InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Past Times and Jealousy ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8: Past-times and Jealousy

Kagome laughed at Ranmaru as she skated in front of him backwards, just out of reach as her young son tried desperately to catch up.

This was a favourite past time of theirs: skating.

“Okasan!” Ranmaru grumbled as he desperately tried to increase his speed to match her own. He was a Yokai and not used to losing a race of speed but she had been skating since before he was born.

“Nani?” she asked tauntingly bending down so she was more on level with the young demon

“No fair” he protested grumpily as even with an extra burst of speed she was still able to outskate him. His competitive seven year old male instinct said he should be able to beat her seeing as she was going backwards and he was going forwards.

She grinned “I believe it's a hundred year too early for you to be beating me”

He giggled “I can still beat you at swimming though” he told her

“Ran-chan, you can beat anyone at swimming” she told him rolling her eyes expressively and skating around so that she was at his side again. She took his hand in hers and dragged him along with her so that they could reach faster speeds.

They sped through the park together laughing like there were both seven.

“Isn't that Sesshoumaru-san?” Ranmaru asked as he laid eyes on a tall well built figure with long silver hair.

“Hmm, maybe” Kagome said and they skated towards the maybe Sesshoumaru.

As they drew nearer they saw that he was on his cell and as he hung up he turned and walked right into their path.

“Argh!” both she and Ranmaru cried as they made impact with someone who was most definitely Sesshoumaru.

The Inu Yokai was completely shocked as he got knocked off his feet by the flying female. Under the usual circumstances of his life he was not someone who got knocked over very easily. But he had certainly not expected one small woman to collide with him at such a speed.

He looked up at the light blue early spring sky and frowned. This was the first time in his life he had been effectively floored. And by a female no less.

He was Sesshoumaru Taisho, he had fought with all manner of Yokai and they had been carried away in body bags. And yet he had just been indignantly subjected to being thrown onto his back by a small female. A human.

He frowned as he looked up into something equally as blue, but it was not the sky. Her blue eyes regarded him suspiciously before she giggled slightly.

“I don't think I've ever seen Sesshoumaru Taisho in a more undignified position” she giggled again and he tried not to react as she sound of her laughter reverberated through her chest and into his own. He failed miserably as he glanced down at her cleavage.

“Hn” he said

“Okasan” Ranmaru piped up “why are you still on the ground?”

She looked up and around them and realised they had attracted quite a crowd. She soon realised why.

After all she was currently straddling a bishounnen in the middle of a public park. She blushed slightly and jumped to her feet, not an easy feat when wearing inline skates. She turned to offer him a hand to find he was already on his feet brushing his suit off.

“Are you okay?” she asked Ranmaru tousling his hair

“Hai” he said nodding at his mother “Are you okay Sesshoumaru-san?”

“Hn” he said looking down at the young Yokai

“Talkative as always” Kagome smirked

“Thank you for stopping Okasan before she hit the floor” Ranmaru said looking the elder Yokai in the eyes. Shadow black met vivid gold for a second and the elder Yokai nodded in acknowledgement before gently patting the child on the head.

Kagome watched the exchange with half a smile on her features. “Yokai bonding?” she asked

“Hn” Sesshoumaru said

“Okay then” she rolled her eyes “What are you doing here anyway Sesshoumaru?” she asked

“This Sesshoumaru was making a call” he said not giving anything away

“Are you always this impossible to talk to?” she asked

“Hn” she took that as a yes

“Okasan, Okasan!” Ranmaru was excited and pulled on the hem of her t-shirt

“Hai?”

“Can we get ice-cream?” he pointed at the vendor

“Sure” Kagome grinned at her son mischievously “Sesshoumaru's treat”

He glared at the delusional female as she skated after her son to the ice cream truck. If she thought he was going to pay for the ice cream she has another thing coming.

“Come on Sesshoumaru!” she called waving an arm at him. Inexplicably he found himself following her and even paying for their ice creams.

The two adults sat on a bench whilst Ranmaru decided that chasing pigeons in roller skates was the funniest thing ever.

Kagome smiled as she licked her ice cream with her tongue and Sesshoumaru wondered how she could possibly stand to be wearing such short shorts in early May. He glared down at her legs as if they were causing him personal harm.

“Sesshoumaru” Kagome grinned “is there a reason you are staring at my legs?”

“Why are you not wearing decent clothes?” he asked her coldly

“Huh?”

“You should not show so much flesh, it is indecent” he told her

“Yeah, okay Otosan” she rolled her eyes sarcasm dripping from her tone “since when do you care?”

Good question. But he decided not to question his own motives and glared at the sky instead.

She shrugged, she was used to getting no answer from the silent stoic Sesshoumaru and continued to lick her ice cream, trying to catch the drips. “How come you didn't want one?” she asked

“This Sesshoumaru doesn't eat things such as ice cream” he said haughtily

It was a high and mighty answer, but an answer none the less and she smiled at that.

“You don't know what you are missing” she said licking the ice cream again and getting a blob stuck to the end of her nose.

He chuckled softly as she went cross eyed to inspect the blob and without his brain giving him the conscious order to her leaned over and licked the blob of ice cream from her nose.

“You were right” he mused innocently “it is good”

She sat there in shock for a few moments before blushing a little “I would have given you some if you'd just asked” she muttered.

But he heard her anyway.

Why had he done that? Because he wanted to. Why did he want to? Because he was attracted to her...

Wait, no he was Sesshoumaru Taisho goddamn it he did not get attracted to rollerblading human women. He shook his head at the thought that she held any power over him.

You might not get attracted to rollerblading human women, but you're most definitely attracted to her. His inner voice was smug and he tried and failed to suppress it.

“Higurashi-san!” a male voice that was slightly too high pitched called and the two companions turned to see a human male running towards them. Sesshoumaru did not recognise him at first but then as he got closer he recognised the scent of the man from somewhere. He just didn't know where.

“Hojo-san” she smiled pleasantly at the man “What are you doing here?”

“I was walking my dog” he explained holding up the leash to a small Scottish terrier that was currently having a glaring contest with Sesshoumaru, or more like a battle of wills. The two humans watched as the terrier lost and slunk down into a submissive stance.

“You really are the alpha male huh?” Kagome asked Sesshoumaru. She hadn't seen him act that much like a dog before and it made her smile in amusement.

“Pleased to meet you” Hojo held out a hand for Sesshoumaru to shake only to have said hand ignored by the arrogant Yokai. Sesshoumaru glared at the man coldly as he realised where he had recognised the scent from. He was the male who had given Kagome the flowers.

The rival.

The thought was unbidden and unwanted and pushed firmly from his mind for the second time that day. His inner voice was seriously giving him trouble lately.

“Um...” Hojo let his hand drop to his side as he wondered what on earth he had done to deserve the glare of death from the demon.

“Don't worry about him” Kagome stood and smiled at Hojo “he's always like that” she waved her hands trying to diffuse the situation and somehow lost her balance in her skates and fell forwards. Hojo caught her around the waist before she hit into the ground and she turned to smile her thanks at him. But his attention was elsewhere.

He was staring wide eyed at the now livid Yokai who stood and growled menacingly at the human who shivered in response.

Sesshoumaru tried to calm himself down as he took Kagome from the dumbstruck human and set her down on the bench.

She watched Sesshoumaru's livid expression and wondered if she was going to step in and stop him from disembowelling poor Hojo.

“I think you should leave” Sesshoumaru's tone could have frozen the sun and it left no room for argument. His eyes flashed blood red for a brief moment and then it was gone so fast Kagome wondered if she had imagined it.

“Um... sure good bye Higurashi-san” he whispered before turning and fleeing

“What was all that about?” she asked her Yokai companion as he sat next to her on the bench

“His voice was shrill” Sesshoumaru said “it grated on this Sesshoumaru's ears”

She raised her eye brows. If that was the case then what was with the scary expression and demon eyes that she may or may not have seen.

“You weren't... jealous... were you?” she asked in confusion

He looked at her. And she yelped softly, if looks could kill, she'd be in the bowls of hell.

“Stupid question!” she almost shouted “Sorry!” and looked away quickly. She truly didn't want to die today.

He smirked. It was the first time she had been afraid of him. What amused him the most was that she had been right and just hadn't realised it.

He began to glower again as he realised that was he was feeling was jealousy. Why was he jealous when the female did not belong to him?

There was that nagging voice at the back of his mind that was uttering the answer to this question. But he chose to ignore it; it had caused enough trouble for today.

A/N: I do not own Inuyasha and I bow down to Rumiko Takahashi.