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Chapter 11: She's mine!
Kagome was silent. They had just passed through the well and she was in shock over Sesshomaru's reaction to Hojo. Was he really jealous? The great lord Sesshomaru jealous of a human boy, over her none the less! He had also said they were going home. Did he mean their home or just his? The way he had said it made her feel as if Sesshomaru was treating her like a piece of property. That wasn't one thing she would stand for! Inu-Yasha had done it way to much in the past.
The demon lord was musing as well. Why had he got so defensive about the fact a human boy was talking to Kagome? She was only a miko nothing special. Was she? Special would be an understatement. A miko from the future that had stood up to him countless times was not normal. Yet that boy. The feeling of running Tokijin through him still lingered. Kagome was his at the current moment. No human would change that, not so long as he was Lord Sesshomaru.
Was he gaining respect for the girl? She had put up with his hanyou brother, had fought countless demons, was going after the vile Naraku, and had stood up to him Sesshomaru more than once to protect her friends from him. Respecting a human? Him? The game hadn't turned out like he wanted it too. His brother was somewhere with the clay woman and he was stuck with Kagome. Stuck was a rough word for it. True her constant talking and sassy ways bugged him to no end but she was caring as well. Rin adored her and even Jaken was not as opposed to her as he was before.
He shook the thoughts from his head. What was he doing? Had he just thought of the miko as an equal? A human woman was not his equal. Kagome wasn't a normal human woman however. His head hurt, all of these alien emotions were bothering him.
"Why did you do that!" The cold way Kagome asked startled Sesshomaru even though he didn't show it.
"What are you accusing this Sesshomaru of doing?"
"Made me leave like that!" The miko's voice was shrill and echoed loudly in his ears. "You're the one that wanted to go to 'Tokyo' and then you force me to leave after less than two hours!"
"..." Sesshomaru summoned his cloud and lifted Kagome. It wasn't that he didn't know the answer to her question it was that he wouldn't admit to her or himself he had been jealous.
"That was a very Inu-Yasha thing you did!"
Sesshomaru dug his talons into Kagome's hip, "Do not compare me to that incompetent fool."
Sesshomaru hadn't put any poison in the wound but the sharp prick was enough of a warning to the miko he had been insulted. She didn't trust Sesshomaru not to just drop her so she stopped her yelling. She'd find out about his motives soon enough. That is when she was safely on the ground and could run if she needed to.
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Inu-Yasha stood at the mouth of a cave watching the rain fall outside. It had been a few days since he had last looked for Kagome. The rain prevented him now and so did Kikyo. His love sat next to the fire that was burning near the center of their small shelter. Kikyo sat there with him but his thoughts weren't with her.
They belonged to Kagome. She was with his brother, maybe scared and alone. He had failed her. The promise he made to keep her safe had been a lie. Sesshomaru had taken her from him just for kicks. His elder brother would regret his actions Inu-Yasha would make sure of it.
"Inu-Yasha?" Kikyo asked not truly concerned. "You seem distant." In truth he was. She had brought him to the east. Such a great distance that it would be near impossible for him to find Kagome.
"Just thinking," He replied.
"Come on and sit down, there is no reason to worry yourself."
Kikyo's voice had lost the appeal it use to have. Inu-Yasha found himself becoming annoyed by it. What had changed? Before he loved the sound of her voice. Then he met Kagome, the reincarnation had taught him a lot. Kagome's voice had morphed the longing he had for Kikyo's. The scent of Kagome replaced the somewhat different one of Kikyo. His Kagome had taken so much of the traits that made Kikyo appealing away.
"I would rather watch the rain," He murmured.
A blast of wet air blew into the cave the rain it brought with it soaked the hanyou and miko. Looking through his water drenched hair Inu-Yasha drew the Tetsusaiga when he saw who had caused the blast.
Kagura stood before him not a drop of water on her, "Hold your fire boy." She growled. "I am not here to fight."
"What do you want then?" Kikyo said coldly, "You are an incarnation of Naraku. There is no reason to trust you."
The wind witch examined the miko. It wasn't the one she had hoped to find. "You are not Kagome." Kagura sighed, there was no reason for her to be here then. "May I ask where she is?"
"No!" Inu-Yasha didn't know what the witch wanted but she had no reason to know where Kagome was. "What in the hell do you want with her!"
"That is between me and her," Kagura held her fan ready to kill the hanyou. The miko was all she needed. Rican had no business with Inu-Yasha so Kagura didn't either. "It would be best if I found her first. Unless of course she means nothing to you."
"I won't let Naraku have her," the hanyou braced his feet preparing the windscar. "Now go away."
Kagura noticed the glare that Kikyo was giving her. The clay miko disturbed Kagura. She may have been created by Naraku but her soul was her own. The dirt bound woman ran on another's. A powerful miko Kikyo was or had been. The one that had what it took to stop Naraku wasn't here. Nothing more than a stupid hanyou and a pile of dirt.
"You do not know where she is then," Kagura laughed at the angry look she got from the hanyou. "Some protector you are."
"She's with my brother," Inu-Yasha was hesitate to use the windscar in such a cramped place. He risked killing himself and Kikyo as well as Kagura. "If she's still alive."
Sesshomaru! What was the demon lord doing with the miko? Kagura was secretly in love with the demon but she knew that he would never have her. A shade of Naraku would never capture his heart. Kagome was with him though? That was unexpected. Naraku had sent Rican after Inu-Yasha in the though that Kagome was with him but it was not so. If Kagura could find Sesshomaru before Rican found out that Kagome was with him then there would be a greater chance of saving the miko.
Drawing her feather Kagura turned her back on the pair. "I will leave you to your coupling." Not waiting for the hanyou to give her a nasty retort the wind witch took flight.
It may be her death to warn Kagome but if the act would help end Naraku then Kagura saw it worth the effort. If she couldn't have Sesshomaru then she would make sure that Kagome did. Just for the reason it would spite Inu-Yasha she truly did hate the loud mouthed hanyou.
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"I'm fine Miroku!" Sango leaned on the make shift crutches she had formed from sticks. Her leg was still injured but that was not going to stop her. Kagome's search had been postponed long enough. "Kagome needs us."
"I understand that," Miroku was trying his best to talk Sango out of her plan. If she never got better then he wouldn't be able to feel her again. It just wasn't his style to take advantage of an injured woman. Okay maybe it was but Sango had her crutches so it was suicide to even try. "We need a lead, if we can't find where Sesshomaru is then we would be doing no one any good."
Kirara meowed in agreement and nuzzled Sango in assurance. Reluctant to abandon her plight Sango sat back down on the makeshift seat they had set up outside Kaede's hut. Five days of not searching was unsettling and Sango felt as if she was letting Kagome down.
"ye need not worry," Kaede was smiling as she appeared holding a basket of vegetables that she had gotten from her garden. "I be having a feeling Kagome isn't in as much danger as ye be thinking."
The three companions watched in confusion as Kaede disappeared into her home. They didn't know what to make of the cryptic message.
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"Mind telling me why you made me leave?" Kagome had resumed her demands after an hour or so of silence.
"I will not explain my actions to you miko," Sesshomaru growled. He had hoped she would have forgotten by now but his wish had gone unanswered.
Any other being who had said as much as her would have been dead a week before. Why then had he not killed this one yet? His original reason of not wanting Rin to cry herself silly returned and he decided on that one even though he knew it wasn't right.
While he was making up excuses in his head he never noticed Kagome push his pelt out of her way and watch the ground. That is until the said miko cried out in alarm.
Shook by the eardrum busting scream Sesshomaru nearly lost altitude. Bringing himself back to dignity and righting himself before the miko could notice the demon took note of Jaken and Ah-Un below him. The absence of Rin and the fox kit was defiantly the cause for Kagome's alarm.
Landing Kagome was the first to Jaken and had the little toad by the scruff of his haori.
"What happened to the kids!"
Jaken trembled in fear at the desperately angry look on the girl's face.
"They were supposed to be with you," Kagome glared at Jaken.
"They were!" The toady was sweating, he had known that if Sesshomaru and Kagome found him before he found the kids his fate was sealed. "we were attacked by a harpy and they got separated!"
Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes. Jaken had been instructed to take the children to the castle and he had not done so. If it wasn't for Kagome shaking the living daylights out of the little demon Sesshomaru would have ended the toad.
Kagome dropped the toad who now sported a concussion. She turned to Ah-Un and looked at the dragon pleadingly.
Knowing she was worried the head known as Ah tilted its head into the forest to the right. Un nodded in that direction as well and Kagome ran into the forest to follow their instructions.
Sesshomaru followed the girl thinking of ways to teach Jaken to pay better attention. He could smell the children's trail and the stench of bandits as well. Anger spread through out his body at the thought of the grubby men with the children. Being sure to keep his face blank Sesshomaru walked into a scene that made him oddly proud.
Kagome stood with a rock in hand. Pink energy flowed into the stone in a manner that Sesshomaru recognized as the way she charged her arrows. The target was a filthy man that held her kit by the tail. Her aim with the stone was better than her aim with a bow and the rock hit its target hard. A pained grunt knocked the fox from the bandit's hand and sent the boy to the ground. The bandit turned to them and horror clouded his face.
Jaken had arrived a short time before and sighed in relief at the fact the children were alive. It was more for his sake than theirs.
At first the man was going to attack the miko but at the sight of the second stone and the rather scary looking man behind her he thought again and settled on running. He didn't get far and was lifted into the air by Sesshomaru who looked calm but felt anything but. The claws that dug into his throat tightened and the demon began to walk into the woods still carrying him.
Struggling the thief tried to beg for his life. His captor seemed to not hear him at all. His captor didn't. At the sight of the thief about to attack Kagome Sesshomaru had settled his resolve. The bandit had to die and even if he didn't know what he felt for her Kagome belong to him. The fingers of his right hand crushed the throat of his victim as Sesshomaru thought of the man's attempt against Rin and his intended assault of Kagome they were two offenses that he wouldn't let slide. The question that he entertained now was what in the hell had Kagome managed to do to him?
Reviews:
Mayumi Crescent Moon: Thanks i won't turn down praise ;-)
anotherthinline: I think they do too.Thats why i gave them their own chap!!
BlackDeadAngel: I'll review and see if i can come up with something. :-)
IzayoiTashio18: I like Kags/Inu too. I'm working on one now that i might or might not put up.writers block sucks so i'll see what i can come up with!!
Sugar0o: Shesshy gets it in the next chap :-
SheDevil85: (Hugs back) I like the pair they are cute together.
DarkAngelRakell: I couldn't just leave em like that (Winks)
AlternativeAngel: Jaken won't live it down anytime soon.
history-is-not-always-pretty: I thought it would be cute :-
Sesshomaru is Fluffy Evil: Thanks for their names (blushes) i was too lazy to look them up in my ever faithful anime and comic collection.
He still don't know what love is but he knows its something. His little spout of jealousy gave him a kick in the right direction. Now all he has to do is get his head out of his butt and realize it!