Trick or Treat

Chapter 2





Voices, they were all around her. Her...



Who was she?



The last thing she remember, something about a little boy, anger, and hurt.



Something...something about war...



Warcraft? What was that?



Falling...falling down some place...falling down...steps?



No, stairs. Wooden stairs.



It was all starting to come back. Pieces began to form, memories were fleshed out.



Fantasy. World of Warcraft. A video game, played by her little brother...



Little brother? Souta!



The image of her little brother came into her mind, followed for some reason by a flash of anger. Why?



Who was she again?



Her little brother called her by her name, Kagome...Kagome!



Oh thats right, that is her name, isn't it? Kagome Higurashi, eighteen years old, a high school student. Living with her family, her mother, her grandfather, and her little brother. Father serving overseas in the Maritime Self Defense Force. Grandmother deceased.



Her eyes blinked open, and feeling began to return to her body, as her vision began to clear. With it came a feeling.



Pain, much much pain. Swimming around her head, and emanating from her right arm.



Matter of fact, she couldn't feel her right arm below her shoulder. Perhaps she had injured it falling down the stairs?



The voices had ceased, at least.



Her vision finally came into focus. It was night-time out. That much was certain. She could see the sky, so many beautiful stars, and at the edge of her vision, trees swaying gently in a breeze.



'Outside? When did I?' thought Kagome, before all of it rushed back.



And she remembered everything.



The arguement with her brother, rushing after him after he flopped her notebook in her face, him moving out of the way, her falling down the stairs head first, then waking up in the bottom of the well, then trying to fight off some raving wolf lunatic who was going to have her for lunch, and losing the fight.



So why was she still alive?



She remembered the painful blow to the gut, but her stomach no longer hurt. As a matter of fact, it was completley numb.



'Hmm, not a good sign. I wonder how I look?' she thought to herself.



Kagome sat up, then laid back down as pain rushed into her head again.



"ooohhh..." the pitiful moan escaping her lips as she brought up her one good arm to her head, rubbing her forehead with her eyes now closed tightly.



"Humans are such pitiful creatures." came a familiar voice from her left.



"Now now Master Jaken, be nice to her. She's saved us in the past you know." came another voice, again familiar, of a young girl, then she knew.



Jaken, Lord Sesshomaru's retainer. Rin, the little girl that traveled with Sesshomaru.



So Sesshomaru had been the one to save her? There was one time when she thought he had saved her, years ago, barely a month after she had first started coming into the past, during a warring feud with the band of seven.



But he had stated that he'd done no such thing, insisting that the only reason he had intervened was to pump the poision master Mukotsu for information about Naraku, then killing him when he revealed nothing.



Naraku...



Still running on the loose. He has risen up, only to be beaten, then rise up again, time after time. Hopefully this time he was gone for good, but he always made a habit of coming back, someway or another.



It had been two weeks since she last came into the past to visit. She wondered how everyone was doing?



The rubbing seemed to have some effect on her headache. At least she was able to form coherent thoughts.



Mistake. Just thinking about the headache again brought it back on in full force.



The soft pitter patter of little feet, followed by grunting caught the attention of her ears. A great big grunt, then a splash as cold water drenched her face and upper chest.



Kagome gasped and coughed up the water that had gone down her mouth and throat, sputtering.



"No Jaken-sama, not like that! Your supposed to dip a rag in the water, then lay it on her forehead." admonished little Rin.



"Pih pooh. My method is much simpler." replied the little imp.



"Yeah, and it's about to make you pay." sputtered Kagome, anger flooding her mind once again as she rolled over her good arm, onto her chest, and then used her one good arm to prop her up onto her knees.



The little imp tried to back up when he saw her face, dripping wet and boiling with rage, but he was not quick enough.



Using her left arm, she grabbed him by his little clothes. The imp gawked, looking around, until he grabbed his staff, which was propped up against a tree nearby.



"Human! Release me at once!" commanded the toad, swinging the staff into her right arm. The little imp got what he wished for, as she released him at once.



Kagome gasped as pain exploded from her right arm, traveling across her body again. She collapsed backwards into a tree, heaving gasping breaths, clawing for air as the pain continued to throb.



"Jaken-sama!" yelled Rin, angered at the little imp.



"What? She tried to attack me!" Jaken tried to defend himself, but to no avail. Rin rushed over to Kagome's side, putting her little arms around the woman.



Kagome didn't know what had gotten into her. When the water had hit her face, it reminded her of the notebook that her brother had thrown at her, and Jaken had disappeared from her mind, to be replaced by Souta, and oh boy, had she wanted a piece of her little brother!



"I'm...sorry..." breathed Kagome, even with the pain she was feeling, and the fact that it was Jaken who had done it to her, she still felt guilty for attacking the little toad.



"Hmph. Well, let this pain be a lesson to you then." said the little imp, before looking down, noticing an expanding shadow around his feet.



Jaken looked up, and squawked in sudden suprise and fear, before a dead boar landed on top of him, burying the imp into the ground.



"ooohhh..." this time it was Jaken's turn to let the pitiful moan escape from his little beaked lips.



Into the camp site emerged Lord Sesshomaru, his eyes glaring at the imp.



"Jaken, the next time you lay a hand on Kagome, I will kill you." he said in his usual cold voice.



"Eep! Ye...yes sire!" said the toad, squiggling out from under the boar and bowing at his master's feet. He was promplty booted into the forest by one of Sesshomaru's feet.



"Make yourself useful, and gather wood for a fire." he said after the imp.



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Sesshomaru seated himself next to Kagome, and pulled Rin into his lap.



Kagome watched his movements, and was suprised by what she saw. She knew that being with little Rin had softened him over the years, in some respects that is, but still...



Perhaps she had been away for too long after all.



"Jaken-sama hurt Kagome's arm, Sesshomaru-sama." said Rin, glancing back and forth between her lord and Kagome, who was huddled up against the tree, looking at Sesshomaru with a weird expression on her face.



It was one of dis-belief, and doubt. The doubt was replaced totally by dis-belief when he smiled at her in response to her facial expression.



"I have changed...quite a bit since we've last met, Kagome." he offered up, simply as an explanation.



"You...called me by my name." she stammered in response.



"Yes, there are a few humans, whom I now respect enough to address them by name. And, having observed you in and out of battle for the past three years, you are one of them." he offered in response.



"Um...thanks I guess." she said, looking down.



His eyes followed hers, and his gaze kept traveling down her body. Her upper torso, more specifically her chest caught his attention. It had been soaked by Jaken's pitiful and lazy attempt to help her, and her shirt now clung to her chest, exposing the form of her breasts and nipples, which were slightly hard in this cold air. His eyes also caught the outline through her skirt of her hips and more private regions, and he unwittingly smacked his lips as brief visions of him and her floated through his mind.



"Ummm..." stammered Kagome, having brought her head up and caught him staring.



It took just about everything in Sesshomaru's power to prevent the blush from coming to his cheeks, but he did succeed, his eyes coming up to meet hers.



"Is there something you want...Kagome?" he asked.



"No, it's nothing." she replied.



Sesshomaru smiled to himself. This was proving to be a very interesting day.