A/N

Heya guys! Im back with an update and sorry it took longer than I said it's just I have been really busy over the weekend. So I hope you enjoy my new installment of this wonderful fanfic

DISCLAIMER: I don't own or this would be canon. I also don't own Etta James' 'At Last'

CHAPTER 2:

At Last, I Love You

I danced around, I had began humming but that soon turned to singing.

''At Last, My love has come along"

I twirled around the furniture in the elaborate halls and rooms. This is a huge castle. I let my voice gradually grow louder with each passing second. I grew more and more into the song I had begun to sing with all my heart.

"My lonely days are over, and life is like a song"

I was completely unaware of the pair of golden orbs observing my little 'show'. I hopped, skipped, and danced as much as I can to the pace of this romantic tune. If only someone could sing a song of such beauty to me. But whom would want to sing to a plain girl such as myself?

"The skies above are blue, my heart was wrapped up in a clover the night I looked at you"

The looks of amusement plastered upon his face.

I swear my heart skipped a beat when I realized why and whom i am singing this to indirectly.

Sesshomaru.

It has been three weeks since he saved my life and brought me to his castle and healed me. I'm in debt to once again.

"I found a dream, that I could speak to, A dream that I can call my own. I found a thrill I can press my cheek to. A thrill that I have never known.

The owner of those golden eyes watched every move I made. Watched every step, twirl, bounce, skip, jump I took. I do have to admit that I have a deep attraction to the demon lord. Gosh, if only my mind hadn't been so clouded and fogged I could figure out faster what this wonderful sensation is at the pit of my stomach.

I like, no, I love him I think. No doubt about it, he may or may not be the one and only for me. My soulmate. When I was younger my mother would tell me stories of princesses finding true love and I would always ask 'Mama, how do they know that it's true love?' and she would reply 'Kagome, you were born with two eyes to see, two legs to walk upon, and two hands to hold, yet why do you think we were only born with one heart? So we could find the other one that belongs to ours. That is true love my sweet Kagome.'

I smile remembering the stories I once adored.

I obviously wasn't paying attention and the rug kind of jumped out from under me and I went hurdling towards the concrete flooring. I held out my arms in front of my face to prevent having a few nasty bruises on my face and a busted lip.

I waited for impact yet it never came. Instead I found a pair of warm arms around my small stature.

Sesshomaru reviled himself to catch the falling miko.

"Miko, watch where you plan to face plant" he states cooly.

I huff loudly and look at him ''My name is Kagome, KA-GO-ME, say it with me K-A-G-O-M-E! Not Miko, wench, or woman! I will refrain from answering to anything but!" I yell at the youkai.

I cross my arms and look away from the Lord to attempt to hide the crimson staining my cheeks.

I can see a small smirk plastered on his pale face in my peripheral vision. 'Damn that bastard!' I think to myself.

Looking back at him, I allow him to see the crimson blush that reached the tips of my ears down to my toes. He pulls me closer to his stands straight up, only pulling me closer to him.

His silver tresses mingle with my raven ones. As if they were one. He held me in his embrace, my ear against his chest. I hear his heart quicken oh so slightly. DId the ice king's heart really just pound just from touching me? No way, what is there that would make me desirable? I'm plain, not pretty or anything. Just plain old Kagome.

He pulls away quickly and looks away and his eyes, those beautiful golden orbs staring through my azure ones. As if they were staring into my soul demanding to know my secrets. I held his stare, his eyes held so much emotion his face did not hold.

He mutters just loud enough for my human ears to just barely pick up "I'll...see you at dinner." And with that he turned around and left the way he came.

Did I make him uncomfortable so much to make him want to leave? Did I disgust him? Was I too ugly for the yōkai lord to handle? Was I really that wretched? Did I stink? I question all the possibilities that could cause him to leave. I sigh and then my saddened state dissipated when I realize what the demon and I just shared. His arms around my small and frail weak body. His arms comforting, I only wished for one to hold me so. His caring loving eyes filled with such emotion. I have yearned for one to look at me like he just did.

My heart beat faster than it already was.

THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP

I raise a hand to my chest feeling my heart pound against it. It was like a drum, almost bursting into a thousand pieces. Sesshomaru did this to me, I smile giddily. Sesshomaru makes me feel like this.

It takes a few moments for my racing pulse to calm itself down. I begin my dancing around again having a reason, Kami I was in love...at least this is what it feels like.

I hum to myself and gracefully sway my arms about, as if I was one of those ballet dancers. This is a feeling like no other, one I've wanted to feel. Even thought it is foreign to me. I loved that feeling of the butterflies gathering up in my stomach, how he made my palms sweaty and my arms spaghetti.

No body has made me feel this way.

Even Inuyasha.

'Inuyasha'

I think my mood souring almost instantly at the thought of that little douche canoe. I look around the halls for a nice spot to hide, I settle on a dark and sort of damp corner on the east side of the castle, I plop down and sigh deeply. I hug my knees to my chest and rest my forehead on my knees.

I let my mask falter, letting the fake smiles laughs and emotions I've concealed when this whole Inuyasha Kikyo thing started, it's been months. Months of absolute agony for me. I let the mask drop to the ground shattering into a billion pieces and I begin to sob, to sob out the months of pain, the thought of Inuyahsa almost dying, the thought of how I think he could love me. It was never me, always Kikyo. He only cared because I was his shard detector and the reincarnate of his love. His only love.

I put my hands to my face to muffle the sounds of my sobs and collect the unshed tears falling from my face, this time I didn't fight the tears, I let them spill over my eyes and slide down my cheeks. I hiccup and breathe in and out shaky breaths, and my eyes felt as if they were beginning to get puffy from the crying.

I could hear the footsteps nearing me, I quickly wipe the tears from my face and re-apply the mask that once shattered below my feet, I breath ina nd out for a few seconds before I hear the small voice speak.

"Hiya Kagome-chan!" the sweet voice chirps

I smile at the young girl before me and greeted in return ''Hello Rin, How are you sweetie?"

Rin walks over into the dark damp corner and plops down beside me and cuddles up to me and waits a few seconds to say anything more.

''Kagome-chan, have you thought what-" she yawns and puts a small fist to her eye to wipe the sleep from her eyes. She begins again ''Rin has said about Kagome-chan and Sesshomaru-sama?"

I let the blush reach my cheeks and I look down into her chocolate eyes and run my fingers through her hair and she wraps her arms around my waist and begins to snuggle with me and I let a small giggle out.

"Rin can you keep a secret?" I question and she shakes her head frantically.

"Yes! Rin can keep lots of secrets! Rin promises to keep Kagome-chan's secret" I aww mentally at her adorableness and she holds out her pinky to pinky swear. I stick mine out as well mocking her and we swear on it.

She watches me wanting to know what my secret I am going to tell her, I smile at her eagerness and continue to run my fingers through her hair detangling her hair.

"Yes Rin, I have thought." I continue to run my fingers through her hair and she begins to smile at me and stares up at me with those adorable, innocent adolescent eyes of hers.

''Can you keep a secret Rin?" I say to her, she hanging on every word that poured out of my lips. I chuckle lightly and look around to make sure no one was around. Even the walls have ears. Well that's what my mother used to tell me when I was younger.

''Well, Rin I think that I might be-" I double check making sure unwanted hears where in range and I bend forward to whisper into her ear ''I think I might be in love with Sesshomaru-sama"

Her grin reaches from ear to ear. Her arms tighten lightly around my waist and she buries her head into my side and begins to snuggle, getting comfortable.

I wrap my arms around the young one protectively. I adored children, they were so adorable like little Rin and Shippo. I let a small yawn escape my lips and I rest my head on the wall behind me and slowly drift in and out of consciousness.

But unknowingly did we know that Jaken had been in hearing vicinity and he has heard the transaction between the two human females. Jaken stood dumbfounded, did the wench just say she was in love with his Lord Sesshomaru? Did his demon ears deceive him? Jaken would rather die than to watch this wench take his Lord Sesshomaru away from his rightful duties and attendances to things much more important than her life itself!

He waddled off to the yōkai lord's chambers to deliver some disturbingly, gross news.

'The miko was in love with Sesshomaru-sama...disciple'

A/N:

Well what do you all think of this new chapter? It's a lot longer than the first, and I hope you all enjoyed it! Reviews and favs are love!

Thanks for your guys' support!

Skylar out!