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Disclaimer: Kagome and Sesshoumaru are NOT mine... how depressing..
WARNING! WARNING! No seems to read this so I put it twice so maybe you guys would read it....SESSHOUMARU IS OUT OF CHARACTER! ...which means he doesn't act like he does in the manga or anime. Thank you, kind reviewers, but I know that I made him OOC...I even told you before every chapter. -_-
SURPRISE! I left last chapter as a cliffhanger...and for some strange reason it kinda stayed that way. O_o ...my bad. Maybe if you ask nice enough I'll think of something and throw it in later...
Chapter 3!
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Kagome was loosely holding onto her backpack strap as she walked back to the lake where she had last seen Sesshoumaru. Her small fingers were barely holding on as the backpack swung back and forth with her head down. She had just talked with Inuyasha. At first he had reluctantly agreed.. then she had said who she was going with. She now had a headache from all the yelling. She sighed a bit.
Sesshoumaru perked up from his perch in the tree. He had been sleeping when Kagome's scent started getting stronger. He rubbed his eyes sleepily and quickly caught sight of her tiny form. He silently made his way towards her and dropped silently behind her. He snatched her backpack away and slung it over his shoulder as he smirked at her playfully. "So...I am guessing that he did not take it very well."
She blinked in surprise at him but she smiled softly, her spirits lifting a bit, she still felt horrible about Inuyasha though. "At first he did.. until he asked who I would be traveling with..He got really mad.." She shook her head, not wanting to think about her fight with Inuyasha, and instead playfully grabbed for her backpack.
He easily moved her backpack out of her reach as he wiggled a finger at her teasingly. "Nuh uh uh! As long as you are traveling with me, you will not carry your own things. Surely you cannot argue about that."
She grinned and shrugged her shoulders. "Guess not! But, I can't let you carry it all the time..that wouldn't be right, I mean it is a bit heavy.." Her backpack was completely filled with all kinds of things from her home. Cloths, food, spare make-up, extra shoe's, her diary and an old camera to take pictures with. Needless to say her backpack was bulging out from all of her stuff.
He shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "It is nothing. I can easily carry this...it is better for me to carry it than for you to."
Her head titled to the side just a bit as she watched him for a few moments before she hesitantly nodded her head. "Alright, if your sure. Sooo.. Where are we going now?" She seemed eager to start traveling with him.
He confidently pointed towards the setting sun. "...this way." He adjusted the backpack and started walking slowly not knowing how quickly Kagome walked. He turned his head and looked back at her smiling. "Are you ready to set out together?"
She was smiling brightly now as she nodded her head and all but skipped beside him and walked by his side, her arms swinging a bit as she looked to the now orange sky.
He quickened his pace a bit to make sure that he wouldn't get left behind as she happily pranced beside him. He curiously watched her out of the corner of his eye. "How do you do it?"
Blinking a bit, her gaze turned away from the sky and to him, curiously, a small smile still on her face. "Do what?" Her innocent eyes watched him.
"You know....make other people feel...eh...feel..." He pondered for a moment trying to find a safe word to use. "...emotions! That's the word! I always feel...I am not sure how to say it...different? Yes...I feel different when you are near."
"Well... Do you like how you feel?" She didn't answer his question because she knew she couldn't answer it when she was trying to figure out the same thing about him. She always felt so carefree and happy around him, one glance at him seemed to be all it took to get her to smile.
He pondered as he walked quietly. "..I am not sure. I do not understand what it is I feel. It is like....many different emotions colliding." He sighed as he looked up into the sky. "I cannot say that I do not like how it feels...but I am...hesitant..."
She nodded her head. "I understand. It's always a bit hard to know exactly what it is that you are feeling at times. Do you think what you are feeling is friendship maybe..?" She looked a bit hopefully towards him.
He nods. "It is possible. This would be the first time I have felt this...friendship." He smiles softly as he looks at her.
She smiled, a small blush creeping onto her face. "Well, I'm glad it's with me." Kagome looked into the sky, the stars were already out along with a bright full moon which she couldn't help but stare at. "I'm sure you'll figure out exactly what it is that you're feeling soon after we spend some more time together." She smiled a bit at the idea.
He blinked at her reply. "Sooooo...are you saying that what I am feeling is not friendship?" He looks at her curiously.
She shrugged her shoulders a bit and glanced at him. "Maybe.. I can't really say because I have no idea what you're feeling.. maybe if you could try to describe it..?"
He wrinkled his nose as he pondered. "...describe it? I can try but I do not know that many emotions. How about I start with....happiness...then sadness....then...fear...but...somehow always happy. I guess...it is all rolled into on confusing yet comforting emotion that has no name." He shakes his head. "I have just confused myself..."
"Wow...that's a lot to take in!" Her eyes were a bit wide as she watched him, thinking over his answer. She could think of only three emotions that sounded like that, but she settled for friendship that he was feeling. "It's probably friendship.. But I don't know about the sadness or fear...sorry.." She ducked her head a bit, feeling she had made him more confused instead of helping him.
"It is okay. There is nothing to apologize about. I just cannot...express myself...I guess that is what I am looking for. Perhaps that is my problem." He shrugged it off quickly and turned to Kagome. "Such deep conversations do not make very good adventures. Let us forget this and enjoy ourselves!"
She grinned and nodded her head. "Alright! What do you feel like doing?" Her gaze wondered to her right where she could still see the lake from earlier that day. She blinked a bit, she hadn't known it was that big. "We could always go swimming?" Kagome nodded her head towards the lake.
He blinked at her suggestion. "..Swimming? I cannot say that I have ever gone swimming before."
"I could teach you, and we could stay in the shallow end so we can still be able to touch the ground... But if you don't want to we could always do something else..?" Her head titled to the side a bit, looking at him.
He shrugs his shoulders. "..And what is swimming? I have led a rather sheltered and boring life." He hoped it wasn't something that he had done before with a different name.
"Uh..." Anime sweatdrop. Kagome forgot that she wasn't in her time.. It was easy to forget it at times. She thought swimming was known around here though.. "Swimming is where you get into water, like the lake or ocean, almost like taking a bath except your not.. you swim around and relax, I know me and my younger brother used to play games while we used to swim." She finished a bit weakly.. 'I'm not explaining this to well...''
His eyes grew wide. "...you want to...no...That cannot be what you want to do...you have done this with your younger brother?! no no...it must be something else. Now wait. Do you have clothing on while swimming?"
Her eyes became very wide and a huge blush came onto her cheeks. "Yes, we wear clothing!! We wear bathing suits that are made for the purpose of swimming.. Some people just wear their regular cloths when they swim though..." Kagome looked completely embarrassed by now.
He relaxes as he begins to chuckles obviously embarrassed too. "I am glad. I thought you were mating with your younger brother there for a second. You should be more specific next time." He smiles a very relieved smile as he nods his head. "Swimming sounds like it would be very interesting."
"Alright, great" Kagome was still blushing very much, mostly at the thought of what Sesshoumaru had thought she was asking him to do, shaking her head - trying to clear the blushes from her cheeks but failing, Kagome started walking towards the lake.
He followed Kagome has she made her way towards the lake. He was mentally beating himself up for saying that about her and her little brother. Needless to say, he was feeling very stupid right now.
Kagome sat down by the lake and slid her shoes and socks off before dipping them into the water slowly, testing the water to see how cold it was. Deciding that it wasn't too bad, she slid a bit more in, letting the water go to her knees. She decided she would just swim in her cloths and change later since she didn't have her bathing suit in her backpack, plus she was still wearing her school uniform so she didn't mind if it got wet.
He easily shook off his shoes then carefully set down his swords, untied his sash, dropped his boa, and shimmed out of his armor. He took off his outer kimono, neatly folded it and placed it on top of the pile. He waded out into the water...okay...so he got his feet wet and stopped there. "This is not so bad..."
She laughed a bit before she completely went into the water. She sucked in a bit of her breathe when the water hit her stomach, she always did that it seemed. A few moments later though she was used to the temp of the water and grinned at Sesshoumaru and waved him over to her. "Come on! Come all the way in, the water isn't to cold.." Right after she said this though she held her nose and ducked her head underwater, her entire being beneath the surface and rose back up a few minutes later, smiling.
He stared at her as she stood there soaking wet and smiling at him. He couldn't help but gawk at her. He numbly nodded his head and waded out to her slowly. The water was a bit cold but it was barely up to his waist. "..You are right. It is not that cold at all. I think I am beginning to enjoy this." He grinned hoping she wouldn't notice that he was blushing.
She looked at him a bit curiously, she had noticed his blush but she did not say anything and instead crouched a bit lower so the water was at her shoulders and started to swim. It was a weird feeling for her at first since she hadn't swam for so long but she quickly got used to it and turned on her back, letting herself float on top of the water, a huge smile on her face as she remembered why she used to love this so much. "Have you ever swam before?" She looked to him curiously.
He watches her as she effortlessly floats on top of the water and blinks. "...maybe once or twice.... of course, I wasn't exactly doing it on my own either but those water imps did not have to help me... I think I am perfectly capable of swimming on my own." He nods trying to convince himself that he could do this. Surely if this human girl can do it...a full-blooded demon could.. Of course, there's always that sword incident that frightens him.
She shook her head a bit and stood up in the water. ".. I think you might need some help. It took me a year to learn how to swim and I wasn't allowed to even swim on my own till I was 5 years old because I had these weird things on my arms that stopped me from drowning... I would just start out slow if I were you.." She cautioned him. If he couldn't swim and went out to far she wasn't sure if she could help him.. He was just too tall and heavy for someone of her size to carry.
He blinked a bit. "...what weird things on your arms? Where are they now? Did they fall off?" He flicked the water a bit with his index finger as the rambled off all of these pointless questions....he talks a lot when he gets nervous. "..So does this mean you were born with some sort of extra body parts and they died and fell off?"
She couldn't help it and started laughing a bit. "No!" She laughed just a bit more. "No, they are these orange things that you wrap around both of your arms, they are meant for kids so when they swim they will not drown. It prevents them from going under water.. It's something that you put on and take off as you please, like cloths almost, except those things are bigger.. I wish I could remember there name.. " She wrinkled her nose a bit, trying to remember the name but shook her head a few moments later giving up. "How about you just come a bit deeper into the water and I'll try to teach you how to float on top of the water? It's one of the first things that I learned."
He slapped himself in the face for being so stupid. He had actually meant to do it mentally so it through him off guard. He blinked wondering how this girl can make him feel so ignorant sometimes. He waded out to Kagome slowly noticing his pants were refusing to get wet. He looked down at them as they were still retaining air. He pushed them underwater and wished that he hadn't when air bubbles exploded from all around him.
Kagome was trying so hard not to laugh. When he had hit himself she had stopped herself from laughing just in time but when he had pushed down on his pants to get the air out from beneath it and saw his look of horror she burst out laughing, not being able to help it any longer. She stopped laughing a few moments later with difficulty, hoping she hadn't offended him and gave him an apologetic look. "Sorry.. It's just.. You have no idea how many times that has happened with me to my shirts.." Kagome looked down at her shirt but immediately blushed bright red and in a few seconds the water was back up to her shoulders from her crouching down. Her t-shirt had been sticking to her chest, stomach and arms, clearing showing her shape. She was blushing very red and hoped he hadn't seen anything.
He blushed as he rubbed the back of his head and chuckled embarrassed by their current situation. "It is okay. I too, can see the humor in it." He blushed some more as the sight of Kagome dripping wet with clothes clinging to her body was burning forever in his memory. He quickly looked away and decided to flick the water some more since everything was now its fault.
Completely embarrassed, Kagome quickly unstuck her shirt from herself. She had forgotten about that part in swimming.. Blushing, she hesitantly stood back up, her shirt now hanging loosely about her. "Sorry.." Her gaze dropped down to the water, beyond embarrassed now.
Sesshoumaru glanced at Kagome nervously. "So...uhm....what is my first lesson?" He was trying desperately to regain some of his cool calm collectiveness as they stood soaking wet together.
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oi! Wasn't that lovely?! I promise I won't take as long to get the next chapter up! ...but that doesn't mean that you do not have to review. Actually...you should review and thank me because I'm going to put up the next chapter so quickly! ^_^
Disclaimer: Kagome and Sesshoumaru are NOT mine... how depressing..
WARNING! WARNING! No seems to read this so I put it twice so maybe you guys would read it....SESSHOUMARU IS OUT OF CHARACTER! ...which means he doesn't act like he does in the manga or anime. Thank you, kind reviewers, but I know that I made him OOC...I even told you before every chapter. -_-
SURPRISE! I left last chapter as a cliffhanger...and for some strange reason it kinda stayed that way. O_o ...my bad. Maybe if you ask nice enough I'll think of something and throw it in later...
Chapter 3!
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Kagome was loosely holding onto her backpack strap as she walked back to the lake where she had last seen Sesshoumaru. Her small fingers were barely holding on as the backpack swung back and forth with her head down. She had just talked with Inuyasha. At first he had reluctantly agreed.. then she had said who she was going with. She now had a headache from all the yelling. She sighed a bit.
Sesshoumaru perked up from his perch in the tree. He had been sleeping when Kagome's scent started getting stronger. He rubbed his eyes sleepily and quickly caught sight of her tiny form. He silently made his way towards her and dropped silently behind her. He snatched her backpack away and slung it over his shoulder as he smirked at her playfully. "So...I am guessing that he did not take it very well."
She blinked in surprise at him but she smiled softly, her spirits lifting a bit, she still felt horrible about Inuyasha though. "At first he did.. until he asked who I would be traveling with..He got really mad.." She shook her head, not wanting to think about her fight with Inuyasha, and instead playfully grabbed for her backpack.
He easily moved her backpack out of her reach as he wiggled a finger at her teasingly. "Nuh uh uh! As long as you are traveling with me, you will not carry your own things. Surely you cannot argue about that."
She grinned and shrugged her shoulders. "Guess not! But, I can't let you carry it all the time..that wouldn't be right, I mean it is a bit heavy.." Her backpack was completely filled with all kinds of things from her home. Cloths, food, spare make-up, extra shoe's, her diary and an old camera to take pictures with. Needless to say her backpack was bulging out from all of her stuff.
He shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "It is nothing. I can easily carry this...it is better for me to carry it than for you to."
Her head titled to the side just a bit as she watched him for a few moments before she hesitantly nodded her head. "Alright, if your sure. Sooo.. Where are we going now?" She seemed eager to start traveling with him.
He confidently pointed towards the setting sun. "...this way." He adjusted the backpack and started walking slowly not knowing how quickly Kagome walked. He turned his head and looked back at her smiling. "Are you ready to set out together?"
She was smiling brightly now as she nodded her head and all but skipped beside him and walked by his side, her arms swinging a bit as she looked to the now orange sky.
He quickened his pace a bit to make sure that he wouldn't get left behind as she happily pranced beside him. He curiously watched her out of the corner of his eye. "How do you do it?"
Blinking a bit, her gaze turned away from the sky and to him, curiously, a small smile still on her face. "Do what?" Her innocent eyes watched him.
"You know....make other people feel...eh...feel..." He pondered for a moment trying to find a safe word to use. "...emotions! That's the word! I always feel...I am not sure how to say it...different? Yes...I feel different when you are near."
"Well... Do you like how you feel?" She didn't answer his question because she knew she couldn't answer it when she was trying to figure out the same thing about him. She always felt so carefree and happy around him, one glance at him seemed to be all it took to get her to smile.
He pondered as he walked quietly. "..I am not sure. I do not understand what it is I feel. It is like....many different emotions colliding." He sighed as he looked up into the sky. "I cannot say that I do not like how it feels...but I am...hesitant..."
She nodded her head. "I understand. It's always a bit hard to know exactly what it is that you are feeling at times. Do you think what you are feeling is friendship maybe..?" She looked a bit hopefully towards him.
He nods. "It is possible. This would be the first time I have felt this...friendship." He smiles softly as he looks at her.
She smiled, a small blush creeping onto her face. "Well, I'm glad it's with me." Kagome looked into the sky, the stars were already out along with a bright full moon which she couldn't help but stare at. "I'm sure you'll figure out exactly what it is that you're feeling soon after we spend some more time together." She smiled a bit at the idea.
He blinked at her reply. "Sooooo...are you saying that what I am feeling is not friendship?" He looks at her curiously.
She shrugged her shoulders a bit and glanced at him. "Maybe.. I can't really say because I have no idea what you're feeling.. maybe if you could try to describe it..?"
He wrinkled his nose as he pondered. "...describe it? I can try but I do not know that many emotions. How about I start with....happiness...then sadness....then...fear...but...somehow always happy. I guess...it is all rolled into on confusing yet comforting emotion that has no name." He shakes his head. "I have just confused myself..."
"Wow...that's a lot to take in!" Her eyes were a bit wide as she watched him, thinking over his answer. She could think of only three emotions that sounded like that, but she settled for friendship that he was feeling. "It's probably friendship.. But I don't know about the sadness or fear...sorry.." She ducked her head a bit, feeling she had made him more confused instead of helping him.
"It is okay. There is nothing to apologize about. I just cannot...express myself...I guess that is what I am looking for. Perhaps that is my problem." He shrugged it off quickly and turned to Kagome. "Such deep conversations do not make very good adventures. Let us forget this and enjoy ourselves!"
She grinned and nodded her head. "Alright! What do you feel like doing?" Her gaze wondered to her right where she could still see the lake from earlier that day. She blinked a bit, she hadn't known it was that big. "We could always go swimming?" Kagome nodded her head towards the lake.
He blinked at her suggestion. "..Swimming? I cannot say that I have ever gone swimming before."
"I could teach you, and we could stay in the shallow end so we can still be able to touch the ground... But if you don't want to we could always do something else..?" Her head titled to the side a bit, looking at him.
He shrugs his shoulders. "..And what is swimming? I have led a rather sheltered and boring life." He hoped it wasn't something that he had done before with a different name.
"Uh..." Anime sweatdrop. Kagome forgot that she wasn't in her time.. It was easy to forget it at times. She thought swimming was known around here though.. "Swimming is where you get into water, like the lake or ocean, almost like taking a bath except your not.. you swim around and relax, I know me and my younger brother used to play games while we used to swim." She finished a bit weakly.. 'I'm not explaining this to well...''
His eyes grew wide. "...you want to...no...That cannot be what you want to do...you have done this with your younger brother?! no no...it must be something else. Now wait. Do you have clothing on while swimming?"
Her eyes became very wide and a huge blush came onto her cheeks. "Yes, we wear clothing!! We wear bathing suits that are made for the purpose of swimming.. Some people just wear their regular cloths when they swim though..." Kagome looked completely embarrassed by now.
He relaxes as he begins to chuckles obviously embarrassed too. "I am glad. I thought you were mating with your younger brother there for a second. You should be more specific next time." He smiles a very relieved smile as he nods his head. "Swimming sounds like it would be very interesting."
"Alright, great" Kagome was still blushing very much, mostly at the thought of what Sesshoumaru had thought she was asking him to do, shaking her head - trying to clear the blushes from her cheeks but failing, Kagome started walking towards the lake.
He followed Kagome has she made her way towards the lake. He was mentally beating himself up for saying that about her and her little brother. Needless to say, he was feeling very stupid right now.
Kagome sat down by the lake and slid her shoes and socks off before dipping them into the water slowly, testing the water to see how cold it was. Deciding that it wasn't too bad, she slid a bit more in, letting the water go to her knees. She decided she would just swim in her cloths and change later since she didn't have her bathing suit in her backpack, plus she was still wearing her school uniform so she didn't mind if it got wet.
He easily shook off his shoes then carefully set down his swords, untied his sash, dropped his boa, and shimmed out of his armor. He took off his outer kimono, neatly folded it and placed it on top of the pile. He waded out into the water...okay...so he got his feet wet and stopped there. "This is not so bad..."
She laughed a bit before she completely went into the water. She sucked in a bit of her breathe when the water hit her stomach, she always did that it seemed. A few moments later though she was used to the temp of the water and grinned at Sesshoumaru and waved him over to her. "Come on! Come all the way in, the water isn't to cold.." Right after she said this though she held her nose and ducked her head underwater, her entire being beneath the surface and rose back up a few minutes later, smiling.
He stared at her as she stood there soaking wet and smiling at him. He couldn't help but gawk at her. He numbly nodded his head and waded out to her slowly. The water was a bit cold but it was barely up to his waist. "..You are right. It is not that cold at all. I think I am beginning to enjoy this." He grinned hoping she wouldn't notice that he was blushing.
She looked at him a bit curiously, she had noticed his blush but she did not say anything and instead crouched a bit lower so the water was at her shoulders and started to swim. It was a weird feeling for her at first since she hadn't swam for so long but she quickly got used to it and turned on her back, letting herself float on top of the water, a huge smile on her face as she remembered why she used to love this so much. "Have you ever swam before?" She looked to him curiously.
He watches her as she effortlessly floats on top of the water and blinks. "...maybe once or twice.... of course, I wasn't exactly doing it on my own either but those water imps did not have to help me... I think I am perfectly capable of swimming on my own." He nods trying to convince himself that he could do this. Surely if this human girl can do it...a full-blooded demon could.. Of course, there's always that sword incident that frightens him.
She shook her head a bit and stood up in the water. ".. I think you might need some help. It took me a year to learn how to swim and I wasn't allowed to even swim on my own till I was 5 years old because I had these weird things on my arms that stopped me from drowning... I would just start out slow if I were you.." She cautioned him. If he couldn't swim and went out to far she wasn't sure if she could help him.. He was just too tall and heavy for someone of her size to carry.
He blinked a bit. "...what weird things on your arms? Where are they now? Did they fall off?" He flicked the water a bit with his index finger as the rambled off all of these pointless questions....he talks a lot when he gets nervous. "..So does this mean you were born with some sort of extra body parts and they died and fell off?"
She couldn't help it and started laughing a bit. "No!" She laughed just a bit more. "No, they are these orange things that you wrap around both of your arms, they are meant for kids so when they swim they will not drown. It prevents them from going under water.. It's something that you put on and take off as you please, like cloths almost, except those things are bigger.. I wish I could remember there name.. " She wrinkled her nose a bit, trying to remember the name but shook her head a few moments later giving up. "How about you just come a bit deeper into the water and I'll try to teach you how to float on top of the water? It's one of the first things that I learned."
He slapped himself in the face for being so stupid. He had actually meant to do it mentally so it through him off guard. He blinked wondering how this girl can make him feel so ignorant sometimes. He waded out to Kagome slowly noticing his pants were refusing to get wet. He looked down at them as they were still retaining air. He pushed them underwater and wished that he hadn't when air bubbles exploded from all around him.
Kagome was trying so hard not to laugh. When he had hit himself she had stopped herself from laughing just in time but when he had pushed down on his pants to get the air out from beneath it and saw his look of horror she burst out laughing, not being able to help it any longer. She stopped laughing a few moments later with difficulty, hoping she hadn't offended him and gave him an apologetic look. "Sorry.. It's just.. You have no idea how many times that has happened with me to my shirts.." Kagome looked down at her shirt but immediately blushed bright red and in a few seconds the water was back up to her shoulders from her crouching down. Her t-shirt had been sticking to her chest, stomach and arms, clearing showing her shape. She was blushing very red and hoped he hadn't seen anything.
He blushed as he rubbed the back of his head and chuckled embarrassed by their current situation. "It is okay. I too, can see the humor in it." He blushed some more as the sight of Kagome dripping wet with clothes clinging to her body was burning forever in his memory. He quickly looked away and decided to flick the water some more since everything was now its fault.
Completely embarrassed, Kagome quickly unstuck her shirt from herself. She had forgotten about that part in swimming.. Blushing, she hesitantly stood back up, her shirt now hanging loosely about her. "Sorry.." Her gaze dropped down to the water, beyond embarrassed now.
Sesshoumaru glanced at Kagome nervously. "So...uhm....what is my first lesson?" He was trying desperately to regain some of his cool calm collectiveness as they stood soaking wet together.
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oi! Wasn't that lovely?! I promise I won't take as long to get the next chapter up! ...but that doesn't mean that you do not have to review. Actually...you should review and thank me because I'm going to put up the next chapter so quickly! ^_^