Bus Ride

Disclaimer: Read the one from the twelfth chapter.

Sesshomaru sat on the bus reading a magazine about, wouldn't you know it, Business. Kagome was in an aisle seat and leaning on him slightly talking to him too fast for him to understand. He didn't care to understand anyhow. The magazine Sesshomaru was reading had a section on his company and his recent leave. It was an edition from a week ago and this was what he was looking for.

'Idiots.' Sesshomaru thought as he read the article. It implied that he was irresponsible and that his leave was a sign that his company was crashing. That was far from the truth, but the most reasonable explanation in the eye of the public. It only confirmed that the magazine was trash that most business owners thought was informative. He had connections with all the businesses and had much more accurate information.

"What do you think, Sesshomaru?"

Sesshomaru violently thrust his head up and turned it toward her.

"What? About what?" He asked, not using his brain power which was lacking from his blood loss. It wasn't too harmful to him, but he had had no sleep in ages and, well, it was catching up to him. Teaching was tough.

Kagome rolled her eyes at him, not annoyed in the least. She was more… amused. Her recent view of him was that he was simply misunderstood. He had showed her rare displays of emotion she had never seen before. He just seemed so much more… human.

"I asked you what you thought of my friends, Ayumi, Eri and Yuka, Sesshomaru." Kagome said, poking him.

It amazed Sesshomaru that she could be so oddly… happy when she was running away from home and wouldn't see them for years. And she was asking his opinion on her friends who she wouldn't see for years?

"Is your magazine interesting?" Kagome asked as an afterthought as she noticed he looked like he had been annoyed with her and was ignoring her and only reading the magazine.

Sesshomaru answered this time, catching onto her worry. "Not really," He said, turning to her this time. "It just spreads rumours about me that aren't true. No one except people who have brain power equivalent to a stone would willingly believe them."

Kagome still maintained a smile, though smaller from the insult and quickly melting. "Eri, Ayumi and Yuka believed them until they saw you." She said. Kagome hadn't believed the rumours herself, but her friends had. Why, she did not know, but even though she was at a different maturity level than them she still stood up for them, even though sometimes it was unconsciously, like now. She liked Sesshomaru a lot. I mean, they had to be pretty close friends to run away with him because Hojo had found out Sesshomaru was a demon, right?

Sesshomaru almost flinched. He didn't like Kagome to be mad at him. He said something to her he hadn't said to anyone in centuries.

"Sorry,"

Kagome's unconscious glare quickly melted after she heard that word. She did hear it a lot. From family members and friends and strangers but from Sesshomaru she knew it meant something. She knew that Sesshomaru could be very cold and hearing that from him meant a lot to her.

"It's fine, Sesshomaru." She said to him, smiling. "Don't worry about it."

Sesshomaru almost smiled at her. She could be so caring when she wanted to be. He put down his magazine. Even if what she was talking about was uninteresting to him if it would make her feel happy it would be more than worth it.

"Thank you," He said. Sesshomaru added on to his statement, revealing to where they were going to stop off. "We'll be at my company soon. I'll be withdrawing some supplies for where we're going that we might need." He opened his mouth to continue but Kagome interrupted him.

"Like money, right?" She asked, wanting to be right. Kagome felt a lot of admiration for Sesshomaru and the way he made it through life.

Sesshomaru shook his head. "No," He informed her, making her feel rather embarrassed. Sesshomaru acknowledged that and made her feel better. "Like things that can be used to get money. There's a different currency there. We can get things from here when we need them anyhow."

"Okay," Kagome said, less embarrassed than before.

Sesshomaru nodded his head. "I have some clothes that I think would fit you. They were Rin's. She died a century or two ago. Nobody will notice, though. I'm sure of that." His voice almost broke with mention of Rin but quickly recovered. Rin had had an extended life by a few centuries by living with a demon but not nearly enough to live as long as Sesshomaru. "I hope that's okay with you?"

Kagome smiled at him. "Thanks," She said. Kagome could tell that Rin had meant a lot to him. Kagome knew what it was like losing some one you loved. She had lost the entire Feudal Era except for Sesshomaru and Kouga. Kouga hadn't been much of a resolution, though.

"You're welcome." Sesshomaru said warmly. "I'm sure Rin would be honoured to have you wear her clothes. She admired you from the Feudal Era. She always asked why she could barely ever talk to you. I told her that Inuyasha wouldn't be happy. She said I could protect her. I said that I didn't want to fight Inuyasha all the time. Rin said she wouldn't talk to you, then. She wanted for me to be happy. I hope she's happy…" Sesshomaru trailed off as he finished remembering about Rin. A smile was on his face as he remembered her.

Kagome smiled at him. "I would have loved to talk to Rin. She was the cutest little thing, next to Shippo."

Sesshomaru smiled back at her fondly. "They were a different kind of 'cute'." He said as the bus lurched to a stop.

Kagome walked out of the bus to meet a stunning sight…

To Be Continued…

Author's Note: When I wrote part of this chapter I was listening to 'Blue as the Sky' by 'Chaka'. It's an awesome song from CCS Movie 2. I think it's awesome and I've played it like 15 times.

I'm a shop-a-weirdo! I got to go to the mall for lunch after Band Day and bought a top with over half of my lunch money which, by the way, was not a lot. All I ate was a smoothie from Orange Julius. XD

BTW I have my Fanfic folder marked with a SessKag picture on it so I won't miss it when I want to update!

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