Okay, no one shoot me for the last chapter. I know Inuyasha is acting like a jerk but hey, he does love Kagome. You will see in this chapter. But I think it's a little too late for those three little words.
Word of Caution: For those who already don't like Inuyasha in my story, please be easy. He will become even more of a flame head and will be violent towards someone. Please do not kill me nor try to take my head.
Please and thank you.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha Characters, some lucky person in Asia does.
Chapter 7: Bleeding Hearts/
By morning, the commotion of what had occurred had become the talk of the shrine.
Kagome and Sesshomaru had both been immediately attended to and both been taken care of. Kagome had suffered severe slash marks and Sesshomaru lay in critical condition. His wounds though were not as fatal as they could have been, his chest was scratched with what look like animal marks and he suffered major fractures to his joints and numerous cuts and laceration to his body but he was stable and his breathing even.
He awoke first to the arguments outside his room.
" . . . Why the hell did you do that?" The slayer's voice raged so loudly, Sesshomaru thought he saw the wooden frame of the house shake. He then heard his brother's voice carry on just as raged.
"He doesn't belong here and I was just making sure he would leave," Inuyasha's voice was cold and sounded betrayed.
"It is not your right to judge who belongs here and who doesn't, Inuyasha, you are not elder nor are you priested. You have no right to say who goes and who stays in this village." Sango bellowed.
"As long as he stays here I will hunt him and I will kill him," he said. "I can't even begin to believe that Kagome has taken a liking to such a cold hearted cretin nor begin to comprehend why she saved him for a second time or risking her life for his sorry ass."
"Open your eyes Inuyasha, maybe it's because he's not the cretin here, it's you." Sango snapped. Inuyasha went to retort but she cut him off angrily. "That cold hearted cretin you just called was the only man who treated her not as a trophy, not as a replacement, he treated her like a woman, a person. Maybe if you came down from you the temple more often you would see how this could have happened. Oh wait I forgot, that's one of the reason's it did happen." Sesshomaru heard something crunch and then footsteps walking away.
Gingerly, he rose from his cot and made his way over to the door.
Leaning on the frame, he opened it.
The slayer stood stunned as there was a hole punched next to the wall where she had been leaning. Her eyes were wide as she was breathing uneasily.
Slowly he made his way out of the room and into the hall.
"Breath," He said. Sango looked at him and immediately sobered.
"You should be lying down," She said. "You don't need to anger your wounds and Kagome will be cross if you do." Sesshomaru looked back at the Miko who was lying, bandaged and asleep on the cot next to his.
"What happen to her," he asked evenly. Sango nodded.
"Only if you go lay back down, then I will tell you," She chastened. Sesshomaru glared at her as he stood strait and forced himself to walk back into the room.
As he eased his aching body back on to the cot, Sango opened the garden door to reveal the morning light and the warm air.
"Inuyasha tricked her by saying we called her so he could chase you away," Sango began. "Kagome and Kaede saw the wind scar and Kagome took off for you. There she was attacked by an oversized crow demon which was after the jewel she carries within her.
"She was kind of beat up by it because she knew if she used spirit power, your aura would get tangled in the mix and you would be hurt further. So she beat the bird with pure strength and then carried you back here." Sango cast a long look at Kagome with a soft look in her eye. "She told us what happened before she passed out."
Sesshomaru stared emotionlessly at the wall. The words sunk in but he was far from showing there affects.
"And just now," he asked.
"I confronted Inuyasha over the previous night and as you may have heard, he wants you out," She said. "Is it really that bad that you are here Lord?"
"I am in his territory, that is all," Sesshomaru said plainly. "Among us dog demons, we each have territory and we mark it with our aura. Inuyasha's territory is here in the eastern lands and mine to the west, where our father ruled. My being here with out proper invitation is a challenged to his strength and his pride.
"It looks bad to other lords if one lets one's enemy's walk freely in his domain," Sesshomaru finished. Sango closed her eyes.
"Why must you men be so territorial," She sighed. "It would be easier if you weren't."
"Also," Sesshomaru added as though he didn't here her. "My companioning his woman could also be a challenge in itself."
"His woman?"
"Kagome, whether you or her would want to believe it or not, is Inuyasha's, she has spent so much time in his territory that most would think she is his. She is here, she lives here in his territory, and she also spent time with him and even loved him. Therefore she is also his territory which I am stupidly falling for." Sango looked incredulously at him.
"What to you mean stupidly?" Sango demanded. Sesshomaru closed his eyes and spoke bluntly.
"I have never felt affections like this for anything mortal. There have been inclinations before, but nothing serious." He said. "Women are not a necessity to me. I could careless if I am mated or not by the time I die.
"But . . . ." Sesshomaru looked at Kagome, his gaze softening. "She has some how, undermined me."
"Does that displease you lord," Sango asked if not a little too sharply.
"You can put away your sword tongue, Slayer, this demon means no harm," Sesshomaru said coldly. Sango glared at him but nodded. "No but it puzzles me greatly. I do not see how she could have yet I think I have an idea." Sesshomaru looked out at the garden with keen eyes.
"She is strong, she knows how to deal with life, and she knows when it is time to be serious and when someone's heart needs lifting."
"Do you love her," Sango asked. Sesshomaru closed his eyes.
"That I do not know," he said. "Until a month ago, I thought I was incapable of such a thing." Sango smiled. "I must be stark raving mad." He closed his eyes. "To be falling for a mortal, least of all a Miko."
"I do not think it's a bad thing," Sango said. "You and her have become close, she looks to you for comfort and you to her for a light moment. Is it so unheard of for a demon to fall in love with a mortal?" Sesshomaru smiled at this.
No it was actually quite common, among his kind. Demons detached themselves from human things such as emotions for they could prove to weaken you in battle. Sesshomaru knew he was no different.
The battle with Inuyasha, for instance, showed just how much he cared.
"Why didn't you dodge the wind scar," Sango asked finally. Sesshomaru looked at her before looking away, his eyes covered by his silver hair. "It would have hit the village if you did and you wanted to protect it, didn't you?"
"Slayer-."
"You knew Kagome would be devastated if anything had happened to it. So you expanded your aura to take the entire blow on to your self," Sango continued. "But how did you survive such a deadly attack that should have split you to pieces?" Sesshomaru sighed.
"Tenseiga protected me," He said. "I was defending Mortals for one and two I was in danger. Tenseiga protected my body from the worst of it and allowed me to live. The sword has chosen me to be its wielder; this battle was just a reaffirmation of that choice."
"I guess this also showed you care a little more about life than you anticipated." Sango said. "To go and protect a village to whom you owe nothing to, you showed you do have compassion."
"I dislike your kind with the passion," Sesshomaru snapped. "Just now I know that not all of you are greedy, miserable, war mongering scum that walk the earth and destroy her." Sango smiled.
"Thank you," She said. Sesshomaru looked at Kagome and almost thought he saw a smile on her face.
Inuyasha sought to take her from him, he sought to try and win back her love by killing him or chasing him out of the picture.
Sesshomaru smiled, we will see now won't we brother? I will not give up one the one thing I have wanted to have in over five hundred years.
I swear it.
When Kagome awoke, it was near Midday. She was alone in one of the rooms she recognized as Kaede's home.
Sitting up she gentle assented her pains. A broke rib or two, but deep cuts, nothing she couldn't heal from.
As she sat up she noticed she wasn't as alone as she thought.
"Here," Inuyasha said. "Drink this." Kagome smacked the hand that was outstretched to her away.
"Don't touch me," She snapped. Inuyasha's expression didn't change.
"You need to drink something so your body will stay hydrated," He said. Kagome glared.
"I can get something for myself" She said. She then noticed thin ropes around her hands and feet, they were connected to the wall.
"I had Myoga go and borrow some arachnid thread, you won't be breaking those," Inuyasha said. "You need your rest and should not be moving."
"What do you care? You never cared if I was injured in the past," Kagome said bitingly. "Now that I have moved on you show?"
"Kagome I don't want to have this argument now," he said calmly. "We can discuss things later when you are better, in the mean time, drink this."
"It's probably drugged," She said. Inuyasha set it down next to her and nodded.
"I will sit here until you drink and eat something," He said. "Kaede told me to make sure-."
"Oh I am betting Kaede told you. Just like she called me to talk with her and the others the other day? I am betting she did tell you." Inuyasha flinched as Kagome snapped. "You tricked me Inuyasha and hurt one of my protected. For that alone I should never speak to you again."
"Kagome please-."
"Don't beg or start apologizing now! You hurt Sesshomaru and I can not forgive you for it. You hurt him out of pure jealousy and anger and I can not forgive!" Kagome snapped as she moved away from him.
"Why do you continue to go on about him," Inuyasha asked softly. "Why do you continue to say you care for him when you have only known him for so long?"
"He knows me better than you do. He sees me for me, not as Kikyo," She said. "I am tired of this game Inuyasha. I am tired of you swing to and fro between me and her.
"She is dead, Inuyasha, you need to accept that fact and move on. I no longer can wait for you to see me as Kagome Higarashi. You can stay in your fantasy world now sine I am no longer waiting for you." Kagome finished. When she looked in to his eyes, she expected anger, rage, horror, pity.
Anything but what she saw.
Sadness and raw pain
"Believe me when I say this Kagome, I do love you and I do not see you as Kikyo. You made me see you for you. True I still do love Kikyo and it is also true that now you resemble her so much. But you are not her.
"You are Kagome, my Kagome, and The Kagome who nursed me when I was inflicted with poison, the Kagome that stuck by me when I assumed my human form, Kagome who fought for me when I could not, and Kagome who I protected and was willing to see hells gates for.
"That is you, Kagome," Inuyasha said as he knelt next to her. Kagome looked into his eyes, her anger dissipating and becoming pain. "I never would have been able to take on Naraku on my own if you weren't beside me. "I would never have been able to master Tesusaiga with out you. I would have never been freed from Kikyo's curse if it wasn't for you.
"Kagome, I don't care if you hate me now. But please give me another chance," he said as he grasped her hands. "I can change. If you don't love me now, I can teach you and as time goes by maybe you could love me again. But please, don't leave me, not now." He brushed her cheek. Kagome felt herself shaking with both Anger and sadness. "I love you, so much."
He leaned forward as though to kiss her but she turned her head away.
:"I will see you later Inuyasha," Kagome said. She broke away from his grip and reached for the bowl.
When she looked up again, Inuyasha had left.
Okay I know, complete change and twist. Review please and don't shoot me! Inuyasha is becoming desperate and he doesn't want to lose her again.
(Hides behind her desk) Okay, I will update soon!
