Sketch 10 – Why the sudden interest?
Kagome was the first to wake up the next morning. Sesshoumaru was still out cold, but he twitched a little and his eye lids fluttered so Kagome reckoned he would wake up very soon now, probably later today, being near a fire probably helped him. The sky was dark, but morning was well on its way, and Rin usually woke up at about that time. Kagome decided that she may as well cook breakfast; she had plenty of food left in her bag, though she should probably go home and stock up again before heading off to try and find Inuyasha.
The smell of bacon wafted through the air and Rin woke rather rapidly after that, a lot like her uncle Inuyasha really, he always had the uncanny ability to wake up just after she had finished making breakfast. They settled around the fire which was now just embers but amazingly still slightly alight, enough to cook anyway, and ate vegetarian bacon butties whilst chatting about nonsense. Just as she had finished washing up, Sesshoumaru opened his eyes. Rin noticed immediately and jumped on him and Kagome suppressed the compulsion to run off.
His eyes alighted on Rin and the smallest of smiles came onto his face, "Rin, why are you alone?" So he was genuinely concerned about her.
"I was so worried about you Sesshoumaru sama, you have been asleep for a long time, and I am so sorry I left Jaken, but I meant to come straight back to him and Ah Un I promise. But I lost my way, but I was just trying to find you," she gushed all at once, words not quite slurring into each other. "I am not alone though," Kagome noticed she was no longer talking in third person but in first just as she had leant in their time together. "Kagome neesan found me and looked after me and with her help we managed to find you!"
Sesshoumaru sat up and his eyes went to her immediately, "what are you doing here, onna?" Kagome's normal reaction would be to demand her use her name but did not fancy being pinned to a tree via her throat for the disrespect so held her tongue. "You have strayed a long way from Inuyasha, it is dangerous in the woods." He was scolding her, but he had said before she needed to stay alive in order to defeat Naraku.
"That is rich coming from you," she said sarcastically, "I am not the one who left a little innocent girl with an incompetent guardian so I could go off and fight my brother and end up half dead. I happen to have found her and kept both her and myself alive and well for three days here in the dangerous woods without help from you or Inuyasha." He started to growl and Kagome could tell he was angered by how rude she was, but it was the truth. "Now you are better I am staying here for tonight and then I'm going back to your brother."
An hour later Rin was eating something from Kagome's bag and Sesshoumaru was sitting propped up against a tree watching Kagome. The black haired teen was drawing as per usual and trying to ignore Sesshoumaru's amber eyes as they followed every movement, it was most unnerving. She did not understand how her drawing could be just so interesting that he could not take his eyes off her, for they followed the movements of her fingers and flicks of her wrist. He had stopped growling at her at least, but he still looked at with intensity.
Eventually she had enough, "look," she said with a sigh, looking up from her work to the demon Lord still staring at her, "there is really nothing that exciting about what I am doing, I am just drawing." He looked up with a cocked eyebrow, "would you like to see?"