An unlikly attraction

"Sesshoumaru, we destroyed Naraku. I know we did. But someone is fooling with us, some one who is either Naraku or close, very close to Naraku." Kagome said firmly. Sesshoumaru had to appriciate her spunk. Its amazing. He thought. This human girl may be the one who keeps their gorup together.

With that thought the stoic demon Lord began to think of her in a whole new way. At that small moment, that small thought, the man who was no man realized an unlikly attraction. Was it possible that Sesshoumaru liked Kagome?

Kagome was well aware that Sesshoumaru was staring at her, with a slightly softer gaze than the one he usually held. But be that as it may, she could never have guessed the reason.

She was still waiting for an answer, and began to tap her foot impatiently. What was taking so long. "Sesshoumaru-sama, do not try to tell me you do not know. If he were alive, you would know immeadiatly." She said stiffly. She was irritated, and he knew it.

He sniffed at the air, being sure not to make the action obvious. He had a reputation to uphold after all. He detected immediatly traces of Naraku, from nearby. But it was old, and from at least a year ago. Maybe more.

But then there was that other smell. It smelled a bit like Naraku, but it wasnt Naraku. Did he have offspring, maybe. The smell was faint. This being was strong. Possibly stronger than Naraku himself. This was very bad news indeed.

"Narakus scent is here, but from so long ago it is almost gone." Sesshoumaru stated hesitantly. Inuyasha pumped his fist into the air triumphantly again. Kagome was beginning to wish she hadnt told him what the gesture meant.

"And?" She demanded shrewdly. She had not missed the hesitation in the Taiyoukais voice. He shifted hi tail irritably, for he was not used to being spoken to that way.

Yet Sesshoumaru had seen her in the peak of her power, surrounded in pink inferno, looking just as Kikyo had when her body was burned. But that time, Kagome had been burning with flamed of life. He sighed.

He was about to speak when Jaken began to protest loudly at her disrespect to "Lord Sesshoumaru- Sama". Kagomes eye twitched in anger, and she grabbed the staff Jaken always carried, and bashed him on his little green head with it.

Sesshoumaru only wondered more why he had let that little pest live so long.