Hey all! Okay, lemme tell you my story. I was on Fanfiction.net last night reading my fic over for errors and stuff, and I sorta forgot that I was the author, and when I reached the end, I was like: 'Oh! I hope the author updates quickly!' Then I realized that I was the author, and I felt pretty stupid. Okay, I know that's kinda..well.....REALLY weird. Is that a bad sign? Oh well.....on with the fic.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters. Do you have to rub it in? Man!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --Chapter 3 (^.^)





Kagome trudged through the woods , looking for some form of water. It had been five minutes, and there had been no sign of water. She suddenly remembered that she had her bow and arrows still strapped to her back. She touched them briefly for a second, before diverting her mind back to how dirty she was.

"Give me a break!" Kagome said. With each step, she felt as if she was getting dirtier and dirtier.

Sesshoumaru followed her silently, hopping through trees. 'Stupid girl. She dosent even know she's being followed. He glanced to his right. There was a youkai following her, who was closely followed by Sesshoumaru. The youkai was not aware of Sesshoumaru's presence, and Sesshoumaru did not present himself. He wanted to see how the miko handled herself in danger. He looked at his claws briefly, knowing that he would probably have to save her anyway.

Kagome suddenly saw a clearing and a stream. "Yes!" she said. She unstrapped the bow and arrows from her back and began to undress.

Sesshoumaru halted. The youkai that had been following her had stopped. Sesshoumaru looked down at the girl. His eyes opened wider in surprise. He just hadnt expected her to get undressed. He didn't know why, but as he watched her he forgot completely about the youkai in front of her.

Kagome slid gently into the cold water, shivering slightly. She kept her bow and arrows near. She was glad that they were there. "Cause I know that theres no way that Sesshoumaru would protect me." she said out loud

Sesshoumaru perked up at hearing his name. 'Why would she say that? What kind of person does she think I am?' Unitentionally his mind went through all of the nice things that he had done for her in his life. -Trying to kill her with his poison claws, threatening her, and not to mention kidnapping her- 'Okay, so maybe I haven't been the nicest guy to her, but- Sesshoumaru interrupted himself. 'What the hell am I thinking?!' He diverted his attention back to Kagome.

The youkai that had been following Kagome suddenly sprang out at her. Kagome got a flash of bright light. "A jewel shard?" She said out loud, turning around, and getting an eyeful of an extremely ugly youkai coming at her. On pure reflex, she ducked into the water. The slow demon flew over her head, but he recovered quickly and sprang back at her. Kagome climbed out of the water, completely exposed. She grabbed her bow and arrows. She began to string a bow, but the youkai came at her and hit her with his big paws. It then yanked its hand down, leaving a large gash down her side. It began to come at her again. Sesshoumaru was about to spring on the demon, but paused when he saw the girl regain composure. She stepped back and loosed an arrow, hitting the demon precisely on the spot where it held the jewel. The demon screamed and discinigrated into the wind.

Kagome swayed slightly on the spot, collapsing to the ground. Sesshoumaru smiled, thinking she was unconscious. 'I guess I didn't have to save her after all.' he thought to himself. He landed on the ground without a sound, and walked over to her, taking her in his arms.

Kagome's eyes opened slowly, to look directly into Sesshoumaru's eyes, who was slightly pale. Her eyes widened. "HENTAI!" She shrieked. He dropped her suddenly and she scrambled over to the steam, jumping in the water to cover herself. She stared at him with accusing eyes. He recovered and grabbed her clothes, thowing them at her as he walked away, smirking.





Kagome found the clearing where Sesshoumaru was after a little looking around. She suddenly wished she had her backpack with her. She looked at Sesshoumaru, whose back was turned away from her. She really wished that she had something clean to wear.

"Sesshoumaru?" He glanced back briefly.

"I was wondering," She continued, "If maybe we could go to a village and get a new CLEAN outfit for me?" Sesshoumaru grunted and disappeared.

"Hey!" Kagome ran after him. " I meant WE! And I DIDN'T MEAN NOW!!!!!" It was no use. He was gone. She sat by the fire and tore a piece of cloth from the bottom of her shirt to wrap around the wound that the demon had inflicted on her earlier. Suddenly Sesshoumaru landed in the clearing again, grasping a new kimono. Kagome's eyes widened when she took it from him. It looked..well....EXPENSIVE.

"Ar-Arigatou Sesshoumaru-Sama!" She studdered. She went behind a bush and tried put it on. It was perfect. It was also extremely comfortable. Kagome emerged from the bush and sat by the fire again. Her eyelids were beginning to get heavy. As night fell, the temputature got colder and colder. Kagome was shivering slightly. She looked over at Sesshoumaru briefly. He was looking the other way. Kagome noticed that he looked so warm. Her irrational sleepy mind was only focused on two things: Sleep and Warmth. She crawled over to him slowly.

Sesshoumaru noticed her scent get closer, but he thought no\thing of it and kept lboking the other way. He was totally unprepared for what happened next. Kagome laid her head on him and curled up next to him. He stiffened and looked down at the miko. She was already fast asleep. He could see that she was still shivering slightly. He slowly and gently but his tail around her and the shivering ceased. (okay, I'm calling it a tail, so I don't care what it really is, its my fic, so it's a tail!)







BIG A/N!!! Okay, I made a correction after a reviewer suggested it. (thank you Mala!!!) I changed Sesshoumaru from putting his "hand" around kagome (which was intentionally supposed to be "arm" but I didn't put that because I wasn't thinking clearly.) to putting his "tail" around Kagome. Just thought I'd let you all know!











Alrighty then! That was the third chapter...what do you think? Was Sesshoumaru a little OOC???? Tell me in your review! Oh, by the way....I have finals this week, so you might not hear from me until Thursday. Sorry! Oh, and please, no major flames!

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