InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Special delivery ❯ Where do we go from here? ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 5: Where do we go from here?

A/N: From now on, I think the chapters are going to be longer.

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Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, Sesshy and Kagura would be happily mated and working on silver haired baby number three by now… Also I don’t own the movie Pretty woman, but I do have the DVD. Ha!



“Talking”
‘Thoughts’


Sesshoumaru was sure he was going to regret his decision, but as he took in the pitiful picture of Kagura, her daughter and their bags lying on the snow covered ground was giving, he knew did not really have any other choice.

“You said you did not have a place to stay” he suddenly said to the wind witch. Kagura looked surprised by his inquiry, but did not answer.

‘If Inuyasha saw me, he would be having the fun of his life. The idiot would certainly remark that some of father’s… compassion has been passed on to me as well.’ The dog demon told himself disgust rising inside him.

“I see” Sesshoumaru breathed out. He could easily tell that the answer to his question was “no”.

“Come” The dog demon said as he turned his back to the two demoness.

“Where?” Kagura asked in apprehension.

“To my penthouse” Sesshoumaru answered as if it were the most natural thing I the world before once more turning around to face Kagura.

Kagura looked at Sesshoumaru as if he had grown a second head. She breathed in deeply, which earned another throb from the bruise in her flank.

‘What is wrong with that guy?!’ She wondered in shock as she looked over Sesshoumaru’s cold face.

“Kanna-chan, can you cover your ears for mommy? Just for a few seconds, okay?” Kagura told her daughter while thinking ‘I seriously need to learn how to curse less’.

It did not take long for the pale blond infant to obey her mother. She knew that every time Kagura was about to say “bad words” or get really angry at someone and start screaming, then her mother would ask her to cover her ears.

“Okay, now I really appreciate you helping me back there with Naraku and all, but this is going too far. I don’t know what idea you have of me, even if I came to you place yesterday, it was because of my shitty job, but I am not the kind of girl who…” Kagura started protesting.

“Do you have a place to stay?” Sesshoumaru interrupted her to ask again with a tired sigh.

Kagura blushed red. She had nowhere to go, but she intended to find a place. She did not want to rely on Sesshoumaru more than she already had. Her crimson eyes strayed downwards when she heard her daughter cough.

‘Damn and I thought that had eased. Looks like I’ll probably need to buy cold medicine’ Kagura thought biting her bottom lip.

Pushing away the problem of Kanna’s health for a little while, and deciding to focus instead on the dog demon, the wind sorceress looked straight into his golden eyes.

“Thanks for the concern, but I don't need your help. I will find something” Kagura said, pride and determination burning in her crimson eyes. She had always been an independent and resourceful woman, so she was sure she would eventually manage to find a place to stay until she could go through with her original plan.

Thinking about how everything she had previously planned had been ruined because of the demon standing in front of her enraged the wind sorceress.

‘If Sesshoumaru had not turned me down yesterday, and if he had not gotten me fired this morning, Naraku wouldn’t have been pissed off to begin with. Then I would have been able to simply go through with my plan and everything would have been perfect.’ Kagura thought with a frown.

‘Then again it’s not like it’s his fault really. It’s a miracle Tsubaki didn’t fire me before…Not to mention that Naraku would find any reason to attack me, so the fact that Sesshoumaru turned me down yesterday wasn’t really a catalyst for what just happened, not that I’d ever admit that to that pompous bastard. In any case what’s the worse that could happen if I spent the night over at his place? Had he wanted to chop me down to pieces and store me in his freezer, he would have done so yesterday night, with no witnesses present…’ Glad to have found a temporary solution, the wind sorceress nodded.

“IF I was to accept, we'd first have to get a few things cleared up . First of all, if you’ve got some sort of “Pretty Woman” fantasy going on, you better forget all about it. I’m not Julia Roberts and I don’t need rescuing.” Kagura informed him raising her chin in defiance.

“This Sesshoumaru was not offering any form of rescuing” He retorted. ‘If not then what was I offering…’ He wondered confused and even more unnerved by his own behavior.

“Well, I guessed as much, you sure as hell don’t look like a knight in shining armor like Richard Gere did. Secondly despite whatever might have happened yesterday, if you lay a finger on me I’ll break it.” The wind sorceress glared, but to her annoyance only looked up to see Sesshoumaru’s golden eyes lit up in an expression akin to amusement. She scoffed at his lack of fear or concern.

“And finally I only need a place to stay for tonight. I have a friend I can talk to tomorrow, I’m sure she’ll let me crash at her place” Kagura said. Not wanting to see Sesshoumaru’s reaction at her admission of defeat, she crouched down to lower Kanna’s hands from her small ears.

“Do not flatter yourself. This Sesshoumaru feels no attraction towards you whatsoever. Not to mention that I did not intend to extend my offer beyond tonight” He informed her with a haughty glance

“So now hat you stated your ludicrous 'laws', have you made your choice?” He asked, trying not to sound as cold as before. The dog demon then unlocked the doors of his car.

The wind sorceress resisted the urge to growl in anger. She eyed the inside of Sesshoumaru's warm looking car.

'Okay this time he wins. The bastard's right, it's not like I really have any other alternative.' The demoness thought as she crouched down to help her daughter settle in the backseat of Sesshoumaru’s car. As hard as he tried, the dog demon could not prevent his gaze from drifting towards her backside, which was exposed to him in a nice light as Kagura was hunched over.

‘No attraction? Who am I kidding?’ He thought to himself letting out a groan of despair.


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“This is so awkward” Kagura muttered under her breath as she stepped into Sesshoumaru’s penthouse. The wind sorceress had a hard time believing that just the day before she had come there for her work. She did happily smile at the prospect that she no longer would have to do this job. Kagura hated being an escort; every time she was sent out on a job she cursed Naraku.

‘Then again it did tough me up. I lost count of the number of bastards I had to beat up, when they failed to understand that I was only going to accompany them to dinner, and not sleep with them.’ The wind sorceress’s smug smile did disappear when she remembered the way Naraku would repay her tenfold for any blow she had given one of her “clients”. ‘Anyway it’s not like I always had the choice or the opportunity to fend these guys off every time’ she thought feeling a sense of disgust wash over her.

After shaking her head to rid herself of these negatives and scary thoughts, the wind witch pressed a small kiss to the pale blond head of Kanna, and tightened the hold she had on the demon child.

‘Naraku can’t touch us anymore we’re safe now.’ The wind sorceress then thought cheerfully. Even if she did not want, she could not help but add ‘all thanks to Sesshoumaru.’

Sesshoumaru sat on his couch and silently followed with his piercing golden eyes the wind sorceress as she walked around his apartment, as if making sure that she was really there. As he looked at the way Kagura’s arms were tightly encircling her daughter, Sesshoumaru idly wondered if she was afraid of him or if she suffering from shock due to her altercation with Naraku earlier.

“Witch you can put your child down. I assure you the carpet will not swallow her” The dog demon could not help but remark as he turned on his laptop to check his email.

“I need to feed Kanna. I just have to warm up the food I put together earlier; you do have a microwave right?” The wind sorceress asked her ‘host’ through clenched teeth, a dark scowl on her face. She really had not enjoyed his earlier jab, but she was grateful for him taking her in for the night, and knew she therefore had to play nice.

Without answering her, Sesshoumaru raised his hand and indicated towards the corridor. The dog demon then started furiously typing up an answer to his brother’s email about an advertising campaign for one of their most faithful clients, a soda company.

Rolling her eyes at the way Sesshoumaru was barely paying attention to her, the wind sorceress gently deposited Kanna on the ground, hissing at the pain on her side, before plunging her hand in the backpack she had brought along. She quickly retrieved the dinner she had quickly put together for Kanna before walking towards the kitchen. Kagura was glad that despite the usual lack of food in Naraku’s house, she had been able to come up with something for her daughter to eat. After all she was at the time she finished packing, not sure where she would have to spend the night, and making sure that at least Kanna something to eat was a priority for her.

Kagura easily found the kitchen, but could not hold back a gasp of shock as she entered. Despite its beautiful state of the art appliances and spacious counters, the kitchen was a real... mess. After seeing the clutter around the dog demon’s living room, she had already guessed that he was not the most organized person, but for someone who loved cooking as Kagura did, seeing the messy kitchen was a pity.

“It’s such a waste to have all these great appliances and not even use them…” Kagura trailed off, tracing with the tip of her right index finger the outline of a very expensive looking food processor, settled on one of the kitchen counters. The fact that the appliance still had a price tag on it, had not escaped her keen eye. Shaking her head as she remembered that whatever the dog demon wanted to do with his kitchen was none of her business, the wind sorceress rummaged through the cupboards.

After emptying Kanna’s dinner in a plate, and tossing with a grimace in the trashcan the empty Chinese take out boxes preventing her access to the microwave, Kagura heated her daughter’s food.

As usual Kanna quickly and without fuss eagerly ate her dinner, which was composed of fish sticks and a side of rice. Not being able to resist Kagura washed the dishes piled up and abandoned in the kitchen sink, shaking her head in dismay.

“You’d think that a guy like him, who looks all clean cut, prim and proper would be less messy…” Kagura hissed as she dried her hands on a kitchen towel.

Turning around to look at Kanna who was looking up at her mother in silence, the wind sorceress simply smiled. She could not remember when had been the last time that she had simply felt this relaxed.

‘I still can’t believe we truly escaped Naraku’s clutches’ Kagura told herself with a thoughtful frown. Kanna coughing before yawning loudly shook Kagura out of her straying thoughts.

“Looks like somebody’s ready for bed” The wind sorceress said aloud as she scooped up her daughter. She rocked her daughter’s small body from side to side and gently hummed.

Feeling the warm and comforting embrace of her mother’s arms, and the gentle swaying motion she loved, Kanna did not take long to fall asleep.

“So what are the sleeping arrangements going to be?” Kagura asked her host as she walked back into the living room.

Sesshoumaru looked up at her in silence. The wind sorceress was holding her daughter in her arms. As he took notice of the fact that Kanna seemed to be profoundly sleeping, the dog demon quickly made his decision.

“You can put her in the master bedroom” He said as he moved his laptop from his thighs to the coffee table placed in front of him.

“When you’re done” Sesshoumaru called over to the wind sorceress who was retreating towards the bedroom, “I will take a look at your injury” He added pointing towards her left side.

“Oh that it’s nothing” Kagura lied. She was in reality really hurt and every simple movement made her feel a throb in her side.

“If there is one thing this Sesshoumaru does not tolerate it is lies” He informed her matter-of-factly.

“Fine, we’ll deal with it later on” Kagura said with a tired sigh.


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The dark haired demoness did her best to fight both the blush she could feel coming on her cheeks and the hiss of pain she wanted to let out.

“Do not move” The dog demon warned his guest, as she squirmed slightly.

Unfazed by the sharp glare Kagura was throwing him, Sesshoumaru once more reached towards Kagura’s injured flank. With steady hands he slightly hitched up the hem of Kagura’s dark red sweater and revealed her pasty soft looking skin to his eager eyes. But just as the male demon wondered how soft the pale texture would feel under his fingers, he hitched her sweater higher and revealed her heavily bruised ribs to his shocked gaze.

‘As I initially thought she is so thin that I can see the outline of her ribs’ The dog demon thought as he gingerly ran his finger along the shockingly purple bruise on Kagura’s fair skin.

Biting her lower lip in order not to cry out in pain at Sesshoumaru’s gentle touch the wind sorceress spoke: “See? It’s not that bad. I just need some ice and I’ll be fine. You know us demons, I’ll be healed in no time”.

‘Anyway it’s not the first time. I’m used to these kinds of injuries’ Kagura thought as she pushed Sesshoumaru’s hands away.

“Maybe taking you to the hospital to get checked would be wiser” The dog demon as she got up from his kneeling position on the floor of his living room.

“No. I’m fine!” Kagura insisted as she covered her bruised skin and sat up on the couch where she had laid down to allow Sesshoumaru to examine her more closely.

“As you wish.” Sesshoumaru said with a shrug. ‘She probably is afraid of the man responsible for her injury’ he added mentally. ‘Not that she should, I will not let him get to her and…’ Sesshoumaru stopped himself. He had no idea where his protective thoughts had suddenly come from, but he knew he was going to have to put a complete stop to them.

Glad to have managed to make Sesshoumaru back off, the wind sorceress got to her feet.

“By the way I can’t remember if I said it, but you’re quite the Good Samaritan. I mean helping me out like that for no reason. Maybe I really was wrong about you.” The wind sorceress said with a small smile.

Not wanting to deal with the woman’s unwanted gratitude, and realizing that he was hungry, the dog demon started walking towards the kitchen, then remembering that he had a guest for the night, he turned towards Kagura and simply said, still a little confused about his previous thoughts “I am having dinner.”

“No thanks I’m fine. I’m tired, so I’ll just go to bed” The wind sorceress said. She knew that Sesshoumaru was in an uncomfortable way asking her if she wanted food, so she took pity on him and answered directly instead of making him squirm.

The wind sorceress went over to her backpack and after some rummaging, with a triumphant grin, she fished out two framed pictures.

As Kagura noticed Sesshoumaru’s gaze on her, she smiled and answered his unasked question “Kanna likes waking up with pictures surrounding her. For some reasons she loves mirrors and images. She always looks at these two pictures when she wakes up in the morning”

She lifted the two frames for the dog demon’s inspection. The frame in her right hand held in a picture of Kagura holding a few days old Kanna in her arms. Sesshoumaru could not help but note how shockingly young the wind sorceress appeared on the picture. The second frame contained a photograph of Kagura with a young and handsome dark haired demon. The unidentified demon had his arm looped firmly around Kagura’s small waist, as the wind sorceress was standing on the tip of her toes to plant a tender kiss on the demon's cheek. Despite himself, Sesshoumaru could not help but let his eyes linger on the man longer than necessary.

Noticing Sesshoumaru’s interest, Kagura supplied an explanation “He’s Kanna’s father.” Observing the dog demon’s surprise Kagura could not help but ask on a playful tone “I know I'm pretty damn amazing, and I can do tons of things, but you didn’t think I had her by myself, did you?”

“This Sesshoumaru does not take the time to wonder about such insignificant things” He said bitterly before heading towards the kitchen.

The crimson eyed demoness looked at her host’s broad retreating back in surprise, it had been the first time since he had “started helping” her that Sesshoumaru had employed such a biting tone with her.

“Pfft I knew he was a jerk” She mumbled to herself. Deciding not to ponder on Sesshoumaru’s inconsistent and unpredictable behavior, the wind sorceress quickly made her way to his bedroom.

After she lay next to her daughter’s small warm body, Kagura hitched up the dog demon’s soft and warm white comforter over her.

‘This bed is so comfortable and these sheets smell so good, actually...they have his scent, yeah... they smell like Sesshou…’ The wind sorceress stopped her train of thought snuggling closer in the pristine bed covers. ‘I must be really tired to be thinking about those kinds of things’ She chastised herself.

Realizing how ludicrous her line of thought was, Kagura could not help but laugh, not wanting to wake up the slumbering Kanna, she bit her lip trying to hold her bubbling laughter in.

“Things did go better than I’d expected. My first night of freedom from Naraku… if only the rest of the plan could go on as easily…” She said wistfully before placing one last kiss on Kanna’s downy head and closing her crimson eyes.


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‘How in the hell did I end up in his situation?... Since when does this Sesshoumaru make such impulsive decisions?’ he wondered as he desperately tried to make himself as comfortable as possible on his couch.

In truth his penthouse contained two guest bedrooms, but Sesshoumaru had converted the only furnished one of the two in a storage room, while the other one was simply used as a library. Had it not been for the fact that he was too lazy, or that he knew that the situation was only for the night, Sesshoumaru would have cleared the bedroom of its boxes and made himself more comfortable by spending the night in the warm and soft bed it contained.

The reason the guest bedroom was even furnished was that Sesshoumaru's penthouse somehow often ended being a safe haven for either Inuyasha or Miroku when one of the two got tangled into some problems or in the young human's case, when he was kicked out by his girlfriend of the moment, which in Miroku's defense had not been happening as often lately...

The dog demon soon realized that the reason for his present lack of comfort was not per say the fact that he was lying on his couch, but rather the idea that a very tempting and equally unnerving wind demoness was sleeping in his bed.

Sesshoumaru dragged a tired hand over his face. ‘Why did I even allow this woman into my life? For some reason I feel I am bound to regret this decision sooner or later…. It is of no matter anyway, she will be out in of it in no time. Then I will simply resume things as usual, as they should be.’ He thought with a shrug.

Glad to have settled his mind, the dog demon closed his golden eyes, and allowed sleep to take him.


To be continued…

Sesshoumaru decided to accommodate Kagura for the night? What could happen next? Find out in the next chapter Different perspectives, where we will get to know Sesshy and Kagura a little better.