It took Kagome almost a minuet to figure out exactly where she was and who was holding her, and she would have screamed bloody murder if not for the fact that a clawed hand was still covering her mouth. It only came out as a muffled: "mmmmmhhhh!" which was not as effective.

"If you start to squirm, you will be dropped." Sesshoumaru blankly stated from his position behind her. His voice made her stiffen even more, if it was possible. Her body was already getting cramps because of unease brought on by being to close to him, and his hand was practically crushing her ribs.

"Mmh mmmmmh. (It hurts.)" She said into his hand though she expected him to neither understand her nor care.

"Hold still."

She expected wrong.

She could feel his head starting to tilt forward from behind her. His heated breath started to trace the hairs on her neck. She began to squirm in his grasp, not knowing what he was doing.

"You said it hurt did you not?" Kagome halted her movements and nodded, slightly surprised. "Than tilt your head to the right and hold still."

She did as he instructed, not wanting to anger the lethal demon. She started to get more nervous when Sesshoumaru started to sniff the nape of her neck, like Inuyasha did when he was searching for something. When he found what he was looking for, he brought his mouth closer and, without warning, bit her.

Though the bite healed almost instantly, he licked the small amount of blood off the crescent shaped mark now visible on the nape of her neck. Kagome didn't feel any different than she did before only now she had a throbbing pain in her neck, but once again she was proved wrong.

Sesshoumaru lifted the hand from her mouth the join it with the one holding her to him, he did not care if she screamed now. He was in control.

"What did you do?" Kagome asked calmly, though still feeling very nervous. Though she could not see him, she could practically feel the smirk pulling at his lips. She tried to turn in his grasp to see if it was true but was halted with a single word.

"Relax."

In that instant, Kagome's body completely relaxed against Sesshoumaru and though she was still conscious, she could not move her limbs.

He shifted her to a more comfortable position as he glided down to a stream with a waterfall. When he touched down, Kagome was about to repeat her question but he cut her off with another command. "Sleep." Within seconds, Kagome was asleep.

Sesshoumaru smirked to himself as he now had part A of his plan complete, the fact that he now had complete control over the girl was an added bonus for he knew that she would surely put up a larger fight when she got over the initial shock.

With more ideas brewing in his mind, Sesshoumaru stepped past the waterfall, into the cave, and into his hidden fortress.