Behind Enemy Lines
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Chapter 37: Steam
Grace lounged in the large chair in the living room, wearing her warm sweatpants, one of Shippo's large school sweatshirts, her feet covered in colorful fleecy socks, and wrapped in one of the large blankets from Izayoi's store.
Beside her was a large mug of hot chocolate and her book, which she'd abandoned in favor of watching the others play a very interesting looking game that involved sitting in a circle, blinking, and dramatic deaths. Rin had learned it in one of her drama classes.
Her blue eyes watched carefully as she easily caught sight of the 'killer' and smirked just as Miroku was killed off. He was true to his nature, his death taking a grand total of five minutes until Sango had had enough and whacked him over the head with a pillow making the others laugh.
Stretching like a well…cat, Grace turned her head and smiled as she watched her small companion scamper out from behind a corner and mew cutely at her.
The kitten scuttled across the hardwood attempting to get to her master but overcompensated, sending her sliding into Shippo's back. The fox turned and looked down at the little thing and laughed picking her up gently.
"Well, hello there little one." He ran his claws softly through her fur making the kitten pur in delight, that was until Rin caught sight of her and squealed.
"Oh she's so cute! Let me see her!" She reached out her hands with wiggling fingers as Shippo stared at her then shrugged, but instead of handing her to Rin he plopped her into her lap.
Rin proceeded to pick the kitten up by the scruff of her neck which made it meow in protest. The kitten batted it's paws at Rin but the girl wasn't paying attention, instead cooing at the creature and messing with the back paws with her free hand.
The others had continued their game and were ignoring Rin until she let out a particularly high pitched yelp. Grace had watched the entire thing and was quite amused when her kitten dropped to the floor and darted to the chair she was sitting in.
Grace reached out deftly and picked her up then cradled her inside the blanket, emitting a gentle pur to calm her as Rin stood and glared at her like Grace had ordered the kitten to scratch her.
"You did that on purpose!" Grace lifted her brow ready to defend herself but her kitten seemed to be annoyed. Grace suppressed a laugh as a small and rather unintimidating hiss came from the blankets then shook her head.
"I didn't tell Lyla to do anything. I would have had to speak to do that. Besides, you shouldn't hold her the way you were. You're not her mother and how would you like it if someone did that to you? She may be an animal but she has her own mind."
Inuyasha was watching his little sister carefully as she bit her lip and attempted to find something wrong with the Cat's explanation. He may not have been best friends with Grace but Rin might have been pushing it a little.
"Come on, Rin. Let's just play the game. Just leave the…both the cats alone."
Brown eyes looked down at him for a moment deliberating until she slowly turned away from Grace and put her focus back on the game.
Grace rolled her eyes at Rin's antics. She knew she was still steamed about Sesshomaru's actions earlier and quite frankly it was still bothering her but she wasn't trying to torment Rin for it.
With a sigh she stood, taking the blanket and Lyla with her and padded from the living room into the long hallway and head toward her room, her head still turning over Sesshomaru in her mind when she suddenly hit a very hard wall that she didn't remember being there before this moment.
The impact sent her backwards onto her butt, Lyla landing in her lap and the blanket pooled around her as she looked up, rubbing her nose. And then she saw exactly what she had run into and her eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.
Sesshomaru stood in all his glory, in the middle f the hallway, slightly dripping with a towel draped low around his slim waist.
Her eyes began from the top down, taking in his wet and messy silver hair, and missing glasses first. His gold eyes stared down at her quizzically, piercing her with the intense and brooding gaze. His magenta stripes stood out against his pale skin giving character and more shape to his face.
Her eyes trailed over every muscle of his very defined and toned chest to each of his arms, which were trim with muscle, begging to lift her up as if she weighed as much as air, tapering off to his long elegant hands. She moved back to the middle, noticing the six pack and the trail of water sliding down it toward a barely visible bit of silver hair which undoubtedly led to a very well endowed…
A blush stopped her train of thought immediately, the pink trailing down from her cheeks to her neck inside her sweatshirt. Was she nuts! She pulled her gaze from him and hopped up a little too quickly to hide her thoughts and gathered Lyla and the blanket into her arms while he continued to watched her.
She stood back up and met his gaze, her eyes trailing over him again until he gave her an amused smirk.
"See something you like?" Her eyes widened again and she squeaked this time and scurried to her room, closing the door with a very final click making him give a very amused smile.
Who knew?
Grace leaned against the door of her bedroom, panting, holding Lyla to her chest as she tried to calm herself. She closed her eyes to calm herself then lifted Lyla to eye level, the kitten swatting her face gently.
"I think I'm going crazy." Lyla meowed as she was deposited on the bed and Grace sat down at the desk and began writing in her journal. She needed to see what her thoughts were to better figure them out but she had a strange inkling that this time it wouldn't help much.