InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Do You Love Me? ❯ A Little Date Never Hurt Anyone...Sesshoumaru? ( Chapter 3 )

AN: I'm listening to a sad song. So this is gonna be a bittersweet chapter. I thought it might be the end for this fic, but my sister told me to milk this for all it's worth. Something like that.

Actually she said, all your other stuff sucks, make this one longer so you actually get more reviews.

And here I was wondering why the hell I never showed her my stuff……

Here!

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Do You Love Me?

Chapter Three

A Little Date Never Hurt Anyone…… Sesshoumaru?

By: blue sakuras

Kagome sat in front of the Goshinboku. (AN: Sorry for any misspellings.) She sat, as she had for the past weeks. The past, long, tiresome, boring weeks that she spent in her time, without traveling after rumors for jewel shards, or visiting Kaede.

Those weeks were the longest of her life.

But she didn't want to go back just yet, not with the reaction Inuyasha had given her. She just couldn't. He was going to be mad when, if she went back. She just wasn't sure. She just didn't want to go back and face the hanyou. She had made so many promises.

Sango, her pregnancy test. Well, that was more of a surprise for her.

Miroku, the science and medicine books.

Shippou, his candy.

Kaede, a refreshment of her first-aid kit.

And, for Inuyasha, it was ramen. And more searching for Naraku.

But now she wasn't sure that any of those promises she had made wouldn't be broken.

Sighing, she leaned back against the tree and groaned in frustration. Her mind was a complete mess.

"Kagome?" a voice called out to her. "Kagome?"

Opening her eyes, she saw that it was Hojo. Great. Just what she needed. She was already burdened with so many problems and here comes the guy who WILL make her head hurt even more. Not maybe, not no, not a little, not might, he WOULD.

"Yes?" she sat up straight and brushed off her clothes.

"Well, I see that you are feeling better, since you're out in the sun and all. I hope the medicinal herbs I brought you helped." He smiled at her, but she was too into brushing off her clothes that she didn't notice. `She's trying to look nice for me!' was his thought, and his reason for grinning like a madman. (AN: Where did that saying come from anyway?)

Kagome was indeed busy. She was wrapped up into her thoughts, that her excuse to NOT look at Hojo, was to brush herself off.

"Kagome, I was hoping that you were feeling well enough to come to the movies with me today." She looked up at him. Her mind was scrambling for an excuse to not go. Maybe her grandfather fell down the stairs and needed help. Yes, that's the one. Looking around, to make sure he wasn't around, she saw the `felled' senior making his way towards Hojo, most likely intent on getting more health devices.

"Ok! Let's go now, alright?" and quickly grabbed his arm and dragged him off, hoping to veer away her not so sane grandfather.

"Alright!" Hojo's mind was cheering him on.

^.~

"Miroku?" Sango called into the hut. "Are you in here?" she questioned tentatively, half hoping for him to answer, the other half hoping him to be gone.

"Yes? Sango, that you?" he asked as he walked out of the hut.

"Come with me." She must have had a nervous look on her face, because when she finished talking, he immediately grabbed her gently by the shoulders and began looking over her.

"Did he touch you? Are you hurt? What's wrong?" He asked, concern written all over his face.

Sango smiled. He was so openly affectionate and caring. And he was her's. Inuyasha was nothing like that. Her smile quickly turned into a frown, and she scolded herself for thinking so poorly of the poor fellow.

"Sango?" Miroku was concerned. Sango was smiling after he did a quick check of her body, not to mention get a good look. She seemed fine. But then she was frowning, and then she was a little angry. Sango portrayed many emotions on her face well. But now Miroku was worried whether or not Inuyasha had damaged something other than her body.

More, specific, her mind.

"Um, Sango? Are you alright?" he asked.

Sango looked at him, a slightly angry face on her, and then she smiled, and nodded. She almost shyly looked at him and tugged at his hand, motioning for him to follow her.

After a few minutes of walking, Sango halted. Miroku, startled by this sudden stop, bumped into her.

"Miroku." She began softly, looking out into the distance. "Remember when Koharu found you?"

Miroku, confused by all this randomness in his wife, answered, "Yes. Why?"

"And remember when you told me that you asked all pretty women you met if they would bear your children?" she said with the grin in clear in her voice.

Miroku was now REALLY confused. "Yes, but um, why all these memories?"

This remark made her laugh. Miroku loved to make her smile, and even more to make her laugh. He could never stand to see a women in tears, let alone his love. "Well, I feel so lucky."

"How so?" Miroku was now getting Sango's converstion. At least he thought so.

"Because, out of all those women you asked, I'm the only one who's doing so." She turned to him and smiled. "Happy now?"

Miroku, confused at his wife's words, suddenly understood. "You mean, that you're, that we're…." He looked for her for a confirmation. She nodded.

He smiled. And laughed. He grabbed her into a fierce hug and smelled her hair. He always loved doing so. It reassured him that this beauty, this wonderful woman, was his, and no other man's.

He released his tight embrace, for sudden fear of hurting the baby.

Sango was the one with confusion on her face now. "What's wrong?"

Miroku looked deeply into her eyes, tilting her head upwards with his gloved hand. "How long? And why are you still walking about? And when did you find out? Why didn't you tell me?" he asked in a rush, a demanding but soft tone. Sango thought she heard a proud note in all the emotions rolled into his words.

"Well, Inuyasha says I'm only three weeks along. He knew by sniffing my scent, which was different, I don't know how, but he told me it was something all demons could smell. I found out yesterday, when he led me away. And what were the rest of the questions?" Miroku watched her every movement, the way her eyes crinkled with a smile, the way her lips moved to form words.

"I'm so happy." And dove down and pressed his lips against hers. Sango returned this move by putting her hands around Miroku.

The two stood their, caught up in their embrace, ignorant of everything around them.

If this wasn't love, what was?

(A little Miroku and Sango fluff, I think.)

^.~

This was the most boring movie in the world. Kagome sighed, hoping Hojo would get the hint and take her someplace else. He didn't. He seemed to be enraptured by the movie's plot, which Kagome thought was extremely dull. He had taken her to see a movie about penguins.

"Now, many people used to believe that penguins were capable of flight, but when proved wrong, those many people used as an explanation that `the birds had merely gotten fat and could no longer fly properly'. Thus the swimming and searching for fish." The movie droned on. It went on for what seemed like forever for Kagome. In actuality it was only 2 ½ hours long, but it was a lifetime for Kagome. Because she couldn't keep her mind on the movie, and all she could think about, because she was bored out of her skull, was Inuyasha. She couldn't keep her mind off of him. It was too hard.

Her eyes started to water as she remembered that one phrase.

`I don't love you.'

`I'm sorry Kagome.'

Those words stung her heart so much, it hurt. It hurt so bad, that she started to cry. Tears started streaming out of her eyes. She tried to stop, but it was so hard. Damn the penguins.

^.~

"Inuyasha!" the said hanyou looked down from his perch, on his favorite tree.

"What?" the silver-haired man growled down.

"Oh sure, be polite to Sango, and not to me." Miroku grumbled as he stood underneath the tree.

"Well, she's a bitch and you're not." Miroku grinned at this.

"Well, if I was a `bitch' as you put it, then I'm pretty glad that you're not the one I love." Those words stunned Inuyasha. He immediately jumped off his branch and landed swiftly on his feet in front of Miroku.

"Hello Inuyasha."

"She told you?!" he growled, obviously not amused at the tone of Miroku's voice.

"And why not? You didn't tell her to NOT tell me, or to tell me. It was her choice." He responded. "And I didn't come to tease you about your woes, I wanted to talk to you about Sango." He sat down on the ground, and motioned for Inuyasha to do the same.

Inuyasha did so grouchily. (I think I just made that word up! Either that or I learned a new word today!)

"What did you come to talk to me about?" after an awkward silence between the two males.

"Well, I wanted to talk to you about Sango." Oh, now he understood. Well, he'd make the monk squirm and it was payback for teasing and taunting him the past two years.

"Well, what do you want to know?" Miroku got the chills. Inuyasha was responding politely, and so un-Inuyasha like.

"Well, how far along is she?"

"Three weeks. But, weren't you gone just about three weeks ago?" Inuyasha questioned the monk.

Miroku looked uncomfortable, but responded all the same. "Yes, but what does that have to do with anything?"

"Well, I didn't want to mention this to Sango, but, the child, doesn't exactly smell like a mix of you and Sango. It's more of a mix of Sango and someone else." Inuyasha said this in a concerned manner, but in his head, he was laughing.

"WHAT?!" was the lovely reply from Miroku. The expression on his face was priceless.

Not being able to hold it in any longer, Inuyasha fell to the floor, laughing. He laughed so hard his sides ached. He laughed so hard he was going to cry. Cry…..

That's what Kagome was doing. Right before she left, and she was in tears because of him. It was his fault.

He sobered up immediately.

"Done yet?" Miroku said, eyeing him skeptically from his position on the grass.

"Yeah."

"You better of been lying."

"I was."

"Good." And Miroku got up to walk away, but stopped suddenly when he heard Inuyasha finish what he had to say.

"But I might not be."

"Shut up!" and threw his pole at the hanyou sprawled across the ground.

^.~

Thank the Lord! That was Kagome's thought as the movie ended and they walked out of the movie theather. Hojo had noticed that Kagome had been crying and offered his comfort of the sadness and unfairness of poor helplessness of baby penguins being strangled to death. Or something like that.

"Where do you want to go now?" Hojo asked Kagome, snapping her out of her amazed stupor at how incredibly naïve he could be.

"Ummm, Wacdonalds?" Kagome suggested, just because she was dying of hunger. She would have suggested to go home, but, she was REALLY hungry, and she didn't want Grandpa to find Hojo and con him out of another medicinal `gift' for Kagome's `poor injuries'.

"Alright." As they entered the store, Kagome saw a flash of silver hair. She dismissed it as her imagination, for she had sealed the well with temporary seals she had made out of construction paper and color pencils. She had asked Souta to make her some `real' ones, and he told her he needed at least 2 months to complete strong, permenant seals. How he knew? She didn't want to know.

"I'll get us our food." Hojo told her and got up from his seat to get their orders.

Kagome sat staring at the customers who already received their food and was munching away happily. Suddenly, she saw another flash of silver hair.

`No, it couldn't be' she thought with horror.

"Hello Kagome." A deep voice said from behind her.

She turned so fast, she thought her head might snap off. It didn't matter, because standing in front of her…..

was……

Sesshoumaru.

^.~

"You did what?" Sango said chuckling, after hearing what Inuyasha had told Miroku, and was looking like she was going to have fits from laughing.

"No wonder he was avoiding me all day today, jeesh Inuyasha!"

"Glad to be of such humor." He said dryly, watching the demon extermiator in front of him catch her breath from laughing so hard.

"Well, that does explain all those weird looks I've been getting from him too. He's been avoiding me, and when we DO meet, he looks at me with a really funny face and runs off."

"Weirdo."

"You're one to talk!"

"So are you."

"So? I'm pregnant and my hormones are raging, wanna fight?" Sango dealt out to him, smirking.

"I'd rather take my chances jumping up and down on a sharp, rusty nail." He responded in kind. Both were grinning. (AN: They know about that kind of stuff from Kagome.)

^.~

"Ses-s-h-h-o…." Kagome lost her voice. She was staring at the man in front of her. It was Sesshoumaru alright. But without his stripes and moon. His fluffy thing too. He was wearig what appeared to be an Armani suit, with his hair as usual, let down.

"Stuttering? Good. I must be shocking to you." He said with a smirk. "Now, let's sit and talk." He motioned for her to sit back down, for when she saw had who spoke to her, she had snapped out of her seat so fast, you would have thought that there was a nail on it. A sharp, rusty nail.

"What about Hojo?" Kagome had finally found her voice and gestured towards the said boy. He was currently standing at the counter, apparently talking to a worker.

"He'll be busy. I've arranged for it." Sesshoumaru said in his usual, cool, collected voice.

"O…K…." Kagome sat down a bit reluctantly, almost as if she was expecting Sesshoumaru to grab her by her throat any second.

"I've changed. So, don't look like a scared little lamb." He reached a hand across the table and Kagome flinched when he reached her face. She didn't move away though. He grasped her chin slightly and tilted it upwards, until she was looking eye to eye with him. He stared into her eyes for a few minutes.

It was amber eyes meeting blue eyes.

Kagome suddenly felt another sharp pain in her heart, and the position that Sesshoumaru had put her in wasn't helping. This was just like when Inuyasha, when he told her those spiteful words. She couldn't take it much longer. She knew her eyes always betrayed her. She wished that Sesshoumaru would stop staring into her soul. Her eyes held all her emotions and they had never failed to give away a prank or a lie. Now they gave away her grief, her sadness, her overwelling frustration.

"Stop." She whispered, closing her eyes and moving her head away from his stare, from his touch.

"I apologize." Kagome looked back at him. "I know, I never do that. But, as I have said, times have changed me."

"What do you want?"

"Well, I came to tell you to stop being a bitch and unseal the well." He said, chuckling. "Well, that was what Inuyasha told me to tell you, and when I asked him if I should change it around a bit, he told me to fuck off and muttered something about me rearranging the words to sound like he wanted you gone. Something like that."

Kagome just stared in amazement. Her mouth dropped open and her head was spinning. "Well, I'll be off now. I just wanted to find you to tell you that. Go ahead and call me if you need anything. After all, it's all I can do for what you did for Rin and me." He slid a card out of his pocket and handed it to Kagome. Kagome, still shocked at the changed Sesshoumaru, then realized something.

"Where's Rin? Is she still here?" Kagome hoped the answer would be good. She thought very dearly of the little girl. (AN: That sounds weird. But it fits. No complaining.)

Sesshoumaru once again smirked, as he seemed to be enjoying the way Kagome was reacting to this situation.

"Yes. She's all grown up, and I believe it would be about 23 human years to you. She still acts like she used to though." Sesshoumaru brought up his left hand and rubbed his temples at the comment. Kagome smiled. He was still with her, and apparently happy about it.

"Where is she?"

"Somewhere in the mansion. Or shopping. Or at the park. Or -" Kagome cut Sesshoumaru's apparently long list by holding up her hand, and looking at him.

"She lives with you?" Sesshoumaru quirked an eyebrow at her, and grinned.

"Yeah. She's still loud too." Kagome smiled.

"So, you have any kids." Sesshoumaru, who was leaning his head on his elbow, which was placed on the table, fell.

"What?" he asked, embarassement in his voice apparent.

"You know? Children?" she asked him, prompting his eyes for answers. More like prompting his eyeBROWS for answers. They were always the ones to betray emotions, just like Kagome's eyes.

"We have two. How did you know?"

Kagome fell off her seat. "What? You were serious!" she shrieked, alerting the attention of the nearby customers.

"I think it would be a good idea to end the converstion now." Sesshoumaru stated. As Kagome started to open her mouth to argue, he held up a hand and said," First, go home and unseal the well. You don't have to. I advise you to though. And second, come by anytime, I'm sure I will enjoy the squabling of you two women all over the house." And quickly got up to leave. Kagome stared in the direction in puzzlement as he quickly exited.

"I got the food!" Hojo said triumphantly, "Sorry for taking so long." Kagome just looked at him.

"It's… alright." Hadn't he noticed Sesshoumaru?

"Oh, who was that?" There we go, he wasn't as naïve as she thought.

"An old friend."

"Oh, alright, let's eat!" and Kagome, suddenly reminded of her appetite, started to devour her Big Mac.

^.~

"Inuyasha." Sango and Inuyasha's heads both snapped in the direction of the voice.

"Sesshoumaru!" they exclaimed in unison.

"I have a favour to ask of you. Come." He motioned for Inuyasha to follow.

Inuyasha, puzzled by this, got up and started walking. Suddenly, the stoic youkai stopped and said, "Not you. The girl." Sango was now puzzled. She didn't like being puzzled so many times this week.

"Alright, you tell Miroku I went off alright? He's been REALLY awkward about me walking." Patting Inuyasha on the arm, and rolling her eyes, she followed the graceful youkai.

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AN: Like?

Now, for a cheesy NEXT EPISODE intro. Ya know? Like the dragonball z ones? Sorry for any DBZ fans, I don't like that show. Blame it on my cousins.

Now,….

::In big booming announcers voice::

What exactly DOES Sesshoumaru want with Sango? And will Kagome EVER unseal the well? Tune in next time for….

DO YOU LOVE ME?

::silence::

Damn, and I was hoping for that to bring up readers….. -.-;

Neko signing out~