Hello to everyone and thank you to those of you who are still coming back, even after I left you all hangingfor what seems like an eternity. I have no excuse that would intrest you guys so I'll just let you guys get on wit the reading. As soon as I get some reveiws on this chapter (not that I deserve any pouts) I'll post up the next one. Love you guys!

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Kagome let the waters of the hot spring surround her and felt herself relax, thinking back to what had just happened. Lifting her hand to feel the place where Inuyasha had marked her she mumbled something that to anyone listening would sound remarkably like 'stupid demon.' The miko didn't yet understand just what that mark was supposed to mean, but when she did, there would be hell to pay.

Hearing a slight rustling in the bushes off to the side of the springs, the girl ducked down under the water, waiting. When a very pissed woman emerged, Kagome could only wonder what had Sango looking so upset.

Trying to hide a smile, she stood, "Did Miroku do something stupid again?" , was the first question out of her mouth.

Sango jerked her head up, having not seen Kagome, but then grinned. "No, this time it was Inuyasha. I can't believe you took that so calmly."

Kagome was now the one to look shocked. "Calmly? Are you joking? I practically slapped his face to the other side of the forest. You call that calm?"

"Well if anything like that happened to me I think there would be nothing left to slap. I mean, declaring to the whole world that he wants you as a mate seems just a bit extreme. I swear if a guy ever wants…"

"WHAT!" It took a moment for what her friend had just told her to sink into her head. "MATE? I just thought his demon side was a bit… feisty, or something. Oh, when I get my hands on him…" The sentence ended there and with those words stated, the Miko stepped out from the water and threw on her clothing, stomping back to camp with an aura that just begged someone to do something stupid.

Sango stared after Kagome before cursing herself. "He's gonna murder me."

Inuyasha was trying to explain to Miroku that what he had done was on accident, for what seemed like the tenth time, when he sensed something coming. Looking up and taking a deep breath he realized with horror that it was Kagome. And she did not smell to happy, not happy at all. "Crap." Was all he managed to say before…

"Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit!" Coming to stand over him, but remembering not to let him see up her skirt again, Kagome fumed. "Why didn't you tell me what this ment?" She pointed to the now more than obvious mark on her exposed neck. "Who said I wanted to be with you like that! I mean, seriously!"

Miroku saw his chance to stay alive, and quietly exited the camp.

Meanwhile, down in the dirt, Inuyasha could not yet stand, but her words made him stop even trying. Sure he had not known her for very long, but… it still hurt.

Kagome could feel the change that went through Inuyasha as soon as she had stopped talking, but taking it for anger of his own rather than sadness she bent down, pulling his head up, so she could look in his eyes. What was there threw her off her guard and made her throat tighten. "Inu..yasha?"

Jerking his head from her hands he gave a 'feh' and stood. "If I really am all that repolsing to you, then maybe you should just go home."

"No! I didn't mean it to sound like that." Her voice came out sounding very small. "It's just that I, well, I mean to say that…"

He rolled his eyes at her. "Yes?"

Now her eyes glowed with anger at him again, but this time for making her admit to something that she really didn't want to. "This whole thing has thrown me off guard. I never knew about another world where demons ruled. I never knew about Kouga being a prince,." He growled at the name, but she continued anyway, "And I never knew that I could find a place, or a person who could make me feel this way."

He gapped at her, but before he could respond the wind shifted, bringing a very farmiliar scent with it.

"Sesshomaru." He growled out, before turning towards the now clear pressence.

"Hello, little brother." Was the reply that came from behind a tree, north of the camp.

"Why don't you come out, fluffy, It's not like you are here just to spy on me."

Kagome just looked over at Inuyasha, ad started when she heard the new voice. Sesshomaru... Why did that name sound so farmiliar? Oh, yes, that's right. Miroku had said that was who they were going to meet. Turning her head, so that she could finally see who everyone had been talking about she just about let her mouth fall open. Walking out of the forest, and seeming to just apear, came one of the most handsome men she had ever seen. Sure, next to Inuyasha he looked cold and distant, but that didn't lessen the fact that she found him to be VERY attractive. Snapping back to reality, kagome realized that the two men were having a conversation over the top of her head.

"... and so we brought her here." Inuyasha finished, not in the best of moods. he didn't like the way that Kagome was looking at his brother.

Seeming to notice the girl for the first time, Sesshomaru looked over. "So you are a miko? I wonder how the wolf found you before we did."

Coming from the demon, that coment had more the sound of a comand to it than a thought, and reluctantly Kagome found herself answering. "My powers didn't surface until a few months ago, and I have known Kouga," she practicly spat the name, remembering his last words to her, " since high school."

Inuyasha and his brother seemed to be taken by suprise by what she had just told them. "A few months... gods, Kagome, I never would have guessed that flea bitten basterd could be so stupid."

Kagome glared at him, taking that as an insult to her abilities, but Sesshomaru interupted her thoughts. "What he means to say is that most Mikos start showing their powers by the age of five, the latest usually being seven, and those are very rare. You see, power builds itself over time, and the longer it takes for it to show, the more there is. So if what you are saying is indeed the truth, well you could be tens, if not hundreds of times stronger than the legendary Midoriko herself."

She sat down, not having enough will to keep standing. This was just one more thing to add to a long list of new things she had learned today. "Oh, really?" she whispered softly, glancing over at Inuyasha, looking for support. He was there instantly.

"Feh. So what if you are more powerful? That doesn't mean anything to me, wench." Those words coming from his mouth may have upset her earlier, but right now she was grateful to him for not treating her any differently than normal.

He hadn't expected a smile, but it was better than the faint he had been expecting. Sure she had a bunch of stuff happen to her all in one day, but really, did she have to pass out so much. Thinking of the last time she had done that, his cheeks took on a slightly pinkish tint. He turned away from her, so she wouldn't catch sight of the blush, and saw Sesshomaru smirking.

"What?" He practically barked.

"Nothing, brother, I just noticed how well you two are getting along. Tell Miroku and Sango that I approve." And with that he was gone, leaving not not one, but two blushing people behind.