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Cahpter 13

Kouga sat gazing into the chambers of the blazing fire. The reflection of it danced in his fierce sapphire eyes.

Lying on the cold ground on the other side of the fire lay his half dead companion Ginta. His breath was faint and his heart beat soft. Ginta had lost a great amount of his youkai blood and was unconscious and slowly healing.

"So Sesshomaru has my Kagome." He growled. A flicker of hate fired in his eyes. The silence that followed was tense.

He clinched his fist, his claws digging into his calloused palms.

"He's gonna regret the day he messed with my woman!" Kouga growled deep in his throat. Thoughts of maiming the Taiyoukai entered his mind.

Hakkaku uneasily watched his commander. He could see hate and anger mixed and stir in Kouga's eyes.

Hakkaku got a concerned look on his face and turned his gaze to Ginta's unconscious form and thought to himself.

"How is Kouga gonna get Kagome away from Sesshomaru? Lord Sesshomaru is a feared powerful and ruthless demon lord." Thoughts of even confronting him made him shiver.

"Umm hey Kouga…" He spoke looking back at Kouga.

Kouga's eyes focused and snapped back to reality. He then looked up at Hakkaku with an annoyed glare.

"Yah?"

Hakkaku nervously gulped.

"What do you think Sesshomaru could want from Kagome?" He asked cocking his head slightly in confusion.

Kouga's face became grim; he then shifted his eyes back to the fire.

"I got no idea, but I'm not just gonna let some dog shit take her!" His eyes gleamed dangerously.

Hakkaku continued. "But how are you going to kill Sesshomaru Lord Kouga?"

Kouga growled dangerously and bared his fangs. "With my on bare hands!"

Hakkaku shuttered and looked back at Ginta and was silent.

Kouga knew this was not the wisest time to be making rash decisions to just kill the Taiyoukai. There would have to be a plan of action to take down Sesshomaru. Many have tried and failed, loosing their lives in the process.

"How am I gonna get close to where he's keeping Kagome?" Kouga thought rigging out answers from his mind. He would have to get to Sesshomaru's castle. No doubt that's where he would keep her.

"Damn, you Sesshomaru!" He howled mentally.

Somehow, someway he would find a way to get to her.

Sesshomaru sat gazing at the helpless girl he had sheltered.

"Why do I give hospitality for the human?" He thought. He had taken her in on that stormy night not knowing who she was or where she came from.

His eyes narrowed.

The girl was more trouble than she was worth. It was Rin who he had brought the woman in for.

He silently watched her lithe form rise and fall. Her heart beat was gentle and her breathing was a slow rhythm.

The reason he made his journey to his castle hours instead of a matter of minutes was pure logic. At nightfall, guests that lingered in his castle would be in their beds.

That way he would not be seen carrying Kagome in his arms to his front gates, breeding any false rumors about him.

The kit that the girl cared for he very well knew was wounded. His youkai blood was well into its healing process and would only take a couple of days to heal its foot paw completely.

So while he waited for nightfall, he flew over his lands, checking up on them as he did regularly.

Suddenly Kagome stirred in her bed. A whimper came from her mouth followed muffled words.

Sesshomaru narrowed his golden eyes. Humans were pathetic creatures that could be killed with one swipe of his claws. But he never cared about them until a very young human girl stumbled into his life. Rin. Closing his eyes he recalled how he had first met his ward.

After he battled and defeated the fire demon Ranisha who was his fathers rival in the Lorinel Mountains in the far west. He had been badly injured and had to take refuge in a forest.

Kouga Lord of the Eastern lands set out with Sesshomaru's loyal servant Jaken, who had to be carried by one of Kouga's demon wolf soldiers to keep up with there pack.

Together they searched for the Taiyoukai seeing if he survived the fight. Secretly, Kouga hoped that Sesshomaru had perished in the fight and hopefully he would gain some control over his lands when the lords divided it amoust themselves.

But in the forest was a lone village, where a young mute orphan girl named Rin lived. She lived in a shack alone and was very young when her parents past away leaving her scared and struggling to feed and fed for herself.

But one day she ventured into the very forest that Sesshomaru was recovering in search of food to fill her famished stomach.

She then stumbled upon the wounded Taiyoukai. She was the most caring girl he had ever encountered.

She brought him a fried fish she had stole from the villages water preserve and made a fire and cooked it over.

She also found some wild onions and berries from the forest. After collecting the "meal", she bravely presented it to him. Refusing the food he told her that he did not eat human food. But that did not stop her. She returned to the village to sleep and hopefully gather some food that he would hopefully eat the next day.

Sesshomaru was fully healed and could smell Kouga and his troops nearby.

He then shortly encountered them and told them he had defeated the demon and was heading back to his own lands. Jaken was grateful that his Lord was in full health and remained with him. For he did not want to be carried by one of Kouga's soldiers which was not his idea of an enjoyable ride, having to be smacked in the face by bushes and tree limbs going at youkai speed and traveling through any sort of weather was something that did not meet his fancy.

So Kouga and his troops retreated back to the Eastern lands but from all that traveling they decided to fill their stomachs. So they attacked the lone village which Rin lived in.

Rin awoke to screams and snuck into the forest to arouse the demon she cared for and hopefully get him away from the village where he wouldn't be attacked by wolves.

But to her horror, he was no where to be found.

Wolves followed her scent and chased her.

She ran for her life, not knowing where she was heading. She accidentally tripped on a root of a tree and collapsed to the ground. All she could remember were the wolves open jaws sinking into her body and terrible pain before everything went dark.

Sesshomaru and Jaken walked at a slow pace, because Jaken had begged his Lord mercy, because of traveling with the wolf youkai. It had been an exhausting and tremulous and wished they could go at a slow speed.

But as they passed the village, the scent of blood filled Sesshomarus nostrils and as they proceeded on, they came upon the girl that had tried to help him when he was wounded. She was lying cold and stiff dead on the path before them.

Bite marks from wolves covered her body. It could have only been Kouga's tribe that had slain the village and the girl.

The sword his father had given to him called Tessaiga that could heal a thousand in one swing, pulsed.

He hated the sword and never used it. But the girl had offered him help.

So to repay her for her kindness she shown to him he repaid her with one swing of the Tessaiga and the imps from hell dissolved and her soul was restored and her body healed and breathed life once more.

After that, the girl followed him for years and after being around him for just a couple of months her speech was restored and she spoke.

Memories glided through Sesshomarus mind like a breeze on the ocean.

He then was snapped out of thought when a slight groaning noise came from the bed. Opening his eyes he saw Kagome's eyes squeezed and frantically look side to side under her delicate eye lids.

Her hand lay by her face was twisting the silk fabric of the pillow beneath her. Her heart beat became a hard thumping in her chest.

Sesshomaru thought to himself. "A nightmare…"

When traveling with Rin he had seen the human girl twisting and yelling in her sleep. Not was he going to let Kagome do this, She would probably wake up the whole castle. Now that would be a nightmare.

His dead gaze studied her face trying to think of something he could do to calm her. He then got an idea. His pelt which is also a fur whip is used to grasp onto your opponent and constrict them with it. It now lay draped over his left shoulder.

He then gracefully unwrapped it from himself. In his very mind he could control it.

The tip slide around Kagome's wrist and gently coiled around it. He was careful not to squeeze it too tightly and cut off her circulation.

Unconsciously, Kagome felt the soft fluffy substance wrap delicately around her wrist. She then subconsciously released the pillow and hugged the soft furry thing closer to her body. Her heart beat slowed down and her face became peaceful once again.

Sesshomaru mentally gave a sigh of relief but stared unemotionally at the girl.

A candle with a small flickering flame danced on the dresser across the room from the satin and silk bed giving off a warm glow. The orange flame of the fire flickered in Sesshomarus fierce golden orbs.

After Kagome had saved his life which no other has done before he had invited her to dine with him at the up coming banquet in honor of what she did for him. Other Lords would think he has grown soft to humans. But he had already told her he would and he never breaks his word. Besides she was beautiful for a human and many youkai at the banquet would gladly take her in as their mate if they could. But she still has to accept his offer into going.

But why was it when ever Kagome was around him she didn't fear him at the least? The dark ravened girl always interested him in the strangest ways. How she didn't feel intimidated by his presence. More questions filled him as he entered deeper into thought.

Why had one of Kouga's best fighters confront him and demand for the human?

What was the female's relationship with Kouga?

But what really made him question him self was when the wolf youkai kissed Kagomes hand, something inside of him snapped. Never had he lost control over anything like this before. He always wore an emotionless mask all emotion hidden not betraying anything.

He glared coldly down on the sleeping angel.

He had to get away from her at the moment. She unearthed emotions in him that laid dormant in him. If he remained in contact with her he might loose control. He could not take that chance.

Her scent of newly borne fresh jasmine flowers entered his senses. His blood was beating in his veins. He had to get away from her.

His fur pelt was wound around her wrist tightly and would need to be physically removed because she had a firm grasp on it. Getting up from the chair he gracefully knelt by the bed. His gaze focused on the milky skin of her arm.

He then quietly reached with one clawed hand and gently grabbed her wrist.

Then, with the other hand started to unwind it from her arm and remove her hand from its grasp on it.

Just as he was about to unwind the last part of the fur whip from her hand, her hand shot up and grabbed his. Sesshomaru grunted at the rash movement the unconscious girl made. His gaze turned to the face of the girl who dared touch him. She wasn't even conscious to even know what she was doing.

Sesshomarus tempter rose and his blood was burning to kill her. Who would dare to touch him.

Kagome then drew his hand toward her chest pulling him forward in the process so his face was a foot away from hers. The girl then hugged his whole arm and a sigh of pleasure left her mouth.

Sesshomarus blood boiled and burned in his body. Heat rolled off his body in waves. But he kept his facial expression frozen like ice.

"Damn her." His mind growled.

"What ever I do to get the human off me she finds another part of me to grasp and cling to."

An irritated sigh escaped from him.

He then managed to pull the last of the fur whip from her strong grasp.

It then traveled up to her cheek and gently stroked it. Hopefully she would let go of his arm and try and bat what was tickling her cheek away.

Her eye brow twitched. But, to his horror she turned her whole body the other way bringing Sesshomaru with her. Sesshomaru felt a tugging on his arm and found the female practically bringing him into bed with her. His body tensed. He was loosing control over the situation. He found himself behind her laying on the bed and his arm tightly around her body.

In her sleep Kagome felt the new source of heat that was behind her and snuggled her back into Sesshomarus chest.

Sesshomaru couldn't believe this human.

Was the girl actually snuggling up to him!

Maybe if he just killed her.

An annoyed sigh left his lips.

That's what interested him he couldn't kill the girl. Even when he first met her he attempted to but couldn't...why?

He then moved the fur whip under the cold silk sheets and gently coiled around her feet then up her legs like a serpent to prevent her legs getting cold.

He was stuck. He couldn't get out of this situation.

"Just for tonight." He thought. This is just a one time event.

He then inhaled deeply and his body relaxed a little.

This was going to be a long night.