As nightfall approached Kagome could feel the day's events weighing heavily on her and all she wished to do was to find somewhere to sleep. The miko had never gone anywhere this far on foot before and it was starting to wear her down. Her legs felt like jelly and her eyes seemed to droop, as she was about to say something Inuyasha beat her to it.

"We will rest here tonight." He said all of this without even a second glance at her.

She had asked Inuyasha what he had wanted to ask her earlier and all he did was blush bright red, mumbled something about forgetting and turned away. She didn't understand why he was avoiding her now. Had she done something to scare him away? As she contemplated these things Sango walked up and asked to talk to her. Desiring for the moment to let the matter between the hanyou and her lay as it was, she warily agreed to the woman's proposition.

"Kagome? Look, I'm sorry about earlier today. I really thought you were Kikyo and…"

Kagome just nodded her head in understanding. "Let me guess, you were only trying to protect Inuyasha. Why do you and Miroku follow him around so much anyway? It's not like he needs you guys to help him out if he's in trouble."

Sango looked over at the girl in shock. "Every member of the royal family has attendants." She stated simply.

Kagome shook her head and laughed. "What do you mean, I thought you guys had agreed that he was only a descendent. There is no more royalty, and besides I've never even read of a demon in my textbooks so how can he be? I don't think it would be all that easy to keep something like that from a whole nation."

Sango sighed and sat down. Obviously Kagome still had no idea what was going on. "Inuyasha really is a prince, and his father was king before him. The reason you have never heard of a demon king is because when demons go to the human world they disguise themselves with spells, and they never talk about this place outside of this dimension. You see, if even one person were to let it slip that demons exist we would have a big problem, people would be dying to come into our world and exterminate every last one of them."

Kagome sifted this news through her brain. It all made sense except… " Well aren't you human, Sango? And what of Miroku?"

"Well my ancestors were villagers who came here to get away from wars back in Japan. When they came here they offered themselves as servant to the Inu Youkai. Miroku was snooping around in the forest because he thought he sensed something and he ended up here and Inuyasha found him."

"So Inuyasha really is a prince, I'm in a different dimension where humans are inferior and… is there anything else you need to tell me?" Kagome's voice was sarcastic, but Sango took it for a real question and thought for a second.

"Um, well did you know that Koga is the wolf demon prince?"

Kagome raised her eyebrows and asked quietly, "Oh, really is that all?" before falling for the third time that day, fell into unconsciousness.

Inuyasha had been watching the exchange between Sango and Kagome and so he saw when she fainted. Jumping from the tree he had been sitting in he quickly caught the young miko before she could hit the ground.

"Kagome?" he asked tenderly.

Sango smiled at the perfect picture they made, with the prince holding the girl in his arms. "Don't worry Inuyasha. She only fainted from all the new things that have been thrown on her shoulders today." She quietly began to slip away. "I'll leave you two to yourselves." And with that she was gone.

Kagome began to dream, and like all dreams similar to it, it took on a strange texture and suddenly seemed very real.

As she walked into a room that had not been there before she was confronted with two doorways. To the right was a plain brown door with gold inlaid into strange designs and patterns. It looked somehow familiar to her as she stepped closer. As she reached for the handle she realized that the other door was a choice she could make as well. This one was silver with black inlaid into its surface and the handle was gold. The gold looked odd though, like she should know the hue. Her mind stretched itself, looking for an answer and she finally found it. "Inuyasha." And she ran forwards to throw herself through the door on the left.

Inuyasha was still holding Kagome when she began to have her dream. When she thought she was reaching for the right door Inuyasha caught the sent of something coming from her. "Damn! How did his smell come back?" he began to growl low in his chest until he realized that mixed with Koga's scent was that of fear and loathing. He smiled. "At least she knows what will happen if he wants her back."

Now her scent changed once again, only this time there was contentment and peace. He smiled and then wondered to himself, who does she dream of now? Then he sensed it. It was him. She's dreaming of me. He thought in wonder. She even took on some of my smell.

Thinking that he could be all together happy if she really was like this all of the time, he fell asleep.

Kagome woke to a very strange sensation. She tried to move, but her arms were pinned, and the more she tried, the tighter her bonds became. Opening her eyes, she realized what, or should she say who, was holding her.

Something was rubbing against her back, and it took her a moment to figure out just what her discomfort was coming from. Eyes wide she did the only thing she could.

"SIT!"

Wrong thing to do. Kagome was squashed under the full weight of the spell, and that of Inuyasha. When she tried to push him off of her she suddenly heard something much like a growl. "Inuyasha?" she managed to squeak out. Once again her answer was a growl, but this time he shifted ever so slightly and she gasped when she felt him begin to nibble on her exposed neck. Finally getting her voice back after what seemed an eternity she yelled, right into his sensitive ear. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"