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On with the Chapter:
Hot Spring
"Stupid, dumb...jackass wolf..." Inuyasha muttered to himself.
Shippo chimed in, "Inuyasha, would you calm down...geez, he's helping us in a way by finding her scent."
Inuyasha turned to him and yelled, "As if I couldn't do it by myself! He's just getting in our way and—"Klang!
"Good job Miroku!" Sango said, giving him a high five.Hopefully that smack with Miroku's staff would get him thinking clearly and rationally.
"Thank you, now, Inuyasha. I quote Lady Kagome on this, 'Take a chill pill'."
Inuyasha lifted his head, "And just what do you mean by that!" He asked angrily.
"That you need for your head to cool. Sesshomaru is not the type to kill her immediately. He must have some need for her. But for what?" Miroku thought aloud.
Sango crossed her arms, "Maybe for her miko powers?" That tended tobe the most commonreason in these kidnappings of hers.
"Then why would he want her powers?" Shippo asked.
Inuyasha got up and crossed his legs Indian-style. "He's got her as a hostage to take the Tetsuseiga, again."
"Perhaps...but I think he's over it." Sango replied. Inuyasha was always thinking that it was about him...sheesh.
"Iagree with Sango. He didn't try to go after it in our latest in encounter, but already planned to take Kagome in the first place." Miroku concurred, nodding his head.
"Except, where did he take Kagome?" Shippo chirped.
"That would be the question of the day wouldn't it?" Miroku said.
Kagome woke up found she was no longer on Sesshomaru's shoulder or cloud.
She was on the ground next to a crackling fire. Alone and hungry, she looked around.
It seemed she was in a forest, if not the same one. Kagome got up and heard the tinkling of a nearby stream.
She followed her senses and found a small brook with the cool liquid. Kagome drank her fill and thought if she should go back.
'Well, I have no weapon, food, well that's not entirely true, I have some in my backpack I just don't feel like cooking and Sesshomaru hasn't hurt me...yet.' Kagome thought, 'Why did he kidnap me though? Now that were even at it, do I want to stick around to find out?'
"Human."
Kagome turned around slowly,"Uh...hi." Did he have to sneak up on her? Was it abso-freaking-lutely necessary?
"Where were you?" he asked austerely. He towered over her, she didn't even come up to his chin. This was really intimidating.
She whispered, "I was, um...thirsty, so I," her eyes dropped to the ground. "Went to the brook...for some—a drink."
Kagome looked up and he was gone. "He—Hey!"
She walked back to camp, embarrassed at her pathetic response. 'He's so indimidating and it's not my fault that he's drop-dead gorgeous and confident and rich and Inuyaha's brother.'
As she sat on the ground, Kagome noticed a deer was roasting over the fire. 'Oh...well that was thoughtful of him.'
They ate and Kagome asked bravely, "Is there a hot spring around here?"
Sesshomaru was on a tree, keeping guard. "Yes."
"Where is it?"
"You're not going if that's what you're planning." He stated.
Kagome put her hands on her hips, "And why not?" Did he think he could order her around? 'I'll inform him on the 21st century and how women are equal in the future. He'll never be able to change that.'
"Demons are lurking for maidens in the middle of the night who are without protection."
Not that he was wrong about that but still, "Fine, I'll go find it by myself." Picking up her backpack, she headed through a dirt path that led to a wide pasture.
All of a sudden, Sesshomaru blocked her way. "I don't think you understood correctly miko," he looked her in the eye, "you are not going."
"I'll go where I please, Sesshomaru." Kagome replied courageously. "Look, I want to take a bath, you can turn around and face the other way still keeping watch. Okay?"
Her face had a pleading look, "Please Sesshomaru?"
Stepping to his left, Sesshomaru let Kagome through, who was smiling, "Thank you Sesshomaru-sama."
He resisted the urge to roll his eyes, 'What in all hell am I doing? No womangets her way when I'm around.' On second thought, 'Rin's making me sympathetic.'
Kagome looked behind her, before undressing, making sure Sesshomaru wasn't peeking, but he was gone again. 'As if he would even be a peeping Tom. That would completely ruin his reputation. And if he was hypothetically speaking, he would most definitely not be looking at me.'
As she slid under the spring, her chest ached and a bruise had formed. Taking out the shampoo from her bag she rubbed it into her hair and kept circling around the reason of her kidnapping. Getting nowhere, she rinsed and added conditioner while looking at the stars. 'Can't get this view in Tokyo...mom would love it.'
Kagome finished her bath and dressed, walking back into the forest.
Out of the woodlands, a spider demon emerged, "Come maiden, I shall make you my wife and you will bear my children!
Kagome resisted the urge to laugh, as if she hadn't heard THAT one before! Couldn't these creatures come up with better lines? It was so cliche, like throwing your engagement ring at your fiance. Old.
As she was thinking all this, the demon took the opportunity to grab her.
Kagome ducked and ran, even though her thoughts had kept her calm, the situation wasn't comforting.'I'm going to be raped by a demon! What a time to not have any weapons!'
Hot at her heels, the creature caught one of her arms and it's pincers ripped her shirt.
She screamed, "SESSSSSHHHHOOOOOOOMARUUUU!"
A flash ofgreen acidripped through the demon as if paper.
Spider blood was drenched on the ground. "..."
Sesshomaru turned around and smirked. Kagome was astonished at what had just happened. 'He kills a demon and smirks? You must be joking...how sick and sadistic could you be?'
He wasstanding there, stillsmirkingas if he's won some huge prize. She looked down, now realizing that her shirt was torn and showing embarrising amounts of cleavage.
She blushed furiously and covered herself with her arms. "Stop gawking you perverted demon! Are you with the thing that just chased me or something?"
He only replied, "I will get you something to wear, along with a bow and arrows..." And again, he disappeared.
WITH YET ANOTHER CHAPTER DONE, I think this is the longest of all...
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