Chapter 7
"Oh…. Sorry?" Kagome turned away and walked out into the garden. Sesshomaru grabbed her by her hair and forced her back into a wall.
"You are going to have to learn your place!" he grabbed her neck and tightened his grip. She stared up at him and he tightened his grip on her neck, his nails digging into her skin. Kagome's neck began to poor blood and her face turned red as she felt him choking her. She could no longer breathe and by natural reflex attempted to remove his hand from her neck, but all he did was tighten his grip, causing his nails to penetrate her skin completely where you could no longer see them.
"I am tired of your aggravating, emotionless state and I am not going to stand for it anymore." He told her. "I suggest you learns some respect! Do you understand me?" He loosened his grip just a bit and she began to cough hysterically, but was kept pinned against the wall. Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes and waited for her to quit her cough, but once she had all she did was stare at him.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME KAGOME!" He pulled her away from the wall a couple inches and slammed her back against it, causing her to lose her breath. She took a deep breath and stared straight into Sesshomaru's eyes, showing no fear or any other emotion. The two stared at each other, Sesshomaru angrily and Kagome expressionlessly.
Sesshomaru saw something glitter in her right eye and looked at it. A singled tear fell down her cheek and he looked back to her, releasing his grip completely. She kept herself standing for a moment, but then fell to her knees and more tears fell from her eyes. Kagome stared up at him tears falling from her eyes at a fast rate and Sesshomaru just looked away and walked off.
Kagome's eyes went back to their blue again and she reached up to her neck to feel the blood that was still pouring from the wounds Sesshomaru had caused. She looked down at her hands and blood covered them completely. Standing up and looking toward the castle gates, Kagome began to run. She ran out of the gates and as far away as she possibly could from the castle. She did not want to be there anymore!
'I hate him!' She thought to herself as she sped up as much as she could. She ran through the forest quickly, avoiding all trees that she could. She stopped in the middle of a clearing and fell to her knees to catch her breath. Once she could breathe again she stood up and began walking, her head lowered in loneliness and dread. What was she going to do now that she had no one? Inuyasha and her "friends" were traveling with Kikyou and now she could no longer take staying with Sesshomaru.
"Out here all by yourself huh?" a voice came from the shadows and Kagome quickly snapped her head to the side to see who it was. Bankotsu walked through the trees and over by her side. "It's dangerous to be out here alone, don't you think?" he asked her grabbing on to her hair and pulling her closer to him. "Especially when you have so many enemies in the first place. Didn't you learn from the demon that gave you this?" he roughly scraped his fingers across the wounds on her neck, causing her to wince in pain.
"Stop…" she whispered trying to pull away from him. "I didn't do anything to you this time, so please just leave me alone…"
"Didn't do anything?" he chuckled and slammed his fist into a tree causing it to fall backwards, "ALL OF MY BROTHERS ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU AND THAT PRICK INUYASHA!" He pushed her into the floor and set himself on top of her. "I am going to take you with me and Inuyasha will have to co…"
"That won't work." She said sitting up as much as she could, "Inuyasha doesn't give a damn about me. He is off somewhere with that whore Kikyou."
"He left you?" Bankotsu asked moving off of her.
"You can say that…" Kagome told him, "Or you can say I got sick of his shit and left with his brother only to get hurt even more."
"You suck at choosing men, don't you?" Bankotsu asked.
"Yeah, whatever." Kagome said sitting up all the way, "So why aren't you attacking me now?"
"I only wanted to scare you." He explained, "There is no point of hurting you when you actually did nothing wrong, you know? I was just going to use you because of Inuyasha, but since you no longer travel with the idiotic mutt I don't have to."
Kagome just stared at him with her left eye twitching. Bankotsu looked back at her and raised his eyebrow as she continued to stare at him evilly.
"What is your problem?" he asked
"Everyone just uses me…" she mumbled quietly and stood up.
"What do you mean?"
"Inuyasha used me for the sacred jewel shards, Sesshomaru because he didn't want Naraku to get a hold of me, and you because you wanted to get revenge on Inuyasha." She explained walking out of the clearing and back into the forest. "I will never find someone to truly care about me…"
"How do you know Sesshomaru doesn't really care?" Bankotsu asked quickly catching up with her. Kagome just looked at him with her eyes narrowed as if he was stupid and pointed to the five different wounds she had on her neck.
"You don't do that to someone you love, do you?" Kagome asked.
"No, I guess not." Bankotsu answered.
"You guess?"
"Well I can't really say I have ever been in a relationship before, so I don't know."
"You haven't?"
"Nope."
"YOU HAVE BEEN BORN TWICE AND HAD THE BLESSING OF TWO DIFFERENT LIVES AND YOU HAVEN'T BEEN WITH A WOMAN!"
"Don't yell, don't yell…" Bankotsu covered her mouth and then removed his hand, "No I haven't okay? I was always with my brothers so I never really looked at a woman. It's not like I would have ever had any private time with her. There is no point of being in a relationship that you can't really care for the one that you are with, you know?"
"I guess you are right."
"Hey!" Bankotsu jumped excitedly, "Why don't you come and stay with me for a while?"
"Huh?" Kagome looked at him like he was nuts.
"Why don't you?" he said, "We could hang out. I don't really have anyone to talk to anymore, so it might be pretty cool, don't you think?"
"Well I…"
"Oh come on!" he pleaded, "Please!!!"
"You know, you are a lot more hyper and childish when you aren't fighting…" she said.
"Is that bad?" he asked scratching his head.
"No it isn't bad." Kagome patted his head even though he was about six inches taller then her, "It's actually kind of cute. I didn't know that you could be nice."
"Aw… Well that is kind of mean, but I can tell why you got it in your mind I couldn't." he smiled sweetly at her and patted her head as well.
Kagome stared up at him for a moment and giggled. He looked down at her confused and then ran over to a small pond to check his teeth, but found nothing.
"Why did you laugh at me?"
"It's nothing…" Kagome said, "I haven't laughed in a long time and there is something about you that is really cute and funny."
"Cool." Bankotsu smiled, "Why haven't you laughed in a long time?"
"With all this shit that has been going on with Inuyasha there wasn't any point."
"Why?"
"I just didn't feel like I should have been living."
"Why?"
"Because it seemed that no one cared about me anymore."
"Why?"
"Because they all kept hurting me or being on Inuyasha's side…" Kagome looked at him like she was about to hit him.
"Why?"
"WHY do you ask so many questions?" Kagome said.
"Sorry…" Bankotsu looked to the floor ashamed and then smiled again, "SO DO YOU WANNA!"
"Do I want to what?" Kagome asked.
"You wanna stay with me for a while?"
"Sure…" Kagome said and Bankotsu grabbed onto her wrist and began pulling her into the direction of his home.
"This is gonna be cool!" he said excitedly.
Sesshomaru was looking for Kagome everywhere that she thought he would be. He felt extremely guilty about hurting her and had a necklace made for her. He carried it around looking for her, but sighed when he had no luck finding her.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" Shippo patted his leg looking up at the tall man. "Where is Kagome?"
"I don't know kid…"
"Who cares where she is?" Rin said, "I don't like her."
"I care!" Shippo said glaring at Rin.
"And I care as well…" Sesshomaru reluctantly admitted to them. Rin looked up at Sesshomaru in shock and stomped her foot, letting out a high-pitched scream.
"I HATE HER! I HATE HER! I HATE HER!" Rin yelled, "I HOPE SHE IS DEAD!"
Rin stomped off leaving Shippo in shock and leaving Sesshomaru in shock and with an extremely bad headache. Shippo began to cry and ran off to look for Kagome. Sesshomaru walked after Rin and when he caught up to her picked her up by the back of her shirt.
"What is the matter with you, Rin?" he asked frustrated.
"I hate Kagome!" Rin said, "Just leave her out in the forest to die, okay!"
"Wait… She left the castle?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Uh… N… No. Well I…" Rin was caught.
"RIN!" he demanded an answer.
"I opened the gates for her!" she confessed, "I don't want her here anymore!"
"SO YOU LET HER OUT TO BE KILLED!" Sesshomaru yelled setting her down, "How would you feel if someone had done that to you, Rin!"
"LIKE YOU CARE!" Rin yelled and began to cry. "EVER SINCE SHE GOT HERE YOU DON'T PLAY WITH ME IN THE GARDEN ANYMORE! YOU DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME! I HATE HER!!! AND I HATE YOU!" She ran down the hall and vanished from Sesshomaru's sight.
Sesshomaru no longer knew what to do. He had not been paying Rin any attention since Kagome had joined him and he knew that she was right about that, but he was feeling some strange feelings for Kagome and didn't know what to do about them. He had a need to keep her around and hated the fact that Inuyasha had hurt her so bad that she wouldn't even look at him with a smile. He knew that was why he had hurt her. He was mad that she couldn't look at him like she used to look at Inuyasha: with love and happiness. Why couldn't he make her look at him like that? What did he have to do?
He leaned back against the wall and began hitting his head softly on it. He took a deep breath and looked down the hall and then looked the other way down the hall. He didn't know whether he shouldn't continue looking for Kagome to give her the necklace that he was still holding in his hand or if he should go after Rin and tell her that he was sorry.
"You know…" Sesshomaru looked down to see Shippo, "I can tell that you love Kagome."
"What are you talking about boy?" Sesshomaru asked.
"You can tell to, can't you?"
"What?"
"It is a real feeling Sesshomaru. You do care a lot for her, but you don't know how to make her happy again, isn't that what is wrong?"
"How the…"
"I saw you hurt Kagome…"
"And you are not angry with me?"
"Oh I am pissed the fuck off at you, but I do know why you did it."
Sesshomaru stood up and away from the wall, looking down at the young boy with a smirk on his face. He was glad that Inuyasha had not rubbed off on to him and that the boy was a hell of a lot smarter then his younger brother.
"So what do I do?" he asked him.
"First you need to go explain things to Rin. She was here a lot longer then Kagome was and she feels like she is being replaced."
"How do you know that?"
"I lost my parents as well Sesshomaru." Shippo explained, "Rin feels like she has found a new daddy and that her daddy is about to be taken away from her by another girl. She doesn't like it. Just go explain things to her and I will meet you out in the garden."
"Okay…" he raised an eyebrow at the child who was giving him orders and walked off to find Rin.
Once he found her, in the hallway by her room crying, he bent down and picked her up. Rin glared up at him and struggled to get free, but he didn't not let her go. He hugged her tightly and looked down at her.
"Rin…" he said and she stopped her struggling and looked to the floor angrily, "I am not replacing you with Kagome…"
"Yeah right!" she said. "You don't even talk to me anymore."
"Rin… Kagome was hurt really bad by someone she loved." Sesshomaru said and Rin looked him at him wanting more information, "He chose another person over her and kicked her out of the group. She can no longer see her family or her friends. She had lost everything and because of this she had gotten really sick and I am supposed to help her."
"Oh…" Rin held onto Sesshomaru's shirt as tight as possible, "I didn't know…"
"I know you didn't and that was my fault. I should have told you."
"It's okay…"
"Rin I have to go look for her… And one thing I will admit is that I care about her…"
"Is she going to be Rin's mommy?"
"I… I don't know…" he said stuttering and in a bit of shock.
"That would be nice and then Shippo can be Rin's brother." Rin jumped down from Sesshomaru's arms and walked down the hall toward the outside garden, holding onto Sesshomaru's hand. They made their way out to the garden and Ah Un was all ready to go.
"Let's go find Kagome." Rin said and Shippo smiled as the two jumped onto Ah Un and they all went flying to look for Kagome.
Well another chapter well done! Lol. Please Review!
