The Heroic and Super-Duper Trials of a Girl and a Demon by UnknownRandomness

Danger and/or Suggestion?

A/N: Sorry for the delay! Been a bit busy this past week, so I hope to make it up to you readers with a few more chapters in the next couple of days. No promises though. 

Prompt: Danger (Week 8)

Word Count: 434

This wasn't the most enviable situation that Kagome had been in. 

Straddling a fallen tree trunk, she tried not to wince as the bark scratched the soft skin of her thighs. 'Why? Why of all days does this have to be the day I chose to wear a skirt?' The wince broke over her face as two light gashes appeared on her elbow. 

Huffing, the miko continued in the direction she believed her friends were in, hoping that Sesshoumaru hadn't tired of waiting for her and continued moving.

She'd gone into a dense copse of bushes with Shippo, because he needed 'to go', only to be attacked by a huge lizard youkai. Having made quick work of the creature- even without her arrows, she was getting good- she realised that she had lost her bearings. So Kagome had done the most sensible thing she could think of; picked a random direction and started walking.

'Although, looking back on it now, that may not have been the best thing to do.'

Stopping in a plush carpet of ferns, the young woman decided to wait for back-up. 'I'm sure Shippo must've warned Sesshoumaru... right?'

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Sesshoumaru idly watched the miko traipse through the forest. 

He had been tailing her for quite a while now; in fact, he'd watched her dispatch the youkai and then start walking.

When the kitsune had barrelled out of the undergrowth, shrieking that Kagome was in danger, he'd instructed Jaken to look after the children and then launched himself into the trees. 

Although he didn't show it, the daiyoukai was very impressed with her abilities, her miko ki had made his skin tingle as he'd watched the lizard turn to dust. The only reason he hadn't taken her back to the others was because he wanted to see how long it would take for her to sense his presence.

To be fair, he wasn't making it easy, surpressing his youki and remaining out of her line of vision.

Sesshoumaru had just decided to end this charade when the miko straddled a trunk, her long, toned legs tightly clasping the wood as her breasts perked up from her arms bracing her body weight.

The Western Lord almost fell from the tree he was perched in. Why was she sitting so suggestively?! It was unbecoming, what with her half-naked state and the fact that she was outside.

Frowning as a pained wince appeared on her features, Sesshoumaru was broken from his out-of-character observations when the young woman inspected her elbow.

He snorted at her clumsiness. 'The kit was right- the miko is in danger- from herself.'