Chapter 10
Kagome woke up in the hospital wing of the mansion she was in. Saita and two other girls she did not recognize were around her. She tried sitting up, but a sharp pain flew through her body and forced her back down.
"Lady Kagome!" Saita walked over to her, "You are okay. Lord's Kane, Sesshomaru, and Hiro are waiting for you to wake up."
"Water…" Kagome said with a dry throat.
Saita nodded as a glass of water was handed to her by one of the other girls in the room. She put it to Kagome's lips and gave her a sip. Once she finished, Kagome laid her head back down on the pillow.
"Akemi. Haya."
"Yes?" They said in unison.
"Go get the Lords, please?"
They nodded and darted from the room. Saita turned back to Kagome and helped her sit up in the bed. Kagome began to tear up as the pain in her torso area shot through her once more.
"Who did this to you?" Saita asked.
"I don't want to say…" Kagome murmured looking out the window and onto a lovely garden.
"The Lords will want to know. You must tell them who violated the rules of Lord Kane!" Saita said.
"I don't want to… It was my fault… I shouldn't have messed with him in the first place."
"What do you mean, Lady Kagome?" Saita asked noticing she gave a little hint, "Who did you mess with?"
"No one…" Kagome closed her eyes and Saita sighed.
Sesshomaru, Lord Kane, and Lord Hiro walked into the room, all feeling quite irritated. Kagome weakly opened her eyes and turned her head to face the men who just entered.
"Who did this to you?" Lord Kane asked her, but Kagome shook her head.
"Milady…" Lord Hiro came to her side and held her hand, "You must tell us what happened. The only people, besides the servants, that are here are all members of the High Court. We must know who has hurt you."
"I can't say anything…" Kagome told them still looking out the window, "All it would do is cause more trouble then there already is."
"Kagome. Tell them who did this to you or we can do nothing about it." Sesshomaru said.
Kagome tightly closed her eyes and tears began to fall from them. They all stared at her feeling quite confused. Lord Kane raised an eyebrow as Sesshomaru walked over to the other side of her and sat down on the bed.
"Kagome, tell us who did this to you." He demanded.
"I don't want anything done about it though!" she said turning to him, "I am the one that instigated it in the first place. I shouldn't have been so disrespectful towards him."
"Well, we will be taking care of Lord Saburo." Lord Kane said as he turned away and walked out with Lord Hiro.
Sesshomaru waited for the two to be gone and looked back to Kagome. He sighed and closed his eyes. He looked to the servants in the room and motioned for them to leave, so they did, closing the door on the way out.
"Kagome, why were you on the fifth floor?" he asked her.
"I was… I don't know…" Kagome said to nervous to tell him.
"You do know that the only time a female is to enter the fifth floor is when they are called up there to make love or because they are a wife or lover of one of the men?"
"I know…" Kagome said hiding her face in the pillow.
"And yet you still traveled to the fifth floor?"
"Lord Kane just confused me with something when he came to check on me in the room." She told him.
"Confused you with what?" he said raising an eyebrow.
"I can't say…"
"Hm…"
"I might explain one of these days, but please not now…"
"Get some rest." He told her and left the room deep in thought about what she was talking about. Kagome laid on the bed with her arms wrapped tightly around one of the pillows.
"Have you figured it out yet?" Lord Kane said suddenly making her jump again.
"Why do you do that!" she asked putting a pillow over her head.
"I don't mean to. You are just not as alert as you should be."
"I'm sorry Lord Kane. That was rude."
"It's fine. Be happy you are hurt." He said chuckling, "Now have you figured it out yet?"
"No… I can't believe it confused me so much! I even went up to the fifth floor!"
"Hehe. I noticed. You know I didn't mean for it to mess with your mind that much. I just think you just might feel more for Sesshomaru then you think you do." Lord Kane sat down on the bed by her side.
"I don't know… It is bugging me though." Kagome removed the pillow from her head and placed it by her side.
"I think I am going to go talk to young Sesshomaru about this…"
"What?!"
"Don't worry I will not mention you in anyway."
"Oh, alright…"
Kagome sighed in relief and began to relax. Lord Kane stood up and walked out the door, shaking his head, and laughing at her softly.
'This is one interesting child.' He thought to himself as he made his way to the courtyard.
'Is it possible I might have feelings for Sesshomaru?' Kagome asked herself, 'No… It can't be. I have only been with him for two weeks… I can' t be in love with him.'
She sighed and decided to put this conversation away for now and began to rest until she had the strength to walk.
Out in the courtyard, Sesshomaru stood on a small hill and stared out into space. He let out a held breath as the wind blew his silky silver hair across his face. Lord Kane, after looking for him for a minute or two, made his way up behind Sesshomaru. He set his hand on his shoulder and looked out at everything with him.
"Afternoon Lord Kane." Sesshomaru said still staring out onto the land.
"And to you Lord Sesshomaru." Lord Kane told him.
"What brings you out here?"
"I have sensed and witnessed a great change in you, young one."
"And what do you mean by that, old one."
"Hehe… You have brought a human with you to the counsel. The Sesshomaru I know wouldn't do this."
"It is just for information on Naraku, Lord Kane."
"Are you sure?" he told him, "I think you may feel for the girl."
"What? How absurd." Sesshomaru said, "You know as well as I that I will not ever love a human."
"And you know as well as I do what you just said is false. You love the child called Rin, do you not?"
"She is a child, more a daughter…. You can not compare her to being in love with a human girl."
"I am not comparing them. I am just saying you are capable with being in love with a human. It's not impossible…"
"What are you getting at, Lord Kane?" Sesshomaru asked glaring at him.
"Do not look at me in such a manner, Sesshomaru. Just think on what I have said for a while. Are you sure you feel nothing for her?"
Sesshomaru stared at him with no emotion to him at all. Lord Kane smiled and nodded to him. "I will see you later Sesshomaru." He said as he turned and walked off leaving Sesshomaru confused and baffled by his statement.
'Me? In love with Kagome?' he asked himself.
'Haven't I been telling you this shit! You're changing!'
'Oh my god! Why do you continuously return when you are not wanted!'
'I have returned because, once again, your ass is confused. Once you have figured out what you need to figure out I will vanish and never return.'
'What the hell do I have to figure out then?'
'I cannot tell you. It is something you must find on your own.'
'Well for now, can you just leave me to think in peace!!'
'Alright! I'm gone, sheesh.'
Sesshomaru sighed, as he no longer heard his inner self. He looked behind him and over to the hospital window. He could see Kagome lying on her bed, her eyes closed as she rested. He began walking back to the mansion and decided not to bug Kagome for a while.
About two weeks had gone by and they put off the meeting they intended to have with Kagome until she was better. She lay there in the bed with hardly any visitors and constant boredom taking her over with every slow minute that seemed to pass. Sesshomaru, after not entering the whole week, walked into her hospital room and sat down on her bed.
"How have you been?" he asked her.
Kagome opened her eyes and just looked out the door. She knew Lord Kane had talked to him about it and knew that is why he never came in. She was hurt. When she didn't answer him, Sesshomaru asked the question once more.
"What? You care all of a sudden?" Kagome said in a dry, raspy voice.
"What does that mean?" he asked her.
"I've been in this bed, in this strange place for two weeks and not once did you care to come see if I am okay." She said closing her eyes.
"I've had things to attend to."
"Yeah, like standing on that damn hill for hours on end staring out into space?"
"What?"
"I see you everyday on that hill."
Sesshomaru looked out the window and sighed. She could definitely see him from here and that is pretty much what he did all day, but why did it bother her so much? Kagome turned her head to look at him.
"Why are you here?" she asked him.
"They said you can get out of bed today."
"I don't feel like it. I want to stay here." She said turning to look out the window.
"I suggest you stop acting like that and get over it."
"What?" She said in shock as she turned her head and looked at him.
"You have been in here for two weeks. No one has come to be here and I am sure you wouldn't mind getting out of the same clothes you have been in this whole time."
"Is that a nice way of telling me I stink?" Kagome asked crossing her arms.
"You can say that."
"Well I don't want to move okay? It's not like anyone cares if I stay here anyway!"
Sesshomaru stared at her with his eyes narrowed. Her being in this room for so long has thrown her into a slight depression. She had only had the nurses who took care of her as visitors for the past week. She didn't have anyone to talk to. Sesshomaru grabbed her arm and sat her up gently.
"Wh…What are you doing?" Kagome asked nervously.
"I am getting you out of this room." He said picking her up out of the bed and holding her up the best he could, "First you will have a bath."
Kagome held on to his shirt and smiled when she noticed she didn't feel any pain in her side at all. Sesshomaru took her over to a large room and opened it up. He set her in a tub that was already fixed with warm water and soaps to bathe with.
"Hm…" Sesshomaru pulled the ugly hospital gown off of her as she completely covered herself with water.
"Ow…" She bumped her arm on the side of the bath and it was still a bit sore.
"Unless you want me to come in there with you I suggest you bathe on your own." Sesshomaru told her handing her a rag and a bottle of soap that smelled like lavender. Sesshomaru walked over to a chair and sat down waiting for her to finish.
Kagome bit her lip and began to bathe on her own. Her body was extremely sore and she almost started to tear when she bumped her arm again. She attempted to bend her arm to get the back of her neck, but pain shot through her and she dropped the rag.
"Do you need help?" Sesshomaru asked her knowing she did.
"N…No" she said picking the rag up, "I am fine."
Sesshomaru sat back against his chair and continued to keep an eye on her from behind the steam that the warm water created. Kagome had finished bathing her body and went to her hair, but once she lifted her arms she winced and curled up from the pain she felt. She wasn't hurt that she was ready to begin walking again.
"You need help." Sesshomaru stated and began walking to her.
"No… its okay."
"That wasn't a question." Sesshomaru said kneeling down by her. He picked up the soap and spread it through his hands and then into her hair. She flinched at his touch, but quickly relaxed when he began to rub the soap through her hair.
Sesshomaru thought he was just helping her wash her hair, but when he suddenly sensed that it felt really good to her he felt awkward. In Kagome's mind he was giving her a very good massage and she loved it. Once he was done he told her to take a deep breath and duck down under the water. When she did, Sesshomaru rinsed the soap from her hair and pulled her back up.
"There you go…" he said brushing the hair from her face.
"You bathe Rin, don't you?" Kagome asked him.
"Yes, why do you ask?" he said walking over to a shelf and bringing back a large towel.
"Because, you are the first man I have met that knows how to correctly wash hair."
"…" Sesshomaru just stared at her.
"What?"
"Do you really think that my hair is not clean? And wasn't clean before I met Rin?"
"Oh yeah… I never thought of that."
"I take care of my hair."
"Well I never thought of that. Your brother is a disgusting pig and hardly ever took baths. I guess I was just used to him…"
"I thought you forgave him?"
"Yeah right. I know I acted like it, but that was because I didn't want Sango and Miroku to worry. I hate Kikyou and probably always will. I doubt she is even serious about being my friend…"
"Hm… If that is what you believe."
"What do you mean?"
"Well I was there and I can sense when someone was lying or if someone really didn't care and Kikyou was being sincere. The only one who couldn't care less, I am sorry to say, would have been Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha…"
"Yes. If that upset you I am sorry." Sesshomaru said spreading the towel for her to step out of the bath and wrap herself into.
"No don't be." She said as he looked away and she stepped out and wrapped the towel around her body, "I don't know why, but for some reason it doesn't bug me."
"It doesn't?"
"No…"
Kagome dried herself off as much as possible and looked up at him. He raised an eyebrow and dropped another towel on her head. She giggled and began drying her hair off.
"What did Lord Kane talk to you about?" Sesshomaru asked her as she finished drying.
"I haven't seen him in two weeks. We haven't talked."
"I mean the day you got hurt. When he went to talk to you about the meeting… What did he talk to you about?"
"Oh… N… nothing important."
"It was important enough to make you come see me on the fifth floor…"
"That's not why I…."
"We took care of Saburo, Kagome… He told us what had happened."
"Oh…"
"Why were you coming to see me? What did Lord Kane tell you to get you all worked up like you were?"
"I was worked up?"
"That's what Saburo said. He told us that you were about to knock on his door, thinking it might be my room, and when he opened it all he could sense was…"
Kagome looked up at him confused when he stopped. Sesshomaru stared down at her obviously deep in thought.
'Should I say it?'
'…'
'Oh now he doesn't fucking show up. The one time I need his damn advice…'
'You talking about me?'
'Yes! Should I tell her!'
'Of course you should. You will figure out the truth and it will stop bugging you! Now leave me alone. I was sleeping!'
Sesshomaru let out a light growl at his inner self that startled Kagome. She stepped back and he came back to the real world.
"What could he sense Sesshomaru?"
"He said that you felt as if you… as if you needed me."
"Oh…"
Sesshomaru stared down at her seriously as she turned away blushing a deep red. He set his finger under her chin and made her look back to him. She was turning a very deep red.
"Well? What did you need?" he asked her.
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