What's up? I have just recently turned 13 and I am damn proud :puffs out chest proudly! However, I feel a lot older….hehehehehe. I can't believe people actually enjoy my story :sniff: I feel so loved. Anyways cookies, ice-cream and milk will be distributed during the story. Have fun munching on them!

Disclaimer: Must I say this every time? I don't own InuYasha, never did, maybe I will though. Kukukuku! When I do, the characters shall suffer (especially Kikyo)! Kukuku!
Chapter Two

A raindrop can be anything you want it to be. It can be a drop of salty water that the angels cried or something that makes you sad. Raindrops can be storytellers who visited every millimeter of the world or the messengers of a new life. But currently, the raindrops didn't signify any of the above. They weren't tears of angels or the droplets that brought new life; they were her only comforters.

"Kagome-chan! You shouldn't be out there. Come under the umbrella. You'll get sick! Kagome-chan?" The young demon exterminator looked onto the young miko barely ten feet away. She was walking, dripping wet from the rain, face looking ahead.

"Kagome-sama! You must get under here! You'll catch a cold!" scolded Miroku, but Kagome paid no heed to his words. She kept on walking.

"Sango, what do you think is wrong with Kagome?" questioned a small ball of fur.

"Shippo, I really, truly don't know."

I'm tired of all this. Always getting criticized... Heck! If criticism had a list for me, it would be endless. Although I know I'm not perfect, I don't enjoy my faults being rubbed into my face. I'm pretty sure the most painful criticism ever to be slapped onto my face is that "I'm not good enough." Those four words probably stings a lot because even though you know that there are people better than, when somebody says "You're not good enough.", it's like saying you need to be more like somebody; in my case, Kikyo. I wish somebody would just wash this pain away.

Kagome looked up into the somber clouds above. Droplets of water splashed onto her face and mixed with her unshed tears and whispered. "Please…"

Sesshomaru looked at the miko slouching in the pouring rain. That is so pathetic. This Sesshomaru has no time to watch humans grieve. As much as he tried to tell himself that, there was something in the very back of his heart, something very small, that told him that he was wrong. He was curious, intrigued by the young woman that showed fierce and determination in battle; the woman that had a face radiating happiness and innocence, but cried and cried when nobody was around.

The rain eventually stopped and the monk, exterminator, hanyou, youkai and miko stopped to make camp.

"Kagome-chan, would you like to go with me to the hot springs?" asked Sango.

"Yes, a bath would be nice." agreed Kagome.

"Ah yes, I would like a bath too Sango, my dear." agreed Miroku.

"Houshi-sama. You're supposed to be holy. If you want to take a bath, take it after me and Kagome-chan!" growled Sango.

Sesshomaru kept a watch on the miko-girl. This is not the time to watch. However, I shall wait and see what it is that I'm so interested in. He watched Kagome and Sango walk into the clearing of a hot spring. The two women stripped off their clothing and stepped into the warm waters. Disgusting. Have they no dignity, but to bath in public? But Sesshomaru didn't look away. Instead, he took in all of the young miko's developing body; her soft curves, long slender legs, full breasts…he quickly shook the thoughts out of his head. This could be the cause of not bedding any female youkai for the past thirty years.

"Kagome-chan. Do you have the feeling that someone is watch us?" asked Sango in a dangerously low voice

"Oh, Sango-chan. You worry too much. Besides, Miroku promised us he wouldn't." laughed Kagome

Sango sighed. "Yes, you're right. I'm going to head back to camp. Would you like to come?"

"No thank-you, Sango-chan. I'll stay here awhile longer." Kagome smiled and watched Sango walk away after getting dressed. As soon as she was out of the clearing, Kagome let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding. It's getting harder and harder to smile.

She quickly scrubbed her body with a rag she brought along and rinsed her hair, seeing that she didn't bring her shampoo from modern day. Well, at least scrubbing it would be cleaner than nothing. Kagome dunked her head underwater and rinsed the remaining dirt and sweat off of her body.

The young brunette climbed out of the hot springs and went off to dry herself. With a towel wrapped tightly around her body she walked over to the pile of clothes she stripped off before the cleansing…but a rustling in the bushes froze her.

"Miroku? Is that you?" But there was no reply.

"Inuyasha? Shippo? Sango? Kirara?"

"They are not there, miko." A warm breath knocked lightly against Kagome's neck and she shivered. That voice sounds so familiar…no…it can't be! Sesshomaru- She was abruptly pulled out of her thoughts when a velvety, warm tongue danced across her cheek.

"S-Sesshomaru? W-wh-what are y-you doing?" asked an embarrassed and scared Kagome.

"Wench, answer this Sesshomaru this question. Why do you intrigue me so?" came the hoarse murmur of Sesshomaru

"What?" Kagome was confused. Didn't he want to kill her all those times? What the hell was he talking about?

"You will answer me, woman! One way or another." His monotonous voice was deeper than usual, which meant he was angry. Kagome turned her face around and faced him.

"What the hell are you talking about? Didn't you hate me!" she reasoned angrily, fear long forgotten.

But Sesshomaru didn't hear her. Her lips look ripe. I wonder how they would taste.

"Hello! S-Sesshomaru!" The reincarnation's melodious and shaky voice broke him out of his fantasies, but he didn't look at her directly. He was too busy staring at her pouting, pink lips. His youkai urges took him to take her, right there and then; but his dignity didn't allow him. After a few minutes of the continuous battle, he gave in.

He crushed his lips onto her awaiting warm ones.

There you have it! The kiss that starts everything! So, please review!

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