Chapter 9: Chapter 9
Kagome grew restless in her room. Apparently, after her falling asleep in the garden, Sesshoumaru had brought her to her room, and informed Izumi to make sure she stayed there, and could only come out for eating and bathing.
After a couple days, she was mostly depressed, but upon hearing Sesshoumaru out, instead of becoming angry, she agreed it was best to stay off of her feet until a healer arrived. She had been surprised when she had first confronted the demon lord, that he had not moved to strangle her because she had yelled at him. Upon realizing her behavior, she apologized. He seemed to not care whether she was truly sorry or not, but nodded his head to appease her.
Most of the time during her confinement, she admired her room. The furniture was reminiscent of western civilization, not Japanese. Four poster bed, wardrobe, and dresser, all in oak and adorned with the mark of the white dog house, the crescent moon. Izumi had said that when Sesshoumaru had traveled as a pup with his father, they had come across people who slept on raised beds that were comfortable. The former Dog Lord had commissioned people to build the beds based on his descriptions of them from his memory.
Kagome sometimes would hobble to her bedroom window, yet it seemed someone was always outside her door, and would either carry her to the window or back to her bed. At one point, she requested pen and paper, just to keep her from going stir crazy. She wrote about her journey and even somehow found enough of a creative streak to write over a dozen poems. Sometimes she drew. She had always loved to draw and had been told she was fairly good. She had after much begging, drawn Izumi.
After a week, Sesshoumaru ushered Rin into her room.
"Since you have become bored, here is your student. I expect you to teach her proper grammar, writing, etiquette, and any other suitable subject," Sesshoumaru said, as Rin latched onto Kagome.
"Yay! Rin is going to learn many things from Kagome!" she exclaimed, her grin revealing that she had lost another tooth.
"Ooh, looks like you lost another tooth!" Kagome smiled.
"Yep! Jaken says my big people teeth are growing in," Rin said and then was sad. "He said when Rin has all of her big people teeth that Lord Sesshoumaru will send Rin away."
"That idiot. Jaken knows not what this Sesshoumaru will do," Sesshoumaru growled, very angry to learn that Jaken was saying cruel things to his ward.
"So Rin will get to stay with Lord Sesshoumaru when Rin's big people teeth are all in?" Rin asked, very hopeful.
"Yes," Sesshoumaru replied.
'I'm going to punt that toad over the moon!' he growled to himself as Rin hugged his leg.
"Thank you, Lord Sesshoumaru. Rin is very happy and honored," she grinned as tears of happiness flowed freely from her eyes.
The scent of tears alarmed Sesshoumaru, but it confused him as her face clearly had a grin on it. Kagome remembered that Inu Yasha had been confused when she had cried tears of joy and quickly responded, "Rin is very happy. Sometimes humans, when we are happy and the emotion is great, we cry tears of happiness. I know sometimes it is confusing for demons that are not familiar with human ways, as even InuYasha had been confused about it too."
Sesshoumaru looked down at Rin and leaned down, something a demon lord was rarely found to do, and at eye level said, "This Sesshoumaru is pleased that Rin is happy ,and wishes for Rin to always be happy."
Rin hugged Sesshoumaru, shocking both the great demon and Kagome. Kagome was almost sure that Sesshoumaru would have growled, but he let her hug him, then carefully removed her, saying, "Now is time for your lessons with Kagome."
"Yes! Rin will learn many things and make Lord Sesshoumaru proud," she grinned as Sesshoumaru rose and exited the room.
Now that Rin occupied her time, Kagome's cabin fever vanished, as she happily made out lessons for her. Kagome had taught Shippou how to read and write, so she was certain she could also teach Rin.
Finally, after two weeks, a healer arrived and observed Kagome's ankle, then commended Sesshoumaru for his expert hand at taking care of the sprain. The healer then said that Kagome could venture about, however, she was not to overtax herself.
Kagome was ecstatic, however surprised InuYasha had not visited yet. She still felt a bit guilty for sending him away and also because she was not helping out with the shard hunting. Kagome's decision had forced InuYasha to ask of Kikyo's help, according to Sesshoumaru's cunning ways of obtaining information. That in itself worried her, since InuYasha had said that Kikyo had put a spell on him. She hoped that InuYasha would avoid any alone time, as she was certain Kikyo was stubborn enough to keep pursuing him. She wondered what InuYasha was doing and thinking. She even wondered how her friends were doing. She laughed, just thinking how many times Miroku had probably got beaten upside the head for groping Sango. She worried for Shippou, knowing how he and InuYasha sometimes got on each other's nerves. InuYasha could be a bit rough, but he never hurt Shippou terribly.
Sesshoumaru entered her room, interrupting her thoughts. She looked up and smiled. He had been pleasant and she decided, 'Perhaps it is not so bad here.'
"What can I do for you today, Lord Sesshoumaru?" she said, bowing.
Sesshoumaru was a bit surprised. Kagome had never bowed to him before, and rarely called him by his title. It was kind of unnerving as he was getting use to her ways. He was pleased that she was giving him the proper respect.
"No need to bow, Kagome. You will start training with this Sesshoumaru starting next week," he informed her. "Izumi will be in shortly to take measurements for your fighting uniform."
"Thank you, milord," Kagome replied as he left.
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