Disclaimer: don't own Inuyasha
After being done with her affairs in the future, Kagome struggles to lift her heavy backpack from the floor.
Trying not to loose her balance, she walks to the well house and throws herself in the well, blue light caressing her skin, as she cut through time.
"Inuyasha!", she shouted from the bottom of the well.
Silence met her ears. Cursing lightly, Kagome used all her might to throw the monstrous backpack over the well's rim. As expected, she was not strong enough to throw it that high, and gravity was working against her. The backpack fell back inside the well, and having little space, she could do nothing to avoid the impending pain.
Kagome whined, as she tried to crawl out from under the heavy bag.
After pulling herself up and dusting herself off, she stood up, deciding to leave the cursed bag behind. She headed to the village to collect Inuyasha help her pull it up. Most of the bag was filled with his ramen, so it was natural that he should carry it.
Finally reaching the top, she put her arm over the well's rim , pulling the rest of her body up.
When she finally touched surface, Kagome was startled to see the same demon waiting by the well. It was the third time she saw the big white cat, and that made her a little suspicious. However, she did not feel any evil coming form him so she decided to mind her own business and get Inuyasha.
Walking away, she heard steps behind her and felt eyes burning in her back. She stopped and turned around. The big cat stopped also, and sat patiently.
Golden eyes with vertical pupils,were looking at her with annoyance, and mild murderous intent.
Kagome took another two steps and stopped. The cat in question did the same. Always keeping a distance of a few meters between them.
Kagome went a few steps backwards. The cat distanced itself from her, again keeping a fair gap between them.
Kagome giggled and started running as fast as her human legs were allowing her to. Looking over her shoulder, the demon was following, then, he abruptly stopped. Not understanding why, Kagome looked in front, only to catch a glimpse of red, before crashing into something hard. Falling on her rear in a most ungraceful manner, she mumbled an apology.
"You come back late, having a lowly demon tailing you and you LAUGH? What the hell is wrong with you? I know you're so much weaker than…" He did not get a chance to finish his phrase when a "SIT" made its way to the hanyou's sensitive ears.
"You were going to say that I'm so much weaker than Kikyo weren't you?Guess what Inuyasha, I haven't seen Kikyo making you eat dirt with a single word!" Kagome's mood changed drastically, was angry now.
"Keh. Kikyo would never do that to me" the hanyou defended his dead lover.
"You are perfectly right! She wouldn't bother to SIT you! She would simply seal you to a tree! Be grateful I'm not her otherwise a forest would not be enough for how many times I'd pin you to trees."
Doing some breathing exercises she saw on TV for pregnant women, Kagome tried to calm down. `Not pregnant alright, but I've been way too angry lately. ` She thought, trying to cheer herself up.
"You'd better go to the well and pick up my backpack if you want your precious ramen!"
Completely ignoring the angry girl, Inuyasha was growling at the demon who was silently watching the show with a bored expression. Sesshomaru couldn't care less about his half brother, but he couldn't help notice that the human girl seemed to be Inuyasha's kryptonite and strength in the same time.
When fighting against him, his bastard brother would get on frenzy each time he would attempt at the girl's life. Now, he was eating dirt and getting yelled at from the same girl that he was so fiercely protecting in battle.
`Ungrateful bitch`, Sesshomaru thought as he moved his gaze on the black haired figure. Such a slip of a girl should grovel at the feet of his half brother for the protection he was giving her. Not that he was on Inuyasha's side; he only hated defying bitches that don't know their place.
Sesshomaru started to growl lowly in utter disgust.
Inuyasha, of course he took the growl as a personal insult, jumped on his feet, and flexed his claws at the white cat.
As if they timed their arrival, the tension was broken by the cheerful voices of Sango and Miroku.
"Welcome back!", they said in the same time.
Kagome ran to her best friend to hug her, and the cat followed in a calm manner, as if there was no annoyed Inuyasha growling at him.
Pissed to be ignored, Inuyasha snapped. The half demon was going for the kill. Sesshomaru dodged, still not used to his new pitiful form, he barely escaped his brother's claws.
"Inuyasha what are you doing?" The hanyou couldn't believe his ears. She was picking on him for protecting her. Pointing a finger at the cat demon, he wanted to say something mean but quickly dismissed the thought. "Kagome what the fuck is with this demon following you?"
"How should I know Inuyasha?"
"Then why the hell do you defend it?"
"You know…" Sango intervened;" we kind of saw the demon before a while ago" Relived a little that her friend gave a hand, the Kagome continued.
"Yes we bathed with him in the hot springs" Kagome slapped her forehead. "Wait! NO... that came out wrong."
It was too late already. Inuyasha's jaw dropped, giving her a disbelieving look. Before he was able to say something, the monk beat him to it. "My dear Sango, I didn't know your tastes were so exotic". Red as a beetroot, the demon slayer hit the monk's head with her fist before he had a chance to grope her backside.
Inuyasha still obviously stunned, was trying to select his words carefully. Not to give the distressed girl a reason to SIT him some more.
"So as a revenge for me seeing Kikyo, you just go and bathe with random demons in hot springs?" Epic fail.
The girls were looking at him with angry eyes. Quickly looking for a way out, Inuyasha decided to drop the subject for now.
"You know what? I don't care with whom you guys bathe with I'll just go and grab the backpack Kagome failed to bring from the well." Turning his back on the embarrassed and angry girls, Inuyasha took a majestic leap in the air, before he was forced to crash down, face forward in the ground. He cursed his necklace once more.
Satisfied with the punishment that both males received, the girls continued walking to Kaede's village.
"Kagome, why is the demon following you?" Sango asked her best friend.
"Don't know Sango-chan, when I came back, he was waiting by the well. It's strange. Do you think that this means he accepted to be my cat?"
"Kagome-chan, demons just don't suddenly accept your friend request and start tailing you." As much as Kagome hated it, Sango was right, and she knew it.
Strolling in the village with an unknown demonic figure following behind, the two girls got a lot of questioning looks.
Finally reaching Kaede's hut, a rain of acorns flew from atop the roof in the direction of the demonic stalker. Dodging easily, Sesshomaru was keeping himself in check. Any sign of aggression would cause the group to attack him, and he needed to stay close to achieve his goal. His previous meeting with the two human females was granting him some sort of trust from the futuristic airhead.
"Don't worry Kagome I can defeat that weak demon that is following you!" said the kitsune while puffing his chest.
Sesshomaru couldn't help it and he snorted. Really, he was going to gag if he had to witness any more of this. He had ants in the pants and nothing could sweeten him up. When he was pissed he had to make everyone suffer.
"Hey that was rude!" Kagome chided the disrespectful demon. `Really? Had I not been in this shape and you would be dead you ignorant girl. ` Sesshomaru was angry that the damn human dared scold him.
"So where's my candy?" the little fox asked with a grin. Both girls started to giggle as they entered the hut.
"Your candy is coming right up with Inuyasha… that is if he will stop sulking anytime soon" All three burst into laughter.
Night was already upon them. Everybody was eating their ramen silently in the overcrowded hut around the fire.
"Hey wench where are you going with my ramen?" asked Inuyasha, with his mouth full, a noodle escaping at the corner of his mouth, going down till his chin.
His display of lack of manners made Kagome wonder why she loved him. `Leave it to Cupid to find yourself inexplicably in love with a guy that cheats on you with your past life, uses you for shard detecting and eats ramen with the manners of a pig`, she smiled at Inuyasha, having a sad glow in her eyes.
Inuyasha was caught off guard by the sudden sadness in her eyes and gulped nervously.
"There's a noodle on your face, baka...", Kagome suddenly started giggling as Sango and Miroku leaned to stare at the hanyou's face. Shippou was way too caught up with his food to bother looking, and Kaede was much to wise and mature to lower herself to snicker at a noodle on the face.
Wiping his face with the back oh his hand, he asked the question again.
"I'm going to feed Fluffy-kun some ramen also. I feel bad for him"
Standing up, Inuyasha threw his hands in the air in disbelief "Are you CRAZY? He's not your pet! And if he gets hungry he will be forced to stop stalking you and go hunt something! Feeding him will only encourage him to stay around! Damn it Kagome, he creeps me out! There's something about that demon I don't like. My senses tellin' me so!"
As he finished his tirade, he only got angrier since the girl he was screaming at, was long gone from the hut. He decided not to go after her since the others were already looking at him with barely contained amusement.
"Hey Fluffy-kun!" she greeted the silent demon cat who was looking at her from under a tree near the hut.
`FLUFFY-KUN? Wench you will die by my claws.` Totally oblivious to the demon's murderous intent, Kagome put the bowl of ramen in front of him and smiled warmly at him.
As he sniffed the steaming bowl in front of him, she pushed her luck trying to pet the massive head of the demon in front of her. That white fluffy fur was just BEGGING for her to ruffle it.
Reflexes kicking in, she withdrew her hand just in time before powerful jaws bit the air in the spot where her hands was. Standing up on his four paws, he was taller than her seated form.
His nose right above the crown of her head, he was growling low.
Kagome froze, her breath was caught in her throat, looking at the spot where the big cat was laying. She didn't register when he got up and even less when the sudden growling began.
Looking up, into very angry amber eyes, she managed to utter a mumbled apology. "um… I'm sorry... I dint mean anything bad… I only wanted to pet your head… your fur is so nice and shiny… and cute..."
`Cute? ` What she thought it was a compliment only enraged the demon more.
Picking up on her distress, Shippou and Inuyasha came out of the hut in a rush.
"Told ya so, but ya wouldn't listen" Inuyasha spat, as he drew his father's fang.
The rest of the party came out after the two's dramatic exit. All eyes were on the demonic cat and Kagome.
His plan of staying on the group's good side failed the moment his temper got the best out of him. Weighing his chances, Sesshomaru decided he couldn't do this after all. He just couldn't keep himself from killing her or any from the group if he was near them. Their humanity pissed the hell out of him, and they way they were all acting like a big happy family only made him angrier. What annoyed the demon lord most of all, was his bastard brother. Taking no pride in his demonic heritage, he was letting a mere girl wipe her feet with him. He just couldn't comprehend what was so special about the damned girl. She had a temper from hell, a nuisance in battles, and not even so good looking.
Looking at the girl in front of him, he growled one last time at her then removed himself from their dangerously close proximity.
If there was something that demon cats were good at, that was blending in the shadows and escaping immediate danger. Stealth was their specialty as a race, and Sesshomaru was just learning about his new found abilities.
With a grace that surpassed his inu youkai form, he slithered away from the agitated group.
As he tried chasing the runaway cat, Inuyasha was stopped in his tracks by the miko's pleading voice." Don't Inuyasha, please…"
Before the half demon could explode again, Miroku decided that he should give her a chance to clarify the situation before it was misunderstood.
"Lady Kagome, did the demon not threaten your life?"
Kagome lightly shook her head in denial. "Miroku, I believe if he wanted to hurt me, he would have done it before you guys came. It's my fault, I provoked him. I reached for his head to pet him without thinking. He probably misunderstood my intention to and got defensive."
Huge, moist green eyes were staring at her face. "But Kagome, we could smell your fear from inside. You were scared…" said Shippou.
While the large group was trying to keep calm and keep it low not to wake the villagers, the half demon had no such concerns.
"First you go and bathe with random demons, then they stalk you, and you go thinking to feed them ramen and pet them! Kagome what the fuck?" Everyone stared at the girl in silence. She knew that they were thinking something similar, they just had better manners.
"And now when I try to mince it you defend it! The second time already!"
"Because it was MY fault!", Kagome was close to tears.
"I'm happy you are okay Kagome." The slayer whispered, as she pulled her friend in a bone-crushing bear hug.
The lecher did not miss the chance to grope as he generously offered to have a group hug. Two palm prints, one on each cheek form both of the girls, on his grinning face lit the mood once more.
Kagome was feeling somewhat guilty for the commotion she has caused. She couldn't explain herself why she felt like petting the damn beast.
She called Kirara, pulled her on her lap and started torturing the small feline by petting her small frame, and the little cat purred loudly.
Meanwhile, somewhere not too far away, a certain demon lord was being tortured by his own stalker.
"I did not think that failing was possible for you, young inu lord… well if you keep it this way… I might as well permanently change it to neko lord." The fallen divinity teased. Tsuyukomi watched the almost full moon with longing and lucidity.
`I did not fail. Our agreement was that I ensure that the miko survives long enough to purify the completed Shikon Jewel. `, the demon lord thought, aware that Tsukuyomi was eavesdropping on his mind.
"Very true, explain yourself to me then", the god required.
Sesshomaru was really annoyed now. He did not explain himself to anyone.
`My plan is in no need to be elaborated, I will keep my eyes on the miko so that she will be alive enough to purify the wretched trinket that you lust for, and then she will die by my hand.`
He then recalled the times when she called him "cute" and that demeaning name "Fluffy-kun." Not to mention she treated him like a lowly pet. He hated her because he could not end her pathetic excuse of a life, and on top of that, he had to make sure she breathes long enough so she can purify the jewel of four souls, otherwise bye-bye title of "Lord of the Western Lands, Sesshomaru"
`Why are you in need of such a corrupted source of power? ` The demon lord couldn't help but ask.
"Well I believe I do not need to elaborate to you." A chuckle passed her peachy lips.
Sesshomaru noticed that this time the annoying fallen god seemed almost without a hint of madness.
A/N: So Sesshy finally meets Kagome but at the moment hates her guts.