Dismissing the girl, he turned and looked around the demon lord's room and smirked. "Alright Ice Prince lets see how much control you have over yourself." He reached into his haori and pulled out the small strange silk thing he had stolen from the girl's room. Holding the white silky thing up in front of his face he just stared at it for a moment. "Quite a strange loin cloth." He stated as he moved to his lord's bed and picked up his head rest. Slicing the pillow open he stuffed the unclean loin cloth into the pillow then removed the ivory needle and thread from his haori and went about the task of stitching the pillow closed.
Knowing how to stitch was his deepest darkest secret but sometimes it did come in handy to know how to wield a needle and thread. He placed the pillow back upon the bed and smirked. "Sweet dreams you cold bastard." He said with a chuckle as he moved to the window to check on the girl. His eyes brows easily shot up to his hair line at the sight that greeted him in the garden.
The girl and the guard were standing apart from each other both looking like they were going to take much pleasure in bringing the other to their knees. "Uh Oh…." He stated when the girl began to glow pink. The seemingly silent sound of the garden door sliding open caught his attention as a being of silver and white stepped into the garden. 'This is going to be good.' He thought with a smirk as he saw his lord's shoulders tighten up at the sight that he came upon.
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Sesshoumaru's easily spotted the rose bush that seemed to meet a brutal end and he could feel his ire with the girl beginning to rise even higher than he thought possible… until he spotted the female facing down his guard. He moved to stand before the two staring the other down and narrowed his eyes at them. "That will be enough." He growled menacingly; causing both to cut their eyes over to him.
Kagome looked over at the demon lord and her rage increased ten fold. "I'm going to kill you." She hissed through gritted teeth.
Gold eyes stared hard at the girl. "Girl you try my patience." He growled.
Kagome stormed up to the large male. "As you do mine." She hissed. "You do not want me here. I do not want to be here; so let us solve both our problems by you taking me back to where you found me and leaving me be!" She waved her hands exasperatedly. "I just don't understand why you are so determined to keep me when you clearly don't like me." She curled her lip at him. "Just so you know…" She said with a deep sneer to her voice. "I ain't a flippin pet!" She continued to stare hard at him for a moment then let her face drop sadly as the tension in her shoulders gave way causing them to slump in defeat. "I'm a human who doesn't understand why I'm here, why you insist on keeping me here, and who just wants to find a way home." A small tear escaped her eye and slowly trailed down her cheek. "Please just let me go." She whispered brokenly.
Sesshoumaru stared down at her then turned and began walking back towards the castle. "Come." He ordered. He didn't hear her immediately fall in line behind him; she sighed sadly then slowly began following him.
He led her to her room and had her sit on the bed; perhaps it was time to inform her of who she really was and why it was so important to keep her here. He really didn't want to tell her being he didn't want her going around purifying every demon she came in contact with or by accident purifying him. "Sit." He ordered when she entered the room.
He closed the door behind her and turned to see her sitting on her knees by the window, staring blankly out into the courtyard. "We shall begin." He stated but she didn't look at him. "Tell me what you believe that pink light that comes from your body is."
Kagome sighed. "I don't know. I feel something inside me swirling around wanting to escape and when I look inside my soul it fears and comforts me." She turned to look at him. "It feels like two beings inside me one fighting to break free and the other fighting to keep it contained." She placed her hand on her stomach. "It begins here and spreads out, but each day the power increases and I don't believe that I am strong enough to contain it. I know it is what healed my ankle and somehow I feel it is a threat to beings such as yourself." Her eyes turned devastatingly sad. "I don't want to cause harm to anyone in this place… you included." She whispered.
Sesshoumaru rolled her words over in his mind before he responded. "You are what is known as the Shikon Miko. As such you hold the power to purify demons setting them free of the beast that resides within." He moved to stand next to her and stared out unseeing out the window. "The creature known as Naraku seeks to gain the power contained inside you." He looked down at her. "That power you feel is a part of you; yet at the same time it is something separate from you. Inside you, you hold a gem; the Shikon no Tama." He watched at her eyes went wide.
"But that is a myth…" She furrowed her eyebrows in question. "Isn't it?"
"Iie, it is very true and somehow the gem has found its way to you and considers you as its keeper. You hold the power to bring down the vile hanyou that wishes to gain control of the jewel for his own evil purposes and that I can not allow." He turned and walked across the room towards the door. "You are the key to force him out of hiding so that I can destroy him and bring about peace upon my lands." He turned and stared at her, telling her with his eyes that what he was about to say next was something she had better take to heart. "If the hanyou manages to get his hands upon you, he will throw the lands into utter darkness and destroy all life upon it; including you." He then turned for the door. "This is why I can not allow you to leave; you are the key to life and death." With those words he left the girl to ponder on the importance of his words.
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Kei walked down the hall to his lord's study and slid the door open. As he looked in the room he smirked evilly as he made his way over to the pillow his lord sat upon and swapped it out for his back up pillow then left the room. He made his way to the room that held a certain female and lightly knocked upon the wood.
"Come in." A small voice sounded from behind the door.
Kei stepped in and smiled at the girl. "How are you finding yourself today?" He questioned as he walked towards her.
Kagome looked up at the neko and smiled. "Actually I am doing rather well, no that I understand why the bastard won't let me leave."
Black eyebrows shot up as copper eyes stared in shock at the girl. "He told you then?"
"Hai." She stated with an evil smirk on her lips. "Now that I know what this power I have is, I just found a way to keep the bastard in check and a way to make him leave me alone."
"Really? And how is that?" Kei questioned with mirth in his eyes.
"If he continues to treat me the way he does I will just purify him to hell." She stated with force and a nod of agreement with herself.
Kei chuckled. "Well I hope I stay on your good side then." He stated with a large grin.
Kagome rose to her feet and smiled up at the cat. "You don't have to worry about that. You I like." She looked at the door to her room. "Him? Well lets just say if he came up missing one day; I just don't think I would really miss him."
Kei shook his head. "He's really not that bad once you get to know him."
Kagome looked up at him with a face that said your so full of it.
"Hmm… perhaps he is that bad." He said with a chuckle. "But he does have some good points; although you really have to search to find them." He shook his head. "Well enough about the ice prince." He said as he held the navy silk pillow out to her.
"What's this?" She asked as she took it from him.
He shrugged his shoulder at her. "It is just an extra pillow for you. It matches your eyes." He said with flattery lacing his voice.
Kagome beamed at him and smiled hugely at him. "Thank you." She said as she wrapped her arms around him, giving him a hug. "I have to say that so far since my arrival here, this is the nicest thing that has happened to me."
Kei gave her a gentle pat on the back and smirked over her head. 'Oh just you wait. I have a feeling that a lot of nice things will be happening to you soon.' He thought with an inward evil laugh. "Let us retire to dinner." He pulled her from him and held his arm out to her. "Would you allow me to escort you?"
Kagome threw the pillow to the bed and slipped her arm through his. "I would be honored to be escorted by a gorgeous male such as you." She said with a small blush on her cheeks.
Kei smiled down in slight nervousness at her. He did not like those words and decided that he suddenly was on the edge of a disaster of his own making and he had better start treading lightly in his interactions with the girl. Then again if Sesshoumaru decided that he didn't want the girl he would be more than happy to have her for himself, she was quite a spit fire and found his own self attracted to that fire. It could be a dangerous situation if he wasn't careful.
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Kei silently slipped into the girl's room just before dawn and moved to stand next to her bed. He quietly and gently pulled the sheet back from her body and grabbed the pillow she was wrapped around. With a few gentle jerks of the pillow she finally released her hold upon it, rolling over to her other side with a moan. Kei smiled down at her as he swapped out the pillow with the backup pillow, covered the girl, and then left the room as silently as he entered.
On his way down the hall he stopped by Sesshoumaru's door and listened to the low growls that seemingly seemed to be of the pleasurable persuasion. He smirked to himself as he continued down the hall to Sesshoumaru's study and placed the black pillow back in its place. Today was going to be a rather interesting day and he couldn't wait.
This was one of the things he loved about being a neko; sneaky and conniving were things he lived for and every chance he got he behaved that way; no matter how much the puppy lord disliked it. Besides what did dogs know about the overwhelming desire to be sneaky, and just all around up to no good? Especially the Inu no Taishou clan? They were so dignified that sometimes he found he wanted to gag in disgust with how perfect Sesshoumaru behaved. The only thing that he found rather entertaining was the fact that the great white bastard had a sibling that was impure, foul and just went against everything Sesshoumaru believed a Taishou should be.
A hanyou for a younger brother was the biggest insult to Sesshoumaru and his pure blood and Kei being the sly cat he was took much pleasure in throwing this in Sesshoumaru's face every chance he got. It wasn't that he disliked Sesshoumaru; no, in fact he and Sesshoumaru had been friends since childhood and both held secrets about the other that none knew. They had both felt the steel of their father's swords on their hides more times than they could count and due mostly to Sesshoumaru and his mischief making. It was just too bad that Sesshoumaru's grandfather turned Sesshoumaru into what he now is.
Kei snorted at the thought. That old dog was just like Sesshoumaru is now and took every chance he could get to turn Sesshoumaru into a cold bastard just like him and it was a sad day when Sesshoumaru returned from his ojiisan's home and was a cold, contemptible, bastard just like his ojiisan. Yet, even as cold as he was, Kei found it more entertaining to annoy his best friend/future lord with his new personality trait. To watch Sesshoumaru try to stay in his cold demeanor while those around him were having fun was the most enjoyable time in his life.
"Kei." A deep voice growled.
The neko stopped in his tracks and had to work hard to remove the smirk from his lips as he turned to face a crimson eyed demon lord. He bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing and gave his lord a curt nod in acknowledgement.
"Study." Sesshoumaru growled out as he fought to gain control of his instincts and suppress them back.
"Hai." Kei said in a strained voice still fighting the urge to laugh. He knew what his lord wanted and it was going to be a long, hard to keep from laughing, morning meeting. 'This is going to be good.' He thought as he made his way down the hall to the study.