Hey guys! Hmm... where to start? Let's see... not as many people liked my last chapter so this one is going to mix things up a little! I'd like to dedicate this chapter to REDWOLF and springtenshiand also a BIG dedication to Moonchild!On with the chapter!

Moonchild
Anyone who thinks sunshine is pure happiness,
has not danced in the rain...

'A whole twenty minutes!'

Kagome bit her lip in aggravation, folding her arms across her chest, and making small angry noises as she talked silently to herself.

'He hasn't talked to me for a whole twenty minutes!'

She glared at the figure who was either ignoring her, or was completely oblivious to the heated stares she was giving him. She really wanted to talk to him, but she wanted him to talk to her! She looked at the road and gave a long exaggerated sigh. She looked over at him again and noticed the ass still wasn't looking at her. She gave a small pout and then smiled. She gave an even longer sigh this time and drummed her fingers against the window. She smiled in satisfaction as Sesshoumaru turned to her.

"Yes?"

She licked her lips, oh god! What was she going to say? She hadn't thought about that yet. Damn her and her jumping into things and such. She quickly thought up something and smiled softly at Sesshoumaru who was currently raising an eyebrow at her. She started playing wither her fingers as she said, "So... Sesshoumaru."

"So, Kagome."
Sesshoumaru said, mildly amused.

"Nice day huh?"

Sesshoumaru gave her a questioning look, and then sighed and shook his head.

"It is not unlike any other."

Kagome rolled her eyes and stared at the road. So what if he was being an ass, that wasn't going to dampen her mood anymore! She was going to ignore him, since he was ignoring her and all.

"Well... I think it's beautiful! Storms really are works of art. They interest me."

She looked at Sesshoumaru who was looking at her in mild amusement.

"Works of art? How do you figure as much?"

She snorted and turned away from him, purposely blowing him off. She was hoping for a certain response from the icicle next to her.

"Well... I wouldn't expect you to know...

She heard him give a tired sigh next to her.

"Kagome..."

She smiled then, there it was! Her response! She smiled triumphantly at him and tilted her head to the side in content.

"They're works of art because, each is different and it takes an artist to make something so... amazing. The perfect storm..."

Kagome sighed and smiled gently at Sesshoumaru, who was looking at her in a not so cold way anymore. Suddenly he reached over and grabbed hold of her chin gently. She felt the now all so familiar blush spread across her cheeks like wildfire and she tried to look away.

"Kagome... I always knew you thought differently than anybody else but I have to say..."

Kagome scowled as he took an intentional pause, just to pay her back for her earlier comment. She looked into his eyes and felt herself relax in his hold.

"That has to be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard."

Sesshoumaru looked into Kagome's eyes and felt the uncomfortable feeling of a smile creeping up. He quickly squashed it by letting go of her chin and turning back to the road. Kagome's face lit up like a Christmas tree and she looked at her lap. She looked shyly at him, but it would seem that he was back to ignoring her. She let out a silent sigh and leaned against her arm and watched the yellow lines on the road blur into each other. When had traffic let up? She shook her head and shook away the random thoughts.

Sesshoumaru felt himself groan internally at how long they had been driving. Their moods had gone from playful, to sad, to angry, and now they were borderline friendly. Never in his life had he experienced so many emotions at one time. This Kagome girl really did bring out the more human side in him. He remembered to himself how cute she was as the blush spread across her face when he grabbed her chin. It brought some sort of male pride out. Probably because he knew he had caused that blush. He frowned.

'I don't want anybody else to be able to create that blush.'

He didn't want anybody else to be able to experience Kagome. Anybody MALE. That was another new one. Sesshoumaru was not possessive. So why her? Why all of a sudden?

He smirked, all of a sudden feeling playful. He glanced over at Kagome who was beginning to look quite bored. He knew watching yellow lines could only interest you so far!

"You should put it on a card..."

Kagome whipped her head around and gave him a confused look. He watched as she mouthed the words to herself before the look of realization hit her and she stuck her tongue out at him and turned back to the road. He watched as she turned slowly back to him and gave him a small smile. He felt himself smirk and watched as she suddenly burst out into quiet joyous laughter.

"Sesshoumaru..."

He relaxed at that. He felt... content right now. Borderline happy. She had said it fondly. He wasn't going to reply with a, "What?" because he knew she hadn't meant it as a question. It was just a statement he guessed. When she couldn't find the right word, she could always just say his name.

He leaned back in his seat and watched as the storm ahead began brewing, becoming this vicious mass of thunderclouds. He listened as Kagome sucked in a gulp of air, and then sighed contently.

"The perfect storm..."

Sesshoumaru nodded and headed right into it. He looked out his window and the black clouds as thunder sounded dangerously over the car, and flashes of lightning lit the darkened sky.

'A work of art...' He thought, glancing at Kagome, 'from the eye of the artist.'

"We're here! We're finally here! Oh isn't this exciting?" Kagome nearly jumped for joy at the sight of her childhood home. She could see all of her relatives bustled around, waiting for their arrival. She turned to Sesshoumaru who had the same expression he always wore. 'Indifferent' was the only word for it. She shook her head and continued smiling like an idiot.

"Quite."

She swirled her head and looked at him, why did he always do that? You know, answer like a bazillion minutes after you said something. He was just so confusing! She sighed and shook her head again. She'd never understand him. She looked for a certain face among the crowd of people, and waved when she found her mother standing with a soft smile on her face, holding on to her little brothers shoulders and pointing to Kagome. She saw her little brother look up and wave at her eagerly. Kagome felt the kick of excitement in her gut and guilt for not having visited more recently. She turned to Sesshoumaru as he slowed the car to a stop.

"You ready?"

She tried to act calm, but she was really nervous. She wondered what her mother was going to say… how could they act engaged? Oh my… She had almost forgotten about that.

'Shit.'

They hadn't practiced or anything! She practically knew nothing about him.

"Of course… sweetheart."

She gasped and glared at the smirk he had on his painstakingly beautiful face. So he remembered huh? Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. She playfully swatted his arm and unbuckled her seatbelt. She turned to him again and said, "My favorite color is blue."

She watched as he raised his eyebrows and said, "Colors are of no importance, I don't favor one."

She glared at him in frustration and said, "Ok I like cats, but my favorite are dogs."

He smirked at her and said, "Animals Kagome? Come now, wouldn't something like our wedding date be more important? Or perhaps you could tell me your birthday?"

He watched as Kagome blushed a very nice shade of pink and mumbled something along the lines of, "Yeah, sure whatever."

"My birthday is December 11." Came the short reply from Sesshoumaru. He watched her as she repeated the date to herself, as if trying to remember it. Then she smiled at him and said, "Mine is June 22."

He nodded and said, "And we are marrying…"

He watched as she scrounged up her face in deep thought. She then smiled and snapped her fingers.

"Well… I've always wanted a winter wedding outside so I think January 14."

Sesshoumaru raised his eyebrows and then merely nodded, and turned away. Seemingly satisfied with the answer. He heard Kagome gulp and open the door. He heard her step out and laugh nervously as her relatives surrounded her with hugs, kisses, and 'My how you've grown. Aren't you just beautiful!' He felt the urge to roll his eyes and decided he might should help her. He readied himself for some unknown reason and stepped out of the car. He walked around to Kagome and placed his arm around her small waist. He waited and was stunned when all he was met with, was silence. He cleared his throat and said, "Hello… my name is Sesshoumaru Taisho."

All hell broke loose. Squeals of delight from the women of the family were all that could be heard, and grumbles from the men as they walked away from their 'childish' wives. He felt many hands pulling on his person, and looked to Kagome to help him in some way. She was standing there, a horrified look on her face before she shook her head and slowly grabbed his arm.

"I see, my fiancé decided to show himself. Heh."

She pulled his arm gently, letting him know that she wanted to move, so they slowly made their way up the steps of her home. He reached around and put his arm around her waist. He decided, if they were to make it out of here alive he was going to have to do something drastic. So pushing down his better judgment and gave a small smile to the women ogling them both.

"Forgive us ladies, but I'm afraid we must go see Kagome's mother. It was a pleasure to meet you all. I do hope we get to spend more time together." Leaning down he whispered in Kagome's ear, "Get me out of here."

They walked, rather swiftly if I might say, up the stairs to Kagome's awaiting mother, who trapped her daughter in a hug and saying, "My baby is home."

Sesshoumaru stood nearby watching the 'tender' moment in masked amusement. Kagome pushing her mother to let go, who seemingly refused to do so. Her muffled voice saying, "Mama, I can't breathe!"

Her mother let go immediately, apologizing before turning to him with a smile on her face. She walked closer to him and wrapped her arms around him tightly before leaning back to look at him, "You must be Sesshoumaru. Welcome to our home." She smiled at him warmly and looked to her daughter. "Treat her good, she's the only little girl I have." Kagome blushed and said, "Aw Mama, you're embarrassing me."

Sesshoumaru watched as an older Kagome placed her hands on her hips and said, "What's so embarrassing huh? You're my daughter and I love you, so what if I tell your fiancé that!"

Kagome covered her face with her hands and shook her head.

'Great just great! We just got here and already they're probably freaking him out!'

"Of course Mrs. Higurashi, I assure you, Kagome is in good hands."

Kagome's mother looked at him a bit playfully and said, "How can I be sure?"

Sesshoumaru felt the smirk pulling at his lips and replied, "Because they are mine."

He then reached over and grabbed Kagome around the waist from behind and placed his chin on her shoulder. He felt her stiffen at the unfamiliar touch and whispered in her ear, "Relax." She did so then and smiled at him.

She heard her mother give a small sigh and say, "I'm so glad you decided to date again, especially after that last boyfriend of yours…"

"Mother, I don't think now's a good time to talk about that."

She looked up at Sesshoumaru's frowning face, and said, "He's not important. It was a long time ago, like five years."

He watched as he stiffly nodded, and she felt the oncoming talk later on, and felt the past sneaking up on her again. She smiled fondly at Sesshoumaru and said, "I'll tell you later. Promise."

He nodded for real then. And they headed inside. They heard Kagome's mother's voice floating from the kitchen, "Did I tell you that the reunion got moved to the entire week?"

Kagome and Sesshoumaru swirled around to the kitchen and Kagome yelled, "WHAT?"

Her mother's face popped out the doorway and said, "Yeah, we decided the weekend wasn't enough, so we changed it to the entire week."

Kagome groan and buried her face in Sesshoumaru chest muttering apologies to him for her family. Kagome looked up suddenly and said, "Mama…"

Her mother stopped stirring, what smelled like cookie batter and said, "Yes dear?"

Kagome looked around the house. It was quiet… too quiet.

She gulped and nervously said, "Where's Grandpa?"

She slowly turned around behind them and before she could scream it was too late…

"DEMON BE GONE!"

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