::SNIFFLES:: I'm so glad you guys like my story. But I should probably tell you.....I'm not really sure if there are gonna be lemons in my story.

::ducks vegetables being thrown:: I know, but I've never written a lemon before! And i'm only 15 for petes sake! And I (unlike some other people I know,::looks accusingly at FantasyDreamer06::) am an INNOCENT CHILD!! INNOCENT I TELL YOU! Ahem. So anyways, I might attempt a lemon in later chapters, but ive never had any previous writing experiance. Seems like i've read a lot of lemons though.....::bangs head against wall:: NO! I'M NOT A HENTAI!
I'M NOT A HENTAI!
I'M NOT A HENTAI.......................

DISCLAIMER- I do not own Inuyasha! its not fair!!!!!

Sesshomaru was standing in the hallway, facing kagome. She didn't really know what to make of the demon lords answer. ' I make him content? Does this mean that he's felt uncontent his whole life? ' she absent-mindedly smoothed out her nightgown, her nervousness becoming a little to apparent for her liking.

'what am i doing. revealing my emotions to a hu-youkai.' He sighed. 'this situation is becoming quite confusing, indeed.' he couldn't just change overnight. Containing his emotions his whole life deffinately had its side-effects. Like not being able to admit it when he begins to love some one. 'This Sesshomaru will not be hindered by weaknesses such as this. If I...love her....than I will tell her. ' he scolded himself.

"Kagome?"

"Yeah?" she said trying to sift through her own feelings of him. ' I do like him, don't I ?' she thought of the cold, arrogant, demon; with his smirks and dry sarcasm. She thought of how it felt when he kissed her. 'that was my first kiss!' she suddenly realized, her stomach fluttering strangely. 'i do like him...' she concluded with a bit of suprise.'How could i come to like him and not even know it? But now that I think about it I realize something. If he left, I would miss him.'

She imagined what it would feel like if he died. An afwul aching feeling grew in her chest, as she played an image over in her head of Sesshomaru being killed. Slumping down into deaths silent embrace, the blood flowing from him, as his eyes glazed over and he left this world.

She was so caught up in her thoughts, she started to cry. A single tear slid down her cheek.

"Kagome?" he insisted, as he noticed her far off look. Kagome suddenly snapped her head up and looked him in the eye, and he saw the tears. ' whats wrong with her?does she think I hate her? Why would such things cause her pain? Unless...'

"Kagome, what are your feelings for me?" he asked with a sudden burning curiousity. Kagome closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them he could see the fear in them. He could sense it in her aura.

"Don't.You. Dare. Leave. Me." she ground out, between clenched teeth. His eyes widened, as her eyes turned a dark blue, a big change from her almost white blue. ' her eyes change color depending on what she's feeling. Thats interesting.' he thought. He looked at her;his cold mask in place.

"I mean it! If you up and die on me I'll-I'll......"

"You'll what?" he gently prodded. She ignored his direct question.

"Or if you turn out like inuyasha....if you betray me....I-I just won't be able to live. I'm afraid of what I might become. I would be like Kikyo. A living corpse; dead inside, but still existing. I'm just so confused! If I really have feelings for you than I can't ignore that; but I can't just risk my heart for someone again! I can't!" she let out one tortured sob, before he lifted her into his arms; bridal style. She ignored him, hiding behind her hands, sobbing as though her worst nightmare had already happened.

"Wench, look at me." he gave her a gentle shake. She peered out from between her fingers.

"I am nothing like inuyasha. D not dare to think that I would ever abandon you. If you had feelings for me, than I could not leave you."

"But you don't even like me! How could I know-"

Her sentence was cut short as Sesshomaru pulled her closer to him,leaned down, and kissed her more thoroughly than she had ever been kissed before in her life. His kiss was so passionate, so heartfelt, that she coudn't think through the haze that she was sinking deeper into.

When he broke away from her, her eyes were half-lidded and her cheeks were flushed.

"Who ever said I didn't like you?" he said. She looked up at him. She was still in shock. She mumbled something.

"What was that?" he asked in amusement. She moved her hands away from her face.

"I said, what on earth happened between us when S was drunk." he chuckled.

"Nothing that would concern you."

" Yeah, Y bet."

He leaned against the wall of the hallway, shifting her position in his arms.As she stopped crying, she put her arms around his neck and her head against his chest. She could feel the vibrations when he talked.

"Does that answer your question?" he said , smirking a bit.

"Its going to take more than just a kiss for me to trust you." she said. He couldn't blame her for being cautious. But he wanted her to know that he wasn't going to just up and leave her one day.

"Youkai do not treat these things lightly. If one proclaims his love for another, he can't simply leave whenever he gets tired of her. They are bound for all eternity. If i were to mate with you," Kagome blushed a deep crimson,"We would be bound together. There would be no leaving, unless we both agreed to the seperation. Youkai such as myself are honor bound to mate for life."

" Inuyasha didn't seem to have any problems betraying me. Choosing a dead corpse over me." she said bitterly, trying to stop the tears that threatened to spill over, again.

"Inuyasha isn't a youkai; he's a hanyou. And you did not mate with him so he wasn't truly bound to you." he told her as gently as he could.

"Yes I know. Kami, it still hurts though." she bit her lip, drawing blood. He wiped away the trickle of blood as it streamed down her chin.

"We need to sleep now. Tomorrow we are going to your time." he walked into his room. conviently "forgetting" to put her down.

"You do know that no one else has ever been able to travele through the well except me and.....him."she said, trying to keep all the memories from flooding back by not mentioning inuyasha. Sesshomaru got into bed, with Kagome still against his chest.

"I have a feeling it will let me through. If not than you just won't go."

"But then we will never find out how I became youkai! Arent you dying to find out?"she exclaimed to him.

" What has happened has happened. It dosent matter how. But yes, I would like to know how you managed such a strange feat. A miko turning youkai...turning into the very creature they kill. How ironic." he chuckled. Kagome rolled over onto her side, propping her head up on her elbows. She gazed at him, her eyes drooping.

"I am in your bed Sesshomaru." she stated. His eyebrow quirked.

"Yes i'm quite aware of that fact. If you make it a habit of stateing the obvious, than I might have to silence you again." his eyes twinkled in the dark with mischief.

"Oh really? Thats nice." she yawned; her jaws stretching wide like a lioness.

"Are you saying you want to walk to your own bed and sleep alone?" he asked the half-asleep kagome.

"mmmm. To tired. And this beds already warm. I can't wait to see my family tomorrow." she was suddenly a little more awake," What if they reject me though? My grandpa is convinced demons are all evil." she asked worriedly. He brushed her cheek with his thumb, hoping to comfort her.

"If they truly are your family, then you should not be worried. You'll be fine, even if they do disown you." she looked at him; her eyes had changed back to their normal youkai color.

"Your eyes change colors, kagome. iI've never heard of that being possible, but then again; you are a kitsune."

"mmmmmmm.To tired. Talk tomorrow."

" My little kagome." he chuckled slightly, smiling. She opened one eye, regarding him curiously.

"You know, from what all i've seen of you, you hardly ever show any emotion. Why is that?" she asked through her sleepy haze.

"Because I never had you to make me smile." He said sincerely.

Kagome smiled sleepily. 'That was a pretty good line...'

More fluffiness!!!! Things are starting to come together in this story. And I just realize.......i've hit twenty chapters!!!!! O.o thats a alot of writing. Man I have to much time on my hands.... well tell me if you liked it! This chapter was really hard to write.

-AngelsTears15