And I'm back!!! After having someone email me and tell me to update, I
figured, what the h*ll? Why not? So, here I am! It's 11:15 at night, and
I'm typing away just for you people, who were kind enough to not hate me...
I feel loved...
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Ch. 6 Meeting Everyone... Should I be scared?
(A/N: I switched it around. I had an idea for what I wanted, but it required Kagome going first. Still love me?)
I don't know what made me do it. I don't know what crawled in my brain, took over, and said possibly the STUPIDEST thing to say to him. And to make it worse, he had agreed!! He really had NO clue what he had just gotten himself into. No, really, he didn't.
He didn't know that he was about to be put through torture so frightening, most youkai won't come near our house. Hell, most of my FRIENDS won't come to my house. And mostly because of the same thing that he's about to go through. Why couldn't I have kept my trap shut? No, really, what was so wrong with just keeping quiet? I HAD to go and say it, didn't I?
He hadn't really been expecting it, I could tell. He had actually looked surprised. Yes, Sesshoumaru, the emotionless Taiyoukai of the Western Lands. Although... I can't call him that anymore. Because he's not. Emotionless, I mean. He still holds the title of the Lord of the Western Lands, but it's just a youkai claim. Humans don't know about it, nor would they recognize it if they did. But demons did. They understood it, and accepted it. After all, no one wanted to mess with the guy 500 years ago, why would they want to mess with him now?
I can't believe I did it. I think he was starting to like me. He made me feel a lot better with the compliment about my friends, him, and Rin not thinking of me as Kikyou. And then he had hugged me. I had enjoyed that, actually. I never thought I'd be hugging him. Then again, who would when all you ever see him in is a white kimono and spiked armor? The kimono wasn't bad, it actually looked good on him, in my opinion, but the armor just SCREAMED 'Death to all Huggers'.
And I HAD to say it. Why? Why me? Why was I cursed with this? He would never talk to me again. EVER. I'd be lucky if I survived tonight. Idiot, Kagome. IDIOT!! Now if he's not scared, he'll be disgusted. Wait, the Great and Powerful Sesshoumaru? Scared? No. Disgusted was right, I'm thinking.
When I find whatever made my mouth say that to him, ask him that, I'm going to beat it to a bloody pulp. If it's lucky, it'll die. Although, I could always ask Sesshoumaru for the Tenseiga to revive and kill it again.
Why. OH WHY. Did I ask him to stay for dinner. With me. And my family. And Shippou.
I must be stupid.
~~*~~ (still in Kagome's P.O.V.) ~~*~~
And he accepted. So now, here I am, up in my room, trying to find something nice, but not TOO nice, to wear to dinner. AT MY OWN HOUSE! But it's the fact that a Demon Lord is going to be at dinner, and I don't want him thinking EVERYONE around here is either crazed or pathetic. Besides, it's not like I'm dressing nice just for HIM. Shippou's coming over. That's a reason to dress up, right?
Right??
Speaking of which, he should be here soon. And poor Sesshoumaru is being forced to talk to my mother. Grandpa would be talking to him, but Mom banished him to his room for trying to cover the prestigious figure with sticky demon wards. And Souta? The twerp ate all my Pocky. His sugar level was so high, we feared more for Sesshoumaru's sanity than Souta's safety.
"KAGOME!! Shippou's here!!" Uh oh. Moment of truth. Please, don't let anyone have a heart attack. Or attack each other. Or anything with the word "attack" in it.
I grabbed one of my favorite dresses, old and worn, but soft and comfortable. Plus, it wasn't so old that the color had faded or it's hems had ripped. No, I just got this dress after I came home, that's all. And it was white, going down to my calves, so if I wore it in cooler weather, I simply wore Inuyasha's haori over it. But I decided against the fire-rat jacket tonight, as it IS Inuyasha's half-brother we're talking about.
Downstairs, I could tell that they hadn't seen each other. Sesshoumaru and Shippou, I mean. Sesshoumaru was sitting calmly in the living room when I passed, flashing him a quick smile. And Shippou was currently talking to my mom about one of his kits' kits. Scary, ne?
"Hey Shippou!!" He turned to look at me, and I have to admit that he is still very cute, but his cuteness has changed. He went from "Oh how ADORABLE!" to "Oh, So HOT!!" But, he was my adopted son, and I treated him as such. Especially when the girls at school would flirt with him. That was fun.
"Kagome!!" I was nearly knocked over when he tackled me for a hug, but he made sure I was okay and balanced before attempting to hug me again. Laughing, we just hugged for a few minutes before Mom cleared her throat. I turned to look at her, and noticed she was tilting her head slightly in the direction of the living room. I hadn't forgotten about him. I just wanted to have one more second of peace before Shippou went absolutely bonkers.
"Come on, Shippou, there's someone you got to meet!" I drug him, really, since his nose was telling him that food was in another direction, and also that this scent we were headed towards was familiar, and probably not very well liked. Oh well, no time like the present, right?
"Sess?" 'Please don't let him kill me for calling him that, please don't let him kill me for calling him that, please don't let him kill me for calling him that, please don't - Is he smiling?' Sesshoumaru stood and turned to face us, but Shippou was busy looking at me.
"'Sess'? Not like in 'Sesshoumaru', right? Right, 'Gome?" I turned to look at the nervous kitsune and held out my hand towards Sesshoumaru.
"Shippou, I'd like you to meet the Taiyoukai of the Western Lands, Sesshoumaru."
~~*~~ (NOW we're in Sesshoumaru's! YAY!) ~~*~~
The kitsune that used to travel with my half-brother? I almost found it hard to believe, but my nose told me that that scent was one of a fox- demon that I had smelled once or twice while fighting Inuyasha. I can't help but wonder if he was as surprised as I was when he found Kagome in this time.
I was actually surprised when she walked past me on the way to the door. I had looked over to where I heard her footsteps, and saw her walking by gracefully, the hem of her dress just brushing against her calves, much more decent that what I can remember her wearing.
And then Kagome had smiled at me before walking by. I had been surprised, but I was too lost in my thoughts and memories to smile back. I had begun to remember the first time I went into a demon rage. Over her.
Some humans had talked about her indecency after she was gone. This had truly angered me. There were very few things I fought over. My land, yes. Anything deemed as my property, yes. And that included Rin and even Jaken. Although the servant I had more than once wanted to kill myself, just to make him be quiet for an hour or two. But her? I didn't even think about it until I had already spilled the man's blood upon the ground. And Rin knew. She said I was a little cruel about it, but that that man was cruel as well. I was glad she was older then. I didn't have to worry about scaring her...
~*~Flashback~*~
"Sesshoumaru!!" I turned around to see an 11-year-old girl run up to me, looking truly upset. She was even crying. I hated seeing her cry. But she was also angry. I could feel her indignation as she made her way to me. Immediately, I stood with my hand on the hilt of Toukijin, curious to see who would be the one to pay for Rin's anger and pain.
"What is it, Rin?" I studied her. She wasn't hurt, she didn't smell of blood, only tears. Tears that some bastard was going to end up broken bone-per-tear over. But what she said not only surprised me, it angered me.
"These men... Jaken and I were sitting near Ah-Un, and I heard them talking about Kagome. I told Jaken I'd be right back, and that I wanted to hear, but Jaken said he could hear them. He told me what they said, although he didn't want to at first. He said he didn't want to make me upset. They called her names, Sesshoumaru. They called her indecent, said she dressed worse than a prostitute, and was probably no better than one. They said that it was no wonder Inuyasha chose that clay woman over Kagome, since her kindness and beauty was all she had. They said that was because she had no brains, and no strength, that she hid behind Inuyasha all the time, and was just a coward, not worthy to be called a miko."
By the end of her speech, my eyes were blood-red, and I was already debating whether to kill them with Toukijin or with my fangs and claws, along with generous amounts of poison. I looked over to Rin, who had become used to my reactions when angered long ago. I was just barely able to growl out the question I wanted to hear, and stayed only long enough to hear her answer.
"Where are they?"
"That way." She pointed north-east, where she had come from. I immediately sped in that direction, my shape changing every second as the thought of the blood of the men who DARED to insult Kagome, the only human I held as high as a youkai beside Rin and the exterminator and monk. But Kagome was different. She wasn't here to defend herself. I was.
I slowly came back to myself, my form gradually becoming smaller as I began to focus on my surroundings. Around me were the forms of drunken, slaughtered men. I could see and smell my poison covering a few of them, only about 4 or 5 out of the ten that were there. I heard a gasp behind me, and spun around to see Rin staring at the bloody field. Slowly, she turned back to me, and I was afraid of what I was going to see there.
What she said surprised me, though.
"Kagome was too nice to have these cruel people ruining her name. That was mean of you, Sesshoumaru, but they asked for it when they talked bad about Kagome. She was the nicest lady I ever met..." Then the tears began to spill again, and I swore that if those men weren't already dead, they would be now. Instead, I simply walked over to her, placed my hand on her shoulder briefly, and walked away, hearing her follow close behind me.
~*~End Flashback~*~
I heard someone clear their throat nearby, and focused back on Kagome and the fox's scents and voices, watching them as they came within eyesight. Kagome was looking almost directly at me, and when I heard her call me "Sess", I couldn't help but smile. She wasn't scared of me. She couldn't be, if she called me that. I watched as the kitsune became slightly panicky, then turned to look at me, fear in his face.
Yes, I recognized him. It WAS the same fox-demon that traveled with my brother and Kagome. That same red hair, that same distinct sugary- scent, the same blue-green eyes filled with fear at the sight of me. The smile grew slightly wider, and I almost laughed at the sight of the shock on the kit's face. When I bowed slightly, he just stared at me, wide-eyed. I doubt his eyes could get much larger.
"You know, it is polite to bow when you meet someone, kit. Just because Inuyasha was rude does not mean you should be." So I was wrong. His eyes COULD grow wider. "I swear to you, I'm not here to harm Kagome in any way. I'm here visiting her, upon her request." Finally, he turned away from me to stare at the young miko whom I held in such high respect.
"KAGOME?! WHAT'S SESSHOUMARU DOING IN YOUR HOUSE!?!?!?"
I thought that was all, but I had failed to notice one thing. Kagome's dress was a scoop-neck. Apparently, she had forgotten as well, as the youkai's eyes landed on the small spot of dark purple on her skin that wasn't covered by the dress. Where I could make out the faint outline of my thumb.
As could he. I wondered if he was stupid enough to attack me in her home.
Then I remembered. He had traveled with Inuyasha.
Immediately, reflexively, I slipped into a defensive stance, waiting for the initial attack.
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Okay!! Well, um, it's about 12:30 now, and I still have to submit, proof-read, remove, re-submit, and then send out the notices, so, g'night! Oh, and please review, and please go by my website, I need entries for the caption contest!!
Also, if you want to be on ANY of my update lists, all you have to do is email or review, and tell me what stories, and your email address. Then, I'll send notices the SECOND I post the next chapter, and if fanfic.net won't let me on for some reason, I send the chapter to the list, so they can at least read it.
Well, here you go, and they're still not mine!!
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Ch. 6 Meeting Everyone... Should I be scared?
(A/N: I switched it around. I had an idea for what I wanted, but it required Kagome going first. Still love me?)
I don't know what made me do it. I don't know what crawled in my brain, took over, and said possibly the STUPIDEST thing to say to him. And to make it worse, he had agreed!! He really had NO clue what he had just gotten himself into. No, really, he didn't.
He didn't know that he was about to be put through torture so frightening, most youkai won't come near our house. Hell, most of my FRIENDS won't come to my house. And mostly because of the same thing that he's about to go through. Why couldn't I have kept my trap shut? No, really, what was so wrong with just keeping quiet? I HAD to go and say it, didn't I?
He hadn't really been expecting it, I could tell. He had actually looked surprised. Yes, Sesshoumaru, the emotionless Taiyoukai of the Western Lands. Although... I can't call him that anymore. Because he's not. Emotionless, I mean. He still holds the title of the Lord of the Western Lands, but it's just a youkai claim. Humans don't know about it, nor would they recognize it if they did. But demons did. They understood it, and accepted it. After all, no one wanted to mess with the guy 500 years ago, why would they want to mess with him now?
I can't believe I did it. I think he was starting to like me. He made me feel a lot better with the compliment about my friends, him, and Rin not thinking of me as Kikyou. And then he had hugged me. I had enjoyed that, actually. I never thought I'd be hugging him. Then again, who would when all you ever see him in is a white kimono and spiked armor? The kimono wasn't bad, it actually looked good on him, in my opinion, but the armor just SCREAMED 'Death to all Huggers'.
And I HAD to say it. Why? Why me? Why was I cursed with this? He would never talk to me again. EVER. I'd be lucky if I survived tonight. Idiot, Kagome. IDIOT!! Now if he's not scared, he'll be disgusted. Wait, the Great and Powerful Sesshoumaru? Scared? No. Disgusted was right, I'm thinking.
When I find whatever made my mouth say that to him, ask him that, I'm going to beat it to a bloody pulp. If it's lucky, it'll die. Although, I could always ask Sesshoumaru for the Tenseiga to revive and kill it again.
Why. OH WHY. Did I ask him to stay for dinner. With me. And my family. And Shippou.
I must be stupid.
~~*~~ (still in Kagome's P.O.V.) ~~*~~
And he accepted. So now, here I am, up in my room, trying to find something nice, but not TOO nice, to wear to dinner. AT MY OWN HOUSE! But it's the fact that a Demon Lord is going to be at dinner, and I don't want him thinking EVERYONE around here is either crazed or pathetic. Besides, it's not like I'm dressing nice just for HIM. Shippou's coming over. That's a reason to dress up, right?
Right??
Speaking of which, he should be here soon. And poor Sesshoumaru is being forced to talk to my mother. Grandpa would be talking to him, but Mom banished him to his room for trying to cover the prestigious figure with sticky demon wards. And Souta? The twerp ate all my Pocky. His sugar level was so high, we feared more for Sesshoumaru's sanity than Souta's safety.
"KAGOME!! Shippou's here!!" Uh oh. Moment of truth. Please, don't let anyone have a heart attack. Or attack each other. Or anything with the word "attack" in it.
I grabbed one of my favorite dresses, old and worn, but soft and comfortable. Plus, it wasn't so old that the color had faded or it's hems had ripped. No, I just got this dress after I came home, that's all. And it was white, going down to my calves, so if I wore it in cooler weather, I simply wore Inuyasha's haori over it. But I decided against the fire-rat jacket tonight, as it IS Inuyasha's half-brother we're talking about.
Downstairs, I could tell that they hadn't seen each other. Sesshoumaru and Shippou, I mean. Sesshoumaru was sitting calmly in the living room when I passed, flashing him a quick smile. And Shippou was currently talking to my mom about one of his kits' kits. Scary, ne?
"Hey Shippou!!" He turned to look at me, and I have to admit that he is still very cute, but his cuteness has changed. He went from "Oh how ADORABLE!" to "Oh, So HOT!!" But, he was my adopted son, and I treated him as such. Especially when the girls at school would flirt with him. That was fun.
"Kagome!!" I was nearly knocked over when he tackled me for a hug, but he made sure I was okay and balanced before attempting to hug me again. Laughing, we just hugged for a few minutes before Mom cleared her throat. I turned to look at her, and noticed she was tilting her head slightly in the direction of the living room. I hadn't forgotten about him. I just wanted to have one more second of peace before Shippou went absolutely bonkers.
"Come on, Shippou, there's someone you got to meet!" I drug him, really, since his nose was telling him that food was in another direction, and also that this scent we were headed towards was familiar, and probably not very well liked. Oh well, no time like the present, right?
"Sess?" 'Please don't let him kill me for calling him that, please don't let him kill me for calling him that, please don't let him kill me for calling him that, please don't - Is he smiling?' Sesshoumaru stood and turned to face us, but Shippou was busy looking at me.
"'Sess'? Not like in 'Sesshoumaru', right? Right, 'Gome?" I turned to look at the nervous kitsune and held out my hand towards Sesshoumaru.
"Shippou, I'd like you to meet the Taiyoukai of the Western Lands, Sesshoumaru."
~~*~~ (NOW we're in Sesshoumaru's! YAY!) ~~*~~
The kitsune that used to travel with my half-brother? I almost found it hard to believe, but my nose told me that that scent was one of a fox- demon that I had smelled once or twice while fighting Inuyasha. I can't help but wonder if he was as surprised as I was when he found Kagome in this time.
I was actually surprised when she walked past me on the way to the door. I had looked over to where I heard her footsteps, and saw her walking by gracefully, the hem of her dress just brushing against her calves, much more decent that what I can remember her wearing.
And then Kagome had smiled at me before walking by. I had been surprised, but I was too lost in my thoughts and memories to smile back. I had begun to remember the first time I went into a demon rage. Over her.
Some humans had talked about her indecency after she was gone. This had truly angered me. There were very few things I fought over. My land, yes. Anything deemed as my property, yes. And that included Rin and even Jaken. Although the servant I had more than once wanted to kill myself, just to make him be quiet for an hour or two. But her? I didn't even think about it until I had already spilled the man's blood upon the ground. And Rin knew. She said I was a little cruel about it, but that that man was cruel as well. I was glad she was older then. I didn't have to worry about scaring her...
~*~Flashback~*~
"Sesshoumaru!!" I turned around to see an 11-year-old girl run up to me, looking truly upset. She was even crying. I hated seeing her cry. But she was also angry. I could feel her indignation as she made her way to me. Immediately, I stood with my hand on the hilt of Toukijin, curious to see who would be the one to pay for Rin's anger and pain.
"What is it, Rin?" I studied her. She wasn't hurt, she didn't smell of blood, only tears. Tears that some bastard was going to end up broken bone-per-tear over. But what she said not only surprised me, it angered me.
"These men... Jaken and I were sitting near Ah-Un, and I heard them talking about Kagome. I told Jaken I'd be right back, and that I wanted to hear, but Jaken said he could hear them. He told me what they said, although he didn't want to at first. He said he didn't want to make me upset. They called her names, Sesshoumaru. They called her indecent, said she dressed worse than a prostitute, and was probably no better than one. They said that it was no wonder Inuyasha chose that clay woman over Kagome, since her kindness and beauty was all she had. They said that was because she had no brains, and no strength, that she hid behind Inuyasha all the time, and was just a coward, not worthy to be called a miko."
By the end of her speech, my eyes were blood-red, and I was already debating whether to kill them with Toukijin or with my fangs and claws, along with generous amounts of poison. I looked over to Rin, who had become used to my reactions when angered long ago. I was just barely able to growl out the question I wanted to hear, and stayed only long enough to hear her answer.
"Where are they?"
"That way." She pointed north-east, where she had come from. I immediately sped in that direction, my shape changing every second as the thought of the blood of the men who DARED to insult Kagome, the only human I held as high as a youkai beside Rin and the exterminator and monk. But Kagome was different. She wasn't here to defend herself. I was.
I slowly came back to myself, my form gradually becoming smaller as I began to focus on my surroundings. Around me were the forms of drunken, slaughtered men. I could see and smell my poison covering a few of them, only about 4 or 5 out of the ten that were there. I heard a gasp behind me, and spun around to see Rin staring at the bloody field. Slowly, she turned back to me, and I was afraid of what I was going to see there.
What she said surprised me, though.
"Kagome was too nice to have these cruel people ruining her name. That was mean of you, Sesshoumaru, but they asked for it when they talked bad about Kagome. She was the nicest lady I ever met..." Then the tears began to spill again, and I swore that if those men weren't already dead, they would be now. Instead, I simply walked over to her, placed my hand on her shoulder briefly, and walked away, hearing her follow close behind me.
~*~End Flashback~*~
I heard someone clear their throat nearby, and focused back on Kagome and the fox's scents and voices, watching them as they came within eyesight. Kagome was looking almost directly at me, and when I heard her call me "Sess", I couldn't help but smile. She wasn't scared of me. She couldn't be, if she called me that. I watched as the kitsune became slightly panicky, then turned to look at me, fear in his face.
Yes, I recognized him. It WAS the same fox-demon that traveled with my brother and Kagome. That same red hair, that same distinct sugary- scent, the same blue-green eyes filled with fear at the sight of me. The smile grew slightly wider, and I almost laughed at the sight of the shock on the kit's face. When I bowed slightly, he just stared at me, wide-eyed. I doubt his eyes could get much larger.
"You know, it is polite to bow when you meet someone, kit. Just because Inuyasha was rude does not mean you should be." So I was wrong. His eyes COULD grow wider. "I swear to you, I'm not here to harm Kagome in any way. I'm here visiting her, upon her request." Finally, he turned away from me to stare at the young miko whom I held in such high respect.
"KAGOME?! WHAT'S SESSHOUMARU DOING IN YOUR HOUSE!?!?!?"
I thought that was all, but I had failed to notice one thing. Kagome's dress was a scoop-neck. Apparently, she had forgotten as well, as the youkai's eyes landed on the small spot of dark purple on her skin that wasn't covered by the dress. Where I could make out the faint outline of my thumb.
As could he. I wondered if he was stupid enough to attack me in her home.
Then I remembered. He had traveled with Inuyasha.
Immediately, reflexively, I slipped into a defensive stance, waiting for the initial attack.
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Okay!! Well, um, it's about 12:30 now, and I still have to submit, proof-read, remove, re-submit, and then send out the notices, so, g'night! Oh, and please review, and please go by my website, I need entries for the caption contest!!
