you know what sucks? When you're almost finished with a chapter, then out of nowhere your computer resets, thus erasing all of your hard work. Especially when you realize that you forgot to save the damn file, and it was such a good chapter too, forgetting what you fucking wrote/typed thus having to rewrite the whole thing again except for that one paragraph that was saved.
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LUCKILY it was not this story, but it was both my KHR and Magi story...That pissed me off since i was so close to finishing Magus' chapter! And i finally made Len's chapter the way i liked it! AURGH!
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Stupid computer-
ALSO! Thanks for the support guys! I'm very pleased (Why do i find that really smug to say/type?) that people are liking Kaname, for a moment or two i thought people would hate her because of her...psychotic...tendencies, and how Antagonist she seems to be.
Anyway, again, thanks! On to the story.
Because...Soul.
"...I thought you said you traveled with an Imp, not a frog?" I said, looking down at the little green frog that was wearing clothing. It was staring at me, it's big yellow eyes looking from me to lord Sesshomaru, it had a beak like thing and was carrying a staff.
It gawked at me.
I slowly raised a brow at it.
"..." Sesshomaru just glanced at me, before moving forward, leaving the clearing that the frog and what seemed like a dragon waited in. "Hn, Jaken-" Oh, so it was that Imp thing he told me about. Jaken seemed to have snapped out of whatever he was thinking about and looked towards Sesshomaru, "we are leaving."
"Ah, Y-Yes my lord!"
As the imp scurried over towards the dragon, I caught up with Sesshomaru and fell into step besides him. His eyes flickered towards me for a brief moment before looking ahead, I could hear the imp having trouble getting the dragon up and following behind us. "...I had thought you were exaggerating about how irritating Jaken's voice was..." I commented, hearing the imp splutter- no doubt hearing me because of his demon senses- making me smirk, "But I now see you were not giving his voice enough credit in how annoying it truly is."
"I had no reason to deceive you." he answered.
I chuckled lowly, glancing back to see Jaken had finally started to catch up to us. I wonder if he realizes how non-threatening he looks when glaring.
"Hmp, what are you staring at girl?" he questioned sternly, only making me snicker at him. He looked bewildered as to why I was laughing at him, "DO NOT SNICKER AT ME MORTAL! I COULD FRY YOU TO A CRISP IF I WANTED TO!" He screeched, causing me to cringe- I think Sesshomaru was already annoyed again-, as he started to wave his weird looking staff around. "AND WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!"
I raised a brow down at him, "I am walking, Jaken." I answered.
"THAT'S JAKEN'-SAMA' TO YOU, STUPID GIRL!" he yelled, his face turning an interesting color. "AND I WAS SPEAKING OF WHY YOU ARE WALKING NEXT TO LORD SESSHOMARU!"
….Was this thing serious? I stared down at him, he shuddered slightly but kept that...Glare?...on his face. He is serious. I thought before turning towards Sesshomaru. "Your frog-"
"I AM NOT A FROG!"
"-seems to be underestimating me, My lord." I stated with surprise, Ignoring his little shout "I thought your vassal of all thing would be able to sense spiritual power." Unless he's surprisingly stupid, then that would explain a few things Sesshomaru had told me. I then tilted me head to the side in thought, "I had no idea that walking next to you was such a big deal, but then this time period is weird when it comes to social rules..." He looked at me, his eyebrow slightly rising in question. "Well, In my time, there are no lords and nobility- unless you go to England then it is a different story- so it does not matter on who you walk next to." I said with a shrug, "I can step back if you'd like." I offered.
"...I don't care as to where you walk." he grunted, making me smile slightly and kept walking next to him. "I do not believe we have spoken about this...'England'..." he said slowly, not use to the foreign word on his tongue.
I blinked, "Really?" I questioned surprised, I fairly sure I have spoken about the UK to him before.
"You have mentioned it in passing."
"Oh...I had thought I did tell you..."
"Clearly you have not, if you did then my lord would not have said so!" Jaken stated haughtily from behind. I sighed, took a breath, then quickly turned threw a weak charged sutra at him. "Hm?" he blinked. It sparked, then he started to run around screaming as he seemed to have been set aflame. What a weak demon he is. "GYAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
I giggled at the sight, turning back around to see Sesshomaru watching Jaken run back and forth, before he lifted his foot and stomped on the frog. He then bent over and tore off the sutra, looked it over and handed it to me with a look. I just smiled, "He was getting fairly annoying." I defended, he hummed- was that a smile I saw?- and kept walking. I decided to grab the dragons reins and catch up, stepping on the frog as I went, and enjoyed the cry of pain. "Now then, what country's have I told you about, my lord?"
"The empire of Rome, it's decedents Northern and southern Italy, America, Japan in your time, the Netherlands, The Baltics, France, Germany, and Egypt I believe." he answered.
"Oh, so that is why I thought I had mentioned the British empire," I mused aloud, wondering what his reaction will be when I tell him of the world wars. "Well, the British empire is actually consists of three other country's in it, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, It use to also have a colony, which was later declared an independent country and called America..."
"...Demon...?" a seven year old Kaname questioned to herself, her hair pulled back into a braid, a cherry red summer dress with small black doll shoes. She was standing in the middle of the playground, her small fists were covered in dirt and blood, watching as the children who had been making fun of her, and a four year old Kagome, run away in fear. She blinked in thought, tilting her head to the side in wonder at what the other children had called her. "I'm not a demon...I'm Kaname." she mumbled in confusion. She shrugged her small shoulders and turned towards her baby sister, who was distractedly trying to reach a pretty butterfly, and walked over.
Just as she was about to pick her up, she paused, starring at her hands that were dirtied. "Ah...Mother will have a fit if I dirty your dress." Kaname said with a small frown, deciding that since her dress was red that the blood would not show as much as Kagome's blue. Satisfied that her hands were cleaner, she picked up her sister and started to head towards where her mother and father had sat.
when their father, Higurashi Takeshi, spotted them he gave a small affectionate smile. Takeshi had short messy black hair, sharp blue eyes, a strong jaw and straight nose, and was fairly fit for a monk. When standing he stood to be about 5'10'', a contrast to their mothers 5'5'' height. Kaname always heard her mother say that she had taken after him in more then looks. Personality wise they were the same.
"Father, Mother, we're back." Kaname said as she went over towards her mother and held out Kagome to her. Emiko smiled as she grabbed her youngest, cooing and sweet talking her, while Kaname went over to her father and lifted up her hands to be picked up. Once settled on his lap, Kaname looked up and noticed her father eying the stains on her dress. "They made her cry," she stated, gaining his attention. "They deserved it."
"...Hn..." Takeshi hummed, his eyes glancing back down at the obvious blood stains, before looking his eldest in the eyes. "I understand." He then ran his fingers through her hair, loosening the braid, "You did good, Kaname. Our loved ones are above all else, never forget that it is the Higurashi way to eliminate the threat..." he stated, reminding her of one of their more darker codes that Emiko nor Kagome would ever know. "Even if we have to die to ensure it."
"Yes, Father." She mumbled, resting her head over his heart.
"And Kaname," She hummed, "Next time, do not leave evidence of your deed, it will only cause your mother to worry." she looked down at her dress and hands, before looking at how her father was still clean and his hands only had small scars from past incidents when he had done so much for his wife. She resolved to get that good, for Kagome and any other siblings she may ever have.
Day's passed, much like the first.
It was fun, talking and being around Sesshomaru, we didn't do much but walk but it was fine. I never paid much attention to the time because of our conversations, most of it was about history- some was even about my clan- but sometimes we would have small talk about trivial things. I told him about my school days, he was surprised on how far women had gotten in the future, and told him about how education was one of the most sought out thing instead of swordplay. I had even had a conversation with him about food, telling him about imported food and what was in them (He didn't seem to understand some American foods, 'They eat canines?','No, they aren't actually dogs, they just named them Hot-dogs.' He actually looked confused).
I asked him after a few more day's about what we were looking for, because he kept sending Jaken out and reporting to him, to which he replied with trying to find a suitable arm to replace his lost one. So, because of that, we encountered a lot of demons- actually it was more like him sending Jaken out to find a suitable demon, then him going and killing it for it's arm. It was really enjoyable to watch, quick, but enjoyable. If the demon wasn't powerful enough, then the arm would start to rot away because of the natural poison he had inside of him. One time Jaken had thought he found a suitable demon, but when it had gotten near me to dodge an attack from Sesshomaru, it started to disintegrate from my spiritual power. Sesshomaru had stared at where the demons was, looked at me, then grabbed Jaken's staff and hit him with it.
"Find me an arm that will hold up against being near her," He had demanded after giving Jaken a few more lumps to the head, tossing the staff at him one last time before we continued to walk. "I will not have an inferior arm that becomes useless from standing in the presence of a miko."
The next few demons had been better, their arms had lasted longer, but they were not to his liking. I had once commented on how some of the arms didn't suit him, not at all complimenting his youkai and hindered it, he took my word on it when he himself felt off.
Thus, Jaken getting more lumps.
Speaking of the frog, he seems to have something against me, it was probably the fact that I was a mortal...But then it could also be the fact that I act 'too familiar' with Lord Sesshomaru. My tenancy in not caring if I showed skin or not didn't seem to help his opinion of me. Not like it mattered if he liked me or not, he couldn't do anything about it and even Sesshomaru got annoyed with his squawking about me.
Was it cruel that I took any chance I got to torment the frog? Yes.
Did I care? Nope.
Did I find it amusing? Yes, yes I did. And I am certain Sesshomaru did as well.
A-Un was good company when Sesshomaru wanted to just walk in quiet, the dragon was beautiful and gentle. I found it interesting that one head can spew Thunder/Lightning and the other fire, It made me curious in how that worked, sadly I knew Sesshomaru would not have appreciated me dissecting his dragon so I had to leave it alone.
Alas.
At the moment, I was riding on the dragon as we had to take flight, dozing off and enjoying the scenery. I was humming a song I faintly remembered my father singing to me when I was little, it was soothing and a way to remember him by, it brought back happy memories for me.
Ba-dump.
Startled, I brought my hand up over my heart, a slight pinprick of pain came out of no where. I furrowed my brows, what the hell was that? I thought, pursing my lips. I shrugged and decided to think on it later, instead focusing on paying attention as to where we were going, I had to admit that seeing japan from up high was really something.
CRACK.
"Ah!" I gasped as I bent over, a bigger flare of pain went through me and I had no idea as to what that was. I felt like I was on fire, all I could hear was my blood pumping and my heart racing. It felt like something was cutting me up, healing quickly, then doing it over and over again then adding acid to the wounds. I felt my muscles start to spasm, and I think some were tearing at the fiber level. A-Un seemed to have picked up that something was wrong, because started to shift and buck a bit, gaining the others attentions. Gritting my teeth, I looked up when I saw Sesshomaru's attention was on me, his brows furrowed in confusion as to why I was bent over.
He was saying something, but I couldn't hear him, I wasn't focused enough to read his lips and one of the strings on Kagome's bracelet had snapped. What the hell is happening?!
A little earlier elsewhere...
Kagome's day had taken a turn for the worst, it was one thing in trying to find the witch that had stolen Kikyo's remains, it was another thing to get kidnapped by said witch who thought she was the reincarnation of said priestess. She was tied up and put into some herbal pool, taking glances at the body of the dead priestess that was just there.
It was really fucking creepy.
"How many times do I have to say it for you to understand!? I'm not some reincarnation or whatever!" Kagome yelled out in frustration, a little miffed that she couldn't move and reach her sisters pocket knife she had decided to carry after that incident with the thunder brothers. "How are you going to take responsibility if you wrong, huh?!" she yelled out, scowling as the witch just stared down at her.
"Hn!?" The witch- Urusue- took a closer look at her, making Kagome scrunch up her nose. "This light is from a Shikon fragment you're carrying!?" she said in amazement, startling Kagome, before reaching out to get it. "What incredible Fortune! I will take it-"
Kagome freaked out slightly, scared about what would happen with both her soul and the shard if witch got them. "N-NO! YOU MUSN'T!" she yelled, squeezing her eyes shut. Only to open them back up when she heard an electrical charge and a yelp. Kagome was amazed in seeing a red dome around her, "H-Huh?"
"A barrier?!" Urusue hissed in confused anger. Her eyes narrowing down at Kagome and zooming in on a glowing ring and necklace, "From a ring and necklace?"
"H-Huh?" Kagome muttered, looking down at her hand that held the ring her sister had given her- Along with the talisman necklace- when she was little were glowing. She was surprised in how warm it was, a sensation of protection and love came around her.
"Who are you?!"
Kagome looked back up at the exclamation, starring at the back of a young looking woman standing protectively in front of the casket. Kagome noticed that she could slightly see through her, and that...there was something familiar about her.
The woman didn't answer, only glared at the witch and preventing her from taking Kagome's soul. She did, however, turn her head in worry when Kagome started to feel pain as her soul leaked out, strengthening the barrier a bit to hold it inside.
When Kagome had peeked open her eye's, wanting to know why this spirit woman was helping her, she froze in shock.
Black eye's stared down at and met her brown, similar hair to her own framing the woman's face, and a familiar face had concern written on it.
W-Who is this? Was all she could think. This woman looked like someone she knew, like her father, but her father was dead and wasn't a woman. Maybe it was an ancestor of theirs? It would explain why the woman had similar feature to her father.
"It's a ring, that I made you."
Kagome was startled at the sudden memory entering her mind.
"Grandfather and Father were teaching me incantation's today, so I thought I would carve one of them into a ring and give it to you, for protection." Her sister smiled warmly down at her, hair in a bun and bow at her side, Kagome had always admired how beautiful her sister looked, even if her eye's freaked others out.
She remembered that day, glancing own at the ring on her finger, then to the woman.
"It's so that you will always have a piece of me with you, no matter where you go."
Kagome didn't have much time to think on why the ring her sister gave her seemed important when the pain grew again, this time her soul was coming out of her body. And the only reason it was not in kikyo was because the spirit of this woman was keeping it in place.
Kagome thought she was going to throw up.
It was when Inuyasha had turned up that thing started to get out of hand.
A voice had appeared in Kagome's head, begging for her name not to be said, while at the same time the woman had seemed to tense and stare down at her, before turning to glare at the hanyou.
Inuyasha, not knowing what was happening, kept staring at kikyo. "...K...Kikyo..." he said.
Kagome's whole body froze up, she felt something crack her resolve to fight. The spirit gave a noiseless snarl as her barrier broke, turning murderous eyes towards the half-breed who just seemed to notice something was wrong with Kagome.
"OOOH~! The barrier has broken!?" Urusue said in satisfaction.
"Kagome!?" Inuyasha shouted out in concern, not knowing what was happening. He watched as orbs of light shot out of her body and into the sky, gathering into a giant sphere. "Wha-What's happening?!"
"It's the girl's soul," Urusue stated, making the boy look at her as she smirked. "It had summoned a being who erected a barrier to keep her soul in place, refusing to come out you see." she then pointed, making Inuyasha follow with his eyes and was surprised to see a young woman standing in front of Kagome. She seems to have a slight resemblance to Kagome, Inuyasha noted in wonder, eye's looking over the priestess clothing. He gulped when he met eye's with the spirit, a little afraid of the murderous obsidian eyes glaring at him. "However, just as you called kikyo's name her feelings were confused, and her resolve wavered in her connection with the spirit enough for her soul to shatter the barrier...Which is quite convenient for me. That spirit must either be skilled or powerful enough to be able to hold in such a big soul." she then stepped towards kikyo's body, waving her scythe towards her to direct the soul.
The spirit seemed to have ignored everything that was happening, instead turning it's see-through body towards Kagome with conviction. Her hands raised over the body, making a faint red glow appear around them both just as a small fox child came over. She gave a quick glance at him before focusing back on the pale girl. Luckily the spirit had been able to stop a small amount of her soul from leaving, and was currently keeping it inside of Kagome. Sadly the spirit realized that it was not enough to save her, and that if she did not get kagome's soul back soon then she would die.
A cold glare made it's way onto the fair face at the thought, only to soften when she saw the fox child and an old woman take Kagome's body out of the casket and try to help her. She concluded that they were not a threat, thus having no reason to be hostile towards them.
"Who are ye?" the elder asked the spirit, who either did not bother to answer or was unable to. Kaede watched as the spirit looked to her, then to Kagome, before turning around and heading towards her sister and Inuyasha. To say she was just glad that the spirit stopped looking at her with those eyes was an understatement. Kaede wondered what it was doing as it neared the two lovers, with Inuyasha holding kikyo's wrists up, who were seemingly arguing on who betrayed who. It was just as the two seemed to be calming down when Kaede saw the spirit behind her sister, and thrusting it's hand into kikyo's body.
"A-AAAAAAAAH!" Kikyo screamed out in pain.
"KIKYO!" Both Inuyasha and Kaede screamed out in worry. "YOU SONNAVA' BITCH!" Inuyasha yelled out in anger and took a swipe at the woman, only to be repelled by by a blast of spiritual energy from her hand. He was sent skidding across the floor, away from kikyo, and hit a boulder.
Kikyo, meanwhile was breathing heavily, struggling to get up from where she fell to the floor and looking behind her up at the woman who did this to her. She shuddered from those eyes that seemed to see every dirty little secret she had ever had. Quicker then kikyo could see, the spirit had grabbed her by the throat and held her up, she struggled to get free, even going as far to try and use her power on the spirit. Yet, the spirit didn't move, resolve and determination along with hate in her eyes as she just tightened her grip.
Unimaginable pain course through her, her mouth flying open as she screamed, the spirit's arm plunged back into her body before slowly taking it back out. Kikyo could see that the woman was taking out her soul. My soul, it's being dragged out of me?! NO! She thought in alarm, "N-NO! I-I WON'T ALLOW I-IT!" She yelled.
"LET GO OF HER!" Inuyasha yelled, distracting the spirit for a second. That was all kikyo needed to pulse out more of her power, successfully knocking the spirit away from her.
But it was too late.
The spirit had managed to get a part of kagome's soul out, causing the rest of the soul to follow the hole left behind and start to return to kagome's body. Kikyo panicked, she didn't want to go back into Kagome, she wanted her revenge! She saw the sadistic smile that was on the spirits face, it seemed satisfied with the pain that kikyo was going through.
She could see that the spirit was going to do so much worse then she already has. Kikyo decided to get out of Kagome's, and especially the spirits, range to save what little soul she had left to keep on living.
Inuyasha had run after the dead priestess, and all that was left was the spirit, Kaede, the fox, and Kagome.
"Hn, Disgusting filth."
Kaede was startled by the sudden female voice, she looked up to see that the spirit looking towards the direction kikyo and Inuyasha went. "I beg ye pardon?"
The woman just cast an uncaring glance at her, "That priestess is long dead, clinging to a life that is not her's, for something as trivial as this." She stated with a sneer. "She is lucky that the half-breed intervened, else I would have made her suffer for taking and refusing to let go of that which was not hers." she growled towards the end. Her face twisting into a cruel smile, "I should have made her scream."
Kaede never felt such terror before from simple words, shippo had taken to hiding behind her, close to tears.
The spirit's face then softened as she looked down at Kagome, she knelt down and cupped the teens face gently. "Kagome, you have grown into such a beautiful young woman, I cannot wait for the main body to see you." she said softly, a small smile on her face.
"...Main body?"
She looked towards Kaede, "I am a fragment of a soul, summoned from the main body when Kagome was distressed, and now I am to be put into this ring to protect her for when she is in endangered most." she explained, her body glowing a faint red and starting to vanish. "If you ever meet my main body, then I shall give you fair warning about her, old woman, that if something has happened to Kagome like today then she will slaughter you and everyone associated." Kaede's eyes widened in alarm, "Even if they did not directly cause it, and tried to save her only to make it worst, then..." She leaned over, a dark aura radiating off of her. "They. Will. Perish." She whispered sinisterly, "Be it man, woman, elderly, or child. Any who hurts Kagome will wish for the sweet release of death."
And with that, she was gone. Leaving a terrified elder and fox demon.
I'm not sure how long it was that I endured the pain, not knowing what was happening around me, before I got a bit of sense back. It was enough for me to reach into my bag and grab one of the medical plants I brought along, eating one raw that could act as a pain killer. Ten minutes later and the pain was practically gone, letting me sigh in relief and noticing that I was on the floor. We seemed to have stopped next to a large river, right next to the tree line of a forest, a little upwards in the river was a small waterfall, and to the side from the water fall looked like a natural onsen.
"I see you have come back to your senses." the low voice of Sesshomaru drawled, making me look over and see sitting against a tree. His amber eyes looked me over, no doubt trying to see any signs of whatever the hell that was coming back.
"...It...would seem so..." I stated softly, my throat raw and scratchy. I grimaced, was I yelling? I thought as I got up into a sitting position. I noticed that he was still starring at me, obviously waiting for me to tell him why I suddenly seemed to have a heart attack out of no where. "I...Do not know what had just happened to me, my lord. This is the first time that has ever happened to me," I started explaining, pausing as I reached into my bag and taking out a flask of water and drinking. "and I know it was not a heart attack, it didn't feel like anything was wrong with my heart...but more over my soul...?" I mused, gaining a curious look from Sesshomaru.
"WHAT KIND OF ANSWER IS THAT?!" Jaken screamed, making me turn my head a bit to see him a few feet away from lord Sesshomaru.
"Oh, I had forgotten about the frog." I said, causing a vein to appear on the demons head.
"FOR THE LAST TIME, I AM NOT A FROG!" he yelled, stomping his little feet in a fit. It just made me laugh a bit. He growled before pointing his stubby finger at me, "AFTER YOU CAUSED SUCH AN INCONVENIENCE TO TO MY LORD, THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO OFFER?! OF ALL THE THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD I-BWUAGH?!"
He was cut off when lord Sesshomaru threw a rock at him, knocking the frog out cold.
"Explain." was all he said. I rose my brows at that, he didn't even look at Jaken when he threw that rock, Impressive. I thought with a smile.
"Well, It felt as if...a part of my soul was being torn out." I said, my hand coming to rest on top of my heart, scrunching up my face in thought. "In fact, I felt as if it had happened twice."
"Twice?" he asked, I nodded, before his face got that thoughtful look. "...Interesting..." he muttered as he got up from his sitting position and walked over. When he was beside me, he knelt and observed me. He seemed to have found something since his brows furrowed slightly, "...oh?"
"Hn? What is it, Sesshomaru?"
"You seem to be weaker." he stated, causing my eyes to widen in alarm. I frowned, closing my eyes and focusing on my spiritual energy to see what had been taken.
"...a sizable chunk of my spiritual power has been drained from me..." I said, before opening my eyes back up in worry. I was fully rested and had only been using a small bit of my power, mostly on Jaken, so it doesn't make sense when suddenly a portion of my energy was used up.
"Whatever did this, may have caused you pain by taking some of your energy." He stated, not at all pleased by the prospect of someone or something being able to do this without him detecting it. "Hmp. Make sure this does not happen again," he ordered while standing back up, deciding to do one of his vanishing acts he has done sometimes. "Stay and rest, I will not have a pack member travel in such conditions." I watched until he disappeared from sight into the trees.
"...Oya? I think this is his way of telling me he is worried." I mused with a giggle, deciding to not try my luck in teasing him and instead laid back down to rest.
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"...Wait a minute...'Pack' member?" I questioned to no one.
Sesshomaru had gone and traced back to where she had suddenly screamed out in pain. He did not like that someone had hurt what was his without him being able to do anything about it, especially when he was right there in front of her.
He did not have experience when it came to tending someone, that was left to the servants at the castle, so he had ordered Jaken to. Nothing the imp did seemed to have worked, she was still clutching her chest and curled up, so Sesshomaru had to just sit and endure hearing her whimper in pain. It had occurred to him that he had never seen Kaname in such pain before, seen her lose her composure like this. Sure, she had hissed once when she got slashed by the ogre years ago, and he has seen her shed small tears once when she realized that her family was gone, he had even seen her eyes water when she had stubbed her foot on a wooden box, then curse the high heavens as she decided to take out her pain by pushing sayuri beyond her limits.
But never had he seen her in such a weak state before.
And it annoyed him to no end that he felt so...Helpless and worried in the situation. Why would he feel like that? He knew Kaname was a strong mortal, she would pull through this and be fine, she had grown stronger since the ogre. He wouldn't have let her come if he didn't think she could handle such things, like pain.
And he was proven right when he had seen her reach into her bag and grab a herb for pain, she was fine within a short few minutes.
So why the hell was he worried?
He glared at nothing in particular as he searched the area her pain had started at, for any signs of the cause. "...Hmp." he hummed, finding nothing that would cause Kaname to go into such a state. So, he decided to kill some time before he went back, he hadn't hunted anything decent for a while. Sesshomaru thought he would rectify that, thinking it would also serve to quell his frustration.
For now.