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Chapter 3: two guests

By the time they landed Kagome was freezing. Sesshomaru noted her shivers, and wondered why she wore something that didn't keep her warmer. Once the cloud disappeared, Sesshomaru's voiced echoed throughout the castle calling "JAKEN!!" Kagome winced and covered her ears until the haggard looking servant came running down the steps. Sesshomaru was radiating with rage. "I haven't given you any major duties after your resent ~~umm~~ lapse. Why can't you even wait for my return?" The green toad demon immediately started mumbling his deepest apologies as well as giving endless excuses, but Sesshomaru didn't wait to hear what he had to say. "This miko," gesturing to Kagome, "is to be treated with the utmost hospitality. Get her whatever she wants." The toad bowed low hoping that his master would not kill him. Then Sesshomaru turned to Kagome. "I am fearful for your safety while you are here, so after Jaken takes you to your room I would recommend that you stay in your room. Should you be hungry or want to wash, I will send a female to help you. She will take you to me in the morning. At that time we can discuss business." Kagome nodded and he left her in the care of Jaken.
Once Sesshomaru had left, Jaken sneered at Kagome. He did not like being in charge of a second human. 'I wonder if she will be as mean to me as the last one was.' He, however, quickly recovered himself and guided her to one of the guest rooms. Once inside, Kagome was surprised to see such a very nicely furnished room. She longing looked over the tapestries, upholstering, and over stuffed pillows. All was made of the finest quality and 'fit for a queen'. Why had she thought? 'Bad Kagome! Remember that you are in love with~~' she started to sob as her thought ended. He hated her, and she knew it. With that thought she threw herself on the futon and cried herself to sleep.
Sesshomaru had gone directly to his library, and plopped into a chair. Today had been tiring, but now he had to figure out a way to convince the human to help him. 'Human. I wonder why I haven't been so stern with her. Normally I don't even bother to be polite. Why did I invite her to spend the night? Am I going soft?' The poor demon was scratching his head. Was it because of Rin? At the thought of the rambunctious human child, he started crying. He didn't even care if someone saw his weakness. 'Heaven help Naraku when I get a hold of him. He will pay for Rin's death.'
There came a nock from outside the library. Sesshomaru smelled Naru, and quickly masked the smell of salt before telling her to enter. "I am sorry to disturb you milord," Naru began, she had smelled his tears from down the hallway, but didn't criticize. The death of Rin had hurt everyone who knew her. She truly added life to the castle. "but you wanted me to inform you about the miko once she had become settled." This brought him out his thoughts.
"Yes is she comfortable?"
"Milord, when I went to her room I found her crying in her sleep. I did not disturb her." Sesshomaru stiffened, and shook his head. For some reason he did not like hearing of her distress. He realized that Kagome ~~ 'again why do I call her by her name? She is only human.' ~~would need to be happy here if she were going to be at her full potential when fighting Naraku.
"Let me explain something to you, so that you can help her with her pain." (I won't bother you with the details of what happened to Kagome so far!) "And so I've brought her here to help me fight Naraku." Naru nodded slowly, taking in all that her master had said. Sesshomaru wasn't one to easily trust, but Naru was one the few he did. Naru knew he esteemed her and so she breathed deep and slow, taking in her master's scent, and assessing how tactful she should be. She could tell that he was nervous, even anxious to hear her response, so she did not express her concerns about her not agreeing to help.
"If she is going to be useful in a fight, she will have to use a sword at the very least." She wanted to say more, but felt that he wouldn't be open to all of her doubts. Sesshomaru saw the wisdom in what she said, but before he would address her training he needed to talk about protection.
"I will see to it that she learns the sword. Now on to the other matter on my mind, who do I assign to protect her?" Naru was surprised by this, but couldn't suggest anyone, so she didn't say anything. Then suddenly she got an idea.
"Milord, you currently have two guests in the castle. Why not pair them."
Sesshomaru opened his mouth in protest, but he suddenly caught Naru's meaning. "Naru I want you to bring Kagura to me. I think I shall be able to solve two problems at once. After you have brought Kagura, I want you to wake Kagome and get her whatever she needs. I will want her to be ready to speak with me by this afternoon; so, do not dawdle." Naru bowed and left her master deep in thought.

Hello everyone. I hope you are enjoying the story so far. I feel horrible about killing Rin off, but I need Sesshomaru to be devastated. I will try to explain how it happened in the next chapter, but this story seems to flow by itself. I have come up with a title, (Emotions and the Emotionless) I will change the title tomorrow, so that you will have had a chance to read this before you can't find it anymore. Again I cannot wait to read your comments, and I want you to be perfectly frank. If you don't like what I've done, tell me so that I try to change it or at least explain it better. Thanks again.