Smile Like You Mean It
Chapter 27: Drunk On Shadows
He kinda just looked at it for a moment, every now and then the silence would be broken by a cough or two or ten.
"My…arm is back." He said making it seem like he didn't hear her when she made that comment in the beginning of this all.
"Yeah, it is. Wonder why."
"I know, instead of purification you just…regenerated the arm." He said matter of factly. She looked at him and smiled, you know an actual smile.
"Well then that worked out for more then just Rin." She said as Rin hoped up showing that she isn't limping anymore.
"Look Lord Sesshomaru! Kagome-Chan fixed it!"
Sesshomaru looked over to his ward and just kinda looked at her with that sexy neutral face…yeah, scary isn't it? When Kagome looked at him, she knew that he wanted to smile but that would ruin his perfect face, no, I kid, that would ruin his reputation.
She smiled to herself and walked away a little happy that she was able to help that much. The smile continued to stay on her face all through her bath and little, unpacking routine.
The smile didn't leave as she calmly walked down the hallway after a few maids came and told her it was dinner time. And her smile didn't fade when she sat down in the chair across from Sesshomaru.
But the smile started to fade when Sesshomaru cleared his throat in the middle of dinner. She looked up from the meal her smile still there, just not that much.
"I will be making a quick announcement addressed to Kagome." he looked at her and she wanted to laugh, he went through all of that to say, Kagome I have something to tell you.
"Erm, Yes Sesshomaru?" She heard a maid gasp a little, obviously they didn't know that they were on first name basis.
"Well, Rin brought to my attention that she wishes you to be her mother, like you are for Shippo."
She choked on the food and died that night. No. no…I'm kidding again. But she did choke a bit.
"Excuse me? Rin...wants me as her mother?" She repeated hoping to get a different answer.
"Hai, is there a problem with that?" Sesshomaru said raising an eyebrow.
"Not at all" She smiled fondly at the over excited Rin. It may take some getting used too, but not that much. He wanted her to be like the way she is with Shippo.
Rin and Shippo hurriedly finish their food and dragged Kagome away from the table. They wanted to listen to more of her American music (yes I noticed all the bands were American…).
Kagome smiled and brought her Cd player up and flipped through the Cds.
"Which one?"
The two kids piled around her staring at the shiny and brightly decorated cds trying to pick which one looked best.
"OH this one!" Rin shouted pointing violently to the Marilyn Manson Cd. Kagome kinda didn't want them to listen to him at such a young age. Yes the God of Fuck rocks so many peoples socks but, they were only 5-7. I mean come on!
Shippo moved his nose in a rabbit like manner and pointed to the Cd next to Manson. The Oh so holy H.I.M. Cd (notice how new cd's like HIM's Dark Light just sorta appears in her Cd collection).
Kagome put it in her Cd player and they all sorta danced to the beautiful voice of Ville Valo and his wonderful song Play Dead.
As she put them into the spare futons in her room and changed to fall asleep she didn't hear or feel the presence of somebody standing outside her door.
In the morning she was awoken rudely by someone roughly hitting her in the head. She screamed lightly and sat up seeing Jaken glaring at her.
"You wench, the brats need to sleep in their own rooms."
"I DON'T CARE!" She said hitting him in the middle of the head then slammed him repeatedly into the matted floor.
Then she actually woke up cause all good things like that must end and sadly that was only a violent dream. She sighed and sat up looking over her shoulders to the two sleeping children then silently got up to go brush her now unruly hair.
She looked to her door as she put her hair into a high ponytail and noticed it cracked a bit. She furrowed her brows and walked bravely to the door and poked her head out into the hallway as a maid ran past cleaning it.
She almost forgot about the maids and other people the worked for Sesshomaru. She sighed and figured one of the cleaning ladies must have slightly pushed it open and she shut it turning back into the room.
She looked around the room and sighed again nothing has changed. Lately she half expected to see someone standing there threatening her 'kids' or trying to kidnap her.
She put all of her music stuff away and looked out the window noticing that it was raining again. She smiled as the world matured around her and she lightly woke the two up.
They were sad that it was raining but she just laughed and told them that because it was raining they were going to have fun today.
She grabbed their hands and ran them into each of their rooms picking out ratty kimono's that wouldn't mind seeing the outside once more before being tossed away.
All three of them ran around in the rain having mud fights and all and Kagome was actually wearing her old school uniform instead of the other outfits she has been choosing to wear lately.
She sat in the mud with the two kids her green skirt turning a pukish color. She looked up the light rain patting her cheeks tastefully then a waft of silver hair came into her vision. She titled her head a bit and noticed Sesshomaru walking up to them with his silver hair matted against his striped cheeks and forehead.
"Why on earth are you fooling around in the rain?"
She frowned a bit when he used the word fooling instead of playing but pushed it off as something he wouldn't do.
"Because, it's better when it's raining then when the sun is shining." Kagome said matter of factly. She shrugged and splashed a small amount of dirt on Sesshomaru's pant leg.
He looked down at her and knew he was dieing to twitch one of his golden eyes but liked the emotionless mask too much to do that. She smirked to herself and added a little smiley face to the crooked circle.
She giggled a bit then stood up wiping some of the dirt off her skirt.
"Sorry, we might track mud in when we go back inside." She smiled again and he looked down at her both of his eyebrows raised. "What? Do I have something on my face?" She asked questionably.
He raised his newly reborn hand and wiped off a bit of mud near her nose then turned on his heel and headed into the castle like place (still haven't figured out what I want it to be).
She blinked a bit and blushed. What was this? Was he actually showing kindness? Oh my what now? She got the other two up and followed behind Sesshomaru's slowly disappearing form.
She hummed to herself knowing full well she has gotten to him in more then one way. The three of them bathed in the shower house and changed into decent cloths then joined Sesshomaru down in the kitchen for lunch seeing as they missed breakfast.
Kagome stared absent mindedly as she politely chewed on her food and watched the dark rain angrily beat itself against the windows see through surface.
The meal past by her without her noticing much. The rain did this to her. She loved it so much that if she wasn't outdoors she got tired and lonesome. She got up and motionlessly walked out to the back and sat on the bench her shirt and pants getting wet with the raindrops.
She laid on the bench and closed her eyes the water running down her face and uncovered forearms. Then the rain stopped hitting her face. She opened one eye to see a light purple umbrella covering her face.
She opened both eyes fully and looked over to Sesshomaru hold the umbrella over her.
"How'd you know what that was for?"
"Rin told me."
"How'd you find it?"
"It was in your room."
"Why were you in my room?"
He just looked at her, obviously he didn't have an answer and just…looked at her. She got slightly angry at his infatuation to stare at her, and well, it was quite uncomfortable.
She sighed and turned to her side intending to sleep in the rain. She felt something grip her arm and drag her up into a standing position.
"Your completely wet" Sesshomaru stated.
"Thank you for pointing out the obvious." She said lightly though she knew he still heard her.
"and what were you planning to do? Sleep out here?"
"If it wouldn't be too much trouble." she mimicked a love sick girl. She sneezed. He sighed.
"and now you got yourself sick." She rolled her eyes at him and headed into the house if you will. She walked up stopping every now and then for a harsh sneeze or cough.
Sesshomaru walked behind her probably to catch her if she fainted on the way up the tall steps. But she made it inside and walked painfully towards her room to grab something else to wear and to take a hot shower to make her feel better (she takes as much showers as I do).
After her way too long bath she wandered into her room and hide under the blankets sneezing every few moments.
'Great, I am sick.' She sneezed again then hide further in her blanket. She heard the door slid open then the shuffling of feet as maids crowded around her giving her stuff for the illness she caught.
She sniffled the rest of the night the rain continuing to pat against the window. She soon fell asleep as the rhythmic sounds dug into her.
She woke up with someone poking her cheek. She opened one eye to see Rin playfully poking her.
"Are you alright Kagome-Chan?" She asked genuine worry laced her tones. Kagome sat up slowly and placed a hand on her back.
"Yeah, better then yesterday that's for sure!" she said happily. Rin smiled and took Kagome's much bigger hand in her small one.
"Good! That means you can come down for breakfast with us!" Rin was her sugary bubbly self as usual and Kagome smiled.
'Like nothing ever happened.' Rin dragged her 'mother' out into the hallway and then stopped abruptly.
"Kagome promise you won't tell Sesshomaru-Sama?" She looked up at her.
Kagome nodded now wanting to know what Rin was trying to hide.
"When you were sick…Sesshomaru-Sama kept getting worried about you." She said looking around feverishly.
Kagome smiled to herself then patted Rin on the head. "Don't worry I won't tell him anything."
Rin smiled and dragged her down to the dining area. She smiled as the child lead her and sat down next to her.
Kagome paid attention to the two kids ramblings but still felt Sesshomaru's deathly stern gaze on the side of her head.
It felt creepy but she didn't look at him, its sorta like when your at a restaurant and the people in the booth next to you are staring at you it's polite not to look.
That's unfair if he gets to look.
Author's note: Again. Super sorry for the lateness and shortness of this story. Sorry if It sucked so hard. I'm busy with relationships and school and trying to find a sire and all that good crap. Oh and one more thing to make sure your reading these little author notes I require you to write 'escape' in your review. One more thing. This chapter was written while listening to anime music. Do you like this chapter more then the others? If not I'll switch back to my rock music.Thanks for the 10,000 HITS!
To Mei Lurvers:
Taeniaea: Yay! Someone loved last chapter! ( hands you a cookie)
Darktemp: I love my story too…(shoots self esteem down) no I don't it's horrid.
Seshhomaru's babe: not to be rude but you spelt his name wrong (I'm miss point out the obvious)
I Love Pringles: Too bad…
Immortalsoull: Yes, well, I have an undying hatred for our little inu Hanyou so…no lurve for him! And Sango and Miroku will most definitely get together in the end, I mean, they are meant for each other.
Moonscout11: Sake! WHERE! You probably finished it by now (tear) Anyway, yes the world does turn now that we are all happy…and drunk…
Isisoftheunderground: As I write this reply to your review my fingers are fuchsia from the dye I put in my hair a few hours ago…
Hermoine: Yes, yes, Kagome with powers, to me that doesn't seem so good.
Lurve you till I um…I don't know, go get a life!
Suicide