Summary: Sesshoumaru seems to be in a bit of a fix. He's suddenly seems to be bite-size. What will Kagome do when he decides to be her personal flea?
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. I always feel weird saying that. I feel like I should be saying I don't own Sesshoumaru…
Title: Fun-Sized
Chapter Ten
Note: Sorry for the long update!
He'd come close to losing her, Kagome. What would he have done if she'd died. Remained small and tiny forever? Did that really matter? These people would have lost a family member, a daughter, a sister. Why'd he care? How could she go to the other side and risk her life? Didn't she see these people were worried about her? Why'd he care? Sesshoumaru pondered all of these questions all night as he sat by her side keeping watch for anymore spiders.
Sesshoumaru stared at the bit the bandage they had placed over her neck. It seemed almost as pale as her skin. Her breathing had leveled out and the pain lines that had formed on her face had relaxed. He never thought he'd be so relieved to see a human out of pain.
Souta had brought a book from his school library and read him the symptoms of a redback's spider bite. Extreme pain was the main one of course.
The bite itself was typically not that bad a small prick or mild burning feeling, but within an hour it was usually followed by severe pain, sweating, swelling and redness. Nausea, vomiting, abdominal or chest pain, headache, fever, hypertension and tremors. It could then evolve to seizures, coma, respiratory failure or even skin infections.
In other words this shit was bad. Thank god they had a cure for it. The antivemon had, had an almost immediate effect. Her fever broke, the sweating, tremors, and pain had all stopped. She was breathing regularly, and now sleeping soundly her body exhausted from the fight.
Sesshoumaru watched Kagome's mother gingerly tuck a strand of hair behind her daughter's ear. Who was this girl? This girl who spent her life running and trying to fight monsters bigger and badder than this tiny spider. Why?
Why bother? Why make these people worry about her? More specifically she had made him worry. That was….unexpected. True she still had a spell to break, but that was not why he worried, least not initially. He didn't want her to die.
She was a complete idiot, clumsy, and impossibly simple, but she was also intelligent, kind and complex. She was utterly frustrating and yet he wasn't quite ready to stop learning from her. She was so much more open and honest than the humans of his time, and yet she understood both worlds flawlessly.
Kagome stirred from her sleep. He watched her tiredly chat with her mother, finding out what happened and why she was wired up in the hospital. She looked around, her eyes landing on his tiny form next to a vase of flowers by the window. He nodded briefly at her and her tilted her head in reply, returning her attention to her mother. She left to go get a nurse and Sesshoumaru gracefully hopped his way to over to her side.
"You gave everyone quite a scare." He said, crossing his arms to lean against her cup.
"Mom says I was bitten by a spider." She whispered, as though not wanting to be overheard.
"It appears so." Replied Sesshoumaru not sure why they were whispering.
"Take my bandage off." She hissed. He raised an eyebrow at her.
"Why?" He replied, unmoved.
"Before I woke up here I was dreaming something and I need it confirmed." She replied, her eyes staring off blankly. Sesshoumaru felt his unease grow. He gently landed beside her and using his whip, masterfully sliced the bandage from her.
The soft gaze floated to the bed and there before him were two tiny fang impressions had been yesterday now formed a tiny spider shaped tattoo; just like the scar on Naraku's back.
"Well?"
"Well shit."
Chapter ten. Redback spiders info from . Sorry I haven't updated in so long, crazy stuff going on here. So my bad. XD
Aslan