Chapter Ten: It Could Be More

I sunk deeper into the bed, savoring the warmth and comfort. My eyes were just about to open when the bed shifted and another body was suddenly pressed against my back. Arms encircle my waist as I twist around so I could see who was being so friendly. My eyes met drowning gold and a purr rumbled through his chest into me. I felt the smile spread across my face, but he didn't return one. His gaze held a heat like it had last night. He just wanted my body, there was nothing else to it. Just like every other male that I had ever welcomed into my life. I push away and stand up to gather my clothes from the night only to find that they were nowhere in sight.

"Excuse me, but where are my clothes?" He sat up in a liquid motion and stared at me. With a slight blush I remembered that I was naked. Why was I blushing? I have no idea he saw it all last night anyway. I put my hands on my hips and glare at him.

"I believe that you do not need your clothing, I like you like this better." A smug smirk snaked its way onto his perfect lips and I felt anger claw at my gut.

"I'm serious where are my clothes? We had an agreement and you fulfilled it. Now I must leave to go home and then to work." His face went painfully blank as he stood from the bed and walked out into the hall to leave me standing here naked as the day I was born. The nerve of him! Next time I need help like this I will seek out a less egotistical male.

"Kagome?" I snap my head towards the door to see him standing there with clothes in his hands. Not my clothes, but what seemed to be a woman's jogging outfit. It was a light shade of blue.

"I'm not wearing that if that belonged to a booty call or something."

"It belonged to my dead mother," the clothes fell from his hands to the floor as he turned and walked away. My body had filled with shock. How could I have been so careless as to insult the man who had saved me from another terrible mistake. I gathered the clothes and headed to the bathroom to change.

~~~~~In New York's Airport~~~~~

The airport lobby was highly annoying as it was filled with loud busy little people. She had been here though. Her sent was old, by weeks at the most, but she had been here. Stupid little bitch. Thinks she can just go to a different country to get away from me. How wrong she is, she belongs to me. I had marked her as such. A little tiny spider mark behind her ear. Until someone overrides that mark her tight little body is mine. With my luck she still has no idea about its existence. I walk out into the street not needing to bring a bag since I would be moving into a presidential suite at the nearest hotel. My little Kagome would soon be in my arms again and this time she won't get away. Even if I have to end her life.

~~~~~Back At Sesshomaru's~~~~~

The jogging suit was highly comfortable and it fit perfectly. To think that a big man like Sesshomaru had come from a woman so tiny. Of course my theory of a Amazon woman wasn't too logical either. His house was quiet and very luxurious. The ceilings were very high. All the wood of the house that I had seen so far was a deep burgundy color and very solid. Maids moved by me like I wasn't even there, their footsteps as quiet as death. The windows in the hall were huge making sure that the hall light did not need to be used until the last bit of sunshine died. The walls were a cream color that reminded me of vanilla ice cream.

I stopped in my tracks as my eyes captured a painting. In it stood Inu no Tashio, I recognized him from the banquet. The woman standing next to him was small like me. She had wonderous black hair that shimmered blue with eyes the color of molten lava. Her face held authority to it as well as a wisdom. Yet she didn't seem happy. Her hand were on a young boys' shoulders who I would assume to be Sesshomaru. Even though the whole family was extremely beautiful my eyes just kept going back to her face. She was there and she loved the people around her, but she wasn't happy. How could she not be happy the woman could have anything she wanted.

"I thought you were going to leave?" I whip around as my heart stops and I shriek. I lose my footing and end up on my butt in the hallway in front of Sesshomaru. He seemed bored at first then a slow smile crawled across his face followed by chuckling that soon turned into a full out laugh. I sat there in awe as I watched him laugh. His laugh was deep and almost made you want to laugh with him. It warmed me to my toes almost like his smile. I get back up on to my feet and glare at him.

"What the hell is wrong with you? First you scare me half to death and then I slip and fall and you just stand there and laugh! To think that I once thought of you as a gentleman." His laughter ended abruptly. His face went cold and blank as he stared down at me. "Look Sesshomaru I'm sorry about what I said back there in the room about these clothes. I didn't know that they belonged to your mother or that she had passed. Also I apologize for my out burst just now, I am out of line. This is your home and you brought me here."

"Kagome it's ok. I shouldn't have been so touchy earlier and as for what just happened I should have asked if you were all right before I laughed it was highly rude of me. If you wish I could take you home?" I stared into his eyes and didn't want to go back home. I wanted to stay and talk to him. To learn anything and everything about him. Maybe, just maybe this could be more than what it is.