A/N: The first time I posted this the formatting was screwed up and I deleted the chapter. Sorry about flooding inboxes with alerts!

Anyway, here's the second chapter with the right formatting!

MD

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He thinks I haven't noticed, but I have. From day one with his temper tantrum I noticed. Some people would call it delusional, but I prefer to think that it was women's intuition.

When I got my first glimpse of him I was more fascinated than scared. I wanted to know how the hell a battle hardened demon had better hair than me, a school girl that spent countless yen and hours trying to make her split ends go away. I was also curious about the lovely stripes on his face. Just like when I first met Inuyasha and had the urge to fondle his ears, I had the urge to run my fingers over those stripes. Would they be softer than his skin? Would his skin be soft at all? Would they be raised a bit, like a fresh tattoo? That all went away when I was more worried about keeping myself alive and my body in one piece.

Needless to say I did survive the incident, and so did my curiosity. That took some time to come back. I still feel a bit of a grudge against him for trying to kill me so many times. He will have to do a lot of groveling to get himself back into my good graces.

I was actually a bit shocked to find that he was following us. We were the good guys, he had a unanimous vote for evil; he should have been off doing evil things or working on his pretty hair. Not following us. How Inuyasha never figured it out is beyond me. He may call me useless, but I could feel his aura from a mile away. I'm sure even Kirara sensed it since she seemed to be on much higher guard when he was near. And don't think I haven't noticed him spying while Sango and I bathe. I have noticed, and I've made an extra show of scrubbing my body just for him. Just because I'm supposed to be a sweet virginal shrine maiden doesn't mean I haven't heard guys talk at school. I know what blue balls are, and as long as he insists on spying on us while bathing I will make him suffer the consequences.

I will admit it, at first I thought it was annoying. What girl wants some male spying on her all of the time? Then the attacks of lesser demons became few and far between. I was actually grateful; I grew tired of constantly having to wash my clothes in any nearby water source after being covered in demon goo.

As the battle with Naraku has been coming closer, he has been coming closer as well. He hasn't been as sneaky lately, actually letting me catch glimpses of him here and there. Or he is just getting lazy. Nah, Sesshoumaru and lazy just don't fit together. Maybe he will finally reveal his motives for spying on us for so long. Maybe he will finally let me in on the secrets of great hair, or even touch his markings. I wonder if he has them anywhere else on his body...

All I know is if he insists on playing, I will play. One of the things my mother has always taught me was work hard and play harder.

This is going to be fun.