InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Summer of My Demon Lover ❯ Ego, Meet Sesshoumaru ( Chapter 4 )

I awoke the next morning, still lying on my bedroom floor. It hurt to move, but I made myself get up anyway. I just had to get up and face what happened to me, well that or pretend it never did.

"Who am I kidding, someone will remind me of it sooner or later," I said as I walked over to my full-length mirror.

The mirror was my mothers at one time, but she gave it to me when she caught me looking at myself in it everyday for a whole month. I looked at myself today and wanted to be sick. My face was purple, a very dark color purple. I could barely see out of my left eye because it was so swollen.

"Gee, I look great," I sighed as I picked up my brush to try and get the knots out of my hair.

"Does he always have to pull my hair? He must want me to be as bald as him, oh wait, if that happened he would have to find a new way to drag me around," I spat at the mirror, though there was no point in it, it just made me feel a little better.

"Kagome, are ye up yet child?" I heard Kaede yell from the kitchen.

"What is she going to say about my face? I hate this." I said to myself as I went to my closet.

"I'm up, just getting dressed." I called to her, knowing she would hear me even with her being so old.

"Good, breakfast has been done for some time now," I barely heard her, but I did hear her.

I quickly pulled on some pants and a shirt then ran down the stairs. As soon as I got down there Kaede looked at me.

"About time-" she began to say, but then she turned around and saw me.

"What in the seven hells happened?" she asked, her eye looked at me in disbelief.

"Would you believe me if I said I got into a fight with the cat?" I asked as I sat down at the table, trying to hide my face.

"Of course not, ye do not have a cat." Kaede said as she walked over to her bag and pulled something out.

"We HAD a cat, but dad gave him away because he was mine," I said, my face lowered to my bowl.

"Look at me," Kaede said as she pulled up a chair right by mine.

I did as she said, and as soon as I did I had some weird smelling purple stuff on my face...did I mention it stung like hell?

"Itai!" I yelled and nearly fell out of my seat, but I caught myself before I did.

"Stay still, this will help with the swelling,"

"It stings, and smells," I said as I looked at the gunk and stuck my tongue out at it.

"Stop that. And did I not tell ye to stay home yesterday? Look at what happens when you don't listen," Kaede ranted a bit as she applied more gunk to my face.

"No, you said not to go to the store, and I didn't. I went to the lake, and I fell asleep, it's not my fault," I said as I turned my face away from her.

"Ye are right. Ye did not do this to ye's self. Wash it off in five minutes, it should be better tomorrow,"

"Thanks," I said barely above a whisper as I went back to my breakfast.

I ate a few bites of my rice before I excused myself to wash my face. It wasn't as painful as when I first woke up, but the rest of my body couldn't share the same fortune as my face.

"How long until I'm eighteen? Oh right, too long." I sighed as I looked in the mirror again.

"Why can't you just leave?" I asked myself, but I knew the answer, or really answers.

My mother was here, all around this house and the woods. She's here looking over me, helping me cope with the beatings and the name calling, until the day that I can be with her again. And of course there is Souta, I know that he doesn't get treated like I do, but I can't leave him right now, he's another part of my mother and how we all use to be.

"But one day, one day I will leave here and then I will really live. Live like my mother never had a chance too, but always told me she wanted to,"

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After I rested a bit I decided to talk a walk in the woods, but this time I planned to stay away from the lake.

"You did not come back." a familiar voice said, but as I looked around I could not find anyone.

"Who's there?" I asked

"Look above." the voice said

So being me, I looked up, and I would have screamed if the idiot demon wasn't smiling at me.

"It's you, wow, never thought you would leave MY chair."

"What is it with you and that damned chair?" he asked as he jumped out of the tree, landing of course right infront of me.

"Trying to give me a heart attack or something?" I asked, hand to my chest, he scared the shit out of me, and for that I really want to hurt him.

"No, but now I have the idea to play around with." he said as he took a step towards me.

I kept my hair infront of my face so that he would not see, but the wind began to blow and my hair blew back showing off my face.

"And is this the result of one of your human beatings?" he asked, putting a hand on my bruised cheek.

I winced at the contact, but he did not move his hand.

"Yes, my father beat me last night because I came home late," I told the half truth, of course he still thought parents beat their children all of the time, which wasn't true.

"Can you move your hand, the pain is kinda painful," I asked after a minute of him poking at my face

"I bet it is," he said, still not moving his hand, so I did a bad thing.

I bit him.....oops.

"And why, pray tell, did you do that?" he asked as he looked at his hand.

"I asked you to move your damn hand, not my fault you didn't listen," I said and then turned around and started to walk off.

"Did I give you permission to leave?" he asked as he grabbed my elbow and pulled me back.

"I didn't ask," I bit back.

"At one time in life, you would be bowing me to me," he said, looking me in the eyes, and not letting my elbow go.

"And right now, you will be letting me go," I said through clenched teeth, that elbow he had a hold of hurt from being thrown into a wall.

"You still have not fufilled your promise to me," he said as if I should know what this "promise" was.

"I didn't promise you anything." I snapped at him.

"You said you would come back and talk to me, in which you have yet to do,"

"So? We're talking right now, so the 'promise' has been met, and far to long might I add." I said as I tried to get my elbow out of his grip.

"Do I frighten you?" he asked me, and for once, I did not know what to say.

Of course he frightened me, but then again he didn't. What I was scared of the most was what would happen if my father found out that I was out in the woods talking to a demon. But being afraid of him just seemed silly when I thought about it, he had yet to really hurt me. He just seemed to be lonely.

"No," I said, looking him in the eyes so he would know that I wasn't lying.

"Then why do you not want to be near me?" he asked in a whisper, getting very close to me, so close that I could feel his warm breath of my face.

"If anyone saw me with you, then I would wish that my face would end up like this when my father got done with me." I said, again without thinking, but him being so close did something to me.

"Then this," he pointed to me my face "Is not a normal human happening?" he asked, still somewhat whispering.

"Just for me," I couldn't lie to him anymore, I had no reason to.

I've known him for less than a day and I already have trouble telling him the littlest lie. He couldn't do anything about it anyway, he was a demon in hiding and he wouldn't risk getting caught for me, an annoying girl that he loves to tease.

"Why?" one little world, one harmless little word that held so much pain if answered with the truth.

"Because I'm not my mother," was all I could bring myself to say, and believe it or not, it was the truth.

It was true because my father would trade my life for my mother's life anyday, and truth be told, so would I. I would sacrifice myself to bring my mother back, so Souta could grow up with someone who truly loved him and could show him how to not be like my father. How to be someone worth respecting.

"That tells me nothing," the demons voice broke into my thoughts

The demon.

"Wait a second, you never told me your name," I said as I brought myself to look at him again.

"I could say the same of you," he countered, which was annoying.

"Fine. I'm Kagome, and you are?"

"Sesshouamru."

"Funny name, but I like it." I said, trying to be at least a little cheerful.

"Glad you approve." he said getting back the his asshole persona.

"Oh shove it you arrogant ball of fluff," I said in a more playful tone than usual, I really was trying to be nice.

He raised an eyebrow at me, which made me want to laugh, but I held it in. I simply pointed to the fluffy thing on his shoulder and he seemed to have gotten the picture.

"I swear if you did not entertain me so I would have killed you yesterday,"

"How many times are you going to repeat this? I mean lets face it, you're not going to kill me," now I'm acting cocky, the way it should be.

"I suppose you are right, how could I ever kill a child?" Sesshomaru smirked at me.

That son-of-a bitch just called me a child.

"Yeah gramps, killing children is wrong," oh that'll teach him.

"Tuche. I suppose you may not be as much of a child as I first thought," Sesshomaru looked thoughtful.

"No shit, I'm almost sixteen, my father should be trying to marry me off in the next year or so." I said, now sitting down because my poor back decided that it did not like being up anymore, not that I could blame it.

"Not that I want to get married, if I can put it off until I'm eighteen, then he can't make me do anything," I said it more to myself, but of course he heard me, he was standing right there above me.

"Kagome!" Kaede's voice called out.

"Oh, it must be time for lunch. If you wait here I'll bring you back some food," I said as I stood up, which hurt my whole body to do, but I managed it.

"I will be here then," he said as he jumped in the air and took a seat in one of the trees, which suprised me almost as much as when he jumped down.

I waved bye to him as I walked back to my house to grab the food. When I got close to home I could see Kaede and Souta outside looking for me.

"I'm back," I called as I stepped out of the trees in the back yard.

"Nee-chan's back!" Souta yelled right before he ran and hugged my legs, not letting go until I pried him off.

"Kaede, I was thinking about taking my lunch to the lake, like me and my mother use to do," I said as I walked into the kitchen, Souta following behind me.

"Can I go too Nee-chan?" he asked, and I hated to say no, but I had to.

"Ne, Souta, don't you have a play date today?"

"Hai." he said, head lowered, it made my heart ache a bit.

"How about tomorrow?" I asked, hoping that would cheer him up.

"Hai!" he called out before he ran outside with his bowel of food.

"Here ye go, I put a little extra incase ye decide to fall asleep, because I know ye did not eat lunch or dinner yesterday," Kaede said.

"Thanks Kaede, you're the greatest," I said then grabbed the basket she made up and kissed her before I ran out the door.

"I hope he likes it."