The Moon's Water Lily

Summary: She ran all the way across the world to keep her secret and family safe. Loneliness begins to take it's toll and she decides to take a job teaching at the nearby university. When one of her students gets a little too close how far will she have to go to keep her secret and can she take another heart break? Vampire fic SessXKag

Disclaimer- I do not own Inuyasha.

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews you guys I appreciate each one dearly!

Chapter 3


"So, Ms. Hitachi, it says here that you taught in Japan for five years before moving here?"

Kagome nodded and smiled. It was pretty simple for her to make any false documents she needed. Including her new birth certificate with her new last name and degrees in teaching.

"Yes teaching has always been a passion of mine."

The man couldn't help but smile at the woman in front of him. Her mood was contagious and even though he was happily married and would never cheat he still felt a tug toward her.

"Good, good. And since you are originally from Japan that makes it even better. I just have one more question for you if you don't mind?"

Kagome nodded slowly. The fact that he asked meant this question had nothing to do with the job.

"Just out of curiosity why did you decide to come all the way here?"

"I just like the quiet I suppose."

The man didn't really seem convinced but nodded anyway. "Okay well I'll talk this over with the rest of the members of the board and then I'll give you a call and let you know."

"Thank you for your time Mr. Stevens. I appreciate it."

"It was my pleasure Ms. Hitachi."

"Please call me Kagome."

"You'll hear from us soon Kagome."

Kagome smiled again and got to her feet. She shook Mr. Stevens hand then walked out of his office door. Of course she knew she could have compelled him, but she didn't want to. If she was meant to do this she would be chosen then. And it wouldn't do her much good anyway. There was an entire board that helped make the decision so unless she wanted to seek each of them out and that just wasn't worth her time. It also wouldn't be fair. She firmly believed in equal opportunity.


Sesshomaru sat in the living room. With one hand he was rubbing his temple in frustration with the other he was holding a phone to his ear.

"Father, I have to go." Sesshomaru listened a few more minutes then closed the cell phone. He sat it in his lap and began rubbing his other temple. It seemed his father wasn't too keen on letting him be out of the loop for awhile. Every time one little tiny problem arose with the company he called Sesshomaru and asked him how he would solve it. It was supposed to be part of his training, but mostly it just irritated Sesshomaru. No, he hadn't come right out and told his father what he wanted, but his father was a smart man how could he not see it?

Sesshomaru sighed and got to his feet. He wanted to go for a run, it would clear his mind.

He went out the back door and took a deep breath. He imagined himself changing into his true youkai form and before long he was. He was huge to say the least. But with no one around, there'd be no one to see.

He ran into the forest dodging trees, making sure not to knock any over. There's a good chance someone would hear that.

The cold wind through his fur felt good, it was relaxing. He let his animal instincts take over as he ran, not wanting to bother with the trivial things such as his father.

His father was trying far to hard. Trying to pull him back in when it was clear he wanted to push away. While Sesshomaru had had to endure his fathers new family while he was still a child, now he didn't have to and his father knew that. He knew Sesshomaru had no interest in being part of the family anymore because his family died when his mother did.

He also knew his father was just trying to show he cared, but he needed to get that Sesshomaru knew this but he just wanted to be left alone now. He didn't like his mutt have brother and he didn't like his father's wench and he wouldn't make his father choose. He knew his father wouldn't be able to anyway, so he just took it upon himself to do it for him.

He kept running and running until even he was out of breath. He changed back into his humanoid form and began walking back towards the house.


"Really? Are you sure?"

Kagome held the phone to her ear and paces back and forth, a huge smile on her flawless face.

"Thank you sir, you won't regret this."

Kagome hung up the phone and began jumping up and down happily. She'd gotten the job teaching. It was like another beginning for her and while she couldn't really be friends with anyone she met there she could interact with them while she was there and that was good enough for her.

Being a vampire was a lonely thing when you didn't change someone to be your companion. And it's one of the 'rules' that your not allowed to interact with humans more than necessary. Being in a relationship with one would mean your instant death.

Kagome sat down in one of her chairs and frowned. She wondered if she was still being hunted. She hadn't even broken the relationship law or the one of secrecy, but because she was such a young vampire back then, well they'd overreacted to say the least and it was Meiyo's fault.

Kagome had always had very strong control. The first few times she'd hunted her victims had died and she'd spent those next few days mourning the loss. This led her to teaching herself how not to kill them. Meiyo had frowned upon this saying it was part of who she was to kill, but she'd told him she'd starve herself if he tried to make her and that had shut him up.

She knew what Meiyo's true intentions had been with her. He'd hoped that she'd stay with him and be his 'mate'. Kagome had never wanted that though. She had disagreed with everything Meiyo believed in. He had been a vampire for such a long time he'd lost all his humanity. Kagome wouldn't be with someone like that, but she did stay with him for awhile just so he could teach her. And he had some what. She'd learned the laws and that was the most important thing even if she hadn't followed all of them.

Kagome stood then and went into her bedroom. She showered quickly and put on a pair of shorts and a shirt. She crawled into her bed and closed her eyes. She had to get up early and go up to the university to finish some paper work and begin her study plan, which seeing how she's spent her entire school life learning about Japan, wouldn't be so hard.


Sesshomaru walked into the class room of his final class. It was around eight now. He had to admit he liked this school. No one cared enough this late at night to bother him. The students stuck with people they already knew and no one bothered trying to talk to him. All which was to his liking.

He took a seat near the back of the class. There were only ten other students and they all chose to sit towards the front. Probably so they could hear better, but Sesshomaru with his sensitive ears didn't need to worry about that. He had no intention of calling any unnecessary attention to himself.

He noticed the professor wasn't in the class yet, but there was still ten minutes until class started so they were probably getting prepared. Although, if they were at all professional they would have been here and ready before the class was.

Finally he saw the door to the small office that was in the room open. He had to admit he was very shocked at what he saw.

First off, he didn't think he'd ever seen a college professor so young. She couldn't be much older than him if any older at all. She could have been even younger.

The woman walked, with more grace than he thought possible for clumsy humans, and stood behind the podium and smiled. She had a beautiful smile.

He frowned and slightly shook his head. Where had that come from?

However, he couldn't really blame himself. She had to be one of the most stunning and perfect beings he had ever seen. Even more than the youkai women he'd met. Her skin was flawless and the color of porcelain. Her eyes were a strange violet color and her scent was sweeter than anything he'd ever smelt. Even more than the best smelling flowers.

But she was still human. Or else, maybe she was a youkai and had figured out how to cover her scent?

That, however didn't seem very likely. And her scent wasn't like a youkai's. Then again it wasn't like a humans either. What was this strange being?


Kagome opened the study guide she's written up and began speaking. She tool slow, shallow, breaths when necessary making sure to appear as human as possible. While taking in each of her students scents she noticed something weird. One of the students had a very strange smell to him. It was good, but very different.

She looked up and found him sitting way in the back. She didn't falter once in her speech as she studied him. He appeared normal enough. Black hair, brown eyes. He was cute but nothing special and yet she couldn't shake the feeling there was something off about him. She'd think maybe he was like her, but he didn't look like it and he had a heartbeat and she could hear his warm blood flowing.

She looked back down at what she was reading. She was curious and wanted to find out, but knew she couldn't. She couldn't get close enough to him to find out. She wouldn't put anyone in danger than way.


When class ended Sesshomaru stood and walked passed the strange woman. Ms. Hitachi, that had been her name. While he was passing her noticed something very strange. While he could hear her breathing, he couldn't hear her heartbeat. He'd never had that problem before. Even youkai had a heart beat. And now he wanted to know even more what she was. And he would find out. Finally, he'd found something interesting in this small, quiet city.


a/n: sorry it took me longer than normal to update, I've been sick:( well anywho hope you guys enjoyed it and please review