A/N - Hey guys, life sucks. My pin drive was stolen at school (after I posted chapter 6) so I might not get to post thisuntil after I get ungrounded (14th). Ok, so it has come to my attention that I have a horrible ability to not post very often. Sorry…but I will try to post more often, with longer chapters, because my chapters tend to be rather short… I'm going for 20 pages on this one, wish me luck…

Disclaimer – (Finds creative way to say that I do not own InuYasha)

Chapter 7

InuYasha sighed. He had an amazing ability with words, he could screw everything up without even trying, not one of his favorite abilities. The prince watched as Kagome stomped off, stopping not far away.

He tried to think of a way to rectify the problem at hand. He really didn't want to get on her bad side, girls are crazy, he knew that, and did not feel like having a psycho trying to kill him. She was probably plotting his death as he thought about a way to fix his problem. He needed to think fast.

InuYasha walked slowly over to Kagome, hoping that she wouldn't just turn her back to him when he sat beside her. She didn't, not that she looked at him either. Kagome refused to give in to whatever scheme he had to make her feel like the bad guy. Miroku had an amazing ability to do that, and she had the feeling that InuYasha had the same ability.

"I'm sorry, the words came out wrong; not that I should have said it anyway, it is none of my business what you do with my brother. Forgive me?" InuYasha hoped that just apologizing would work. His mother had told him that a sincere apology would work in most situations, not that he really believed her at the time.

Kagome looked up. Did he just apologize? She was never going to figure him out. He was nice, then he was a jerk, then he was nice again; maybe the jerk thing was recessive, or it could be stress.

"I know you didn't mean it quite the way you said it, and I can't think of better wording either, it's not your fault." She was looking at him, wondering if he would say that it was her fault. She really wanted him to find a way around that, see just how smart he really was.

"It's not your fault either, it was just a misunderstanding, I'm glad you understand that. Will you please explain it to me though?" The prince was a little confused, she made it sound like she didn't even really like Sesshomaru, yet she was sleeping with the guy. There were some things that InuYasha would never understand the logic behind, and he was starting to think that this would be one of those things.

Kagome blushed, "Just what do you want me to explain?" Jeeze, this guy sure wanted a lot of information about her, not even Sango knew yet, and she knew everything about Kagome. When Sango found out that InuYasha, a boy she had just met the day before found out something so important before she did, Kagome was dead. Until then, the boy might as well know; if she told him such personal things, maybe he would share things just as personal about him.

"Well…you don't have to tell me, but from the sounds of it, you are…sleeping with a man you barely know, though it may not be strange to sleep with one's fiancé, it is strange to sleep with a stranger, besides, in places with castles don't they usually make a big thing about the night of the marriage?" InuYasha hoped that by talking fast, and getting everything out with one breath she might not take it that offensively, and would answer him. Now that he thought about it, it would have probably been better to say it slowly; maybe he could have even found nicer sounding words. He doubted it, but it was a possibility.

Kagome looked at InuYasha, and decided that he meant it in the least offensive way it could possibly be taken, and so she answered him. "Well…he is very commanding, and as his fiancé, he thinks of me as his property, property he really doesn't care about, but that he can do whatever he pleases with. If he wanted me to be locked up in his room for the next month, I would do it. If I fought back, he would probably just hurt me, though in a private place, he wouldn't want to show any anger in public."

InuYasha fumed, and Kagome could almost see smoke coming out of his ears, almost. How dare some guy just take advantage of a woman like that! He made a mental note to kill this brother of his in that prophesized battle of theirs.

"So he forces you?" InuYasha was not doing so well containing his anger, his fists were balled at his sides, and his words came out as more of a growl than anything. Nobody deserves to be forced to have sex, especially someone as nice as Kagome. She hadn't even said anything mean about him being a hanyou.

"Well…not exactly, as I said before, I have to do whatever he says, and if he wants me to sleep with him, I do." Kagome had noticed how angry InuYasha was, and did not intend to make it any worse. If he got angry enough, he might transform again, and they could have a repeat of what happened in Kennewick; she didn't want that to happen.

"You know that wasn't the question, do you want to sleep with the creep?" InuYasha hadn't even met the guy, and even knowing that they would have some huge battle hadn't made his half brother bad, but this made him disgusting, something not worth living.

"Well, not exactly, it's not that he's bad in bed, because he isn't," Kagome blushed, why the hell was she telling him these things? "I just…I don't know, I don't really feel very comfortable around him. He's too cold, emotionally he's a stone. Maybe a diamond, yeah, he's a diamond, and not in a good way."

InuYasha almost transformed, but held it in as best as he could. His eyes were blood red, but he refused to transform any further; the only thing around that he could kill was Kagome, and even if this wasn't real, killing her would definitely not be good in any way.

When Kagome saw what was happening to InuYasha, and how hard it was for him to fight his demon blood, she put a hand on one of his fists, smiled, and looked into his eyes, hoping that she would be able to calm him by showing that she was just fine. As she attempted to calm the prince, the clouds went from the darkness back to the pleasant pink they were upon their arrival.

It seemed to have worked, because the red faded from his eyes, bringing back the beautiful gold that Kagome was used to. He looked so sad and lost, like a puppy that wandered too far away from home, it made her sad. She had to get the whole empath thing fixed. Being an empath was hard on her, if she didn't have her guard up, she would adapt the strongest feeling near her. Her thoughts were interrupted as InuYasha spoke again.

"Hey Kagome, tell me about your family, and your friends too. What are they like?" He seemed to need another distraction, and not knowing somebody always seemed to be a good distraction. At least then he could ask them questions, and they could tell him the answers, getting him completely absorbed in their story.

Kagome looked over at InuYasha, and noticed how sad InuYasha looked, and sympathized for him. As she began to feel sad, the clouds turned a dark purple, resembling the emotions of the two sitting upon them. This time, the two took notice of the change in color.

"Kagome, think of something happy." InuYasha murmured as he thought of his mother. The clouds turned to a brilliant lime green.

Kagome laughed at the clouds. "Hey InuYasha, I think I know where we are." InuYasha gave Kagome a questioning look, and as he did so, the clouds went from just lime green to lime green with orange polka dots, making Kagome laugh even more. "I used to have dreams about this place when I was little. It seems that we were definitely moved to Alazia when we were unconscious, and have been conscious for quite some time. This is a room in the castle of the King, the door is…actually, I really never could tell which way the door was… but it turns out that my dreams were of a real place. It is kind of like an… infirmary. When we the people get better, not only do their bodies have to function properly to get out, but their minds too, or they will never find the doorway out. Sniff around, the door smells different than the rest of the room."

InuYasha had no clue what the insane girl beside him was talking about, but he decided to humor her. If he did so, and she wasn't as insane as she sounded, then he might just have a chance to explore the new place that he would be living in.

Kagome watched as InuYasha sniffed the air, slightly leaning to the left, away from her. She followed him as he got up, their curiosity making the clouds turn a beautiful shade of periwinkle. It seemed that InuYasha had an amazing sense of smell, because he quite easily found the door, saying something about how it smelt like his father and the other girl he met.

"You mean Sango, my cousin?" Kagome was amused that she seemed to be the only one whose name he remembered, though it didn't surprise her, they had just been stick in the cloud room for…a long time.

InuYasha nodded his head as he felt for the handle on the invisible door. When he opened it, Kagome slipped past him, signaling for him to be quiet and to follow her. They seemed to be in a dungeon like place. The walls were made of stone, and the hallway appeared to go on forever. Kagome opened a door about twenty yards away from the room that they came out of, when she disappeared behind it, InuYasha followed to find a spiraled staircase. It was still undecorated, confusing InuYasha. Kagome sensed his confusion, and stopped in front of him.

"It's a servant staircase, we wouldn't want to be seen, at least, you wouldn't, nobody knows you. And the way I'm dressed…" It was then that Kagome noticed that she was no longer in the uniform that she had been wearing in Seattle. InuYasha was wearing the same wine-red button up shirt with black slacks, but she was now in a dress, not the school uniform.

The dress that Kagome now had on had long draping sleeves, a full skirt, and a low, but modest, square neckline. It was royal blue, with white stripes adorning the skirt, and a white border for the neckline.

"What's wrong with the way you're dressed? You look just like the girls on the covers of my mom's old romance novels. Isn't that what you're supposed to wear? Or do people here actually wear those silly school uniforms?" InuYasha watched as Kagome started to get mad at him, wondering what it is he said to make her mad again.

"They are not silly!"


"Hey Sango, do you think we should go check on them? Knowing Kagome, she'll forget where she is, they could die in there if we don't get them some water." Miroku looked over to see Sango sitting at her vanity, playing with a kitten in her lap.

"She knows perfectly well where she is, and she probably knows that InuYasha can sniff his way out, don't doubt her. Besides, even if we did go to get them, the door won't let us open it. I swear the thing is possessed…" Sango knew that her cousin would be just fine, unless InuYasha killed her for purifying him.

"It is possessed Sango, it's supposed to be. If it weren't possessed, then it wouldn't work. Let's just hope that InuYasha has returned to his half-demon form, he won't be of any use to her in his human form, the place looks like it goes on forever. Izayoi really did a great job in creating it." The boy was contemplating telling Sango that he loved her, but decided that there was no way that she felt the same way about him, so why go and break his own heart? He then started to wonder how exactly he got to that train of thought from the infirmary. He really did think somewhat randomly…

It was while Miroku was staring at the ceiling of the parlor that was connected to his room that a servant, Rin, came in and whispered something into Sango's ear, receiving a nod as a response.

"Sesshomaru is back." Was what awoke Miroku from his thoughts. Sango sure had a way with words. She could be so blunt at times, yet she was one of the best people he knew at beating around the bush.

"Really now, why is it that you were told, and how did they know that you were here? InuTaisho is really quite good at keeping tabs on us…" Miroku thought it odd that InuTaisho would keep tabs on them; he never seemed to be able to find either of them.

"He doesn't keep tabs on us; Sesshomaru does, though I really haven't the slightest clue as to why. Wait a minute; does he know that InuYasha is here?" Sango really couldn't care less as to why Sesshomaru always knew where they were, it probably had to do with his need to know everything.

"No, and you only answered one of my questions, why were you told?" Miroku had the feeling that this was going to be one of those beat-around-the-bush moments, so he had better find a way to get her to spill.

"Probably because I'm Kagome's cousin, and well, I usually know where she is, so I can tell her that he's back, so really, it makes quite a lot of sense that he would tell me…" Sango was beginning to ramble on about how she was an excellent choice of a person to have been informed of the elder prince's arrival.

Miroku could think of only one way to get Sango to stop talking, it would probably also shock her into flat out telling him what he wanted to know. He walked over to her, amazed that she was still talking, put his hands on her shoulders, and kissed her. He was quite happy that she had been talking, because he got full access to her open mouth. Miroku slid his hands up from Sango's shoulders, over her neck, and into her hair. He was pleasantly surprised when Sango kissed him back. She put her arms around his shoulders while she massaged his tongue; she really had been waiting for Miroku to kiss her. Miroku was not in the most comfortable position leaning down so far to kiss the sitting girl, so he sat down too. Sango was sitting on a small couch, and was surprised when Miroku straddled her, not that she minded.

Miroku knew that if he kept the kiss going, he would probably take it too far with the beauty he was sitting on, and rather reluctantly pulled away, though he did stay on Sango's lap. "Sango, please tell me what Rin said, she was here too long to just tell you that Sesshomaru is back and to tell Kagome, you know that you can tell me anything, don't you?" Miroku looked down into the cloudy brown eyes of the woman he loved, wanting more than anything for her to know that she could tell him anything.

"I know Miroku, it's just that, it's rather private…I don't think that Kagome even knows that I know." Sango blushed a little at the close contact of the young man sitting on her lap in a rather suggestive way, and was glad that if anyone were to walk in on them, they would have to go through two doors to get to them.

"Please Sango, I'll take it to my grave if need be." Miroku looked down into the girl's eyes, mentally groveling at her feet. He would do anything if she would tell him everything, though he knew that that was something that would never happen.

"Kagome has been…sharing a bed with Sesshomaru since the day they became betrothed, and he wants her to be in his room tonight." Sango blurted out as fast as she could, hoping that saying it fast would dull the impact of her words.

Miroku was shocked to say the least. Innocent little Kagome, the youngest of the three, had been sleeping with the cold prince for over a month. Wow. If Miroku hadn't been straddling Sango, he would have fallen over. If only he could talk to her about it, well, nag her about not telling him, and apparently Sango.

"Why hasn't she told us, and how is it that you found out?" Miroku was so confused, he decided it better to sit next to Sango, rather than on her, otherwise, he would never be able to do it again.

"Well, Rin told me, she assumed that I already knew. I feel so sorry for her, having to be Sesshomaru's personal servant, it must be horrible. Especially for her, she is one of the nicest people I know." Sango decided to ignore the question of why Kagome hadn't told them, she was probably not so proud of it. Poor girl.

A/N – Yeah, so much for twenty pages, this is about 5 ½ pages. Oh well, I just want something to post tomorrow morning, tell me all what you think please. (Shorter update time at least…) and there should be fewer mistakes in this chapter…