Chapter 7: get a clue
Megan's POV
Castle's are nice. But I have one problem with them--
They are so friggen big!
I think I got lost at least twice. Whenever I saw any maids and tried to ask them how to get back to the dining hall, they would just nod and then walk away. Almost as if they were scared I would yell at them or something.
Wow. People in this time are weird.
Walking down the East wing I noticed a nice little walkway to the right.
"Sesshomaru never told me what this was," I mumbled to myself as I made my way down the corridor.
I emerged out of the walkway to find my self outside, directly in the center of the castle.
It was a garden.
There was flowers everywhere, pink, purple, blue, red, any color I could ever imagine. A cobble stone path led through the flowers to an open meadow that had a huge fountain right in the middle of it. It was of a woman who was holding the hand of a small child with long silver hair. Sesshomaru and his mother. There was a pool of water surrounding the pair like a moat.
I was never the kind of person who appreciated art, but this was amazing.
I looked closely at Sesshomaru's mother. She had the same crescent moon on her forehead, and eyes that looked at her son with love.
Leaving the fountain I walked around it to find more flowers that lead into a larger open space. At one end was five archery targets, and at another end, a flat surface made of stone. Probably for sword fighting or martial arts.
I looked up at the sky to find a full moon looking down on me. It was so bright! There was no lights from the city masking it, just the moon. Besides a few candle lit here and there, it was the only thing that lit the garden.
Lowering my eyes to the castle I noticed a large balcony at the North end of the castle. A lone figure was standing on the balcony, looking down into the garden at me.
Sesshomaru.
Suddenly I remembered why I went searching in the first place, and I looked away.
I went back inside the castle and headed down the North hallway.
Of course! Why the hell hadn't I thought of it before? This is Sesshomaru we are talking about! Of course he would have his room in the tallest tower at the head of the castle!
As I went around a corner I ran straight into to something hard and fell. Before I hit the ground I felt a hand grab my wrist while the other went around my waist to stop me from falling.
Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru's POV
I was sitting out on the balcony trying to figure out why Megan seemed so mad and why Rin had almost started crying when I saw something.
A figure in white had entered my garden. Megan.
I watched her as the angry look left her features as she gazed at the garden. She walked down the path and walked right up to the fountain of my mother an I.
I remembered the day we posed for that monument. We had to stay in the position of holding hands for two hours while the artist got the basic structure. My mother, who was a powerful demon had smiled down at me, making childish faces, trying to make me laugh. I remembered laughing vaguely, for it isn't something I find my self doing since she died.
Megan moved from the fountain to the area where I train daily. She smiled slightly when she noticed the targets. Perhaps she herself trains for archery.
She looked up at the moon and I couldn't help but follow her gaze. The moon really was beautiful.
When I looked back at her I found her staring straight at me, and the angry look returned to her face. Then she turned and walked back into the castle.
I growled. How dare she look at me like that! As if I had actually done something wrong…
I turned and walked out of my chambers, eager to find her and demand an explanation.
Just as I turned the corner toward the garden I felt something small run into me and begin to fall. out of instinct I reached out to stop the figure from falling.
When I looked down to see who it was my golden eyes met bright green.
Megan,
Megan's POV
"Sesshomaru," I breathed, "I'm so sorry I didn't mean to run into you!"
He didn't say anything and I wondered if he had even heard me.
I felt heat rise to my cheeks when I realized that he still wasn't letting me go. He was quite close to my face.
Hello, personal space much?
I cleared my voice and he immediately let me go, straightening up.
"I saw you in the garden. What are you doing out so late?" he asked.
I looked at my watch. It was only 9. It was then I noticed what he was wearing. He had taken off his stupid armor and sword and all the was left was a light white outfit.
Nice pajamas.
"It's like only nine!" I protested.
He didn't respond.
God this guy pisses me off sometimes…
Ok most of the time…
Ok ALL of the time!
"And by the way," I exclaimed, "why the hell were you such a jerk at dinner? Wait, let me rephrase, why are you such a jerk ALL OF THE TIME!"
I sighed.
Wow I feel better now that that is in the open.
He stared at me for a moment then his jaw clenched and… did his eyes just flash red on me?
"Who are you to talk to ME like that!" his voice was low and ice cold.
Wow, I think I would have felt better if he would have yelled at me, or hit me, or something…
"I am Megan Evan's and I can talk to you as I please you big jerk!" I yelled, "Why do you treat her like that? I did her hair all nice and she was all worried that you wouldn't like it! I saw you staring at her hair but you still didn't say anything!"
His eyes definitely flashed red this time.
That probably should have been a clue for me to shut my trap…but I didn't. I still had more to say.
"And you know what? It would be nice if you would show some emotion once in a while! You are always so rude and cold! You treat Jaken like dirt and he has done nothing but serve you to the best of his ability! And what's with the whole 'who are you to talk to ME like that?' you may be a friggen lord or whatever but that doesn't give you the right to treat everyone like they are lower then you!" I stopped for a breath.
He took a step closer to me, his eyes had now turned blood red.
"I treat you with more respect then you and every disgusting human deserves!" he yelled.
I froze.
Disgusting human? Is that really what he thought of us? Of me? Of Rin?
I can't believe that I did what I did next.
I slapped him.
Hard. Right across the face.
And then I turned and ran, tears forming in my eyes, again.
Sesshomaru's POV
My cheek stung.
She had hit me. A mere human. Then she had turn and ran. I could smell the salt from her tears.
I had hurt her with my comment, I knew that.
But id didn't care.
Did I?
Rin's hair. That's why she had been crying. Because I hadn't said anything. I knew that she was fond of me, and yet why do I keep on pushing Rin away?
Pushing her away.
I thought that maybe Megan was mad at me for reasons all her own, but she was merely sticking up for Rin. Protecting her like a sister.
When she started to yell at me I was shocked. No women, human or demon, had ever dared to raise their voice at me, for it meant death. I had felt myself beginning to lose it, beginning to want her to stop yelling.
But I had just stood there. Confused at how one human girl had affected me this way.
Affected me to the point where I wanted to run my head into the wall for making her cry.
"No," I hissed under my breath, "I will not allow myself to feel things toward this human. I must find Inuyasha and his wench. The sooner Megan is gone, the sooner I can forget."
