Sesshoumaru opened his mouth, but she cut off again.

"Think about what you're going to say next," she warned. "You're not going to get away with being funny and adorably ignorant this time."

His lips pressed into a thin line. "Nothing I said to you in the village was a lie."

She gave him a suspicious look.

"The guise I used to speak to you was a falsity, miko, but the conversations that resulted in those meetings were not."

"That doesn't make it right."

"I do not deny that."

"What do you deny?"

"That my intention was to hurt you."

"Didn't stop it from happening."