Once there, Kagome had to know.

"Wha-what do you plan to do with me?"

Staring at her, he could see why so many demons wanted her.

"The plan was to save you from the horny bastards that couldn't wait to get their hands on you."

She still seemed to be quite weary of him, so he tried to ease her mind some more.

"When we are home, you will be treated as a guest, but when we are in public, you have to act the way they all expect a kept human to be. If it was up to me, you wouldn't be treated any less than the demons around here."

Looking into his red eyes, she shrugged.

"I don't know how a 'kept human' acts; I'm not from here."

Something about what she said made him pause.

"If you aren't from here, then where are you from? Where in the world could you have lived that humans weren't slaves to demons?"

Slumping, Kagome looked out the window at the many demons on the streets, all with their own human pet.

"Why do demons treat humans like domesticated animals? It's degrading."

The disgust in her voice was hard to miss.

"The nice demons treat your lot like pets, the mean ones take your kind and treat them like toys to use and abuse."

Jerking her head towards him, she felt her bottom lip tremble.

"Use how?"

He did his best to ignore how tempting she was, especially now with her lips parted and quivering. Leaning in close, he watched her come closer.

"The young girls, old enough to marry, are used as personal concubines, the older women are maids, the young boys go to mines until they are of breeding age to make more humans to enslave. When they have gotten too old, they go back to the mines to work until they die."

Shaking her head, she couldn't believe the world she found herself in.

"I just want to go home."

InuYasha held back as long as he could, but the girl started to weep and he lost control of himself.

Holding her hands to her tearstained face, Kagome stiffened as she felt arms come around her.

"Wha-what are you doing?"

He held her and inhaled the most addicting and intoxicating scent he had ever smelled. Who was this human?

"I'm trying to comfort you."

His breath fanned over her ear and Kagome couldn't stop the shiver that ran through her as an unfamiliar heat stirred in her. He pulled her over to sit beside him, not letting her go, and Kagome found herself relaxing and closing her eyes. This demon didn't seem to be all that bad.

Within a few minutes, he listened as her breathing deepened and she fell asleep. Pulling her away slightly, he gazed upon her face and those strange clothes, much like high school uniforms for the demon girls. Looking further down, he had to admire those long slender, toned legs.

"Who are you?"

Pulling her close again, he laid her head on his chest, and felt her wrap an arm around him, like he was a big pillow she cradled.

It had to be this moment that Sesshomaru came in with a little girl no more than five years old. InuYasha stared at him with a brow up.

"The one we came to rescue?"

Nodding, Sesshomaru set the girl down next to him.

"Apparently, she has seen so much evil already, that she has become mute."

Glancing over at his brother, it was Sesshomaru's turn to give him a strange look.

"She's certainly taken a liking to you."

InuYasha's cheeks tinted red as he adjusted a little.

"She started crying! I didn't know what to do, so I held her and she fell asleep. Nothing else happened."

The little girl made a few steps to stand in front of the two. Looking down, she lifted her hand and grazed the cheek of InuYasha's human, before walking back over and settling herself next to Sesshomaru.

Confused, InuYasha felt the girl stir as she opened her eyes. Red met blue and Kagome fought the urge to scream and leap out of the, now moving, limo.

"Who are you? Are you a demon?"

Raising a brow at her, he cleared his throat.

"Did you just suffer brain damage? I'm the guy from the auction, InuYasha, and I'm a half-demon. Who are you?"

Staring, Kagome argued with herself. Did she want this half-demon, or anyone else in this horrific world to know her name? Taking a chance, she decided to tell the truth.

"My name's Kagome Higurashi."

Sesshomaru, who had been drinking some tea, spit it out at the mention of her last name.

"A member of the Higurashi clan? Everyone assumed you were all dead."

Turning her head, she saw the devastatingly handsome demon with golden eyes, a color she much preferred over InuYasha's red ones.

"Is there a Higurashi shrine here?"

Knocking on the cover separating driver from passengers, Sesshomaru called out to the chauffer.

"Take us to Higurashi Shrine."

Blushing, Kagome looked down at her feet.

"Thank you."

"You are a rare human indeed."

Jerking her head back up, she furrowed her brows.

"Why would you say that?"

InuYasha piped in, "well, you seem to be educated and even have manners. Most humans have neither."

She bristled at that, and turned to give him a piece of her mind.

"And what, pray tell, is that supposed to mean? I'll have you know that I passed ninth grade top of my class, and I'm on my way to being an honor's student in my tenth-grade year. I don't know what kind of humans you know, but don't pigeon hold us!"

InuYasha didn't know if he wanted to yell back at her, scoff and ignore her, or glare with all the fires of Hell.

"Human don't go to school, let alone pass top of their class."

"Jerk!"

"Hey! I'm just stating the facts!"

"Well, as far as I'm concerned, your 'facts' hold no warrant."

He could tell this 'Kagome' wasn't just highly intelligent, but also very angry and vulnerable.