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I don't own any part of Inuyasha.

But I do own... no I already ate that, um well then I own... this pen!

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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤

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"UGH!" Kagome had enough and was tired from her traveling. She lauched herself through the window and back into the loft and brushed herself off.

"Hey where are you going?" He was having fun teasing her but it seemed like she was mad or something and he didn't know where he went wrong.

"Who's the one asking too many questions now? Have a nice dinner." She walked back the stairs in a huff and slammed the door of the tack room, making some of the nearby horses jump and headed for the house.

¤ Chapter Three ¤

Bankotsu had finished up the paperwork and had given next week's shipment order to Myoga a few doors down who promised to get the feed in time. He then sat back down at the desk and started to check his e-mails while his roommate giddily sat on the sofa, and to Bankotsu's shock he saw Jak's feet shake with excitement every few minutes. "Ew."

Jak looked up from the book, "?"

"Do you know every time you get to a good part, and by good I mean sex, you shake your feet and toes with excitement?" He asked Jak with a rised eyebrow. But Jak just went back to reading and ignored Bankotsu's comments about his romance novels. And then a few minutes later he was back into the book.

Bankotsu sighed as his roommates foot started at it again.

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Rin leaned back comfortably wrapped in a blue blanket against Sesshoumaru who nuzzled her neck and smirked when he heard her soft laughter. A rare but beautiful smirk which he only held for Rin, or his deepest sarcastic moments. He had surprised her with a picnic basket made by himself, with the help of Kaede's wonderful cooking of course. Sesshoumaru wiped a smudge mark on Rin's cheek from when he found her earlier painting. She was hand making her own paints outside in a field of sunflowers when Sesshoumaru had arrived and then swept her off to the sandy beach by the lake at dusk. They sat with a checkered blanket and brought an extra one for when the night started to fall, and it became chilly out.

"Did you meet Kagome?" Rin asked in a whisper, to which he grunted a reply. She played with the tassels on the end of the blanket and felt Sesshoumaru wrap his arms around her waist in content. He was scanning the distance across the lake, there were a few other ranches nearby, as well as a boy and girls camp during the summer.

"Briefly."

"I wasn't around today, but I'll be sure to say hi tomorrow. But I'm glad, you know, that she came here and out of her" she finished softly and squeezed one of his lower arms around her waist, "relationship. Sango told me about Kagome's previous boyfriend, apparently they were very serious at one point, but then he became seriously dangerous."

"And his name?" Sesshoumaru asked annoyed that a man would ever raise a hand against a woman.

"Naraku something or other. I wasn't really paying attention to that part. Sango said she tried to stay with some friends after they broke up, but he came after her again, especially whenever he drank and it got so awful to the point where her friends had to ask her to leave, and then he also showed up to her parent's shrine once or twice hoping to find her. So she finally got a restraining order, but then Sango invited her to come and now poor Kagome is going to be at the whim of every male libido around here." Sesshoumaru quirked an eyebrow.

"Except this one." He leaned down and sucked gently bellow Rin's right ear, her most sensitive spot. She closed her eyes smiling and leaned back a little more into his warmth.

"Ah but there's Kouga, Bankotsu, and Hojo, but I don't think we have to worry about Jakotsu." She grinned at the thought of their lovable gay cowboy going after Kagome; he would be more likely to attack her split ends or nail polish. "And of course there's your brother." But it was becoming hard to concentrate on speaking as Sesshoumaru continued his ministrations on her neck.

He lifted his head for a moment before continuing, "Half brother."

She groaned when he pulled a bit harder to form a bruise which would proudly show tomorrow a sporting mark to all the ranch hands. "Sessh..." He lightly ran his hand up her arm and shoulder under the blue blanket, "your going to leave a huge... um..."

"Bruise?"

"Yeah, that."

"That's the idea."

"Yes ...well, we know...umm... Kouga is probably already planning their wedding, not to mention Miroku's wandering hands, and god..." Sesshoumaru grinned when he nibbled her ear in order to silence her chatter of the hands.

"Rin, I want your concentration fully on me" He took the strap of her shirt and slipped it over the side of her shoulder and then preceded to nibble and suck his way down her neck to her shoulder and to bite little by little across her collarbone. His other hand started to wander downwards to stroke to top of her pants on the tops of her thighs. At this point Rin bit her bottom lip and arched her back.

"You... uh, something about... concentration?" Sesshoumaru turned her around fully to silence her.

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Miroku rubbed his cheek after being so forcefully slapped by Sango. He grinned despite the ache in his cheek. He had picked the worst moment to squeeze Sango's derriere, and therefore had to forfeit the kiss they were so close to sharing. Miroku had could remember coming to work for Sango's father when he was in high school. He saw her on the first day mucking out stalls in the barn and he had never agreed more that mucking stalls looked sexy as hell, but Sango at the time didn't think so. Before he even introduced himself he asked a question which almost got him fired before even starting, "Oh beautiful woman, I never thought you would grace my vision of a thousand goddesses, would you be so kind to share my bed and bare me children?" Which started the wide eyed look, and then had Miroku running from the pitchforks that were being thrown in his direction. Sango wasn't pleased to learn that this perverted cowboy would be working for her family.

And then Sango's father died leaving the ranch to her and her younger brother. That's when they became closer, well in Miroku's opinion anyway. He shared her grief when her father passed away, and helped Kohaku move on with immersing him in ranch hand work. Sango never cried, but Miroku witnessed a few rare moments when she would seek out the solitude of a stall and sob, sobs which ripped apart Miroku's heart when he overheard them. Miroku finally wrapped Sango in is embrace when he couldn't stand it any longer and gave her a shoulder to cry on. Ever since his hands only had grasps for Sango's buttocks.

Miroku leaned back against the kitchen counter and started to dry off the plates he had already washed. He looked down at his hand palm facing up and stared at his fingers disgruntled. "It's all your fault, stupid wandering hands." He was rubbing around the edge of a plate when Kagome walked in, in a huff, past Miroku without even a nod and walked towards the stairs. Miroku chuckled because he knew of only one person who could make anybody that mad that quickly around here.

And ten minutes later the speaking of the devil walked in, "Hey Inu, sleeping at the loft again?"

"Yeah, Sesshoumaru and Rin are at the lake house tonight , and I didn't want to be around to hear the bump bump in the night. I mean Rin's a quiet girl, but the way those two carry on I can't sleep at night. I'm probably going to have nightmares thinking about it. I'm going to start living in the loft, especially since Rin barely sleeps in the main house anymore." Inuyasha walked towards Miroku a little bit, "Did you get slapped again Miroku?" Inuyasha asked with disbelief at Miroku's once again red cheek, and then without waiting for a response, "Jeez isn't that like the third time already today?" Miroku just grinned happily.

"I'd rather touch her and be punished for it then not touch her at all." He put the towel away and left the glasses out on the counter to dry and then turned to face Inuyasha who held an empty plate to be washed. He was in his usual jeans and hat with a red button up shirt and his white long hair pulled back into a ponytail.

"You know Miroku, there are other way's of getting Sango's attention, without touching her butt all the time." He frowned when Miroku motioned for him to wash his own plate.

"She likes it, she may not show it but she does." Miroku, "By the way, what did you do to Kagome? She's only been here a day and she already walked through here in a tiff." He crossed his arms.

"I think I might have annoyed her to an extent." Miroku gave him a look of disbelief, "What room she in?"

"Nuh uh Inuyasha, you don't get to be sneaky like that, she's only been here a day for crying out loud! Kagome's just gotten out of a relationship and I'm sure..."

"Pervert! I just wanted to apologize." Inuyasha placed the now clean plate back with it's fellow dishes.

"I'm sorry what was that word again?" He looked at Inuyasha surprised he even knew the term.

"Miroku..." Inuyasha growled.

"She's in Sango's old room, the big window, but I would let her cool off for a little while, just wait until tomorrow. I'm gonna go watch me some Wheel of Fortune." More like watch Vanna White, Inuyasha sighed and nodded in agreement and then the two departed Inuyasha back to the loft. Miroku then walked through the connecting door to the smaller portion of the house where most of the male ranch hands stayed, except for Hojo, but that was because he couldn't handle or survive with all that masculinity in one place.

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It got to be pretty late when Kagome turned off the television in the room and told Sango she was going to nod off to sleep if they kept watching the Twilight Zone anymore. Hojo had tried to come by when she had first gotten back, but Kagome was still steaming from the ears and told Hojo she was too tired to see anyone at the moment. Sango wished her goodnight and Kagome grabbed her pajamas out of the draws she had put all her unpacked clothes into earlier. She took her cell phone out of her jeans back pocket and threw it on the bed, followed by her chapstick and keys. She was worn out from traveling and wanted to change and then slip into the comfortable looking bed. She started to take off her shirt and slip it over her head when she realized that her big window was still open. She walked over to the blinds and started to pull them down still half dressed when she looked out across in the dark and saw the barn... and a little white haired figure sitting on the roof... looking at, or up and down... her! She gasped and he smirked, she swear she saw him do it before the blinds slammed shut at the snap of her pull.

"Ugh cowboys!" She was pulling on the black t-shirt when she heard her cell phone ring. It was a cheap phone because Kagome had to keep getting her number replaced, and the phone was her sixth one that year after her ex had constantly thrown it and shattered it into tiny pieces. Her poor parents had to constantly call to find out her phone number, or what it would change too. She sighed and looked at the front of the cover, the call was something she didn't recognize, but it came form her hometown thinking it could be her parents, so she picked it up anyway.

"Hello?" She said sweetly but her smile quickly disappeared when she heard the voice on the receiving end.

"Hello my jewel."