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Chapter 7: Do you?
Sesshomaru was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice Kagome stop and turn around until he crashed into her.
Both of them were knocked to the ground and while Sesshomaru was trying to figure out what had just happened he realized that he had landed right on top of Kagome. Kagome blushed and looked up at him shyly waiting for him to move off of her, but he didn't seem to be going anywhere.
Sesshomaru stared down at her almost transfixed and the thought of getting up never enter his head although a few other thoughts did. What are you doing? he screamed at himself in his head but it didn't seem to do any good and then his hand, as if of its own accord, came up to cup her cheek. Her skin was so soft he discovered and he began to run his thumb across her cheek. He slowly moved his hand down until it ran across her lips.
Sesshomaru stared at her lips for a moment before he leaned forward just a bit, just enough so that his lips touched hers. It was a soft kiss, the lightest of touches and just when Sesshomaru had the sense of mind to deepen the kiss he heard something.
When he looked up he saw the young kit just a few feet away. "What are you doing to my mama?" Shippo asked all too innocently.
Sesshomaru almost immediately felt a push at his chest and he got up as Kagome pushed him off of her. "We're not doing anything sweetheart, we just f-fell is all," Kagome explained to the little boy.
Shippo gave her a doubtful look and then a mischievous grin crossed his face. "You were kissing," he stated teasingly. "Mama was kissing, mama was kissing," he sang out as he ran down the hall with Kagome chasing after him.
"Shippo, stop that right now," she yelled down the hall. Sesshomaru on the other hand didn't move. One side of him was cursing the brat for interrupting the other was thanking him because if he hadn't Sesshomaru wasn't quite sure what he would have done and still another part wished the kid had shown up sooner, but all of him seemed to be screaming, 'What were you thinking?'
He had kissed her; he had kissed his mistress without permission or an order and it only registered as bad. What was Kagome going to think of him now? He had practically tackled her to the ground and molested her. Ok, so he had never been in love before, did that mean he had to lose all control and screw up like this. He was supposed to be disciplined, he had hundreds of years of discipline, but around her it all flew out the window and he acted like some pup going through his first heat.
Sesshomaru didn't know what to do now, but he certainly didn't want to face Kagome at the moment. He finally decided to go up to his room and lock himself up to stew in his thoughts.
(With Kagome)
Kagome had finally caught up to Shippo and believe her it wasn't an easy thing to do. She was currently sitting on the bottom step of a flight of stairs and holding a struggling Shippo in her arms. "Now Shippo," she finally spoke up and gained the kit's attention, "you can't tell anyone what you just saw, ok?"
"But why not? Grandma keeps wondering when you're going to find 'a nice young man to settle down with and give her more grandchildren'" Shippo repeated the words he had heard Kagome's mother use.
"She said what? In front of you?" Kagome asked. She was a little alarmed that her mother would say such things while the little boy was listening. Kagome shook her head. "Besides it wasn't like that, we just f-fell and it w-was an a-accident." Kagome blushed remembering how it had most certainly not been an accident. Well, the falling was but the kiss wasn't.
"You're lying," Shippo stated plainly.
"What do you mean I'm lying?" Kagome asked defensively.
"You always stutter when you're lying, mama," he pointed out. Kagome sighed and looked down at the carpet that covered the stairs.
"To be perfectly honest, I don't know what that was all about," Kagome said and then sighed again.
"Well, did you like it?" Shippo asked with wide curious eyes. Kagome looked at the kit in surprise. Had she like it? She hadn't really thought about it although in her defense she was shocked and frazzled at the moment. Well, she supposed it hadn't been bad.
It had been a very gentle kiss, and his lips had been so soft, and he had had this nice clean scent to him that she could smell because he'd gotten so close and the way his beautiful silver hair had cascaded down as if to hide them from prying eyes, oh, and those wonderfully golden eyes. Kagome sighed like a love sick teenager just staring into the empty space before her.
"I think I'll take that as a yes," Shippo said interrupting Kagome's train of thought.
"What? No, now Shippo, you are not to tell grandma about this got it? She'd never let me live this down and as long as Sesshomaru's here I'd never get any peace," Kagome told him. Shippo simply nodded his head and finally wriggled out of Kagome's arms.
"I promise I won't tell grandma," Shippo said as he ran up the stairs. Kagome watched him go and then he ran into his room. Kagome sighed again and then went back down the hall. What was she going to do now? How was she going to face Sesshomaru again? Did he really mean that or was it some weird demon thing like heat or something like that? Kagome shook her head and decided to take a walk out to the garden to clear her head.
(Meanwhile Shippo had slipped out of his room and into Souta's.)
"Hey haven't you heard of knocking?" Souta yelled as he finished putting on a new shirt, he had gotten the old one dirty.
"Shhh," Shippo said putting a finger to his lips. "I've got something to tell you."
"Well, what is it?"
"Mama likes that guy," Shippo blurted out.
"What?! You mean Kagome likes that inu youkai guy?!" Souta shouted out.
"Shhhh, be quiet. Mama really didn't want me telling anyone but she only made me promise not to tell grandma," Shippo told the other boy.
Souta gave an almost evil grin. "Yeah, mom would drive her nuts if she found out."
"Yeah, that's what mama said."
"But how do you know she likes him?" Souta asked making sure the younger boy wasn't imagining things.
"I saw them kissing," Shippo practically whispered as if saying it any louder would allow Kagome to hear him.
"Ewwwww," Souta said twisting his face so that he looked as if he would be ill. "That's gross, but I guess that's proof."
"Yeah and I've got an idea," Shippo explained.
"What do you mean an idea?" Souta asked curiously.
"Well, she wouldn't admit that she liked him, I don't think mama even realizes it, but the look on her face when I asked her it's obvious," Shippo said and threw his arms up for dramatic effect. Souta gave Shippo an 'oh' sort of look and then he looked thoughtful for a second.
"So, what's the plan?"
(Back with Kagome)
Now while clearing her head, Kagome decided that she did like Sesshomaru quite a bit. He was the strong silent type and Kagome found she like it a lot. He thought carefully before he spoke and he seemed rather nice when he wasn't being so defensive. That and he had had that remarkable calming affect on her the other night when she'd had that nightmare.
Oh, and he had that awesome furry tail, she could definitely picture cuddling up to that every night. Kagome shook her head with a blush, what was she thinking about? Ok, ok, so she liked Sesshomaru a lot, maybe, dare she say it, even loved him now that she thought about it. Now the question became, did he love her as well?"
Kagome was currently sitting on a chair and had a pile of petal less flowers next to her. Kagome picked another flower. "He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not . . ." and so on and so on until she ended on 'he loves me.'
It had been the way all of them had ended actually and she was starting to wonder if these flowers were rigged or something. 'I mean they can't all end the same way. One of them has to have an even number of petals,' she thought as she picked another flower and started over. Once again it ended the same way.
Kagome picked another flower and then an idea popped into her head. This time she started on 'he loves me not.' She finally got to the last petal and she just held it up and stared at it. "He loves me," she mumbled. Of course the one flower she picked with an even number of petals and she decides to switch the order of the words. Maybe it was a sign, maybe Sesshomaru did love her, or maybe kami was playing some cruel joke on her.
Kagome looked around her; she was running out of flowers in her immediate vicinity. Kagome let out yet another sigh, something she'd been doing a lot of in the past half hour that she'd been in the garden.
Finally standing up, Kagome walked back toward the house when she sensed a strange presence. She whirled around, but she didn't see anyone and the strange aura she had felt was gone like it had never been there in the first place. Kagome shrugged her shoulders and turned back to go into the house.
Little did she know that a glowing pair of red eyes was watching her as she went in.
(With Sesshomaru)
Sesshomaru was currently lying face down on his bed with his head buried in his pillow. He was absolutely mortified with his actions and just himself at the moment. Suddenly there was a knock on his door. The person didn't just knock once or twice or even just three times, it was a rapid repetitive knock that did stop until Sesshomaru had finally opened the door.
When he did he found it to be the boy and the kit who had been knocking so incessantly. "Yes?" he asked, slightly confused. He hadn't had much interaction with the boys so he wasn't really sure what to expect from the two.
"We need to ask you some questions," Souta said. Shippo nodded his head to emphasize their point.
"About what?" Sesshomaru was almost afraid to ask.
"About you and my mama," Shippo told him. Sesshomaru almost went pale. He already felt ashamed for his actions now he had to pint sized brats who wanted to reopen the wound.
Sesshomaru stepped back from the door to allow them to enter. The boys walked into the room and stood near the bed. "What do you think of my sister?" Souta asked, getting right to the point.
Sesshomaru looked surprised at the question, that and the 'mama' switched to 'sister' thing was going to drive him nuts, he could tell right now. "Kagome is a very nice girl," Sesshomaru answered vaguely.
"Yeah, but do you like her, you know like-like her?" Shippo asked looking up at the tall inu youkai.
"I suppose you could say that."
"So you do like her," Souta stated as if he'd made an awesome discovery. "Well, then we just thought you should know something about Kagome."
Sesshomaru simply raised an eyebrow at the boy and waited for him to continue. "I don't know Souta, mama would get awfully mad if we told him," Shippo put in.
So that was their game, they were going to torture him by with holding the information. Well Sesshomaru wasn't going to play that game. "You can either tell me or get out right now," Sesshomaru told them.
"Ok, ok, calm down. We'll tell you. You see, Kagome likes you too," Souta explained.
Sesshomaru just looked dumbfounded for a moment. Could she really? Were these kids mistaken or were they telling the truth? How could he find out without making a complete ass out of himself in front of Kagome?
"It's true," Shippo added on. "I asked her. She didn't answer or anything but she got this dreamy look on her face."
Sesshomaru thought for a moment until he heard the light sound of foot steps coming up the stairs. "Kagome," he practically whispered out the name. Souta and Shippo looked at each other in alarm. Shippo hadn't been kidding when he had said that Kagome would be upset with them for telling him. Both boys suddenly bolted for the door and down the hallway and out of sight.
After a minute or so of listening to her footfalls Sesshomaru watched as Kagome passed his open door. She stopped and turned to find him staring at her quite intently. He took a step towards her and she felt frozen, like she couldn't move (A/N: think deer caught in the headlights.)
Sesshomaru didn't know what he was doing; it was like he couldn't control his own body. When he got close he lifted his hand and pushed a stray hair from her face and locked her gaze to his with a heated stare. "Tell me it's true," the words slipped unbidden past his lips. He didn't know what he was saying; all he knew was that he needed what the boys had said to be true.
"What's true?" Kagome asked, trying to keep herself from sounding to breathless.
"Do you . . ." he hesitated for a moment. What the hell was he thinking; he couldn't just ask her if she loved him. "Do you love me?" Damn, he was such an idiot. What was wrong with him today? He just didn't seem to be able to control himself around her and it scared him a little.
Kagome looked surprised, a wide eyed, almost terrified kind of surprised. "Well," she started then paused to think about her answer. "That depends."
"Depends on what?" he asked, and even to his own ears the question had sounded just a tad desperate. Sesshomaru didn't care though. She could have asked anything of him, he would do anything or give her anything just to hear her say 'yes.'
"Do you love me?"
Sesshomaru completely threw away his mask of ice, his eyes went wide and the strange emotion that had been bubbling just below his surface all day burst forth and warmed his eyes and drew a smile across his face. He hugged Kagome tightly and whispered softly in her ear, "Yes, very much."
Kagome choked back a sob and seemed almost near tears. Sesshomaru would have been worried had it not been for the amazing smile on her face and the warm happy feeling that radiated through the bond. "I, I do too," Kagome said, and even though Sesshomaru already knew without her words it was still wonderful to hear.
Sesshomaru wiped at her face to clear it of the happy tears and brown met gold in a long emotional stare. Sesshomaru leaned in closer, their lips connecting and eyes closing, enjoying the contact.
The next few hours were spent alternating between talking and hot and heavy kissing. Both of them got their feelings out there, explaining exactly how they felt about each other.
And They Both Lived Happily Ever After!!
Just kidding :-P
That night when Kagome went to bed she sensed the same strange aura that she had sensed that afternoon. She went over to her open window and looked outside. It was dark, not even the moon was shinning through the stormy clouds tonight and it was a full moon. She looked around trying to see something, anything outside. She came upon a pair of red glowing eyes that were watching her in the distance.
Kagome watched the eyes as they started to get closer. She suddenly became very afraid and she slammed the window shut and backed away from it. As the eyes got closer a dark figure started to form around the eyes and it scared Kagome so much she screamed at the top of her lungs.
A moment later she heard what sounded like Sesshomaru shout her name from behind the door as he pounded on it. What a night for her to have locked her door. Her eyes flew to the door and the red-eyed figure followed her gaze from right outside her window. Kagome darted for the door, there was the smashing sound of glass and Kagome screamed again as she was carried off out the window.
Sesshomaru banged harder on the door all but knocking it off its hinges as he knocked it in. He looked wildly around the room, searching and yet he didn't find what he was looking for. Kagome was gone.
Sesshomaru vaguely heard footsteps racing down the hall. Apparently the noise had woken up Kagome's family as well. "What happened in here?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as she looked around the room her eyes landing on the broken glass and then darted to the frantic inu youkai. Souta and Shippo were standing behind her wondering just about the same thing.
"I'm not sure," Sesshomaru said in a strained voice, but someone is going to pay. Sesshomaru's eyes began to bleed red and the others all backed up not wanted to attract his attention at the moment. He sniffed the air and caught the scent he had smelled before lurking around the house.
In raged, Sesshomaru turned towards the window intent on following the scent and getting back his Kagome when suddenly a sharp pain ran through his body. The pain was so great that it brought him to his knees and his eyes flashed between red and gold. His body throbbed again and he let out a roar that tore through the night before he fell to the floor completely.
Mrs. Higurashi went to him cautiously. Very carefully she propped his head up in her lap. She felt his forehead, he felt slightly warm and he was sweating. "I want to help you, but I don't know how," Mrs. Higurashi explained slowly, hoping that he could understand.
Sesshomaru's eyes flashed back to gold again and he looked up at the middle aged woman. Help, she couldn't help. "The spell," he said through clenched teeth.
"Spell? What spell, dear?" Mrs. Higurashi coaxed him.
"The one that--" he was cut off as a hiss of pain passed his lips, "binds me to Kagome. At night I can't be to far-- ah-- from her," he explained stopping once as the pain racked his body once more.
"Is there anyway I can stop it?" Mrs. Higurashi asked, looking desperate to help the inu youkai.
"No," the word hissed out as the pain hit again. Hours later the pain was no longer throbbing through his body rather it was now constant. Mrs. Higurashi had awoken some servants and they had, reluctantly but none the less, moved Sesshomaru to the bed and while they took care of the inu youkai Mrs. Higurashi hurried off somewhere.
Now she had returned with someone. Sesshomaru could barely recognize the houshi through the haze of pain that clouded his head. "Please, Miroku, is there anything you can do to help him?" Mrs. Higurashi pleaded with the houshi.
Miroku stepped up to the bedside and held his staff out over Sesshomaru. He spoke some words that Sesshomaru couldn't follow and the pain in his body increased. It finally became so bad that with a last scream he finally passed out.
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InuyashaForever1989: Tune in next time for the exciting conclusion of 'Bound By Magic' Well, it might be the conclusion, I'm not quite sure but that's what I'm hoping for next chapter but for now I'm afraid that's all. Ja ne.
