Chapter 3

Sesshomaru arrived in the clearing. His gaze went to a figure that stood in the middle of the area and could tell that it was Naraku. He narrowed his eyes glaring at the bastard that plagued his mind for some time now.

"Well, well, well. Lord Sesshomaru it's been a while." Naraku turned to the man a smirk on his face as once again an ominous chuckle could be heard through out the valley.

"What the hell are you doing here Naraku?" Sesshomaru asked him setting his hand on his Tokijin ready to fight.

"Now, now… I am not here to fight you. I have merely come for her." Naraku pointed to the opposite side of the valley.

Kagome had finally made it to them and to her satisfaction Rin was not there. She stopped as she noticed Naraku point to her and glared at him wondering what he was doing.

"What do you want with her?" Sesshomaru asked him.

"Are you kidding me?" Naraku said only to where Sesshomaru could hear him, "Kagome is a very powerful miko and now that Inuyasha has made her so mad that she has left him, I am going to have her. I will make love to her and keep her as my own."

"You are sick." Sesshomaru glared at him.

"If you say so." Naraku chuckled once more, "When I take her she will have my child and I will be able to rule this land."

"As if you would get that chance." Sesshomaru glared at him

"Welcome young Kagome." Naraku said now turning to her and ignoring Sesshomaru.

"Shut up you pathetic piece of shit." She told him wondering what he and Sesshomaru had been talking about, "I am not in the mood for any of your tricks! Now what the hell are you doing here?"

"So aggressive." Naraku said turning to Kagura, "Go get her."

"Yes." Kagura replied respectively as she ran toward Kagome.

"What the?" Kagome backed away realizing she had no weapon.

Suddenly, a large boomerang flew between Kagura and Kagome stopping Kagura in her tracks. Everyone looked off in the direction it had come and Inuyasha and the rest, as if on cue, ran into the clearing and over to Kagome. Kagome resisted the urge to glare or roll her eyes at them and felt that she would have preferred being taken by Naraku then have to deal with that fake bitch again.

"Kagome!" Sango jumped off of Kirara and raised her arm catching her Hiraikotsu as it came back to her. Kagome turned away from the group and looked toward Naraku. Sango sighed and looked to the floor sadly as her friend ignored her.

"Naraku AND Sesshomaru huh? Today is my lucky day." Inuyasha said pulling his Tetsusaiga from its sheath causing it to transform into a massive sword, "Looks like I get you both in one day. Finally I can finish you off."

"If you can even get near them." Kagome said crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow to the hanyou.

"Oh so you are still butt hurt about it all, huh?" Inuyasha said turning to her.

"Sit." Kagome said, as Inuyasha's face would strike the ground with much force, causing a crater to form in the earth.

"What the hell did you do that for?!" Inuyasha yelled as he struggled to stand.

"Want it again?" she threatened making him wince, waiting for the word to be said, "I didn't think so. Now shut up."

Everyone, including Naraku and Sesshomaru was shocked at the exchange of hateful words that had just been said between the two. Though it was quite shocking, Naraku and Sesshomaru were both equally amused at the hatred that Kagome seemed to feel for the hanyou.

"Well that was certainly interesting." Kagura said.

"Hm…" Naraku smirked evilly to them as he stepped forward toward Kagome, "Young Miko, I offer you a place with me."

"What?" Kagome said taken aback by his sudden offer.

"I offer you a place, here, with me, where you no longer have to deal with the constant disappointment and depression that you feel every time Inuyasha decides he wants to go off to see Kikyou." Naraku said stepping till he was about ten feet away from her.

"Naraku! She would never do such a thing!" Inuyasha yelled.

Kagome looked at him with an eyebrow raised and her hands on her hips. This made everyone's stomach turn. Was she going to go with Naraku? Would she really betray them?

Sesshomaru took this chance to step forward and come up beside Naraku, though about ten feet away from him as well. Kagome stared at Naraku, her eyes narrowed as if she was considering his offer. This made Sesshomaru nervous, though he did not show it. He couldn't let her go with him, so on impulse he stepped forward and looked to her.

"Well I offer her a place with me." Sesshomaru said.

"WHAT!?" Everyone, but Naraku, yelled out in absolute shock.

"You want me to come with you?" Kagome said in disbelief.

"Yes." He replied, "Rin likes you and if you go with Naraku there is a high chance you will have to fight against me and I do not approve of this. You come with me, you will have your own room in my castle, servants to help you with anything you need, a little girl to teach and play with, and you will be under my constant protection."

"Kagome you can't." Shippo said finally able to speak up as he jumped off of Kirara and ran over to her.

"On one condition Sesshomaru." She said.

"Kagome!" Sango said in shock.

Miroku set his hand on Sango's shoulder. She turned to him and saw a smirk on his face, so she calmed down. She didn't know what Kagome was doing, but Miroku seemed to.

"And that is?" Sesshomaru asked.

"I can bring the kid." She said referring to the child who was standing next to her.

Sesshomaru just raised an eyebrow staring at her.

"Shippo will be a good playmate for Rin. She will be off your back a lot of the time and will give us all a break. She needs a child to play with and since Shippo is more like a son to me I do not wish to leave him behind in such an unhealthy environment." She said turning to Inuyasha and Kikyou with a look of disgust and back to Sesshomaru, "If you know what I mean."

Sesshomaru smirked and nodded to her.

"Thank you." She said as she leaned down to Shippo, "Now this is your choice. Do you wish to stay with the others or do you want to come with me."

"YOU!" Shippo replied hugging her tightly.

Kagome smirked and hugged the child back. She stood up and walked over to Sesshomaru. She turned to Inuyasha and tilted her head as if to say, "Yea now what bitch."

"I can't believe you!" Inuyasha yelled, "How dare you go with my brother!"

"Kagome why?" Sango asked.

Not paying attention to the despicable hanyou, Naraku took his minions and fled the area completely unseen. Everyone was to shocked and or appalled by Kagome's decision to go with the Demon Lord.

"I know why." Miroku smirked and stepped forward.

"You do?" Kikyou said turning to him.

"Don't you speak you fucking mannequin!" Kagome demanded making Kikyou jump.

"Inuyasha, how much does it piss you off that Kagome is going with your brother?" Miroku asked.

"OH WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK!! DO I LOOK HAPPY!" He yelled.

"Exactly!" Miroku said, "Kagome may have been made at the rest of us, but you have continuously done this shit to her over the years. She was thinking about joining Naraku."

"Sure was." Kagome said.

"But then Sesshomaru came up with his offer." Miroku continued, "Kagome knows that Sango and I love her like she was out sister and I am sure that she figured out that you forced us to not give her any say in whether Kikyou could stay."

'Well actually I didn't even think of that shit, but he can keep going.' Kagome thought to herself.

"So instead of joining Naraku and hurting all of us, she joined Sesshomaru and only hurt you." He explained to them.

"Oh I get it." Sango said, "The only one's here that actually don't like Sesshomaru would be Inuyasha and… Where the hell did Naraku go?!"

Everyone looked around frantically as they noticed the missing hanyou. Kagome raised an eyebrow and sighed.

"He left about five minutes ago?" she said irritated, "Did none of you notice?"

"And you didn't say anything why?" Kikyou asked frustrated with her.

"Why should I?" she said, "I wasn't in the mood to fight."

"Let's go." Sesshomaru said in he deep monotone voice.

"Alright." Kagome said as Sesshomaru turned away.

Kagome hugged the small kitsune in her arms and followed Sesshomaru. He hugged her back still looking back to everyone as they moved farther and farther away with every step that Kagome took to follow the Demon Lord. He didn't really want to leave Sango and Miroku, but he wouldn't dare stay with Inuyasha one minute more! Shippo waved to Sango and Miroku and they waved back slightly and began walking back to the village.

"Sesshomaru…" Kagome said pulling both him and the kitsune out of their thoughts, "Why did you offer this to me?"

"You are more powerful then you or that bastard hanyou know. I will not let you get into the hands of such a pathetic excuse for a hanyou." He told her.

"I can't tell if you are talking about Inuyasha or Naraku." Kagome said.

"Pfft!" Sesshomaru tried to stop a chuckle that ended up getting stuck in his throat.

"Did you just laugh?" Kagome asked.

"I did not."

"I think he did Kagome." Shippo said giggling.

"I think he did too, but you do have to admit that was confusing. Which pathetic hanyou were you talking about." She asked.

"That time I was talking about Naraku." He told her.

"Too bad. It described your half brother so well." She said looking off into the distance.

"Half brother?" Sesshomaru asked.

"I am not going to disrespect you by calling him your full brother." She told him, "You do have different mothers, do you not?"

"You are correct. His mother is not mine."

"Exactly. I shall not disgrace your name by putting you in a category with him!"

'This girl might do well with me.' Sesshomaru thought as he continued walking through the forest.

The two of them came to a small clearing in the forest in which they both recognized as where the men had tried to hurt Rin. It was obviously that place because the bodies and blood were still there. Sesshomaru walked forward stepping over the disgusting corpses and looked back to see Kagome staring down at them in disgust.

He sighed and walked back over to her. She looked up at him confused and shrieked when he swooped her petite form into his arms and carried her across. He set her down once she would be clear of the bodies. She thanked him and they continued on their journey.

They came to another clearing, but this one was completely clean. Sesshomaru stopped and turned to Kagome. She was trying to keep the kitsune warm as he fell asleep in her arms.

"We will rest here." Sesshomaru told her.

"Okay." She said respectively.

Sesshomaru walked over to a large tree and sat down leaning his back up against the trunk and closed his eyes. Kagome sat down and curled up with the Kitsune in her arms. She sat there for a moment watching Sesshomaru and wondered if he was asleep.

She sighed and leaned back against the tree. She closed her eyes and slowly drifted into a deep sleep.

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