Chapter 12. Calming Storms
Kagura had wandered around for hours it seemed. Her feet began to ache a little as she decided to go back. She stopped and turned around. Her eyes looked at the different halls. Each one strung with beautiful velvet banners of blue and red and black.
"Oh. Which way did I come from?" she mummbled while crossing her arms as a scowl crossed her face. She leaned up against a wall and closed her eyes for a moment. Her fingers lightly tapped her arm as she stood up straight again.
"He said to ask someone if I got lost, but... Where is everyone?" Kagura questioned. She had seen absolutely no one while on her walk through the palace like mansion. Each hallway leading her farther and farther away from the safe walls of her room.
She walked back down one hall, then another. Her feet ached and she was getting tired. She passed quite a few large stained glass windows and sometimes stopped to admire the pictures in them. She could tell it was getting dark, or it was going to rain soon.
It turned out to be both. Thunder and lighting clashed together with a heavy rain as night took over the sky. Kagura jumped now and then when something caught her off guard. She began to run. Her eyes looked all around.
'Oh! This place is so huge! I'll never find my way back! Ahh! This is so annoying.' she thought.
Kagura kept up an even pace and soon found her way back to the giant room they had first entered in. A streak of lightning lit up the sky, illuminating the stained glass above.
"Lost?" Someone asked from nearby. Kagura jumped and put her hands to her heart as she turned around. Another streak of lightning allowed her to see Sesshomaru sitting there. A small cup was in his hands. There was a long thick blanket laying next to him on the furniture. He was wearing a pair of black pajama pants as it seemed, but he had no shirt.
His eyes met with Kagura's as another flash lit up the room.
"You look tired." Sesshomaru said quietly while taking a sip of whatever was in his cup. Kagura only staggered her way towards the sofa and fell onto it. She pulled her legs up and wrapped her arms around them. Her head layed on her knees.
Sesshomaru picked up the blanket and placed it over Kagura who looked up at him. She yawned weakly and gripped the blanket tightly. A few moments passed and each time lightning lit up the sky, Kagura would watch the stained glass.
It looked like it was alive, moving, dancing, and singing. The pictures seemed to move each time they could not be seen, like it was enchanted or something. Kagura's body leaned over and her head lightly rested on Sesshomaru's shoulder.
He didn't look at her. It seemed they were both possesed to look at the glass. As Kagura grew closer to sleep, she could have sworn she heard the pictures above her singing. Kagura stretched her legs out and yawned again.
"Perhaps I should take you to your room?" Sesshomaru said. Kagura only shook her head.
"I'm so calm right now. I don't really want to move yet." her words were small and weary. Her voice was heavy with exhaustion as were her eyes. She could not keep them from closing.
Sesshomaru didn't move, or attempt to leave. Even though he knew she was asleep already. He shifted his weight and stayed where he was, until he too fell asleep.
'So... so.. wonderful.' Kagura thought lightly. She moved alittle, and moved a little closer to Sesshomaru. Even in sleep, she still felt like the glass was watching her, as if it knew of her past, and wanted to make it better.
'Impossibile.' she thought.