I know short chapter, but hey it is still a chapter right? And besides now your only three chapters away from the final lemon in this thing. Woo Hoo!

Oh and just a side note I have two major lemons that I need to write, but I am going to do a warm up lemon one shot first. Now with that being said, (not that that has anything to do with what I am about to ask you guys.) can anyone who is reading this tell me if I should write the lemon between Kags and Naraku or not in my other story Incandescent Twilight.

I would really like to know if I should write it or not. Will I be flamed if I do? Not that I care about being flamed, but it would be really pointless for me to do the lemon with no one wanting to read it. So please can someone... anyone give me some idea as to what I should do. I really depend on you guys to let me know what you like and dislike so that I know what to and not to post. I mean you have to(well, don't have to) read this stuff and I would much like to please you as much as possible as far as the content goes anyway.

Ok I have babbled on long enough and most likely don't make any damn sense. So on with the next chapter. Keva

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I tell you how much fun I am having with my new look?! It hasn't been a day since I have been back with my friends and they keep forgetting that I am still Kagome no matter how I look. Inuyasha on the other hand, knows that I am Kagome, but can't seem to adjust to it very well. I can tell he wants to talk to me like he would on any normal day, but I don't look like the girl he is used to yelling at. Poor hanyou, I think he may blow a gasket trying to keep it all straight.

There is one down side to all of this however, and that is keeping my true personality locked away and behaving as a proper demoness should. Which brings up a serious problem. I never practiced a demon personality during my makeover, so I keep flip flopping from my true self, to an Inuyasha brash type, a Koga dominating type, and finally to a cold, calculating Sesshoumaru type. I really need to pick one and stick with it, but its just so damn hard to keep your true self hidden for long periods of time. I just need to keep myself in character while standing in front of anyone I don't want to know who I really am, especially Sesshoumaru.

I pray to the kami that he doesn't see through my disguise. I can't emphasize enough how depressed I would be if he saw through all my hard work in a matter of seconds. I mean it would be something like thinking you won a thousand dollars in the lottery, only to hand it right back to the clerk at the counter because it wasn't a thousand you won but a mere hundred. Heartbreaking… truly.

So by the end of the day I could tell that Sesshoumaru was a short little jaunt away, and instead of us going to him I called him forth. I reached out with my aura and gave him a good little cuddle with it then pulled it back very quickly. My blood began pounding through my veins telling me that he was an angry demon on a mission. That mission was easy to know… find the missing bitch and make her submit! Well let's just see how easily this bitch was going to submit. Better yet lets just see how well I can hide from the angry youkai. I had to make my appearance at just the right moment and besides there's nothing like anticipation to get your adrenaline going.

The only down side was that I didn't have time to explain to my friends what my little game with the lord of the west was going to be. I just told them to deny everything and snuck off to hide in the shadows nearby, to watch and wait.

My demon made his appearance just as I disappeared into the shadows. He scanned my little group looking for me of course and was very angry when I was no where to be found. He turned his hard gold eyes onto his brother and demanded that the hanyou inform him of my whereabouts. This was where my breath was caught in my throat, worried that Inuyasha was going to blow everything with his big mouth. I was tremendously shocked when he told Sesshoumaru that he didn't know where I was. Of course Sesshoumaru knew he was lying since I used my aura to bring him here. Which he easily pointed out for his half-brother.

Inuyasha just grunted and asked the demon lord that if he felt my aura then where the hell was I. Ok now was about the time for me to make my appearance. I could tell by Sesshoumaru stance and the pulsing muscle in his neck that someone was about to get hurt, and it was going to be Inuyasha that suffered the pain. I mean I like my little game with the taiyoukai and all, but not at the cost of my friend's lives.

I quietly, with everything suppressed, made my way back to my friends. I had to keep a tight hold on all that made me Kagome, Kagome. I was someone else and had to play the part, the only problem was I was still undecided as to who I was pretending to be. There's nothing like trying to make up who you are on the spot and to try and remember it all just in case there are any questions later.

As soon as Sesshoumaru saw me I knew my cover was blown. I could see the glint of amusement in his eyes, along with a mixture of anger and irritation. I wasn't going to let that deter me though, I stepped into this and I was going to see it all the way through to the end. Remember DENY EVERYTHING!

So keeping my face void of any emotion, or my version of no emotion anyway, I locked my green eyes coldly upon the demon lord. I asked him in a cold voice who he was and what was he doing here. Apparently he decided that he was going to play along with my little game for the time being, being he told me that he didn't answer to lowly youkai's such as myself. Haughty bastard!

Well two can play this game of 'holier than thou'! I told him that he was to answer me or to face the consequences. Boy I should really have my dialogue prepared ahead of time. Face the consequences… who was I kidding? What was I going to do exactly to make him suffer the consequences? Dirty his kimono? Well I stepped into it and there was no way I could scrape it off my shoe without blowing it, so I had to stand there in my own stink and maintain my cover.

A silvery eyebrow arched at me and my threat, and was asked exactly what the consequences were going to be if he didn't answer me. Wow the stink is getting worse by the second. I couldn't exactly say I would purify him to hell… that's a cover blower there. So my big mouth cashed a check my tiny ass could in no way cover. I told him that he would die on this day. Kami I really should think these things through before I spit them out.

Just so you all know I am going to die today. How you ask? Well my threat was accepted with a smirk, and I was challenged to a battle with the demon lord. Oh and it gets better. The rules of the battle are simple. The battle will be done in our true demon forms. See I am going to die this day. He gave me a few hours to say goodbye to my friends before my death, and told me that he would meet me in the next clearing when the sun was touching the horizon.

I looked at my companions and three of the four were horrified at the turn of events. Inuyasha was smirking at me stupidly and earned himself a nasty shock for it. Once he was through cursing me, he told me that this was my own fault and that I was going to have to face it without his help. Who is this hanyou? Any other time he would be brandishing his sword wildly promising to protect me and so on. When I questioned him about his new found attitude, he told me that this is what I wanted and I was to deal with it on my own, AND Sango, Miroku, Shippou, and even Kirara was NOT allowed to help me! Stupid jerk!

I paced around the clearing trying to formulate a plan, while keeping an eye on the position of the sun, when an idea struck me. I could just go home, never to return! So when I made it to the end of my pacing path, instead of turning around as I normally would have, I kept going. Yep home was the best place for me to be and nothing was going to stop me from getting there….or so I thought.

I got maybe a hundred paces from my pacing path when a clawed hand grabbed my shoulder. I thought for sure it was Inuyasha so I informed the hanyou that I was going home and there was nothing that he could say or do to stop me. Imagine my shock when said hanyou was standing five feet in front of me laughing. I cut my eyes over to the clawed fingers on my shoulder and knew instantly who they belonged to. I continued tracing his fingers with my eyes until I noticed the purplish marking on his forearm. I quickly looked back at the laughing hanyou and glared daggers at him. Some friend he's turning out to be. After all these years together you'd think he would be a little more concerned with what was going to happen to me, instead of laughing like a loon at me.

A deep very male voice asked me if I was running from my upcoming battle, and without hesitation, or a single thought in my head I said 'NO!' He then asked me exactly where I was going then. Once again my mouth acted without my brains consent and told him that I was headed to the next clearing so that we could begin our battle. That was about the time my brain decided that it had about all it could take of my mouths solitary behavior, and checked out for good. Wish it took me with it!

The demon lord then stated that had he know that I was so anxious to do battle with him he would have engaged me the moment I declared that he was going to die. He then leaned down so that his lips were next to my ear and informed me that if I were to submit to him like a proper bitch should, then we could forgo the battle and I could pay the price for running from him.

I was really unsure as to which choice was the lesser of two evils. I just knew that either way I went, life as I knew it was going to suck for awhile. Then there was always the fight or flee panic that could save my butt… or not. I began to imagine what the consequences of both sides were going to be, deliberately building up the panic inside. Once it was to a level that suited my fancy, all demons within a ten-foot radius of me got zapped with a nasty bolt of energy, sending them flying into the forest. There was the fight, now the only thing left was to flee! Which I did without a moments hesitation.

I wasn't sure where I was going to run to, nor was I sure how far I would get before I would get caught. Yet I knew one thing for certain, two inu's were hot on my trail. Both very angry for similar reasons, but with different ideas of what they were going to do with me once they caught me.

Even though I had my scent and aura suppressed that didn't mean they couldn't find me. I am only human after all and my lungs were about to explode in my chest, which I was sure they both could hear ready to happen. I made it to a nearby river and decided to give up and succumb to the punishment that they had in store for me. Little did I know that I was about to be rescued by, I would say hero, but Naraku isn't exactly deserving of such a title. Vile fiend… yes. Savior, hero… NO!

As I was lifted off the ground by the hanyou his miasma caused me to black out as the image of an angry Sesshoumaru breaking the tree line was the last thing I saw.

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Love me or hate me, but in the end I will still be me.