Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha in its entirety! Lie detector beeps …yea I'm lying…. I wish I did though.

This chapter is a little strange. I just thought that you should know. O and for the last chapter I wrote the wrong name for that yellowcard song. It's called "Only one".

-Words-

-Thoughts-

-"Speech"-

These might not apply in dream sequences. Sorry.

Chapter Five

Kagome sat alone in the library. There were books on every shelf wall. On the furthest wall was a fire place. Ten feet in front of it sat a mahogany desk and chair. The desk is littered with papers, an official seal, and ink. The walls of the room are a cream color, and near the edges of the paint is a crimson stripe that extends to all of the walls around the room. The carpet is also a deep crimson color.

Back near the fireplace was Kagome, comfortably reading, situated into a large fluffy pillow. Across from her is another pillow.

She is wearing a blue kimono with a white obi, which seems to bring out the blue of her eyes. Her hair is half up and half down, the upper part is held in with chop sticks.

Someone knocks on the door. Startled, Kagome looks up and then back down to the book.

She doesn't bother to mutter anything; it doesn't matter. She already knew who was at the door and whether or not she told him to, he would enter.

He enters the room, walks across it, and sits in the pillow across from her.

After a few minutes she closed her book and scoots her pillow closer to him. Sighing, she leans her head against his chest and he wraps his arms around her.

"You should not read in the dark."

Smirking she pokes him in the chest.

"And you aren't supposed to be here right now, Sesshoumaru."

He chuckles, amused by her quick wit. He replies with, "The meeting was… unimportant."

"Either way, I'm glad you're back." With that said, she reaches up and kisses him lightly before once again snuggling into him.

The kiss had ended several seconds ago and yet Kagome's face still held a glazed over look. Sesshoumaru simply stared at her in bewilderment. Her expression wasn't one of amazement, which would have been an effect of the kiss, a reaction that he was used to getting after he kissed a woman. No, her expression seemed far too dreamy, like she was preoccupied with something else. Her expression seemed as if she could see into another world, like she was seeing something that he just couldn't see.

Finally after several more seconds of just staring, she blinked, and seemed to come out of her trance. She looked at him and turned several shades of pink that Sesshoumaru had never seen before. In amusement he began to chuckle. He was about to ask her what she was thinking about a few minutes ago, when she finally reacted.

SLAP

Sesshoumaru suddenly found himself pinned down to the couch by a very angry Kagome.

He looked at her, her eyes were glowing a slight red.

"How dare you. How DARE you touch me? I am not some whore that you can just take whenever the thought crosses your mind. I want to be respected. Touch me again and I will purify you into the seventh level of HELL."

Her eyes got darker with each word she spoke. She let a little of her purification powers seep into him. His eyes clouded over in pain. The sight of his pained expression seemed to shake her anger out of her.

Finally coming back to her senses she got up and left. She simply walked out, leaving a stunned and winded Sesshoumaru on the couch.

Rin couldn't get him to go away.

After she had passed out earlier that morning, Kohaku had taken her to the nurse. She'd awoken to his worried face obscuring her vision.

From then on he'd been everywhere. Not only had he escorted her to all of her classes, but he'd been there after they ended, and he'd eaten lunch and dinner with her.

At first her sense of unease had only intensified, but as the day went on, he finally got her to have a decent conversation with him, and she'd learned that he wasn't that bad of a person.

He did seem to be very concerned for her. He even seemed kind of cute.

But Rin refused to let her mind go there. She would not fall for him. Her visions always came true; she knew that. Why fall for someone that she knew was going to attempt to kill her? She wouldn't, no she couldn't.

But still that night after dinner when he'd said he wanted to show her something she felt a warm glow around her. She quickly squashed the feeling.

Kohaku had lead her up to the roof. But this time it was dark, somewhere around 8 o'clock. They sat there quietly. Kohaku was enjoying the peace, Rin was wondering why he'd brought her there.

As if he sensed her inquisitiveness, Kohaku turns to look at her, and speaks.

"It's nice up here, isn't it?" She turned to face him at the sound of his voice.

"It's beautiful, but why are we here?"

"I like to look at the stars sometimes." It was like he hadn't even heard her. "It gives me peace of mind, a sense of calm." He turned away from her then, instead tilting his head back slightly to look at the stars. "You have to understand something about me Rin. I know that I may seem… strange at times. I'm not normal, and nothing could convince me otherwise. I like being different. It's just that… sometimes being different is so… lonely. Once the students here find out about me life will be hell, for me and for anyone associated with me. I would love to be your friend, but I feel that a warning is necessary. If you don't think that you could deal with me, I'd understand."

"How are you different?" She practically whispered the question.

"I can't say. In time the answer will come to you."

She sat there, looking at the beauty of the stars.

He wasn't lying Kohaku was different and she knew that he wasn't referring the way he acted. She could sense that there was something different about him, but she couldn't place her finger on what it was. She thought on it a moment.

She knew that he posed a threat to her, even if he didn't know it yet. But she felt as if she had to get to know him. There was just something about him.

Finally, she turned around to face him again.

"I want to be your friend." Still he didn't look at her, but he did smile.

"Then friends we are."

Nervous. All she could feel as she opened the door to the gardens was her nerves. Sango knew that she would forgive Inuyasha tonight. Even though she was still angry, hurt, and confused about his actions, she knew that she could never hold a grudge against Inuyasha. They'd gone through to much together in the past for her to every deny herself his friendship. Still though, she wanted to know why he did it.

She made her way towards the center of the gardens, where the benches were located. She didn't see him there. So she just sat and waited.

Finally after several minutes of waiting she heard his voice.

"Sango." He breathed.

She turned to face him and he came and sat by her.

He took a deep breath. "Sango I just wanted-" He was silenced when she suddenly flung herself at him, giving him a fierce hug.

"Why Inuyasha?" Her face was buried in his hair making her voice a little muffled, but he could still hear her. "Why did you abandon me?" He pulled her away from him, holding her at an arms length.

"You got to believe me Sango. I would never do anything to hurt you. Sango you were miserable weren't you?" she nodded her head in conferment. "Before you left you and I only needed each other. You weren't making friends Sango and I couldn't let you be miserable. Please understand that I did it for your happiness! I would never hurt you! Please forgive me!"

She chuckled and pulled him in to another hug.

"I've already forgiven you Inuyasha. I just wanted to know why you did it."

Inuyasha let out a sigh of relief. He had his best friend back. Life was good.

Pulling away from each other, Sango said "So what have you been up to?"

They spent the rest of the evening catching up on old time.

Kagome could be found sitting outside underneath the sakura trees. She'd gone there directly after her afternoon classes had let out. She liked to hang out there whenever it was warm out. She found it peaceful, it calmed her nerves, and today was a day when the tranquility would be needed the most.

When she'd gotten there, she'd originally attempted to complete her homework, but it didn't seem to be working. She'd gotten through her ancient studies, but she just couldn't concentrate on her Herbs and Medicine homework, her thoughts kept turning back to a certain golden eyed demon. She could still feel his lips, the warmth of his body, the way it felt to be held in his arms.

She could also feel the immense anger. Of course, she did feel a little guilty for slapping him, but then she kept telling herself that he deserved it.

Eventually she gave up on homework and just sat there, enjoying the peace and quiet.

That was how Sesshoumaru found her. By then it was sunset. He noticed how the remaining rays of the sun seemed to glisten off her hair, giving her the appearance of a celestial being. For the first time he saw a content expression on her face, so unlike the expression he'd seen earlier today.

He could remember how he felt during the kiss. It was like she was pulling at him. Her miko powers had filled his blood, it was a warm feeling, so unlike the feeling she had bestowed on him when the kiss was over.

No, he didn't regret the kiss. He wished that he could do it again, though he would never admit that to anyone else. The slap, along with the pain of her purification, was worth it. Her angry expression, her display of power. Her power called to him, there was a connection between them, whether they would admit it or not. She spiked his interest and he wanted to know more about her. He'd never met anyone like her. No one had ever slapped him before, and no one had ever been angry after receiving a kiss from him. And certainly no woman had ever been able to cause him physical pain like she did when she began to purify him. Kagome deserved his respect; she demanded it, and he would give it.

But that wasn't the reason why he had started searching for her after classes. He just had to know what she was dreaming about. Not knowing was driving him up the wall.

Quietly, he approached her and sat next to her, leaning his body against the trunk of the tree. They sat there for a few minutes in silence. Kagome enjoying the peace, ignoring Sesshoumaru, and Sesshoumaru looking at her from the corner of his eye, enjoying her scent, which was a mix of cinnamon and vanilla.

I think I could become addicted to her scent.

"What do you want Sesshoumaru?"

"What were you thinking about?" Confused, Kagome turns towards him.

"What do you mean just now?"

"No. After the kiss you had this expression on your face. Like you were dreaming about something."

"Well geez, your not one to be around the bush are you?" she teased slightly, trying to change the subject. She didn't want to tell Sesshoumaru about her little vision or about the dream. He would think she was crazy, if he didn't already think that about her.

"Will you tell me?"

"Why do you want to know?"

"That is none of your concern."

"Then it is none of your concern what I was thinking about. I don't know you well enough to tell you my secrets." She replied, displaying a cocky face expression. But then she continued on, "I'll make you a deal. Give me a month to get to know you better, and then I promise that I will tell you. What do you say?" Maybe by then I'll be able to figure out what these dreams mean.

"Deal. What do you need to know about me?" he asked. He wasn't that happy with this new situation, but he figured that it would give him a chance to know her better, maybe even figure out how her mind works.

"It's not what I need to know, it's what I want to know. I can't even begin to think of a question for you right now."

"Fine then." He stood up and began to make his way back towards the school.

"Sesshoumaru?" she called. He didn't reply, he simply looked back in her direction.

"What's your favorite color?"

What an odd question. What would make her ask me that? Do I even have a favorite color?

Sighing he turned back in the direction of the school and began walking. "Green" he answered and kept walking, not turning back until he made it to the door. He then glanced back at her one more time, and then continued on inside.

Kagome giggled a little as she repositioned herself against the sakura tree. How weird, we have the same favorite color.

Yup, I think that's enough for one chapter. Thank you all for being to patient with me and this chapter. I did promise to make it longer or there would be two, so I worked extra hard to make it longer. Lol this is my longest chapter yet! Yea!

Yea I had a lot of trouble with this chapter. There were so many things that I wanted to put in but I decided to save some of the scenes for later chapters. Yea….

Anyway the next chapter should be out by next Sunday (I think) and the villain will be introduced, not necessarily by name though. Lol

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Ja ne!