Chapter 1
Kagome Pov
"You shouldn't act that way to him if you're just gonna break his heart and say no to mating him, not that I would allow you to mate with him." Inuyasha growled at me.
"So what if I want to mate Koga! It's up to me to decide who I want to mate, not you!. I do not belong to you like an object! I am a living person! and I am most certainly not under any circumstances Kikyo! I never will be! Now for once in my life JUST LEAVE ME ALONE DOG!"
The silence after my rage was awkward so I stormed off. As soon as I was out of his sight Inuyasha was screaming at me to come back and face him. I stopped dead after something in the atmosphere changed. Someone else was here. But who? Sesshomaru. I thought I recognised the presence. He was not far off watching the fight from the shadows with that toad Jaken, and Rin. Ignoring their presence I headed to the river, climbing onto a rock and relaxing while I could.
About half hour later, Rin came through the bushes behind me; taking a seat next to me she looked sad and lonely. I pulled her into my lap and stroked her hair. She whimpered for a while then fell asleep. Sesshomaru walked out of the bushes at that moment and I just ignored him as I looked at the moon.
"How is it that Rin falls asleep in your arms so quickly, yet it takes her hours to fall asleep normally, miko?"
"I think she just finds it comfortable to be in the arms of someone who she knows will protect her, and she trusts them." I said still not looking at him.
"Hnn" He said in agreement.
I sighed. It was getting late and Inuyasha should have got over his big hissy fit by now. Standing up with Rin in my arms, I offered her to him but he shook his head, so I continued back to the camp with Rin asleep. Sesshomaru followed me back and as I walked through the clearing Shippo rugby tackled me to the floor. He started crying and whimpering into my clothes making them wet with tears, luckily he hadn't woken Rin up. I stood back up with Rin in one arm asleep and Shippo in the other sobbing into my shoulder, and walked over to my sleeping bag. I sat down and Sesshomaru watched as Rin and Shippo cuddled closer to me, Shippo's cries getting quieter and falling asleep.
I fell into sleep quickly after Shippo and I dreamt of something strange, just as I was stabbed with someone's sword I woke up sweating. Inuyasha was back and asleep in a tree nearby, Shippo and Rin were still asleep, and Sesshomaru had left the camp. I wandered into the forest in search of the river I had come across the day before, and I found not long after. I washed my face and drunk from the clean water, before relaxing back on that very same rock as earlier. As my eyes closed I heard footsteps coming at me, I peeked at the intruder with an eye expecting some enemy trying to kill me but it was just Sesshomaru. He was leering down at me with a curious expression and for just a second her was half smiling, it was gone in a blink.
"What do you think you are doing miko? You have left yourself vulnerable against an enemy and also your friends."
"I am not defenseless and if you cannot tell I have left a barrier around the group to stop them from being attacked and from you entering there." I answered smiling at him. He actually looked cute when he was dumb and not the smart ass he usually was.
"But you are miko; I could cut your head off in a single swing of my blade." He explained.
"I know you could chop my head off but I know that if you did it would upset both Inuyasha and Rin and even though I know you don't care about them you do feel something towards them. It would just hinder you if you killed me and I know you don't like being interrupted when you are on a mission." I noted smirking and closing my eye again.
"You know nothing miko." He objected. Sliding his sword out of its sheath and swinging it at my head.
I dogged it rolling of the rock and ducking. He grunted when he missed and swung again and again at me each time missing me by inches.
"I'm not that weak. I won't just die like that."
"Good because you will need to be strong for the upcoming battle." He advised. Sheathing his sword and sitting on my rock.
I too sat down on that rock and we made a bond if only an invisible and unnoticeable one. In the trees around the river watched a wolf demon. Koga observed the pair keeping his distance so that Sesshomaru wouldn't notice his presence. He growled lowly when saw them bonding and fighting. His growl was not loud enough for anyone to hear, although it still held the jealousy Koga was feeling towards Sesshomaru of touching and talking with his mate to be.