Forgetting all the hurt inside , You've learned to hide so well.
Sesshomaru watched from a floor above as Kagome talked and smiled at the people working around his home. Though she was a Miko, they didn't fear her because she gave them no reason to. Day by day he watched her smile at them though he knew inside she was hurting.
Not only by what Inuyasha had said and done but by what he had done. Her neck was purple, and she tried to hide it with her hair. He inhaled, it both pleased and unnerved him that she did. The demons bowed to her as if she were royalty and smiled at her in return. They like her, loved her, adored her, respected her.
She deserved it he decided.
He was lost in his thoughts, and before he knew it she was at his door "Shouldn't you be meeting women?"
He looked at her "Perhaps."
She walked in and sat down "Sesshomaru."
"Perhaps are you a demon."
"What?"
"A hen perhaps."
She glared at him "You asked for my help."
He sighed, she was right. He wanted offspring, and he wanted his home and his title, he wanted to leave a legacy, but one can not be a king without a queen. He needed a mate.
His eyes glided over her; she looked pale "Are you well?"
"Hm? Yes, why?"
There it was again, her wall. He had to give it to her she was very good at hiding things, from others. Not him.
"You are ill."
"I'm a little tired is all, it's been a crazy few days."
Even so, with her power, she should not be tired at all. Sesshomaru moved and knelt in front of her which made her sit back "Um?"
He pushed her hair back and looked at the mark on her neck. The holes were trying to heal, but it wasn't complete "Did it burn?"
"Burn, no why?"
"I want to be sure that my poison did not leak into your blood."
"It didn't burn."
It didn't sit well with him, so he leaned in and put his nose to her neck. She put her hands on his arms as he inhaled "Sesshomaru?"
He pulled back "It does not smell like poison."
She dropped her hand "Maybe you took a little more blood then planned, Inuyasha did kinds sneak up on us."
He stood "Perhaps, it was not my intention to harm you further."
"You didn't harm me."
"You can not deny that your neck does not hurt."
"I didn't say it didn't hurt."
"You can not deny that you are weak."
She glared at him,
"Tired Miko." He corrected.
"I don't deny that I just told you its been nuts" She stood "Are you stalling?"
"Stalling?"
"Mate, female, litte demon babies?"
"Very well Miko since you are so vested into my love life."
She rolled her eyes "Well I would be invested into mine, oh wait I don't have one."
"Pity that I don't get to deal with a male of your choosing," He said flatly,
She waved him off as they began to walk "You don't have a love life either."
"Yet"
"Pardon but didn't you tell me love had nothing to do with it."
"Hn are you speaking to stall Miko?"
"Stall?"
"Your feelings."
She stopped walking "Hu?"
"You are no demon."
"I know."
"Human require their emotions."
Her face when soft "Are, are you saying its ok to cry, Lord Sesshomaru?"
He looked up "It is a human fault, yet what can one do when their Miko is moping."
He began to walk "I'm not moping"'
They walked into a room, a large meeting space. "So any of these lucky girls have a nice brother?"
He eyed her "Thinking of mating and pups?"
She laughed at first; then her look became serious "Maybe after I help you" Kagome looks to a window "I can't go back there, and I can't stay here."
Sesshomaru didn't look away from her; instead his eyes landed on his teeth marks in her neck, suddenly he had the urge to smell it again, taste her skin.
"So, what's the plan?"
Just like that, she was smiling again, it was unnatural. It was learned he was sure from many years of being emotionally abused by his brother regardless if the half breed meant to or not. This girl, she was always forgetting herself and thinking of others. Always putting her life on the line for others and while her story would last longer than his it would fade to and then what would be left?
Even now she was pushing back her own sadness to help him.
"We will meet with many tomorrow" He turned to leave her "Kagome."
"Yes?"
"Your human, be human."
She tilted her head,
"You can not hide from me, others, but not me."
Then he left her to her own device; she could take that however she wanted. He didn't see feelings as a weakness, but it was making her physically weak.