Tainted Silver
- Chapter 8 -
A/N: The questions kids can ask are unlimited and embarrasing.
"Hello Shippou."
The young creature looked up at his visitor, confusion etched into his boyish features.
"Why do you refuse to come out? You seemed fine with it before."
He looked away, not responding to his questions.
"I'm sure you've heard of the human girl in the household, and I don't mean Rin."
He nodded in agreement.
"Is she the reason you're in here and not out there?"
No answer.
"Just because you are a kitsune does not mean that she will reject you. Tomorrow you will leave this room, do you understand?"
"She will reject me, she will be scared and hurt herself in her panic," he whispered, "and I will be the cause of it all."
"She will not reject you," he assured, "and I will make sure she does not hurt herself in your presence if that is what you want."
The young boy looked up at Sesshomaru, reluctant and fearful.
"Yes, Sesshomaru-sama."
"Good."
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Lunch was uneventful. Kagome came back from her bath speaking about weird breezes and Miroku left quickly muttering something about needing a bath himself. Sango avoided her eyes while putting a raw animal in the oven to roast, occasionally poking at the hot embers below said oven.
"Sango, you know something that I don't know," she stated.
Sango stood up straight and looked for something invisible and non-existant.
"I don't know what you're talking about," she muttered quickly.
"What are you looking for?"
"Tomatos," she answered.
"They're on the table in front of me," Kagome said.
"I knew that."
Sango reached over to grab the tomatos and Kagome slammed her hand on hers, not letting go.
"What do you know?," she demanded.
Sango looked up at her and didn't know whether to lie or to tell the truth. She couldn't really do either of the two because she was too nervous. She nervously stepped from side to side in her ackward position.
"Kagome, let go," she whined.
"Tell me then!"
"Fine. Sesshomaruwasinthebathwhenyouwereandthat'swhyyoufeltabreeze."
Kagome looked at her strangely.
"What?"
"Sesshomaru was in the bath when you were and that's why you felt a breeze," she said.
Kagome let her go, obviously in shock, and Sango quickly snatched the tomatos away. She turned to clatter pots and pans and look for water.
"Oh."
Sango looked at her and sat next to her.
"Are you okay?"
She shook her head, but stopped midway and nodded instead.
"Yeah, yeah. I just need a nap I guess. I don't think I'll be down for dinner. Tell him for me so he won't go upstairs demanding my presence."
Sango nodded warmly. Kagome smiled and stopped at the door way.
"Sango?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you have cloth and a sewing machine."
"Actually I do," she answered, "I still don't know how to use the damned thing though. All the knobs and the foot thing I-."
"I know how to use it. If you let me borrow it later I'd be most grateful."
"Alright."
Kagome nodded and left quickly. The boys rushed past her on the way up the stairs and she nearly fell.
"What do they run on?!"
She sighed and kept going, hoping to get to her room in one piece. As she opened her door she saw Sesshomaru walk out of a room down the hall and close it softly. She raised an eyebrow and then met his eyes, his golden eyes.
"Need something?"
Her eyes widened and she shook her head quickly. He nodded at her and she ran into her room. He smirked at her reaction, walking down the hall with a little bounce to his step.
"Why so happy Sess?"
"I have no idea Miroku. Investigate for me, will you?," he asked dryly.
"I love you too," Miroku sneered at him.
"I've been knowing that piece of information for a while. Why do you think my doors are locked tight?"
Miroku flicked him off, following him to the kitchen all the same.
"Sango! Sesshomaru did something to Kagome and he's happy!"
"I did no such thing!"
Sango smiled at them, both bickering.
"I should say somebody did something to you Sesshomaru," she commented, "seeing as you never bother to bicker with Miroku."
Both laid surprised eyes on her, then to each other.
"Why you're absolutely right my dear!," Miroku exclaimed.
"I will not comment as to-."
"It's because he saw some skin," stated Souta on his way in.
"I did not!," he growled.
"And his imagination is seeing more," added Kohaku.
"Boys," Sesshomaru warned.
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"What is wrong with me?!"
She paced back and forth in front of the mirror, her face unnaturally red. She poked her face repeatedly.
"Am I sick?"
She stuck out her tongue and peered into her eyes.
"No… Am I having an allergic reaction to something?"
She frowned at herself.
"I didn't know I was allergic to anything… The soaps?"
She groaned and threw herself on her bed.
"Something's wrong," she mumbled, "something's very, very wrong."
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"Rin, sit down."
"Otou-san," she whined, "I don't want to sit down!"
"Sit."
"No," she said tentatively.
"Excuse me?," he asked with a glare.
"Yes, otou-san."
She obediantly sat down on her chair and pushed her food around the plate.
"Where is the human?"
Sango looked at him pointedly.
"Where is Kagome?," he ammended.
"She said she was going to take a nap and to not be expected at dinner."
"You should check on her."
Sango looked at him strangely, leaving her food alone.
"Why?"
"Because I can hear her asking herself if she's sick all the way down here."
Sango glared at him and left.
"If you want to eat you should do so first."
"No," she muttered, "I'm not really hungry after a little discussion I had with Kagome while I was making said food."
He nodded and she left. She walked up the stairs and knocked on Kagome's door.
"Kagome?"
"Come in."
"Are you okay?," she questioned upon entering.
"I don't know."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because my face was all red a minute ago."
Sango giggled.
"It's called blushing."
"So I didn't have an allergic reaction to anything?"
"An allergic what?"
"Nothing."
Sango sat on Kagome's bed with a smile.
"You know, Sesshomaru can hear us all the way down there."
"He can?"
"Yeah. Him and his heightened senses. He can see better, hear better, and run better than any of us."
"I'll believe it when I see it," she scoffed.
"Then you shouldn't have to wait too long."
Kagome whirled around and found herself facing a rather familiar set of clothes.
"He's sneaky, I'll give him that much."
She looked up and felt her whole body heat up. She ran to the mirror and poked her red face.
"S-Sango!"
Sango burst into a fit of laughter and ushered Sesshomaru out.
"And no listening in!"
She heard him scoff at her demands. She didn't say a thing until she heard the door downstairs close.
"Kagome has a crush," she stated in a sing-song voice.
"I do not," she growled.
"Do too."
"Do not."
"Do too."
"Do not and that's final."
Sango shrugged.
"Been there, done that. You have a crush."
Kagome huffed indignantly in front of her vanity mirror, her own creamy color returning. Sango gazed at her saddened features and became saddened herself.
"What's got you down Kagome?"
"I want to return Sango. I miss my grandfather and I miss my everyday life."
Sesshomaru stood on the rail of his bedroom, the boys outside playing.
"I miss InuYasha, I miss Kouga, I miss their intended's bitching. I miss them."
Sesshomaru whirled around and stalked into his room.
'Who are the males she speaks of? Why does she miss them? Is she married? Are we keeping her from her children?'
"Why don't I know anything?!"
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That night silence kept everybody on edge. Kagome, as she had said before, did not appear at dinner. Nobody ate, choosing to stare at their food instead. When Sesshomaru stood up and left, everybody followed. He knocked aggressively on Kagome's door demanding that she open. Said girl stepped out drowsily in a silk robe that was a couple of sizes too big.
"Yeah?"
He grabbed her by the arm and she squeaked in terror.
"Are we going through this again?!"
He dragged her down the hall and opened the door she had seen him leave earlier that day.
"What in the world-."
"I want you to meet someone."
Sango, Miroku, and the boys peered into the room. Sesshomaru held Kagome in the middle of it.
"Well? Who am I supposed to meet?"
"Shippou, come out."
"If you're trying to get me killed all you have to do is drag me down the damn stairs again," she said bitterly.
He glared at her and she met it with one of her own.
"Hi," somebody whispered.
She looked around wildly. The room was lit by candles but she didn't see a damned thing.
"Hello?," she questioned wriggling out of Sesshomaru's grasp.
"Hi," muttered a small creature on the bed.
"You look like a teddy bear!," she screamed.
She threw herself onto the bed and squeezed the creature to her bossom. Shippou's cheeks colored and Kohaku stiffled a giggle.
"Look Sess," Souta said laughing, "he gets to touch the skin you see!"
Sesshomaru growled and launched himself after the two boys.
"You're so cute!," Kagome squealed.
"And you were worried about scaring her," muttered Miroku.
Kagome cuddled the little fox and tickled him endlessly. Sesshomaru walked back in with a smirk on his features.
"Are they hanging from a tree again?," questioned Sango.
"No. They're under lock and chain in the basement."
Sango smacked him and took the key to release the two boys. Rin ran in squealing something about her mother not being in her room.
"Okaa-san!"
Sesshomaru gazed at Kagome's disgruntled figure as the two young kids attacked her with their small fingers. She laughed insistently as they both called her 'mom' and in the end settled down.
"It seems now you have two kids," Sesshomaru commented.
"Are we getting a brother or sister?," questioned Shippou suddenly.
"No," Rin said knowingly, "mom and dad haven't had that much sex yet."
Sesshomaru paled, Kagome and Shippou became red.
"Um, Rin you need to go to sleep. It's late. Come on Shippou."
"But Rin doesn't want to sleep," she whined, "and it's true!"
"Quiet yourself," she ordered before closing the door to her room.
Sesshomaru stared after them, slowly regaining his color.
"Damn kids."
A/N: I do not own Inu & Co. nor do I own Beauty and the Beast.