Kagome found her way around the castle with great difficulty but eventually found a door out to the gardens in the west wing of the castle. There were lots of flowers and trees but what she liked most about this place was the small waterfall that flowed in to a small pond. Taking her shoes off, she slowly dipped her dainty feet in to the water before swirling them around in a circular motion.

"This place is so beautiful, so peaceful, maybe Inuyasha was right maybe I just need to hang around for a while to get use to it, even so I don't want to get use to it I want to go home, I want to go to my family and finish school and find a job, I don't want to be stuck in this world without anyone I know or love, there has to be a way to leave and I'm going to find it."

Kagome, so caught up in her thoughts didn't notice Sesshomaru slowly approaching her.

"I see you found my gardens, I hope they are to your liking, it usually helps me relax, how about you?"

Kagome was at first surprised at the familiar presents of Sesshomaru then relaxed a little and looked from him back to the water where her feet were still submerged.

"I like them but…"

Kagome trailed off as she remembered the stream in the back of her grandfather's shrine that her brother and she used to play in, it wasn't quiet as elaborate or nearly as big as the pond she now sat by but it was comforting all the same.

"But what, is there something about it that displeases you?"

Kagome looked up at Sesshomaru upon hearing the sincerity in his voice, it was the first time he was ever soft spoken towards her and she was pretty sure that it was a privilege that few were ever given.

"It's not that it displeases me, on the contrary it is very peaceful, I just miss my family and home, I don't mean to seem unappreciative, I know you don't let just anyone in to your home but I can't help but feel trapped like a caged animal especially when I don't know why I'm here or for how long, I'm sorry I'm just talking your ear off huh?"

Sesshomaru took a seat next to Kagome on the grass as he thought about what she had just confided in him, it wasn't everyday he got to talk to his obsession and not have to worry about the reproductions as well as the wrath of his father, he knew she missed her home but hoped he could convince her to stay and give him a chance to show her that he could give her anything she would ever desired and more if only she would allow him.

"I enjoy talking with you it has been far to long since I could and I want to take advantage of it while I can, I know you miss your home but this place isn't so bad you can have everything and do anything you want here and no one would judge, it will however be an adjustment for you as you can imagine but I am confident that you will fit right in and if not even better I don't like most of the stuck up people here anyway."

Kagome couldn't believe her ears did Sesshomaru actually admit that he to disliked the very place he lived and for that matter he was showing some of his very closed up emotions and to her of all people it was truly mind boggling indeed.

"Sesshomaru why do refer to me as though you knew me, I am almost positive that we have not met before this."

Sesshomaru thought about his choice in word and finally decided to tell her of how they first met and what became of him afterwards.

"We did know each other before you came here, you were seven when they first brought you to the castle, and my father was completely baffled as to how you were able to breach the barrier of our world and at such a young age. We soon discovered that you were a miko but even still at such a young age you shouldn't have been able to get through, only a human of great spiritual powers could have ever accomplished what you have and as a result my father soon consulted with the council about what to do or were to place you, it took them all of three months and in those few months you stayed at the castle, you and I began to strike a friendship, you were and still are the only person I can open up to or even speak to without feeling it only necessary, I just fell relaxed at peace even but only around you. Well after the three months were over my father told me of there judgment to send you home as well as to wipe your memory of me and our world completely. So you see I do know you, you're the only friend or companion I've ever known.

Kagome felt a head rush as the said memories began to flood themselves back in her mind, it took some time for her to regain her composure as she began to shift through her newly found memories and decipher witch ones were fabrications and witch ones were real.

"Why would they mess with my head like that I wouldn't have said anything if they didn't want me to, god what else did they mess with?"

Sesshomaru inwardly flinched at her hurtful words even if they weren't directed towards him it still hurt to know she distrusted his or fathers dictions even if it was a little invasive to her person.

"I didn't agree with there diction but I do realize why they did what they did, it was both dangerous to you as well as the civilians of our world, they did it to protect both."

Kagome was swimming in new information as something struck her as strange.

"Sesshomaru, if I met you and stayed at the castle as well, why don't I remember Sayuri or Inuyasha?"

"They were off at training with our uncle, because they are Halflings of a human mother and a demonic father it takes them twice as much strength and energy to control their demonic natures then I who was borne of an angelic mother and not that of a human."

Kagome found that she felt a familiar run threw her as she looked over a Sesshomaru.

"I remember it was you who spoke to me and you who would hold me as I cried, I remember being so scarred when I first came to the castle so many years ago and it being you who was the only one calm my fears and dry my tears, even so I still want to go home I miss my mother and brother as well as my grandfather, I miss it all, I fell so lost here in this world, please help me Sesshomaru like you did those many years before."

As Kagome finished speaking she found herself moving from her position on the bank of the pond to rest comfortably against Sesshomaru's chest before quietly crying in to his shoulder as he slowly rapped his arms around her and began to rub his hand in a circular motion on her arm in a small attempt to comfort her.

"I have never wanted to comfort anything or anyone until I met her and she still doesn't even know how she affects me, even a simple gesture such as the one I am engaging in now is abnormal for me, she has changed me indeed."

Kagome soon cried herself to sleep while still lounging on Sesshomaru and he himself found that he rather enjoyed it as well and started to succumb to the call of sleep even if for a moment.