All right chapter five! Whoot I never thought I would make it this far without regretting my chapters o.o Hmm not much to say right now but please visit my site! Silhouetteo will be updated first but always check this place out so I can get your reviews I'd like it better if you could review here.

Disclaimer: This is so humiliating... . I don't OWN Inuyasha...

Ramblings: Ok I'm going to say this AH-UN AREN'T DRAGON YOUKAI!!! Least that's what I strongly believe. I mean you've seen the other dragon youkai right? And you've never seen a horse youkai. If you look closely at Ah-Un their features are that of a horse. The ears and the hair and the muzzle is a dead give away. Sure it looks like a dragon but think of this, IT'S A BLOODY DEMON! So of course it's going to look that way!....lol I don't know why I wrote that. No one has ever complained or rambled about such hehehe

R Rating: No real sexuality here, but crude language because a certain someone shows up ;)

Chapter 5: Why is the question!

A squabbling toad came a trotting by. His steps were blissful as the good news left him off his feet. (Heh heh finally one of the humans are going back to where they belong!) He skidded along a few inu youkai servants and they screeched as he nearly toppled them over. He squawked at them for being in his way.

(I still don't understand why Lord Sesshoumaru would want so many humans around! Rin is more than enough trouble!)

With an abrupt turn he screeched and bowed before his lord. "M-My lord Sesshoumaru! Is it true that you are ridding of the human wench!?" he yelped excitedly. (Oh let it be true!)

Blankly, the taiyoukai looked to the halfling and said nothing of interest. Jaken's oversized globes twinkled in hope. Sesshoumaru turned his head away from the disgustingly blinding fool. "Rid of that hopeful visage Jaken-." He began to walk with perfect posture down the halls. "Higurashi is not yet to be leaving us she will be away for some time visiting her kin."

As did he say, the toad's face crumpled and stressed with a sigh. His bounces went back to earth after the taiyoukai. He walked side to him and stared up at his lord. Lord Sesshoumaru's face was as of stone, hardened and serious. Jaken couldn't begin to comprehend how the young lord Sesshoumaru would choose a human mate. They were weak and filthy!

"My Lord why would you want this human to become your mate? Surely you will reconsider???" He queried with a hint of suggestion.

Yet this didn't pass by the lord and he eyed his servant from the corner of his eye. The toad was oblivious until he felt Lord Sesshoumaru's aura burn. He looked sideways and gulped; a rock hit the bottom of his stomach. The Taiyoukai stopped and glared. His words slow and dripping full of poison "Does my...choice in a mate...bother you Jaken?" he finished with a bloodied sword slice run across his eyes.

He shrunk and clutched the staff close. "N-No milord! She is a fine choice! Worthy of your heir my lord Sesshoumaru!" His eyes became idle again and his steps continued on. The cherry wood hard doors of Kagome's room began to come into detail. They would be leaving soon.

"I am not following in the foot steps of my father." He said firmly. "To retrace the steps of such disgrace would be my down fall. His so called love for the hanyou's mother." His servant nodded a bit more chipper. "Yes! You are so right my lord!"

"..." Kagome's room wasn't much further now and he stopped in front of the wood placing a hand on it. Mentally he finished the conversation (Father's great power...however his merciful heart slew it before the fool knew it)

The door opened with silence. The miko was near her bed placing all her items in a sloppy fashion within the dark green sack. On the "mattress" that had to be replaced along with stretched and torn bed sheets.

Kagome turned around and saw Sesshoumaru at the door. She scowled

"Hey! You know you could have knocked!" The girl placed both hands on her hips and tried to appear frightening, yet to Sesshoumaru she shrunk in size.

He looked at her blankly. "And why exactly would you want me to?" She huffed at him like he was stupid. "You could have just barged in here when I wasn't decent!" Sesshoumaru looked at her form slowly then up to her face. Tracing the marks of anger. He smirked knowingly and commented. "Don't flatter yourself, you hardly have the developed body to say so."

Kagome gasped. Her teeth and fists clenched with a burning fury. "WHY YOU, YOU YOU!!!" He flicked a hand through his ivory locks absently. "I see that you are more than ready for your trip, now gather your things so we shall leave." With a slight spin on his heel the youkai lord left as gracefully as he came with his toad servant tagging along going on about "Well said my lord!"

A miko girl left in the room was still fuming fisting a hand full of anger.

-

The corner of her eye twitched. Kagome's whipping hair around her face made the angry façade a bit more wild and frightening.

"Don't flatter yourself, you hardly have the developed body to say so."

She clenched a fist menacingly and growled to herself. The burning and wild aroma wafted on the winds current and into Sesshoumaru's senses. He easily picked up the smell and smirked a bit before chuckling to himself.

(Wonderful)

Ah-Un took flight in the air gracefully. The horse youkai's talons marked the clouds as it trotted along the air leaving wisped and whisked trails. Winds whispered by as they took the color of fall's presence. The four seasons neared it's end and left a trail of pink sakura everywhere.

Kagome looked to the passing colors and felt the air free. What was so odd about it was that it felt so calm, so right, and so relaxing. Was it because she was high in the air? She made a ridiculous look (I hope I don't feel so 'free' BECAUSE of the altitude) but looking down and around.

She was wrong.

Even with Inuyasha and her friends gone, she felt lightheaded, not sickly but as though she might leave her body and take flight. Why was she so free? Sighing she tossed her head back a bit and placed a hand on her forehead. Unconciously she leaned back and relaxed instantly. "Ahh."

Sesshoumaru glanced down at her relaxed figure and stared plainly. She was enjoying herself quite well. "What are you doing?" Kagome huffed "I'm relaxing that's what." He glared a bit with her smart mouth. "I am not your comfort." She shrugged and went back into her most comfortable position. Yet it did not take her long to realize what he meant and backed off instantly. "O-Oh sorry." She blushed

(Oh great I think I'm blushing! Ack! I am!) "Augh!" She cried out before leaning on the carriage angrily. The taiyoukai looked at her questioningly if he could.

She glared out to the birds flying FREELY. (Ugh, ack, yuck, gross! I can't believe I felt so relaxed!) She looked down at the passing trees and made a look of anger. Yet it was twitching with confusion. (Why was I so comfortable with him!? I should be fuming with anger! What!? Of course I'm fuming with anger! What am I talking about! There is no way Sesshoumaru could have been warm like that! Ugh UGH!)

Once again the winds were no longer feathery but sharp and harsh with a furious scent. Now if Sesshoumaru could his look changed to ridicule. He looked away and up ahead.

(ningens...)

Soon as Ah-Un stopped Kagome hopped out gratefully crossing her arms with a dark face. Sesshoumaru leapt out as well and felt his muscles ache for movement. He looked as his whereabouts scanning details with extreme care. The small-forested hovel was secluded and quiet, not one wafting sliver of Inuyasha's scent was found.

"Hn."

Turning to the somehow still fuming miko he called. "Come." She turned her body lazily to her right and looked at him. Both irritated and bored. Kagome stuck a tongue out at him and hmped. Sesshoumaru watched her body twist back at him and he mentally sighed. "So stubborn."

Again Kagome turned around hearing his deep voice but found a white blur appear blindingly. Before her eyes could do more than just widen, the demon lord scooped her up and held her bridal style. She glanced down at her body lifted and glanced back up at Sesshoumaru face staring down at her. "HEY what do you think you're doing!?" She snarled

He glared back at her hotly. "Just what is it you think I'm up to that makes you yell so loudly?" Kagome bite her lip and continued to scowl at him. "What do I think your up to!? Hah! I bet you have a lot of sick twisted ideas locked up in that noggin of yours!!!"

Sesshoumaru for the first time in his life sighed and his shoulders lifted with Kagome and receded again. She felt his chest rub against her and she looked up shocked. Sesshoumaru sighed!? Her eyes widened dumbstruck. The lord looked down at his 'so-called-mate' and pressed his face to hers till their noses touched. She shrunk and shriveled up. Mentally she thought like a mouse "Hooo okay you win Sessh heh heh! "

He looked at her with a bored expression at her lamb like shock. He started slowly. "I am tired of having to repeat myself Higurashi Kagome." She blinked at him speechless unable to move in his spell like gaze. It was as though his golden eyes could throw daggers themselves. "This Sesshoumaru has already told this Kagome why he wants her so near." His face pressed closer and her breath hitched in her throat. "You will have it easier if you just let yourself accept that I want you as my mate and nothing else." He said in soft voices.

He looked through her thinking (Had I needed to use so many words?) focusing, her gaping face were as though the owls in the forest. He found himself with a satisfactory response. Looking toward the skies once again he leapt and left as running colors on a canvas.

-

Like a plummeting star, Sesshoumaru fell with his bride in a tight safe embrace. When he fell to earth from the heavens he landed as though he never met the air. Kagome unlocked her hands around his neck and fell to the grass gratefully.

Her dainty hands grasped the straps of the sack tightly and she made her way over to bone eaters well. She leaned over the weathered lip looking down. Sesshoumaru walked casually which to anyone would be a graceful entrance to the well. He glanced at her eyes staring downward before turning them the way she seemed intent on.

Surprisingly enough the well was nothing different from an ordinary one but obviously had some kind link with the girl that hid it so well.

Kagome pulled back and pivoted to Sesshoumaru. "All right Sesshoumaru" She said putting up a finger. "The spell Kaede taught me was pretty complex so I only remember some of it. This reduces its effect to about three times the night comes." He gave a curt nod. "Very well, I will return here at the morning of the fourth." She smiled and placed a hand on the well's edge before feeling her muscles tremble with the anticipation.

Before letting go she felt a talon hand grasp her wrist. She peeked at the corner of her eye seeing the taiyoukai stare at her a bit more intensely than usually. "Don't even think of escape for I will find you quicker than that thought will come." He lipped. Kagome rolled her eyes and said "Whatever" in a flat tone.

Sesshoumaru was not irritated but content with her lack of fear. He found it a very attractive and noble thing to not be frightened of he, Sesshoumaru. Taking her captured hand he brought it to his lips and brushed a warm kiss on the smooth skin. Once again Kagome blushed. "Until then." He said.

(Oh great!!! I'm blushing again. How does Sesshoumaru manage to do that???) She looked at his eyes, which seemed to darken with an attraction. The darker tone was very beautiful and enchanting. She turned and became a deeper shade of red.

She nodded trying hard to peel the grasped lock away. He let go of her hand lightly and watched as she jumped into the well. He felt the magic's aura envelope her body's warmth and let it dissipate. Looking in he saw her gone. (Ah) he thought.

(So the scent lingers yet the body does not) He turned on his heel about to depart but froze picking up a foul stench. The rank, could not be hidden, it was Inuyasha. A low uncharacteristic growl erupted in his throat. It seemed that lately the miko had unearthed a certain wild and possessive side in him. The growl itself showed it.

"Inuyasha." He said lowly. Raising an elegant hand his wrist twisted in full circle and the wind became light and less heavy with his and Kagome's tangled scent. He leapt in the air with a secretive aura wrapped around him. He would not sense him or smell him.

Although the attraction created a slightly heavier scent but nothing that filthy hanyou would detect. He smirked and thought about the attraction. Oh yes that attraction was for him and him alone. He would have loved if that mutt could have smelt it but this would have given the girl a bigger incentive to escape. Without him she would soon become his mate easily.

Kagome was going to wrap around his finger like a good miko.

-

Two Days Later

"So Kagome you really had formed some kind of new disease in your lungs?"

"Yeah it must have been horrible! You were gone so long."

Kagome took a deep sigh and let her shoulders fall forward.

"Oh yeah I was out for a while, really hard to breathe and stuff."

(Thanks a lot gramps, thanks to you I'm becoming an expert liar!)

Yuka took a sip of her drink and laced her fingers under her chin. She gave Kagome a serious glare.

"So Kagome, how is it going with the possessive man?"

She pulled back. "You mean S-Sesshoumaru??"

They all gasped "Sesshoumaru!"

She looked down flushing with embarrassment. (Oh Great!!! She was talking about Inuyasha not Sesshoumaru. They don't even know him!)

"Gosh Kagome you met another guy??? So tell us, whats he like, is he rich? Handsome???" Ayumi squeaked.

She blinked haphazardly "What's he like?"

They all nodded with serious facades bringing her down. "You can't keep hiding Kagome, you have to tell us sometime." Added Eri.

Kagome put two index fingers together and mumbled unsurely.

"Well he is rich, and very handsome" She blushed.

(Yeah Sesshoumaru IS Handsome...)

Although catching herself daydreaming she fumed instantly and clenched a fist. (Ah! Kagome don't forget he's a cold arrogant jerk!!!)

She flung a finger up and scowled.

"But besides that! He's even more possessive than Inuyasha! He's a cold and arrogant man and I don't like him one bit." She huffed looking away childishly with crossed arms.

"He's really that bad?" Yuka asked already interested.

Kagome looked at ridiculously. "Of course he is! He makes me go with him against my own will, and I don't have a say in any of it!!!"

They all pulled back clinging on to each other. "Kagome spare us your fury! We aren't Sesshoumaru you know!"

Unknowingly she was standing at her table scaring all the innocent bystanders. She looked down pressing her chin against her collar bone and relaxed her hand with a "oops"

-

"Is that what makes him so terrible? Because he doesn't want you to leave his side?" Ayumi asked walking with the three of them down the sidewalk.

Yuka smiled to herself and looked up dreamily. "Oh Kagome, how can you find that NOT romantic???"

She blinked and looked ridiculously at Yuka's second head.

(Whats wrong with them???)

"No it's not!" she said sighing. "I mean he handsome, strong and rich but the guy's a cold fish! He never smiles and the only thing you'll see on his face is anger of a smirk of sadistic amusement."

She sighed again. "What is worse is that he wants me to be his m- I mean Girlfriend no matter what I think."

They gasped in unison and said. "Oh! That's so sweet!"

Kagome fell over and barely managed to process what had come rushing into her.

"WHAT?"

Eri Laughed. "Oh Kagome your so clueless!"

Ayumi nodded and smiled. "Yeah it's obvious the guy is totally head over heels for you."

Yuka winked. "I mean you said he was cold and hardly showed emotion. SO it must mean by wanting to be your boyfriend is telling you that he likes you and he can't show it."

The raven-haired girl stopped and felt the wind blow warmly against Sesshoumaru's kiss mark.

"You really think so?"

"Of course!" they all said surely.

"Ok ok!" she waved back.

She continued walking with them hearing them gossip about "Kagome's so lucky." "I know" "how does she find all these guys?" "Hojo, Inuyasha, Kouga AND Sesshoumaru!"

Her eyes never peeled off the cement. (Sesshoumaru really does like me?) She thought unbelievingly. Pulling up her once limp hand from Sesshoumaru's body tingling kiss she looked at the mark strangely.

-

She flipped over on her back on the bed and gazed a gazely stare at the mark. (He doesn't show emotion because he doesn't know how to)

Yuka winked at her and Kagome looked oddly. "I mean you said he was cold and hardly showed emotion. SO it must mean by wanting to be your boyfriend is telling you that he likes you and he can't show it."

"Is that true?" She asked her conscious rolling back over.

-

She rolled her back against the goshinboku and continued to stare at the mark. "Is it true Sesshoumaru wants me as his mate because he can't tell me that he likes me?" for some reason the more she looked at the mark the more familiar and unfamiliar it seemed. (Well...He has been acting rather strangely...not to mention a bit nicer)

She glared at herself and scowled.

(No)

She thought (No, they don't even know Sesshoumaru like I do, and I hardly know anything about him myself) She sighed. (This is so confusing.) Although strangely she felt quite warmed up about all the questions. Kagome shook her head angrily.

"No! Sesshoumaru doesn't love me!"

"Sesshoumaru!?"

Kagome gasped and turned her head at the call.

Her eyes gaped wide.

"Inuyasha!"

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Mwhaahahahahahaha!!! Cliffy!!! Sorry to make you wait so long. I had such a prolonged inspiration lag. Hopefully this did something for you guys! HEY Check out my other story too, "Soft Solitary Bleeding Hearts" I know there is an OC but it's not for my amusement it's more like on my idea of why Sesshoumaru's ends up so cold and distant. It's rather sad I say. Well Seeya till next Chappie!!!

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