Chapter 4
"What about you? Where were you found? What was your life like?" She asked as she ate one of the red berries. I sighed and tucked a few loose strands of hair behind my ear. "I too was thrown out by Satsujin as soon as I was of age. I was so sure he killed me, but if I'm here…" I trailed off and let her imagination take care of the rest while shaking my head to somehow free myself.
She put a hand on my shoulder and I shivered because of the touch. I didn't want to be touched. "What was your life like before Satsujin?" She asked carefully, like she wanted to know why I was there, what made my story different then hers even though the outcome this far was the same. "Slavery. I was sold by my father when I was young." She nodded and gave me a weak smile. "Think of it as a gift that you've survived this far." She told me before turning on her heels and going back to carrying the basket full of berries.
I walked back to Kaede's hut and saw Sesshomaru in the front watching Rin and Jaken pick flowers in the distance. I walked up beside him and stood there looking at them as well. Trying to figure out what was so enchanting about them.
"Wench," He said as if it was some sort of warning, but by force of habit I raised my palm and slapped him across the face. Wrong move.
He grabbed my wrist before I had the chance to bring it back down to my side and dug his claws into it. "You will not poison this Sesshomaru with your touch." He said before letting go of my wrist violently and turning back towards Rin and Jaken. I looked at my wrist and saw that his claws had dug into my skin a little too far. I was bleeding. The liquid drips the colour of rubies dripping slowly down my hand. I took my good hand and wrapped it around his neck and held him against the hut.
"Touch me like that one more time," I told him as I tightened my grip. I could feel my sharp nails breaking the skin slowly. His eyes changed from golden to red eyes with slits, like a cats for a brief moment when he took his free hand and threw me back before turning back to gold. "Do not touch this Sesshomaru, wench." He told me and I walked up to him and starred straight at his eyes.
"Do not call me a wench, my name is Itami." I told him as I tried to kick him. Wrong move once again since he grabbed my ankle, stopping me from kicking him, and let go, making me fall to the ground. I winced and took in a large amount of air because of the air but didn't give him the satisfaction of crying, not matter how much I wanted to right now.
"Do not test this Sesshomaru's patience." He told me as he looked at Rin and Jaken again. "Don't test mine." I said as I slid my leg out and tripped him. In less than 3 seconds he was on the floor too.
He reached for my throat and held it against me against the floor. When I started to wiggle free, he sat on my stomach with one leg on each side of me.
Immediately I kicked my legs up from behind him and flipped us, so that I was on top of him in the same position. I punched him in the nose as hard as I could before jumping up and glaring at him.
"I may have been a sex slave, but I'm no more of a wench than you." I told him as I kicked him and ran into the hut. Kaede was drinking out of a brown wooden cup. "Hello child, how are ye feeling?" She asked me and I sat down on the floor without saying a word. I couldn't even believe I've spoken that much outside. That could have quite possibly been the most I've ever said in an hour. I was amazed and baffled that I could even continue a conversation that long. It's not as if I had loads of practice.
"Sesshomaru's brother, Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Shippo and Miroku shall be coming to the village sometime in tomorrow. Ye shall most likely get alone with Kagome, but your hopes with Inuyasha aren't so good." She told me and I nodded and listened. If he was related to Sesshomaru, I wasn't going to get along with him. He was probably just as cold, uncaring, aloof, insensitive and jerk like -if not more so- than Sesshomaru.
I sat there for awhile, just listening to her go on and on about them and their quest to put all the pieces of the shikon jewel shard together so they could make a wish and I learnt a lot about them. I learnt that Inuyasha hated his brother almost too much, I learnt to watch out for the lecherous monk, I learnt that Kagome was often jealous because Inuyasha still liked Kaede's older sister Kikyo and that Sango hated it when Miroku, the monk, acted lecherous because she loved him. I might have learnt too much just by listening, but somehow it didn't prepare me for the real thing.
"Hello little brother." I could hear Sesshomaru say from outside. "Ah what the hell are you doing here Sesshomaru?" and I started to wonder about that myself. Why was it he hadn't left yet? "I don't have to explain myself to the likes of you." Sesshomaru told him as Inuyasha and his friends walked into the hut. No, what Kaede said did not prepare me for the real thing.
Inuyasha was a tall athletic looking demon with gold eyes, silver hair and white dog-ears on top of his head. He was wearing a red fighting kimono and was barefoot. He had a huge blade in his hands that he was putting into a sheath that didn't look as if it could contain it, but yet somehow did.
Miroku was a tall lanky male with dark black hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a dark blue male kimono and held a golden monk staff. He has beads around his right hand.
The girl I was guessing was Sango was wearing a pink and black demon slaying outfit. She had long straight chestnut hair and calm brown eyes. She was curvy in all the right places and was holding a small two-tailed cat.
The girl who must have been Kagome was wearing an outfit I wasn't sure how to describe, she wasn't as curvy as Sango, but had longer legs. She had untamable black raven-like hair and brown eyes. She was carrying a bow an arrow and starring at me with what I could only guess what genuine warmth.
"Hey, who's the hell is she?" Inuyasha told me in a loudmouth way.
Authors note: Ok, so I hope you enjoyed that chapter, im sorry for the lousy ending, it was all I could think of! Anyways I hope you liked it, please review!
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