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Suddenly he gave a yell, raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough.
"Akeemi be careful, I don't want you to hurt yourself," the voice of his teacher lady Kagome said aloud with concern for him.
He laughed. "Ha-ha, I am like a monkey nothing bad will happen to me," he replied confidently and a little out of breath.
Kagome shook her head a little bit frustrated, or it may very well be that she was quite amused.
"I am sure that you are as agile as a little monkey, but I am responsible for all of the students on this field trip, so please no careless acrobatics," she said with finality, and a no nonsense look about her form. She had one hand on her hip and her index finger wagged at Akeemi while he looked at her from upside down with his thin legs hanging from the tree.
He frowned deeply and then tried to reach up to grasp the branch so that he could come down, but his arms could not reach that high and the other children laughed at the little boy's outlandish antics. He was always so quiet and unassuming when they were in class that Kagome wondered idly if something in the air had altered his mood.
"Please help me down Sensei," he cried after multiple attempts to swing up and grab the branch without success. She sighed wearily and then looked at Shippo.
"Help him down," she said and sighed even deeper with concern.
He gestured to her with a nod of the head and proceeded to take the boy down, who was very grateful and hung on tightly around his middle. Turning him right side up and setting him carefully on his feet he bowed to his teacher and said.
"I am sorry teacher," Kagome smiled at him so lovingly that he knew instantly that she was not angry and all was forgiven.
While watching the children she remembered the very first day that she'd returned to the classroom, being a little nervous and lacked her usual confidence. She'd tried very hard to stay calm before the students arrival, and when they did they were very happy to see her, they crowded around the table asking her all types of questions, mostly doing it all at the same time.
Some of the smaller children hugged her and she felt appreciated, she took a deep breath and told herself. I can do this.
After only a week it felt as though she had never left and her troubles were mostly behind her. Her lessons were delivered with its usual efficiency; and she would assist one by one the children who had some difficulty grasping the material. She felt a sense of accomplishment, gratitude from the children, and peace that she had not felt for some time, and she was contented.
But the mind can be a very manipulative thing especially when the heart stills yearns for something lost, something very precious, and that something was love.
The old cliché. The heart wants what it wants rang true when she started to have visions of Sesshomaru as he he use to sit just outside the window of her classroom. The first time that she saw an image of Sesshomaru as he sat there, she closed her eyes and shook her head frantically just to make sure that she was not losing her mind and developing a psychosis. The image cleared after she reopened her eyes, but being wise, she knew that those images would not just disappear quickly. The school symbolizes the beginning of their whirlwind and short lived romance.
She remembered very clearly how she'd looked forward to those days when he would come and sit quietly outside her classroom window on a tree stump and listened while she taught. She recalled smiling to herself when she saw him and how her heart would flutter with her infatuation. And on those rare and incredible circumstances that they'd conversed, it was always so relaxed and intellectual. How she relished those times because not many individuals in this time period could maintain a witty and intelligent conversation?
Her spirit had soared then and her love for him had started to bloom, though she would have never admitted it then. In time when he had touched her intimately she'd felt wholly completed. Their minds, bodies and souls fitted harmoniously, it had felt like heaven. So why did he leave her alone to suffer without him? When he knew how much she loved him. With the constant memories and the distraction that it brought she had decided to have classes elsewhere.
Lost in her musings two students jumped out from the bushes and startled her, she laughed uneasily and they giggled with delight catching her unawares. Little Akeemi was given to these sudden spurts of activity running ahead to hide among the bushes and then jumped out at her, she would pretend to be frightened when he did to make him happy.
For almost the entire walk their objectives had been sight; she told them the names of each herb, plant along with their usage or how poisonous they were. The older children would take notes, some of the plants were unearthed to make teas, dyes and ink.
She supposed she had gotten used to the children's behavior while outdoors, they had been participating in this event for over three months, however, she knew that the weather would soon change. It was late November and the time had grown quite chilly with sporadic rainfall. Her outdoor activities and trips to the old shrine for classes would cease after today. She couldn't chance ill health of the children to appease her troubles, she would have to face them and that time was now.
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Seira was silent for a moment as she stood in the doorway of her mate's bedroom. He had removed his belongings from their shared master bedroom, and had taken a much smaller one further down the passage out of spite towards her. She shook her leg in anger, bit her lips as he paid her no mind. Then she said loudly in vehemence.
"I am not going to pretend any longer, I am going to ease the urges of my body with any male that I desire. I am your mate and yet you constantly neglect my needs…I have had enough of your refusal to lay your body upon mine and give me what I need," she paused at that point, obviously waiting to get some sort of reaction out of him.
He did not take the bait nor did he look away from his meal as she'd spoken, and then with utter disregard for her feelings he calmly responded. "Feeling as you do, why are you here bothering me?"
Insulted by his response, she roared out a bitter reply. "Is that your tactful way of telling me that you don't care if I fucked someone else even though I am your mate and lady of these lands?"
Sesshomaru chuckled, got up from the table and his meal and approached her menacingly, towering over her he grabbed her shoulders and kicked the door shut. Intense and unfeeling eyes stared into her angry ones that were filled with tears.
The phenomenon wasn't new to him, other people's tears, other people's grief did not surprise or embarrassed him, although his responses varied, but the female in front of him was a manipulative and conniving little bitch that would do just about anything to get what she wanted, even facing his wrath by provoking it upon herself.
"I don't care who you give your affections to, or what you do for that matter…But if you cause shame to befall this house, I will kill you for it," he declared venomously while he sank his claws into her shoulder for emphasis.
She winced in discomfort but refused to let it go, she just could not accept the fact that even with all her trickery he just did not want or desire her at all.
"Are you fucking someone else?" She demanded, "Is that the reason why you refused to touch me in these many months. Who is she? Kami help me I will tear her apart."
He was barely amused or even troubled by her allegations which were many and groundless, emotionally he was tired of dealing with all the curses and accusations that she threw his way. She was wearing on his nerves, and yet he did not feel one iota of remorse for her distress.
He held her in anger, and so the curses continued, "You cold and insensitive bastard, why are you doing this to me?" She cried out with sobs.
"You did this to yourself," he responded emotionlessly. He shook her hard. "Stop this nonsense, as I told you before I have no desire to be with you again."
She shook her head in denial and her eyes sparked with the same. She hated rejection, it made her crazy and she shouted at him. "You heartlest fucking bastard," she wailed and beat her fist against his chest furiously.
He grabbed her hands and wrenched them painfully away from his person and she screamed. "Take your hands off me you cursed devil. I will not be tossed aside like a cheap fancy lady."
He picked her up bodily, tucked her like a sack of wheat under his arm. Ignoring the pain from her flailing fist and claws that tore into his thigh muscles, he proceeded to the door where he opened it and dropped her carelessly on the floor, and locked the door in her face.
Angry fists beat mercilessly on the hardwood door while she cursed and cried, but he paid her no mind while he changed his clothes and then stood on the balcony. It was time to pay Rin's descendants a visit, it had been almost six months that he'd last seen them, and without any further delay, he took to the skies, heading in an easterly direction towards a small village in Edo.
The image of Sesshomaru sitting outside the classroom window gradually subsided, as she forced herself to face her demons and stay in the classroom each day delivering the lessons.
Today was very windy and dark clouds littered the sky with its ominous presence; soon the rain would come and the ground would be muddy and slippery, some of the children lived in neighboring villages some distance away. Perhaps she should suspend classes for the rest of the day, she thought trying to be proactive, because when the rain came it would be difficult for some of the students to make their way home in the rain, fog and mud.
"Children," she said and they all looked away from their parchment and on her. "I think it's best if you all went home early today," and before she was even finished the classroom erupted in cheers at their early dismissal. She laughed and reflected; children will always be children no matter what time period it was.
"Please be quiet and pack your things quickly, the rain will start at any moment," she said hurriedly. It would be best to get them going as swiftly as possible. It took some time but all the children left. She had nothing to fear from the weather, her home was on the school compound, though it was some distance to the back, it was still near enough.
She hoped that the rain wouldn't begin too quickly, giving the children adequate amount of time to reach home. With that thought out of the way, Kagome busied herself. She erased the day's lesson from the chalkboard, swept the leaves that had blown inside, closed the windows by tying them shut with thin ropes on the inside to brackets.
Her tasks were almost done when the first sign of rain started with the pitter patter on the roof. She grabbed her book bag and headed for the door very quickly. Suddenly the rain picked up with a roar of thunder and lashed against the sides and roof of the building.
"Oh no, I cannot leave in this rain," she said out loud as the rain started to blow inside on her.
She stood some way from the door to avoid getting wet and stretched her hand for the door handle. Her fingers made contact with the metal and she closed her palm around it with every intention to close the door quickly, then out of nowhere a hand covered hers and pulled the door wide open.