Okay heres Chapter 3! Finally I'm done. Yeah I worked my butt of so you all wouldn't have to wait really long for it. Word of warning though. I have finals all next week so it will take me awhile to keep you all updated. So I apoligize in advance but it might take me a while to update.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of it's characters because if I did Kagome would not love Inuyasha. She woudl love his brother. grins evily Which is why for the sake of my poor heart I wrote this fanfic.


Chapter 3: A Misunderstanding

Kagome opened her eyes carefully, and immediately closed them from the suns glare. "How long have I been asleep?" she wondered. Opening her eyes again and allowing them to get used to the light she tried to sit up and nearly screamed from the pain. She looked down at her body and saw the various wounds that she had and winced as she noticed the largest one across her belly. Yet, all of them had been treated and covered with bandages. "What…what happened?" she thought as she stared at her wounds.

That's when she actually noticed the room she was in and wondered where the hell she was. She looked around at the intricate details of the room. It was definitely owned by someone who could pay his own way and then some. The vanity itself was a work of art. The mirror was large and a carving of a dragon on each side of it ran up to meet each other at the top. She noticed tat her room also had a balcony that she didn't know as of yet what it overlooked but she definitely wanted to find out.

She turned and noticed the bouquet of flowers that was placed on the nightstand beside her bed. She gasped at their beauty and wondered who had placed them there. Deciding she wanted to find out she tried to get out of bed but just moving her legs so that her feet touched the floor was very painful. That's when she noticed she wasn't really wearing anything. Her top half was covered in bandages, but she was still afraid her breasts would pop out. However, she was wearing some makeshift pants that reminded her of pajama bottoms that she had at home (think drawstring pajama pants).

Deciding that she was dressed enough she tried to get up and instead of her feet holding her weight, a terrible pain shot through her and she couldn't help but scream. She fell to the floor in a crumpled heap and whimpered as every nerve in her body felt electrified. The pain was intense and it took all of her self-control not to scream again.

In his study, Sesshomaru had been overlooking some important documents regarding his lands when he heard the scream. He raised his head and thought, "So she's awake then." Jaken then decided to come running in telling the demon lord that the wench was awake and how stupid she was in his opinion. Sesshomaru rose from his seat and while passing Jaken took his staff and hit him soundly across the head with it. Leaving the toad on the floor he climbed the stairs to the room where he had placed the miko and wondered what he would find when he got there.

As he reached the landing that had Kagome's room on it he saw a very worried Rin outside her door.

"Fluffy-sama is she okay?" She asked worriedly.

"Go play Rin. I'll call you when I'm done and then tell you." She nodded and ran down the hallway.

He opened the door and not too much surprised, found her in a crumpled position on the floor. After all, Tokaida had warned him that she would be bedridden for a while. He walked over to her and said in his signature cold voice, "Tried to get up didn't you." He didn't even frame it as a question. Especially since he full well knew the answer.

Kagome's breath caught in her chest as she remembered whom that voice belonged too. "What's Sesshomaru doing here? Come to think of it…what am I doing here!" she thought, worry creeping through her body. She couldn't move which meant that she couldn't fight back if the dog demon decided to hurt her or worse tried to kill her. "But then again…why do I care? Wait what am I thinking! Snap out of it Kagome!"

He bent down beside her and noticed that if she needed to be put back to bed. Her wounds were already reopening and he didn't want them to bleed too much. With his one arm he lifted her from the floor with relative ease. She couldn't have fought against him even of she tried. Every movement she made racked her body with pain and even though Sesshomaru was being as careful as he could be she still winced, and bit down on her lip to keep from screaming.

He laid her on the bed carefully and saw that her wounds were bleeding through the bandages. He sighed and said, "Don't move." With a calculated slash from his claws he cut her bandages without leaving a scratch on her. She yelped as the bandages began to fall away leaving her completely exposed.

"What the hell do you think your doing!" she yelped as she tried to cover herself with the few bandages that were still on her body.

"You're bleeding through the wrappings. They have to be changed or the wound will get infected."

"Oh…" she muttered looking down and realizing he was indeed correct. The gash across her stomach was bleeding profusely and it needed to be wrapped. "But why do you have to do it!" She yelled realizing that he was getting out a roll of bandages out of a box beneath her bed.

"If you don't want me to I won't, but I'm warning you. The healer has no liking to humans and she will not go easy on you." He said evenly looking her straight in the face. His grim tone showed the miko that he wasn't lying and that she was better off letting him wrap up her wounds. That didn't stop her from not wanting the Taiyoukai to do it of course.

Her hesitance slightly annoyed the demon. "How many times this week have I rewrapped her wounds and now she's nervous?" he thought. Looking into her brown eyes he say that she was more afraid of what the hell was going on than anything else.

"I have been wrapping and rewrapping your wounds for a week now." He said calmly the bandages still hanging from his clawed hand.

"Ummm okay then." She murmured, a slight blush coming to her face and she stopped covering herself. He went to work quickly and she found he was very good at what he did. "With only one arm too…" she thought marveling at how adept he was now at working with only one arm. At that moment she felt a twinge of remorse at the fact he had only one arm, but that reminded her of when he had fought against Inuyasha. Just the thought of him at all brought tears to her eyes and she had to fight not to cry again. "Not in front of him. Not in front of him…" she repeated in her mind. She would not allow Sesshomaru to see her cry. "He probably already thinks I'm a weakling just because I'm human…"

She was so wrapped up in her thoughts she didn't hear Sesshomaru when he asked her a question.

"What was that?" she said sheepishly.

"I do not repeat myself human." He said coldly. He didn't like to repeat himself to anyone let alone a human. Even Rin knew better than to ask him to repeat himself.

"My name isn't human okay. It's Kagome. Ka-go-me! I won't answer to anything but that." She said stubbornly. She had hated it when people had called her everything bu her name and she wasn't going to allow it from him.

Sesshomaru just grunted in reply, choosing not to answer her absurd statement. It was his castle and he planned on calling her whatever he wanted to.

"Ummm Sesshomaru? I have a question."

"Ask it then."

"Where am I? What am I doing here? Why am I hurt? What are you doing here?" she replied, her questions coming out in a jumble.

"Your at my castle. You were hurt so I took you here to get treated. You were attacked by a bear demon and I live here." He replied smoothly not missing a question. Kagome was shocked. She expected him to yell at her for that, or at least scold her on it. After all, Inuyasha had always gotten so annoyed when she had asked questions so quickly and she figured that brothers had to have some things in common.

She nodded numbly and watched him finish. He tied it off easily and rose, leaving her on the bed.

"Thank you." She muttered, not looking him in the face. It was bad enough that he had looked at her bare chest but he had also saved her.

He nodded and started to leave the room when a bounding Rin came through the door. She grabbed unto his leg and hid behind it looking at Kagome through her eyelashes.

"Rin I told you to wait outside." He said evenly. But Kagome had noticed that there was a different note in his voice. Something that was warmer and less cold and cruel. She looked at the girl curiously and realized that she was human. "What is a human doing with Sesshomaru? Mr. I'm-better-than-you Prince of iciness?" she wondered watching Rin hug the demon tightly around the leg.

"I'm sorry Fluffy-sama. I just couldn't wait. I wanted to see if she was okay."

"Fluffy! She just called him Fluffy!" Kagome thought giggling despite herself.

Sesshomaru sighed and tried not to grin at the ridiculous nickname his charge had given him. As much as he hated to admit it he didn't mind the nickname when no one was around, but Kagome was right there and he didn't exactly want her to know the nickname. For the same reasons he didn't like others to know, it made him look very weak.

Coming out from behind the demons leg, Rin walked cautiously up to the raven-haired girl and bowed slightly. When the girl smiled, Rin practically jumped out of her skin from joy and smiled wide.

"My name is Rin. What's yours?"

"Kagome. It's nice to meet you Rin."

"Did you like the flowers?"

"Flowers? Oh those ones. Yes I liked them very much. Did you leave them for me?

"Yes. Me and Fluffy did." She said referencing the demon that at the moment was not looking at either of them, but seemed to be trying to glare a hole into the wall.

"Well thank you very much." She said and looked at the Taiyoukai. "Is he embarrassed? Hmph. Good. He needs to show some kind of emotion. But that is kind of weird. I can understand a little girl doing it, but Sesshomaru helping her? That doesn't sound like the ice prince at all."

Sesshomaru felt her gaze on him but wasn't going to dignify it with a response. Damn he was embarrassed! He would have to have a talk with Rin about what to call him in front of others. Suddenly he felt a slight tug on his pants leg and looked down to see the smiling face of Rin.

"I'm going to go pick more flowers for Kagome-chan. Okay?"

He nodded his consent and she skipped out of room humming some kind of tune that the lord couldn't recognize. He looked back at the raven-haired girl and saw her looking out the window to the balcony. Her eyes seemed glazed over like she wasn't really seeing anything that was actually in the room. Tokaida's words echoed in his head about wounds of the heart and what not. He turned and was about to walk out of the room when a very small and timid voice caught his attention.

"Ummm did you…actually save me?"

"Yes."

That one word alone scared Kagome more than anything she had ever faced. The lord of the western lands had saved her life and that meant, she owed a demon lord her life! Not just any demon lord either. This was Sesshomaru, the lord of the western lands, known far and wide as one of the most cruelest and icy lords alive. "Oh no. Oh no. Oh no…." She thought frantically. "What am I going to do?"

He watched with curiosity the many different moods that went across the human girl's face. From surprise, all the way to fear. "But what is she afraid of?" he thought and with his curiosity getting the better of him said, "What are you so afraid of wench. I haven't harmed you."

"My name is Kagome. Ka-go-me! Get it right!" she said, her anger getting the best of her. Suddenly her face fell and she remembered the many times she had said that to Inuyasha. "When I first met him he'd never say my name. Then he would call me wench just to make me mad." She thought bitterly, tears welling up in her eyes. His memory was painful. Just thinking of him making fun of her made it feel as if someone was stabbing her heart with a sharp knife.

Sesshomaru watched her with growing anxiousness. He hated it when girls cried. He never knew what to do about it and most made a big scene. Kagome surprised him again though by not going crazy and sobbing everywhere. Instead a single perfect tear fell from her doe brown eyes but that was all that was needed to bend the demons lords hard heart.

He walked across the room quickly and delicately wiped the tear from her cheek and looked at it rested upon his clawed finger. She looked up at him in surprise, wondering why he had done that.

"Don't cry." He whispered, not daring to look at the hurt girl. Her eyes alone were enough to bend his will. He had the slight urge to just hold her and tell her it was okay.

"Why…why did you save me?" she asked timidly. She didn't know if he was angry or not and it appeared as if he was.

"Because you didn't deserve to die at the hands of a bear demon."

"So that's it. You saved me because you felt pity for me. You pitied the fact that I was to be killed by a mere bear demon."

"No. I do not pity anyone. I saved you because you killed Naraku and even I cannot allow a mere bear to kill someone who has done that."

She glared at him and her eyes spilled over. Tears streamed down her face as she practically yelled, "It doesn't matter that he's dead! Not when the cost was so high. Not when they all had to die. When he had to die…"

"So you are going to take out your pain on me. The one who saved your life. Saved you from your own stupidity. I watched you walk blinding into a bears den and stopped him from killing you only because I felt you didn't deserve such a meaningless death. Not when you killed that which has been such a nuisance to me. This is how you accept that you have been given a second chance. By wallowing in self-pity."

She looked at him, and she couldn't get her mouth to work. She couldn't believe what he had just said. Anger rose in her breast and at that moment she didn't care who, or even what, he was.

"You have no clue do you! You blame me for pitying myself and yet you have never felt the pain of loss! You have never loved someone and had them die before your very eyes! And yet you expect me to just buck up and smile like everything's okay!"

His eyes narrowed immediately as he listened to her outraged words. He thought back in time and growled lowly against memories he didn't want to see again. In as calm a voice as he could muster, resulting in him sounding as if he was going to kill, he said,

"You don't know me. Do not pretend to know what I have seen. Do not think that you are the only one here who knows loss and pain."

He turned and began to leave. Before closing the door he said simply, "I understand your loss better than you think. But you can't sit here and wallow in your grief. There is no life when you do that." He shut the door and left her to think. It had taken control on his part not to rip out her tongue for what she had said. The words had stung but he would never admit that. He ran his hand through his silver hair and walked down the hall to his study. Only blindly working would keep the memories from haunting him again.

Kagome sat up in her room and fumed.

"Who the hell does he think he is!"

He knows who he is. It's you that doesn't know him.

"He didn't have to say that though. It's not my fault. I can't but miss him. Miss them all. They were my friends!"

I know that but does he? What do you expect him to do? Remember you are in his debt. He saved your life.

"I don't give a damn!"

Yes you do. Stop lying. You know he's right. Besides you could at least be nice. You owe him your life.

"I guess your right. I suppose I'll apologize when I see him. But only if he apologizes to me!"

With that settled she lay back on her pillows heavily and fell back into her thoughts and began to sleep. Her dreams both comforting, and hurtful.


Okay i'm all done for now. If you liked it please, please, please I'm begging you here. Review on it and tell me what you thought. I like to hear that people like my story. So if say, hmm...I want 5 reviews from people before I post the next chapter. All you have to do is put down a word. Thats it. I just like reassuarance that my story is going good. Also if you have any ideas for storyline let me know and i just might add it in. Okie dokey thanks for reading!