Kagome sat on the silver satin pillow in front of the small table keeping her eyes on her hands which she had in her lap knotting them up in her kimono. Her nerves were pulling against her stomach and she felt like she was going to lose her breakfast.
Sesshoumaru stared at the girl in front of him relieved that she no longer held the stench of the dark hanyou. "We will begin now."
Kagome's eyes shot up to him startled by the suddenness of his voice. "What? What are we going to start?"
Sesshoumaru stared plainly at her. "Lies have been fed to you by the one you claim as your mate."
Kagome stared hard at the demon lord. "How dare you!" She hissed. "Naraku would never lie to me. He cares for me and would never do anything to hurt me."
The taiyoukai blinked slowly in a bored fashion. "He would and did. You believe yourself to be his mate only because he told you that you were. What proof do you have that you are indeed his mate other than the false words from his lips saying that you are?"
She set her jaw in defiant determination. "He has no reason to lie to me."
Sesshoumaru raised a questioning brow at her. "Tell me what reason does he have to not lie to you?" He leaned slightly forward causing her to lean away. "You do not know who or what you are therefore how would you know truth from lies?"
Kagome dropped her head and whispered. "I don't know. I believe him when he tells me the things he does for I have nothing else to hold on to." She looked up at him with watery eyes. "Do you know what it is to not know who you are or how you came to be where you are?" She laid her hands open in her lap and looked at her palms. "I am no one just a being wandering through life with no past except for that which was told to me. If what Naraku tells me is lies then I really am no one and I'd rather believe him then be nothing."
Sesshoumaru sat back staring at her working her words over in his mind and could easily see her point. "Very well." He responded calmly. "Then we shall give you back your real life."
Wide blue eyes shot up to his face. "My real life? You know me?"
"Hai." He locked his fingers together with his elbows on the small table. "I shall spend the next months teaching you who you are and what your station in this life really is according to my standards. I will not tolerate you becoming anything less than that which I know you to be."
Kagome narrowed her eyes at the demon lord. "How can I know what you tell me is truth? For all I know you could just be attempting to brainwash me against my mate in order to destroy him."
Sesshoumaru glared hard at her. "Wench I do not use lies to gain anything. If I say you are nothing more than a useless ningen whore then that is what you will become."
She shot to her feet staring at him with the most cold contempt she could muster. "Anything you say to me as far as I'm concerned is nothing but a lie! You," she hissed as she pointed a finger at him. "kidnapped me stealing me away from my mate in order to turn me against him for your own vile ways. I will have no part of it!" She turned and headed for the shoji door fully intent on leaving the pompous demon the castle and returning to her dark love.
Before she could reach the door however a clawed hand had managed to wrap itself around her neck from behind. Kagome clawed at the fingers digging into her throat as trickles of blood fell from where his sharp nails dug into her soft flesh.
Sesshoumaru leaned down placing his lips just inches from her ear. "I do not need a mere female bitch to bring that filth Naraku down. His death will come at my hands and if you stand in my way I shall remove your life as well." He removed his hand from her neck then spun her to face him. He grabbed her chin hard between his fingers forcing her face up so that she could look into his cold golden eyes. "You will not behave this way again or I shall be forced to take actions against you; actions that will show the land the true color of your blood." He released her then gracefully like nothing had happened returned to his seat at the table. He then motioned for her to return to her seat as well.
xx
'Master he is attempting to force the return of her memories.' Kagura said telepathically.
'Hmm… You will return here immediately.' Naraku ordered with force.
He had to get the shikon miko back and soon. Who knew how long it would be before the Lord of the West broke through the barrier concealing the miko's memories and once again returned her to the worthless half-breed to once again seek his demise and gain back the shikon no tama?
"Well Sesshoumaru, you think you can take her from me?" He questioned with a hint of amusement to himself. "We will see who has the desire to control her more." An evil chuckle left his lips as he thought about all the ways he could do the lord in and spill his blood across the land. "Kagome belongs to me."
Naraku had a plan forming in his wicked little brain and before the new moon he would once again have Kagome in his grasp and in his bed.
xx
"Say it again."
Kagome sighed in exasperation. This had to be the hundredth time she had said it and still didn't believe it. It was just too ridiculous to be true. "I am Kagome;" she started staring unbelievingly at the demon lord. "I am the shikon miko…" She trailed off as she had at that point of the sentence since they started this.
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes informing her silently like every time that she had better finish the sentence or else.
Kagome took a deep nerve calming breath. "And my destiny it to assist in the destruction of," she eyed Sesshoumaru like she could kill him with her glare alone. "Naraku."
"Very good. Now continue to say it until you believe it down to the very depths of you soul." Sesshoumaru said as he began to go through the scrolls on the table.
"I will not." Kagome bit out forcefully. "You don't believe what you're telling me to be true anymore than I do; so why should I continue to repeat a lie?"
Sesshoumaru didn't bother to look up at her. "Because I told you to, and you will obey properly."
Kagome snorted. "That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Does everyone around you just drop everything they're doing just to appease your every wish and whim? If they do then you should be the one sitting here being re-educated repeating such nonsense over and over again."
"We are not here to discuss me or my wishes. Now continue." He answered smoothly still looking at the scrolls.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at him then smiled wickedly to herself and forced a yawn. "I'm tired can we take a break for awhile?"
"No."
"What? Why not?" Kagome asked feeling her ire rise.
"You will continue until I feel it is time to rest." He lifted his eyes to meet hers enforcing what he had said within his amber depths.
Kagome huffed at him then crossed her arms over her chest. "Fine!" She waited until he was no longer looking at her then began her mantra once again only this time it was her version of things. "I am Kagome and you are Sesshoumaru the great white bastard who should rot in the deepest level of hell."
Sesshoumaru looked up at her. "Miko I am well aware of who I am. As for your opinions of what I can do with myself those are better kept to yourself unless you wish to see what a great white bastard is really capable of." He raised a brow at her questioning whether she really wanted to know of his capabilities.
She curled her lip in a sneer as she stared at him like he was filth at her feet. "At least you acknowledge what you really are and may the kami cut your eyes from your head for it."
"That will be enough. Now continue." Sesshoumaru knew what she was doing; she was baiting him into an argument in order to get out of repeating what he had told her. 'The fire of the girl still exists; very good.' He thought. 'Maybe she will gain her memories back sooner than I thought she would.'
xx
Kagome flipped over onto her stomach and huffed irritably. All day it was the same thing. "I am Kagome. I am the shikon miko…. Blah blah blah." She growled into her pillow. Flopping back over onto her back, she stared up at the ceiling and dropped her voice several octaves. "I am Sesshoumaru and I am a great white bastard who controls everyone around me because I'm a baka."
She sat up and looked around the room looking at the simple furnishings. The wood side table, the wardrobe containing several kimono, and the bed she was currently lying on. It was rather basic for a room in a house as big as this one, but then again considering whom the master was, she was surprised there was furniture at all.
She dismissed the thoughts about the room and instead began trying to think of a way to escape the demon lord. She couldn't just walk out the door she already tried that. The guards wasted no time in calling their master and informing him of what she had tried to do effectively forcing him to lock her in her room.
Getting up she went to the window when she heard the sound metal hitting metal. Looking down into the training yard her eyes were greeted with a treat. So many perfectly sculpted males training shirtless, sweating, and flexing every muscle in their bodies as they clashed swords against each other. Oh how she wanted to go down there and run her fingers across their backs, chest, arms… She could feel the drool falling from her lips and had to run her tongue across them to catch the moisture it was then that she saw him. The bastard who brought her here, looking as pristine as ever, topless, flexing, and preparing to engage one of his guards in training. No amount of lip licking was going to stop the flow of drool coming out of her mouth.
Her eyes traveled over his body and she began comparing him to her dark mate. Naraku was muscular but broad across the chest and shoulders. Sesshoumaru was just a built but more slender, especially though the waist. His hair glowed shiny silver like the moon was shining its light down upon him and him alone. Whereas Naraku's hair was almost just as long but midnight black as if no light dared to shine down upon his head.
One had crimson eyes the other golden wheat. Sesshoumaru carried markings on his face, arms… She narrowed her eyes trying to see if what she thought she saw was what she was actually seeing. The tips of two magenta stripes poked out just above his hakama over his hips. She then wondered where else he had those stripes. Shaking her head to clear it of her meandering thoughts about the demon lord she continued her comparisons.
Sesshoumaru's ears were pointed, Naraku's weren't. Sesshoumaru's flesh was pale like ivory and Naraku was lightly tanned. Light and dark, but yet both held one same attribute… their personalities. Both were cold, indifferent, and silent to the point of driving a being mad. They both demanded complete obedience and threatened you to the brink of death if you went against their wishes.
"Bastards." She hissed.
Her eyes suddenly went wide when Sesshoumaru cut his eyes up to her and narrowed them dangerously.
"He didn't hear me. Did he?" She whispered to herself as she dropped her eyes down to the floor. "No, he couldn't." She said as she looked back out the window only to find the demon lord gone.
She grunted. "His perfect, high and mighty ass, is probably on his way up here right now to tell me that it's not proper for me to be watching them train." She hissed and just as she finished her sentence the door slid open. Spinning around, she came face to face with a half clothed demon lord. "Now what?" Kagome bit. "Wait; let me guess." She dropped her voice several octaves. "Wench it's not proper for you to watch males training."
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her and her mockery of him. "Girl you test my patience." He growled as he walked towards her.
Kagome attempted to back away and quickly found herself backed up against the wall. Eyes darting back and forth like a trapped animal's. There was no denying that Sesshoumaru scared her he was just so overwhelming and she could see in his eyes how easily he could kill her with one swipe of his claws.
As he approached her, he watched as she slid down the wall, trying to curl in on herself, with arms wrapped tightly around her legs and face buried in her knees. The scent of her tears quickly invaded his senses along with her overwhelming terror. "Girl I have done nothing to you."
"You hate me." She whispered as she choked back a sob. "All because you don't like Naraku."
Sesshoumaru curled his lip. "My discord is not for you. It is for your behavior it seems as if I am expecting far too much out of you or it is too complicated for you to understand. If you are as simple as you are behaving then perhaps I should kill you now and be done with it."
Kagome snapped her head up and glared at him with red puffy eyes. "I am not simple!" She bit out as she rose to her feet.
"Then perhaps you should behave in a manner that says otherwise." He turned and began walking away. "When the sun reaches the mountains, I shall fetch for you and you will continue your training." He turned to face her before he closed the door. "If you can prove to me that you are not simple then perhaps I will allow you the freedom of the use of the hot springs when you feel the need to use it." Possibly that would give her the incentive to behave. He knew how much she liked to bathe and with her affinity for always wanting to be clean he might just get a little compromise out of her. He would treat her with the use of the hot spring when she desired to use it. He watched as her eyes lightened at the proposition and knew that tonight he would get complete obedience out of the girl.
xx
"Inuyasha I don't think that this is a good idea." Sango said as she walked to catch up with the irritable hanyou.
Gold eyes narrowed at the taijiya.
"I mean if Kagome thinks us to be her enemies she isn't going to just walk away with us." She sighed sadly.
"I agree with the lovely lady Sango." Miroku threw in.
"Keh." Inuyasha huffed. "I don't care what any of you think. Kagome is my responsibility and she will leave that bastard when she sees me." He crossed his arms over his chest defiantly.
"Inuyasha the last time she saw you she was scared to death." Sango pointed out.
"Yea probably because she took one look at his ugly face." Shippou said from Miroku's shoulder.
Inuyasha turned to face the kit. "Why you little…" He started as he made to grab the kit from the monk's shoulder.
Shippou 'eeped' and leapt to Sango for protection.
"Why you little runt." Inuyasha growled as he attempted to swipe the kit off the slayer's shoulder and immediately felt the hard wood of the taijiya's Hiraikotsu upon his hard head. "Oi wench, what the hell was that for?" Inuyasha growled as he rubbed the growing knot on his head.
"You know well what it was for Inuyasha." Sango growled out.
Inuyasha glared at his companion for a moment then put his hands in to the sleeves of his haori and turned away from her. "Keh." He grunted as he began to walk away.
