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As you can guess from the title of this chapter the relationship between Sesshoumaru and Kagome is going to move forward, but i won't say anything other than that. Enjoy the next chapeter

Chapter 5: Romanic Interludes

Sesshoumaru stood at one end of the dojo while his son stood on the other. "Attack me," Kisho looked at his father with a questioning look before he saw an attack coming towards him. He moved quickly avoiding the attack though he was sure that he was allowed to dodge.

"Stop acting like a child and attack me," Sesshoumaru growled at him. He moved again for an attack but this time Kisho didn't just dodge out of the way, he dodged then attacked his father, missing him as his father dodged easily away from him. "What are you aiming for? Stop playing around and hit me."

Kisho didn't wait for him to attack this time, he charged his father. He slashed at him, while Sesshoumaru dodge, then slashed again. Yet again his claws came up with nothing, he kept attacking until he just about had his father against the wall. He was sure he would hit him this time he ran as fast as he could then slashed at nothing, as he watched his father flipped in the air and land behind him knocking him into the wall.

"You attacking foolishly just like Inuyasha, maybe you are his son and not mine." Sesshoumaru edged at the boy trying to get him angry enough to tap into his natural power, "if that is the case then we are done." Sesshoumaru turned slightly to walk away, smirking at how the boy's scent increased.

Kisho punched the wall hearing his insult. He turned and faced his father his eyes had started to glaze red, the blue lines on his face where becoming longer, as he shook with tears welling up in his eyes.

Sesshoumaru dashed up and punched the child in the stomach, stopping his transformation,

"Get a hold of your anger. It is not helping you." Kisho gasped when the blow connected sending him reeling back into the wall again. He stood there for a second after hearing his father yell, he began to calm himself, focusing on the wooden floor.

Sesshoumaru watched as the child before him looked at the ground breathing heavily as the he stopped shaking, and the anger in his scent became more controlled. The boy shot a glance up to him his eyes where still red but a look of sheer determination was on his features. Before Sesshoumaru blinked he saw the boy lunge at him slashing, as he dodged he heard the rip of fabric as the child caught his sleeve with his attack. He smiled at that the fact he was learning quickly, and continued to work with the boy.

Kagome looked at the huge dojo that was built into the mountain, it looked like it could fit 3 maybe four full size Sesshoumarus in it. It had been several hours since Sesshoumaru took Kisho in there and started training him. She headed to the door and opened it and gasped when she saw Kisho hit the wall, slumped over with Sesshoumaru stalking towards him, his claw glowing green.

Kagome ran to the boy and put herself in front of him, "Stop it, Stop it Sesshoumaru," she yelled looking at the taiyoukai with fear that he might kill him, and her.

She quickly looked at the bloodied lip, and the burn marks from Sesshoumaru's poison claw on him. She saw that his out fit was torn and bloody although there didn't seem to be any wounds there. Anger boiled up in side her that he would treat a child this way, let alone their son. He could have killed him, how stupid could Sesshoumaru get.

He stopped his approach at the interference of Kagome in his training of his son. 'So this is why he is so weak right now. That blasted woman in the future must of coddled him too.'

He could smell her scent become twice as strong as she became angry at him, and afraid at the same time. She ran up to him and reached out to slap him, but he easily caught her hand. "You can't not control me as you control my brother, Kagome."

She stood there blinking for a second. Had she heard right did he just call her by her name. She looked behind her as she heard Kisho stir.

He stood and looked at his parents; he could smell his mother's fear and anger. He shot a glance into his father's eyes, questioning what was happening.

"Leave. Go get ready for dinner." His voice commanded but before Kisho could make a word of protest, "NOW!" Kisho didn't wait to argue this time, he bolted for the door and closed it.

"How could you Sesshoumaru, he is only a boy? You shouldn't be so rough with him." Kagome yelled her voice deep with concern. Anger her to the breaking point.

"I did not hurt the boy. He is a youkai, you need to learn this, he is not as weak as a human child. You have to learn to stop coddling him or else he will never gain the strength he needs to survive in the youkai world." Sesshoumaru watched as she processed the information then began calming.

Wrapping his tail around her and pulled her closer, he allowed a smirk to cross his lips as he saw the fear on her face increased to be almost a of terror of him. He leaned down to hear ear and inhaled her scent slowly, letting it wash over him, calming him after his training, then he whispered in her ear, "it wasn't a fluke, my dear," but before she could try to move away he was embracing her in a soft passionate kiss as he pulled her closer into him.

Kagome pushed away from Sesshoumaru as he kissed her, but was only pulled closer to him. Kagome felt his strong arms hug her gently, slowly she stopped fighting him. As he released her lips and placed his chin on her head just allowing him to hold her. She didn't continue to try to pull away, she stayed there in his embrace, it felt warm and safe. It was warmer than any embrace she had with Inuyasha, she found she didn't want to leave his arms. She laid her head against his chest and allowed herself to enjoy the feeling she had.

"What's going on here?" she whispered against him.

He tightened his embrace for second, before taking in a breath, "I don't know."

After admitted that they had no idea why this was happening they continued to stand there enjoying the other's warmth and touch. When they finally backed way from each other, they stood there and looked into the other eyes for a moment. Kagome finally took his hand with a smile on her face and urged him towards the door, "Come on the children are going to be worried if we don't show up."

He nodded and gripped her hand merely enjoying their contact, as he followed her out the door and back to the palace. Still lost for the answer as to why exactly he had done that but at this moment he didn't feel the need to care. Having this child and her around was changing him.

The next night Kagome watched Sesshoumaru walk through the main hall, where she was playing with Rin. She stood and followed him. She watched as he opened the door to Kisho's room, and then she walked up to the door. She was slightly taken back by what she saw but recovered quickly.

Sesshoumaru carried him back from the dojo where he had been training Kisho all day. He placed the unconscious boy in bed, brushing the hair from his face, then ran his thumb a cross the blue lines that streaked his face. He leaned down next to the boy's ear and whispered something Kagome could not hear then kissed his forehead lightly as he stood to leave the room.

He knew she was there but he didn't really care. He finished getting him in bed and turned to her. She wore a huge smile on her face, as she leaned against the door frame, watching him. He looked down at the sleeping child, then back to her smiling face, 'She was pleased with him for some reason, only Rin, ever gave him a smile like that.' He walked to the door ushering her out the door, then closing it.

She looked up at him, 'I guess there is more to Sesshoumaru than I thought. I would have never dreamed he could have been that gentle and loving. Wow, who would have guessed.' "That was sweet, Sesshoumaru," She whispered to him her blue-grey eyes filled with admiration, as she continued to smile up at him, "What did you tell him.".

Sesshoumaru was taken back by the look in her eyes and her comment. 'He, Sesshoumaru, sweet. He had been called a great many things in his long life but sweet was never one of them.' He looked down at her and allowed his lips to curl in to a small smile towards her, as he put his arm on her shoulder and directed her from the bedroom door. "Nothing," he whispered as he headed down the hall.

But before they got no more than five feet she had wrapped her arms around him and was hugging him tightly with her face buried deep with in his chest.

She didn't really know why she felt that she needed to hug him. Maybe it was because she was so taken back by how sweet he was tucking him in bed, then how he whispered something, most likely loving, to him. Maybe she just need to feel his warmth she didn't know. As she hugged him, she felt a great deal of relief that he was starting to warm up and act, well… normal.

He looked down, taken back by her action, then wrapped his arms around her putting his nose in her hair enjoying her scent as they sat there in silence.

Her scent was heavenly, and he liked seeing her smile at him. He had only ever seen Rin smile at him like that, he did have to admit that he enjoyed seeing her happy in his presents, instead of afraid. Was she really that pleased that he took care of him. He felt a great joy swell up in him, he felt like his barriers where breaking down. Yet he felt completely content for some odd reason being this way around her, his son, and Rin. He couldn't explain it, and in all truth he really was not willing to try right now.

He pulled her back and looked in to her eyes and leaned in, lightly brushed her lips with his in kiss, as he again pulled her back into him.

He could smell her scent change. but it was not with fear, like it had been the other times, this time it was a scent that held a desire. His heart stopped for a brief moment, did she desire him? He wanted to ask, he needed to find out, but he wouldn't ask, he couldn't ask. He was Youkai lord of the Western lands he couldn't be distracted by a human girl, yet he was and he felt happy about it. He had no idea what she was doing to him, but he, some where he had started to enjoy her presence.

"Sesshoumaru-sama?" a small, very happy voice broke the moment, "Is Kagome-chan going to be Rin's new mother?" The little girl ran up and hugged both adults' legs at the knees.

They pulled themselves way from each other and looked down at the little girl. Kagome was blushing a brilliant shade of red, that Sesshoumaru found quite endearing on her. While Sesshoumaru put his hand on her head, "I don't know Rin." She looked up with her eyes full of wonder at Kagome, "Kagome-chan?"

The blush in her cheeks deepened as both Sesshoumaru and Rin both looked at her. She looked between their eyes, then looked down at the floor and stumbled on her words as she tried to figure out what to say. Sesshoumaru pulled her close putting his hand on her head, he didn't like seeing her distressed like that. "You don't have to answer now." He whispered in her ear, he could feel her relax slightly as she eased into his embrace. "Rin why don't you go to bed, it's late." Rin looked confused for a second, then nodded and happily padded her feet down the hall to her room.

He pulled her face out of his shoulder, "She likes you a lot, Kagome."

"But what is happening here? Don't you hate me, I mean you have tried to kill me more than once, and now? Now you like me, I don't get it." Kagome looked at him her eyes where sad, she didn't want to be hurt again like Inuyasha had done. She didn't want to be tossed out again.

"I don't know. All I know is that my heart feels warm, and at ease with you near. I know you are in my thoughts even when I am not trying to think about you. I never thought I would ever feel this why for a human before but I do. I don't want to explain it, I just want to enjoy it. Do you not enjoy what we are building between us?" he ran his hand through her hair and against her cheek. Feeling slightly odd having said anything at all about it.

"I… I don't know. I mean this is all happening really fast. I mean I like it but I am not sure if this is what I what. I mean I was going to do back to my world after we found the shards, but I…" her eyes had tears in them he could smell her confusion and sadness, as he pulled her closer to him and let her bury her face into him. He wanted her to stay with him, but he also knew that she loved Inuyasha and her family, he did not want to push her way. He had not cared for someone like this since his mother died long ago. He didn't want to lose this feeling she was giving him.

"Shh," he said softly into her hair, "you don't need to figure anything out now." He had decided that night that he cared for her just to what depths he did not know.

The sun awoke Kagome from her sleep; she smiled when she remembered Sesshoumaru's understanding and gentleness last night. He had walked her to her room and kissed her forehead before saying goodnight.

She went to the window, and let her thoughts wonder. She was starting to like Sesshoumaru, maybe even love him, but that made her feel like she was backstabbing her love for Inuyasha. She still loved him even if he had chosen Kikyou, yet somehow she felt she would never be truly out of her shadow with Inuyasha She knew that she would be doomed to be a substitute until the real one was with Inuyasha, but here she didn't feel like a shadow. She felt like she was Kagome not Kikyou's reincarnation. But could she stay after it was done?

She new that if she stayed here she would miss her family terribly, but she also couldn't help but feeling a deep sadness that she would never be able to see them again. Who she wondered? Her friends, yes, she truly had come to love her friend here more than any other friends she had back home. Her friends there had not fought with her, and saved her life more times that she could count. Yes, she would defiantly miss her friends very much if she couldn't come back. And now she found that she had a son, though she did not bare him herself she could feel a strong bond between them. But why was she now feeling bad that she might never see Sesshoumaru, yes she was starting to like him. She didn't think it was like she would have a boyfriend or something, did she? Yet, when she thought of not seeing him ever again, it felt like someone was trying to kill her, she felt a twist of pain like she had felt when she lost Inuyasha to Kikyou. If she left she would never see them again, and the thought of that sliced her like a knife. . She didn't want to miss seeing them.

She knew now that when everything was done the Shikon would disappear and once she went home she could never return. She bit her lip in concentration.

She was so torn as to what to do. Her love for her family in the future, and for her friends torn at her down to her core, she wanted to continue to move between both times so that she wouldn't have to chose. She leaned against the window, and sighed what was she going to do. She continued ponding over her feelings that she had for Sesshoumaru, her friends, and family.

Her thoughts where broken when she heard Jaken running down the hall yelling something, then he slammed against the wall. She went to the door and opened it. She looked at the toad youkai with his eyes glazed over clutching his staff, staring out into space.

"I told you. Don't order me around you rotten, smelly toad." Kisho was standing at the end of the hall in a fighting stance, breathing deeply, "and if you ever hit me with that stupid staff again I will bash your head in with it." His eyes had a golden fire to them, has be cracked his claws. Taking in the condition of the little twerp outside her door.

Kagome froze in place at how much his presents filed the area, she was almost afraid of him. But she also saw the same attitude Inuyasha normally had as he was yelling at his opponents. She almost laughed when she realized how much like both of them he was, you could truly tell he was related to them both. He kept true to his name, one you knew his own mind, at least that is what she thought Kisho meant. Before Jake could get up, he stormed off, out of site.

"Stupid brat, thinks he owns the palace, how dare he treat…"Jaken was cut off when Kagome kick the ugly youkai in the side. He glared at her, then stood and swung the staff of heads tripping her back into her room, raising the staff of heads high in the air, "Stupid wench learn your place. You will not hit the loyal servant of Sesshou…"

"Jaken," The deep voice of Sesshoumaru broke through his rant, "What are you doing?" He looked down at Jaken, then to Kagome who was lying on the floor, he felt quite upset that Jaken had attacked her.

Jaken turned around and bowed low before Sesshoumaru, "Ahh, Sesshoumaru-sama I was merely teaching this human wench her place in a youkai lord's home, sir"

Sesshoumaru glare down at his retainer, as his eyes narrowed. Before Jaken could say another word or for Kagome to blink, the green youkai went flying through the air and out Kagome's window. Once Jaken was gone he reached his hand down to her to help her up. "He did not hurt you did he?"

Kagome took his help and stood, she smiled at him, "No I am fine. I think Jaken is in more pain than anything. First Kisho, and now you." Kagome chuckled thinking of how they had the same answer to the question of what to do with Jaken.

"uh?" Sesshoumaru looked puzzled at Kagome who waved her hand at him before she continued.

"Well Kisho, not even 2 minutes ago, threw Jaken against the wall of my room, and now you just kicked him out of my window." Kagome was still chuckling as she told him that.

A smirk graced his features, watching her enjoyment of what had happened. "Jaken deserved it."

It had been three days since Sesshoumaru left to patrol his lands. Kagome walked through the castle finding herself lost in thought. She had been that way since he left. She kept herself busy with the children, and practicing her archery. She figured if it was going to come down to a battle she might want to hone her skills as well.

She had to get rid of some minor youkai that were around the castle the first night Sesshoumaru was gone but it had been easy enough. It seemed like after she killed them though more just decided to come around. She was forced to defeat them with out help, she was starting to feel her power grow. It was almost as if there was something building up inside her, Kaede had said that she wasn't even a where of the true power that she possessed. She was starting to think she might find out.

Kagome had fallen asleep with Rin snuggling up next to her, when Kisho came into her room with tears running down his face. He edged up next to his mother and shook her slightly to wake her. Kagome's eyes drifted open and she smiled when she first saw Kisho, then her smile turned into a look of worry when she saw his face. She set Rin down on the bed and eased out and knelt down next to him.

"What's wrong did you have another nightmare?" Kagome try to sound reassuring to him.

"Yes but it is not what you are thinking," he paused willing the tears in his eyes not to happen as he grabbed her white sleeping gown, "Father is going to die"

Kagome gasp, as tears started to fill her eyes, "No, he will be back tonight. Everything will be fine it was just a dream."

"NO! You don't understand." His eyes hardened and his voice became more commanding, "Dreams, like the one I had are not just dreams. They are events of someone close to me. I watched Father get attacked. I watched him get ejected with some type of poison that is stopping his ability to heal. But he got hurt in the attack and even though he beat them. He is lying there bleeding to death. He is going to die. We have to go help him."

Kagome looked at him, she didn't want to believe what he was saying, "You don't know that." She forced a smile on her face to try to ease the boy's nerves, but something in her told her that she should check it out.

"No, you don't get it. That is a power I got from you. That is why I can see the Shadow youkai in my dreams. Please I can take you to where he is. Please lets go." His eyes were pleading with her to move quickly and his voice was full of worry and fear.

Kagome nodded, "Alright, go tell Jaken what is going on and tell him to keep his slimy butt awake while I am gone."

Aun flew though the air carrying its two passengers to where the small boy was directing. Kagome's heart stopped when she saw a battled field exactly where Kisho had said it would be. She told Aun to land. She secured her bow and arrows, and jumped off Aun searching for the wounded Sesshoumaru.

Kisho ran straight for a small group of trees before Kagome could catch him. Kagome and

Kisho froze when they saw, matted silver hair, and the bloodied form Sesshoumaru lying surrounded in dead youkai.

Kagome dropped down next to him and started looking at his wounds which shouldn't have been that bad had he been able to heal. Kisho looked about his father taking the scent of the area. He could smell three poisons in the area, one of which was his own father's poison the other two he couldn't place.

"Sesshoumaru," Kagome whispered to him trying to wake him. Her only answer was a groan. Kagome tore his sleeves and started to remove the upper part of his kimono. She ran her hands over his well muscled chest to the two long slashes. She leaned his body up and started to wrap the make shift bandage on the deep gash on his chest, and then the one on his stomach. He eyes opened, and his claw hand was at Kagome's throat.

"Sesshoumaru, please…" His eyes widened when he saw Kagome sitting there tears running down her face and Kisho wide eyed at his father's sudden action. His hand went from around her throat to cupping her face. "Ka…go…me…" His hand dropped to his side as his eyes closed.

"Sesshoumaru," her voice was high and pained, she leaned her head down to his chest trying to hear a heart beat from him, but between her sobs she couldn't hear a thing. "Sesshoumaru!" her voice creaked as she yelled his name.

"He's alive but we won't be if we don't get moving. This is going to attract other youkai and we need to leave." He put his hand on his mother's shoulder and urged her to move. She nodded then finished her bandage

Kagome and Kisho pushed Sesshoumaru up against a tree to try and move him to his feet. Kisho ran off to get Aun while Kagome held him up. When the dragon mount finally got to the grouping, they started pulling the unconscious Sesshoumaru body on to the beast.

Sesshoumaru groaned and growled as they pulled him ungracefully and painfully onto the creature. Kagome pulled herself up on to Aun and settled Sesshoumaru in front of her against her body as she held him tight. Kisho jumped back behind his mother and yelled to the beast to take to the air.

When they finally landed at the palace Jaken was there throwing a fit. After they finally got Sesshoumaru to his room Kagome started cleaning his wounds and bandaging them again.

She sent Kisho and Jaken to go get the herbs she would need to try and cure the poison. After they left, Kagome broke down and cried into his chest. She was frighten, afraid to lose him. She didn't know when it happened but she had fallen in love with him.

"Kago… me… why are you crying" a low whispered voice broke into her tears. She looked up, her face tear stained, as she looked into his golden eyes. She wrapped her arms around his neck and started kissing him. He lifted hand to her head and pulled her close deepening their kiss. Then suddenly he gasped and she pulled back, "Am I hurting you?" she ran her hand over his chest checking his wounds.

He grabbed her hands stopping their search; she looked up and met his gaze. "I am fine." His voice was low and pained, "Why where you crying Kagome?"

She blinked away her tears, "I was worried, worried about you Sesshoumaru." Her hands went up to his face and brushed away the dirt and hair off his face.

"You were worried about me? You don't need to I will be fine." He groaned as he tried to sit up then stopped when he felt pain shoot through him.

"No you won't, your not healing, Sesshoumaru. What ever attacked you has poisoned you, and that is stopping you from healing the way you normally would have." Her hands went to push him down gently on the bed. "You need to stay lying down until I can cure the poison in your system. Jaken and Kisho…" She was cut off as he claimed her lips with his own. He explored the sweet taste of her mouth running his tongue over her teeth, and against her cheeks. He released her lightly kissing her lips. He reached up and cupped her face with his hands. "Your so beautiful." His eyes fluttered close, as her hands reached up to his hands on her face in pure surprise.

'Wow no one's ever called me beautiful before. Does he care for me too? Does he love me like I have started to love him 'She thought to herself has heat rose to her face. She checked his wounds one last time before she knelt next to his bed and laid her head on his chest and rested, listening to the sound of his heart beat, and the raise and fall of his breathing. Letting the sounds and the motion of his breathing relax her and slowly darkness claimed her in a peaceful sleep, as the sun rose on the horizon.

When he awoke late the next day he found her sleeping against him, with her body lightly tucked underneath his arm. He brought his other hand up to her face and lightly traced the lines of her sleeping form. He wrapped his arm around her tighter, and slowly took in her scent, letting ascents fill him. She started to slowly stretch, her muscles tensed, and relaxed down her body. Feeling her do that filled his stomach with an odd sensation, that caused him to have a heat raise in his body.

He watched Kagome's eyes float open, then a very bright red blush filled her cheeks. She started to push her self up against him, but stopped when she heard him grunt, as he pulled her back down.

"Sorry, I didn't mean.." he barely heard her, "I didn't mean to fall asleep. "

"It's fine," He pulled her closer and kissed her temple and held her tight against his chest, content with having her so close. She rested her head listening to his heart beat.

"How are you feeling today," her words where concerned.

"I feel fine, thanks to you." He kissed her head as he smelled her hair, he pulled back slightly when he noticed the strong scent of blood and poison all over them both, "I need a bath, I have to get this scent off me."

She looked at him questioningly then realized what they both were covered in. She stood up and waited for him to do the same. When she saw he was having trouble getting to his feet. She went and helped him up and allowed him to lean on her as they made way to the bath house.

Sesshoumaru entered the bath house with Kagome's help. Even though he really didn't need it after he got to his feet. He was just enjoying her being so close.

Kagome's face felt like it was on fire as she watched Sesshoumaru disrobe what was left of his clothing and step towards the spring. Her eyes traveled the length of his body, semi-consciously. When she realized he was looking at her, she quickly turned around with her back to him.

'hmph human modesty' He thought to himself. Wrapping his tail around him to better make her comfortable, he frowned when he saw the blood matted fur. He looked at his bandages and began to rip them off.

Kagome swung around to face him. "What do you think…" stopped in mid sentence as she took a step towards him, reaching out to touch his chest.

The skin of the wounds was closed in a red puckered state. Though you could tell there had been wounds it looked like they were several weeks old and healing quite well.

"How…" she ran her hand over the wounds.

"After the poison was cured my body's natural healing kicked in. Through it pains me to say that it is still not yet back to normal." He took a step towards her and pulled her gaze from his chest to his face. He looked into her shimmering blue-grey eyes, he leaned down and kissed her lightly. "You need to get that stench off you as well, it is quite appalling."

Kagome looked down to find Sesshoumaru slowly unbuttoning her shirt. "EEK, What are you doing?" She quickly covered herself.

"Don't do that." He winced as the sound reverberated in the room.

"uh?" Kagome then felt foolish, she knew how sensitive Inuyasha's ears where, it was only right to guess that Sesshoumaru's would be more so. By the time Kagome realized this, she also realized she was standing without a shirt in front of him. Kagome could hear her own heart beating wildly in her head, put when she went to cover herself up she was pulled into a firm embrace.

After a great deal of coatsing they were both in the hot spring. He never thought she could have gotten any redder than when she allowed her eyes to travel the length of his body, but it had. She kept her back turned towards him and her hair hid her skin from his view. He walked over to her and brushed her hair aside causing her to tense at his touch.

He bent his head down and he kissed her shoulder, then wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him. The feel of her wet skin on his body sent shock waves through his body, and a pooling heat in his loins. He released her and turned away to regain control of himself. Her scent had gotten much stronger in the last few days, and there was something different. He thought on her scent then realized she got gone into heat.

He had started to walk away from her when her hands looped around him and pulled him closer. "Let me help you with your hair" He touched her hand with his and nodded easing himself farther in the water so she could reach.

She lathered her shampoo in his hair making sure to focus on the mats in it before she had him rise. After she helped him she started to wash her own hair but found that he moved her hands and was helping her with her hair like she did with him.

When she broke the surface of the water she found she was facing Sesshoumaru and he claimed her lips in a chaste kiss. He could feel her leaning into the kiss and he deepened it. As he deepened the kiss the strength of her scent became so strong it was making him feel light headed. His blood burned with a pure natural desire to take her. When he pulled back he simply held her close to him, fighting down his urge to mate with her, trying to regain control. He found the longer he stayed there the more he wanted her, the more control he was starting to lose.

He turned from her and headed over to the edge of the spring. His was head spinning with the most basic desire. He pulled himself out and grabbed the towel, and started to dry himself with it.

Kagome stood dumbfounded as he left her arms, and got out. She wrapped her arms around herself to replace his warmth, as she headed to the edge he was near.

"Sesshoumaru" her voice was small and afraid, maybe she was wrong. Maybe he didn't care about her like she thought. Fear welled up in her stomach, she felt a great since of dread, as she watched him leave the bath house with out so much as a glance back at her.

Kagome felt her tears running down her face, and hit the water of the spring. It left like some part of her was going to die. She covered her face with her hands and lean against the spring. She was sure now the Sesshoumaru was just playing with her feelings. He didn't care for anything other than the Tetsusaiga. She cursed herself for feeling this way. Why was it she had set herself up to be hurt like this all the time? First with Inuyasha and now with his brother, she felt stupid for letting her feelings take over.

"Kagome, you baka." She whispered letting her tears run feely now. She would defeat this shadow youkai and get the shards then she would go home never to see either Inuyasha or his stupid brother.

Sesshoumaru's heart clenched up in his chest when he heard he begin to cry. He did not want to make her cry. He was unsure if he would be able to control himself if he had stayed. He wanted to run back in there and wrap his arms around her. But, he did not want to force her to be his mate. 'Wait, his mate? When did he start to consider her a possibility to be his mate?' He never dreamed a day would come when he would consider a human for a mate, but now he was.

He was not sure she would want to be his mate. He on several occasions had tried to take her from this world. She seemed to love Inuyasha, yet that love seemed to make her so sad. All he wanted to do was make her happy, so that she would never cry again.

He was afraid. Afraid that his animal instinct would scare her way from him. Yet he felt he was doing that now. He never thought the day would come that a human would make him feel afraid, like this. He walked way from the bath house; he would have to explain it to her, if she would even talk to him.