Kagome winced as Sesshoumaru pulled her to her feet. Her left hand clutched at her right arm. Gingerly, she attempted to lift her shoulder. An abrupt flare of pain made her eyes screw shut. Sesshoumaru’s claws touched to her sleeve. “Your shoulder is out of socket,” he said. Biting hard into her lower lip, Kagome

Kagome staggered into her home only to leave a minute later with her bath supplies in hand. Making her way to a secluded bend in one of the nearby creeks, she stripped down, scouring her clothes and body clean. Her skin was shiny and pink—faintly bleeding in some places—by the time she collapsed in the

It was two days later when her period finally came: just the faintest spot of red in the bridge of her underwear, but it was blood all the same. Though it was hardly a surprise based on all the symptoms she’d been suffering recently, Kagome’s throat still went dry at the sight. Dark anticipation bubbled

Kagome’s damp fingers were surprisingly clear as she brought them before her. Cleaning them off along with the rest of her, she dressed herself in the red kimono with trembling hands, enlisting the help of her neighbor to tie the obi. Hastily, she pinned up her mussed hair, raising the collar of her kimono a

Kagome awoke, hollow-eyed and hungry, fatigued even though she must have slept at least twelve hours, judging by the late morning light slanting in through the gaping door curtain. Her recollection was vague, but she or Inuyasha must have knocked the curtain ajar when they’d stumbled in last night. Last night… Rolling onto her back,

Later in the day, Kagome ventured from her home—more to escape her clinging husband than anything else. As she busied herself with taking down laundry from the line, she couldn’t help but overhear a hushed conversation nearby. Her ears had always been too keen for their own good. From behind the shed next door, Rin’s

“You sure you’re feeling up to this?” Kagome turned toward her husband with a mustered smile. “Yeah, I’ll be fine.” Inuyasha frowned as she hefted her pack over her shoulders. Clearly, he had his reservations—and after the events of this morning, so did she. But Kagome had made up her mind. She would see this

“Hey, baka, watch where you’re shooting off those things!” Inuyasha yelled as a wisp of smoke rose from the singed point of an ear. When a second jet of light streaked past his other ear a moment later, the hanyou jumped angrily to his feet. Kagome giggled as he took off after Shippou. Youki-enhanced firecrackers

No. No, no, no. This was wrong. Worse than wrong. Kagome tore her lips from Sesshoumaru’s with an anguished gasp. Her cramped hands jerked down to his chest. Frantically, she shoved against him. “Let go of me!” she hissed out, thrashing in desperation. Panic seized her at the lingering feel of him inside her. “Let