InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Finding My Heart ❯ A Family in the Sand ( Chapter 11 )

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Chapter 11- A Family in the Sand

 

Kagome awoke in her comfy bed with the light from the sun shining through the window. She could hear birds chirping and the occasional noise coming from the village that was closest to the palace, the noise sounded like the pounding of a nail into wood.

 

Surprisingly she didn't feel that tired, assuming that she would have been since she didn't sleep that much, she was glad to feel refreshed and awake instead of tired. `I wonder what time it is?' She thought and slid her legs to the side of the bed and out of the blankets.

 

She looked up and could see herself in the big mirror that stood on the dresser. Suddenly she remembered what happened last night, the nightgown that Sesshoumaru gave her, reminded her of last night. `What happened? Does Sesshoumaru actually like me? And why did I stay there? Why did I seem to enjoy it?' Kagome thought. All the questions in her mind were driving her crazy, especially since they seemed unanswerable.

 

In an attempt to push the questions aside, she got up and walked towards the balcony. Opening the windowed doors she blinked when the bright sun hurt her eyes. “Wow, it's a beautiful day.” She said, as she inhaled the fresh morning air. She looked over the balcony and to her right. The koi pond below Rin's room sparkled in the sunlight and the colorful fish swam around peacefully. She then looked ahead of her and could see the village; it looked lively, she could see people walking around, and a man standing on a roof working on a house. The people looked really small since the village was almost a mile away.

 

“Good morning Kagome!”

 

Kagome looked to her right to see a smiling Rin standing on her balcony. She still had her nightgown on and her hair was ruffled from bed. “Good morning Rin, did you get a good sleep?” Kagome asked, smiling back at the joyful girl.

 

“Rin's great! Her leg is feeling a little better today!” She said, trying to lift her leg up to show Kagome.

 

Kagome laughed as the little girl stumbled trying to balance on one foot. “That's great Rin, but you still have to keep the bandage on. It still has a lot of to heal. That was a big wound you got.” She said, making sure Rin knew that it wasn't healed yet, and needed more time to heal.

 

“Rin won't take it off. Kagome, why did those men attack Rin?” Rin asked.

 

Kagome rested on the ledge of the balcony and looked at the girl's questioning face. How could she tell Rin that they attacked her because they thought she was a demon? Rin probably wouldn't understand, but she knew that it wouldn't be right to lie to her either. “Rin, they attacked you because they thought you were a demon.” She replied truthfully.

 

“But Sesshoumaru is always around there. Why don't they attack him? He's a demon.” Rin asked.

 

`She must be talking about the Sesshoumaru that was in this time and disappeared. I guess that would be the Sesshoumaru that's here now...oh, this is so confusing.' She thought and decided not to even try and make since of it. “They probably don't attack him because they are scared of him. A couple of blows with Toukijin and his acid whip and they'd all be dead.” Kagome answered with what she thought would be the most reasonable answer.

 

“Probably. Sesshoumaru is the fastest and strongest demon I've ever seen!” Rin said giggling and making swinging motions with her arms to imitate Sesshoumaru swinging his acid whip around.

 

Kagome laughed. “Yes, I bet he is. He's definitely the fastest demon I've ever seen.” Kagome said, remembering how fast he could fly, even with her in his arms.

 

“Hai! Isn't it fun flying with him Kagome!” Rin said enthusiastically.

 

“Yes, after my stomach settles from the height, I quite enjoy it. The scenery is beautiful.” Kagome said. She admired how much the little girl loved Sesshoumaru.

 

“Rin gets stuck riding on Ah-Un all the time now. Rin only gets to fly with Sesshoumaru if Sesshoumaru wants to get some where really fast.” Rin said.

 

`Somehow that doesn't surprise me.' Kagome thought.

 

“Kagome, can Rin come over to your room?” She asked, putting her cute pouting face on that she used on Sesshoumaru when she wanted to get her own way.

 

“Yes, but first let me get dressed okay. Knock on the door before you come in.” Kagome answered. Suddenly she got the feeling that Rin was going to stick to her like Velcro all day. If it hadn't been for Sesshoumaru the other night, Kagome wouldn't have gotten anytime to herself.

 

“Okay, Rin will get dressed too!” She said and ran out of sight back into her room.

 

Kagome went back into her room and put on some jean shorts and a tank-top that she dug out of her backpack since it was quite warm out. She brushed her hair and just felt like leaving it down. After a few minutes there was a knock on the door. Kagome opened it, knowing it was Rin, and the little girl ran in and jumped on her bed.

 

“What do you want to do today Kagome?” Rin asked, sitting on the bed in the usual kimono she wears and looking at Kagome.

 

“I don't know Rin. If you'd like you can help me take my clothes out of my backpack and put them into the dresser drawers.” Kagome said, wanting to get her stuff put away before doing anything else.

 

“Rin would love to help!” She answered and hopped down off the bed.

 

“Okay great. Put the same type of clothing in the same drawer, like these,” she said, holding up another tank-top, “they go with more of the same kind.” Kagome explained and put the tank-top in an empty drawer.

 

“What are those? Rin's never seen this kind of clothing before.” Rin asked, holding up tank-tops and jeans.

 

“They are clothing from my time.” Kagome replied, quickly remembering that Rin had no clue about the well and going back and forth from the past and the future, she probably wouldn't understand even if she did try to tell her.

 

“Your time?” Rin said, slightly confused.

 

“Umm...I'll explain it to you later.” Kagome replied, hoping she'd drop the subject.

 

“Okay.” Rin said, easily forgetting about it.

 

For a few minutes they sat on the floor and folded, sorted, and put away clothes. She didn't have that many clothes since she could only fill a backpack, but Rin's talking in between and wondering which clothes went where, slowed them down a little. Kagome had to occasionally remind her that certain clothing was another T-shirt or tank-top.

 

“There we're finished.” Kagome said and smiled at Rin. “Now what would you like to do?” She asked, shutting the last dresser drawer.

 

“Um...” Rin said. She held her finger up to her mouth like she was in deep thought about it.

 

“You're going to have breakfast.” Sesshoumaru said, leaning against the door, watching Rin and Kagome who were sitting below him on the floor. Rin looked up at him and smiled and Kagome had jumped as usual at his sudden presence. `Why is she wearing that again? That doesn't cover enough to call it clothing.' Sesshoumaru wondered, wishing that she would wear something a lot less exposing.

 

“Hai, breakfast sounds great.” Kagome said, looking up at Sesshoumaru. `I have to start getting use to him doing that. I still jump everytime, and I bet he likes seeing me jump too. Then again, who could get use to a six foot man or demon suddenly appearing right behind you?' She thought.

 

“But, Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin wants to play with Kagome.” Rin whined.

 

“Are you not hungry?” Sesshoumaru said.

 

“No, not really.” Rin answered, looking up at him with pleading eyes.

 

“Too bad, you're going to eat or else you'll be hungry later. Do you not think that maybe Kagome is hungry.” Sesshoumaru said, looking down at Kagome.

 

“Is Kagome hungry?” Rin turned and asked her.

 

“Um, well yes actually, it would be good if I could get some food in me. You know what they say Rin; breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Kagome said and got up on her feet.

 

Since Kagome wanted to eat breakfast and said she was hungry, Rin happily gave in. “Okay, Rin will eat.”

 

`Rin would eat breakfast whether she wanted to or not.' Sesshoumaru thought, wondering why she would think she could get away from breakfast. She knew that he never let her get away from eating it. He turned out the door and heard the footsteps following behind him.

 

Kagome smiled when she felt Rin's little hand grab hers. She held Kagome's hand all the way to the dining room and finally let go to be seated. Kagome thought Rin was so cute and didn't really mind her being around at all. Even back home she loved kids. She sat down in the same spot that she had the day before and they were served quickly by Mioka.

 

The breakfast consisted of a plate of fried eggs and bacon along with a glass of milk for all of them. The glasses the milk was held in looked like an expensive type and the plates were a thick white ceramic.

 

Kagome dug in to her meal, and enjoyed all of it. She always liked bacon and eggs and Sesshoumaru's food always seemed to taste wonderful. She looked ahead of her and saw that Sesshoumaru was almost finished as well, even after having a larger plateful than she had. He always seemed to have more food on his plate than Rin and herself, she guessed that was because he is a youkai and needed a lot more to eat than they did. When she was finished, she was pretty full.

 

Rin was the last to finish. Like most kids she would pick at her food and place on different parts of the plate, but eventually she ate it.

 

No words were said while they ate and Kagome noticed that Sesshoumaru had been doing his best at avoiding eye contact with her. She wondered why he was, after what happened last night, and now he's practically trying to ignore her. At least that's what she felt like he was doing.

 

Afterwards Kagome managed to separate from Rin for a moment and she went to wash up in the bathroom. To her surprise she found a person was already in the bathroom.

“Oh, I'm so sorry.”

 

Kagome looked at her and realized she must be the other worker in the house. She looked very much like Mioka, and it was easy to tell that she was also an inu-youkai. “It's alright.” Kagome said, smiling at the inu-youkai. Before Kagome could say anything more the youkai had scurried out of the room.

 

After washing up she left the bathroom to unsurprisingly find Rin waiting for her by the door.

 

“Kagome would you like to come see the gardens with me?” Rin asked, tugging at Kagome's shirt.

 

“There's gardens?” Kagome asked.

 

“Hai, they are really nice with lots of sakura blossoms.” Rin replied and started to pull her towards the front gate.

 

“Okay okay I'm coming.” Kagome laughed and followed her so she wouldn't stretch her shirt.

 

They exited through the front gate and Kagome followed Rin to her left and around the palace wall. Beside the wall to her left she could see many sakura trees and other sorts of beautiful plants. It almost looked like a maze to go into. Kagome followed Rin into the garden and they walked on a trail that had already been made through the garden.

 

`This could be kind of creepy if you wondered out here all by yourself, but it's also peaceful in a sort of way.' Kagome thought, looking around at all the trees, plants, and bushes that surrounded her.

 

“This is my favourite spot.” Rin said as they came to a small clearing surrounded by sakura blossoms. A wooden bench sat at the end of the clearing in front of some trees and below the bench there was a small patch of soft sand.

 

Kagome looked around and thought the clearing looked beautiful. With autumn coming there were pink blossoms from the trees lying spread out on the grass and the trees almost hovered over the clearing, still half full with pink leaves.

 

Rin walked over to the bench and sat down on it, swinging her small legs back and forth since they were too short to touch the ground. “Sometimes I come out here just to relax and play in the sand.” Rin said, pointing to the small patch of sand below the bench. “Jaken and Rin also comes out here to play.” She said and hopped back off the bench and kneeled down on the sand.

 

Kagome sat down on the bench and watched the little girl play in the sand. She seemed to be drawing a picture of something that wasn't recognizable yet.

 

“Kagome, have you ever heard Rin's song?” Rin asked, turning around to look at her friend.

 

“No Rin, I don't think I have.” Kagome replied.

 

“Rin made it up all by herself and sings it sometimes when she is out here.” Rin said, continuing to draw in the sand. “You can sing it with me, I'll teach you!” Rin said happily.

 

“In the mountain, in the forest, in the wind, in a dream.” Rin sang. “Now you sing that part with me.” Rin said.

 

“In the mountain, in the forest, in the wind, in a dream.” They both sang together.

 

“In the mountain, in the forest, in the wind, in a dream. Where are you, Sesshoumaru-sama? With an ally like Jaken-sama, I will wait alone until you come. Sesshoumaru-sama, please return.” Rin sang out while drawing in the sand.

 

Kagome watched the little girl below her writing in the sand. `That song, she must really love Sesshoumaru.' Kagome thought.

 

“Okay, you know the song now. Sing it with me!” She said enthusiastically.

 

“In the mountain, in the forest, in the wind, in a dream. Where are you, Sesshoumaru-sama? With an ally like Jaken-sama, I will wait alone until you come. Sesshoumaru-sama, please return.” They both sang. While Rin continued playing in the sand and Kagome sat on the bench they sang the song peacefully over again.

 

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Sesshoumaru started walking towards the sound. He could hear a distant hum of a song that sounded very familiar to him. Upstairs, he walked on the side of the palace that he heard the voices coming from and looked out a window. There he could the little clearing below in the garden, and saw Kagome sitting on the wooden bench and Rin sitting in the sand.

 

The sakura trees and pink blossoms around Kagome made her look like an angel sitting there. The bright pink leaves brought out her beautiful raven black hair. He could hear Kagome's voice over Rin's. Her singing sounding more like that of a woman's. He could also hear Rin's childish little girl's voice, the one that he was use to and felt at peace when he heard it.

 

He couldn't help but think that from that distance they sounded like angel's singing. For a moment it almost felt like Kagome belonged with Rin and him. Kagome had such patience with Rin and seemed to like being with her. The miko kept Rin very happy and occupied. Sesshoumaru liked having Kagome around for Rin. She was a fun woman for Rin to play with, yet she also seemed to have a caring motherly part of her as well.

 

Sesshoumaru was scared of what would happen to Rin now, if Kagome left them. Rin had gotten so attached to Kagome in such a little time. He feared that if Kagome left Rin, then Rin would be heartbroken. And not only would Rin be heartbroken, but Sesshoumaru noticed he was starting to grow feelings for her as well.

 

After a few moments the girls stopped singing and Sesshoumaru walked away from the window to continue what he was doing.

 

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“That's a wonderful song Rin.” Kagome complimented, after they were finished singing.

 

“Thank you.” Rin said, and jumped back up on the bench.

 

“What did you draw?” Kagome asked, looking down at the sand. There was a sloppy, but cute drawing of what looked like Sesshoumaru, and he had his sword by his side. Holding Sesshoumaru's hand beside him was a drawing of what looked like it was suppose to be Rin. The girl had a big finger engraved smile on her face, and holding the girl's hand was a taller woman figure with long hair and a smile across her face.

 

“See that? That's suppose to be Sesshoumaru-sama.” Rin replied, pointing at the tallest one that looked like him. “And that's me!” She said, pointing to the short girl with the big smile that was holding Sesshoumaru's hand. “The last one, that is my mommy.” Rin said happily.

 

Kagome was slightly surprised by who the last figure was but also felt sad for the little girl. She didn't have a mom and the closest person she has ever had to a father is Sesshoumaru. “Rin, you wish you had a mommy, don't you?” Kagome asked seriously.

 

“Yes, I would like a mommy. One that is beautiful and fun, and plays with me, just like you.” Rin replied, looking up at Kagome.

 

Kagome was shocked, but felt good knowing that Rin liked her that much, and thought she would make a good mother. She didn't really know what to say to Rin, but she felt, as strange as it was, at home here. She didn't plan on leaving anytime soon. Not that she could if she wanted to, she had no way of getting back through the well without Tetsusaiga. She would be there for Rin, as much as she could be. She noticed that Rin actually said `I' instead of talking with her own name, and gathered that maybe that meant she was really in serious mode.

 

“Come on Kagome, Rin will race you back to the palace gate.” Rin said, breaking the silence and jumping off the bench. She instantly laughed and took off through the trail towards the palace.

 

Kagome smiled and got up off the bench. `That girl can sure run, for having a wounded leg.' Kagome thought and then took off after her.

 

They arrived at the front gate, Rin winning the race and then went back inside. By now it was mid-day and Kagome guessed that Sesshoumaru would probably want to have lunch soon. Within a few moments she found that her thoughts were right when Sesshoumaru met them at the bottom of the staircase and told them to come for lunch.

 

Lunch was served the same as their other meals had been. Once again Mioka's cooking was brilliant and Kagome walked away from lunch full again.

 

Sesshoumaru followed them outside of the dining room and asked Kagome if she would like to see some of his lands a little more close up. He wanted to take her for a little tour around the village that was close by and let her see some more of his kingdom.

 

Kagome said yes, being excited to visit the village and get to see what his lands were like. She and Rin got ready in a flash and met with Sesshoumaru at the front gate to leave for the tour. The tall inu-youkai opened the gate and they walked out on to the dirt road that led to the left of the palace. The road led towards the village that Kagome recognized from her bedroom window.

 

Rin walked holding Kagome's hand the whole way to the village. Once there, the village looked much bigger than it did from her window. To Kagome's surprise humans inhabited the village. She would have thought that the village had mainly demons living in it, being Sesshoumaru's lands, but Sesshoumaru never ceased to surprise her.

 

As they walked past houses, small huts, and shops, the humans didn't seem to mind that they were there. Some villagers even smiled at Sesshoumaru or gave him a nod. Most of the villagers they saw were middle aged men that were working on the construction of a hut or selling some kind of food. Once and awhile Kagome would see a woman through a hut window, usually cleaning dishes.

 

Overall the village looked much the same as InuYasha's. The villagers wore the same kind of clothing, lived in the same kind of wooden houses, and worked on building new things just like InuYasha's villager's did. The only real difference was the size of the village, this village being much larger than InuYasha's.

 

After finishing their tour through the village, Sesshoumaru turned off onto another road that led away from the village. They traveled on the dirt road until they came to a wooden bridge that had a sparkling stream flowing underneath it.

 

“This is the main flow of freshwater through the western lands, the stream you seen on the tapestry.” Sesshoumaru explained, looking over to Kagome as he stopped on the bridge.

 

“Wow, this is that stream? It must be an important part of this land.” Kagome said, standing beside Sesshoumaru and looking into the stream. The water was so clear that she could see the bottom, which looked like it consisted of smooth rocks. It looked to be about five feet deep and it shined a sky blue. Kagome could see hers, Sesshoumaru's and Rin's reflection. The reflection of them standing there reminded her of Rin's picture she drew in the sand.

 

“The stream is the most important asset of this land. It supplies all of our drinking, and bathing waters, and also down the stream further, is where a great amount of fish resides. The fish supply is very important; it's a lot of what people eat here.” Sesshoumaru explained.

 

Kagome followed Sesshoumaru as he turned to walk off the bridge. This time they followed him on a road that looked like it led to some bigger houses ahead. She could see some larger built houses that looked a lot bigger and better built than the ones that were in the village.

 

“This is where the some of the youkai live; mostly inu-youkai.” Sesshoumaru said as they got closer to the houses.

 

As they walked past some of the houses, a few youkai were standing around and just watched them pass, except one. What looked like a human, but Kagome could tell was an inu-youkai, stood outside of a house and walked towards them.

 

The man looked more rugged compared to the other inu-youkai's she'd seen, and his hair was very thick, long and silver just like most inu-youkai's hair was. He wore a dark kimono, almost black in color and wore the same black shoes like Sesshoumaru's. One thing that Kagome noticed the most was the very unique marking that he had going across his eye. It looked like some kind of symbol, and started from below his eye on his cheekbone, went across his eyelid, and stopped at his eyebrow. The marking was a dark purple color, and almost looked like it could be black in a certain light. The lines swirled to a point on either side of his eye and came to a point below his eye, and a jagged point above his eye. Kagome wondered what the marking meant. She had never seen one like that before, and it was only on one eye.

 

“Lord Sesshoumaru, nice to see you.” The youkai said in a deep but friendly voice. He looked over at Kagome and Rin and smiled. “How's little Rin doing?” He said, bending down to pat her on the head.

 

“Rin's great! And look at this, I have a bad wound.” Rin said. Anyone would have thought she was happy to have that wound by the tone of her voice. She lifted up her leg to show the man.

 

“That looks like a big one. What happened?” He asked, looking at Sesshoumaru.

 

“Some villagers attacked me.” Rin said, a little less cheerful.

 

“Villagers attacked you?” The youkai said questioningly. He got up and looked at Sesshoumaru, slightly concerned about what he just heard.

 

“A large group of village men tried to kill her because they thought she was a demon.” Sesshoumaru said, answering the youkai's question before he even asked it.

 

“That's not good. Bad times are coming.” The man replied, looking into Sesshoumaru's eyes with seriously. He shook his head as if thinking of the bad things that he may think will come.

 

Sesshoumaru nodded at his comment and looked at Kagome, who the man was now looking at.

 

“And who might you be?” The youkai asked, smiling at the miko.

 

“Hi, my name is Kagome. Kagome Higurashi.” She answered. She put on a fake smile as he held her hand and came in close.

 

“What a beautiful lad you are.” He complimented and looked back up at Sesshoumaru.

 

“Kagome this is Ryouichi, the father of Mioka and Teruna. When the land is at war, this is the youkai that brings together all youkai and men to fight. He is the captain of the military of the Western Lands.” Sesshoumaru explained.

 

“Oh, it's a pleasure to be meeting you. You're daughter Mioka is a great cook.” Kagome said politely.

 

“Why thank you Kagome.” Ryouichi said, happy to hear a compliment about his daughter. He leaned in towards Sesshoumaru as if to whisper something and said, “This one if a beauty and very polite, but since when have you started having a heart for humans?”

 

Sesshoumaru was taken back by that and quickly answered back; “She's not my mate.”

 

Kagome had heard what Ryouichi said, seeing as his whisper wasn't that much of a whisper. She was glad to know that Ryouichi was a kind demon compared to what demons are usually like when talking about humans. She would usually have expected him to think low of her and scowl that she is a human. Kagome didn't think much of Sesshoumaru's response. He was right, she wasn't his mate, or anywhere near his mate, but it did make her remember last night again.

 

“Ryouichi, it was good to see you again, but we've been out for a while and should be getting back now.” Sesshoumaru said in the nicest way possible. He was getting tired of standing there and knew that Ryouichi could talk forever if he stayed there.

 

Kagome almost laughed. She had never heard Sesshoumaru talk and act so nice and polite before, and this man seemed to make him feel like he had to talk nicely.

 

Ryouichi said bye to Sesshoumaru and gave the girls another smile before turning back towards his house.

 

“Good bye Ryouichi-sama!” Rin hollered and waved to the youkai as they continued to walk.

 

“He was a nice man Sesshoumaru.” Kagome said.

 

“Yes, he was a good friend to my family, and has helped my parents more than once.” Sesshoumaru replied, not turning to look at Kagome.

 

For the rest of the time outside they followed the road back home that only took about thirty minutes and Rin skipped happily beside Kagome. Once they got back it was about suppertime and they all headed towards the dining room. After a tasty supper of fish and vegetables Sesshoumaru headed towards his bedroom and Kagome to hers, with Rin still attached to her.

 

Rin and Kagome talked in her room until it was about time for bed and when it became dark outside she finally went to her own room and Kagome tucked her into bed.

 

After Rin was comfortably in her bed, Kagome left the room and went back to her own. She opened the drawer that she had remembered putting the white nightgown that Sesshoumaru gave her in and pulled it out. She changed into it, thinking that she had only wore it for one night, so it wasn't dirty, and that it was a very comfortable nightgown.

 

She plunked herself down on the bed and lay there staring at the ceiling, thinking. Today had been her first full day living at the palace. She found it a very peaceful place and found the little tour that Sesshoumaru took her on, was very interesting. Thoughts of the youkai, Ryouichi, came back to her. She got a strange feeling about that marking he had. It wasn't like the others that most inu-youkai had, and even his daughters did not have it on them. What could it mean? Maybe she's just freaking out about nothing and it was just a different marking from his family. `He seemed nice, even towards humans. Although he did mention to Sesshoumaru about a human being his mate.' She thought and remembered what Sesshoumaru's answer had been.

 

`He didn't say much to me today. It's like he was pretending last night didn't happen, but it did and I want to know why Sesshoumaru kissed me. I want to know why he just walked away.' She said to herself. Her mind started getting confused as to why he had kissed her, and her curious mind was really getting to her.

 

Knowing she wouldn't be able to get to sleep unless she had some answers, she decided that she would go see him. She got off her bed and opened the door to her room, tip toeing down the dark hallway. Once she got to Sesshoumaru's room door, she stopped and grew nervous. `What will he think, if I just opened the door and walked in?' She wondered and felt butterflies in her stomach. `But he did just kiss me and then walk away, so I guess we'll be equal if I walk in.' She thought and turned the door handle slowly.

 

The door opened and she tip toed in and shut the door again. When she turned around she could see Sesshoumaru's figure on the bed with the moon light shining through the windows on him. She walked closer to the bed until she stood right beside it. Sesshoumaru wasn't in any blankets and he looked like he was asleep. His eyes were closed and he didn't move.

 

Kagome moved in even closer and put her hand on the bed, looking at his face, and then letting her eyes stray down his body. She had never seen a more handsome body in her life. He only wore some hakamas and had no shirt on. Kagome almost jumped suddenly when she looked back up to his face and his eyes were looking at her. She felt her cheeks blushing and she didn't know what to do.

 

Sesshoumaru pulled her closer so she was leaning on the edge of the bed and her face was merely a few inches away from his.

 

Kagome gazed into his eyes. He seemed to almost know that she was going to be coming in tonight.

 

“Sesshoumaru, why did you kiss me last night? Why did you just leave?” Kagome whispered.

 

“I wanted to see if you'd come back to me.” Sesshoumaru whispered back.

 

His deep, smooth voice sent shivers down her back. She had never been in such a situation before, and come to think of it had never been kissed like that before, like she was the other night. The closest thing she ever had to a boyfriend was InuYasha and they never shared any physical, or intimate feelings.

 

He looked her up and down, the sight of her in the gown and leaning down right in front of him, driving him nuts. The way she was on his bed made him able to see right down the top of her gown.

 

“Oh.” Kagome whispered and looked at him shyly.

 

Sesshoumaru moved in closer so that Kagome could feel his warm breath against her lips. She closed her eyes, the warmth sending more shivers down her back and legs. Her body was enjoying the attention but her mind was telling her many things. She felt his lips rub up against hers and pull away, and then come back again. This time they connected with hers and they began kissing slowly.

 

In moments she felt him began to kiss harder and all the while she was enjoying his attention and the feel of his warm lips against hers. She could still feel the redness in her cheeks and her mind was starting to calm.

 

Sesshoumaru continued kissing and took in her sweet scent. He could sense her arousal, which made him want her that much more. He moved his body towards her and brought an arm around her waist, pulling her up on the bed.

 

She let him pull her up and her hands positioned themselves on his chest. Her body lay right beside him and he stopped kissing her for a moment. She opened her eyes and looked into his. He seemed to be contemplating something as he glanced down at her body.

 

Kagome looked at him and once again he started kissing. This time kissing almost roughly. She kissed him harder and felt her mind and body giving in all at once. She no longer thought of anything except what they were doing now, and her body was asking for more.

 

Sesshoumaru felt his body going mad with desire. He tried controlling himself as best as he could. He didn't want to hurt her or make her feel uncomfortable. If at any moment he felt her muscles straining, wanting him to stop then he would stop. No sign of her wanting him to stop came as he continued to kiss her, his tongue exploring hers. He moved his arm down and grabbed her thigh to bring her up on him.

 

She let him move her onto his body; his warm hand on her thigh sent a desire running up her body.

 

Sesshoumaru could sense her arousal getting stronger, just from his touch and he continued to control himself. He moved away from her lips, nipping at her ear as he moved down to her neck. His lips met with her neck and left warm kisses and gentle nips all the way down to her collarbone.

 

Kagome closed her eyes, shivering with desire as he kissed her neck.

 

He worked his way back up to the side of her neck and blew on the spot where he placed a kiss.

 

Kagome had never felt these feelings before; such desire and pleasure. His kisses were teasing her and her body wanted more.

 

Sesshoumaru knew he soon had to stop. Although her body against his and the scent of her arousal made him want more he had to stop. Not yet, he didn't want to do this yet. He could tell she had never gotten that far before, and didn't want to do it yet. He wanted her body to feel the desire and he wanted her to want more later. He wanted to see her want to fulfill the desire she felt tonight. With a last kiss on her neck he stopped and looked into her eyes.

 

Kagome gazed into his, wondering why he had suddenly stopped. She came back to her senses and her mind started swimming with thoughts again. She had enjoyed that, and wanted even more, her body wanted more. Her body had never felt anything like that before and Kagome had never gotten such attention before. InuYasha had shown that he cared for her, but had never given her any hints that he really liked her like Sesshoumaru did.

 

Kagome had began to get feelings for Sesshoumaru the night before, when he showed her that he seemed to have feelings for her. She had seen a softer side to him and began to like his personality, even though he could be boring sometimes.

 

She gazed in his eyes, and let a small smile play across her lips. She felt so warm in his arms and his body was so warm up against her. She laid her head down on his shoulder, not wanting to leave his warmth and felt herself getting drowsy.

 

Sesshoumaru thought she would have wanted to get up and go back to her room, but she laid her head on his shoulder, surprising him. Her soft hands felt good, wrapped around his chest and her body felt warm, lying on his side. He looked down at her and her eyes were shut. `She must have fallen asleep.' He thought and rested his head against the bedpost behind him. Soon Sesshoumaru felt sleep taking over him and he fell into a deep sleep with Kagome peacefully rested against him.

 

 

AN: Wow that was a long chapter. But I finally finished it and I hope you will all like it. Depending on how I plan on writing things, my story might be rated M for later chapters.