Author's Note: Sorry I haven't updated in so long! My Internet went down and then v.v My new teachers decided they'd start the marking period with WORK!!! Woo! So yea. My connection is all better and it's update time! Enjoy
Kagome slipped neatly from the quiet slumber she was in to consciousness and the quiet creak of her floorboards. She shifted a bit as her mind worked. A creak. Was it Sesshomaru? No. She didn't think so. Sesshomaru never made any noise at all when he moved despite her numerous demands that he do.
It was doubtful he'd make a sound loud enough to wake her. Was it an intruder then? Fear shot through her as she could almost feel the shifting of shadows across her cheek. No. It couldn't be an intruder. Sesshomaru would have woken at the lightest indication of one and taken care of them. So it could only be....
She opened her eyes slowly and her gaze met a pair of feet and the legs of her grandfather's hakama pants. Sesshomaru. She shifted her eyes and her lips parted in a silent gasp as she met bare feet and red pants.She sat up quickly which made her head spin then blinked as 6 eyes turned her way with the faintest of surprise. She blushed as her attention flickered between a slighting imposed upon looking Sesshomaru and an irritable Inuyasha who help the feline Buyo who was trying to escape.
"Inuyasha! What are you doing here?" frowning slightly to himself.
"My whelp brother has come begging help." Sesshomaru answer for him emotionlessly and Inuyasha glared at him but said nothing. Kagome took that as a sign that Sesshomaru's words were more then just insult.
"Help? Help with what?" She paused a moment then added. "Wait! How did you get here at all? I...." She blinked in surprise then as Inuyasha pushed his hair back with a claw to reveal the prayer beads she'd removed from his around his neck once more. "You put them back on."
"It was the only way that damn well would let me through." He snapped.
Kagome shifted and stood up from her bed and glanced around slowly. Her room looked so much smaller with the pair of huge brothers filling it and she blushed again at how the situation might look if any walked in. Not good at all. Particularly not if it was her mother.
"Let's talk about this outside. I'll get dressed and we'll meet in the Shrine alright?" She blinked when neither of them moved. "What are you waiting for?"
Sesshomaru's eyebrow lifted slowly. "She was referring to you half breed."
Inuyasha glared at his brother. "I'm not leaving you here with her."
Sesshomaru's eyes flashed with the subtle emotion Kagome had learned to recognize as anger. "I am her husband. You on the other hand-"
"Yea right. I still don't believe that's bullshit! There's no way I'm leaving you here to corrupt her before I get to say what I need to say."
"If you won't remove yourself then I will."
"I'd like to see you try!"
Kagome could see where this was going as her gaze flickered from one to the other both already bristling with anger and annoyance, both poised for fighting. Not only did she not want to seem them kill each other but also it would destroy her room not to mention wake her family. So she did the only thing she could.
"Inuyasha. Sesshomaru." Neither bothered to look at her so she clasped her hands behind her back, lifted her chin and said lightly. "Sit."
The sight of both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru hitting the ground with the spirit command was an interesting sight. Inuyasha slammed downward spread and unexpecting as always. Sesshomaru fought it and it almost seemed he managed to resist the power of the prayer beads but in the end he too hit the ground as well though he managed, somehow, to do it with so much grace and elegance that it almost seemed a dignified thing to do. And Kagome contemplated doing it again just to see if he could keep that poise each time but refrained from doing so, knowing he would be angry enough already.
"What the hell!" Inuyasha snapped sitting up as the spell wore off.
Sesshomaru rose slowly, cracking his hand, the loud sound echoing in the room as he flickered angry eyes veiled with nonchalance in her direction. "We had an agreement."
She tried to keep away the smile but failed. "This was a special case. Both of you wait for me at the shrine."
"You do not give me orders wife." Sesshomaru said warningly.
Kagome huffed and crossed her arms. "I'll say it again!"
His eyes narrowed. "You wouldn't dare."
And she was right. The first time had been an extreme measure with very good reason to back it and Sesshomaru wasn't as made as he could be because he understood that. Despite his stubbornness he had a very well developed sense of logic and fairness despite that fact he often refuse to exercise it in his actions. This time, however, he would not excuse particularly since it was used as a threat. Kagome sighed.
"Fine then. I'll just stand here and talk to Inuyasha in my pajamas." She smiled and set a finger to her chin. "In fact no. I don't even plan to stay in my pajamas. I'll just change anyway!"
Sesshomaru glanced down at her apparel as if seeing if for the first time then turned away from her without another look at her. "Come Inuyasha." And walked out of the room.
Kagome smiled to herself then glanced up at Inuyasha who looked decidedly irritated and she wondered what could be worrying him so much.
"Inuyasha." He looked at her. "What ever it is I promise I'll help all I can."
He blinked then smiled her. "I know you'll do your best Kagome." Then turned and left the room.
Kagome stood musing over his response and wondered just exactly what she'd promised to help with. She shook her head and went to her drawer to tug on the first clothes that came to hand, a blue skirt and orange and white sweater, throwing the clothes on then walked out of her room, pausing to check in on her brother and her mother before leaving the house and shutting the door behind her.
She blinked up at the moon hanging overhead then pushed looks of black hair stirred by the wind out of her hair and walked across the yard.