Chapter 3: Hesitation

Last time: You are all I can remember

after all that we've been through

You'll be forever in my heart...

Lady Nefertiti: enjoy reading.

-Kagome-

Would Inuyasha stop looking at them like that?! It was annoying Kagome to no extent and she wondered whether Sesshomaru had noticed it yet. It wasn't fair that Inuyasha still thought of Kagome as his. He was acting like Kouga and no doubt, hadn't noticed it yet. Baka. If she had been anyone else she would've thrown a fit and ran home (already) from Inuyasha because even she knew that he wouldn't follow when she was this pissed. Who was he? her keeper? her dad? Oh yes...of course it was okay if he went frolicking around with Kikyo to god knew where but it wasn't okay with him if Kagome had a thing for another guy.

'Inuyasha...' Kagome thought angrily, seething at the thought of wanting to melt him into a pile of mush with her eyes. Truly, what she wanted was to kiss Sesshomaru on the spot (whether he wanted to or not) or even (whether he killed her) it'd be so worth Inuyasha's priceless face. So why was she hesitating on his behalf? Perhaps it was because she had some shame! Inuyasha would most likely sleep with Kikyo and 'do it' in front of everyone without a moments hesitation or perhaps Kagome didn't give him enough credit.

-Sesshomaru-

'Hn.' Kagome was in an angry mood since he'd hoisted her in his arms and he had a feeling it wasn't him she was angry at. His brother was throwing angry and pissed off glances at them every once in a while and Sesshomaru didn't know whether to be amused or really annoyed. Well at least he knew one thing, that Inuyasha wouldn't dare approach Kagome with whatever B.S he'd come up with when Sesshomaru was here in their group. Inuyasha's hesitation to wreak havoc and cause chaos over the group had lessened whether from fear from his brother or just thinking Sesshomaru wasn't worth the trouble. He frowned inwardly thinking, 'Inuyasha isn't being a very wise half-demon though...fighting him is another matter but when I've got his woman in my arms...even he hasn't turned full demon on me.' Perhaps he didn't care for Kagome as much as Sesshomaru had first thought.

'But she isn't HIS.' his conscious argued with him. That much was true. Well he still remembered what he'd said about humans when he'd first seen Kagome. Something about human 'creatures.' He raised an eyebrow when he heard Kagome mumble something about 'him doing it with her in front of everyone...' Perhaps it would be better if he didn't ask.

'This is highly amusing.' Miroku thought while watching both brother's from the corner of his eye. Inuyasha's possessive streak finally decided to kick in when he saw 'His Kagome' in another demon's arms. It wasn't odd to see Kikyo in thier group as she walked along Inuyasha up front, a frown of disapproval on her face. Whether it was from 'her Inuyasha' not paying attention to her or just Kagome in general, Miroku didn't know. 'Why are demons so over-possessive? Can't they give the girls a break?' Miroku thought absently.

Sango was walking alongside Miroku, surprisingly. It seemed that even though Kagome was near her, she was still keeping a wide berth from Sesshomaru. She seemed to be eyeing them once in a while and her hand was itching to grab her boomerang and smash it into Sesshomaru's head. Even Miroku, who wasn't a demon, could feel the waves of hesitation rolling off of Sango's aura. Was Sesshomaru for real? or was it Rin's influence that was making him care for Kagome's well being? or maybe it was to piss Inuyasha off even more? or maybe it was his demon instincts to care for the well being of the entire group as their alpha and that meant that it would piss Inuyasha off...hmmmm...so maybe he was 'killing two birds with one stone?, so to speak. It couldn't possibly be that Sesshomaru had taken a liking to Kagome. This would ruin his scary demon, ' I'm going to rip your head off and make it look effortless' image.

-Inuyasha-

Inuyasha gritted his teeth as he watched his Kagome talking to Sesshomaru like he was a friend, more like a mate or something. GRR...His damn brother was a damn thorn and why hadn't he killed him (Inuyasha) yet? Usually he would've told Inuyasha the/his usual death threats. He'd never admit it, but with Kagome, the air seemed a bit lighter, his heart less heavy and the group seemed to work better and he'd be damned if Sesshomaru had noticed that too.

"Oi! Kagome. We're stopping here for the night." Inuyasha said pointing to a clearing nearby. Kagome raised an eyebrow and gave Inuyasha a funny look as if he'd just uttered some strange incantation and she (sadly) missed Sesshomaru's wide and sexy smirk. 'Why can't he just admit that he was about to blow a gasket seeing the both of us together, all lovey and dovey? I hate all his gruffness and cocky attitude even when he's being nice he seems like a jerk!' Kagome thought. Oh well, she was so enjoying this. It was a great time for her to injure her ankle...

"You can put her down now bastard." Inuyasha said seething.

"And why would this Sesshomaru want to do that?" he said smirking at Inuyasha's growl.

"First off : She's mine bastard."

"Second: She can manage on her own besides I'm her protecter."

"Third: Lay off! No one wants you here anyway!"

"And you're doing a fine job of it too..." Sesshomaru said (pointing to her ankle) in a bored voice putting her on the ground and sitting down next to her.

"Ano..." Kagome began not sure how to go about this.

'Yes, very interesting indeed...' Miroku thought as he sat down across from them.

"I think I'll go and search for some firewood." Sango said hurridly, trying/wanting to get away from this situation soon. She could feel the tense vibes from both brothers. Being a slayer, she was taught to 'read' demons from thier actions to their personality (etc). "Don't follow hentai." she said walking away.

"My woman has no trust in me." Miroku said sighing loudly. "No trust." and he closed his eyes. They had some children in this group, wait, correction: pups...that were fighting over Kagome like she was some special toy that they both wanted...

Such pups would never learn to share would they? but then again, demons didn't believe in sharing now did they? females weren't 'share-able.'

"You think you can saunter into our group just like that and think you're the boss of everything?!" Inuyasha said jumping down from his tree suddenly.

"Don't yell Inuyasha. Use 'inside voices' " Kagome said rubbing her head (temples) Thinking Kagome had a headache because of Inuyasha's loud mouth Sesshomaru grabbed Inuyasha by the collar (and Inuyasha yelled again) and threw him into a tree far away. Kikyo remained silent thoughout all of this and it was getting creepy that she had uttered a word to/in the group since the morning and that was a couple of hours ago.

Inuyasha came back and was about to land a punch right at Sesshomaru when Kagome uttered a 'Sit!'

(BOOM!)

'Such pups...' Miroku thought shaking his head.

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