Secret
The first lights of dawn where shining through the window by the time Kagome had finished her tale.
Sesshomaru was silent beside her, legs crossed and arms folded behind his head; eyes closed. She knew he was listening though, and his silence was disconcerting.
She fought not to fidget at his side as she became more and more aware of the sound of his breathing, and the line of heat from his side pressing into hers.
She leaned forward, wincing a bit as she did, so she could look at his face, and she was met with half lidded golden eyes. They nearly smoldered, and she fought not to blush as he stared at her, forcing herself to meet his gaze.
After a long moment, he blinked.
"I feel no deceit from you, yet your story is fantasy at best." He moved a clawed hand to trail across her exposed collar bone to hook on the cord for her vial of jewel shards. "What makes you so special, I wonder?" he murmured, more to himself than to her.
Kagome tried to calm her raising heart while he put his thoughts in order. And she jumped when he spoke again, this time louder than before, and it broke the silence of the room.
"Demon's must remain a secret, Kagome. The Police must not get involved in your protection; it will only raise too many questions that would be better left unanswered."
"then I'll purify them like I always do." He was shaking his head before she had even completed her sentence.
"All demons are under the guise of mortals; investigations happen when we go missing too."
She drew her knees up to rest her cheek against them. "What should I do then? I have to come back though the well sometimes; and Inuyasha can't protect me everywhere."
He sighed, his claws abandoning her vial of shards to tug her sheet higher on her chest. "I will teach you."
"Teach me what?"
"How to be a Miko."
Note: Why yes, yes there is a naked miko in his bed.