Author's note! AyeAye! My third chapter in a row! Truth be told, I'm getting kinda tired so... but avast! I shalt not sleep! For SesshouMaru has just appeared!

SesshouMaru: Oh, goodie...

Don't be a smart-alec. Now be a good boy and do a good job at acting, savvy?

SesshouMaru: Since when have you been a pirate?

Since two minutes ago! Now act!! Wait, no, do the disclaimer first, ye ol' scalliwag! Or meet ye death by the flying kiwi monkeys!

SesshouMaru: *pinches her cheeks* What??

owie....pwease?

SesshouMaru: Good. InuYasha does not belong to RevolutionaryKnight, but Her Holiness Rumiko Takahashi.

owie.... dat waz otay, buh...

SesshouMaru: What now???

do yooh thint yooh coud wet go of mah cheeksh??

SesshouMaru: .....no.

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Emily's heart was pumping hard. She had broken out in a cold sweat. This demon whom InuYasha had called SesshouMaru was holding her hostage! She couldn't move, and didn't even want to. She felt as if she fliched ever so slightly, even once, she would die.

InuYasha and Sango had stopped their advance and were now tense in their spots, glaring. "Emily!" Kagome yelled and stepped forward. SesshouMaru brought Emily tighter into his grip. "Do not move closer." Kagome stopped and began to cry. "Y-you bastard!"

Sango growled. "You coward!" She then looked at Emily, who could do nothing but whimper in SesshouMaru's arms. InuYasha was prepared to rip apart SesshouMaru limb from limb.

Miroku was as tense as the rest, as was Shippo. SesshouMaru still had that emotionless stare. SesshouMaru got a small twinkle in his golden eyes and then turned Emily around to face him. He looked down at her and then back up at InuYasha. "InuYasha..." he said, giving a rare smile. "You were a coward in accepting help from these humans... so now I in turn must commit a cowardly act, much to my dismay." He then picked up Emily like a baby, and jumped up into the sky. Emily screamed and heard her friends' yells and screams from down below. She squeezed her eyes shut and grasped SesshouMaru's yukata so she wouldn't fall, even though his grip on her was firm. Suddenly she blacked out. ****** Emily awoke later the next day, and, judging by the height of the sun, it was around noon. She mumbled and rolled over. What a weird dream... to dream that she was kidnapped by a handsome demon. She sat up, holding her head. Ugh... she felt as though it had really happened.

"It's about time you woke up, human."

Emily twisted around to see the same demon from her dream. "But...but...you, dream..." She screeched and scooted away from him. SesshouMaru just stared at Emily. She whimpered and pressed herself against the cave wall.

SesshouMaru stood from his position on the earthen floor. "We must go now. Come, human."

Emily, although scared of her kidnapper, grew angry. "I have a name you know!" She stood, still against the wall. She suddenly noticed she was still in her damp bathing garments and she fell down to the ground, holding her knees close to hide her near-nakedness.

SesshouMaru looked down at her, before walking forward. Emily gasped and sctratched at the ground with her feet, trying to get closer to the wall. SesshouMaru grabbed her hand and pulled her up without effort. He swung her around on his back and used his unoccupied hand to wrap his tail behind him to cover her. "Wrap your legs and armaround me. I'm not going to hold you up all the way, human."

Emily blushed and did what she was told. "Uh... SesshouMaru?"

Before she could say anything else, however, he tensed. "You, a petty human woman, will not call me that. I am to you Lord SesshouMaru, as I am to all humans and demons alike."

Emily grew angry once more. "Only if you stop calling me 'human' and 'woman'!"

SesshouMaru paused before beginning to move forward out of the cave. "What do you wish me to call you?"

Emily immediatly replied, "Emily." She smiled then. "Just Emily."