Once he left his home, Sesshomaru used his demon speed to get him to the corner market where he had first met his little breeder in the hopes of seeing her around there somewhere. However when he caught a fresher version of her scent on the wind, he surmised that she must have just left and began tracking her down in earnest.

So when he finally managed to catch up to her and saw her walking next to a woman some odd years her senior, he became curious and sped up a little bit so that he was walking several feet behind her and the other female.

"I can't believe you did that to that guy. To make him actually get on his knees and apologize only to ask him if he liked sucking your cock... Unbelievable." His little breeder said in a stunned tone that caused the woman next to her to snigger as Sesshomaru felt his eye brows disappear somewhere underneath his bangs.

"Well, he did call you a whore, and a little tart as well. So why not give him a taste of the humiliation that you felt not only at his hands but the hands of his son and friends?" The woman said in an amused tone while Sesshomaru's eyes widened in disbelief while his beast chimed in, Grrr. Someone hassle and embarrass bitch- someone pay!

Calm yourself and let me listen. Sesshomaru murmured to his beast as he continued to listen to the two females converse. If someone had truly been embarrassing her and calling his little breeder names then it was no damned wonder that she had tried to unman him.

In her eyes, he had probably looked just as jerk-ish as the one/one's doing those things to her.

"Well, maybe things at school now will be a bit better."

"I should expect so considering that those damn boys got expelled for all of their stalkerish harassment and crap." The older woman said, causing Sesshomaru to almost stop walking and turn around. If his little breeder had been harassed and stalked and such- he certainly didn't want his person lumped in with the ones responsible for her distress. But at the same time he couldn't exactly back down either.

Aragh! Where was a telephone pole to slam his head into when he needed it? He wondered.

Thirty two paces back, where you passed it. His beast chimed in, nearly causing him to turn a full circle for a moment before he straightened himself back out and began walking again.

He wasn't sure how long he walked behind the two women, listening to them make small talk. Especially since once they started talking food- he sort of tuned them out and wondered if he should try asking his little breeder out to dinner so that they could speak. however the way that she was speaking to the woman net to her as well as the way that she had been treated by others gave him pause.

Mostly because he thought that if he should attempt to ask her out to dinner, she would feel uncomfortable being around him. Perhaps if he could meet her family or some of her friends, he could ask them to come with him. He knew of at least a dozen nice places to go to eat all within walking distance of where he was currently. Each place was well known and had wonderful food and drinks.

Perhaps it was something that he could run by one of her family members once he met them. It was after all the polite thing to do, especially when he was planning to take one of their females from them and pup her. Hopefully with the approval and blessings of her family.

"I think we should have a seafood hotpot for dinner. with a side of steak and salad. What do you think Kagome? Is it doable?" The other female asked, causing Sesshomaru's ears to twitch slightly at the sound of his breeder's name.

Kagome.

It was a nice name.

It means bird in a cage.

Okay, so maybe it wasn't such a nice name. He wasn't entirely sure why her family would give her such a name, but he didn't question it for long. He was too busy rolling it around on his tongue under his breath. Which was just loud enough for him to hear what he was doing, and not the two females.

Finally the two turned and started up some stairs, and Sesshomaru stopped walking for a moment to watch them, taking note of where they were going. It was a local shrine. One of the oldest and most honored in the city. If this was the place that his breeder called home, then procuring her would prove more difficult than merely winning her over.

Especially since girls raised at shrines usually had such outstanding morals that being a breeder to a demon would cause her to be scorned by her blood kin unless he could win their approval in his endeavor. Deciding that he had had enough for today, he then decided on his next step.

Before going home, he'd go by a local florist and get some nice and tasteful flowers to send here to his Kagome. One floral arrangement with a card of apology for...causing her to injure him. And a few more to show her that he was genuinely interested in her and that they needed to sit down somewhere on neutral ground and speak to one another.

Walking away from the shrine grounds, he completely missed Yuki standing at the top of the stairs, watching him with an oddly calculating look on her face.

She had noticed the demon walking behind herself and her daughter out of the corner of her eye earlier, but hadn't thought anything of him until he had followed them both to the shrine. Now as a general rule, most demons steered clear of holy places, such as the place that she and her family called home.

Unless of course there was something that the demon was interested in on the grounds.

And after a moment or so of searching her mind, she recalled what Kagome had said about a demon invoking a verbal claim on her as his breeder. Which wasn't truly something to be alarmed of, really. To most humans, being claimed as a breeder was a sort of weird compliment to the female in question.

Aside from being taken as a demon's mate- it was one of the more decent compliments. Plus a breeder, much like a mate- couldn't be stolen away or taken by force. So she didn't need to worry that the male would come for her daughter in the dark of the night and break into their home to steal her from her bed or anything like that. Nor would he dare to rape her.

Breeders, even human ones, were treated as a precious commodity among other demons. They were treated gently, and carefully lest the male in question should injure the one he had claimed- thereby losing all right to her.

If the males was showing up now...then it meant that he would begin to make a move on Kagome soon. Huffing slightly at the position that she and her family were now in thanks to her daughter's near constant unwanted attention from the opposite se, she couldn't help but wonder what kind of move the male would make to win them all over.