Finding My Place

Disclaimer

I do not own any of the Characters Rumiko Takahashi alone has that honor.

P.S. The name of the story might Change later on. Just giving you a heads up.

Chapter One: Beast?

A raven haired woman standing in a hot spring groaned washing guts from her body. 'Great I go from being a normal high school girl to a being covered in demon guts! Stupid Inuyasha, ugh this is so gross.' She was washing up from her encounter with the recent demon, a lizard demon that had a shard from the jewel. The woman sat down and rested her head against the rock edge.

A little ways away a Yokia stood surround by the dead bodies of his foes. "Lord Sesshomaru I knew master could do it master is the strongest..." A leather boot connected with the toad demon's face sending him flying. The Lord looked at his claw and disgusted and began walked to the hot spring he could smell from here. As he got closer he could smell someone else someone with a smelling of vanilla and sakura blossoms. Sesshomaru considered not going to the hassle of having to deal with whoever it was there but then he caught the sent again and began to see red. He ran to the spring and when he got there he saw his brother's bitch. For some reason that made him angry, quicker than the eye can see he had her by the throat.

"What are you doing? Ah… you're Inuyasha's brother. Hey! You tried to kill me." When he heard that hated name fall from her pearly lips he tightened his hold on her neck and growled at her. Why wasn't she submitting to him he told her to submit! Sesshomaru growled at her to submit again. "I 'cough' don't know what you want… 'Cough, cough' Please…" Kagome pleaded.

How could she not understand what he wanted? He concentrated and ground out "Submit…Bitch" in between growls. The woman still seemed to have a hard time understanding

Inside Kagome's head she was screaming 'Submit!? I would submit if I could but I don't understand how. Ok let's think about this logically… Logically who am I kidding this is a demon how am I supposed to be logical. Dog he's a dog demon so instinct I should follow my instincts. And those are… submit…neck…Ahh!' Kagome tilted her neck to the side giving the Demon Lord full access to her neck and giving him the ability to end her life if he so wished.

Sesshomaru growled again but to Kagome it seemed to be a pleased one. Indeed he was pleased that she seemed to have finally understood. He loosened his hold on her and began to nuzzle her neck. He moved to an inbuilt seat in the hot spring and sat with her on his lap. After a while Kagome deemed it safe to talk. She hesitantly said "Umm….Sesshomaru?"

He continued to nuzzle her neck and 'hnn' at her. He was content to just hold her. He was unsure why it calmed his beast to be near her but he was quiet in a way that his beast never was without a fight. Kagome moved to stand but when Sesshomaru growled at her again she stopped trying to get up. Sighing she turned her face toward him and asked "What just happened and will you let me up please I feel really uncomfortable like this. With me you know naked." Kagome was annoyed and embarrassed. To be sitting in the lap of a demon who had tried to kill her only a week ago. Sitting naked in his lap it didn't help that he was naked as well. 'Oh let's not forget he's nuzzling her neck… and now he's licking me. Of course he is licking me I mean it's not like I asked him a question or anything and fully clothed.'

She decided to just sit there and pretend this wasn't happening (Being naked on a demons lap that is.) Kagome kicked her legs in the water just to have something to do making sure that her neck was still tilted so that he didn't think she was trying to defy him. After what seemed like forever to her but in reality wasn't more than five minutes. Sesshomaru ceased his nuzzling and licking and slowly said in a voice that still had traces of his beast "This Sesshomaru is unsure why this one's Beast did what it did." When He finished he let go of her and allowed her to stand.

Kagome turned around to face him and asked "Beast? You talk as if there is two of you…" she trailed off wondering what he was looking at and looking down she said, "Epp!" and hurriedly sat down to cover herself and preserve what was left of her modesty.

He chuckled at her attempt to hide herself from him now after he had seen and felt everything. He replied to her implied question "We are one in the same and yet there is two." Smelling the confusion in her sent worsen he felt compelled to expound upon it. "He is me but he is not… We do not always agree. He is the embodiment of my primal instincts and those of my ancestors. He is was makes me an InuYokia." The Bitch's smell finally cleared of confusion.

"Ok so I kind of get that. We tend to call that a conscience as humans yours is just alive and has a mind of its own. Hey I just remembered you called me a Bitch! That's mean you know I trying to do what you wanted me to you didn't have to call names." Kagome ranted. The Demon Lord looked offended and then resigned.

"Calling you a Bitch is not insult especially from an InuYokia, and I was not being… mean when I called you that." Kagome was doubtful but acknowledged that she did not know about demon culture. Sesshomaru sighed and rose from the water and began to rinse the gore from his arm. Kagome decided that she had stayed in the water long enough and Sesshomaru seemed to be preoccupied.

She quickly changed into her clothes hopping that he hadn't turned around. And deciding that it would not be a good idea to try to run after what had just happened. She looked up to see him looking at her. Kagome blushed bright red knowing that he had probably been watching her get dressed. She envied the way he looked pristine in his clothes obviously having not even taken as long as she did to put the complicated mess he calls an outfit on. "So um I guess this is good bye" Kagome said turning to leave.

"Why?" the Lord said. Kagome wondered how he could make questions sound like an order. She turned back and replied that he would have to be more specific if he wanted her to be able to answer. Sesshomaru's hand twitched he wanted to teach her, her place preferable lying under him. 'Where did that come?' pushing the thought aside for the moment he answered her "Why did you submit and not try to scream for the filthy half breed when I have tried to kill you."

Kagome laughed she thought he was going to ask her something harder. "Oh, that's easy if I stayed mad at everyone who tried to kill me I would have no friends here. As to screaming I did not even think of it, but if I had I wouldn't have I wanted to get out of this fairly unharmed and having Inuyasha come here I would have ended up injured in his hast to kill you." She paused for a moment and looked at his missing arm and almost too quiet for him to hear even with his enhanced hearing asked "Does it hurt? Your arm I mean."

He looked at his missing arm too and simple said "No" deciding that he had been in her presence long enough he began to walk away when he heard her shout "Sorry!", but before he could ask what she meant she was running back to where he could smell her pack. He began to head back to where he had kicked his aid it was time to head back to the castle.

Kagome walked back into the camp to see Inuyasha hit Shippo "SIT, really Inyasha I leave for less than two hours and you're abusing Shippo." She pulled out her sleeping bag and spread it out. Then taking out some raman began to make food for the party. In the background she could hear "Hentia" and the sound of a hand hitting flesh. After they were done eating and she had put Shippo to bed she grabbed her Math textbook. She settled down to begin trying to tackle the problems that had given such a hard time the night before. She had little success due mainly to the fact she couldn't stop thinking of her encounter with the Demon Lord.

He had seemed so off from the last time she had seen him. Coming to the conclusion that she was not going to get anything done with him on her mind put away her textbook. She climed into bed and her last thoughts were, 'I will ask Kaede about demon culture and if there is a way to regrow arms.'

Author Notes

This is my first Inuyash story so please review and tell me what you think. I know that Sesshomaru was a little out of character but was it too much? How did I do on Kagome? Should Kikyo be good or bad I haven't decided yet. I know that they met up (Inuyasha's group) too soon but well is that a bad or ok? Did I explain the Person vs. the Demon/Beast good?

Thank you and please review!