Chapter 1- Sesshomaru's Forest

Kagome sighed as Inuyasha released her.He huffed at her and walked away."Why are you hugging me?",he yelled.He stalked off towards the village,and had been gone for at least three hours.She just stood there shocked.'What is wrong with him?One minute he is hugging me and telling me never to leave him,the next this.',she thought.Her expression changed.She got angry,very angry.She spun around and went stomping off in the opposite direction,mumbling under her breath.

Inuyasha heard her stomp off.' I'm not going after her.She can come back when she wants.',he thought.He blushed at what he had done,and said.'I can't believe I told her that.',he thought.He looked up at the sky remembering the state of fright he had been under in his nightmare at the thought of her leaving him.'I have to go and apologize to her.',he thought. He ran off,following her smell.

"That annoying,disrespectful,rude........",Kagome mumbled under her breath.She stopped dead in her tracks,and looked around.'I don't recognize any of this.',she thought."Oh no,I wasn't paying attention to where I was going,and now I'm lost.",she whispered.Looking around she saw a transparent lake a little ways in front of her.There were large,beautiful trees in bloom surrounding the lake.One tree's branches were lazily,hanging over the water."WOW",she breathed

'Where the hell did that stupid wench go?How did she get so far already.',Inuyasha thought.He was about to utter some curses,but stopped.His eyes widened at where Kagome's scent was leading him.Sesshomaru's forest.'I should never have left her alone.',he thought.He growled and picked the pace up.

Kagome looked at this beautiful place.'How could this be so close,yet we never knew about it?', she thought.She walked up to the lake and felt the water.It was cool,but refreshing.'It has been a while since I've had a bath',she thought.She remembered she had brought her bag with her.She smiled remembering how everyone had always made fun of the big,yellow bag.She laughed out loud and said,"Look who's got shampoo and anything you might need."She put everything she needed by the lake.She grabbed her bathing suit and changed behind some trees.She then dove into the lake.Kagome didn't know there was a figure hidden in the trees watching her.

Sesshomaru had taken Rin,and Jaken to his lake,so Jaken could give Rin a bath.He smelled someone in his territory that should not have been there.He left Jaken and Rin at his castle.He followed the scent and noticed that it led to his lake.He looked and saw immediately that it was his brother's human wench.'Strange,he is not in the area.He is always around this human wench.',he thought.He walked out towards the human.

Kagome was having such a good time.'Swimming really gets my mind of Inuyasha.',she thought.She came up for air,and saw someone she had not expected to see."Sesshomaru.",she gasped.OH NO,he is going to kill me,and I don't have any weapons with me.',she thought.Her bow and arrows were on the bank with her bag.She slowly started swimming towards them,but Sesshomaru was in the air above her with his sword drawn.

Inuyasha smelled a mixture of Kagome's scent and Sesshomaru's scent.'Crap,I hope I'm not too late.',he thought.'I can't lose Kagome.Sesshomaru,if you lay one pretty little manicured finger on her,I'll kill you.',he thought.He started moving at a speed he didn't know he could go at.