~Kagome~

"When I was young I knew everything. She a punk who rarely ever took advice. Now I'm guilt striken, sobbing with my head on the floor; Stop ababy's breath and a shoe full of rice. No."

Kagome's voice rang out, crystal clear as she lay relaxed in her bath. The whole room smelt of lavander, as that was the chosen bubble scent she decided on. She had her long blue-black hair tied up in a rather messy style bun on the top of her head, with random locks and single strands falling lose, framing her face, which was turning red from the heat, and steam in the room. She had her legs crossed, and one swung slowly in the air, in time with her singing. No music was playing, but she simply decided she wanted to sing.

"Can't be held responsible; She was touching her face. I won't be held responsible; She fell in love in the first place."

She had eyes closed, and was tuning the rest of the world out. Sure there were things she could be, and probably should be doing, but in this moment, she decided they could wait. It had been so long since she had simply taken time for herself to do as she was; relaxing, and not caring if anyone heard her. The water was nice and warm, and it eased her tense muscles. She was like a floating noodle.

"For the life of me, I cannot not remember, what made us think that we were wise, and we'd never the life of me I cannot believe;We'd ever die for these sins; We were meerly freshmen."

Kagome had been staying with Sesshomaru and Rin for a few days now, and had gotten used to the rutine of things, little by little. Rin had studies, for certain hours throughout the day, set meal times, and finally free time. Sesshomaru spent a lot of his time in his own study, working on scrolls, stuff for the youkai council, among many other pressing issues that came with being the lord of the surrounding lands. Kagome had also gotten used to the quite aura of the castle. She spent a lot of her time alone, as Rin was schooling, and Sesshomaru working. She found her favorite place was a little swing hanging from a large tree in the palace gardens. She asumed it was put there when Rin was a young girl. She could only imagin the fun the child had, swinging on the wooden bench. She smiled to herself, as she continued her song.

"My best friend took a week's vacation to forget her; His girl took a week's worth of valium and slept,"

She decided she had been in the tub long enough, and got out, before she turned into a Kagome-looking-prune. She stood up carfully, trying to avoid falling in the slippery, blubbly water. She looked down at herself, and saw bubbles covering her body. She shrugged, and pulled the plug on the tub, before closing the curtain and turning on the shower to rinse herself of the lightly purple tinted bubbles.

"And now he's guilt striken, sobbing with his head on the floor. Thinks about her now, and how he never really wept he said; Can't be held responsible; She was touching her face. I won't be held responsible; She fell in love in the first place."

The warm water flowed along her body, instantly cleansing her of the suds, and after a moment of lingering in the warmth, she turned off the water, and opened the curtain. Once again minding the slippery tub floor, she leaned out, reaching for the fluffy white towel on the sink counter, and dried off her legs, and torso, before wrapping herself in the poofy towel dress, and stepping lightly out of the high marble tub. She grabbed one more towel, a lighter blue one, and bent forward, swinging her hair into it, and began rubbing it with the towel, in attempt to dry it.

"For the life of me, I cannot not remember, what made us think that we were wise, and we'd never the life of me I cannot believe;We'd ever die for these sins; We were meerly freshmen."

After a few minutes of the repeated drying movments, she release her hair from the towel, and with a snap, she swung it back, so it landed on her back with a smacking sound, but had avoided getting her face more wet than it was. Though small water droplettes still ran gracfully down her arms and neck, eventully being caught by the soft towel jsut above her breasts. As she headed out of the bathing room, back to her bedroom, her mind wandered to the hug she and Sesshomaru had shared only a few nights before. Her blood rose to her face, turning it a lovely pink shade at the thought. There was just something about him that made her smile. She refused to think of it anymore than a simply attraction, but there was just something there, that she couldn't figure out.

"We've tried to wash our hands of all this, we never talk of our lacking relationships. And how we're guilt stricken, sobbing with our heads on the floor. We fell through the ice when we tried not to slip, we'd say; I can't be held responsible, she was touching her face. And I won't be held responsible, She fell in love in the first place."

She flushed more so, when her own seceret promise to herself came to mind. She doupted she'd ever actually be able to do as she thought before. But she knew she'd try to do something.

Just nothing as bold as like, strip teasing or something. She thought, as a giggle escaped her. She knew she would never be even slightly bold enough to do that, let alone anything close to such. She dropped her towel on the floor, and waltzed over to her elaborate dresser, and after a moment of contemplating, chose a simple baby blue sundress that fell nicely, just above the tops of her sculpted knees. She slipped it above her head, and stuggled to do up the few buttons in the back, but after a moment, was successful. She moved over to the amiour, and sat on the small, velvet stool and looked at herself in the mirror. She saw a plain girl, with plain black nappy hair, and a plain dress, sitting in an amazing room. It didn't exactly add up for her. With a sigh, she took a brush and started working the naps out of her knee length hair, starting at the ends, and working up.

"For the life of me, I cannot not remember, what made us think that we were wise, and we'd never the life of me I cannot believe;We'd ever die for these sins; We were meerly freshmen."

Once the brushing was finished, and her hair was only damp, she decided to rope braid it, and once finished, it still hung to her mid back. She looked into her own eyes for a moment, seeing blue eyes, semetrical and boring. Each eye was bright blue, and under each pupil, another unknown black dot stood, both the same size. She shook her head, and stood, decided to walk out on her balcony, and ponder the view before her, as she did nearly every day.

"For the life of me, I cannot not remember, what made us think that we were wise, and we'd never the life of me I cannot believe;We'd ever die for these sins; We were meerly freshmen. We were only freshmen."

She finished her song, and hummed to herself softly, one last suspended note, closing her eyes for a moment, letting the warm sun beat onto her skin.

"Hello miko." His deep voice beside her, startled her, causing her to jump slightly. She looked over, and found him standing a few feet to her right, on his own balcony. It had never occured to her, that his room was immediatly next to her own.

"Hey Sesshy." She said, using her new found nick-name for him. He growled lightly at the name, causing a small giggle to escape her lips, as she knew full well it irritated him when she called him such a name.

"Sorry, Hello Lord Sesshomaru." She said, another giggle leaving with her words. His eyes were no longer narrowed, as he watched her for a moment, before shaking his head and turning out to the garden view himself.

"You have a very lovely voice miko." He said after a moment, his voice low, sending a slight shiver throughout her body. Her face flushed.

"You heard?" She murmered. He nodded, and motioned to his ear. She had forgotten his enhanced canine hearing. She sighed,

"Thank you..." Her face turned away from him, embaressed. "It is my favorite song, from my era." She confessed after a moment of silence. From the corner of her eye she saw him nod. She sighed once more, leaning on the railing of the balcony.

"What ailes you?" He asked, turning to her once more.

"Nothing really." She breathed, "Just tired." She turned her face to look at his and graced him one of her full smiles, one that glowed and hid no emotion. She must have imagined it, but she thought she saw his eyes widen a fraction when she did so.

"Should you not sleep then?" He inquired after a moment, raising his eyebrow as he so often did. She shrugged.

"I'll get to it." She answered, pushing against her arms on the railing, stretching her back and wincing when it cracked. While doing so, one of her straps on the dress fell loose, and had slithered it's way down her shoulder, revealing her chest more than the dress was intended to. She blushed and imediatly pulled it back up, and when she turned to speak to him once more, she found he had vanished. She looked at his balcony in confusion.

Wonder what happened... She thought before shrugging and heading back into her room, and curling into her bed to read.

~Sesshomaru~

She had leaned back to stretched, and she had pushed out her chest in the process, making her already prominent breasts even more so. He could feel a slight twitch in his neather region as her movement did not cease. His eyes were trailing her the whole time, rarely stopping on anyone place. The dress she wore showed off much leg, and he couldn't help but appreciate the build of her powerfull looking legs. He had looked back up in time to see the strap fall, and her dress sagged slightly, revealing the tops of her cleavage, and bra, and he could no longer take it. He did not want to chance her seeing what she was doing to him, so in a flash, without a word, he bolted back inside, well hiden inside his room, as his length was quite hard, simply from that view of her.

We should go back. If simply that results in this... Imagin the result of more... His beast supplied an interesting thought of Kagome doing things to him, that he never imagined she would ever do. A shudder ran through his body.

No. We do not want to repulse her, she has only arrived. This one does not want to scare her. He replyed to his beast, wanting to calm himself, not wanting to lose control. After a moment, he knew it wouldn't happen, so he layed on his bed and resorting to things he never usually had do to in order to relieve himself. His beast was speaking to him, but he was so far gone in the thoughts of Kagome his beast had earlyer supplied, he had not heard the beasts words. He finished after a few moments, and simply layed there for a moment, before rising to shower.

A/N - I know I said I wouldn't be able to post for a while, but I felt the need to give out this one before exams start. And hey, it's way longer than usual, so that's good. The song sung by Kags, was The Freshmen, by the Verve Pipe currently one of my all time favorite songs. I've had it on replay for hours, and it inspired me to write this one, sooo yay Verve Pipe. Anywho, thank you for the wishes of luck on my exams, and recovery, It means a lot :) Please stay updated, as usual and please review, as it means so much to see your thoughts and imput, and I'm always looking to improve.

And to a specific someone, -you should know who you are- here you go. You wanted a chapter up today, and ya go one :P I just couldn't leave you hanging with the last chapter, and it was clear you weren't happy with me for doing so yesterday xD I'm sorry I've got you hooked, but I wouldn't it's nessisarily unhealthy xD lol, anyway, thank you all again :) See ya :)

-Ser. (New pen name :P may change eventually xD)