Kagome sat up and gasped from the pain in the wounds she had caused her. "Oh my god it hurts. I must be in hell" She groaned loudly. She instantly fell gently back on the bed. And then took a deep breath tried to exhale through her searing pain. She felt a hand on her shoulder anchoring her to the bed.
"You idiot! Do not move or your wounds will re-open." She heard a thunderous voice growl, over her and her eyes grew wide. They continued to grow wider as she stared into the golden colored eyes of Sesshomaru.
"KYAAA! I am in hell" she screamed and began to struggle beneath his arm to escape, until she saw theRinsmiling up at her
"Kagome…Lord Sesshomaru is right, don't move. Please." She said, looking into her eyes, "It's okay. You're safe. Lord Sesshomaru has saved you. Really."
She had succeeded in convincing her to stop because she stopped immediately. She closed her eyes again to try and get her racing heart beat back to normal. When the pain finally eased away she re-opened her eyes to look at a still smiling Rin and a frowning face of Sesshomaru.
"Where am I and how come I'm alive?"
"In my fortress and I have brought you here." He replied.
'I really was almost dead." She said suddenly looking at the ceiling.
"Yes, and now you're not" the demon lord replied and she snapped her eyes toward him and for the barest moment she thought she saw the corners of his lip twitch upward. Instantly she brushed the thought aside thinking that she only imagined it. Rin bring me more bandages." Sesshomaru said.
The girl nodded instantly jumping off the bed after giving Kagome a huge smile. Kagome smiled weakly as she watched him leave her room. The demon lord watched the reaction between the two with interest before opening her robe. She gasped and covered the breast with one arm and then slapping him with the other. "What do you think you're doing!" she yelled as his anger grew.
"Woman. What do you think I'm doing? Seducing you?" he roared "You have opened another one of your wounds with all this foolish struggling." He said as he ran his claws over the bandages on her stomach and then pulled them off. He examined the bandages and wiped them on the wounds that were bleeding, and Kagome watched him warily just to be surprised by his gentleness.
"Here you go Sesshomaru." Rin replied breathlessly as she jumped onto the bed and offered the strips of fabric to the demon lord. After wrapping the bandages on around Kagome's wound he closed the robe and he glared at the girl as he pulled the blanket over her.
"You sleep." he told her and then shifted his attention to Rin "And you make sure she does." With one last daggered look at his patient he strode out of the bedroom and it didn't take long for the girl to let sleep claim her and she faintly felt the girl lying down beside her.
That girl still has not realized her body's changes. He thought to himself as he stared at the girl sleeping beside Rin, the next morning. He saw Rin creep out of the bed and stare at Kagome's sleeping figure. Kagome curled up into a ball at loosing Rin's warmth; Rin spotted her lord and ran over to him. "Lord Sesshomaru!" she shrieked in glee. "Rin has done what you told her to do. Did Rin do good!" she continued. Kagome ears flicked, for some unknown reason her ears were that of a dogs instead of being pointed like his. She sat up and groaned and stared at the two people before her. She sat up and saw thatRin was staring at the top of her headwith googly eyes, and her ears flicked again as she gave him a confused look.
"Maybe you should just bring me to InuYasha now."
"How you'd look different from what they remember?"
"EXCUSE ME?" said Kagome looking alarmed, "What's wrong with the way I look?"
Kagome then got up, opened the door, and marched outside. She wanted to know exactly where she was and what this guy was playing at.
"That's not what I mean," said Sesshomaru annoyed as he followed her outside.
"Well then what do you mean!" said Kagome angrily. Her sympathy for this stranger had completely disappeared. Who did he think he was to make fun of her?
Sesshomaru pointed at his head, then to her head.
Kagome frowned, "This isn't funny,"
"No, I mean these," Sesshomaru said as he rolled his eyes.
He leant over toward her, and Kagome leaned back away from him, staring at him as if he was crazy for that.
He reached out his hand and touched something on her head. She could feel something odd on her head. What are you looking at?" Kagome finally asked. His golden eyes looked at her with amazement and she was briefly confused "Have you looked in the mirror lately? I think that you should go check the mirror," Rin responded pointing at her bag. Sesshomaru ran and snatched out a compact mirror and she could not believe what she saw. Her raven black hair was a streaked with white; while she had little, fuzzy white ears. She twitched her ears in annoyance. Her bottom lip began to tremor and Sesshomaru looked at her.
"What do you think about it?" Sesshomaru asked. She then began screaming
Sesshomaru didn't flinch. He planned that this would happen and he sat silently as she ran back and forth screaming. He just had to wait until she calmed down, so he could tell her why she was like that.
"I'M A FREAK! I'M A FREAK! WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! I HAVE... I HAVE EARS... AND..." She slowly turned feeling her tail sway back and forth she then stared at Sesshomaru wide-eyed.
He sighed. "And a tail..." He finished her sentence. She screamed again.
"WHAT! A TAIL! I HAVE A TAIL! I HAVE A LONG, FURRY TAIL! WHY DO I HAVE A TAIL COMING OUT OF MY BUTT?"
"Actually, it's coming out of your lower back. It starts where your spine should end." Sesshomaru regretted it as soon as he said it. Sesshomaru screamed again.
Sesshomaru waited patiently until she calmed down. When she did, he gestured her to sit beside him
Sesshomaru let go. Kagome felt something on her head twitch. She reached up in horror to touch whatever was on her head.
She felt two identical furry, triangular… ears.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?" shrieked Kagome jumping to her feet once again still clutching the furry triangles.
Sesshomaru got to his feet. "You don't understand!"
"YES I DO! You – You tested some drug or- or something on me!"
"What the hell are you talking about?" said Sesshomaru getting up and approaching her.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" shrieked Sesshomaru jumping back, "Or I-I'll…"
"You'll what?" asked Sesshomaru smirking.
"I'll bite you!" snarled Kagome as she bore her teeth.
Sesshomaru's eyes widened, 'She's got fangs already?'
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Sesshomaru sighed, "Listen just sit down and I'll explain everything."
"No I want to go to my friends. They will tell me why I'm like this. Unless you killed them." She shrieked.
"No I did not kill your friends. " he said regretting his decision to change her.
"SO explain why I'm like this and let me see them to make sure they are okay. Then I swear I'll come back with you." she begged tears filling her eyes.
Somehow this made his heart heavy and he nodded. Ever since the last time he saved her, he felt differently about her. He could smell her deliscious scent miles away and he longed tonuzzle her face with his. He nodded and swallowed his strange new feelings for her and they began to walk walk.
"Sesshomaru what are you doing?" asked Kagome as she approached.
"Smelling for demons," he replied brusquely.
"Well I don't smell anything unusual," said Kagome looking down at the ground.
"Well then I guess you just don't have my gift," said Sesshomaru smirking.
Kagome got down on her hands and knees and tried to sniff; it didn't work so she sucked the air in harder and ended up getting dirk up her nose.
"I dink I god a bug up my node," muttered Kagome trying to blow the dirt out her nose.
"What?" said Sesshomaru, "Are you crazy?"
"No, but I'm pretty sure that you are," said Kagome angrily as she got up.
"No, it's alright here I'll show you how to," said Sesshomaru grabbing her by the arm and pulling her down.
Kagome gave in and crouched down, "Alright how do I find a demon's scent?"
"Alright you know how I smell?"
"Yessss,"
"It smells different than how Rin smells right?"
Kagome nodded, "Rin andyou smell different, but the same…"
"Yes," Sesshomaru paused and continued, "The main scent is the one unique to the person"
"So, each being smells different, but they also carry the scent of their kind."
"Exactly. But when you leave a place you leave your scent behind. But the scent left behind is so weak that you can barely smell the scent that you can use to identify their species."
"Ooooh," nodded Kagome, "So I guess I'll help you look…"
After what seemed like a few hours but were really a few minutes Kagome got sick of smelling but continued to do it just to help. A half demon half human scent captured Sesshomaru's attention as did hers. He left Rin and Jaken behind and ran Kagome right beside him.
As she ran, the scent was growing stronger. They ran until she saw a silhouette in the distance, the two approached and Kagome gasped as she saw the InuYasha and Sango building a camp and walked out of the bushes. InuYasha looked up and his jaw nearly dropped to the floor. "Kagome your ears. You face. Yourbutt. You changed" Inuyasha saiddrinking in her image. Sesshomaru walked out thebush and grabbed Kagome's arm.
InuYasha looked at his brother and then at Kagome. She stared down at the ground and he turned away grunting. "You two belong together. You are both weak, stupid, and always need to be protected." he stated. Kagome's head jolted up and she said. "We aren't even together. And you're the reason I look like this. I saw you with thatdead soul stealing zombieand I ran away. I almost died from a demon attacking me and Sesshomaru was kind enough to come after me to save me from death." she snapped.
She than noticed what she called Kikyo and covered her mouth her eyes widening. Sango let out a nervous laugh inching away and said "Kagome don't worry it comes with being a demon."