InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Getting What He Deserves ❯ Sesshoumaru's Castle ( Chapter 2 )

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Getting What He Deserves

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Summary: The Inu gang comes across a set of youkai. Are they good or evil? Can one of them prove to be worth more than originally thought? And what of Naraku? What does he have up his sleeve? Kag/Fluffy, Sango/Miroku, Inu/OC

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Disclaimer: Oh how I would love to own Inuyasha... but I don’t so don’t turn me in for fraud:D

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Authors Note: Sorry that I'm an idiot and just realized today that sunday was two days ago lol

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Recap of Last Chapter:

“Are you ready Kagome-chan?” He questioned her.

“Yes Sesshoumaru-Sama.” Kagome answered. With that Sesshoumaru made a weird noise with his mouth and ah-un showed up. He helped Kagome onto the back of the great beast and then hopped on behind her. She waved to her two friends as she and Sesshoumaru headed off to the castle of the Western lands.

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Chapter Two: Sesshoumaru’s Castle

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Kagome was in awe of the castle that had appeared in front of her as she and Sesshoumaru neared the castle of the Western Lands. Inuyasha had once mentioned that the home he spent his first few years in was large, but she never could have guessed that it would have been this grand. It was nearly the size of a palace from present day Japan. It was much larger than any other home she had ever seen in her time. From her viewpoint she could clearly see the majority of the castle and knew off hand that it had four large towers, one residing in each corner of the castle, respectively.

As they approached the castle Ah-Un began to descend and was at a complete stand still in a matter of seconds. When the great beast came to a complete halt, Sesshoumaru gracefully slid off of the animal and then helped Kagome off of it’s back. He did nothing more than take her by the arm and escort her towards the room of young Rin.

Kagome followed obediently as Sesshoumaru guided her toward the room of the sickly young child. Neither had spoken a word since they had left Inuyasha, this not including gasps made while Ah-Un tested it’s luck with Kagome and heights. They continued on through the intertwining halls until they reached a room, Sesshoumaru then gently knocked on the door before he opened it. Upon entering the room, Kagome noticed the small unconscious child and a maid beside of the small girl.

The small girl in front of her was lying perfectly on the blankets of an already made bed. Her black hair was messy on the pillow, her skin a very pale white. She was dressed only in a feather-light nightgown. Kagome moved quickly toward the child and placed the back of her hand across the girls forehead. Her hand was pulled quickly away at the heat coming off of the body part she had previously been touching. She turned toward the maid whom was standing beside her.

“Do you think it would be possible to get a bowl of cold water and a cloth?” Kagome questioned the maid. The made in turn looked toward Sesshoumaru with an eyebrow perked and he looked at her skeptically.

“If she asks for it, woman, give it to her.” Sesshoumaru answered, his emotionless voice returning. The maid quickly left the room. Sesshoumaru turned back toward Kagome. “Do you know what’s wrong with her?”

“I’m not really sure. But I have an idea. We should look to see if she has a cut that’s infected. With as young as she is that could make her unconscious. That and her temperature is up really high. Will you help me look for a cut?” Kagome questioned turning to the taiyoukai who simply nodded his head in reply.

Kagome and Sesshoumaru began looking closely at the young girl. Kagome looked to the parts of her body that were uncovered. Her face, part of her chest, her arms and her feet up to her knees were all visible. There were no cuts that Kagome could see. Kagome then reached down and began to pull the little girls nightgown over her head, she didn’t notice Sesshoumaru’s movement until she turned to look at the door as the maid came walking back into the room. Sesshoumaru had turned around. Kagome had not thought about Sesshoumaru’s feelings on seeing his young ward with such a little amount of clothes on. The maid placed the bowl and cloth on the table beside Rin’s bed.

“You may go now Yumi.” Sesshoumaru said while looking at the maid. The maid quietly exited the room. Kagome went back to searching for a cut on Sesshoumaru’s ward. She pulled the nightgown up past the girls thighs, no cuts. When she continued to pull up the nightgown, she gasped at the girls exposed stomach. The Lord turned around at Kagome’s audible gasp and he to took a look of shock onto his face. On Rin’s stomach their was a large cut reaching from an inch below her belly button, moving upwards to the left and stopped just short of where, in a few years, she would harbor her breasts. The cut was red, the look of blood coming out at a few places. There was a greenish purple color that seemed to be illuminating from around the edges of her cut. After a few moments Sesshoumaru spoke again. “Can you help her?”

“I can try.” Kagome replied to the Lord. She turned back to Rin and decided to tackle the feat of the young child’s fever before she began her work on the cut. She stepped towards the table next to Rin’s bed and wet the cloth with the cold water then folded the cloth and placed it on Rin’s forehead. She then turned to the taiyoukai. “I don’t know how well this will work. I’m not even really sure if I can do it, but Lady Kaede once said I should be able to,” She then turned towards Rin and rubbed her hands together. “so, here goes everything.”

Kagome placed her hands on either side of the cut across the child’s stomach. She began to concentrate and a light pink light began to glow from her hands and move to the cut. The light was a soft glow, the cut was only healing slightly. Sesshoumaru walked over behind Kagome and placed his hand on her shoulder. With his touch the light became much stronger. The light immediately reached Rin’s cut and made the majority of the cut heal instantly. Sesshoumaru pulled his hand away from Kagome, shock applied on his face. “I wasn’t expecting that either.” Kagome replied as she turned to look at him. Without a moment’s notice the taiyoukai lunged himself toward Kagome and wrapped his arm around her in a hug.

“Thank you so much Kagome.” The taiyoukai smiled. Kagome began to wonder two things, the first being why her power was increased when Sesshoumaru touched her. The second being why he actually showed emotions to her. She was startled to say the least. Sesshoumaru soon pulled away from her.

“She’s not completely healed yet, you know that right?” Kagome questioned him as he ended the hug.

“Hai, I know, but you’ve done so much already in the little time that you’ve been here.” Sesshoumaru replied as a knock came on the door. “Come in.” He stated and a maid was revealed as the door opened.

“Sesshoumaru-Sama, you have a visitor.” The maid responded as she stood in the doorway.

“Kagome, I apologize but I’ve been waiting on this person for a few weeks now. I’ll be back to check on you two as soon as I finish.” Sesshoumaru said to her and then moved towards the door without any type of reply from Kagome She did however hear him talking as he walked down the hall. “Kagome is a guest Nami not a maid, she will be treated as such.”

Kagome went back to work at lowering the younger girls fever. Every ten or so minutes she would wring out the cloth, dip it back into the cold water and replace it on Rin’s forehead. This ritual continued until well into the night. As promised as soon as Sesshoumaru finished his business with his visitor he returned to check on the two ningens. When he came back into the bedroom of his young ward, she was asleep on her bed, unmoved from where she had been earlier that day. Kagome was sitting in a wooden chair next to Rin’s bed. He walked up behind Kagome, after a moment’s pause he realized that she was asleep. He knew that it must have been a really long day for her. He tackled the great feet of picking her up with his lone right arm and carried her to the room next to Rin’s and placed her in the bed. He looked down at the girl who had that very day brought a change to his life.

He knew that in the past few months he had began to soften. In all reality he had really began to soften the day that he brought Rin’s lifeless body back. Everyday since then he began to show emotions other than hatred and anger. But Kagome, Kagome brought out something that he couldn’t quite yet put his finger on. As he gazed at her sleeping form he shook his head trying to remove the thoughts that he was having. This was his brothers woman. Despite his hatred for his brother, he had began to warm up to Inuyasha upon learning more about their father. He now understood that he should not blame Inuyasha for his father caring more about Inuyasha than he did for Sesshoumaru. It was merely that his father loved Inuyasha’s mother, the human, she was the love of his life. Not Sesshoumaru’s youkai mother, and although he saw love as a weakness, he had came to understand his fathers reasons.

He had not yet in his life found a woman that he thought he would love or even so much as care about like Inuyasha did with Kagome, he did everything he could to protect her. He risked his own life for that of an ningen. There was one thing, however, that Sesshoumaru had that his brother did not possess. The love of a youji, and the love for that same child. Rin meant a lot to the Lord. No matter how much time he would spend denying it. She was the one behind the beginning of his change.

Sesshoumaru then decided that it would then be a good time to leave the room for fear of waking the sleeping Kagome. He exited her room softly and began the walk toward his own room in the castle. It was time that he invest in some much needed sleep.

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The Next Morning

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Kagome had woken up the next morning to a maid shaking her awake. She then told her that she had drawn Kagome a bath. Kagome then took her bath as the maid, that she remembered as Yumi, requested and then she dressed and went to Rin’s room to check on how the young girl was doing. As she entered the room, she heard talking.

“Rin is feeling much better Sesshoumaru-Sama.” A young female voice was heard.

“And Sesshoumaru is happy to hear that Rin.” Sesshoumaru’s voice replied as they came into Kagome’s view. Sesshoumaru was sitting in the chair that Kagome had been sleeping in the night before. Sesshoumaru turned around to see her entering the room. “Ohayo Kagome.”

“Ohayo Sesshoumaru-Sama.” Kagome replied.

“Come here Kagome.” Sesshoumaru said while motioning the young miko to come towards him and Rin. She did as requested. As she reached the edge of the bed she saw the young girl from the night before except she had more color to her skin this time than before. That and she was sitting up in her bed, talking to Sesshoumaru. “Kagome this is Rin, my ward. Rin this is Kagome, she’s the one who’s been healing you.”

At the end of Sesshoumaru’s words, Rin immediately jumped up from where she was sitting and threw her arms around Kagome in a hug. “Arigato domo Kagome-chan.”

“Mam demo nai Rin-chan.” Kagome stated while hugging the young child back. She could not help but noticed the laughter that was showing in Sesshoumaru’s eyes as he watched the exchange between his two ningens. ‘Nai Sesshoumaru, not your ningens. Rin is yours, hai, but Kagome belongs to Inuyasha. No matter how much you wish it weren’t so.’ Sesshoumaru really was beginning to wonder what was coming over him. He felt compassion for Kagome. He wanted to keep her safe, he wanted to protect her. Most of all, he wanted to keep her to himself.

Kagome pulled away from the young child and placed the back on her hand on Rin’s forehead, as she had done the day before. Her temperature was down by a lot. In fact Kagome would guess that it was nearly normal again. She then looked at the young girl. “How is you cut healing Rin-chan?” Kagome questioned while holding the girl at an arms length.

“It’s almost gone! Wanna see?” Rin asked her, there was a brightness in her eyes. Kagome nodded her head and Sesshoumaru turned around as he had the night before. Rin pulled her nightgown up and showed Kagome the cut across her stomach. It was almost gone, just as the youji had said.

“That’s looking really good.” Kagome replied and Rin smiled brightly and started nodding her head as she dropped her nightgown back to it’s regular position. “How long had she been unconscious?” Kagome questioned, turning toward the taiyoukai.

“About four days.” Sesshoumaru replied. He then turned back around and facing the ningens.

“Why don’t we get her dressed and take her outside so that she can get some fresh air.” Kagome suggested to the taiyoukai.

“Okay. I’ll go call for Yumi.” Sesshoumaru began to get up but Kagome stopped him.

“I can change her if you’d like.” Kagome said making the taiyoukai turn around startled. Surely she knew that there were people who were assigned to take care of young Rin. “It’s not that big of a deal really.”

“She is in Yumi’s care, not yours.” Sesshoumaru said continuing to remove himself from the seat that he was in and walk towards the door. ‘She is willing to help though. Maybe if she gets attached to Rin, she’ll want to stay here and not go back to Inuyasha. At least not as soon.’ “But, you know what. Perhaps you can handle the task on your own. I’ll be waiting outside the door. If you need any help, let me know.” He replied and then walked out through the heavy wooden door. Kagome looked at Rin after Sesshoumaru had closed the door.

“Anything particular that you would like to wear?” Kagome asked the young girl who was before her, jumping on her bed, I might add. Rin nodded her head furiously then jumped off of the bed and ran to a closet at the end of her room and opened the sliding door. She pulled out the hem of a piece of clothing, clinging to the fabric. Kagome walked toward the young girl with a bright smile on her face. She reached up to the hanger of the garment and pulled it out of the closet. “You want to wear this?” Kagome questioned.

“Hai, Rin wants to wear that Kagome-chan.” Rin said excitedly. Kagome looked at what she held in her hand. It was a simple child’s kimono. It was colored brightly with a yellow and green checkered pattern on it. Kagome smiled and turned toward the cute youji.

“Well then, this is what you’ll wear.” Kagome said while taking the kimono off of it’s hanger and draping it over her arm. She walked back over toward Rin’s bed with Rin following close behind her. When she reached the bed she laid the kimono on the bed and then turned to Rin. “Let’s get this nightgown off shall we?” Kagome questioned Rin.

“Hai, Kagome-chan!” Rin said excitedly and reached her arms up into the air. Kagome smiled, she realized that this youji must have been quite a handful. She never would have been able to guess how Sesshoumaru would have been able to keep up with her. Kagome reached down and pulled the nightgown off of Rin and then laid it on the bed next to the colorful kimono and then picked the kimono up and put it on the eager youji. She tied it tightly and then looked down at the young girl.

“Are we ready then?” Kagome asked Rin and as a reply Rin grabbed Kagome’s hand and took a run for the door, pulling Kagome behind her. Once Rin had opened the door she ran out of the door and began to run down the hallway when a voice stopped her.

“Are you leaving without me Rin?” Sesshoumaru smiled from beside the door of her bedroom. She turned around and ran back to Sesshoumaru, this time, however, she had thankfully let go of Kagome’s hand and she ran by herself to the taiyoukai. She ran over to him and wrapped her frail arms around his legs and he smiled down at her and patted her on the head.

And this from a man who isn’t supposed to have any feelings. He cares about her. I can really see it now.’ Kagome smiled in thought to herself. Before long Sesshoumaru and Rin walked up to her.

“So, shall we go to the garden?” Sesshoumaru asked to Rin while looking toward Kagome to make sure that it was okay with her. At least that’s what it seemed like he was doing, after all, why would he need Kagome’s permission to do something in his own home.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” Rin replied and grabbed Sesshoumaru’s hand and began running with him like she had with Kagome earlier.

“Rin I know you’re excited but you do not need to hasten. We will get there soon enough.” The taiyoukai smiled at Rin as she turned red and muttered an apology. The three of them began walking through the castle on their way to the gardens, so that Rin could play.

Once they reached the gardens Rin let go of Sesshoumaru’s hand and ran off to play in the gardens by herself. She could be seen chasing butterflies and other insects as the two adults stood by and watched. That is until Sesshoumaru spoke.

“Come sit with me Kagome.” The taiyoukai said suddenly, his voice slightly frightening her. She looked towards him to notice that he was motioning her to sit on a bench near where they had been standing. She took his words as more of a command than a question and she did as he had requested. The two of them sat down on the bench, she on his right side. “I wanted to talk to you about a few things.”

“Ano... okay.” Kagome replied looking toward the taiyoukai.

“Kagome, I wanted to thank you again for healing Rin. I know that most people wouldn’t see it as a big deal as she has already been resurrected once but, I don’t really know that if the Tenseiga will work twice on the same person, so I thank you greatly.” Sesshoumaru said while only once taking his eyes off of Kagome, and this was due to a squeal that came from Rin.

“It was no problem Sesshoumaru-sama. She really is an enchanting child.” Kagome replied being honest with the Lord. Rin was an amazing little girl.

“I also wanted to apologize to you.” Sesshoumaru stated and Kagome stared at him strangely. She did not know for what reason he should be apologizing. “I want to apologize for the way that I have treated you in the past. I must say that in the past few years I have changed a great deal, but most recently when Jaken found a letter from my father that was addressed to me. He told me a lot of things about who I am, my mother, and even Inuyasha.” Sesshoumaru then told Kagome of the things he had mused in his mind the night before as he watched her sleep. Well he did leave out the part about not finding the love of his life, but he didn’t think that saying such things to Kagome would be a good idea at that moment in time. After the taiyoukai had finished the retelling of his musings he paused so that Kagome could speak. She had a questioning look on her face as she opened her mouth and began to speak.

“I don’t mean to be rude Sesshoumaru-sama, I mean it is great that you’re learning to open your heart, but why tell me all of these things?” Kagome questioned him as he finally removed his gaze from her face and it seemed as though he was looking past her into the beyond as he answered her.

“Because Kagome, you have a pure heart. You would not judge me for my new-found feelings. You would not laugh at me for having those feelings either. And for some reason, beyond my knowledge, I trust you.” The taiyoukai said still looking past her face.

“I am honored Sesshoumaru-sama.” Kagome smiled, at that moment he looked vulnerable. The most that he had ever had. She actually felt a connection with him. ‘He actually looks even more amazing than Inuyasha. He’s beautiful in all reality. I can’t believe that a few words of feeling from a youkai could make me start to have feelings for him. Wait, what feelings? You don’t have feelings for him Kagome. Hai, hai you do. “But you shouldn’t fear having feelings. We all have them, and some of them are completely wonderful.” Kagome said as he began to look back at her. In a moment of weakness Sesshoumaru honestly considered kissing her, but he decided against it.

“Kagome, would you like to stay with Rin and I for the rest of the week. Just to make sure that she’s okay.” He added quickly to cover up that fact that he really had wanted her to stay there longer.

“Sure, but Inuyasha promised to come and get me at the end of a week. And you can bet that he will.” Kagome replied while looking away from Sesshoumaru. How could she have forgotten about Inuyasha. Sure, she didn’t love him anymore. That was something that she had gotten over a while ago, but he was her best friend. How could she harbor romantic feelings for her best friends half-brother, and a youkai at that. It just didn’t make sense.

“That’s a good thing Kagome. I needed to talk to him anyway. The visitor I had last night was a messenger of the Lord of the Eastern lands. He is holding a ball in celebration of a new prince’s birth. Naturally all the family’s of the taiyoukai are invited. And seeing as how family margins to the taiyoukai even extend to those whom are not youkai, this would include my hanyou brother.” Sesshoumaru said while looking out toward Rin where she was playing with a purple butterfly. “I ask that you’ll convince him to go. He really needs to start being more involved with the taiyoukai. He is a prince after all. He is of royal birth, no matter how much he denies it.” Kagome laughed lightly and Sesshoumaru turned back towards her.

“Only if he carried himself like Royalty.” Kagome smiled.

“I’m afraid Kagome, that if he carried himself like Royalty, you would not be alive today. My half-brother might be a hanyou, but he has more power than most youkai that I know.” Sesshoumaru replied.

“You really are starting to have feelings.” Kagome joked. “I’ll talk to him for you though. He should be okay with it.”

“Arigato Kagome.” Sesshoumaru smiled and he and Kagome sat silently watching Rin play in the gardens.

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Authors Note: I really hope you guys liked this chapter better than the first one.

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Chapter Quotes:

Sesshoumaru walked over behind Kagome and placed his hand on her shoulder. With his touch the light became much stronger. -- Everyone should ponder over this... it might be significant... it might not :D

Without a moment’s notice the taiyoukai lunged himself toward Kagome and wrapped his arm around her in a hug. -- I thought that this was kinda sexy.. Ya know.. In a non-sex way... yeah...

“Are you leaving without me Rin?” -- I thought this was kinda funny... I don’t know... maybe it’s not...