A/N: Soooo tired. Is it Friday yet?
When Inuyasha leaves to seek out Totosai, he lingers closer. Reaching out with his aura towards Kagome. Beckoning her towards him.
The monk senses him, the dark purple of his aura stretches around the miko protectively, but he says nothing as she waves him off. The kit watches wearily, gaze focused on where he feels Sesshoumaru to be. The kit is puffed up, fur standing on end.
She walks through the woods. Her aura reaching back towards his.
"Tell me of where the well leads" he asks when she is standing beneath the shade of the trees.
"It brings me right here" she replies coyly, a smile lighting up her face.
He scents no lie from her, and his eyes drop to her clothes.
"When?"
"500 years into the future"
His eyes widen
"Will you tell me of the wonders of your era?"
They spend the rest of the daylight sitting beneath the tree where Inuyasha was pinned talking.
He learns of where she is from, of the shrine she grew up on, of her friends here who do not care for the knowledge of her time. Her frustration that they do not care.
She seems happy to have someone to talk to. Her aura is huge and brims with her joy as she talks. Internally, he is basking in it like a pup rolling in the grass on a sunny day.
When the sun sets, she finally asks why he is there.
"This one is… curious… about you"
He returns every day that Inuyasha is gone. Reaching out with his aura until he senses her coming towards him.
He introduces her to Rin on the second day, and the excitement in her aura is palpable. After introductions, she leaves back to the village, and returns with her kit, Shippo. The two pups spend the day running through the flowers playing nonsensical games. He sits close to Kagome. Talking softly, learning.
She has no Miko training, and is discontent with always having to be protected. She wants to learn how to protect herself and the kit, yet she feels there is never time to learn
That is why she never hides her aura, why she is so free with reaching out to others. Most Mikos are taught from a young age to hide their aura, instinctively she hides the Miko in her aura. Without knowing what she is, one would just think she is a normal human that has spent their life studying how to manipulate hers.
The more they talk, the more impressed he is with her, and the more smitten.
Inuyasha returns after several days and they trek to fight the dragon that was part of the reason their sire died.
Seeing his brother defeat Ryukosusei with the backlash wave brings Sesshoumaru pride. His brother has come a long way from that tiny pup that once followed him through the woods.