The Moon Hides Its Light from Me
FadedMoon
Disclaimer: blah blah blah. I don't own Inuyasha. Blah blah blah.
Chapter 12
When Human Hands Touched
"Don't get too close, or you'll fall in."
Kagome spun around. There stood Sesshoumaru, or at least a very ravaged version of him. Blood drenched him- his dark hair was bloodied, his clothes were bloodied, heck, all of him was bloodied. Wounds were all over his body, he clothes torn in various places. He limped forward towards the miko to get her away from the edge. Kagome screamed and backed up, falling into the down into the eternal abyss.
Sesshoumaru cursed his bad luck and leapt down after his remedy.
Kagome groaned as she sat up. Not only were her legs overly sore, now all of her was sore. Not only that, her clothes felt damp.
'Damp?'
She looked around her, her eyes getting used to the darkness. Straining her eyes, she could see the figure of a person, bent over. She felt her way over.
"Sesshoumaru?" she called out, hoping that it was him.
The now-human demon was washing his wounds- the water that he had found was from a small stream that flowed on the side of the large underground cavern they were in. His wounds stung, but at least they weren't too deep- they would stop bleeding soon… as long as he could bandage them correctly.
"Sesshoumaru?" Kagome called out again, not sure if he had heard her the first time.
He did.
"What." he stated, very much pissed.
Kagome was a bit taken back, if this was really Sesshoumaru, which it was, she had never actually heard him… well, pissed off. The demon Sesshoumaru had always kept his cool, even when he was getting cut up by Inuyasha, or getting annoyed by his little frog servant.
"I-I'm sorry," she stammered, "Where are we?"
He stood up suddenly and stomped over to her.
"Where do YOU think we are?" he said through gritted teeth and pointed upwards towards the dim light of the top of the ravine's cliff, "It's YOUR fault that WE are DOWN HERE!"
Kagome was too stunned by his actions to actually take in what he said.
'Wow… and I thought I was pretty touchy when I was pissed…'
Sesshoumaru noticed the look on her face. He had never seen that expression before…
His hand went up to his face, slightly touching his forehead as his eyes turned downcast.
'His eyes show so much… emotion,' Kagome blinked, 'Wait, Sesshoumaru doesn't have any emotions, does he?'
"Ugh…" the handsome man groaned, "Why am I yelling so much?"
His dark grey eyes glanced up at the high school girl.
"At a human… nonetheless…" he muttered.
Kagome felt sorry for the man in front of her. Or at least some sort of pity. Even she, at most times, could keep her emotions hidden from others. But Sesshoumaru… after being human for such a short time… it was like everything he thought or felt came out.
'He must not be used to being like this yet…'
Something inside of her wanted to help him…
"What are you looking at?" he barked at her, then turning he began to make his way down the dimly lit ravine, "Let's get moving, human- stop standing there like a idiot."
Kagome's eye twitched.
'Or maybe not.'
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Kagome wearily walked behind Sesshoumaru- well, she was weary from the day before… not from their recent walking which has only last for five minutes so far. And so far, the journey was pretty much silent.
'There's so much tension…' the miko shuddered to herself as she eyed the exposed back of the human walking in front of her.
'THAT's sexualtension for you, Ka-go-me-chan!' her evil inner self laughed.
Kagome's eyes widened when she noticed exactly how much skin Sesshoumaru had showing now. Her eyes traveled across his body. Except for the slightly bloody wounds, Kagome could feel herself starting to drool.
'Bad evil inner self!' she disciplined herself, beating the little devil version of Kagome down.
However, it was apparent that Sesshoumaru had forgotten that he wouldn't heal as fast anymore. 'But where would I get cloth?' she wondered, looking down. It was then that she realized that she hadn't been able to moved about as freely due to the kimono that she had never changed out of when they had left the castle.
"Ano… Sesshoumaru?" she timidly called out his name.
"WHAT?" he turned revealing a very annoyed facial expression.
The miko pointed at him.
"You're still bleeding…"
Sesshoumaru would have rolled his eyes and stormed over to the stream they had been following, had he not begun to feel the effects of so much blood loss. He, therefore, stumbled over to the stream. Kagome watched him for a moment, then made her way to his side.
"Here…" she spoke quietly, tearing the ends of her kimono into strips to bandage his wounds. He was quite at a state of shock of how gentle and nimble her hands were, working to tie the strips of cloth. He would have shuddered at the touch of her hands whenever she accidentally brushed his skin, had he not been so woozy from the blood loss.
"Um…" Kagome diverted her eyes away from his face because she was blushing, "Your… shirt… please?"
He looked down at his pretty much tattered yukata.
"Oh," was all he could say as he began removing his top cover. Kagome could feel her face growing redder every second- she blamed the gods for making Sesshoumaru so freaking hot.
She swallowed before turning to him again, tearing a larger portion of her kimono to tie about his chest.
"So…" she spoke, trying to pick up a conversation as she worked so she wouldn't be so nervous, "How did this all come about?" she asked, indicating his injuries.
"I was scouting."
Kagome frowned at his extremely simple answer.
"Oh…"
After a few more moments of accidental brushing and amazement of nimbly hands, Kagome sat back at looked at her finished work.
"Okay… you're done."
Sesshoumaru slowly pulled back on what was left of his top.
"Uh… Thanks."
Kagome froze, staring at the man before her. Had Sesshoumaru seriously just thank her?
'The world must be ending soon…'
But no, Sesshoumaru was pretty much in shock of himself for thanking a human for helping him.
'-BLEEP- humans…' he cursed the human blood that ran through him now.
Suddenly, noise came from the way they were heading. Kagome stood, peering into the darkness.
"Do you hear voices, Sesshoumaru?"
The man followed her suit, standing up and quietly listening. There was definitely something there…
'But those aren't voices…'
The noise began to grow steadily louder.
"Come on, Sesshoumaru!" she yelled as she began running towards the noise. Sesshoumaru groaned as he followed.
The two found themselves stopping at a cross-section- not sure of which way to go. The ravine had turned into a underground cave- a cave with walls that echoed sound. Not only that, the noise was getting very loud now- something was coming.
Kagome turned to the man behind her and pointed to her left, "I think they're that way!"
Sesshoumaru peered down the way she was pointing. His eyes grew wide.
"Kagome!"
teehee, I'm so bad… I don't update for a while again and here I am with my evil cliffies –maniacal laugh resounds-
