Chapter 3:
Soon the castle became visible to them but when Sesshomaru saw it a bad thought entered his mind: 'There is something I forgot to explain the brainless girl.'
He was interrupted by Kagome's next question: "Eeeee … How do I land on this thing?"
Sesshomaru sweat dropped. 'I knew it.'
They were very close now.
"Concentrate on bringing us down. Imagine that you were flying and now decided to land."
Kagome tries to do as she was told. Slowly they started going down. When they were not too far from the ground Sesshomaru spoke:
"Finally. I need to take a bath, I'm all filthy."
When she heard him a picture of it popped in front of her eyes, her eyes widened when she remembered their state. She felt herself blushing at the thought and she lost the concentration and they both fell to the ground. Lucky for them they landed on the bushes, so it wasn't so painful but never less now they were covered with small scratches.
"Ouch" – escaped her lips.
They crouched from the bushes and Kagome received a smack on her head by Sesshomaru but as he was now in her body the hit was weak and Sesshomaru had to stand on his toes to reach her head as he was now smaller than her, the fact annoyed him to no end.
"Stupid girl. When YOU are flying don't think about anything else or you'll end both of us killed." – He hissed. – "Now let's go to my study there should be the ingredients we'll need." – He squared his shoulders and went to the front doors of 'his' castle, but there he stopped and turned to Kagome, who was trailing behind and was trying to rid her hair from leaves.
"You go first and I'll tell you the directions; don't talk to anybody. Keep your head high and don't show any fear."
"I'll try." 'It's shouldn't be too heard, should it? ' – She thought and opened the huge door which led inside the castle. 'Don't show any fear and don't talk to anybody.' – She mentally repeated those words in her mind.
Not believing a single word he followed inside.
The castle was huge and empty. They went through the long and dark corridor to the end where the black door with carvings on it was. She opened it and found herself in large room covered with carpets on the floor and paintings on the walls. She would have stopped and looked at them but decided against it when she heard cough from behind and knew she would be in trouble if she did.
Lucky for them they managed to reach the wanted floor without adventures but when they came near the study they heard some commotion from another side of the door. Kagome opened the door and came in; Sesshomaru followed her and froze in his tracks with horror on his face. In the room the huge table stood at the far side of the wall, along the walls a lot of bottles, jars and other strange items were lying on the shelves. In the center stood Jaken with his stuff ready to smack the head of the little girl who was standing near one shelf on the small chair. When they heard that someone entered the study they quickly turned around to face the door when Rin lost her balance and fell on Jaken, his stuff flew out of his grasp and toward the small cabinet not far from the table knocking all the jars from it on the floor. They all shattered and the room was filled with smoke.
*cough*
When the smoke cleared Sesshomaru saw all the damage and became very angry, but what set him near the explosion was that he saw the jar with wanted liquid shattered all around the floor.
That did it. He roared but it came more as a high pitched scream. "IDIOTS."
Then he caught them staring at himself and cursed remembering his situation. So he nagged Kagome.
"Ka … Sesshomaru-sama tell those two that they are the total idiots and kill this toad for messing the things up."
Kagome understood that something happened to the ingredients and narrowed her eyes.
Mean while Jaken picked up his stuff and came to Kagome with Sesshomaru in her body and smacked him on the head. "You filthy human how dare you touch Sesshomaru-sama." At this Sesshomaru choked with anger. 'How dare this 'toad' beat him?'
Kagome seeing this came to his rescue.
"Toad watch your place. And get the hell out of here." – She snapped. Jaken shivered.
"Yes Sesshomaru-sama. Sorry for this." – He quickly turned around and left but he shot the last death glare to Kagome from the door.
"Sesshomaru-sama you are back. Rin is so happy." – The little girl with black hair picked herself from the floor and attached herself to Sesshomaru's leg. Kagome looked down.
"Kawaii." – She exclaimed and picked Rin up in her arms and hugged. – "You are Rin right? I'm so happy to finally meet you."
Rin looked at her as if she grew a second head not understanding what's going on.
"Sesshomaru-sama?" – Rin looked puzzled at her protector, because he was acting really strange.
Kagome put her down and tried to look as if nothing happened.
"Go and play with Jaken outside while me and Sess… Kagome talk about business."
"As you wish." – Rin curtisite and ran out of the room to find her playing victim. The door closed softly behind her. Kagome signed. 'That was close.'
Sesshomaru walked to the table and looked around. His once tidy study was now a real mess thanks to his ward and servant. He will need to order this mess to be cleaned but right now he had more urgent matters at hand concerning himself and the human. He sat in his favorite chair put his hands in front of him on top of the table. Kagome looked around and sat on the small chair which Rin used to stand on a couple of minutes before and prepared to listen for whatever Sesshomaru had to say. She didn't have to wait for too long.
He signed and began:
"As we came 'late'" – he made an indication on word 'late' as if pointing out that it was all Kagome's fault and not his, at this she only growled but said nothing. – "And the needed ingredient was wasted, for the mean time we are stuck together and we need to cope with it. The ingredient could be restored but it could be found only in the Northern Lands which are currently now are run by Naraku." At mentioning his name Kagome shivered. "So if we don't find another way we will be forced to cope with your friends and my stupid brother, so in order to do so we need to 'perfect' our act, so they won't get suspicious. In our state now we are an easy target to your enemies and other youkais and demons, so for now we'll stay here. You also need to work on your powers" – She moaned as the memories of the last tries flashed across her mind. – "For now we are going to stay together and 'try'" – He looked at her expectedly – "to stay out of trouble." But he knew that with her around it would be nearly impossible. He stood up. His stomach made a funny grumbling noise. He looked down with surprise and shock.
"What was that?" He didn't know his new body was ably to produce different sounds against his will, so it was new experience for him. Kagome tried really hard to prevent herself from laughing at his shocked expression so she ended up giggling in her hand.
"What's so funny?" – He asked angrily with folding arms across his chest.
"Sorry, but this sound only means that you need to eat as your body haven't received any food for a long time."
He didn't want to admit that she was right, he indeed felt really hungry so he tried to regain his posture looking as unaffected by the weird sounds as possible.
"You'll also need to train as you are a miko now, so you'll be able to use Shinko no Tama and purification arrows, oh and you'll also need to act more relaxed and emotional, you don't know how strange to look at myself all serious and collected." – Kagome noted from her sitting position while twirling her now long silver hair in her fingers. She noticed that it was dirty and had to agree with Sesshomaru that they both need a good scrubbing bath. As if reading her mind Sesshomaru said.
"And now I suggest that we take a bath, follow me." – He opened the door and looked at Kagome, waiting for her to join him, but his stomach made the grumbling sound again. Kagome burst out laughing but when she saw his narrowed eyes she tried to calm herself. He tried to ignore it and repeated his demand. She didn't need to be told twice and together they came down the stairs and in to the huge room which was the castle's hot springs. Kagome never saw hot springs so big and she stayed in away looking at it.
'Maybe to stay in the castle wasn't such a bad idea after all.' – She thought to herself.
She didn't know that very soon she'll remember those words and curse herself for even thinking about liking the damn place.
End.
Soon the castle became visible to them but when Sesshomaru saw it a bad thought entered his mind: 'There is something I forgot to explain the brainless girl.'
He was interrupted by Kagome's next question: "Eeeee … How do I land on this thing?"
Sesshomaru sweat dropped. 'I knew it.'
They were very close now.
"Concentrate on bringing us down. Imagine that you were flying and now decided to land."
Kagome tries to do as she was told. Slowly they started going down. When they were not too far from the ground Sesshomaru spoke:
"Finally. I need to take a bath, I'm all filthy."
When she heard him a picture of it popped in front of her eyes, her eyes widened when she remembered their state. She felt herself blushing at the thought and she lost the concentration and they both fell to the ground. Lucky for them they landed on the bushes, so it wasn't so painful but never less now they were covered with small scratches.
"Ouch" – escaped her lips.
They crouched from the bushes and Kagome received a smack on her head by Sesshomaru but as he was now in her body the hit was weak and Sesshomaru had to stand on his toes to reach her head as he was now smaller than her, the fact annoyed him to no end.
"Stupid girl. When YOU are flying don't think about anything else or you'll end both of us killed." – He hissed. – "Now let's go to my study there should be the ingredients we'll need." – He squared his shoulders and went to the front doors of 'his' castle, but there he stopped and turned to Kagome, who was trailing behind and was trying to rid her hair from leaves.
"You go first and I'll tell you the directions; don't talk to anybody. Keep your head high and don't show any fear."
"I'll try." 'It's shouldn't be too heard, should it? ' – She thought and opened the huge door which led inside the castle. 'Don't show any fear and don't talk to anybody.' – She mentally repeated those words in her mind.
Not believing a single word he followed inside.
The castle was huge and empty. They went through the long and dark corridor to the end where the black door with carvings on it was. She opened it and found herself in large room covered with carpets on the floor and paintings on the walls. She would have stopped and looked at them but decided against it when she heard cough from behind and knew she would be in trouble if she did.
Lucky for them they managed to reach the wanted floor without adventures but when they came near the study they heard some commotion from another side of the door. Kagome opened the door and came in; Sesshomaru followed her and froze in his tracks with horror on his face. In the room the huge table stood at the far side of the wall, along the walls a lot of bottles, jars and other strange items were lying on the shelves. In the center stood Jaken with his stuff ready to smack the head of the little girl who was standing near one shelf on the small chair. When they heard that someone entered the study they quickly turned around to face the door when Rin lost her balance and fell on Jaken, his stuff flew out of his grasp and toward the small cabinet not far from the table knocking all the jars from it on the floor. They all shattered and the room was filled with smoke.
*cough*
When the smoke cleared Sesshomaru saw all the damage and became very angry, but what set him near the explosion was that he saw the jar with wanted liquid shattered all around the floor.
That did it. He roared but it came more as a high pitched scream. "IDIOTS."
Then he caught them staring at himself and cursed remembering his situation. So he nagged Kagome.
"Ka … Sesshomaru-sama tell those two that they are the total idiots and kill this toad for messing the things up."
Kagome understood that something happened to the ingredients and narrowed her eyes.
Mean while Jaken picked up his stuff and came to Kagome with Sesshomaru in her body and smacked him on the head. "You filthy human how dare you touch Sesshomaru-sama." At this Sesshomaru choked with anger. 'How dare this 'toad' beat him?'
Kagome seeing this came to his rescue.
"Toad watch your place. And get the hell out of here." – She snapped. Jaken shivered.
"Yes Sesshomaru-sama. Sorry for this." – He quickly turned around and left but he shot the last death glare to Kagome from the door.
"Sesshomaru-sama you are back. Rin is so happy." – The little girl with black hair picked herself from the floor and attached herself to Sesshomaru's leg. Kagome looked down.
"Kawaii." – She exclaimed and picked Rin up in her arms and hugged. – "You are Rin right? I'm so happy to finally meet you."
Rin looked at her as if she grew a second head not understanding what's going on.
"Sesshomaru-sama?" – Rin looked puzzled at her protector, because he was acting really strange.
Kagome put her down and tried to look as if nothing happened.
"Go and play with Jaken outside while me and Sess… Kagome talk about business."
"As you wish." – Rin curtisite and ran out of the room to find her playing victim. The door closed softly behind her. Kagome signed. 'That was close.'
Sesshomaru walked to the table and looked around. His once tidy study was now a real mess thanks to his ward and servant. He will need to order this mess to be cleaned but right now he had more urgent matters at hand concerning himself and the human. He sat in his favorite chair put his hands in front of him on top of the table. Kagome looked around and sat on the small chair which Rin used to stand on a couple of minutes before and prepared to listen for whatever Sesshomaru had to say. She didn't have to wait for too long.
He signed and began:
"As we came 'late'" – he made an indication on word 'late' as if pointing out that it was all Kagome's fault and not his, at this she only growled but said nothing. – "And the needed ingredient was wasted, for the mean time we are stuck together and we need to cope with it. The ingredient could be restored but it could be found only in the Northern Lands which are currently now are run by Naraku." At mentioning his name Kagome shivered. "So if we don't find another way we will be forced to cope with your friends and my stupid brother, so in order to do so we need to 'perfect' our act, so they won't get suspicious. In our state now we are an easy target to your enemies and other youkais and demons, so for now we'll stay here. You also need to work on your powers" – She moaned as the memories of the last tries flashed across her mind. – "For now we are going to stay together and 'try'" – He looked at her expectedly – "to stay out of trouble." But he knew that with her around it would be nearly impossible. He stood up. His stomach made a funny grumbling noise. He looked down with surprise and shock.
"What was that?" He didn't know his new body was ably to produce different sounds against his will, so it was new experience for him. Kagome tried really hard to prevent herself from laughing at his shocked expression so she ended up giggling in her hand.
"What's so funny?" – He asked angrily with folding arms across his chest.
"Sorry, but this sound only means that you need to eat as your body haven't received any food for a long time."
He didn't want to admit that she was right, he indeed felt really hungry so he tried to regain his posture looking as unaffected by the weird sounds as possible.
"You'll also need to train as you are a miko now, so you'll be able to use Shinko no Tama and purification arrows, oh and you'll also need to act more relaxed and emotional, you don't know how strange to look at myself all serious and collected." – Kagome noted from her sitting position while twirling her now long silver hair in her fingers. She noticed that it was dirty and had to agree with Sesshomaru that they both need a good scrubbing bath. As if reading her mind Sesshomaru said.
"And now I suggest that we take a bath, follow me." – He opened the door and looked at Kagome, waiting for her to join him, but his stomach made the grumbling sound again. Kagome burst out laughing but when she saw his narrowed eyes she tried to calm herself. He tried to ignore it and repeated his demand. She didn't need to be told twice and together they came down the stairs and in to the huge room which was the castle's hot springs. Kagome never saw hot springs so big and she stayed in away looking at it.
'Maybe to stay in the castle wasn't such a bad idea after all.' – She thought to herself.
She didn't know that very soon she'll remember those words and curse herself for even thinking about liking the damn place.
End.