A/N: Hey, hey, hey! This is GHMC, the lovely author of this fanfic! Sorry for the late update, again. It's just so hard with finals coming up, but I managed to get two chapters up in one go! Tell me how they are, if you loved it, liked it, or hated it (just be nice with it).
"Uh…"
I woke up to the sound of metal clanging against metal. I looked around and noticed that Sesshomaru was nowhere to be seen. He must have been taking care of it. I tried to go back to sleep, but the sound would not stop. Mu eyebrows narrowed as I stood up and walked over to the sound.
I'm not exactly a morning person, and waking up because people were fighting did not make things better.
I walked into a clearing that the two Inu-bakas had made of the once lush part of the forest. The idiots were fighting this early? And then the useless crew was just watching. I started to walk over to stop the fighting, but InuYasha decided to try and use Wind Scar on Sesshomaru. He evaded the attack with ease, but the damned attack barely missed me.
In my drowsy state, I didn't react to his sudden move. If Sesshomaru had stood in front of me at that exact moment, I would have died.
"Watch where you're aiming that thing!" I yelled at InuYasha.
"Kazumi!" Kagome yelled.
"Don't 'Kazumi' me! If you really cared, you would have stopped them so I wouldn't have woken up!" I said with anger blowing out of my ears.
She yelped at my reply. I was not in the mood for a happy reunion.
"I need at least 5 hours of sleep daily, but even at that, I have to make up at least 2 of the 4 I miss daily the next day." I muttered as I walked in between the two brothers.
I stood in front of InuYasha and glared at him.
"What do ya want?" he asked.
I brought my fist down on his head hard enough to hear a thump.
"I thought I'd hear an echo!" I spat at him.
He held his head as he yelled back at me. "What the hell was that for?!"
"If hitting you is what I need to do to get you to speak properly, that's what I'll do! And I hit you because I bet you started it!
"And why would you assume that?!"
"Because you're the one that usually charges into battle like a damn idiot!"
"Who are you calling an idiot?!"
"You! InuYasha!"
"Why didn't you assume Sesshomaru came over here to kill me?!"
I looked over at Sesshomaru, who was watching InuYasha like a hawk, daring him to touch me. I brought my attention back to him.
"Don't make me have to punish you like how I punish my pet dog!"
"Really? And how do you punish 'your pet dog'?" InuYasha asked.
"I whack her on the head! Not too hard, but just enough to make sure she won't do it again!" I replied.
"First of all, you already did that, second, why don't you walk your way over to Sesshomaru and hit him too?!"
I looked back at Sesshomaru, who was now looking at me wondering the same question. I could tell through his eyes. I faced InuYasha again and threw my hands into the air.
"I may be blinded by sleep right now, but I'm not a damn idiot! Who in their right mind would want to hit him?!"
"I would!" InuYasha answered.
"Again, WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would want to hit him?!"
"Why I ought ta-"
"You wanna fight? Let's go."
"Kazumi, don't you think you're doing a bit much?" Kagome asked.
"You may be right, but that sleep blindness is not letting me give a damn right now, Kagome." I told the raven.
My eyesight was blurring. I had to drop my fistacups and rub the sleep mist out of my eyes.
"Why don't you just go back to sleep?" Sango asked.
"Good question, but when I wake up, I can't just go back to sleep after a couple of minutes. Even if I could, I don't like the sound of clanging metal!"
I continued to roar at anyone who spoke to me until Sesshomaru embraced me. I felt a blush break out on my face and I quieted down.
"This is embarrassing." I admitted.
He said nothing in reply.
"Did you see that? Sesshomaru calmed her!" Miroku pointed out in a loud whisper.
"Don't think I've forgotten, monk."
I was having trouble keeping my eyes open.
"My anger has been appeased by the spirit of sleep… next time you won't… be so… lu…" I was out.
"cky." Was the first sound I made when I woke up.
I looked around and noticed that I was in Sesshomaru's lap. I looked up at him. His eyes were closed. It wasn't often that I woke up and he had his eyes closed. He was probably concentrating on something, or me.
I reached my hand out slowly toward his head. Just when my hand had passed by his face, he grabbed it gently.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Well, uh…"
He stared at me, ushering my thoughts out my mouth.
"I was… going to pat your…."
"Finish." He commanded as he brought his face closer to mine.
"head."
His eyes did not leave their gaze at me. My cheeks flushed, and I averted my eyes.
"I know it was stupid, but it seemed like a good chance, and the thought usually never occurs to me-"
I shut up when he put my hand on his chest. What was he doing?
"What are you-"
He brought my hand over to his ears, and then head. I blushed again. I wasn't used to this. Usually, he's the one touching me, not vice versa.
His hair was just as soft as his mokomoko. I couldn't stop myself from rubbing his head. At that movement, I was sure he would move my hand, but instead he just released my hand to do whatever it wanted. Was he letting me touch him to satisfy my curiosity?
I took my hand off of his head, and placed it where his heart would be if he was a human. I could feel his heartbeat. Not that I didn't expect one, but it was different from mine. It was stronger, as though his very heart was the same as him, cold, strong, and beautiful. I laid my head where his heart was and listened to his heart beat for the first time as I clung onto his arms. I didn't want to let go, but my interest was piqued somewhere else.
I touched his ears, then his chin, then his throat, then his back, then his shoulders, elbows, forearm, fingers, and claws. I stared into his eyes, wondering why I had not thought of it before. HE ALWAYS touches me, but I never touch him. My mind was blank before the times he touched me inappropriately popped up. I blushed fervently, and hid my face in his kimono.
I could give him a taste of his own medicine, but… THAT'S SO PEVERTED! I am not a pervert…. Maybe I am, just a little bit, but… I caught my hand reaching. I was trying to do it unconsciously, so that mean I wanted to know right? Oh goodness… we're going to be mated, so it's okay, right? To think about it?
'What do I do?!'
Why are you asking us?!
Don't come in here!
I was on my own. I hid my face deeper in his kimono and clung to it with one hand. The other, I did not stop from straying. I could feel myself trembling slightly. I felt it through his hakama. I let my hand wrap around it for a brief second before feeling utterly disgusted by myself. I couldn't look at Sesshomaru. I felt his arms wrap around me, but I didn't move my head from its position on his chest.
"You could not contain your desire?" he asked in my ear, his volume below a whisper.
"D-don't misunderstand. I was only curious…"
"There will be no curiosity soon. The day you become my mate, I will ravish you for the night and day."
"W-what?!" I asked bringing my head out of his kimono and staring at his golden eyes.
"It is only to be expected, making me wait so long."
"An entire day?! You have to be kidding me."
He nibbled my ear as a response. I shivered as he brought my body closer to him.
"I do not kid." He said bluntly. "That day, there will be no more questions about each other's body."
"…" I couldn't say anything. I was too embarrassed.
A/N: I feel so perverted… but I can't just make her stop and act as though she didn't want to know! Ugh, but I hope you liked the chapter anyway.
