Chapter 1- By Your Side
Sesshoumaru walked along the trail with Jaken and Rin in his tow. His pristine self, stoic and quiet as he approach his half-brother ' s forest. He halted and looked back, "Stay here. If something happen to Rin..."
He came into the clearing where the bone-eater well was, and he cloaked his youki and presence as he watch his brother's miko emerged from the said well. She threw a very big bagpack before climbing out. "Huh?" he heard her muttered, clearly confused. "Inuyasha should be here by now."
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes. He did not care about this weak human at all, except that she caught his attention when not only did she extract his father's sword from its place, but she also survived his poison. A person like her, even though human, is worth the attention he is giving now.
Every time he approaches his brother's shard collector group to get the Tetsuseiga and beat the whelp, the miko always interfere and does not die. When facing this Sesshoumaru, youkai or human, they die, but this human miko is an enigma, she does not die.
And he had never known any human of this time to taking their bath so seriously as this miko. She always try to make herself clean even though she will be covered with youkai blood and guts again with his brother's wild swinging.
Sesshoumaru, not knowing that his fascination to this human is becoming deeper, changing to much more complex feelings, he allows himself to become as attach to her as close as he can be without his whelp of a brother knowing about it. And when he did recognized these feelings, he deem it as weakness and unnecessary. He tried to fight it until he was so frustrated that he cornered her one day when she left the camp to take her bath.
"Sesshoumaru!" she exclaimed when she sense him. She went to the far corner of the stream as she watched him warily. "What are you doing here?"
He grinned inwardly, amused that she tries to act brave while running away. Her words contradicts her actions that it was so amusing. "Hn. Perhaps this Sesshoumaru is only strolling around?"
"Then why not continue where you are going? Why stop here?" Her voice quivered a bit, and she tried to hide it by lowering her body more into the water.
"Ah, miko," he said, "This Sesshoumaru much rather spend his time sensing your smell and taste than leave. I smell your arousal so strongly although the stream tried to wash it."
He chuckles when she became red. "I am not aroused,' she bite back indignantly.
"Oh, I know you are, Kagome," he said as he lunged at her and pinned her body to the ground. "And I will satisfy you and your body until you will not want for anything anymore."