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Well I can finally sit down and write (or, to put it more correctly, type). I was going to write last night but I had just gotten back from Catalina and I was exhausted (went to bed at 8:00 pm). Sorry if my chapters are short, I'm trying my hardest. It's my first story on Fanfiction.net and I'm just getting the feel of it. Well I plan on putting a lot of Sessh fluff in this fic so just keep on reading (and reviewing its actually those that will keep me going). It'll come soon.
Well anyway here's chapter 4. Enjoy /\_/\ .
Since the day Sesshoumaru had been brought to her home, Satsuna had gone to treat him everyday. She couldn't understand it, but she enjoyed the rough youkai's company. Her nieces and nephews loved him too, even though he made it clear that he utterly despised them.
He had been bedridden for two weeks now, and Satsuna had been having a hard time caring for him. He was always complaining about all the humans and criticizing the way she was treating his wounds. He would never eat except for once when he was asleep. Satsuna had been chewing the food and putting it in his mouth threw her own. He had woken up and of course he thought she had been kissing him. It turned into a big mess and she had been afraid to go the next day.
Sometimes his constant complaints annoyed her and once she couldn't take anymore so she screamed at him and ran out of the room. She had felt really bad so she came back later and apologized. He had laughed at her, but, somehow, she knew that under his criticism he had appreciated it.
Today she was thinking that maybe she would take him for a walk around the village. If, that is, he was feeling well enough. But she was confident he would be. His recovery had had been incredibly fast, but she guessed that's what you'd expect from a youkai.
She reached his room and walked in. Her little niece, Yuka, was already there, trying to get Sesshoumaru to show her his scars. He looked incredibly annoyed.
Satsuna laughed, "Yuka. What have I told you about coming in here?" she asked the little girl.
"Don't come in unless I'm with you. I know, I know. But he was all alone and I thought that he would be lonely and board. Please don't be angry with me." she said trying to look as cute a she could.
"I'm not angry. Just don't do it again. Okay? Now tell Sesshoumaru good-bye and go play with your cousins."
"Okay. Good-bye Mr. Sesshoumaru. Thank you for spending time with me." She gave him a hug, very much against his will, and ran off.
Satsuna smiled after her. Yuka had always been the more daring of her nieces. She looked at Sesshoumaru whose look of annoyance still played upon his features. 'He's actually quite handsome' she thought to herself. 'What am I thinking he's extremely handsome, no he's gorgeous.'
"Stop acting so heartless." She told him.
He only looked at her his expression unchanging.
She sighed. "Well anyway, how do you feel today?"
His expression changed to one void of emotion, and he looked away. He never answered.
Satsuna always wondered weather he blamed her for his being here. He was always angry at something, but sometimes he surprised her.
"Because, I was thinking that if your well enough I could take you on a walk around the village. Show you some things. It would be good for you to finally get out in the sun. Waddaya say?" she was hoping he would agree to it. She wanted the village to meet him, although she didn't really understand why.
He looked across her, at the door. He seemed to be thinking. "Why?"
"Why?" his question had caught her off guard, "Um, well I don't know it just sounds like fun and like I said getting some sun would be good for you"
"No. Why do you do this for me? I continually show to you how much I hate all of this. The humans, the smell, the food, being in this room. And yet through my constant threatening you still treat my wounds. Why?"
This completely caught her off guard, "um, well. No won else would, I'm sure, and I cant just let you die. And where would Rin be if you died. And, I don't know, you're kind of interesting." She was becoming uncomfortable, why had she kept taking care of him. He is really unappreciative and he had only been mean to her. Yet she still actually wanted to help him.
He sat looking at her for a while. It made her increasingly uncomfortable, yet happy at the same time. His eyes here calm and detached, but beautiful. He looked her up and down then looked at the door again.
Satsuna's heart was beating extremely fast and loud; she prayed that he wouldn't hear it. 'What is he thinking,' she thought. She was scared of what he might reply this time. She had never been so scared in her entire life. She knew that for some reason, if he criticized her now she wouldn't be able to take it.
"I am well enough. I will go with you," was all he said.
She let out a sigh of relief.
"Great. I'll go get your clothes. I washed them a while ago." A huge smile spread across her face. She couldn't contain her joy any longer, it had been hard enough saying what she said while keeping a strait face. She got up and walked out of the room, completely forgetting about trying to get him to eat.
Sesshoumaru looked at his wounds. They had healed a lot, but they still had a long way to go. He slipped his shirt and boa on. He was ready. He sat down and waited for Satsuna.
'Why had her heart been beating so fast?' He thought. He didn't understand. He didn't understand many things. Like the way he couldn't stop looking into her eyes. Or the way he became happier when he smelled her coming.
'She is only human. Nothing more. Filth. Disgusting.' And yet there was something about her, about the way she made him feel that he couldn't put his finger on.
The door opened taking Sesshoumaru from his thoughts. It was Satsuna.
"You ready?" she asked him, a happy bounce in her voice and her eyes shinning with anticipation.
He didn't answer her. He got up and walked with her out the door.
They walked down a long hallway with ink paintings hanging on the walls. They reached another door that was open. Sesshoumaru could see sunlight flooding in. they walked through and he could feel the warmth on his back. So many smells were flooding into him. Some old some new. All disgusting.
Except Satsuna's.
He looked down at her. He was much taller, she only reached his chin. She was good-looking, for a human. But that wasn't saying much.
"Come on" she said and they walked off.
Satsuna showed Sesshoumaru just about the whole town, introducing him to anyone they saw and telling him all about the village. They were about to walk back to Satsuna's house when they saw someone else.
Satsuna stopped and looked up at Sesshoumaru. "I forgot all about my brothers. TA-KA-SHI," she hollered.
He looked in her direction and ran towards them. She jumped in his arms and they embraced.
When they were done Takashi took a look at Sesshoumaru. "Well, Well, Well," he exclaimed, "if it isn't that Youkai we saved." Takashi had had short, blood-red hair. His eyes showed a sense of mischief and his smile displayed the same. He appeared to be older then Satsuna, but was obviously not as mature.
"His name is Sesshoumaru" Satsuna told him in a playful tone.
"I know. I hear enough about you at home. It appears you've met my two daughters, Yuka and Ashita." He told Sesshoumaru.
He had met both of them. Ashita, who was seven, was shy and recluse very unlike her twin sister, Yuka. They both had black hair with a hint of red in it. Yuka's eyes were much like that of her father's, but Ashita's eyes were calmer and more patient. Yuka was always talking her sister into doing many dangerous or mischievous things, but it seemed it was always Ashita who got hurt.
"Where is everyone else?" Satsuna asked her brother.
"They're in the field, having a picnic. I came here to ask if you wanted to come but I couldn't find you. So do you want to?"
"Sure. Sesshoumaru can meet everyone."
And that was it. Much to Sesshoumaru's dismay they began walking toward the field where Sesshoumaru had seen Rin playing with Satsuna's nieces and nephews.
'Wait a minute, Rin,' he hadn't even thought about her. Where was she? Shouldn't Satsuna be watching her?
"Where is Rin?" he asked, carefully keeping the frantic sound out of his voice.
"Oh. She's been staying with my brother, Todori. He has a little girl named Kadul about Rin's age, and two boys a little older but she likes it with them best. Don't worry Todori is my oldest and most responsible brother." She answered him. Her voice was reassuring and all of a sudden it didn't matter to Sesshoumaru that Rin was with these filthy humans.
"How many brothers do you have?" Sesshoumaru asked. He surprised himself because he actually cared.
"Four. And no sisters (lucky me). But I do have my brother's wives. Which helps."
They reached the field and everybody greeted them heartily. Takashi introduced Sesshoumaru and at the sound of his name all of Satsuna's nieces and nephews came running. By now Sesshoumaru knew them all by name for every day at least two of them came to visit him. There was about ten of them, none were older then that.
Sesshoumaru knew all about Satsuna's whole family. He knew that her parents were dead and that all of her brothers were married. He also knew which children belonged to which brother. The only thing he didn't know was which brother was which.
Sesshoumaru was trying to get away from the children when he heard a familiar voice.
"Sesshoumaru-sama," it was Rin. She came running and jumped into Sesshoumaru giving him a hug.
"Rin has missed Sesshoumaru-sama. Rin came all the time to see you, but you were asleep. But now you're better. Rin missed you. Do you want to meet Mr. Todori?" she didn't give him a choice. She grabbed his hand and led him to a man dressed in black outfit. He had black hair that reached his shoulders and was tied in a ponytail like Satsuna's. His eyes were calm and kind and seemed to laugh out loud.
"Mr. Todori, this is Sesshoumaru-sama," Rin said her voice full of excitement.
"Well hello. Good to finally meet the man that my sister and Rin are always talking about."
"You are taking care of Rin?" Sesshoumaru asked him coldly, ignoring Todori's welcome, and even giving him a glare.
"Well, yes, she is having a lot of fun playing with my daughter. I assure you that she is in good hands." Todori answered a little put off by Sesshoumaru's attitude towards him.
Sesshoumaru looked over at Satsuna. She was watching him and smiling. She waved. Her eyes were so beautiful. They were by far her best feature. He walked towards her leaving a baffled and slightly angered Todori behind.
Satsuna's eyes widened. And her expression changed. She was angry at something, and then Sesshoumaru realized that she was angry at him.
"What are you doing. You just left my brother hanging. He was talking to you and you just walked off. You can do that to me but not to my brothers and especially not to Todori. He was only being nice to you!" she said to him, anger in her bell-like voice now.
She had never been angry with him before and he didn't like it at all. It made him frantic, and he couldn't understand why. "You are only humans and are lucky that I have not killed you" in fact he couldn't understand why he hadn't killed them.
"Oh. Is that all we are? For some reason I thought you were better then that." She sounded hurt and wouldn't look at him.
What had he done? He didn't know but it had hurt her and he couldn't stand himself now because of it.
"If you're going to be like that we should go back home." She told her brothers that she was sorry and grabbed Sesshoumaru violently dragging him with her.
They were almost to Satsuna's house and she had said nothing on the way. 'What have I done?' Sesshoumaru thought to himself. He hated this. It agitated him and he still hated himself for hurting her so much. She wouldn't even look at him and he could smell the anger mixing with her sweet scent.
He couldn't take it anymore. He stopped her and tried to look into her eyes but she wouldn't look at him.
"What are you doing!?" she just about screamed.
"Why are you so angry with me?" he asked this time not able to keep the frantic note out of his voice.
"Is it really that bad to be human? Do you hate us that much? What have we done to you?"
So that was it. He didn't think that would have bothered her that much. But why did he care so much anyway. She was only just a human, but there was more to her, a lot more.
"I'm sorry," he said, for the first time in a long time.
She finally looked up at him. Her eyes were so beautiful, but this time tears shone in them. There was a sadness too. He realized that what he had thought about her looks, was an understatement. She was beautiful.
"Don't say it if you don't mean it" she said, the tears threatening to burst from her eyes.
"I'm sorry," he said again and he meant it.
He brushed his hand softly against her cheek as the tears poured from her eyes. She was smiling now and her eyes displayed a happiness that made Sesshoumaru feel.he didn't know, but he liked it.
She took her hand and put it over Sesshoumaru's. She closed her eyes.
He looked at her. The whole village faded away. It was only him and her. He wanted nothing more then to be here with her. He brought her close to him and he could hear her heart beating as fast as it had that morning.
She rested her head against his chest and he took in her scent. It was so sweet and full of her.
He didn't want to let her go, but her hand started to rub his back and she hit one of his wounds. Although her touch was soft it still hurt and he doubled over, breaking the moment.
"Oh!" she gasped. And she immediately went down to help him up. "Come on we've been out for hours you need your rest." And she helped him up.
He looked at her disappointment in his eyes, but she was too busy helping him up to notice. He almost whimpered, but he soon realized that he was trying to get the attention of a human and stopped. He scowled in disgust. But inside he knew he was denying himself something he didn't quite understand.
Well there it is. I guess I can write longer chapters. Really hope you enjoyed. And if you did Review, Review, Review!
PS- How was that for a little fluff? There will be more.
Well I can finally sit down and write (or, to put it more correctly, type). I was going to write last night but I had just gotten back from Catalina and I was exhausted (went to bed at 8:00 pm). Sorry if my chapters are short, I'm trying my hardest. It's my first story on Fanfiction.net and I'm just getting the feel of it. Well I plan on putting a lot of Sessh fluff in this fic so just keep on reading (and reviewing its actually those that will keep me going). It'll come soon.
Well anyway here's chapter 4. Enjoy /\_/\ .
Since the day Sesshoumaru had been brought to her home, Satsuna had gone to treat him everyday. She couldn't understand it, but she enjoyed the rough youkai's company. Her nieces and nephews loved him too, even though he made it clear that he utterly despised them.
He had been bedridden for two weeks now, and Satsuna had been having a hard time caring for him. He was always complaining about all the humans and criticizing the way she was treating his wounds. He would never eat except for once when he was asleep. Satsuna had been chewing the food and putting it in his mouth threw her own. He had woken up and of course he thought she had been kissing him. It turned into a big mess and she had been afraid to go the next day.
Sometimes his constant complaints annoyed her and once she couldn't take anymore so she screamed at him and ran out of the room. She had felt really bad so she came back later and apologized. He had laughed at her, but, somehow, she knew that under his criticism he had appreciated it.
Today she was thinking that maybe she would take him for a walk around the village. If, that is, he was feeling well enough. But she was confident he would be. His recovery had had been incredibly fast, but she guessed that's what you'd expect from a youkai.
She reached his room and walked in. Her little niece, Yuka, was already there, trying to get Sesshoumaru to show her his scars. He looked incredibly annoyed.
Satsuna laughed, "Yuka. What have I told you about coming in here?" she asked the little girl.
"Don't come in unless I'm with you. I know, I know. But he was all alone and I thought that he would be lonely and board. Please don't be angry with me." she said trying to look as cute a she could.
"I'm not angry. Just don't do it again. Okay? Now tell Sesshoumaru good-bye and go play with your cousins."
"Okay. Good-bye Mr. Sesshoumaru. Thank you for spending time with me." She gave him a hug, very much against his will, and ran off.
Satsuna smiled after her. Yuka had always been the more daring of her nieces. She looked at Sesshoumaru whose look of annoyance still played upon his features. 'He's actually quite handsome' she thought to herself. 'What am I thinking he's extremely handsome, no he's gorgeous.'
"Stop acting so heartless." She told him.
He only looked at her his expression unchanging.
She sighed. "Well anyway, how do you feel today?"
His expression changed to one void of emotion, and he looked away. He never answered.
Satsuna always wondered weather he blamed her for his being here. He was always angry at something, but sometimes he surprised her.
"Because, I was thinking that if your well enough I could take you on a walk around the village. Show you some things. It would be good for you to finally get out in the sun. Waddaya say?" she was hoping he would agree to it. She wanted the village to meet him, although she didn't really understand why.
He looked across her, at the door. He seemed to be thinking. "Why?"
"Why?" his question had caught her off guard, "Um, well I don't know it just sounds like fun and like I said getting some sun would be good for you"
"No. Why do you do this for me? I continually show to you how much I hate all of this. The humans, the smell, the food, being in this room. And yet through my constant threatening you still treat my wounds. Why?"
This completely caught her off guard, "um, well. No won else would, I'm sure, and I cant just let you die. And where would Rin be if you died. And, I don't know, you're kind of interesting." She was becoming uncomfortable, why had she kept taking care of him. He is really unappreciative and he had only been mean to her. Yet she still actually wanted to help him.
He sat looking at her for a while. It made her increasingly uncomfortable, yet happy at the same time. His eyes here calm and detached, but beautiful. He looked her up and down then looked at the door again.
Satsuna's heart was beating extremely fast and loud; she prayed that he wouldn't hear it. 'What is he thinking,' she thought. She was scared of what he might reply this time. She had never been so scared in her entire life. She knew that for some reason, if he criticized her now she wouldn't be able to take it.
"I am well enough. I will go with you," was all he said.
She let out a sigh of relief.
"Great. I'll go get your clothes. I washed them a while ago." A huge smile spread across her face. She couldn't contain her joy any longer, it had been hard enough saying what she said while keeping a strait face. She got up and walked out of the room, completely forgetting about trying to get him to eat.
Sesshoumaru looked at his wounds. They had healed a lot, but they still had a long way to go. He slipped his shirt and boa on. He was ready. He sat down and waited for Satsuna.
'Why had her heart been beating so fast?' He thought. He didn't understand. He didn't understand many things. Like the way he couldn't stop looking into her eyes. Or the way he became happier when he smelled her coming.
'She is only human. Nothing more. Filth. Disgusting.' And yet there was something about her, about the way she made him feel that he couldn't put his finger on.
The door opened taking Sesshoumaru from his thoughts. It was Satsuna.
"You ready?" she asked him, a happy bounce in her voice and her eyes shinning with anticipation.
He didn't answer her. He got up and walked with her out the door.
They walked down a long hallway with ink paintings hanging on the walls. They reached another door that was open. Sesshoumaru could see sunlight flooding in. they walked through and he could feel the warmth on his back. So many smells were flooding into him. Some old some new. All disgusting.
Except Satsuna's.
He looked down at her. He was much taller, she only reached his chin. She was good-looking, for a human. But that wasn't saying much.
"Come on" she said and they walked off.
Satsuna showed Sesshoumaru just about the whole town, introducing him to anyone they saw and telling him all about the village. They were about to walk back to Satsuna's house when they saw someone else.
Satsuna stopped and looked up at Sesshoumaru. "I forgot all about my brothers. TA-KA-SHI," she hollered.
He looked in her direction and ran towards them. She jumped in his arms and they embraced.
When they were done Takashi took a look at Sesshoumaru. "Well, Well, Well," he exclaimed, "if it isn't that Youkai we saved." Takashi had had short, blood-red hair. His eyes showed a sense of mischief and his smile displayed the same. He appeared to be older then Satsuna, but was obviously not as mature.
"His name is Sesshoumaru" Satsuna told him in a playful tone.
"I know. I hear enough about you at home. It appears you've met my two daughters, Yuka and Ashita." He told Sesshoumaru.
He had met both of them. Ashita, who was seven, was shy and recluse very unlike her twin sister, Yuka. They both had black hair with a hint of red in it. Yuka's eyes were much like that of her father's, but Ashita's eyes were calmer and more patient. Yuka was always talking her sister into doing many dangerous or mischievous things, but it seemed it was always Ashita who got hurt.
"Where is everyone else?" Satsuna asked her brother.
"They're in the field, having a picnic. I came here to ask if you wanted to come but I couldn't find you. So do you want to?"
"Sure. Sesshoumaru can meet everyone."
And that was it. Much to Sesshoumaru's dismay they began walking toward the field where Sesshoumaru had seen Rin playing with Satsuna's nieces and nephews.
'Wait a minute, Rin,' he hadn't even thought about her. Where was she? Shouldn't Satsuna be watching her?
"Where is Rin?" he asked, carefully keeping the frantic sound out of his voice.
"Oh. She's been staying with my brother, Todori. He has a little girl named Kadul about Rin's age, and two boys a little older but she likes it with them best. Don't worry Todori is my oldest and most responsible brother." She answered him. Her voice was reassuring and all of a sudden it didn't matter to Sesshoumaru that Rin was with these filthy humans.
"How many brothers do you have?" Sesshoumaru asked. He surprised himself because he actually cared.
"Four. And no sisters (lucky me). But I do have my brother's wives. Which helps."
They reached the field and everybody greeted them heartily. Takashi introduced Sesshoumaru and at the sound of his name all of Satsuna's nieces and nephews came running. By now Sesshoumaru knew them all by name for every day at least two of them came to visit him. There was about ten of them, none were older then that.
Sesshoumaru knew all about Satsuna's whole family. He knew that her parents were dead and that all of her brothers were married. He also knew which children belonged to which brother. The only thing he didn't know was which brother was which.
Sesshoumaru was trying to get away from the children when he heard a familiar voice.
"Sesshoumaru-sama," it was Rin. She came running and jumped into Sesshoumaru giving him a hug.
"Rin has missed Sesshoumaru-sama. Rin came all the time to see you, but you were asleep. But now you're better. Rin missed you. Do you want to meet Mr. Todori?" she didn't give him a choice. She grabbed his hand and led him to a man dressed in black outfit. He had black hair that reached his shoulders and was tied in a ponytail like Satsuna's. His eyes were calm and kind and seemed to laugh out loud.
"Mr. Todori, this is Sesshoumaru-sama," Rin said her voice full of excitement.
"Well hello. Good to finally meet the man that my sister and Rin are always talking about."
"You are taking care of Rin?" Sesshoumaru asked him coldly, ignoring Todori's welcome, and even giving him a glare.
"Well, yes, she is having a lot of fun playing with my daughter. I assure you that she is in good hands." Todori answered a little put off by Sesshoumaru's attitude towards him.
Sesshoumaru looked over at Satsuna. She was watching him and smiling. She waved. Her eyes were so beautiful. They were by far her best feature. He walked towards her leaving a baffled and slightly angered Todori behind.
Satsuna's eyes widened. And her expression changed. She was angry at something, and then Sesshoumaru realized that she was angry at him.
"What are you doing. You just left my brother hanging. He was talking to you and you just walked off. You can do that to me but not to my brothers and especially not to Todori. He was only being nice to you!" she said to him, anger in her bell-like voice now.
She had never been angry with him before and he didn't like it at all. It made him frantic, and he couldn't understand why. "You are only humans and are lucky that I have not killed you" in fact he couldn't understand why he hadn't killed them.
"Oh. Is that all we are? For some reason I thought you were better then that." She sounded hurt and wouldn't look at him.
What had he done? He didn't know but it had hurt her and he couldn't stand himself now because of it.
"If you're going to be like that we should go back home." She told her brothers that she was sorry and grabbed Sesshoumaru violently dragging him with her.
They were almost to Satsuna's house and she had said nothing on the way. 'What have I done?' Sesshoumaru thought to himself. He hated this. It agitated him and he still hated himself for hurting her so much. She wouldn't even look at him and he could smell the anger mixing with her sweet scent.
He couldn't take it anymore. He stopped her and tried to look into her eyes but she wouldn't look at him.
"What are you doing!?" she just about screamed.
"Why are you so angry with me?" he asked this time not able to keep the frantic note out of his voice.
"Is it really that bad to be human? Do you hate us that much? What have we done to you?"
So that was it. He didn't think that would have bothered her that much. But why did he care so much anyway. She was only just a human, but there was more to her, a lot more.
"I'm sorry," he said, for the first time in a long time.
She finally looked up at him. Her eyes were so beautiful, but this time tears shone in them. There was a sadness too. He realized that what he had thought about her looks, was an understatement. She was beautiful.
"Don't say it if you don't mean it" she said, the tears threatening to burst from her eyes.
"I'm sorry," he said again and he meant it.
He brushed his hand softly against her cheek as the tears poured from her eyes. She was smiling now and her eyes displayed a happiness that made Sesshoumaru feel.he didn't know, but he liked it.
She took her hand and put it over Sesshoumaru's. She closed her eyes.
He looked at her. The whole village faded away. It was only him and her. He wanted nothing more then to be here with her. He brought her close to him and he could hear her heart beating as fast as it had that morning.
She rested her head against his chest and he took in her scent. It was so sweet and full of her.
He didn't want to let her go, but her hand started to rub his back and she hit one of his wounds. Although her touch was soft it still hurt and he doubled over, breaking the moment.
"Oh!" she gasped. And she immediately went down to help him up. "Come on we've been out for hours you need your rest." And she helped him up.
He looked at her disappointment in his eyes, but she was too busy helping him up to notice. He almost whimpered, but he soon realized that he was trying to get the attention of a human and stopped. He scowled in disgust. But inside he knew he was denying himself something he didn't quite understand.
Well there it is. I guess I can write longer chapters. Really hope you enjoyed. And if you did Review, Review, Review!
PS- How was that for a little fluff? There will be more.