I like this chapter, poor Miroku, lol. Yay, back to all the SessxKago-ness! Well sort of, lol.

I know that, in the next chapter, there's going to be a lot of chaos between the two. Wait... I think so at least... Oo; I forgot!

Chapter 10

- Previously -

"I try to keep her happy, and she gets upset. She wants the truth so I told her what I've noticed and she gets furious. Her mood swings seem to be worse and a little more snappier." Then something came to him. "Did that encounter with Sesshomaru effect her somehow!"

Inuyasha quickly placed his clothes and ran downstairs towards the kitchen; amazing not to find Buyo. He found Kagome making some breakfast and turned her around to look at him. Kagome jumped at was completely startled by him and to see how rough he was.

"What happened between you and Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha yelled worriedly.
Her eyes widened, 'how does he know about-?'
"Did he hurt you before I got to you, did he insult you because you are a ningen?" He asked.
Kagome sighed in a little relief, "iie, he didn't hurt nor insult me. We just crossed each others paths and stared at each other as you came along."
"You sure?"
"Mhmm, daijobu?" (Notice she's acting nice now? Only five minutes ago she was furious as hell with him.)
"Good," he hugged her, "I thought he was the reason why you were so glum and defensive."
'Defensive…?' She wanted to yell at him but didn't. "Iie, I'm just worried about going back to school and stuff."

Inuyasha kissed her passionately and again Kagome's mind flashed out the vision of Sesshomaru and took it. Kagome wrapped her arms around his neck and returned the kiss with the same force. He smirked at how she was trying to take over him with the kiss he gave her and loved it. She was just totally blowing his mind away.

- Now -

Three months have passed and Kagome well… she got a bit bigger over the time period since she's been back with Inuyasha. The hanyou and kitsune have been getting worried about her, and why she had been more careful. On the other hand, the ningens knew what was going on, and so they were at Kagome's side most of the time.

Inuyasha demanded that they should go find Naraku and get what shards the could. When he suggested that, they all glared at him, well, except Shippo who looked at the ones who were glaring at him. The plan to go find Naraku was postponed for now till Kagome was prepared to do so.

Right now, Kagome was talking to Sango alone, telling her things that the others weren't going to know for a while. Unfortunately, Miroku was caught listening to them, so he joined inside of the hut. They brought Kaede over as well, knowing that they would keep it away from Inuyasha.

"I really need to leave for now, but I need to find Sesshomaru." Kagome said in a stressed tone of voice.
"We understand, but it isn't safe, and what if you get hurt or something?" Miroku replied.

She half laughed, "If I'm going to Sesshomaru; the taiyoukai with the Tenseiga, I think I'll be fine."
"Kagome-chan, we're serious you can get hurt while just going to him."
"Sango-chan, I'll be okay, I have to go anyways."
"So after this, you shall go to your era for a while?" Kaede asked.
"Hai Kaede-obasan." Kagome stated.

Kagome started to get up but sat back down instantly and winced lightly at the reaction given. Sango went to her side and checked to see if she was alright or not. The miko was fine, and so they sighed in relief then looked at her worried.

"I think Kagome-sama should go, but perhaps Sango should take her to see Sesshomaru-sama," Miroku suggested.
"Iie," Kagome stated, "it might infuriate him; I need him in a calm position to where I can talk to him, so it will go a little smoothly."
"Demo… Kagome-chan… what if he doesn't like what you have to say?" Sango said with much worry.
She shook her head and got up, "oh well, I'll find out what to do from there on then."

They didn't argue with her because they didn't want to deal with the fury from the onna. For three months, she has been a little snappier along with moody, but they understood. Shippo kept a little distance from his okasan unless she gave him open arms to jump in.

Walking over to the door mat of the hut, Kagome looked back at them to see them all looking at her. She waved her hands to them and then left the hut to bump into something. When she looked at what it was, she saw a certain hanyou.

"Where are you going Kagome?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"I… thought I would go on a walk, after that, I think I'll go home." Kagome said truthfully.
"Naze, are you trying to lose weight now?" He chuckled.
"Excuse me?" Dangerously, she raised her eyebrow.
"I-I mean… because it looks like you've gained a little weight and-"
"Osuwari!" Kagome yelled dangerously.

WHAAAAM!

"Like I said, I'm going to go on a walk, so don't follow me or else you'll get a lot more than just ten." She said annoyance.

She walked in a careful pace towards the stream where she had last seen the great and power taiyoukai. A sharp pain hit her stomach and she sat down to calm herself and pain. Kagome gave a light sigh then looked at the starry night to see it so very bright.

'Please hear me.' Kagome took a breath and whistled out loud.

Five minutes passed then ten, and soon a half hour. Kagome sighed with displease, and got up slowly, and clenched her fists at her side. Her heart had ached and ached when she had not seen the taiyoukai for so long, and now that she wants him to come to her; he doesn't show.

"Fine… what kind of youkai are you?" Kagome closed her eyes tightly and demanded herself to not cry.

A clawed hand stroked her cheek from behind as it soon placed her hair behind the mikos ear. Kagome gasped and whipped around to think it would be Inuyasha and was about to yell 'osuwari' towards him. To her surprise, it wasn't him, and her eyes looked up to see two amber ones looking down at her.

"This one is an inu taiyoukai, miko." The taiyoukai stated coldly.
"Sesshomaru…" Kagome whispered.
"Nani-yo?" He questioned then looked at her form amused while reaching to her face, "have you been over dosing yourself?"
She glared, "satsu."

Sesshomaru's body froze and couldn't move and inch but his face. Little did he know that she could move him how she wanted, and so she lowered his hand down to his side? Kagome looked up at him as he slowly came out of the rosaries hold. It was obvious to him that she did not wished to be touched.

"Why did you take so long?" Kagome frowned.
"Was it not you who said to stay away?" Sesshomaru questioned back.
"Even though I had called for you this time?"
"This one didn't wish to come incase of disobeying you, though this one admits about worrying over the miko."
"You're so infuriating," she hugged him softly.
"Isn't that why you hate this one?" He raised an eyebrow.

Kagome brought her hands to his cheeks and motioned him to lower his face to hers, "urusai," she kissed his lips.

Sesshomaru growled with approval and nipped her bottom lip with his fangs. Doing as he wanted, she obediently obeyed the taiyoukai, she opened her mouth for him, and he devoured the inside of her mouth; claiming as his own as he would months ago. Kagome then slowly made the both of the stop, and so he looked at her with that same old stoic look.

She sighed and looked at him softly, "we need to talk Sesshomaru…" her head turned away, "and… I'm scared…" Kagome whispered out so softly with the tone of fear and pain.

Sesshomaru growled furiously at her words saying 'I'm scared' to him and immediately wanted to know why this was so. It was obvious that it was not himself that was scaring her because she was holding onto his chest armor lightly which had remade from a youkai. His hand stroked her cheek to make her look at him and then looked at her eyes; small tears were appearing, and he licked them away.

He looked at her with an even colder look than normal, "does this have to do with your form, miko?" Sesshomaru asked in a dangerous whisper; wondering if depression had caused this fragile and confused state in the miko that had healed him and saved him.

"Why did Kagome go on a walk? More importantly, why is she so pissed off? That command really hurt this time." Inuyasha sighed with much irritation, and a very sore back to go along with it.

Sango sat at the fire while petting Kirara who sat in her lap; purposely ignoring Inuyasha more or less. Miroku; who was also ignore the inu hanyou, was stoking the fire, hoping for it to continue burning brightly. Shippo was sound asleep so he could avoid any fights in the hut.

"Maybe you made her upset and so she wanted to go walking by herself." Sango stated.

"I'll go check on her-" Inuyasha began to get up.
"IIE!" Miroku and Sango yelled.
"…?" He was confused and nearly scared to death.
"Kagome-chan might say 'osuwari' about a hundred times."
"Alright," Inuyasha sighed and stood up.

"Where are you going?" Miroku asked curiously.
"I'm going on my own walk." He walked out the hut.
"Matte, don't follow her!"
"I ain't, I'm going the other way." The hanyou declared and left.

Sango looked at Miroku, "Kikyou?"
"Hai…" Miroku nodded to her with a sad expression on his face.
"I should go tell Kagome, most likely she'll want to know about it, ne?" She asked even though she already knew the answer.
"Kagome needs to know, hai," he stood up, "demo… I'll go tell her."

"You can't go! What if he attacks you!" Sango yelled with worry as she clung to his robe.
"That's why I won't let you go; I don't want you getting attacked by him." Miroku smiled warmly.
"Onegai, don't, just let me go instead!"
"Iie, ja ne…" He ran off.
"HOUSHI-SAMA!

Sesshomaru paced himself around furiously after what he was told the news from the miko in front of him. Kagome was crying lightly and Sesshomaru was getting his patience thinned out. Out of nowhere and for no reason, his claws reach at her, and cut her face.

WHACK!

Realizing what he did after she screamed, Sesshomaru immediately regretted it. That was the first thing that he had ever regretted, and didn't know what could fix his assault on her. He lifted his hand to her bloody cheek and she tried pushing away from him.

Now those eyes looked at the taiyoukai with complete fear, and it was because of him since that was his first attack on her since she healed him. Sesshomaru watched her cry with the pain that he caused her; he looked away for a while till she calmed down. Kagome held her cheek in so much pain, and took ten minutes to calm her self a little.

"Miko, this one apologizes-" Sesshomaru stated but was interrupted.
"You said you wouldn't strike me!" Kagome yelled at him.
"Miko…" he was bringing his hand to her face.
"IIE!" She jerked away.
"MIKO!" His voice scared her and she froze.

Sesshomaru placed his hand under her chin and placed his forehead against hers. Gently he licked her cheek to where the blood was gone, and the scratches. She still whimpered and cried a little though and he brought her form against him.

"This one hadn't meant what he did to you just now, this one asks for your forgiveness…." Sesshomaru placed his lips to hers softly to give her a peck on the lips.
Kagome shook her head no, "you won't forgive me, why should I forgive you…"
"This one didn't expect to hear such information-"
"Is that approval or rejection!"
"…"
She started to back away, "so… it's rejections…"

Kagome started to run away quickly but lost balance and nearly fell over but Sesshomaru caught her quickly in his arm. She was trying to squirm away and heard him sigh out loud. Her squirming stopped and she looked at him.

Sesshomaru's head lowered down to hers and gave her a deep kiss to prove that he wasn't in all rejection. Kagome cried lightly and wrapped her arms his neck so it would be deepened. The taiyoukai placed his hand on her back to place her carefully closer to him.

Twelve minutes later, Miroku was running up a hill top to a stream and was losing his breath. He knew that Kagome didn't go far, but the place she was going he didn't know. After getting to the stream, he saw Kagome with the dangerous taiyoukai, and slowly approached them.

The scent of the monk was immediately caught by Sesshomaru and he glared directly at him to keep him at bay while he was with the miko. Miroku didn't get the idea and was still coming closer which made the taiyoukai get on edge and wasn't like it. To a fierce taiyoukai like himself with a female of his liking, the monk was a threat to him.

Kagome heard him growl as they were kissing and tried to part from him but he kept her going a little longer. He then stopped his assault on her lips and placed them to her ear out of the monk's sight. She remained calm and waited to hear from him what was wrong with him.

"The houshi is coming toward us right now, tell him to stop, or this one will attack." Sesshomaru whispered and licked her ear.

Kagome nodded to him and spoke out, "Miroku-sama, don't move any closer."
"Kagome-sama…" Miroku stopped in his place and looked at them carefully, hoping to not get attacked.
"Why are you here? You said I can talk to him; you know it was important." She stated.
"He knows?" Sesshomaru growled.
"Hai, he, Sango-chan, Kaede-obasan, you, and I," her forehead went to his and lightly rubbed their noses together. "It's okay Sesshomaru," she whispered, "they will be the only ones to know."
"…"

A sharp glare from the edged taiyoukai went to the monk when his foot pivoted. Immediately he started snarling and Miroku was terrified. Kagome removed her arms from Sesshomaru's neck and caressed his cheek to get his attention away from Miroku and it was working a little.

"It's okay, relax," she cooed to him softly.
"Tell him to kneel down." Sesshomaru growled and kissed her lip lightly.
"Miroku-sama, kneel down slowly." Kagome told the monk friend, but making eye contact with Sesshomaru.
"Hai Kagome-sama…" Very slowly, Miroku started to get down on his knees and to the ground.
"…" Sesshomaru's eyes kept pivoting over towards the monk, but then quickly back at Kagome.

The taiyoukai kept having his attention on Kagome but every now and then look over at the monk. Kagome placed small kisses on his lips to make sure he would give her attention. Miroku was just hoping that he wouldn't be attacked; Sango didn't place this in the job description about male defense.

"Miroku-sama, why are you even here?" Kagome asked curiously.
"I-it's about I-Inuyasha…" Miroku stuttered nervously while looking at the two curiously, wondering what's going to happen?
"Nani!" She whipped around to look at him.

"W-well you see… we told him not to follow you, and so he went on his own walk," Miroku stated a little nervously. "Sango and I are pretty sure he was heading over to Kikyou. We wanted to warn you, so I came instead of her to tell you."

Sesshomaru snarled and released the miko at the thought of the dead wench who walked the earth. It was her that had wounded the miko in front of him; her that had placed his healer in danger. His head lifted, gathering the scent of his hanyou kyodai, and also the scent of disgusting bones and graveyard soil.

"Sesshomaru, iie, don't attack her." Kagome stated to him.
"Had she not wounded you?" He glared dangerously.
"Hai, but you know I'm healed, onegai… ochitsuite." She caressed his face with a gentle hand.
"…" Sesshomaru looked at her and then in the direction of the wench.

"You still have to answer me…"
His eyes looked back at her, "this one does not know."
"You have to know! You have to tell me!" Kagome started to cry.

Things could never be simple with a taiyoukai and a miko, and it seemed impossible without giving the other some pain. The miko however was given pain because of what he has done. It was only fair that he would help out the onna that has become so close to him.

He stroked her hair once and then placed a clawed finger under her chin gently to look at her while she looked at him. Kagome looked in his eyes to see a calm but stoic emotion in them. His head went on top of hers and she leaned into them lightly, not knowing what he wanted.

"This one will bear with the hanyou," Sesshomaru stated.
"Hontou…?" She looked up to him.
"Hai, but one wants the privilege to be near that village for what little months are left." He concluded.
"…demo… Inuyasha-"
"Osuwari," the taiyoukai reminded her.
"You'll have to be in the forest and down wind of us because of Inuyasha."
"…" He gave her a nod.

"So you'll actually be okay with it?" Kagome looked at him a little worriedly.
"This one has allowed two ningens to be apart of his life; it should be natural for at least one hanyou to affect one's life." Sesshomaru stated.
"Arigato!" She hugged him happily in a light way.
"Call for one when it is time, this one must be there."
"Okay, I'll probably have Miroku-sama drive Inuyasha away along with Shippo-chan. "Demo… does it mean that you'll help out… or just be there?"
"…this one will help when possible…" he kissed her lips lightly.

"Arigato," she smiled, "I think it'll be weird to have a kabu with you though."
"Deal with it as I am." He growled and kissed her fiercely.
"Hai."

I THINK after chapter eleven, I'll start posting quicker. I'm not sure though, lol.