Last time: The moment the words left her mouth I knew she regretted them. Her gaze dropped and she became nervous. She stood, no one stood before I did, I let out a growl to warn her but she was already gone, running down the garden path, the scent of salt following her. She was crying but what for. I had not threatened her life in any way and she just broke down. I blinked once then stood and left in the opposite direction. I assumed she would return to her room like most women did when they needed to release their tears.
: Sess P.O.V :
Chapter Two: Expected
The hours passed as I waited for the woman to return to her room, but she had yet to show. I expected that the woman knew what time it was, but she didn't seem to care. I wasn't waiting for her to come back. I was just curious where that miko had gotten herself to. She was no doubt causing trouble, but everyone I had asked claimed they hadn't seen any human other then Rin. My patience was getting low when I finally came across a tiger demon that went by the name Akio. Personally I didn't care about his name, the only reason why I was talking to him was because he knew which way the miko had run off to and when I found her I was going to show her that someone of my status should at all times be respected. Running off as a guest was not what I considered respectful. Akio was scheduled for watch that night and told me that the miko had run off, something that I had expected when I had not found her anywhere in the palace grounds.
"Which direction?" I asked him, not in the mood to be wasting my time talking to him.
"South." He stated simply. I like simple, it was so much easier.
I grumbled to myself. How stupid could I be to not see that she would run? She knew my angry side, she knew that once she had said those things to me she would have to beg and plead for me to even consider sparing her life. Anger rose in me at the thought. She didn't know me, she thought she knew me. She didn't expect me to go after her, and usually I wouldn't, but she did not know me and I would prove it. The miko couldn't have gotten too far and once she realized she was lost she would stop moving and sit down, probably the smartest thing for her to since and the most probable. She was a woman and women tended to give up easily.
I was in into the woods in mere seconds tracking down the woman that I now considered prey. Just when I thought I couldn't be anymore angry with myself I smelt blood, her blood. I cursed in several different languages when my mind traveled to all the things that could have happened to her. I found the woman, her side bleeding a little, the scent of salt long gone. I had to admit I was surprised, I expected to see her on the ground, crying because of her injury that was no doubt causing her pain, but instead she ignored it and walked on, unaware that I was watching her.
She was limping again, favoring her left leg. Pitiful. Anyone could have killed her already and she wouldn't have known. A minor demon came into my senses, straight for the bleeding miko. Amusement entered my mind as I decided to let her deal with it. I wouldn't let the demon kill her, but just to see what she would do.
The demon was a crow, diving straight towards the wound on her torso, ready to rip into the flesh with its sharp beak. She didn't even look towards the bird as he made something close to a war cry. Slowly she lifted her finger and blue shot towards the crow, incinerating the bird. Sweat rolled off of her body, but she pressed forward, still not aware that I was following her.
She walked all the way to the forsaken place where I had saved her, crawling up to the well that my pathetic half brother had destroyed for no reason. For several seconds I watched her cry over nothing by a pile of broken boards. Her tired arms attempting to lift them, trying to put them back in place, but the board collapsed and more tears rushed down her face.
Confusion came over me and I found myself believing that the woman before me was insane. Did she really believe that her home was at the bottom of that shattered well?
A scent caught my nose causing me to growl, catching the attention of my prey. She looked up quickly her eyes bewildered, but I didn't care. I grabbed the woman and jumped up into the trees, holding her against me as she struggled.
My half brother entered the clearing, sniffing the ground trying to find the trace of the woman I held in my arms. I was tempted to knock her out when she stilled, her tears dripping on my hand as I used it to cover her mouth. Her gazed was wide as she watched my half brother shuffled through the rubble, shredding the boards into smaller pieces, his eyes red in hate. The woman lunged forward, knocking me off balance. My hand slipped off of her mouth as she fell forward towards the ground.
"Inuyasha!" she screeched at the top of her lungs. The demon turned his hateful eyes towards her, but she didn't stop. She tried to grip the branches on the way down as I watched her fall, not caring about the pain she inflicted upon herself. She hit the ground with an unnatural thud, but still stood up, running towards my half brother like she was insane. What was she doing? Was she looking for death? Without thinking I left my post and grabbed her by the waist, knocking her down just in time for her to dodge Inuyasha's claws. I quickly pulled out tokijin and fought of my brother's movements, trying to urge the miko to move back.
I watched as she lifted a shaky finger and pointed it towards the fight, gathering her miko powers in her hand. I saw hesitation then tears as she closed her hand. I couldn't believe it, refusing to fight him off even when he clearly wanted her dead. I didn't question it this time. I knew she was hit to hard on the head when she was born. With one last kick to my brother's face I took off, grabbing the miko then I was off to my palace, my half brother hot on my trail. I swore at the woman that I carried, I had saved her again and as if her wounds were bad enough she had to fall out of that forsaken tree and had to hit the ground when I merely touched her waist, pathetic human.
: Normal P.O.V :
Kagome wanted to scream as Sesshoumaru gripped her torso, causing her wounds to open up even more. There was blood all over her side but he didn't stop, he took to the sky, his demon cloud forming underneath his feet as he headed in a straight line toward his palace.
He was there in a matter of minutes. Once inside the barrier he dropped Kagome, ready to giver her a piece of his him, but he wouldn't hurt her anymore today. She thought she knew him, but she didn't. The Sesshoumaru she knew wouldn't have cared if she was hurt or if she ran away.
Kagome looked away and stood once again, struggling as her battered up legs shook from the strain she put herself though and gathered up her pride. She raised her head up high and walked past him without complaint. She wasn't going to stay here. There was no way that Inuyasha hated her, what did she do to make him so mad at him. What was said between the two brothers that made Inuyasha lose his cool and where was tetsusiaga? It didn't make sense.
Thoughts surrounded Kagome as she walked to her room and shut the door. She didn't bother to clean her body or get changed. She was to sore, so hurt inside and out. Her knees curled up to her chest, she held them tight, knowing that she needed some comfort.
There was a knock on the door but Kagome didn't answer. Slowly Celene opened the door and peaked in cheerfully. "Milady you are requested…" her eyes caught Kagome's bloody side and frowned. "Milady you can't go to Sesshoumaru looking like that."
"I don't want to go-…"
"Now miss the lord doesn't leave any room for anything other then what he demands, there is no room for discussion." Celene said as she walked into the door on the left, gathering supplies from the bathing room.
"I don't care, I don't want to go, and he can't make me. I'm tired and hurting and it is almost twelve in the morning and all this is hid fault." Kagome fussed and attempted to stand up, deciding against it when pain flushed through her body. A small cry left her body as she tried to breathe deeper so that it wouldn't hurt so much.
Celene rushed over Kagome's side holding her and slowly letting her down slowly so that she wouldn't hit the ground. "Milady are you alright?" Celene asked worried. More blood started to ooze out of Kagome's cut as Kagome breathed in pain. No reply told Celene that Kagome needed a healer and quick. As fast as she could she zipped through the halls and barged into Sesshoumaru's study without knocking, she knew she would pay for it, but the woman needed help.
"Lord Sesshoumaru-…"
"Where is the miko?" Sesshoumaru growled, but refused to look up from his scroll. She was supposed to come with the miko, couldn't this servant do anything right.
"She needs help." Celene said quickly, trying to be as quick as she could.
"With what? That's what you're supposed to be there for. I don't care if you have to drag her out of that room-…" Sesshoumaru roared his patience with this demoness was growing very thin. He had yet to put his pen down when the servant cut him off.
"Milord the miko is in pain, she needs help." Celene said desperately. Sesshoumaru stopped writing and looked up. The scent of the miko's blood taunted his nose and he stood slowly.
"What does she need?" he asked calmly, walking up to the servant who was nearly jumping out of her skin.
"I don't know-…" A scream cut her off and both demons took off towards her room without another word.
Kagome fell to the ground gasping for air, her right side bleeding badly. She tried to move again, trying to wrap the bandages around her torso to stop the bleeding. She got it half around when the door burst open. The lord's nose twitched at the great amount of blood that was painted on the miko's hands. She didn't seem to care that anyone was there, her face was extremely pale, her hands shaking as she slowly tried to wrap her torso up.
"Miko does everything you do need to be relevant to your death?" Sesshoumaru stated coldly. The scent of her blood was overbearing, but he stood it. She was just a human and losing her would just mean that he didn't have to care for her any longer. It would cause him no pain to know that the miko died.
Celene watched her lord do nothing as she walked up to him and opened her mouth to speak, but decided against it. The action did not go unnoticed from Sesshoumaru as he demanded her to speak. "You're not going to save her are you milord?" Celene said sadly.
"Why? What for?" Sesshoumaru said before he left the room, not caring about the miko.
Kagome's eyes fluttered open as she found herself in a room that reminded her of the hospital back home. She felt light headed and woozy, but she sat up all the same. She found Rin across the room talking to a demoness, Celene standing beside Rin in a worried way. Noiselessly Kagome stood and walked around, her legs a little weak from lack of use. A groan escaped her lips as both girls looked and ran over to her side, supporting her from both sides. A smile graced her lips, the first one in a long time.
"You shouldn't be up milady, I just stitched those wounds and reopening is greatly unadvised." The second demoness lectured.
Kagome tried to wave it off just she found her body was extremely weak from loss of blood. She gave the healer a weak smile before she was escorted back to her bed.
"Is there anything I could get you lady Kagome?" Celene asked gently, placing her hand on Kagome's like a dear friend.
"You could get me some whiskey." Kagome mused at the confusion that crossed over to her friends face. "Never mind. It's a human joke I think."
Celene nodded her head and watched as her mistress fell unconscious. Things would be a lot stranger now that she knew that she cared for this human as a friend too. She had already spoken against her lords wishes to save her and she had only known her for two days.
The healer came behind Celene and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. "She should be fine Celene, she won't bleed to death. You got her here in time and look, she's already healing nicely. You and I both know you did the right thing, even if out lord doesn't see it yet."
Celene nodded soberly then looked up into the healers sea green eyes. "Thanks Asami. I hope you're not going to get in trouble for this."
The healer nodded and pulled her long blue hair back from her eyes. "Don't worry about it, Amaya and I are higher up in Lord Sesshoumaru's books, he won't kill us for this."
On cue with her name Asami's older sister Amaya walked in the room. With green hair and sky blue eyes she stood an inch taller then her sister. "The lady needs rest and peace and quiet. You know that well enough Asami. Stop acting like you're stupid and get some work done."
Both demoness's nodded and left the room, Celene reporting back to Kagome's room to clean up the blood that had settled on the floor and Asami left to take care of other sick patience.
Celene entered the room to find it already cleaned with a red headed cat demoness inside the room scrubbing the floor, grumbling about having to take care of a human. "What are you doing here in lady Kagome's room?" Celene said fiercely.
"I've been assigned to this room by lord Sesshoumaru. He told me to tell you that you are to see him in his study once you got here." The cat lashed out at the dog demon. Celene twirled around, readying herself to face lord Sesshoumaru for her actions. Her white waist long hair following behind her.
Her long strides evened out as she approached the room. She knocked then opened the door, ready to get her new orders from her lord.
"I want you to pack you're things." Sesshoumaru said coolly as she entered his study. Celene opened her mouth to speak against it so he let out a growl, but still she spoke.
"I cannot do that. Lady Kagome needs my help." Celene said hard. She wasn't going to leave her new friend.
"I have given that assignment to someone else." Sesshoumaru stated coldly. Celene's face turned red with anger.
"You gave my job to a cat, showing just how much you give a dam about lady Kagome. She has done nothing wrong and you hand her over to your most untrusted servant, one who is held like a prisoner here." Celene snapped.
"That Woman is stupid and pitiful. She is not worth being here in this palace-…"
"Lady Kagome is in love and the only reason you think it is stupid and pitiful is because you've never been in love. You don't care about anything!" Celene hollered then stormed out of the room.
Sesshoumaru sat alone in his studies, cursing the demoness's every word and wishing that he had killed her for it. What did she know of what he felt? She knew nothing of them. All she knew was what he let her know. What he didn't let her know what his business.
Kagome watched her new friend storm out of the studies and frowned. She knew that if she was caught by Celene or Rin she would be sent straight back to the infirmary, but if she was right, which she had a feeling she was, Celene was getting into trouble for something she didn't do. 'Breath Kagome, that's it, you can do this. If you say it nice enough and apologize he might even let you live.'
Sesshoumaru's mind was clouded when he heard a small knock on the door. The knock was filled with uncertainty and fear radiated from behind the door. "Enter." He said coldly, his icy stare catching Kagome's eyes the moment she walked in. "What do you want human?"
Shivers were sent up and down Kagome's spine as she gulped. "Lord Sesshoumaru, please. Celene did no wrong, it was my fault. Don't punish her, it me who deserves to be punished." Kagome rambled off bravely.
Sesshoumaru's eyebrows rose at her tempting proposal but there was certainty in her eyes. She was expecting him to do it. It was what she thought he would do, but she didn't know him. "The servant's action was her own, leave, you are wasting my time."
Kagome's anger spiked as she took three long strides over to the desk where Sesshoumaru was seated, pointing her index finger straight at him. "Now you big jerk listen here. You took me away from my friends, my home, everything I know, and now you are trying to take away my only friend in this palace! I won't have it."
Sesshoumaru gritted his teeth, but he got no reaction from the miko so he released a growl, sending shivers body her spine, but still she did not back down. "You presence is not wanted in this room, leave now before I dispose of you myself." His eyes flashed angrily.
Kagome straightened herself up, getting as tall as she could. "If she is banished, I leave as well."
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes. "I've never heard of a better idea." He stated evenly.
"Good, then its settled, we leave at first light tomorrow, after all I'm sure Naraku would be please to get his hands on the shikon jewel and become a full fledged demon, since I won't be protected." Kagome said coolly, her eyes giving away nothing as she turned and started at talk towards the door.
Sesshoumaru could feel a migraine coming on, but he stopped her. "You will not leave this palace." He said coldly. "Would you risk the lives of millions just to get what you want?"
Kagome didn't waver, her back still to the reigning demon. "No, but evidently you would." Kagome turned, clenching fists shut until they were as hard as steal. "And when you stare into the soulless eyes of your ward, you'll regret everything you have done here today."
Sesshoumaru stood, his eyes bleeding red as he fought for control. "You will say not such things-…"
"And when your people, humans and demons alike, are slaughtered in front of your eyes because you were too proud and stubborn to listen, you will know their pain-…"
"Watch your tongue human." Sesshoumaru stated coldly, trying to gain control of his body and the situation.
Kagome never even blinked as her rash words tightened the tense air. "And you will feel nothing but remorse. You would be surprised Sesshoumaru, how one small mistake can lead to something so big."
With those words Kagome left his study and went to pack what little things she could. Not expecting to see a cat demon in her room tidying her bed, though she seen the feline she ignored her, packing her old uniform that had been given back to her at her request, her bow and quiver was also given back to her.
When everything was packed she carried her items in her hands and started to walk out her bedroom door when she saw Sesshoumaru watching her with a quirked brow. "I thought you were leaving tomorrow morning?" Sesshoumaru asked coldly, eyeing the cat demon as she stood beside the bed staring at the woman.
Kagome gritted her teeth and her hold on her bow. "I guess I changed my mind." She said, trying to push her way past the lord, who had grabbed her shoulder and pushed her back.
"Suzume, leave us." Sesshoumaru stated coldly, his eyes following the cat demons retreating body.
Once the cat demon was gone Sesshoumaru pushed Kagome back into the room and shut the door. "Now listen human, you and I both know that the death of my people is not wanted by either of us. I don't believe that you could stand Rins dead body on the ground either-…"
Kagome smiled in a fake fashion. "You are right, but I would be dead, remember."
Sesshoumaru gritted his teeth. "Don't interrupted my when I am talking do you-…"
"Ok, I'm sorry." Kagome cut in again, trying not to smile as his eyes went colder.
"Understan-…"
"You know I really am sorry, it was really rude of me to do that." Kagome said, watching as he started to open his mouth again. "I just felt that I should explain myself."
Sesshoumaru growled and grabbed her other shoulder, turning her and shoving her into the door, then covered her mouth. "As I was saying-…"
Kagome's hands found the door knob as she smiled sweetly under his hand and twisted it. Both human and demon fell out into the hall, Sesshoumaru landing on Kagome with his hands and legs on either side of her body, straddling her.
Sesshoumaru could hear all of the servants in the halls stop working and could feel their eyes on him and the female human underneath him. Beneath him Kagome smiled then twisted her facial expression to one filed with disgust. "RAPE!!" She cried, causing Sesshoumaru to sit on her waist line and cover his ears. "Help, Help…Get off of me Sesshoumaru and no I will not have sex with you!" (Sorry I know its ooc but I couldn't resist)
Sesshoumaru stared at her with deadly eyes then stood. "The servant may stay." He grumbled, returning to his room, slightly embarrassed.
Kagome smiled, it was just what she expected him to do.