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Hey everybody! I'm not going to put up riddles for now, I'm out of good ones...The last one about the gender switch, I made up, so...

I'm out of ideas, so I'm just writing this with whatever words come to my head, without editing...But I did plan one thing! Instead of making the days pass by like one day each two or three chapters, I'm just going to jump ahead a little so I can get to the main idea of this story. That's right, this is still the beginning...I think...

Well, here we go!

Two weeks had passed since the day at the village, meeting Sango.

On their way back the next day, Kagome and Sesshomaru encountered Miroku. The lecher tried one of his moves again on Kagome, not minding the fact that she was the daughter of this land's lord.

Kagome was extremely shocked, blushing red. Sesshomaru even seemed a little surprised that someone could shamelessly do that and attempt to look innocent at the same time.

Then Sango appeared and knocked Miroku out with this giant boomerang of hers that she called Hiraikotsu.

Despite the fact that Kagome was extremely annoyed and embarrassed, she had to admit that this was a humorous scene, and she found herself giggling, then completely laughing out loud.

They found themselves back at the castle, hours later, and soon everything was back to normal. As normal as it could get anyway...

Her father had been acting odd lately. Kagome had thought he was ill at first, but there was no signs of a fever or a warm forehead, so she just guessed that he might not at all like the idea of her marrying Naraku, and that was fine, Sango didn't seem like she did either, neither did Miroku, and neither did she herself. So Kagome soon forgot that idea of her father acting weird, and just figured that it was what any father would act like if their daughters were to be married to a former enemy.

Inuyasha had visited a few times since then, Kagome had gotten to be with him alone, but he started acting a little...distant to her...She couldn't really blame him, she might have been acting the same way. They would never be anything but friends, that was what she thought anyway, she was going to marry Naraku, any hopes of being with Inuyasha were gone.

He had first thought she was joking with him when she said that she was engaged to Naraku, but he was soon convinced that she was serious. Since then, Kagome had noticed Inuyasha spending a little more time talking with Kikyo...At first, she didn't think to much on it, but now she began to feel jealous a little of her older sister...Kagome was beginning to think that there was something going on between Inuyasha and Kikyo, but didn't say anything about it, what place did she have to? She was going to get married for goodness sake! She had to forget the feelings for Inuyasha.

Kagome had never thought marriage could make people feel this bad...until now, of course...

Whenever she had moments alone with Inuyasha, she'd see some emotions in his eyes, and knew that he had feelings for her still. Kagome didn't know why she never realized he had strong feelings for her until now, now that it was too late to say anything about it. It was just that sad. But even though she could not be together with Inuyasha, that didn't mean she couldn't daydream about it. Right?

Also, Rin would ask her these questions that made her feel worse: "How is it like to be engaged to someone?" "Are you happy?" "Are you sad?" "Will you be leaving us?" "Will we get to see each other alot?"

Kagome didn't always respond to those questions, but when she did, she usually just answered with an "I don't know".

She was spending more and more time with Sesshomaru. She really did enjoy his company, especially these times when she didn't feel like talking, or she only wanted someone to listen. Though many times, she just wished he'd say something...

Koga even stopped by once, but he seemed really disappointed when she told him the news about her and Naraku. He forced a smile, and when he left, he hadn't come back after, at all.

Hojo hadn't stopped by either. But that was okay. If all of her suitors came by, Kagome would have felt worse about everything.

That was pretty much how the two weeks went by...

So now, she was hearing more interesting news from her father.

"Naraku will be visiting us in two days time. He will come to see how you, his bride-to-be, are living, and such..."

Oh joy. Here comes the man that is the cause of her sadness...

"Alright, Father" Kagome responded cheerfully, fake cheerfulness, but it obviously fooled her father, and he dismissed her without a single worrying glance. That was out of character. 'Father would have known I was faking...he would've also seemed more worried normally, wouldn't he?'

The thought of him becoming distant like Inuyasha made her sad all over again. Come to think of it, everyone was becoming more and more distant to her...

But Sesshomaru was probably the only one who didn't keep distance, for that, she was thankful. But it was only natural, she had recently just met him, so why would he go all distant on her, they weren't that close...She had only known him for not even a month yet...

Kagome left her father's study where he had summoned her earlier to tell her this news. He was beginning to seem odder by the day, it seemed that her father was a stranger nowadays, but that was ridiculous, all this stress and fear she was going through made her a little...delusional, that's it, and that's all.

She met Sesshomaru along the way back to her room, and smiled softly.

"Guess what? Naraku's coming over here in two days? Amazing, right?" Kagome spoke with sarcasm in her voice.

"Hm..." He sighed softly then, Kagome simply watched him. Again, she wondered where he came from, how he got those wounds, but she could never receive an answer, which was just frustrating sometimes...

She also wondered that if she went with Naraku, would she be able to see Sesshomaru again? Of course she would, wouldn't she? He'd come visit her, right? That was allowed, wasn't it?

Two days later...(Yeah, I'm jumping again, I hate doing this, but I'm just trying to speed it up to get to the main plot, plus I'm out of ideas at this point)

Kagome grudgingly put a big fancy princess kimono, complete with all the many layers not even Kikyo wore. She hated walking like this, but she remembered each of her etiquette lessons on walking straight and gracefully, remembering not to fall down, not to trip over her own feet, and not to fall down the stairs.

Right, she'd remember all of that, and everything would be just fine, right? Right.

Her hair was done in some weird way with all these twists and pins and chopsticks, Kagome could only guess that it was supposed to look like two buns, but now she wasn't sure. No, she no longer felt like a princess. She felt like food. Yes food, the chopsticks even completed this new delicious look...Now, she felt like a giant pastry, to be exact. Yes, a pastry. Great, now she was hungry. Wait...This was twisted, she was making herself hungry? Okay, end of those thoughts there...getting too weird...

Naraku was supposed to see how Kagome acted and dressed normally, right? So why was she being someone totally different than who she was...? This didn't make sense, maybe her father wanted her to impress Naraku or something?

Anyway, so Kikyo, Souta, Rin, and even Sesshomaru were supposed to come down with her to the dinner table. Everyone, including Naraku and her father, were sitting there. The only ones who weren't there were Sesshomaru and Kagome.

Kagome was walking down the staircase and she also saw that Sesshomaru was walking down as well, he was wearing that red hexagon patterned kimono. She smiled and walked beside him, no words were spoken, but they continued walking down the stairs until they had found themselves at the bottom of the stairs.

"Well, here we go" Kagome said softly with a deep breath, feeling horribly embarrassed with her newly dubbed 'pastry' clothes.

Sesshomaru pulled back the shoji screen door that would lead them into the dining room. On his first glance inside, his eyes widened, he gasped, and closed the door quickly again.

"Sesshomaru?" Kagome questioned softly "Are you okay...? Come on, we need to get inside" she took his hand and started to re-open the shoji again, she glanced uneasily back at Sesshomaru.

The look in his eyes...it was like if he could talk, she'd knew he'd be saying: "Please don't make me go in".

She almost went along with it, but she decided against it, he was meant to be there, he was a guest, and it was proper, so she told him to come along once more and eventually was able to pull him in when she opened the shoji fully.

Kagome forced her prettiest fake smile on, attempting to look like a pretty pile of pastries. She sat down gracefully on the right side of Naraku, where she assumed she was meant to sit. Sesshomaru took a seat almost all the way across from them, which was near her father, beside Souta, to be exact.

Kagome looked at her husband-to-be, and blinked in some surprise. She could have sworn he was smirking just a moment ago, but now he was normal. Her imagination probably...yes, just her imagination...

"Hello Princess Kagome" Naraku greeted, almost politely. He was handsomer than she remembered, but Kagome still did not like him, he gave her the creeps.

"Hello Lord Naraku" Kagome greeted in a similar tone "If I may ask, what do you hope to gain from this marriage?" she hoped she wasn't offending him or anyone else, but she really wanted to know this answer.

"Everything I've desired..." He replied softly. Kagome's eyes went just a little wider than normal, but then she frowned. He sounded just a little psycho the way he said that...maybe he was, or maybe not...

Her eyes nervously darted around to the others, they locked with Kikyo for a second, and with the corners of her eye, she could see Rin slowly stick her tongue out at Naraku.

"Rin" Kikyo's voice was heard with some disapproval.

Rin smiled innocently and went back to her food.

Kagome looked at Sesshomaru, he was almost as still as a statue and glaring at Naraku who was 'oblivious' to this. Sesshomaru looked extremely hostile at the moment, but Kagome did not say anything about it. It seemed no one else could think of something to say, so dinner was passing in an uncomfortable silence.

Suddenly, Naraku glanced up and looked straight at Sesshomaru.

"So, I see you have found Sesshomaru" He commented, and Kagome could hear a soft gasp come from Sesshomaru's direction.

"What?" Kagome asked in interest "You know Sesshomaru?"

"But of course" Naraku smoothly continued "He is a valuable servant of mine." Rin, Kikyo, Souta, and Kagome seemed slightly surprised, even Sesshomaru did, but no one was looking "He has been missing for..." he paused to count "Exactly two weeks and four days"

"Two weeks and four days ago" Kagome echoed "That's the same time we found him" so Naraku couldn't have been lying about this, could he? He knew Sesshomaru's name, and he knew the exactly date when she had met Sesshomaru which was the same day Sesshomaru went missing...

Still, it was a little difficult to think of Sesshomaru as a servant.

"But he's..."

"Mute?" Naraku offered, then chuckled "I know. But usually, it is the mute ones who you can trust with your plans..."

Well, it did make some sense. Naraku even knew he was mute. So Sesshomaru really was one of Naraku's servants? But maybe he did not want to go back which is why he did not want to go through the door to the dinner table. It would make sense, right?

"Well, what luck finding him here. This is good news, I shall take him back with me when I return home tonight"

Kagome gave a rather uneasy smile. Well, at least she'd be seeing Sesshomaru more when she married Naraku. Still...she did not feel right about this for some reason. But what right did she have to not allow a Lord to take back his servant? Besides, it would probably be her father who was the only one who could speak against it.

"Very well" Lord Higurashi said a little...too quickly. He was not even looking up from his food, which was strange, since her father always politely seemed to look at everyone in the eyes when he talked.

Soon, they all started up a conversation, it was ordinary and plain. About the weather and snowfalls or something of the sort. Kagome wasn't exactly paying much attention. She actually felt rather tired at the moment.

All right, I'm going to stop there...

I dunno, but I think I may be a little tipsy...Nice spiked eggnog...ANYWAY! I know where I am going to go from here, so the next update should be sooner than this one was...But, as it is obvious, it will be in 2011.

Happy New Years, everybody!

-Peter Pan