Chapter 9: Half Brother
Kagome opened her eyes. She looked at her cell phone. 10:20pm. How long was I asleep? One, two hours? All of a sudden the car came to a sudden stop, jerking her awake.
Inuyasha growled "Miroku, you trying to give us a heart attack?"
Miroku grinned and turned around, 'We're here."
They all looked up. The hotel was enormous! It seemed to touch the sky. Miroku stepped out of the car. He was greeted by a baggage carrier. Soon he had people unload the car and carry all the luggage to the counter.
Miroku went up to the table and asked for the keys to the rooms.
Sango leaned over to Kagome, who was know wide awake. "How much do you think this hotel cost?" Kagome shrugged. She looked over to Inuyasha, who kept turning around and acting odd.
The different smells in this hotel was driving him CRAZY. He could smell all kinds of food from the dinning area. There must be a million different scented herbal and floral soaps and perfumes from the spa treatment, and all these different ladies. They we're all wearing horribly large amounts of perfume. Inuyasha felt sick, he clamped his hands over his nose.
In what seemed forever to Inuyasha, Miroku finally lead the way to their rooms. They hoped into an elevator followed by a baggage carrier. They were on a very high floor. The baggage boy left them when they got to there rooms. Miroku gave the girls their key card. Sango yawned, as she slid the card to open the door. "I think I take a quick shower and then go to bed ." She and Kagome walked into the room. It was humongous! They had a living room and a doorway lead to a bedroom which had a large bathroom.
Miroku and Inuyasha carried the girl's luggage into there room then left to go to their room. Sango let down her hair. She walked into the bathroom and locked the door.
Kagome turn on the t.v. she wasn't in the least bit tiered and decided to watch some flicks.
The "quick" shower turned into a forever shower. After an hour, frantic knocking was heard at the door. Kagome looked up and the knocking continued. She opened the door and there stood Inuyasha and Miroku arguing. Sango came out of the shower. She had a kimono-like pajama on, black with pink trimming and looked like if they were made of silk. Her hair was up in a ponytail by a pink ribbon, her bangs graced her forehead.
"What's the shoutin' bout." Sango said in a sleepy voice.
Miroku turned around, "The man is impossible to sleep with!"
"I'll I'm doing is watching tv!" Inuyasha yelled back.
Kagome looked at them. Miroku argued basically, all he wanted to do is sleep. Kagome thought, "We could…, switch the sleeping arrangement." Sango looked at Kagome wide eyed. "Kagome…"
Kagome looked at Miroku. "Miroku, if you swear, you won't touch Sango," Kagome turned to Sango, "And if Sango is ok with it, You can sleep on the couch."
Miroku nodded his head. "I wont touch her, I just want to get some sleep."
Sango walked over to Miroku, "If you touch me, I swear that "possessed" hand and you are going to get such a beating,…"
Miroku looked at Sango, with fear. "I promise, monks honor."
"Your not a monk…" Sango said very confused. Miroku grinned and turned to Inuyasha, he smirked back.
Kagome didn't pay much attention to this. She walked with Inuyasha over to the room. When she looked at the room. She saw the problem, Unlike her and Sango's bedroom, they didn't have a separate living room and bedroom.
"I guess I'll sleep on the couch." Kagome began but was interrupted by Inuyasha.
"No, you sleep in the bed, and I'll lay on the couch." He headed for the couch.
Kagome began to open and close drawers.
"What are you looking for?" Inuyasha asked annoyed.
"Aha!" Kagome found what she was looking for, extra sheets and a pillow.
She walked up to the couch and motion for Inuyasha to stand up. Inuyasha got up, only because he was interested to see what she'd do. Kagome bent down, which showed Inuyasha a wonderful view of her backside, and arranged for him a small bed.
"T-Thanks." Inuyasha said, feeling him self go red, after staring at her butt a little too long.
"No prob." It was dark and so Kagome could not see him blush.
She walked over to her bag. She pulled a really baggy shirt and some short shorts. Inuyasha stared at her.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha "What?"
"That, that is the shirt, I thought I threw it out." Kagome looked at him.
"Yeah, but I couldn't see it go to waste, seeing it was brand knew when you threw it out. I've been using it as a pajama since it so big and baggy." Kagome walked into the restroom to change.
Inuyasha had gotten that shirt over a year ago. There was nothing wrong with it until he got home. Miroku had accidentally spilled his colon all over it. He forgot Kagome had been there that day. The smell overwhelmed Inuyasha. He was going to throw it out, but could stand going near it. That's when Kagome said she throw it out for him.
Kagome came out of the restroom all changed. Inuyasha caught a whiff of the shirt, he assumed that Kagome had washed it so many time and wore it that now it had no smell of the horrible colon. She laid down on the bed and soon fell asleep.
Inuyasha hardly ever got a good night rest. He didn't like sleeping, and since he was part hanyou it didn't really matter. He sat on the couch and watched Kagome sleep. She slept very soundly, he watch her chest fall and rise every time she breathed in. He shook his head, No, Kagome isn't my mate, and never will be. Damn Miroku for getting my hopes up."
He passed his bag and saw some thing glowing. He stared at it, What the hell… He opened his bag and saw the jewel and charms. The jewel was glowing. Inuyasha stared at it, he was starting to get lost in it's glow. He shook his head again. He left the jewel in the bag and took out the charms he had chosen 6, each representing some thing that reminded him of Kagome. A moon, her beauty; bow and arrows, her strength and confidence; a silver K, he loved her name; a rose for her wonderful, intoxicating smell; a puppy for the first time she saw his hanyou self, and a heart. He was unsure, but couldn't deny that maybe his feelings for her were that strong strong enough to call- love? He but the charms back in the bag. He decided he needed air and went outside on the balcony.
Kagome woke up shivering. She wrapped up even tighter in the sheets. The she felt a small gust of wind. She looked up and saw that the doors to the balcony were opened. She sat up and looked a the couch, Inuyasha was missing. She slid off the bed letting go of the sheets. Her feet touched the tile ground. It was cold, she walked to the doors and looked to the balcony. No one was there. She stood there confused, Where could Inuyasha be? She walked up to the railing and grasp them, they we're cold, ice cold. She looked down, it was a long way down.
"Hello."
Kagome was startled, fell backwards on the balcony looking up.
"What the hell did you scare me for?" Kagome said looking up at him. Inuyasha climbed down, and jumped, landing a few feet away from her. She looked at him an then to the balcony on the next floor.
"How did you…" Kagome began, but then remembered he was part demon. She rephrased her question, "What were you doing up there?"
Inuyasha sighed, "I wanted to see how high this hotel was."
"So you climbed all the way to the top?" Kagome stared at him in disbelief.
"Yeah."
Kagome stood up a small breeze blew making her legs shiver. She looked at the moon. Her eye's widen, there was only a small crescent left.
She looked at Inuyasha. That's why he didn't want to come.
"Inuyasha… Why didn't you tell me, why you didn't want to come?"
"Told you, no reason, just didn't want to come."
"So the fact the in two day it's a new moon, didn't have anything to do with it?"
Inuyasha flinched. "I thought I'd just stay here, in the hotel that night." He muttered.
"Well then," Kagome sighed, "I guess I'll have to stay with you."
Inuyasha was surprised by her response. "No, I don't want to ruin your fun, you go with Sango and Miroku, and"
"But I won't have fun knowing that your cooped up all alone." Kagome had another reason as well. She wanted to see Inuyasha's hanyou form again. She had only seen it once and that was the day he had shown her.
Kagome shivered, even though it wasn't extremely cold, for some reason there was a light breeze. Inuyasha knew Kagome was cold, he was going to tell her to go back inside, but froze. He could sense another demon around. He looked to Kagome, he didn't want to leave her, for fear that demon would attack her. "Get on my back"
"Excuse me?" Kagome asked taken back by his sudden request.
"Just get on and hold on tight."
Kagome got on his back, once Inuyasha was sure he wasn't going to drop her, he turned his head around and ask, "Do you trust me."
"What?"
Inuyasha turned around and stepped on the railing.
"I said, do you trust me?"
"Yes."
Kagome got goose bumps as another light breeze hit her. Then she felt her hair flying up. She looked down and almost screamed. Inuyasha had jumped from the balcony. She tighten her grip and closed her eyes and waited for impact. It came but very softly. Inuyasha ran fast across the rode, Kagome felt as if she was almost gliding. He stopped short when they reached the edge of the beach, by now he knew who the demon was and didn't want to get close enough for him to smell Inuyasha.
Kagome looked up realizing they had stopped. She looked toward the water and two figures walking along the edge of the shore. One seemed to be a man, bit older that them and the other, girl, around their age. The man had silver hair, that seemed longer even than Inuyasha's. He had something, fluffy around his shoulder. The girl seemed to be wearing a yellow tank top that reached right above her navel, and a short brown skirt. She had a yellow hair tie, which formed a small side ponytail. They appeared to be talking.
"Lord Sesshormaru, why are we here?" Rin asked looking and her lord. He was facing the see. The waves played at his feet.
"Rin…"
"Yes me lord?"
Lord Sesshomaru turned his back to her. "Walk with me."
He began to walk away from her. Rin followed behind him.
As they walked on the beach in silence Rin found herself thinking. She wondered how it would feel to have silver hair against her bare skin. What would it be like to run her hands over his muscular shoulders, chest, maybe even lower? She felt herself grow warm as she pictured him touching her. She knew right there she loved him.
So deep in her mind. Rin almost ran into Sesshomaru's back when he suddenly stopped. "Lord Sesshomaru, is everything ok?"
Sesshomaru closed his eyes, swallowing hard. He tired to ignore the sent of Rin's feminine arousal. The sent had hit his senses so abruptly that at first he thought it was his imagination. But now, her standing so close, he was sure of what he smelled.
Sesshomaru had never felt like this about anyone. Why- How could he fall in love? With a human! But, she made him smile every once in awhile. He had never seen eye's like hers. He wanted to feel his arms around her small, fragile body. He wanted to be with her, protect her. But he didn't know how to tell her.
Inuyasha watched his half brother walk with the girl. He was confused. He hates me and I'm half demon. I thought he loathed humans. Inuyasha felt Kagome shiver. Kagome… Just hold on a bit longer.
Who are these two, and why does Inuyasha care about them?
Lord Sesshomaru turned to Rin.
"Rin…"
"Yes me lord?"
"Are you happy? Always traveling with me?"
"Yes, I love seeing all the places! I even enjoy sleeping in woods and forests when we do."
"You don't mind if I'm a demon?"
Rin laughed, "Half the time I forget you're a demon. I just wanna see the world with you." She took a tender step toward him, "I just wanna be with you." She whispered. She then hug him.
Inuyasha's mouth dropped. What the hell!? And much more to his surprise Inuyasha saw Sesshomaru return the embrace. He turned around and started sprinting back toward the hotel. When he was close enough he took a few leaps then one final large leap. He landed on the balcony. He carried Kagome over to the bed and let her fall into it's warmth.
Inuyasha's head was racing. Why- What- How? Has Sesshomaru gotten feelings for some else? Inuyasha began pacing in the hotel room when finally the frozen Kagome spoke.
"Who where they?"
Inuyasha sighed, he was going to have to tell her.
"The one with the brown hair, the girl, no idea. The other one a-" Inuyasha paused, " a relative."
"What kind a relative?" Kagome asked suspiciously.
"A relative as in my, my half-brother."
"You had a, a half-brother… And never told me?" Kagome was hurt that her friend for so long, had kept a secret from her. "Is there any other secrets you have you would like to tell me?" Kagome replied bitterly.
"It's not that I wanted to keep a secret from you. It's well, we don't really get along, and I like to believe I'm not related to him." He went over to the bed and sat down next to her. "I don't like keeping secrets from you."
Kagome forgave him silently and crawled under the covers.
"Good night."
"Good night."
"Inuyasha."
"Yes?"
"Could you close the doors?"
Inuyasha stood up and closed the doors he sat crossed legged on the couch and sat there with more and more questions pop in his head by the minute.
