NA: nyaha! Faster this time…please read and review. A little more of OOCness from Sesshy. But don't worry, I won't kill him.

Clair de Lune

By Sansy

Chapter 8:

Dream

Sesshomaru looked out the window of his room. His head was keep replaying the last night's incident, as he called it, and irritated him. He hadn't been able to concentrate for the last two hours. Worksheets lay in front of him, all the answer spaces blank.

Sighing, he tilted his chair back in a troubled manner. As his silver locks fell behind his back, he brought his hand up to his lips. His lips were cold, as usual, and bore completely no scent of sweetness.

Suddenly, Kagome's flushed face crossed Sesshomaru's eyes, making him blush slightly. He lost the balance of his chair and fell backward. He grunted when he found himself on the floor. Lifting himself, he ruffled his long silver locks. The threads of silver fell in front of his face, making him look somewhat like a silver-haired lion. He picked up his chair.

"Sesshomaru!" called his mother, "it's a call from a girl named Sango!"

Sesshomaru frowned. Why from that girl?

Despite his complains, he walked downstairs to hear an ear-splitting yell from Sango.

"Did you REALLY do that?" was her first sentence.

"Do what?" said Sesshomaru, annoyed.

"Did you really kiss her?" she said boldly, and Sesshomaru was speechless for a second.

"No." said Sesshomaru, and he was about to slam the phone's disconnect button when Sango laughed.

"HA! Take that, Miroku! They didn't do it!" was what Sesshomaru heard over the phone. Followed by Miroku's groan of defeat, Sango asked another question.

"So what happened, then?"

"She was trying to catch a butterfly… then she lost her balance… you can imagine the rest yourself. Farewell." Sesshomaru jabbed the disconnect button, and sighed.

"Tomorrow's going to be a long day…"

The next day when Sesshomaru entered the classroom, Kagome was being taunted by other girls. Since he had the experience of what will happen when he help a girl, he kept his silence.

"Sesshomaru, why don't you help your girlfriend over there?" said a boy named Tomo. Sesshomaru looked up.

"Get out of the way, you're blocking my view." He said coldly.

"Goooood mooooooorrrrrning, Sesshomaru!" someone called out, and when Sesshomaru turned around, and he saw Kikyo. He withdrew his gaze. Soon enough, someone wrapped their cold arms around his neck. To his annoyance, it was Kikyo again. He brushed her arm off wordlessly and started writing down the assignments. "Hey, love, is it true that you and Higurashi is going out?" said Kikyo, blocking his view.

"No." he said. He shoved her out of the way and scribbled down the rest of what was on the chalk board. After the teacher entered the door, Kikyo was thrown a pencil at, and Sesshomaru finally had his peace back. While the lesson, he couldn't concentrate on anything else than the incident two days ago. He could still feel that sweet and bitter taste of something he possibly felt that day. So was it true, then? Did they really kiss?

Sesshomaru shook these notions out of his head and noted things that the teacher said. He barely managed to get all the important things what the teacher said, and when the lesson was over and the class had a short break, he buried his face in his folded arms and pled himself for a nice rest. Then when he was about to close his thoughts from the world, a tap interrupted him.

"What?" he said, before he was checking that it was Kagome. He gasped a little, and sat up. Kagome blushed and took a step back before stating her business.

"Can I… borrow your notes? I dozed off… um…" she stuttered, and before she could find the right word, Sesshomaru shoved his notebook to Kagome's arms. He had that blank, I-don't-care-take-it-if-you-want look on his face. Kagome grabbed it, and walked hastily toward her desk. Not much sound was heard from her except her scribbling into her notebook. After a five minute or so, she returned the notebook with a hasty bow. Sesshomaru just put it in his desk.

After three more lessons, it was time for lunch. As soon as the bell rang, Sesshomaru exited the classroom and stepped outside. Sakura petals were now out of season, and they were mere trace of the sweet dream that bloomed early spring. Now their triumphant faces were ruined under people's careless steps, and ripped into pieces.

They were ruined dream of the spring.

Sesshomaru woke up from his nap when he heard a scream. He switched his eyes to the place where he located Kagome, being bullied by few other girls. It took him a few minutes until he decided to help her. He rose from his chair and went to where she was being bullied.

He snatched a hand that was about to hit Kagome's cheek

"That's very fair, four against one." said Sesshomaru, whipping off the girl's hand. The girls ran away, shrieking. He dragged Kagome to the nearby water fountain. "Wash your face, Kagome. You look like a mess." He said. Kagome slowly did as she was told. She grabbed hold of her necklace.

"It's not ruined… thank goodness." She said. To Sesshomaru's surprise, she wasn't worrying about herself, but the necklace.

"Idiot! That necklace can be ruined all it want, aren't you worried about yourself?"

"No. Not really." She said. Sesshomaru sighed, and turned away.

"You should really take care of yourself more." He muttered, and continued on his way.

"Yeah." said Kagome. A small smile spread across Sesshomaru's face.

Perhaps it wasn't a ruined dream, after all.

AN: This chapter was a mere aftereffect of Kaa-chan and Sesshy's "date". I will post REAL episode later. Nyan, sorry. Bit of Romance again.