A/N: -Walks into room and just barely dodges lethal-poison-dipped dagger aimed for heart- Wait!! Let me explain!! -Livid crowd pauses mid-throw with rest of weapons- Okay so here's the story (excuse), I've recently been accepted into BUA (Boston University Academy). Not sure if any of you have heard of this highschool but it's a little more advanced than the average school. Not usually a problem as I have no trouble with crap like that... and I wouldn't if I didn't live 2.5 hours away!! I didn't even know there was a 4:30 a.m.!! I have to get up soo freakin' early then the long train rides (which I've recently started lugging around my laptop -new compact size- so I should have more time to write once I adjust to waking up at ungodly hours in the morning) Also I wanted to adjust some of these chapters to fit my new and improved writing style. I've grown much (in my opinion) over the time I've been absent and I'm quite appalled at my grammar and other mistakes so I wanted to go back and edit but I've decided that I'll just try harder from here on out and do a final edit once I get down to the last couple of chapters. And the last and final reason is... I don't have as many ideas for new chapters. I hang out with AAL all the time and I wanted to take her creation and turn it into my own but with all this chaos and commotion going on, it has quite effectively stifled my creative writing mojo!! I want to cry, so much new talent and I can't get it down on paper (or on a computer database in this case). Anyways since I've been gone so long I've just decided to do some editing on the chapters already written by AAL, which should buy me some time to get things together. I have no permanent updating schedule, so be prepared so sporadic chapters. Suggestions are welcome and helpful. I would not want my ELA teacher to accuse me of plagirism (which he was quite adamant about. For kami's sake, who spends two full classes on it and what happens should you even think about thinking about stealing someone else's work) so you will be recognized and thanked. -crowd that surprisingly let me finish (insults ignored) mumbles and disperses, wipes profusely sweating brow- That was close... DeadlyDisaster has survived to write another day!! Take that people's choice awards!!

Good God... What the hell is that monstrosity of an author's note up there?? Well anyways, hope you enjoy this chapter and I'm already editing the next chapter (thank god for weekends!!)

The Legend of the Silver Inu Angel

Chapter 9: A New Mystery

DeadlyDisaster/AristocraticAssassinLover

"Just relax Kagome, all will be well." Emi said, worried about her friend. Kagome had burst in her room, rushed through her encounter with the fearful demon lord and then started pacing, mumbling the whole while about what would happen now.

"No Emi, all will not be well. I don't think you understand the full meaning of what just happened…"

"I didn't even really hear everything you told me when you slammed my door and then barked something out about Lord Sesshomaru." Kagome finally stopped pacing and sat down on the bed next to her, and Emi was secretly thankful. Kagome was really beginning to wear a circle in the floor.

"I went out with Lord Sesshomaru today," Kagome started and waited until she had Emi's full attention, "We went to go pick up this necklace," she pulled the chain from under her shirt and was filled with pride when Emi gasped in awe. "When we were on our way back to the palace, he said it was for me and placed it on my neck." Kagome's face started to heat up just thinking about what happened when they had landed in the courtyard.

Kagome paused and then took a deep breath.

"When we finally landed in front of the gates he…he…he…"

"Spit it out Kagome!" Emi was dying to find out what had her friend so flustered.

"He Kissed Me!!" She blurted out. She counted down, 3… 2… 1…

"He WHAT?!" Emi screamed.

This was…this was…so wrong!

All right, maybe it wasn't as articulate as most of the other things she said, but she had never heard of something so scandalous!

"Shhhhh, Emi quiet I don't think he needs servants' gossip right now!" Kagome hissed. Emi nodded reluctantly.

"So what are you going to do about it?" Emi asked curiously, but scooted back a bit when she saw the trademark light enter her friends eyes, that usually meant destruction was not far away.

"I never wanted him to kiss me, so this deserves payback! I'll do what I do best!" Before Emi could reply Kagome was out the door, leaving it still wide open for anyone to peer into the room at the slightly frightened Emi. She quietly got up and closed the door before kneeling down beside her bed.

"Dear Kami, I know I'm but a lowly servant, but please hear my plea. Spare Lord Sesshomaru from the evil clutches of my dear but slightly deranged friend. Amen." She whispered. Then she closed her eyes to pray for Sesshomaru.

It was all she could do for him. It was all anyone could do for him at this point.

Kagome spent the rest of that afternoon gathering the items for her best prank ever. She set them up in the dead of night, and then quietly slipped back into her room. She didn't really sleep that night, it was more like a resting trance. He would regret crossing the boundries for the rest of his eternal life!

Kagome was nowhere to be seen when morning rolled around.

Sesshomaru knew he should be worried and anxious but he couldn't bring himself to care.

He had more important issues to think about right now.

Like how he had kissed a ningen.

He waited for the disgust and contempt to stir in the depths of his soul but it didn't. It never did. In fact he felt light-hearted and free, whenever he thought about it. Emotions the demon lord was unaccustomed to feeling.

He thought about his relationship with the mischievous girl. He decided he didn't mind her touching him. Actually he would rather enjoy it if she took it upon herself to touch him more. He studied himself fiercely to discern exactly when this change had occurred. He couldn't find the answer, and he didn't care.

The girl was smart, intelligent, devious, cunning and not to mention beautiful, when she wants to be. These were all things he looked for in a mate.

Wait. Stop!

Was he actually considering this girl for a mate? Maybe while he was distracted with her luscious lips she had placed him under a spell. Or he was fatally ill and close to death. He considered the first option but knowing the girl would never do something like that, he wondered if he should work on his unfinished will some more.

That was to do the unthinkable. Mate with a human, preposterous!!

But she really was a keeper, and he couldn't deny his feelings. Yup, it was certain he was ill. There was no other explanation. That's what he kept telling himself.

Something had to be done!

Kagome was in the library reading, waiting for her plan to unfold. She glanced out the window and noticed it was a little past dawn. Her plan was just about to be set into action. With a smirk hidden by the front of her book she closed her eyes and just waited.

Sesshomaru headed to his study as was the norm for every morning. He sat down at his desk and looked at the stack of paperwork he had to do today.

Sighing he picked up the first on the pile.

A farmer from one of his human settlements asking for more dirt, for his crops. He sighed but dipped his brush into the ink bottle to sign it when…

BAM!!

His ink bottle exploded leaving him covered in dark black ink. Only his eyes and the part of him under the desk spared from the slippery substance.

He stood and made his way to the girl's room already knowing who the culprit was. He may be dying but if he was so fond of the girl then maybe she should 'accompany' him to the netherworld. Or he could just send her early to reserve their spots. He was itching to taste some sneaky ningen blood.

Kagome had heard the explosion from Lord Sesshomaru's study and set the book down on the table. It was time to finish the second part of her plan. She stood, glee and malice pouring off her like radiation and stealthily made her way to her room.

Sesshomaru stepped into Kagome's room cautiously scanned the area.

Nothing. So far so good.

He stepped a little farther into the room and was suddenly covered with feathers. He glanced upwards to spot a bucket attached to the ceiling with a length of cord connected to the length he had stepped on. The cord acting like a release and the contents of the bucket were now covering him. Why hadn't he noticed this?! This was the type of trap he was looking for! For someone who could scent out and track down enemies, allies, anyone really, from miles away and yet this girl had bested him again!

He growled in outrage, when he heard a laughter coming from his right. He spun around and saw the she-creature he had been searching for all morning. He was certain now she was not ningen. She was the spawn of satan, or maybe satan in disguise.

"I see you fell for the traps, just. Like. Always. I don't know who you think I am but you took away my first kiss, without my consent."

'As good as it was but he doesn't need to know that.'

His growl became vicious but it still didn't scare Kagome.

"Don't growl at me. You force me into serving you, drag me around on a leash, place controlling ink on my forehead, and then youkiss me and expect me to do nothing about it. You must be crazy." She spun on her heel and started to walk away.

Sesshomaru was seeing red (well actually it was more of an oranish-burgandy and had he not been so angry he might have examined it more. It was a great color to add into a painting he was having done). Mostly because she was right. He had bullied her around, and evenspiedon her, which she doesn't know yet and then he just expected her to go weak-kneed because of his affections.

He once again grouped her in with all of the other Japanese women out there. And once again, she had proven herself to be vastly different.

She wasn't like the others. Darn, he constantly complained of how females acted and the one time he wanted one to be overly subbmissve and affectionate the were the complete opposite. But if she had been like that from the beginning, he wouldn't have spared her the time of day... okay now he was off topic and thinking in circles.

But that still didn't give her the right to cover his person in feathers and then walk away from him! Acting on instinct he struck out at her. Getting to his senses just in time (more like his beast giving him a mental slap and pulling him back to reality) and Kagome's quick reflexes saved her from being sliced in half. ALthough the back of her haori couldn't quite say the same. The middle of the back was fisted in his claws.

Sesshomaru's eyes were drawn to the mark at the base of her back. It looked much like his full form (with minor differences) curled around a crescent moon. It wasn't very big about half the size of his palm but the details of the mark were incredible. Pulling himself together with patience he didn't know he had, he gestured to the mark,

"What is that?" He questioned.

She turned her chin up and away from him.

"I don't see why I should answer any of your questions seeing as how you just tried to cut me in half." He took a couple threatening steps closer to her and was surprised to see her take some steps back. There was barely masked fear shining in her eyes. He was pleased at the now healthy fear she felt for oh about 0.00034 milliseconds before he felt guilty. He didn't want her fear, he wanted her anger and excitement.

Kagome was not afraid! She really wasn't!!

Okay she was, just a tad. She had trusted him despite how angry he made her, and he had just tried to strike her down. She thought that she was at least a little more important than that. But now she understood, that he had no qualms about killing her despite all that they had been through. This didn't surprise her as much as it should have when she put it into perspective. He was Lord Sesshomaru, the most wealthy and envy-envoking lord of all Japan, and she was Kagome Higurashi, a nobody that had lived in this castle practically her whole life and he had just noticed her that one day by accident. When she thought about all the stunts she had pulled since then, she was slightly guilty and more than grateful that he hadn't killed her off yet. In fact, she wouldn't even be angry with him if he did murder her (although she wouldn't have much of a choice)... but she had disrespected his station and status, a crime that punishable in ways that were much worse that death.

But, despite her recent epiphany, her ingrained attitude and sadly lacking sense of self-preservation when it came to circumstances like this, he mouth decided to spout off crap that she was sure she feel in the morning.

"Because girl, I am your superior and you will answer me." She mimicked the last part but backed down when his youki flared. It's not like stubbornly refusing to tell him would do any good. She had accomplished her mission for the day anyway.

"It's a birthmark, I think. Mother used to rub it when I was upset because it's sensitive. It obviously had some sort of symbolic meaning to her, but since I know nothing about it I'm not really concerned about it. She said it was important and would someday 'reveal all,' but my mother was very superstitous and I'm not sure if I believe all that." Sesshomaru nodded and ordered her to turn around. She complied with a huff and he studied the mark.

He had seen it somewhere before. But where?

"Think about your actions, I will call for you when I have a suitable punishment." He strode out the room and caught the mumbled "whatever."

He smirked and continued his way to his study (after sneaking around his own home to bathe and wash away evidence of this morning), when he heard a mother putting her child to sleep with a story. He stopped outside the door.

"Once in a life time there is a being born.

One and only one of its kind are ever created.

It will be the essence of all things good and pure.

The very embodiment of all free spirited creatures.

This being will have the gift of tongues and power that will rival that of the gods.

Where ever this kind creature travels hearts change, always for the better.

The being will have a heart of gold and a soul as big as the world itself.

The creature's sole purpose in life is to help those in need.

To heal the wounded, whether that wound may be physical or mental.

There is one being that is destined to be with the creature. Alone they are great but together they will be unstoppable.

The being that will heal all strife, the creature that loves with its soul, the one destined to be the greatest there ever was, that being is,

The Silver Inu Angel."

He remembered the times his mother used to tell him that story. She even had a picture of a symbol that was supposed to be on the creatures body. He remembered the dog curled… around the... moon...

There. Was. No. Way!

He paced to his personal library, with a determined aura surrounding him. Servants scurried around him, most knowing from experience that when he was in that mood, something big was about to happen. Last time, he had headed out to battle and had finally killed the Southern Lord that had been murdering everyone around.

He searched the scrolls until he found the one he wanted.

How To Recognize Celestial Beings. It wasn't a real reference book. Most of the stories are clearly myths. He would have tossed it long ago but his mother was particularly fond of it. Not that he was sentimental or anything...

It was one of her favorites to read to him after long hours of training. He really didn't care much, only choosing to humor his beloved mother but the intricately drawn pictures always caught his attention.

He sat down at the desk in the back. He searched the context and pictures with a keen eye, and then he saw the text,

The Silver Inu Angel

With a deep breath he read through the story that his mother used to tell him before bed. Finally he came upon the symbol.

It was a full dog demon curled around a crescent moon, just like he remembered.

The same one the girl had. He still didn't believe it, so he read on.

Only one of these beings is said to ever be born, unlike other celestial beings. The mark placement is unknown but is rumored to be placed on the small of the being's back.

He dropped the scroll on the desk.

The girl had the mark.

And…

It was in the right spot.

If this was true information, then…

The Silver Inu Angel was living under his roof.

He had just so happened to have bossed her around causing most likely negative feelings within her.

The fates really hated him.

But the big question was, what was he going to do now?!

A/N: Well here it is. The edited chapter. It's still not perfect as it's a quick edit just to get it out faster to you readers. There was no way I was going to post the original (Sorry AAL I love you I really do but, now that you've grown to you have to admit it was bad! Oh and no hiring hitmen. I know where you and all your loved ones live. LOL) Anyways review and tell me if you can tell I've grown, like the chapter... hate the chapter... or just want to hi. Like metioned before I've already started on the next chapter (another edit) but I'm going to try harder on that one so the transition into my new style of writing is progressive. But It's almost midnight on Friday, and I have some, not much, but some homework to do. Usually after doing such mindless and boring tasks I watch mindless and boring T.V. It just sucks all the life and fun out of me. So thank you to all of those that waited -patiently- and I'll try to be more dedicated from now on.

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