InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Himitsu ❯ Secret Playmates ( Chapter 13 )
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By: nowyouseemenowyoudont 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.12.2010 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 422 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.12.2010 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 422 | Status: Work In Progress
Title: Secret Playmates
Author: aimee_blue
Rating: T
Prompt: Beginner's Luck (Oneshott#41)
Genre: Humour/Romance
Wordcount: 1,270
Warnings: None
Summary: Continues from my `Crutch' drabble Secret Pastimes. Sesshoumaru runs into Kagome and she begins to suspect it isn't a mere coincidence whilst Sesshoumaru makes a new friend.
Kagome barrelled into the hospital waiting room like the shinigami themselves were bearing down on her heels. Crashing into the reception desk, she pinned the poor nurse with a gimlet stare.
“Where are Rin and Mee Higurashi?” she growled menacingly.
“Um... who are you?” he asked in a tiny voice.
“I'm—” Kagome was cut off by a cry of relief before someone crashed into her side, nearly knocking her down onto the linoleum floor.
“Kagome!”
Kagome blinked down at Mee who, even though Kagome was only five foot two, was dwarfed by Kagome's frame. Mee was a tiny woman, bottle-sized, and completely bewilderingly hyperactive unless she was upset. And right now she was beyond upset.
“Mee? What happened?” she asked frantically.
She began to babble as if she couldn't help herself “Rin... it's Rin, she ran out into the road because of that nasty dog that lives opposite us growled at her, she got clipped by a passing car.” her soft chocolate eyes wide and panicked, her usually light Cantonese accent rapidly becoming more pronounced in the face of her grief.
“Mee!” Kagome barked and Mee's body snapped to attention automatically “Is Rin okay?”
“Yes, the doctors... the doctors say...” and that was all they wrote for Mee as she swayed on the spot and fainted into Kagome.
Kagome caught her and groaned under the weight as she waited for the nurses to get themselves in gear and help her with the poor tired woman. At a guess Kagome could assume Mee hadn't eaten in a while nor had she probably had water in quite some time. Amaya was fragile at the best of times and now was certainly not the best of times.
Once they got Mee propped in a bed and confirmed she was simply exhausted, Kagome gently stroked Mee's short elfin crop from her eyes before she set off to find Rin.
The children's ward was gaudily wrapped and even more depressing than the corridors she had traversed to get there.
Turning a corner, she artfully dodged a small child in a wheelchair being pushed by a nurse, only to bounce off a hard chest and sprawl across the linoleum flooring on the rebound. She blew her hair out of her resolutely closed eyes and wondered if the world would mind if she just stayed there wallowing for a while.
“Are you going to just lie there?” Sesshoumaru's unmistakable voice intoned.
Cracking open one eye she peered up at the formidable shape of Sesshoumaru, he was blocking out the light and casting her into shadow with the way he stood over her. She was startled to notice he had a hand outstretched to help her up.
She eyed the hand distrustfully; those claws were awful sharp, and she wasn't sure he wouldn't drop her halfway up. He rolled his eyes and yanked her to her feet by her elbows before dusting the stunned woman of the invisible dust he seemed to believe she had accumulated.
She jerked out of reach and frowned at him suspiciously “Are you stalking me?”
“You sound hopeful,” he mocked.
She glowered at him. “What are you doing here then?”
“I help fund this hospital,” he frowned, “they are building a new wing and I came to look in on proceedings.”
“You were at your brother's wedding reception, remember? Why'd you suddenly decide to just `drop by'?” she was incredulous.
“When the sole reason for attending a party is gone, the party is over,” he pointed out. Besides, his brother had been irking him with yet more accusations of stalking.
“And I'm the sole reason you went to your own brother's wedding reception?”
“Yes,” he deadpanned.
She rolled her eyes. “You're possibly insane, you know that, right?”
He shrugged in a blasé fashion and she resisted the somewhat bizarre urge to muss up his perfect hair.
“Why are you here?” he queried.
She froze; she hadn't been looking forward to this inquiry.
“I'm... visiting a friend,” she muttered tucking a wayward strand of hair behind her ear.
“Why do you seem so uncomfortable?” he asked astutely.
She frowned and bit her lip, shifting her weight from her left to her right foot in little jostling movements that tangled her hair. She looked like a child denied the right to go to the toilet and he smirked at her uneasiness.
“I'm not... it's just...”
“Kagome-Obasan?” a small voice called out and they twirled to glance through the doors of the next ward. Kagome's expression bloomed into a smile as she saw Rin laying on one of the hospital beds, her left leg ensconced in plaster from the knee down.
“Rin-chan!” Kagome exclaimed, hurrying over to her bedside and settling Rin back into the bed fussing over the blankets and pushing her chestnut locks from her trusting hazel eyes.
“Look Kagome-Obasan!” Rin enthused “It's pink!” she gestured at her cast in rapt seven-year-old delight.
“It is,” Kagome agreed solemnly, forgetting about the Taiyokai lurking in the door way - she would deal with him later. “Are you okay?”
Rin nodded happily. “It hurt a lot but the doctor made it go away,” she confessed.
“Here,” Kagome fished around in her bag “I brought you this.” She handed Rin her phone; the child was addicted to one of the games on it where the aim was to shoot down aliens.
The child took hold of the phone happily before gazing shrewdly around her aunt at the watching demon lord.
“Is he your boyfriend?” Rin asked, innocently enough.
Kagome choked on air and shook her head vehemently. “Of course not!” she gasped.
“Higurashi-san?” a nurse chose this moment to poke her head around the doorframe.
“Yes?” Kagome jumped to her feet, concern etched on her features.
“Higurashi Mee-san has woken up, if you'd come with me?”
Kagome frowned at Sesshoumaru for a moment “Rin-chan, please make sure he doesn't get into any trouble, kay?”
Rin giggled and Sesshoumaru smirked as she departed... until he realised he was now in a room with a human child. He'd never been this close to a human child before and found himself at a loss as to what he should do.
Rin, on the other hand, was completely unfazed. “Do you want a go?” she asked, a sincere lilt to her tone, holding the phone out to the Taiyokai stood statue-like at the foot of her bed.
***
Kagome sighed as she made her way back to the room Rin occupied, Mee was fine, just dozing again and she had been given the okay to take Rin home.
She stepped into the room and almost laughed in shock at the sight that greeted her.
Sesshoumaru was sat next to Rin on the bed, holding the phone and obviously concentrating; his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth. Rin was pointing at the screen of the device and, every now and then telling him to `shoot' or `go left'.
She appeared to be having fun, at least, and Kagome smiled at the feeling it gave her; these two would be good friends.
“No way!” Rin gasped as the phone chirped a small fanfare; announcing the game was over
“I beat you.” Kagome rolled her eyes at the superior connotations to his tone. Was he really smug about beating a seven-year-old?
Rin frowned at him and wrinkled up her nose “Beginner's Luck!” she exclaimed.
He frowned at her. “Luck had nothing to do with it.” he loftily proclaimed.
“Then I challenge you!” she declared.
A competitive light sparked in his eyes and he inclined his head, accepting her challenge. “Very well.”
Author: aimee_blue
Rating: T
Prompt: Beginner's Luck (Oneshott#41)
Genre: Humour/Romance
Wordcount: 1,270
Warnings: None
Summary: Continues from my `Crutch' drabble Secret Pastimes. Sesshoumaru runs into Kagome and she begins to suspect it isn't a mere coincidence whilst Sesshoumaru makes a new friend.
Kagome barrelled into the hospital waiting room like the shinigami themselves were bearing down on her heels. Crashing into the reception desk, she pinned the poor nurse with a gimlet stare.
“Where are Rin and Mee Higurashi?” she growled menacingly.
“Um... who are you?” he asked in a tiny voice.
“I'm—” Kagome was cut off by a cry of relief before someone crashed into her side, nearly knocking her down onto the linoleum floor.
“Kagome!”
Kagome blinked down at Mee who, even though Kagome was only five foot two, was dwarfed by Kagome's frame. Mee was a tiny woman, bottle-sized, and completely bewilderingly hyperactive unless she was upset. And right now she was beyond upset.
“Mee? What happened?” she asked frantically.
She began to babble as if she couldn't help herself “Rin... it's Rin, she ran out into the road because of that nasty dog that lives opposite us growled at her, she got clipped by a passing car.” her soft chocolate eyes wide and panicked, her usually light Cantonese accent rapidly becoming more pronounced in the face of her grief.
“Mee!” Kagome barked and Mee's body snapped to attention automatically “Is Rin okay?”
“Yes, the doctors... the doctors say...” and that was all they wrote for Mee as she swayed on the spot and fainted into Kagome.
Kagome caught her and groaned under the weight as she waited for the nurses to get themselves in gear and help her with the poor tired woman. At a guess Kagome could assume Mee hadn't eaten in a while nor had she probably had water in quite some time. Amaya was fragile at the best of times and now was certainly not the best of times.
Once they got Mee propped in a bed and confirmed she was simply exhausted, Kagome gently stroked Mee's short elfin crop from her eyes before she set off to find Rin.
The children's ward was gaudily wrapped and even more depressing than the corridors she had traversed to get there.
Turning a corner, she artfully dodged a small child in a wheelchair being pushed by a nurse, only to bounce off a hard chest and sprawl across the linoleum flooring on the rebound. She blew her hair out of her resolutely closed eyes and wondered if the world would mind if she just stayed there wallowing for a while.
“Are you going to just lie there?” Sesshoumaru's unmistakable voice intoned.
Cracking open one eye she peered up at the formidable shape of Sesshoumaru, he was blocking out the light and casting her into shadow with the way he stood over her. She was startled to notice he had a hand outstretched to help her up.
She eyed the hand distrustfully; those claws were awful sharp, and she wasn't sure he wouldn't drop her halfway up. He rolled his eyes and yanked her to her feet by her elbows before dusting the stunned woman of the invisible dust he seemed to believe she had accumulated.
She jerked out of reach and frowned at him suspiciously “Are you stalking me?”
“You sound hopeful,” he mocked.
She glowered at him. “What are you doing here then?”
“I help fund this hospital,” he frowned, “they are building a new wing and I came to look in on proceedings.”
“You were at your brother's wedding reception, remember? Why'd you suddenly decide to just `drop by'?” she was incredulous.
“When the sole reason for attending a party is gone, the party is over,” he pointed out. Besides, his brother had been irking him with yet more accusations of stalking.
“And I'm the sole reason you went to your own brother's wedding reception?”
“Yes,” he deadpanned.
She rolled her eyes. “You're possibly insane, you know that, right?”
He shrugged in a blasé fashion and she resisted the somewhat bizarre urge to muss up his perfect hair.
“Why are you here?” he queried.
She froze; she hadn't been looking forward to this inquiry.
“I'm... visiting a friend,” she muttered tucking a wayward strand of hair behind her ear.
“Why do you seem so uncomfortable?” he asked astutely.
She frowned and bit her lip, shifting her weight from her left to her right foot in little jostling movements that tangled her hair. She looked like a child denied the right to go to the toilet and he smirked at her uneasiness.
“I'm not... it's just...”
“Kagome-Obasan?” a small voice called out and they twirled to glance through the doors of the next ward. Kagome's expression bloomed into a smile as she saw Rin laying on one of the hospital beds, her left leg ensconced in plaster from the knee down.
“Rin-chan!” Kagome exclaimed, hurrying over to her bedside and settling Rin back into the bed fussing over the blankets and pushing her chestnut locks from her trusting hazel eyes.
“Look Kagome-Obasan!” Rin enthused “It's pink!” she gestured at her cast in rapt seven-year-old delight.
“It is,” Kagome agreed solemnly, forgetting about the Taiyokai lurking in the door way - she would deal with him later. “Are you okay?”
Rin nodded happily. “It hurt a lot but the doctor made it go away,” she confessed.
“Here,” Kagome fished around in her bag “I brought you this.” She handed Rin her phone; the child was addicted to one of the games on it where the aim was to shoot down aliens.
The child took hold of the phone happily before gazing shrewdly around her aunt at the watching demon lord.
“Is he your boyfriend?” Rin asked, innocently enough.
Kagome choked on air and shook her head vehemently. “Of course not!” she gasped.
“Higurashi-san?” a nurse chose this moment to poke her head around the doorframe.
“Yes?” Kagome jumped to her feet, concern etched on her features.
“Higurashi Mee-san has woken up, if you'd come with me?”
Kagome frowned at Sesshoumaru for a moment “Rin-chan, please make sure he doesn't get into any trouble, kay?”
Rin giggled and Sesshoumaru smirked as she departed... until he realised he was now in a room with a human child. He'd never been this close to a human child before and found himself at a loss as to what he should do.
Rin, on the other hand, was completely unfazed. “Do you want a go?” she asked, a sincere lilt to her tone, holding the phone out to the Taiyokai stood statue-like at the foot of her bed.
***
Kagome sighed as she made her way back to the room Rin occupied, Mee was fine, just dozing again and she had been given the okay to take Rin home.
She stepped into the room and almost laughed in shock at the sight that greeted her.
Sesshoumaru was sat next to Rin on the bed, holding the phone and obviously concentrating; his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth. Rin was pointing at the screen of the device and, every now and then telling him to `shoot' or `go left'.
She appeared to be having fun, at least, and Kagome smiled at the feeling it gave her; these two would be good friends.
“No way!” Rin gasped as the phone chirped a small fanfare; announcing the game was over
“I beat you.” Kagome rolled her eyes at the superior connotations to his tone. Was he really smug about beating a seven-year-old?
Rin frowned at him and wrinkled up her nose “Beginner's Luck!” she exclaimed.
He frowned at her. “Luck had nothing to do with it.” he loftily proclaimed.
“Then I challenge you!” she declared.
A competitive light sparked in his eyes and he inclined his head, accepting her challenge. “Very well.”