Chapter 3: Sickness
FINALS WERE DELAYED!
Shay woke up leaning against a tree with a blanket thrown roughly over her with Rin lying beside her. Where…oh I remember now…Shay thought of the previous night. She suddenly felt nauseous and she quickly stood up. She ran off a little ways and got sick about five times.
Sesshomaru wasn't far off and looked over just in time to see Shay's back retreating into the shadows. She's running away… Sesshomaru felt furious all of a sudden. He looked at Rin who was still sleeping peacefully.
Shay was still getting sick when Sesshomaru found her. He stayed in the shadows and watched her, his golden eyes cold and sharp.
When Shay finally stopped throwing up, she sat up against a tree, and then looked to where Sesshomaru stood. "I was coming back, I wouldn't leave Rin." Shay spoke quietly and leaned her head back.
Sesshomaru stepped forward. "What are you exactly…demon?"
Shay narrowed her eyes, which were now a much lighter green. "What are you talking about?"
"Do not play!" Sesshomaru's eyes became blood red and his hair seemed to wave in an unreal wind.
Shay stood up with difficultly and raised her hand. "Please…I'm too weak to fight you now, I'll reveal my true form soon…but I do not have the power to do so now."
Sesshomaru calmed down, his eyes returning to gold and his hair flattening against his back again. "Why are you weak?"
Why does Sesshomaru care…? Shay thought, not answering his questions.
"Answer me." Sesshomaru ordered in his cold, flat voice.
"I'm weak because I'm ill." Shay stood straight and started to walk.
She was almost past Sesshomaru when he shot his arm out. He wrapped his hand around her throat and held her roughly against a tree. "If you so much as look at Rin as if-"
"I…won't!" Shay yelled out.
Sesshomaru dropped her and was surprised when she landed on her backside. "Why do you not land on your feet, you are part cat are you not?" Sesshomaru stared down at her.
"I told you…I'm weak." Shay stood up.
"What caused your illness?" Sesshomaru followed Shay closely as she walked past him and back towards Rin and Ah-Un.
"Years ago a demon came to the village I was protecting and-"
"Protecting humans…why?" Sesshomaru was all too high and mighty to admit his feeling of a father figure towards Rin, after all, she's just a 'useless' human.
Shay smiled to herself. "I owed them my life in the first place. Anyway…The demon wore a white baboon cloak and mask…"
Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed.
"…I tried to fight him off but he slaughtered the entire village, then I inhaled miasma (sp?), I was sick for days and couldn't heal myself because my other wounds had gotten infected. So I transformed in order to be taken in by a medical village, they didn't like demons, so I used the last of my strength to look and smell human." Shay sat near Ah-Un and Rin walked over, she had woken up a little after Shay and Sesshomaru walked off.
Sesshomaru immediately dropped the subject and walked off.
Rin stopped in front of Shay, smiling. "Rin is hungry."
"Well then let's go find Rin some food." Shay stood up and walked over to an apple tree with Rin.
Jaken was now at Lord Sesshomaru's side. They watched Rin and Shay feed Ah-Un a few apples, which they don't eat, but took gratefully because of Rin.
Why does she move and stress herself while she knows she is unwell? Sesshomaru thought.
Jaken looked up to his master, who was still looking at Shay and Rin. "Did you confront her my Lord?"
"No Jaken, I did not." Sesshomaru lied.
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