Her cheeks darkened, the blush in her cheeks threatening to take over her whole face, but she didn't pull away.

"You know," she said, clicking her tongue as she tried for some semblance of calm, "if you'd just talked like this before, you wouldn't have needed the disguise."

Sesshoumaru considered the idea, then shook his head. "I was not aware that you saw me as anything more than an ally. Or if my own intent towards you."

"There's intent?"

"Indeed."

"And you got all of that from a couple of conversations?"

Did she honestly not know of the change she brought out in others?