Naraku's Mind Games
Sesshy? Halfway decent? Seriously? (confused)
Kagome was watching Inuyasha carefully. He seemed to be acting moody all morning. This puzzled her; until she went out in the balcony after sunset and looked up at the sky, just beginning to darken.
Oh no! The moon is gone! No wonder he was such a pill today!
She thought. I wonder why he was hiding... Sesshomaru probably does know about his human span...but then again maybe he doesn't. In that case she would have to go and ask Inuyasha if he would be alright, and if Sesshomaru knew or not.
She walked sedately out of the guest wing and into the royal one; looking for Inuyasha's room. She always lost her way here. She had been to Inuyasha's room four times already, but still couldn't pin point the position of it until she found it wandering.
After drifting in circles or it seemed, for a few minutes, she came across the red and golden painted door which signified the entrance of Inuyasha's quarters were near.
She approached cautiously; and knocked, not wanting to annoy him. There are plenty other things for him to be annoyed of, she thought. Except me.
She could hear him rummaging, so she knew he was there. "Inuyasha, open up, it's me, Kagome!" she called out again softly.
This time he came to the door, as if he had been avoiding it before. He hid awkwardly behind the door and hissed for her to come in quickly.
She came in, slightly confused, but then saw the reason of his hiding. "You're already human! Wait, don't you turn human after nightfall?"
He rose the curtain. "Night has already fallen."
Whoops! I guess I must have spent a lot of time in the corridor.
"oh...ok then. I just came to ask will you be alright here? I mean are you sure no one will bother you?"
"I'll be fine as I feel I can be, a human."
"Inuyasha?" she asked tensely.
"What?" he replied, a little annoyed. After all, he had done this before, hadn't he?
"How long have you lived in this castle?
"'bout like since I was born to like a hundred years ago...why?" he sent her a questioning look.
"Um...does sesshomaru know? You know, about the whole you-turning-human-once-in-a-month?"
"Holy crap! You didn't tell him did you?!" he screeched grabbing kagome's shoulders and shaking her.
"Inuyasha...chill! No, I didn't. I just came here to see if you needed help keeping the ice prince off your back!"
"Oh!" he dropped her, and she fell on the bed.
After a moment she got up, and to break the silence, said, "I'm going to call Sango and Miroku. We'll have some fun that way."
"Feh!" was all the reply she got but walked out in the hallway.
A few minutes later she returned with Sango and Miroku. They walked right in Inuyasha's room, and plopped down on the bed.
"So...what do you suppose we do now?" Sango asked, clearly bored.
"You guys are supposed to be thinking of something to do; not just adding to the crowd of already bored people!" kagome cried, exasperated.
"Shhh!" kagome shushed Sango. She had heard something. Something that had sounded suspiciously like a certain demon lord.
She opened the door and strolled into Sesshomaru. The impact had made her fall over, right by his feet.
"Drat! Look what you did!" Stupid Sesshomaru! What is he doing here anywhere?
"You seem to forget that you are in my castle."
Oh shit; she forgot to block her mind.
He has to go NOW! Or Inuyasha will be really pissed at me.
Sesshomaru raised his eyebrow in curiosity. Why was the miko standing like that; in front of Inuyasha's door, acting very...suspiciously?
"i came to speak with Inuyasha." He replied to her thought, truthful.
"NO!" she almost screamed. "Hehe.. I mean...Inuyasha isn't in there!" she continued; lowering her tone, having suddenly realized that she was acting weird.
"I can smell him in that room." Sesshomaru was really curious by this time. What was that wench trying to hide?
Damn demon senses! Kagome thoughts when she heard his last statement. As she was thinking up a retort to that, Sango had also come outside. She had heard Kagome falling and her screaming "no!" unceremoniously, so she decided to come outside to see what the commotion was about.
"I came to speak with Inuyasha." He repeated again.
Sango caught on. Kagome was trying to stop him from seeing Inuyasha human.
Saving Kagome, she replied, "Inuyasha cant see you right now...he is busy..."
Go away Sesshomaru...oh please go away...go away..
Kagome read her friend's thoughts. No! She thought. That will just make him suspicious!
And that was exactly what Sesshomaru was, after reading Sango's thought.
Kagome intervened before he could go through her mind even more.
"He's busy...um...sleeping!"
"I can hear no snoring. And yes, Inuyasha does snore. Besides, if he were sleeping, what were you two doing in his room?" Sesshomaru tried to cross his arms, but since he had only one arm; and it would looked pathetic, he just stood his ground. He was well aware that he was being stubborn, but didn't care. What could Inuyasha being doing in there?
Kagome groaned. She should have seen that dirty comment coming. Sesshomaru, it seemed, had a very sick sense of humor. His brother, and bloodshed were the only the he seemed to find amusing.
I am not bloodthirsty.
Crap! I forgot to block my mind again didn't I? She looked hopelessly at Sesshomaru.
He gave a quick jerk of his head as reply.
Sango leaned on the doorframe, curious, and watching her the girl whom she treated as a younger sister and a very deadly demon lord staring at each other. They were standing barely two feet apart, and just looking at each other as if they didn't have to talk to get their meaning across.
This was getting boring. Maybe Kagome was having a staring contest with Sesshomaru, but it was long. She went back inside soundlessly. Neither of the two noticed her absence.
There was a conversation going on.
Wench, get aside. I came to speak with my brother.
Summing up her imagination, she started to spin up a tale to which Sesshomaru would not be able to contradict.
He is in bed, sick, and sleeping. There! I told you the whole thing! She thought privately, NOT!
Sick? Now Sesshomaru was starting to getting annoyed. He thought privately, all he wanted was to tell his brother about the fact that one of the nobles had wanted to practice with him in the training room, and here he was, sick (according to the miko) and she wasn't letting him see him. Oh what a bother!
Um...you see...he drank too much sake... and is sick. Now you realize he wouldn't want you seeing him in that position now would he?
It is urgent.
It can wait until morning.
What was he doing drinking all that sake anyway? He was mildly curious.
Um... one of his frequent doses...Kagome laughed nervously and thought privately. Now Inuyasha was really going to kill her; but it was either this excuse or the fact that Inuyasha had like died or something. And she figured he would like it much worse if she told his dear brother he had died.
I was not aware of the fact that my brother was an addict to sake. He raised his eyebrows. This was getting quite interesting.
He started...um...after he got off from the tree...um...in memory of Kikyo?
Kagome coined a story that at least sounded reasonable.
Kikyo? Was she not the maiden who had the Shikon jewel in her power?
Um...yeah... Inuyasha kindafellinlovewithher... she finished the last part fast. She felt oddly strange telling him about Kikyo...like she was somehow betraying Inuyasha's secret.
She shook off the feeling and came back to reality just as Sesshomaru thought:-
I didn't know Inuyasha would sink so low as to fake love with a priestess for the jewel. He truly is pathetic.
No, he really did love her....she didn't know why she was talking on behalf of Kikyo.
Screw that! She thought. She sighed. The point is that he can't see you now. So kindly leave.
You are telling me to leave while you live off my hospitality?
You heard me.
He sighed. His wench was just as stubborn as Inuyasha himself. He pushed her aside gently with the back of his hand and walked in the room to see Inuyasha, human, sitting on the floor with Sango and Miroku.
They looked up apprehensively and Inuyasha looked scared. Yep, you heard right, he was scared of being found out by his brother. Sango, acting quickly, jumped on Inuyasha's lap, hiding his hair and head. "What the?" Inuyasha was startled, but realized that she was covering for him and stayed there.
Sango whispered back, "yes I know I'm not Kagome but you'll have to put up with for now!" Of course that shut him up.
Sesshomaru sighed. Did they really think he was that slow that he didn't see Inuyasha? He gave a questioning look to Sango, who smile back innocently. No wonder he didn't smell his brother being a human. There were three other humans in the room. And that's why Kagome wasn't letting him in.
He proceeded to talk to Inuyasha, not bringing up everything that had happened so far.
"Little brother, a noble requests your presence in the training room for practice shortly. Show up soon. And I would appreciate it if I could see your face."
Inuyasha sluggishly pushed Sango off him and stared at his brother, a little shamefacedly, but trying not to show it. Sesshomaru, to everyone's surprise, didn't look shocked at the least. He simply nodded and was about to walk out of the room when Inuyasha called out, "Sesshomaru! You knew?"
Why isn't he insulting me for being human right now? A good thing, but still why?
Sesshomaru walked back and hit Inuyasha over the top of the head.
"What was that for!" he yelled.
"For being dim witted. You lived with me since you were born; and you think just by hiding yourself from my sight; that too insufficiently; you can keep a secret like this? I could smell you every time you were human, Inuyasha, and have known since your birth. So get over it." He replied, his voice still emotionless.
He walked out. "Oh, and I will arrange for your training duel after tonight." He called over his fluffy thing.
Inuyasha and the others looked dumbstruck.
"I can't believe Im saying this; but it seems like...Sesshomaru can be halfway
decent sometimes!" Inuyasha said quietly; still very astonished.
Ok..thats another chapter...review please!
Real decent of sesshy not to say anything; don't you think?
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