Chapter Six: Strange Feelings

Disclaimer: Me no own, you no sue.

WARNING: Flufy is WAAAAYYY OOC in this chapter...so...don't be shocked.

When he awoke the next morning, Sesshomaru sat up in his bed and yawned before he got up and walked onto his balcony. What he saw when he looked out the window made him chuckle a bit. Normally, Rin was the only one covering the small toad demon Jaken in flowers, but now, she had Kagome helping her, which made Jaken resemble a pile of flowers with eyes.

"Women...what is it with them and flowers..." he said shaking his head.

He heard someone knocking on the front doors and went to them, opening the large door, his left eye twitched violently. There, in his door, stood the messenger for the Northern Lord. Sesshomaru glanced at the little racoon demon, no emotion on his face.

"What?"

"Um...my lord wishes to know if you have procured a mate?"

"NO. Tell your lord that if I find a mate, he'll be the first to know." he said before shutting the door.

Sesshomaru watched the little racoon scurry away back towards the northern lands. He sighed and went back outside, walking to the flower field and sitting down under his tree, watching the two humans run around throwing flowers at each other. Suddenly, both turned and advanced on him, a handfull of the fragrant smelling plants each. His eyes widened a bit and he got up, slowly backing away before he broke into a run the opposite direction. Kagome and Rin laughed and gave chase to the demon lord, who was trying to avoid being covered in flowers.

He finally stopped running and glanced around the field, seeing no signs of the two human females. Sesshomaru sighed and sat down before flowers were dropped on him from above. He looked up to see Kagome and Rin on the two headed dragon with huge smiles on both their faces. Sesshomaru shook his head, flowers falling from his long silver hair onto the ground around him. As soon as the dragon landed, Rin rushed to him and threw more flowers onto his head, laughing the entire time.

"Rin..."

"Yes Lord Sesshomaru?"

Sesshomaru smirked and stood, causing all the flowers on his person to be dumped onto the small human girl before him, who only smiled and danced around. He then gathered a handful of flowers and moved over behind Kagome before dropping them onto her head. She simply turned around and tackled the unsuspecting demon into the flowers. Kagome laughed and let her head fall onto his chest, causing him to arch an eyebrow slightly.

"What? You make a good pillow when you don't have all that pokey armor on!"

"Pokey...armor? I'll have you know that armor has saved my ass more than once..."

"I'm sure it has...but it doesn't make for a very soft pillow."

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes before he sat up and watched as the sun began to slowly fall beyond the horizon. Kagome sat up as well and leaned her head on the demon lord's shoulder.

"The sunset is so pretty...but it's sad to know that it's setting on someone's life every single day...that someone will not wake to see it rise again...ever again..."

Sesshomaru looked at the miko next to him and his golden eyes softened, if just the tinyest bit. He sighed and then looked out at the pink and purple sky.

"You never know if you're going to go to sleep and wake up, only to find everyone you ever held near and dear to you is dead...or if you're going to wake up yourslef...and then everyone near and dear to you will cry over your departure into the afterlife..."

Kagome nodded against his shoulder before her eyes closed and she fell asleep. Sesshomaru smirked and took her inside, Rin at his heels. Once he had Rin in bed and sleeping, he laid Kagome in her bed and pulled the cover up over her.

"Sleep well."

With that, he departed to his own room and sat in the middle of the bed, thinking, pondering the odd feelings he was having around the miko. He felt so at ease, comforted, he didn't feel alone and his heart had thawed out considerably. His father had spoken of the same feelings towards Inuyasha's human mother, and wondered offhandedly, if love is what the feeling was.

"Ridiculous..." he said before falling asleep, only to have more questions enter his mind and mill around as the lands slumbered under the black velvet of the night skies.

A.N: CHAPTER SIX! ((Dances)) WOOT WOOT WOOT!