Sesshoumaru walked over and sat down on the futon and placed the bucket of water on the floor and reached in and got the cloth and squeezed out the water. Then turned over her wrists and pushed the sleeves all the way up to her shoulders. Then went and started washing one palm up to her shoulder then worked on the other. After he was done he could still smell a small trace of blood so raised up off the futon and moved back the blanket and checked her feet and no dried blood so he checked her knee's and saw it there so he washed them. Afterwards covered her back up. She started tossing around and whimpering again as being hurt again. He started thinking to himself.

"What all has my half brother done to her? How many other times has he hurt her?" He thought as he reached down and washed out the cloth and squeezed out the water again and slowly laid the cloth on her forehead. But as soon as he did she opened her eye's and bolted sitting up and screamed.

"NO, DON'T HURT ME, INUYASHA!" She screamed and her heart was pounding. Sesshoumaru pulled her to his chest.

"Ssshhh, you're safe here! He won't hurt you!" He said as he heard the door open and the two guards that were at the stairs came in with their swords in hand looking around. Then their eye's looked at Sesshoumaru and he shook his head at them. They understood and bowed and turned and walked out of the room shutting the door behind them. She continued to cry. "Kagome, look up." He spoke softly. She looked up into his eye's. "Listen to this Sesshoumaru. You are safe here amongst these grounds. No one will harm you, here!" He told her.

"Why, why would you protect me? I'm nothing, but a weak human. Someone's weak jewel shard detector, someone cook and whom more than half the time has to be saved; because I can't hit what I aim at with my arrow, and even when I do it hits were I don't intend it to go. You should know that much. Remember when I shot your armor on your arm and not the shard in the human arm you had while wielding the tetsusaiga. Are we not enemies? Because I've helped your brother and gave the sword to him and all?" She looked down at the futon.

"This will be uncharacteristic of this Sesshoumaru, but this Sesshoumaru will admit we or I started off on the wrong foot. But at the tomb when you pulled the sword out, yes, I was surprised you could pull it out and I and my half brother couldn't. It angered me so but what angered me more was that you started to astonish me by you being a human and a female at that and challenged me and then you challenged me again like you said. You are the first human and woman who has challenged me and I have not killed because of it. You who have stood up to me without showing fear. You and my ward are the first humans that I've ever let get close to me and worked their way into my heart and have proven not all humans are the same. You still astonish me to no end at times. You, Kagome have worked into my heart and managed to go around the stone ice wall around my heart that I'd vowed to myself that I'd never become like my father and fall for a human as he did. But you broken that and this Sesshoumaru finds that I've fallen for you!" He said to her.

"I don't know really what to say." As she stood up and walked over and looked out at the full moon. Her fingers went to her lips then her hand slid down to her chest. At her chest she felt the bottle with the shards in it and pulled it out and looked at it and sighed. "I don't know what to do right now because I have this to complete. I have to find these shards and find Naraku to destroy him and I don't even know if I'll even survive the battle! That and there are things that you don't know about me." She said with her back to him. She did not hear Sesshoumaru when he got off the futon and walked up behind her and put his arm around her waist and rested his hand on her stomach with his claws touching her. She jumped when she felt his claws on her stomach and moved to make a little more room between them

"Relax!" He told her as he brought her back up against his chest.

"Easy for you to say! I've seen some of what your claws can do and a few times up close and personal. So even though you've kissed me a few times and brought me back to health but even though you've done those I'm sorry that I'm still feel a tad bit nervous around you and your claws. As well as bring around any youkai or hanyou because of." She stopped because thinking about what Inuyasha had done to her physically a week ago and then what his rage almost got to today was starting to have tears come to her eyes.

"This Sesshoumaru does not know what all the half breed's done to you from the time going to the tomb of our father till now or how many times he has made you cry! But this Sesshoumaru would listen." He let Kagome know.

"You know the first thing Inuyasha said when he was pinned to the tree. He called me Kikyo. He did not believe me until I told him my name several times then when he finally sniffed me that's when he knew I was not her. When we had to get the jewel back from a black crow and I had to use a bow the first time he always threw it in my face that "Kikyo was better at shooting." When I was taken away from the group by the wolf prince Kouga and was taken to a cave behind a waterfall on a cliff. When the group came to rescue me Inuyasha got jealous because Kouga declared in front of his tribe and our group that he was in love with me, Which I only think of him as a friend. But anyway then Kouga comes around your half brother has the nerve to get upset if anyone shows any interest in me. Until I heard from the kitsune pup what Inuyasha told the monk. He told the monk that he wished he could have both Kikyo and me as concubines so he did not have to choose one or the other so he could have us and we'd have no say who he slept with and when. Like the other lords of the lands except you. And that he could have Kikyo every night while he would keep it where I'd bare all his pup's for him, Kikyo, and myself." She went rigid when she heard growling. Feeling her go rigid he turned her to face him and lifted her chin.

"Look at me! I know I've attacked you before but trust this Sesshoumaru when I say No HARM will come to you. I will not harm you!" He moved one of his fingers back and forth under her chin.

"He even gets mad when I need to go home to visit my family and when I do go and if I'm late according to his terms he comes and gets me!" She said. "I was going to see if could go visit my family after Sango and I got out of the hot spring that day he picked me up by the throat and threw my into the cliff. My family must be worried about me." She sighed.

"Where is your home?" He asked.

"That's kind of hard to explain." She said. But something caught his attention. "What's wrong?"

"Rin's having a bad dream. I'll be right back." He turned and left the chamber. While he was gone she opened the balcony window and walked out onto the balcony and walked to the railing and titled her head up to look at the moon then closed her eyes letting the slight breeze lift her hair. That's the way she was when Sesshoumaru re-entered the chamber. What he saw made him stop for it mesmerized him. There on the balcony she stood looking up at the moon with her hair floating gently to the side. The moon so big it looked like it was embracing her surrounding her in it's silvery white light. When he walked closer her over heard her talking to herself.

"It's so peaceful here at this castle considering the owner of the castle. Sesshoumaru isn't cold hearted like he seems; He's sweet and under his cold emotionless mask he actually shows love. I think when I have to return to my groups, I'm going to miss it here. I'll Rin and believe it or not even Sesshoumaru. But all things do come to a end." She sighed deeply.

"It doesn't have to end!" He came up behind her. She turned around and looked up into his eyes.

"How can it not Sesshoumaru? I have to comple..." She was saying before he backed her against the balcony railing while seizing her lips. "Mmmm." She moaned as she felt him lightly nipping at her lower lip for entrance. He trailed his hand up her leg raising the sleeping kimono and his hand continued up until it came to rest upon the silky cloth between her legs covering her heated center. He worked a few fingers back and forth rubbing her center working to the edge of her underwear to her thigh. He broke his kiss going to her neck nipping and sucking as he slipped two fingers underneath the edge of the underwear to slid between her heated lips. While doing so he felt himself growing with need as he pinned her against the railing resting his fast growing shaft against her leg while rubbing her hot core which was growing wet as he slid one finger into her, coming up and felt her barrier that marked her as a virgin. "Mmmm N-no!" She gasped and pushed his hand and him away and went to run into her chamber but he swiftly turned and grabbed her and pulled her back towards him.

"It's alright, I understand but know this." He reached down and took ahold of her hand and guided her hand to his hakama to feel the hard bulge that lay underneath "Kagome, feel the way this Sesshoumaru's body reacts to you when we kiss as well as reacts when your in this Sesshoumaru's dreams. That early morning that we kissed in the forest when my eye's were red and my fangs grew longer were they scratched you. My body was like this but even more so. My youkai side of me wanted to be released to mate you." He told her. Her face blushed at the feel of him under her hand. "This Sesshoumaru will admit I want to mate you but will not force you like a low level youkai would. Now come it's late and you still need rest." He took her hand and lead her back into her chamber and over to the futon. "Sleep well!" He kissed her then walked towards the door then turned and watched her lay down onto the futon and covered up before turning back around and walked out of the room heading own to his.

Inu Group

The Inu group stopped for the night even though they were about a couple of hours away from the village by walking but not even a half hour by flying.

"Inuyasha, how could you do that to Kagome? Kagome is a wonderfully sweet girl, she doesn't deserve this! She's the least person who deserves the way you acted towards her today!" Miroku said.

"She does not deserve to be around my fucking half brother either! She is not his and will not be his. I will see to that myself. His or the stupid wolf's." Inuyasha cracked his knuckles. Then leapt into a nearby tree and disappeared into the darkness.

"What friendship they have left between them will soon not be there if he does not stop and use that head of his!" Sango spoke out.

"That's if there is any there at all as it is!" Shippo yawned.

"I just hope he does no do anything stupid!" Miroku walked over and put more wood on the fire before laying down and going to sleep.

"Kagome, thinks to tell me NO about coming back with us well two can play this!" Inuyasha said as he leapt from tree to tree heading back towards Sesshoumaru's castle.

Sesshoumaru's Chamber

Sesshoumaru had walked into his chamber and had taken his outer haori as well as his outer hakama and laid them by his futon with his swords leaning against the wall next to the futon while he was laying in his futon when a sudden he sat up when the memory of his discovery that occurred in the other chamber shot back to him. As he thought to himself.

"So, the half breed has never mated and marked the young miko and yet has her travel around knowing she's still a virgin and has not marked her!" He lifted the hand and smelt the clawed fingers that had been sliding back and forth within the lips of her heated core and took a deep breath. Then brought the same fingers to his mouth and tasted them. The taste that was her scent his mind into a whirlwind. "Little brother, you just missed your chance with Kagome!" He thought to himself as he enjoyed the lasting taste on his tongue.