Stringing Along by Tokahlia

Grudgingly Accepting Lessons

Chapter 19 - Grudgingly Accepting Lessons

“Really?” Kagome asked, unaware of this setting on something she had used for such a time. “That’s a nice touch, isn’t it?” Kagome commented, mind easily distracted from the task at hand like a jellyfish floating along the currents of the ocean. She had to shake herself from her ADD-like episode when she felt, rather than saw, the subjugation spell wear off Sesshoumaru.

Said daiyoukai got to his feet, glaring at Inuyasha as he brushed an imaginary speck of dust off his shoulder. Inuyasha wasn’t helping his cause, he grinned outright with a triumphant tilt to his chin. The time travelling miko could just sense the tension in the air about to snap. All it would take would be one comment from Inuyasha and then, boom. Something had to be done, and that something happened to be Kaede.

“My only hypothesis for why you cannot remove the beads would be another safety feature,” Kaede reasoned, sitting down by the fire to stir it up.

“Explain,” Sesshoumaru demanded. Kagome watched him carefully, the word ‘ochitsuke’ on the tip of her tongue. However he made no move to do his usual trick of holding people by their necks.

Good. He was learning.

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Word Count: 200

Prompt: Jellyfish for Riku Ryuu’s Random Prompts #45