Kagome was the first to awaken which was a surprise to her considering how early a riser Sesshomaru was. As she looked upon his sleeping face she found a sense of peace, sure he was a jerk sometimes and yeah he could be a stick in the mud and pisses her off to no end but last night when he said all those things to her, she could really tell he meant them, he really did care for her…deeply and if he was willing to drop that frosty exterior of his to show that then she could give him a chance, she would have to sort out the family difficulty later seeing as he could not meet her family thanks to that stupid portal but she was willing to make the best of her situation. She would miss her family though…Gramps, Souta, and mom, rather then get upset on all of the things she would miss out on with her family she decided to go and find Sayuri and tell her the good news. Only when she went to leave the bed a rather large clawed hand griped her wrist halting her action.

"Where are you leaving to?" A sleepy looking Sesshomaru said to her while loosening his grip on her wrist and now slowly massaging the inner flesh found there.

Kagome looked back at him and couldn't fight the giggle that proceeded as his hair was now tangled and his eyes were still half lidded. "Nowhere just going to find Sayuri that's all… you look ridiculous like that."

Sesshomaru rubbed a half open eye and replied "you are no sleeping beauty either" as he yawned and gradually got up from his side only to sit next to her and stare as if bewildered by something amazing.

"What…what are you staring at, I know I look a mess… no one told you to sleep her last night ok so you'll get now beauty queens in the morning from me…what?"

Sesshomaru just shrugged then looked her in the eye. "You know I might have to take back that last statement, you look magnificent in the morning."

Kagome began to blush and turned away "wow this guy sure knows how to lay it on thick doesn't he?" with one last glance at him Kagome stood up and headed towards her closet to find something to wear for the day. "You know you can leave now, I'm fine, besides I need to get dressed and I can't do that with you staring at me like that."

"I always like a good show."

"Hey you perv this" She gestured to her form "Is no free show and I really do need to get dressed so leave" When there was no reply she bent and grabbed a near by pillow off of her chair and chucked it at him.

"Ok I'll leave you my lady but I shall return to escort you to breakfast so be ready in an hours time."

"Ok just go already."

With her last words still fresh in the air he was gone with no trace of him save the masculine scent that lingered on her bed from last night. "I hate when he does that sneak thing."

She said out loud to no one in particular.

Sesshomaru was happy that his intended was coming around, after last night he thought that he might have lost her for good after all it was not his fault that his father closed the portal. Speaking of his father he wondered how he was coming along with his journey. He knew from the tone of his father's voice the day before, that his father did not expect to return home and it pained him to know that yesterday may well have been the last time he ever saw his father, he always imagined that he would be with his father when he passed, that he would be in a great battle by his side, fighting along with him but it seemed as though his father had other plans for him and out of respect for him he did not follow. The burden that would be placed upon him though with his father's eventual demise was almost to great to bear, as he was still very young in demon years only twenty seven by their standards and yet he would have to run a kingdom and military and lastly but certainly not least he had his family to worry over, how he hoped his father would return if not for himself then for his kingdom.

Sesshomaru was taken out of his musings by a musical tune coming from down the hall.

"Sayuri I do believe Kagome is out looking for you."

"I know I was heading to her room now… Maybe it's just me but you seem dare I say it, happy?"

Sesshomaru looked at his sister with indifference and calmly replied. "I believe it is just you sister."

Sayuri shook her head as if to say "you don't fool me" and smiled a smile so wide you could see her shapely fangs. "You did what I told you didn't you? You actually listened to me for once…and she loved it, see I told you, you only needed to let her see your softer side the real you and she wouldn't be able to resist herself.

Sesshomaru cut her off of her gloating by simply stating. "I do believe you were going somewhere before you so rudely took up a good moment of my precious time."

"You don't fool me Sesshomaru I know you're not as cold as you would like most to believe but you are right I do need to find Kagome" Just as she went to turn, on her way to Kagome's room Sayuri turned back to her brother and spoke the words that chilled Sesshomaru to the bone for what she told was the truth.

"Just do me a favor and don't mess this up with her she may want to actually mate you now but that can easily change and don't forget Sesshomaru she is not yours yet."

With those last word of advice Sayuri turned and went on her marry way singing the same tune she always did while Sesshomaru pondered on her meaning.

"She is not mine yet, but she does wish to become mine so why does Sayuri think she might have a change in plans? Perhaps it is her humanity that is at fault, mortals often change their desired mates but Kagome knows there is no turning back once she is marked so what is Sayuri's meaning?"

As Sesshomaru pondered he couldn't help but to reminisce up on Kagome's and his first meeting.

FLASH BACK

A little girl stumbles down an old well unaware of the potential danger she was in, not by the fall however but what dark secrets that lurk for whom ever has the misfortune of actually passing through it. No more then seven at the time she felt a wave of fright run through her, for as she lifted her tinny head to per up from the wells deep and very dark depths she saw a pair of deep crimson eyes starring down upon her little frame, with malice and hunger obvious in their terrifying depths she tries to scream for help but finds her throat impossibly dry and to her dismay as hard as she tried only a small yelp would come out. It was not long before the demon eventually tired of the staring contest between it and his newly found meal and with its oozy tentacle it pulled the frightened girl from the wells dark depths. Shaking and silently crying for help her strong emotions take over her and the little girl finds a great wave of unknown power surging from within her small body and soon hears a horrible shriek from above her it wasn't to soon she finds it was in fact coming from the ugly beast that holds her by her skinny little arm which now feels as though it was coming out of it's very socket. The demon once again shrieks its pain aloud as the little girl is now glowing with holey energy which begins to burn its flesh away from its very bones. The pain now unbearable, the demon does the only thing it could and drops the girl more then thirty feet thinking if she falls to her death it could still recover its meal.

Now unconscious the girl falls ten feet then twenty feet but before she reaches the final thirty feet and her imminent demise, she is caught and hauled up by an unknown assailant; she recovers only long enough to see a flood of silver in her view before slipping back in to unconsciousness.

BACK TO THE PRESENT

"Hey Sesshomaru I'm all ready for breakfast…are you ok?"

Sesshomaru now brought back from his thoughts noticed Kagome dressed in a silken kimono with silver threading throughout the design and as she walked toward him with her long raven locks floating in an unseen breeze, he thought of her as his very own goddess with in this realm some would call hell and took her hand to escort her to the dining hall all the while a very small and barely noticeable smile moved it's way across his normally blank and indifferent face.