Chapter 2: Preparations on how to pretend to be a Demon Lord

Kagome had decided to battle Inuyasha earlier than usual, letting him know after every couple of days that she had to be home within that 14 day span.

"Humph…I don't know why you always want to run home to take these tests… like you need to learn all that nonsense anyway. You're most important job is finding the jewel shards."

"Yes I know…I'm nothing but a shard detector to you."

"That's right…I mean…"

"Osuwari"

As Inuyasha did his usual face plant, Kagome stepped over him saying as she stormed away…I'm going home in exactly 11 more days…and I don't want to hear anymore against it or I'll S-I-T you so much you'll still be digging yourself out by the time I return."

Kagome stormed off, heading back to the village they were currently staying in, in other words, the village where Miroku was currently 'performing' an exorcism of some ominous clouds on.

Inuyasha sighed heavily, muttering darkly, but intelligibly, his head deep down in the ground. When the spell finally wore off, he sat up and rubbed the dirt and grass from his face, glaring at the direction Kagome had stormed off in.

"Wench," he muttered.

"Osuwari," was shouted from a distance away.

Inuyasha took another dive to the ground and ground.

'Damn…I thought she was too far away to hear me. Now I'll be here for a bit longer.'

Kagome, as she calmed down once approaching the village, allowed herself a smile.

'Now to prepare myself…how do I act like a demon lord….hmm…Sesshomaru…well…he's handsome, and knows it but doesn't act very aware of it, just like it's something that is. He walks leisurely, unless he's battling or in a rush, and then he's really fast. He has a poison whip that comes out…he transforms into a giant white dog. None of which I can do…so …I better start analyzing him…and see what I can do.'

Kagome, once reaching the village, and greeting her friends, including cuddling and eventually putting Shippo to sleep, pulled out her rucksack and found her notebook and flipped it open to reveal a blank page.

On the top of the page she wrote: Sesshomaru

Under it she wrote characteristics…good thing she was going to get a picture of him. She was sure she was going to need it and she patted her bag's front pocket. At first she was sure she had to go home and get her camera, but then she remembered she had brought it to capture her friends' expressions of her in her Jaken costume and also just to take pictures of her friends from the feudal era. So all she needed to do was...

'Okay Kagome, back to your list.'

Silver Hair - Now I would say dye my own hair, but his is much longer than mine, so maybe I should either see if mom can sew in some extensions and then we dye my hair, or…I'll see if we can find a really long wig…oh…and he has bangs that come right above his eyes.

Mokomoko-sama – I don't know what that's for. Is that his tail when he transforms or is that just part of his outfit? I really don't know…but it doesn't look so hard to duplicate. I'll have mom see if we can get that fluffy substance we used for that school play once when I was younger. That should work.

Tenseiga & Tokijin – Two swords…while I'm not going to have their power…at least I can get two props that look the same.

Markings – Crescent moon on forehead and two magenta, almost long triangular-type shapes on each cheek. Okay…these can be easily duplicated. Crescent moon is dark blue – open part is toward left eye.

Outfit – White. Tips of each sleeve are crimson. I need the picture to get more details, but I think there's red at the top as well. White bulbous- type Hakama pants.

Does he wear an inner and outer haori top? Or is it a haori at all?

Footwear – They just look like simple black shoes…nothing extensive. At least he wears some... poor Sota had to wear something that attached to the bottom of his foot, so that it looked like he was barefoot but he actually had some kind of weird shoes on – my mom is such a genius when it comes to props.

Eyes – Like Inuyasha's – Golden. Hmm…I wonder if mom's make up artist friend can help me get golden eyes.

Hey, maybe she can even help me with the hair…I'll have to see.

Ears – pointed at the top– elfish like.

'I wonder if they're soft'

Shaking her head, she got back down to business.

Mom's friend might be able to help me with the ears too.

Armor – spikes over the left shoulder, Mokomoko-sama on the right. Armor plate is black and covers his chest…down to his waist…I think it might flare down his hips a bit. Front flap and back flap? Or front and back and sides? I'll have to double check when I take the picture.

'I might have to see if I can get him to give me more than one…and maybe he'll just turn around for me and do a pirouette and then a handstand just for me…yeah right, Kagome. Well it won't hurt to ask…I hope.'

She shuddered a little bit thinking about his claws…

'Oh…almost forgot.'

Claws – those should be pretty easy to duplicate…get extra long fingernails…and don't get the French manicure ones.

Arm – one arm…Inuyasha cut off the left one…so I can only use my right arm…that should be fun. Good thing I'm right handed.

Sash – yellow, with blue tips? –and it goes around his hips and dangles down long…I think it almost touches the ground, but I'll have to check.

Kagome blushed thinking about his hips,

'Jeez…I've never stopped and thought about his every aspect and how he looks…he's really…hot…oh Kami.'

Kagome shook her head in an attempt to shake such thoughts from her.

Okay…do I have everything?

Oh…under markings – he has magenta stripes on his hand as well…around his wrist?

I'll have to double check with him.

I might have to ask him if he has markings anywhere else'

A sudden image of Sesshomaru disrobing in front of her to show her where else he may have markings made her mouth go dry.

'I am such a Hentai' she thought.

'Okay Kagome. We do not wonder such things' she told herself' hoping her mind would obey her…but she doubted it severely…she had never knowingly sat and assessed Sesshomaru before, but she had to admit…he was a very handsome guy. If he hadn't been so ningen hating, smiled and laughed more often, and didn't try to kill her, he'd have been the perfect guy.

'Oh well…I think I have everything down…guess it's time to …'

Kagome's yawn interrupted her thought process.

'Time to sleep,' she thought with a smile and closing her notebook and putting back in her rucksack, she cuddled herself down in her sleeping back and went to sleep.

Ten days later found them back at Kaede's village.

It had taken a lot of 'Osuwari's on her part and a lot of arguing with Inuyasha, but she had managed to keep him to her schedule and he had eventually relented and allowed them to come back to the village, a day earlier than scheduled, too.

Shippo had laughed hard as Kagome had reached up to feel Inuyasha's forehead declaring that he must have been sick for them to get back here a whole day ahead of schedule.

For his part, Inuyasha had just "Keh'd and jumped up into his favorite tree, ignoring her.

Sango, Miroku, and Kaede and all chucked, but quietly not to hurt Inuyasha's already frayed feelings, and set about their usual tasks.

"When will you be back Kagome?" Shippo asked her.

"In three days Shippo."

"Okay."

"Three days," Inuyasha said, leaping down from his perch, "no one told you can go for that long. You go home and take your damn test and right after school, you bring your tail right back here."

"What was that?" Kagome said, raising an eyebrow

Inuyasha started…

'Oh hell…she's gonna sit me like there's no tomorrow.

"I was just saying…that…" Inuyasha muttered attempting to backpedal himself out of the huge Inuyasha shaped hole in the ground he was heading for.

"I will be gone for three days…and if I see you or your red haori covered butt anywhere in my time in one of your attempts to come and collect me, I'll sit you so many times you won't be able to climb out and they won't be free for another 500 years until they dig you up in an exhibition…do you understand me?"

Inuyasha muttered to himself silently, but all he did was nod.

"Good. Now…would you like me to bring back which kinds of Ramen?"

"Feh"

"I'll take that as your favorite kind…anything else."

Inuyasha growled at her and then jumped away, leaping back up into his tree.

Kagome smiled as she walked back to the hut and Shippo asked where Inuyasha was.

Kagome pointed up to the tree and Shippo said loudly,

"Is he sulking again? Jeez, I'm a kid and he acts younger than I do."

"I heard that," Inuyasha shouted down to them.

"Good." Shippo shouted back.

Kagome just laughed at the both of them before warning Shippo.

"You know how he gets; you better not aggravate him too much?"

Shippo gave her a look, looked up at Inuyasha who was glaring down at him and did his best impression by adopting an Inuyasha like stance, crossing his arms and turning his back on her while muttering,

"Keh."

Kagome nearly fell out laughing.

Miroku, who had come along to just in time to see Shippo's imitation, burst out laughing too.

Inuyasha sent Shippo a glare that promised tons of pain while Kagome was in her own time.

When Kagome could talk again, she said,

"Oh Shippo, sweetheart, that was priceless…I'm gonna bring you an extra lollipop for that."

Catching a look at the death glare Inuyasha was still beaming Shippo's way she also stated,

"And if I find out that you tried or did hurt my little boy in any way Inuyasha, I will S-I-T you until you come up on the other side of the world. Do you understand?"

"Yeah, yeah…humph," Inuyasha said, jumping down from his perch. "Isn't it time for you to go already?"

"Trying to get rid of me won't get you sat…. besides…I told my mom I'd be back tomorrow morning…so you'll just have to put up with me for the rest of the night."

Inuyasha huffed again, but said nothing. He just walked back into Kaede's hut.

Now it was true, Kagome did tell her mother she'd be back the next day, but that really wasn't the reason she wasn't leaving yet…she had an appointment with a certain demon lord…so she knew she'd better be on time.

'Hold up…did I give him an exact time? I don't think so…damn…I hope I'm not waiting there all day for him…cause I'm sure Inuyasha and the gang will be around and I am already going to have a tough time explaining myself when I snap my pictures of Sesshomaru…and ask him my questions.

'I hope he answers them' was all she thought.

Heading back into the hut she decided that since she had an, shall we say, interesting day ahead of her, she might as well prepare by getting a good nights sleep.

With that she walked back into Kaede's hut and after finishing her self appointed tasks, wished everyone goodnight before turning in.

On the way to the well the next morning with Inuyasha, Kagome wondered what she might have to do if Sesshomaru wasn't there yet. It was still on the early side, but since she had a test the next day, she knew that once she had gotten home, she'd have to study extra hard. Searching for jewel shards and fighting demons wasn't really all that conducive to studying for exams and quizzes.

She had said her goodbyes to all the others at Kaede's village, but Inuyasha had insisted that he take her to the well.

She pretty much had decided to go through the well, to get rid of Inuyasha, and then jump back through the well ten minutes later and be prepared to wait for Sesshomaru.

However…she need not have worried.

Her first indication that he was already at the spot was when Inuyasha sniffed the air and then growled loudly.

When we were within view of the well, we saw him.

Sesshomaru was leaning against one of the trees with a clear view of the well.

Inuyasha, of course, growled out at him,

"What the hell are YOU doing here Sesshomaru?"

"None of your business half-breed.

'There they go again.'

"Inuyasha…"

"Move back Kagome, I'll protect you from this…"

"Osuwari"

Inuyasha went flying down to the ground and Kagome stopped and crouched down next to her downed friend.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha, but I asked Sesshomaru to come. I need to get some information from him and I would like it if you wouldn't make this difficult."

"Crazy bi.."

"Osuwari"

Inuyasha once again slammed back into the ground.

"I warned you about calling me that name"

"Mrfmp pm f fpo fm po fos"

"What was that?"
"I said, Fine…don't blame me if you get your head lobbed off," Inuyasha muttered hopping up as the spell wore off. "And don't expect me to save you either," he said bounding up into the nearest tree.

"I won't…see you in three days," she said waving to him.

But she was ignored as he jumped away, still pissed off.

She shook her head sadly; this was going to take a whole lot of Ramen, a whole lot of telling him that she was sorry, and whole lot of begging.

But it was worth it.

She turned and started to head back to Sesshomaru when she noticed that said demon was now right in front of her.

Trying not to have a heart failure, she closed her eyes and breathed slowly and deeply.

When she opened her eyes once more she found him watching her with those cold but gorgeous golden eyes.

She smiled and bowed to him greeting him,

"Ohayo Sesshomaru."

He raised his eyebrow at her.

'Did she really believe that he would lower himself to speak to a ningen?' he wondered.

Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Thanks for showing up…can you step back some so I can get a good picture? I'm going to have to take a couple of them, is that okay?"

Sesshomaru simply nodded and moved back about a yard.

"Okay that's good. I would say smile, but I doubt you'd do it," Kagome said as she snapped a picture of him.

She was amazed when she actually saw him smirk at her through the lens.

She snapped the picture quick and then said, "Can you turn around too?"

He gave her an odd look, but turned around so she could snap more pictures of him.

Turning completely back around, he gave her a look.

"I'm almost finished. Thank you for your patience."

He looked up towards the sun for one of her final pictures of him.

When she had put the camera away, he asked her,

"Are you done now ningen?"

"Kagome"

"Hmm?"

"My name…its Kagome….Ka-go-me"
"I didn't ask you."

"I know…but you want me to address you as Sesshomaru-sama…do you not?"

He merely looked at her.

"Well you want me to address you formally, but I bet it annoys you when I forget to do it, right?"

There was a slight tilt to his head.

"Well, I like to be addressed as not woman, ningen, brat, bitch, or any of those or other such unpleasant or annoying names…I'd like to be addressed as my name- Kagome."

Sesshomaru merely rolled his eyes and started to walk away, but stopped at her words.

"Just one more moment of your time Sesshomaru…please."

He glanced back at her.

"I have a few questions I wanted to ask you."

"I do not recall you plying Jaken with questions when you made yourself up to be him."

"Well, no, but I didn't take pictures of him either because it didn't really matter then. You however challenged me to do my best to imitate you…so that's exactly what you're going to get…my best."

Kagome nodded as she spoke in emphasis to her words.

"Ask quickly then."

She was almost too shocked by his easy compliance to hurry and work as quickly as he wanted her to. But she soon gathered herself and pulling out her notebook, after quickly scanning for the points she had questions, she started,.

"Right…okay…is your Mokomoko-sama attached to you?"

"No."

"Okay…your outfit…is there an inner top as well?"

"Yes."

"Is it white as well?"
"Off-white," he said, removing part of his outer haori top to show her.

"Okay…thanks…um… the last thing is…your markings."

"What about them?"

"Where else except your hand and face do you have them?"

Sesshomaru lifted an eyebrow and he smirked at her in his amusement.

"Is that really of a concern, Ka-go-me? Were you planning, during your imitation of me, to strip down and show them to me if I were to tell you where I have them?"

Kagome shivered at his words and his tone and then blushed bright red.

Forcing herself not to show him, as if he couldn't already tell by her very red face or raspy breathing or accelerated heartbeat, she said, with only a small waver in her voice,

"Don't be a hentai Sesshomaru-sama. I was merely asking for detail sake."

Smiling a slight wicked smile, Sesshomaru said,

"I see…well in that case..."

Moving very quickly, he stopped right before her, shocking her.

As she gasped, he ignored her and took hold of her right wrist, which was still holding her pencil while her left hand held her notebook.

In a very sensuous voice and with feather light touches on her skin he traced a pattern around and up her arm to her shoulders and pointing down to just above her breasts saying.

"My markings travel up my arm in this pattern, leading around my arms to reappear on my shoulders and point downwards trailing towards my heart."

Kagome was trembling.

His light touch was igniting a fire she didn't know she had inside of her.

Struggling to maintain her cool demeanor while her heart raced so fast she was sure she was going to pass out from it, she nodded and attempted to write that down when kneeled in front of her and he continued with,

"And I have similar markings on my legs, starting from my ankles and winding up my legs, in similar fashion as my arms, to come from behind my hips leading down to my…"

He didn't touch her, this time, but he used his hand to trail, on the outside of his clothes, the path his markings on his legs took, before standing up as he trailed them along the path, stopping on his thighs, but pointed toward his manhood.

Kagome gasped as her mind supplied what he left unsaid and a sudden image of a naked Sesshomaru popped into her head.

She backed up wildly, thanked Sesshomaru quicker than she had done anything before, and ran as if all the hounds of hell and Naraku and all his minions were chasing her, for the well.

Sesshomaru who watched until she had entered the well and the blue light had swirled up, announcing that she was gone from their world once again, and could no longer hold his amusement back and did the one thing that he was known far and wide for not doing…laughing.

He laughed long and hard at what had just happened.

Eventually he calmed down once again, turned and headed off.

He couldn't wait until it was time for her to display her portrayal of him to him.

He had a feeling it was going to be worthwhile.

A/N: Thanks to all…I'm working on it, I'm working on it…see…I just got wrapped up in the other one. :) Thanks for the reviews. Spunkles