InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Himitsu ❯ Secretly Vulnerable ( Chapter 27 )

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Title: Secretly Vulnerable.

Author: aimee_blue

Prompt: Grass [drabble#90]

Words: 300

Rating: T

Genre: humour/ romance

Summary: Kagome is concerned where she shouldn't be, but her concern leads her to a revelation.

Kagome glared at the empty desk and mulled over the whereabouts of her co-worker with more worry than was strictly necessary. Biting her lip, she frowned and made up her mind; she'd go and check Sesshoumaru was alright... but not because she was worried.

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Kagome rapped lightly on Sesshoumaru's door and pressed her ear against the wood, listening for sounds of movement.

Jumping back as the door opened, she grinned sheepishly at the bleary looking Sesshoumaru.

He blinked languidly at her, running a hand through sleep-tussled silver locks merely making his hair more unruly than before.

“Are you ill?”

“Yes.”

“Do you feel sick?”

“Yes.”

“Have you been sick?”

“No.”

“Would grass help?”

“I am not a dog,” he scoffed, turning his head to cough for a moment; he turned back to her with flushed cheeks and a vulnerable expression that he tried hard to mask.

“Can I come in?”

“If you must,” he turned and loped back over to the sofa where he reclaimed his former position wrapped in a veritable blanket fortress.

He looked kind of cute. Sat there, wrapped in so many blankets that only golden eyes, a pale blue crescent moon, fluffy silver hair and tips of pointed ears were visible.

She ransacked the kitchen and the bathroom, returning with a bowl of soup and a cold cloth for his forehead.

He submitted to her attentions with a sigh of acquiescence and she wilfully took up position beside him on the sofa.

Soon after, golden eyes drooped shut and she smiled as he fell asleep, leaning his head against her shoulder.

“Don't tell anyone,” she whispered as he snuffled his face into her hair and she ran her finger along the point of one fey ear, “but I think you're kind of cute like this.”