Authors Notes: Wow. Crazy stuff happening at my end. Ups and downs and BOOM! But it's all okay in a way. Soz this chap took so long, but Ive been having so computer problems. Please forgive this poor authoress with a shitty computer! On another note, it's awesome everyone's taken to Anei like they have, I didn't expect him to have lil fanclub, but I'm happy he does, which makes me happy. Also, its been awesome because throughout this story and my previous one, Bad Day, Ive been making friends on Myspace and Livejournal and such. Its been truly awesome. And I have a proper boyfriend whos the biggest goofball and trance addict on the planet, kinda like me lol. He makes me happy.

Well, onto the story!

Disclaimer: Me no own Inu Yasha and Co, but original characters are mine! Steal and die a horrible death of flaming at my hands.

Falls On Me

Chapter 9- And I Wonder If You Have Ever Seen

Kagome awoke with a sneeze. Her first thought was about getting a hot bath. Her second thought was how beautiful the room was. Her third thought came in the form of a question.

"Where am I?" She asked as she looked around the simple, yet elegant room. The futon itself was oddly a dark blue, and the covers were silver and white.

"You're in my room after wandering into my private gardens last night," Sesshoumaru stated from his tatami mat. He hadn't slept last night at all. But of course, you couldn't tell that. He looked like he had just woken up. His hair was a little tangled and fuzzy, and his clothing looked stiff.

"Oh god, I'm sorry," Kagome gasped, quickly standing.

"I still have yet to figure out a way for you to get out of here without one of the ladies awaiting my presence seeing you," He stated.

"Huh?"

"If one of the ladies outside sees you leaving my room, they'll jump to the wrong conclusion, and I'd like to avoid having my name tarnished because they think I tumbled with a human," Sesshoumaru told her. Kagome gasped in outrage and marched over to him.

"You could have just left me out there! I didn't ask for your help!" Kagome muttered as she poked him in the chest.

"Remember what happened last time you did that woman?" He growled.

"Do you remember what happened last time I did that?" She snapped back. Sesshoumaru began to growl low in his throat and Kagome backed away slightly.

"I could always go though the garden wall again," She said suddenly.

"You have to walk all the way back to your rooms after that. Someone will see you. Do you want to be seen as you are now?" He asked, his brow rose as he smirked at her.

Kagome looked at herself and groaned.

"Could you please get Anei to bring me some clothes?" Kagome asked.

"Anei is no longer guarding you," Sesshoumaru stated. He knew she wouldn't like the news. However, he did not anticipate her reaction.

Kagome slapped him smartly across the cheek, her eyes blazing with fury. Her energy began to surround her in an angry, red tinged pink aura.

"Why?" She shouted at him.

Sesshoumaru didn't answer her question. Instead he had her pinned to a wall, his hand at her throat. Her feet dangled uselessly above the floor. Then he noticed something. A slight burning sensation on the inside of his palm, not unlike when he grabbed a hold of tetsusaiga.

"Let. Me. GO!" Kagome shouted as the energy around her flared. Sesshoumaru was knocked backwards onto the floor. Kagome fell to the floor the instant he let go of her and brought her own hands up to her neck.

"I told you I wouldn't be abused," She panted finally as he began to move again.

"Then don't do anything that warrants punishment," He retorted. A dull ache had filled his head, along with a buzzing sound.

"Bite me," She snapped.

"Don't tempt me," He shot back as he stood. Kagome followed suit and they both glared at each other for several moments.

"I want Anei as my guard," She snapped. "It wasn't his fault I ran out last night."

"And I can't let anyone think he gets special treatment!" Sesshoumaru snapped back.

"No one has to know," Kagome told him.

Sesshoumaru was about to retort, but took her words into consideration. It was likely few of the servants knew. If anything they were probably worried that she had gone missing. None of them had ever been allowed near his room in several decades. In fact, Kagome's room was the closest they had gotten, and that was at the other end of the wing!

"Fine," He finally muttered.

Kagome was about say retort when suddenly she took his words in. Realization dawned on her, and her eyes lost their confused look. But almost as soon as they lost the confused look, they became narrowed with suspicion.

"What's the catch?"

"Don't do anything foolish again and leave me alone."

"Kind of hard to do when I have to-" Kagome began.

"Baiting me is a foolish move woman," Sesshoumaru growled.

"Fine, fine, okay! Thank you, by the way," Kagome told him.

"Alright," Sesshoumaru told her as he went over to his tatami mat and sat back down.

"Umm, Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked a few minutes later.

"What?" He snapped. She was making it impossible to meditate with her constant fidgeting!

"What am I supposed to do? I was supposed to go see the priest today for training," Kagome told him.

Sesshoumaru felt his frustration welling up within him. How could this happen? Why had he even brought her to his room in the first place? She deserved to have her reputation shredded by the females lurking outside of his room. Kagome had so far proved to be foolish, rash, and far too emotional.

But she had also stood up to Inu Yasha, made him look the fool, and she had planned a gathering in a week. And she had managed to singe his hands with her power.

Maybe she didn't deserve what life had handed to her, but she had chosen the path, and he refused to see it any other way. But…

Wasn't she trying her best to pull through it?

"Kagome, I want you to meditate. I'm sure the priest would have put you through the same exercise. Or do you not know how?" He asked.

"Well, I can, kind of," Kagome admitted.

"What do you mean, kind of?" He asked, curious.

"Well, my mom always told me that meditating is when you go to another place in your mind, a calm place. When Inu Yasha would…" She blushed and paused for a moment. "When we were together, I would usually go to that place," She admitted.

'Why is she telling me this?' Sesshoumaru thought as he asked, "So he was less than gentle with you?"

"That's one way of saying it," She sighed.

"That is not meditation, that is escapism. Meditation is when you focus yourself and delve into your subconscious to learn things about your mind and soul, your strengths and weaknesses," He told her, repeating what his father had told him so many years ago.

"Oh," She whispered as she sat and moved into lotus position. Sesshoumaru nodded approvingly.

"Now focus your mind and clear it of the noise and outside distraction, and follow it where it takes you," He told her, his deep, rich voice told her smoothly. After that, silence reigned in the room and Kagome tried to let go of everything.

Little by little everything faded from her focus and her body became almost completely still. Her breathing was even and her mind seemed so clear of everything. It was like death, or what she imagined death to be. Oddly, she felt like she was being hypnotized, or on the verge of passing out.

A few seconds later her home began to come into view. She watched as details began to place themselves in the picture before her. The shrine, the house, even the little house with the well inside. And the God tree.

Kagome watched as her mother came up the steps with a bag of groceries, and her grandpa swept the porch. Souta was lazing about on the porch railing, reading some magazine.

"I miss her," He suddenly said.

"I know sweetie, we all do," Her mother stated.

Before Kagome had a chance to memorize how her brother had grown, to take in all the details she had forgotten over the past several months, it faded.

"No!" She cried out, tears pouring from her eyes.

Suddenly she was brought back to reality, hot, scalding tears pouring from her eyes as she joked back a sob.

Sesshoumaru was looking at her as if she had lost her mind.

"I saw my home. My family, they miss me. I miss them too," Kagome sobbed. Sesshoumaru sighed.

"Can you go back?" He asked.

"I'm not sure. And I have to be here for Sango's-"

"After that you will go. Do you wish to come back?" He asked her.

"Yes, of course! I have to be here for Shippou and Rin and Sango and Miroku!" Kagome exclaimed.

"I see. It seems you will not be content until you have seen your family once more. I will summon for some food,' He told her, just as her stomach growled loudly.

"Thank you," She told him with a blush. However, her thoughts were racing.

'First he lets Anei stay my guard. Then he says I can go home for awhile. This is so weird and not like him at all,' Kagome thought. All of the males seemed to be insane around this place!

Sesshoumaru stood and looked down at her.

"Stay here. Do not for whatever reason, leave this room. Do not allow anyone in," He told her. Kagome gulped and nodded at his serious tone. He quickly left and closed the door after him.

"Well, I guess I need to-" Kagome was saying, just as the door began to creak open.

Knowing it couldn't be him already, Kagome quickly hid herself behind a couple of chests. And she was right.

A beautiful, female youkai came into the room. Her fur was a creamy color with hints of brown, and her eyes were ice blue, and so cold.

"Finally I'll get him," She sighed happily as she removed her kimono and under robe. Kagome had to hold back a gasp as the youkai flung herself into the futon and burrowed under the covers. A cream colored tail tipped in brown twitched contentedly.

Several minutes passed, and Sesshoumaru walked back in looked annoyed and harassed. Kagome tried to stifle a giggle at his expression.

"Lady Yome, what are you doing here?" He asked, his voice cold and stiff.

"Why, don't you know? I'm surprised you have forgotten so quickly," Yome said loudly.

"That's not going to work Yome, there's a sound barrier on my room. Now leave," He told her as he set the platter of foods down.

"And if I don't want to?" She purred. The neko youkai stood fluidly and let the cover fall away from her shamelessly.

"I have no interest in you Yome. Leave, or I will be forced to remove you."

"Don't you want me?" She purred as she walked over to him.

Kagome could almost hear Sesshoumaru's sigh in his expression.

"Very well," He said. Kagome was about to gasp in outrage. He was going to do that with her in the same room.

Suddenly Kagome heard an outraged howl as the door opened. More howling, a heavy thud, then the rustle of fabric.

"Keep her away from me. I will not be trapped into marriage by any woman," He stated coldly. Kagome gasped and the door closed solidly.

"You can come out now Kagome," He told her as he sat at his tatami mat. Kagome poked her head above the chests she had been hiding behind, blushing madly.

"I thought I told you not to let anyone in," He said as he took a piece of eel and began to eat it.

"Well I couldn't exactly jump out and tell her to leave. She just sort of…Walked in, and I only had enough time to hide," Kagome told him as she walked over to the tatami mat and sat across from him.

"I see. Be thankful she was too wrapped up in her plan to notice your scent in here," He said after he had finished the piece of eel. Kagome began to munch on some food and let herself relax.

"Will there be any problems because of what she did?" Kagome asked.

"Most likely her mother will be outraged and her father, to follow his duty, will have to act outraged, though he is a good man and doesn't deserve to be stuck with two women such as those," Sesshoumaru said.

"Feeling sympathy for someone?" Kagome asked.

"No."

After that they ate in relative silence. When the food was done, Kagome began to fidget. There was nothing to do except…Sit. And boredom was quickly taking it's toll.

"Sesshoumaru?"

"What woman?" He asked, irritated.

"Do you have anything to read?"

"Not in here and I'm not chancing leaving this room again until you are gone," He told her.

"Oh."

"Try meditating again," He told her. Kagome nodded and went back to the bed.

Only now it was harder to focus her mind and clear it of everything. It felt like Sesshoumaru's eyes were on her the entire time as she pushed everything out of her mind ruthlessly. Well, she tried to anyways.

Instead she became away of the soft blankets she sat on, and the feeling of his stare only doubled as she tried to escape it within herself.

And suddenly she was thrust back into her dream before she could get away.

Sesshoumaru was pulled from his meditation by a peculiar scent. He opened his eyes and looked over at Kagome. Gold eyes shifted and changed, turning a molten amber when he suddenly realized what her scent was.

Arousal.

The miko's cheeks were flushed and she was sweating and trembling slightly.

But she was still meditating! It was like some sort of…

Dream!

A low moan came from her shuddering form as her back arched. It was as if her body was emulating the scene playing out in her mind, and her scent was sending him into overdrive. Pure, unadulterated arousal, and for the first time it wasn't tinged with the scent of ambition or lies. Something he had never smelled before. Pure need with nothing held back. And even innocence.

"Argh," She moaned as her back arched so much he thought it would break in two. "Sesshoumaru!"

His eyes widened and he almost fell backwards after she called out his name. This was his brother's wife! Screaming his name while trapped in some sort of erotic dream! Her breath began to come in short pants and he watched, entranced, as she moved her hips, erratically at first, then in a fast, steady rhythm. Her scent began to take over the room and his inner beast was clawing at its chains to be released from him and to take the woman who was seemingly offering herself to him.

Gathering all of his willpower he walked over to her, trying not to break down and let the beast free. But each step made it more and more difficult as her scent increased and surrounded him, invading every pore of his body and batter his defenses.

Another moan ripped itself from her throat as she arched once more, just as he was about to shake her shoulder to bring her out of meditation.

Her eyes opened suddenly and he looked down at her, sweat beading on his forehead and his eyes tinged with red.

"Umm, hi Sesshoumaru," She whispered.

He straightened and looked down at her coldly.

"Stay here, I'll put a barrier around the door so no one but me can enter. I'll tell the other lords that tomorrow we'll all go hunting so you can get out of here without anyone noticing," He told her.

"What will I do until then?" She asked.

"Stay here," He told her.

"All night?" She screeched. Her dream had hit home and told her how much she didn't need to stay in his room any longer.

"Unfortunately, yes. Despite the lack of wisdom in this it is the only choice should we want to avoid any rumors starting, and I personally do not want to deal with the headache."

"Fine," Kagome mumbled as she bowed her head. Personally she was torn between wanting to ask him if he had noticed anything odd about her and the embarrassment it would cause. But she really wanted to know if she had done anything…Outward during her meditation.

After he left she moved around to stretch her legs and noticed a few small, bound books on the table in the corner.

"So he lied to me. Hmph, whatever," Kagome said as she picked one up and went back to the bed. She opened it up and began to read, her astonishment beginning to grow.

It was Sesshoumaru's journal!

"My Lord, how could you do such a thing to my daughter?" Yome's mother asked.

"I did nothing untoward. If anything I could have you all thrown from this castle, but your husband was a close friend of my father's and I'm sure he knew nothing of you and your daughter's plan. But, needless to say, if your daughter does something so foolish again I will make sure she is not able to repeat her mistake," Sesshoumaru told the female youkai.

"Yes my Lord," The woman said, her eyes flaring with anger.

"Good. Tell your husband everyone will be going on a hunting party tomorrow," Sesshoumaru told her. She nodded and he quickly left. He told a few of his servants to tell the other lords and went to the kitchens to pick up another platter of food.

"My Lord, I heard that Lady Kagome went missing, is she alright?" Airon asked. Sesshoumaru was about to avoid her totally and leave with the food when he felt someone's claws pinching his ears.

"None of that young man! I still remember when you were wet behind the ears. Still are if you ask me. Now what's going on?" Airon demanded.

He was caught. He couldn't hurt his mother's friend and the woman that had been like a grandmother to him in his younger years.

Sighing, he brushed her hand away and turned back towards her.

"She was found and is spending the day recuperating," He told her. Then he left before the woman could grab his ear again.

Authors end Notes: I found a proper boyfriend! And wow. Just. Wow. Amazing. I never thought kissing could be so amazing! Weird actually. Well, I will be putting out the next chappy sometime next week, as I am going to spend a few nights at the house we are currently renovating. Methinks it'll be up Monday.

Thankies to: LadyDiDal, Binab86, Firevixen73, Aakahasha, Ookami K, Night Sins, Cysso, Hoshiko Megami, Angelblade402, Rogue Socks, Nilee, Sesshie's Black Dominatrix, Kyo-Babe, Youkai Sesshoumarulover, Fey Twist and Fibrosis Fate, windprincess342