GI: It's pathetic that the majority of the 58 sess/kagu fics are AU. It saddens me that people can't come up with creative ways to bring them together in show time.  And one shots bother me. Their relationship is too complex and difficult to bring together to fit in to a one shot. I'm going to attempt at one of them after updating though. But… argh, it just bothers me!!!! Though I do have an AU, but it's not exactly in a modern high school setting. Check out The Day the War Began to see what I mean.  Another sess/kagu.

Anyway, moving along, pairings have been established as Kagome/InuYasha and Sessho-maru/Kagura. Boy, did I have fun laughing at all those reviews saying that InuYasha was a dumbass, and to send Kaogme with Sessho and stuff. It made me happy to be a writer. And happy that I messed with your heads.  Onward. :D

By the by, trying ot make me feel bad for messing with you won't work. I have plenty of supporters. :o So THERE!!! Keep an open mind and try to finish it. It's my dare to you. 

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Inner Love

Chapter 12: Visitation

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Naraku was standing at the door to his castle, looking out at the blank wall. He did not, however, expect it to open, but Kagura had been gone far too long, and this time, he did not know where she was. It infuriated him that he had, in a way, lost his control over her. It was as though she knew he would not kill her, and so continued to defy him. "This time, I will not let you off so easily," he though to himself, staring harshly at the wall, as though he was hoping he would force it to crumble with his glare.

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The weather was slowly turning worse as thunder clapped through the clouds and rain began to pour from the heavens. Kagome looked up in to the rain, frowning, "It's raining," she stated dumbly. InuYasha tugged off his fire rat's robe.

"Here. Core your head with this. I don't want you to get sick." He haned it to her, and she graciously accepted, covering her hairs and making sure is covered her face slightly.

"Do you think this rain will wash out the scratch marks you gave Miroku, Sango and Shippo?" Kagome said, looking at a heap of unconscious bodies with deep, red scratch marks making a cross-hatched pattern on their face.

He shrugged, "Who cares? They shouldn't have been spying."

"Shippo had no part in it! You really didn't have to hurt him!"

InuYasha pulled the white sleeve of his robe up, "Look at what that brat did!" he shouted, indicating a small charred mark on his bicep, "He burned me!"

Kagome stared at him bluntly, "Maybe because you were beating Miroku and Sango up?"

InuYasha shook his head, "It doesn't matter." His voice softened and he sat down next to Kagome under a large oak tree. Kagome leaned her head on his shoulder. InuYasha wrapped his arm around her shoulders, "Kagome?"

"Hm?" Kagome managed out through her weariness.

"You should go home for a little bit tomorrow. Don't you have a test coming up?"

Kagome was too shocked to answer. What had he just said!? He wanted her to go home and go to school for a few days!?

"I would," he continued, "of course, go with you. Hafta make sure that Hojo guy you told me about doesn't bother you again."

"Idiot," she muttered, "You can't go to school with me."

He looked away, blushing, "And why not?"

"You're not registered, and what about your ears?" She was growing even more tired with every reply she gave, and thought that she would soon fall asleep right then and there.

"We'll figure out something. You… sound tired. Get some rest; I'll take you back tomorrow afternoon." Kagome, however, was asleep before he finished his statement. She had happily accepted his offer and fallen asleep there on his shoulder. "Good night, Kagome," he whispered, moving some wet locks away from her forehead with his thumb.

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Kagura couldn't keep her eyes directed at him as horror crept in to his eyes. It hurt that he would react in such a manner. "I- I'm sorry," she quickly said, "S-Sessho-maru-sama."

Sessho-maru frowned at her blushing figure as it turned away with a quick, forced apology, "You are apologizing to me?"

"I-I'll leave, sorry to have bothered you."

Sessho-maru grabbed her biceps, finding them surprisingly tough, "You will stay with me for the time being," He said, taking her with him in to the castle, leading her to Kagome's old room. It still reeked of the miko's scent, but he closed the doors quickly behind him, paying no mind to the fact that Kagura had senses as sharp as his own and would, too, notice.

He would need time to think on this matter, not wanting to rush in to things like he had with Kagome. It would be easier to think if she was here rather than with Naraku, being tortured for disobeying him and leaving his castle. Sessho-maru stopped mid-step, "And do I care that Naraku would torture her?" He stood in the hall way a moment. "I could never say no to that," he muttered to himself, continuing down the hall to his own room to put on dry clothes.

Kagura looked out the window into the water-covered forest below. It looked dark and dreary, over-cast with rain, and the lightning and thunder battling over-head. Only now did she realize how wet she was. Moving away from the window, Kagura peeled the kimono from her skin, water dripping on to the carefully crafted tiles at her feet.

She was soaked to the bone. Now nude, she carefully laid the wet clothes on to the floor, each making a distorted splashing sound as it hit the floor in a wrinkled fashion. "This is terrible. I have nothing to sleep in." She looked around the room and found a dusty-looking wardrobe in the corner, "Maybe there are some clothes in it," she muttered, going to investigate the strange piece of furniture.

Much to her surprise, as she whipped it open, she saw glorious fabrics in all styles and colors folded in to neat piles. All were kimonos, finely sewn and embroidered by meticulous hands. "They're marvelous…," she whispered, excited to find one just for her.

After much time, she found a black, loose kimono that she liked, put it on, and was in bed, falling asleep to the quiet roar of the rain, and the sudden clatter of lightning and thunder.

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The rain continued to fall upon the lands as the sun rise high in to the sky, the time nearing noon. InuYasha was impatiently waiting for Kagome to finish cooking some ramen near a large fire, while Shippo, Sango and Miroku were down by a near-by stream trying to catch some small fish to cook.

"Is it almost done?" InuYasha asked, bouncing with anticipation.

"InuYasha, stop asking me already," Kagome groaned, watching the water start to boil, "If you wanted it so badly, we should have gone back to my time and cooked it there, with a microwave."

"Mirco-what?" he asked, raising an eyebrow at her, "What's a microwabe?"

"Microwave, not microwabe. It cooks food quickly, like ramen and other dehydrated foods. It would have been much faster and you'd probably be done eating by now."

Sango, Miroku and Shippo returned with a basket full of flopping fish, "Look what we caught!" Shippo announced, running to Kagome, pointing back at Miroku, who was carrying the basket, "We caught a lot of fish!"

Kagome smiled down at the kitsune, "Good job! That should be enough for you to take back to the village while InuYasha and I are in my time."

Sango sat down by the fire, trying to warm up, "How long will you be staying?"

Kagome shrugged, "I'm not sure. I want to get caught up with my classes, so it will be longer than normal."

Miroku set the fish down, sitting down next to Sango, "And InuYasha doesn't mind?"

InuYasha smirked at him, "I'm going to go with her!"

"What!?" The trio looked at him astounded, then at Kagome in disbelief, "How!?"

Kagome sighed, "I'm not so sure myself, but he's making me let him come."

"I'll figure something out," he said, "I'm InuYasha, remember?"

Kagome shook her head, handing him the ramen, "That's what I'm afraid of," she groaned.

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They walked through the forest, Kagome's backpack nearly empty, as they headed back to Kaede's village. It was already well past noon, and in Kagome's time, school was getting out soon. That meant she was going to have to go shopping with InuYasha while her friends roamed the streets.

"By the way, InuYasha, my friends will most likely gush over you," Kagome said in passing, "Or insult you."

He glared at her, "Why would they insult me?"

"Oh… I might have mentioned something about all of our arguments…" she said in a dismissive manner.

"WHAT!?" He screamed, stopping, "You told them that I was bad!?"

"Well, it's not far form the trust some times!" she countered.

Miroku sighed, "We don't get one minute of peace. I'm starting to look forward to this time when both of them will be away. We might get some quiet around the village."

Sango nodded in agreement, "It won't be so bad after all."

They continued on, Kagome and InuYasha no longer on speaking terms at the moment. Finally, they reached the well, "Bye Sango, Miroku, and Shippo!" Kagome chirped, hopping in to the well.

InuYasha waved to them, following her, "Bye you two," they called after the pair as they fell through time to Kagome's era.

InuYasha helped her from the well, taking the backpack on to his own back. They hurried to her house, whipping the door open, "Mom!" she called, "I'm home!"

Mrs. Higurashi peeked from behind a door, "Oh, hello Kagome! I see you brought InuYasha?"

Sota jumped down the last few stairs, "What brings you here, InuYasha?"

He glared at Sota, "I'm here with Kagome, twerp," she growled.

Sota yawned, nearly ignoring the hanyou, "Whatever."

"Kagome, how long will you be staying?" her mother asked, turning back ot the sink, continuing to wash some dishes.

"I'm not sure. Longer than usual, though. And InuYasha insists on going ot school with me tomorrow."

"I bought a boy's school uniform a while back, figuring he would eventually. It's in your top drawer, Kagome. Have him try it on."

Surprised by her mother's cleverness, Kagome had to take a double take before dashing up the stairs, InuYasha trailing behind, bearing Sota down.

InuYasha stepped out of Kagome room in to the hallway wearing the straight pants and jacket, unzipped slightly at the collar. Kagome forced the zipper up, ignoring InuYasha complaints, "I think this might actually work, InuYasha, except for your ears."

He frowned, "I'm not really sure what to do about that," he said, tugging the high collar away from his chin.

Kagome slapped his hand away, "I thought you had a plan Mr. Big-and-tall."

"I never said I had one. I said I could come up with one. I just… haven't yet."

"You're hopeless," she sighed, "Well, change in to these," she said, handing him a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt, "We're meeting my friends at the coffee house."

InuYasha came out again wearing worn jeans and a black t-shirt that was tight enough to display his well-formed muscles. He still clenched Tetsusaiga in his clawed hands, "What about transforming in to a demon?" he asked, glancing down at the blade.

Kagome thought for a moment, and then snatched the blade from his hands. She unsheathed it and swung the blade against the corner of a wall, sparks flying, and a shard of the metal falling to the floor. She pulled the old jewel-shard jar from her pocket and put it in, hanging the jar around his neck on a chain, "The shard will protect you," she said, smiling and re-sheathing the sword, handing it back to him.

He nodded, setting the sword against the wall in her room.

"Now, for the ears out side of school," she said, pulling a black baseball cap from a near-by closet. She put it on his head, carefully bending the bill.

"This is ridiculous," he said, "I look like an idiot."

She tapped her chin, "Yeah…" and turned the baseball cap backwards o his head, some of his bangs popping out through the hold in the back, "Better?"

He went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, "Much," he said. She gave him a pair of black leather boots that laced high up the top. He slipped them on while she went in to her room to change.

A few minutes later she came back out wearing white baggy jeans and a light blue halter top. She wore woven flip-flops on her feet and her hair was pulled back in a careful pony tail, "We're meeting them in 10 minutes. Let's go." She led him down the stairs, "We're heading to the coffee shop!" she yelled to her mother.

"Alright, have a good time!" she replied.

Kagome bent in to a closet near the door, pulling a denim purse form it, "Bye!"

As they walked down the street, InuYasha looked at her in wonderment. He had never seen her in such casual attire. She examined her, "Kagome, you look rally different in those clothes," he said, putting his hands in the pockets of the jeans.

She glanced back at him, "And you don't?"

He glared, "I normally don't change," he growled.

"Well, you didn't have much choice this time. By the way, around my friends and at school, you'll be called Aynu. InuYasha is too strange a name for my time."

He nodded, "Aynu. And who came up with that?"

She scowled, "I did." She only received a blush from him as he averted his gaze.

They soon arrived at the coffee shop, and Kagome's friends were already waiting in their usual corner booth. They looked amazed as Kagome walked in with InuYasha.

"He's your boyfriend!?" Yumi chimed, eyes wide and scanning him over.

InuYasha glared momentarily at Kagome with the boyfriend comment. She returned a non-verbal apology, and he figured she'd explain later.

"Yeah, his name is Aynu."

InuYasha looked down a the three girls at the table, "And you are?" he asked.

Yumi waved, "I'm Yumi."

A girl with black hair looked at him gleefully, "Eimi here!"

The other smiled happily, "Anue!"

They both took seats, making the other three scoot around the crescent seat so they could sit next to each other. The waitress came, taking their orders. InuYasha, not knowing what to order, go the same as Kagome, hoping she had good taste in this… coffee.

Idle chitchat continued after they got their drinks, and InuYasha ended up liking the mocha he had ordered. Finally, it was time for them to leave.

"It was nice meeting you, Aynu!" Yumi chirped, shaking his hand. InuYasha remembered not to squeeze too hard.

"You, too," he replied, waving to them as they left the coffee shop. He then turned to Kagome, "How can you stand them?"

Kagome laughed, "You're not used to them like I am. They start to not bother you after awhile, I guess."

He nodded as they left their part of the money on the table, departing from the coffee shop.

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GI: Whooooa…. That was a looong chapter. This is the 10th page. o.O Insane. Well, that's fine. If I cut it off anywhere else, I wouldn't be satisfied.

Hehe, it was lots of fun trying to dress InuYasha in modern clothes, and Kagome in something other than dressy-ish clothes. It makes it more interesting, though. And juts so you know, I left the descriptions of Kagome's friend out because really, they would be pointless. But here's a little thing for you to help keep track of them:

Yumi: Up-beat and kind of annoying.

Eimi: Cheerful, but not very talkative.

Anue: Shy around new people, and soft-spoken.

Really, it's not that important. They really don't make that much of a difference. :P I think they're mor annoying then anything else, hence the reason they'll be unincluded most of the story. I hate writing them. I hate them in the show, most of the time. So I'm sure you'll all like. And this paragraph is on the 11th page. Well, I guess I don't want another long a/n like the one up top. I mean, I gave you a long chapter to boot. So you'll may due. I'm sure. I hope you like the longer chappies lately. And I'm sure I need to remind you to R&R! DO IT NOW!