InuYasha Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Turning me Inside out ❯ chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter4. 'He's not good for you!'

 

Sesshomaru walked calmly down the stairs and into the kitchen, he was fixing dinner when Inuyasha came in and started digging in the fridge, pulling out a soda a moment later. Sesshomaru turned around and punched him sharply in the jaw, "YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! WHAT TYPE OF BASTARD ARE YOU?", Inuyasha stared up at the angry demon above him, "what'd I do?!". Sesshomaru glowered at his younger brother, "you

know what you did...", he said in a deadly whisper before turning back to what he was doing. Inuyasha grumbled as he headed toward the living room, letting Sesshomaru go back to visciously chopping the leeks for dinner, "geez, she's not even a real girl...". That was right, Ryoga was technically a boy...Sesshomaru smiled, and a really cute boy at that...

 

~Meanwhile~

Ryoga flopped down on the bed after she'd stripped off her sopping wet clothes, it was so strange, she'd felt so safe in Sesshomaru's arms, like no one could ever hurt her when he held her. Sitting up, she slid off the bed to dig some dry clothes out of her bag, she froze, Inuyasha stood there watching her silently.

"What do you want you bitch!", she said with a cold stare, Inuyasha simply smirked, "just wanted to see if those were real...", Ryoga glowered at him and continued to dig in her pack. Pulling out a chinese dress, (another Kasumi had thrown in) she slid into it, letting it hug her form tightly as she put on a pair of underwear. Inuyasha choked slightly, "I came to tell you that I'm sorry for what I told you earlier...", Ryoga looked up at him suprized, "so you don't think that I'm-". Inuyasha chuckled, "babe, you got it all and more!", Ryoga giggled lightly and hugged him tightly, then pulled back and turned just enough to allow him to see the bandage on her left breast as she buttoned up the wrap around. He eye'd it lightly, "Where'd you get that?", the hanyou asked curiously Ryoga shrugged it off quietly, "Sesshomaru accidentaly clawed me earlier today when I came home after being kicked out of school for impersonating myself...". Pushing past him, she headed down the stairs and into the kitchen, Sesshomaru smiled, "where're you going?". She smiled brightly, "For a little walk...", Sesshomaru could smell the lie on her flesh but decided not to press the matter until later, "be back before dinner please...". The blond girl nodded lightly, "I will, I'm not planning to be out for really that long...", Sesshomaru nodded solemnly and Kagome waved goodbye from behind the book she was reading and Ryoga dissappeared out the door.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE STAYING WITH THEM?", Ranma screeched at the top of his lungs, Ryoga glared, "just what I said, I'm going to stay with Sesshomaru and Inuyasha for a while...". Ranma glared back, "NO YOU'RE NOT! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE!", Ryoga smiled, "their realy nice, Sesshomaru's strong and a little rough at times, but I like him... Inuyasha too, he may be pretty rough with most people, and he's really rude to me...but he's nice enough to say he's sorry when he means it...". Ranma glared, "nice to see that you don't need me...", Ryoga stuck her nose into the air, "hey, I'm not the gay one, Sesshomaru is...though he could probably turn any man gay...". Ranma glowered, "you talk like you know first hand...", Ryoga glared, "maybe I do...". Ranma gasped, "NO! HE'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU RYOGA! HE CAN'T BE HE'S NOT EVEN HUMAN!", Ryoga's foot made sharp contact with Ranma's gut then she ran, her feet pounding the pavement as she raced away. Who was he to tell her who was good for her and who wasn't, he wasn't even related to her! Veering sharply, she stumbled into the park, falling into a tube and curling up tightly. She screamed loudly into her hands, feeling the tears drip down her cheeks and nose, why was she so damn emotional lately? It seemed that all she'd done since she'd become a girl was go from one emotional extreme to another, she was getting slightly sick of it, yet she couldn't stop the cold tears that fell as she lay there in that tube.

"Something's wrong...", Sesshomaru declared, it had been four hours since Ryoga had left and she had still yet to come back. She seemed too responsable to just forget about coming home...'this isn't her home!' he growled lowly to himself, but it felt like it was her home, like she didn't belong anywhere but there with them. Kagome nodded in agreement, "she said she'd be back hours ago...we should probably go look for her", Sesshomaru stood up, "yes...Kagome, you and my brother look around the block, see if she got lost or something. I'll look around where we met the other day, but please don't go asking at the Tendou's, we don't want them to worry, and them being almost her family, they would worry if we told them she's lost...". It was agreed upon then they all set out, Sesshomaru heading toward the eastern park while Inuyasha and Kagome headed around the block, she had to be somewhere...

"There you are...", Sesshomaru said softly to himself when he finally found her asleep in a climbing tube in the eastern park about four and a half miles from the Tendou Training Hall. He sighed, she smelled strongly of salt...that meant she had been crying and quite a bit too from the sense of it. Ever so gently, he picked her up, holding her tenderly to his chest, "Ryoga..." his voice was softer than he'd ever heard himself speak. The girl in question lolled slightly and groaned against his shirt as she slowly came to conciousness making him smile before he hugged her tighter. Picking her up, he smiled as she snuggled into his chest and set off down the street, cradling her as though she were a small child, defenseless, in his arms.

"You found her!", Kagome squealed as Sesshomaru stepped through the door with Ryoga in his arms, "could you get her changed for bed if I take her up to your room?", he asked lightly and headed up the stairs when Kagome nodded. Inuyasha came to the doorway just as Sesshomaru graced her gently on the bed, "is she okay? She smells awfully strongly of salt...". Kagome smiled at how gently they both handled Ryoga, "she's part of the family now, isn't she?", Sesshomaru smirked, "he...".

"Huh?!", Inuyasha chuckled, "Ryoga's a boy...", Kagome gave them a puzzled look then figured they were kidding because there was absolutely no way that Ryoga was a boy. Sesshomaru seemed simply enchanted by the small girl, he came to her defense almost without hesitation. Of course, Inuyasha looked at her like a little sister, just the way he yelled at her and overreacted about everything, he would probably yell at her in the morning, but thankfully for now they left her to sleep, she'd had a bad night....

 

~Later~

Sesshomaru growled lightly as he lay in his over-stuffed feather bed, there was something that just didn't sit well with him tonight. Ryoga had smelled different, she reeked of that 'man' called Ranma, the one who'd caused them to meet in the first place. Something about him was just, wrong; it was like seeing a pup being kicked around by some thugs who got simple pleasure out of it. Ryoga had only been here about three or four days and she'd come running home atleast twice now, he sighed, 'home. Where'd I get that one?'. This place wasn't Ryoga's home, but the longer she stayed the harder that was to accept, he smiled lightly, "maybe we should ask her to stay". Yeah that sounded like a good idea, and hell, it was even a bonus to get to watch Inuyasha get his ass kicked by a girl that was about two feet shorter than him, Sesshomaru almost laughed as he thought about the first time Ryoga had stepped foot in the house, she'd bitch-slapped Inuyasha in under five minutes. A soft knock startled him slightly and he half sat up to see a thin female form standing shyly by the door, it was Ryoga. She smiled pinkly as she stood there in what looked like a puppy print pair of pajamas that looked like a t-shirt and pants. He sat up fully, letting the comforter pillow in his lap as he surveyed her with slight criticality, "Don't humans sleep about this time?" he glanced at the clock, 1:20 a.m., he gave Ryoga a slightly cocky smirk. Ryoga shrugged, "I couldn't sleep, usually I sleep alone unless I'm about the size of a small dog, then I'm getting pummled by a sleeping Akane. I guess I'm not used to it...besides, I kinda had something that Ranma said on my mind". Sesshomaru smiled lightly, "what was it?", Ryoga looked out the window, "just something stupid that he thinks about you, it's nothing important". The demon chuckled quietly, "sit down...", he said motioning to the space on the bed beside him, Ryoga complied, pacing hesitantly over to the bed and sitting down pulling her knees up to her chin.

"So what did he say?", Sesshomaru pressed, half not wanting to know the answer, Ryoga shrugged again burying her nose into her kneecaps. Sesshomaru was getting almost nowhere with this, "tell me" he said shortly to the girl beside him, she turned her face away before replying, "he said that being here with you and the others isn't good for me. That you're...not good for me...".

Ryoga felt a clawed hand brush against her face and tug slightly to make her face the man she'd come to regard very highly over the past few days. He smiled gently, pressing his forehead to hers, "and what do you think?", he asked, letting his fingers move to cup her nape, teasing the sensitive flesh with his claws. Ryoga smiled and encompassed his neck with her arms, "I think that he's wrong, that he doesn't see what goes on behind closed doors and that he's mad at me for walking away and not coming back because now he has to explain to Akane how he drove off her precious pet piglet and-" she smiled peevishly and kissed him ever so gently on the lips before giggling at his shocked expression, "-for that...". Sesshomaru pulled on a crooked smile and pounced on the cheerful young woman, they wrestled for a couple moments until finally Ryoga ended up pinned to the soft mattress, the demon lord above her his fingers running through her hair. Suddenly she felt him pull her face up, her lips meeting firmly with his, his hair fell over her face and tickled her skin lighlty. When she gasped he swept his tongue into her mouth, running it along the center of her own, ultimatly dragging a heavy moan from her and forcing her to wrap her arms around him to pull him closer. Pulling back after a moment Ryoga smiled up at him a playful grin on her lips, "I thought you were gay...", Sesshomaru chuckled and teased with the waistband of her pants, "I thought you were a boy...". Ryoga giggled against his chest before she pulled herself up from beneath him and slid around so that she was leaning over his shoulder from behind, "but-", her lips grazed his earlobe lightly, "can you like me the same way you could if I were in a boys body?". Sesshomaru didn't say a word instead he reached over his shoulders and flipped her over so she was laying infront of him. Leaning down he kissed her gently, "love doesn't look at the sex of the person, it looks at only you and them. Ryoga, I would like you the same even if you were a real girl", Ryoga giggled, "oh c'mon we all know that's not true...". Sesshomaru grinned slyly, "yeah, but it made you feel better right?", Ryoga giggled until she hiccupped then giggled even more, "yeah yeah", sitting up she started to crawl off of the feather bed, "I'm going back to bed...". Grabbing her hand, Sesshomaru pulled her backwards, "sleep here, you aren't going anywhere tomarrow anyway, right?", he asked clenching his arms around her slender waist. Ryoga chuckled lightly and snuggled against him, "I guess you're right...I was going to see if Cologne would hire me for the while that I'm out of school, that way I can start paying you rent!". She said it so matter-o-factly that Sesshomaru couldn't help but laugh, "besides I want to talk to Mousse to see if he'll spar with me after we both get off work", she continued lightly. Sesshomaru smiled, "I'll go with you, tomarrow's my day off anyway", and they fell asleep, Ryoga, puzzled at how she could sleep in his bed with him yet she couldn't in her own with Kagome, and Sesshomaru smiling at the fact that he'd known her for only a couple of days and he was already so comfortable with her being there.