Chapter 3:Nanda
Kagome was eventually dropped by Sesshoumaru, landing on her soft rear with a loud yelp. She rubbed her bottom in memory of the unforgiving ground. Why did he have to do that? Sesshoumaru walked along, with her and InuYasha in tow. Mou! What a bastard!
"Mou! What the hell's his problem?" She muttered and sniffled back tears that formed from the fall. "Itai!" She said, pouting. It did hurt, and damn it she wasn't going to let him get away with it! "Ano…Sesshoumaru-sama?" She called out and he ignored her. IGNORED HER! "Baka!" She snapped and he didn't even miss a step.
InuYasha shook his head. "Sesshoumaru's just got a stick up his ass the size of china, that's why he fuckin' did that. Otousan taught him to be a fuckin' prick apparently. Oi, you ok?" He said, surprising Kagome. He actually wanted to really talk to her. She smiled.
"I'm fine! Apparently you're dad was an asshole! How come you aren't like Sesshoumaru-sama anyway? You two ARE brothers, right? My brother and I act the same, a lot." Kagome said, her mind drifting back to her family from the future. "He's probably worried about me…"
InuYasha snorted. "Ano…me and Sesshoumaru were raised different. He was raised to kill humans, I was raised to care for them or some stupid shit like that. Weird how he's so calm around ya though." InuYasha laughed. "My brother don't give a rats ass about me!"
"Why would this Sesshoumaru bother, InuYasha? You are crude and unmistakably stupid." Sesshoumaru said, still not missing a beat.
"Oi! Say that to my face ya bastard!" InuYasha growled.
Kagome giggled. "Well my brother and I love each other."
InuYasha shot her a frightened look.
Kagome froze immediately when she realized what he was thinking. "NOT LIKE THAT! GROSS! EWE! HE'S MY BROTHER!" She yelled at an amazingly high pitch causing both dog demons to cringe. She hit InuYasha upside the head. "What the HELL were you thinking, even thinking something like that! I love my brother but not like THAT! He's only like nine years old! I'm sixteen! That would not only be incest but pediphilic actions! That's so sick! EWE!"
"Shut the fuck up bitch!" InuYasha growled, covering his sensitive ears while Sesshoumaru took it all with a cringe every now and then. "I get it! Crap! You're gonna make my damned ears bleed with your wailin'! Shit."
Kagome snarled. "MOU! Wailin'? I'll show you wailin'! SITSITSITSIIIIIT!" Kagome's voice echoed through the forest, bringing InuYasha down three times for each time she uttered the word. Sesshoumaru smirked, looking down at InuYasha's half buried form. "And YOU! How dare you drop me! I'm gonna have a bruise for a week!" Kagome snapped at Sesshoumaru, InuYasha having riled her up. Sesshoumaru's eyes widened. "DOWNDOWNDOWNDOWN!" Kagome said and now it was InuYasha's turn to grin.
"That made this all worth it! Lord Fluffems taken down by a—" He saw the look in Kagome's angry eyes and corrected himself. "Unrivaled heroine of the world with…ano…unmatched strength and abilities!" He said and gave her an innocent look. That just made her laugh.
"You're a riot InuYasha!" Kagome said and skipped off towards the village.
InuYasha growled "What the hells a riot! If that's a insult I'm gonna kick your ass!" InuYasha yelled after her, as Sesshoumaru stood from the ground, dusting off the dirt. He dusted himself off and elegantly followed her. InuYasha had no idea that you could elegantly follow anyone after hitting the dirt like that. He blinked and followed Sesshoumaru, wondering how the hell he did that.
"Iie! It's not an insult. From where I come from it's a good thing. It means you're funny. The life of the party, you could say." Kagome said as she slowed down for them to catch up, though they could have anyway, she felt it was just a nice thing to do. As soon as Sesshoumaru caught up she snatched his tail from his shoulder and wrapped it around her neck. It was just so SOFT! Sesshoumaru growled and retrieved his tail, but Kagome just took it back. This went on for a few minutes before Sesshoumaru sighed and gave in. Females.
InuYasha watched this with interest. Sesshoumaru had growled at her and she didn't even flinch. She just seemed to want to coddle his tail so bad she didn't care what happened. Strange girl, foolish too. InuYasha smiled. Seems Sesshoumaru didn't truly mind too much about her touching his tail. She didn't smell bad, after all she had a pleasant scent that they were both rather fond of. InuYasha kept a few steps behind them and watched as Kagome would mess with little things on his armor or take his sword without him uttering a word. He liked Kagome, that much was easy enough to tell, but to what extent?
Kagome examined his sword, and watched it pulse with her heart. Tenseiga he called it. "Sesshoumaru-sama, the sword has a heartbeat." She said and looked up at him as if to ask an unspoken question.
Sesshoumaru took it from her and placed it back in his sash. "Tenseiga is a sword of healing, it can bring back the dead, if the soul is not already lost to the imps of hell. I can also call upon demons from hell with this sword. It was forged by one of my father's own fangs. InuYasha's sword is in hiding, it is called Tetsusaiga. His is a sword of destruction, yet it keeps his demon half from rising and killing everyone. He has no control over his demon half, since father was not there to teach him how to, and I was not there for his childhood."
Kagome smiled and turned around, throwing off Sesshoumaru's tail and pouncing on InuYasha. "Where's your sword!" She squealed, wanting to see it. He snarled and shoved her off.
"I don't know where the hell it is, Lord Fluff ball over there won't tell me!" InuYasha said and pouted.
Sesshoumaru hit InuYasha on the head with a tree branch that seemed to appear out of nowhere to Kagome, though InuYasha saw him grab the thing as soon as she pounced on him. Sesshoumaru already knew the both of them well enough to anticipate their moves.
"Quiet, InuYasha. You will learn respect before you get your sword. It was father's gift to you and This Sesshoumaru shall not have it wasted because of your stupidity. You shall take care in respecting all life, even that of your ex lover. You shall take great care in whom you kill and who you do not. Kagome will become a good teacher for you on that subject. Look at how readily she accepts us, even though we are of black blood and she of red." Sesshoumaru said and patted Kagome's head as she stood up. He once again straightened her clothing and rolled his eyes. The girl should learn to take care of herself better. "And you, Kagome, will learn to wear proper clothing, preferably kimonos of the longer sort."
Kagome rolled her eyes and grabbed his tail again, snuggling into its warm fur. "Could we go to the well so I could try to get home? You too could come and meet my family and everything!" Kagome said and Sesshoumaru nodded.
"Jaken will not be here for another three days." Sesshoumaru said then nodded. "We shall see this future of yours." Kagome giggled as Sesshoumaru's tail twitched when she pet it. He growled at her lightly but nothing more. It made Kagome smile, seeing that he wouldn't harm her. She giggled again and sighed, petting his tail.
Eventually they did make it to the well safely. InuYasha found it strange that no one had been attacked, though, then again, with his brother's powerful jaki demons tended to stay away. InuYasha smirked. At least his brother was good for something. Kagome looked down the well, still dressed in the miko garb that Kaede loaned her. She looked down at herself. She frowned.
"We should go get my other clothes, so I can at least wash them…" She said and InuYasha nodded.
"Hai! Ya need ta get outta that thing anyway!" He snorted and looked her over. "Ya look like Kikyo even more in that thing." He growled and Sesshoumaru hit him with his sword sheath.
"No need to insult the ningen miko, hanyou. Kagome could purify you if she so desired, or sit you so far into the earth you could never be found." Sesshoumaru said and Kagome giggled at his protection of her. "Hanyou, go fetch her belongings."
"Nani!" InuYasha yelled and Sesshoumaru growled at him loudly.
"Dare you defy this Sesshoumaru, brother?" He snarled and InuYasha pouted.
"Iie. Nanda with you? Protecting ningen girls, actually staying under baabaa's roof, even letting a ningen touch your tail…" InuYasha muttered, walking off towards the village. Kagome sat at the edge of the well. It felt so familiar to her now, this place. She'd been there only a couple days and yet she felt comfortable with the fact that there were youkai, hanyous, even crazy mikos with magic! She shrugged and looked up at Sesshoumaru who was staring down at her with an emotionless mask on.
"Why do you stare so much, Sesshoumaru-sama?" Kagome asked and fidgeted. "Your eyes sure make it hard to concentrate on everything else when you stare. Did you know that your eyes get lighter when you stare like that?" Kagome was rambling on and on. Sesshoumaru patted her head as if she were a child and sat beside her, not answering her questions.
Mou! She thought, annoyed at him for doing this. Asshole! Her blue eyes blazed with anger and Sesshoumaru looked at her.
"Nanda, Kagome?" He asked, placing a hand on her head. Her anger was quelled and she smiled at him. "Nothing Sesshoumaru-sama."
He scowled but looked straight ahead. He wondered what that angry flash in her aura had been about. Had he imagined it? No, Sesshoumaru did not 'imagine' things. "Nanda?" He asked again and Kagome sighed looking at him. She smiled and took hold of his tail, wrapping it around her neck.
"Thats what!" She said and giggled, Sesshoumaru merely rolled his eyes.
