When I woke up, Sesshomaru was asleep on the ground to next to me. He stirred, and his arm brushed me in his sleep, he woke up, then jumped eight feet away, to the other side of the was a startled expression on his face for a split second, and then his mask was back in place.I giggled, and in turn, he gave me a glare that could freeze hell. However, that just made me laugh harder. This continued for a few minutes, him getting angry because I laughed, and me laughing harder as he got angry. Finally, I stopped laughing, and he slowly calmed down.
"Gosh, Sesshomaru, you act like you were sleeping right next to a weasel demon, instead of a few feet away from a girl," I told him, when I could speak again.
He was silent, but shot me a quick glare.
"I don't know why I'm taking care of you," he muttered under his breathe.
"Easy," I answered, "I've saved your life twice, and you've only saved mine once, you owe it to me."
He scowled, and I gave him an innocent smile.
"How's your chest Sesshomaru?"
"Healed."
"Really? That was quick."
"It was only to be expected, what with my heritage," he said in the most snobbish voice I had heard in my life.
My vision blurred suddenly, not because of tears, but probably because of my head injury.
"Everything is blurry," I announced.
"You have a head injury," Sesshomaru stated.
Part of me wanted to stick out my tongue, but seeing as I couldn't, you know, see, I decided it was a bad idea to anger him further.
"It's your fault, you know. If I hadn't been incapacitated by your medicine, then I could have killed the mutt myself."
"That medicine saved your life,"I pointed out.
"Yes, but it also ended up getting you a head injury," he reminded me, "and I've just now remembered that I have saved your life twice as well. I saved you from the saimyosho, and then from the mutt, which resulted in this wound," he said, a hand on his chest (probably, I still couldn't see anything).
"InuYasha," I said softly, my eyes welling with tears.
Sesshomaru looked off onto the horizon, while I tried my best not to cry. Finally I just hid my face in my hands and sobbed. All was silent, except for the sounds of my crying. Finally, I had cried myself out.
"It wasn't your fault," Sesshomaru said softly, surprising us both.
"But- he..."
"You had no choice in the matter."
I stopped arguing, and just watched the flowers move in the breeze.
Eventually I asked, "When can we go get Shippo?"
"As soon as you head injury is healed."
I nodded. I felt tired, but I didn't want to sleep was being nice to me, and I wanted to figure out why. It isn't something one can just ask a demon lord, but I wanted to find out.
"You know, you're acting differently Sesshomaru."
"Different from what?" he asked.
"Well, every time I've seen you in the past, you've tried to kill me."
"True enough."
"Why aren't you doing that now?"
"I don't kill without reason."
"And I suppose that if someone is a half demon, then that's a good reason."
He opened his mouth to say something, but then he was interrupted by a swarm of saimyosho. I covered my head and closed my eyes. When they opened again, the saimyosho were gone, and Sesshomaru stood with his sword drawn.
"You can go look for Naraku if you want to. I can take care of myself," I told him.
"No you can't," he said softly, and put his sword away.
"But-"
"Get some rest."
"Alright, I will."
And I did.
