InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bishies Without Shirts ❯ Murphy's Law ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: Murphy's Law

"Your mother is a very foolish woman." Sesshoumaru hissed from his prone position on the couch. "How dare she call me 'Sessho-kun?'"

"She's just being a mom." Kagome said weakly, trying to make the best of an extremely awkward situation. The bishie brothers ignored her, staring at each other with obvious loathing.

"Why is he half-naked?" Inuyasha demanded.

"You're not wearing much, either!" Kagome said defensively.

"But I know why I'M half dressed, why is HE half dressed!" he growled, bristling.

"Can't you smell it?" Kagome said softly, trying not to upset or embarrass the monster resting on her sofa. "He was sick." Inuyasha's eyes lit up at this news.

"Sick, huh? Well that certainly puts you at a disadvantage, doesn't it Sesshoumaru?" he mocked, cracking his knuckles as he walked toward the couch.

"Don't be absurd." Sesshoumaru sneered. "If I really wanted to, I could be holding your female's heart in my teeth within seconds, so don't try to be cute."

"Hey! I've been helping you!" Kagome cried, whirling around to glare at Sesshoumaru.

"And I, in return, haven't slaughtered you yet, woman, so keep a civil tongue in your head!" he said poisonously, then moaned and turned away, finding the effort that it took to be frightening painfully exhausting.

"What did you want with me anyway?" Kagome asked hesitantly.

"My wants are my own concern." Sesshoumaru said quietly. "But I came to you because I have heard that you possess strong medicines and healing poultices that are unlike any known, even to physicians. It was in this capacity that I sought you."

"Why would a youkai ask a human for help? You don't seem THAT ill to me." Kagome said softly.

"Then perhaps you are not as stupid as you seem." Sesshoumaru said thoughtfully. "You may prove a credit to my idiot brother after all."

"Thank you?" Kagome said uncertainly, not knowing whether to be offended or not. For his part, Inuyasha growled in the back of his throat, but for once kept his mouth shut and let the drama play out.

"The medicines I seek are not for me, but for a… human." Sesshoumaru admitted quietly. Inuyasha gaped at his older brother, awestruck by this revelation, but Kagome didn't seem at all surprised.

"It's for that little girl, isn't it?" she said.

"What do you know of Rin?" Sesshoumaru said, trying to hide his amazement.

"I've seen her before. She always seems to be just on the edge of our encounters, where no one would be likely to notice her. But I have." Kagome admitted.

"A HUMAN?!" Inuyasha roared. "You've got a human following you around? After you tortured me for having a human mother, and mocked and insulted me for being with Kagome! Not to mention all the times you tried to KILL her, and NOW-"

"Is she very ill?" Kagome said loudly, interrupting Inuyasha's diatribe. If they were going to be stuck together for awhile, then it was in everyone's best interest to keep the peace.

"She was for a day or so, but now her entire body has broken out in tiny, red bumps, and all she does is scratch and complain about the itching. I came to you to get a healing poultice." Sesshoumaru explained.

"Uh-oh." Kagome said seriously. "It sounds like the chicken pocks!"

"Feh! You're making that up!" Inuyasha snorted.

"No I'm not!" Kagome said, indignantly. "It's a real disease that affects little kids and adults sometimes, too. Most people get it when they're young, though, and then it isn't very serious. I've had it myself, when I was nine!"

"Never heard of such a thing!" Inuyasha said disparagingly.

"I've certainly never seen anything like it before." Sesshoumaru admitted.

"Of course you haven't!" Kagome sighed, exasperated. "You're youkai! It's a HUMAN disease! Besides, before today, I'd have sworn that neither of you could even get so much as a cold, let alone-"

"Speaking of which…" Sesshoumaru interrupted. "It's very cold in here all of a sudden."

"What are you, stupid?" Inuyasha grumbled. "It's stifling in here!"

"It's neither." Kagome said, suddenly becoming concerned. She walked over to Inuyasha and touched his forehead with the back of her hand.

"You're very warm," she said, adding quickly "even for you!" Then she walked over to the couch and touched Sesshoumaru's shoulder.

"Oh!" she exclaimed. "You're burning up!" She was about to step away and get another cold compress for Sesshoumaru's forehead, when she noticed something unusual on his chest. It was a tiny, angry red dot.

"Oh dear…" Kagome said softly, inspecting the rest of him. There were more of them, scattered across his torso. Most were tiny and almost invisible to the naked eye, but some of them seemed to be getting bigger.

"Kagome," Inuyasha called suddenly from the other side of the room, "my back itches!" She looked over at the half-naked hanyou, who was standing in the doorway, making an irritated face and rubbing his back up and down against the doorjamb.

"Oh no…" she said quietly. She desperately searched her mind for Chicken pox home remedies.

"Ok." she said finally. "Sesshoumaru, I'll be right back with a blanket, ginger ale and some Tylenol."

"What?" Sesshoumaru murmured in his feverish haze. Kagome sighed.

"Just trust me." she said. "As for you, Inuyasha…" she turned to the hanyou, who was now laying on the ground, rubbing his back against the carpet.

"Stop scratching!" Kagome commanded. "You'll only make it worse. Now go upstairs and wait for me there. I'll run you a nice hot bath with some salts or baking soda."

"No way!" Inuyasha said. "I'm not getting naked in your house!"

"Why not?" she said angrily. "It wouldn't be the first time!" Kagome clapped her hand over her mouth, suddenly realizing what she had just said. From the couch, there rose up weak, yet decidedly mocking laughter.

"Just like father….weakness in the blood…."

"I meant he's bathed here before!" Kagome cried, balling her hands into fists. "Oh never mind! YOU be quiet and rest!" she said, pointing to Sesshoumaru. "YOU get up those stairs NOW!" she cried, pointing first at Inuyasha, then the stairs. As the hanyou grudgingly began to head up, Kagome covered her face with her hands and sighed wearily.

'Please mama, hurry home!' she thought miserably.