~Kagome~
He just stroked my face. Sesshoumaru, the perpetually pissed off ice prince just stroked my face.
He..he.. did SESSHOUMARU just express emotions? Oh, God, it's the end of the world! Prepare for the apocalypse, people! We're all gonna die!
Apparently my expression mirrored my thoughts, coz now he's frowning and asking me if I'm afraid of him or something.
Uh, no. I'm just afraid of how you're displaying feelings. To me. Me, Kagome currently broken Higurashi. But saying that would be rude, so I settle for,
"No. My leg hurts, that's all."
"I see." Do ya really?
"I shall go get you some pain killers." He says. Heh, his speech pattern is weird.
He withdraws his hand, and goes out of the room, presumably to get me some pain meds, giving me some time to survey my surroundings. Totosai jii chan always told me that ten seconds of surveying my surroundings could save my life.
So, I see a HUGE bed, which I am sitting in by the way, with really soft blankets and a plush mattress [I may just drown in here...] and about a dozen pillows. The walls are a pleasant pale teal, and there are three rows of frames. One has childish finger paintings, photographs, and the third row has embroideries. There are four in each row, all, even the finger paintings, depicting the four seasons. Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn.
It's pretty nice, actually.
Apart from the bed, the room is pretty normal. I can tell it's his, because there are photographs of his family on a polished wood desk against the opposite wall and on the bedside table, and some of his clothes are folded and kept on the computer chair in front of the little laptop table.
Really normal.
I look out the window behind me and see that I'm in quite high up. Seventh floor, maybe? And at this point, Sesshoumaru walks in, holding a tray with glass of water, a bowl of something; possibly food, and a bottle of pain killers. He sits down beside me and puts the bowl, which is revealed to contain a large amount of fried rice with yummy smelling curry, in my lap.
"Eat. You haven't eaten for nearly twenty four hours now." An entire day? That means I spent the night. Where exactly did he sleep? I'm sure this bed's big enough for the both of us... Okay, lets not go there. That roads clearly leads to tears and heartbreak judging by the creepy looking trees and crumbling pathway, so lets go the other way! Down the sunny path we go, where everything is shiny and happy!
...I hate shiny.
Moving on...
So I finish eating the the fried rice, and Sesshoumaru hands me the pain meds. I swallow them without hesitation, 'cause my arm is really killing me.
Ten minutes later, we're just sitting here. Totally silent. Staring at each other.
"So..."
"Yes?" He answers almost instantly.
"I... um..." Say something woman!
"I like the paintings on your wall!" I blurt out. Okay, that's not so bad. Look, he's even smiling.
...Oh, god, he's smiling.
Maybe this is the real Sesshoumaru?
"My younger sister made the finger paintings. She turns seven on June sixth." Aww, he's a doting brother! How cute.
"That's pretty close" I say. He nods.
The silence reigns again.
"It's late. You should sleep." He says finally. I open my mouth to object, but decide against it. I nod instead, drink some water, and snuggle down into the bed.
He smooths back the hair from my forehead, [I'm finding it hard to get used to the drastic change in his previously polar personality] and says,
"Good night, Kagome." And then leaves.
"Wait!" I call out.
"Where are you sleeping?"
"My couch is more than comfortable, do not worry. And no, You are not to leave that bed so you cannot take the couch. Stay put." He replies, the walks out, closing the door behind him.
I stare at it for a few minutes, wondering how the Sesshoumaru harem would react if they could see me now, and with that thought I drift off to sleep.
~Sesshoumaru~
I was having a strange dream.
In the dream, Inuyasha was sitting on a huge white dog that came up to my chest, and Izayoi was wearing a traditional princess style yukata, and was combing her hair. Rin was there too, she was playing with a disgusting looking toad, and everything was in varying shades of grey. Suddenly, they all started to scream, simultaneously. Even the dog and the toad. They didn't stop what they were doing, they just screamed. They kept screaming, until I jerked awake.
Now I'm awake, and I realize the screaming is coming from my room.
KAGOME!
I run to the room, half expecting to find her father there, trying to kill her, but what I find is more disturbing.
Kagome is writhing in the bed, completely tangled in the covers, clutching her hair, screaming herself hoarse.
I try to hold her still, because she seems in danger of ripping her hair out, but she won't stop fighting me.
After about five minutes of struggling, her eyes finally snap open, but her reaction is a little different from what I had expected.
Instead of being relieved, she screams again, and slaps me in the face.
...What in the world?
"Sesshoumaru Taishou! I had no idea that you were one of those kind of guys! Taking advantage of a helpless, injured maiden, how could you?"
"I'm not trying to rape you, stupid woman! You were screaming in your sleep, and ripping your-" really long, soft, silky, smooth "-hair out by the roots!"
She stares at me for a bit.
"Oh, don't worry about that, I do it all the time. Sorry if I disturbed your beauty sleep." I scowl at her. [How incredibly mature of me. T_T]
"You had better be." I mutter, nursing my wounded ego.
"Now get out. I wanna go back to sleep." The nerve of this woman! Never the less, I stalk out of the room and return to the couch. I does take me hours to go back to sleep, even with the absence of her screams. What had she seen? What was she dreaming about?
I need Kanna.
XXX
A/N - okay, I was not at all happy with the previous ending of this chapter, and the end seemed really OOC, for both of them, so I changed it.
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