In the West

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"Why do you continue to do this?" Kagome jumped slightly at the impassive voice then let small smile grace her features. She didn't answer, not right away anyway. She knew that the man behind her wouldn't speak again, and if silence was what allowed her to stay out in the open for a while longer, she would gladly embrace it with open arms.

She gazed back to the setting sun, ignoring the presence behind her. This happened every evening; she would escape from her 'prison' and come to the hill she was currently occupying the top of. Once they figured out that she was gone, her captors would send someone to retrieve her, though she would have come back on her own if they didn't. After all, she had no place to go and, even if she did, she wouldn't know how to get there. She just wanted to watch the sky darken with various shades of the rainbow as the sun faded in the west.

The man behind her was no doubt staring at her with his red eyes that would have terrified her had she been a few years younger. She had faced worse now, so she didn't care much. One of those worse things had ended up being the best thing that had ever happened to her. Sesshomaru…

Kagome smiled softly as she faced the sun. West… that was Sesshomaru's lands, so if he ever comes for me, it would be from there. She sighed as the sun touched the horizon. She had been to the taiyoukai's palace at the place where the sun seemed to disappear to when it set, but she didn't know if such a beautiful place existed here.

Itachi watched the girl's face as she ignored him. She portrayed all of her emotions far too easily in his opinion, but then, he never showed any emotion. She was a puzzle, and he really didn't know why the Leader insisted that they keep her around. She didn't seem to have any special powers, though it was strange that she was always able to escape from them.

"I keep doing this to watch the sunset, Itachi-san." The sun had almost completely set and the miko stood up, dusting off the back of her kimono. "It's something that I've always done, and I see no reason to stop my tradition just because I'm a prisoner."

The elder Uchiha raised an eyes brow but made no move to force her back to the headquarters. She was different, and he supposed that that was what attracted him to her, and the fact that she was beautiful was simply an added plus. "What is it about the sunset that captivates you?"

She looked at him blankly, surprised that he was continuing the conversation, but she wasn't complaining, after all, it wasn't everyday that one actually talked to the Uchiha Itachi. She smiled and turned to watch the last of the golden sun disappear. The color is the same as his eyes… "It reminds me of a dear friend that I hope to see again."

The Konoha missing-nin felt a pang of jealousy toward this 'dear friend' and scowled. Surely he wasn't that possessive of her already, was he? "Hn." He was pleasantly surprised when he heard the melodious laugh of the miko that was his charge.

"Actually, you remind me a lot of him, Itachi-san; both of you are indifferent and hide your emotions from the world." He felt his eyebrow twitch slightly and scowled again. How did she think that she knew everyone about him when he hadn't spoken a total of five words to her before this evening?

"And how, pray tell, do you know that I have any emotions at all?" She simply laughed at him again, causing his eyebrow to twitch again. He chose to ignore her and turned to go back to headquarters, knowing that she would follow him. He couldn't allow himself to become attached to her, no matter how much that rebellious side of him begged to.

Kagome one the other hand was lost in her own thoughts. How many years had passed since she left the past? To her it was just a couple months, to the others... she didn't know, but she preferred to think that she had been transported to an entirely different world and prayed that Sesshomaru was here somewhere as well. They had never mated; at least, they didn't mark each other, though the taiyoukai had come very close on several occasions. She sighed as she followed the stoic Uchiha and turned to face the last traces of color in the sky. Someday, perhaps, she would truly leave and just fade into the west to look for him again.

AN: Kind of an ItachiKag, kind of a SessKag... meh. Thank you all for reading! Please review and tell me what you think, as well as what else you want me to do.

There is going to be ones focusing on Kagome and Kakashi, Kagome and Deidara, Kagome and Neji, Kagome and Kagome and Lee in the future. None of them are real pairings, I don't think. Just telling/warning you.