Chapter 2: Horror

"I'm really sorry Inuyasha." Kagome whispered and didn't see Sesshomaru sigh deeply and look away like he didn't care. A small smile appeared on her face. Yeah things would be a whole lot better now that he was here.

I never had to say goodbye...

Life is now or never...

Lady Nefertiti: chapter 2. enjoy reading.

Even from where he was sitting he could sense that Kagome was in pain from her ankle injury. Sesshomaru scoffed inwardly. Inuyasha claimed to be leader of this pack, the alpha leader but he was failing miserably when it came to his duties, to oversee the members and see that they were being well taken care of and have everything they needed. He (Inuyasha) was skillfully ignoring the fact that Kagome was in pain and it was annoying Sesshomaru and he didn't even know why. It wasn't like he was part of this pack.

'You will deny it to the end of time won't you?' his inner conscious nagged him.

"How is your ankle?" Sesshomaru said. Wait...why did he just ask that? What was wrong with him? he didn't care about the human!

"It's..." Kagome started, a warm small smile on her face.

"Feh! Her ankles just fine! lay off bastard! You're just trying to make me look bad." Inuyasha said raising a fist from the tree above. Both glared at him but he didn't notice. They were sharing a moment here and Inuyasha just had to go and ruin it!

(SLASH!)

and Sesshomaru's poison whip came into contact with Inuyasha's haori.

"AIIIEEEE!! WTF was that for you bastard!?" Inuyasha yelled.

(THUMP!)

and Inuyasha fell to the ground in an undignified way.

"All this drama and fuss just over Kagome's damn ankle?! She's bound to have something in that white box of her's to fix it. "

"There's nothing Inuyasha." Kagome said.

"WHAAAT?" Inuyasha said now in a panic that kicked in just now.

'Great Inuyasha...quite the genius you are...' Miroku thought to himself.

"It'll heal with time." Kagome said.

"Yes and until that time, I'll carry her in my arms." Sesshomaru said.

"You will NOT!" Inuyasha yelled. "Kagome always travels with me on my back!"

"Yes but you did mention something about the dead miko traveling with us to search for shards now? Surely you won't hurt her by carrying her reincarnation on your back." Sango said, true amusement on her face. "Surely you won't let Miroku carry Kagome for a few weeks..."

Two twin growls...

"Ah what I must sacrifice in my life! carrying young Kagome only to aid her in her..." Miroku started dramatically.

(BONK!)

"Sorry about that..." Sango said.

"Feh!"

"Hn."

'Well at least Sesshomaru won't grope her...' Inuyasha thought slowly. True horror showed on his face then. 'They better not get familiar and friendly with each other!' Both brother's glared at each other and Kagome giggled nervously. She hoped that Inuyasha wouldn't say anything to the others what she and Sesshomaru were doing in the forest. 'Which was nothing!' she told herself. 'I just wanted to get his attention! and ended up ontop of him! not my fault at all!'

"Well perhaps we should be on our way." Miroku said and they all agreed. Too much time had been taken up already and strangely enough, Inuyasha chose to remain silent and not yell about slow and worthless humans. Maybe he was learning to behave himself. Sesshomaru shrugged it off and chose to watch Sango and Kagome pack up camp.

"I'm really sorry I have to burden you with carrying 'this ugly human girl.' Sesshomaru." Kagome said looking up at him. She knew that he would rather do a million other things right now

"I don't think of you as ugly Kagome..." he said softly, still not looking at her. He feared he might fall deep into those depths of blue and would never be able to come back. Kagome gave a blush but didn't say anything. He didn't say she was pretty and he didn't say she was ugly either. Maybe this was a softer side of Sesshomaru?

"Move it Lovebirds!!" Inuyasha yelled from ahead and scowled when he saw his brother scoop Kagome up off the ground in his arms but didn't say anything about it. He wasn't jealous...surely not! He had Kikyo and Kagome was...what was Kagome to him? nothing. She had a job and then she would be gone.

She didn't even belong in this era! She was messing with everyone's lives! She was changing time! She could accidently change history! Her clothes were indecent! She was a pain in the butt! She had no manners like woman in this era were...shy, timid and did as they were told to do!

"Inuyasha?" Kagome said from far behind him.

"What...is...it...wench..." Inuyasha said, then looking horrified at what he'd just uttered and remained silent.

"I just wanted to say that I sense jewel shards coming this way..." Kagome said and shifted in Sesshomaru's arms, who glared at Inuyasha in anger at insulting Kagome.

(CLANG!)

and Inuyasha was knocked out, courtesy of Miroku's staff.

"He's so insensitive."

'...'

As everyone had to wait until Inuyasha woke up again (Sango voiced that it might be better if they just left him as he was) Kagome sensed something else. Currently she was comfortably sitting in Sesshomaru's lap (quite warm in fact) but then Sesshomaru felt her tense. "Kikyo's coming here."

"And that worries you?" he said regally.

"Well yeah." Kagome started. "Mostly she comes round to:"

1.) Drill into Inuyasha's head to remember his vows to go to hell with him.

2.) Drill that I'm a worthless reincarnated copy of the better one to Inuyasha.

3.) Do her best to kill me to steal MY soul.

4.) Just go and sleep with Inuyasha and hope that it hurts me in the long run.

"Does it hurt you now if you see them together?" he asked her. 'Wait...why am I asking her that? I don't care.'

'Dunno.' his conscious said.

"Well not as much but I still don't want to see him waste his life away for nothing." Kagome said thoughtfully.

"Ah, so you care but don't love him." Sesshomaru said.

'Lucky dog you are ne? This'll be a piece of cake.' his conscious said.

"They make such a lovely couple ne? Quite a striking couple." Miroku said to Sango, who smiled inwardly.

"Hey you hentai!" Inuyasha said jumping out of his hole and stalking over to the monk, cracking his knuckles in order to pummel him into a bloody heap. Suddenly Inuyasha stopped half-way to see someone over Miroku's shoulder. He swallowed. He'd originally been told that she was dead and perhaps that was why he was so over-protective of Kagome and seeing her (His Kikyo) in his enemy's arms...well that just set him off.

Does it hurt?

"Kikyo..."

To know that I'll never be there?

"I thought that you were..." he started. So she wasn't dead...(well you know) and the rumor was a lie.

"Um...Sesshomaru about that look Inuyasha's giving Kikyo..." Kagome started.

Sesshomaru didn't say anything. So...his brother really did have it in him to fall in love...

You are all I can remember

after all that we've been through

You'll be forever in my heart...

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