End the Insanity!
That's it. I've been more than patient with this little girl. She needs a lesson. Sesshoumaru picked Kagome up and tossed her over his shoulder, determination and skill in his very stance.
"Hey, put me down! I demand you put me down right now!" Kagome began to flail again, but he was going to have none of that. Sesshoumaru ran his claws down one of her legs, almost breaking the skin and she had to muffle a scream before it got out, not wanting anymore pain.
"This is where I draw the line. You need discipline and you need it now. You're going to learn your place here and now."
Long ago, Kagome had stopped struggling. She had tired herself out and her limbs felt weighted down with lead.
They were still traveling through the sky and as she watched the scenery pass, she began to feel sleepy. Soon enough, her eyes began to droop and she fell asleep with her body swinging to Sesshoumaru's movements.
Inwardly, Sesshoumaru sighed with a smile as he switched the girl's position in his arm. Just like her to fall asleep when she could die right now. Increasing his speed as the lush forests changed to well plowed farms and plains, he neared his home.
The wind was blowing lightly, but was enforced with the speed at which he was moving making smells and other things come more quickly to his enhanced senses. A horrid stench assailed his nostrils while moving over a certain area, and he knew it wasn't just the cattle. Who's this?!
Swiftly, he turned sideways just as a certain wolf youkai tried ramming him, but succeeding in only running straight past, skidding to a halt in a cloud of dust. Sesshoumaru knew he was strong enough, maybe even more so, to take him on, but this specimen had peaked his interest concluding to wait and hear him out before destroying him. Lightly, so as not to wake the sleeping maiden, he landed and gently laid her in an area of luxuriant green grass.
With the dust settling around him, he received a better look at his aggressor who stood tall in assorted furs with long brown hair pulled high into a ponytail.
"Just what do you think you're doing with my woman?!" he asked angrily.
Sesshoumaru's countenance revealed none of his emotions raging inside him at the sounding of that youkai's 'my', but just stood studying him.
"I didn't smell a mark upon her person," he spoke trying to keep the force from his words. "Yet you claim her as yours. Naze?"
His opponent looked as if he was struggling for words until he got out with a triumphant smirk, "She's human; a word claim is good enough."
He chuckled coldly and stretched out his hand revealing his poisonous claws. "You wish to fight for her? I, Sesshoumaru, will gladly see to your demise for your impudence upon my lands. Here, I am ruler, and what I say goes. Therefore, I say that whatever is on my land belongs to me."
Her body ached all over as if she had been asleep on hard ground for hours and she had a horrible quirk in her neck. In fact, Kagome was familiar with the feel of grass on her face as she finally began to come fully into reality. Where am I? And where is Sesshoumaru?
As she sat up, her face was assaulted with blood seemingly from nowhere. Hurriedly, she wiped her face on her sleeve. Wha-What's going on?! Her head screamed in alarm at the sight set before her once her eyes were clear enough to look before her.
Sesshoumaru was closing in fast from the sky on Kouga, one of his clawed hands set high in a killer blow that couldn't be prevented.
"Stop!" she screamed as loudly as she could.
In the knick of time, Sesshoumaru landed the blow on the ground next to Kouga's kneeling form. Both of their cringes were apparent to Kagome, but at the moment, she didn't care.
"What's this?! What's going on here?!" she screeched at them.
Looking over both of them as speedily as she could, the first thing she saw were their wounds; this battle had been raging for quite a while, she discovered. Kouga was kneeling on the ground clutching his bleeding side as blood trickled from his mouth down his chin. Sesshoumaru, on the other hand, merely had three scratches on his cheek as far as Kagome could see; he was slightly turned so that she could only see half of him.
Sesshoumaru stood from where his blow had landed and tilted his form to look at her fully. She saw now that he had earned one more wound—his arm had a long gash, though shallow, down the length of his arm.
Kouga didn't even wince as he stood with a look of pride on his face saying, "I was trying to save you." He still had that arrogant air about him even when he was hurt. "No one has the right to touch my woman."
Tired and aching, Kagome was in no mood for his arrogance right now. "Kouga, I'm fine. I don't need rescuing from something that hardly did anything to me so you can leave. I am not your woman and I won't ever be your woman. Got that?"
The most he seemed capable of doing was standing staring speechlessly at her. Silence seemed to unfold in a dark cloud above them, but no one spoke.
Finally breaking the uncomfortable silence, Sesshoumaru spoke, the steal in his tone uncovered. "Get off of my land or I will be forced to kill you."
As Kouga started on is way, Sesshoumaru spoke low enough for only him to hear it as he looked as the ground. "You have no claim to her now."
Kouga growled lowly and glared at Sesshoumaru in a look of hate that would have sent shivers down anyone else's spine.
Sesshoumaru hid his pleasure under his mask. Emotions are weakness. I don't have them. Even for this human.
Looking back at the woman, Sesshoumaru was hit with a feeling of sheer jealousy. There she stood with a majesty he could not grasp even though her appearance was haggard and her hair messy. Could she care for that lowly youkai or does she really just want him to leave? Honestly, she puzzled him to no end. Just what went through this girl's mind?!
"We must keep going if we are to—"
"I don't care," she broke in. After that, Kagome just turned and began walking away.
Sesshoumaru was angry. No one undermined him! Again, this little human defies me!
She hardly knew what happened. Kagome was picked up and thrown hundreds of feet in the air. The familiar tightening of her stomach was all that told her she was falling and falling fast. She landed with "Oof!" in Sesshoumaru's arm a second before she would have hit the ground face first. Then he twisted her body in a position that made her feel and look ridiculous.
"For the remainder of this journey, we will travel like so."
What?! No! Kagome thought as she hung upside down in Sesshoumaru's tight grip. He's trying to humiliate me! Kami, he's stubborn.
"Sesshoumaru! Put me down right now!" She could feel the blood rushing to her head as her ears roared their protest in vain. "I can't travel anywhere like this! My skirt will fall down! What if someone sees?!" The red in her face deepened as Sesshoumaru wound his arm around her thighs. "Wh-what are you doing?!" she asked with a slight tremor in her voice.
"Keeping your skirt, as you call it, from letting passers-by see your unseemly places." The coldness of his tone chilled her to the bone.
She tried again. "Look. Humans can't travel upside down. I-It's not good for them." She searched for more words as she gripped his legs to keep from dangling. Wait! I know! "Uh, humans can die if they're upside down for too long."
Give it up, little girl. No matter what, you will bend to me. You're behaving like an untrained pup and I shall make you behave.
"Then I, Sesshoumaru, shall be sure to make this as short a trip as possible. We don't want you to die too early, do we?"
The grip on his legs tightened as he rose from the ground. He took a bizarre pleasure in the fact that she did hold him instead of trying to struggle.
Not good. Kagome squeezed her eyes shut as they traveled through the sky.
All of the traveling they had done had given her extra thinking time. Now she realized one fact. I don't want to die.
It wasn't until too long that they landed, but Kagome refused to open her eyes. She heard footsteps running in their direction a few seconds before someone spoke. Oh no. This is going to be bad.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" a scratchy voice called out. "We were wondering when you would get back. There are certain—" the voice suddenly stopped when he got close enough to make out Sesshoumaru's bundle. "Who's this lowly human?" they asked in disgust. "Is she bothering you master? I shall gladly rid her of your presence."
"Jaken," Sesshoumaru said coolly.
"Yes, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Be quiet."
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Mwahahahahaha!!! I am SO evil.
And….I wrote a super-duper long chapter! Aren't you so proud? Yes, well…you should be.
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