Authors Notes:Hahahahaha, this chappy is somewhat humorous. Come on, I had to. My life has been so crazy lately, I hope you like this chappy. My thanks are at the bottom. Long chappy. Hope it pleases!
Also, I have noticed I made a very very stupid mistake. I made the mistake of not keeping in mind Sesshy has only one arm. Im such an idiot. Please forgive me for any confusion.
And another note(because this is just interesting) Did you guys know that there are Thunder Brothers in the Cherokee mythology that were troublemakers? I thought that was cool.
Disclaimer: I dun own nothing! So don't sue me!
Bad Day
Chapter 18-Courage Don't Desert Me
Kagome sighed as she climbed out the well, expecting so see Sesshoumaru standing right there, tapping his foot impatiently. No, he wouldn't do that. He'd just glare scornfully.
But she had a mission. She would do everything in her power to get the ball rolling to get him to fall in love with her.
And she knew it would happen. So what could possibly go wrong? (famous last words)
"Nice to see you again Kagome. Where's Sesshoumaru?" An angry voice snarled.
Kagome looked up and saw the one person she did not want to see.
Inu Yasha.
"What?" Kagome asked, her voice quavering. She felt terror. The look in his eyes conveyed his anger very well. It seemed as if he wanted to tear her apart limb from limb.
"You heard me. Don't think I didn't see you guys. You were hanging all over him in the future. You betrayed us," Inu Yasha snapped hatefully. Kagome felt her ire begin to rise to a dangerous level.
"Inu Yasha."
"Yes?"
"SIT BOY!" And with a heavy thud Inu Yasha face planted into the ground. Kagome smiled evilly, then screamed as loud as she could, "SESSHOUMARU!"
Within seconds the demon was coming her way. Inu Yasha was just beginning to get up from his hole in the ground. Kagome sat him again.
"Sesshoumaru, we have to go to the village, please," Kagome pleaded with him. He nodded silently and gathered her into his arm roughly and they were off towards the village, arriving after only a few minutes of travel.
"Sango, Miroku! Kaede!" Kagome called out as she ran from Sesshoumaru's arms. She noticed the villagers coming out to look at the youkai, knowing they were whispering about his likeness to Inu Yasha. Knowing he heard the comments and abhorred them.
"Yes, Kagome?" Sango said. She walked out of Kaede's hut, followed by Miroku and Kaede herself.
"I need to talk to you all, but first, Sesshoumaru isn't going to kill us. In fact he's helping me. Look, it's a long story and I can't tell all of it, but I need you guys to please, please listen to me," Kagome told them.
Sango looked doubtfully at Sesshoumaru, then nodded.
"Can we go somewhere else, Inu Yasha is on his way here and I don't want a fight between him and Sesshoumaru," Kagome begged.
"Kirara!" Sango called. The huge beast immediately obeyed her call and transformed into her large version. Miroku and Kirara hopped on and Sesshoumaru once again gathered Kagome to him and began to fly away. Inu Yasha was just arriving in the village, shouting and bellowing his displeasure.
"Slut, get back here!" He shouted at her.
"Sit!" Kagome called. She watched Inu Yasha face plant once more and almost giggled.
"It is a strange power you have over him Kagome," Sesshoumaru told her as they flew west.
"I know. Long story. How are Shippou and Rin?" Kagome asked, delighting in the feel of his strong arm around her.
"They are well. Both are terrorizing Jaken. My ward and your son are… Rather delighted they have someone to torture every moment, and Shippou has been quite an avid student. I've been trying to teach him to defend himself," Sesshoumaru stated. Kagome nodded thankfully.
In fifteen minutes they landed in a small clearing where Rin and Shippou were chasing Jaken, and Shippou was using his foxfire to get the toad to jump. Kagome wanted to scold him, but Sesshoumaru shook his head, as if he had known exactly what she was going to do.
"Guys," Kagome said as Sango and Miroku jumped off Kirara.
"Kagome, please explain what's going on," Miroku stated. Kagome nodded and tried to gather her thoughts into a coherent explanation.
"Remember when I told Inu Yasha I was going home after giving him ramen?" At their nods, Kagome continued. "Well, I came back after some…Interesting things happened in the future. But I can't talk about that. But when I got back, I met up with you guys," Kagome was cut off by Sango.
"I remember you seemed different Kagome. You seem even more different now than before. What has…Changed you so much?" Sango asked.
"After I saved Kagome from the fire I told her she would hunt shards with me, and you were all welcome to accompany us. I gave her little room for choice. At a dinner, she was used as a shield against a demon who was feeding information to Naraku. She killed the demon, Karasu, by purifying him. Because of this, she is known as my traveling companion, otherwise other demons would take her and use her as a tool for their own purposes," Sesshoumaru finished. Kagome nodded.
"Would you not be doing the same thing with her? And forgive me if I'm wrong, but you once said you had no interest in the shards," Miroku stated.
"You are correct, I did say that monk. But, circumstances have forced me to reevaluate the situation. Naraku must be defeated, and soon, or else my kind will be destroyed by humans. And no, I will not use Kagome as a tool, she is to be trained by myself and Kentetsu. It wouldn't be good for her to lose control and try to destroy a random demon of my court, unless it is a…Special situation, such as before. Now, she wishes to find out if you will choose to travel with me or the hanyou," Sesshoumaru finally said.
"Why should we leave Inu Yasha behind?" Miroku said.
"Because he is weaker, slower, and he has many enemies who go after all of you simply because he has a hot temper. He has a personal agenda in this war against Naraku that clouds his judgment," Sesshoumaru started.
"Kikyo," Miroku mumbled.
"Yes. My involvement with Naraku is not personal. I have been chosen to destroy him by the other demon lords," Sesshoumaru finished.
"We have fought before, and my father often told me of the four Demon Lords of Japan. You all are honorable once a pact is made. And you spared Kohaku's life once before. I owe you that much. I will travel with you," Sango said.
"Sango is right. But I feel bad for abandoning Inu Yasha like this. How will he survive on his own?" Miroku asked.
"He will survive, and he won't be on his own. He has the undead miko," Sesshoumaru answered. Kagome sighed in relief. She had come to the conclusion that she wasn't abandoning her cause, and that she and Inu Yasha had been okay in the beginning, but they couldn't travel together anymore. A time had come for her to grow up a little bit, and sometimes growing up meant growing apart.
Suddenly Sesshoumaru lifted his face into the light breeze and closed his eyes.
"Inu Yasha comes. I will not ask you all to battle against your former comrade, but do not interfere," Sesshoumaru told them.
Inu Yasha arrived just as he finished his words.
"What the fuck is going on? I know Kagome's a traitor, but what about you guys?" He snarled at Sango and Miroku.
"We follow Kagome. And she has chosen Sesshoumaru," Sango told him.
Inu Yasha drew Tetsusaiga and thrust it out in front of him. But something weird happened.
Or more aptly, didn't happen.
Tetsusaiga didn't change. It stayed a badly rusted katana.
"What the fuck?" Inu Yasha growled. He waved the sword around angrily, momentarily forgetting the other's presence.
"He's not trying to defend a human right now, that's why it's not working," Kagome whispered. And because of that, she was scared. Inu Yasha had forgotten all about his human friends and his trust in them.
"Inu Yasha, you can not use the sword now. Perhaps you'd like to continue this at a later time?" Sesshoumaru chuckled mockingly.
"Go to Hell!" Inu Yasha said as he dropped the sword and charged at Sesshoumaru angrily.
Sesshoumaru stepped out of the way of Inu Yasha's claws and smirked.
"Sit!" Kagome shouted.
BOOM
"Inu Yasha, I'm not traveling with you anymore because I grew up, and you're part of my past. I will find the jewels and defeat Naraku," Kagome told him. Sango and Miroku took the cue and jumped atop of Kirara. Sesshoumaru looked somewhat annoyed. Jaken, Rin and Shippou jumped onto Ah Un and Kagome felt Sesshoumaru's arm wrap around her body once more.
They left the snarling hanyou behind, some with deep regrets.
Kagome felt tears pour from her eyes. She had actually cut herself free from Inu Yasha. And it hurt…A lot.
Strengthening her resolve, she looked up at Sesshoumaru's face.
"Where are we going?" Se asked him.
"To my home," He responded. His voice reflected his mood just enough that Kagome knew not to ask anymore questions.
A few hours passed and they arrived at the beautiful home that belonged to Sesshoumaru. Sango and Kagome both sighed at a chance at a hot bath, and Miroku sighed at the young geisha walking past. All demons, but still beautiful.
"Welcome back Sesshoumaru, Kagome. I see you've brought friends," Kentetsu said as he walked out of the gates. Kagome ran to him and embraced him tightly. In the mess that today had become, he was a welcome steady sight. Odd, she once again reflected on how little she knew of him, but that she saw him as a friend already.
She pulled away and gestured to Sango and Miroku and Kirara.
"That's Sango, she is a taijiya, but she's nice and she won't hurt you unless you try to hurt one of us," Kagome giggled. Kentetsu bowed to Sango, who bowed back respectfully. In all her short years she had never imagined a demon bowing congenially to her.
"And the fire cat is Kirara. The monk is Miroku," Kagome finished. Once again Kentetsu bowed and smiled as he saw the monk's eyes wander past him and to a young geisha who had followed him out to greet Sesshoumaru and Kagome.
"Shall we proceed into our rooms and change, then have a light meal? The cook has prepared a wonderful lunch for us all. And since the court has…Emptied, we can have a nice meal outside," Kentetsu said. Sango and Kagome nodded eagerly at the idea of changing and having a nice relaxing bath.
"Do not dawdle girls, you have exactly one hour before I come and fetch you both," Sesshoumaru told them as he walked away from the group.
The same geisha from before came and took both Kagome and Sango to their rooms. Shippou and Rin disappeared, and Kentetsu showed Miroku a room near his own.
"Kagome, I'm starting to see distinct advantages to staying with Sesshoumaru," Sango sighed as she slipped deeper into the waters of the small spring.
"I know. Sango, you don't think we did anything wrong by joining Sesshoumaru, do you?" Kagome asked.
"Kagome, I'm a hunter. It's my nature to hunt with other strong hunters. I'll be honest, everything Sesshoumaru said today was true. For the longest, we all hated what Inu Yasha was doing to you. We knew your feelings and seeing Inu Yasha sneaking off into the forest to see her, it made us very very angry. It was kind of like a silent agreement, to leave with you the minute you got too fed up with him to travel with him anymore," Sango told her.
Kagome soaked up the words, gaping at her friend.
"Thank you," She whispered as she looked down at the waters. She felt movement and looked up as Sango got out of the waters and dried off.
"It's no problem. After all, we're friends, right?"
"Yes, best friends," Kagome said as she followed Sango's example and got out of the waters.
"So, anything going on with you and Lord High and Mighty?" Sango asked as she wrapped her hair in a long strip of cloth.
"WHAT!" Kagome shrieked as she looked at her friend, dumbfounded.
"Kagome, I wasn't born yesterday. And I saw how he held onto you. And it wasn't to irk Inu Yasha either. And even more, you let him. So come on Kagome, what haven't you told me?" Sango wheedled as they donned simple kimono robes and began to walk towards their rooms.
"Come to my room tonight and I'll tell you. We only have fifteen minutes before Lord Fluffy comes after us," Kagome sighed as they reached their rooms. Sango nodded and both departed, thrusting themselves into their dressers' careful care.
Thirty minutes later both finally arrived at the tea house, fifteen minutes late.
"I'm told it's typical for women to be late, something about being fashionable. But no woman has ever thought to try this exercise with me," Kentetsu laughed. Kagome and Sango blushed heavily, and without the usual makeup(both refusing to wear much of the stuff). Their red cheeks were quite visible.
"You ladies are both beautiful this afternoon. May I compliment you on your choice of kimono? They're both wonderful. And even with my old ears, I could still hear the dressers having a hard time of it with you two. Something about not caking on face paint like some courtesan?" Kentetsu laughed.
Their blushes deepened.
"Sango, Kagome, come have a seat by me," Miroku stated in an innocent voice. Sango sat on his left, and Kagome opted to stay away from his cursed hand(and she wasn't thinking of the one with the wind hole either) and ended up sitting next to Sesshoumaru.
A sharp crack sounded and she quickly turned her head to her two friends and saw a handprint on Miroku's face. Sango looked more than a little angry, and she quickly stood and walked over next to Kagome, and sat with a thump.
"Sesshoumaru, I know this might seem a bit…Childish? But could you please make sure his hands don't touch Kagome's posterior or mine?" Sango asked.
"I will endeavor to make you two girls comfortable. However, isn't this something you all should solve between yourselves?" Sesshoumaru asked, choosing his words carefully. He knew what Miroku didn't. She was on her moon time and women could be very, very volatile during that week of the month.
"Do you think Kagome and I haven't tried? The only way to get him to stop groping us is to cut his hands off!" Sango exclaimed. "Come to think of it, it might be a nifty way of getting rid of that wind tunnel too. You know, killing two birds with one stone," She said in an evil voice, her eyes glittering menacingly.
Miroku had gone several shades paler and was staring at the taijiya with wide, fearful eyes.
"Now Sango, would you spill blood all over this tablecloth and this absolutely wonderful treat that the cook worked so hard to prepare. It's positively sweet and tasty. I think you'd like it," Kentetsu told her, holding a piece of cake that seemed to be dripping in honey. Sango quickly took it and bit into it, then after a few chews, her face brightened. Her smile made her seem like she was in pure heaven.
"What is that?" Kagome asked.
"Daifuku dipped in honey," Kentetsu answered. "My wife loved them while she was feeling poorly," Kentetsu said carefully. Suddenly Miroku caught on and looked at Sango in horror.
"Oh no, are you…Oh man. That means I'm going to start soon too!" Kagome wailed.
The two children looked at her, confused, as well as Sesshoumaru and Miroku. Kentetsu merely smiled and sighed, then handed Kagome a large plate of the daifuku. Kagome in turn set it in down in front of Sango and herself, and both proceeded to munch on it and chatter, heedless of the looks they were receiving from Miroku and Sesshoumaru.
"Does this mean what I think it does?" Miroku finally asked.
"That we'll be traveling with two women who will have explosive tempers for a week?" Sesshoumaru responded. "Yes."
"Oh Gods," Miroku groaned as he let his face thump down onto the table. Kentetsu chuckled and Shippou and Rin ran back up to the table.
"We noticed that you were angry Sango, so me and Rin made something for you and mama. I heard Sesshoumaru say something about explosive tempers for a week. My papa used to say that mama would have an explosive temper one week out of the month and that it was because she's a female. But she was a demon. Do you go through what she went through?" Shippou asked as he and Rin handed Sango and Kagome some more flower wreaths, this time made almost completely out of sakura blossoms.
Shippou didn't understand why Kagome and Sango both turned bright red and Kagome threw the plate of daifuku in Sesshoumaru's general direction. Then both girls stormed off, muttering angrily.
"I think you may have asked for that boy," Kentetsu laughed as Sesshoumaru tried to wipe the honey off of his face and failed.
"I didn't. Shippou, please, as a male, you must never mention that to a woman's face without expecting something like that to happen. As you get older, they'll begin to throw the plates at you," Sesshoumaru growled. As Shippou looked sufficiently cowed, Sesshoumaru stood and sighed.
How did he ever come to the impasse where he would stand such a move, and from two human females no less?
Muttering inwardly of his bad luck, he walked towards the baths and opened the door, greeted by a nice gust of steam. Quickly he undressed, a servant taking his clothing and armor. He was handed a towel and he quickly headed for the spring the furthest in the corner.
Slipping into the water, he sighed once again, thinking over his predicament.
How exactly had he gotten into it?
By forcing Kagome to hunt shards down so he could defeat Naraku.
What had happened then?
She had…Kissed him.
The kiss still stuck fresh in his mind, despite his attempts to banish it. Somehow the damned miko had gotten under his skin and lodged herself deeply there with that one kiss.
He found that as time passed, the effects didn't fade away. Every time he thought of her lips against his, even if it was for a brief moment, his blood heated and his body hardened with passion.
What would it be like to really kiss her?
What would it be like to mate with her?
Sesshoumaru shook those thoughts from his head. He had been able to avoid thoughts of her in the days she had been gone. But the nights were another story. During the nights he hadn't been able to think of much else but her.
What could he do to get her out of his system? Only one option seemed open, something his father had told him once, long ago.
'Rut with them until they are gone from your system, until you tire of them. Unless it is love, you will never grow bored with them.'
His father had once said Hasu was merely a diversion; that he was going to rut with her until she was out of his system.
That hadn't happened until his death. He had loved her, or so he thought. Sesshoumaru could never forgive his father for what he had done to his mother, poor Akari. The one woman he would ever trust. And she was dead.
"Thinking again boy?" Kentetsu asked as he slipped into the spring.
"Yes, and no, I don't wish to speak of it old man," Sesshoumaru growled.
"Must be about Kagome then. Boy, did you ever think of just kissing her once, just to see what happens?" Kentetsu said out the blue. Sesshoumaru looked at him shocked.
"What the hell in that supposed to mean?" Sesshoumaru snarled.
"It's advice I received from my father a long time ago. I was obsessing over my wife, though she wasn't my wife at the time. And in the end, I kissed her, just as he advised me to do. And if there's something there, you'll feel it," The old man chuckled.
"What do you mean?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Just take my advice. She's strong Sesshoumaru. Strong enough to know what she wants. But like most beings, youkai and humans alike, she will not go after it unless she knows there might be a chance of her feelings being returned," Kentetsu told him. Sesshoumaru sighed once again.
"Kentetsu, you have always been very good to me, and I thank you for that. But I think you are wrong in this area of my life," Sesshoumaru told him.
"Sooner or later you two will kiss again, and if your reaction is anything to speak of, from what I heard, it affected you more than a little,"" Kentetsu said.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Rumor around the castle was you went though three youkai women before you gave up, none of them satisfying you," He said.
"It's so good to know the castle knows my private activities," Sesshoumaru growled.
"It's a castle, they're going to. Just be happy no one made the connection," Kentetsu told him.
"I see. Well, thank you for informing me that I cannot even rut without the castle knowing. I'm leaving," Sesshoumaru said as he stood up and quickly dried himself. Kentetsu only continued to chuckle in a light hearted manner.
The entire castle knew of Sesshoumaru and Kagome's doings, save for that kiss. Few knew of that. But there hadn't been too much excitement these past years, and the arrival of humans was something to buzz about. And one had even eaten with the Lords and Ladies of the court! It had been bound that rumors would fly.
Kentetsu sighed himself though, for he wondered if the boy would follow his advice.
"He has to. He wants to. The only true question I suppose, is how long will it take?" Kentetsu asked himself aloud.
Just then Miroku came strolling in, looking haggard and his face sported a bright red handprint and a bump protruded from his head.
"Must be Sango," Kentetsu said as Miroku stepped into the springs.
Ah, how the young behaved. How splendid it was to watch the intricate dances of behavior.
How much fun could an old kitsune have in a castle of four people who denied their attraction when it was plainly there?
Plenty.
"Hey Sango. Wow, you look mad. Miroku sneak into your room?" Kagome asked. Sango nodded and Kagome happily supplied another plate of daifuku. Sango gratefully popped a piece into her mouth, savoring the taste of early strawberries.
"So, you want to know everything, don't you?" Kagome asked.
"Yes," Sango replied as she ate some more of the tasty treat.
Kagome sat down next to her friend and leaned against the pillows of the futon.
"Where do I start?" Kagome sighed.
"My father always said it was good to start at the beginning," Sango replied.
"Okay, well here goes. It started one time when I saw Inu Yasha and Kikyo. I ended up running to a small pond and I stopped there. It was the night I went missing, you remember?" Kagome asked. Sango nodded.
"Well, I was crying, and suddenly there he is! Sesshoumaru! I was calling Inu Yasha a bastard and Sesshoumaru said it was an astute observation. I called him an asshole too, and their father for ever making their mothers pregnant because all the males in the family seemed to be jerks. He lifted his eyebrow so high when I said that. I was ranting endlessly about Inu Yasha. I was mad, you know? And then I end up going to sleep, and I wake up to Inu Yasha yelling at me. I end up sitting him. It happened a few more times, and then the last time this situation happened, I was on my way to the well. You remember, it was when I left at night?" Kagome asked. Sango nodded again, listing avidly.
"Well, I told him to find me in the future, but he didn't, I found him! And he's nice!" Kagome exclaimed. Sango looked wide eyed with surprise.
"Well, things just kind of progressed, and it seems that he fell in love with me sometime in the past. The Sesshoumaru of my time loves me, he even said it," Kagome said in a whisper, her eyes dancing with joy. "And I love him back," She finished. "He even let me keep the seal he let me use to help save Shippou. I'll explain that later. But it's the family seal," Kagome whispered as she took the pendant out from under her shirt, holding it by the leather thing that acted a necklace. Kagome traced her fingers lovingly over the crescent moon pattern and the sword that was behind it.
Sango looked like a feather could have knocked her over. Kagome looked at her friend with concern, then worry. Did Sango think she was a bad person? Would she hate her now?
"Wow Kagome, that's…Amazing. But what about the Sesshoumaru of this time? They're not two separate people. If you love one, you have to love the other," Sango told her. Kagome wilted suddenly like a dead flower, falling back against the cushions.
"I guess you're right. I have to find a way to get this all started, otherwise…I'll never have the Sesshoumaru of the future," Kagome told her sadly. Sango hugged her friend suddenly.
"I'm so happy for you Kagome. How about tomorrow, we make plans to help you get your guy," She told her friend, determination shining in her eyes. Kagome nodded happily, overjoyed that her best friend seemed to be okay with this whole thing. It wasn't often you could tell your best friend about being in love with the future self of a guy that had often tried to kill the both of you!
"I'm going to bed. Now, make sure to bar your door so Miroku doesn't get in. Or any other males," Sango added with a smirk. Kagome threw a pillow at the door just as it closed and relaxed deeper into the pillows, not bothering to get up and bar the door. Sesshoumaru had already proven once he would come and see what was going on if she screamed. Her safety against the lecherous hands of a certain monk was absolute.
Minutes passed, and she found she wasn't able to sleep. Getting up, she walked to the water basin and splashed some cool water on her face. She quickly donned an outer robe and tied it, the opened the door out into the gardens.
Maybe the scent of the sakura would calm her and let her sleep. Walking along the various paths and taking in each flowers scent, she didn't notice that when she came to the small koi pond that the current object of her unrest was already there, laying down on one of the benches in a simple pair of hakama pants and a kimono. The haori was nowhere in sight.
"Why are you out so late Kagome?" Sesshoumaru asked. Kagome jumped at the sound of his voice. She was obviously surprised.
"I couldn't sleep, and Sango has already gone to bed, so I thought I'd try walking in the gardens a bit to calm my nerves," She explained, stuttering as he leaned up and the kimono robe fell open a little to expose flesh.
"I see. And what do you have to be nervous about?" He asked.
Nothing but stuttering for an answer.
Thinking on the earlier words of his godfather, Sesshoumaru stood fluidly and walked towards Kagome. The advice and her actions tonight seemed predestined.
When he reached her, he grabbed her to him and kissed her deeply, roughly, in such a manner that would scare most women.
Nothing. No signs, no feelings. Not a surprise.
But Kagome stood still for moments, and before he had a chance to back away from her as he had done before, she captured his lips with her own and began to kiss back, weaving her hands through his long hair.
Now he knew what his god father spoke of.
He deepened the kiss, thrusting his tongue into her mouth. He had never really kissed anyone before, not like this.
She met his kiss with as much passion as his own, letting her tongue battle with his. He felt alive, like his blood had turned to fire, then to pure energy. His mind was becoming clouded with passion, and he brought her closer to him, reveling in the feel of her soft body as it fit perfectly with his own. He felt the mewling in her throat more than heard it and growled deeply within his own, wanting to possess every piece of her body, mind and soul.
Then he realized just what he was thinking and pulled back from her, both of the gasping.
Kagome gasped. He knew his eyes had become red, as they were wont to do in the deepest throes of passion, at least he had heard. He had never known himself to do so before.
"I'm sorry, forgive me," He said in a throaty voice, turning from Kagome.
"No way, not this time!" Kagome exclaimed. She yanked his arm and turned his body towards her own and yanked him down to her waiting lips. She kissed him just as roughly, just as deeply and with equal passion as he had.
The walls around his passion broke then. He couldn't stop it. She had kissed him, demanded he kiss her back, with everything he had. And he couldn't hold back, Gods help him, he didn't want to hold back anymore.
Once more he pulled her closely to him, putting his one arm around her waist in a grip akin to steel.
Something briefly flashed in his mind, something like fear. But the beast within pushed all coherent thoughts aside as she squirmed against his hard form.
Suddenly a noise broke their concentration.
"Mama, mama, Rin is having a nightmare and is thrashing around in her sleep very badly! Please come help!" Shippou's voice called out from her room. Kagome and Sesshoumaru both hurried into her room. Kagome picked up a wailing Shippou and tried to comfort and sooth him as she followed Sesshoumaru to Rin's room.
"She was in my room," Shippou said meekly. Sesshoumaru didn't question this and merely changed his direction slightly and walked into Shippou's room, going quickly to the futon and grabbing a sobbing Rin to him.
"Sesshoumaru-Sama, I'm sorry," She said at last. Sesshoumaru said nothing, merely rocked slightly, though Kagome wasn't sure he was aware of what he was doing.
Soon enough, Rin was asleep once more, as well as Shippou. Kagome laid her son down next to the little girl and smiled. Even now Shippou curled around her protectively.
She followed Sesshoumaru out, turning back as she reached the door to look at them one last time. She then closed the door and looked at the demon lord who was staring at her.
"Why do you look at them so? With such affection," He asked her.
"Would you believe me if I told you those two are destined to be together?" Kagome asked him. She took the look on his face as a definite no.
"Goodnight, Sesshoumaru," She told him as she walked towards her own room.
Sesshoumaru felt the beast within howl with want and desire.
But he knew they could not recapture the passion they had shared in the garden.
And he couldn't honestly tell himself he didn't want to.
But it wasn't for lack of trying.
Blix: Okay guys, do you know that I wrote this all in the span of one night! JUST ONE NIGHT! That's how much I love you guys. I know it probably as much as you guys wanted, but come on, he's been anti-human and anti-emotion for centuries (I think) and he's just now letting her in. Big step. But oh, the humor, drama, and romance ahead. And believe me, there will be some humor, because that's just how I view love sometimes. Maybe it's because of how I met someone. But I won't get into that. Im off to work on the next chappy!
Thankies to:Demonqueen14, Draegon-Fire, Crutcxhes the Magic Hippy, Lyn, Hoshiki Megami, Irol, Kina 13,Joey, Blue Diamond-Hime, Ranchan23, Sesshoumaru Lover, Rin 14, WTF101(like your name btw), Emchi, Sakura-no-hana-hoshi.
You guys have made me really happy. So here's a chapter all for you.