Chained: In More Ways than One
No Flying Zone
Sesshoumaru crashed through the forest in an unusually clumsy manner for a demon who was known for his grace.
Looking for his two headed dragon. Who had wondered off to a near by field after his master didn't head out at his usual ridiculously early time and thought it would get some grazing in.
He'd slept in. No, they'd slept in.
Sesshoumaru burst through the bushes once he managed to track his dragon down. He once again attempted to shake off the newly clingy Miko. It was too early in the morning for this.
"Get off." He turned around and attempted to yank his mokomoko from where she was clutching his fur pelt to her chest with no sign of letting go any time soon.
When Sesshoumaru gave into sleeping last night after the Miko had rolled off of him he hadn't bothered to move away from her or thought about the implications that would arise from sleeping so close to someone that you are chained to.
He'd woken to find the Miko not only very, very close to him but clutching his mokomoko like her very life depended on it with a grin spread across her face.
The reason he usually didn't sleep when he was not at his castle was because he was a deep sleeper. Which is why he didn't wake when they must've both moved in their sleep during the night.
"No! If I'd known before how comfy this thing was I would've jumped you/it the moment I set eyes on it way back when we were in your father's grave." Kagome emphasized her point by rubbing her face into the white fur.
She snickered to herself when she imagined instead of threatening the demon lord with an untransformed Tetsaiga. Throwing the dull blade to the ground and jumping his fluffy pelt while knocking him to the ground.
Sesshoumaru had to pause. The Miko seemed like she was implying something else but she stopped herself just in the nick of time. He decided to think it over later on when he was once again alone. Which would hopefully be soon.
"Release my pelt immediately." He tugged on it again but gave no warning. Hoping that if the Miko wasn't expecting it he might be able to slip it out of her hands. She has a pretty tight grip for a human women, thought Sesshoumaru when he had little success.
"How about we make a deal. I'll give you back your pelt if you promise me I can use it as a pillow tonight?" Kagome asked while trying to look over the fur at the demon lord in the eye.
Unsuccessfully may I add.
Kagome tried to blow the fur out of the way but then gave up and raised a questionable eye brow instead which was the only part of her face that was visible to the demon lord at the moment.
"You mean, if, we are still together." Sesshoumaru smirked before carrying on to where he'd spotted Ah-Un not to far away.
"What do you mean?" Kagome followed the demon lord in a dazed confused state. They were magically chained together and unable to separate. Of course they'd be together.
"If we hurry and make very few stops. We should be able to reach the elder's castle by early this evening. The trip is only suppose to take half a day but you have managed to stretch it out to over two. Hopefully the chain will be removed with no trouble and we can go our separate ways." Sesshoumaru explained without bothering to look back at her because he knew all he'd see was a walking pile of fur.
Kagome was for some reason finding it hard to believe that by later that same day they'd would be separated from each other. Even though they'd only been attached for less than even a week it felt like forever for her. She found the prospect of being able to be alone again weird now.
She was snapped back to reality when she felt a tug from Sesshoumaru. "Well are you going to release it to me now?"
Kagome narrowed her eyes and held the fur farther away out of his reach. "I will if you promise me to have the use of your fur pelt as a pillow if we aren't separated. I was just going to ask for one night but since you think we'll be free of each other so soon. I'm going to go for the rest of the time we are trapped together." Actually able to make eye contact while standing side ways to him.
She reached her hand out for the demon lord to shake. Not knowing if he'd actually know what to do with it.
Sesshoumaru stopped when he reached Uh-Un's side and whipped around to look at the Miko. He didn't really contemplate it before giving his answer. Thinking that it would never happen again. "Deal." He shook the Miko's out stretched hand after giving it a questionable look but figuring out the purpose behind it.
"Now get on." Sesshoumaru demanded as soon as he let go of the Miko's hand. Pointing to the dragon who had been watching their interaction together with slight interest but more in their food.
She gave Sesshoumaru a glare before dropping the pelt and stomping over to Ah-Un. He picked it up and examined it for damage while picking bits of dirt out of it.
Kagome stopped when she reached the creature. Trying to contemplating how would be the best way to get on it. Last time didn't go so well as she could remember.
She decided to just attempt to clamber up onto the dragon when she received a look from Sesshoumaru that basically said 'You are useless and I don't know how my idiot half brother put up with you depending on him so much'.
At least that's how she took it to mean but really it was just a blank stare but even those from the demon lord had a lot of power behind them.
She tried but it was like climbing a sheer wall, and an unproductive use of their time. The beast seemed to offer no opposition, but waited passively.
Sesshoumaru was enjoying watching the Miko suffer for her stubbornness of not wanting to ask for his help. He was surprised though when Ah put it's head towards the ground and shook its at the Miko.
Kagome was a little confused at first until she realized it wanted her to use it as a means of getting up. She put one foot on the top of Ah's head while grabbing onto the top of the saddle with both hands.
She shook her own head to signal she was ready before Ah raised it's head which gave her enough leverage to swing her leg up and over. Kagome gave Sesshoumaru a pleased look about what she just accomplished all by her self without him.
Well maybe Ah helped a little bit.
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the right head before leading the dragon with the smirking Miko on it thinking one thought. 'Traitor.'
They traveled through the woods in complete and utter silence. The only sound being the dragons heavy foot steps… Kagome couldn't stand it. She needed to do something to pass the time.
Sesshoumaru was just thinking how the Miko wasn't that bad of a travel companion when she was quite and not trying to make his life a living hell when she broke the pleasant silence for him.
Kagome had decided the best thing to do was to make conversation. "So how long is it going to take until we reach our destination."… to all questions and statements he made no reply.
All Sesshoumaru did was slightly turn his head and raise an eye brow at her.
'Right. Using a question he already answered for you no more than an hour ago isn't a very good conversation starter.' Kagome reprimanded herself and tried to think of something else when she remembered a question she had been itching to ask since they headed out.
"So why are we walking today instead of you know, Flying?" Kagome asked as she was hit on the shoulder by a plant over hanging the path and tried to swat it out of the way in annoyance.
"Ah-Un and I are walking while you are riding for one." Sesshoumaru pointed out while continuing to follow the path.
"That's a technicality. You know what I mean and you still haven't answered my question." Kagome waved his point away.
Sesshoumaru stopped moving, turned, and stared at her, as if he were examining something quite unpleasant a very long way away. Before stating straight forward. "No flying zone."
Now it was Kagome's turn to raise an eye brow. "You have those here?" It was like back home where there are places air planes aren't aloud to fly through. The demon shook his head before continuing walking. "You demon's are way ahead of your time. I can say that."
Kagome put a hand over her mouth when she realized what she said when Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her in a suspicious way. Wondering what she meant by that statement.
'Right he doesn't know I'm from the future.' She reprimanded herself again and decided it would be best to stay quite for a while.
Kagome almost feel off of the dragon she had taken to lounging on in her boredom when Sesshoumaru gave it the signal to stop suddenly. "Hey!" Kagome yelled in annoyance but all he did was lean down to observe an area in the path. Almost like their was an invisible line he couldn't pass. He narrowed his eyes.
Before Kagome even had a chance to ask what was going on Sesshoumaru popped back up. "Well stop here for a break."
Kagome was a little shocked. She didn't even have to yell at him like normal but she wasn't complaining at the moment. She slipped off the side with a little help from Ah to the ground.
She was happily eating when she noticed Sesshoumaru was talking to Un. The dragon then turned and started to leave once the demon lord dismissed it and he started to walk back towards her.
She wasn't worried though knowing it would be back. "Are you sending them to get something to eat?" Kagome asked before taking another bite.
"I'm sending Ah-Un back to Rin and Jaken." She almost spit out her mouthful of food at his response.
"What do you mean you're sending them away!" Kagome looked up just in time to see Ah-Un form a cloud under their feet and fly away. If she wasn't injured Kagome would've run after the beast screaming at them to come back.
"Why?" Kagome whined as she put her cup of noodles down and pouted.
"We are about to enter the elder's lands and only high level demons and their retainers are aloud to enter." Sesshoumaru explained. Hoping and praying she'd go quietly.
"Then what about me. I'm no demon. High level or not." Kagome questioned his logic in that statement..
"Some would beg to differ." Sesshoumaru murmured to himself under his breath. Accounting her atrocious behavior earlier.
"Did you say something?" Kagome asked but he quickly shook his head.
"I have special permission for you to enter." Sesshoumaru reached into his robes and pulled out a scroll and handed it to the Miko.
Kagome opened it and started to scan the content. Her face feel and she sighed in exasperation. "The female! They refer to me as, the female, in this scroll. I'm used to being the called the Miko but they just had to go a notch lower. How come no demons know my name it isn't that hard."
She put air quotes every time she said the word 'female' or 'Miko'. She stood up in frustration. Threw the scroll on the ground and stomped on it.
Unluckily with her injured ankle.
Sesshoumaru watched in amusement as the Miko tensed up. Let off a small squeak before grabbing her foot in pain then proceeded to fall over on her side.
He walked over to stand by the Miko. "You better get over the pain because we are proceeding on foot from here." She dropped her head back down in frustration after she had raise it to look at him while he talked.
He just looked at her like he expected her to immediately listen to his command…
But she just looked at him like he was crazy. "What do you mean like walk. On this ankle. I don't think so." Kagome glared and scowled at him from her place on the ground.
The Miko just sat on the ground like a stump. Making no effort to get up. They started a little starring match and surprisingly Sesshoumaru was the first one to break under the pressure.
"You'll have to move some time." Sesshoumaru pointed out. "Or I could carry you the rest of the way." He suggested hoping to appease to the Miko's stubborn tendencies and hate of being boxed into the stereotype of the damsel in distress.
He knew his plan had worked when all he had to do was give the chain a little tug before she stood and they started to move again.
Sesshoumaru followed after the Miko who left with a hobble, wincing at every step. Mumbling under her breath about a certain sadistic egotistical inu demon bastard who enjoyed seeing her in pain.
They both stepped over the invisible line. Continuing to grow closer to their destination not knowing they were now under close observation from the shadows.