Oh my God you guys are so cool! I feel so warm and fuzzy from all the reviews! I'll mention names at the end of the chapter but I'm sure you want to read first! I'm really sorry the setup is taking so long. And yes, I know there is a big age difference! But hey, that's the way it is gonna be! The relationship will start as more of a father daughter kind of thing but as Kagome gets older, more stuff happens!
But I need help from the readers! Do you want a conflict relationship with Inuyasha and Sesshomaru fighting over Kagome or just Kagome and Sesshomaru gradually getting "closer?" PLEASE TELL ME IN REVIEWS! Thank you!
Ok! With that out of the way, I'll get started on the third chapter of Saved! Enjoy!
"WOW! Do you really live here Sesshomaru-sama!" Kagome said looking up at the demon lord with young, innocent eyes.
"It sure is. It's pretty cool huh?" Inuyasha said before Sesshomaru could answer.
"It certainly is big." Miroku said as he looked at the massive castle. Like most of the castles of the time, it had a large wall surrounding it from attack. But once inside the outer wall, you were met by a beautiful garden full of flowers to attract the butterflies during the day and fireflies at night. Beyond the garden was the castle itself, simple yet elegant. 'Just like Sesshomaru samma…' Kagome thought as she stared in aw at her new home 'Wait a sec… MY new home!'
"Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked with socked wide eyes.
"Yes Kagome"
"Am… Am I really gonna live THERE from now on?" she asked softly
"Of course. I'll arrange for your room to be next to mine. You will have your own servants and all the things a young noble woman should have. How old is Sango now Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asked his brother.
"Why?"
"I want to know if she is old enough to be Kagome's personal servant." Sesshomaru said with an annoyed tone.
"Ummm, I think she is 15-"
"16 a week ago." Miroku cut in.
There was a long pause.
"How the hell would you know something like that?" Inuyasha asked in disbelief as the carriage came to a stop.
"Why Inuyasha," Miroku said faking a pained expression "How could think so low of me not to know my own loves birthday?"
"Are dating this Sango person Miroku?" Kagome asked
"He wishes!" A girl's voice said as the carriage door opened. "Who are you?" The girl asked pointing at Kagome. She wore a magenta and white kimono that stopped just below her knees with a green obi. She kept her hair in a low ponytail and had no makeup except for a little magenta eye shadow.
"Are you Sango?" Kagome asked meekly
"Yes but who the heck are you?" Sango said with a puzzled expression.
"Sango," Sesshomaru said sternly "This is Kagome and she is the new lady of the house. You will be her personally servant, understand?"
"You got married!" Sango blurted out
"What!" Kagome squeaked as she blushed madly
": sigh: Sango, she is my ward." Sesshomaru said as he rubbed his temples with his fingers.
"Oh! My apologies Sesshomaru-sama! I did not understand." Sango said as she bowed.
"Yes yes, could you please move so we may exit the carriage?"
"Oh! Sorry…" Sango said as she moved out of the way so the Lord could get out.
"…And this will be your room" Sesshomaru said as he motioned to a shoji screen door "and this door here," He said as he pointed to the room next to it "is my room. If you have any problems just come-"
"WOW! Look at this!" Kagome yelped as she slid the door to her room aside. "This is so big! And fur blankets! And a window! Is it really my room!" Kagome said as she ran around the room.
Sesshomaru just smiled softly and he entered the room after her. 'She is still just a girl. I forget sometimes. The way she acted at the brothel, she could be an adult already.'
"Yes it is yours now. I'll have some people come tomorrow so you can get some new clothes… Do you have an under kimono to sleep in?" he asked.
"Nope!" she said as she plopped down on her fluffy new futon "We had to sleep in our kimonos at the…place." Kagome's her eyes became a bit more troubled as she said this. "Hey Sesshomaru-sama?" she whispered.
"What it is Kagome?" he asked as he sat down next to her. Because he was a good three feet taller than her, her eyes where shielded by her bangs and he could not see the tears forming until they ran down her cheeks.
"Why: sniff: did you bring me here?" she asked softly
"Kagome-"
"I mean, did you just pity me? Am I really that big of a sob story!" she jumped up to face him. They were now eye level and he could see the pain and hurt fly across her eyes. "Why can't I be a normal! Why can't I have a loving mama and papa like all the other girls in the village! Why do I have to be different? What did I do wrong?"
Sesshomaru grabbed and pulled her into a caring hug. Kagome sobs racked her shoulders as she cried onto his shoulder.
"Hush" he commanded softly "You did nothing wrong, you hear me? You can be normal now ok? It will be ok." he said as he stroked her back soothingly.
"You know: sniff: that can't be true. I'll never be normal! For God's sake! I just spent the last two years of my life: sob: in a brothel and I just hit god damn puberty!" she yelled into his shoulder.
Sesshomaru jerked her away from his shoulder and stared into her eyes. "Stop it! Just stop it… look at what you have now Kagome! Look at the life you have to look forward to! I know you have had a hard past but I'm giving you a new chance. So can you be happy? Can I see that smiling girl I saw just a few minuets ago?" he asked as he looked at her.
":sniff:… I'm sorry." Kagome said
"Why are you sorry?"
"I'm sorry for being such a brat. I know you're giving me a new chance and here I am, crying and feeling sorry for myself." She smiled "But I promise Sesshomaru-sama! I promise I'll be happy!"
"That's good." He said
"And you know why I'll be happy?" Kagome said as she stood up straighter and wiped her eyes.
"Why is that?" Sesshomaru asked with a smile as he stood from the futon.
"Because" Kagome launched herself around the lord's waist and surprising him to no end as she looked up from his stomach with a wide grin "I'll be here with my Sesshomaru-sama!"
"Oh how cute!"
Both Kagome and Sesshomaru looked up only to see Sango staring at cute little scene between the pair "Opps! I just ruined the moment! I'm so sorry Sesshomaru-sama!" Sango said with wide eyes.
"It's ok Sango-chan!" Kagome said as she let go of the lord unfazed and ran to the older girl "Have you seen my room! Isn't it cool? But it needs girl stuff… and a desk!" Kagome twirled around to stare at Sesshomaru "Do you have a library?"
"You can read Kagome-sama?" Sang asked amazed
"And write! And older woman in the village would come to the brothel every once and a while to visit girls like me who didn't want to be there to cheer us up! She would bring books and teach some of the younger girls like me how to read and write. She was really nice…" Kagome said with a far-away look in her eye. "Anyway! I think I'll go to the library tomorrow: yawn: I'm kinda tired…"
"Sango?" Sesshomaru asked
"Yes Sesshomaru-sama?"
"Do you know if there are any servant girls that would be the same size as Kagome?"
"Why?"
"She needs an under kimono to sleep in and she needs something to wear tomorrow while she waits for her new clothes."
"Um… I don't think we have any girls as young as Kagome…"
"Could I wear one of Sesshomaru-sama's sleeping yukata's? Like the shirt part?"
"They would be too big for you Kagome-sama" Sango said to the younger girl.
"Can we at least see? PUUULEASE!" Kagome pleaded Sesshomaru.
"Sango? Could you get my black cotton yukata shirt please? "
"Um, yes sir" Sango said as she rushed to the next room 'I can't believe he gave in that easily! And the hug! What happened to the cold Sesshomaru-sama?'
"Kagome-sama quit wiggling!" Sango ordered the fidgety girl.
"Sorry, I've never had someone else dress me before! I feel like one of those pretty dolls that I'd use to stare at in the village toy stores."
"Just wait till you get all your new fancy kimonos! You'll need all the help you can get! This yukata will seem like nothing compared. There, all done!" Sango said with a huff of triumph. "Wow Kagome-sama! That looks really good on you. You can really work the oversized look!"
"Just Kagome Sango-chan, and do you really think it looks ok? I did always like wearing stuff to big for me!"
Kagome now wore a black oversized yukata and a piece of light pink cloth used as a loose obi tied in the back with a droopy bow.
"Come; let's go show Sesshomaru-sama." Sango said pulling the girl to the shoji door that connected the two bedrooms.
"Sesshomaru-sama, how do I look!" Kagome asked as she twirled in front of the lord
"You look acceptable."
Kagome huffed "'acceptable'? What does that mean?"
"He means you look lovely Kagome, doesn't it Sesshomaru-sama?" Sango said giving the lord a stern look. Sesshomaru got the message.
"I could not have put it better my self Sango."
"Thank you Sesshomaru-sama!" Kagome said cheerily "Now if both would be kind enough to leave please" Kagome said bowing to them both.
"Why should we leave?" Sesshomaru asked 'Just because she is my ward does not mean she gets to push me around.'
(A/N: Heh heh, just you wait my little puppet :evil laughter:)
"Well, I'd like to go to sleep if you don't mind…" Kagome said as she gave Sesshomaru a strange look.
'Oh…' "Very well. We shall take our leave. Just come to my room if you have any problems, yes?"
"Ok… Thank you Sesshomaru." Kagome said meekly
--Later that night--
"Mama, Mama where did you go?" a 4 year old Kagome called out into the darkened house. She heard yelling outside so she looked out the window.
"Mama?" Kagome whispered to herself
"Leave Hiro! You're drunk again!" Kagome's mother yelled at her father
"Shut up bitch! This is my house!" Hiro yelled as he backhanded his wife.
"Mama!" Kagome yelled running out to her mother.
"Kagome! Kagome go back inside, quickly go in and hide!" Kagome's mother whispered into her daughter's ear.
"No, let the little wench watch this! She needs to see who boss in this house!" yelled Kagome's father as she pulled her mother up by her hair.
"Run Kagome! Run and hide!" Kagome's mother yelled as she fought off her husband so her daughter could hide.
"But M-mama!" Kagome sobbed
"GO NOW!"
Kagome got up and ran as she heard her mother fight off her father. She ran past her house into the forest and climbed up into her favorite apple tree. Only when did she look over to her mother did she realize her father held a… knife?
"No mama… Run mama. Run like Kagome did, runaway mama!" Kagome whispered harshly between sobs.
Her father raised the knife.
"Mama!"
Kagome awoke from her nightmare harshly in a cold sweat. "Mama… Why didn't you run!" Kagome cried as she pulled her knees to her chest.
"Kagome! Are you ok?" Sesshomaru said bursting into the room looking for some intruder to kill. When he found none, he looked over to find Kagome in the fetal position crying.
"Kagome, are you ok? Was it a bad dream?" Sesshomaru asked as he walked over to her futon.
Kagome shook her head "No…: sniff: a bad memory." She whispered.
"Do you wish to speak about it?"
She shook her head again. Sesshomaru turned around to go back to his bed. Right before he reached the door he heard a weak little voice.
"Wait!"
He stopped and looked over his shoulder "Yes?"
"C-could… you stay here?" She asked sadly "Please?"
Sesshomaru sighed as he turned to face the girl who sniffling on his old futon. Wordlessly he walked over to her and laid down next to her on the futon. Immediately she latched on to his arm. He moved around so she was using his shoulder as a pillow and his arm wrapped around her small shoulders.
"'Night Sesshomaru-sama." Kagome whispered before she fell asleep.
"Goodnight… little Kagome" he replied and he too fell into dreamless sleep.
YAY! Fatherly loving goodness! I know I'm making Kagome seem really helpless and 'boo-hooy but remember, she just went though major hell so yeah. That and I'm also trying to make her seem a bit 'Rin'ish because when you really think about it, Rin acts the way you would expect a young Kagome to. OK with that out of the way, time to thank my lovely readers! It is 3:10am as I write this and the hit counter for "Saved" says :drum roll: 472! Can you believe it! And yet I have 23 reviews… I know I failed math but I have the feeling something is wrong here… Ahem! Anyway! Time to thank all of you who did review last chapter!
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