A/N-Wah, I love this story. Hehehe, whoever said that they didn't know what a seraglio was, don't worry, when I first heard the term in Fushigi Yuugi, I didn't know what it was either. I had to look it up in the dictionary ^.^; If no one else knows what it is-although you should know what it is now from the last chapter-it's a harem and if you don't know what that is…then look it up ^.^

Disclaimer-I don't remember what the song's called or who it's by but I know it doesn't belong to me.

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I Just Wanted You to Notice Me

Chapter II

Love is on the way

On wings of angels

I know it's true

I feel it coming through

Love is on the way

"His majesty the emperor wonders if you have considered marriage at all," an advisor asked Inuyasha as they sat in his sitting room. Inuyasha was looking out the window and he hadn't given any sign of hearing the advisor. "Your majesty?"

Inuyasha jumped slightly and looked at him. "Sorry, what?"

"His majesty wonders if you have considered marriage at all yet," the advisor repeated.

"No," Inuyasha answered simply, looking back out the window. The advisor bowed before leaving the room.

"Got something, or someone, on your mind Inuyasha?" a young man asked, taking a seat at the table after the advisor had left.

"No."

"Are you sure?" he asked in a singsong voice.

Inuyasha glanced at him, smiling as he shook his head. "I'm sure Miroku."

"You wouldn't be thinking about some raven haired beauty who saved your life and then called you an arrogant bastard would you?" Miroku asked, grinning slyly. Seeing Inuyasha's surprise, he explained. "I was walking down a hall when I saw you. Then I saw the man with the knife and was about to call to you but the girl was already running towards him. After that I followed you. She's got spunk and I could've sworn I almost saw you smile twice. You almost smiled for a woman, I never thought I'd see that. You were thinking about her, eh?"

"No," Inuyasha lied. Truth was, he couldn't get her out of his mind since yesterday. She had insulted him. He had never thought that he would actually ever enjoy being insulted by someone but when she did it, it made him want to laugh instead of being angry. He never thought he'd ever enjoy talking to a woman either. She was a strange lady alright. She made him feel different somehow.

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"His majesty, Prince Inuyasha wishes to see a lady by the name of Kagome Higurashi," a servant announced, standing in the doorway to the seraglio.

Heads turned towards Kagome and she glanced up in surprise. "Who? Me?" she asked, blinking in bewilderment.

"Are you Kagome Higurashi?"

"Yes."

"Then yes, you," the servant answered cheerfully.

Kagome stood and followed him out the doors, hearing whispers and murmurs behind her. "Uhh…why?" she finally asked the servant, getting uncomfortable in the awkward silence.

"I don't know. I just take orders. I don't ask why. He has seemed a bit distracted since yesterday though," the servant said, grinning slyly.

She flushed a bit. " 'Distracted?'"

"Yes indeed, his poor advisor had to repeat everything twice before Inuyasha heard him. You must've really caught his attention especially since he usually never shows any interest in women."

Interest? She doubted it. It was more likely that he was going to order her executed for calling him an arrogant bastard. It'd certainly make more sense, Kagome decided.

The servant slid open the doors and motioned for her to step inside. Gulping nervously, Kagome took one step into the room, afraid to move farther into the room. She jumped when the doors slid shut behind her. Glancing around, she saw that she was in a sort of sitting room. Then she spotted Inuyasha sitting in a chair facing the window, his fingers laced together behind his head.

"You don't have to stand by the door," he said, making Kagome wonder if he had eyes on the back of his head.

She took an obedient single step forward.

"You don't have to stand two steps away from the door either."

"How did you…?" Kagome began to ask.

"I have good ears," Inuyasha answered simply.

"If you have good ears, why didn't you hear that man with the knife behind you?"

"I did hear him. I was waiting to get closer to some guards. If I had turned around or called for the guards, the man would have run away and the guards wouldn't have been able to catch him," Inuyasha explained, still looking out the window, his back to her. "But since you knocked him to the ground, the guards had time to get there anyway."

"Oh…Well, you…wanted to see me?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, I was bored," Inuyasha answered simply, turning to face her.

"Oh…" Kagome said again, shifting nervously. She had never had to do this sort of thing before in her two years at the seraglio, and although she hated to admit it, she was a bit afraid.

The corners of his lips twitched slightly, seeing her discomfit. "No, no, nothing like that. I just wanted to talk."

Kagome breathed a sigh of relief and felt the tension in her shoulders dissipate. "Oh, well why didn't you say so?" she asked, taking a seat.

"I just did."

They sat in a sort of awkward silence for a moment before Kagome got tired of it and broke it. "So…what did you want to talk about?"

"I don't know. I figured you'd know since you were such a chatterbox yesterday," Inuyasha said, shrugging.

"Eh…" Then she glanced out the window to see the sun was shining brightly. "Can we walk around outside while we talk? Please?"

Inuyasha glanced at her and then nodded, standing up and sliding the doors open. The servant that had brought Kagome here fell into the room when the doors slid open.

"Hehehehe…" he laughed nervously. "I was just uh…walking by…and uhh…wondering if you perhaps…wanted something to ehh…drink. Yeah, that's it!" he explained.

Inuyasha's left eye twitched slightly in irritation. "You are such a bad liar Miroku."

"Ah, but that's a good thing right?" Miroku asked, grinning.

"Sometimes, but right now it'd be really good if you could come up with a plausible excuse for you to be here seeing as his eye is twitching and I don't think that's a good thing," Kagome said, glancing over at Inuyasha. "How about you were checking the door because you thought it was infested with mice?"

Miroku grinned and chuckled. "Well I like her."

Inuyasha grumbled and walked past them and down the hall.

"Hey! Wait up! Oops, I mean, hey, your majesty! Wait up! I mean please wait your majesty. No, your majesty please-Ah, nevermind…" Kagome tried to correct but gave up when she caught up to him.

"Didn't they teach you any sort of etiquette in there?" Inuyasha asked, referring to the inner seraglio.

"Ehh…They did but…I didn't really pay attention," Kagome admitted, smiling sheepishly.

Inuyasha shook his head in amazement. He had never met a stranger lady in his life. He should have been irritated and angry at her impudence but instead was intrigued and drawn to her. "If you slip and fall in there I'm going to laugh," Inuyasha called when Kagome went over to the pond and began hopping on the little stone slabs towards the other side of the pond.

"If I fall I'll laugh as well. Glad to hear you're concerned," Kagome said sarcastically. "So what did you want to talk about?" she asked after having reached the other side of the pond and was hopping on the stones again to get back.

"I don't know. I was bored and you seemed interesting yesterday."

"And I don't today?" she asked, feigning offense as she hopped off the last stone to land on the dry ground. "Well what do you like do in your free time?"

"I don't have any," Inuyasha answered simply as she walked back over to him.

"You have some right now," Kagome pointed out.

Inuyasha thought for a moment and then nodded. "Come with me."

"Where're we going?" Kagome asked, hurrying to catch up with him. He didn't answer so Kagome followed him in silence.

Finally, Inuyasha pulled open a door a motioned for her to step inside. Once in the room, Kagome glanced around and saw bamboo practice swords, bags full of sand hanging from the ceiling, bows, arrows, and targets on the other side of the room. Inuyasha picked a bamboo practice sword off the rack and then walked over towards one of the bags of sand.

Kagome snorted very unladylike. "You call that an aggressive fighting stance? It looks like your getting ready to dance not swordfight!"

Inuyasha straightened and looked at her, glaring slightly. "And I suppose you know an 'aggressive fighting stance?'"

"No, it's just really fun to make you mad because if I get you angry enough, your left eye twitches," Kagome explained. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly and Kagome sighed in exasperation. "Honestly, what is it going to take to make you smile? Just once?"

Inuyasha shrugged, turning towards the bag of sand again. "We'll see."

"Will you teach me?" Kagome asked.

"Women can't learn sword fighting, it's for men," he answered shortly.

"Says who?" Kagome demanded indignantly. "Women can do anything men can do if they tried. Most just don't care to try."

"Grab a practice sword then," Inuyasha told her, shrugging.

Kagome looked down at he kimono. "But I'm not really dressed for it."

"You sound like a girl," Inuyasha said, smirking.

Kagome set her chin determinedly and pulled a practice sword from the rack. When she turned back around, she saw Inuyasha taking off his shirt and she quickly turned back around, flushing a brilliant red.

"You can't fight turned around like that you know," he called to her.

"Right…" she mumbled, turning around, her gaze on the floor (it was a very fascinating floor).

"What are you blushing for?"

"I-I'm not," Kagome protested, trying to make the blush disappear but only succeeding in making it worse.

"You can't fight looking down at the floor either!"

She tore her gaze off the floor to look up at him.

"You're holding it wrong," he stated simply.

"Well how am I supposed to know how to hold it?" Kagome asked sharply. Inuyasha stepped forward and grabbed her hands, rearranging them on the hilt of the bamboo practice sword.

When the sun was setting, they stopped their sword fighting lessons and Kagome went back to the seraglio. As soon as both feet were inside the main room, the women surrounded her and bombarded her with questions, all of them talking at once. Inuyasha requesting to see a lady from the seraglio didn't happen often…well not at all so they were all curious.

"What was it like?"

"Was he any good?"

"I'll bet he wasn't any good which explains why he never comes here."

"That can't be why!"

"Why not? Seems logical to me."

"Nothing happened!" Kagome laughed. "We just talked and that's all."

"That's it?" one of the ladies asked, clearly disappointed.

"Yes, that's it," Kagome assured them, much to all of their disappointment.

"Are you sure that's it?" Sango asked Kagome later when the other women had all gone to sleep and Kagome sweatdropped.

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A/N-The next chapter is one of my favorites! So I'll try to get it up real quick because I think it'll be one of your favorites too. I think the next is a really sweet chapter. Anyway, review and tell me what you all think ^.^

Review responses:

Depressed-girl001: I tried to update fast. I think I updated quicker than I usually do. ^.^

Dark-Angels: Really?! I can dance too! *Does happy dance*

Ame Tenshi: Aww, thanks! And no worries, when I first heard the word in Fushigi Yuugi, I had to look it up in the dictionary too. ^.^;;

Celeste: Kagome/Inuyasha is a great pairing. My favorite in Inuyasha followed closely by Miroku/Sango of course ^.^ Yup, much more interaction and definitely a lot more to come too.

Morlana: Thanks! ^.^