NOTE: The A/N's within the actual body of this fanfic are NEVER serious. Any misspellings, grammatical errors, or completely inaccurate/stupid remarks are incredibly purposeful. I only want to be thought of as stupid if I'm actually being stupid. (Which tends to happen on a regular basis.)

IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm putting this story on MediaMiner, under the author name "Comique Legume," so if you see my story there, don't worry about it having been plagiarized. The story name is different too. I'd explain why but it's really rather complicated. Also, the story there is exactly the same as it is here—there's not a "Special XXX rated scene where Kagome and Sesshoumaru have fun with whipped cream in the dungeons! Ultra Hot!"

Argh. I don't know where you guys live, but over here it's so hot I feel like I'm sweating out all of my internal organs. (Proceeds to collapse into a puddle.) Here's to hoping that you're enjoying cooler weather!

Please Enjoy.

Sesshoumaru slowly withdrew from Kagome, licking the remaining blood off his fangs. 'Delicious.' Kagome still sat on the bed, pale and withdrawn. Her finger slowly reached up to tentatively touch her wounds, where dry blood was slowly congealing. Blinking, her eyes wide, she simply stared at Sesshoumaru.

'He BIT me and now he thinks I'm his future MATE? Oh, gods, if this system is true for all animals than I'm technically promised to Yuri's bird, that angry Chihuahua I was petting at the park, our class rat, and Myoga.'

Kagome groaned.

'Even it if only applies to dogs, I'm still promised to the Chihuahua.'

Sesshoumaru stared at her; his eyes tinted a delicate red due to his inuyoukai (A/N: inu for dog, and youkai for demon, u know) blood coming to the fore. She was beautiful, and he was going to make her his. That indecent little skirt she wore only enticed him further, but it was completely inappropriate for her new station as his future mate. At least she didn't stink of his damned half-brother's haori. (A/N: ha-or-i… u knows… the red thingy inuyasha is all ways wereing, it's made from muskrat fur)

Obviously she was going to be a bit confused about her situation right now, but that would pass. It didn't help, really, that he had tried to kill both her and Inuyasha all of the previous times that they had met. Ah, well.

Maybe he could pass it off as some sort of tai-youkai (A/N: Tai for Thai, and Youkai for Demon, so that's Thai Demon, see, Japanese is easy) foreplay? It was worth a try.

Staying around to try to explain things to his beautiful night blossom babe would have been a good idea, he knew, if it weren't for the fact that his vocabulary was running off of possessive pronouns alone at the moment, so a typical sentence from him would probably be along the lines of, "Me My Me Mine Mwah."

For now, he'd leave her alone and give her some time to mull over her situation. Chances were that she would also be mulling over how to escape, but from Sesshoumaru's castle, escape was impossible. Yeah, sure, there was a vine that led down her window into a garden where she could sneak around until she then reached the ground walls, which were conveniently easy to climb over from the inside, from where she could run, in hysterics, through a dank wood, but none of that mattered.

She would just sprain her ankle on some of the forest underbrush anyways. (A/N: Un-der-brush. The stuff you find on the ground in forests, especially Japanese ones.)

He smirked, and turned to leave the room. Then something occurred to him. Kagome needed a lady-in-waiting—some one to help dress her, bathe her, and generally be completely useless, seeing how Kagome could bathe and dress herself. Ah, well. A lady-in-waiting was a sign of status, and a social marking. People would disapprove if an upper-class woman didn't have one or two, and we all know how Sesshoumaru lives and breathes to please the masses.

Hmm. Who to pick?

'Ah… I know.'

Sesshoumaru slammed the door behind him, only to come face-to-face with just the girl he was looking for. How convenient.

"K'tanya. What are you doing here?" The girl in question smiled and looked demurely to the floor.

"I heard a loud noise, and thought that perhaps help was needed, Sesshoumaru-sama."

He gestured to the room from which he had just left. "There is a woman inside by the name of Lady Kagome. You will tend to her, and be her lady-in-waiting. If I find your behavior passable, then you may find yourself in possession of mysterious new powers. My half-brother may even fall in love with you. Life will be looking good."

K'tayna quietly assented to Sesshoumaru's request. '…he's never going to realize that I don't like men, is he. Unless his half-brother is really a woman in disguise, I'm just not interested. Sonuvabitch. He's more likely to think of Jaken as a lesbian, and Jaken is a guy. Probably.'

Stepping inside the lady's room, she gently called out, "Kagome-sama? I am to be your new lady-in-waiting. I am known as K'tanya Morningbane, a half-dragon half-cat demon with smoky mahogany eyes, tousled chestnut hair, an esoteric tattoo, and a spitfire personality. I was formerly Yoda's martial arts instructor, but left that profession when I could no longer find the force within." K'tanya continued on, as Kagome stared at her in increasing incredulity.

'Damn this to all friggen hell. The next demon lord who typecasts me is going to get drop-kicked.'

BlueDove: Eeeps! Sorry I didn't answer your question last time… I looked back and realized that I wrote a response, but then accidentally pressed on overwrite, so it got half-swallowed up into Spinereaders' review response. I would love to write an AU parody, especially a high-school one.

Spinereader: Er… my review response to you was pretty messed up last chapter, because I accidentally pressed overwrite. My apologies. .

Rainy Nights: Ooops. This chapter is even shorter than my last one. I blame my homework load. But I still want you to REVIEW, because if you don't then I'll run after you with… um… something vaguely dangerous. PS: That guy in Gokusen is very, very good-looking indeed. PPS: Have you ever heard of someone being called a "huckle-berry friend?" I was watching a video of a J-pop band's concert, and "huckle-berry friends" were mentioned. (In English, of course, since I don't understand more than two words of Japanese.) It was funny, to say the least.