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Title: The Nexus of Satisfaction
Author: Gladiel
Series: Inuyasha
Genre: General
Rating: PG
Word-count: 293
Summary: Even a detail or two slips the notice of the West's most powerful demon.

THE NEXUS OF SATISFACTION
chapter eight
brown.


She was wearing something unusual that day, he noticed. It covered most parts of her body, unlike her green and white clothing—the uniform, he recalled. No, today her clothing went down to her ankles, hiding the usual display of skin. Under it, she wore a long-sleeved white garment that covered her snow-white arms.

Kagome caught him scrutinizing her clothes and suddenly smiled. "It's a jumper. I thought it would be nice to have a change of clothing, now that the weather is growing cooler."

Sesshoumaru didn't say anything in reply to the voluntary explanation but the fact that her whole body was covered with that strange fashion made him relieved—an odd reaction from a demon that'd rather care less about what she wore.

He was intrigued by the foreign clothing that for a few more seconds he stared at it, thinking that having but two layers of clothing wouldn't be enough for any human to withstand the cold nights of the West. It surprised him when he finally noticed that her "jumper", as she called it, was the color of the rich, fertile soil and it nearly matched her eyes. They were not black, as he first thought, but brown.

"Your eyes are brown, not black," he suddenly said.

The statement was so unexpected that it took her a few seconds before the words sunk in. "What?" Kagome asked, thinking she must have heard him wrong.

"Your eyes. They have the same color as your clothing," he said again, irritated for having the need to repeat the same statement twice.

"And you noticed that just now?" she asked with an arched brow. "Are you blind?"

Insulted, he swore he'd pay more careful attention in the future, especially when it came to her.

chapter eight end.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The chapter was more of a light reading, I suppose. Still, I hope you enjoyed it. : )