A/N: Kagome was with Sesshou since she was 18, barely out of that stage where you are finding yourself. 15-19 I feel like is the age where one is so heavily influenced, not quite independent, depending on their situation, and as my SOC tech would call it "a captive audience." Kagome was taken under Sesshoumaru's shadow when she was in the cusps of adulthood. So she was just barely beginning to develop self-concepts when he decided to tarnish who she was beginning to be, into his own vision of what she should be.
Typical controlling ass. But this time, Sesshoumaru is her enemy.
He took her virginity, dub-con. He took advantage of her body.
Remember how in the feudal area Inu's tick is to put his hands in his sleeves? In the modern era, Inu will place his hands in his pockets.
Recap: "Maybe...your right." Giving up, Kagome closed her eyes, tried to ignore her blushing cheeks and hardening nipples.
Thoroughly embarrassed.
K.
She and her new, irresistible skin had barely stepped into her suite when her buzzer went off. She found herself oddly tongue-tied when she opened her door without peering through the people hole, only to see Tashio standing there.
He shifted awkwardly into the long staring competition they had started before asking gruffly:
"Got a minute?"
She nodded, and let him step inside. "I don't have much time I wanted to- the press will back off for now." He paused in his ramblings, looking at her intently. "But the whole mystery woman deal won't keep them away for long. You need to be prepared."
"I won't go back to New York!" The words burst out of her throat unexpectedly, the desperation and anger surprising both of them.
Inuyasha blinked.
"I'm not going back," She repeated. "And I have enough money from the advancement you gave me to rent a motel room."
Inuyasha blinked owlishly.
She fidgeted, uncomfortably under his unblinking frozen gaze. Finally, she caved, muttering with pinkish cheeks "You said I shouldn't be here."
Immediately guilt washed over his form, making his ears wilt dramatically. "I don't remember saying that," he denied her claim anyway. "And even if I did I did, you were drunk-" He paused when she started to ball up her fists.
"I mean I was buzzed and even if I did say something along those lines I... didn't mean it," He nervously ran his claws through his hair and corrected himself. When he finally looked up, her empty gaze made him flinch.
"Kagome-"
"I realize that I have been taking up a lot of your time, Tashio-Sama. " She interrupted him smoothly, her voice lacking any warmth.
"You feel responsible for me and that is no longer necessary. I am-" She paused idly searching for the word. "Mostly content to keep to my own devices." She paused again before muttering, "That's what I did last night after..anyway."
Inu winced again before sighing and holding up his hands in a surrendering position. "I-Gomen nasai Higurashi-San. I was outta line. I let one baka get to me and took it out unfairly on you."
He placed his hands in his pockets before he would yank his hair out in frustration. "It made me realize that you aren't safe, alone, wandering the casino."
Kagome had been unconsciously beginning to yield to his logic when a fiery burst of after-Kagome shot through her veins.
Her eyes burned with indignation and something else. "You think I'm naive."
He has the nerve to smile. "It's not necessarily a bad thing."
Her eyes flashed, surprising him with hints of red in her sapphic eyes. "I'm just a walking damsel in distress to you huh? A little slow and too removed from mainstream society to take care of herself in big bad wild Vegas."
Inuyasha's smirked quirked up in such a way that she was both charmed and infuriated. "Correct me if I'm wrong but your the one that walked into my establishment with less then twenty dollars with a handmade pocket-book, and the clothes on her back..aren't you?"
"So what?! It got me here didn't it?" She snapped.
"Point taken," he conceded with laughing eyes.
"And last night wasn't the first time I've encountered some evil-minded drunk either. I'm from a little ways past New York, not Kansas. We've got drunkards to make that old geezer look right saintly." She puffed slightly from her mini-rant her pointer finger jabbed into Inuyasha's chest.
The look on his twitching lips begged her to strangle him.
"Oi! Watch your fingers woman!"
The look in her eyes promised a slow death.
"But I'm happily wrong!" He hastened to add.
Luckily she didn't.
"And another thing," she continued to jab her incredibly sharp fingers into his slightly exposed chest, "I am not some poor pup who needs to be coddled and looked after as if I'd run out into a street or something. There is absolutely no reason for you to worry about me. I can take care of myself, got it?"
His lips were doing that twitch-smile-smirk thing again.
"I didn't say that I was worried about you," he began before he saw his impending doom in her claws, "I said you worried me."
She backed off a bit, crossed her arms and rolled her arms. "Same thing."
"It's completely different."
"Oh really? Then pray tell Genius, how?"
INU.
He studied her.
Color warmed her face, her eyes were dark blue and unreadably guarded against him. It couldn't just be anger she was feeling towards him but..he studied her again but ultimately came up with nothing.
He wondered if it was a woman thing.
He sighed.
"You're really leaving me no choice here. You just worry me," he repeated and tentatively reached for her aura.
It shrank back, hurt. He chanced another glance at her, this time seeing her bruised pride.
Yep, definitely his fault.
"Let me apologize," He whispered once again seeking out her aura and this time gently reaching for her fingers bringing her closer to him. She relented and allowed him to bring her closer as his hands started to travel upwards..arms, waist before he kissed her.
Hi.
no, I haven't died and I won't abandon this story.
This summer has been really tough for me. Mom's been in the hospital for 3 weeks now, her second surgery was yesterday. hopefully, this one works. meantime I've been taking care of my little siblings by myself.
I've been a stressed and tired man.
I miss the normalcy.
Fanfiction.
No promises on an update, unfortunately.