"And Those Amber Eyes of Sunlight..."

And Those Amber Eyes of Sunlight...-Chapter One: The Messenger Boy

The light sound of chiming is what drove Kagome out of her slumber as she lay sleeping on her desk, her head pillowed on her arms. She had been up all of last night working on papers, expenses, etcetera, and so on, and had unwillingly dozed off on her night shift at the veterinary clinic she, her friend, and a few others ran.

But now, she drifted into conciseness, ready to throw whatever it was that had disturbed her out the window. 'So annoying, I wish it'd stop,' She complained mentally and tried to ignore it. Finally it did stop and she happily tried to fall back into her sleep until a loud echoing SMACK! in front of her face made her sit up and shriek.

Falling backwards in surprise, she tipped her chair backwards and crashed to the floor with an "Oof." She lay there staring at the ceiling for a moment before bringing her watch in view and sighing.

6:17 A.M.
'Lovely'

"Oi! Wench, stop your shrieking and get up, I didn't come here for nothing you know," A voice came, sounding raspy with the potential of turning into a growl any second if she did not comply with its demands...

'Youkai.'

So sighing, she sat up, but a little precariously, for she rammed her head into the desk behind her half way up. This caused a chain of reactions. One, a line of foul language to stream from her lips, and two, a raised hand to touch a place that already hurt and needed no more provoking to hurt more. "Smooth moves, Kagome," She muttered softy.

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He watched as the n ben before him tumbled backwards onto the ground and though her shrieking had hurt his ears, he still found it quite amusing when all of a sudden a stream of curses floated out from behind the desk after his comment.

Watching as she picked herself off the ground, Inuyasha was surprised to find that the drooling, snoring creature he had walked into the veterinary office to, wa, was actually very pleasant to look at.

She wore a primp navy skirt suit under her doctors coat and had chocolate brown eyes that were filled with a fire of determination. They seemed as if they had always held a challenge within to anyone whom should stand in her way. Her hair, though pulled back in a t but bun with a few strands escaping to drape over her eyes, was a raven black and he knew that it was fairly long, reaching past her waist perhaps?

He assessed this with a smirk plastered on his face as his eyes trailed down to that point before returning to find the heated gaze of the now red faced pleasant thing.

"Excuse me," She said in a stressed voice, walking to the front counter to slide the bell into the waste bin, “May I help you?"

Grinning, Inuyasha walked back out of the small office space to stand at the counter as well. Leaning over, he rested his elbows on the tile surface to cradle his chin in his hands and began to speak.

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Kagome could feel his gaze on her body even before she looked up to see who it was and when she did, she wished she hadn't. For as she had watched his beautiful amber eyes undress her mentally, she noted how handsome he was. Though he wore a slightly loose fitting red shirt, there was no way one could miss the muscles that rippled beneath. Mind you, he was not TOO muscled, but just...perfect.

Atop his head were two perfect dog ears, they were so cute, she just wanted to reach out and touch them. His hair was a long silvery mane reaching just below his waist, so shiny and beautiful that her urge to stick her hands in it was more then the wanting to feel on his ears.

Laughing mentally, and tscorscorning herself for thinking such things, she began to get frustrated and met his gaze, not missing the smirk on his lips, as it came up to meet her angry eyes. Huffing, Kagome crossed over to the counter to toss the damn bell. Though, as she watched him make his way to the opposite side of her then lean over the surface, she almost felt as if she could stop breathing.

His eyes partially closed in a lazy way, the grin never left as he opened his mouth to speak. "My brother...The farmer," He said this with a sort of disdain, "...sent me up here to tell a Ms.Higurashi that his horse...was in labor." Each word seemed to droll out in a liquidy fashion and it took every last ounce of her strength to pay attention to what he had to say. When he was finally finished she felt the utmost relief.

Smiling she asked, as she turned and began packing the supplies she would need, “Which one is it? There are many farmers out here, that's why I'm so conveniently located. So, be more specific." She knew he was smirking again as she heard him speak the name--Sesshoumaru.

Nodding she finished packing her doctors bag and tilted her chin up to call loudly to her friend in the back room. "Sango, Mr.Sesshomaru's mare is in labor...again..." As she finished the sentence, it striked her as sort of odd, but shrugging it off, she suppoed it wasn't impossible that a creature such as a horse could do those things.

After a few moments, she heard a grunt of approval from the backroom and picked up the bag. Smiling to the youkai, she said, ”Lets do this thingy." And watched as he lifted an eyebrow before she walked out, not even bothering to hold the door of the medium sized office opor hor him.

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During the drive there, Kagome found it very hard to concentrate on the road. His face, his smirk, his eyes, kept creeping into her mind and she felt herself flush before shaking her head. 'This is ridiculous, I don't even know his name.'

Sighing, she wished she did, for utter realization came over her, he was beautiful and it was so unfair. Of course his brother was beautiful too, no, not only beautiful, he was absolutely breath taking. She guessed he had followed in his foot steps. At this notion, she began to laugh before shaking her head again. "Forget it Kagome, you're so weird," murmmurmred and the whole notion that had begun to creep into her mind promptly disappered.

When they got to their destination, Sesshoumaru's small farm, she opened the door of her forest green jeep and climbed out, reaching for her bag in the passenger seat to pull it out as well.

Waiting for her messenger to pull into the driveway in his crimson red viper, she turned with him in tow and walked behind the cheery pale yellow house to the custom red barn behind it. 'Poor city boy, probably will end up sick by the time this whole thing is over,' Kagome thought, laughing.

She had guessed that in the beginning, Sesshoumaru had originally started this whole farming thing because of his wife, Rin, for he had come from the city as well. She was such a sweet thing, it seemed so perfect that they were together, and at the same time unlikely that she would be the one to crack through such a stern man's barriers. But nonetheless, she had, and mentally, Kagome had congratulated her everyday they had known each other.

Pulling open the barn door, she paused with the dog youkai behind her and cupped one hand around her mouth calling, "Mr.Sesshoumaru...Rin! It's me, Kagome!" She waited a moment before she heard Rin's light voice float out to her in one of the back stalls and smiling she followed the sound. But, she wasn't smiling when she came upon the mess before her.

On the floor of the stall, lay the laboring mare, a bloody mess she was indeed. At her head, Rin cradled the beast's head in her lap as she glanced up. "Sesso went to get more dish towels to stop the internal bleeding, he didn't know how long it'd take you..."

Nodding, Kagome kneeled down behind the animal and opened her bag, pulled out a pair of gloves and slipping them on, she slipped her slim s ins into the beast.

The first time she'd done this, a feeling of utter repulsion had come over her and after it was through, she had belched her brains out. But after dong this for 2 and a half years to cows, goats, whatever, it didn't really bother her anymore.

So finally, after digging around some time, she shook her head a bit sadly and told Rin, who had watched her the whole time, that the foal would have to be turned before it was born and more worse, that the feeding tube was wrapped around it and that was what had caused so much bleeding.

She hadn't noticed before until Sesshoumaru came up behind them, but as she glanced back, she saw how the messenger stood, grasping the stall wall with one white claw, a mortified look on his face.
Smiling inwardly, she began on her task; it would be a long day indeed.

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When she had finished her job, the sound of a new foal, whining at its mother for food, filled the barn and a sigh of relief escaped each observing figure, even the messenger.

Standing, she pulled off the gloves, depositing them in a waste bin on her way out of the bao geo get some air. Stepping outside into the late afternoon, she took a deep breath and leaned against the wall, sighing again as she rose a hand to massage her temple. 'God, I'm tired...'

Then turning, she walked back in and began to pick her things up and put them back in her bag. As she stood, Sesshoumaru stood with her and took her hand. "Kagome, thank you so much, I do-...Kagome?" She hadn't noticed how sick she felt until she began to waver in her posture, but did now as she slouched forward to be caught by a surprised and worried youkai. Drifting out of consciousness, the last thing she heard was, "Inuyasha, can you please take her ho-..."

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