"Truth Revealed"

By: Shi-chan

Rating: PG

Warnings: Nothing much... fluffiness I suppose...

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Rumiko Takahashi does.

Author's Corner!!

Shi-chan: Kon'nichi wa! :) I return since you like this so much. Okies, someone told me that Sesshoumaru was OOC because that line about how everyone has that special someone. Well, I intended for it to infer that he thought perhaps his was some other youkai, and maybe he was beginning to think differently upon the time spent with Kagome recently. ^^ Just trying to work on the relationship a bit, and show that Sesshoumaru really isn't as evil as he's made out to be on the inside. (Wow, that sounded corny O_o;;)

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The inu youkai could scarcely believe it. Could it be that he was actually falling for a human? He had guessed something was coming about when that odd comment about everyone's special someone had slipped out. But to fall in love with one... it was impossible, unreasonable, and illogical! Anything but... right.

Sesshoumaru finally entered the room where Kagome was, and when he got there, she was lying across the sofa, her eyes closed. He panicked, thinking something had happened to her, but soon discovered she was only asleep. Her face was tear-stained, so he guessed she had cried after he left. A smile touched to his lips, and gingerly, he lifted her head up. Because he had no pillows in the room to prop her head up with, he gently slipped onto the couch and laid her head across his lap. Half of his heart hoped she'd suddenly wake up and find him acting so nicely she might reciprocate his feelings, but another part of him was embarrassed... That he could act like such a... *human* and that he was capable of being anything but cold.

Once morning started to come about, Rin emerged from her room. She found Sesshoumaru, still in the same position and unable to sleep. "Sesshoumaru-sama? Genki desu ka," She asked, hardly believing what she saw. The Lord of the West nodded and looked up from Kagome's face, which he had been observing since he entered the room, and stared straight at Rin. "She's rather cold, and I've not been able to get up to find something to warm her. If I exit the room, can you change her into something more suitable for the air up here?" He questioned the little girl. She smiled in return, bouncing up and down, "Carry her to my room! I will make sure she's not cold or dirty anymore," She assured the inu youkai as he carried Kagome down the halls.

Kikyou's reincarnate awoke in the midst of a gorgeous sauna, stripped of her school fuku. She panicked, feeling something on her back, but when she turned to the offender, she found only Rin grinning up at her. "Sesshoumaru-sama asked me to change and clean Kagome-chan!" She announced, continuing to rub the teenagers back with an oddly shaped brush. The older girl smiled, "Arigatou Rin-chan... Demo, where are we?" The child set the brush down and ran to grab a towel for her. "We're in my sauna! Sesshoumaru- sama got a pretty kimono for me to change Kagome-chan into! My will make Kagome-chan look beautiful for Sesshoumaru-sama."

The miko turned to the exit of the sauna and saw a pastel green kimono lying on a small table. It had ivy leaves over it as the pattern, and it had ruffled edges. She gasped at the formality of the kimono. "Sesshoumaru-san got that for... me?" She asked. The dark haired little girl nodded joyously, but suddenly stopped drying Kagome and wanted to know: "Kagome-chan... Are you going to stay with Sesshoumaru-sama, Jaken, and me?" The guardian of the Shikon no Tama looked down to the ground and sighed, "I really don't know, Rin-chan... I don't know what I'm going to do anymore..."

"Where is Kagome-chan?!" The youkai slayer demanded, her hands grasping the color of the hanyou's kimono. "I don't know, Sango! I went after her into the well, and she got upset again when I tried to apologize, and took off to this time. I ran after her again, smelling her in the forest, but when I got there she was gone." Sango and Inuyasha had been fighting for hours over Kagome and her whereabouts. Meanwhile, the monk, the kitsune youkai, the flea youkai, and Kikyou's younger sister sat sipping tea. "Will they ever stop fighting?" Shippou asked, growing bored of their yelling. Miroku shrugged. "All we can do is..." The pervert's voice was cut off by Kaede.

"Inuyasha! Did you not just say that the last place with my sister's reincarnate's smell was in the forest?" The half-breed nodded, "Hai, doushite?" The elderly miko walked over to Sango and Inuyasha. "Surely you smelled to see if someone else had been there, correct?" She asked, her eye nearly piercing the hanyou's flesh with its intense gaze. He backed up a second, his golden eyes wide. "Well, I... ano..." Kaede grabbed her bow and arrow, as did Miroku and his staff, Sango and the Hiraikotsu, and Inuyasha and the Tetsusaiga. "Let's go find Kagome-chan!" Shippou yelled, picking up Myouga and dashing out of the hut.

All the while the clique was running toward the forest, many thoughts went through Inuyasha's mind. 'I'm going to find you Kagome... and I'll prove that I love you, and no one can rise to your level... Even Kikyou...'

Upon reaching the woods, there were nearly no scents worthy of following. The hanyou searched for several hours, still only smelling Kagome and other small youkai that tended to the forest. Finally, a very faint scent in only one little patch of grass caught his attention. He suddenly became very alert when he realized whose smell it was. "*He* was here! He kidnapped Kagome!" The half-breed yelled, turning to the group standing behind him. Before he could explain, however, the youkai to whom the scent belonged appeared in front of Inuyasha.

"I didn't kidnap the wench," Sesshoumaru stated plainly, a look of obvious annoyance playing on his face. Sango, Miroku, Kaede, Shippou, and Myouga backed up a bit, knowing they hadn't a reason to butt in the oncoming fight when only Inuyasha could come near matching his elder brother's power.

Sesshoumaru's younger brother took one step toward the inu youkai angrily. "Then where is she?!" He demanded, excruciatingly agitated with this. The Lord of the Western Lands stared down at him and replied only, "She came of her own will. Kagome was upset about you and I told her sitting around crying would accomplish nothing. Henceforth, her staying with me for the current." The half-human took several steps backward, his eyes wide with fear. "She... came herself..." He muttered, unable to believe it. He then recovered his attitude and shot back, "Then where is she? Surely you'd not leave her be somewhere if you knew she'd lure me to you and you might get the Tetsusaiga or something of it? And since when did you speak a human's name?"

Sesshoumaru responded, "I've got no intention of stealing the Tetsusaiga from you so long as I cannot wield it. Should I gain such ability, I will come to retrieve it, of course. That set aside... I've something much more precious and valuable that you'll never have, and knowing that is pleasurable enough. And the fact that Kagome and I are on first name terms is none of your concern, as neither of us wants a thing to do with you." Inuyasha gasped at everything the elder inu youkai said... He *had* to be lying...

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Author's Corner!!

Shi-chan: Thank you everyone who's supporting this story :) I'm really enjoying typing this one! Please keep those good reviews coming! Love you guys!

~Shi-chan Meows~

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