Chapter 2

After a quick shower, Kagome put on some fresh clothes. Humming to herself, she started to move around in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Being an orphan since the age of twelve, Kagome is much better at housekeeping than most girls her age. She grew up with her aunt and cousins, but now this summer, the summer before college, she decides to take a little vacation, and come down to visit Kaede, an old friend of the family.

Upstairs, Kagome could hear showers running. Sesshoumaru, the handsome young man is settling down in the room colored in blue, "Wave", in fact, everything in it is pure blue, only the furniture, are a ivory white. His wife, Kikyou, chose the room "Sunset", it's done in a dark red. Kikyou said the ocean wouldn't disturb her in the morning. Though not like to be nosy, Kagome still wonders why they wanted separate rooms.

In less than five minutes, when Kagome was flipping the bacons, Sesshoumaru came down stairs with a refreshed air. He changed from the traveling suit he's been wearing into a light blue sweater and khaki pants. With these casual clothes, Kagome can't stop wondering how old he is, since he looks fairly young, but he is definitely a mature man.

"Smells good. You are a pretty good cook." Sesshoumaru smiles when his and Kagome's eyes meet.

"Thanks, but I'm not a professional chef, so don't expect anything fancy." Kagome answers in modesty.

"I didn't come here for that now, did I?" Sesshoumaru chuckled, "Anything I can do?"

"No, I got it, but you could make some coffee if you'd like." Kagome waves to the coffee pot. She was very surprised at how easy it is to talk to him.

"So how do you like your room?" Kagome asked as she took the muffins out of the oven.

"I love it, that was my favorite room." Sesshoumaru is currently washing his hands, finger by finger.

"Oh, you've been here before? Lady Kaede didn't tell me that."

"I grew up here on the island, but I hadn't come back in 8 years, not after I went off to college." Sesshoumaru poured some coffee in.

Kagome found herself calculating how old he is. 'Twenty-six or twenty- seven.he looks like twenty-one actually.'

".so where are you from?" She heard him asking.

"Um, Kyoto, yeah, I just came here to relax a bit before going off to college." Kagome said.

"Wow, I feel old." With that, the two of them started to move the plates into the breakfast quarter. Sesshoumaru noticed she was only taking two plates.

"You are not going to join us?" Sesshoumaru asked with a little disappointment. It was certainly pleasant to talk to her.

"Well, I thought." Kagome began.

"Come on, I would love for you to join us, for every meal we'll eat here." Sesshoumaru took the third plate without asking again.

"Well, well, well, look who is making cozy conversation." Kikyou came down stairs. Unlike Sesshoumaru, she'd changed into yet another business skirt suit, impeccable just like the last one. Kagome felt like a little girl playing in the sand box next to Kikyou. Though beautiful, Kikyou has maybe the coldest expression Kagome's ever seen.

"If you like, I will eat in the kitchen." Kagome suggested.

"No, that's fine, I wouldn't want to offend Sesshoumaru-sama." Kikyou said with an extra sweet voice.

Sesshoumaru frowned. Even across the table, he could feel Kikyou's hostility. It'd been like this for years.

In silence, the three started to eat breakfast, Kagome noticed that Kikyou wasn't eating much of anything, she wondered if her perfect shape came from starvation diets.

Soon after breakfast, Kikyou went out to the car they rented, and drove off without a word to anyone. Kagome picked up the plates and went into the kitchen, Sesshoumaru followed in silence with the cups.

Feeling at ease with each other, they started to wash the dishes together. Kagome broke the silence.

"You are not going with Kikyou-sama, Sesshoumaru-sama?"

"Call me Sesshoumaru will be fine, and no, Kikyou likes to do things on her own." Sesshoumaru dried the plate with a firm hand. "Actually, I was planning on driving around the island a bit, but now that she took the car."

"I can arrange a bike for you if you want." Kagome suggested.

"Oh, that will be great, Kagome." Kagome didn't realize it, but she flushed at the way he is saying her name.

"No problem." Kagome said cheerfully.

"But will you come with me? I mean I'm not sure if I can still get around here after eight years." Sesshoumaru asked gently.

"I." Kagome was thinking about refusing the invitation, after all, they just met, but again, she is on some kind of vacation, isn't she? "Ok, why not?"

"Great." Sesshoumaru said with great delight.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Author's Note: I think I'm going to put Inuyasha in the story, just for the fun, maybe even Sango, Miroku, Shippou, who knows? And Alice, that's another story you were talking about, this one is a Sess/Kag, ok? Hehe. R/R. Thanks!