Hulk and His Priestess

Chapter 3 Getting Bruce Settled.

Kagome runs back to the house to inform her mom about Bruce. Seeing her mother sweeping the patio, Kagome runs up to her.

"Mom, I invited someone to stay with us for a while."

"I know, Dear, your brother explained to me that you met someone in the forest that you want to help. He told me everything, I think it's very kind of you to want to help and I have no objections. I already prepared your grandpa's old room for him."

"Thanks, Mom, you're the best." Kagome says as she kisses her mother on the cheek and goes back out to the forest.

She finds Bruce still sitting under the same tree. As she walks up to him, she takes in his physical appearance. He's in his mid 40's and is more or less about 5' 9" with an average build salt and pepper hair with warm brown eyes, with a mild manner about him. Though she finds that his aura is constantly under stress and anger, overall she find him very attractive.

Walking up to him she holds out her hand to help him up. "Okay Bruce everything has been arranged. You'll be staying with my mother and me at the Shrine. While you're there I'm going to teach you some techniques to help you with your stress and anger that will help you and Hulk get along better."

Bruce looks at her hand and hesitates, "Do you really think this is a good idea, I mean technically I'm in the country illegally. I don't want to get you and your family in trouble."

"Don't worry about that, I'll take care of everything." Kagome reassures him.

Bruce sighs and takes her hand. "Okay, lead the way."

Helping him stand, she leads the way back to the shrine. Upon breaking through the tree line, Bruce takes in the sight of the shrine. It's a simple little shrine, though very beautiful. Bruce had been in Japan before it was quite a while ago and it was when he was a fugitive, he never made it to Tokyo and he never visited any of the shrines. They were too much of a tourist attraction and he couldn't run the risk of being recognised. This shrine though didn't seem that busy. There were a few people around, mostly locals, he could see a woman tending to them in the distance.

"That's my mom." Kagome tells him.

Bruce nods.

"Come on I'm sure you'd like to freshen up a bit and maybe take a nap in a real bed."

"Yeah, I would, thank you, Kagome."

Kagome leads Bruce into the house and takes him inside. Going upstairs she show him to her the bedroom he'll be staying in.

"This used to be my grandpa's bedroom, he passed away a few years ago, so we use it as a spare now. The bathroom is down the hall, my little brother left you some more clothes in the drawer."

"Thank you, Kagome."

"No problem, Bruce."

Kagome then leaves and shuts the door. Bruce goes to the drawer and takes out a pair of sweat pants, a t-shirt, and some under clothes. He heads for the bathroom to take a shower. Getting in the shower he adjusts the water to where it's nice and warm and gets in. He sighs as the warm water begins to relax his muscles, while he washes he thinks about the girl that has offered to help him.

Aside from being beautiful, Bruce notes that she is unusually kind. He had never met anyone that would go out of their way to help a complete stranger the way Kagome was. He was actually considering himself very lucky to have met her. In his head he hears a rumble of contentment.

"Pretty Pink Girl, Kind." Hulk tells him.

'She sure is, Big Guy.' Bruce thinks.

Bruce can already tell that the Other Guy is very fond of Kagome, which he finds fascinating. He thought that the Other Guy liked Natasha, but apparently he likes Kagome a lot more. Feeling a bit drained after his shower, Bruce dries off, gets dressed and heads back to his new room to take a nap.