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Disclaimer: They aren't mine! ...but I do own my Wolfwood action figure! Mwuahaha!

Warnings: OOC Sesshoumaru! ...it's my attempt at humor. --

Chapter 4

Kagome was still blushing a bit, even though she tried to hide it. "I'll teach you how to float... It's the first thing that I learned. Just go down a bit deeper in the water and let your feet come up and I'll hold your back so you can get an idea of how it feels." She said as she walked a bit closer to him so she could get a better hold for later.

Sesshoumaru dipped down into the water, glanced at Kagome to make sure she was really going to catch him, then hesitantly let his feet come up "...Do not let me go.." He playfully glared at her.

She grinned a bit as her hands found his back and held him on top of the water. "I won't let go... Right now anyway... After you get used to this feeling I'll have to try to teach you to do it on your own... But I won't let you go under water don't worry. But when you do try this on your own, try to keep your body limp so it'll stay on top." She smiled reassuringly, so he would know she wouldn't completely let go of him.

At first he was very stiff...not at all comfortable with his current situation...but gradually he relaxed and smiled at Kagome as she held him up. "I am enjoying this very much. How long do you think you could hold me like this? Long enough for me to catch a quick nap, maybe?" He placed his hands behind his head and sighed happily.

She laughed a bit and smiling she shook her head. "Maybe you should learn to do this on your own now?" She looked at him questioningly to see if he was ready. The water gently swished about her waist from the night's wind, and Kagome couldn't help but be cold. So, she lowered herself into the water a bit more for warmth, never loosing her grip on him though.

He nodded at her. "This does not seem to be as difficult as I first had thought..." He looked at her and grinned confidently. "I can do it."

She didn't look to sure but she nodded her head and removed her small hands from his back, but placed them a little bit away from his back so if he fell through the water her hands would stop him from going completely under. Her gaze never left him though as she watched to see what would happen.

He felt her hands leave his back and stay relaxed...He smiled softly as he realized that he was floating...no...Wait...he was just sinking very slowly.

Her hands were back on his back again and she pushed him a bit more towards the surface. "Try spreading your legs out just a bit, if they are together it makes it a bit harder to float... and every now and then you will have to push yourself back on top of the water..." She advised a few moments before her hands had left him again. She was impressed, to say the least. When she had started learning she kept getting a face full of water... She grinned a bit as she watched him.

He spread his legs shoulder width and concentrated on staying relaxed...which would in fact not actually be considered relaxing if you have to concentrate in order to do it... "How exactly am I supposed to push myself back on top of the water? ...wait until I hit the bottom of the lake?"

She shook her head a bit. "Maybe it's just me... but I just push myself forward... I don't need the bottom of the lake to do it..." She looked a bit guilty at her lack of details. "For now what you can do is just kick your legs if you keep going under and that should keep you on top." Kagome laid down floating herself and started to kick her legs so it looked as if she was swimming on her back.

He watched her as she kicked and floated then mimicked her every move. He grinned up at the sky as he continued to kick. "This was very easy to learn with such a great teacher. There is just one complaint that I will voice..." He bumps headfirst into a rock, goes underwater, and then surfaces rubbing his head. "...you cannot see where you are going..."

She walked to him and glanced at where he hit his head. "Yeah... That's the only real problem" Anime sweatdrop. "Are you alright?" She looked closely at where he had hit his head, making sure that he was alright. She looked a bit guilty... She had forgotten to tell him about the rocks.

He grinned sheepishly and nodded. "Yes. I am quite alright. I am more wet than I am hurt. If it did anything, it woke me up." He brushed his wet bangs out of his face and chuckled. "I feel ridiculous..."

She ducked her head apologetically, still looking guilty. "We should get out then... It's starting to get a bit to cold out right now anyway." Just as she said it the wind blew by them, causing Kagome to shiver.

He saw Kagome shiver and felt himself do the same. He smirked as he effortlessly scooped her up and carried her to shore. "Oh no. We do not need you getting cold!"

She laughed when he picked her up and she wrapped her small arms around his shoulders as he carried her. She was smiling brightly now but she was starting to get small goose bumps on her from the cold as the wind seemed to refuse to stop coming there way.

He made his way to shore and carefully set Kagome down close to the trees. He then picked up his dry kimono and dried her off before wrapping her in his furry boa. He stood back to admire his handiwork and couldn't help but laugh at the sight of her wrapped completely up....all that was visible was her head. "There now....does that not feel better?"

She grinned and nodded her head. "Lots better! Thank you!" She was slowly starting to warm up now. His boa was softly tickling her face and she couldn't help but push it more onto her cheeks to protect herself against the wind, she was very comfy right then. "You should change or get into something warm too or you might get sick."

He wrung out his hair as he thought over the predicament his was in. "It seems I have no means of changing or warming myself." He untied and took off his wet shirt then wrung it out. He shook it a couple of times before slipping it back over his shoulders. He shook his hair free from his shirt and shivered as another gust of wind blew by. He sat down next to Kagome trying to block her from the cold wind. "This will do for now..." He glanced at Kagome worried. "...are you okay?"

She nodded her head before she scooted closer to him and wrapped his boa around the both of them, not wanting him to be cold. "Better?" Her head titled to the side, her hair falling over her shoulders, which was still wet but drying quickly.

He blinked at her kind gesture and nodded. "Yes, thank you." He scooted closer to her not wanting to let their combined warmth escape. He sighed and gazed up at the stars, surprised that it at gotten so late.

Kagome yawned a bit. She hadn't realized how tired she was. Her head was against the tree behind them as her hazel eyes stared at the Moon which was casting a reflection onto the now still lake. It was very serene and calm which just seemed to make her more tired, though she didn't mind, she felt very content and happy. The wind was slowly starting to ease away from them now.

He watched with an amused expression as she yawned. "We had better make camp here. It is getting late and we will need our sleep. I will start a fire for us to warm up to, agreed?" He waited for her answer not really wanting to leave their warm sitting.

She pouted a bit, tempted to just sleep where they were now. But, reluctantly, she nodded her head right before she hugged the boa to her face a bit more and then pulled it off of her and stood up. She thought if he had to leave the warmth then she should go with him and try to help. At this point though she was really wishing she hadn't wore her school uniform on this trip, it was just to cold to wear a skirt at night.

He got up reluctantly and started searching for firewood. He stopped and glanced at Kagome's backpack then at her. "What exactly do you have in that oversized pack, anyway? Anything useful?" He picked up some sticks before wandering a little bit away but still keeping an eye and an ear on her just in case.

"Well, I have some food and..." She grinned a bit as she remembered her lighter that she had. She grabbed her backpack and unzipped it. Since there were so many things inside she ended up having to take most of it out to reach her lighter that had fallen to the very bottom of the bag. Once she did get it out though she put her thumb on the trigger and switched it so the fire came out, just to make sure that it did still work. "We can use this to light the fire." She held it up so Sesshoumaru could see it.

He snatched up some more wood before scurrying over and dropping the wood in amazement. "Brilliant!" He crouched down and piled up the wood and eagerly watched as the lighter continued to flicker in Kagome's hand. "No more stick rubbing for me!"

Kagome laughed a bit at how excited he had gotten and set fire to the wood that he had gathered. Once she was sure the fire wouldn't burn out, she dropped it back into her nearly empty backpack. All of her stuff was now piled at her side. Kagome grabbed her diary and her white sneakers and a few other things from her time so she could put them back into her bag. "A lot easier then rubbing sticks, ne?" Kagome was suddenly very grateful for her time's inventions.

He stared at all of the strange things that she had pulled from her pack. "Your time must be filled with many lazy people." He threw some more wood onto the fire and settled back against a tree. "So tell me more about where you come from and the simple luxuries that are not present in this time."

"Hmm... Hot baths for one. We don't bath in lakes or oceans..." She thought for a few moments. Her time was just so different from this time that she wasn't to sure how she could explain the more complicated things such as TV or the radio. "And... we have this thing called a camera, if you point it at somebody and push a button a small piece of paper will come out of it with what it saw... I actually have one now if you want to see it." She rummaged through some of her things and pulled out a small Polaroid black camera and showed it to him.

He quirked an eyebrow at the sight of the camera. "...and it is supposed to do what?" He took it from her and turned it over and over in his hands looking it over. He tapped on it, shook it, and sniffed it. Satisfied that it wasn't going to do any harm to anyone, he handed it back to her. "...very interesting."

She laughed and held it up to her face, looking through the small peephole to get the angle just right. She pushed the button on the side and the camera flashed and the mechanical wheels turned inside the camera and from the front of the camera a picture came out of him. She hoped the flash hadn't scared him... She had forgotten to warn him. She took the photo out of the camera's slot and looked at it. "It takes pictures of us, see?" She handed it to him.

He blinked rapidly trying to clear his vision...He looked around a bit seeing the world through seemingly different eyes. He blinked some more and took the photo and held it up to his face. Not quite seeing it right, he decided to hold it away from his face. Still having no luck at being able to properly focus his eyes, he decides to close on eye then the other. Deciding that whatever the photo looked like it had to be good since, he assumed, the camera saw him. "Uhm...yes. ...very nice." He turned the photo upside down and tried it from that angle. "...very interesting indeed..."

She giggled and turned the photo the right side up. The photo was completely done developing and on it was a picture of Sesshoumaru looking at the camera with interest. "I'll have to add this picture to my photo album later." She grinned, it really was a good picture, she thought.

He rubbed his eyes and looked at the picture finally seeing it. His face brightens up as he recognizes himself. "My, my! That device sure did do a grand job! Just look at it! A picture of dignity...a picture of strength! ...a picture of a wet demon freezing his butt off! Wonderfully done!" He hands the picture to Kagome and smiles. "...we sure have a long way to go, huh?"

Kagome laughed at his reaction to his picture and carefully tucked it into a small pocket on the front of her bag so no scratches or tears would come to it. She placed her hands in front of the fire, letting them warm up. Her eyes were half closed as she watched the dancing fire.

Sesshoumaru warmed up to the fire and looked across to Kagome. "You should get some sleep. We have a lot of traveling to do tomorrow. I will keep watch over you while you sleep."

Kagome yawned before she answered, she really was tired. "What about you? You need to sleep too." Her head titled a bit to the side as she looked at him. She wrapped her arms about her stomach, keeping warm.

He smiled as she yawned. "I will be fine. I do not require as much sleep as you do. Go on and sleep. You will feel better in the morning."

Hesitantly, she nodded her head and grabbed a sleeping bag from her backpack that she always used when she stayed the night in this time. She unrolled it and easily climbed into it. Once she was comfortable on her side, she sighed in content. "Night, Sesshoumaru." She gave him one last smile before she closed her tired eyes.

He quirks an eyebrow as she rolled out the sleeping bag. He smiles softly as she drifts off to sleep peacefully. "..Good night, Kagome." He shifts around and settles in for a long night of tireless watching and waiting.

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