Chapter 2

puppy paws

AN/

Apparently some people think that trying to set a mood is boring in a fic. Using adjectives is unheard of in the world of fandom! People, come on now… if your going to insult something, don't insult my grammar. Try for spelling.

And for those of you who enjoy my way of writing and using adjectives here's another chapter full of them:

When Sesshomaru awoke it was still day but late in the afternoon.

A peaceful humming was close to his right ear. He turned his head slightly and saw the girl from earlier that morning. She was humming a sweet tune that seemed to quiet the entire forest. Birds seemed swooped down from the sky to get a better listen.

'Such a beautiful voice…' Sesshomaru caught himself thinking.

The girl looked over at him and gazed blankly in to his eyes. There seep within the blue orbs Sesshomaru saw nothing but pain, a tortured pain that comes from years of hardship and loss.

A sharp pain arose in Sesshomaru's chest. His expression must have betrayed him as the girl stopped humming and the pain was masked with a bright smile.

"Oh, hello, How do you feel?" She asked.

Sesshomaru tried to sit up but another sharp pain arose in him, and this time it wasn't pity. He hissed his discomfort and her girl gently pushed his shoulder to get him to stop moving.

"I'm sorry, I would have cleaned and bandaged you while you were sleeping but those children haven't returned to me yet." She said in a soft apologetic voice.

"Amida!" A small girls voice called.

"that's me!" the girl said and sped away toward the sound of the girl's voice.

Sesshomaru suddenly heard the girl gasp.

"Healer! What are you doing here!" she said.

"I came with the children when I found then taking herbs and bandages. I thought that you might have been hurt and in need of help." A male voice said. The voice was soft and gave Sesshomaru's skin a slimy feeling. 'That could only be one thing…' he thought to himself and shuddered at the visual image that came with the thought.

"Oh NO…" Amida's voice was laced with honey-glazed hatred. "I sent the children to fetch bandages because I found an injured dog in the forest. I thought it would make a nice guard dog or pet." Sesshomaru wanted to kill the girl for that comment, but another side of him logic-ed that the girl was lying on his behalf and he should not kill her just be cause she couldn't come up with a better lie than that.

"Well what is wrong with the poor creature?" the man asked.

"It has a large gash across the chest and several small cuts elsewhere." Amida's voice said and Sesshomaru grinned.

"Lying by omission." He breathed to himself. ' Very clever'

"Well, why don't you just use your magic on the creature and be done with it?" The healer said in a smug tone.

"Because I have not rested well in a while and I do not think it wise to risk my life and the life of the creature." Amida said, " I think I can handle most of my problems without the use of magic. Now, I just take the bandages and be back to helping the poor pup that I found."

"Alright, Amida, I will see you when you return to the village. You and your precious pup." The man said and Sesshomaru could hear his footsteps as he walked away.

Four other pairs of footsteps began to come toward Sesshomaru and stopped a little while away.

Amida knelt before the three children.

"we're sorry, Amida. We didn't mean to bring him. He followed us." A young boy's voice said.

"It's alright. Did you bring what I asked for?" Amida asked sweetly and Sesshomaru heard the rustling of clothes.

"Very good then," there was a pause, "Arita, Arikana go back to the village. Korin, you come with me." Amida ordered. "Girls, DO NOT let the healer see you go into the village!"

"HAI!" the little girls answered as they ran.

Amida and a little boy appeared before Sesshomaru.

"Korin, this is Lord Sesshomaru. You will address him as such." The boy bowed to Sesshomaru.

"Now, Lord Sesshomaru, we need to clean and inspect your wounds. Contrary to popular belief, demons do not heal from magically inflicted wounds. I would like to see you live through this. Do we have your permission?" Amida asked

'A formal request? Well, at least she's not stupid.' He thought and nodded his permission.

Amida knelt beside Sesshomaru and placed her hands under his neck and between his shoulders and lifted him into a sitting position. Sesshomaru's armor crumbled due to the movement of his upper body making Amida's job easier.

To Amida's displeasure, Sesshomaru's back looked as though he had vigorously rubbed himself against a rough barked tree.

Then she looked up at the tree he was leaned against and saw bit's and pieces of his armor, kimono and flesh. She grimaced and rubbed the back of Sesshomaru's neck.

"Korin, remind me to burn this tree down…" she said and the boy nodded.

Amida cleaned a total of about sixty-seven wounds through out Sesshomaru's body. She also forced him to drink a number of gourds of restorative potion until he was able to sit up on his own.

Amida played with and fondled parts of Sesshomaru only to be warded off by a ferocious growl from the demon lord.

"Stop touching me… Now!" He barked finally when Amida started to clean his toenails. He drew his feet in under him and balled his hand into a fist to keep her away from his fingernails.

"Amida, you're such a neat freak." The boy said and got a sharp right to the top of the head.

"Perfectionist, not neat freak." Amida said then sat quietly in thought.

"What am I going to do?" She said to herself.

"About what?" the boy said rubbing his head.

"The healer expects me to walk into the village, with a pup in tow. I have no pup. Hence, I'm sunk." She said then looked at Sesshomaru a dangerous gleam in her eyes.

She raised her index finger to Sesshomaru's forehead and chanted something, never breaking eye contact with Sesshomaru. There was a bright blaze of light and unexpectedly everything was bigger to Sesshomaru.

"What have you done!" he demanded when he looked down and saw…

white puppy paws….

To be continued.

AN:

Yes, short chapter. But still… any way I know that there was a lot of OOC, but hey most of the characters in this chapter belong to me anyway. XP

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