And this comes up a lot and to answer the question of why Sesshoumaru keeps Kagome with him even though she irritates him... I will tell you this much. The answer to that question was answered in the first chapter and will be touched upon in later chapters. Not to mention if he just killed her then there would be no story and I would have just ended it that way after the first chapter.
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Sesshoumaru woke with a start and a growl lingering on his lips. His body was taught and tense, and a sheen of sweat covered his hypersensitive skin. He sat up and felt his hair cling to his sweat covered body and for the briefest of moments it bothered him that his perfect hair would stick to him in such a manner.
He ever so gracefully brought himself to his feet and in all his naked glory walked over to the changing table where a basin sat with some cool water in it. Taking a cloth he dipped it in the water and began to wipe his heated skin down.
As he worked the cloth down his body, he came to the partial source of his heated waking. He curled his lip at his semi standing tall manhood, in thorough disgust. Not because he hated his manliness, but because it was craving attention from a female, not just any female but a certain female that wore indecent clothing, and one he had seen covered in nothing but droplets of water. One who he had seen on her hands and knees crawling across the ground giving him a good glimpse of what was hidden behind a thin piece of white cloth.
He could feel his traitorous manhood coming to attention at the thought of the strange girl and growled in disdain at such a desirous feeling. It had been a week since he had arrived home and put the girl into the care of his personal naikai. Why he would grant the girl such a liberty as giving her over to his personal physician was beyond him, any healer would have sufficed. Yet he handed her over to the best healer in the known land.
Once she was no longer in his care he figured that that would be the end of her until he rid the land of the dark hanyou, and then be rid of her. However, she still occupied his mind, especially when he slept or was meditating. Why was she such a dominant force in his mind? She was just a lowly human and a painfully annoying one at that. The dreams of her skin rubbing against his, while her small hands worked their magic while wrapped around his hardened length, was getting to be more than he could bear.
Maybe just maybe she had placed some kind of a spell on him making him fantasize about her. He almost chuckled at such an absurd thought, if the girl couldn't keep from injuring herself then there was no way in all the seven levels of hell she could accomplish such a feat. Although that would mean that the thoughts and dreams about her were all his own making. Therefore telling him that he lusted for the girl, for which he severely didn't.
So why then was he having such thoughts about her? There was only one answer he could come up with for that question and that was he needed a good rut. How long had it been since he indulged in the flesh of a female? Perhaps his body was demanding satisfaction that he had too long denied it and therefore it was just craving the only female he has spent an extended amount of time with. Well if that's the case a good rut with any female should solve all his problems and the girl will cease to cross his mind for any reason what-so-ever!
With that thought in his mind, he dressed and swept out of his room heading for the nearby demon village in order to sate his body's need and to rid his mind of the girl. The girl with the pale skin and small hands that could… He growled in agitation at the path his thoughts were taking and used his demon speed to take him to the village as quickly as possible.
Kagome sat on the floor with arms crossed and bottom lip stuck out in defiance. Every morning since Sesshoumaru had dropped her off with some male, whose name she still didn't know being he wouldn't give it to her, they had fought about the same thing. He wanted her to wear a traditional kimono as a proper female should, and she wasn't having any part of it.
She offered to wear a simple haori and hakama, but the male sitting across from her wouldn't hear of a female doing such a thing. "I. Am. Not. Wearing THAT!" She snapped at the elderly male who was glaring at her with disgrace in his eyes.
"My lady it's only proper for one such as yourself to dress accordingly." He retorted with absolute exasperation.
Kagome glared at the man who was the only being she had seen in the entire week since their arrival at what she could only call a palace. It didn't take long for her to realize that she wasn't dead nor was she in hell, and by no means was the man named Sesshoumaru a kami. The doctor across from her had pointed out to her the flaws in her thoughts, followed by informing her of what year she was actually in.
Once she awoke from collapsing from shock, she was bound and determined to confront Sesshoumaru and make him pay for letting her think that all this time she was dead. So forgetting her injured ankle AGAIN, she tried to storm out of her room to confront him. She didn't even make it one step before she fell to the ground crying out in pain. The doctor hovered over her and said something that made her quickly forget about the pain in her foot.
"My lord said you were simple and prone to injury, but I really had no idea as to how correct he was in that sentiment."
Her pain gave way to righteous fury at the words of the doctor, and before the doctor could react she had sat up and wrapped her hands around the old doctors neck.
Lucky for him he was a youkai and was in no shape to be harmed by the little ningen female, unlucky for her. He pried her hands from around his neck and stared at her in disbelief. His lord was correct in that she was indeed a very strange creature and one to watch carefully for you just never knew what she would do next or more importantly get you to do for her.
So here he was again locked into the same battle with her that seemed was never going to end. He was a traditionalist and felt all females should dress properly. Upon laying his eyes upon her for the first time, wrapped in nothing but his lord's haori he was horrified. However, if he thought that that was bad, nothing could prepare him for what she put on just after her arrival.
Her clothes were beyond what one would call scandalous and he had insisted immediately that she remove the indecent clothing and to put on a proper kimono to cover up the parts of her body no man should lay eyes upon unless they were mated to her. He was even more shocked when she resolutely denied him, telling him that her clothes were just fine and that she 'preferred' them to a kimono. Then she offered that she would wear hakama and haori, which was better then what she was currently wearing, but only vagrant women wore the clothes of men and from the looks of her she wasn't anywhere near a vagrant. So he had to deny her that clothing choice as well.
He had finally had enough of her defiance and decided that it was time to take action against her. Granted what he was about to do went against everything he ever believed in, when it came to dealing with contemptible females, but it had to be done in order to force her to comply. In one swift movement he had her on her back, sitting upon her chest.
"GET OFF ME!" Kagome screeched hoping that his sensitive ears would explode from the sheer volume of her yell.
"Do not yell." He snapped back. "Since you will not willing comply with my wishes, it seems that I must force you to obey."
Kagome was shocked and angered. He was actually going to force her to wear a stupid kimono. "Fine! I'll put the stupid thing on!" She yelled back at him.
Now had the doctor known her, he would have seen through her compliance, but as it were he didn't so he was thoroughly unprepared for her next course of action. He rose from kneeling over her and as soon as he did, he felt a sharp pain shoot through his gut as he fell to his knees then over to his side.
Sesshoumaru opened the door to the room where the sense of overwhelming hostility drew him, and wasn't the least bit shocked at what greeted his eyes. His doctor was curled up in a ball on the floor and the girl was sitting a foot or so away from him kicking him with her good foot while using language that he had never heard come from a female in all his years of life. That contemptible need to sigh due to the little female reared it ugly head once again, and for the first in his life he indulged in the meaningless act and found that he did not like it in the least. "Girl"
Kagome halted her assault upon the crumpled physician and turned her angry eyes upon the only one who would call her that.
"Explain to this Sesshoumaru exactly what you are doing to my naikai."
"He…" She pointed an accusing finger at the doctor at her feet. "tried to FORCE me to wear a kimono… LITERALLY." For good measure she gave the doctor one more good kick to his thigh.
Sesshoumaru turned his eyes to the grounded doctor then back to the girl. "And for that you felt it necessary to attack him."
"He.. he attacked me FIRST!" She bit out angrily. "Besides its not like you've been here to see what I have had to suffer because of him over the last week." She huffed as she crossed her arms over her chest.
He didn't know why he needed to know, but something in him just had to understand. "Explain."
"Everyday since you dropped me with him…" She sneered as she glared at the slowly recovering doctor. "he has tried to force me to wear a kimono. I don't like kimono's!" She yelled as her foot connected with the doctors midsection. She then turned her 'I'm just an innocent victim here' eyes upon the lord of the castle. "I offered to wear hakama and a haori and he…" Again her foot mysteriously acted upon its own and hit the doctor in the shin. "called me a vagrant!" She turned back to Sesshoumaru. "I just don't see what the problem is with my own clothes." Her eyes became deadly as she turned them back to the doctor. "If I like them then that's all that matters." She hissed at the man on the floor.
Sesshoumaru just stared on unsure if she was ever really speaking directly to him. She acted as if he had never entered the room and she continued to assault the doctor even knowing he was standing there. "Girl cease you attack upon him."
Kagome looked over at him and he could have sworn that the look in her eyes said that she had never once in her life assaulted anybody and the mere fact that he was accusing her of such an action now was utterly uncalled for.
"My lord." The doctor grunted then continued to speak as he brought himself to a sitting position. "I would suggest that the girl be taken to the dungeons and punished for her actions against me. Then she should be educated in how to be a proper lady and not behave as a pansuke." Just as the last word left his lips his ability to breath suddenly became extremely hindered as his back thumped against the wooden floor.
"I'll show you pansuke!" Kagome yelled as she wrapped the obi to the kimono she refused to wear around the elder man's neck.
Sesshoumaru was sorely tempted to grin at the sight of the small girl taking down the elder youkai. He had never seen anything so strange in all his years. The girl Kagome continued to shock him and to see such a small thing bring down a youkai while she was injured was highly amusing. Granted the doctor was well past his prime in life, but that didn't excuse the fact that a mere slip of a girl had taken him, a youkai no less, down.
Gracefully he walked up to the girl and grabbing her around the waist yanked her free of her hold upon the obi around the doctors neck. He had to hold her straight out in front of him to avoid her kicking feet and flailing fists.
"Put me down!" She yelled still feeling the overwhelming need to remove the doctors life from his body.
Sesshoumaru gave the girl a good shake. "Cease this behavior." And was pleased that she complied so quickly. He then looked down at the doctor who was pulling the obi from his neck while gasping for breath. "Zinan, meet me in my study when the sun touches the mountain and we shall discuss your actions." With the girl still in his hands he left the room not waiting for an answer from the elderly youkai. He knew that Zinan would comply with his orders therefore he needn't wait for an answer.