After that little run in Kagome, Yukina and Jankotsu all headed towards Kagome's house. Even though Kagome asked them not to, they still walked her home. Although, she kind of expected that because she always thought that they were her protective older brothers. They always made sure that she got home okay.

Don't get me wrong, she still had a deep connection to Bankotsu and Miroku, it was just that Jankotsu and Yukina looked after her since junior high school. All of them are her brothers in her mind and to her…. That's what matters. Blood may be thicker than water, but the people you make bonds with may as well be blood because to them, they were.

All of them together and her other friends… That was her family besides her little brother. Everyone had, like, their own designated positions in their weird, but connected family.

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Kagome being the mother over all of them because she always mother hens after all of them. Bankotsu and Miroku being her older brothers. Jankotsu and Yukina acted like really close relatives to everyone so they were dubbed the cousins. Kikyo was Kagome's cousin by actual blood, but she acted like her younger hyperactive sister, and that took some convincing for her not to be mad about it. Inuyasha is dating Kikyo, so he was automatically the brother-in-law.

Sango was like Kagome's older sister, but she's dating Miroku; in so it became kind of weird because they couldn't put her as Kagome's sister, in the end they finally made her the sister-in-law and she was cool with it. The youngest of them, meaning Shippo, Kohaku, Souta and Sango's new baby sister Rin, were like their children.

Souta being Sango and Miroku's kid because Souta listens to them like they were really his parents all the time. Kohaku being Kikyo and Inuyasha's because somehow they formed a deep bond that couldn't be broken between them. Shippo was Kagome's because she always treated Shippo like he was her own son. It was also decided, surprisingly enough, by Sango that Kagome can act like Rin's mother because she feels like she can't do it herself.

Sango will still be the best sister ever to her and protect her, it was just that Sango didn't know how to raise her like she was hers. She was good with raising boys because she had always been around them when she was younger, besides kagome of course, so she really wasn't good with girl stuff at all. For example, she didn't like shopping and she hated the smell of nail polish like any guy. It's actually really funny, but hey, that's just her and none of them wanted her to change; they all love Sango for who she is and they will never ask her to change.

It was that they were regular people in the public's eye, but the don't have to be around each other. They could get loud and crazy if they wanted to and they would always understand each other. That was basically what family was for. Well, family and really good friends.

Anyway, last but certainly not least, Sesshomaru. Kagome involuntarily blushed while walking behind the two boys. None of them really knew how Sesshomaru fit in this because he never said anything about it to them and he didn't hang around them much to see what his personality type is. All they got was that he was the silent brooding type, but with what Kagome saw that day… She's thinking there is more to him that meets the eye.

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Kagome snapped out of these thoughts when she heard someone call her name rather loudly by her ear. She jumped and looked at her surroundings, finding that both of her 'cousins' were directly in her face. She gave a squeal of surprise then fell backwards on the ground.

She put a hand over her heart, trying to calm down her raging heart beat. The two boys squatted down to her level, both having an equal look of concern on their faces.

"Kagome, are you okay? You were standing there staring off like a space cadet for sometime now…" Yukina said with worry lacing his voice.

Kagome gave them an apologetic look before getting up, they stood, also helping her up in the process. "Sorry guys! I didn't mean for you to worry! I was just thinking about… Some things." She quickly caught herself before she actually said Sesshomaru's name. It would have been awful if they had at her saying his name. Both of them were trying to make her tell them how she felt about Sesshomaru, but it was too embarrassing.

Way too embarrassing!


Sesshomaru's mind was racing with what had just happened not too long ago. First he was caught by her while laughing, now his mother and his one of his best friends had asked her to move in with them. His words, his two separate worlds that made up part his solar system; the one that made him, well... him; was crashing together.

He didn't know how to handle this, none of it made sense to him anymore. He has had a crush on Kagome since they were in elementary together. He never told her because he thought she would reject him then; however, instead of fading away, they only became stronger and more prominent than ever over the years. He was too prideful to think that he was actually in love, no one could love another when they haven't really hung out with each other.

He did admit though that he cared for her deeply and every time he had a chance to be in proximity of her he always found that he had to remind himself to keep his emotionless mask up. He tried to avoid her as much as he could but it always seemed not enough, it was like every other day that everywhere he turned she was there to ruin his plans to get over her. There was that and every time she got into a mess he found himself indirectly digging her out of it.

He may not admit that he was in love with her, but he self proclaimed the role of being her protector. He was always there for her, even when she tried to hide she was in was bad behavior, but he tried to do it in the best way for her sake.

However, he couldn't really turn his bad behavior on her, it was like it disappeared when she was around, but when she wasn't he tried to do it in the best way so no one would suffer his temper besides Inuyasha. Inuyasha always got his temper because of how he is such a loudmouth and his attitude. Not to mention how much the isolate boy curses.

He was the watcher of her internal flame basically. making sure that no one touched her. And when she would stay here for the family party or to hang out with Sango when they have sleepovers (because Sango didn't want to upset her mom while she was pregnant with Rin so they had it at the Tashio mansion, which was right next door to her own family's mansion) he was like the guard dog to her dreams because he was always around when she was having a nightmare. It was weird, but it did come in handy when she was having a nightmare. He wanted her to only have her favorite dreams whenever she was asleep.

Besides that, he always thought their time was like an hourglass. And he was always the sand at the bottom of the hourglass waiting to be tipped over to restart his time with her all over again. He stood up from the couch he was sitting on and went to the window seat, staring out of the glass when he was settled into the window seat he was currently perched on.

'What is the strange thing though,' Sesshomaru thought to himself. 'Is that every time I try picturing myself without her, picturing being anywhere else that didn't involve Kagome… I keep drawing up a blank landscape of what that could be. I can't picture myself without her in my life.'

Sesshomaru thought about what would it be like for her to be his mate, for her to be immortal like himself. How they could be immortal. It was a strange, yet pleasant thought. He actually liked the idea of Kagome spending the rest of eternity with him. Call him selfish, but he really liked the idea of that, but the only problem was how to woo kagome to let him court her.

He sighed and pulled the long blackout curtain down, but not for long since it did give most of his room light. He then walked across his spacious room to his full sized walk in closet and grabbed some clothes that he would where for the rest of the day then retreated out of his closet to the rest of the room.

His room was mostly decorated with blues, silvers, and blacks. His bed sheets were black with a huge light blue crescent moon in the middle of it while around it was cherry blossom pattern and color that he has oh his haori that he wore all the time in the past when he could walk freely around with his markings visible on his skin.

His room use to actually be decorated majority of reds, but then Inuyasha came along and claimed red as his color. Sesshomaru didn't want anything to do with the twerp so he basically got rid of all the red in his room besides the occasional maroon thing here and splash of red, that looked liked flames, there. Although his room looked like he was being an egotistical jerk, it just so happened to be the things that he actually liked over the years.

As Sesshomaru changed, he thought about Kagome. He thought about all the times he saved her when she was in a tight spot and thought about the faith that she had in him. One day she told him that she had her faith in him to protect her from things. Even Though she could do it herself, it took major convincing to her to let him protect her. And every time she would say that the payoff that she got from it was when he did it again and again everyday.

When she first said that he first thought that he was weighing her down like an open wound during a fight. But then, he started to compare his past to hers and thought about the similarities between them. He thought about how they both (meaning a younger Sesshomaru) had dug themselves into holes and needed someone else to help them pry their way out of it. He then started to compare his past to her future; if his past was like hers then he would have to help her even more so in the coming years. So he conceited and thought of himself as the suture (A/N: Def for Suture will be at the bottom ;3) to her wound and not only the direct cause for the wound in the first place.

After he was done changing he reached over to the blackout curtain to pull them up, but decided to just leave them down in his room. He then walked out of the double doors that led to his room and walked towards the corner of the hallway. Pulling a statue's arm down, a secret staircase was revealed. Only a select few of the staff knew about the stair case, and besides them his father was the only one to know about it; let alone how to find it and where it led.

The stairs went up in a spiral motion to a room up in a tower that was supposedly cut off from the rest of the house and no one could access it because it was only there for decoration. However, Sesshomaru turned the abandoned tower to his study and place of peace where his dimwitted brother couldn't find him. After climbing the stairs it led to a relatively short hallway that had huge double doors at the end. A huge tree was carved on the door and underneath the tree a huge inuyoukai in his true form rested under it, curled under it like it was sleeping.

Inside, the room was pretty spacious and the walls were lined with shelves of books. Some books were said to be lost in history's great battles like the burning of the Alexandria library. there was a huge dark oak desk in front of the window with a plush chair behind the desk. In Front of the desk were a couple of white couches and to the right side of the room was a grand piano with a chase tongue by it, on the left hand side of the room, beside the books, were cases that had his swords in them that he had Totosai (That's how you spell his name right?) make in the past, that and his father's sword Tenseiga that he gave him many years ago...


Suture = (noun version) 1. A stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision.

2. A seam like immovable junction between two bones, such as those of the skull.

(verb version) stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture.

A/N: This chapter is extra long for all the people that are following the story now (Over 30 people! XD) and the people who review and tell me what they think about it!

Also, there is a song mixed into this chapter, if someone figures it out the next chapter will be yours! Tell me what you want in the next chapter and I'll write it!

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Have fun hunting the song!

P.S. I left major hints in the chapter what the song is.