A/N: Thanks for reviewing! At least I'm doing something right, lol. So now that Naraku and Sesshoumaru have scrapped, what will happen now?...


Naraku's POV

"Ah...ssssss," I hissed as Tsubaki began to clean up my wounds that I had received from my earlier fight with Sesshoumaru. Tsubaki gave me a soft smile as she held a tissue to my nose.

"Tilt your head back to stop the bleeding," she said as she tilted my head back for me. She let go of the tissue and made me hold it, while she sanitized the wounds on my arms.

"Ahhhh!" I groaned. She giggled this time.

"A strong, powerful man like you feeling pain from some alcohol. I guess even Superman has Kryptonite." I nodded my head slightly. "Man what did you two fight over? A box of glass? You're cut in a lot of places. I'd hate to see what Sesshoumaru looks like." I growled low in my chest. Even the sound of his name infuriated me. I usually wasn't the kind to lose my cool, but Sesshoumaru... "Take your pants off and lie down," Tsubaki instructed me. I did as she said and removed the rest of my clothing until I stood in nothing but my boxers. I then lied down as she had requested.

"Thank you for doing this, but you didn't have to," I said as Tsubaki began to attend to the wounds on my legs. She looked up at me and smiled sweetly.

"Of course I did. You're my boyfriend and isn't it a girlfriend's job to look after her man?" I smiled back at her.

"You're such a doll my dear," I told her, motioning for her to come closer. She smiled again as she leaned over and gave me a tender kiss.

"Ewwwwww," I heard Bankotsu's voice suddenly say. We broke the kiss to see that my best guy friend had entered the room with a box of Band-Aids. "Here," he said as he gave Tsubaki the box, "this should be enough to help fix the ass whooping that Sesshoumaru gave you." I sneered at the human male, who just laughed. "Well, you did get one. Although, you gave him one too. Hard to tell who won that fight."

"I'll say," Tsubaki agreed, "twenty football players couldn't pull you two apart."

"But one dog demon and one snake demon could. Isn't that messed up?" Bankotsu said, pointing to a Band-Aid that was on his arm. I smiled at him.

"Oh, so you got into the line of fire?" I asked.

"Who didn't?" he said laughing, "you hit Koga once and Sesshoumaru knocked Hiten into a wall. Y'all tore that lockeroom up. You don't remember any of that?" I shook my head no.

"When you're in it, all you see is your opponent and red. My main concern at that time was getting Sesshoumaru before he got me."

"Well you sure did that. Both of you did," Bankotsu said, nodding his head.

"So what did you two fight about?" Tsubaki asked, placing a big Band-Aid over my knee. Bankotsu and I exchanged glances. I would surely have another fight on my hands if I told her it was mostly about Naima.

"Uhhh...football stuff. You remember that Sesshoumaru overthrew balls today," Bankotsu semi-lied to the sweet human female. She gave us both suspicious looks.

"Sesshoumaru knows that he can overthrow passes sometimes. So I find that hard to believe. The real reason you two fought was because of Naima, wasn't it?"

"Gotta go!" Bankotsu cried as he ran out of my bedroom. I narrowed my eyes at the shutting door.

"I knew it!" Tsubaki cried as she gave me a hard slap in the leg. I groaned in pain.

"Tsu...Tsubaki..."

"When are you ever going to get over her, Naraku? I know you're still in love with her. You called her name out one night when you were sleeping. You are supposed to have naughty dreams about me, not her."

"Tsubaki. I'm sorry." She sighed deeply as she quietly finished bandaging me up. She then sat crosslegged on the bed with me. She remained quiet as she stared at me with frustrated teal eyes. She sighed again.

"Naraku," she began, "you've really got to let that girl go baby. I'm not trying to sound like a bitch, but she's with Sesshoumaru now and she's not going to leave him. She's forgotten about you, and you should forget about her. I mean, look at what hanging onto her has done to you. You've been suspended from football and can't even participate in one of the biggest games in your life. You got into a major fight and got hurt because of a girl who won't even return the feelings that you have for her. And here I am right by your side and you can't even realize how much I want to make you happy. You're making me feel the same way that Naima makes you feel." I felt guilty as I looked into her sad teal eyes. I was so busy trying to get back with Naima that I hadn't even considered Tsubaki at all.

"Tsubaki. I'm sorry for making you feel that way...but..."

"But what Naraku? You can't learn how to love me like you love her?"

"..." She sighed deeply.

"I guess it takes time to fall in love and fall out of love, but I'm confident that you will be able to learn how to love me. So I'm going to stay right here by your side until you do. And I'm going to continue to do what a woman should and make her man happy until you eventually come around and realize that we belong together. Just like Sesshoumaru and Naima belong together." I didn't know what it was, but as I stared into her eyes while she talked to me, something made me want to believe her. Maybe she was right. Maybe I could learn how to love her like she loved me. But still...

"Tsubaki...I..." She smirked as she shook her head at me.

"Don't speak anymore. Right now, I just want you to relax." She put a finger to my lips and ran it down the center of my chest until her hands reached my boxers. She smirked as she leaned towards me and gave me a very passionate and lust filled kiss. As we kissed, her hands disappeared into my boxers and she began to stroke my length, eventually making me errect. Noticing what she had done, she pulled away from me and gave me a devilish grin. "See," she smirked as she began to remove her clothing, "you already desire my body. It's only a matter of time before you desire my heart too." I remained quiet as she stripped down until she stood before me bare. She walked over to the door and locked it. She then licked her lips as she walked back over to my bed. She never took her eyes off of mine as she removed my boxers and climbed on top of me. "Now you just relax and let me take care of you."


Naima's POV

"Here you go," I said to Sesshoumaru as I gave him an ice packet to put over a big lump on the top of his head.

"Thanks," he said in his usual monotonic voice. He had since calmed down from the fight and was back to his normal, cool and collected self. I sat quietly in a chair watching him as he laid on his bed, staring at the white ceiling above him.

"So are you going to tell me what that was all about?" I asked, running my claws over my left cheek as I leaned on the armrest of the chair.

"You need to ask?"

"Not really but I'd like to hear a first hand perspective." Sesshoumaru sighed deeply.

"Naima...I would prefer not to speak about Naraku at the moment. He only seems to bring the worst out in me." I chuckled softly.

"I'm sure that he could say the same thing about you." We were both quiet for a few more minutes.

"Basically," Sesshoumaru began after a while, "he was running his mouth about how he still has your heart and how you'll never be able to get over him."

"I see," I said as I listened intensely.

"So after a while, I got tired of hearing him speak about you that way so I hit him."

"Very unusual." I turned on his side in order to look at me better.

"What do you mean by 'unusual'?"

"Well, it's just that out of all of the years I've known Naraku, I've never known him to be the one to start a fight. You either. I just find it very unusual that two calm people can start a locker room brawl like that. But then again, they always say that the calm ones are the best fighters."

"Yes, that's very apparent now." I chuckled as I got out of the chair and went to sit on the bed with him.

"So what did you say to him?" He narrowed his eyes at me.

"What are you trying to say?"

"Now come on Sess. We both know that you can have a smart mouth sometimes and I know that Naraku couldn't argue with himself. So what did you say to him?"

"I called him a worthless, lowly, half breed scoundrel." I chuckled a bit.

"Now I'm beginning to get a picture of what happened. I can imagine Naraku hitting you for saying that. Even though you swung first."

"Well that half breed's punches leave much to be desired."

"Umm...your face says otherwise." Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at me as he sat up in his bed.

"You know, if I didn't know better, I'd swear that you was taking his side." I gave him the same look that he gave me.

"I was just kidding you know. And anyways, I'm not taking any sides. I'm just able to see things from both yours and his perspective. That's all."

"Hmph," he said as he turned his eyes to the window. His last remark kind of upset me a little.

"What do you mean by 'hmph'?" He turned back to me, eyes full of annoyance.

"You're not over Naraku yet. Are you?" he bluntly asked. I widened my eyes a bit. Where did all this come from?

"Sess, how are you even gonna ask me that? You know that the answer is yes. I am over Naraku."

"You surely don't act like it." I crossed my arms as I stared at him.

"You know what Sess, I'm sick and tired of having this same arguement over and over. Naraku and I are best friends, so if we act close then it's because we've known each other for thirteen years. We are done. You have to believe me."

"You have been close friends with Bankotsu for a long time too and you don't act that way around him. If it would have been him that I fought with, you wouldn't take his side."

"Now you know that that's not necessarily true."

"You didn't kiss Bankotsu now did you?" I fell silent for a few moments.

"I know I made a mistake by kissing Naraku, but I promise you that nothing is going on between us."

"Hmph."

"Don't 'hmph' me anymore! And why are you being such an asshole today?!"

"Because I don't want to lose you!" I gasped at his sudden show of emotion. He had never been this passionate about anything other than when we were intimate, so to see him this way shocked me. As I stared into his golden eyes, I didn't really see anger anymore, but instead I saw...fear? Was that really fear in Sesshoumaru's eyes?

"Sesshoumaru?" I quietly said. He sighed deeply as he leaned back against his headboard. He closed his eyes as he began to speak.

"You know how much I despise weaknesses, so telling you this is a hard thing for me to do. I am...afraid of Naraku. I am afraid that he is going to take the woman I love away from me. I'm not telling you to stop being friends with him, because I know that that makes you happy. But I wouldn't be sad if he suddenly got hit by a truck and wasn't around anymore."

"Sesshoumaru!"

"All I'm saying is...remember what we have. Remember what we built a little over two years ago. I don't want him to come between us." He slowly opened his eyes and locked them onto my hazel ones. "I need to be alone right now," he calmly said, "please leave." I hesitated as I continued to stare at him, but I eventually nodded my head and got up to leave. Sesshoumaru had just done what I've been trying to get him to do our whole relationship and that was confess his true feelings to me. To share not only his strengths, but his weaknesses as well. And one of his weaknesses was his fear of my best friend coming between us.

As I drove down the highway, tears began to flow down my face. I was caught between my boyfriend and my best friend. I loved both of them, although in different ways. But it was beginning to seem as if I couldn't hold on to both of them. I had a decision to make.


Tsubaki's POV

Being Naraku's girlfriend is a lot harder than I thought. No matter how many spells I try, I can't seem to manipulate his mind away from Naima and Sesshoumaru refuses to assist me anymore in my plans. What was I going to do? At this rate Naraku would never mate me and I'd continue to be only a temporary fix for him until that bitch came around. "Why can't you just love me?" I whispered to myself as I stroked his hair while he slept in my lap. He was still tired from working so much, football, the fight, and the love that I had given him earlier. "I can treat you so much better than she can. I can offer you so much more." As I continued to stroke his beautiful black hair, I suddenly heard a knock on the front door. I eased from under Naraku and gently laid him back down on a pillow on the sofa we were on. I opened the door only to see the woman who I hated most in life. She looked a mess. Her hazel eyes all puffy and her cheeks stained with tears. I smirked a little seeing her that way. "Can I help you?" I asked the panther demon as I stared at her with cold eyes and crossed arms.

"I need to speak to Naraku for a minute," Naima replied. I scoffed at her.

"Shouldn't you be with your own boyfriend right now instead of trying to screw mine?"

"Tsubaki. Please. I really need to talk to him."

"He's currently asleep. He needs rest from that fight that you caused. Goodbye." I attempted to shut the door in her face, but she caught it in mid swing.

"Please. I just want to tell him goodbye." My eyes widened at her last statement. Goodbye? Did I just hear her right? Goodbye? Hmm...this just might be interesting after all. I sighed as I opened the door wider and stepped to the side. After she closed the door, I walked over to the couch and tapped Naraku a little.

"Naraku. Wake up honey," I said as I shook him. He slowly opened those gorgeous red eyes and gave me a confused look. "Naima is here," I said, giving him an answer. He sat up and rubbed his eyes before turning to look at the miserable looking panther demon.

"Naima?" he asked a little concerned, "what's wrong?"

"I...I need to talk to you," she weakly said. Naraku's eyes grew more concerned as he patted the space on the couch next to him. He then turned to me.

"Tsubaki..."

"Say no more," I happily said as I walked down the hall into his bedroom. As I shut the door, I had to hold back a squeal of happiness. Naima was going to walk away from Naraku, which left him all to me. Ahhh could this day get any better?


Naima's POV

"What's wrong my dear?" Naraku asked me again. I sighed deeply as I stared at my hands in my lap.

"I came to say goodbye. We can't be best friends anymore." His eyes really widened as he gave me a confused look.

"And why is that?"

"Because Sesshoumaru and I cannot have a happy relationship if we continue to be friends. Neither can you and Tsubaki."

"But Naima..."

"Please Naraku. I've made up my mind. We can still hang out in school and be friendly acquaintances, but what we do now, we can't do any more."

"So you are going to throw away thirteen years of friendship for some man?"

"I love him Naraku. Please try to understand." He narrowed his eyes at me.

"Oh I understand alright. Sesshoumaru put you up to this. Didn't he?"

"No. He never told me to end my friendship with you. This was my decision."

"Naima, you can't do this to us."

"Naraku please. Don't make this harder than it is."

"I can't believe you. I've just gotten back from Japan to see if we can make our friendship work and now you want to end it completely? I can't believe that you would want to do something like this." The tears kept falling as I told Naraku how I felt.

"Naraku I...I...I'm sorry," I stammered as I got up to leave, but Naraku grabbed my wrist to stop me. I slowly turned my head to see him staring at me with sad eyes.

"At least...at least don't do me like I did you and leave me without giving me a proper goodbye," he softly said. And without warning, he pulled me back to him and wrapped his strong arms around me. "Naima," he whispered in my ear as he gripped the back of my shirt tightly with one hand and my hair with the other. My tears still falling and landing on his shoulder. Even during this sorrowful moment, there was a certain feeling of passion as he held me tightly against him. "I still love you," he whispered as he hugged me even tighter.

"I love you too."

"No. I mean, I'm still in love with you and I'll always love you." He withdrew and attempted to give me a kiss, but I turned my head. He sighed but gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"Goodbye Naraku," I said as I began to walk to the door. He sighed deeply again, but nodded his head.

"Goodbye, my love."


A/N: The End. No no, I'm just joking. There's still a lot more to come :)