Authors Notes: What can I say besides Im sorry my chapters aren't coming out as fast as I like? Bleh. I'm uber happy right now except for the teensy fact that, well, I have writer's block. Things are coming to me haltingly at best. Never fear though, I will not abandon hope! I am also helping my family remodel a house, so I wont even be home for the next several days.

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Falls On Me

Chapter 10-Your Kisses Of Fire Fuel My Desire

Kagome had become engrossed in reading his journal. She knew it was wrong of course, but the events were so fascinating! And it didn't seem personal at all. He only talked about battles and how his strength was coming along.

"Gee, is strength all he is focused on?" Kagome asked aloud.

"No, privacy is something else I try to focus on," His voice responded coldly. Kagome shot up from his bed and blushed a deep red. He had taken longer than she thought he would have, and she had totally forgotten about him.

"I'm really sorry," Kagome murmured, embarrassed at being caught, and more than a little ashamed. She handed the book to him and looked down at the floor.

"It's not important. It was nothing more than a record of battles on my land and the youkai I had to kill," He told her. Kagome nodded, still feeling ashamed.

"Come here and eat dinner. Airon was concerned about you. It seems Anei said you went missing. You are very lucky to have such an attentive guard," Sesshoumaru told her.

"Yeah," Kagome mumbled as she sat down across from him on the tatami mat and began to munch of the food in front of her, not even tasting it.

"You seem rather ungrateful today, despite all of the trouble you went through to get him back," Sesshoumaru said as he watched her eat.

"I don't know. I kind of don't want to have to leave here. I mean, I wish I could find a place to escape from everyone. Especially the women here with the lords. Most of them are so…Hostile," Kagome said with a delicate shudder.

"They wish for your position. You control the castle in a manner of speaking, and they crave to be my mate because they think it will bring them power. Few realize I have no wish for a mate and that even if I took a mate, I would never give a woman that sort of power," He said.

"Are you gay?" Kagome blurted. She clapped her hands over her mouth and blushed.

"What is gay?"

"Nothing," She squeaked.

"You are indeed strange woman," He told her. Kagome forced a bright smile and took the comment in stride.

'Thank god he doesn't know what I meant!' She shrieked internally.

Half an hour passed in silence, and they both finished their meals. Kagome stretched and yawned.

"Go to sleep. I'll awake you in the morning and bring Anei to you. After I leave with the other Lords and Ladies, change and go through the garden gate. Act as if nothing happened," He told her. Kagome nodded. It was simple. And it seemed pretty foolproof.

But nothing had been going her way lately.

She stood and stretched. Sesshoumaru stood as well, the platter the finger foods had come on in his hands.

"There is a robe in the chest to the right over there. It will be big, but it will be more comfortable than the ruined kimono," He told her. Kagome blinked as he quickly left.

He had her comfort in mind?

"Hmph, yeah right. He's probably only thinking about his sheets," Kagome mumbled as she opened the chest and pulled out a simple linen robe and quickly donned it. She tied the sash tightly and quickly burrowed under the covers. She didn't like the fact she was in the same bed the Yome had tried to occupy only a few hours ago, but it was better than the unpadded floor.

She was still awake when Sesshoumaru got back. He walked over to the chest and Kagome turned away and closed her eyes tightly. She really didn't want to see him change. Really!

'Okay, so I'm a little curious. After all...' She trailed off inwardly. Immediately she berated herself for the thought. God, what kind of person was she? She might as well be Yome!

"Goodnight," She said as she closed her eyes and forced herself to go to sleep. Considering the situation, she did rather well. It only took an hour and a half.

She was trapped in a sea of blankets steeped in his scent. Kagome shifted and gasped when she realized she was in his arms! She began to squirm, trying to get away. Arms tightened around her like steel bands. There was no way she could escape.

"Stop that," He said in a half snarl half groan. Kagome immediately stilled and looked up at him shyly.

"What are you doing here? I thought-" Kagome began.

"Good question," He snapped, moving away from her and sitting up. Kagome gasped.

'Kami! His chest is…Wow,' Her inner dialogue finished lamely.

She shifted and suddenly realized she was naked too!

"Oh God!" She screeched and quickly pulled the cover around herself.

"Not anything I haven't seen, at least here," He muttered. Kagome blushed indignantly.

"What the hell are you talking about?" She demanded. Why was he being such an ass? The Sesshoumaru of her dreams, well, dream anyway, was still arrogant, but in an almost…Feline way. This Sesshoumaru just seemed…Off kilter.

"This is the dream world. I've already seen you, well, most of you anyway," He told her as he stood and stretched in all of his naked glory. Kagome felt her jaw drop when she saw his firm-

"Please put something on," She pleaded.

"Why are you suddenly so shy?" He asked, turning back towards her. His eyes geld a feral gleam as he crouched down and came back to the bed. "You were moaning my name this afternoon when you meditated. Or was that a dream too?" He asked he leaned in. Kagome blushed with embarrassment, but she couldn't help the sudden flood of heat her blood became.

"Your smell…It's so innocent, but you're so-" He didn't finish, instead he groaned and pushed her back against the futon.

"Why can't I stop?" He groaned as he nuzzled her neck. Shivers coursed through her spine and she arched her hips against his. She felt his heat through the blanket, and it seemed to sear her skin as he began to nuzzle her neck. A moan escaped her throat.

"Gods why do you have to be so innocent?" He asked right before he kissed her and ripped the blanket from her form. Kagome almost choked on her gasp when his hands began to roam over her form, too lost in the haze of desire to hear his words and comprehend them. His fingers traced her womanhood and she bucked against his hand.

Before she knew what was happening he was thrusting into her with a single minded intensity. Her legs wrapped around his waist and she moved against him. His lovemaking was savage, unlike the dream from before, and her screams of pleasure faded into a mewling sound when he finally arched his back and released his seed into her. With a satisfied growl he fell onto her, their skin slick and sweat commingling.

He looked into her eyes and sighed.

"No matter what, you still seem so innocent. No matter how aroused or how angry or sad, you still smell innocent. Why?" He asked her.

Kagome was confused by his question. What did he mean?

But the dreamscape began to fade away and she felt his solid warmth fade as well.

With a start they both awoke, sweating and panting. The heavy smell of arousal permeated the air and Kagome looked over to Sesshoumaru in shock. The morning light filtered in through the windows and made the sweat on their faces glisten slightly.

'No way. Not possible. He's been awake for awhile no doubt and probably smelled my arousal from my dream,' Kagome told herself. She tried to believe it, wanted to believe it. But could she when the dream had seemed so…Real?

"Good morning," She said in a meek voice.

"Good morning Kagome," He told her stiffly. He stood fluidly and went to one of the chests. Kagome quickly turned and blushed as memories of his naked body flashed through her mind, the noise of rustling fabric the background music of her reality.

'I wonder if he really has stripes on his hips in reality,' She thought to herself. Once again she mentally kicked herself for thinking such a thing.

"You may turn around Kagome," He stated.

Kagome turned and saw him in the clothes he had often worn while traveling, minus the armor.

"Anei will be here within an hour. He will bring clothing. I will see you tonight at dinner," He told her. Kagome nodded dumbly as he quickly left the room.

He had been as cold to her as when she had first come to the castle.

The hour passed slowly. Kagome sat on the futon, alternating between twiddling her thumbs and trying to get some more sleep. In the end, Anei arrived and Kagome almost hugged him with joy. She never realized just how insane she could feel until you're in a room where you could touch nothing and there was absolutely no one to talk to.

"Here are your clothes," Anei said coldly. Kagome took the clothes he thrust at her as tears gathered in her eyes.

What had she done wrong?

"Anei-" She began.

"No need to explain to me. I'm just your guard," He said, his voice growing colder and more hateful with each word.

"No, you're my friend. What did I do wrong?" She shouted.

"You slept with Sesshoumaru!" He bellowed, his eyes desperate and sad.

Kagome dropped the clothing her arms, and her jaw probably touched the ground.

"I did what?" She asked. Anei looked at her, taking in her confusion.

"You've been in his room for two nights, what other explanation-" Anei began.

"First off, I was here for two nights because we wanted to basically smuggle me out of here so no one would jump to that conclusion. Second, he slept over there," She said, pointing the tatami mat, "And I had the bed. Third off, I can not believe you would think I would ever do such a thing!" Her voice had increased with every word. She may have been dreaming about Sesshoumaru, but she at least had her honor and she would never betray her wedding vows! Not even if Inu Yasha flouted a new mistress right in front of her. Not even if he took a thousand mistresses would she ever do such a thing!

Anei looked torn, as if he wanted more than anything to believe her, but was scared to.

"But, it smells like-" He began.

"I had a dream okay?" Kagome said in an embarrassed mumble.

"Oh my lady forgive me!" Anei said as he tugged Kagome into a tight embrace. Kagome hugged him back, and they stayed like that for several minutes.

"You really think I'd betray my vow?" Kagome asked.

"Inu Yasha," Anei began. Once more he was cut off.

"I'm not Inu Yasha, I still have my honor," Kagome told him.

Anei found it almost foreign that a woman would hold honor so high when her husband did not. In that time, it wasn't often that w woman would stay faithful to a husband who didn't even sleep in her bed anymore. Especially women who knew they were barren. They were free because they had no worries of accidents, for example, children that showed the face of another man.

"I know," He finally told her. Kagome pulled back and smiled brightly at him.

"Now out, I have to change," Kagome told him. He nodded and left the room, as usual standing outside the door and blocking the entry way.

Kagome quickly changed and looked for somewhere to put the clothes she had worn. Since there wasn't any obvious place, she decided to just lay them on the rumpled bed. Quickly she made sure her appearance was alright, then opened the door a crack.

"This way," Anei told her. She gasped as he jerked her from the room and closed the door.

Before she knew it they were engulfed in a kind of black light and Kagome gasped. It seemed as if she was seeing everything from behind a kind of black gauze.

"What's going on?" Kagome asked, her voice nothing more than a whisper.

"The shadows conceal us, no one can see or smell us," He told her. "Or hear us. We are free to go where we please," He added.

Kagome remembered the first time she had ever seen him and how he had seemed to just appear out of thin air.

"I see. Well, don't ever use this trick on me," Kagome added.

"I wouldn't dare. Some holy people can see through it, and Sesshoumaru can as well. So it's not something I would dare use to trick either you or Sesshoumaru," Anei joked as they walked back to her room. Kagome nodded gratefully.

"So you can go anywhere in this as long as Sesshoumaru and holy people aren't there?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, and sometimes while holy people are present. It just depends on the person and the amount of actual power they have," He replied.

"I'd like to learn how to do that," Kagome giggled as she opened her door and she and she both stepped inside.

"It would be next to impossible. Being able to manipulate shadows is something only my clan is known for, and only because of my great grandfather," Anei told her.

"Ooh, I wanna know!" Kagome exclaimed.

"Alright, but it might take some time, Mako has even left some tea for us," He chuckled. Then he proceeded to launch into a very long tale about his great grandfather going to Hell to retrieve some sort of legendary icon and actually coming back.

She had stayed behind. Feigning illness, the woman had managed to convince her husband she was not up to a hunt. Perhaps her husband knew better, but most likely he did not. It didn't matter. Her spying had paid off. She had seen Kagome and Anei walking into her room, and he still hadn't come out. The shadows surrounding them had partially obscured her view of them, but she knew it was them, she had that much power. And Kagome had been giggling and blushing.

"Soon, very soon little miko, that jewel will be mine," The demoness whispered, her eyes glowing bright with malicious intent.

"And so you see, it's not so much my clan that can manipulate shadows, but the strongest male or female. It's similar to the legacy Inu Taisho left his sons," Anei said.

"So that pendant gives you the power to manipulate shadows?" Kagome asked.

"Yes."

"And it came from Hell?"

"Yes."

Kagome burst out laughing and fell backwards. Anei looked more than just a little affronted by her behavior. When she finally stopped, she sat back up and wiped tears of mirth from her eyes.

"There's no way that thing came from Hell," Kagome told him.

"I know for a fact it did," Anei growled. It was the first time he ever felt annoyed in her presence.

"Oh really?" Kagome asked.

"To determine the strength of the carrier, we all have to travel to Hell and the sole survivor gets the pendant," Anei told her.

Kagome felt tears enter her eyes at his cold statement.

"You mean your brothers and sisters?"

"They're dead now. Once we all came of age we were tested, and I was the only one to survive," He stated.

"Oh god Anei, I'm so sorry, Kagome said, walking over to him and embracing him.

"It happened two centuries ago," He sighed, but still relaxed in her embrace. They stayed like that for some time, up until Kagome moved away and asked about Sango and Miroku.

"The taijiya was threatening to kill me if she didn't see you soon. Does that answer your question?"

"Can we go see her now?" Kagome asked eagerly. Anei nodded and they stood and exited, Kagome smiling brightly.

As they exited, Kagome chattered excitedly, her face flushed with excitement.

But her watcher saw this and felt even more at ease. So Kagome was having an affair. The demoness was so close to her goal. Just a little longer and everything would be hers.

Authors End Notes: Im in a rush right now, but I hope everything came out okay. Please review everyone,it keeps me going.