Moonlight Rose
Chapter 21: A Little Jealousy
Kagome squealed as she flitted down the hallways with a growling demon on her tail. There was no way she was going to escape this madness. She was so glad that she had put the children down for their nap hours ago.
"I've got you now!" Kagome heard in the inu language that was now in her blood.
Kagome turned another corner before she was tackled from the back. Somehow, their positions were flipped and Kagome was caught against a firm chest as they crashed into a door, knocking it down, but not caring seeing how hard they were laughing.
Tears were forming in Kagome's eyes from her hysterics and she tried to sit up, but Touga's arms tightened around her and again he flipped their positions and he was on the top.
"Hey! Let me up." Kagome whined and pouted.
"What if I don't want to?" Touga said lowly in her ear.
"Tougaaaa..." Kagome whined again and squirmed under him.
"You shouldn't do that Kagome." His voice was still low.
A loud growl sounded and startled both Kagome and Touga. Kagome sat up quickly, smashing her head against the inuyoukai above her. She let out a low groan as a small trickle of blood came from her forehead. "You really have a hard head Touga." She brought a glowing hand to her head and healed herself immediately.
"What about me?" Touga asked as he slightly pouted.
"Did you just pout? Omigosh! That was so cute!" Kagome squealed and smiled. "Do it again!"
Again a growl ripped through the room and Kagome's spine stiffened. She turned around and saw Setsuki, Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, and last but not least...Sesshomaru, who was glaring daggers at her and the inuyoukai lord at her side.
"Oh...umm...hello everyone." Kagome smiled and bowed respectfully.
"Kagome, what took you so long? We've been in here waiting on you and Lord Touga for thirty minutes." Sango scolded her friend.
"Well, we would've been here thirty five minutes ago, but Touga here didn't want to stop and ask anyone how to get to this study." She pointed her thumb at Touga and placed her other hand on her hip.
"What is wrong with his nose?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I punched him in his nose when we were sparring and he can't smell right."
"I allowed you to win little one." Touga teased.
Kagome growled. "You do remember that you calling me that was what started the fight in the first place?"
"You hit my nose, not my head. My memory is still as perfect as ever."
"Well, now that everyone's here, we can get this meeting underway." Setsuki interrupted when she felt how angry Sesshomaru was getting.
"You're right. Gomen nasai for being late and for the door." Kagome bowed again and went to sit in between Setsuki and Sango while Touga sat beside Sesshomaru at the front of the room.
"The whereabouts of Naraku have been revealed multiple times within the past three weeks that Lord Touga has been with us, but they have changed everytime we got word of it. The Eastern Lord has sent scouts out to find the vile haynou, but only one member out of five scouting parties has returned." Sesshomaru said in a detached voice.
-So have you been having fun with Touga?- Setsuki asked.
-He's fun. A lot more fun than a certain inuyoukai we know.- Kagome cut her eyes at Sesshomaru, then caught Touga looking at her and blushed.
Touga watched the young girl's eyes change color, and wondered if she was talking to her beast, but an inuyoukai's eyes turn red when talking to their beast. It wasn't until he looked at the woman beside her to see that her eyes were changing color as well. He figured that they must be talking to one another. He cocked his head to the side in confusion while Sesshomaru droned on about the things that they already knew.
-Oh look at him Setsuki! He looks like an adorable little puppy!- Kagome squealed in her mind to the woman sitting next to her.
Setsuki scoffed out loud. Sesshomaru glared at her for interrupting him. "Sorry." She mouthed and he continued with the meeting.
Inuyasha looked from Kagome to Touga and back. There was another inuyoukai trying for Kagome's affections? This wasn't going to work! He had to keep himself from growling when Touga winked at Kagome and she blushed.
Sesshomaru finally ended the meeting and dismissed everyone. "Not you miko. You stay."
Kagome looked at Touga. "Um...ok."
Touga didn't want to leave Kagome, but when Sesshomaru growled at him, he knew he had no choice, and left the room.
"What's up Sess?" Kagome had found that he got upset when she called him by the nickname she'd given him, but all he did was either look at her or growl.
"What is there between you and Touga?" He asked boldly.
Kagome smiled a little. "Why? Are you jealous?"
'Yes!' Sesshomaru's beast roared.
"Hn."
"Ya know, I know that you're jealous. But Touga's just a friend."
"A friend you want to fuck." That sounded harsh, even to Sesshomaru.
Kagome's mouth hung open as she searched for words in her head. "What would make you say that?"
"Is it true?" Sesshomaru couldn't say anything else, so he decided to roll with it.
"Do I want to fuck Touga?" Kagome spat. "Why the fuck would you care?"
"Because you are in my home, and if you wish to fuck my companions, you must go elsewhere."
"Sesshomaru, if I wanted to fuck Touga, I would have by now." Kagome folded her arms across her chest. "And there would be nothing you could do to stop me."
-Kagome, don't be mad at him. Inuyoukai are very jealous creatures. Sesshomaru sees you as his, and he doesn't like you flirting with Touga.- Kagome heard Setsuki's voice in her head.
-Well he sure doesn't act like he wants me.-
Sesshomaru watched as Kagome talked to Setsuki in her mind, while he argued with his beast.
'Why you say that?'
'I do not know. It slipped out.'
'You are the Lord of the West! The Great DaiYoukai Sesshomaru, things do not just 'slip out'!'
Sesshomaru growled lowly, irritated that his beast was scolding him.
'Setsuki is right Master. Inuyoukai are very jealous beings. You are just like him. Remember when that new bitch had her paws on him the other day?'
Kagome recalled the new swarm of demonesses arriving just the day after Touga had, and at training four days ago, one of them had the nerve to challenge Kagome as Sesshomaru's partner, and stepped to her. The lower demoness lost, of course. But she feigned injured after their small fight and collapsed on top of Sesshomaru, failing in trying to drag him down. She had her arms wrapped around his neck and put all of her body weight on him.
She was leaning forward, in an attempt to kiss him when Setsuki happened to see what was going on in her head and came outside and to see Kagome blasting the demoness with a small spurt of energy.
"Oopsie." Kagome said and covered her mouth as a small giggle escaped. "Did I do that?"
Sesshomaru had looked at her with an amused gleam in his eyes.
Kagome shook her head, to get back to the present. Sesshomaru was staring at her with something that seemed like an apology in his eyes. Kagome smiled and walked towards his desk. "Are you worried about Touga and I?"
Sesshomaru didn't answer.
Kagome knew that neither of them had ever shared their feelings for each other, but they both knew that something was there. "You don't have to be." Kagome whispered lowly, where only Sesshomaru could hear her.
"You do not know what you are talking about." Sesshomaru growled.
Kagome smirked. "You're in denial. But that's ok. You'll come around sooner or later. But you only have nine months left before I either die, or become human again."
"Leave me." Sesshomaru growled again.
"Alright. But as long as you remember that the clock's ticking Sesshomaru. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock." She sashayed out of the room and Touga was waiting on her.
"Will you join me for lunch in the gardens?" Touga asked Kagome, and offered his arm.
Kagome looked back at Sesshomaru's desk. "Yes." She took his offered arm and they strolled to the gardens.
'Why you let her get away?'
'Because I cannot allow myself to do the same thing that my father did, or repeat the past. The last human I took to my bed wound up with a pup, and wanted nothing to do with me.'
'I thought you were over this! Over her being human in the past!'
'You thought wrong beast...you thought wrong.'
'ROAR! Why are you so stupid? Admit that you love miko!'
'Is that what you want beast? Fine! I love the miko! But nothing will ever come from it! I will make sure of that!'
Sesshomaru would never admit to anyone that he had feelings for the miko. He would be the only one to know that. His head jerked towards his window when he heard Kagome's musical laughter. Sesshomaru rose from his desk and looked out of the window and saw Kagome sitting on a blanket with Touga tickling her chin while she was giggling.
'Stop him!'
'I will not allow him to have her!'
Sesshomaru flitted down out of his home and to the gardens. "Miko, would you like to join me for a walk?"
Kagome smirked. "I'm enjoying lunch with Touga right now Sesshomaru. I'm afraid you will have to wait."
"I do not wish to wait. You will walk with me."
Kagome lifted an eyebrow, her expression resembling Sesshomaru's. "Alright." Kagome held her hand out for Sesshomaru to help her up and when he did, she turned to Touga. "Forgive me Touga, but it seems that Sesshomaru cannot be paitent."
"It is alright little one...Kagome." Touga smiled, but underneath, he was seething. How could Sesshomaru swoop in and interrupt his time with the young miko? The way he acted, he didn't want her, through it was obvious to Touga that he did. The young DaiYoukai lord didn't know how to act with the emotions he was feeling, so it was up to Touga to take what Sesshomaru seemed not to want. After all, Touga wasn't the cold DaiYoukai lord that Sesshomaru was. He wasn't afraid to express his emotions, like his friend.
Touga let a growl rip from his throat. The little mikoyoukai had Touga's attention, and he wasn't planning on letting her get out of his grip that easily. He'd be damned if Sesshomaru would treat the miko like a concubine...come to think of it...he hadn't smelled Sesshomaru on Kagome...or any other male on Kagome for that matter.
-So she is untouched...that is nice.- Touga smiled at the thought of him getting to be Kagome's first...and only.
"So...your jealousy got the best of you, huh Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked with a knowing smirk.
"Hn."
"Sesshomaru, just admit it. Admit your feelings for me so we can get that out of the way and move on with our lives."
Sesshomaru resisted the urge to scoff. "Tell me more about the future."
"What haven't er discussed?"
"You seem to like teaching me games. But I wish for you to teach me more of the technology of the future."
"Hmmm...let's see...I told you about television, right?"
"The strange boxes that show people? Yes, you told me of those."
"What about the moon?"
"Yes. I recall you stating that human has traveled to the moon."
Kagome nodded with a smile. "And you didn't believe that."
"I do not believe that humans posses the intelligence to construct the machinery to travel to the moon. If anyone did it, it was a demon or two."
Kagome smiled sadly. "No Sesshomaru. Remember, I told you that there are no demons in the future."
"Yes, tell me more of that. How do you know this?"
"Because we have history books about the tales in this era. A few of them I have lived, and I'm sure they will change in the future and now they will include a young miko in the travels, but the mention of your family, as I said to Inuyasha once before, is slim to none. I tried to read up on the Lords and Ladies of this era, but I haven't found much about your family line."
Sesshomaru stood in silence, absorbing the information that Kagome was giving him.
Kagome stopped walking and stared at Sesshomaru. When was he going to admit that he had feelings for her? When was she going to do the same? She took a deep breath. -When the time is right.- She thought to herself, and continued on her stroll through the forest with Sesshomaru.
I hope you liked that little chappie! The next one should be coming very very soon!
Don't think that all the jealousy is over though! Pretty soon Koga's gonna step into the picture, and that can't mean anything good for Kagome!
Um...also, if you haven't, go check out my profile and take the poll because I really need your opinion.
Please review!
~KM705.M-san