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Chapter seven.

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Rin was sent into her room for the after noon nap, so Kagome was left alone with nothing to do. She walked out of her room and ran straight into the last person she wanted to see, Shio.

" Um… hi."

" Hello. How are you fairing?"

" I am good. So is there something to do around here?"

" I can show you around." He said eyeing her mischievously. She didn't like that look but seeing that she didn't have anything better to do, she agreed.

As they walked down in endless corridors of the western castle, small conversations were being made but as Kagome didn't have any will to talk, they walked in silence.

I wonder why Sesshoumaru has a miko in his home. I can sense her aura and its much stronger than the other mikos that I have met. Is it her power that he wants? Or is it her beauty? She is magnificent, there is no denying that but is Sesshoumaru really interested in her? Shio thought. His problem was that he couldn't keep thinking because in the end if he didn't find the answer, he would go mad. So being as he was, he decided to ask.

" Hey, um.. well I have been wondering, are you seeing Sesshoumaru?"

A deep crimson blush spread across Kagome's face as she looked at him, " No, of course not, why in the world would you think that?"

" No reason, just wondering."

And after saying that he started to move closer to Kagome, THUD! " JEEZ! You are worse than Miroku! Can't you control yourself!"

Shio muttered a sorry after getting up and then said, " Who is Miroku?"

" A really good friend of mine. I used to travel with him, he was a monk, I also had a friend Sango, she was a demon exterminator, and Inuyasha, he was a half demon, he was my best friend when we were searching for the jewel shards."

" Jewel shards? The shards of the Shikon No Tama?"

" Yeah."

After Shio processed the information he had just received, he then remembered what she said about a certain hanyou, " Did you say you know Inuyasha?"

" I do know him. He is a really big jerk but a really good friend when you get to know him."

" I know, so how is he doing?"

Kagome was confused now, he was asking her how Inuyasha was doing! How did he know Inuyasha? She just needed to know so she blurted out, " How do you know Inuyasha?"

" He is my cousin." Shio said simply.

" WHAT???"

" Yeah, you seem surprised."

" Inuyasha never told me he had relatives. I thought that it was just him and Sesshoumaru."

" Really? Oh well I guess he didn't want you to think less of him."

" Less of him? I would never think less of him. He was the best friend I ever had. I could never think that he is beneath someone, he is the best guy I had known."

" He is not all that good. I mean look at him and look at me, I am far good looking then him!" Shio said enraged that she was speaking so fondly of his cousin.

Kagome just suppressed a laugh as Shio said that, sure he was good looking, with his long black wavy hair, a cute little blue crescent moon on his forehead, eyes that made you melt, deep as the ocean, so mystical, his muscular body, sure he was handsome but Inuyasha or even Sesshoumaru could beat him any day.

As the tour came to an end, Kagome finally found out what sort of a person Shio was. He was an open, carefree guy who was just like Miroku. He couldn't control himself! She had to fend him off herself so many times that day!

They came to their room and Shio said, " Well its been fun, maybe we should do this again sometime."

" Yes we should. I have been here for just a few days but this place seems like my home, if Inuyasha heard me saying that he would have probably gotten in a fight with me or…"

As she thought about him, her eyes moistened with pain, she was still in love with him. She pretended she was happy but every time she would close her eyes, she would see him, every time she would think about him, her eyes went damp, every time she tried to forget, something made her remember, she was so alone. . All the times that she had battled side by side with him, all those times he had cared for her, all those times when she was with him, she wanted it all back. She wanted nothing more than to turn the tables of time and be back with him. As she thought this, tears welled up in her eyes, she felt so weak than, so insecure, so unprotected, so… alone. She needed someone to share he pain with. Someone who would love and accept her.

Shio looked at her, he was surprised when she mentioned his cousin Inuyasha, but then he was even more surprised when she started to cry, as tears fell, he felt his soul crying out for her, he could feel her pain, it was rolling off as tears from her beautiful eyes. He embraced her, trying to offer comfort to the grieving girl in his arms. She cried like there was no tomorrow, exhausted she started to close her eyes and drift into sleep, in his arms and in front of Sesshoumaru's room!

As Sesshoumaru listened to the conversation outside his room and the girl's grief, he decided that it was best he step in between those two, give some order and be done with it. As he stepped out of his room, he saw his cousin holding Kagome. She was slowly drifting to sleep in his arms. This sight somehow enraged him, he didn't know why but it did. The sight of Kagome being with someone else was just too wrong. Huh? What the hell was he thinking? Slowly but surely he regained his composure and said, " Cousin I think you should take Kagome to her room and then come to me for a short talk."

Shio nodded and picked Kagome and walked to her room. As he set her on her bed, he wondered what had happened that made her cry, but seeing as he wasn't going to get any answers from a sleeping girl he decided to go see his cousin for a bit.

He stepped in Sesshoumaru's study, as he entered his cousin looked up and motioned for him to sit down.

"What brings you here?"

" I am looking for a mate, so I decided to travel to your lands and even see my cousin."

" Who is taking care of the southern lands then?"

" A person who is responsible, powerful and trustworthy. You don't have to worry about that."

" So have you found a mate yet?"

" No… speaking of which, what is that human miko doing at your house? Is she going to be your future mate?"

Sesshoumaru was enraged, how could a human be his mate? A mere human could never be the mate of the great lord Sesshoumaru. His insides were boiling but his face was blank. " No."

" Good then you wouldn't mind if I take her as mine."

WHAT?? He was proposing to have Kagome as his mate? No way! That was not right. Kagome was his, not anyone else. " The miko is my property, that is she is not for you to take or mate."

" Whoa, its not like you have a claim over her! I can have her if I want!"

" She is Rin's tutor, and she is staying in my castle so she is my property. She will stay here until her job is done. And you can't claim her if you want because right now you are at my castle and I can finish you right here right now. But I don't want blood spill in my study. She is mine and this Sesshoumaru doesn't want you meddling with his property. Now get out." Sesshoumaru said calmly, never once his icy demeanor failing him.

Shio exited the room, and Sesshoumaru calmed down. He didn't know what had caused such anger but he knew that he didn't like it. And he would not get in any way attached with the human. As soon as he found a way to acquire her power, he would be done with her and all would be over.

Well that's what he thought. But things don't usually go as planned.

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