1Inuyasha the story 9

( Kagome )

I have been upgraded. No longer am I only confined to Inuyasha's room, and the bathroom adjacent to it. No longer is Inuyasha the only, some what unwanted, face I see everyday. No. That's all changed.

Because I met his brother, who, believe it or not, is worse. He's cold, stoic, and you can clearly smell the vulgar stench of his latest midnight snack still hanging on his clothing.

Yet, no matter how cold and vulgar his reasoning was, I was grateful when he told Inuyasha that, if Inuyasha wanted to keep me, I was going to have to start pulling my weight around this place.

I was to be a maid. Paid, with nothing to spend it on.

And that's how I wound up here, sitting on the fourth stair from the bottom of a two hundred and thirty stared stair case, with a rag and a bucket of wooden floor polish.

Sighing, I leaned my aching back against the rails and stretched my legs out in front of me, because each stair was so wide that I could, with about a foot of room left over.

I let my head loll backward to rest lazily against the pristine rails and closed my eyes.

It had been two weeks since Inuyasha and I had had that conversation. We hadn't brought it up since. Only, now that he knew my past, or, some of it anyway, I found myself longing to hear something, anything of his.

Did he look like his father, or his mother? Is the silver hair natural? How old is he really? How many girlfriends had he—

Whoa, girlfriends? I don't want to know that! The stupid vampire kidnaped me! I have absolutely no interest in him whatsoever!

Only, I did.

" Hey, wench! Sesshomaru's not going to be pleased if he finds you shirking off."

I opened one eye to peer delicately at the annoying vampire to my right.

" I wouldn't even be in this mess if it weren't for you, Vampire." I closed my eye and adjusted my back more comfortably against the rails.

" Well, you're the one who's not getting a pay check this week, Wench."

" And what would I spend it on if I did?"

" Keh."

I felt the air shift around me and heard Inuyasha's grunt as he sat on the step beside me. I refused to open my eyes, and instead concentrated on not falling asleep there on the stair.

" You look really worn out, Wench." I heard him say.

" No kidding." I felt my breath becoming slightly deeper and sighed. I'd be passed out in a few minutes no matter how much I fought with my heavy eyelids.

" Can I ask you something, Vampire?" I mumbled, feeling Inuyasha shifting position and then I was lifted into the air.

" Why not?"

" How'd you become a vampire?"

" I was born one." He told me, sounding kinda distant. I barely felt any movement, but I knew when we had come back into the room Inuyasha and I shared.

" Really?"

" Well, sorta. I was born a half vampire."

" You don't," I yawned as I felt him place me on the bed. It felt nice. " You don't look so different from Fluffy..."

" That is because I'm not so different anymore. I'm a full blooded demon now. But I wasn't then."

" When were you born?"

" Keh. You don't really keep that in mind when you live for all of eternity."

" When do you think you were born?"

" The earliest memory I have dates back to around nineteen-oh-one." He shifted the blankets and then I was engulfed in warmth.

" How'd yo change into a full- full vampire?"

" I drained every innocent I found until I felt the change."

That got my attention, and I was all of a sudden wide awake.