A/N: Hi everyone! Sorry for the long long delay on this chapter. See I had a case of writers block and schoolwork all together and it was very frustrating. Some of you know how it is. Now on with the chapter!

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You Are Mine

Chapter IV: A Day With Fluffy

"Kagome-nechan! Kagome-nechan!" the little girl called. "Yes, what is it Rin?" The child came running up to her and jumped in her arms with a cute smile to show her. Kagome hugged her tightly as if she was like her very own, almost like a former kitsune child she used to take care of back in the days when she first met Inuyasha. Every since she saw them together, she regretted ever meeting him in the first place and just want to leave and go home. But when Sesshoumaru came along, something inside her told her to stay.

"Rin! Go take a bath! You smell like a rotting youkai!" yelled a small green toad. "Hai, hai Jaken-sama. Ne-chan, can you take bath with me? Pleassssssse?" she looked up at Kagome with big puppy eyes when a white boa like thing wrapped around her waist and lifted her up away from the reincarnated miko's arms. "Rin. You do not need her to bathe yourself." Sesshoumaru pointed out. "Demo..." she pleaded. "Ie. Now go." With that, he gently put her down. She gave a small frown and walked over to the lake head down and all. "Aww, Sesshoumaru, why do you have to be so mean?" Kagome pouted. He just rolled his eyes and walked away from her. She gave a small grunt and crossed her arms. "He is so rude sometimes."

Not to far away, Sesshoumaru sits under the shade of a tree looking at the rolling hills of the western lands.  He had questions in his mind that were troubling him lately such as "Why did I let that frail human girl come with me?" and "Who had made her into such a depressed state?"  It has been a couple of days and it's been hell being with her. It's as if Rin wasn't enough trouble already.

"Sesshoumaru!" Kagome yelled in the taiyoukai's ear making him jump a bit. "Must you be so loud woman!" he spat. She ignored that statement and placed her yellow backpack in front of him. "I thought you might want something to eat before we head off." She said politely showing him all the food in her bag. "What are these things?" he questioned taking out a light weighted box. "Ah! That's a good choice. It's a bento box; it has different types of food inside." She explained opening the Japanese lunch box. He looked at the strange food, especially the red octopus thing that's staring at dead at him. Kagome looked at him puzzlingly and at the food. "Um…you know, that's just a sausage. Why don't you try it?" she said taking out a pair of chopsticks and picking up the cute looking sausage. "Here, have one." She offered while slowing inching the "octopus" toward his mouth. "I don't like human food." He said straight out. "God you're boring." She replied and ate it herself.

A sound of slapping wet feet on the ground suddenly caused the miko to turn around. "Sesshoumaru-sama! Kagome-nechan!" the wet little girl called out. "Rin! You're still soaking wet! Come here let me dry you off." Kagome went in here backpack and took out a blue colored towel. These things come in handy. The young human child sat on her lap and started to dry her off. After fully drying her off, she took out a comb and ran it down her knotted hair. "Itai!" Rin cried. "Shh, this won't take long." Almost ten minutes later, Kagome managed to smooth out her hair and tied up her causal side pigtail. "Arigato gozaimasu!" Rin exclaimed and hugged her tightly. The miko noticed something was not right and looked down at her now empty bento box. "Hey! Where's my food!"

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Night has fallen and the moon was big and bright. The light from the silver orb was glistening over the white strands of the taiyoukai. The winds were calmly stroking against his skin. It's a perfect night for practicing new skills with his Tenseiga and clearing his head of everything. Unfortunately, it was not so tonight.

Sesshoumaru quickly looked over his shoulder and caught a glimpse of raven blue hair. "Come out." He stated. Kagome slowly came out behind a tree a walked toward him. "Umm, I just wanted to talk to you." She said shyly. He looked at her and nodded. "I came to talk to you…about the other night." He got interested in this conversation now. It would probably answer his questions from before. "I…I saw Inuyasha and…Kikyou together." The youkai prince was a little shocked about it but at the same suspected it. She shut her eyes trying to hold the tears in them but they escaped. Shining silver drops are freely running down her face. "I couldn't take it seeing them together so I ran away as far as I can." The miko said with a whimpering voice. "I-I never want to see him again! NEVER!" Her legs got weak and collapsed to the ground. She put her arms around herself and tried to stop crying.

Sesshoumaru saw this as the weakest form of being human. It made him angry seeing her like this. He swiftly bended down grabbed her wrists and pinned her down leaving her in a stunned state. He looked directly in her teary blue-gray eyes and growled. "You weak human! Why do you let that bastard cause you such anguish if you know he does NOT love you! You are ONLY A REFLECTION!!" he barked. Kagome realized what he said was the truth. Inuyasha just used her as a decoy of his past love. That he never had loved Kagome for who she was.