Chapter 6: Stay
"Kagome… stay."
They faced each other with dreamlike stillness. Her eyes widened. His narrowed.
The wind shifted direction, tousling the grassy field they stood in, gravitating their clothes and hair away from them.
"…if you wish," he continued. It was an afterthought. "If not, there is a village in that direction," he inclined his head, "It is one half of a day's journey from here."
He turned away.
Freed from his gaze, indecision settled over Kagome's features.
I may not know what his problem is…
Again, her hand drifted up to her neck, as the tattered sleeve of the taiyoukai's kimono fluttered behind him in the wind.
…but, she thought, her legs, of their own accord, striding to catch up, at least Sesshoumaru-sama tries to heal the wounds he inflicts.
