Chapter 4
Kagome woke up, but had kept her eyes closed. She felt strange. She was warm and could feel a bit of pressure around her waist. Something thin and tickly fell across her face and she opened her eyes. Not even an inch away from her face was the Demon Lord Sesshomaru.
She gasped causing him to wake up and open his eyes. He narrowed his eyes at her and she jumped away from him as fast as she could, but for some reason couldn't move. She looked down and he had his arms around her.
"GOOD MORNING KAGOME!" Shippo said jumping on to her shoulder.
"Good morning little one." She said poking his nose.
"Morning Sesshomaru." Shippo said nervously as he looked to the Demon Lord.
Sesshomaru nodded to the young kitsune and removed his arms from Kagome's waist. She looked up at him confused. He raised an eyebrow as he looked back to her.
"What?" he asked.
"How did we…" Kagome started, but was interrupted.
"You don't remember Kagome?" Shippo said.
She shook her head no and he began to explain. Sesshomaru listened to the child as well because he was just as interested at why they ended up that way.
Flashback
Kagome felt a strong and very cold breeze sweep through the area and opened her eyes, as her skin became icy cold and her body shivered. She looked up to see that Sesshomaru no longer has is haori on. She looked down noticing a bit of warmth and that nothing was blocking the wind.
"Kagome…" she heard a weak voice from her arms.
"Yes Shippo?" she replied wrapping her arms around him.
"Sesshomaru gave it to us." He said referring to the haori, "He looks cold, what do we do?"
Kagome was so out of it she didn't really hear what Shippo was saying. Too much had happened in the last day and she was so tired. She hated waking up in the middle of the night when she felt like this.
"I have an idea." She said standing up and moving toward Sesshomaru.
Kagome laid Shippo down on Sesshomaru's lap and wrapped the haori around the three of them. She laid her head on his shoulder shocked the he had not woken up with the sudden extra weight on him, but ignored it. She made sure that the haori surrounded them all and closed her eyes. Shippo yawned and did the same as they both slowly drifted back to sleep.
End Of Flashback
'She did it to keep me warm?" Sesshomaru thought to himself.
'I must have been really out of it to be okay with sleeping with Sesshomaru.' Kagome thought.
'I wonder if there is a village near by. I want a new toy.' Shippo thought to himself as the silence continued through the three of them.
"Do not do that again." Sesshomaru said.
"Huh?" Kagome turned to him confused.
"I do not need any help from a human and I gave it to you for a reason!" he hissed at her as they stood up and Kagome still carried Shippo, "Don't do it again."
"No problem." Kagome said still being respectful to him.
"Let's be on our way." Sesshomaru said turning and continuing in the direction they had been going the previous night.
Kagome, still holding Shippo in her arms, reluctantly followed him. They walked for four straight hours at a steady pace and Kagome was about to pass out. Shippo noticed this and looked to Sesshomaru.
"Uh… Se…Sesshomaru." He called out his name nervously.
"What?" Sesshomaru replied not turning to him.
"Can we take a break for a while. Kagome is really tired."
Kagome looked down in shock that Shippo would be brave enough to ask Sesshomaru such a thing.
"Fine." Sesshomaru replied, "Sit for a while."
Kagome sighed in relief and sat down on the floor. She hugged Shippo tightly and set him down. Sesshomaru left the area.
"Well done Shippo." She said encouragingly, "I didn't think you would ask Sesshomaru. I wouldn't even do that."
"I can be brave too!!" he said patting his chest and sticking it out.
"You sure can!" She said giggling.
Sesshomaru then returned to the two and motioned for them to follow once more. Kagome sighed knowing that was no way near five minutes and stood up. She picked Shippo up once more and followed Sesshomaru.
"We are almost there." Sesshomaru said.
"Almost to your castle?" Kagome asked.
"No. We won't be going there for a while."
"Oh, so where are we going?"
"Up in the mountains a few of my relatives have gathered in an area. I have been invited."
"Relatives?"
"Yes. They have gone there because of the continuous fighting that Naraku has caused."
"Oh really?"
"Yes. They intend to do something about him."
"Good. I am so sick of the freak running around free, it's crazy."
"You were just about to join him and you call him a "freak"?"
"Yes I do. I wasn't going to join him because I wanted to. I was going to because I didn't want that bastard Inuyasha to try and take me back."
"He can't make you do anything, you know?"
"You don't understand. Obviously I really did care for him, but at other times he really scared me. He constantly acted like he was angry, called me names that he shouldn't have, and just treated me as if I was lower than anyone on the planet."
"Why did you stay?"
"There was no point of leaving when all he would do is follow me."
"He followed you?"
"Yes."
Sesshomaru stayed silent. For some reason his anger had been rising with everything that she had told him. He had no idea that his brother was treating her so bad with how she stayed with him all the time.
'You care for that girl.' Sesshomaru's inner self suddenly decided to speak to him.
'What the hell are you talking about?'
'You care for her. It's obvious. It is written all over our face.'
'It is not. I do not care for such a low human girl.'
'Then why show so much interest in her life? What was the point of that?'
'Mere curiosity.'
'Yea you go on and say that. Sesshomaru you are making us weak! Stop being so nice to the bitch and go back to being who you used to be!'
'I am the same Sesshomaru I have always been.'
'Bullshit! If you were the same Sesshomaru, I wouldn't have gotten lose. The real Sesshomaru kept me locked up in the back of his mind.'
'Shut the hell up and get your ass back there.'
'I am not going to leave until you change your thinking about this bitch. She has obviously got feelings for your brother. Keep her as a slave! Nothing more, you hear me!'
'Shut up! Leave my mind!'
'Yea, yea, yea. I'm going. Just watch where your fucking going from now on.'
'What?'
Unexpectedly, Sesshomaru suddenly felt a sharp pain in his nose. He had walked right into a tree. He backed up and squinted his eyes. He heard laughing and giggling from behind him and looked back.
"What the fuck are you laughing about?!" Sesshomaru said grabbing Kagome by her hair.
"Hey what are…" Kagome winced and dropped Shippo as Sesshomaru tightened his grip on her hair.
"How dare you laugh at me! You keep it in your mind that you are pretty much my slave, you got that?!"
"Your what?" Kagome yelled.
"My slave!" He yelled as well ignoring the pain she caused in his head as his ears began to ring.
"You can't do that!"
"I just did!" he yelled throwing her to the ground, "You better be grateful."
"For what!" She said looking up at him.
"For keeping your ass alive."
"I think I should have just went with Naraku."
"Oh really?" Sesshomaru said smirking, "Well all Naraku wanted with your ass was to have sex."
"What?" She said in shock.
"You heard me." Sesshomaru said turning away from her, "Before you arrived in the clearing that sick bastard told me."
"Told you what?" Kagome stood up looking at the back of Sesshomaru's head.
"He told me that he would have sex with you, make you have his baby, and then rule the land. To think you were going to go with him."
"Oh my god…" Kagome covered her mouth suddenly feeling sick to her stomach.
"You are lucky I offered."
"Thank you!" Kagome lunged forward and wrapped her arms around him, "Thank you so much Sesshomaru! I don't care if I am your slave. I will do what ever I can to repay the debt that I owe you."
"Yes. I know you will."
"One question." Kagome looked up at him nervously.
"What is it?"
"What kind of slave? Am I going to be doing the same thing that Naraku would have had me doing?"
"NO! Disgusting." He yelled, "I will never take a human as a mate! Nor shall I court one!"
Kagome nodded as Shippo jumped on to her shoulder.
"Kagome, what is sex?" Shippo asked making her stomach turn.
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow and then looked to the child. He turned back to Kagome and noticed her face had gone completely white. He smirked and spoke to Shippo.
"Sex is not something you need to know until you have grown into a man." Sesshomaru told him, knowing that this was a conversation a son should have with his father and not some random girl he had met.
"Yeah, what he said." Kagome said still feeling a bit sick to her stomach. She had never been asked that question before and didn't want it happening again, especially by Shippo.
"Oh, okay. Then it is something I should never talk to Miroku about."
Kagome laughed and nodded at the small child. Sesshomaru turned away trying not to chuckle at the boy. He began walking off again and as usual Kagome followed him.
It was once more getting dark and harder for Kagome to see. Shippo and Sesshomaru, who we know are full blooded demons, were fine with the darkness, but Kagome kept tripping and bumping into things.
"We will sleep here for the night." Sesshomaru said rolling his eyes at her. God does he hate the inabilities of humans.
"Alright." She said after she had tripped and fell again. "I'm sorry Sesshomaru. I can tell you are getting annoyed with me."
"It's fine. Just rest."
"Alright." Kagome said as Shippo climbed back into her arms to tired to speak. They leaned up against a tree and fell asleep rather quickly. Sesshomaru sat there watching them both for a while and drifted into a light sleep in which his senses were still heightened.
Inuyasha was in absolute shock. He paced back and forth beside the rest in the group as the fire between them flickered and the rest were quiet. Kikyou sighed and looked up to Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha sit." Kikyou said.
He jumped at those words and covered his head. Sango, Miroku, and Kikyou all started giggling. Inuyasha regained his composure and glared at them all.
"How dare she go with him!" Inuyasha hissed.
"I know…" Kikyou said sighing, "I knew she was going to react badly and call me a few names, but I hadn't even thought of her leaving the group."
"We should have explained it better." Miroku said.
"Why the hell didn't you talk?!" Sango asked Kikyou.
"What?" She looked up to Kikyou confused.
"If you had told Kagome what you had told us, maybe this would not have happened." Sango said.
"I was…" Kikyou said sighing, "I was afraid."
"Afraid of Kagome?" Inuyasha asked as he sat down next to her.
"Yes…" Kikyou looked up at the sky between the trees over their heads, "Kagome brought up the soul thing… I didn't know what to say after that. She was right. In one word she could rip her soul from my body and kill me."
"I thought you didn't know that?" Sango said.
"I didn't. I just talked to Kaede about it and the way that I was brought back."
"What did she say?" Miroku asked.
"Unless Kagome and I could come to a mutual agreement on something and have a certain type of ceremony she will constantly hold my fate." Kikyou explained.
"But can't you do that?" Inuyasha asked.
"Not with the way I reacted to her when she insulted me. I immediately got rude and defensive. I didn't mean to, but I did and I really did want to become her friend…" Kikyou looked to the floor and closed her eyes.
The group could tell Kikyou was one hundred percent sincere about this and that is why they agreed. They realize now that they approached it the wrong way and should have never let Inuyasha do the talking. Kagome really did not have a say in it because if she disagreed even after hearing Kikyou's point of view the group would have seen it just as jealousy.
"Well next time we run into them I am doing the talking." Kikyou said lying down on her side, no longer facing the group.
"Sounds like a good idea." Miroku said.
"Lets sleep for now." Sango said lying down.
The group agreed with Sango and laid themselves around the fire. Kikyou shifted and looked up at the sky.
'Will her and I ever be friends?' Kikyou asked herself and fell asleep.
Well there is another chapter. It was a lot longer I think. Lol.
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