Here is the next chapter my pretties! This one is longer than the last one and I do hope that you enjoy my writings below...
Chapter Seven: Growing Pains
"Are you stalking me! Because if you are, you should know, I know enough to blow you to kingdom come!"
"This Sesshomaru was under the impression that you were following him"
"Why the hell would I follow you? Your the one showing up at all of my jobs! Next you'll be showing up at my house! You have to be following me."
"Do not be ridiculous. I have no desire to be in your presence."
Sesshomaru's mom, Jade, watched the little show that they were putting on with mild amusement. It seemed like they knew each other well enough to her, even if it was some bad history behind it. She was just curious as to see how they knew each other.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your lovers spat, but how do you know one another?"
They both spoke up in unison. "THIS IS NOT A LOVERS SPAT!" Kagome glared at Sesshomaru before continuing. "We met at a bar and from there everything gets complicated."
Sesshomaru growled, about to speak up, but Jade cut him off. "How long have you known each other?"
They spoke up in unison again. "For two days."
Kagome glared at Sesshomaru before speaking up. "Would you stop doing that! It's already annoying enough that your here now!"
"This Sesshomaru can do what he pleases and we wouldn't speak up at the same time if you would just keep your mouth shut."
Kagome growled at him before turning to Jade. "I'm sorry that I'm being poor company, but I still find it hard to believe that he," She cut a glance at Sesshomaru, "is here."
"I don't know what circumstances brought you to have bad feelings towards one another, but I really hope that this doesn't affect what we have planned."
"I'm sorry too, but hopefully it wont. If you still have your pen, then I'll give you my home phone. I keep a busy schedule, so if I don't pick up, leave me a message and I'll get back to you."
When Kagome was writing down her number, Sesshomaru asked his mother what was going on.
"Well Sesshomaru. If everything goes as planned, she'll be our cook for the party!"
He tried really, really REALLY hard not to show any emotion on his face, but a frown broke out regardless. Inside, Sesshomaru was panicking. Kagome was oblivious to his feelings, but his mother could smell it.
They left the restaurant in silence, but once they got in the limo Jade did not hold back. "You will tell me what is going on and you will tell me now! That nice young girl was furious when she saw you. I know there is something deeper and you need to start explaining."
She sat back in the seat and crossed her arms over her chest, staring at him.
Waiting.
Sesshomaru knew he could not get out of it and it would come out sooner or later, so why not now? He would make sure that his father went down for it though instead of himself.
"Father used me."
One of Jades eyebrows shot up, but nothing more. She would let him get everything out. Interrupting him would only waste more time.
"Father was wounded in an underground demon fight to the point of no recognition. He called me that night to come and visit him after work. When I arrived he was talking about some nonsense about me finding a mate within a week or he would find one for me. I told him that I did not require one. He asked me for my hand and I was reluctant, but gave in for a moment. He put a curse on me. If any girl available girl was to kiss me, then we would be mated."
Jade looked at Sesshomaru like the story was too unbelievable to be true.
"Kagome was the one to kiss me." Sesshomaru lifted up his hand to show his mother the mark on his hand. Before she could get a glimpse of it, Sesshomaru doubled over in pain, clutching his heart. His half opened eyes were bleeding red. All Jade could do for her son was try to hold him in this unknown pain. She made up her mind on the spot that she would take him to a demon doctor and get him looked at.
The pain didn't last for more than ten seconds. Sesshomaru slowly sat up. His face was drenched in sweat and he looked bone tired.
His mother unwrapped his hands from around him and just looked into his face, waiting patiently for and explanation. She had never seen anything of the sort ever happening and she didn't know what to do.
Sesshomaru cleared his throat and started to speak. "This is one of the side affects of the curse. As we get further and further away from one another, I experience pain. I am not sure about her, but there is a high possibility that it is the same."
Jade was mad.
How dare Inutaisho do such a thing to her son? And to Kagome! That idiotic little underground fight that he went to would not hold a candle to what she was going to do to him. Harming her son because he wanted him to be mated was nowhere near necessary. If it was back in the feudal era then such a thing would be necessary, but it was not the cause now.
"I will deal with your father. You get home and rest."
Sesshomaru knew when to leave something alone and this was one of those things. He really did want to know what his mother was going to do, but he also knew that he would here from his father the next day after the confrontation.
A pain so unreal struck Kagome in her chest on her way home that her body reacted to it before her brain did. She was driving on an empty road on the way home. It was dark and she was looking at a speed bump in the middle of the road when it hit her.
Her foot pressed down on the gas as her hands went to grasp her chest.
The truck was completely forgotten as the pain consumed her. She felt the truck going over the speed bump and her head banged against the steering wheel. Her body went slack and the truck stopped about two meters from a ditch. She remained in that position for ten minuets before she came to.
She was confused, but everything in her told her to go home and she would be okay. She was only five minuets away from her house.
Through out the drive, Kagome was in a semi conscious state.
The only thing she knew to was to go home. There wasn't a car on the road at the late time of three o'clock, but if there was then they would have tried to stop her or call the law enforcement. Kagome was swerving into both lanes while keeping up a steady speed of 25mph.
Miraculously she made it home in one piece. She parked her truck in the green grass in her yard and then she walked towards her door. She forgot the keys in her truck so she doubled back, fell once, got the keys, shut her truck door, and proceeded to fumble with the keys, trying to find the ones to the house.
After a couple of failed attempts, she finally found the right one. When she opened the door, Kagome didn't make it five steps before she hit the ground.
Shippo, a kitsune, smelled the blood in the air and then heard the loud thump downstairs. He left the puppy on the bed surrounded be blankets before he made his way carefully downstairs.
The sight in front of him brought tears to his eyes.
Kagome was laying on the floor with the door wide open behind her. Blood was spilling from her head onto the floor from somewhere in her hair. Shippo rushed to her and called her name. He didn't want to shake her because of her head so he whispered into her ear instead, fully knowing that she would not hear him, but not giving up hope.
"I'll be back Kagome. I'm going to get help."
He ran from her to the cord phone that was in the kitchen. He dialed 110 and told them what he knew and the location. He was off the phone with them in a short amount of time and he went back to Kagome. He knew that there would be questions as to what a child like him was doing alone in a house, so he transformed into a female girl that looked around the age of seventeen.
He was worried about her.
He hoped that she would be okay.
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