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I want to thank everyone that has been reviewing to me, for good and for bad.
And I must apologise for the stupid errors in the language.
Umm I noticed that I forgot to translate one thing in the chapter that I updated. It said something like
"Sesshoumaru looked down at Kagome with "stränga" eyes." And I wanted to tell you that that strange word was infact Swedish.
My mother-language, so umm I write that when I don't really know what the word I'm seeking for in English is and I was going to translate it but I forgot it. And my brain hasn't started to function perfectly now either because I still don't remember what it means in English. Lols ...oh now I remember. It means strict. What was supposed to be there was: "Sesshoumaru looked down at Kagome with "strict" eyes."
I am very sorry for that huge error, people was apparently very confused when they read that. I am so so sorry and I will try to be more alert of those things and try to remember words in English.
But I want to thank everyone who has complimented me, I really appreciate it. It really keeps me going.
I love it when people comment my chapters even though they might suck.
Umm well I hope that you like this one too.
It wouldn't be so good if you didn't. laughs nervously
This time I listened to:
- Clumsy – Fergie
- (Ok a bit shamed of this one, but it's so catchy) Piece of me – Britney Spears
- Thanks for the memories – Fall out boy
- (Ok so what that it comes again. I just happened to listen to it cuz my sister played it) Gimme more – Britney Spears
Ok, so I think in one of the coming chapters I will put in one of my own poems. I just wonder is that ok with you. Or do you think that poems are dorky when put into stories like these, cuz I really like writing poems but this poem might have some emo alert on it I think. (I'm not emo, me far from it. Just like writing poems.) but if it would annoy you, I would of course not put it in. Just tell me what you think and I'll form my story after that
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuaysha, but soooooon….I will, mohohahahaha xD
Hope you like it cuz here it is…
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Chapter 6: Quarrels
The room Kagome had been provided with had not been as bad as she had thought she would get. There was a surprisingly big bed on the middle of the wall – demons seemed to like big beds – and perhaps the room had actually been suited for a demon but Kagome was after all going to work for Sesshoumaru as a tutor for Rin, maybe that was a higher rank?
Sesshoumaru didn't enter her room. He had insisted on standing outside the door while he saw her flash her eyes at the priceless items and things all around. Even though this was placed low down almost by the servants it was still very beautiful.
"If there is anything else you need just call for me."
Kagome turned around and looked at him as if she was surprised to see him there. Maybe she hadn't suspected him to stay as she explored her new room. "Thank you." she said a bit hesitatingly while nodding. "I will do…that thingy."
He lifted one eyebrow and stared in wonder at her. Kagome smiled a bit nervously.
Screw up number seven…check!
"I will call you if I need something, I mean." She said slowly and tried to explain, and she almost felt like scratching her teeth together when she saw the look he was giving her. He probably thought she was an idiot or something.
His hands were behind his back and he looked down at her with a raised face. He then lowered his face as if he was going to give her a glare. But the glare never came. In fact the cold golden eyes (which should actually look warm) were almost enough to make Kagome freeze to death. "I will be back shortly; if I'm not here I will send some of my trusted servants. Oh and miko."
Kagome looked into his eyes with full alert.
She could see that what he was about to say was serious and that he really meant it.
"Stay away from Lord Fasuu. This Sesshoumaru has a feeling that he will be a bad inflict upon you. I will not tolerate this castle to become upset."
Kagome felt how she dropped the glass vase in her hands and she heard the crash on the ground and she put her hands on her mouth. "I am so sorry."
Sesshoumaru lifted his eyebrow and looked at the sharterd glass. It didn't mean anything to him. But still it had belonged to him and she had destroyed it. That was what he thought mostly of. "I will also send a servant to take care of that. Until further on, miko."
He didn't bow, he just turned around to walk away and mind his own business again.
Kagome looked at the spot where he had just been. What had just happened?
Well, for one I just made myself look like a fool infront of a sexy hot badass youkai…
Kagome lifted her eyebrow at this comment in her head and suddenly shook her head.
No let me rephrase that. I just made myself look like a fool in front of Inuyashas older brother and made him look at me as if I was some kind of drifter and it doesn't stop there. I actually broke something that belonged to him!
She sat down helpless on the floor and was looking down at the pile of glass shards. Well, there was no use crying over spilled milk and she thought so too so she just dropped that thought of the glass shards and explored a bit more in the room.
They had put her bags just by her bed, and it almost surprised her that they hadn't looked through her things. Yes, she knew that there was some trust worthy demons, but there also where demons that couldn't stand other humans and it would probably make them think she was wealthy or something if Sesshoumaru had put her in this beautiful room.
They probably don't want to risk getting killed or something.
Kagome opened one of the bags.
The first thing she wanted to do was getting out of those weat and revealing clothes. She wouldn't want to risk to be eaten up by that pervert demon Fasuu. At her time walking around like that was acceptable, because everybody did it, and then there was nobody who was really remarkable and someone that catches everybody's eyes. But here there was a whole other thing. You couldn't even really show your legs and you would be marked as a whore or a prostitute. And if you weren't marked as that there would be many eyes that looked on her, some that maybe had the same look on them as Faasu.
The very thought of him made Kagome shiver by disgust. She really hoped she didn't meat him much at her stay here. Infact she hoped she didn't meat him at all.
There was a knock at the door and Kagome looked at it in wonder. That fast? She hadn't even had time to get a snack or anything. And she was a bit hungry; she hadn't eaten much of the rabbit that Sesshoumaru had made for her. She hadn't really trusted the meat; therefore she could not eat a lot of it.
"Coming." She said and she opened the door.
There stood the little imp Jaken. He was holding his staff between his crossed arms and he didn't look so happy. "Lord Sesshoumaru sends for you."
This was his most trusted servant?
Kagome raised her eyebrow.
What was the point of taking her to her room only to fetch her three seconds after departing from her?
"But I was just going to…"
"Lord Sesshoumaru isn't fond of waiting."
"But…"
The little imp turned around to depart completely ignoring Kagomes desperate tries to get his attention. "You aren't much different." she said silently almost testing to see what he would say.
The imp of course didn't say anything to this. He just snorted and he continued walking as if Kagome hadn't said anything at all. And she thought she would probably be better of not saying anything more. The imp was loyal to Sesshoumaru after all.
"Might I ask what Lord Sesshoumarus intentions are?" Kagome said trying to sound polite and friendly to make him answer.
"Lord Sesshoumaru does not share his thoughts to his servants. Now if you please, to your right and the door to the left."
With those words he left her in the corridor and Kagome could hear a muffled comment from him that sounded something like "stupid human wench". This made her actually laugh a bit. Even though the little toad could be annoying sometimes he was after all being himself, and it somehow made him amusing to her.
She hadn't noticed that they had arrived where Sesshoumarus office was and she hadn't expected it to take so little time.
After a couple of seconds she remembered that Sesshoumaru was waiting for her in his office and she moved forward in the small corridor with a little hesitation. The walls were almost red, but they had something brown in them.
It felt so cold in the corridor as if there was a door open. She put her hands on the door in front of her; it was the door the toad had motioned her to. The feeling of knowing that Sesshoumaru was behind this door waiting for her made a shiver run up her spine.
Why did she ever agree to this? God only knew what plans he had in store for her.
Her hands was lowered to the doorknob and she was about to open it when she felt how she hesitated. What if it was the wrong room?
She shook her head. Come on! Get a grip Kagome.
Just then her eyes caught something that was in the end of the corridor. Curiosity caught her and she was stuck with it until she would find out what it was down there. Curious eyes looked at the picture at the wall down the hall. She couldn't really make out what it was.
As she hurried down the corridor to save some time, she almost gasped by what she saw.
A smiling friendly woman was looking at Kagome. It was the picture of course. But the beautiful black haired women seemed to stare right through Kagomes eyes.
Her skin was beautifully pale and she had grey eyes, and on her forehead was the crest of the moon. Just like the one Sesshoumaru had on his forehead.
This made Kagome realise that the woman she was staring at was infact Sesshoumarus mother.
A wave of respect somehow came over Kagome, and she almost felt like the picture was speaking to her, as if there was a conversation going on between her and the demoness. Woman to woman, to say the very least. A curiosity then grew within Kagome. She had seen Inuyashas mother, and now she had seen Sesshoumarus. She wondered how they both where, who they where. She somehow wanted to know the demoness that had raised Sesshoumaru.
What made him to turn so cold?
Kagomes eyes wandered down the demoness arms to her hand that was holding a small clawed hand. When she saw who the little hand belonged to she couldn't help to smile and laugh at the same time.
It was Sesshoumaru. Only he was much younger. He was just a little child at the picture, maybe the same age as little Rin. The eyes were looking at Kagome and they were so alive and real. She almost felt like she could reach out her hand and feel the skin on his cheek.
Like hypnotised and catched by her own thoughts she reached out her arm and she touched the picture where his cheek was, right over the magenta stripes. As she meat the hard material she almost stiffened half expecting that the cheek would feel real.
She then laughed at her own stupidity and relaxed lowering her hand.
The thought of Sesshoumaru came then to her mind and she turned only to meat the rage filled eyes of the lord himself.
"What are you doing?" he said with lowered dark voice.
Even though his voice was low Kagome could hear the rage in it. It was unique the way he spoke when he was mad. She would scream and shout while he would talk with some control over himself. Or he would just take you by the throat and still with some what lowered voice speak to you.
Kagomes eyes widened as she saw him and she held her hands protectively up and backed to the wall without thinking.
"I'm sorry." she said. "I was about to knock and then I saw the picture and I couldn't help it…"
A white lie, but he would never know that.
"You lie" he said growling stepping closer.
Maybe she was wrong…
"I was just looking. I didn't do anything. Nothing is destroyed. Look… everything is in perfect ord…"
"I can smell the lies coming from your mouth, wench so give it up."
She lifted her eyebrow. Smell lies?
But the moment he gave out a short roar she felt how her courage was lowered and she remembered what he was capable of. She wouldn't want those clawed and strong hands around her neck again. She could almost memorise the feeling of them again and she almost feel the stinging at her throat.
His golden eyes bored into hers and she felt how he put his arms at both her sides and he bended closer to her face. He was trapping her, making her bound to answer making her believe she had no other choice. Not that she did have any other choice.
"What were you doing there?" he hissed growling to her.
Kagome glanced for an escape but there was no use to it. She was trapped inside his arms, and even if she could escape he would probably catch her and give her the beating of her life.
"I was just looking." she said pushing herself further to the wall, but there was no escape for her. Unless she could walk through walls of course.
"If you were just looking as you say, wench why were you touching this Sesshoumarus cheek?"
She almost felt like rolling her eyes but she knew that she would regret it the moment she did it.
"I was curious as to what you looked like when you were young, Sesshoumaru-sama, okay? There was no other reason. Why do you not believe me?"
Clearly there was something there that he wanted to protect! She hadn't done any harm to the picture. There must be something he doesn't want her to discover.
He put his head to the side as if he was studying her face, but she knew what he was really doing. He was trying to see if there was any sign of her making lies.
He put himself in his natural stance with a low growl and lowered his arms from her.
"You may be a human, miko. But you are a clever one of that."
He then turned around to go back to his office.
"Clever? I thought I was a stupid human who was incapable of using demon knowledge, which is what you said. And now you say that I'm clever?"
He didn't turn around to say something; he just opened the door and turned around standing by it.
Make up your mind she thought as she meat his eyes.
He then crocked his head to the side and gestured with his hand into the office.
"Well?"
"Oh" she said realising that he was waiting for her to go inside.
He may be a pompous demon snob, but he was still a gentleman. A jerk would fit in his description perfectly though. Not to mention the other words that Kagome would so want to spit out at him if there was a hundred percent guaranty that she wasn't going to die for it. And these words were horrible insults that should come out of no good woman's mouth.
And Kagome was good. At least she was dead set to be that.
A bad feeling was growing within Kagome as she stepped into his room not taking away her eyes from his who was guarding her, somehow waiting to see what her next move was. It was as if he was looking for an excuse to punish her.
But that excuse wasn't needed. He already had something in store for her.
"What…is…this?" Kagome said slowly as she was trying to believe what she saw.
"Speaking without permission again, miko. Really, when will you humans learn?"
He closed that door behind him and as Kagome turned around she swayed her hands up until it looked like she was trying to hug him. "What is this?"
He tilted his eyebrow up and stared at her arms a little. He then broke the silence that the miko so hated..
"This, miko, is my room or office if you want to call it so. Perhaps even study, very well. This is the place where I work…"
"I didn't ask about the room!" she said loud not noticing the tone she was using and that she had just interrupted her own master. "That!" she finished and pointed at the big piles with papers and books.
They where loaded everywhere and they even covered the big window that was located just by the book shelf behind his own desk that was also filled with papers and stuff. Somehow Kagome felt like all this that was in his office had something to do with her.
"Stop making a fool out of yourself, miko." He said and took one of the papers in the pile. "I have brought you here because you will do a job for me." He gave the paper to her and proceeded to his desk.
"You will throw away all that is old and scrappy and save those who aren't."
Kagome looked at the words on the old peace of paper. It was another language.
"But I can't read this." She said and held it up to him. "It's another language."
"It is the language of the taiyoukai, miko. You needn't know the language in order to sort it out as I instructed you before."
She snorted a little silent at that. She was here to teach Rin to read and write not to do this job! And why had all this been dumped into his room? This wasn't like him at all. Why would he make his room look like a junkyard when he could have done to any other room in this big castle?
"I see." Kagome said and tried to step over some of the lawns of papers that were in her way, without making them fall. "Well, where do I put all the other old papers since all the spaces here are pretty much taken?"
He was sitting down at his desk and he was holding a feather pen in his hand. He stopped writing on the peace of paper in front of him and looked up at Kagome meeting her eyes.
Kagome felt how the chokehold started to grow within her.
Why did his eyes have to inflict her so? Why did he have to do something to make her feel this way at all?
"Well, miko" he said. "I trust that you will figure that part out yourself."
She tilted her eyebrows up. What makes him think that I know were everything is put in this never ending castle like place?
She opened her mouth to say something but she didn't found anything to comment back. There wasn't anything that was god enough to say that would make him stand with embarrassment. In fact every time that she had tried this he had made something up that was both better and somehow so devilish true. He had a sneaky mind, and the worst thing was that he knew it. .
Sometimes she wondered what it felt like being so in control like he was. To be so in charge.
It seemed like the servants, Jaken for example feared Sesshoumaru because he was so powerful. They feared him of what he could do, or did they respect him?
Either way, they seemed pretty clear about doing every word he told them to do absolutely correct.
She found out a way to sort out the papers but it was one strange way of that. She had opened the big window at the wall, that almost was all covered with paper and she had opened the doors wide.
Sesshoumaru lifted his head from the papers that he had seemed so busy with in the beginning to look what she was doing. What is the miko up to now? Doesn't she know that the wind will spill all the papers and leave a big mess on the floor? It will only make things harder for her and it will take longer. She won't leave until the last drop of paper is gone, no matter how long it takes. She will, even if it will leave her working until tomorrow.
Kagome looked at the window and she clapped her hands together while she smiled as if she had done something good. It was as if she was looking at a house of stick and wood which she had carved with her own hands. Her cheeks seemed to glow with pride.
This made Sesshoumaru lift one of his eyebrows and he looked at her form.
"What is the meaning of this" he asked. His voice wasn't threatening, not even the slightest irritated.
It was surprisingly a lazy question of curiosity.
Kagome turned around and she tilted her head to the side a bit, she seemed to think through her answer. She was perhaps trying to find the absolute right words to say.
"Well, Lord Sesshoumaru. You said I was to find a way for the old papers, and so I have."
She made a quick bow and she turned around taking a big bunch of paper.
"You see" she said. "I'm not going to take this arrogant style from your side. It's getting on my nerves."
He lifted his eyebrow again and watched her carrying the bunch of papers as if they were a heavy sack of potatoes.
"So" she continued. "This is what I'll do." She went to the opened window and then she dropped the big pile of papers. This made Sesshoumaru stand up sending the chair hissing to the wall behind him.
Kagome looked at the papers swirling down on the ground. She waved her hand to them and then she looked up at the irritated Sesshoumaru. "I found a place." She said and went to get the next pile.
"Miko" said Sesshoumaru. "If you do not refrain from making this Sesshoumaru's garden look like a place for humans, a dirty rotten place, I swear I will make you pluck ever single one of those papers outside, no matter how far they are nor how long it takes."
Since Kagome wasn't one to enjoy plucking up scraps of papers, in other words; cleaning and hurting her back on the record, she dropped the pile of papers she had in her hands and stood staring at him.
"Well, then where am I to put them, Mr I know everything?"
The glare Sesshoumaru gave her made her wince a bit and she wished she had never picked up this job. I could have been in my room sleeping in my new soft bed.
Then there was a knock at the door. Sesshoumaru gave her a look that said: "This is not over" before he turned his attention to the door.
"Enter" Sesshoumarus big baritone voice said.
The door opened and Jaken appeared behind it, and behind him was a wooden carriage.
It didn't take long for Kagome to realise that this was the place she was to put the old papers and that he had only pestered her only a couple of seconds ago for his own amusement and pride.
Her face turned slowly to Sesshoumarus and her eyes were thinned like a snake, her teeth were clenched together and it only took a second until Sesshoumaru turned his eyes to hers aware of her discovery. He's probably laughing inside even though he's not showing it, Kagome thought. That bastard...
"The carriage is here my Lord." The little imp said.
Sesshoumarus eyes never left Kagomes as he dismissed the toad. "I trust you know were to put the papers now, miko." He said when Jaken had left.
He could see that she felt like tearing something apart and he felt like chuckling but suppressed the urge.
She took a deep breath and looked up at him again. She felt like throwing a big comment of insult right into a face, and she would be happy to see him get insulted. But she knew that this would only be given in vane and that the only thing he would give back was either a beat up, or more of the insolent work.
Her fingers was clenched together and she was trying to make her irritation go out over her hands rather than her face, or he would see it and he would know that he had succeeded on what he had hoped in. She bowed a little with her head not taking her eyes away from his. "Thank you, I saw that, yes."
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It was getting late, and Kagome had gone through half the room. She was getting closer to Sesshoumarus desk, and yet at the same time she was trying to get as far away from him as possible. Far away from him and his eyes.
As she had been sorting them out, carrying papers in and out all the time, she had been thinking in silence (she wasn't aloud to speak until she was spoken too).
After a couple of hours the scratching of Sesshoumarus pen didn't seem so unfamiliar as usual and the smell wasn't that unfamiliar either. She was getting use to it, and somehow it made her feel irritated, and at the same time comfortable. It was a good thing that she was getting use to it though. It made everything less complicated, but at the same time getting use to it meant that she would get comfortable with the job and that was not what she wanted. She didn't want to like this job.
"I see that you have come this far, miko." Sesshoumaru said and Kagome who had been silent for some long time gasped when she suddenly heard his voice and turned around.
He was looking up from his papers yet his hand was still placed over the paper as if he was writing at the same time with his feather pen in his gracious clawed fingers.
She gave a small nodd in return and turned around again to continue not until then noticing that she was really tired. And she didn't even have the fatigue to even remember them by now or even care for that matter.
Sesshoumaru lifted an eyebrow at this. He knew that the miko was tired, but he would let her slip this one. She had to learn from the beginning that following the rules to what they are was the most important thing here. And she couldn't ignore them, if she did, she would have to face her consequences just like he said.
"Don't turn you back to me, miko. Remember that I am your superior. Therefore…"
"I must obey you and follow every order that comes from you, even if it means that I have to kill myself; I have heard that shit before, thank you."
He was silent. She had interrupted him again, and broken a rule and ignored the one he was telling her. She had even used bad language in front of him and against him. She had done five wrong things at the same time.
His eyes thinned for a split second and then they went back to normal again. As if he hadn't witnessed her disobedient episode at all he made a small call out the door and Jaken was standing there again.
"Yes, my Lord" he said and stared at Kagome with his big eyes.
His eyes looked at her as if he was almost laughing at her.
I'll make you do this work too and then we will see whose laughing, Kagome thought for a second as she glared back at the little toad.
"It is time the Miko meets her, Jaken. Take her to Rin."
Kagome looked in shock back at Sesshoumaru. He was actually freeing her from her work?
Her eyebrow was lifted. There had to be a big catch to this.
He wouldn't simply let her go because he couldn't stand her would he? That would be all wrong?
"Wow, wow, wow" Kagome said. "Hold it for a second. Your saying I can leave?"
Sesshoumaru sat down again and continued looking at the papers on his desk as he answered.
"Apparently you heard me wrong, Miko. I said you would be brought to Rin. Does a thing have to be repeated to you all the time Miko? Humans are such fragile creatures, and apparently it takes longer time for them to get things into their heads."
Kagome was standing with an open mouth. What could she answer to this?
"You are dismissed Miko."
The look on his face hadn't changed. It hadn't changed at all. He was still cold, still arrogant. And it disturbed her that she felt like this would always be.
Impartial jerk, she thought before she gave a small bow and went through the door without waiting for Jaken.