"What the hell are you doing here?" Inu Yasha asked, failing to keep the shock from his voice. It wasn't everyday he found a girl lying half naked on his couch.
"This is your house?" Kagome replied, equally shocked, now she had to jump in a mud hole. (Refer to chapter one.)
"I see that you two know each other?" Sesshomaru noted amusingly, his voice curious and reprimanding at the same time. His tone hinted at a beating if Inu Yasha didn't watch his tongue.
"No, we've never met." Inu Yasha quickly replied through clenched teeth, obviously very angry at the unexpected guest and at his brother. At least he held back on the swearing.
His eye's wandered to the bloodied tissues in the garbage can, and riveted back to the girl.
She was injured, although he didn't know why, or how, he guessed she pissed another guy off, and he was apparently was less merciful than him.
He walked up to where she was lying and asked in a softer voice "you…ok?" He felt guilty for what he did earlier.
Kagome, however, didn't respond, it was Sesshomaru who did.
"She's fine Inu Yasha, now go somewhere else." He said without glancing at him.
"Can you sit?" Sesshomaru continued, locking eyes with Kagome. When she nodded, he helped her sit up, and preceded to bandage her wound, the chance of a scar was rare, but the girl was lucky to escape with her life.
Inu Yasha hated to be ignored and it was Miroku who held him back when he was about to explode. His friend grabbed him by the collar and started hauling him up the stairs.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Inu Yasha protested as he was dragged to his room.
"Shut up, we'll talk there" Whispered Miroku.
Both of them left the scene in a matter of seconds.
"Done," Sesshomaru said as he finished tying the knot.
"Um, thank you" Kagome said awkwardly, she tried to stand up only to slump back onto the comfort of the couch. The excruciating pain in her back almost made her faint again.
"You shouldn't move too much," Sesshomaru said as he stood up and went into the kitchen.
He returned a few minutes later, holding a glass of water and some pills in his hands.
"Take this, it'll ease the pain." He said, gently handing the cup and pills to her. However, she was too weak to sit up again, so Sesshomaru propped her up against him, and using his other arm for support, fed her the medication, but when he held the water up to her lips, she took the cup from him. She didn't want to be babied, even though she felt like crying for her mother. When she was done with the water, he took the cup back and placed it on the coffee table.
She was going to thank him again when he stood up and reached for his cell phone.
"Can you call home?" He asked, handing it to her.
"Well, we just moved and we didn't set up a phone line yet." Kagome said hesitantly, she didn't really feel comfortable talking about her new place.
"Well, it's getting late, and like I said, you shouldn't be moving too much in your condition, might I suggest you stay here tonight?" Sesshomaru decided after a bit of thinking, there was no place else she could go.
"But I-" She started, but he silenced her with a finger on her mouth.
"You will stay here tonight, do you understand?" He commanded, staring deep into her eyes.
Kagome only nodded in response.
"Since the bedroom to the left is off limits, you may stay in Inu Yasha's room for the night." He said smiling wickedly.
Meanwhile…
"What'd you drag me up here for Miroku?" Yelled a very angry Inu Yasha,
"Shhh, don't talk so loud, they might hear us." Miroku whispered before glancing around.
"Ok, fine, what did you want to say?" Inu Yasha said impatiently crossing his arms around his chest.
Looking around as if there were possible eavesdroppers, Miroku beckoned Inu Yasha to come closer.
Inu Yasha scooted a little closer to him.
"Don't you..." Miroku said slowly.
"Don't I…," repeated Inu Yasha,
"Don't you think your brother is acting a little weird?" Miroku finally finished.
"Is that it?" Inu Yasha said a little annoyed. "You dragged me all the way up here just to ask that?"
"But isn't it true though? For one thing, your brother wouldn't even bat an eyelash when killing a man, so why would he even help a girl and treat her wounds too?" Miroku said thoughtfully looking at his friend.
Inu Yasha, however, didn't really give a monkey's ass about his brother's "strange" behavior.
"Who cares, he probably just wanted to test his doctorial skills out on the bitch." Inu Yasha said plopping himself onto the bed
"Say, what do you have against her? She seems like a nice girl." Miroku said, his previous suspicions flying from his mind.
Inu Yasha, knowing what his best friend obviously meant by 'nice', snickered.
"You'd go for anything breathing, besides what do you see in her anyway? That wench's no better than Kikyo."
"Who's a wench?" Kagome yelled, startling both Inu Yasha and Miroku. She came into the room with Sesshomaru carrying her.
Both Miroku and Inu Yasha's mouths dropped open at the sight.
"Inu Yasha, get off the bed, Miroku, you get out too, our guest will be sleeping here tonight." Sesshomaru said ignoring their faces.
He felt more than embarrassed carrying a girl in his arms.
"What the hell?" Inu Yasha asked, already recovering from the shock, "Why does she have to sleep here? Can't she just go home?"
"It's late and her injury prevents her from moving too much, it will only be for one night. Do you object?" Sesshomaru said narrowing his eyes.
"Why does it have to be my room? How about dads or yours-" Inu Yasha argued desperately.
"That's alright; I can just go home right now, I'm sure I'll be ok." Kagome interrupted, she tried to move again but she was held too firmly by Sesshomaru.
"You see, she said she's fine, I'm sure if you hurry she can still catch the last bus…" Inu Yasha nearly sighed with relief, as Kagome almost gagged at his "considerate" suggestion.
"No, you will be staying here; Inu Yasha on the other hand, will be leaving." Sesshomaru glared dangerously at him, and Inu Yasha didn't need to be a mind reader to know the threat that followed thoses words.
But our rebellious Inu Yasha returned the glare, however, after a few minutes of unbroken eye contact, he turned away, his eyes had begun to water, and as much as he hated losing at anything, he just couldn't beat Sesshomaru in a staring contest.
"Fine, I'll go, and she can have the damn room!" Inu Yasha yelled, stomping out through door in resentment and indignation with Miroku following behind silently.
Inu Yasha practically tore down the stairs and into living room, with Miroku tumbling shortly behind him.
Catching his breath, Miroku looked up at Inu Yasha and grinned.
"What are you smiling about?" Inu Yasha snapped. He knew it was none of Miroku's fault that he had just been evicted from his room but he was too pissed to care.
"Look on the bright side, at least now you'll have a chance to extract your revenge." Miroku offered, standing up and straightening his hair.
And then, a slow smile crept over Inu Yasha's face…
And somewhere upstairs, Kagome shivered, she couldn't help but feel a chill of premonition.
"Are you alright?" Sesshomaru asked, noticing her tremble, he laid her carefully down onto the bed.
"No, I mean yes, I'm just a bit cold" She said stuttering.
"I see..." In one swift motion he closed the window next to the drawer.
"Is that better?" He asked, turning around to face her.
"Yes, thank you," Kagome said staring up at his face again; she couldn't get over the fact that he was so…good looking.
He picked up a blanket from the foot of the bed, and after a quick look at the mangled mess, muttered a few things about incompetent morons, took out a clean one from another drawer, and covered Kagome up from shoulder to toe with it.
"If you need anything I'll just be in the room next door, and there are also two idiots to your service downstairs as well." Sesshomaru finished, handing her the remote control. "And if you get bored, there's the television, I'll be back a little later to check up on you…Kagome."
She had been listening to all this gratefully until he said her name. She looked up surprised. How did he know? She didn't remember telling him her name, nor him asking her for it.
Like he read her thoughts, he finally smiled, whispered "It's a secret," and left the room before she could question him any further.
A very confused Kagome slowly sat up and leaned her back against the bed frame, it was quite comfy.
Maybe she could ask him about It later…she thought as she turned on the TV.