InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty Meets Beast ❯ Home ( Chapter 5 )

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Beauty Meets Beast

Sesshomarussecretlov: I intend on drawing a picture of him as a human to go along with the story; I just haven't had the chance yet. But I assure you…he is rather hot as a human. XD

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xx_burner_xx: Yeah I got no idea what you're talking about. I didn't put all that stuff before the link. So either Dokuga did it or your computer's gay. Sorry…thanks for the complement on the dress though, even though it's not mine. XD I just found it on google. XD

Chapter 5: Home

Kagome sighed as she once again returned to the world of the living. “It's too early,” she yawned, stretching out like a cat on her bed, which was considerably firmer than she remembered it being. Frowning, she slowly opened her eyes, gasping when she realized she was still in Sesshoumaru's room. `Huh?' She thought as she sat up, her mind drawing a blank as to why she was still in Sesshoumaru's room, his bed even! So naturally, when the taiyoukai in question emerged from what she could only assume was his closet or bathroom, she jumped. “Um,” she said softly, afraid that he would be angry at her for not leaving already, “why am I here?”

“This Sesshoumaru was under the impression that most people slept in a bed.”

“Well yes,” she said, brushing off the fact that he had just made as close to what could be deemed a joke as she'd ever heard from him, “but why am I in this bed?”

“You passed out from exhaustion last night and I didn't have the strength in that pathetic form to carry you to your rooms, so this Sesshoumaru allowed you to sleep here.”

“Oh,” she said, holding back her resentment to his comment on humans. Sighing, she rose from the bed and headed towards the door, sure that he wanted her gone from his sight as soon as possible. But before she had even taken a step, he was in front of her.

“You will tell no one of this,” he growled before turning and walking back into his closet/bathroom/whatever the hell that room was. Taking that as her queue to vacate the premises, Kagome once again walked towards the door. She was almost there when his voice stopped her. “I have decided that because of your encounter last night you may have 2 weeks to rest before you start Rin's studies.”

“Um, thanks,” she murmured as she left.

As she backtracked out of his wing and back to her room, Kagome couldn't help but wonder why he had pushed the date back. It wasn't in his nature to change his mind, nor to show compassion. So she could only assume that his motives did not concern her. But as soon as she entered her room and looked at her reflection in the mirror, she knew why he'd done it. She was covered in bruises and cuts. So he had pushed back the date so that she could heal and Rin wouldn't see her like this. Fortunately the cuts looked small, well all of them except for the one on her chest. She hissed as she pulled the cloth away from the gash that started just above the valley of her breasts and extended down to her stomach.

“I hate men…” she sighed as she quickly shed her borrowed clothing and sank into the warmth of the bath.

“You're not the only one,” said the voice coming from just outside the bathroom door, causing Kagome to jump and quickly cover herself. But as Aerin emerged into the room, she dropped her arms.

“Hey, why are you up so early?”

Aerin laughed, “Ok, first off it's not early. It's nearly noon. And secondly, lord Sesshoumaru sent me here to check on your wounds.”

“I'm fine,” Kagome said, smiling softly. “It's mostly bruises and what cuts I do have are small. But what I wouldn't give for a first aid kit.”

“First aid…kit?” The young demoness said confusion evident in her voice.

“Oh sorry, it's something we have where I am from that…”she paused as she searched for the right description, “prevents infection.”

“Oh!” Aerin said, recognition hitting her. “We have something like that. I could go get it for you if you want.”

“No,” Kagome said, trying to sound fine. She'd seen what youkai medicine did to humans. Because of their strength, youkai medicine had to be much more potent than human medicine, which meant a swift death to any human that consumed it. “I'm fine, really. I just need some rest.” She smiled, `and stitches!' Fortunately, Aerin seemed to be buying her lie. For after Kagome assured her that she would call for her if she changed her mind, Aerin left Kagome to her own devices.

The next day found Kagome writhing in pain, so to speak. Apparently, the wolf youkai that had attacked her wasn't big on cleanliness (big surprise there), which left her with a nice case of…you guessed it, infection. So that night as she made her way to the dining hall, she began to formulate a plan…if only it would work.

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“What is it?” Sesshoumaru said as they ate. They'd been sitting here for a while and he could tell that once again, she had something to say.

“Um,” she mumbled, still trying to formulate the best way to ask him without losing her head, literally.

“Out with it.”

“Hehe, right. Um, my wounds are sorta infected.”

“Aerin was supposed to deal with that.”

“Yeah,” she said, wrapping her hands in the cloth napkin in her lap. “You see, that is the problem. I…can't…have youkai medicine.” He looked at her dubiously so she sighed and elaborated in terms he would understand. “This “pathetic form” of mine is too weak to handle your medicine. It is lethal to me.”

“And what is it you expect me to do about it?”

“I need to go home so I can get what I need to take care of this.” At this he sent a death glare barreling into her, `Great Kagome! Way to piss off the Taiyoukai sitting mere inches from you!' “I won't run away, if that's what you're afraid of. But I really need medicine for the wound on my chest.”

He continued to glare at her and Kagome was almost convinced he was going to say no. But then he sighed, “Very well.”

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“Miroku,”

“Yes Inuyasha?” the monk said, leaning in to catch his words.

“We're being followed.” He said, making no movement to indicate the location of their followers. Although he doubted that whoever it was couldn't hear them.

“What! By who?” Miroku exclaimed, not being able to control his response as well as his hanyou companion.

Inuyasha shrugged and continued to walk as if they were merely discussing what to eat for dinner. “I'm not sure, but I think they are probably Sesshoumaru's scouts. We are getting pretty close to the border to his lands.”

Miroku sighed, “How much farther is his castle?”

“Not far, we should be there by tomorrow night.”

“So why aren't they attacking us?” Miroku whispered, his right hand, even though it was now harmless, twitched at the mention of a fight. “If they are Sesshoumaru's wouldn't he have ordered them to kill us?”

“Not necessarily,” Inuyasha said, slowing down so that Sango could hear him too, “Sesshoumaru probably only ordered them to follow us and report our movements back to him. He knows that I know the general location of his fortress, but the bastard probably wants to see if I can actually find it.”

“You mean you've never actually been there?”

“No,” Inuyasha sighed, shaking his head slowly, “but I can sense its general location. Sesshoumaru's youki isn't something I could easily mistake for something else, although, he is hiding it pretty well.”

“True,HEY!” Miroku said, glancing behind him, “Where's Sango?”

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A.N. Sorry it's so short. I've had yet another case of writer's block and it finally went away last night. I have been up all night working on this. And I figured ya'll would rather have a short chapter than no chapter. But I know what the next chapter is going to have so it should be up soon. It is now 9:12 in the morning…this fanfictionist is decidedly calling it the night…GOODNIGHT! ^_^