I ignored Kagome's calls and continued running. "Sasshamaru stop! You can't run with your ankle the way it is!" She yelled.
"Try me!" I yelled back; apparently I was in the mood to piss every one off today.
I saw Kaede's hut and ran in without knocking or announcing I was there. There is no point in wasting time on stupid things like that.
I was glad to see the boy there just as I told him. "Good, you found your way." I smiled sitting next to him.
"What's happened Sasshamaru?" Kaede asked.
"Didn't he tell you?" I asked confused.
"I was just told the part about him being told to find me and hide here by you." She explained. The others walked in but didn't interrupt us.
"This kid thought he could take down demons by himself and decided to try and attack my brother Lord Sesshomaru." I began. Kagome gasped and stared at the 'kid.'
I smiled, "He's lucky I was there to save him, of course he did get hit with my arrow," I paused remembering, "Will he be okay?" I asked.
"He should be fine, I was able to remove the arrow and bandage him up. I also gave him a herb mixture to help fasten his recovery; he should even be able to use his left arm again, eventually." She said.
"Why do you care anyways, demons like you don't have hearts?" The 'kid' said glaring.
"You should know by now that that's not true. Not all demons are bad. You have no clue how much I went through just to get you here safely. That demon you pissed off isn't one of the nicest." I said.
"Sasshamaru watch your mouth or you're going to see how not nice of a demon I can be." InuYasha said.
I cringed, "Sorry sir."
"This is my other brother InuYasha, the one you tried to attack was our older brother Sesshomaru. I had to pis- Sorry, sorry, make him extremely mad for him to ignore you and come after me." I explained.
"It's true she did, and said a lot of things she shouldn't have, and he definitely gave her what she deserved." InuYasha chimed in. I stared at the floor.
"That also included a comment about her other brother and I being a couple of good for nothing low life dogs." InuYasha said.
I laughed nervously, "You heard about that?"
He glared at me, "Yes, so you're lucky I don't punish you again, if that tongue of yours slips up again your sorry butt will be paying for it."
I cringed, "S-sorry sir, I understand."
"Those two are only half demons anyways." Miroku said.
"Only?" InuYasha and I asked simultaneously.
"Watch your mouth monk or you'll be the next one with a broken ankle." I said.
"You were the one who was told to watch your mouth; don't ever talk to me like that!" Miroku argued.
"Actually I think I'm going to let that one slide since I was thinking the same thing." InuYasha said.
I grinned at Miroku who glared back at me with frustration. Yup it's definitely pissing every one off day.
"So child, who told you that demons don't have hearts?" Kaede asked getting back to the topic at hand.
"I'm not a child." He said.
"To me everyone's a child." I mimicked as Kaede said it. Kaede looked at me sternly and I looked down.
InuYasha knelt down to where I was sitting, "That's the last straw Sasshamaru when we leave you're in trouble."
"No, wait, Onii-sama I'm sorry please!" I whined, "Don't you think I've been punished enough today?"
"Apparently not since you can't control that mouth of yours, I think a nice hard spanking should take care of that pretty quickly, don't you?" He asked.
I blushed and felt my eyes getting watery. This was so embarrassing but I was too afraid of InuYasha spanking me at the moment to care, "Please no sir, I'm sorry I promise I won't say anything else disrespectful." I whined.
"Keep arguing with me and it's only going to be worse." He warned.
"Bu-"I began. He shook his head, and I quickly fell silent.
"That's more like it, and you will apologize." InuYasha ordered.
"Yes Sir. I'm sorry Lady Kaede." I whispered.
"I forgive you; now let's get back to the subject." I nodded, "Yes ma'am." Kaede gestured to him to continue.
He continued looking towards InuYasha and I, "Uh I- I'm not in trouble too am I?" He asked looking around the room.
"No we just want to know a little more about you." Kaede said soothingly.
His face immediately relaxed, "My father told me that. He was a very strict demon hunter. He trained me and taught me magic since I was little, while always telling me stories about how evil demons were." He answered.
"But why did he hate them so much, did they attack your village often?" Kaede asked curiously.
"No, when I was very little my mom went down to a river near where we were staying to fetch some water. Unfortunately she had very bad timing. These really nasty demons killed her. When my father got there it was already too late but he wanted revenge. He slaughtered them all out of rage with his own hands. But it wasn't enough for him. He started training increasingly hard and when I was old enough he trained me the same way." He explained.
"Where's your father now?" Kaede asked knowingly.
Tears filled the boys' eyes, "H-he got killed not too long ago. We were out training and he told me to run. I wanted to stay and fight with him but he said that these demons were too dangerous." The boy started sobbing.
"But I was stubborn! I disobeyed him and jumped into the fight alongside him. It was going well at first; we were able to kill the first one together. But then when I was fighting the second one it knocked me down. My father became distracted and when he was running to help me the last demon stabbed him from behind." He regained his control and wiped his eyes.
After breathing for a moment he continued, "I was able to get back up and used the fire magic to kill the second demon. My father used the last of his strength to freeze the last demon. I remember running over to him and supporting his head in my lap. I remember begging him to stay with me, pleading with him to stay awake while I went to search for help but it was no use. He told me that he would die at that spot and he was okay with it b-because… because he was proud of me. Then he died. First I was really angry. I kicked the demon over and watched as its frozen body shatter to millions of pieces but it wasn't enough. Just like when the demons killed my mom and killing them wasn't enough for him. I felt the same way. So I burned his body like he would have wanted and continued on. I've been fighting demons alone ever since." Kagome and Sango were sniffling at the story.
I wiped my eyes and waited for someone to speak, it was Kaede, "Well you shouldn't have to travel any longer, if you want to protect against demons, and the kinds you know are bad then stay here. We have some empty huts just for occasions like these. You may live in one and join the other men here who fight to protect our village. I can introduce you to the leader of them tomorrow, why don't I take you to a hut?" She asked.
"That's extremely kind of you I'd be glad to live here." He accepted.
"Do all of you live here too?" He asked.
"Not exactly but we come by a lot." Kagome explained.
"We should get going; we hope to see you again soon." Kagome said.
"Stay safe kid." Sango said. "Yeah be careful." Miroku said waving goodbye. Kaede left to talk to InuYasha and Kagome so I was the only one left besides him.
"Um… I never got your name?" I asked. "My name's Katsuo, and I'm seventeen."
"Katsuo, wow, I'm-"
"Sasshamaru." He finished, "Such a strange name for a girl but I like it."
"Yeah I get that a lot; my parents thought they were going to have another boy." I explained.
Katsuo meaning victory, heroic, and manly, it definitely did suit him now that I was getting a good look at him.
He was taller than me, but most people are, and he had long black hair. His eyes were a very deep shade of green that reminded me of a field of grass at sunset.
His hood was stripped because of his wound so he was now standing shirtless wearing only his baggy black pants and the bandage wrapped carefully around his left arm.
His skin was tanned and he was very muscular but slim at the same time. What was I doing? Snap out of it!
"Well I, I'll see you around Katsuo." Just saying his name gave me chills. How could I not have noticed before how extremely handsome he was!
Maybe I was just not paying attention. "Yeah see you later Sasshamaru, and good luck." He said.
"Damn I forgot all about that," I muttered to myself angrily, "Thanks I'm going to need luck."
I blushed and he laughed, "Hey isn't that kind of language what got you in trouble missy?" He asked.
I blushed deeper, hearing him refer to me as missy in that kind of tone did wonders for me that I can't even begin to explain.
I had the urge to jump on him and ask him to marry me but I held myself back and played along daringly, "I guess I just never learn my lesson." I said boldly.
"I bet you would if I was the one giving it to you," He said. "Maybe next time we meet I can prove it."
I smiled, "You're not as innocent as you look." I said even though at the moment he looked nothing of innocence. He looked very much in control.
"Then I guess we both have something in common." He retorted.
"Until next time then." I said as I walked out. I waited as they finished talking. I was already excited about the next time I would see Katsuo.
I'm not sure but I think I'm in love. Who am I kidding there was no doubt about it. Unfortunately I had other things to worry about at the moment.
"Let's go." InuYasha said. I nodded and followed behind him fearfully. I was so in for it.
"InuYasha, can you please just forgive me for once?" I asked hopefully.
"No I've been way too light with you lately." InuYasha said.
"Please Kagome can't you convince him?" I asked.
"That performance of yours in there showed us all that you need a refresher in manners and respect Sasshamaru." Kagome said.
We were back where Kagome bandaged my ankle at. "You can be such a bitch sometimes." I muttered. Kagome stared at me in shock.
"What, I didn't do anything?" I said quickly.
"Down girl!" She said without hesitation. I hit the ground hard.
"Ow! Kagome you were just worried about my ankle and then you slam me into the ground like that!" I yelled angrily once I stood up.
"You have bigger problems to worry about." InuYasha said glaring at me.
I shrank away, "It just slipped out! I'm sorry it was an accident!" I defended.
"You don't accidentally say things like that Sasshamaru." InuYasha said.
"But I didn't think any of you would hear me!" I said quickly.
"That doesn't give you the right to say things like that." He said.
I felt myself shaking, "Please Onii-sama punish me some other way! I… I will train all day even with my bad ankle I promise." I said.
"Oh I know you will, right after." InuYasha said.
Sango rolled her eyes, "It's just a spanking, man up and get it over with." She said.
"Obviously you've never been spanked by InuYasha, it hurts like hel- a lot!" I corrected quickly.
"Of course I haven't been, I was like six the last time I got punished that way." She said.
"See I'm too old for this!" I whined.
Miroku smiled evilly, "You're never too old; Sango what are you talking about anyways? You love it when I spank you; I just did the other day too. Don't you remember?"
She smacked him and he held his face where the red hand print now appeared. "Don't talk to me like that when we're with them you idiot, and they meant as a punishment!" She said blushing furiously.
The dumb idiot monk just had to keep talking, "But you were the naughty girl who stole from me and I caught you and punished you." He said depressed.
"Shut up shut up shut up! That's not even like this at all!" Sango said urgently. Kagome stared at her friend wide-eyed. I tried to hold in my laughs but was unsuccessful.
I don't think any of us could ever look at her the same way again.