I love this pairing, I think that they complement each other so well! chapter title is by three days grace, chalk outline. if you have any questions or things that you want in the story, please message me! Kagome's pov at the start. Thank you for reading and the reviews!Enjoy~

Chapter 2: You Keep Coming Back to the Scene of the Crime

I turned over slowly, not wanting to wake up just yet as I was finally warm and comfortable. But my thoughts kept buzzing around and demanding attention, so I decided that maybe I needed to decide a few things. Well, at least I could do that with out getting up. I looked at the back of the cave wall, and tried to reason out why I was still with Inuyasha. He completely took me for granted, screamed at me, and saw nothing wrong with being together with someone who had tried to kill me just to spite him. Sango, Shippou and Miroku were the only things that tied me to the group, and I didn't have to stay to see them. I could always just visit them. But if I left the group, I would feel guilty for unleashing the Shikon no Tama on the world. At least I was helping to get rid of it right now, and since I was the one who broke it, wouldn't it be selfish of me to do nothing about it?

i sighed as I reached a resolution, it wasn't an appealing idea but would be the best thing for the feudal era. I would stay with Inuyasha for now and find all of the the Shikon No tama shards, but destroy it when the jewel was complete. I just needed to put up with Inuyasha for that long. I didn't want to be at odds with him, but the hanyou had broken my heart. I had no desire to be hurt again, so staying closed off seemed like the best idea, no matter how difficult.

I was laying on my side, and leaned back to try to be more comfy, but was shocked as my back hit something warm and fluffy. Carefully turning around, my eyes widened as they took in the sleeping form of Sesshomaru. He was also laying down, armor removed and was breathing deeply. His mouth was open slightly, and he had adorable bed head. Wait, did I just think that a man who could kill without batting an eyelash was adorable? Maybe I am going crazy. Mokomoko-sama was right next to me and I was barely resisting the urge to cuddle up with it. I scooted a little bit closer and let the soft fluffiness brush across my face. Lost in the pleasant sensation, I happily drifted back to sleep.

(Sessh's pov)

Something felt...weird. It was almost too warm, and I didn't remember falling asleep. I thought back to last night, trying to make sense of why I had just woken up when I didn't plan on sleeping at all.

Kagome had passed out quickly, but even in sleep she had kept on shivering. I sat down beside her, Rin would cry if the woman died from hypothermia, so might as well avoid that. I had been studying her face, wondering why she remained with my half brother. His treatment of her didn't seem enjoyable so...And that was where my memory stopped. Hn, I must have dozed off then. Strange, I wonder why I felt so comfortable around this girl.

I looked over and saw that she was curled up around mokomoko, oh that explains why I was warm. Hmm, I could grow to like this feeling. I didn't particularly want to wake her, but I needed to see if Rin was safe. Not that I didn't trust Jaken, but he wasn't the smartest. As I slowly sat up and stretched, she opened her eyes and let out a tiny yawn. Looking around, she hurriedly backed off of mokomoko.

"S-sorry, Sesshomaru-san. I didn't mean to...Huh, good morning," She smiled brightly before getting up and dusting herself off. She glanced up at me and amusement flitted across her features. "Umm, You have a piece of hair sticking up, it's kinda funny," and she quickly darted forward, straightening my "funny" hair. I let out a low growl, about to warn her to stay out of my personal space when she looked up at my eyes.

It looked like Kagome was about to apologize and back away. Instead, she just looked up me with a gentle expression that slowly turned to sorrow. I was confused as she turned away, tears at the corners of her eyes. Why was she sad? I reached out my arms to comfort her-No! I didn't know what this woman was doing to me, but I was not enjoying it. I roughly grabbed her forearm, taking off on my youki cloud. Quickly depositing her back at that camp, I left as fast as I could. I didn't know what was happening to me, staying with her, wanting to hug her... I shock my head, vainly trying to get the image of melancholy azure eyes out of my mind.

(kagome's point of view)

I stared up at Sesshomaru as he flew away, about to call out a goodbye but he was soon to far away to hear. Looking around, I didn't see Inuyasha anywhere so he must have left to see Kikyou. Thankful for the silence, I sat down and looked up at the sky, thinking about Sesshomaru. I don't know why, but I didn't want him to leave. He was comforting, quiet and I could think around him. When I had looked at him after fixing his hair, it had reminded me of the way that Inuyasha and I used to be.

I hated that it wasn't the same anymore, hated the fact that we would probably never be the same again. I jumped up at the sound of footsteps, but it was only Inuyasha returning with Sango and the rest. Plastering a smile to my face, I steeled my nerves before greeting them.

(two days later)

"So Kagome, what did you want to tell me?" Sango and I were relaxing in a hot spring surrounded by pine trees that gave off a sweet scent. We had somehow convinced the boys to stop here to tonight and so we snuck off for some much needed down time.

With the guys around I hadn't had a chance to talk to my best friend and happily told her my story of what happened a few days ago with a certain silver haired daiyoukai. At the end of the story, her mouth hung open in a small O shape and her eyes were almost popping out of her head.

Quickly gaining her composure, Sango's eye brows pinched together as she started speaking,"Kagome, are you telling me that you asked Sesshomaru, who has tried to kill you before, to take you away from Inuyasha, aka, the guy who saved your life?"

"Ok, when you say it like that, it doesn't sound too good. But you would have had to be there to understand. Inuyasha was just screaming and I could not take it anymore, Sango. Yes, I did leave with Sesshomaru, but I felt like I had to get away. I...I don't want to hate Inuyasha but...What should I do?" I glanced at her, hoping that she had an answer.

"Kagome, I think that you're over reacting. I know that Inuyasha seems mean right now, but its not that bad. You can live through it. Now come on, lets go get dinner started," She hopped out of the pool of warm water and started dressing. Sighing in defeat, I followed suit.

A couple hours later we were all sitting around the camp fire when a shinidama-chou flew by. Inuyasha jumped up and with out so much as a good bye he was running off after it. Miroku and Sango chuckled slightly to them selfs before laying down to sleep. Shippou was already out beside me and I decided not to wait up for the hanyou.

Curling up in my sleeping bag, I looked out at the night sky. The moon was half full, letting a soft glow fall over the trees that complimented the stars perfectly. But as I drifted off to sleep, a prussian blue crescent moon floated through my dreams.

Mmm... I woke up to the delicious smell of breakfast cooking. Stretching and yawning, I sat up I looked around the camp slowly.

"Morning Sango, Miroku-sama, Shippou-chan. where's Inuyasha at? Is he already back at KIkyou's side?" I rolled my eye's at the thought, but my humor quickly vanished as I caught sight of my friends solemn faces. Sango came over beside me and sat down, picking up my hand.

"Kagome, he hasn't come back yet. Inuyasha stayed the night with her," My mind was instantly cleared of all thoughts as her gentle voice reached my ears. I just knew one thing. I needed to get away. Standing up suddenly, I mumbled something about needing air as I ran off into the woods, tears already burning in my eyes. Blindly running past the trees, I stumbled and crashed into the ground, badly scraping my palms and knees. But I didn't care about that as I curled into a small ball and cried my heart out.

(Sesshomaru's pov)

Damn, Jaken was annoying. Needing to be away from his high pitched voice before I developed a headache, I had left him to watch over Rin while she played in small field of flowers. A frown settled on my face as a quiet sound reached my ears. It sounded almost like crying, but who would be sobbing out here in the middle of the woods?

Suddenly, an image of dark azure eyes filled my mind and I unconsciously increased my pace. I wanted to see Kagome again, but for some reason I absolutely did not want to come across her crying. Her smiling face, her laugh that was light as air, that was what drew me to her. I didn't know why but when all the joy went out of her eyes and she got that despondent aura around her it made me irrationally furious.

As I stepped around a tree, Kagome came into sight. Flushed face, tears pouring down her cheeks that she vainly tried to wipe away when I came into view. She didn't try to stand up and her voice shock so much I almost couldn't understand her words.

"S-s-sorry, Sessh-,omaru. I just, just found out th-that Inu-Inuyasha stayed the n-night with h-her," Her hands rose up to cover her face and that sorrowful action broke something in me. So before she could succeed I scooped her up into my arms and tightly held the shaking woman to my chest.

"Wha? P-put me down, n-now," Kagome was such a strong person, so for her to be weeping this much what Inuyasha did must be destroying her. Sitting down, I shifted her sightly so that her head was against my shoulder and I could look down into her watery eyes. Realizing that I obviously wasn't going to let her go anytime soon, she angrily turned away and folded her arms. Although, the effect was entirely lost since tears were still pouring down her face and she kept making heartbreaking sniffling noises.

"Kagome, you can talk if you want," She jumped a little bit as my deep voice surprised her, then glanced up at me, searching my face with her forlorn gaze. Not knowing what she was looking for, I patiently waited for her to start speaking. I was very sure that her story contained a legitimate reason for me to painfully murder my thick-headed brother, and was exited to hear it. But more importantly, I also knew that talking about this might help her and for some reason I felt like I would anything to put the smile back on her face. As she examined me, her shaking stopped and the tears slowed, but sadly stayed.

"Well, you know that Inuyasha went back to Kikyou? I tried to get over him and I thought that I was but...last night he went to see her a-and...He s-stayed all night. I just didn't know that he was serious about her...I guess that I'm not completely over him yet..." My heart softened as she spoke, trying to comfort her, I moved so that she was sitting up and wrapped my arms around her waist. Kagome hesitantly coiled her arms around my neck and leaned against me. We stayed like for a unmeasurable amount of time as her tears stopped flowing, just taking comfort in each others presence. After what seemed like hours or maybe it was just minutes, we got up and started walking. She turned to me, and I was overjoyed to see the cheerful gleam had returned to her eyes, even if it wasn't as bright as before.

"Sesshomaru, Thank you," She spoke quietly but I could hear the gratitude in her voice. In reply I just looked at her, softening my gaze. Abruptly remembering that I had left Rin, I started walking in that direction, happy when Kagome followed after me. We reached the beautiful flower strewn meadow in few short minutes. The raven haired woman let out a gasp of amazement at the sight that alerted Rin to our presence. Her small body shot up and she charged over to us, smiling brightly.

"Sesshomaru-sama! Oh, you brought nee-chan, yay!"She wrapped her tiny arms around one of my legs, and waved at Kagome. The miko on the other hand, looked horrified as her gaze rose up to me, it was as if she thought I was going to get mad at Rin. Hmmph, I would never hurt a child...Ok, I would never injure this child. Her gaze slowly changed to one of wonder as Rin detached herself from my leg and continued to pick flowers.

"You...Your ok with that?"

"Of course. She didn't do anything wrong," Her voice was so incredulous, if I hadn't been my self then I would have laughed.

"That's... Really surprising. Oh my god, how long has it been since you found me?"

"About 2 hours, why?" I did not like where this was going.

"I need to go back before anyone gets worried about me, Sesshomaru," At that Rin ran back over to us and sadly looked up at Kagome.

"No, don't leave yet nee-chan. I want to play with you," Her miniature mouth started trembling and I quickly found a solution that would keep her from crying.

"Why don't we just come with then?" Both girls smiled and nodded and we walked off towards the camp that Kagome was so fond of. I didn't hear Jaken come after us though, which was exceedingly odd.

"Rin, where is Jaken?"

"He fell asleep with Ah-un," Oh he did now, did he? That little imp was going to suffer the consequences of leaving Rin unprotected when he found us. Kagome giggled slightly when she saw the sullen expression on my face. She thought that this was funny? Hmmph.

As we were walking along, a small ball of brown fur suddenly flew out from a tree and attached itself to the raven haired woman. My hands flew to my sword, resting uneasily in the hilt, prepared to strike if needed.

"Shippou-chan?" The miko's voice was incredulous as she help up the kitsune and looked him over. "What are you doing?"

"Well, we got worried. So I came to find you Kagome. And good thing too, why is he with you? That bastard didn't capture you did he?!" Seriously? Why did everyone alway think that? It was rather annoying so I growled at the small boy as a warning to hold his tongue.

Thankfully, Rin still saw sense as she brilliantly rose to my defense,"Sesshomaru-sama would never do such a thing! And don't call him names you stupid tanuki!" I knew it was a good idea to keep her around.

"Calm down, I didnt know that! But really Kagome, why were you gone so long?" His small face was pinched with worry as that horrible hint of sorrow came back to her features.

"I just needed a moment to myself, Shippou-chan. And look, I brought Rin for you to play with!" She carefully set him down and kept walking as the children looked each over. Deciding that it was safe to talk, then did just that and ran ahead of us. I looked over at the quiet woman just in time to see her trip over a tree root and go sprawling towards the ground. Leaning forward, I expertly grabbed her waist and twisted her around so that instead of smashing into the dirt, she was leaning against my arms and looking up at me.

Kagome's plump lips parted in a surprised "O" and her lovely aruze eyes widened at our sudden closeness. Drawn in by her soft looking hair, I reached my hand up to brush it through the raven locks. Just as I was about to touch them though, a scream of anger jerked me back back to reality.

"KAGOME?! Where the hell have you been? Why the FUCK is that stupid bastard with you AGAIN?"

I know, I know that I'm a total bitch for leaving you guys hanging like that! But I will update soon, promise!oh, and Sesshomaru took his armor off for this chapter. Well, not all of it, just the spiky thing.Thanks for the reviews, they keep my going!