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Chapter 3: Shirtless
Sesshomaru had smelled the confusion, then panic, pain and finally fear spike as she worked through what was going on. He could have simply told her, but he was already doing so much for her. She had to do some things on her own.
Ignoring the pain in her arms, Kagome frantically reached for her eyes only to find out that they had been bandaged. In her blind panic, Kagome moved to search for her bag, her pure desperation overriding the pain from her injuries. She knew she had to have her trusty antidote that seemed to work for every poison they ran across in the Feudal Era. She had to get it. Now. The sooner she got it, the more likely that it would work.
"You will cease your actions Miko," but the authoritative command fell on deaf ears. Her only thought was to get to the antidote as quick as possible so she could continue on the hunt for the shikon no tama and Naraku.
"Where's my pack? Need my pa – aaahhhh," her sentence was abruptly cut off as Sesshomaru firmly pinned her to the ground, only taking care not to exasperate her injuries. He captured her left arm with one hand, and with the other pinned her body so she could no longer try to squirm away.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Get off me!" Reaching up she went to push him away – not that it would do any good – but quickly stopped when she realized her hand was touching very muscular, very bare skin. And now that she thought about it, his hand was touching her bare stomach as well.
"Why aren't you wearing a kimono? Why aren't I wearing a shirt? Or rather why aren't I wearing anything!" With this she reached up to slap him across his face, but her hand was only met with empty air. "Argh! Where are you so I can hit you? LET GO OF ME!"
"I am stopping you from reversing the efforts this one has taken to heal you. I will only release you if you still yourself…" with that, she stopped fighting, and as promised he released her, but didn't back away in case she started again. "As for your states of dress – your… scraps of fabric were melted by the poison and ruined. However, if it will make you cease your squirming, I will let you know that your chest is bound with bandages; you are showing barely more skin than you normally do. As to the location of my kimono, it is a handbreadth away from your arm where it fell off of you when you started this nonsense."
He used his kimono as a blanket for me… but why? Why stain his royal garb with the filth of humanity? Patting around her left hand, she located the kimono and pulled it back over herself in a futile attempt to preserve her modesty.
Once she thought about it, she couldn't remember the stoic lord ever saying so much in her presence before. He would occasionally demand something of her – an explanation of something he didn't recognize or of Rin wellbeing – but never did he offer long answers to questions she asked. He rarely even answered her questions at all. "Why are you even talking to me?" she inquired, thoroughly distracted from her original intentions.
"Would you have stilled yourself if This One hadn't answered your questions? Hn… I think not little Miko."
"Oh umm… Thanks?" Not having anything else to say to this, Kagome returned to her thoughts.
She was blind and she hurt. She never thought it would've happened to her. Inuyasha had always been there to help her – new moon or not – but the one time he hadn't she had been grievously injured. Go figure, she grumbled internally, I guess he was right all along. My silly little powers are nothing compared to Kikyo. She would never have allowed this to happen to her. Unfortunately, these thoughts brought her back to her pain which was nagging at the back of her head.
"Where is my bag? There is an antidote in my bag that has worked for Naraku's poisons before," she asked, suddenly remembering why she started this in the first place.
"Your bag is nearby."
"Where?"
"No human antidote will cure what I have been unable to."
"This is isn't any ordinary antidote! It's worked for Naraku's poison before. Just give me my bag dammit!"
"The poison is no longer spreading; all that is left is the damage that it has caused. This Sesshomaru used a little known but highly effective antidote to stop the poison and speed the healing process. The quicker you heal, the sooner I can be rid of you."
"Gee, thanks. I know I hurt like hell, but mind telling me why?"
"You were attacked. Even a simpleton such as yourself should have been able to figure that out."
"Argh! That's not what I meant! How badly am I hurt? What's the damage?"
Sesshomaru smirked at this. He knew that it wasn't what she meant, but he was enjoying riling up the little miko. Or, at the very least it was better than her whining or incessant fidgeting.
"Your eyes are ruined, and you have many other acid burns, but the exterior wounds have already started to heal. Your leg however, will not be usable for some time."
Kagome's leg was in fact broken. Sesshomaru had taken the time to set the bone and splint it while she slept. She would be useless if she couldn't walk properly. Of course, she would be just as useless without her sight. Although a powerful Miko, Sesshomaru knew that Kagome's powers didn't encompass much more than channeling her reiki into arrows. Without her sight, this ability would no longer be helpful. After all, a human couldn't hit a target if they couldn't see it. Maybe it would have been better to leave her dead…
If he had, Sesshomaru would not have been stuck with the tedious task of caring for helpless human female. But he was, and couldn't let her simply die again after using Tenseiga to revive her.
