Sesshoumaru sat by himself at the table that night as he glanced at where Kagome was supposed to sit, to eat dinner.

"Where is Lady Kagome?" he asked his servant Jaken. Jaken bowed before speaking.

"She refused to come down. She said she felt ill, and couldn't stomach any food at this point in time." Sesshoumaru nodded.

I'll let her off this one night. After all... She's been good for a whole week.

In about a half-hour, he finished off his meal, and walked out the door. "Jaken. Leave me be." Sesshoumaru said, as the green toad tried to fallow. Jaken bowed slightly, and watching his master from the beginning of the hallway.

Sesshoumaru hadn't slept in his bedroom in the past week, letting her get to know her way around the castle, to mate her right away, would be more or less raping her. Something that Sesshoumaru hated.

As he entered another hall and got closer to his bedroom door the aroma of heavy salt that was watered down entered his senses.

She's been crying.

He didn't bother to knock, it was his bedroom after all. His eyes quickly scanned the room, looking for the soft beautiful creature that he had his best three men bring here. She wasn't there, but the screen door's where opened, and the heavy curtains that stopped the sunshine coming in, where pushed back slightly. And sure enough, her sent trail led up to that.

He walked onto the fifth floor balcony. His eyes widened when he saw her.

"Kagome." she flinched. "Don't jump."

"Damn you, Sesshoumaru. Go away."

"No. This is my bedroom after all." He slowly walked up to her, letting his mask slip, and making him self look comfortable and relaxed, and cool so to speak. Kagome had her hands griping that stone banister tightly, she leaned back against it, her feet balancing on the little floor they had on the wrong side of the banister. "You missed a good meal, you know."

"Does it look like I care about food right now?" her voice rose a level in pitch, as she sneered at him. Sesshoumaru chuckled.

"No. I suppose not. You know. That's a long way down. And you wouldn't even die right away when you hit the main ground. There's a lake under us. You would hit that freezing cold water so hard, that you would be paralyzed. But you wouldn't die. No, you most likely would drown, to death."

"Then I would drown to death."

"Have you even choked on water before? Do you know what it's like to have no air?"

"No. I will find out won't I?"

"Eventually underwater... you'll open your mouth to breathe, because you can't hold it any long. Water will poor down your throat, and into your lungs. You'll feel it too. And trust me. It's not a nice feeling," he chuckled softly. "Not a nice feeling at all. You feel your lungs become full with water, and your body starts to spasm from lack of water, which will cause more water to go down into your lungs. And in the end... More pain." Kagome looked at him worriedly.

"How lung does it take?"

"Does what take?"

"For you do die that way?"

"It all depends on how big your lungs are." Sesshoumaru smirked at her. "Getting nervous?" Kagome frowned bitterly, as her head snapped back in front of her, as she looked out to the water.

"Of course not!" Sesshoumaru nodded, but still smirked.

"Why are you going to do this?" With out her realizing it, he took a step forward to her, inching his away to her.

"My brother is dead. My parents sold me. My sister that is the only one that would care and save me is missing. I'm sold to a youkai, that only wants to use me for sex and to make kids for my miko powers." Sesshoumaru frowned.

"Your sister? Kikyo? But she's not missing at all, and if I got the story right, she did nothing at all to 'save' you from my youkai hands." Sesshoumaru inched his way to her again. "Does she have some plan to overthrow me? And why would killing your self be any help to her plan? Wouldn't that make her cause to kill me pointless?"

"Not my sister Kikyo. She couldn't give a rat's ass about me. I'm the youngest of all my parents' children. The oldest was my brother Huang, then Kikyou, and then my sister Keade and I. Keade went off with the demon exterminators to learn their trade and become miko demon exterminator." Kagome's voice rose in volume, proud of her sister Keade. Sesshoumaru raised his eyebrows carefully as he leaned against the banister.

"I'll have to watch out for her, now in my travels."

"You travel?" Kagome cast a side view look at him, in interest.

"I must. To protect my lands, and to meet people I must to protect my lands. Though I do love too travel, then be stuck in the castle all day." Kagome snorted.

"Yet you make do that."

"But you see, I would take you on my travels if you would let me. I would even let you wonder off into the woods if I could trust you," he gave her an intense look.

"Trust me?"

"Not to run away."

"Oh," Kagome looked at the water.

"Weren't you supposed to right a list of all the rumors about me?" Sesshoumaru changed the subject quickly.

"I did."

"Where is it?"

"In the pocket of my kimono."

"Aren't you going to get for me, or must I fish it out my self?" Kagome glared at him, before slowly taking her hand off the banister, reaching into her pocket, and brought out the roll of parchment. She stretched out her arm to hand it to him, but Sesshoumaru had other thoughts. He grabbed her wrist, and brought him self to her using his demon speed, wrapping his arm around her waist and heaving her over the banister, to his side of the balcony.

He held her to the ground, as she started to fight him, pinning to the stone floor, with his body, holding her hands over her head, with both his hands.

"What where you thinking?!" he snarled.

"Let me go, Sesshoumaru! Just let me die!"

"No! Do you think that I am mad? Why would I let the mother of my future children die that way?! You heard how painful it was!" he snarled at her. "Do you think I would do that? Let my fiancé die?"

"Fiancé?"

"Yes! Do you think I was kidding about future children? That this is some big joke?" anger rose to his face, his cheeks flushing with the anger, his gold eyes burning with fire, flecks of red could be seen. His silver hair fell from his shoulders, and made a small cage around her. She stared up at him, horrified at his sudden anger about her.

"I- I didn't- I didn't think..." Kagome stuttered.

"That's right, Kagome! You didn't think! You talked right then, how you want to be free, did you not? Now I can't even trust you on the balcony for fear of your life. Tell me how I'm supposed to let you wonder about now?"

"I'm sorry." Kagome whispered, tears streaming down her face. Sesshoumaru's eyes lost the flecks of red, he closed his eyes slightly, opening them again Kagome saw he was still angry beyond a doubt, but calmer then he was. He dipped his head down, and kissed her forcefully. Kagome shocked didn't kiss back, but felt his soft lips against hers, and with out realizing started to kiss back.

His lips are so soft.

Sesshoumaru sighed inwardly as Kagome kissed back, the first time ever, the other times he had tried to kiss her in the past week, either she let him depressingly, but didn't kiss back, dodge it, or ask him politely as possible not too. He didn't try to deepen the kiss, but instead slid his lips against hers, in a kiss that could make one drunk. Kagome's eyes slid close, along with Sesshoumaru.

Ever so slowly, Sesshoumaru broke the kiss and pressed his cheek against hers, and said her name in an endearing promise. "Kagome..." He smelt watered-down salt, and soon felt it run down the line between her and his cheeks. "Kagome, don't do that. Promise me you won't do that!" His voice was soft, and Kagome was shocked at the amount of emotion in it.

"I promise...I swear it." Sesshoumaru lifted his head back, and kissed her softly, before standing, hold out a hand for her, to help her out. Kagome took it and stood, smoothing down her kimono softly, her face burning from the kisses and treatment. "Get some sleep, Kagome. You are going to be tutored tomorrow, so you'll have to get up early, and have good morning meal."

"What? Tutored? On what?" Kagome was shocked, as she looked at him. Not only was this sprung on her suddenly, Sesshoumaru was acting like what happened between them, never happened.

"Katsuhiko will teach you on the history of miko's, youkai, along with the history, he'll teach you on the youkai government today and economy. If you are going to live in this world, you should know about it. Also about my family history, sense you will be joining it at one point.

Huang is going to train you so you can defend your self, if the time calls for it, and teach you to strengthen your powers.

Kanji is going to teach you about youkai's in general. The types, their powers, signs, beliefs, where they are most likely located.

I my self, am going to teach you a higher point of adequate, dancing, and to be a lady like figure."

"Are you saying that I'm not lady like enough for you?" a slight anger raised her. Sesshoumaru smirked, as he placed a hand on her lower back, after picking up the parchment that had fallen when he brought her back over the edge of the balcony. He led her back into the bedroom, shutting the screen doors, not locking them, as he knew that when she promised she never broke it.

"No. Though youkai have bigger standards then humans. Also, to teach you to dance will be interesting to say the least." he smirked at her scowl. She had made the mistake of admitting that she can't dance to him when he was telling her of a ball he was invited too. He had not gone, but that was beside the point.

"Good night, Kagome." He lost his smirked, took her hands in his, placed a small gently kiss on her lips, before stepping back and walking to the door.

"Good night, Lord Sesshoumaru. And thank you..." Sesshoumaru stopped before closing the door looking at her. "For not letting me kill my self." He smirked at her.

He inclined his head, smirking at her flushing face, and closed the door. Kagome looked at the door for a minute before going to the second wardrobe that one of the man servants carried in, and placed all her new clothes and such in.

Once outside, he let anger over take him again. "Jaken!" he growled, knowing he was hiding around the corner. His sent was disgusting, and knew he was there from the stench.

"Yes Sesshoumaru-sama?"

"Where is Katsuhiko?"

"He's your study reading my Lord. He said that you wanted to talk, he would be waiting." Sesshoumaru nodded before walking toward his study. It was odd, but Katsuhiko all ways knew when something was up, and Sesshoumaru wanted to speak to some one. Even when he was never told something was wrong. He just knew it.
"What's wrong, Sesshoumaru?" Katsuhiko asked right away not looking up from the scroll.

"You've been with Kagome often this past week. Why didn't you tell me that she was distressed and depressed?"

"I didn't think much of it," he looked up from the scroll, resting it on his lap, looking his friend right in the eye. "I thought she was only homesick, and depressed of her situation. I thought it was only a little bit though. She didn't talk about it."

"Well you thought wrong. I just caught her about to kill her self. Almost jumped from my balcony." Katsuhiko gasped and stood, the scroll dropping the ground but he didn't care.

"Is she all right?!" Sesshoumaru gave him a long look, his face emotionless. Instantly Katsuhiko regretted doing that, his face flushed, and troubled.

"She's all right. When I left her she was getting ready for bed." he went to his desk and sat down, looking at Katsuhiko.

"I'm glad she's all right." Katsuhiko said. Sesshoumaru nodded. "I'll go retire for the night now, good night Sesshoumaru."

"Katsuhiko!" Katsuhiko turned to look at him. "I trust you." Sesshoumaru said slowly. That was that was needed to be said. Katsuhiko nodded.

"I know, Sesshoumaru. For I return the trust all the same. And I swore on my life a long time ago that I would nothing to brake that trust, and my life was you do with it, as your head soldier. I'd soon rather die then violate that trust."

With that said, Katsuhiko walked out the door, and out the maid doors, to his own house, in the soldier's section.

Sesshoumaru unrolled the parchment that Kagome had written, and read the first one.

1. Some say that you have no manners. That you're a horrible brute that ravish woman, and eat like a pig.

Sesshoumaru laughed slightly. Who made this rumor up?

It doesn't matter. It shall be easy to prove. Looking down at the list he saw twenty good and bad rumors total.

This shouldn't take long. I shall have Kagome in about a month or less!
Yay! Third chapter done! Thank you so much for all your great reviews, I love reading them.

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You'll just have to read and find out won't you! lol

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