Chapter 3
Kagome bit the string from her blouse sleeve, she then got up and went to the window, from there she could see Kouga helping to take the burnt trees from where they rested over to a huge dump truck, she sighed and opened the window. She leaned on the sill and watched him lift entire trees, under grandpa's watchful eyes.
"A rather interesting demon." Kagome jumped, knocking her head against the bottom of the window. She turned to see her mother with a basket full of laundry, "I find him rather useful, last night he cleaned out all the rain gutters." she put the basket on the bed and sat down, Kagome took it as a hint for her to take a seat as well. "You know well that I don't approve of boys in your room unattended, but,"
"Mom!" Kagome exclaimed, "I'm not that kind of girl," she noticed a look on her mother's face. She sat back down, not really remembering standing, she felt like she was having moments of black out.
"I think Kouga could stay here, not on the roof in one of the spare bedrooms," Kagome rolled her eyes and laid down on the bed, she grabbed one of the pillows and hugged it, "I think it would be for your own good honey." she left the room, leaving Kagome's folded clothes in the basket.
Kagome grumbled, after a moment she heard her mother call up to her asking her to invite Kouga to stay in the house tonight. She groaned and rolled over, falling off her bed she fell with a thud, "Mom, I have to get my..." she thought about it, there was no homework for an excuse, school didn't start for another week or so, she sighed and curled up on the floor, putting the pillow under her head. "Life is hell..." she looked out the window, she could only see the sky a bird danced across the open air. InuYasha... she closed her eyes and remembered riding on his back to the lake, she curled up tighter. Why is life so unfair? She heard her grandfather swear loudly, Kouga began to fiercely apologise, Kagome grinned and looked up again.
She finally sat up and ran a hand through her hair, "I best get this over with." she muttered. She got up off the floor and walked down to the door, before she got out the door she saw through the window a silver haired figure walking up the drive. She let out a choice word and Shessomaru made his way toward Kouga, he looked like he would kill him, if her grandfather hadn't already.
She dashed out the door got between the two just before they attacked each other, "No, bad, down, sit boys." She turned to Kouga first, "Kouga, this is Shessomaru," then she turned to Shessomaru, "Shessomaru this is Kouga, I'm his new Charge."
"So your the half-breeds brother?" Kouga growled looking into the golden eyes. Shessomaru remained at a face of indifference, and said nothing to him.
"They gave you another angel?" He questioned, she nodded relaxing slightly, "There must be something important about you, but I think they should have chosen better," he looked Kouga up and down, "he seems a bit..." he left the sentence hanging there, "I came to talk with you." he stated.
Kagome blinked, "Why?" Shessomaru looked at Kouga, who growled at the other wolf demons presence.
"I heard that you have had yet another encounter with the half-breed Nuraku." Kagome blinked again in surprise, "Yes, he is no pure blooded demon, his is a hanyou as well. I wish to ask you about him, and tell you about the encounters I have had with him."
"Absolutely!"She ran in the house and found her coat, as she came back to the door, she saw Shessomaru holding Kouga back at arms length, one of his hands on his head, Kouga was swinging wildly at him, "Kouga!" He froze and looked over at her, Shessomaru found this the opportune moment and moved his hand, Kouga fell to the ground. "Shesso- was that necessary?" He smirked, as she bent to help the fallen demon, "Kouga my mother invited you to stay here in one of the spare rooms."
"I would be most delighted," he took hold of her hands, "not that the roof was not comfortable last night." Kagome smiled and nodded, she shook his hands off her own.
"Alright, you wouldn't mind telling my mother I'm going into town would you?" She started to walk with Shessomaru before he could answer, "Thanks a lot Kouga!" she waved to him over her shoulder.
Kouga scratched his neck, "They were right," he muttered, "Lots of free will, and spirit," he looked up at the sky, "What have I gotten myself into?"
Shessomaru was next to Kagome again, this time her arm was around his, she didn't want anything funny happening, "Shesso?" he questioned suddenly.
"Well," she began, flushing slightly, "Its a lot easier than saying Shessomaru repetitively." she said, "Is that okay with you?" He gave a ghost of a smile in her direction and nodded. "Where're we going?"
"I do believe you know the place," he stated, "My brother took you there once, I believe."
Kagome watched as a stretch limo drove up along the street and stopped before them, others stopped to stare at them, "Is this yours?" she asked, he shook his head and responded that it was his fathers. "I am going to ride in a limo..." she squealed quietly while she jumped slightly. Shessomaru allowed it for a moment before opening the door. She instantly regained her composer and climbed into the back of the limousine. She resisted the temptation to open the sun roof and pop out of it saying 'I'm queen of the world!'
She sat down and slid over as Shessomaru got into the limo, "Comfy?" Kagome had a huge grin and nodded. Had he been the type to roll his eyes he would have, he waved the driver to go. Kagome began to explore the contents of the limousine.
She crawled on her knees and made her way up toward the other end of the limo, she opened one of the doors, "A fridge!" she began to pilfer though the contents before she realized that Shessomaru was looking at her. "You want anything while its open?" Shessomaru smiled and shook his head, she shrugged and took out a soda. "So, you said I may have been to the place that we're going, so where is it?"
"The cabin."
Kagome froze on her way back, "The cabin?" Shessomaru nodded, "why are we going there Shesso?"
Shessomaru remained quite for a moment, he felt somewhat sorry for the human for loosing her love, perhaps, or it could be the reason that the cherry trees where in bloom and he wanted someone there to enjoy the sight. He when with that reason, but told her that she would see.
Shessomaru watched her silently, she walked toward the lake, it was covered in sakura petals, she was in awe. He watched her as she walked into the grove of trees. There was a long silence in which she vanished in and out of the trees.
After a moment she came out directly behind Shessomaru, she knew she wouldn't catch him off his guard he seemed one of those types that would never be underly cautious. She came and stood next to him, "Its beautiful." she commented.
"Yes," he responded, "My father use to take my step-mother, half-brother, and I here several times a year," He lifted a hand and waved it toward the falling blossoms. "Now is one of those times, also during the new year." He looked down at Kagome's now calm completion. "I am pleased that this seemed to calm you."
She looked up at him, "Huh, oh, yes, thank you."
"Shesso!" Came a call from the cabin, Kagome saw someone approaching them, a young human girl she had something tucked up under her arm, Kagome swore she saw Shessomaru grimace. "Shessomaru, you missed your meeting with me to... who would this be?"
"Kagome, this is Rin. My parole officer." He turned to Rin, "Rin, this is Kagome, she was the last person who saw my brother. She is also a friend of mine."
Rin put out a hand and shook Kagome's, "He always fail to mention I'm engaged to him too." Kagome turned her hand to look at the ring on her hand. She congratulated them, Rin grinned.
"Isn't a bit complicated with you being his parole officer?"
Rin laughed, "You would think so, but its easy, I can keep him straight all the time." Rin looped her arm under his, Kagome saw him intertwine their fingers.
She grinned, "Well that's wonderful, Inuyasha told me that he was caught in too many things to get into a real relationship." She guessed that he would say something like that; it sounded like Inuyasha to her. "But I think you could straighten him out." Rin smiled and gave Kagome a hug.
"Would you like to come in the cabin for something to eat?" Rin offered, Kagome accepted, they walked into the cabin.
Kagome sipped her tea as Rin was making something in the kitchen, Shessomaru sat across from her, he was looking down at his tea, thinking about the two incidents Kagome had told him about that delt with Nuraku.
He looked up at her, "Nuraku was once a human," he decide it was the best place to begin, "He was a human named Origumo, he seemed to be in a never ending search for power. This was several thousand years ago." he clarified, Rin entered with a tray, it held three bowls of oden. She placed one before each of them.
"Origumo, it is said, fell in love with another, but in his great want for power killed her, along with a part of himself. The demon Nuraku found him, and took control of his body with the promise of power." Shessomaru began to eat, "He of course accepted this, wanting power more than anything. However, he realized that he was nothing without his love, Origumo still exists somewhere within Nuraku, directing him, trying to find a way to bring back his love." Kagome looked down at the bowl of oden, she realized she hadn't eaten any of it. She began to eat, complimenting Rin on how delicious it was.
"You said you had a run in with him before, when was that?"
"Inuyasha was still alive then, but not for much longer, I assisted him in a heist," he looked over at his bride to be, she seemed to have conveniently become deaf, "He ended up killing one of the innocents standing in the room, I told him afterwards I would have nothing more to do with him," he looked down at the bowl, "He said I was free to do as I pleased, but I would regret my decision. With in the week my stepmother and Inuyasha were killed from my home burning down."\
"My god..." Rin said, "that sound awful."
It summed it up well enough that Kagome didn't think to comment, "He sure seems interested in me, why?"
"I believe it is because you look extremely similar to the women that Origumo had fallen for." Shessomaru stated.
Kagome nearly dropped the bowl of oden from her hand, she gingerly put it on the table, "I...I look like her?"
"The similarity is uncanny." He said, he handed his empty bowl to Rin, she took it along with her own, Kagome handed her hers, there was still plenty of it in the bowl, but she had lost her apatite.