His face came closer. She could feel his puffs of warm breath on her cheek. She tried to tell her body to move, but it wouldn't work. Kagome could not believe her unresponsive body, 'Here I am the living statue while Sesshoumaru is about to…about to.. I'm not sure what the heck he's doing.'

As his face tilted and she though he was going to kiss her until he suddenly he moved his face away from hers to smell the nape of her neck and hair.

Sesshoumaru hardly realized what he was doing. It was like instinct. Her eyes were beautiful, and even more so when she was frightened. When she shut them from fear something came through him. He wouldn't never admit that he felt embarrassed and regret by his actions. It was when he calmed that he noticed her sent again. It was strange to his demon nose. He had caught it before in the green house, but her smell had heightened because of her fear.

During his revelation, Kagome couldn't take his closeness any longer.

It felt like he was forcing himself on her, and she was letting him. He wasn't even her boyfriend, and he was barely nice to her! She noticed she had gained control of her body again. She could make her toes wiggle in her shoes, which was a big achievement because before should couldn't even feel her toes, let alone remember that she had them.

She brought her hand up and pushed firmly on his chest- he was as solid as a wall and as immobile too. Sesshoumaru seemed to have noticed her request because he turned away from her, and walked away as if nothing happened.

Kagome just stood there confused, 'What a strange guy, he couldn't even say sorry for violating her personal space.'

She snapped out of her thought and said, "Oh No." How long had she been standing there? She looked at her watch, and it was 8:13a.m. She was already late.

As she walked in late, Kagome gave a quick glance and Sesshoumaru, and took her seat.

As class resumed, Kagome felt like she was in a Peanuts episode because she couldn't understand a word the teacher was saying. To be quite frank, Kagome wasn't really listening either. She was making swirls on her notebook thinking back to what had happened. She was determined to understand what occurred today. 'Could it have been a demon gesture,' Kagome asked herself. She quickly dismissed the question because other students hadn't approached her in that manner. Inuyasha certainly hadn't violated her space like that, so it couldn't possibly be a demon thing.

Kagome continued to wondered, 'Was it a way to flirt? Or maybe I just have really nice smelling shampoo on?' She was so caught up with her thinking that she hardly noticed Miroku nudge her. She turned her head to look at him. He looked straight ahead as he passed a folded paper in front of her. She grabbed it, and opened it. It said:

I only write this because I know Inuyasha will never be assertive, but he fancies you.

Kagome looked at the note quickly before putting it away. She didn't want Inuyasha, who was sitting next to her, to know that his guy friend just sold him out. It seemed as though Miroku would be a better friend than she has previously thought. She slowly processed the information of Inuyasha 'fancing' her. She didn't really know what that meant. They had barely known one another, but he was very attractive and kind since his first weird impression. As if Kagome didn't have enough to figure now, first Sesshoumaru, now Inuyasha. 'oh brother,' she mentally sighed.

When the bell rung, Miroku stayed behind rummaging through his bag, until Kagome was out of the classroom. He turned quickly to Inuyasha, before he had the chance to leave and asked, "So Inuyasha, I did you a favor today"

Inuyasha, slightly confused by his friends statement asked, "Feh, and what was that?"

Miroku's smile widened as he confessed, " I believe I have gotten the ball rolling between you and Kagome."

Still confused and growing impatient Inuyasha asked, "What? Listen, will you just spit it out before I'm late to my next class? Haraguchi-sensei will have my ass if I'm late again. "

Miroku's smile faltered a little, " I wrote a note to Kagome in class telling her that you like her."

The moment his sentence finished, Inuyasha blurred and materialize on the other side of the class with Miroku pinned against the wall by his collar.

Inuyasha growled through his teeth, "Are you insane! Why would you say something like that! I don't like her...not like that"

Although, Miroku was in no position to joke, he knew his friend wouldn't really hurt him. " Inuyasha, you can't fool me. I'm a monk! I've seen the way you look at her and don't you dare tell me it's because she looks like Kikyou. You know there is something special about Kagome. I can't exactly pinpoint it, but it's like she's the sun. It doesn't help that she's beautiful either."

Inuyasha let go of Miroku abruptly, " The sun? Really, Miroku?"

Miroku retorted, " Yes Inuyasha and tell me you aren't attracted to her. I can sense the change in your aura when she enters the room, but if you aren't interested I could always go for her.

Inuyasha stiffened, "What, you aren't serious aren't you?"

Miroku smiled internally. Reverse psychology always worked, although he didn't like using it.

"If you don't make haste I will assume that you have given up."

Inuyasha inwardly cringed at the thought of Miroku being with Kagome. He was a great friend, but he wasn't right for Kagome, but was he himself right for Kagome?

Class ended, and Kagome was on her way to lunch to meet up at her usual table with Miroku and Inuyasha. She walked down the winding halls and through the wide doors of the cafeteria.

A few minutes later, Inuyasha came into the cafeteria followed by a happy looking Miroku. Inuyasha walked towards the table but instead of sitting across from Kagome, he sat next to her. 'This was new' Kagome thought as she felt a little nervous with Inuyasha so close, remembering what the note had said.

She looked around the room and noticed Sesshoumaru make his grand entrance into the cafeteria. There was something very aristocratic about him and mysterious about him. Their little 'meeting' earlier this morning was driving Kagome mad.

As Sesshoumaru walked to his table, he noticed that Inuyasha was sitting closely to human girl who is the bane of his existence. It seemed as though his dear brother has decided to become "better friends" with the girl.

"Hey, Ice-man." Lou called out as sat himself down in front of Sesshoumaru..

"Lou", Sesshoumaru replied cooly

"You know we get to pick new electives in a couple of days. I don't know about you, but I want to get a class with the hot girl. You know, the one that came a few weeks ago, I think her name is Kagome." Lou scratched his head, trying to remember if that was actually her name.

"Yea, that's the one! Kagome. She's fine"

"You think every new girl you see is fine." replied Sesshoumaru matter-of-factly

"Yea, but she's real fine."

Sesshoumaru just kept his stoic face as he watching his brother and the girl interact

Lou started to laugh, "Well it's a good thing I'm your friend then.