Chapter 5

"Come down, Inuyasha! We are late!" Kagome shouts impatiently after checking her watch for the third time this morning.

"Oh, good morning, Kagome, Inuyasha will be right down. I guess he's trying to look nice for Kikou." Sesshoumaru says as he comes down the stairs.

"Good morning, Sesshoumaru, and that's Kikyou." Kagome smiles.

"Kagome, which one is better?" Inuyasha rushes down stairs suddenly with two ties in his hands.

"Whoa, Inuyasha, don't you think you are overdoing it?" Kagome's finally exploded.

"Shut up, and tell me which one is good, I got to look mature and poised in front of Kikyou."

"Now, Inu, looking mature doesn't mean look old, meaning you don't have to wear suites and ties all the time." Sesshoumaru says sipping a cup of steaming coffee.

"Fine, I'll go change." Inuyasha is really becoming frustrated.

"Oh no, you won't. We are late!" Kagome drags Inuyasha to her mom's car, Inuyasha is still mumbling about what he should wear, but Kagome just ignores him.

"Bye, you guys, have fun!" Sesshoumaru waves from the kitchen.

The minute they arrive at the campus, Inuyasha runs off to find Kikyou.

"Like he is going to talk to her! That idiot will just stalk her in the distance of ten feet." Kagome complaints to Inuyasha's back. "Eh, everyone seems to be engaged in their own emotional problems, just me, still alone."

Kagome is so occupied with her thought, she didn't notice there's a group of guys not far from her are staring at her.

"So that's Higurashi Kagome, huh?" A guy with black hair in a ponytail, and sky blue eyes asks.

"Yes, Kouga. Not bad, is she? Kouga?"

Not waiting for the answer of his friend, the guy called Kouga is already walking up to where Kagome is standing.

"Hi, baby, I'm Kouga, you want to go out tonight?"

"Umm.." Surprised, Kagome is trying to calm down, and say something. "Umm.I'm Kagome, and yeah, sure, I'd love to go."

"Ok, pick you up at seven. Later." Looks like Kouga isn't a guy to wait up for others. By the time Kagome sorts out what happened here, he's already disappeared with his friend.

Sitting in the sunny garden with a sketch book, Sesshoumaru gladly enjoys the beautiful weather and surroundings. Drawing has been his first hobby, that's why he decides he is going to use these few precious days to pick it up again.

'Dad's lilies are exceptionally good this year,' Sesshoumaru thinks. Lilies are he and Inuyasha's mother's favorite flower. She always fills the little garden with lilies. Ever since she died, Sesshoumaru and his dad tried to keep this tradition in the family. Every year they plant lilies, in the memory of his mother. 'Maybe Inuyasha helped this year, looks like he is really growing up.'

Deep in his thought, Sesshoumaru hasn't realized he's drew something on the paper. It's a young beautiful girl, with the sweetest smile. It's Kagome. 'Why has I drew Kagome without knowing it.' Sesshoumaru is confused now. From the night he came back, when she flies into the kitchen like a butterfly, she's been seizing his heart. He wants to look at her like a little girl still, but somehow he can't anymore. She's grown. She's blossomed into a beautiful woman, but something about her is different all the other woman he's known and gone out with. She's mature but naïve, she's understanding but innocent. Her huge blue gray eyes are anxious for love, and they are always fulfilled with love. 'Wait a minute, am I falling in love with a high school girl?' The graceful older son of Inuki panics. 'No, I can't be. She's way too young, she has her own life.'

Still thinking about the whole thing, Sesshoumaru walks upstairs silently to put Kagome's picture somewhere no one else can see, somewhere he can always look at.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ I know the chapter is short, but I'm just trying to get ready for the next one, it'll be out shortly.