Whee! Something AMAZING has happened! I woke up this afternoon, and had motivation to get my lazy butt out of bed and write! XD not really, just my mom was shouting at me to get my lazy butt out of bed. Ah well, here I am with an update, hope everyone likes...
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After her reaction to the nightmare, Sesshoumaru was surprised how quickly she recovered. True, she was more apathetical than he was, but she no longer cried out in her sleep, she could eat on her own as long as someone (Rin) put it in her hands, and she spent her time sitting in a corner of the cave, thinking, showing no interest in anything else. Sometimes Rin would go over to her and ask for a storytelling session. Kagome would tell her a strange tale Sesshoumaru could only guess was from her strange world and then resume her silent meditation.
Two nights later from her breakdown over the dream, Kagome spoke abruptly during her dinner with Rin.
"Sesshoumaru, why are you keeping me here? What use is a second human girl trailing you around? A blind one no less? And why haven't you moved from this area at all? Last I remembered, you were almost always on the move."
Rin continued chewing on her fish, but Sesshoumaru looked up at the girl. Normally, he would say something along the lines of "Why do you ask?" but now that she brought it up, he couldn't stay here too long.
"Inuyasha," He said. "Still clutches our father's blade even in death. Even as I already possess a fine blade, Tokijin, and I no longer pursued Tetsusaiga while Inuyasha lived, I refuse to let it rot now that he is dead."
Kagome reacted slightly at the mention of Inuyasha. But she maintained her straight face nonetheless. "And you want me to give you Tetsusaiga since you still can not touch it?" She finished for him in a spiteful tone of voice. "I refuse. It is Inuyasha's possession. Taking it from his corpse would be wrong."
Her hands noticeably shook as she said this. 'She still has not completely gotten over his death I see.' Sesshoumaru noted. "Then I suppose you are of no use to me. I will then merely leave you here when I leave tomorrow. As you are blind, you will be incapable of defending yourself and getting food and will undoubtedly die. If that is the fate you wish, then fine. I will not sway you will." He hissed back.
'But then, I won't be able to get home. Shit, what was I saying?' Memories of her mother, grandfather and Sota back at home welled up in her mind as he said this. She shuddered at the thought of them, sitting at home, wondering where she was and unable to go back and look for her while she starved to death in some unknown cave in Feudal Japan. She shuddered at the thought. 'Dammit all.'
"Fine Sesshoumaru," she said through gritted teeth. 'I got no choice.' "I'll help you get your claws on Tetsusaiga, and you help me get home."
"And where might that be?"
"Through a well, not far from the village where Kikyo once lived." 'Great, and now he's probably going to destroy it or throw me down some fake.'
"A well, eh? I see no problem with that. Fine. I see this as a fair and equal trade in services." Sesshoumaru replied in a very business like tone. "Its is nearly dark, we will go to Inuyasha's corpse tomorrow."
Kagome nodded, feeling numb as if she had just made a deal with the devil.
'Dark he says? It is always dark to me. And for some reason, it feels like it will become darker. What right do I have now to go home? Maybe I should just be left here...'