Ah, four reviews... It's hard to continue reviewing, but I have encouragement from the friend who wrote "Brought Together." I hope that's the name... It's created by this account... Anyway, back to the chapter!

Chapter Two: Breath of Life

There he was able to pick of the rest of her scent. She smelled of tears. What had happened to the priestess? He knelt down and examined her face expression. Everything on her face seemed to have heart break and pain written on it. He snorted. His foolish brother must have done something with the clay pot. This time seemed to be worse though. He had seen her reaction to a simple kiss. She left and cried. But she was abnormally far from the village.

Did his brother swear his love to the reincarnated woman? Sesshoumaru stood up, ready to leave before he felt something tugging on him. Why did he seem to care for the priestess, his brother had made his claim on her. Still, his heart seemed to throb in his chest. His mind told him to leave the wench dead, but his hand reached for the Tensaiga still. He raised his arm, his only arm, then saw the demons taking Kagome's soul away. With one swift movement, his sword cut them in half.

The preistess's eyes shot open then she took in a large breath. Sesshoumaru could see her back move slightly. She was breathing now, but she hadn't been before. Wait...

What would she do once she realized that he had saved her? Rin had started following him around tirelessly. He could only hope and pray that Inuyasha's wench would not do the same. She didn't seem to move and her eyes fluttered between open and closed. Then they closed. He expected her to open them after a bit, but she hadn't. Was she... sleeping? He knelt down, seeing how slow her back moved. Hmm. She fell asleep.

Again, something pulled on his heart. He felt as if he should take care of her, but he had no interest in it. He had enough to handle with Rin and Jaken. The last two things he saved stuck around and both usually annoyed the hell out of him. Still, he found his arm reaching out to pick her up. What a time to leave AhUn at the castle. His only arm was occupied by carrying the wench. Ugh. Being this close to her was making him smell the normal human scent. Disgusting. How could the mutt possibly live with this scent?

The wench moaned then he glared at her.What in the world was this human thinking of! Wasn't she a bit old to have dreams like that. He had heard of kids having wet dreams when they first started to go through the maturing stage. But, she was too old to have dreams like that!

Wait... He had heard Rin make this particular moan before. Rin said that it meant she was tired. Maybe the same went for this older human girl. Why had he even thought of it being another moan?

What was this thinking? His mind was slipping into the pervert's territory. What had they called the monk. Merockoo... Something like that. Wait... Wasn't that Naraku that he had gotten in his head? Ugh. It didn't matter, one of them was the pervert he had seen with the demon slayer and the others.

The wench moved in her sleep, almost falling out of his grasp. He considered letting her fall, but didn't. Unfortunately for him, her shirt had snagged on one of his claws then she hit the ground. He even winced slightly as he heard the 'thump.' Then he saw what happened to her shirt.

The demon that had attacked her must've ripped up her shirt. Now the odd shirt was hanging off his claws. He dared to look down. He let out a breath that he had been holding. She wore something white under it. This thing only had a strap about one inch thick that reached across her back.

When he went to pick her up again, he thought twice. What if this strip of white cloth never got thicker and didn't cover her front side entirely? He wouldn't find out the hard way, this was for sure. He slowly untied his haori then began to wrap it around her. Look at him. He turned into a softy. First he brought the human wench back to life. Then he decided to take her home and care for her until she was fully healed. Then he was taking his shirt off and dressing the wench in it.

To think, this all started when he saved Rin and let her accompany him. Why did his heart have to kick in at the most inopportune times? No matter, he wasn't going to back down from his decision now. He picked her up once again then hoisted her over his shoulder.

There was that damned moan again. Something about the way she did it never ceased to annoy him. The same could be said for her scent. He prayed that he wouldn't become used to it like he had with Rin's scent. He urged his feet to move forward. Why he was not running or flying, he had no idea.

Didn't matter, because by nightfall, they were back at the castle. He stepped to the doors then some guards opened a door for him. He stepped in then felt the human shift around a bit. Then he heard her scream, her face being right by his sensitive ears. He'd expected her to be calm and thankful that she hadn't died. That theory was wrong.

He dropped her instantly then used a claw to pick at his ears. That hurt bad. His ears were still ringing. Healthy pair of lungs she had. Servants clamored to him at the sound of the screaming girl then he sighed. His head was starting to throb from that scream. Damned human. He knew taking her back here would be a horrible idea.

"Put her in the guest bedroom beside Rin's room." He ordered the servants. Two servants nodded then began to take a fussy Kagome to a room. He sighed again then began to make his way up to his room. He intended on getting a new haori, the stub of an arm that was now visible wasn't exactly a badge that needed to be shown off.

Rin came bounding down the stairs, rubbing her eyes as if she had just woken up. It was becoming dark out, so it would have made sense that she had been asleep. Rin walked up to him, looking up at the demon lord. She didn't seem to realize that he wasn't wearing his haori.

"Lord Sesshoumaru, what was that noise?" She asked him. Her voice gave a squeak in mid-sentence, proving to Sesshoumaru that she had been asleep.

"It was another human, Rin. She is here to heal, nothing more." He explains, his icy voice and expression seeming to pass by the young human. Her face brightened and a smile took over her lips.

"Really, Lord Sesshoumaru! Does that mean that I get to play with her? Will she be your mate, Lord Sesshoumaru?" She asks, giving small bounces of excitement. The lord grit his teeth. This isn't what he had hoped to come back to. He just wanted to have a meal of food then to go to sleep. Now that chance seemed rather slim.

He sighed. How do you explain to a human child that you won't keep the human role model she desires? He had no intentions of hurting the human any more than he had to.

Well, in the middle of writing this chapter, I got another review. That makes it five that I got through email, and one that was IMed to me. Are my stories that boring? No matter, I am still going to continue until I get bored of it.

- Divine-Buttrfly: Yeah. Well, I was going to start it with what my "Wishes" story had started with... Then I decided that I shouldn't...

- Sheenachi: I'm glad you like it. One of the few that has told me so.

- Bipolar Tangerine