Kagome looked up into the golden eyes of the large being and could feel her ire begin to rise again. Here he was looking at her like she was nothing but a mere child that needed a good spanking for her actions. Sure if she were honest with herself, which she absolutely hated to be, she would admit that her actions with the doctor were rather childish. Yet she was never one to be honest with herself during moments of emotional passion and especially when she was in the wrong. So crossing her arms over her chest, she set her face into a picture of perfect defiant determination and waited for him to make the first move.
Sesshoumaru knew her game and has had centuries to perfect the game of patience and if he really wanted to he could out last her without so much as a blink of an eye. Yet, the recent events prompted him to give into her this one time and force the issue first. "Explain" He watched as her defiance left her and her shoulders slumped in exhaustion.
"It's just that I don't understand what's going on. One minute I'm at home cleaning out a well house and the next thing I know I'm falling into the well to what I thought was my death. Then I meet you and you act as if you hate me, for what reason I don't know, then you bring me here and just dump me off onto some old doctor thing… guy… or whatever he is and I don't see you for a week. I don't know where I am, I just know that when I am is completely wrong."
He could scent her tears long before they ever left her eyes. When he asked her to explain he didn't mean everything up to this point, just an explanation of her actions with his naikai. Yet this was even better than just a explanation of her behavior, for he didn't understand how a girl who talked, dressed, and acted as she did came to be upon his lands. Then when she said that 'when' she was, was completely wrong his attention was focused on her with pinpoint concentration. "When you are."
Kagome nodded her head at him. "Your doctor told me that the year we are currently in is 1505, but when I was at home before I fell into the well, the year was 2005. It just doesn't make sense."
Sesshoumaru just couldn't stop the eyebrow from shooting up. What the girl was saying was just too unbelievable to be true. Then again that would explain all her strange actions, dress, and manner of speaking towards him. He was never one to be dumbstruck nor one to be dumbstruck into speechlessness, but here he was in shock and unable to think of a single thing to say. Damn that girl and her ability to make him suffer actions he had never once in his long years of being, suffered from or indulged in.
Kagome looked up at him, eyes wet with tears. "I just want to go home… back to my family… back to where I belong." She gripped his hakama and pulled herself up the front of him, then fisted her hands into his haori. "Please help me find a way home." She then buried her face into his chest and silently sobbed.
Sesshoumaru just stood there still shocked into speechlessness. Oh how he loathed this feeling of not knowing what to do or to say, but as the lord of the west he could say or do anything he wanted, and if silence was all he could come up with then so be it. However having a ningen attached to his person crying into his chest was unacceptable. He wanted to shove her from his body and give her the die look, but found he was unable to act upon that need. Something was holding him back and he knew exactly what it was and despised himself for it.
It was his instincts that kept him from throwing her from his person. Why did his instincts take such control of him when around this female? She was nothing more than a simple ningen and shouldn't be worth his time, or better yet she shouldn't still be alive. Yet here she was still living, breathing, and just being an all around nuisance. Then there was this new bit of information pertaining to her… she wasn't of this time. She held the secrets to the future, if she was indeed born some five hundred years from now, that could help him achieve ultimate power. Although using any information from her was gaining assistance in his pursuit of power, and he desired no help in that area. Now he was really stuck.
Should he gain power with the assistance of this girl or should he stay on his own path for power? Damnation it was always the girl! The simple girl that should play no part in his life what so ever, and at every turn everything he did was because of her. It was too much.
A loud growl brought Kagome out of her tears of sorrow and she looked up to see red eyes blazing back at her. Naturally her first instinct was to step back from the threat and she had every intention of doing just that. But, just as she made to move away two clawed hands grabbed her by the shoulders and raised her up so that she was face to face with the irate demon. She couldn't stop her body from trembling in fear nor could she stop the tears of fear, that now trailed down the paths that her tears of sorrow created, from running down her cheeks.
Sesshoumaru snarled at her and raised his lip bearing his fangs to the girl as he slowly brought her closer to his face. This was it, he was no longer in control of his instincts they had taken complete control of him, dictating his actions. He did not like where this was going and was certain he was going to be one sorry inuyoukai once this was all over.
Kagome's eyes widened beyond what would be considered wide eyed, as the demon drew her ever closer while baring his fangs at her. 'What is his problem with you now?' Her mind questioned and Kagome's mouth opened and answered. "How the hell do I know?!" This snapped her out of her shock, and she pulled her GOOD leg back and let it fly as hard as she could right into the demon lord's stomach.
Sesshoumaru grunted against the force of the kick being unprepared for her to react in such a manner and this gave him the moment he needed to suppress his instincts. Holding her up in front of him, his face almost showed his confusion, but that quickly changed to one of pure annoyance. "Bitch you have pushed me too far once again." He growled at her.
Kagome glared hard at the male. "First off…" She snapped at him. "You attacked me! Secondly DO NOT CALL ME A BITCH!!!!" She screeched into his face. "Are you on some kind of medication that makes you act like a baka every other second or something???" Oh how she wanted to give him a thorough ass kicking, but knew that there was no way she could, especially with a sprained ankle.
Sesshoumaru still holding the girl in front of him, had several questions cross his mind based on her actions and words, from: How dare she assault me, to what is medication? Yet the one thing that popped to the forefront of his mind was; why does she cause his instincts to flare up as they do? The answer to that question was going to have to be analyzed then sorted out and solved in such a manner that the girl would be no more than just another ningen that he could be rid of, once he used her to draw out the dark hanyou so that he could rid his lands of the vile filth.
Without realizing the consequences of his actions he released the girl's arms letting her fall to the ground. Now, if he were your common everyday demon he would have sighed in disgust with himself at what he had just done. He knew very well that the girl had an injured ankle, and knew without a doubt that she had an affinity of using said ankle prolonging the healing process, she really didn't need his help in keeping it swollen and completely unusable.
Kagome buried her face into the grass and sobbed. Falling from that far off the ground onto her sprained ankle was worse than when she sprained it in the first place, and just when it was beginning to heal no less.
Sesshoumaru bent down and with a gentleness that disgusted him to no end, he picked her up bridal style cuddling her to his chest. Kagome fisted her hand into his haori and pressed her face into his chest, wetting his haori with her tears. "Why do you hate me so much?" Came the muffled tear filled question.
He looked down at the crown of her head and stared hard at it. It wasn't her, he knew this, it was him and his inability to control something he thought he had iron clad control over. Granted he should apologize to her for his actions, but for him to apologize meant he was beneath this ningen female and he was definitely not a submissive to anyone, and especially to the likes of her.
He responded to her question with a throaty irritated growl and left the garden.
Sesshoumaru sat on the end of the bed with her foot in his claws looking over it making sure that the injury wasn't worsened with her fall. Satisfied that her ankle wasn't worse but wasn't any better he gently placed her foot down onto the silk pillow and looked up at her downtrodden face. She was looking away from him staring at the wall as small tears trailed down her cheek. "The injury has not worsened." He stated and only received a small nod from the girl, followed by her sliding down into the bed and curling herself up into a small ball.
He continued to sit there and watch her; why he didn't know, but for some unknown reason he just had to stay there and make sure she was truly alright. Several moments later her even breathing told him that she was asleep; he rose from the bed and silently left the room.
A loud growl echoed through the courtyard as Sesshoumaru's patience was being tested beyond what he would consider tolerable. Was there some kind of magic floating through the air causing those associated with him to be so insolent? Suddenly his guards were arguing with him regarding hunting down Naraku and what would be the best mode of operation of killing the bastard; and that was only the beginning of his problems.
First his guards, then his idiot brother suddenly needed to make an appearance making demands the hanyou had no right in making... well as far as he was concerned he had no right in making. Granted as an Inu no Taishou the hanyou had some claim to the resources of the Western palace but as far as he was concerned the hanyou's tainted blood destroyed any claim the hanyou had on anything.
That was followed by his naikai's issue of dealing with the girl. The doctor was bound and determined that the girl be placed into the dungeons until she learned how to behave as a proper lady should. This demand irritated him the most, the girl was far from being a lady, and especially a lady of the Western Lands. Yet the doctor didn't see it that way, and continued to impose his will upon him and make demands that went well beyond his authority.
Then finally there was the girl herself. Granted she wasn't causing him any problems as far as making demands upon him, in fact she was behaving exactly the way he desired her to, silent and out of his way. Yet somehow this was more irritating to him than if she was constantly yelling and demanding him to care for her. Actually he hadn't seen or heard a peep out of her in three days and he knew without a doubt it was due to the events in the garden.
"Enough" He growled out to the guard standing in front of him. "You will do as you are ordered to; and do not attempt to go against my will lest you wish to see your insides on the ground at your feet." He narrowed his eyes just daring his general to argue with him, and when the Kei gave him a nod he turned and swept into the castle. He had other issues to deal with and had every intention of doing so. He had to get his castle and all its inhabitance back under his control lest he kill them all.
"Zinan you will hold your tongue, I grow tired of your words and your need to feel that you are lord of this castle." He narrowed his eyes as the doctor opened his mouth to protest and then snapped it shut upon the look on his face. "I will deal with the girl and you will resume your duties prior to her stay within these walls." He was received with a curt nod from the doctor before he turned and walked down the hall headed for the healing room.
He watched the doctor go then turned towards the door to the room holding the seemingly source to all his problems... the girl. He slid the door open and stepped in locking his eyes onto the girl sitting on the bed. He walked up to the edge of the bed and looked at her ankle and was pleased that the swelling had finally started to go down. He looked up at her face and saw that she was staring blankly across the room not even acknowledging that he was even there. "Girl" She didn't even look up at him just continued her vigil on the blank wall across the room.
Taking a seat on the edge of the bed next to her he softly grabbed her chin forcing her head to turn towards him. When he looked into her eyes he found nothing, not even the slightest hint of any emotion what so ever. This was a far cry from the girl who showed every emotion that flowed through her body on her face. "The naikai tells me that you refuse to eat or leave this bed and that you only sleep for short periods at a time." Still she made no acknowledgement that he had said a word to her.
He removed his hand from her chin and watched as she returned her blank stare to the wall across the room. "He tells me that you have been in this state for three days now and I find this behavior of yours unacceptable." He rose from the bed and made for the door. "Should you still find yourself in this state by nightfall I shall be forced to take actions to remedy your behavior." He gave her his 'do not doubt my words' glare and exited the room.