"Ah and here I thought you were going to bit my head off…" Kirara sounded a little disappointed when she made her way into the dining room after Rin.
Sesshomaru rise to his feet and makes his way pass Jaken who were still kneeling on the ground towards where Kirara stands.
He grabs her arm and guides her out of the house and leaves Rin and Jaken in the dining room by themselves.
"Hey, if you want me to follow you somewhere you can have just told me." Kirara answers him while trying to pull her elbow away from the inu-youkai's hand.
She notices that they were no longer in the house that he set them up in. "I would really love to have my arm back."
He releases her a couple of minutes after she had asks showing that he was going to eventually let her go but rather on his own accord.
"Care to explain to me why I was fighting you instead of Bankostu?" Kirara asked him when she realized that they were not to far away from Rin.
'Good at least I can relax a little…' Kirara thought to herself before exhaling a sigh of relief when she realizes that Sesshomaru had not answer her question.
"Well then, I hope you know that you had brought Rin in a very dangerous situation if you knew that I was going to be using that form." Kirara says before the thoughts from her nightmare came rushing back to her again.
"That was my reason for fighting you." Sesshomaru states in a firm tone after hearing Kirara's statement.
'For some reason I just can't believe that…' Kirara thought to herself when she notices that the moon's light makes Sesshomaru's hair look like the color of snow.
She mentally slaps herself for allowing that thoughts to go through her head. 'This is Sesshomaru we are talking about…the acid mouth mutt who likes to use his status against others.'
"As I said before you had proven your worth in the fight and I made Bankostu detour the idea of a rematch against you." Sesshomaru claim, still not looking at her while speaking but rather was looking at something else instead.
Kirara was irritated at that fact, "If we are going to have a conversation then the polite thing you should do is to at least face me. My thing is how are you going to interject yourself in between what Bankostu and I had plan?"
"You were so busy with trying to prove a point that you did not see what was around your neck." Sesshomaru states with a smile on his face.
He turns his head in her direction since he wants to see her reaction to what exactly it was.
"My neck?" Kirara pause in her question before raising her hand up to her neck and felt something was indeed there.
She looks down to see a red collar with a yellow bell dangling from it, "Eh what is the meaning of this?"
She tried to pull it off but the thing was stuck and it did not budge at all from her pulling at it.
"Sesshomaru you better tell me the meaning of this before I burn your precious hair…" Kirara was angry that whatever it was would not come off.
"Why would you kill the only person who can take it off? That is not very bright of you." Sesshomaru answers while enjoying her attempts in removing her collar.
Kirara pauses in her efforts, "So what you are telling me is that no matter how hard I struggle that this thing won't come off because it has magic in it?"
He did not immediately provide an answer to her question while he sees her tucker herself from trying to remove the collar off of her.
"I have a feeling that there is a reason why you put this thing on me! At least tell me why do I need this collar?" She inquires on how exactly she obtain the collar.
"It's a collar that was passed down in my family and was instructed for us to use in certain occasions…" "So are you going to get to the point or not?" "Well the use of this collar is used when we want to pick a mate."
Kirara was nodding her head the entire way through but the last word catches her off guard, "Wait a minute, what was that last word that you just use? Because I know I didn't just hear the word mate come out of your mouth."
He then sees her really trying her hardest to rip the thing from her neck not caring if she could breath or not, "Now I really don't want this thing on at all!"
"Kirara. Stop tugging." Sesshomaru orders her when she finds herself removing her hands from the collar without a second thought.
"Oh you got to be kidding me…" Kirara states after seeing what just unfold before her very own eyes.
'Was that a smile that I just sees on his face…' she thought to herself when she could have sworn she saw a quick stretch of his blank smile appear on his face.
Kirara had to think of a way to get away from him so she walks toward him before running past him and into the forest leaving Sesshomaru in his current spot.
He shakes his head at how Kirara naively thinks before giving her from the count of thirty before he ruins her fun.
'You can't be serious. Why would he think I want to be his…' she fakes a gag as she covers at least two and a half miles while still going at a fast pace.
'I wonder if I could just hide out here for a minute.' She thought to herself.
'I think I gave her enough time…' Sesshomaru thought before closing his eyes to enjoy the slight breeze that pass through.
"Kirara," he whispers when Kirara finds the bell on her neck had rung as its causing her to slow down afterwards.
'What is it now?' Kirara ask herself while she sees the bell moves on its own accord.
"Turn around." Kirara finds her body stop then turns back in the direction she just runs from a couple of minutes ago.
'Don't tell me…' the thought passes through her head, "Run back towards me."
Kirara finds herself running back in the same direction she was going except this time it was not under her free will.
Sesshomaru glances up at the moon before hearing some rustling from the direction Kirara just ran from to see her coming straight back towards him.
"You know you can stop now." Sesshomaru gave another order, which halted her immediately in her tracks except for the forward momentum.
"I believe you are enjoying this a little too much." She says with her face implants in the ground before looking up at Sesshomaru.
"Whether you like it or not it is no longer your decision, now we should be heading back. I could hear your stomach growling at you the entire time while you were on your run." He reminds her of her aching stomach when she can feel the pains coming back to her.
'Just great…'
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"Ms. Kirara, are you sure you don't want to slow down a little…you might choke on your food." Rin warns the older woman to her left who seem to not be chewing instead rather swallowing down the food whole.
"Rin, its obvious you can't turn a wild cat into a house pet." Jaken states before skillfully using his chopsticks to place rice in his mouth.
"Hey imp," Kirara points her chopsticks at Jaken with fierceness and then to Sesshomaru, "I am trying to kill myself over here so I won't be bother with you or him at the end of that table."
"Ms. Kirara, you can't be serious about that." Rin says after hearing what Kirara just told Jaken.
Kirara looked at Rin's eyes and saw sadness after she heard what she said. "Did I say trying to kill myself…what I really meant was fill myself with this delicious food."
She laughs while scratching the back of her head when she saw that Rin had accepted it caused her to release a sigh in relief. 'That was a close one…'
"It is good food don't you think?" Rin asks her while her sights faces back onto the dining room table and to finishing her meal.
"Yes, the best that I have eaten in some days!" Kirara proclaims to Rin while still laughing while her thoughts goes back to her group of men that were probably wondering where she was at the moment.
'I wonder if they are all back in town yet?' she thought to herself when she remembers the plan she issues to them before she was about to fight Bankostu.
She places her bowl of rice back on the table with her eyes downcast. 'I could have easily kill them yet they decide to put their lives on the line for me.'
Sesshomaru notes the sudden change in Kirara personality after calming Rin down from her statement about trying to kill herself by choking to death.
"Excuse me, the meal was delicious and I am grateful for it! I will be checking up on something so I will be back later." Kirara says before bowing her head and removing herself from the group.
She pauses and turns towards Rin, "Try not to wait up for me. I will be back okay." She says while rubbing her head.
Kirara did not even bother looking at Sesshomaru when she left, as the last thing he sees of her was her retreating back.
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Kirara walks down the three wooden boards that serves as steps to the house that Rin and her buddies were using for the moment as temporary shelter.
She strolls out on to the main road while her eyes scans the area and finds that it was barely damage due to her flames or her fight with Sesshomaru.
A sigh of relief escapes her mouth before relaxing her shoulders while her feet guides her back to the hotel when she thought about what just happened.
'I really tried to kill myself with that food!' Kirara could not help but laugh at how immature she was handling the situation.
'After all, it is not everyday that you are told that you are going to be someone's mate…especially not the Lord of the West…Sesshomaru.' She thought while she picks up a familiar human scent.
"You…that wasn't nice on how you turned your attention away from me to that Sesshomaru dude." The voice speaks to her while she stops in her tracks.
"Trust me, I didn't even know he was there…" Kirara lied when she knew that Sesshomaru was there all along even before she had transformed into her demonic form.
Bankostu did not like that answer whatsoever when he had pointed his halberd, Banryuu, at her neck. "You are a full fledge youkai! There is no way you can lie to me when you knew he was there all along."
"Well then are you upset that my attention was turned to the one who could match me in my skills? Obviously, you allowed him to interrupt our battle and then pushed you out." Kirara responded not even flinching when he held the halberd to her neck.
"If you are really upset then here is the chance you will get to kill me or better yet I will give you the chance to do it." Kirara said while stepping closer towards the blade allowing herself to get cut.
She knew that he was not going to back down easily but at the moment she did not care of the fact her blood stained Banryuu.
She welcomed the fact that her head was going to be chopped off by Bankostu so she would not have to be with Sesshomaru.
'It seems as if she was serious about what she said.' Bankostu said when he noticed that her eyes was hard when she spoke to him.
"It would be such a bother if you are willing to kill yourself without dying by my hands in battle." Bankostu speaks while placing his halberd back on his shoulders.
'I was so close in having him hack my head off…ugh!' she thought with frustration evident on her face.
Kirara just pushes pass the raven-haired leader of the Shichinintai, as there was only one thing that she wants to do and that was to check up on her men.
'Her hair and her eyes are different from this morning. I guess that is her ability from her being a demon.' He thought to himself when he watched her retreating back walking down the road.
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"Lord Sesshomaru, do you know where Ms. Kirara is going?" Rin asks Sesshomaru, who just finish eating his dinner.
"You stupid girl! What makes you ask Lord Sesshomaru that question for?" Jaken belittles the girl after hearing her question for Sesshomaru.
"She went to go visit those who travels with her to tell them some news." Sesshomaru answers which immediately shut Jaken up seeing as he did respond to Rin's question.
"Oh, I thought she was leaving again like last time. I wonder what was so important that she could not just wait until tomorrow." Rin states to herself but hears by both Jaken and Sesshomaru.
"You shouldn't worry about that woman! She won't come around here anymore if she knows what is good for her!" Jaken threatens.
"Ms. Kirara is a nice person but you don't know that because you never gave her a chance to show it. She could have easily allowed me to be killed by a youkai instead of sacrificing and going out of the way twice to save my life." Rin states after hearing what Jaken says about Kirara.
Jaken was shock at Rin's outspokenness and silently blames it on that woman who was slowly changing Rin into someone like her.
'I wonder how her men will take the news?' Sesshomaru silently thought to himself.