Angel by pandora_of_the_south

Angel

Author's Note: Like in the summary: the song is Angel by Sarah McLachlan, and this originally started as a completed songfic but I have since decided to add on to it....I hope you like. No characters or songs that I use belong to me just my creative juices flowing to make the plot!! Hope you like and please feel free to read and review

Kagome was slowly growing tired of the mundane life in the feudal era.

Day in and day out it was always the same things; Miroku would grope Sango, causing her to knock him unconscious, Inuyasha was being mule headed and not sympathetic towards the humans of the group causing him and Kagome to argue which would always end in a "sit."

Let's not forget the constant battles for the jewel shards, 'How on Earth could I ever forget about those.' Kagome thought glumly.

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day

Today was an especially grueling day; they had run into Kikyo an hour ago and she was currently camping with them for the night.

Inuyasha had felt the need to tell the whole group that 'At least there will be one confident Miko he could depend on to help protect him on this night of the New Moon.' Kagome growled as she recalled his exact words.

'Does he not see that Kikyo could very well take the knowledge of his weaken state to Naraku to use against us?' she thought silently as she went on her normal evening stroll to unwind.

I need some distraction
oh a beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

So deep was she in thought that she failed to noticed that she had come upon another clearing, which held a specific demon Lord training.

She was brought out of her inner turmoil when a sultry voice entered her ears.

"Where is your half-breed, Miko?"

"I have NO half-breed my Lord, only a kitsune." she stated all the while emphasizing the meaning of 'no'.

"Indeed!" he stated with a slight smirk and a raise of a perfectly sculpted eyebrow.

In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear

Kagome couldn't help but to feel her heart flutter at that simple statement and his facial jesters. 'I am sure he heard my heart flutter as well.' she mused.

"I am sorry that I have disturbed your training, Lord Sesshoumaru. I will not do it again; if you will allow me, I will be on my way now." she stated rather respectfully; which was a huge surprise to Sesshoumaru.

"What has you so troubled that you would unconsciously put yourself in my dangerous path?" he asked curiously.

'Oh great the one time I don't bring my damn bow and arrows is the one time I actually need them.' she thought as fear started to settle in her heart.

you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

Before Kagome had the chance to reply she heard the tell-tale sounds of a wind attack coming towards her. As she prepared herself for the blindsided attack she suddenly felt as though she were floating through the air.

'Well of course you would feel that way, you are dead after all.' she berated her idiotic mind.

She slowly opened her eyes to see what it looked like to float above one's body but what she saw was the furthest thing from what she expected.

Sesshoumaru wasn't sure exactly why he had saved her much less why she was suddenly relaxing in his arms as he brought her to safety from Kagura's attacks.

So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lies
that you make up for all that you lack

Before they could separate from one another Sango and Miroku came bursting through the clearing; Kagome knew that Inuyasha and Kikyo were just beyond the tree line watching.

Once Kagura escaped Kagome joined her friends once more and left Sesshoumaru to his clearing to finish his training. Though Kagome did look back just to see him staring at her departure; she turned back to the front and held her head high.

"Just what exactly where you doing in that clearing with that bastard, Wench?" Inuyasha growled out in his human voice.

"I was walking and heard a noise, so I allowed curiosity to get the better of me and I followed the noise only to come across Lord Sesshoumaru and Kagura fighting." she lied as she turned to get into her sleeping bag for the night.

it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe
in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

That night Kagome dreamed a dream of make believe and fairytales; for surely something like her and Sesshoumaru falling in love with one another could never be a reality.

The sun rose to transform Inuyasha back into his moody half-breed form. With his morning stretch routine though he inhaled a whiff of a scent that he never wanted to smell coming from Kagome.

"Oi Wench, get up and go take a bath, I am NOT going to spend the rest of the day smelling that bastards scent all over you. Why is his scent on you anyways?" he growled out angrily.

While she yawned the beautiful dream out of her mind's eye Kagome simply waved Inuyasha off with a quiet reply of, "I got in his path as he was trying to avoid an attack from Kagura last night."

"Feh," was his only reply to her excuse. 'The stupid wench is clumsy enough, though I am surprised that Sesshoumaru didn't kill her for it; who’s to say that he won't come after her though!'

In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear

Kagome stripped down to her birthday suit and climbed into the hot spring rather quickly. 'I don't remember the weather being this cold last night.'

While in there she thought over the events of the night before, oh how she hated lying to her friends but she didn't want to tell them the truth; that Sesshoumaru did indeed save her from Kagura's attack. Why, she did not know and that is one reason she didn't want to tell them; she knew they would ask why and she would not have an answer for that question.

Fear and dread started to settle into her very core as she thought about what Kagura would tell Naraku and what or how he would devise a plan to try to get to Sesshoumaru's 'weakness.'

"Ha, if Naraku tries to kidnap me to render Sesshoumaru weak then he has another thing coming to him! As if a being like Lord Sesshoumaru would ever fall for an unworthy lowly human such as myself." she stated sullenly.

you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

Taking as long as she would dare to take a bath, without taking the risk of Inuyasha barging through the tree line and forcing her naked body out of the hot spring, she slowly decided it was time to return to her friends.

She had long since given up on the school uniform for a more modest look. She placed her black baggy carpenter pants on followed by a dark blue turtle neck long sleeve shirt. 'Great now I look like a walking bruise. Black and Blue just like a bruise.' she chimed in her head all the while hoping that she wasn't jinxing herself for a grueling and punishing day ahead.

"Kuku my, my, my what do we have here? Is it by chance the unprotected, untrained Miko that travels with that pathetic half-breed? But wait that Miko just so happens to be the same one that will bring Sesshoumaru to his knees before me! Do you know how happy you make me; you will be the downfall of two of my most hated enemies!"

"Naraku you are an idiot if you think I will just stand here and allow you to kidnap me. Besides I already know you are senile, especially if you think Lord Sesshoumaru gives a damn about me; don't make me laugh." she yelled while hoping that the noise would get Inuyasha's attention and get him there to help her.

you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

Naraku launched attack after attack, he was tired of the useless information that Kagura was feeding him and decided that he was going to take his frustrations out on this particular Miko; since Kikyo was currently engaged in a certain activity with the half-breed in the opposite direction.

Kagome finally realized that she was on her own in this battle and knew that it would end one of two ways; 1. She dies a slow painful death, 2. She dies a slow painful death but brings him along with her. With that thought she decided to go for the second one, 'Lease my death won't have been in vain.'

All too quickly she was pierced through the abdomen by one of Naraku's tentacles. She quickly forced all of her purification powers into the tentacle and sent it back to Naraku before he could detach it from himself. Kagome fell to her knees watching as Naraku became nothing but ashes and the Shikon Jewel shards he had rolled over to her hands; picking them up they became whole and once more entered her body where it was originally located as she collapsed to the ground in her finally resting place.

As her last breath of air was taken in she could swear that she saw through her barely open eyes her Knight in shining armor but knew it was just her delirium playing with her heart. As her eyes closed finally she felt a warm embrace and a blinding light engulf her body in a lover's caress. She smiled as she exhaled the last of the air in her body with a whispered name, "Sesshoumaru!"

He sat there puzzled as to what he should do with her now that he had used the Tenseiga on her. 'Surely my half-breed brother is too incompetent to keep her safe but she is in love with him. However, why did she say my name and not Inuyasha's name on her dying breath?' With that he decided that he would just have to drop in on his little brother to return this very special and very powerful Miko back to her friends.