Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
Authors Note: It felt wrong to update Stuttering while ignoring this story. I just whipped this up so I'm sorry about any typos you might notice.
0
0
0
Mindful Interest
0
Chapter Four
The Joy Of Slaughter And Slob
0
0
0
Three heads, four bodies. Oh, no wait, there it was. It landed with a thud by Kagome's feet. The lizard demon looked straight at her and smiled wickedly before his eyes turned dim in death. After all the things she had seen, the head still creped her out. Maybe it was because some of the spinal cord was still attached and twitching like the tail of a cat, spattering small drops of unknown fluids everywhere.
"Focus", came the deep baritone, waking Kagome from her morbid fascination. She shook her head and straightened her spine. Bringing up her bow she notched another arrow. Sesshoumaru sneered. "The shard", his eyes seemed to add stupid, but she was thankful he didn't say it out loud. She felt kind of daft and gave a embarrassed laugh, "Ugh, if Inuyasha could see me now", thankfully he wasn't.
Clearing her throat she pointed to the chest of the leader, "It's right over there". The dead stare said enough. "Uh, right. I'll go get it".
Her legs moved awkwardly and she knelt down stiffly by the corpse. Sadly, once again her shortcomings were obvious, "Um, Sesshoumaru. Could you please help me take this off"? She was referring to the heavy armour covering the breast of the lizard. It was spiky and bloodied from the big hole Sesshoumaru had pierced through it's stomach. Her own curled nervously at the memory. He had looked far to sadistic for her liking in that moment.
She heard his even steps before she saw a pale hand move pass her head, reaching down at the hem of the horrible looking defence. She could feel the heat from the body beside her and her heart almost stopped. She was not comfortable being alone with the silent lord of the west. It was all for the good of the group though. She needed to remind herself why she had gone along with this. Not that she had much of a choice to begin with. The lizards had tried to overwhelm them with a pincher attack, which of course was ridiculous considering they had dog demons in their group. Inuyasha and the others took out the decoy while Sesshoumaru swept Kagome away to collect the shard. Oh, and gleefully slaughter and maim. He had worn the tiniest smile all the while.
She shivered.
One small tug with his pale, deadly hand and he bended the armour horribly out of shape without any effort. He withdrew slowly and backed away to watch her. Again.
"Thank you", Kagome never forgot her manners. No matter how uncomfortable she felt.
All she could do was to talk herself into action. Sesshoumaru was not judging her. Okay, maybe he was, but Kagome would not care! Okay, she did care. She was clumsy, but she got even clumsier when he was around, staring at her with eyes with judging slit pupils.
She tried to look at ease, well as much as a woman could while digging in the chest cavity of a corpse. The shard had dug itself deeper during the fight as if the taint had tried to escape her purity. She scoffed, that had never happened before. Ignoring both the smell, feel and the sounds of wet flesh under her hands, her fingers groped around until they found the shard. She closed her fist and withdrew.
A green scaly hand shoot up suddenly and gripped her by the elbow, trapping her arm in his body. Kagome yelped in surprise and tried desperately to pull away, but he held fast with a pained snarl and spat her in the face. Sesshoumaru stepped in and cut off his arm with a clean swipe of his whip, the lizard grinned, showing all of it's fangs at the priestess before him. Even though he had lost, he had fought till the end. Those were his last thoughts as Kagome managed to pull out her arm from his chest with the sickening wet slurping sound of his flesh. The shard, covered in blood, instantly glowed with purity, finally free from the lizards darkness as he turned into ashes in the wind.
She looked on with surprise as he disintegrated before her eyes, but it was short-lived when she felt the burning on her cheek that spread to her neck and collarbone. It started slowly but got hotter and hotter, until she could have sworn her face was sizzling as if he had spat pure acid.
"Aaah!", she cried out, squeezing her eyes shut she tried to remove whatever poison it was festering on her skin with her sleeve.
"Stop it", Sesshoumaru's firm voice cut in. He grabbed her by her bloodied arm and forced it away from her face, "You are spreading it even more". She tried, she really did try not to cry but the tears came anyway and she gave a pitiful whimper. He forcefully moved her head when she tried to curl in on herself, making her face the sun. If anything it felt as if the pain was intensifying.
He started at her collarbone and dragged his tongue all the way up to her eye, before repeating the process. Her bleary eyes blinked at his disgruntled face in surprise. "Sesshoumaru?", she breathed as she felt the tingling sensation replace the burn. "Quiet", he roughly pulled her face this way and that, licking her face, forcing Kagome to close her eyes in case he went too far. He licked her eyelids gently before moving on. Pausing, he hesitated with his breath ghosting over her collarbone. She wondered what he was doing, some part of her growing annoyed with the way his hair got stuck on her throat, tickling it, until his lips landed softly on her skin.
She opened her eyes, staring straight at the gray sky with a blush as his tongue once again stroked her skin.
He suddenly stopped.
She felt him stiffen. His hands rose to her shoulders, gripping them firmly, he pushed and Kagome fell over in her surprise. She caught herself just in time with her hands shakily, shocked even as she stared at Sesshoumaru's retreating back.
"The hanyou was victorious". He said in a monotone voice, listening to sounds she could not hear before walking back into the deeper recesses of the woods.
She rubbed her neck in disbelief. "Come", he commanded from the trees.
Sesshoumaru had just licked her clean from lizard spit, and now he acted as if nothing had happened?
Fine by her, but Kagome still couldn't stop herself from staring at his back all the way back to the meeting point. What was on her mind?
It was the brief moment where Sesshoumaru had rested his lips with a smirk against her sensitive spot.
0
0
0
Thank you for reading as well for all the alerts and fav's. Makes me feel important. Wanted you know? Like coffee. Yes, like coffee and cream.
Have a good night. And may the late night fairy be with you!