Stringing Along by Tokahlia
We're off to see the wizard...
Chapter 9 - We're off to see the wizard...
"I can't," Kagome helpfully bleated, feeling very small in front of the lanky daiyoukai.
"You can't," Sesshoumaru stated, his voice drawling with mock confusion. Once again he stepped forward, making the uncharacteristically meek Kagome snap.
She poked him in the chest, hard. "Listen Sesshoumaru, if you enter my personal bubble one more time I'll make sure you 'relax' so well that your neck snaps, got it?" She glared at him with all her worth. He stared down at her with arrogant amusement clear on his face. Oh, she knew there would be hell to pay for so much as daring to threaten him, but could not find it within herself to care. If she was going to go down she was going down as a thunderclap and torrential rain, not some wimpy spring shower.
To see if her extortion had worked Kagome took a full step back, this time angling her retreat so she wasn't flush against the well again. Either Sesshoumaru was humouring her or he had taken her words to heart (the former was much more likely), the dog demon made no motion to move.
"What I mean is that I didn't create the beads," Kagome elaborated, resisting the urge to twiddle her thumbs in circles. Self-conscious hand movements would not look very impressive after her little verbal threat. "Kikyo's dead now, for real."
Sesshoumaru didn't reply. Bored, Kagome listened to the nature around her, appreciating the songs of the birds and the murmuring of the trees while Sesshoumaru internalized the complicated situation in his head. It was getting late; the sun was beginning its decent to the west. Kagome wondered what time it was and at once regretted not wearing a watch that morning.
"There is one who might know." Sesshoumaru hypothesised aloud. "The old miko."
"Kaede-baachan?"
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Word count: 300
Prompt: Storm from Riku Ryuu's Random Prompts # 18.
AN If you get the awesome reference you are awesome. If not, look up ghost chips on yt.