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The Guise of Apathy

By: Rachel Elizabeth
�These Feelings of Mine�
She was squealing like a pig and she hadn�t stopped since they had gotten to his home early in the morning. When he had tired of her antics he had told Jaken to take her to the room that she was to use for now. Jaken had willingly obliged, grasping the obnoxious girl by the wrist and leading her away. Sesshoumaru didn�t know how much more of her inane conversation he could have handled at that point.

She had the temperament of a neko, always exploding at the slightest hint of danger and protecting herself against him, which was ridiculous in itself. If he had wanted to kill her he could have done so long ago and gotten rid of her without a second thought. That, more than anything, was probably what was irritating him the most at that exact moment. It wasn�t the fact that she was yelling at him and calling him an idiot with quite a few other colorful words, it wasn�t the fact that she tended to argue with everything he could possibly say, and it wasn�t the fact that she was, in fact, an annoying wench whom he had no use for. The fact of the matter was, was that he was angrier at himself than at anyone. He had taken a human to his home and had not even had a second thought about killing her. And this was all for the sake of a child whom he had grown attached to.

Perhaps he had taken her verbal abuse because he himself was actually disgusted by the events of that day. He had never before in his life taken another human in besides Rin and with Rin it was completely different because she was but a child. However, with Inu Yasha�s human wench it was more the fact that he had taken her because Rin wanted her. Like a toy.

Sesshoumaru was not going to think about it like that because he had no desire to. The girl was simply there because it had been so ridiculously easy to take her and if Inu Yasha came to fight for her it was all the better. He had no desire for that half-breed to be in the family anymore, coloring father�s good name. Too long had their fight been prolonged.

Die Inu Yasha.
Kagome was fuming. Never in her life had she ever been as completely angry as she was then. She had grown sick and tired of Sesshoumaru�s cold, and domineering ways and had even told him so, but it was all to no avail. Sesshoumaru didn�t listen to anyone except Sesshoumaru. It wasn�t as though she thought that she could tell him to take her back to Inu Yasha, for she knew that that would never happen. However, she also knew that she didn�t want Inu Yasha�s help and that, more than anything, was what confused her so. Hadn�t she always called for Inu Yasha to come and save her when she had been in trouble? Yes, that was always the case, but, somehow, with Sesshoumaru, it was different.

She had the incontestable feeling in the pit of her gut that she wanted to prove to that arrogant jerk that she could fend for herself and that she could get out of any sticky situation without the help of his half-brother. She had never had this feeling before. Being with Inu Yasha, it had been almost as though she had had a crutch. She never needed to worry too much, because in her heart she had known that she could count on and trust Inu Yasha to come and save her no matter what the situation was. And in that, she would always love him. To her, he had been her knight in shining armor come to rescue the damsel in distress.

With Sesshoumaru it was an altogether different story. Instead of wanting to kill him or run back to Inu Yasha, she wanted to mouth off to everything he said, and show him that she could defend herself without his half-brother. Where that feeling had come from she didn�t think that she would ever know. Heck, anyone who had had an �Inu Yasha� for their own would have felt the same as she had. No worries. Anyone would have used Inu Yasha just as easily as she had.

Not that that had always been the case, darn it! Plenty of times she had saved herself from a monster. It was like that time . . . that time when . . . okay, so maybe she had always counted on Inu Yasha�s help. Still, she wasn�t completely helpless, because without her help, Menoumaru would never have been beaten. There were a few other times when Inu Yasha had counted on her strength, but Kagome betted that Sesshoumaru still would see her as nothing but a weak human.

She didn�t understand why, in the first place, she even cared what that arrogant dog thought of her. He was an overgrown mutt to her. She loved Inu Yasha. Though she had never spoken the words out loud, she knew that in her heart she had accepted that fate long ago. Even if he loved someone else.

Kagome�s heart stopped as she looked out the window of her new room. The night was dank and dark, and only the moon illuminated Kagome�s features. If she could have stood there for days just staring at moon as she was now, she would have. The moon was so beautiful. However, there was something else in the air, something deadly. It was a scent that rose up in the night, swift and quick, reaching the nostrils to proclaim its purpose in the night. Kagome wasn�t sure what the smell was exactly, but she was also certain that she didn�t like it.
It was the smell of death and fear that reached Sesshoumaru�s nose that woke him late in the night. He had sat up abruptly in his big bed and had looked around his room to make sure that it wasn�t anywhere near. That had been futile, however, because he would have known the instant it had been in his room. The smell had come from somewhere else, somewhere outside. When he heard a light tapping on his door, he immediately reached for his sword, which he kept hidden under his pillow, and thought how ridiculous he seemed. He knew that an intruder would never knock on its victim�s door.

When the knocking had stopped on his door, Sesshoumaru had let his guard slip a little, only to be dismayed to realize that someone was now entering his room. The intruder wasn�t very bright, for he had not even bothered to check and see if the room was even occupied by someone. Taking his advantage, Sesshoumaru silently slipped out of his bed towards the intruder, thinking to grab him from behind and slice his head completely off. Upon reaching him, he grabbed him around the waist and put a hand over his mouth. However, upon grasping the intruder, Sesshoumaru realized that there was something vaguely familiar about this intruder�s smell that he couldn�t quite place.

�Aof!� the stalker gasped, startled.

That was when Sesshoumaru realized whom exactly he had captured. �You,� he said coldly, not letting her go. �What do you think you�re doing?�

Kagome gasped, and dolefully realized that she had flown out of the frying pan and straight into the oven. Narrowing her eyes she spat back at him, �I was getting out of my room. Isn�t that what captives do? Try and escape?�

Sesshoumaru felt a moment of admiration for the girl whose honesty spilt from her lips so easily. If he hadn�t been so infuriated over her little antics of walking in his room he would have actually enjoyed making the wench squirm a little. However, just knowing that she had thought that she could escape from his castle without being undetected made the ire in him rise to new levels. Before he even had a chance to respond to her indignant outburst, Sesshoumaru heard a noise in the hallway and a smell that hadn�t ever reached his nostrils before.

Without uttering a word, Sesshoumaru grasped Kagome by her shoulders and pushed her up against the wall, shielding her against anyone that may enter the room with his back. With her mouth pressed into the wall Kagome tried to utter a few coherent words, but Sesshoumaru only pressed her more firmly against the wall.

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes; he didn�t know what was going on inside his household, but he vowed he would find out before the night was over. Instead of cowering in a dark corner with an asinine human wench, he would have liked to have gone out in the hallway and murdered the insolent creature who thought he could roam the halls of his house, but he had thought that a dead Kagome would be worthless to Inu Yasha if he came to get his wench.

The whole situation was turning out to be a worthless one. Sesshoumaru didn�t want to kill her and he didn�t want to leave her alone in his dark room and have some ridiculous creature kill her. If anyone was going to kill that yapping wench it was was definitely going to be him. That way, it wouldn�t be a complete loss if Inu Yasha came looking for his wench. Sesshoumaru eased his hands from her when he realized that he was justifying his actions to himself of saving the human.

Thinking that Sesshoumaru had loosened his guard enough to let her escape, Kagome blindly tried to free herself from Sesshoumaru�s grasp. The only problem with that plan was that not only was he more aware of her struggling to be free of him, but inadvertently she had plastered herself more firmly to him. Kagome tried to clear her mind, but the smell that surrounded her was intoxicating and she didn�t even know what that feeling was that she was experiencing in the pit of her stomach. Kagome�s struggles were put to an abrupt halt when she realized that smell that was surrounding her was . . . him!

That disgusting smell was Sesshoumaru!

Sesshoumaru growled low in his throat and bit out at her, �You smell filthy.� With those words and a last glance at her, he had pushed her away from him, knocking her into the wall, and turned to walk out of the room. Kagome sat on the floor, and glared at the door he had exited. She could have sworn, for a minute there, that he had been . . . sniffing her. But that couldn�t be right. That arrogant dog! Just who did he think he was?

Kagome ran to the door and pulled at the knob, only to find that Sesshoumaru had locked her in.
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A/N: I have this habit where I wait a really long, long time to post chapters because I like to have my chapters ry, ry, really long and I know that�s slightly annoying. So, this is what I�m doing, I�m going to post shorter chapters (about three or so pages long) and I�ll put them up more quickly. I think. I hope everyone is enjoying this. Don�t forget to review. I�m not even sure if anyone likes this pairing (Kagome/Sesshoumaru) or if I�m even doing it well. So let me know!
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