Silver Wind
Chapter 4
Sesshoumaru watched his companions sleep. More than once his eye wonders from Rin's peaceful face to Kagura. Her sleeping face gave him a peaceful feeling as he watched her.
"Uh…" Sakura's eyes popped open, "What are you doing?"
Sesshoumaru was startled. "Yeah, you've been watching her for a while…" Hikari said
"I thought you were asleep." He said coldly.
"Yeah!" Hikari stated, "We were asleep…"
"What are you doing?" Sakura whispered, "Want to get us both killed?"
"Sesshoumaru Sama…" Hikari called.
"What is it?" Sesshoumaru said.
"What is she to you?" Hikari went on, "Kagura Ane…"
Sesshoumaru's usually calm face was replaced with a startled one. Well at least for a few seconds. "That is none of your concerns…" Sesshoumaru replied.
"Hey!" Sakura whispered, "I think you struck a nerve!"
"I think so too!" Hikari whispered back. Only to earn herself Sesshoumaru's death glare.
"Hikari and I will be going back to sleep now!" Sakura said quickly. And within a few seconds the both of them were asleep.
"Don't let them bother you." Kagura's voice startled Sesshoumaru.
"Have you been awake the whole time?" Sesshoumaru turned to her.
"Only long enough to witness your death glare." Kagura replied.
Sesshoumaru wondered if Kagura heard what Hikari asked him or if she wanted to hear the answer.
"Will you come on a walk with me?" Kagura's voice broke through his thoughts.
"What?" Sesshoumaru said.
"Will you come for a walk with me?" Kagura repeated.
"…" Was Sesshoumaru's only reply.
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Inuyasha sat on a tree with Kagome. She leaned on him, 'I can't believe he confessed his feelings…" She thought.
"Hey Inuyasha…" She said.
"What is it?" Inuyasha opened his eyes.
"That c…Confession…" She started, "You meant it?"
"Huh?" Inuyasha blinked, "Of course!"
"Every word of it?" Kagome pushed on.
"Yeah…" Inuyasha said. Then he looked her in the eye and began to lean in…
Kagome's heart was pounding. She had a basic idea about what he was about to do, so she closed her eyes. She found Inuyasha very close to her and then…
"HEY YA! WHAT YA DOING?" Yukio's voice made the both of them jump.
"Huh? Uh Yukio! What are you doing here?" Kagome asked in a shaky voice.
"Wait…" Yukio smiled, "I know…" and then he began to chant, "Inuyasha and Kagome sitting in a tree. (Which you are…) K-I-S-S-I-N-G (Which you were about to do) First comes…" Whatever came first was never said. Inuyasha who was furious about what happened gave little Yukio's head a punch hard enough to give his a concussion. The punch made Yukio fall off the tree.
"Yukio!" Kagome gasped and she quickly climbed down the tree. Fortunately, Yukio had landed in the bushes below, but he had passed out cold. She picked up the little boy. "Yukio answer me!"
"Leave him be!" Inuyasha huffed, "Might as well let him die!"
"Inuyasha…" Kagome said gritting her teeth.
"Erk…" Inuyasha squeaked. He knew what was coming.
"SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!" Kagome's sit commads made Inuyasha fall head first off the tree and onto the ground below. The sit commands and the impact made a hole in the ground. "What have you done!" Kagome yelled at him before storming off with Yukio in her arms.
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Sesshoumaru and Kagura strode through the leave covered path in a bamboo forest. The first rays of the morning light shown through the gaps in the bamboo leaves. No words had been exchanged between them since he had reluctantly agreed to go with her on this walk of hers. He looked at her. She has a touch of nature. Simply by holding out her hand to it, she had gotten a bird to land on her finger. She smiled at it with a gentle look in her eye.
Sesshoumaru found his eyes wondering to her every few minutes. And for some reason, he couldn't get her out of his mind.
"What the matter Sesshoumaru?" Kagura had let the bird fly away from her. Now she turned to Sesshoumaru with a concerned look. "You look rather serious…"
"So are you saying I never do look serious?" Sesshoumaru replied. Kagura smiled at him, "I never said that!" Sesshoumaru looked at her and his eyes widened. For the first time in his life, his heart began to beat faster than usual. Instincts are for some reason telling his to pull the wind users next to him close. 'Why?' he thought as he fought hard against his demonic nature.
Kagura was worried. She watched anxiously as Sesshoumaru frowned beside her. Watching the demon beside made her forget to pay attention to her road and she didn't notice as she stepped on a leave covered rock and slipped. She began to fall backwards.
Sesshoumaru's alert eyes immediately noticed this. With lightning quick reflexes, he grabbed her hand and pulled her up before she fell to the ground. "Are you all right?" he said to her as she caught her balance.
Kagura's blush was hard to suppress. "Sesshoumaru…" She muttered, "Arigato…" Then she looked down at her hand. Sesshoumaru had not let it go since he caught her. "Sesshoumaru?" she said in a questioning tone.
Sesshoumaru too noticed this. He quickly let go of her hand although his instincts were telling him to hold on to it.
"Be careful where you step." He said softly before turning away. "It been a long time since we came out… we should go back now… Rin might want me there…" He started back.
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On top of the bamboo tree…
"That's it?" Sakura was quite perplexed, "he should have done something more!"
"Ahem…" Hikari gave her cousin a weird look, "A second ago you told me not to interfere with their private life and the next you drag me to go spy on them…Again!"
"Hehe…" Sakura smiled guiltily, "How are we suppose to get back?"
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Sesshoumaru walked back towards the way they came from and Kagura walked slowly behind him. She held up the hand he had grabbed. 'It feels so warm…' She thought. She was so lost in thought that she didn't notice Sesshoumaru had stopped and almost bumped into him.
"What's wrong?" She asked. But Sesshoumaru stared ahead. Looking after the direction Sesshoumaru was looking at she saw a man with black hair and a red jewel on his forehead. He was severely injured and was staggering towards them. As he drew near, Sesshoumaru started put a hand on the hilt of his sword.
"Sesshoumaru…" Kagura said as she put a hand on his wrist to stop him. If there had been any hint of anger and killing intent in him, it disappeared the moment her hand touched him. He sighed internally, acknowledging the fact that with Kagura around, there was simply no way for him to fight. He looked at her face. It was full of concern and worry as she looked at the injured man before them. Sesshoumaru felt a sharp tug of jealousy. 'Why was she worrying for a stranger?' he thought angrily. The man before them started to collapse and Kagura added fuel to his jealous fire by rushing up to the man and catching him preventing him from falling.
"Kagura…" Sesshoumaru said, "Put him down… he's a dragon demon…"
"I'm not about to leave an injured person alone to die!" Kagura said, "But if you want… you can go. Isn't Rin waiting for you?"
Okay… He's definitely not leaving.
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"What's taking them?" Hikari asked. The girls had somehow made it back…alive.
"Oh well!" Sakura grinned, "At least them way down from the tree didn't kill me!"
"No…" Hikari said seething, "But I might!"
Suddenly a yellow light shot into the sky. "Ane Sama's signal!" Sakura said urgently. And so the two girls rushed to the aid of the wind demon they had brought back to life.
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Kagura had taken out the scroll the girls gave to her and muttered the spell. A yellow light shot into the sky and within minutes the girls ran to the scene.
"Okay! Okay! Where's the fire?" Was Hikari's greeting.
Sakura groaned, "Can't you be serious for once in your life?"
"Sakura!" Kagura said, she was sitting by the injured demon. "Can you heal him?"
Sakura took one look at the injured demon before saying, "yeah". She walked to the demon and knelt by his side. Then she proceeded on making plants rise up from the ground and had it grab the injured demon.
Hikari got bored of the healing process after a while and walked to Sesshoumaru who was standing alone.
"You know…" She said to him, "Ane looked pretty worried about him…" He looked down at the little girl, "Me thinks you might have a romantic rival from now on!" With his jealousy still raging, he found no need to hold back. He narrowed his eyes.
BAM! WHAM! Some birds flew out of their nests as the noise startled them. Kagura and Sakura looked up to find Hikari holding her head which had two bumps on it. "What'd I do? What'd I say?" She cried.
"Sesshoumaru!" Kagura walked up to him, "Go easy on her." Only to find that Sesshoumaru was ignoring her.
"He's jealous!" Hikari smiled. Obviously she had recovered from her hits on the head.
Sesshoumaru glared. Hikari squeaked and hid behind Kagura who now had a strange look on her face, "Jealous?" She asked, "Of what?"
Sesshoumaru just turned and headed to back to camp. "Hey!" Sakura called, "Sesshoumaru Sama! What do we do with him?"
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"Yukio!" Kagome peered at the little boy, "Wake up!" The poor boy was still unconscious.
"Serves him right!" Inuyasha was in the floor. His back was now out of commission thanks to all those sit commands. "I wouldn't be happier if he died."
"Inuyasha…" Kagome whispered.
Inuyasha gulped.
SIT!
