Heh, yeah. I may be typing this today, but that doesn't mean it'll get
uploaded! My aunt has only dial-up, and her Internet doesn't like me, so
I'll have to wait till tomorrow to upload once I get back to my broadband
at home. Bleh. I like that word! Bleh. Hehe.
Disclaimer: Ooh, disclaimer fun! This time it will be. Sage the Wonder Lion!
Sage: /snore/
Me: /pokes Sage/ Sage-y, wake up! I need you to tell all these perfect people something.
Sage: /snore/
Me: /punches Sage/ (screaming): SAGE! WAKE UP!!!
Sage: /snore/
Me: You're hopeless. Useless lion.
Sage: /snore/
Me: Fine then. I don't own Inu-yasha, simple as that! No, you cruddy Microsoft Word! 'Inu-yasha' is NOT spelled wrong! Arrrrgghhh!
Sage: /snore/
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"Are you sure this thing will hold out, Sessho-maru?" (A/N: Grr. I hate spell check.) Kagome asked, walking hesitantly with the help of the Unicorn Staff. She was clinging onto it for dear life with hand, while squeezing the life out of poor Sessho-maru's arm.
"Would. you. let. go," Sessho-maru demanded through clenched teeth. Kagome was wearing on his nerves with her incessant cowardly protests, the main one being,
"But you said I wouldn't be able to walk!"
He had tried to explain to her as best he could that the Dragon magic from the unicorn horn beads would act as somewhat of a magical splint, keeping the spell that numbed her ankles from breaking, and making it possible for her to walk, with a limp of course. Kagome had begun to trust him ever so slightly (A/N: Hehe. 'ever so.' Gods help me!) , but it wasn't trust enough for her to allow herself to believe that this Unicorn Staff Sessho-maru had designed would be capable of supporting her.
"Just trust me. You know by now that I wouldn't do anything to seriously harm you because of something I've done," Sessho-maru said quietly. Jakkin still hadn't accepted Kagome's presence in the castle, and it infuriated him to see or hear Sessho-maru being nice to her. That was the last thing the inu-youkai wanted at the moment: a screaming Jakkin. 'I don't need her feeling unwanted. I know I would have Zira all over me about being kind to her and patient with her,' he thought.
Kagome just nodded. 'How am I supposed to belief that this "Unicorn Staff" has the power to keep me from falling flat on my face? Oh, Sessho-maru would just LOVE that. Then he and his little imp could both have a good laugh at other people's expense!' She thought harshly. Sighing, she thought, 'Maybe I'm being too harsh on him. I mean, he HASN'T hurt me yet, like he said he wouldn't. Maybe he's been telling the truth this entire time. But what does he want? What could he possibly gain from helping me?'
Leaning full onto the Unicorn Staff, Kagome slowly released her death-grip on Sessho-maru. And, miraculously, she could stand without assistance and without pain! It was unbelievable, or at least it seemed to be. 'This can't last forever,' Kagome thought fearfully. 'Eventually, the magic would wear off, right?' The thought of falling to her imminent doom, or rather, imminent embarrassment, scared her even more than actually falling, and her balance went out. Trying to take a step, nervous as she was, Kagome tripped over her own feet and, shocked, started leaning a bit too much to the side. (A/N: Hehe. I love making people fall. No wait. Yes. Exactly, what HAVE I been smokin'?) She finally lost all footing, and would have ended up on her back in the grass of the castle grounds. In his own shock, Sessho-maru caught her by the arms and pulled her back up, but couldn't let go until she said she was all right despite his mind yelling at him to just drop her before Jakkin threw a fit.
Not that Kagome was going to say anything in the near future: shock at Sessho-maru's actions caused her voice to catch. 'He saved me AGAIN! What exactly is going on here!?' She turned nervously to face Sessho-maru, who was staring at her blankly with his hands on her arms. 'Huh? HANDS? But.' she broke off her thought as she looked at his left arm, the one that wasn't supposed to be there. In its place was another demon's arm, just as usual; a white-furred werewolf's arm is what it seemed to be, hideous claws and ripped muscles and all. 'He did it again. Why can't he just accept that Inu-yasha cut his arm off? Well, no harm done I suppose; it's not like he's gutted me with those claws yet.'
Suddenly, Sessho-maru remembered himself and abruptly dropped his hands with that 'Tell anyone and I'll knock your freakin' head off' look.
"Sessho-maru?" Kagome started, and she received a look of 'Oh gods! What do YOU want!?' She flinched under his wide-eyed stared, something she never imagined seeing on Sessho-maru's face. "Sessho-maru, why? Why have you saved me and given me your all just to see me happy again?"
"I- I." Sessho-maru stuttered, not knowing how to tell her. He'd hate himself if he lied to her, but the truth would REALLY send her into shock. He settled for the perfect median, "Y- you'll find out e- eventually."
'Wow. Sessho-maru stuttering. That's something you won't hear ever again Kagome!' Kagome thought confusedly, nodding like she understood what he meant. 'Just smile and nod. Act like you get it. Just smile and nod.'
"C'mon. You have to learn to walk with the Staff if you plan on living here with-" Sessho-maru stopped. 'Right. Tell her she's living with you now. I don't think she would like that very much.'
"Live here with?" Kagome prompted. She really wanted to here Sessho-maru say something else that is totally unbelievable; it was quite enjoyable.
Sessho-maru swallowed hard. 'How do I tell her that she cannot go home? She would ask why, and I could never bring myself to tell her that my reason is because I want her to stay here with me.' He shook his head to clear his mind. 'Now or never. There's no other way.' Looking Kagome straight in the eye, he said as calmly as he could manage, "Live here with. with me. Kagome. I- I don't want you to go home."
Kagome was stunned. 'He DOESN'T want me to go home!? He WANTS me to stay here with him!?' She wasn't sure if she had heard correctly. "E- excuse me? D- did you say you D- DON'T want me to go home?"
Sessho-maru nodded. "I don't." He didn't know how else he could tell her, or how he could even make her stay. After all the trouble and pain he had put her and Inu-yasha through, he knew he was pushing his luck making her trust him as much as she already did. "I'm not sure how else I can tell you. I can only tell you straight out that I don't want you to leave me. I know how much you hate me, after what I've done to you and your friends, and I don't ask that you love me. I just ask that you at least stay. You don't realize how lonely it gets here, with just Jakkin and Zira. I want to have somebody who isn't afraid to tell me no, and who doesn't call me 'Lord' or 'Master' every time they speak to me." He looked away from her eyes. He couldn't tell just yet what that emotion was hiding behind those dark gray eyes, and he probably didn't want to. 'I already know. Anger, hatred, sadness, pity. Pity is the worst. I don't need anyone to feel sorry for me. It feels better for people to hate me than to pity me.'
But, Kagome felt something else besides pity and hatred. 'He not only wants me, but he needs me. He needs a mediator, not a servant or slave, and that's the place he knows I can fill. That's why Sessho-maru's been so kind to me for the past two days,' Kagome thought, looking past Sessho-maru's worried face at the sunset that so beautifully framed the silver-haired demon. She never imagined he could look so kind and caring as he did now. 'He's being nice to me, because he's hoping he can change my mind, and make me think that he really is caring. All so I would stay with him to keep him company. And I don't want to think it, but he even looks. handsome, instead of evil or angry like usual. I can't believe I'm actually thinking he looks handsome. It just doesn't seem to fit Sessho-maru.'
Before she could stop herself, and before Sessho-maru could gain the sense to move and spare his dignity, Kagome had her arms around his waist and her face buried in the fluffy, white boa, his heartbeat rhythmically beating in her ears. It was more comforting than the last time, since there were no thoughts of Inu-yasha. Only the hope that maybe SHE could change HIM instead. Sessho-maru had no choice. He put his werewolf's paw behind her head and began stroking her ebony black hair, while he held her lithe body to his with his real hand. He had never felt loved before, not after his father died, and he had forgotten how it seemed to free one's mind from everything. Even if Jakkin walked right up in front of them and started screaming about disgraces and maintaining one's dignity, Sessho-maru wouldn't have cared. There was nothing in the world at that moment that could have made him care about anything or anyone but Kagome, and how she hadn't, against all odds, been angry with him.
"Kagome, I know you haven't even thought this through and I-" Sessho-maru started, but Kagome cut him off.
"Shut up. Just shut up for once."
Sessho-maru bowed his head and listened to the seemingly distant howling of an infuriated Jakkin, who was deftly kicked by a passing Zira.
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Yaay! There's your third chapter, yo! And thank you to whoever it was (gods, I forget who!) that corrected my sucky grammar in the last chapter! I hate being corrected, but I owe you that, although it may never be fixed, and I really don't care anyways.
Me: Fluffy! You didn't level the school for me!
Sessho-maru: Like I care.
Me: Well I freakin' do, ya moron! I had to sit in that damn gym for three freakin' hours with a buncha loud-ass eighth graders!
Sessho-maru: Cry me a river, wench.
Me: /pulls out the sword that I didn't get for Christmas so decided to steal/ Take it back, loser! Take it back or yer gonna be the world's first headless dog! /falls over backward from the weight of the sword/
Sessho-maru: /rolls eyes/ You've been asking for that.
Me: I'll get you for this, dog-boy! You'll see! Ow, could you find me a chiropractor?
Disclaimer: Ooh, disclaimer fun! This time it will be. Sage the Wonder Lion!
Sage: /snore/
Me: /pokes Sage/ Sage-y, wake up! I need you to tell all these perfect people something.
Sage: /snore/
Me: /punches Sage/ (screaming): SAGE! WAKE UP!!!
Sage: /snore/
Me: You're hopeless. Useless lion.
Sage: /snore/
Me: Fine then. I don't own Inu-yasha, simple as that! No, you cruddy Microsoft Word! 'Inu-yasha' is NOT spelled wrong! Arrrrgghhh!
Sage: /snore/
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"Are you sure this thing will hold out, Sessho-maru?" (A/N: Grr. I hate spell check.) Kagome asked, walking hesitantly with the help of the Unicorn Staff. She was clinging onto it for dear life with hand, while squeezing the life out of poor Sessho-maru's arm.
"Would. you. let. go," Sessho-maru demanded through clenched teeth. Kagome was wearing on his nerves with her incessant cowardly protests, the main one being,
"But you said I wouldn't be able to walk!"
He had tried to explain to her as best he could that the Dragon magic from the unicorn horn beads would act as somewhat of a magical splint, keeping the spell that numbed her ankles from breaking, and making it possible for her to walk, with a limp of course. Kagome had begun to trust him ever so slightly (A/N: Hehe. 'ever so.' Gods help me!) , but it wasn't trust enough for her to allow herself to believe that this Unicorn Staff Sessho-maru had designed would be capable of supporting her.
"Just trust me. You know by now that I wouldn't do anything to seriously harm you because of something I've done," Sessho-maru said quietly. Jakkin still hadn't accepted Kagome's presence in the castle, and it infuriated him to see or hear Sessho-maru being nice to her. That was the last thing the inu-youkai wanted at the moment: a screaming Jakkin. 'I don't need her feeling unwanted. I know I would have Zira all over me about being kind to her and patient with her,' he thought.
Kagome just nodded. 'How am I supposed to belief that this "Unicorn Staff" has the power to keep me from falling flat on my face? Oh, Sessho-maru would just LOVE that. Then he and his little imp could both have a good laugh at other people's expense!' She thought harshly. Sighing, she thought, 'Maybe I'm being too harsh on him. I mean, he HASN'T hurt me yet, like he said he wouldn't. Maybe he's been telling the truth this entire time. But what does he want? What could he possibly gain from helping me?'
Leaning full onto the Unicorn Staff, Kagome slowly released her death-grip on Sessho-maru. And, miraculously, she could stand without assistance and without pain! It was unbelievable, or at least it seemed to be. 'This can't last forever,' Kagome thought fearfully. 'Eventually, the magic would wear off, right?' The thought of falling to her imminent doom, or rather, imminent embarrassment, scared her even more than actually falling, and her balance went out. Trying to take a step, nervous as she was, Kagome tripped over her own feet and, shocked, started leaning a bit too much to the side. (A/N: Hehe. I love making people fall. No wait. Yes. Exactly, what HAVE I been smokin'?) She finally lost all footing, and would have ended up on her back in the grass of the castle grounds. In his own shock, Sessho-maru caught her by the arms and pulled her back up, but couldn't let go until she said she was all right despite his mind yelling at him to just drop her before Jakkin threw a fit.
Not that Kagome was going to say anything in the near future: shock at Sessho-maru's actions caused her voice to catch. 'He saved me AGAIN! What exactly is going on here!?' She turned nervously to face Sessho-maru, who was staring at her blankly with his hands on her arms. 'Huh? HANDS? But.' she broke off her thought as she looked at his left arm, the one that wasn't supposed to be there. In its place was another demon's arm, just as usual; a white-furred werewolf's arm is what it seemed to be, hideous claws and ripped muscles and all. 'He did it again. Why can't he just accept that Inu-yasha cut his arm off? Well, no harm done I suppose; it's not like he's gutted me with those claws yet.'
Suddenly, Sessho-maru remembered himself and abruptly dropped his hands with that 'Tell anyone and I'll knock your freakin' head off' look.
"Sessho-maru?" Kagome started, and she received a look of 'Oh gods! What do YOU want!?' She flinched under his wide-eyed stared, something she never imagined seeing on Sessho-maru's face. "Sessho-maru, why? Why have you saved me and given me your all just to see me happy again?"
"I- I." Sessho-maru stuttered, not knowing how to tell her. He'd hate himself if he lied to her, but the truth would REALLY send her into shock. He settled for the perfect median, "Y- you'll find out e- eventually."
'Wow. Sessho-maru stuttering. That's something you won't hear ever again Kagome!' Kagome thought confusedly, nodding like she understood what he meant. 'Just smile and nod. Act like you get it. Just smile and nod.'
"C'mon. You have to learn to walk with the Staff if you plan on living here with-" Sessho-maru stopped. 'Right. Tell her she's living with you now. I don't think she would like that very much.'
"Live here with?" Kagome prompted. She really wanted to here Sessho-maru say something else that is totally unbelievable; it was quite enjoyable.
Sessho-maru swallowed hard. 'How do I tell her that she cannot go home? She would ask why, and I could never bring myself to tell her that my reason is because I want her to stay here with me.' He shook his head to clear his mind. 'Now or never. There's no other way.' Looking Kagome straight in the eye, he said as calmly as he could manage, "Live here with. with me. Kagome. I- I don't want you to go home."
Kagome was stunned. 'He DOESN'T want me to go home!? He WANTS me to stay here with him!?' She wasn't sure if she had heard correctly. "E- excuse me? D- did you say you D- DON'T want me to go home?"
Sessho-maru nodded. "I don't." He didn't know how else he could tell her, or how he could even make her stay. After all the trouble and pain he had put her and Inu-yasha through, he knew he was pushing his luck making her trust him as much as she already did. "I'm not sure how else I can tell you. I can only tell you straight out that I don't want you to leave me. I know how much you hate me, after what I've done to you and your friends, and I don't ask that you love me. I just ask that you at least stay. You don't realize how lonely it gets here, with just Jakkin and Zira. I want to have somebody who isn't afraid to tell me no, and who doesn't call me 'Lord' or 'Master' every time they speak to me." He looked away from her eyes. He couldn't tell just yet what that emotion was hiding behind those dark gray eyes, and he probably didn't want to. 'I already know. Anger, hatred, sadness, pity. Pity is the worst. I don't need anyone to feel sorry for me. It feels better for people to hate me than to pity me.'
But, Kagome felt something else besides pity and hatred. 'He not only wants me, but he needs me. He needs a mediator, not a servant or slave, and that's the place he knows I can fill. That's why Sessho-maru's been so kind to me for the past two days,' Kagome thought, looking past Sessho-maru's worried face at the sunset that so beautifully framed the silver-haired demon. She never imagined he could look so kind and caring as he did now. 'He's being nice to me, because he's hoping he can change my mind, and make me think that he really is caring. All so I would stay with him to keep him company. And I don't want to think it, but he even looks. handsome, instead of evil or angry like usual. I can't believe I'm actually thinking he looks handsome. It just doesn't seem to fit Sessho-maru.'
Before she could stop herself, and before Sessho-maru could gain the sense to move and spare his dignity, Kagome had her arms around his waist and her face buried in the fluffy, white boa, his heartbeat rhythmically beating in her ears. It was more comforting than the last time, since there were no thoughts of Inu-yasha. Only the hope that maybe SHE could change HIM instead. Sessho-maru had no choice. He put his werewolf's paw behind her head and began stroking her ebony black hair, while he held her lithe body to his with his real hand. He had never felt loved before, not after his father died, and he had forgotten how it seemed to free one's mind from everything. Even if Jakkin walked right up in front of them and started screaming about disgraces and maintaining one's dignity, Sessho-maru wouldn't have cared. There was nothing in the world at that moment that could have made him care about anything or anyone but Kagome, and how she hadn't, against all odds, been angry with him.
"Kagome, I know you haven't even thought this through and I-" Sessho-maru started, but Kagome cut him off.
"Shut up. Just shut up for once."
Sessho-maru bowed his head and listened to the seemingly distant howling of an infuriated Jakkin, who was deftly kicked by a passing Zira.
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Yaay! There's your third chapter, yo! And thank you to whoever it was (gods, I forget who!) that corrected my sucky grammar in the last chapter! I hate being corrected, but I owe you that, although it may never be fixed, and I really don't care anyways.
Me: Fluffy! You didn't level the school for me!
Sessho-maru: Like I care.
Me: Well I freakin' do, ya moron! I had to sit in that damn gym for three freakin' hours with a buncha loud-ass eighth graders!
Sessho-maru: Cry me a river, wench.
Me: /pulls out the sword that I didn't get for Christmas so decided to steal/ Take it back, loser! Take it back or yer gonna be the world's first headless dog! /falls over backward from the weight of the sword/
Sessho-maru: /rolls eyes/ You've been asking for that.
Me: I'll get you for this, dog-boy! You'll see! Ow, could you find me a chiropractor?