"Hey, Kagome! Where is that worthless slave of yours? Did he go to frolic in the woods or somethin'?" Inuyasha said with a voice louder than necessary.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha, surprised. She had only realised now that he was gone. She scratched her head. "I don't know. Maybe he got really sick of us and went on a killing spree in the forest to work out some tension." She shrugged. She wasn't worried about Sesshoumaru, she knew he would come back eventually. Even if they were enemies, he was a man of his word no matter what.
"Well, I hope he gets himself killed in the process, too. I had enough of that bastard following us around." Said Inuyasha with an annoyed voice.
"Inuyasha, you keep calling him a bastard but I hope you do realised that you share the same father with him. So if he's a bastard, that makes you a bastard, too." She told him with smirk.
Inuyasha mouth dropped open and he couldn't say anything for a time. Then he turned his back to Kagome and folded his arms. "Keh. Whatever. That doesn't stop me from wishing he died."
"Oh yeah? What's going to kill him in the woods? Rabbits? I'm sure their cuteness is normally a very potent weapon but I don't think it'll work on him." Inuyasha chose to glared at the tall woman instead of answering.
Right in that moment the said demon came out of the woods. His hair was wet, water dripping from its tips. Kagome frowned on the sight but chose not to say anything and continued to pack her stuff. The long haired demon approached her gracefully and helped her pack.
"What the hell? Did someone spilled water down your head or somethin', you ba-" Inuyasha paused. Seeing Kagome's smirk he remembered what she told him earlier. "I mean, you." He finished hastily.
Sesshoumaru simply looked at him without an expression on his face and ignored him. 'What? He's not irritated?' Inuyasha thought. 'Man, something must be wrong with him.' He shared a look with Kagome who was obviously thinking the same thing.
'I wonder if something happened.' She thought while looking Inuyasha. The half demon shrugged as if to say 'Not my business.' Indeed, it wasn't his business. Actually it wasn't anyone's business beside Sesshoumaru himself but Kagome was curious nonetheless.
While they continued their journey Sesshoumaru kept a little bit more distance then usual between him and the group. 'I guess he really is sick of us.' The thought saddened Kagome. 'If he really hates us this much, maybe I should set him free.' Kagome sighed and decide that she would talk to him the next time they stopped to rest.
All of a sudden Kagome felt a familiar tingling sensation. She stopped and pointed left. "There!" she exclaimed. "I sense a jewel shard that way."
"About time it showed up." Inuyasha said and started running in the direction Kagome pointed, with the others following him.
They found themselves in the entrance of a huge cave. There were about to go in when a large bear came out and attacked them.
"That's a very big bear." Miroku stated as the backed up a few step, pushing Shippou behind him.
The white dressed mage looked at him. "Well thanks for the warning, Captain Obvious. Now can you start helping, maybe?" She said sarcastically. She looked over Inuyasha who standing in front of the bear, busy underestimating it. Sesshoumaru was standing next to her arm folded and a bored expression. Oh, but wait. That was his face. Kagome sighed and gripped her staff tightly. Using her wind magic to speed up, she started charging toward the bear demon. She let out out a battle cry right before she landed a hit on the bear's head which was probably a bad idea seeing that it made the bear notice her. So before her staff could touch the bear's head, it hit her with the back of its gigantic paw, sending her flying in the opposite direction, into a tree. If she was only hit by the bear, she would've been fine but crashing into that tree left her really disoriented.
Her vision blurred. "Oww!" She put her hand on her head and winced at the pain. She looked at her hand and saw it was bloody. "That's just great."
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted and ran to her side. The bear also moved to follow him but unfortunately for it, it now had not deal with an extremely furious demon lord.
Sesshoumaru was watching the idiotic game Inuyasha was playing with the bear when suddenly he caught sight of something white which disappeared as soon as it appeared. He realised that white thing was actually Kagome who was now sitting against tree, staring at her hand with a horrified look on her face. That was when he smelled her blood and suddenly everything other than the bear ceased to exist. That bear was going to die. By his hands.
Inuyasha and the others watched in amazement while tall demon lord, whose eyes were now the same color as the blood on Kagome's hand, kill the bear demon in no longer than five seconds. He stood there for a moment until his eyes returned to their original color and made his way towards Kagome. They all watched him with their mouth wide open.
"Are you well?" Sesshoumaru asked Kagome. The others didn't even notice but there was a hint of gentleness in his voice that she never heard before. She felt her cheeks heat so she quickly looked away before he could notice anything. She cleared her throat. "Yes, I'm fine. Umm... thanks for asking." She said.
"Good." Sesshoumaru felt relived. He extended his hand to her to help her stand up. Her eyes widened with surprise but she accepted anyway. She felt a little dizzy when stood, her legs wobbled and she almost fell again but Sesshoumaru held her other arm to keep her from falling. He frowned. 'I thought she said she well.'
Kagome saw his face. "I-I'm fine. Really. I-uh... heal quickly." She let go of his hand, which she didn't realised she was still holding, and turned to Inuyasha before she let herself realise how close they were standing to each other. "Did you uhh... take the jewel shard, Inuyasha?" She said in hopes of changing the subject. It worked, much to her delight.
"Damn it, I totally forgot." He said and turned around. "God damn it, get back here you fucking insects!"
While they were preoccupied with Kagome's well being, Naraku's poisonous insects took away the jewel shard that was inside the bear demon's dissolving head.
'Not this time, you hideous bugs." Kagome thought. "Come on! We must follow them." She shouted. Inuyasha nodded once before he started running after them.
"But Kagome you're injured." Said Sango, pointing at her head.
"I said I'm fine. I'm really pissed that I let that ugly-ass bear thingy get the better of me. Naraku will have no such luck. I'm make him eat those fucking insects one by one and watch him cho-" Her sentence was cut off by her owns scream when Sesshoumaru picked her up with his arm and held her tightly.
Kagome's eyes widened as she tried to struggle out of his grip. She could already feel the blood raising to her cheeks whereas he was expressionless as always. 'I will never play poker with this guy.'
"What are you doing!?" She asked, still struggling but he didn't move an inch.
"What does it look like? I am helping you preserve your energy while you heal. You should be thankful." He continued to stare at her with an impassive look.
She pursed her lips together. "Fine. Let's go quickly, then." Everyone nodded and they started to follow after Inuyasha.
Kagome pouted through the journey even though she felt her wound heal and knew that the 'arrogant asshole' was right. In fact she was so busy with pouting that when Sesshoumaru stopped she almost flew out of his arm but she gripped his shoulders before she did so.
"What the hell?" She snapped at the demon lord.
"We arrived." He simply replied and set her down to the floor. They were in front of a huge castle and everything was really dark even though she could swear that it was morning. When she got closer she realised that there were quiet a few objects lying on the ground in front of the palace. Her eyes grew large at the sight. They were not objects. They were corpses of wolf demons. Dozens of them. She covered her mouth with horror. 'Who could have done such a thing?' she wondered. 'And why?'
Kagome was frightened, to put it lightly, when dead bodies' of demons one by one raised to their feet. Her whole body tensed and she clenched her fists.
Standing next to her Inuyasha, even if he was not as scared as she was, watching the corpses in horror. Then he heard Kagome scream.
"OH MY FUCKING GOD!" Then her hand landed on his head. Hard.
"WHAT THE FUCK, KAGOME!?"
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE, INUYASHA! KILL THEM!"
"THEY'RE ALREADY DEAD!"
"THEN KILL THEM AGAIN!" Before the half demon could reply he realised that Kagome was afraid. Her face was paler than ever and she was trembling. His anger faded and he smirked instead. 'So much for the nothing scares me act, eh?'
"Are you afraid, Kagome?" He asked her.
The fire master's eyes widened. "No! I just find the undead... disturbing." She said, obviously lying. She rolled her eyes when Inuyasha raised eyebrows. "Just kill them, alright?"
Inuyasha folded his arms. This was far too amusing to let go, now. "I don't take orders from you, ya know?"
Kagome let out a frustrated growl but then an idea came to her mind. "Yeah, you don't." She turned to Sesshoumaru. "But you do."
Sesshoumaru cocked an eyebrow when Kagome pointed at the undead. "Kill them!" She ordered.
The young-looking demon sighed and proceeded to do as he was told. 'So she's afraid of the undead.' Sesshoumaru found it amusing when Kagome turned to Inuyasha and shot him look that said 'In your face.'
Then all of them prepared for battle. Kirara transformed in her demon form and attacked the walking corpses. Inuyasha started to take them out with Tetsusaiga and Sango with Hiraikotsu. Miroku was helping, too.
Kagome took a little time to calm down first. Her power became unstable when she wasn't calm and she didn't want to put anyone in danger. She watched Sesshoumaru killing the undead wolf demons with grace. He made it look easy and it probably was for him. When she finally got her emotions under control she joined her friends. Her staff in one hand and her other hand covered in ice, the corpses started falling to her feet one by one. But no matter how many they took down, they just kept coming. Kagome cut the air in front of her, sending a wave of cold, freezing everything in the way , and Inuyasha destroyed the frozen corpses.
They were starting to get tired, except for Lord Fluffy who didn't show any sign that he was tired even if he was, then Kagome sensed three jewel shard coming their way and they were fast.
"There are jewel shards coming this way." She told Inuyasha. He stopped fighting immediately and so did the corpses. Instead they spurt their blood all over Inuyasha and fell back down to the floor.
"What the fuck!?" Inuyasha roared.
"I was going to ask the exact same thing."
Kagome turned towards the owner of the new voice. "Koga?" 'What's he doing here?' Then it hit her. She looked around her. There were corpses of wolf demons everywhere and Inuyasha was covered in their blood. Judging from Koga's expression he had already misunderstood the situation.
"Koga, it's not what you think." She tried to explain but he wouldn't have it.
"Don't try to defend this filthy mutt, Kagome. He's going to pay for what he's done!" And then he launched at Inuyasha.
A/N: Hey, everyone! I hope you enjoyed this chapter because new ones will be coming very quickly. I have all the time in the world now because I'm in summer break and I'm also full of inspiration. Thanks for the latest reviews by the way, they made me really happy :) I'm really exited to see your reaction about the 'talk' that Kagome is going to have with out dear Lord Fluffy. It'll be in the next chapter so don't forget to review and let me know your opinions, ok?
Love ya all, Melody ^^
Update: I wrote the next chapter. But I won't publish it until you guys beg me to. Muhahahahaha :) I'm evil. (I probably will publish it soon even if you don't beg me. But it would still be nice if you did.)
