It's a Small World

By Enchanted Angel

Chapter 3: Close Call

AN: I'm so sorry for the late posting, but with me making the tennis team and daily practices, I barely have time for anything….plus, my grades are slipping, so I might be grounded from the computer, phone, TV, radio, and not allowed to go out….so, I'm sorry if I do….

I looked at him strangely, but I gingerly crawled into the seat next to him. I reached up for the door and yanked it back down.

"No! They are automatic doors." Sesshoumaru said to me pushing one of the many buttons on his side of the dashboard.

I immediately let go and watched the door come down by itself in wonder. I sat back in the tan leather seat and grabbed the seatbelt behind me and strapped it on. He did the same and changed the gear.

"Let's go…." He whispered opening the garage door.

VROOM!!

He floored the petal and we were shot out of the garage at acceleration speeds faster than possible – to me.

My eyes widened and I cried out as he swerved on a curve on his long driveway.

"Slow down!" I shouted over the roar of the motor.

He laughed.

I looked over to see a maniacal grin on his face.

My knuckles turned white at the death grip I had fastened on the handle above my head.

***

By the time we pulled up in front of my office, I was breathing hard and I was a little nauseous.

I pushed a button that caused the door to swing it up and I grabbed my suitcase by my feet and jumped out.

"Sorry about that Kagome…." He mumbled a little embarrassedly. "I'll try to slow down more…."

I raised an eyebrow.

"Okay." I said simply.

"My meeting ends at…." He checked his watch. "8." He finished. "I can pick you up if work ends at that time?"

"I'm pretty sure, thanks Sesshoumaru." I said turning and walking to the building, ready for my first day of work.

***

I sighed and walked out of the dark building. The street was deserted. I checked my watch, it read: 7:54.

'If Sesshoumaru doesn't come by 8:05, I'll catch a Metro….' I decided.

It had ended up my boss was Miroku….he kept on hitting on me.

'Stupid lech…' I thought as I put my suitcase down and waited.

***

I checked my watch. It was 8:06.

"Oh well, I'll walk to the bus station, it's just several blocks." I said softly and picking up my suitcase.

I had only walked a block before I heard footsteps behind me, the hair on my neck prickled and goosebumps shown on my skin. My breathing accelerated and I tried to walk a little faster without it being noticeable that I knew I was being followed.

'Get to a crowded area Kagome….' I thought.

But there were none.

'Shit.'

I started to walk faster, so did the person behind me. Panicking, I broke into a run, as did the person behind me.

"Slow down baby! I just wanted to play with you!" a rough voice said behind me.

I ran faster, not even knowing where I was going. I ran into a dead end.

I whirled around just to be grabbed by the shoulders of a middle-aged man who was overweight and smelled of beer and cigarette smoke.

"Let me go!" I shouted, hoping someone would hear me.

He put a greasy hand around my mouth.

"Shut up bitch!" he said slapping me across the face.

The metallic taste of blood filled my mouth as my punctured lip bled along with my nose.

I spat at him and kneed him in the groin, and then I spun around in his arms and kicked off the wall, sending him backwards and onto his back.

I started to run but he grabbed my ankle and made me trip and fall.

"Damn whore! You're going to pay for that!" he cried out reaching out and grabbing me by the throat and lifting me up off the floor.

Choking, I kicked at him, but he seemed immune to them and he didn't budge.

I screamed as best as I could, but only succeeded in him squeezing tighter.

I could do nothing until he stopped choking me.

I just prayed that it would be soon….

~*~

I got out of the meeting at 8:10.

'I hope Kagome didn't leave, she's going to get mugged or even worse….because she's so pretty….wait, what?' I thought driving as fast as the speed limit would allow me to. There was this sick feeling in the bottom of my stomach that she wasn't….

My heart almost stopped when I saw no one standing at the office.

"Damnit!" I said, revving the engine and driving off down to the nearest bus station.

I turned down the rock song playing called "Too Bad" by Nickelback and opened the windows so I could hear things.

I heard a strangled yell.

Kagome.

I parked the car sloppily and ran as fast as I could towards the sound.

The sight I saw was enough to change me into a demon.

An old man was about to rape Kagome, when his hand was around her throat.

He was ravaging every inch of her bruised body.

"Sick bastard…." I whispered.

I growled and ran towards him with poison in my claws and slashed at his throat with my claws.

I caught Kagome before she fell do the ground and kicked the man on the floor with the poison running through his veins like lightning. 

I snarled, fighting to control my temper and kicked him, satisfied with the sickening crunch of his ribs cracking.

Her clothes were dirty and torn, so I just carried her to my car and put her in the seat beside me. I took off my shirt and put it on her and strapped her up.

"Sesshou….Sesshoumaru…." she whispered, tears running down her cheeks. "He nearly….he…." she broke off in the middle of her sentence and sobbed.

She leaned her head on my bare shoulder and cried. I stared at her but made no move to comfort her.

'What was I supposed to do?'

She soon fell asleep, so I strapped her up, then drove back home. Slower.

***

I carried her up to her room, receiving curious stares from my butlers.

I looked around cautiously for Rin, but they had sent her to bed.

Thank God….

I asked a maid to help Kagome bathe and get cleaned up before she could sleep, she was covered in mud and reeked of that sick old bastard that attempted to rape her.

In the mean while, I also took a shower….

As I stepped into the hot water, lots of different thoughts went through my head.

I knew I was attracted to Kagome right when she came. I had checked her out at the airport!

But to this extent?

When she cried on me, I didn't push her off….I should have….

Even if she had been through a lot, I would have never let anyone else do that.

Why is that?

I lathered up my hair and watched the bubbles go down the drain as I rinsed.

'I know I've known Kagome before, but this is just ridiculous.' (AN: Don't ponder on that too long, you'll understand later when things wrap up)

I disregarded it and continued showering.

***

When I finished, I wrapped myself in a bathrobe and went to check on Kagome. I knocked on her door.

"Come in." she said weakly.

I opened the door. She was dressed in a pink bathrobe and was sitting on the bed, staring at nothing.

I stepped in and walked over to her.

"Go to sleep Kagome." I said patting the pillow.

Tears were silently running down her cheeks, but she laid down and pulled the covers up.

"Go to sleep." I said getting up. But she grabbed my hand.

"Don't leave. Please don't. I don't want to be alone…." She whispered.

I nodded and sat back down next to her on the bed. I planned on waiting until she fell asleep.

"You're just going to leave when I fall asleep." She said softly. Even in the dark, I could see the tears glistening at the corners of her eyes.

I sighed and laid down next to her and got under the covers.

She was shivering. Not with cold. With fear.

"It's okay Kagome." I said.

She uttered a choked sob and curled up into my body and cried.

"I was so scared…." She whispered.

I didn't say anything and let her cry it out. She needed to release this from her body. I just waited for her to stop crying and for her to go to sleep.

Her breathing soon became deep and even and her sniffles stopped.

I got up quietly and went to my room.

~*~

I woke up and shivered.

He left.

'Well, I couldn't have expected to have him sleep with me….' I thought as I got up to brush my teeth.

***

I sat next to Sesshoumaru in the limo as we sat in traffic. He didn't feel like driving today.

I opened the door and got out as did he.

"Kagome, stay inside the building. I'll come to you. What's the code to get in and what office number?"

"Okay, the code is 47116 and my office number is Suite 43 Floor 3. Here's a spare key to my office room and the elevator code is 4191."

***

I sat there at the desk in front of the computer, desperately trying to concentrate.

But my thoughts kept on drifting to Sesshoumaru….

~*~

I sat at my desk flipping through my paperwork. I took my reading glasses off and put them down. I sighed and rubbed my temples.

Kagome kept nagging me at the corner of my mind.

'I can't like her. She's human, Inu Yasha's ex-mistress. I can't.' I thought.

'I have to push her out of my mind.'

'Stop showing so much emotion towards her. You act like a schoolboy in love. You're Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands. Previously….'

"Concentrate…." I whispered putting on my glasses. "You can't think about her anymore, she's human."

'HIDE YOUR FEELINGS IF YOU HAVE TO!' I thought.

"You can't show her this weakness….'

***

I asked my limo to drive down to Kagome's office and wait for us outside.

I stepped out of the car and walked to the front. The door was locked so I pushed in the code and it granted entrance.

I stepped into a marble hallway with three different wings, but I went straight to the elevator and pushed the UP button. I stepped in and examined the control pad.

Sure enough, you needed codes to get to different levels.

I typed in the code and waited patiently for it to go to level 3.

I walked down the long hallway with doors on either side.

35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43….

I paused in front of her door and pushed the key into the lock and turned. Then I turned the knob and stepped inside.

It was a spacious suite, except the fact that there was a man on one knee, kneeling down before Kagome and asking her "Will you bear my child?". He had short black hair and smelt of desperateness. I grew suspicious immediately.

He looked up and was surprised that I was here.

"Who's he?" he asked looking at me.

"Sesshoumaru!" Kagome said smiling at me and getting up.

"Sorry, Miroku, I'm going to go now. Bye!" she said grabbing her suitcase and getting up.

She walked over to me and smiled.

"Who's he?" I asked in my old monotone.

Her smiled faltered.

"My boss, he's a big lech." She whispered.

"I heard that!" Miroku said.

I shook my head. "Let's go."

Her smile disappeared, but she followed me out the door and to the elevator.

***

'You can't show her your weakness for her….'

I thought to myself in the elevator.

"Sesshoumaru, what's wrong?" she asked me looking at my cold and rigid exterior.

"Nothing." I said in a deadpan voice.

She knew that was the end of the subject.

'You don't like her Sesshoumaru, push her away, the only things that matter to you is your work and Rin….'

We walked silently out of the elevator. She was trailing behind a little bit.

I sighed. I couldn't live my life like this….not with her so close to me….

'But you have to….it's not her that matters anymore, your company will fail if you don't shape up.…' that annoying voice said in my head.

I nodded to myself.

'If that's what it takes, that's what I'll do….'

AN: Whoa, weird chapter. Weird ending too! Full House Chapter 12 shouldn't be far behind this one! ^_~