full force. Shippo sobbed into Kagome’s shirt he sniffled and snotted all over her.
“Um ...Sesshomaru-sama?” Everyone turned at the deep voice of the Inulord. Sesshomaru was sitting up leaning back on his one arm and looking at Kagome.
“Yes, Miko?” Kagome answered in a quiet and calm voice. She continued to try to soothe the shaking crying kit in her lap.
“Wh...what just happened?” Sesshomaru’s voice started to take on the edge of panic.
“Do not be ridiculous Miko, I think it would be obvious. Somehow the two of us switched bodies.” Kagome replied to the now obviously distraught daiyoukai.
“Sw.. switched bodies?! NO! No no no no no no no no! This isn't happening. It's an illusion. Yeah, that's what it is. If I just concentrate hard enough I will be able to break through it with my reiki and this will all be like a bad dream.” Sesshomaru closed his eyes and screwed up his face in concentration but nothing happened. Sesshomaru’s eyes popped open and he started to pace agitatedly. “I am a female, a human female, a miko for kami’s sake. This just isn’t right, I am not supposed to be in the body of a male demon lord!” by the end of the tirade Sesshomaru’s voice was raised and near the point of screaming.
“It seems for the time being Miko, that I am the human female and you are the male youkai.” The preistess looked boredly at the distraught dog demon.
“Well since I don't have my reiki you are going to have to try to break it!” Kagome now in Sesshomaru’s body replied. She stood there glaring down at her body, one hand firmly planted on her hip. A hip that wasn't as curved and rounded as she was used to.
“Hn.” came the signature response of Sesshomaru out of the body of Kagome. “The very fact that you do not have your reiki Miko means that this is not some illusion but in fact real.”
Kagome sat down hard on the ground at those words. She absentmindedly picked up Rin and set her on her lap and started to play with the little girl's hair. Rin was safe, Rin was good, Rin had not changed. Kagome’s mind was a blur of new scents and sounds and sensations. Everything seemed to catch up to her all at once.
Focusing on Rin kept her from losing her shit and that would be a very bad thing! She now had all of Sesshomaru’s powers and youki. She couldn't let it get out of her control. So she kept doing it running those lethally tipped claws through the little girl's hair. Soon Rin relaxed completely and leaned against the armor that Kagome was wearing. Rin wasn't afraid of Sesshomaru or Kagome so she wasn't worried at all.
In that time the magnitude of the situation seemed to hit the rest of the group. Kagome and Sesshomaru had switched bodies. Sango and Miroku exchanged looks. This was going to be very very interesting. Jaken fainted right on the spot.
Inuyasha turned to Sesshomaru who was trying to soothe himself much the same way the Miko was doing but with Shippo. “How the hell did this happen? How did you get swapped with MY Miko?”
“It was unintentional I assure you, Little Brother.” Sesshomaru sneered at Inuyasha. He made the normally lovely face of the girl twist into something mean and scary. Inuyasha’s ears flattened to the top of his head.
Kagome gently sat Rin down and stood up and walked over to Inuyasha. “It’s not his fault Inuyasha. And it's not mine either. I won't let you blame me or him! I am pretty sure Kanna did this though it may not have been her intent.”
“Keh. I don't trust Icicle Princess over there and you shouldn't either!” Inuyasha yelled at Kagome. His hands were balled into fists, arms stiff at his sides. He didn't like dealing with his brother ever. And now Kagome was in the daiyoukai’s body and Inuyasha was fighting all of his instincts that told him to get rid of the male and keep him as far away as possible from his female. But his female was now his brother and his brother was now his female. It all made the poor hanyou’s head spin and that made him act rashly.
Kagome used her newfound height to look down on the hanyou, “He is an ally Inuyasha! He wouldn't do this. Besides he was trying to get me out of the way of Kanna’s mirror!” Kagome roared back at him.
Miroku cleared his throat. ”Lady Kagome if I may, I do believe your last arrow shattered Kanna’s void mirror.”
“Did it? Did you see it shatter it Miroku? Maybe I missed I do miss a lot?” Kagome said hoping that was the case.
“Hn. You did indeed shatter the mirror, Miko.” Sesshomaru answered her frantic questions and then stood up with her kit still in his arms. Sesshomaru used one hand to wipe the dirt from the back of his skirt.
“HOW ARE YOU ALWAYS SO STUPID KAGOME? Kikyo would never have done something so stupid. Can't you ever get anything right?” Inuyasha ranted and waved his hands around. He knew yelling at Kagome wasn't a good thing to do but that's what he did when he couldn't think of anything else to do.
“IT’S NOT HER FAULT INUBAKA!” Shippo yelled at the irate hanyou from the safety of Sesshomaru’s arms. He knew that neither Kagome or Sesshomaru would let the stupid dog boy hurt him.
“Sit.” Sesshomaru said in a deadly quiet voice. Inuyasha slammed into the ground with great force.
“WHAT THE HELL ICE PRICK!?” Inuyasha tried to spit out the mixture of dirt and blood that he had face planted into it really did not taste pleasant.
“Your yelling is causing your Miko distress Inuyasha, and as she now has all of this Sesshomaru’s powers and strength you may want to stop before she loses control.” Sesshomaru waved a hand at Kagome who had his arm wrapped around her head trying to block out as much of the noise as she could. Obviously, the enhanced hearing was going to take some getting used to. Rin went back over to Kagome and hugged her tightly. Helping to block out all the extra noises.
“It will be ok Kagome-chan you'll see. Sesshomaru-sama will know how to fix it. Everything will be ok.” Rin’s sweet voice calmed the panicking daiyoukai. “Inuyasha you must stop yelling you are hurting Kagome-chan’s ears.” Rin hissed at Inuyasha.
The hanyou was still getting himself out of the hole Sesshomaru had put him in. Sesshomaru watched as his ward soothed the distraught Miko that now resided in his body, and smirked inwardly. The miko was taking comfort from his ward much like he himself was from her kit.
Suddenly Sesshomaru felt a hand press firmly into his butt, fingers twitched and groped. Sesshomaru stiffened and slowly turned his head and looked behind himself.
“Monk you will remove your hand from this Sesshomaru's person this instant!" His voice came out a bit squeaky, that was not what he was going for.
"Miroku! You can't go around groping me, I mean Sesshomaru!" Kagome was over and between the two before she realized that she had moved. She held him suspended from his neck with her one hand. "You don't get to molest the goods monk, that is still my body!"
"Um ...Kagome? You can let the hentai monk go now. I really don't think it's good for his health to turn the same shade as his robes!" Shippo said and jumped out of Sesshomaru's arms and on to the unarmored shoulder of Kagome.
Kagome dropped the gasping Miroku and helped Sango move him to Kirara's back.
"I think we should find somewhere to set up camp and rest for the night. In the morning we can figure out what to do about all this," Sango announced and waved her hands at the two swapped beings.
Kagome nodded her head and agreed. "I think that's a good idea Sango it's been a very long day."
"Come." Sesshomaru said as he turned and walked off into the woods. Obviously expecting the rest of the group to follow him.
The rest of the group exchanged looks and shrugged before following the now human female Sesshomaru into the forest.
"So, Sesshomaru, do you have a place in mind?" Kagome asked carrying her kit and holding Rin's hand, as she caught up with the retreating back of her own body.
"No, I shall simply scent out an appropriate location to spend the night. Surely my worthless half brother does that for your group often." He replied, his voice full of superiority.
"Yeah he does but you are human now and won't be able to do that. No super inu noises on little human priestesses you know." That thought stopped Sesshomaru in his tracks.
"You shall find a suitable location then Miko."
"Me? I don't know what I am looking for how does one scent out a good campsite? No just let Inuyasha find one for us it will be much easier." Kagome admitted all the scents were terribly overwhelming and she was breathing shallowly through her mouth to try not to smell too much.
"That is agreeable." Sesshomaru nodded once and turned to the hanyou.
"Keh." Inuyasha pushed both out of his way and made a big display of scenting the air before taking off to the left of the direction they had been walking in. "Well come on we don't got all night!"
"Sit boy." Sesshomaru said under his breath. Only Kagome and Inuyasha heard the whispered command.
"What the hell Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha was ignored as the rest of the pack continued in the direction he had shown them. Everyone left him in his shallow crater.
After a few minutes of walking, they came upon a smallish clearing that had an old fire pit already dug and a small creek running by. Sango and the children went to the stream to find stones to line the firepit and a small stack of firewood.
The nights had started to get cold and they would need to keep a fire going all night long. Miroku and Jaken went to fill their canteens and bottles with water from the stream. And Inuyasha ran off to hunt. That left Kagome and Sesshomaru all by themselves.
"So what now Sesshomaru? How do we figure out how to fix this? Do you have any ideas?" Kagome asked as she sat down near the now rock-lined fire pit. Her center of balance was all thrown off and not having both arms was harder than she thought.
"This Sesshomaru will need to think about it, but I believe I know of someone who may know something." Sesshomaru quietly told his counterpart.
"Oh good, who?" Kagome’s voice held a bit of hope making the normally deep voice raised in pitch.
"Bokuseno" Sesshomaru shivered slightly.
"The old tree demon?"
"Hn." Sesshomaru said and nodded once.
"Okay, well, we will rest tonight and start out in the morning. How long will it take to get there?" Kagome said. She was already trying to plan out what all they would have to do to fix this mess.
"It would be quicker if we traveled by ourselves." Sesshomaru offered.
"I don't think so, I don't know how to use your powers and you don't know how to use mine. I think it's a better idea to stay with the group, Sesshomaru." Kagome countered. She really wanted a live body to go back to once this was all fixed.
"This Sesshomaru has never relied on the strength of others for his protection." He bristled under her judging gaze. He never realized how formidable she could be.
"Well, I do all the time so you should probably get used to it. Do you even know how to use a bow?" Kagome glared down at the indignant looking girl.
"No," Sesshomaru replied in a clipped tone. He didn't appreciate the way the Miko was using his body to intimidate him.
"Then we are definitely not going off by ourselves. I would like a living body to return to thank you." Kagome said thoughtfully.
"We shall have to start training with each other's powers it would not do for my enemies to know that my body is defenseless."
"Same." Kagome agreed.
The two sat in silence as the rest of the group got dinner ready and settled down for the night. They were each lost in their own thoughts. Sometime in the early morning hours before dawn Kagome looked over at Sesshomaru laying in her sleeping bag with Shippo and Rin close by. She noticed that Sesshomaru’s eyes were still open.
“You know you really should go to sleep we are going to be traveling tomorrow and you'll need your rest. I know that body is tired. I was about ready to drop before we got into that battle, you have to be exhausted.” Kagome said softly.
“I am,” came the equally soft reply from Sesshomaru. “But I feel vulnerable. I don’t like it.”
“Well yeah, being human makes you vulnerable. But being tired means you’ll make more mistakes. So try to get some sleep.” Kagome whispered back at him. As quietly as she could she moved to sit next to the odd trio. If it had been Kagome in her actual body the site wouldn't have caused any pause but the children snuggled up to Sesshomaru was worth a second look. “Why are you letting them sleep with you?” she asked her deep voice barely above the faintest of whispers.
“The Kit did not really give me a choice and Rin often sleeps curled next to me. I do not mind the pups terribly much, they are soothing in their own way. Besides the pups of the pack often sleep with the alpha female.”
Kagome spent the rest of the night into early morning watching Sesshomaru snuggle the kids and before he was able to finally fall asleep.