More cute Inu/Kag – hope nobody minds.
Not all humans
They were in the dojo, well Sesshoumaru was, and Kagome was in the stands watching. There was not much else she could do; it was not like she was going to be doing any fighting. He came to this particular place in his palace at least every other day, and it had been a month or thereabouts now, maybe a lot more... she did not know. One thing about captivity Kagome had learnt was that you lose sense of time and the date, it gets light, you eat at various points and it gets dark. She did not go outside every day so she did not always see the sky and therefore the sun, so she did always have an idea of the time of day.
She wished at times like these when he went to practise that she was allowed to leave and go explore on her own. She doubted however that he would allow her to do that, last time she had tried to leave without him he had appeared in her path. It was like he materialised out of thin air into her path and grabbed the collar of her kimono. The drag back to the dojo had been awfully uncomfortable if not painful and embarrassing; the glare he shot her afterwards too was enough to make her sit down obediently with a bowed head. She later learnt this was for her safety too, not all the demons in the castle were able to overlook her humanity and accept her presence, Sesshoumaru was needed to protect her wherever she was.
She looked around for something to entertain herself with. After a little while she spotted long silver hair and puppy dog ears so she made her way over to them. "Hello Inuyasha," she greeted cheerfully sitting down beside him. She startled him so much he flew two feet into the air though he made not a sound. He stared at her with those wide golden eyes, still without making a word and his ears slanted forward adorably in attention. He nodded to acknowledge her presence and to accept her sitting so close to him while he was still wary of humans, Kagome considered this a privilege. His head turned back towards his brother.
"You really admire him don't you?" She said, seeing how his eyes followed every single movement, not missing a single stroke or step. She got a nodded reply, it was an answer, not verbalized, he did not even turn to her, but he was listening, so she continued on. His hands were twitching almost as if he wanted to be down there himself, he was Sesshoumaru's brother, so he must be good. "Can you fight too?" She was sure the answer was affirmative, and she was right, she got a nod, but there seemed to be pain in his golden eyes.
"Why don't you then..." she mused to herself rather than asked him as she watched him and he watched the dojo. Then suddenly an idea came to her, "the humans," she only whispered it, but the sensitive ears caught it anyway. He had been treated horribly by her kind, beaten, locked in a cell, starved, and made to fear weapons of any sort. He had been conditioned in those twenty years of torture to hate violence and could not hold a weapon anymore. It was a truly horrible thing to do to a warrior, for that is what Inuyasha once was she was sure of it. By the way Inuyasha's head snapped to meet her with wide pain filled golden eyes upon hearing her words; Kagome bet she had hit the nail right over the head.
"I'm sorry," he mumbled finally, softly and got up to leave, perhaps he just could not stand being with a human any longer. Kagome did not know what she was doing, it was stupid and crazy and unnecessary, she should have let him be, and he needed space. But she just could not let him go with that pain in his eyes, what he needed was comfort, even if he did not know it, or even want it. She leapt forward and reached out to grab onto his red sleeve to stop him from leaving, "please don't run away!" She called to him.
He had no choice but to stop and turn back to her. "I am sorry about what the other humans did, really, I am, and it was a horrible ordeal no one should have to go through. But please, you must trust me when I assure you that not all humans are like that, some of us are good people. I am a good person, I am not going to hurt you, I care for you, and I want to help you, to protect you, to be your friend. You have got to let go of what they did to you, I promise that things are going to get a lot better now, you are going to be O.K, we all are."
She pulled him back to her, "so please let us be friends. I want to stand by your side if you will stand by mine, and we can be together in this. You do not have to hide behind a mask of stone and stay silent in case you will scream. It is O.K to feel pain as well you know, and for it to cause you to cry, tears are nothing to be ashamed of anything." He still was not saying anything, but he was not trying to pull away either so Kagome did the last think she could think of. "Inuyasha," she gasped as she pulled him to her and wrapped her arms around him.
Immediately his arms came up and wrapped around her in response and he buried his face into the crook of her neck. From that moment onwards h never left her side, Sesshoumaru did not seem to care,in fact he was slightly pleased. Seeming as he was extra protection Kagome was allowed to go around without the Taiyoukai and just took Inuyasha. People had been trying to help Inuyasha for weeks and so paid her respect for managing it. He was getting better every day, talking more, smiling, training when thought no one could see him, Kagome always managed to be there. The days at the castle, became much more enjoyable.