Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own Inuyasha, or any of its affiliated characters… But yes, alas, I do own a few things… Like the plot to my story… And a couple of characters… Nod Good enough for me right now. As for the others, slowly…
Chapter 3Dinner was excellent. Well, for Kagome that is. She was the only one who was eating. Which, by the way, made her feel like a complete pig. She'd deal with that later though. Now, she was hungry.
"Kagome…" Sesshoumaru's start to this conversation wasn't going so well. Which could possibly been the fact that he didn't know what to say, nor did he want to upset the girl. He wanted to keep her around. "Yes?" She was currently shoveling food into her mouth at an inhumanly pace.
"Well…" He was never bad at this kind of conversation, and he was even worse now that Kagome had sat up straight and looked at him, awaiting his comment. "Having troubles with something?" She sounded so genuine, but he never knew whether she was being sarcastic or not.
"Hm. It seems so." He said things so coolly. It almost killed her when he spoke, to know that she was pretty much here on his will, not her own. Plus, the fact that she had acted like a total fool in front of Inuyasha. Had she seriously fallen for Sesshoumaru? Or was this all just her mind playing tricks?
"What did we need to speak about earlier?" He rushed on with his question, hoping she didn't think he was actually wanting to know. He had no clue as to why he was so afraid to speak to Kagome about pressing matters; it just wasn't his style. Everyone knew, Sesshoumaru did not go outside of his style. That wasn't… Well, that was highly unusual, and no one likes change.
"We can talk about it when I'm done eating." She spoke so muffled that he was glad he was a youkai, otherwise he wouldn't have understood a word she had just said. Then again, it was quite obvious when it came to her. Quite obvious indeed.
"I believe it is time to be done eating then." Sesshoumaru spoke in an irritated voice, letting it be known that he wasn't too enthused about her blowing him off for now. "Well, I'm not done. You're just gonna have to wait until I'm done!" She was snapping viciously at him. After all, who likes to get interrupted while they're eating?
This was about the time Sesshoumaru had gotten up out of his chair, excused himself quite rudely, and stomped out of the dining hall. Of course, when he had reached the top of his castle, being his room, all heard a loud bang followed by a couple of echo's.
A servant rushed into the dining hall, warning Kagome not to both the master. After this, there were several loud growls, and faint amounts of sound coming from shattering glass could be heard. Then the servant rushed out to find an elder to calm the master down. This would take someone special. He wasn't one to calm, until after he killed a few, after he was angry.
It was then that Kagome decided to excuse herself from the dining area, where many servants still awaited to help her get comfortable for the night. One stepped forward, offering Kagome a hand to her room. She politely declined, and stated that she would have Sesshoumaru do so later.
Another, girl to be exact, walked to her and stated "You aren't going to go try, and calm the master down, are you?" She looked absolutely terrified, and it was apparent that the girl liked her, to some degree at least. "Yes, I am." She was simple, and blunt about it. "No! Kagome-chan, you mustn't. It will only put you in harms way!" She yelled, very clearly stepping out of her place, as one of the elder servants was glaring at her.
"Child, I am a miko. There is no way, come hell or high water, that he could kill me. Don't worry. If anything, I'll purify him a little to scare him into calming down." Kagome said proudly, with a devious smile on her face. She then touched the girl, and walked away, heading towards the stairs.
Sesshoumaru was absolutely furious. "How dare that wench tell me we would have to 'talk about it later'?" He was horrible at mocking voices, especially females, but this was no time to care. He was seconds away from killing everyone within a 2,000 mile radius. No good. Even worse now that the very girl that enraged him had just opened his door.
The first words out of her mouth angered him even more so. "Awww. Is someone tired?" She was mocking him?! She made it out like he was a baby! How dare she?! "Wench! I will not be treated like you are my superior. If anything, I should be treating you badly!" I have her now. She should be mad after that! And she was.
"Wench?! Is that what I am to you? Just a wench?! Well, for your information, I'm no wench, and I'm your equal, and not under you in any sort of way!" She screamed, and stalked towards him, her breathing seeming highly unstable.
"You wish bitch. You are nothing but an underling, and you can not treat a lord in such a way… Unless you feel like dying today!" He said, his voice becoming low, and threatening.
"I'm not a bitch! How dare you call me that?!" She screamed, getting in his face, not even noting his anger, or readiness to kill something.
"Yes you are! That is all you are!" He snapped, almost unable to control his anger.
Was this ever gonna be a violent argument!
"Yeah? Well you're just a cold hearted bastard that thinks about nothing but himself! You've never given a half a shit about anyone else! You don't care about your family, you don't care about your people, and you don't even care about Rin!" She yelled, getting ready to push him away from her, and make a break for it.
That struck him deeply.
And, by this time, he had raised his hand towards her, as she had fallen to the floor. She was scared.
"Sessh…" Was all she could get out before he got close to her, and backhanded her across the face. "Do not ever bring them into an argument again! You will leave my chambers now!"
Tears welled up in her eyes, and she held a small hand to her cheek, trying to rid it of the pain. As she got up slowly, using the closest available item to help her steady herself, she started to let tears slip down, one by one. Steadily, they got faster, as Sesshoumaru started to become a blur, along with everything else in the room.
"I…I can't believe…" That was all she could get out before she started balling her eyes out, sinking back to the floor. When she finally mustered up the will to say something else to him, it was "That's it! I'm leaving!" And she tried to get up, and walk herself out of the castle. Of course, not even making it five feet away before falling hard on her back side.
Sesshoumaru sat there, in shock, just looking at the poor girl struggle with walking. Did I really just hit her? His conscious was definitely suffering, and he had no idea what to do anymore. She was sitting on his floor, crying, and apparently, almost unable to breathe.
"Kagome…"
"Leave me alone!" She yelled, looking back at him with angry, puffy eyes.
"I…" He was speechless. How could he?
"I said leave me alone! I just wanna go to bed!" She screamed, making herself hurt even more.
"Come to bed." He said simply, walking towards her, and picking her up.
She hit him, several times at that. She screamed, and hollered, telling him to let her down. He had no intention on doing so, and she would realize that soon enough. She was scared, she thought her was going to hit her again, and she wasn't about to let it happen again.
Sesshoumaru laid the young woman in his bed, walking around it, and climbing on himself, putting them both under the covers to fall asleep.
He wrapped his arm around her, and moved her slender body closer to himself, wanting to make her feel better, and feel welcome.
"I'm leaving tomorrow Sessoumaru." She said softly, a few sniffles escaping here and there.
"Why?" He asked, not wanting to be away from her. Then again, how could he blame her? He did just hit her, and he screamed. He was definitely too violent to be with such a loving woman.
"I need to go home. Think things over." She told him. In her mind, a relationship with the wondrous Sesshoumaru would be ideal, but who could ever even think it would work, considering he has made it so blatantly clear that he's cold hearted.
"I see." He was highly upset, of course not letting her see that he was. This was atrocious, and he wasn't about to let this slide often. She would come back.
"Thank you." Kagome said very simply, rolling on her side, thinking they were about to sleep.
"I am going with you." He said, making himself very clear. "We shall break tomorrow morning, bright and early."
"But…"
"No. I have made my decision." He said, again making himself clear.
This was when he immediately started to ignore her, by sinking into his thoughts. He knew she'd be angry, and that's exactly why he refused to talk anymore, he would not be convinced to do otherwise.
This is the point where the young maiden fell asleep, breathing softly, arousing Sesshoumaru from his thoughts to sleep himself.
One in a million would finally get him to do so.