Chapter 4: Back home

"Lord Sesshomaru!" Jaken yelled, running through the hall ways, a large lump on his forehead, "Inuyasha is coming!" He ran into Sesshomaru's office. "Inuyasha is coming right this minute!" Jaken said. "I thought I told you to tell me when he was at least two days away from here," Sesshomaru growled. "I was but, you see..." Jaken started, "I was snuffed out and they immediately starting chasing after me, and he threw something of sorts and..."

"Never mind," Sesshomaru said, "where is he now?" As if in response, the front door could be heard being broken in. "Well, I guess there's a change in plans," Sesshomaru thought, angrily walking past the toad demon.

"Alright Sesshomaru, give Kagome back!" Inuyasha yelled upon seeing his brother, "or I could just finish you off, and take her back." "Big words for a half-breed," Sesshomaru said, pulling out Tokijin. Inuyasha pulled out the Tetsusaiga, and said, "We'll see about that!" Sesshomaru kicked Inuyasha outside, and the battle commenced. "While he's occupied with Inuyasha lets find Kagome," Miroku said, as they appeared on the scene.

Sango and Shippo nodded. Shippo was riding on Kirara, and the demon cat charged full speed into the mansion. Miroku and Sango soon followed.

Kagome had heard the door break in when she was in her room. She ran out and was surprised to see Sango running towards her. "We came to rescue you!" Sango yelled, giving Kagome a hug, "lets get out of here before Sesshomaru gets back." "So you're just going to leave then?" A little girl said.

"Rin," Kagome said before Rin shook her head. "Its fine," Rin said, although the smile she had wavered, "but you have to promise to play with me whenever we run into you okay?" "Okay," Kagome said, moving to give the little girl a hug. Rin gave her the hug and said, "Maybe you'll change your mind about Lord Sesshomaru." "Maybe," Kagome said laughing, then took out a letter she had made for this occasion, "give this letter to him okay? I would hate to leave and not say bye." Rin nodded, and took the letter from Kagome.

Kagome and Sango turned to walk out when Rin grabbed her from behind and said, "Wait right here." She ran into her room and came back out with Kagome's camera. "I took it when you were mad at me," Rin said, "sorry." "Its okay," Kagome said, taking the camera back, "catch you later okay?" Rin nodded, and Sango and Kagome left.

"Next time maybe you'll think before ya run off," Inuyasha said, as they walked. "I heard people think better when they're SITting down," Kagome said, "so maybe you can join me whenever I decide to have a SIT, hmmmmm?" Inuyasha was once again in a crater, and Kagome "hmphed" and they kept going. It had been a full day since she had left Sesshomaru's place, and she felt oddly sad about it.

"I suppose I will miss having a chance to just sit down and relax..." Kagome thought, when a sudden realization made her stop dead in her tracks. "My tests!" Kagome yelled, "I need to go home and study and get ready for them!" The group watched in shock as Kagome jumped on Kirara's back. "Five days top's you guys!" Kagome yelled, and Kirara took off.

"And we just got her back..." Shippo said as Kagome flew further away.

"She left...and gave you this letter to give me?" Sesshomaru said slowly to Rin. Rin nodded and once again tried to give him the letter. "I don't want it," He muttered angrily, and walked away. He went into his room and began to pace up and down. "Why am I worrying myself?" Sesshomaru thought, and tried to stop pacing, "I won't concern myself anymore, and that's all there is to it."

He was unusually quiet that day, and all of his servants and companions noticed, especially Rin and Jaken. "Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin said, as they just finished lunch. He cast an eye her way. "Kagome wouldn't have thought of leaving you this letter if she didn't care," Rin said, once again offering the letter. To ease the girl, he took it but then she said, "Promise you'll read it?"

"Maybe Rin," Sesshomaru said and walked off. He was back in his room pacing. The letter had been discarded on his bed and he'd been tempted to read it, but restrained himself. He finally laid down on the bed and starting going through every reason he should not mate her, and felt a little better after every reason.

Now he picked up the letter, and opened it. "I'll read this and it will change nothing," Sesshomaru thought to himself. He read the letter, quickly then slowly. He stood up and begins to pace again. "Human rat," He growled, but it lacked anger. There was a hesitative knocking at the door. "Come in," Sesshomaru said in a bored tone.

Lloyd walked in and bowed. "What is it...Lloyd?" Sesshomaru asked sighing. "Lady Kagome left her books sir," Lloyd said, putting the books on his bed. He stared at the books in a reproaching manner.

"I forgot my books!" Kagome yelled dismayed after rumbling through her bag, "what I'm I going to do now...?" "Why don't you just borrow notes from your friends?" Her mom said in an understanding voice. "I won't get notes from them unless I exchange some very interesting gossip and some of my allowance...," Kagome sighed, "but I suppose I don't have much of a choice..."

She had arrived just in time for dinner, and after bathing had discovered she had left her books over Sesshomaru's mansion. She went upstairs and laid down on her bed, and found that hers wasn't as soft as the one in the castle. "Wonder how they're doing...?" She thought tiredly before drifted off to sleep.

"Have a good day at school Kagome!" Her mom yelled, at the receding figure. "Okay!" Kagome yelled, waving as she ran. She ran into her friends along the way and gave them a cheery greeting. "Kagome, I'm so glad to see that your blood pressure has gone down enough for you to return to school!" Her friend Ayumi said. "Yeah uhhh thanks," Kagome said, mentally sighing as she encountered one of her many "illnesses" her grandpa made up.

"Anyhow, I could really use some of your notes," Kagome said as they neared the school, "I lost my books and don't have anything to study for the tests." The tests were truthfully the day after tomorrow, but she wanted to be as prepared as possible because there would be three days of testing and the first day would consist of math...

"Okay, but you know the price," Eri said winking. Kagome sighed, "A piece of gossip and an all expense paid trip to a restaurant after school right?" "You know it!" Eri said before going off to class.

Sesshomaru entered the well with the three books in hand, and jumped out to the other side. He walked out into the open and his nose was immediately harassed by different smells, not all of them good. He shook his head and continued to walk. Her scent was on the well in his time, she was sure to be here somewhere...

"Go back to where you belong foul demon!" An old man immediately shouted upon seeing him, and threw several sutras. The sutras floundered in the air harmlessly and Sesshomaru said, "Did Kagome come by here?" "Why would I give you the whereabouts of my granddaughter?" The old man said, reaching for more sutras. Sesshomaru disregarded him and instead followed Kagome's scent, which made the other smells even worse.

He neared a building where her scent went inside, and happened to look up to see Kagome staring out a window in a bored manner. He jumped the branches of a tree and jumped onto the window sill. Kagome jumped at seeing him and her classmates turned to see what the problem was. They gaped at him, and Sesshomaru started to get annoyed.

Finally the man standing at the front of the class room opened the window. "What are you doing out there young man?" The man asked as Sesshomaru came into the classroom. He ignored him and walked to Kagome. "You left your books," Sesshomaru said, dumping them onto her desk. "T-thank you," Kagome said, still recovering from her shock. He turned to leave back through the window before he turned and said, "Your letter...confuses me." He then left, leaving the whole class in awe.

"Who was that man Kagome?" Yuka said, when school was over and they settled for the smoothie restaurant. "Yeah, and what did he mean by letter?" Eri pressed on. "He's was just Inuyasha's brother guy's nothing to get excited about," Kagome said, but Eri shook her head. "You already agreed to the deal, books back or not," Eri said, "I want to hear about this." "Well...," Kagome said sighing, "I was staying over his house while I was sick and had to leave suddenly. So I left him a letter."

"What did it say?" Ayumi asked. "Well I wrote it a while ago, I'm not sure...," Kagome said, even though the blush on her face told them she was lying. "Kagome..." Eri said shaking her head, "this won't do now." "You like him too!" Yuka said, grinning ear to ear at the declaration. "No it's not like that!" Kagome yelled, becoming flustered, "I just didn't want to leave without saying something!"

"Its okay Kagome," Eri said, smiling even though Yuka had stole her line, "we'll help him to like you back, he seems to be less dangerous then Inuyasha." "If only you knew," Kagome sighed, knowing nothing was going to deter her friends now. "Wow, Kagome's so lucky to have all these great guys..." Ayumi thought, as they got up.

"We'll send a certain someone to meet you at your house today," Eri said winking, "at around 8:00 okay? And tell me how it goes." "Wait who are you sending?" Kagome yelled as her friends begin to run off. "See you at school tomorrow!" They yelled back. Kagome sighed and walked home. As she came up to the door she heard angry hissing inside.

She rushed into the house to find Sesshomaru being attacked by the cat, and her family trying to help the demon remove the feline. Buyo had latched onto the demon's back, and refused to let go. "What happened?" Kagome yelled, dropping her book bag. "He stepped on Buyo's tail," Souta said, and tried to pull the cat off. Sesshomaru then hissed when the cat dug its nails in further. "If you can't get this wretched beast off then...," Sesshomaru started to growl, when Kagome said, "Sardines Buyo!" and opened the can.

Buyo jumped down eagerly, and Kagome put the sardines into the cats' food bowl. The back of Sesshomaru's kimono now had spots of blood on it, and Kagome's mom became worried. "Are you okay?" She asked, her eyebrows knitting together, "I've had worse," Was all Sesshomaru said before walking back out the door, glancing back at Kagome as he did. "Kagome go and make sure he's really alright dear," Kagome's mom said, before starting to do the laundry.

She walked outside and saw him leaning against the sacred tree. She walked over and said, "My mom's worried about you." Sesshomaru didn't speak, and continued to stare past her. "I'm sorry about Buyo, butttt you did hurt his tail," Kagome went on. Sesshomaru snorted but continued his reign of silence.

"Did I do something to upset you?" Kagome finally said. "You leave a letter that makes no sense and run off with the half-breed," Sesshomaru said nonchalantly, "the way you wrote that letter it almost sounded like you didn't want to leave, but had to and at the very end..." "Kagome!" A voice said cutting across Kagome's. "Oh boy..." Kagome thought. "I heard about you feeling better, and I know I was expected at eight, but as soon as I heard..." Hojo said, ecstatic, "oh, but before I forget, I placed some gifts into your house in case your blood pressure went up again."

"I'm ready Kagome," He went on to say, "and I'm glad you've made up your mind." Before Kagome could ask what Hojo was ranting on about he leaned in and kissed her. She was shocked at this, and doubly so when it abruptly ended. "Leave before I lop off your head," Sesshomaru said his voice alive with anger. Sesshomaru had picked Hojo up by the scruff of his neck and upon saying this dropped him onto the ground.

Hojo got up and looked like he was about to say something when Sesshomaru ripped loose a feral growl. Hojo shivered involuntarily and ran. Kagome looked toward Sesshomaru and begin to back away; sighting the reason Hojo had ran. Sesshomaru's eyes had turned a deadly blood red, and his face was contorted with anger.

********And this is chapter four! :D Now before I type anything else, I'm just going to say the characters won't exactly be like the OC. They will be a little OOC, because I just can't work under those strict guidelines. NOW moving on, review please! :D *Lawyers approach slowly* And no I do not own Inuyasha. *Lawyers slump shoulders and walk away*************