Chapter 2: Sesshomaru Interferes

"What did she want?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Nothing really, just wanted to see if the others were right, and she invited us to hang out with her and her friends."

"No," he said. "We are not hanging out with them." He glared in their direction.

"Oh, come on Sesshomaru," she pleaded. "I can't just hang out with just you and Shippo. You two are great and all but come on. I need more friends than that, and at least then I'd have another female to talk to. I'm pretty sure there is more females to the group as well."

"I said no. You know how I feel about these guys. All they want is in your pants and I won't allow that. They'll throw you aside, just like…"

"Like Inuyasha did?" She looked close to tears. "Not everyone is like your half brother, Sesshomaru." She turned before her tears could fall but he could smell them.

"Kagome…"

"No." And she ran away as fast as she could, which was actually pretty fast.

"Damn it Sesshomaru, you made Kagome upset," Shippo said. "We both know she is a very social person and needs to talk to others. You're making the same mistake you're ass hole brother did. He tried to control her you know. Tried to tell her what she could and could not do, who she could and could not see. She hated that the most about him."

"Shut up Shippo."

"I'm going to kill you for making Kagome mad," Kojomaru said with narrowed eyes. He seemed extremely mad and made to leap for Sesshomaru, but Atsuma grabbed him in a full nelson and held him back.

"Calm down, Kojomaru. He isn't worth it, and I'm pretty sure if you killed him Kagome would be upset." Kojomaru seemed to relax.

"I still hate him," he said with a pout and Atsuma chuckled.

"Hate him, just don't kill him." He ruffled Kojomaru's hair.

Hyde saw her run off. It was obvious that something Sesshomaru had said had upset her so he made to go after her but soon found himself hoisted off of the ground by the neck by Sesshomaru. He was glaring at him with so much anger that it almost seemed inhuman.

"I told you not to look at her, and you did." His grip tightened but Hyde seemed unaffected by this. "I know about guys like you. You'll just use her then throw her aside and move on to the next woman you see. You'll hurt her and not even care that you did. She deserves better than you, better than the bastard men at this school." He was angry now and it clearly showed. "My little sister has been through much and I'm not going to let someone like you ruin her."

"You don't even know me," Hyde scoffed. "Looks like to me, you're the one that hurt her. All I was going to do was comfort her, but I see even that is too much for you to comprehend." He seemed to smirk before grabbing Sesshomaru's wrist and squeezing tightly, causing Sesshomaru to let go of him. "I'm not like everyone else here, don't forget that." He walked away and towards the direction Kagome had run off in.

"I'm not done with you." Sesshomaru turned him back around and punched him in the face. Hyde just grinned and took it before standing again. He punched Sesshomaru back in turn, causing him to stumble back and fall on his ass, his nose broken.

"Thought I didn't pack a punch, huh? You're wrong. You maybe bigger than me but that means nothing." Sesshomaru stood and looked at him, blood trickling down his chin. "Remember who started this, cause I'm finishing it here and now."

Kagome saw what happened between Hyde and Sesshomaru. From the looks of it, Hyde had wanted to see if she was okay and knowing Sesshomaru, he had none of it and made to threaten him, and obviously Hyde didn't back down. Now the two were fighting. She could easily stop it now too. So she ran back towards them and attempted to pull Sesshomaru back, but he was much bigger than her and easily knocked her to the floor, causing her to land painfully on her wrist. She cried out in pain and Hyde made to see if she was alright but Sesshomaru blocked his path.

"Stay away from her," he snarled and Kagome whimpered out when she made to move her wrist. It seemed the impact of her fall had shattered her wrist and she was in a lot of pain. "You shouldn't have gotten involved," he growled at her, eyes tinted red.

"You are over reacting," she hissed out between clenched teeth, the pain apparent in her eyes. "Not every man is out to get me," she tried to reason with him. "Not all of them will use me and throw me aside like your bastard half brother did. Some guys are decent enough, like Miroku was, and you'd be a lot better if you weren't always playing protective big brother. People might even think you a bit more bearable, outside of me and Shippo."

"They're all alike," he reasoned as he looked down at her injured form, knowing fully that he was the cause but he was too full of pride to say he was sorry in front of so many people. "They'll hurt you then what? You'd be a mess all over again. Who'll be there to pick up all the pieces again? I'll tell you who. Me. I'll be there after they walk all over that heart of yours. They don't care, Kagome. They don't care about you, or me. They only care about themselves." He looked her in her tear filled eyes and made to hug her but she flinched. "What's wrong?"

"You are acting not yourself. I miss that emotionless, I-could-care-less attitude you had, at least then you didn't hurt me. This side of you scares me. Are you happy?" She started to cry and he moved back.

"Kagome."

"You used to care less about what happened to me and wouldn't interfere with my life, only making small comments here and there, offering advice when I needed it, but now you're over bearing and controlling, telling me who I can't hang out with. I'm sick of it."

"Kagome, listen," he tried to say, finally calmed down. He could see a trickle of blood running down her arm from the wrist she held to herself. "I'm sorry, but after seeing you all broken over what that bastard half brother of mine did, made me realize that you don't deserve to be used and thrown aside. I made a promise on my mother's grave. You know what I promised?" She shook her head in the negative. "I promised that another man would never use or hurt you again, and I plan to keep that promise. You know the type of man I am. I keep my word, no matter what."

"But you're going to the extreme here Sesshomaru. You won't even give them a chance. You won't even get to know them first before you make a judgment. You're being a little prejudice, aniki."

"A little?" Shiki scoffed and received a glare from Sesshomaru. He became silent after that.

"You won't even hang out with them to see if they're good people." She looked up at him. "That's all I asked, but you went off like I was asking you to date Kikyo, which I would never do." He glared at the thought of it.

"Fine, but I still don't trust him," he said pointedly at Hyde.

"Great, the group just got bigger," Shiki muttered.

"We don't need a tramp like her hanging out with us," Yanagi said, which angered Sesshomaru, Shippo, Kojomaru, Hyde, Kagome and Sumire.

"Tramp!" Hyde snarled, barely being restrained by Shiki.

"How dare you call my imouto such a disrespectful name." Before he could attack however, Kagome was already there, an angry fist punched him in the nose, successfully breaking it. He clenched his nose and she kneed him in the balls, shifting his attention from his nose to his groin and then received a smack that sent him sprawling across the floor.

"Call me a tramp again and you'll end up with more than a broken nose, bruised cheek and the slight possibility of not being able to reproduce." The look in her eye was scary, then she whimpered. "My hurt wrist." She supported it again and looked up at Sesshomaru with a pouty look on her face. "I blame this on you." She signaled to her hurt wrist.

"I'll take care of it." He ripped a piece of his t-shirt off, revealing toned abs and a back to die for, which had the women drooling and Sumire's eyes to widen. He carefully took her hurt arm into his lap after they sat down and started to wrap it as she looked on. This made for an interesting sight and the teacher didn't look happy either with his ripped shirt and four injured students.

"What the hell is going on here?" He questioned as everyone looked at him.

"Nothing," Kagome said with a pout and the teacher fell for it. God, men were gullible when it came to her pout. It was unstoppable.

"Anyways, the days done. Go get changed and get the hell out of here." They all ran off. "Silly kids," he mumbled.

Kagome was walking home by herself. Shippo and Sesshomaru lived in the opposite direction of her and they had said they were going to walk her home but she declined. She told them she had too much of them for one day and would see them tomorrow. As it was she wasn't alone for long because Hyde had managed to get away from Yanagi, him still being upset with him for the tramp comment towards Kagome. It had obviously offended her, and so she lashed out at him, even if she were already injured. He just walked up next to her, slightly startling her.

"You're Hyde, right?" He nodded and looked down at her. She was faced forward. "That female friend of yours said you had tattoos. Can I see them?" He looked at her again before facing forward. "Not out here, I mean later, when no one else is around?"

"Yes." She seemed to smile and he smirked. "So is it true?"

"Is what true?" She looked up at him slightly confused.

"What Sumire said about you liking the eye patch and the many piercing?"

"I was meaning to ask about that eye patch of yours." She smiled at him. "Is it for decoration or something else?"

"Something else." He looked down at her after she turned away. "I was in an accident and it had damaged my eye. I can't see out of it and people thought the scar looked horrible so I cover it up so they don't see it."

"I want to see it," she said as they reached the shrine steps. "If not now, then later."

"Hn." He lifted the eye patch and she saw the scar that was there.

"It's not bad." She ran a delicate finger over the scar. She smiled. "It gives you character." She placed the patch back over it before looking up at him. He was a little over six feet tall where as she was five feet three inches tall. He made her seem shorter than she already was. "I like it." He blushed lightly. "Well I should be going now. I'll see you later Hyde." She started up the stairs. "And I still want to see those tattoos." She was gone.

"I take it you like what she said," Sumire said as she came up behind him.

"She's the only one that has ever not freaked at the scar over my eye," he said. "I still want to know if she has a belly button ring."

"She does. I had to help her change after that incident. You want to know what it is?" He nodded. "A little dagger dangling from a skull." She smirked. "You sure know how to pick them."

"Hn." He heard her request repeating in his mind. She wanted to see his tattoos, and she would. She'd drool over him too.

"You know what that means, right. Her wanting to see you're tattoos and all." She looked at him as they walked away from the shrine steps. "She'll see that deliciously awesome body of yours and fall for you hard. What woman can resist such a body as yours, or that Sesshomaru guy's body." She smirked. "Nice, truly nice."

"I already figured that. Yanagi doesn't seem pleased with the fact that I've been looking at her."

"He's just jealous with the fact that you are looking at someone with interest, and for once it isn't to kill them." She had a point. "Ignore him about that and we'll see if we can't change his mind later." She smirked again. "Besides, I'm sure she can somehow convince that Sesshomaru guy to lay off you."

"You heard him. He doesn't trust me."

"And we know the reason too. It's his half brother's fault but I believe he's out of the picture. We haven't seen him around, that's for sure."

"You haven't heard from Utsuho, have you?"

"He's supposed to be returning soon. He might be back tomorrow." She seemed to think. "How do you think he'll react to Kagome and that Sesshomaru guy?"

"Like I care," Hyde replied. "Not like she'd be interested in him anyways, not with how she's acted toward me after school."

"Oh?"

"Hn." He smirked. "She likes the piercing, the tattoos, the eye patch, and the scar. She seems like she likes flaws, and obviously Utsuho doesn't have flaws, remember?" She nodded. "I'll see you later." And he was gone.

Author's Corner:

Here is the second chapter of this story. I hope you all enjoyed it and all feedback is welcome. Yes, a brief author's corner.