Chapter 21: Hypophrenia

Clamping her hands tightly over her eyelids failed to stop the tears that flowed freely from between the woman's fingers. The memory in itself hadn't been sad, but for some reason Kagome couldn't stop crying from pain. Focusing on the bipolar feeling, she barely heard Myoga who was worriedly hopping up and down, urging her to speak.

"Kagome-san! What is it?" the flea demon asked over and over again, becoming scared when she openly began to sob.

Almost abruptly as she started crying, she stopped; and stood up from her chair to glare at her front door. The flea was going to ask what was wrong when she spoke to chilling words, "He's here."

"He who?"

The doorbell's ominous ring answered it all.

Before he could stop her, Kagome marched over to the penthouse's front entrance; nearly ripping the door from its hinges with the force she used to open it. Seeing the black haired man on the other side she impatiently roared at him, "What!"

Immediately a hand wrapped itself around her throat, and pushing her back into the apartment's foyer, the irritated man reminded her who he was. "Watch your tone when you talk to me." squeezing a bit for emphasization, Sesshomaru released the frightened woman and pushed his way further into her house, toeing off his shoes before crossing the threshold.

Kagome followed a few moments later, her hand lightly massaging her neck and a noticeable frown marring her face. Peeking up, she saw that the man had made himself comfortable on her couch, one of his arms thrown along the back while his leg was crossed at the ankle.

Quirking an eyebrow at her behavior, he gave another command. "I did not grab you that hard, stop it."

The demoness hissed, but lowered her arm, choosing to cross them defensively instead. "What are you doing here?" she muttered out, making sure her voice pitch was more appropriate for an alpha.

"I thought this was what you wanted?"

Stiffening, Kagome replied, "What?"

"I was informed that you wanted more interaction with your own kind. I was also told you wished for more information about your past, both of which I can readily provide."

"Interaction? Information?" she scoffed. "I thought you said I wouldn't get anything more until I found that book."

"I did." he conceded. "But I was recently informed that it may be beneficial for you to have just a little more information in the hopes it might give you some lead way to finding the key to all your questions."

"Okay? What are you going to tell me?"

He gave her an even stare. "First, I have questions for you as well."

"Questions, for me?" she looked confused. "You've been following me for the last two centuries, you already know everything."

"No. I have only been following your general location. Outside of your address, phone number, and current occupation, I know nothing about your journey and how you managed to become so successful after practically starting from nothing."

"How could you not know?"

"My subordinates know the answers, I on the other hand ordered them to only tell me when your life was in immediate danger."

Now thoroughly confused, the demoness gave him an opening to question her. Sitting down on the opposite side of her couch, Kagome sighed before asking. "What do you want to know?"

"A number of things, but first I want to know what it is exactly you did when you first woke up next to that well."

"What I did? The first thing I did was look around trying to figure out what the hell had happened!" she growled.

"Language." He reminded her cautiously. "And I do not mean chronically. Even before you time jumped, you essentially held no title, home, or status. You didn't have a penny to your name, how is it you managed to achieve this?" Bringing his hand up slightly, motioning to the space.

"Ah. Well for the first few decades, I didn't know what to think and just lived in the mountains in my other form...it wasn't until I saved a young man's life one night that I finally began living among mortals..."

"I see..."

"Yea...the family was really nice and they insisted that they help me to live in their world, especially since the forests and surrounding vegetation were beginning to get cut down." recalling just how deep the man's generosity and kindness had been, a startling question formed as she looked at the demon in his human disguise. "Uh...Sesshomaru?" She asked nervously, making him look at her, perplexed. "I...uh...was wondering..."

"What?"

"Uh...we were...lovers centuries ago right?"

He closed his eyes as though pained, but nodded in affirmation.

"Then that means we...you know..."

Tilting his head he waited for her to finish. When she trailed off he was forced to ask, "What?"

"We...we...uh..." a light blush stained her cheeks, making Sesshomaru realize what she was asking him.

"You're asking me...if we had sex?"

Holding her head down she nodded in response.

"Kagome, look at me." He quietly commanded. Her wavering orbs peeked up at his face, dropping back down the moment their eyes met. Scooting over closer to the woman, Sesshomaru removed his glasses and spell before grabbing her chin and forcing her head up to look at him directly. Her eyes shifted nervously, but a small growl brought them back to him, locking their gazes as told her what she wanted to know.

"To answer your question, yes. In the past, we were intimate sexually. And before you begin to panic, No you were not my whore. You were a consenting adult just like I was. I never did anything to you that you didn't specifically ask me for."

"Uh..." Her cerulean eyes widened at his statement, his gold eyes flashing in return.

Keeping his hold on her, Sesshomaru asked, "Why?"

"Why what..."

"Why did you wish to know about our relationship?"

"I...I don't know..."

"Yes, you do know, tell me."

"I...I...haven't had a partner since...since I woke up...up until now I thought I was pure..."

"..." Sesshomaru eyed her for a moment before doing something completely out of character. He chuckled.

"Huh?" Hearing his laugh without seeing him move his mouth was eerie in the worst possible way. "What's so funny…"

"Nothing," he said. "I merely thought that if you remembered even half of our encounters, virginity would be the last thing on your mind."

Moving out of his hold, Kagome curled herself up on her side of the couch, trying to put as much distance between the two as possible. He made her uncomfortable. Noting her stiffness, Sesshomaru returned to his own position on the opposite end of the couch but kept his intense gaze on her form. "Akitoki." he suddenly said, making her jerk her head up in response.

"Who?"

"Akitoki." he repeated, his voice taking on a rather bored tone. "Does that name sound familiar to you?"

"Akitoki? Yes of course it does. It was the name of the man I saved that night in the mountains years ago."

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this installment, the next one is coming! -Theores