Someone was humming making his ears twitch at every note they playfully let slip, surprisingly he felt comfortable and could no longer feel the stings from his wounds.
Perhaps he was dead but if that was so why did his nose detect the smells of medical herbs, simmering meats, and lastly of orchids which was weird because they weren't native in this area nor were they in season.
Cracking an eye open and finding that he must be in the home of a healer his ears swiveled to the sound of someone fussing over a wood stove, turning he saw a figure bent over a pot her raven hair tied back messily in a pathetic attempt to keep it out of her way.
She murmured something about it being good enough and turned to face him, a gasp escaping her pouty lips, blue eyes alit with surprise and then turning to something that resembled relief.
"You're awake, I'm glad. How do you feel?"
Not bothering to answer her he sat up and felt his head begin to pulse but chose to ignore it until the feeling of something warm pressed into his shoulder and forced him back down, he looked at the girl as she protested his actions stating he wasn't ready for movement yet.
Giving the girl an odd look he locked his golden eyes with her own blue ones and gave a growl of warning, she didn't jump back like he had expected her to rather she forward her brows and put her hands on her hips.
"Don't you growl at me mister, I just spent all night and most of my morning trying to bring you back to perfect health."
Now that she had mentioned it her small frame did reek of exhaustion, he wondered why he hadn't noticed it before but just shrugged it off as an effect of his wounds.
As he made no move from the bed she took it as a sign of compliance and gave him a warm smile.
"Good, I made you something to eat as soon as you feel up for it. It may not be that great, I never have been much of a cook but I worked hard on it so just eat it for me okay?"
He was about to protest but she had moved so fast placing the bed tray onto his lap with the steaming stew he thought her demon but another sniff confirmed indeed that she was only a ningen and a miko at that, it almost made him sick to think that she had healed him with those hands.
She waited, watching him with those big bright eyes.
He was about to protest a second time but her face suddenly turned stern.
"Don't make me feed you."
Despite the uncomfortable situation he had to admit he would be in no shape to fight the young miko so with much self-loathing he took the spoon that lay so innocently by the ominous bowl of bubbling stew.
Mentally swearing he took a deep breath and spooned some into his mouth trying to get it all over quickly, after a few moments he noticed he was still fine and that in fact the noodle meat stew was rather good.
"See it isn't that bad."
He chose not to answer as he quietly ate his meal with her staring at him in fascination like he was a pet or something, the girl was lucky he wasn't at full strength yet.
"So do you have a name? Well, I mean obviously you would unless you had no family. Wait that came out wrong. I'm sorry, let's start over. Hi, my name is Kagome and you are?"
He just looked at her; this would have almost been funny if she wasn't so bothersome.
They sat there starring at each other for a moment Kagome wearing that sweet smile and him with that look of complete annoyance.
"Okay then…did you finish your stew?"
He looked away getting rather bored now and felt her rise and approach him causing him to tense but as she took the bedding tray away he relaxed and watched her from the corner of his eye.
"Well I'm glad you liked it my friend Sango taught me to make it-Oh crap Sango and the kids! She's gonna kill me if I don't go visit her or worse she'll come over her and see…"
Kagome looked at the bored demon occupying her bed, how was she ever gonna get through this day alive?
She turned to the demon hoping maybe he would have some answer for her but sighed in defeat when he only offered an agitated stare for a reply.
"Okay, I'm on my own obviously."
She did have some sort of an idea but the actual workings of it would be rather difficult considering he probably wouldn't comply either way.
"Alright, I'll just have to give it a try and hope I don't get killed in the end."
Putting on a determined face she walked over to him and almost lost all drive as his ears flattened and golden eyes burned into her.
"Calm down, I just want to ask you for a favor and you can't really tell me no considering you owe me one for saving you from hypothermia. Normally I wouldn't stoop so low to ask favors from my patients but I'm at a desperate turn here."
He growled low, knowing she would never be able to hear it.
This wench was defiantly asking for it, and who the hell did this miko think she was ordering him about?
No, he defiantly couldn't stand miko and this one was getting to be the worst of them all but she had done him a favor by aiding him and as soon as that favor was paid out he would kill her and be rid of any memory of it for good.
"Okay, here's the thing. I need to go see my friend will quick and then I'll be right back, normally I wouldn't with a patient but I can't risk her coming over and seeing a…well…you know…"
So she was worried about the village discovering a demon in their midst, what a strange ningen to harbor a creature that her fellow villagers feared and yet she showed no sign of any fear herself.
"So if you could just stay here for a minute and promise me you won't leave then I'll go deal with that and come right back so you can be on your way?"
She looked at him hopeful and he only responded by laying back down and looking away from her as if the one sided conversation had lost its appeal for attention.
Kagome sighed in defeat but was glad to see that he had somewhat agreed, gathering her things to leave and wrapping her fur around her small frame she took one last glance at the demon before stepping out into the cold weather.