InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ That's Just Wrong ❯ The Awakening ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 1: The Awakening

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'Why do I have the nagging feeling that this girl will cause me nothing but trouble,' he questioned himself. Not knowing the answer, he sniffed the air to check for other youkai in the area. He could only faintly detect his younger brother and another scent that was not familiar to him. 'It must be that kitsune that travels with them,' he mentally shrugged. The only other thing he could smell was Kagome, still crying in her exhuastion induced sleep. Without even giving it another thought, he took off into the air, and towards his home.

This Chapter ...

Sesshoumaru had been waiting for three days now for the miko to wake up. And now it was going on four days, which was irratating him. She should have woken up by now. Not that he really cared, because he didn't. He had finally got fed up with waiting, and had sent his servant, Jaken, to wake her up. He had been given specific orders to not return until the miko girl was awake. That had been over three hours ago and now Sesshoumaru was even more irratated, and also, much to his chagrin, he was standing right outside the room he had her placed in.

When he had first ordered Jaken to wake the miko, he had not been by the door and had no real reason to be standing there. He had been in his personal study, going over some letters he had received from the other lords, trying to keep his mind off of the girl and how he was irratatingly intrigued her. After nearly an hour of waiting, he could no longer focus on the letters he was reading, and went to the library to do some research or maybe some casual reading. It wasn't as private as his study, but it was closer to the girls room, even though he really wasn't thinking of that aspect of the library when he decided to move. Or at least that's what Sesshomaru kept telling himself as he walked there.

He had sat there for over an hour, not being able to concentrate on anything other than the intriguing miko, asleep in the room next to Rin's, before he felt the need to move once again.

After Sesshoumaru left the library, he wandered through the long, elegant hallways, slowly drawing closer to where the miko's room was, not really thinking about where he was going, just going there.

He was intrigued by her. Very few humans stood up to him and fewer challenged his right to anything he wanted. Those few humans had all been men, never a woman, and before this miko, definately never a girl. All that had done so before had been put in their place rather quickly, namely they ended up dead and anyone else around them left living, if any ever were, were cowering in fear of him. All except for this miko girl, that is.

While he waited for Jaken to wake her, he stood outside the door, pondering why he had allowed her to live after all of her insolent acts during each of their previous encounters.

Inside the room, some strange happenings were going on. For the longest time, Jaken had been unable to get close to the human. It started out that he couldn't even get into the room. Somehow, she had put up an extensive sheild around herself, unconsciously protecting herself and her surroundings, even while in a deep sleep. Fortunately, Jaken had experience dealing with, and breaking down, protection barriers. Unfortunately, it was the most complex and strong barrier he had ever encountered, save for Sesshomaru-sama's barriers. It confused him to no end how a miko so untrained could do something like this without even a conscious thought.

Thinking back on that fact, Jaken paused in his work momentaraily to think about it further. Getting nowhere, he decided he could ponder over it more later. He could sense Sesshomaru-sama outside the door and could tell that the demon lord was distracted by something and would not notice the barrier stalling the small toad demon in his task of waking the miko. So he got back to work, hoping to please Sesshomaru-sama, even in the smallest way.

After another half hour, Jaken had been able to dissolve the miko barrier enough to reach the girl. Unfortunately, the barrier that he had worked so hard to remove closed in behind him.

Not worrying too much about that at the time, he set to the task of waking the sleeping miko. He just hoped that Sesshomaru-sama would not be too mad at him for taking so long in completing his assigned task.

Outside the door, Sesshomaru had switched the topic of his pondering, but not entirely. He was curious as to the reason his fool brother had not come to collect the miko in the last three days. 'Though she did say he had other interests now,' Sesshomaru mused, a bit of a smirk appearing on his lips momentarily, before the hint of emotion disappeared.

Suddenly, there was a literally ear splitting scream sounding from within the room in which he had placed the miko. If he had been any closer, his ears would have been ringing after the high pitched sound. Luckily, he had paced down the hall in his musings.

At first, Sesshoumaru could not decide if the scream had come from the girl or Jaken. Then, the voice came back, screaming more and this time accompanied by words. He decided that the terrible sound was coming from the girl, because the voice was screaming about lecherous and hentai toads. Sesshomaru almost let a ghost of a smile grace his lips for a fraction of a second at the unexpected turn of events, before wiping all emotion off of his face again.

'Unexpected,' he thought as he headed back towards the room when the screaming tuned down to a level his sensitive ears could handle. 'Not really. I should have expected Jaken to take a long time to wake a simple human and then make her almost deafen the whole household.'

He had reached his destination and had a hand ready to slide open the shoji door when he heard Jaken begging for mercy, and when she apparently would not give him any, Jaken then started yelling for help.

Sesshoumaru opened the door to see the girl holding Jaken's Staff of Skulls and beating him over the head with it. She then pulled her right leg back behind her and swung it forward with all her might, aiming straight for Jaken's already abused head. Her foot connected with it's target and sent the bruised and battered Jaken careening towards the doorway.

Sesshoumaru stepped to the side so as to not get hit by the flying Jaken, who then slammed into the wall opposite the door with enough force to knock him unconscious. When Sesshoumaru stepped back into the doorway, he set eyes on a fuming Kagome, which to some would be quite scary.

"Why did you bring me here, Sesshoumaru," Kagome demanded, glaring at the youkai lord relentlessly.

"I thought you may become useful to me," Sesshoumaru told her in a cold voice that ran chills down her spine, but she wasn't sure why. She wasn't afraid of him and the chills had not been those caused by fear.

"Oh great! So I'm just a means to an end, again," Kagome asked.

Sesshomaru said nothing, only nodding his head in response to her question, silently curious what she had meant by 'again'. 'Did the hanyou only use her to get the jewel? It is very likely,' he contemplated.

"So what do you want with me," she sneered at him, growling as best a human could.

"You will find out later," he looked at her, curious, even if he only admitted it on the inside. 'What did my stupid half-brother do to her to make act such as this?' She had never been this hostile during any of their previous encounters, even when she had been defending her companions. He shook his head slightly, even more confused by his even remotely caring about her than he was by her.

He suddenly picked up the scent of something on the wind and used it as an excuse to avoid answering her question.

"Right now we have company that I am sure would like to talk to you," he said while turning to leave and motioning to a very confused Kagome to follow.

On the way out, they passed the still unconsious Jaken. Sesshomaru turned his head slightly towards her and spoke up again.

"I would appreciate it if you would not abuse my servants so much. Good help is hard to find. I do not wish to have to find more," he told her coolly, making it very clear she was to lay off the abuse of Jaken.

She just rolled her eyes at him but nodded none-the-less to let him know that she understood and they continued towards the front door with Kagome still fuming.