Want

He watched as the servants pressed bandages over the wound, even as he was half-way tempted to push them away and simply do it himself. But he found he could not bring himself to go closer to her. The fear she had felt throughout the day had left him ridden with anger and desperation to find her. If it had taken any longer, Sesshoumaru was not sure how much control he would have been able to maintain.

She was human and she was carrying his pup. That was all. Except that he took small joys from her happiness and she intrigued him, with the many facets of her personality. Almost unwillingly, he found himself moving to the chair beside the bed, ordering the servants out as soon as they were done.

He sat and studied her. Certainly he found her attractive and he knew she was passionate in bed from the one night they had spent together. Even from that night, before he had really known her, he had not been able to take his mind off of her, mystery though she had been. The blue sapphire earing sitting on his nightstand could attest to that.

But could he bring himself to care for her? She could be a weakness, always in need of protection. Except that she was a miko, and could protect herself easily. It would be his desire to protect her that would make her his weakness, not her lack of ability to do so. She presented a problem in so many ways and Sesshoumaru could not help but to think about the time when Izayoi had been alive and the West had almost been lost.

Would Kagome bring another the beginnings of downfall? Would having her at his side start another war? And, even more important, did he really want her at his side?

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