Transformed
Chapter 5
"In Sesshomaru's castle"
Kagome moaned softly as the bright light of the sun shone right in her eyes. She rolled over on the bed and cuddled deeper into the soft pillow hoping to catch a few more minutes of sleep before she had to get up for school.. 'Wait… I don't remember falling asleep in a bed?' Kagome thought as she slowly and tiredly opened her eyes. The room was bright and filled with sun light so it took her a little while till her eyes adjusted to difference in light. She sat up slowly and rubbed the sleep from her eyes and glanced around. She was in what looked like a hotel room. With the huge windows, and doors leading out onto a small balcony over looking a beautiful seen of a garden below. The room itself had white walls, and the ceiling stood nearly fifteen feet above her. She found herself lying on a queen size bed, with pure white sheets and pillows. The floor had a light blue carpet and wooden floor off to the far side of the room where a small fire place was flaring keeping the place a nice warm temperature. A chair was to the right side of the bed and the left a night stand with an oil lamp. A few chairs where set around the fire place and somewhat empty bookshelves lined the walls.
Kagome pulled the heavy blankets off of her and slipped off the bed onto the soft carpet, wincing in slight pain as her muscles protested to being used so early. She loved the way it felt beneath her feet as she walked over to the far side of the room where one of the doors where. Two other doors where in the room. One not to far from this one on the connecting wall, the other on the other side of the room. She opened the door and walked into the dark room. Feeling around on the wall for some sort of switch or anything but didn't find one. Walking back into the room she grabbed the oil lamp, lit it and walked back through the door. Finding many candles and lamps, she began to light all of them till the room glowed with all the light. Turning around she gasped softly, the room was no other then a private bath. A huge hot spring stood in the middle of it, a mini waterfall of hot water flowed into it creating the steam that began rising to the ceiling, filling the room in alight cloud.
Looking around more she saw a shelf filled with an array of scents for the water, and scented soap. A small rack below it was filled with towels, all white and fluffed. 'What's with all the white?' Kagome wondered as this room too was all white with white walls and tiles. Shrugging it off she guessed that since she was here already, the person who owned this place wouldn't mind her having a bath. So stripping out of her clothing that where all torn and filled with dirt and blood, she grabbed a bottle of scents to add to the water and walked over to the spring like tub. Adding the scent to the water she breathed it in deeply taking in the fresh aroma as it filled the air in the room, and slipped into the water, sighing in a relaxing way, ignoring the stings of small cuts all over her body. She wasn't sure how she was quickly healed like this when she had sustained a great deal of injury's after yesterday fighting off those yōkai to save Jaken and Rin. She winced at the memory wishing she could forget it.
About thirty or so minutes later, Kagome emerged from the bathroom wrapped in a towel, using another to dry her hair and padded across the soft carpet over to the bed. Upon it lied a sky blue kimono with dark blue flowers all over it and it was also with a dark blue obi to match. Kagome blinked and looked at it as she didn't remember anyone walking in, but since she didn't have any other clothing to where she changed into it any way. Finding, in a little shock, that it fit her perfectly and showed off her frame a little but she didn't mind.
After finding a comb and combing out her hair and made sure everything was fit, she walked to the door and opened it, steeping out into the empty hall way. Now that she looked around she started to think she was in a castle and knew only one person who owned one. So taking off down the hall she tried to decide what was what and find the person who had brought her to his home.
The great Daiyōkai of the west walked through a medium, yet wealthy, highly populated village on the border of his lands. He had to take care of some business with the head of the village, an old widow with no sons or heir to take over the village after she had passed. He told the widow that there was nothing to worry that when her time came the village would be in well care. He had a few good ideas as to who he could have take over it at the time. She thanked him and asked if she could ever repay him but he told her that their was nothing she could do and that it was his business to take care of those villages on his land. Plus he knew if this village went out of control then famine would most likely spread through out his well taken care of, well organized land. And he knew if that if anything would happen to his land his late father would not approve of it, even though he disdained his father, he knew better then to take care of what was rightfully given to him.
Leaving the village he walked the path to the spot he left Rin with Jaken and Ah-Un. He was enjoying the walk to his surprise. The weather was nice, not to cold but yet not to hot with a nice spring breeze blowing about the scent of blooming flowers and tree buds. The sun wasn't exactly high in the sky yet but a decent amount above to give the ground a wonderful glow as they day passed on.
As he neared the spot where he had left the three, something had happened. for only Ah-Un was there still tied to a tree grazing on the grass near by, but Rin and Jaken where no where to be seen, their scent was faded but where strongly covered with the scent of wild yōkai that lead off towards his left into to the woods. Running at the speed, that made him nothing more then a blur he followed after the scent through out the forest.
Sesshomaru had been running for no more then a few minutes when he picked up a stronger scent of Rin's and Jaken's on the wind then turned to his left and followed it, oblivious to the slightly familiar but different scent mixed in with theirs. When he arrived near the sight he stood in the shadows of the trees, his presences unknown as he watched and interesting sight before him. Jaken and Rin where not in sight but he could smell them near by, but before him in a clearing was a girl, by her scent he could tell that it was a hanyou. She looked highly familiar to him and her scent carried familiarity with it as well as he noticed it to be the strange female that traveled with his hated half-brother Inuyasha. but the last he saw of them she was a ningen onna and was slightly confused but intrigued at how she had became a hanyou but more surprised as he watched her finish off the wild yōkai around her. He saw the red in her eyes as she turned and walked, no stalked to the shrubbery behind her. The place where Rin and Jaken where hiding. Steeping out of the shadows of the trees he walked over to her in a matter of seconds and knocked her out with a hard punch to the center of her back. He watched with no emotion as her body fell limply to the ground before him.
"Yay!! Lord Sesshomaru has came and saved us!!" Rin's voice sang out as she climbed out of the bushes and ran over the the bushes.
"I knew all along that he would come and save us." Jaken said as he followed after Rin, his arms crossed, his voice was filled with doubt, and surprise that Sesshomaru did indeed come and rescue them.
Sesshomaru glared at Jaken at his tone of voice, making him jump back and bow for forgiveness. But Sesshomaru ignored him as he steeped on the toad yōkai and walked off. "Lets go." He said as he continued to walk off.
"Yes My lord!" Rin said cheerfully as she ran after him, steeping on Jaken's head as she passed. She caught up to Sesshomaru before she looked back. "Lets go Master Jaken before you get left behind again." She said facing forwards again.
"Coming!" Jaken yelled as he jumped up, clenched his staff of two heads to his chest and followed after glancing back at the girl who had just saved his life.
The three of the had not been walked more then a minute before Rin started asking questions. "Lord Sesshomaru? Why did you leave that lady back there like that? She saved our lives shouldn't we help her? and Just who is she? She looks so much like Lady Kagome, but she's human and that lady was yōkai?" Rin said as she thought something over but couldn't come up with and answer.
"Stop asking so many questions, Rin. You're giving me a headache." Jaken complained as he too thought about the girl. "Who was that girl, My Lord?"
Sesshomaru glared to Jaken then glanced to Rin before looking back forwards. "That girl is Kagome, and she is a hanyou now." He answered simply.
"But my lord! How can that be? We have to go back and help her." Rin said as she glanced worriedly back to where Kagome still laid on the ground not moving.
"She will be fine be herself. She took down all those yōkai on her own. Plus that Inuyasha would be come looking for her soon." Jaken said as he walked with his eyes closed only to run into Sesshomaru's leg, back up and bow in forgiveness again. But when nothing happened he just looked up his lord with questioning eyes.
Sesshomaru stopped in his path, not noticing that Jaken had ran into him and was bowing for forgiveness. He just ignored him as he began to pick up scents on the wind. The only ones he could find was the girls, the dead yōkai, new yōkai on the way and Inuyasha not no where near by.
"My Lord?" Rin looked to her lord in question.
Sesshomaru glanced to the girl before he ran back to Kagome and looked down at her limp from on the ground. He saw blood on her clothing, and noticed that some of it was hers. So kneeling next to her he picked her up with his one and only arm and ran back to where Rin and Jaken stared in shock at him as he walked forward with Kagome in his arms.
"Yay!! We get to save Kagome!" Rin sang and skipped after her lord and began talking of plans of what to do with Kagome when she came too again.
Jaken was awe stuck and it took him a few seconds before he could regain control of him self and follow after wards.
Sesshomaru lead Rin and Jaken back to Ah-Un and placed Kagome on top of the two headed dragon yōkai. Rin climbed on after wards behind Kagome then Jaken. "Where are we going my lord?" Jaken asked as Ah-Un followed a cloud covered Sesshomaru into the sky.
Sesshomaru didn't answer but headed North-West back to his castle. he had business to take care of there and no onna, nor hanyou was going to get in his way
Kagome walked through the castle, the soft carpet felt wonderful under her bare feet as she padded down yet another hallway. she stopped and glanced around swearing she had just taken this hall way before. Sighing she continued onward. All the hall ways looked the same here and she got lost very easily. One thing that surprised her was that she hasn't run into anyone or anything yet. Making her wonder is Sesshomaru really was here or not. But she still continued on walking around opening every door she could, and knocked on the ones that where locked. Hopefully she would get the right door sooner or later.
Sesshomaru sat in his office, also one of his mini libraries, on the lower floor of the castle. As soon as he had arrived he had dropped Kagome off in a random unused bed room and had his servants take care of her, as he left and headed down to his office to do paper work. He had been sitting here for hours, reading docs, and signing papers that never seemed to end. At the end of his desk sat a thick stack of signed papers and an ever thicker stack that Jaken had just brought in recently for him to sign. Jaken was now sitting in front of the small fire place enjoying the warmth while Rin was asleep in her room when a light knocking was on the door. Jaken glanced to Sesshomaru who didn't even look up from his papers, sighed and climbed down from the comfortable chair and slowly padded over to the door. "What do you want! can't you see Lord Sesshomaru is busy!" Jaken said rudely expecting one of the servants to be at the door but when he opened it and saw who stood there he epped, jumped back and held out his staff. He wasn't expecting Kagome to be up and walking around yet, and for all the wounds to be healed so quickly. He suspected her to be in the room still.
Sesshomaru hearing the light knock on the door, ignored it as he continued reading a boring document on a farmer in on of the near by villages complaining about other villagers steeping onto his property and taking his things with out permission and asked to have some sort or warrant or something to be made. Sesshomaru had just signed the paper with permission granted to the farmer to do what he pleased when he heard Jaken eep and jumped back. He glanced up to see Kagome at the door and was too quiet surprised to Kagome standing at the door.
Kagome stood at the door in quiet shock as she wasn't quiet expecting someone to answer let alone it be Jaken. She wanted to punch him for being so rude but was frozen at his reaction of him taking guard at her presence. She just didn't know what to do but stay rooted where she was. She glanced into the room though, the only thing she was able to do, and meet Sesshomaru's gaze as he looked up from his papers to the door and saw her. She watched as he gracefully stood and began walking her way. Kagome couldn't help but blush in embarrassment at disturbing him as he approached her.
Sesshomaru stood from his desk and walked over to the door, knocking Jaken across the room for being to loud when answering the door, and now stood in the door way staring at Kagome who seemed to be rooted to the spot she stood in. He couldn't help but mentally smirk as he watched the blood rise to her cheeks coloring them to a soft pink, but stopped quickly as he had more important things to do, as he glanced back to the paper work on his desk then to her.
Kagome followed his gaze to the paper work on his desk then back to her. She looked him in the eyes as she cleared her throat and was finally able to move, taking a step back. "Sorry to disturb you. I didn't know you where busy." She said her voice dry.
"What is it that you wanted?" Sesshomaru asked calmly, raising one perfect eye-brow in question at her. He was still surprised that she would walk through a place she did not know just to find him.
"Um..." Kagome began to say then forgot why she was looking for him in the first place, then blushed madly as her stomach growled loud enough for everyone around her to hear.
Sesshomaru smirked at her embarrassment, then glanced back to paper works, then Jaken. "Jaken, wake Rin. It's time for lunch." He said as he walked out into the hall, even though Sesshomaru hardly ate, not that he needed to, he decided he needed a break from the paper work and headed down the hall. he didn't stop even when he heard Kagome's feet pad quickly against the carpet as she jogged to to catch up to him then feel into steep quietly behind him.
Sorry for the long wait, I forgot that I had this typed and ready to go... I got to distracted with things going on at home... But I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and the cliffy... I think... Please tell me what you think. R&R