Chapter 12

Kagome sat in her room waiting for Takimi to come and she wondered if Sesshoumaru had listened to her warning.

'He better have, because it is so hard to be around him when he only remembers me as a half dead crying person.' She huffed to herself. "I want my Sesshou back." She whined out loud.

"And which one would that be?"

Kagome looked back at Takimi who was standing in her doorway. "The one that loves me." She answered sadly.

Takimi crossed the room and sat on the side of the bed with her. Kagome looked at her, and she was about to cry, so Takimi put her arms around her. "Everything will work out you'll see." She said trying to reassure the girl. "So what did we interrupt?"

Kagome blushed. "I was just talking to him."

"Did anything come of it?"

"Well he was being difficult at first, he was really upset about me having his crest and he asked where I got it."

"What did you say?"

"I told him the truth."

Takimi was surprised that the girl had the courage to face him like that. Especially considering how he has been acting toward her lately. Yes he is under a spell and does not remember her but it is mean nonetheless and she was proud of her little one for standing up to him.

"And how did that go?" Takimi questioned.

She sighed. "Well it was a little weird . . . " she said. "At first he said it was a lie and that my lover was a thief, and he grabbed me. I-I told him that he was hurting me, I called him Sesshou."

"Did he hurt you badly? Let me see you!" Takimi said worried.

Kagome pulled her kimono off of her shoulders to let Takimi examine the tops of her arms. Takimi frowned at the slight bruises left there by her eldest son's carelessness. "How did he react to that nickname of yours?" she asked quriousely.

"He asked why I had called him that and I just told him that I had always called him that."

Takimi nodded, and asked Kagome to tell her exactly what they had talked about. Kagome ended with her warning to him.

"Do you think he listened to me?" She asked Takimi worridly.

"I am not sure my child. But we will find out I suppose. I am sure if he had heeded your warnings then he would act a little differently than he has been."

"I suppose so" Kagome agreed.

"Only time will tell." Takimi added.

"Are you comming down to dinner tonight?" Takimi asked. She asked the same question every night, and she knew the answer. Kagome usually ate her meals in her room and the only one she would eat with was Inuyasha.

Kagome looked a little sad. "No I do not think I can just yet. I will just eat here."

Takimi nodded. "That is okay my dear." she said. "I will send someone to check on you later." she added as she left the room.

"Do you think anything happened?" Inuyasha asked as he sat in the library with his father.

Toga looked up from his book. "I don't know but I am sure your mother has something to tell us."

And less than a minute later Takimi came through the door to the library.

"Ya' know sometimes that is really creepy father." Inuyasha commented.

"Indeed." Toga said to his son then turned to his wife. "I believe you have something to tell us my love."

Takimi smirked at her husband. "Yes I do . . . " and she told them all about what she had seen in the halway and what she had talked about with Kagome.

Toga hummed. "Well we shall see how he acts from now on, well that is if he has avoided physical contact with Shizune."

~~**Later after Dinner**~~

"Mother . . . " Sesshoumaru called as every one was leaving the dining room.

Takimi stopped and turned to face her eldest son. "Yes dear, was there something you wanted.?"

"I was just curiouse as to where my brother keeps wandering off to? He doesn't seem to ever make it to dinner."

'So he has noticed.' Takimi thought. "Oh, he is probably having his dinner with Kagome, he has missed her while you were away." she said.

Takimi was hoping that if she tried to talk about Kagome normally that maybe he would show some signs that he was avoiding contact with that woman. If he had infact heeded Kagome's advice they couldn't tell or maybe it was too soon.

He seemed to ponder her words for a while. "How long has Kagome been with us prey tell?" He questioned. Seeing as he has no recolection of meeting her before she seems oddly familiar, and after that rather strange conversation with her this afternoon he felt he should ask his mother. Surely she would tell the truth.

"She has been here since she was a young little thing. She could barely talk when you and your father brought her home." She answered more than a bit confused. 'How had the conversation turned this way?'