"What are you talking about?" Kagome managed to get out before she was suddenly catapulted hundreds of feet into the air, forcing her to grab hold of the irritating demon lord to prevent herself from falling like a rock to the very solid ground beneath her. "Where are we going?" she asked Sesshomaru after taking a few minutes to get used to the height.

"To my castle." he replied.

'To his castle?' Kagome thought. 'Interesting. He never brought me to his castle the last time. We just stayed in some stuffy old cave. I wonder what it looks like and how big it is.'

She was so lost in her musing that she barely noticed the ground as it sped underneath the two. Sesshomaru's tail began to slowly make its way around Kagome's shoulders as he began to notice her subtle shivering.

Sesshomaru glanced down his nose to the petite woman barely cresting his chin in height. There was something in her scent now that he could not remember being there during their last encounter. He could not pin it down no matter how hard he honed his senses. One second he could smell it as clearly as if someone held a vial of it right beneath his nose, and the next second it was gone as quickly as he tried to breathe it in.

It was really quite frustrating.

Not specifically the scent, but more the fact that he was concerned with the small obsession he was beginning to feel for the woman. 'Ka-go-me.' He said slowly in his head. Savoring the taste of it as he rolled it around in his mouth.

The true problem lay in the fact that she was in his almost every waking thought. Vision of her lovely pale skin haunted his dreams and that beautifully irritating scent was forever in his nostrils.

For the first time in his long life, the Great Lord Sesshomaru of the Western Lands was confused.

Thus the frustration.

She was so innocent. That was it. She had such large amounts of power. Almost limitless, he had seen her use them himself. Had they been in a battle pitted against each other he was sure that she would pose a very likely threat. It was the fact that she had such power and yet she would use it first to heal and defend rather than attack and destroy the threat. It made no sense to him.

There, there it was again. That change in her scent. He had finally figured out what it reminded him of. Cherry blossoms. The subtle scent of cherry blossoms was swirling around her in a constant stream, Swirling around her in small circles like her own personal perfume cloud. It was entrancing. That sweetness mingling with her own personal musk had him wanting to sit back and let out a relaxed growl.

'Well that smells wonderful.' His inner demon said while uncurling and stretching out. 'I remember that scent. We've been around this one before. Isn't she the one that escaped from us a few weeks ago? I do believe we have a score to settle with this little one.'

'Stay out of this.' Sesshomaru demanded. 'The woman named Kagome is under my protection until this problem with the pest Naraku is dealt with.'

'Does that mean that we get to play once he's dead? Because if that's the case then we need to find him right now. I was impressed by her power when we found her, but the fact that she not only escaped, but managed to lose us three separate times is damned annoying and it's making me really horny.'

'Keep your libido to yourself. I must deal with Naraku first and foremost. Everything else takes a very far second.' Sesshomaru snapped.

'Very well. I'll do my very best to keep to myself but I make no promises if that little minx decides to start making some moves of her own. In that kind of situation I refuse to be held responsible for my actions.' His demon replied lazily.

Sesshomaru, in his infinite wisdom knew better than to try and lead his inner demon into a mental pissing contest, so he decided to just let the subject drop. He had withheld his inner beast before -–most recently during their last encounter with Kagome-- and he would do it again if necessary.

A soft snoring drew his attention to the small form wrapped firmly in his tail. She had fallen asleep. His damn tail had been subtly pulsing while he was arguing in his head, which had essentially given her a full body massage and she had fallen asleep using his chest as a living pillow. He stared down his nose at her, unable to decide if he wanted to wake her so that she would stop snuggling into his chest and arousing his inner demon even more than he already was, or letting her stay that way because of how surprisingly good it felt for her warm cheek to rub against the thin silk of the haori that covered his chest.

When she let out a soft moan and moved against him he had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep the red from completely seeping through his eyes. She had moved one hand so that it was lightly massaging his tail in her sleep and her other hand was planted firmly right above the hem of his hakama.

'I hope she's enjoying whatever dream she's having because I certainly am.' His demon crowed triumphantly. 'Help her along. I know you know how to use that it. Imagine how much fun it would be to seduce someone as pure as this one.'

'No.' Sesshomaru said rather vehemently. 'I will not take advantage of someone in my care, most certainly not while they are asleep and we are hundreds of feet in the air.'

'Party pooper. Then at least move her so that she isn't as stimulating. Much more of this and I don't know if I'll be able to behave.'

Sesshomaru silently agreed and slowly used his traitorous tail to reposition Kagome so that there was a solid wall of fur between the two of them. He could not, however, completelyprevent it from continuing to pulse around Kagome. It had, apparently, taken a liking to her and was wrapped around her as contentedlyas a dog in front of a fireplace.

The deeper she fell into her sleep the more Sesshomaru began to notice a blue-black haze building around her. Not haze, more like a slow, pulsing electricity that surrounded her like a blanket. At first he couldn't figure out what it was, and then it occurred to him that it was yet another aspect of her power. That irked him a little bit. He did not like not knowing exactly what was going on, and the fact that the woman had powers that he was not aware of rubbed at his nerves. He would have to remedy that once they reached his lands.

Speaking of; he could now see the beginnings of his lands. His castle would be visible once they crested this last set of mountains.

Kagome was having the most wonderful dream. She was surrounded by warmth. It wrapped around her and made her want to do nothing but relax and let the feel of being completely comfortable take over. Her mind began to wander and she vaguely realized that she was beginning to enter a dream.

She was sitting in a hot spring, resting with her forehead against a cool boulder in front of her. The warm water was up to just under her shoulders, the warm water and the subtly water currents working on the aches and knots along her spine; the testament of her days training.

The sudden feeling of someone else in the surrounding area pulsed in Kagome's head. She wasn't receiving any threatening vibes from the visitor, so she didn't immediately raise any type of barrier, and even when she could hear him start to remove his clothing and slide into the hot spring, she refrained from raising a barrier. Instead of feeling threatened, Kagome actually began to feel herself relax even more the closer the stranger came. Her aura sparked in warning when one of the strangers long-fingered hands came into contact with her back.

"I won't hurt you" he said softly.

"I know." Kagome replied, though she didn't know how she could be so sure of that fact.

His hands began to slowly apply pressure on either side of her spine, working out the kinks from her day, and she couldn't suppress the soft moan that escaped her lips at the wonderful feeling of his hands on her bare back. The skilled pair began to work their way from under the water at the base of her spine up to the small of her back and up farther still to the center and top of her back.

When he reached her shoulders Kagome let her head fall back onto the strong shoulder of her masseuse. She kept her eyes closed for the small fear that if she opened them her dream would end and the warmth would go away.

"May I?" he asked as his hands hesitated, poised to begin on the front of her shoulders.

A brief second of hesitation passed before Kagome nodded her consent and he began to work his strong fingers on the front of her shoulders. He had done nothing of any sort to arouse Kagome. His skilled hands had gone nowhere that was inappropriate and yet Kagome could not help but begin to feel the first tendrils of lust curl through her belly as he worked her into an extremely relaxed state.

Kagome couldn't help herself as she allowed her eyes to crack open to see a whirlwind of silver strand forming a halo around the head of the man behind her. She only knew of one man with silver hair, and that was not someone she had thought would be able to stir these kinds of feelings within her.

'Why is it that even in my dreams I can't esc-"

'You need to wake her up right now.'

Sesshomaru could sense the urgency in his inner demon's voice, so rather than asking questions, he merely dumped Kagome on the ground of the courtyard to his castle.

"We have arrived." He regally told an indignant Kagome.

AN: Thank you so much to all of the people who are reading this fic. This is my first attempt at a fanfic, so bear with me. I'm really sorry that this chapter is not near as long as the first one. But my computer is being retarded and school is kicking my ass. I have the weekend off though so with any luck I'll have another chapter up within the next couple of days. And just remember, the more reviews I get, the more I feel like updating :P