A/N: Please enjoy this chapter.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha. However, Fluffy-kun owns me. I'm sure any Sesshoumaru fan would say that though :)
The woman who had entered the shop was admiring a beautiful trunk when Sesshoumaru approached her. She asked a few questions about it before saying it was a perfect wedding gift for her daughter.
It was bizarre watching the stoic youkai interact with the woman. Kagome just wasn't used to him being civil with humans. However, she did notice that his eyes froze over and he became the distant, cold and emotionless person she remembered. She wondered over the change.
The two went to the counter and the woman bought the trunk.
"Do you deliver? I can't carry it home. It's too heavy for me."
"Yes. I deliver." He pulled a clipboard from beneath the counter. "Fill out this form."
After a minute, she returned the completed form, thanked him and left. Sesshoumaru picked up the phone. There was a short pause and he said, "I am in need of your services. I have a delivery." Pause. "Hn, do not dawdle." He hung up and returned to the loft.
When his gaze met Kagome's, she watched as his hard eyes melted into liquid gold again. His stare was intense as he sat again beside her. "Tell me more."
"What do you want to know?"
Without hesitating, he asked, "How does it work?"
"The time travel?" Sesshoumaru responded with one stiff nod. Kagome shrugged. "Who knows? All I know is that it does. In the beginning, I needed a jewel shard to make the jump but as time went on and I understood my abilities better, it wasn't necessary anymore. Inuyasha was always able to pass through though and I don't know why."
As she spoke the last sentence, a strange emotion shimmered in his eyes and she didn't know what it was. What had she said to upset him this time? "Inuyasha has come here?"
"Er, yeah?" She didn't know what was up with him. His question had been asked in a soft voice just like every other time he spoke today but the tone in which he spoke was off. The regal confidence in which he spoke was stripped away leaving the words open, raw and vulnerable. She was so confused. "Why?"
Sesshoumaru suddenly stood. "It is nothing." With that, he swept back downstairs in a whirl of agitated youki.
Kagome felt like laughing because, for a reason she couldn't quite put her finger on, Sesshoumaru seemed embarrassed. And for him to be flustered so was hilarious. She snorted a bit but managed to keep the giggles from escaping. Once she was composed she went to follow him. She was starting down the stairs when the shop bell jangled as someone entered.
"Oi, Sesshoumaru! What's the big idea calling me in so early on the weekend! Come on, its Sunday! And it's not even ten yet!"
"Shut up and deliver the trunk." Sesshoumaru responded, irritated. "I am busy."
Kagome reached the bottom of the stairs in time to see him hand the woman's completed delivery form to a boy of about thirteen. A strange nagging feeling settled in her chest as soon as she saw the youth. He looked too ordinary, too plain. Then it hit her. He was under a kitsune concealment spell so that he looked human. Once she realized this, her innate spiritual abilities allowed her to see through it. She blinked and before her stood a boy with fiery red hair, green eyes and three fluffy tails swaying behind him.
At her surprised gasp, green eyes focused on her and he nearly fell over in shock. "K-kagome?"
"SHIPPO!" Kagome squealed in delight and launched herself across the room and gathered the startled fox into her arms.
When he had recovered from his surprise, his eyes flooded with tears and he clung to her blubbering. He murmured her name over and over like a mantra.
Sesshoumaru watched the spectacle for a moment until the emotional display became too much. "Shippo." His voice laced with disapproval.
The kitsune jumped at the displeased voice and remembered that he wasn't a little boy anymore. He was over five hundred years old now. He almost had his forth tail for kami's sake. Weeping was really uncalled for. So he pulled away from her, forced down the tears and gathered up some dignity. "I can't believe it! I'm so happy to see you!"
"Me too! Look at you, how grown up you are! And three tails! I'm so proud of you!"
Shippo's eyes turned to focus on the ground. "Stop it, Kagome. You're embarrassing me."
She smiled brightly at him and grabbed his hand. "Come on, you have to tell me everything!" She began to tow him back towards the stairs to the loft but a certain taiyoukai stopped her.
"Delivery first. You can talk later." He shoved the forgotten form in the boy's face.
Shippo sighed. "I'll be back before you know it, Kagome. We'll talk then, okay?"
She nodded and watched him leave with the trunk before returning her gaze to the stoic lord. "The delivery couldn't wait? He hasn't seen me in so long. Why couldn't we talk?"
His liquid eyes smoldered at her. It made her knees weak. "It is still my turn."
A/N: *shivers* Ooh. The Sesshoumaru in my imagination is damn hot! That last line made my knees weak. And I was sitting down when I wrote it! lol. I sure hope you enjoyed and sorry it was so short but I had to stop it there.