Chapter 4; Freedom: Day One: Sleep

Sesshoumaru and Kagome were now in his BMW, driving towards her apartment with Kagome giving the directions. Soon, they came up to the front of Kagome's apartment building and Sesshoumaru cut off the engine. As happy as Kagome was to see her home, she didn't see Sesshoumaru look up at the apartment in disgust.

'How the hell can she live in a place like this' he thought to himself as he imaged what it looked like on the inside.

The outside of the building looked run down. The door that led to the inside was almost off its hinges and the glass was brown. Basically it looked like it was there since the 90's.

'Maybe I should make a call to destroy the building' Sesshoumaru mused, scanning the building, wondering what he should put in it's place.

"You live in this shit hole?" he muttered to Kagome. Kagome looked at him in anger.

"Well this shit hole is the only thing that I can afford at the moment, since I lost my fucking job!" she said as she opened the door, right when her foot touched the ground she was pulled back by Sesshoumaru.

"Don't forget Kagome. I will be here in a week to come and get you" he whispered in her hair and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. Kagome looked at him before getting out of the car and ran up to her apartment building, up the stairs to her door and opened it. Closing the door behind her, she closed her eyes as she breathed in the sweet air of her own place.

'Home' she sighed and walked slowly to her room and plopped on her bed.

'Sleep is my new best friend' she thought drowsily and closed her eyes and fell asleep.

-:-

" I don't think this is a good idea."

" Sure it is!"

"What if she is not there?"

"Well, then we are going to have to stay there until she does!"

"How are we going to get in?" asked a male voice, concerned.

"I have a key, Miroku" Sango said to her husband as they both got into their car and headed to Kagome's apartment building.

-:-

Kagome woke up 45 minutes later to loud voices outside her door. 'What the hell?' she thought to herself groggily.

"I told you that she wasn't home!" said a male voice.

"Well it doesn't matter now. We can wait for her!" said a familiar female voice.

"Okay that's it." Kagome thought irritably as she slowly got up from her bed and opened the door, only to see Sango and Miroku in her living room standing in front of each other arguing.

"What is all this about?" Kagome asked in a strained voice.

Sango and Miroku looked in her direction and the expression on their face changed to a happy one.

"Kagome!" Sango and Miroku exclaimed in unison and ran to her giving her hugs.

"Okay…….me……….breathe……..air" Kagome coughed out, trying to get them to let go of her.

"Oh, sorry." Sango said as she let go of her and pulled Miroku off her as well.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Kagome asked as she scratched the back on her head.

"Don't do that Kagome! We were worried sick about you. I don't even know what he did to you? Or how I am going to explain the things that are happening because of you mating with him!" Sango said almost to tears.

"I'm sorry Sango." Kagome said and tried to come to her and hug her but Sango stopped her.

"Go take a shower first, you smell!" she said jokingly, showing Kagome a small smile.

Miroku started to laugh when he heard Kagome mutter "Missed me, my ass". And walked to her bathroom to take a shower like her so-called friend suggested.

-:-

'I shouldn't have left her! Not when the both of us are changing.' Sesshoumaru thought angrily as he looked through the papers that he needed for an up coming meeting. He could feel himself changing. He knew that without being with his mate for the period of time that he gave her, he will be irritated and most likely change into his demon form. Just a few minutes ago, he sent Jaken to go get something for him and the little ass wipe didn't come back and it was already 45 minutes.

"JAKEN!! WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU? IF YOU ARE NOT IN MY GODDAMN OFFICE IN 10 MINUTES, I AM GOING TO FIRE YOUR UGLY GREEN ASS" Sesshoumaru barked. His eyes were bleeding red, he closed them for a second and then felt them returning back to gold.

'Shit' he thought.

"JAKEN!" he yelled more dangerously.

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After an hour-long shower, Kagome came out dressed in a pair of white shorts and a black lacey tank top. She didn't know why, but she wanted raw meat. Or something sweet to eat.

Going into the living room, she found her friend's sitting down on the couch watching t.v, waiting for her. Kagome walked up and sat next to Sango, facing her.

"Okay, what do you want to talk to me about?" Kagome asked as she put a lock of hair behind her ear.

"Well since you mated with a demon, there are some side effects to it. One of them is, you might turn into a demon if you place your mark on him. You didn't bite him, did you?" Sango asked hesitantly.

"No" Kagome drawled out slowly.

"How long are you going to stay home?" Sango asked, only this time worriedly.

"One week"

"Shit…Kagome, by separating from a demon's mate for more than two hours, the demon will become very mean. The demon—"

"Sesshoumaru"

"Sesshoumaru…will most likely turn into his demonic form and that can be very dangerous." Sango informed.

"But I thought he was already in his demonic form?" Kagome asked confused.

"No that was his second appearance. The third appearance is much worse. He loses all control of his body and mind, he'll want to kill something or people" Sango stated.

Kagome went cold and started to feel dizzy.

"Kagome……there might be a slight chance that you could be pregnant."

That's all she heard before she passed out.

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1 hour later and still no Jaken!

" YOU FUCKING UGLY PIECE OF SHIT! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU JAKEN? WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOUR ASS, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU! THEN I AM GOING TO BRING YOU BACK AND THEN I AM GOING TO FIRE YOUR ASS!!" Sesshoumaru yelled in one breath. Just when he was about to say something else his door opened.

"Don't have a cow." someone said.

'Fuck' Sesshoumaru thought, looking at the last person, he wanted to see in a very long time.

Author's Note: IF YOU ARE READING THIS CHAPTER…READ THIS! Right now, I'm making changes to Chapter 5, 6 and 7. I wouldn't suggest you read ahead, until I give to OK. I hope there weren't too many errors.