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Pointless Chores

Sesshoumaru looked at me with interest, hearing my voice for the first time.

"What's the matter? Surprised that I called you a bastard?" I mocked with a smirk.

"It was rather expected by how I had to threaten you already," he replied as if the remark was normal.

'What is with this guy? He acts as if he was always called a bastard.'

"Come, you will bathe me in the bathing room and then you will clean it," Sesshoumaru said with a smirk.

"Bathe you!" I asked immediately, surprised and scared by the thought.

'He wants me to bathe him? As in fully naked!' I looked at him and then recalled my mellow.

"Fine, whatever. I have to do it whether I say no or not," I grumbled, crossing my arms and looking away.

'Ew that's so gross! I'll just have to do it with my eyes closed then, and I won't go any lower than his waist. There's no way that I'll even think about looking at him!' Sesshoumaru started walking to the doorway and I followed him into the hallway. Human women and few demon women passed us in the hallway. Every one of them looked at me strangely as they walked by and my gaze fell onto them as well. 'Why are they all staring like that?'

"Do you think she's that demon girl that the lord wishes to have as his personal assistant?" one woman whispered.

"Must be, look at the way she's dressed."

'Assistant? Ha. More like servant. An assistant wouldn't be forced to do everything that's asked of them.'

"Oh wow lord Sesshoumaru, she's so pretty!" a happy little girl said from in front of us.

'A little… girl? And she thinks I'm… pretty?' I was confused and then walked into Sesshoumaru's back because I wasn't really paying attention.

"Rin," Sesshoumaru said with a normal tone, grabbing the back of my hoari.

"Yes lord Sesshoumaru?" the girl replied with a smile.

He pulled me forward so I was in front of him.

"Do you truly believe that this girl is pretty?" he asked, gazing at the back of my head.

I could feel his cold stare and knew that in his mind he was smirking with mockery. 'What's he trying to prove at this? I know that I'm not pretty, so why would I even try to take the time to admit that I was?'

"I do lord Sesshoumaru. She has a very nice face and I like her eyes. I'm sure that if she had someone to make her happy then they wouldn't look so sad," Rin said with another smile.

'They aren't that sad, are they?' All the women in the hall were staring, waiting for something to happen.

"Go back to your ventures Rin. All other servants back to your duties," Sesshoumaru said as he released me and walked ahead once again.

"Yes sir, lord Sesshoumaru!"

'I don't get it. What was the point of that? Where was the point in that? Was it just for his knowledge or was it to make me do something?' Sighing, I followed after him and continued to listen to random people's words. There was the occasional male in the hallways, but I assumed that most of them were either outside or in the kitchens for some strange odd reason.

"Did you hear that the lord's assistant is mute?" said one woman as she passed with another.

"Yes, I heard that her eyes make her look most sad. I wonder what could have made her like that."

"I don't know, but I know that I wouldn't be able to stand not talking to anyone," replied the first woman.

'I'm not sad, alright? I'm just frigging alone or at least… feel alone.' All of their words were making me mad because I didn't really think that my eyes were that sad looking. Then again, I had never had the chance to compare them to any other person's except Hakudoushi's and Naraku's. One whose eyes were almost white and couldn't tell what they were feeling, and the other whose eyes were filled with hatred and evil amusement.

Sesshoumaru opened a door and then walked into it, allowing me to follow after him. A sudden wave of warm air hit my face and I knew that this was no ordinary bathing room. It was almost like an indoor hot spring. Never mind, it was an indoor hot spring. 'And he wants me to clean it when he's done! It's nothing but rocks and more rocks. Maybe small cracks for the warm water to get in through, but other than that there's just rocks!'

"Rin thought you were pretty," Sesshoumaru mused, looking at me as he untied his armor.

"What's your point?" I asked, annoyed with him already.

"Do you not believe that as well?" he asked, dropping his armor to the ground.

His words caused me to laugh. Holding my sides, I fell onto my knees because I couldn't stand.

"Why? Do you believe that I'm a pretty girl?" I asked with laughter still in my voice.

"I have no use for deciding whether a servant is beautiful or not. As a woman though, I have no say," as he took off his hoari, sash, swords, and huge fluffy thing as well as his boots.

'Right…' Rolling my eyes, I turned around as to not see him remove his pants. 'Not thinking about looking. Not thinking about looking… Slightly thinking… Wait a second! No! Not thinking about looking!' I silently scolded myself for even the thought. 'What the hell is wrong with me!' I heard Sesshoumaru get into the water with the sound of him splashing into it. Turning around, I found a sponge like thing beside his backs and walked over to take hold of it. Closing my eyes, I dipped it into the water and started scrubbing his back with it.

"You should not act innocent for your age Fatomi," Sesshoumaru said rather coldly, looking back at me with a slightly turned head and eyes looking in my direction.

'What does he mean? Why wouldn't I act innocent or not close my eyes. Only a woman who's seen one before would look.' I scrubbed a little faster, not wanting to have to be with a naked man any more than I had to be.

"Slower," he breathed, taking in the warmth of the water.

'Evil!' I thought immediately, slowing my scrubbing slightly as I moved to his shoulders. 'What is the point? I mean it's not like he's incapable of doing it himself!' My right eye twitched slightly as I had to wash his chest. Of course he didn't bother to turn around so I had to sit on my knees and lean over his head to reach it. My hand was on a rock because I had no desire to touch Sesshoumaru's shoulder.

"Have you returned to being silent, mute?" he asked with a small smirk as the ends of my hair were touching the water.

'No, I just have no desire to speak right now.' Scrubbing his chest a little lower, I leaned forward more and started to slip with my hand on the rock. 'I can do this without falling. I can do this without needing the assistance of his shoulder.' The back of my finger touched his back as I slipped forward.

"You're slipping mute," Sesshoumaru said calmly, not really caring on the matter.

"Yeah well if I fall then I'll land on you, Sesshoumaru," I replied, almost finishing with washing him.

Suddenly he stood up to his full height and he knocked me into the hot spring with the motion. 'Alright, now I'm quite upset! He did that on purpose!' I cried in my mind as I gained my balance in the water and stood up. My hair was completely soaked down and my hoari was hanging off my shoulder, showing my collar bone.

"It's lord Sesshoumaru, wench. That will be how you refer to me until I tell you otherwise," he growled hatefully towards me.

The water was waist deep on him and it was halfway up my stomach on me. 'Until I tell you this ad that. Maybe I was better off at Naraku's castle, staring at Hakudoushi!'

"Well pardon me my lord but I don't think that knocking me in was called for," I growled in response.

He didn't answer, only stared at me with intent eyes. 'Great, now he's a stare-a-holic too!' Fixing my hoari, I got out of the hot spring and sat down facing the wall. 'I think he's capable of washing his face and legs on his own. I'm not spending the time washing his hair either!' There was a fairly large splash and then I heard his bare feet touch the rocks of the ground. 'I'm pretty sure that he can get dressed on his own too.' A tight grip took hold of the back of my hoari once again and then I was lifted to my feet. Sesshoumaru had his pants on, but his chest was bare and his hair was soaking wet. My back was pushed against a wall and Sesshoumaru took hold of the top of my hoari at my shoulders. My heart started to pound when he pulled it down to show my collar bone once again. 'What the hell is he doing?' Looking down, I saw that he was looking at the mark he had placed on my body. Blood was coming from it since falling in the water had reopened it.

'Well that's not very good.' I thought with a small laugh. Sesshoumaru dipped two fingers into the blood and I winced at the sting that came from his touch.

"This mark proves that you are my property. Even those mortals have seen it and know what it means. If they knew that you carry it, then no one would wish to trust you," Sesshoumaru said with cold eyes as he pointed at it with one of the bloody fingers.

'Does he really think that I really want trust from others? Trust is something I started life without and will end life without. You can't trust anyone in this life.'

"I don't need trust," I said coldly, looking away from his gaze.

Sesshoumaru released me and then turned to look at a bucket that had a rag on the side.

"You will wash the floor and you will remain in here until I return. I'm sure that if you don't need trust then you do not need company," he said as he walked towards the doorway.

'Wash the floor? But it's pretty much rocks besides the little amount of wood near the door.' When Sesshoumaru was gone, I slumped to the ground and sighed. 'I get it. All those rocks moved from their places on the ground and onto the wood. Basically all he wants me to do is put all the rocks back.' Sighing, I got back to my feet and fixed my hoari once again.

"Trust. Ha," I whispered with a small smirk.

With that, I got started on moving all the rocks back to where they had been around the hot spring.

Sesshoumaru walked down the hallway to a main chamber where Jaken was waiting.

"My lord you have arrived!" the imp cried happily.

"Where are they Jaken? I do not wish to see them for longer than necessary," he replied coldly.

"Servants!" Jaken cried into the emptiness of the chamber.

A whole bunch of women and men, which were both demon and human, came in through another door. When at least thirty of them had arrived, no more entered and they all looked at Sesshoumaru.

"Speak away lord Sesshoumaru," Jaken almost whispered, knowing that the lord hated being told what to do.

"All servants will not acknowledge my assistant's presence. None will speak to her unless she decides to speak to you. I will not have her think that she can do as she wishes," Sesshoumaru said with a cold stare, barely noticing that any of them were there.

"Yes lord Sesshoumaru!" they all replied in unison.

Once again the doors to the chamber opened and they were all sent back to their duties. Of course there were many more servants in the castle, but he knew that those thirty would let his words be known.

"Are you sure that that's a good idea my lord? She is a woman after all," Jaken said with some worry.

"Are you questioning me Jaken? I'd expect less interrogation from you," Sesshoumaru almost growled.

"No of course not my lord, I was just saying that making a woman live alone could make her spirit break. Not that you wouldn't be good company or anything!" the toad cried with fear towards his master.

"One who has grown alone can live alone, but we'll see how long she'll last without trust," Sesshoumaru replied plainly, turning to go back to the bathing room.

'Stupid Sesshoumaru, tell me to wash his stupid floors… Well screw him! He can get someone else to do it!' I cried in my mind, moving the last rock back to around the hot spring.

"Lousy no good mutt," I whispered as I went to grab the bucket and rag.

'If you don't need trust then you don't need company he says. Yeah well who would want his company anyway? I've lived in Naraku's castle for five years without anyone and I won't need him either!' I filled the bucket with water and started scrubbing the floor with the rag. It actually didn't take me that long to do. I was done before Sesshoumaru returned. 'Maybe I'll just go to sleep for a couple minutes.' I thought as I sat down against the wall and closed my eyes.

"Sleep always sounds good," I whispered before yawning.

That was when the door opened and the familiar scent filled my nose. 'Oh darn it!'

"Asleep only after the first chore?" his voice mocked me.

"Not asleep, resting! I'm sorry but I didn't really sleep well last night," I replied, opening my eyes.

"Very well, you will clean Ah-Un's waste from its pile."

'Waste…as in crap?' I laughed slightly at the thought. 'Where the hell am I gunna take it?' Getting to my feet, I followed Sesshoumaru through the hallways to the outside doors.

"Around that corner is the waste as well as the dragon. A shovel should be there already," Sesshoumaru as he pointed to the left wall.

'Yeah, I'll just get started with that.'

I walked along the wall through the long grass of the plains until I reached the corner and saw a huge pile of crap sitting there with numerous flies around it. 'What is the point of all this? He said that I was his personal servant. All this stuff was meant for all the other people here!'

"So you're Ah-Un," I whispered, seeing the two headed dragon.

The dragon replied with a growl and then both heads looked out towards the field. I could see a two headed staff and knew that it was the most annoying imp ever. 'Jaken. I have the perfect plan now!' I thought with an evil smile. Taking hold of the shovel, I scooped up a bunch of crap and aimed it towards the moving staff. 'Fire one!' I swung the shovel and watched as the crap landed directly on Jaken.

"Ah! It's attack of the dragon's waste! It's killing me by invading my senses and poisoning them!" the imp cried, completely freaked out by what happened.

I laughed slightly, falling to the knees and holding my sides because it hurt. 'That was perfect!' I grabbed the shovel and scooped up even more of Ah-Un's crap. Once again aiming towards Jaken, I flipped the shovel and fired the brown substance. All you could hear as a sign of a direct hit was a muffled cry. I burst out laughing silently and heard Ah-Un growl as if he had done something wrong. Opening my eyes from laughing fit, they were drawn to the silver figure in front of me. 'Oh crap.'

Sesshoumaru had heard Jaken's screaming and was now standing there, staring directly at me with angry eyes. Right when he was about to say something, Jaken ran by screaming like an idiot.

"It's the attack of the dragon waste! It has come to take revenge on all demons that had devoured human food!" he cried, running by.

'Oh my god, what an idiot!' I laughed again.

"For that act, you will spend the next few days in your chamber, alone. You will learn your place in this castle whether by force or of own free will," Sesshoumaru growled hatefully towards me.

He took a tight hold of my wrist and he dragged me to my feet. 'Yeah, I'm not afraid of being alone. I've been alone for five years and I don't need another person's company. Tonight I'm gunna get out of here. Everyone has to sleep at some point, even Sesshoumaru.' Sesshoumaru dragged me to the castle door and then slammed them open. All the servants stared as we passed them in the hallway and some whispered things to each other.

"What do you think she did?" one woman whispered.

"She probably tried to run away. I don't know why she would wish to. There are worse things out there than in this castle," whispered another.

"She was the one who did it. I heard that she was the one who destroyed…" a woman's voice come into my head.

My mind almost went blank because her words never finished.

'Destroyed what?'

When Sesshoumaru brought me to the hall where both of our chambers were, he threw me into mine.

"It wasn't me," I whispered out of no where.

'What did I do? What didn't I do?' Sesshoumaru looked at me with somewhat curious eyes.

"Then who did it? You were the only one near the dragon's waste," he asked with an angered tone.

"It wasn't me. I didn't hurt him," I whispered, not looking at Sesshoumaru.

'I didn't hurt who? What did I do?' Sesshoumaru came into the chamber, realizing that I wasn't talking about Jaken.

"Didn't hurt who?"

At the question, I stopped talking and he turned me around to see why. My eyes were completely blank with no pupil or shine. There was nothing, not even emotion.

"Fatomi, who did you hurt?" Sesshoumaru asked again.

"She was the one who destroyed…" the woman said again.

"Fatomi!" Sesshoumaru called my name.

My eyes got their emotion back and I fell to my knees.

"I don't know. I don't remember," I said quietly, staring in between his legs blankly.

'Why didn't she finish? Why wouldn't the woman finish?' He kneeled in front of me, staring intently into my eyes.

"Leave me alone."

"What was it that you saw?" he asked, about to lift a hand to my face.

"I didn't see anything, only darkness. Leave me alone. Let these few days pass," I grumbled, looking away from his gaze.

Sesshoumaru stood and left without another word, as if thinking deeply about something. 'Like I said, I don't need his trust. Once I get out of here, I'll go home and figure out what I'm missing.'

Hakudoushi sat in the empty chamber, trying to see what he needed to see but being unsuccessful.

"She left, but to where?" he whispered, looking at the opened, un-boarded window.

"She knew where that pathway was. It's all there whether Fatomi knows it or not," Naraku said as he walked into the room as well.

"The pathway to the otherworld where the dead lie. The place where only evil spirits rule which is worse than hell," Hakudoushi said with his cold voice.

Naraku tool hold of a ripped off board and threw it against the wall. Hakudoushi watched as the wood shattered into billions of splinters.

"If I find that impudent wench, then I'll make her open the pathway and rip out her beating heart as I did with her mother," Naraku laughed evilly.

Hakudoushi didn't say anything. He knew how angry Naraku was and didn't feel that he needed to calm that hatred. Then Naraku left to think about where his prisoner could have gone.

"I would like to know what sorrows you have put into her heart, Naraku," Hakudoushi whispered, looking at the spot where he would stare for hours a day.

Night had come rather quickly and all had become silent around the castle. There wasn't a sound anywhere that could be heard from the hallway. 'Now would be the perfect time to get out of here. Even Sesshoumaru would have to be asleep at this time of night.' Getting to my feet, I walked to the window and opened it slowly. The chamber was on the second floor of the building and was kind of high off the ground. 'Well, it looks like I'm jumping and hurting in the morning.' Crawling out the window, I hung from it for a moment before letting go. I used my feet to push off the wall and to land in the dark grass of the western plains. The moon hung high over the castle, casting its light across the world with an orange look. 'At least no one's around here to notice if I'm gone or not since I just got here!' I started to run towards the forest with demon speed so no one could really see me.

"Don't you know not to speak to her? It's forbidden because she's the one who destroyed…"

"It wasn't me. I know it wasn't me," I whispered to myself.

"Well if it isn't that mute," A familiar voice said with some amusement.

End of Chapter 2

FWAZA! Haha. Did you all like it? I'm sorry that it seemed kind of boring so I tried to make it seem funnier with the whole throw crap at Jaken thing. The next chapter, I hope, will seem more violent and less boring. All I'm gunna say is that people die in the next chapter… : ) : ) But you'll have to keep reading to find that out. Lol. Alright, so once again I hope that you enjoyed it and will continue reading once I update. : ) : ) Please R&R and I'll try to update as soon as I can. : ) : )