Chapter 3: Training
Waking up under that white ceiling was becoming a familiar ritual to the demon lord, who was slipping in and out of consciousness. When he next awoke he manedged to actually come out of his slumber and his golden eyes cleared up and he opened his mouth for a wide yawn. That was...until Kagome came into the room. His mouth slammed shut right then and there and he put on an almost sulky expression, laying on the bed.
His arm drew back up and rested on his stomach, over the bandages, warning her off. But that's when he realized she had already changed them while he slept. Damn, would he ever win an argument with this girl! But he had to admit the fresh wrap felt comfortable and didn't bother his wound, which was still no where as far along in healing as it should be. Certainly he was healing even slower than Inuyasha would have! How ridiculous.
He noticed the girl had knelt down beside his bed and was digging around under it. The bed swayed a bit and she pulled a pair of strange pink pants and a white top out of a drawer that was apparantly stowed away under the tall piece of furniture... Hmm. An interesting idea. He never would've thought of it.
Kagome rose to her feet, going off towards a side door he noticed was set in the wall at the foot of the bed. She didn't even seem to have noticed he was awake yet, and was already pulling off her t-shirt when she opened the door to the room, revealing what he could only guess was a private bath house...or bath room, behind it. But she was though the door quickly enough and it closed, a click and he knew that it was locked. Not that he had wanted to check it out anyways.
That was... until he heard the sudden sound of falling water... What the heck? It sounded like she had a waterfall in that room! The pounding noise of it was pretty loud to his ears and so he knew it couldn't've been there before... Was she a sorceress AND a miko? His head was tilted up and he was staring right at the door. Certainly if he had had ears like Inuyasha's they would've been pricked as far forward as possible, twitching at times in confusion.
But he did not have Inuyasha's ears, so when Kagome opened the door and came out with a white tank top and a pink pair of pajama pants, a towel over her hair, she found herself looking right over the end of her bed at the strangest sight. She had never seen the demon lord look so curious. And instantly he asked, "Are you a sorceress, woman?" A demanding tone. If she was a sorceress then perhaps she was the one delaying his healing for some sick reason of her own.
Instantly, upon the lack of her name being used, she gave him a look and waltzed right across the room as if he hadn't asked anything.
She could hear him growling as she sat at her vanity, brushing out and towel drying her wet hair.
A deep breath, then, "...Kagome."
She turned her head, smiling at him and somehow he felt he was getting obedience training from this girl. "Mmm-hmm?"
His silence told her he was not going to repeat the question, and she shook her head, "Nah. I'm not a sorceress."
He actually looked surprised and frowned. Seeming deep in thought. When her black hair was fairly dry the girl went back across the room, going back into the bathroom, leaving the door open this time to reveal the ceramic tile on the floor, something he had never seen before. And so many strange fixtures. She hung up that tiny blanket she had worn on her head earlier and then looked back at him as if in thought.
Out of the bathroom she came, leaning on the foot of the bed, staring right at him. "You need a shower." She said at last.
He frowned, a 'shower'? Did she mean to say it hadn't been a waterfall but rain that had gone off in the room? She had to be a sorceress then! She was lying to him! She was a weather demoness perhaps.
His nose twitched a few times... and cleared those thoughts up. Nope. She was a human and she was a miko. No sorceress. While her miko powers were strong she was in no way capable of what he was accusing her of. But how then?
He focused on her again from his thoughts and saw that she was waiting on something. He asked, "What is a 'shower'?" Kagome blinked and then said, "Oh, it's a bath...but...different."
He snorted right then, shifting and glaring at her. A bath meant he had to get up and go into that room. A bath meant he had to take off his clothes, and a bath meant that hot water would be running across his wound. He growled and shook his head, "No."
Kagome looked at him and put her hands on her hips, a gesture he was thinking he might soon learn to mean that she was getting her way, no matter how much he fought.
But for now he was not so well 'trained' and cross his arms over his chest in the same display of stubornness. He was NOT getting out of this bed.
When she stormed over to the edge of the bed and started hauling him into a seating position he began to have doubts. This human girl was stronger than she looked... that or he was even weaker than he had thought. She hauled him to his feet and he grit his teeth, making that noise that made her wince again. Now that he was up on his own he glared at her, trying to assert his height. He was the Taiyoukai here. He was NOT taking a shower.
...Why didn't he just keep his thoughts to himself? She latched onto his arm and began pulling him towards the bathroom. He planting his feet and looking almost like a dog fighting against its leash. Shaking his head, stumbling a few steps and growling. "Damn it, woman, Let me go! I don't want a 'shower'!"
She pulled on him more and he wobbled on his feet, hunched over and fighting her all the way to the bathroom door. Once again, if he had had Inuyasha's ears they would be flat against his head and he just might look like he was about to whine. I don't wanna! I DON'T WANNA!
Maybe it was a bit more difficult than she made it look, dragging a man twice her size across her bedroom, because when she spoke, she was panting, "You...are not... stinking up...my bed..."
Her bed! He cast a glance towards the tall futon and growled. He had been sleeping on her bed? Damn it, that was the last straw! He didn't want to be here!
He gave a jerk on his arm, making her take a step forward, but then she planted her heels on the ceramic tile and pulled with all her might in the other direction. He stumbled forward, his bare feet hitting the wet tiles, and WHOOPS! His feet skittered right out from under him and he stumbled forward, crashing right into a startled Kagome and sending the both of them to the hard floor.
For a moment there was an awkward silence, the two of them on the floor in a heap together. Then Kagome's voice came in a small squeak, "Can you get off?"
He growled and shifted, but pain slashed through his body. He had reopened his wound AGAIN and already his blood was spreading on the clean white bandage. And it was all her fault. He didn't want to take a shower! She should've left him alone!
Kagome was too busy trying to figure out if he was okay, as well as just exactly how to extract herself from this position. She had cushioned most of his fall, which she didn't mind so much, he was theinjured one. But still...kinda painful. And he was sitting most of his weight right on one of her legs. "...Please...get off my leg."
He flashed her a look that said, 'I'll move when I want to move.' Pain still coursing through him. But then he decided that refusing to 'get off' of the woman just didn't sound right. He grasped the counter of the bathroom sink and hauled himself up with his only arm. Wobbily coming to his feet.
Why the hell was he so weak? He felt like he was losing strengh, not gaining it. Was she sapping it from him?
He cast her an evil look as she rose to her own feet, rubbing her right hip as it thrummed in pain from being squashed. She saw that look and cast it right back. And said, "Now that you're in here, time to take a shower."
He growled, "I'm in pain, and my wound is open again. I am not taking a 'shower'." Kagome placed her hands on her hip, glaring at him, "It's YOUR fault that you reopened it, not mine! You need to wash the wound out with hot water and you're being...childish!"
He narrowed his eyes at her and 'hrmphed', turning and heading for the door. Limping as every movement made pain slash through him.
The girl brushed past him and stood firmly in the doorway. And he gave her a look that said, 'Do you really think that you can stop me?'
But she placed her hands on her hips, this time placing her weight on one foot, her hips tilted, looking as if she would take him up on that challenge.
"Either you take a shower and clean yourself up, or you take a bath and I scrub."
If Sesshomaru had had ears like Inuyasha's...they would've twitched back and forth as if asking, 'Did I hear that right?'
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