A/N: To respect the wishes of fan fiction. Net I will tell you all at the beginning of a chapter if there is a lemon and then I will put a divider when it starts and ends reading lemon warning if you choose to read it then that is your own fault and cannot blame me I left a warning you ignored it…

Chapter 4

A midnight stroll

Kagome woke up when it was still dark and couldn't go back to sleep. She was sad she walked to the desk and took off the necklace that belonged to Sesshoumaru's mother and put on Inuyasha's. She walked to the window and sat on the seat and stared out into the distance.

"Inuyasha please be safe" she whispered looking up at the sky "that's all I want" she hummed to a song she had heard in her time by a american artist called Michelle Branch

"…your everything I know that makes me believe….I'm not alone" she sang to herself she put her hand over the necklace "I need to get out of here"

Putting her hair up in a pony tail and then she went to her closet. She didn't want to feel baggy as she did in tho's kimono's she looked in the closet and found a black top that was spaghetti strap and the shirt part stopped a few inches above her belly button and then it chriss-crossed in little a wrap around her stomach but it still showed it off she the found the black skirt that matched it.

It stopped about mid thigh with slits on the sides. She found some slip on shoes that would be good to go walking in then grabbed a black cloak like jacket that went to the floor and she put it on and buttoned the button bellow her breast and 2 more down. and left the room.

But when she got to the stairs she heard sounds in the training room. Curious as to what the noise was she pushed the door open. And who should be there of all people Sesshoumaru once more shirtless in al of his glory striking battle pose's with his sword she walked towards and he glanced at her but all he saw was the long black material.

"Were you planning on going somewhere" she walked over to the wall and sat on a cushioned bench "I just needed some air" "Why aren't you asleep" "Why aren't you?" she said mocking him "I sleep when I please not when you wish me to" "I woke up and couldn't fall back asleep…I thought I would go for a walk.. Then I heard noise from in here so … I was curious"

"being overly curious is not always a good thing in fact it hardly ever is miko" he looked at her "What are you wearing under that. And is it able to train in?" she took off the coat and let it fall. He stared at her his mother's clothing fit her perfectly in every way.

"You planned on wearing my mothers battle uniforms to walk in?" he said curiously "I had a coat" she defended "plus it fits really good "Its suppose to" he set down his sword "What weapons can you use?" "Bow" he sighed "Do you even know the basic's of sword and hand to hand combat?" "Yes I no hand to hand I went to a class in my time"

"Show me" he said simply "huh? How?" "Try to hit me" "No way you always end up trying to kill me" "This Sesshoumaru promises not to kill you during the time we are in this room" "eh?" he looked nervous but tried to hit him he moved and she hit air. "focus" she breathed out and then stayed still for a moment.

'how am I going to hit him while he is expecting it he'll block every time' she turned her back to him "miko?" then she grinned dropping to the floor she tried to kick his feet out from under him. And it worked! She jumped on top of him and flicked his nose "Got ya" she giggled "I wouldn't be so sure if I were you" and sure enough before she knew it she was kicked off of him and she skidded into the wall "Hey that hurt!" "What is your point?" 'oh! I'm gonna hurt him!'

She got up and ran towards him but e side stepped her. "To slow" she tried again and he did the same "are you even trying?" he was to the left of her when he said that. She got so mad she kicked at his face without turning and she hit him straight across the cheek.

He growled

"Oh sorry did that hurt …my bad" he growled and started after her and she ran off with a "Epp!" and then she noticed he wasn't trying that hard to catch her and she started laughing she kept running until she was so tired she fell then turned over on her back

just as Sesshoumaru grabbed her wrists putting them above her head and holding her feet with his legs "You kicked me" she looked up at him but noticed he wasn't at all angry "You mocked me" "You ran from me" "You didn't Catch me" "I didn't ?" he said amusement in his voice.

While mischief showed in her's in one swift movement she used all of her energy to switch positions she laughed and ran from him again. He started growling at her she climbed up the ladder in the training room to get to the second part which was covered in straw and targets and such.

"interesting" she mumbled but as Sesshoumaru neared the top of the steps she ran and hid behind a pile of scattered straw. Trying her best not to giggle and give her position away she covered her mouth. But he still found her this time grabbing her and picking her up under her arms he tossed her onto the straw pile.

She playfully glared at him "Fine fine you win you caught me" he positioned himself on top of her. her hands went to his well muscled shoulders and then she noticed e had no shirt on this hole time she blushed but Sesshoumaru didn't notice "Care to try that little trick again miko"

He said taunting her se pushed up with her body but he didn't budge he long legs brushed against his as she tried to turn them but he only moved himself where she couldn't try that anymore. She tried to push him off by putting her hands on his chest but even that didn't work.

He smirked "lost your touch?" "Lets find out channeling her miko powers so it would just shock him not hurt him she put her hands on his back and acted as if she was trying to hug him then shocks of her power hit him and when he was recovering she slipped out from under him she ran to the edge of the 2nd floor of the training room.

But before she knew it he ran into her knocking them both off the edge. Sesshoumaru flipped them so he would take in the impact of the fall and at the angle they fell he hit and wood from the floor pierced his skin as he skidded the floor acted like a shredder to his back.

Kagome held onto him for dear life! And when they stopped she looked at him she didn't know he was hurt but saw his eyes closed and he hissed "Sesshoumaru are you ok" she got off of him and moved to his side gently laying her hand on his shoulder

"Are you hurt Sesshoumaru?" he sat up slowly and showed her his back she put her hand over her mouth and gasped "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry Sesshoumaru! This is all my fault"

" No I pushed us over" "I was to close to the edge" "I should have been calmer" 'eh' "ok fine were both at fault let me help you up"

"I don't need your help miko" he stood up easily then hunched over as the pain started to come back. Kagome ducked under his arm and helped support him he wrapped his tail around her waist and they slowly started off towards his room.

As they got their he pushed the doors open and kicked them shut after they entered his room she looked around it was almost the same as her's but bigger and on the ceiling there was the same dog demon but he was in a fighting pose glaring at a tiger and there was 2 doors in the room but she didn't know nor cared where they went.

She left his side long enough to sling the covers to the bottom of the bed. She them went back to his side and helped him lay on his stomach "Where is your bathroom" he pointed to the door "wait here…Don't move!" she rushed into the bathroom and grabbed a towel and a roll of bandages, gauze and a small wash rag. She wetted the rag down with warm water then rang it out.

She took the stuff back into his room not noticing that his bathroom was also her bathroom. she walked to the other side of the bed and set the stuff down and then crawled up on the bed with him. The only light in the room was from the moon shining outside the window.

"Sesshoumaru" "Yes?" she looked sadly at him "This is going to hurt…a lot" "I figured" as to not get in the way of her only light source she sat on his but and grabbed the towel and unfolded it and laid it across the bed so she could place the splinters and fragments of wood on it from his back she then grabbed the warm rag and placed it on her leg.

Then she started pulling out the big chunks of wood as carefully as possible while she did she tried to take his mind off the pain not that he even showed that it hurt "So where is Jakken" "He is on leave I had him go run a message to the northern lord for me" "oh" she said.

After getting all of the wood fragments and splinters out of his back she took the rag and started to gentle dab at the blood trying to avoid touching the big scrapes on his back the little scrapes on his back had already closed up but were still tender. As for the big ones they were starting to seal themselves.

She watched them close up then she took the rag over his back one last time cleaning up any blood that was left. She set the rag down on the towel with the bandages and tied the ends together and set them in the floor without getting up.

"Sesshoumaru" she whispered "Yes?" she was going to say something when she saw what the light was doing to his skin it was making his back have a silvery glow to him she took her hands and gently ran her finger tips up and down his back. He didn't know what she was doing but it felt good but e wanted to tell her to stop.

"Stop" he said and sat up knocking her off him "Hey don't be so mean I wasn't trying to do anything wrong" he nodded "I know this…but if you continued I would have fallen asleep and didn't you want to go for a walk miko?" she nodded "But can you I mean doesn't it hurt"

"okay" She got off they bed and watched him carefully incase he was lying. The walked to a door and he opened it and led her down the stairs and into his back yard it was huge and in the middle there was a spring and a giant waterfall going into it "wow Sesshoumaru its beautiful out here"

She twirled around by the spring smiling he stood there and watched her she grabbed him by the hand and brought him up to the top of the waterfall "Sesshoumaru" "Yes?" "Can you swim" "of cours-"before he finished the word she had pushed them off the edge and into the spring.

After coming up for air he glared at her and she laughed and splashed him "Oh you know that was fun" "Fun you say…" he smirked and he used his tail to drowned her in a wave of water. "You're soo soo soo evil I'm gonna hurt you!" he smirked.

She swam to him and pinched his arm "you jerk" "that is highly probable" he said smirking. She jumped as something swarm between her legs "What was that!" "What was what?" it swarm up her leg "THAT!" she screeched he leaned towards her and whispered into her ear "my tail" and then dunked her under the water she came up out of the water spitting out water "meanie" she pouted

She looked at him he was dripping wet the water making him look like he was glowing with help from the silvery light of the full moon. He lifted his tail out of the water and she busted out laughing "Sesshoumaru your tail oh my god" she couldn't help but laugh that was until he shook it .which transferred all the water off of his tail and onto her she glared at him "That was so not funny" "This Sesshoumaru wasn't laughing tho he did find your reaction quite amusing"

They stayed in the water for a while just floating on their backs staring at the stars "Miko" "Yeah Sesshoumaru" "You never told me how you finally realized you loved my half-brother" she stopped floating and stood up after she noticed something "What's behind the waterfall?"

"It's a room my father made for my mother she found it very peaceful in there" she got out of the spring and walked up the hill as if going to the top of the falls again but half way up she turned and saw a rock wall "eh? How do you get in" He walked up to the wall and reached high up to the left and pushed something in.

The door slid into the real rocks and closed behind them it was simple dirt cave with a waterfall view there was a bed and a desk in there and one rug she sat on the corner of the bed as Sesshoumaru dug threw a drawer.

Throwing a Towel at her "Continue with your story miko" she sighed " you could at least try to be nice" he glanced at her "I could but it is very doubtful that I will" "as-" "Don't even finish that word" She smiled "as I was saying…" she said innocently "Well you know about Kikyo right?" "yes" "Ok well Inuyasha had kept going to Kikyo at night and one time I was gone to my time and he did…I was coming back to surprise him and I saw them …together"

She looked down "I wanted to run I wanted to hide I wanted to be anywhere but there when he saw me I couldn't move I couldn't breath and then when I final caught my breath I just ran I ran threw the woods and into the well as fast as I could it was all I could do to keep from crying"

"but when I saw my mom I just ran to her crying. After she talked to me she left me standing at the scared tree and I thought about why seeing him and her upset me…I mean after all it wasn't like we were dating … but when thought about it. it was weird it didn't make since we weren't together but we were we hated each other yet we didn't…I was jealous I was sad and mad all because of kikyo yet for some reason I never hated kikyo"

"I knew I could never compete with her… I mean after all she died for him and all I do is send him 6 feet into the ground on a daily bases…So I told him how I felt and as I expected he didn't say anything I knew he loved her but I also knew he cared for me and that's it."

"this love is so confusing out of the books" she nodded "One can not explain love it is a ever changing emotion not bad and not always good but in the end your either happy or your not.. that's life" she looked at him and yawned stretching she got up "I'm going to go to bed are you coming?"

"I think I'm going to stay out here for a while" "Alright" he was standing at the time and she walked up to him and softly wrapped her arms around him and gave him a quick hug and whispering "thank you for tonight you really helped me get my mind of him" then she left.

Walking back to her room she wondered if she would ever see that side of the great lord Sesshoumaru again she went inside her bedroom and grabbed a white silk PJ set long pants and a shirt and put them on she slid off her sandals and then looked out the window and she saw Sesshoumaru just sitting their in a Inuyasha thinking position at the top of the waterfall he hair was gently blowing across his face from the wind his she could see te front of him and he looking of into space she smiled and as if magic he shot a glance to her window and with that she ducked out of view and got into bed 'I wonder if he saw me staring' she simply dismissed the thought and went to sleep knowing tomorrow should prove interesting…