Round 6, enjoy.
Kagome had been fidgety since near dawn, sleep hadn't been easy, around noon they were supposed to set out for the advice of an ancient tree…with Sesshomaru. That one name sent a chill down her spin, she didn't like the idea at all, and she was sure he wasn't thrilled either about the arrangement his father made. Kagome was waiting on the maid to come bring her down to the court yard, she had already snacked for lunch and she was currently just crossing her fingers for either Inutaisho to change his mind or if she had to do this that it went fairly smoothly, well as smoothly as it could go considering her companion was a calculating, egotistical, arrogant precision killer. No pressure there… She mentally groaned at the thought before hearing the knock at her door, her time to see if she would walk to her death.
The trip down stairs wasn't long, past main hall, followed by the dojo soon she stood in the court area, where the young demon lord stood already. Kagome noticed his face was masked much as it looked in the future. Inutaisho was there as well, to bid them a good journey she assumed, she also saw him leaning over telling his son something, she so didn't want to do this… Biting down her fear, she put on her most straight non emotional façade as she neared them. "Good morning Lady Kagome, I do hope you slept well, you have a journey a head of you for next couple days." Inutaisho gave her light smile as she soon stood before the males. 'I slept fine Milord. I hope you rested well also." Sesshomaru had his gaze else where, long off in the distance not paying her any mind. "Ah yes, just fine, well I just came out to wish you a safe adventure and to enjoy the landscape, our lands have many beautiful sights to see." At those words he turned and walk back toward the entrance of his palace leaving Kagome alone with the ice prince.
"Good morning Lord Sesshomaru." Her voice was light and gentle to not upset him in anyway as she gave a light bow to him, hoping to maybe win him over a tiny bit with respect. He acknowledged her enough give a slight bob of his head in return before stepping to her, his arm about her waist pulling her to his side, though making sure to touch least as possible as they were suddenly rising in the air in his energy sphere. Kagome knew she'd never get used to traveling like this so she prayed it was short term. They took off like a lightning strike, rapid and gone in a blink. She bit her lip avoiding to speak knowing he was most likely not into small talk, this was going to be a very quiet trip. ***
She didn't know how long they were up in the air but by the sun she figured about three hours or so. He had set them down near a stream, she figured it was break time mainly for herself and she was oh so glad she had dragged along her trusty pack of supplies that had her bow and arrows strapped to it as well; the clearing they were in was fairly open but had dense woods all around it, patches of late blooming flowers scattered about the landscape. She had her intake of water and light snack at the chance of resting for few moments, Sesshomaru as usual stood there staring out into nothing, his attention far gone in thoughts she assumed, or he just loved attempting to convince himself she didn't exist. She figured she try to break the ice even a little bit, but not to the point to annoy him. "Lord Sesshomaru, will we make it before night fall?" At first she either thought he didn't hear her or was ignoring her but he finally answered in a monotone voice, not particularly laced with any sort of emotion. "No, we will end up camping in a couple more hours. I do not enjoy traveling at night, it is a disadvantage being half blind in the sky traveling."
Kagome sat on the boulder she had been on the last ten minutes and just nodded in understanding of his words. Well least he said something and more than one word… Standing she slowly moved back over to him, hoping to leave now and get close as possible to their goal tonight as they could. "Can we leave now?" He said nothing and idly brought an arm around her once more and lifted off into the afternoon sky and lucky the rest of the afternoon was uneventful, between each other and any other environmental factors. Though the sun was setting by the time they landed once more, in another secluded clearing. "There is a natural spring in the westward direction if you want use of it, human." His words weren't cruel, but how could she blame him, he was stuck with her and she didn't feel like being on his list of things to kill anytime soon. She watched him take a casual position of leaning on a tree, near in the shadows. Kagome was glad she could half decently fend for herself, she pretty much thought he would leave her to starve and freeze to death, if she relied on him for anything.
She cautiously snuck away to the general area of the spring he mentioned, she hoped maybe it was a hot spring so she could scrub up some at least, her washing up had been to a minimum during the last few days. Though she didn't like the idea of being do vulnerable, naked in water, in the middle of the woods, basically alone. After a couple minutes she stumbled upon the spring and to her luck it was a hot spring, she dropped her bag and quickly peeled off her clothes, though leaving panties and bra on for at least a bit of skin cover. Stepping into the warm water to her shoulders she dug in her bag for her organic soaps and was soon scrubbing herself rapidly, she'd rather be back in the general vicinity of the demon lord, she doubted he would bother coming to help her if she screamed bloody murder about someone or thing jumping her out here. She soon finished even scrubbing her hair with a bit of soap also, she felt a bit better and she figured her lingerie needed to be washed also.
With speed that was near unnatural she stripped her wet undergarments off and replaced them, followed by a casual kimono one of the villagers had gifted her at the village she aided in. She repacked her bag after brushing her hair out then ventured quickly back to the clearing before dark, with barely enough light to see around though she made it, along the way picking up a few branches and chunks of bark she happened to find to start a small fire to dry her hair and clothes out at the least. Maybe warm up a bit if she had time. The young lord had stayed in the same position as when she had left, and she figured had been least half hour, he could be near mistake for a statue. With a sigh she cleared a good area before stacking few twigs and leaves, the striking her flint to start the sparks she needed to have her small fire. Kagome laid her two skimpy pieces of clothing out over a convenient rock as she sat watching the flames dance as the fire perked up.
She released a heavy sigh as she rummaged for something light to eat, she didn't feel particularly hungry at the moment but, she knew she could eat something to sleep on. Kagome was glad for the warmth that lapped at her skin from her small fire, the nights were starting to get cooler and damper, which meant she would have been changing clothes out at home again by now, it was pushing little over week since the well hadn't worked, and still annoyed her to this day. She glanced to her supposed male companion who disliked her, he was busy star gazing it seemed. Shaking her head she checked her wet clothes and turned them over to dry further, after snacking on an apple she had snagged at home on the way out the door she pulled her trusty sleeping bag out and rolled it idly near the fire. She threw several more twigs and branches into the flames before climbing into confines of her bedding. "Goodnight…Lord Sesshomaru…" She didn't know why she said it, she supposed out of habit, she was used to saying it to her group she often traveled and camped with, and oh how she missed them in moments like this. The darkness had finished falling over the area and she figured she couldn't even see the demon who lurked nearby, she rather go to sleep and wake early to continue on, maybe her dreams would be kind and let her have fond memories, that she hoped wouldn't be the last of her family and friends.***
Kagome didn't know what time it was but she felt something tug at her senses, and a moment later she was nudged lightly. Opening her eyes she tried to make out anything, and surprising her fire still had some life to it enough to see the young demon lord standing a couple feet from her, looking into the nearby woods, his words were quiet but stern. "There is something near, get up, prepare to move and protect yourself if you have to." At his words she was up in a moment, unwrapping herself from her bedding, and grabbing her bow, she was glad she brought, though she was also glad she least knew how to throw a barrier up for a short period of time, her powers were still so foreign to her in some ways that she figured she'd never master them completely. She tried to make the time out by the moon, which was fairly low, meaning was probably like 3am, she let her thoughts venture a moment as she gathered her belongs and quickly stuffed them in her bag, which is then she noticed there was actual a few chunks of decent wood burning in the fire. Had he actually been decent enough to feed the fire while I slept? That thought struck her has odd, though not really he mostly likely didn't want her weak human self, getting sick or something. Sighing she stood, lugging her bag to her shoulders, bow and arrow in hand as she stared at the same area he was looking at.
Her senses she reached out trying to find the threat that was near, Sesshomaru was stalk still, like a statue again, she assumed zeroing in on his next victim. "Stay." Is all he said, like she was a dog or something, it annoyed her slightly, but returned her focus on trying to feel the danger. Sesshomaru left in a flashy blur. "Well least his aura is easy to track…" She grumbled to herself, finally she had an energy taste of her new enemy. It was fairly strong, though not as flaring as Sesshomaru's who was stalking his new prey currently she figured. Kagome had been so focused on those two energies she barely caught the sporadic surge of an energy behind her, spinning on heel as she faced was more woods, nothing she could sense again. "Oh great, can't even feel it anymore…anyone there?" She figured she'd least try to communicate, never know being friendly sometimes worked, very rarely but now and then. To her luck silence was her answer, she notched her arrow and sent out a light wave of her energy to maybe spook it away considering her energy was pure The creature sent a heavier wave back and crashed into her clearing, Kagome near stumbled back, the dirt kicked up smothering what was left of her fire.
She was in darkness and quickly aimed in general area of the fairly large shadow of a creature she saw, and let her arrow fly, which lit up the whole area for a moment letting her see brief movements, and she saw it avoid whole how attack, and then she was in darkness again. Kagome quickly brought up her barrier about to seconds before a furry fist slammed into it, knocking her down on her rear. Though her barrier held steady, she quickly drew another arrow, though it had slinked back into the cover of darkness and she didn't know where it was to even get a shot.