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Scientific Method
Chapter 36
Kagome stood near the Bone Eaters Well, should she leave?
Jaken had refused to accompany her to the Well, now, she understood why. As soon as she had left the Goshinboku Sesshomaru started following her. She tried to stop the anger that tried to surface at the thought that he had seen her crying like a foolish, pitiful woman.
She wasn't foolish, she was smart. Her heart was too soft and trusting, that was all.
She thought he would merely remain silent, like he always did, but this time it was different. There was anger in him. Directed at her, Inuyasha or himself…she didn't know.
Still, she listened. There was no harm, in the future she would heal. What was a small blow more against the multiple ones she had already suffered?
Maybe… she shouldn't have listened…
Nothing more than an animal
Sesshomaru's words rang through her ears and speared her heart. Her inner guilt and fear shook the cores of her stability. Was he right? Had she—inadvertently—done the same things she abhorred?
"Then why do you feel for the hanyou?"
Because, of love. She loved Inuyasha. She truly did.
"What is love? Isn't it an emotion born from the subconscious, from instinct?"
It was. Love is an emotion, a feeling born deep within the heart and soul impossible to deny.
"Instincts are never mistaken."
They must be! She was in love with Inuyasha! She was not interested in him because he was a half-demon or strong as Sesshomaru was trying to suggest. Besides, in no way would Inuyasha's genes support her priestess ones! She loved him because she did, not because Darwin said the world revolved around the Evolution Theory of survival of the fittest! Kami knew Inuyasha didn't fit anywhere in the present society!
"Do you like the color of his hair?"
Sesshomaru's question startled her and her brown eyes shot upwards in surprise. She liked Inuyasha's hair…and…
"His eyes?"
Unbidden hurt splashed all around her chest and she pressed her lips together. Looks were a must in a relationship…that was normal. There was nothing wrong in being physically attracted to a male. That was a natural law.
"Nature made us this way, so we could always live on. Inuyoukai look the way they do in order to survive, to produce the next generation."
It had to be a lie. She was not attracted to Inuyasha merely because he was part inuyoukai. She loved him for who he was. He stored the most amazing heart she had the pleasure to meet. He was warm, determined and honest.
"He's crude, immature and impulsive. Yet, you do not see that, you do not care about such things."
She knew he was all that, and she made sure to voice it. Inuyasha was no diamond, but he needed only some polisher and he would shine!
Kagome did not like how Sesshomaru's eyes softened, as if he pitied her. He did not pity anyone!
"You will fall to the charms of any inuyoukai you meet. There's no helping it."
Of course she wouldn't, she only loved Inuyasha. "What makes you so sure?"
"You have already fallen for me."
Kagome was about to protest, but he cut her impolitely.
"This Sesshomaru never lies."
To be continued...
AN: AN: The second one is called Nothing more than an animal because it was the name I originally gave it at Dokuga Contest a while ago. It won second place. It almost slipped my mind… I really liked this drabble.