Chained: In More Ways than One

Squish

Sesshoumaru was agitated. They had traveled the rest of the day and had only gotten one third of the distance he had hoped to accomplish. Which wasn't very far in the first place. He already knew the Miko would slow him down but not this much.

Because of the Miko's ankle; Kagome had been moving so slowly with her crutch that Sesshoumaru was actually tempted at one point to carry her. Meaning he would have to actually touch her while she was still completely covered head to toe in purified Ogre.

They had made camp for the night after Sesshoumaru couldn't stand her complaining any more. He had to think of a solution. 'At this rate we'll never make it. Tomorrow we'll have to make a detour and fetch Ah-Un.'

Sesshoumaru tried to ignore the Miko who was only four feet away from him. He would've if it had been possible. He wrinkled his nose. 'She wreaks.'

Kagome tried to ignore the fact she was chained to a murderous daiyokai. Scratch that. Kagome tried to ignore the fact that she was chained to a murderous daiyokai (who was gorgeous may I add), covered in purified ogre.

Kagome enjoyed being clean as much as the next person. Maybe a little more especially compared to people in this time period. 'Do people even know about hygiene yet?' She would've suggested to him that she needed to take a bath if he wouldn't have had to come with her. *sigh*

All a sudden Kagome was yanked by the chain upwards and thrown over a broad shoulder. "Put me down!" Kagome started to kick her legs on his back but it was no use.

She was carried from the clearing further into the forest only to be dropped into a stream.

Kagome resurface from the water sputtering. To find a very satisfied inu standing in the stream with her.

"What was that for?"

"I have a very sensitive sense of smell and you were irritating it." Sesshoumaru made a hand gesture to his nose.

"You couldn't have just asked me to take a bath?" Adding in her mind. 'he probably enjoyed doing that too'.

"…" All she got was a amused glare.

"No, that would mean you would have to actually talk to me." Kagome said to herself under her breath. But Sesshoumaru heard it anyways.

"Come." Sesshoumaru started to walk away pulling Kagome along in the water after him as he started to climb out.

When they emerged from the water they were both soaking wet. Because they had gone in with their clothing on it had become transparent in places. Kagome couldn't see this because her wet bangs were in her eyes. But Sesshoumaru …could.

His eyes were drawn and Sesshoumaru couldn't help but look. The miko's shirt was white and was now showing the outline of her hot pink bra. 'What is she wearing?' If he had been from the future he would've known it was called a bra and was an undergarment used to support the breasts by women. And the color wasn't helping either.

They were just about to start their journey back to camp when Kagome took her first step and they both stopped at the loud *squish* noise her shoes made and looked at her feet.

'Oh no. I got my shoes wet. And they're my only pair. Oh well. I guess I'm just going to have to place them close to the fire to dry tonight.' Sesshoumaru was starring at her wondering where that noise was coming from.

"What are you looking at?" Kagome snapped at him then started off back in the direction of camp with Sesshoumaru following after her. Each step she took making a noise.

Step *squish*

Step *squish*

Step *squish*

Kagome decided to make a camp fire when they got back to the clearing so she wouldn't catch a cold in her wet state. She lit the fire using matches that she tried to hide from Sesshoumaru. Not successfully may I add.

Kagome then got out her spare clothes from the bottom of her bag. Which she had managed to bring with her through all the commotion.

"Do you think you can turn around so I can change?" Kagome asked Sesshoumaru without looking at him.

Sesshoumaru just turned away from her with no comment. What Kagome couldn't see as she began to change is him roll his eyes at her. 'How is it that she's still modest even though she wears that outfit.'

Sesshoumaru waited to turn back around until all the sounds of shuffling clothing had stopped.

Kagome sat down and began to dig all the way into the bottom of her bag. Sesshoumaru thought she looked weird with half her body stuck out. He wondered what she could be looking for until he found his answer when she emerged with a first aid kit.

He only knew what this was because he had spied on Inuyasha's group one time after one of their fights and he saw her use the kit on his brother and heard her call it that.

Kagome was half way finished wrapping her foot when she dropped the roll after

catching a glimpse of Sesshoumaru out of the corner of her eye. She hadn't really looked at him since before he threw her in the river.

All she could think was 'Thank the gods for his armor.'

Sesshoumaru's kimono had gone completely see through because it was white silk. Luckily for her his armor covered both his chest and private area. She wasn't ready to see all that.

Kagome immediately snapped back to wrapping her ankle when she received a suspicious glance from Sesshoumaru.

They had departed the next morning before the sun had even risen. It didn't really surprise Kagome that much. If Inuyasha had his way they would be doing the same thing as they traveled every morning. What surprised her was their change of direction.

"Where are we going?" She got no response.

"You know your should really answer me because I'll just keep on asking?" That got his attention.

"We are making a detour to pick up something?" Sesshoumaru answered her question without even looking back at her.

Kagome had a feeling he just answered her to get her to shut up. She wanted to sigh. A detour meant it was out of their way. Which meant it would take longer to get to their destination and more time chained together. She didn't ask any more questions but grudgingly followed after him.

She stopped when she caught a look at the sky through the trees. 'At least I lived to see another sunrise?' They didn't talk again for some time.

Kagome had gone into a trance like state caused out of boredom when she was snapped out of it by voices in the distance.

'Hey. I recognize that voice. Isn't that…?' Her question was answered before she could even finish her train of thought when they broke through the tree line into a clearing which was already occupied.

"Lord Sesshoumaru! You're back." Happily shouted a little girls voice.

"I was right." Kagome said to herself under her breath. Sesshoumaru rose an eyebrow at her. 'Does she always talk to herself?'

Rin ran towards Sesshoumaru at full speed and slid to a stop just avoiding hitting him. She received a pat on the head as the demon lord passed by on his way in the direction of the two headed dragon. And by her reaction, you would've thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.

"Is this the item we came to retrieve?" Kagome comprehensibly looks at the dragon. Keeping back as far as she could with the four feet given from the chain.

"Yes, now get on." Sesshoumaru commanded her after giving each dragon head another pat.

Kagome looked at the dragon dauntingly like it would bite her at any second. She tried to climb on but was having trouble with her injured ankle. She knew it was possible. Kagome saw Rin do it with ease and she was a couple feet shorter than her.

"Are you leaving again so soon?" Rin asked Sesshoumaru as she observed Kagome's awkward position on the dragon with interest.

"Yes, you will wait here with Jaken until I return."

Sesshoumaru found Kagome was taking too long and roughly threw her on then grabbed Ah-Un's rains and guided it forward. "Hey!" Kagome yelled at her dissatisfaction as being treated as luggage, as she rearranged herself.

"Hold on." Sesshoumaru told Kagome as he formed a cloud underneath his feet. Kagome had to grab onto Ah's neck in surprise as both the dragon and Sesshoumaru took to the sky in flight.