InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Adoption ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: Keva

Naraku opened the door to Sesshoumaru's apartment and was greeted with a rather
strange site. Kagome was dancing around the apartment cheering while Sesshoumaru
looked a though his most favorite possession in the world had just been stolen.

"YES! YES! YESSSSS!" Kagome cheered as she jumped around the apartment.

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes upon her and her little display. He should have known he
was being hustled but he didn't think she had it in her to do such a thing.

Naraku moved to sit in the chair next to Sesshoumaru. "What is she doing? Has she gone
mad?"

Sesshoumaru shook his head. "She won."

"Won?" Naraku questioned. "What do you mean won?"

Sesshoumaru lightly shook his head dismissing him. "What happed?"

Naraku smirked. "They're going to get what they deserved. I'm sure she will be pleased
with the outcome."

"Nothing will please her more than what she has just won now." Sesshoumaru snorted.

"OH! YES!" Kagome sang and danced her over to Sesshoumaru. "Kicked your sorry
butt!" She said with a tap of her finger on the tip of his nose. "And you will pay up
today!"

Sesshoumaru looked up at her. "I believe Naraku wishes to speak with you."

Kagome looked over at the dark haired man and smiled brightly at him. "Hi!" She
plopped down on the chair across from him. "So what happened?"

Naraku couldn't help but smile at how happy she was. This was the real Kagome not that
melancholy girl he had been dealing with for the last two days. "They will begin their
first day in military school on Monday and should they not fulfill their obligations they
will be put into the detention center until they reach their twenty-first birthday."

Blue eyes widened hugely. "Really? Taishou-sama has that kind of power?"

"Hai" Sesshoumaru answered.

Kagome dropped her eyes down to the table and sighed sadly. "How sad for them."

Naraku and Sesshoumaru exchanged unbelieving glances. "Sad for them?" Naraku asked
in disbelief. "Did you forget what they did to you?"

She shook her head. "No it's not that." She sighed again. "It's just that I'm sorry for them."
She looked up at their seemingly shocked faces. "I can't really explain it. I have known
them for a long time and never thought that they would beâ€¦ wellâ€¦ you know."

"Never mind that." Naraku said dismissing the subject. "So do you want to tell me what
you were so excited about?"

Her demeanor changed immediately as she looked over at Sesshoumaru. "I WON!" She
chirped. "AND YOOOU LOST!" She pointed a finger in his face.

"Indeed" He stated blandly.

Naraku couldn't stand it anymore. "Well?" He demanded growing tired of being left out.

"I owe her a weeks worth of back massages." Sesshoumaru stated as he stared hard at
Kagome.

Brown eyes widened like they hadn't since he was a curious child. "How?" Naraku
couldn't for the life of him figure out how the girl managed to beat Sesshoumaru and win
such a prize.

"She cheated." Sesshoumaru answered.

"Did not!" Kagome bit out. "I won fair and square."

Sesshoumaru snorted. "You hustled me same as cheating."

"I don't know how to hustle. It was just luck and besides you're just mad because you
didn't get your personal chef for the week." She smiled at him. "Okay how about next
week we play again that way you will have another chance at beating me."

Sesshoumaru snorted but nodded none the less.

Naraku watched the two of them and rose from the chair. "I am exhausted and hungry.
I'm headed home are you coming or are you going to stay here and continue to rub his
nose in his loss?"

"I'm coming. I'm famished." She rose from her chair and leaned down so that she was
almost nose to nose with Sesshoumaru. "So are you gonna pay up today?"

Sesshoumaru gave a curt nod and rose to his feet towering over her. "Later" He said then
left the kitchen.

Kagome looked over to Naraku. "He doesn't like to lose does he?"

"No that he doesn't." He said as he turned and made for the door. Part of him thought he
should be concerned with the girl and Sesshoumaru and this bet she won but the other
part of him knew that Sesshoumaru was responsible and would never do anything that
would be considered immoral with the girl. He would have to keep an eye on them both
just to make sure he had nothing serious to worry about.

Kagome followed after him feeling happier than she had in a long time. "So what are we
having?"

Naraku shrugged his shoulder. "Whatever we can find leftover in the fridge."

Kagome groaned miserably. "All that's in the fridge is leftover crap." She held her hand
up in front of her and tapped her forefinger with her other finger. "Leftover pizza,
leftover fried chicken from the fast food place, something leftover from I think the turn of
the century cause it was fuzzy and green, and who knows what else is hidden in the great
white mystery box." She looked over at him. "You're losing points in the guardian area if
all you're going to feed me is questionable leftovers."

Naraku looked down at her and truly realized for the first time that she was his
responsibility even if he was only four years older than her. 'The perfect age of an older
brother who suddenly became responsible for his little sister.' He thought as he glanced
over at her. It didn't escape his attention that they did indeed look similar. Both of them
tall with black wavy hair and the same sharp nose with hers a smaller and a little more
feminine. If he didn't know any better he would swear she was his half sister or
something along those lines. "Perhaps it is time to go grocery shopping."

Kagome nodded. "I think you're right." She tilted her head and looked over at him when
they stopped at the apartment door. "How about you shop and I will take on the
insurmountable task of cleaning out the fridge?" She shuddered at the thought.

"A sucker for punishment?" He asked with a cocked eyebrow as he opened the door.

Kagome walked into the apartment only to see that half the leftovers were on the floor in
front of Bankotsu and Hiten as they played their video game. "Then again if you leave it
to those two there won't be much left for me to clean out." She said with a wrinkle of her
nose.

"Hey how'd it go?" Hiten asked not taking his eyes off his game.

"Just as I figured it would." Naraku stated and sat down on the love seat to watch them
and wait for the fight over whether or not Hiten was cheating.

Kagome walked up behind them and stared over their shoulders at what they were eating
and was pretty sure that one of the bowls of stuff in front of them was one of the bowls
with the green fuzzy stuff she saw earlier that morning. She turned to Naraku and made
the gesture for gagging while pointing at the two sitting on the floor.

Naraku smirked and shrugged his shoulder. "Should they die of food poisoning then it is
their own fault." He stated as if such a thing happening was no big deal. "Now make a list
so that I can go."

"Right" Kagome said with a nod and went to the table by the phone where she saw some
paper and a pen. In less than ten minutes she had a list done and Naraku out the door
heading to the store. "Now Kagome girl lets earn that massage." She said to herself with a
nod as she pulled the refrigerator open.

xx

"Hey? What are you doing?" Bankotsu asked as he stared at the girl with trash bags piled
around her and her body halfway inside the fridge.

"Cleaning out Pandora's Box." She responded sarcastically without coming out of the
fridge. "Hey do you think you can take these trash bags out to the dumpster before the
thing with seven hairy arms escapes and kills us all?"

Bankotsu involuntary took a small step back from the trash bags on the floor. He knew
that there were things in the fridge that no one had laid eyes on practically since they
moved in that could be used as strange science experiments.

Kagome pulled her head out of the fridge and stared up at the wide eyed boy standing
behind her. "Well? What are you a chicken or are you too pretty to take the trash out?"
She placed her hands on her hips and looked at him like a mother would look at a child
that wasn't listening to her. "'Fraid you might chip a nail?"

Bankotsu shook his head lightly and grabbed a trash bag in each hand. He then gave her a
cocky look that said 'See I'm a man.' Then left the kitchen.

Kagome rolled her eyes and went back to wiping down the shelves and trying to get rid
of the mysterious funk that seemed to infuse itself into the plastic walls of the inside.

About an hour later Kagome was lying on the couch exhausted beyond belief as it
seemed to take forever to clean out the white box of mysterious science experiments.
"You guys are absolute slobs." She stated as she looked over at Hiten and Bankotsu still
sitting on the floor playing their silly football game. Neither of them acknowledged her
for fear she would force them to stop playing and clean something.

She tilted her head back and looked up at Naraku when he came through the door loaded
down with grocery bags. "Finally! I'm starving." She groaned as she rose to her feet to
help him.

xx

Kagome sat on the couch staring up at Naraku as he went over more rules especially
regarding the next day. With all the rules she felt as if she were in a prison and kept
waiting for the cell doors to slam shut in her face.

"Now since you will be home alone for the first half of the day you are not allowed to go
anywhere beyond this apartment and the swimming pool." He looked at her pointedly.
"No calling your friends and inviting them over and no taking off with anyone."

"I really have no friends to call anyway so you don't need to worry about that." She said
somewhat sadly.

Naraku sat down next to her. "I won't be home until about three or four tomorrow.
Bankotsu and Hiten will be home about two and most likely they will spend the rest of
the day playing video games." He shook his head in disgust. "How those two manage to
pass their classes is beyond me."

"Priorities" Kagome stated. "Video games first school second."

"Yes well their future is their own and not my concern." He stated as he sat back into the
couch.

Kagome turned to face him and crossed her legs under her. "So now that things are
settling down somewhat and now that you are my guardianâ€¦" She smiled when he
looked over at her. "Why don't you tell me about yourself so that I can get to know my
new daddy." She smirked after she said the last word.

"First off I am not your new daddy secondly; there is nothing you need to know about me
except I make the rules and you follow them."

Instead of being insulted by his words she made the most pathetic pouty face she could
and begged. "Please?" She batted her eyes like she was fighting off the tears and hoped it
worked.

Naraku stared at her and inwardly collapsed at the face she was making then followed
that up with cursing himself to hell and back several times for falling weak to the face she
was making. "Very well." He sighed. "What do you want to know?"

Kagome instantly brightened and a large charming smiled plastered itself across her face.
"Well; what is your major in school? Where do you work? How did you and
Sesshoumaru become friends? How are you related to the Taishou family? Where did
you live before you lived here? Do you have a girlfriend? What about brothers and
sisters? Where were you born? How come you're such a grumpy gus all the time? What
makes you happy?"

Naraku stared at her. "Enough" He had to stop her for fear she would never shut up.
"Law, with Taishou-sama, met as children, Taishou-sama found me wandering the streets

at the age of ten, Osaka, no, no, Osaka, because I can be, and not being asked so many
questions." He responded to each one of her questions with a smirk at her slack jawed
expression.

"Gawd Naraku!" Kagome said in exasperation. "If you don't want to tell me anything you
could have just said so in the first damn place!"

He suppressed the chuckle but a small smile still found its way onto his lips. "Watch your
mouth you will not speak like a heathen." He didn't put any menace or threat into his
voice and smirked even bigger when she once again stared at him like he had just
spontaneously sprouted a second head. "You did not ask for detailed answers to your
questions so I answered them just as you asked them. If you wanted a better explanation
of things then you should have only asked one question at a time instead of all of them at
once."

Kagome crossed her arms over her chest and huffed. "You sound just like Sesshoumaru
so am I to take it you two are like best friends or something?"

"Hai you could say that."

"And?" She widened her eyes like he was a complete idiot for not going deeper into his
answer.

He gave a snort that seemed to start somewhere deep in his throat and turned to watch
Hiten and Bankotsu argue over which one was cheating. "My father was much like yours
only he was truly my father. He was a drunk and felt his life was ruined because I was
born. My mother left us when I was four and ran away with some man she swore she
loved and didn't want to bring her baggage with her which was me. It destroyed my father
and he began drinking to forget that his wife left him with a son to raise by himself. By
the time I was nine I had been beaten to the brink of death during one of his drunken
rages for the last time. I waited until he passed out, grabbed what I could carry, and left."

Kagome stared at him with wide sad eyes. "What did you do to survive?"

Again he gave snort of derision. "I did whatever I had to do. I mostly stole what I needed
but wasn't very successful at it. I slept in alleyways, dug for food in the trash, and did
what I could to survive. I lived like that for a year until I met Taishou-sama."

"Oh he felt sorry for you and took you in?"

Naraku chuckled lightly. "Not exactly. He caught me stealing from him and decided that
to pay off my debt I had to work for him as a yard boy. I had to live in the staff quarters
with the gardeners and kitchen staff. I always had food, clothes, and a place to sleep and
had to help the gardeners to pay off my debt. While I was helping Argo-san trim the rose
bushes I met Sesshoumaru for the first time. We didn't exactly get along at first as he was
a cold pompous ass as he is now and I was an angry loud mouthed thief." Another

chuckle passed his lips. "We fought all the time and Taishou-sama was at his wits end
with having to pull us apart every other second of everyday until Sesshoumaru and I
found a common ground."

"Inuyasha" Kagome said with a nod.

"Hai" He answered returning the nod. "Once we both realized how much fun it was to
torment Sesshoumaru's little brother we became partners in crime. We were relentless in
our torture to his little brother and Taishou-sama was beyond tired of dealing with all us
boys. He decided that Sesshoumaru's behavior was due to my influence as that I was a
street child who didn't know better. He took me in as his own and sent Sesshoumaru and I
to a boy's school that deals specifically with heathen children such as we were." Naraku
shook his head at the memories. "That was when the friendship between Sesshoumaru
and I strengthened to an unbreakable bond. All we had was each other and neither of us
were especially interested in making friends with the other boys of the school.'

"Wow" Kagome whispered in awe.

Naraku ignored her. "Yet as much as Taishou-sama thought that that was going to keep
us out of trouble he was sorely mistaken. The school was calling him at least three times
a week complaining that they couldn't have us beating up every child that irritated us.
Needless to say Taishou-sama pulled us out of the school and decided that we would be
taught under his iron fist." He laughed lightly. "I think it only took one beating a day
under the unforgiving hand of Taishou-sama to set us straight. Eventually we decided that
getting punished everyday was much too painful and much too exhausting since after we
were punished we had to do some military drill right afterwards that we begin to
straighten up." He looked over at her. "And here we are today."

"I can't imagine you or Sesshoumaru being little trouble makers." She laughed lightly.
"So if you guys are best friends why don't your live together?"

"We may be best friends but we found that as we got older that we had a tendency to get
on each others nerves to the point it could cost us our friendship. So when we moved out
of his father's house we decided we wouldn't live together and it's only by coincidence
that we live near each other."

Kagome furrowed her brows and silently asked him; 'What do you mean coincidence?'

"Unknown to both of us we were looking for an apartment at the same time. I found this
one and he found the one he lives in and we didn't know that we would be neighbors until
we were moving in as during the time we were looking we hadn't talked to each other for
awhile." He answered her question before she could answer it. "We had our own things
going on with school, work, and whatnot so we didn't exactly talk everyday or even every
week."

"Oh" She answered then looked at the front door when it opened. "Well speak of the
devil." A huge grin lightened up her face. "Are you here to pay up?"

Sesshoumaru looked over at her and narrowed his eyes to little slits. "It is very
unbecoming to be so cocky."

Kagome did a rather fine impression of Naraku's snort. "And it is more so that you are
such a sore loser." She placed her hands on her lower back and stretched like she was in
pain. "Yep I'm going to need you to pay up now." She said as she stood up.

"Sesshoumaru pay up?" Bankotsu asked without taking his eyes off the game.
"Sesshoumaru never has to pay anything."

"Yep" Hiten agreed. "Sesshoumaru has never been in debt to anything or anyone." He hit
the pause button and looked over at Kagome. "So what does he owe you?"

Kagome smiled hugely. "A back massage and he has to give me one everyday for a
week."

All eyes in the room looked over to the silent stoic being waiting for him to tell them that
she was full of it. Instead of responding he sat down on the love seat and acted as though
everything was normal.

Bankotsu looked over at Hiten. "Yep he owes her." He said with a smirk then turned back
to the game.

Hiten nodded his head in agreement and returned to the game just as Bankotsu un-paused
the game.

Kagome looked over at her little massage slave for a week and smiled devilishly.
Somehow she knew without a doubt that he would in no way pay up his debt with so
many people around and decided that now was the perfect time to collect. So rising from
the couch she moved to sit next to him and turned her back in his direction. "Might as
well do it now." She chirped while looking over her shoulder at him.

Naraku could help himself he had known Sesshoumaru for a long time and knew that his
friend was uncomfortable so he just had to rub it in. "Yea, might as well do it now." He
echoed with an evil smirk on his lips.

Sesshoumaru threw a glare over at his dark friend before turning to look at the girl's back.
"We will do it later."

Kagome spun to face him and put on her best pouty face. "But my back hurts from
cleaning out the fridge and you owe me." She made sure to only put a little bit of a whine
in her voice since she didn't want to sound like a big whiney baby.

"Later" He growled as he still hadn't recovered from the indignity of losing to a mere girl-
child.

Her blue eyes locked with his gold and she sent a message that only he could read saying,
'You want me alone, don't ya.'

He narrowed his eyes at her but didn't say or do anything that said she was right.

"Well forget it." Kagome bit out. "You owe meâ€¦" She trailed off and gave him a one
eyed glare. "Oh I get it. You're a welch."

Sesshoumaru's response was immediate. He reached out, grabbed her by the shoulder,
flung her to the floor at his feet face down, and proceeded to sit on her. Somehow; to the
spectators of this out of character action of his he was able to make it look like what he
had done was the most normal thing in the world.

"Get off me!" Kagome shrieked as she kicked her legs and tried to roll him off of her.
"You weigh a freakin ton!"

Sesshoumaru scoffed at her statement. "I hardly weigh a ton. Perhaps if you weren't such
a stick of a girl you would be able to handle a little weight."

Kagome stopped her struggles. "Little? Hah! If you weren't such a lard ass then my spine
wouldn't be pressed against my rib cage."

He ignored her insult and looked over at Bankotsu who was staring at him in wide eyed
wonder. "Do you believe her to be ticklish."

Bankotsu nodded his head. "She looks like she would be."

"Hmmâ€¦" Sesshoumaru said as cool as water. "Let us see shall we." He then placed his
hands on her sides and squeezed.

Kagome screamed and began her struggles anew while laughing. "STOP IT!"

He did as she requested and looked up at Naraku with an eyebrow raised. Naraku
shrugged his shoulder and smirked. Sesshoumaru snorted and looked down at the girl
between his knees on her belly and after a moments hesitation he paid his debt.

It wasn't long until Kagome was fast asleep on the floor under Sesshoumaru's
administrations. He had strong yet gentle knot seeking fingers that worked the muscles
like he was their master.

Once she was out cold Sesshoumaru rose to his feet and stared down at her before turning
to Naraku. "That is one way to silence her overly loud mouth." He stated plainly before
resuming his seat on the love seat.

Naraku snorted, rose to his feet, picked her up, and carried her upstairs to her bed.

xx

Naraku's eyes snapped open when he felt the sharp sting of a slap across his cheek. His
hand instinctually went to his burning face only to find his large hand covering a smaller
hand resting against his face. Again she was in his bed and assaulting him in her sleep.
Why was she in his bed again? This wasn't right and he needed to stop it now.

He sat up pleased that she wasn't all tangled in his hair again, and pulled her into a sitting
position. "Girl why are you once again in my bed?"

Kagome yawned, stretched, and stared sleepily at him. "What?" Her voice was groggy
with sleep.

"Why are you in here again?" He repeated with an edge to his deep sleep filled voice.

"Bad dream." She answered as she fell back down onto the bed.

Naraku stared at her and could hear her breathing evening out as she fell back into the
land of dreams. "You will return to your own bed."

"Mmmmâ€¦ Okay." Kagome yawned and curled up into a small ball.

Naraku growled to himself, rose to his feet, picked her up, and carried her back to her
own bed. Once he had her covered he made his way back to his bed, fell into it, and was
instantly asleep.

xx

Naraku snapped his eyes open once again and was startled when his deep brown locked
with wide blue eyes staring back at him. "Why are you once again out of your bed?" He
was growing irritated with the girl and these disruptions to his sleep time.

Kagome gnawed on her bottom lip and blushed in embarrassment. "Umâ€¦ I have a
problem." She whispered shyly.

"Problem?" He stared hard at her. "What kind of problem?"

Again she chewed on her bottom lip and blushed a deeper shade of red. "A female
problem." She whispered.

Naraku suddenly felt as if someone just kicked him in the chest. This was something new
and a problem he did not want to deal with. "Then fix it."

"I can't." She fidgeted and danced slightly from foot to foot nervously. "I don't have
anything to fix it with."

Naraku looked from her to the clock and back again. "It is two in the morning. Can it not
wait until a more reasonable hour?"

Kagome shook her head. "No"

"Why did you not tell me about this earlier?" He growled.

"It wasn't a problem earlier." She bit back matching the deadly edge in his voice.

Naraku threw the sheet from his body, kicked his legs over the side of the bed, and
towered over her. "Damnation girl!" He growled. "Get dressed and we will go to the store
now." He watched as she did as he told her to do and began to throw a mental hissy fit.
Two nights in a row now she had disrupted his sleep and it was beginning to feel like it
was going to be a habit. Perhaps he should chain her to her bed so that she will stay there
and cease disturbing him during the night.

An hour later Naraku collapsed down on his bed and was almost asleep when he felt a
presence standing over him once again. "Now what is it?" He hissed in irritation.

"Umâ€¦ I need to sleep in here with you." Kagome whispered.

"You have your own bed. Now get in it!" He growled darkly.

Kagome took a deep nervous breath. "I can't."

He sat up and stared at her in the dark with narrowed eyes. "And why not?"

She giggled nervously. "Because of my problem that came out of nowhere andâ€¦ wellâ€¦
you know." She said shyly.

He was tired and beyond annoyed. "Get in, be silent, and go to sleep. We will take care of
all you issues tomorrow." He flopped down on the bed and huffed in irritation.

"Thanks" Kagome whispered and crawled over him to get to the other side of the bed
instead of walking around, which would be the smart thing to do.

Naraku grunted when she pressed her knee into his stomach harshly in her attempt to get
to the other side of the bed. "Girl you are more trouble than you are worth." He hissed
then rolled over and pretended that she didn't exist.

Kagome didn't say anything just laid down and was out as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Naraku fell asleep almost as quickly as she had but just as he was on the verge of mental
darkness the knee found its way back into his lower back along with the tangle of fingers
in his hair and the hand across the face. He should fling her to the floor or at least send
her to sleep on the couch, but he was too tired to care and let his lids fall closed sending
him into an uncomfortable sleep.

xx

Kagome paced the apartment like a trapped animal. She was bored bored bored and had
absolutely nothing to do. She didn't want to play video games since she found them to be
utterly boring and she couldn't surf the net because Naraku took the cord to the modem
with him when he left that morning. She asked him why he was taking it and he gave her
some nonsense about her accessing non-approved websites. What did he take her for
some kind of pervert or something?

Then she thought about going to the swimming pool but when she crossed the parking lot
she noticed that others had the same idea and those others just happened to be her worst
enemies. After all that had happened she completely forgot that Kaguya lived in the same
complex as her and her best friend Tsubaki visited all the time. With a huff and a hope
that they didn't see her she returned to her little safe haven and began pacing trying to
think of somethingâ€¦ anything to do.

As she was pacing around she spotted all the contact numbers Naraku had left her earlier
that morning and smiled to herself. Maybe someone on that list she knew was just as
bored as she was and perhaps that someone was a someone who owed her a massage. A
shiver shot up her spine at the memory of his hands running along her back and she could
only imagine what they would feel like all over her body.

Picking up the phone she dialed the cell number and really hoped that this wasn't a bad
time to call. After the third ring she was about to hang up when she heard his deep voice
on the other end. "Umâ€¦ is this a bad time?"

"No"

"Oh"

'Well this is starting off well.' Kagome thought cynically.

"What do you want?"

Kagome chuckled nervously. "Wellâ€¦ umâ€¦ I was wondering when you were going to be
home?"

"Why?"

' Because I want to see youâ€¦' Her mind said causing her to blush stupidly. "I'm bored."
'And want to jump your bones.' Her mind added causing her blush to flame deeply from
head to toe.

There was a long silence on the phone and she wondered if he had hung up on her. She
was about to hang up thinking he already had when his voice came back on the other end.
"I will be there in about an hour."

Kagome smiled broadly and tried to sound like she wasn't overly excited but was sure he
could still hear it in her voice anyway. "Okay I will see you then."

"Hn" He responded then hung up.

Kagome hung up the phone and began banging her head against the wall. "Stupidâ€¦
stupidâ€¦ stupidâ€¦" She hissed with every bang of her head on the wall. "Way to be
smooth Kagome!" She growled at herself as she rubbed the small lump on her forehead.

She shook her head and smiled hugely he was coming home to spend time with her. She
looked down at herself in her bathing suit and grinned hugely. "Better go get ready." She
chirped and ran upstairs.

xx

"Who was that?" Naraku asked as he and Sesshoumaru made their way to their business
law class.

Sesshoumaru looked at Naraku from the corner of his eye. "Who do you think."

Deep browns narrowed. "Why is she calling you?"

"She is bored." He answered like it was nothing.

"Do I need to concern myself with her infatuation with you?" Naraku questioned with a
threatening edge to his voice.

Sesshoumaru smirked. "It is not my bed she has been sleeping in every night."

A deep scowl marred Naraku's face. "It's not like I have a choice."

Sesshoumaru grunted. "You do. You are just too soft to do anything about it." He walked
into the lecture hall. "You care for the girl like she is your little sister and it angers you
that you care for her so much."

Naraku glared at his back as they made their way to their seats. "I am not the only one
who cares. I believe you care even more than I do."

Again he smirked. "Perhaps. I find her to be rather intriguing. She is never the same two
minutes in a row."

"Just remember she is only sixteen." Naraku responded implying that he knew what was
on Sesshoumaru's mind.

"Perhaps that is something you need to remember when she climbs into bed with you."
His lips twitched as he tried to keep from smirking at the affronted face his friend was
making.

"Do not imply it." Naraku hissed.

"Hnâ€¦" Sesshoumaru responded just as the professor began the class.