Title: Even Demons Love

Author: Fire Mistress

Couples: Sesshomaru/Kagome

Rating: R

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Disclaimer: The characters used do not belongs to me. They rightfully belong to their respective owner, which I believe is Rumiko Takahashi. I am a very poor college student so I am VERY broke. Please don't sue O.O

Notes: Oh, my goodness! It's been so long since I last picked up on this story! I'm so sorry, everyone! I really can't give you any good excuses. All that I can say is that I've been so busy I had had no time to neither write nor update any of my stories. I thought that after last quarter (which was my last quarter for my Associates) things were going to cool down and I was going to have a bit more time to write. Of course, as you might know, that theory proved false. Now with vacation coming up (and the fact that because of Financial Aid, I'm forced to drop to three classes a week) I will definitely spend more time finishing my stories.

Thanks to all of you who supported me and waited patiently for this next chapter to come up!

Fire Mistress

Chapter 2: Faithful Encounter

The light tapping of pencil against desk was the only sound heard within the confinements of her room. Crumbled papers were carelessly thrown to the side, making the small room look messier then it truly was. The soft dark shadows covered more than half of her room providing that the only source of light she possessed was the tiny office lamp on top of her desk. Frustrated, she sighed noisily, placing her petite hands on her face as she did so.

If there was one thing that she hated more than Naraku was math tests. She had come back just a few hours prior and was soon informed by Sota that she had a major test the following day. She hasn't planned of staying home for long, but the news of the upcoming test forced her to remain in her time studying. Inuyasha was of course not very happy with the idea, claiming that women in his era needed no education. He was so inclined to take her back to continue searching for the shards that it took some threatening of sitting him and not bringing ramen noodles for him to leave in peace…

…As peaceful as Inuyasha can get anyways…

Kagome sighed again. Being away from school for such a long time had lots of disadvantages, and although her friends tried as best as they could to help her catch up with their notes, Kagome was afraid that she was falling behind. If things kept going at this rate, she wasn't going to graduate from high school.

And that was one thing she refused to let happen.

Although it was going to kill her, she needed to ask Inuyasha to let her come back home more often, at least until she graduated. After that she'll stay with him however long he wanted her to stay. Actually, that was a bad idea. Knowing Inuyasha as much as she did, she knew that if it was up to him, she wouldn't come back home. Well, not until the ramen noodles were gone, anyways.

Kami, sometimes she wondered what she saw in him. He was brash, loud, and for the most part annoying…scratch that, he was always annoying. However, Kagome knew that behind all that façade of a 'bad boy' there was a really nice man – hanyou – that was just misunderstood. Some people might have called it being naïve while others just called it being foolhardy, but Kagome has always believed there was good in everyone regardless if they were a youkai, a hanyou or a human – unless, of course, they were Naraku.

Crumpling the piece of paper on her desk, Kagome threw it behind her shoulders and once more began working on the same problem she had been working on for the past thirty minutes. Dealing with demons she can handle, but math? That was the worst! The gods were somehow working against her today. Kagome just had that distinct feeling. Normally – and although she still loathed math – she would solve the problems given to her immediately, but this…this, she didn't even knew if there was an appropriate word to name it, was getting her irritated. If only her mother or her grandfather would have been there to help her out. Unfortunately, all three of them were attending some lady's – that frankly speaking she couldn't remember her name – birthday party. Great, while her family was out having fun, she was stuck studying.

Life was cruel.

Deciding to give her mind a rest, Kagome stood up from her chair and headed to her window. Her small room was growing incredibly warm tonight, probably because since the past few electric bills had come to be so high her mother had decided to rarely turn on the air conditioner. Moving her immaculate white curtains to the side, Kagome opened her windows and breathed. The air was a bit salty, giving Kagome the impression of a possible rain later on that night. She just hoped that the family got here before then. Kami knew how much her mother would complain at seeing her newly fixed hair all puffed up.

Kagome couldn't help it but to chuckle silently. Her mother was one of those few people who rarely got mad, but to see her in such a state was a funny site to see, of course, as long as that anger wasn't directed towards her. She remembered the time when her mother had just finished cleaning and polishing the floor and her grandpa decided to come in from the back yard right then and there with his shoes all muddy. Her mother was so angry that she just started picking several objects around the house and throwing it at her grandfather. Even her poor cat Buyo had almost been a victim when she picked him up to throw him to her grandfather. If she hasn't stopped her then, one of Buyo's lives would have most certainly left him. Her grandfather had ran off that house so fast that he had looked more like a boy of twelve than an old man of sixty-five. After that, he always made sure to take off his shoes and socks before entering the house.

Taking in a big breath, Kagome decided to go back to her studies when a sudden flash of white caught her immediate attention. She blinked a couple of times and stuck her head out the window, hoping to see whatever caught her attention, but saw nothing. She shrugged, turned around and walked back to her desk as she silently blamed stress for making her imagine things. But as she turned her head back to the window she saw the flash of white again, and although it disappeared before her eyes like the first snow in winter, she knew that she hasn't been imagine it. Eyebrow furrowed in confusion, Kagome decided to go back to her window and investigate. She had a strange feeling that she had felt an aura similar to this before, but she couldn't really trace it to its source. Damn her miko powers for still being so weak!

"Inuyasha? Inuyasha, is that you?" she asked but silence was her only answer, "Look Inuyasha, I told you that I would be back as soon as I could but I have this major test for tomorrow and if I don't pass, I'll fail! I promise you right here and now if you don't leave me alone I will not bring you any noodles no matter how angry you get at me!"

Again silence. Odd, Kagome thought, usually she would of her the usual "keh…whatever" and then Inuyasha would have been gone. Very odd, indeed.

Deciding then that she had no time to spent with a child like Inuyasha – because as much as he denied it he was more immature than Shippou who was a pup – Kagome went back to her studies. It wasn't until she felt strong wind coming from the window and a soft 'tap' – too soft for any ordinary human to miss – that she knew that she had company.

"Inuyasha, how many times do I have to tell –"

But the person that stood in front of her was not Inuyasha. No. It was someone who she never in her wildest dreams ever imagined seeing there, in her time and her room. A small gasp escaped her beautiful full lips and although she tried to cover it, it did not go unnoticed by the taiyoukai. Her large indigo eyes went wide and her body seemed to have been frozen in place. Just the mere sight of him caused her entire body to go paralyzed, which wasn't such a good idea for he would surely kill her.

Run you fool…

And although that's what her mind so desperately screamed, she soon found that she couldn't obey it. With a smirk placed so beautifully on his lips, Sesshomaru moved closer to his prey. Kagome could only look on helplessly, retreating as much as she could away from him but that was soon out of the question when her back hit solid wall. A small tear lingered on her eyes. Was this the end? Is this how her life was going to finish? At least her family wasn't there. She just hoped that they had the wits to stay much longer at that party until Sesshomaru left.

Wait a second…is that blood on Sesshomaru's stomach? How did I miss that before?

"You are bleeding" she blurted out and, not really thinking on the consequences, she moved closer to Sesshomaru, her hands reaching out to his wounds. Sesshomaru eyes – at seeing what Kagome was about to do – turned red-shot. He grabbed her forcefully on her neck and hissed:

"Do not dare touch me, mortal!" with that, he threw her brutally to her bed, making her back hit the wall with such force that Kagome thought that she had broken her spine. Just like a cheetah about to pounce on its prey, Sesshomaru threw herself at her and held her tiny neck, ready to break it into pieces. Kagome felt all he oxygen leave her lungs. She was struggling to breathe and knew that it wouldn't be long before her lungs stopped altogether.

"Tell me miko, and tell me the truth for this Sesshomaru detest lies, how is it that you are still alive?"

Kagome didn't understand the question, and she would have told him so if it wasn't because she had her concentration on breathing, not talking. Apparently, Sesshomaru was not pleased, "Do you want so desperately to die, miko? And I thought that after remaining alive for this past five hundred years, you would have still wanted to keep your miserable live."

Keep my life for five hundred years? What is this lunatic talking about?

She made an attempt to talk.

"Let…let me…g…go…so that…I…I can…t…tell…you," he thought about it for a moment and let her go. Kagome rolled over to her side and coughed violently, glad that oxygen was circulating once again through her lungs. However, her heart burned and her back, she thought, must be a pretty shade of black and blue. After finally recovering enough to where her breathing weren't as shallow, Kagome turned to the demon in front of her. Although her eyes still held a bit of fear in them, her fury was as clear as a bright summer's day.

"How dare you? How dare you break into my room and tried to kill me? Who gave you that right? And how on earth did you managed to come to my time through the well?"

Sesshomaru, confused and angry at her sudden outburst whispered, "Don't play dumb with me, wench and don't you dare talk to this Sesshomaru in such an insulting way. Remember, I'm the Lord of the West and I have killed others for lesser offenses."

"I'm not playing dumb with you, Sesshomaru," suddenly tired, Kagome plopped herself on her bed. She didn't get it. How was it that Sesshomaru crossed through the well? He didn't possess one of the Shinkon no Tama. In fact, he was one of the few youkais that were not interested in the powers of the shards. But why would he? He was powerful enough to not need one. And although that spider youkai that first transported her through the ancient well and Inuyasha were able to travel through time without a shard, she still knew it was pretty much impossible for Sesshomaru to do so, too. What was going on?

"I still don't get how you got through the well. You don't have one of the jewels with you, I can sense it. You shouldn't be able to transverse time like this. It doesn't make any sense."

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes, "what are you talking about, wench?"

Kagome rolled her eyes. Boy, how was she going to explain this, "Let's see…Sesshomaru…"

"Lord Sesshomaru." Sesshomaru corrected.

"Fine!" she paused for a moment, trying to keep her anger in check, "Lord Sesshomaru, in order for me to go to Feudal Japan, I must jump into this well. Somehow, this well serves as a time machine and takes me five hundred years into the past. However, it does not function without the Shinkon Shards. The only person this had been an exception is to your brother…"

"Half," Sesshomaru corrected.

Kagome had a sudden urge to roll her eyes but wisely decided against it, "…to your half-bother Inuyasha. I have hypothesized that this is so because of the pendant around his neck that is connected to me. But you…I don't know why or how the well allowed you to come to my time."

"You are talking nonsense, miko. I did not come from a well." Kagome stared at him curiously, asking without words for him to continue, "Your damn species somehow evolved a bit more intelligent. About three hundred years ago they started creating weapons that took us all by surprise, even to a great taiyoukai like this Sesshomaru. And, somehow, these inferior creatures figured out a way to trapped us and keep our powers under control. I have been one of the lucky few to have survived and managed to escape."

"So that's why I haven't sense any youkais here in Japan. I was starting to wonder why since youkais, mostly the powerful ones, are known to live for centuries," murmured Kagome. More to herself than to Sesshomaru, but having his sense of hearing heightened more than ordinary humans had managed to hear her clearly.

"Precisely," the taiyoukai agreed.

"So, if I may be so bold as to ask, how did you manage to escape if, as you said, we humans had your powers under control?"

He was silent for such a long time that Kagome was afraid that either he was mad again – which obviously didn't seemed to take much effort to do – or he wasn't going to answer. When he did, however, she let out a breath she did not know she was holding.

"Those damn fools thought they had this Sesshomaru fainted. They gave me away to this human who called himself a 'scientist', and just as this scientist was ready to take me away, I killed him and that nasty guard and ran away."

"How did you know to find me here?" Kagome had that question plaguing her mind since she first saw him not so long ago. Might as well ask now, no?

"I smelled you."

Well duh Kagome, how else would he now where to go? If Sesshomaru wasn't there, she would have smacked herself in the head for asking such a stupid question. No wonder he thought that humans were unintelligent creatures…

"I still don't believe you," Sesshomaru started, "it's impossible to travel through time. Unless of course, you are a witch."

He wasn't asking, he was accusing, "I'm no witch"

"Well, it's very hard to believe that you can just go through a well and travel back five hundred years whenever you please."

"It's not my problem if you don't…"

"Honey I'm home!" came the soft spoken words of none other than her mother.

This is NOT good…

The gods, Kagome thought, were really against her…

End of Chapter 2.

Fire Mistress: Uh, oh…Kagome's family is back home. Not a good thing with Sesshomaru there. I wonder how that will go. Tune in for chapter 3: A Little Visitor of Even Demons Love!

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