I'm terribly sorry that I didn't update sooner, but in my defense, I will say that I did have writers block and I had a lot of work to do. I'm almost finished with my schooling and it's getting rough. O'well, on with the chapter...

Chapter Twelve: Sesshomaru's Phobia

Kagome ended up in the hospital bed for six more hours after she passed out in the bathroom. Sesshomaru had completely left the room when the nurse had come in to help her up off of the floor. Oh course he remained just outside of the door to make sure that they would not be put under more unnecessary pain, but the smell and the sight of Kagome made sure that he remained outside.

It was horrible really, that he could face even the mightiest of foes, but he could not face the fear of vomit.

Of course it was not his fault. It happened around two years ago. Izayoi had wanted to watch a litter of wolf pups from his fathers friend. They had been running around the house like little tornadoes. Sesshomaru was called over to watch them because of an emergency. Of course he refused, but then agreed when Inuyasha decided that she wanted to come over and sleep on his couch like the drunk dog he was.

It was a drastic mistake.

There were five pups and one of them had decided that he liked Sesshomaru and wanted to follow him around. He did not let it show on his face, but Sesshomaru was pleased that a pup would choose him to follow around instead of playing games in a room with her siblings.

Sesshomaru did what he always did and just walked around. When the pup had gotten tired, he decided to take pity upon it and let the female pup ride on his shoulder. He was feeling light at that one moment, until the wolf pup's stomach started to rumble. He paused in his walking to pull her from his neck and examine her face.

She seemed warmer in his hands than a moment ago. When she started to whimper, Sesshomaru held her to the crook of his neck and started to look for his cell phone.

Then all of a sudden, the pup lost the contents of it's stomach all in Sesshomaru's hair. It was so unexpected that he did not have time to react and just stood there in shock.

his beautiful silken white strands of hair was now covered in bile.

It was enough to knock Sesshomaru out of his stupor and into action. He pulled the offending pup from him and held her to his face so that he could chastise her, but then when he opened his mouth to do so, she lost her stomach again.

Most of the bile landed on the side of his face, but then another small amount landed on the corner of his upper lip and into his mouth.

His Whole face went flushed white.

Nothing could have compared to the horror of what he experienced right then.

The taste.

The smell.

The HORROR!

It took everything in Sesshomaru to not rip her apart right then. He was shaking in his fury, but there was nothing he could do. She was obvioulsy sick and he had to do something about it. But he would under no circumstances walk around looking like he did, pup be damned. So he turned to his room and walked strait into the shower with the still whimpering pup.

He wasn't so heartless to where he would jump in with scalding hot water so he adjusted the temperature, sat the pup down in the far corner of the shower, and washed himself with a bar of soap through his clothing.

When he finished with himself, he picked up the pup and he washed her. By the time he had gotten out of the shower, she was sleeping and he was on his way to getting dressed. Never in his long life had he ever expected something like that to happen to him.

If he had it his way nothing would ever happen like that again, but as fate would have it, when he found his phone and dialed his step mother and his father, they would not pick up. There was no other way for him to get in contact with them.

He was stuck. He carried the pup into the room with all of the other pups and found a sight meant for a horror film. All of them were sitting down on the floor, Sick.

It seemed that they all waited for him to arrive into the room before they all started to vomit. One after the other.

Sesshomaru felt like if he passed out right then, it would have been better than what he was faced with. All of the servants seemed to have disappeared, but the cook. It was up to him to see to the well being of the five pups.

An entire day passed by before Izayoi and Inutaisho decided that they wanted to arrive back at home. During those horror filled hours, Sesshomaru had it in his mind that they did it on purpose. That or they had actually forgotten about them.

It seemed that whatever that the pups had was just a twenty-four hour virus and nothing more, but it left Sesshomaru traumatized. When they arrived through the front doors, all of the pup's were asleep together and Sesshomaru left out without a word. Nothing he could say would explain how he felt and he did not feel like telling about what happened.

Every time he heard the word, he cringed and left the vicinity. Even at the hospital like he was with Kagome, with all of the time passing by, he had never brought up the topic before.

If Sesshomaru had it his way, which seemed like he never would with his terrible luck, he never would.

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