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Tales from the House of the Moon: Chapter Thirty-One by Resmiranda

"Aren't you going to... you know, go? And have a good day?"

He raised an eyebrow.

"Somewhere else?" she added, her voice tinted with a light exasperation.

Sesshoumaru shrugged. "Eventually," he said. "Right now, I will come with you."

Blinking rapidly at this declaration, Kagome thoroughly failed to get it.

"What?" she said, and he could not tell if she was displeased or merely disbelieving.

"I said that I am coming with you."

She still didn't seem to comprehend his words. "No," she told him, shaking her head as though to clear it. "No, we already went over this - I'm not going to goddamn practice on you!"

He blinked at her. "Why have I gone to all this trouble if you are willing to fail at the last?" he asked. Really, it wasn't that hard to understand at all - he wanted her alive, and Sesshoumaru was not in the habit of not getting what he wanted. Therefore obviously he was willing to do anything to ensure that she stay just how he liked for as long as he liked.

"I'd rather fail than seal you. I told you that."

Sesshoumaru kept his face carefully neutral. "I'd rather you succeed."

"No!"

Frowning, he looked her up and down, taking in the shaking fists and rising color in her cheeks. He had expected resistance - was, in fact, counting on it - but this level of vehemence was almost excessive.

He sighed.

When he landed at the top of the steps of the shrine with a kicking and screaming Kagome tucked under his arm the old woman merely looked at them both before giving a curt nod of the head. Then she strode past him with a purposeful step and descended to the field below.

He followed her.

After a few moments of watching - and yelling - helplessly as events spun out of her control, Kagome informed him of her displeasure over this state of affairs by attempting to hit him in a very sensitive area. Fortunately she only succeeded in bruising her fist against his armor, but nevertheless the blow was an impressive one, and unexpected at that.

Feeling slightly uneasy Sesshoumaru decided at this point that it might be prudent to relocate her; the fact that the impact of her stomach against his armor-plated shoulder effectively silenced her was just a happy consequence.

For a minute Kagome merely dangled limply down his back, but when she regained the use of her lungs he heard her begin to mutter terribly unladylike curses under her breath. The old miko was still walking a few yards in front of him, apparently uninterested in the girl and the youkai behind her.

"You know," Kagome said as they neared the line of trees, "this isn't going to work. You can't force me to shoot you."

"Hn," Sesshoumaru replied, wishing she would be quiet. He knew that.

"And I'm not going to shoot you," she reminded him, just in case he had forgotten.

"Hn," he postulated. He knew that, too.

"What if something goes wrong? What if I purify you?"

Repressing the urge to roll his eyes, Sesshoumaru didn't even bother to answer, simply trudged on.

Feeling increasingly distressed Kagome rummaged around in the depths of her dirty trick box, desperately searching for something to deter him from this ridiculous fool's mission. That he had attempted on numerous occasions to dissuade her from similar pursuits and met with similar reticence was incidental; clearly this was different because now it was she who was being sensible. When she was being the sensible one it was probably for a good reason, and now he wasn't listening to her.

She thought frantically, her heart racing. "What will all the other youkai think?" she demanded suddenly.

For a moment she thought it might have worked as the youkai lord paused for a fraction of a second, but her hopes were quickly dashed when he continued. "At this point there are no other youkai nearby," he informed her. "I have killed them all."

Which was how she found herself in this position in the first place, and Kagome could not decide whether to curse this fact or feel grateful. It was only eight or so in the morning, and already her entire world had inverted itself, and it wasn't just because she was upside down, nose-to-obi. Biting her lip and staring at the bright yellow fabric in front of her eyes, Kagome searched with mounting despair for something that would dissuade him from this horrible task.
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I am in the prosece of reading Tales from the house of moon becuase of all of the excelent picts that came from the fic.
I just got to this part of the story. As I was reading it I remembered this pict and almost hit the floor laughing.