And who can say if your love grows?
She found him waist-deep in water.
"You don't need any of this, do you?" She asked, and he turned fully to her to show her he was healed. She sat the stuff down and sat on her knees near the river bed, "You heal so fast, not like the others."
"I am not like the others." He said,
"No, your not." She looks down at her hands,
"My brother also healed fast, did he not?"
"Hai,"
"It was my father's blood in him."
She looked up at him as he looked up, "My allies are strong but not of noble blood."
"Maybe we should seek help from Kouga?"
"Hn, he will follow if you ask it of him."
"Do you want his aid?"
"It is more that he needs our aid, Miko."
"This is well beyond saving one's people; you need to be worried about your whole race regardless of which breed."
He knew her words were valid, but his were to, if his kind wanted to survive, they would need him not the other way around. Then again, his lands were in ruin, and his home was gone, and his bloodline all but ended with him.
He needs to mate at some point.
Sesshomaru looked at Kagome as she fiddled with grass on the banks. They acted as if this were normal.
"Why do you stay?" He asked,
She looked up, "Stay?"
"With me?"
"I care about you." She said her brows together,
He looked away, "Will we seek aid from Inuyasha's offspring."
She sighed, "That would be unwise I think, no one knows that he rebuilt Horai Island."
So once again, his brother would fail him.
Kagome stood, "Why don't you go to Kouga and I will go to the island."
"You wish to separate?" He stated,
Kagome smiled "Well, dont make it sound like we are married or something." Her hands were on her hips, and she laughed a little. Sesshomaru walked forward, and she saw the water lower, she quickly turned, "A little warning if you please and put a towel on!"
"Are you still virgin Miko?"
She blushed, "We are not having that conversation plus aren't you the one who use to point out my lack of dress as unbecoming!"
"Hn, but we are alone, and I am not ashamed."
"God your just like your brother."
"I highly doubt my brother was as well in dow as me Miko."
Kagome stuck her fingers in her ears "I am not listening!" She called out.
He turned her and thankfully he was dressed. He pulled out her fingers "You should seek the wolf, you are the woman he wishes to claim."
"Sesshomaru you know good, and well I am not his woman, plus he mated."
"So he did, to the wolf female with red hair?"
"Yes, shortly before Inuyasha remember."
How could he forget?
"I love Kouga, but I think it would be safer if I went to the island and you went to him, and we need to do it now while their numbers are low Sesshomaru."
"Hn," He agreed.
So they went back. The slayers took the demons, Mikos, and monks back with them. They were told to stay within the walls. They would put up a barrier to protect them while they were gone.
"Don't be gone long Miko," Sesshomaru told her,
"Careful Sesshomaru, people are going to start thinking I'm your woman." She winked.
"You have been around the wolf too long; perhaps I should delay the trip, your mouth is still recovering from what it learned from my brother."
She smiled softly and walked up to him, "Ano, bend down?"
Not that she needs to, but she didn't know how long she would be gone from him. She had protected him and so, he bent down, and she kissed his cheek, she would not betray him.
"Do not be gone long." He said again,
"Hai,"
He stood and watched her go; he knew it would be months before he saw her again.
All he could to do was turn and take a different path, but those paths would cross again, if only in time.