The next morning, Kagome stretched in her bed and…she sat up quickly and peered around the room. How did she get back here? Jumping out of bed, she noticed her dirt covered feet and knew it wasn't a dream; he must have brought her back here. A smiled played on her lips as she got dressed and skipped to the kitchen.

The others knew there was something different about Kagome, but thought better than to say anything. Grabbing the tray, she practically floated up the stairs and into InuYasha's room. He was sound asleep again and Kagome pulled back the canopy fabric, not looking just in case.

She placed the food tray on a small table and sat down in the chair on the other side of the small wooden piece of furniture.

InuYasha groaned out some curses, wrapped his naked body in his sheets and went over to sit in the chair adjacent to hers. Smiling, Kagome poured him some tea and he tried to devour his food, but Kagome stopped him and made him say blessing over it first.

"You don't want to choke on it. That actually happened to my brother once and ever since then, he always prays over his food."

After he prayed, there was silence and Kagome couldn't stand it.

"Speaking of brothers, I met yours last night."

InuYasha spewed tea out and stared wide eyed at her.

"You mean Sesshomaru came here last night?"

Feeling confused, she forgot that he had an older brother.

"I'm talking about your identical twin brother, Red."

He continued to stared at her, a little confused himself now. Feeling uncomfortable, Kagome urged on secretly hoping something would sound familiar to him.

"He said he was your twin and that was why you two looked so much alike, except for his bright red eyes, protruding fangs, and two purple streaks on his face."

InYasha blinked and realization punched him in the gut. It must be working! The moonlight in the locket really must be changing him…but why couldn't he remember anything about it? He decided to just agree with her and ease her mind, "yeah, that's my twin alright."

Smiling again, Kagome felt relief, "that's great! We talked a little bit last night, and he is very open with his emotions too. He was so sincere and nice in a 'rough around the edges' sort of way. Anyway, do you know where he went?"

Not sure why, but InuYasha found himself getting irritated with her and didn't want her getting close to 'Red' at all.

"He's out for the day. You won't see him again, in fact I'm surprised that he would come inside to begin with."

He suspected that his demon side may be more primal and feel at home in the woods, not a stately manor.

Kagome was not oblivious to the change in InuYasha's demeanor, but ignored the warning signs in her head to not tell him.

"He didn't come in last night, he was in the woods when we met."

Okay, he knew she was different and heck! It was one of the things he liked about her, but going into that forest at night was just suicidal!

"You have no business going out there and getting yourself killed! I don't care what the reason might be, you are not allowed to go out at night again!"

A piece of Kagome was intrigued by his sudden worry for her safety, but that piece was microscopic in comparison to the part of her which rebelled against the idea of him telling her what she could and couldn't do.

"You listen here, InuYasha! (she stood up and put her hands on the table, leaning in close) I may be your maid, but I'm not your slave! Oh, and at night I no longer work for you and I have every right to go somewhere and do whatever I want, that includes going to see Red when he's here! At least he says nice things to me, albeit maybe a bit vulgar. He looks at me as a person, not as property."

InuYasha searched her eyes and hated just how much he cared. Leaning back, he waved his hand.

"Do what you want, I'm tired of arguing about it."

Taking her seat again, Kagome sat quietly, peering longingly at the forest, until she felt a hand touch hers.

She jerked her head around to see InuYasha looking at her hand which he had gently placed his own on top of.

"I'm sorry, Kagome. I don't normally act this bad around anyone and I'm ashamed that this side tends to be what comes out when you are near."

Allowing him to cradle her hand, she asked him, "why does it?"

This time InuYasha lifted his eyes and Kagome was struck with the vulnerability she found there.

"I don't really know why. Something about you…it doesn't make any sense."

He trailed his eyes down her neck to her ample chest accentuated by her servant's dress as they protruded out, tantalizing his imagination. Kagome blushed demurely as he moved back up to her face.

"You've awakened a part of me that was dormant, and I don't know what it means."

Closing his eyes, he tried to regain some composure.

"I will do better in the future."

Kagome broke a small smile and glanced up at him, "well if being better means less open then you can have it. I would much rather you be honest in your emotions and not a cold fish."

A credulous expression appeared on his face, "you really are a strange one."

She frowned as he repeated what she said to Red the other night.

"Were you spying on your brother and I last night?"

Her answer was a blank stare from the hanyou so she blew it off.

"Never mind, it must be a coincidence. Red and I were joking about being strange last night. How silly would it be for you to spy on us when we weren't doing anything to be caught?"

She giggled and Inu cracked a smile, but really wished he could remember those moments with her that she seemed to cherish.