Someone to protect

Chapter 2

The night was slowly disappearing making way for the sun to rise as we made way to the village her group resided in. I stopped at the entrance of a hut where I could smell her friends from and waited for them to arrive as well. I turned to see the priestess smiling. Rin was holding onto her hand and she was telling her all about her adventures while traveling with me and the priestess made sure to ask of every insignificant detail with utmost interest. She seemed to have a mother's aura whenever she was around any children such as Rin or her demon friend, which was a sign she was ready for a mate. She was of age which made me thinking. This Sesshomaru knew she had a habit of disappearing into that old wooden well from time to time. Was it to see her mate? Where was the well leading to? Was she the only one to access the place the priestess disappears to? I narrowed my eyes as I studied her face. No matter how much I watched, there was no answers to my questions and that annoyed this Sesshomaru greatly.

The humans finally made their way to the hut and the priestess turned towards me.

"Thank you for coming with me Sesshomaru. It was nice to catch up with Rin. I haven't seen her for such a long time," with those words she turned to my ward and kneeled to her smiling.

"And thank you for all your amazing stories. I hope we'll meet again soon Rin-chan."

Rin's eyes sparkled at that as she turned to me.

"Can we, Lord Sesshomaru?"

I just narrowed my eyes and turned my back to them both heading back to the forest. I'm not done with the priestess. Not done at all.

......

The next time we crossed paths was when she and the group she travelled with followed Narakus' scent. It was all over the place, like his barrier was broken. However, the same night was the night of the new moon, the night the half brat loses his powers. I found them without even looking around for them. The fire was burning brightly and the group was sitting in a circle around it, the human stench of the half breed was burning my nose. However, I stayed to look. She appeared to be in a better mood. She held the cat demon in her hands caressing its fur while it purred at her touch. She puzzled me indeed. She was a priestess. Her job was to rid the world of the demons, yet one was snuggled in her lap clearly enjoying her touch.

What would it feel like to be touched by her?

The thought surprised even myself. I was planning to leave, but she caught me off guard. She turned towards the woods, her eyes finding mine, even though a human like her couldn't have actually seen me in here. Yet she did, she looked at me and what shocked me the most, she smiled.

"What is it Kagome-chan?" The slayer asked and she turned back to her group of friends. "Do you sense something?"

The priestess continued to caress the cats fur and shook her head.

"It's nothing to worry about. I just thought I saw something."

"Maybe we should check it out?" The slayer looked at her friend concerned and exchanging looks with the monk. The priestess waved her head dismissively though and just cuddled the cat, which made a pleasing meow.

"It was just my imagination."

"Keh, just go to sleep. We have to find Naraku in the morning." The half breed proclaimed and the slayer just nodded her head laying down while the monk leaned onto a tree closing his eyes. The priestess gave me one more look before I turned around and walked away towards Naraku.

......

The search was long. Naraku always managed to find a hole through which he slips away and into hiding. The coward was not man enough to fight anyone head on but the more I thought about him, the more I thought he avoided the priestess the most. It came to my attention that Naraku is after the dead priestess so after he's done with her, does that mean he'll go after the live one next? Is the priestess the answer to defeating Naraku?

The more I thought about it the more it made sense in my mind. And by the end of the day there was no doubt about it. The priestess could see the secret jewel shards, which meant that she could see Naraku. That would make looking for him a lot easier. And since he is scared of the priestess there has to be something about her that can help kill him.

That realization almost made me smile. The priestess is needed. This Sesshomaru will then take the priestess as a help for looking for and defeating Naraku. As a bonus, this Sesshomaru will have all the time needed to figure out this human and get over this fascination of her. And then I'll finally get over this human and continue with my life as per usual.