Sesshomaru couldn't take his eyes off her while they walked through the garden. He watched her as she stopped every now and then to smell the flowers. There were roses of all varieties, lilies, orchids, and basically any other flower you could think of. His mother had loved flowers so his father had this garden planted for her. The servants tended to it every day they just wouldn't let it die. Sesshomaru had never told them to care for it but he was glad they did. He would never admit it but he loved being in the garden, he just wasn't sure why. "You can pick some flowers if you like kagome, there are plenty of them I'm sure no one will notice if a few go missing." He almost smiled at the joy he saw on her face when he said this but he caught himself just in time and his face remained emotionless, his eyes however gave him away and Kagome realized this. She was dumbfounded, how could Sesshomaru have changed so drastically? His eyes betrayed him and showed her the happiness he felt at making her happy. She continued to wonder as she went around picking flowers. She was deep in thought and wasn't paying attention to what she was doing; she went to pick a white rose and grabbed a particularly sharp thorn. "Ouch" she jerked her hand away and looked at it there was a rather deep hole in her palm and it was bleeding heavily. She looked around but didn't see Sesshomaru; she had wandered away from him and was lost in the maze of a garden. Sesshomaru had been lost in thought and didn't notice when the young miko had wandered away but the smell of her blood snapped him out of his thoughts. He walked a little ways and found her, she was holding her hand and blood was dripping onto the ground from her palm. She heard him coming and looked up at him. "I wasn't paying attention and I grabbed a thorn" she explained. He looked at the wound on her hand and realized how bad the situation was. "Do you know which flower you tried to pick?" Kagome looked at him confused, why did that matter? She tried to remember but she felt dizzy "I think it was one of those pretty white flowers" she pointed weakly to a patch of flowers. It was just as he had feared she had chosen the only flower that grew in the garden that was dangerous and even deadly. He saw as she started to sway on her feet and picked her up. "You have been poisoned that's the only danger in this garden the most beautiful flower I have is also the most poisonous." He took off at a run for the palace where he had the antidote. Kagome soon passed out in his arm and this just made him move faster. He took her up to his study and gave her the antidote; he could only hope he had made it in time. Kagome lay in his arm her breathing was shallow and slow her pulse was very weak, he knew that he would have to wait until tomorrow to know if the antidote had done its job so he took kagome to her room and laid her on the bed when he turned to leave he heard her soft voice "Sesshomaru" He stopped dead in his tracks and looked at her. Her eyes were still closed so he knew she was in a dream but one with him in it? He sat on the bed beside her the whole night and watched over her not wanting to take his eyes off of her.