Chapter 12

Inuyasha and the gang had been continuously fighting of random demons that have decided to keep attacking villages around the Western Lands. For some reason they had come out of hiding and were after anything that moves and some were even attacking each other.

"What the hell is going on?" Kikyou asked.

"I don't know I have never seen demons act like this before…" Sango said.

"I'm so tired…" Miroku said leaning up against a tree.

"Did you set the barrier up for the night?" Sango asked Miroku.

"Yea… No one should be getting near us… We can finally rest."

Sango and Kikyou took that as a command and fell asleep within thirty seconds. Inuyasha just sat there trying to keep his eyes open, but it wasn't working to well. After about ten minutes Miroku and Inuyasha were both knocked out.

Sesshomaru and Kagome had spent most of the day talking out in the courtyard. He would have stayed in the garden, but the constant smell of flowers drove him nuts. It was late and Kagome was getting really tired.

"You want to go sleep?" Sesshomaru asked her.

"No it's okay." Kagome said yawning some and leaning her head on his shoulder.

'Is this real?' Kagome asked herself as she looked up at the moon.

"Kagome…" Sesshomaru whispered her name.

"Yes?"

"Why did you fall in love with me?"

Kagome laid down on her back and looked up at the sky. She closed her eyes and thought for a moment on why she did fall in love with him.

"Well…" she started, "When it comes straight down to it… You are a lot sweeter then you think. You don't call me names. You take care of me and even though others say different you are very kind."

"I am?" Sesshomaru asked in disbelief.

"Yes you are. To prevent Naraku from hurting me you made an offer you usually wouldn't have. You don't yell at me unless I have said something or done something completely out of line and when I see you look at Rin…"

"When I look at Rin, what?"

"I don't know how to explain it. It's like you are a whole new person and there is this light shining out of you."

"Hm… I've never…"

"It's okay… I don't think we should talk about your sensitive side right now."

"Why?"

Kagome looked back behind them and say Lord Kane and Lord Saburo walking toward them. Sesshomaru let out a soft growl and stood up making sure he was blocking Kagome.

"Don't worry son… He has come to apologize to Kagome."

"Lady Kagome…" Lord Saburo kneeled down in front of her, "I give you my deepest apologies. What I did was completely uncalled for and it could have killed you."

"It's fine." Kagome said smiling.

"Really? I knocked you out of a window and you were bed ridden for two weeks!" Lord Saburo said standing up.

"It's okay. I don't hold grudges. Sometimes people do things that they don't mean to do and I am sure you are not used to having a human girl be so disrespectful toward you."

"But Lady Kagome…"

"No but Lady Kagome's I am sorry for being so rude. There! Now we are even!"

Kagome smiled sweetly toward him. He agreed to it and said okay, but was still in shock at how easily she forgave him. Kind of irritated by Kagome's lack of punishment toward Saburo, Lord Kane took him back inside.

"You got off lucky you little prick!" Lord Kane said to Saburo once they left.

"Why didn't you have him punished?" Sesshomaru asked her.

"If we had punished him for that, I should be punished for disrespecting one of the High Court Lords."

"Ah! I see."

"Exactly. I can forgive him since I am still living to save my own ass."

Sesshomaru resisted a smiled that threatened to sneak across his lips and kissed her forehead. Kagome smiled and wrapped one of her arms around his waist.

"Can we go now?" she asked yawning into her right hand, "I'm getting really tired."

"Yes." Sesshomaru nodded and swooped her up. She held in a squeak and grabbed onto his neck. He smiled down at her, but noticed he wasn't holding her the way a man should hold his woman. He ignored it for a moment and walked up to his room.

"Um… I thought I am not allowed on this floor?" Kagome said.

"You are my woman now… You are allowed here."

"Oh." Kagome blushed as he walked her into the room and laid her gently down on the bed.

"You go to sleep and I will be in here after a while." Sesshomaru said covering her up and kissing her cheek.

"Okay." She said curling into the blankets. Sesshomaru walked out of the room and closed the door, whispering a faint goodnight to her as he left. Kagome smiled and said goodnight even though he wouldn't have heard her and fell asleep.

About an hour later Sesshomaru entered the room once more. He had been discussing certain matters with his uncle, Lord Kane, about how he should treat Kagome. He would admit he learned a hell of a lot about women and their nature. He walked over to the bed and tilted his head to the side.

"Why are you still awake?" Sesshomaru asked Kagome because her eyes were still open and looking at him.

"I am not awake. I sleep with my eyes open." Kagome said jokingly as she scooted over.

Sesshomaru stripped himself of his outer kimono and slipped under the blankets with Kagome. She looked up at him blushing slightly and he could tell that she was nervous.

"Why are you nervous?" he asked her.

"Well… I haven't ever slept in the same bed as a man before." She told him.

"It is fine. You know I will not hurt you."

"I know that. I guess I am just a little nervous about the idea."

"Well you will be fine."

"Oh yeah… When are we having the meeting about Naraku?"

"Tomorrow morning. After that we will leave here and head to my castle."

"Oh good!" Kagome said ecstatically, "I miss Shippo so much! And I can't wait to see little Rin again."

"Well sleep for now and tomorrow will come faster."

Kagome smiled and hugged him. Keeping her arms around him she quickly fell asleep. Sesshomaru shook his head and looked down at her.

'She lays here for an hour and then passes out once I have returned? Such a strange one.'

Kagome woke up with her arms clasped tightly around Sesshomaru's waist. He laid his chin upon her head and was rubbing her back with his hand. She looked up at him to see if he was awake and realized it was very early. She softly pulled away from him and saw that she was still in the kimono he had let her wear.

'I love this kimono!!' she screamed in her mind as she made her way across the room and out of the door. She closed the door and looked down the hall. No one was up. Everyone was still in bed.

She made her way to the servant's quarters and opened the door. They all looked over to her and bowed graciously.

"Oh please don't bow. I know you all must when one of the Lords are around, but I do not require or deserve it, but if it is okay, will one of you help me?"

"Yes Lady Kagome?" Saita asked.

"Well I think I came here with a large yellow bag… Does anyone know where it might be?"

"You mean this Milady?" one of the girls said pulling up her big, bright, yellow bag.

"Yes!" she said hugging the girl that gave it to her, "Can you show me to the kitchen?"

"Why Lady Kagome? Is there something you want to eat?" another one of the girls asked.

"Well there is something I want to cook. I would love it if you helped me with this."

"Milady we would be whipped if we allowed you to do any cooking!" Saita said.

"I will see that you are not."

"Are you sure you can do that Lady Kagome?" Saita asked.

"Who is the highest-ranking Lord here?"

"Well that would be Lord Kane and then after that it would be Lord Sesshomaru." One of the girls explained.

"And who would be after that?"

"Lord Errata, Lord Jiro, Lord Hiro, and then Lord Saburo. After that I do not know." Saita.

"Well I can say that Lord Kane is the coolest Lord I have ever met and Lord Saburo owes me a favor, so I do not think such honorable men would do anything so horrible and if they do I will try my best to prevent it."

"Well… Lady Kagome as long as we can help." Saita said bowing.

"Well I know many of you have things to attend to and I don't want to pull you away from anything and get you in trouble, so is there anyone that is not supposed to be doing something that would like to assist me?"

"I can! I am Kiki! I am Lord Jiro's servant and if you would allow me to I would be honored to help you in the kitchen Lady Kagome!" said a girl about the age of fourteen.

"You are just to cute aren't you?" Kagome said giggling.

"She certainly is a hyper one, Lady Kagome. She will do great with you." Saita said.

"I would love to assist you in the kitchen Lady Kagome." Said a woman around the age of eighteen, "I am Lena and I am also a servant of Lord Jiro. Kiki is my younger sister."

"Thank you. I don't think that I need anyone else, so thank you all and I am sorry for bothering you." Kagome said waving to all of them.

"I will go with you as head servant of the house, Lady Kagome. It is my job." Saita said.

"Cool!" Kagome said, "Bye everyone."

Every other person bowed to Kagome as Saita, Lena, and Kiki all followed Kagome. She stopped and looked back at them, so they began leading her to the kitchen. When she got there she smiled.

"Perfect!" she said.

Kagome set her bag down on the table and pulled out a couple boxes of pancake mix. She would have preferred doing it from scratch, but she wasn't sure they had all the things she needed and she didn't want to deal with the mess, so she settled with the mix.

She began instructing them and telling them what she needed. After gathering two large bowls, four-dozen eggs, plates, spoons, and a large whisk they got to work. The girls were very confused on what Kagome was doing, but went with it anyway. Once finished Kagome had made up to two hundred pancakes and four-dozen scrambled eggs.

"Finally…" Kagome said as the girls sat down taking a break. Kagome remembered something and walked over to her bag. She was very glad she over packed this time because otherwise this meal would not have been possible.

"Lady Kagome?" Saita said.

"Yes?"

"Why make so much? There are only fifteen Lords here." Lena asked

"Yes, and how many servants have they brought with them?" she said putting some of the food on plates.

"You made this for all of the servants?" Kiki asked.

"I certainly did. You guys have taken care of me and take care of the Lords. You deserve a good meal." Kagome said handing the three of them plates full of food.

"Wow…" the girls said almost in tears.

"Eat up. Before the Lords wake up I want to make sure all the servants from the two floors get their food." Kagome said as she ran out the door and to the servant's quarters. She commanded them to all come so they did. Bye the time they got there all the tables were set and they looked at her in shock.

"Lady Kagome, did you make this for us?"

"YES SHE DID AND IT IS DELICIOUS!" Saita said.

"I have never tasted something so… fantastic!" Lena said.

"Now everyone get to your places and eat. I will serve the men for today."

"But Milady!!!" Saita said.

"That's an order!" Kagome said giggling, "Rest for a while and eat your share."

Kagome heard the men coming down stairs and wondered how the hell they all got up at the same time. She quickly grabbed the rest of the plates and set them at the places in which each Lord sat. Once everything was set Kagome stood in the corner with a large smile on her face. All the Lords sat down and stared at the food they were given.

"I know this is something different to you all." She said making the Lords jump, "But I do think you will enjoy it."

"Kagome did you do this?" Sesshomaru asked from his end of the table.

"Yes. I would have done it all alone, but those damn girls wouldn't let me!" she said glaring back at the door they girls were in. She noticed some of them peeking through and winked at them, "I wanted to do something to say thank you. I don't know why since I received my worst injury ever here, but I still felt like it."

"Kagome…" Lord Hiro started.

"Now please before it gets cold, dig in."

The men looked around at each other and over to Sesshomaru. He smirked at Kagome and took a large bite out of one of his pancakes refusing to look down and just stared at her. She bit her bottom lip and waited for a reaction, so did everyone else.

Sesshomaru's eyes widened as he looked down to his food and back up to her. He was thinking of some kind of plan to get the rest of the food himself.

"If anyone is to scared to try the food give it to me." He said, "Trust me you are missing out."

All the Lords took this as "FUCKING EAT IT" and began to eat. Once they had finished their plates they looked up at her. Half of them were slouching over the table and the other half had their stomach sticking out as far as possible. Sesshomaru wanted more.

"Kagome, what is this?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Pancakes and eggs." She said, "This is very popular where I come from. About ninety five percent of our population loves this breakfast. I thought it would be nice for you guys to get a little taste of the future."

"Future?" Lord Kane asked rubbing his stomach.

"Well we were supposed to have the meeting today about Naraku and to tell you how I got into all of this there are a few things you will want to know." She said, "Can we start the meeting now?"

"Yes." Lord Kane said, "Tell us everything you can."

"Well the first thing is that I do not come from this time. I am from the…"

Kagome continued to explain everything that had happened to her over the past few years. Lord Kane, very interested in what she was saying, ordered no interruptions what so ever.

"And that is pretty much it."

"So, Lady Kagome, what you are saying is that you are from five hundred years past our time." Lord Hiro said.

"Yes, sir."

"And Naraku is the one who brought you here?" Lord Kane asked.

"Well it was because of him that I was brought here. If he had not caused all the disruption between Kikyou and Inuyasha the jewel wouldn't have ever come into his hands."

"Ah I see. Sesshomaru did you know all of this?" Lord Kane asked his nephew.

"No uncle I did not. I knew she was not from here, but I had not known about the time traveling." He replied, "That is one hell of a predicament that you are in Kagome."

"I agree!" one of the Lords said.

"Sesshomaru what do you mean by one hell of a predicament?" Lord Kane asked.

"Well think about how long she has been doing this? Things are obviously different years from now. How much have you given up Kagome?"

Kagome looked to the floor. She thought for a moment on how much she did give up and then looked back up to him.

"Everything."

"What do you mean everything?" Lord Hiro asked her.

"Well where I am from, you go to school and get a good education. If you do that and do it well you can become one of the highest-ranking people ever. Its no longer being born in a certain family and you are rich or poor. Sometimes it starts out that way, but you always can change it. All you have to do is your best."

"That's all you've given up?"

"All, Lord Saburo?" she asked.

"Yes, is that all you have given up? Seems like very little to me."

"Lord Saburo. I can no longer see my family or my friends. The things I am used to that you would probably die to have, I can no longer obtain when I want."

"Die to have? Like what?"

"Imagine!" Kagome walked up and stood beside him, "When you go to wash your hands you no longer have to kneel down in a dirty pond, but all you really have to do is turn a knob and the water is provided for you!"

"That is impossible."

"Imagine when you are in the shower all you have to do, again, is turn a knob and it will get warm on its own! Imagine flicking a small switch on the wall and the room you are in lights up on its own! No more having to mess with fire!"

"Does that really exist Kagome?" Sesshomaru asked.

"If it is possible Lord Sesshomaru, I will take you there." She said smiling, "And as my witness we can come back here and tell them all everything."

"You get really excited when you talk about your time Lady Kagome." One of the Lords said. She looked up to him confused on what his name was, "Don't worry you have not yet me yet. I am Lord Jiro."

"Oh yeah! Tell Kiki and Lena thank you very much for helping me create this meal next time you see them okay and nice to meet you!" Kagome said smiling.

The Lords in the room smiled up at how sweet Kagome was to everyone. The ones near her began to have conversations with her as Hiro and Kane walked over to Sesshomaru and sat down next to him.

"She is beautiful Sesshomaru." Lord Hiro said.

"Yes I am glad you have found someone that really loves you. Just treat her right, okay? You don't want to lose her over something stupid." Lord Kane said.

"I won't uncle. I am going to treat her like she should have been treated in the fucking first place." Sesshomaru said.

"Yeah, I can tell you are pissed at the shit she said about Inuyasha." Lord Kane said.

"How can someone treat such a sweet girl so horribly!" Lord Hiro said.

"I do not know, but when I see him next time I…" Sesshomaru started, but was interrupted.

"You will not!" Lord Kane whispered, "You have got Kagome now. She is not with him. She is safe and that is really going to fuck with your brother's head. Keeping Kagome happy and treating her right is all you need to do to get revenge on that bratty half nephew of mine!"

"Alright uncle. I understand." He said really understanding what his uncle meant.

'Inuyasha, what a fool you were. Kagome is going to be happy with me. I will make sure you never hurt her again.' He stood up and walked over to Kagome.

"Kagome." He said making her and the others she was talking to shut up, "You need to get ready. We leave in thirty minutes."

"Okay." Kagome said and turned to the others, "I've got to go guys."

She said her goodbyes and ran up to her room. She grabbed anything that was hers and met Sesshomaru out in the hall. Sesshomaru said goodbye to his uncle and walked up to Kagome. She smiled and they made their way out of the mansion.

"It was fun being with all of them! No one has ever been so nice to me!" Kagome said happily.

"You were forced out a window, yelled at, and Saburo attempted to make you feel stupid. How was this fun?" Sesshomaru asked her.

"I don't care what he did. All that was from him! Everyone else was nice."

Sesshomaru smiled softly and shook his head. They walked out of the mansions gates and began making their way South.

"Sesshomaru aren't we supposed to go west?" she asked him.

"Our castle is on the sea and if you want to go west you go ahead and try." He said pointing out to the sea.

"Oh yeah… Hehe I forgot." She said feeling a bit stupid.

"You're silly." He said kissing her cheek.

"And you are tall, but I am not complaining!" Kagome giggled and looked up at him.

"You would if I gave you a chance."

" I do not complain!"

Naraku watched the couple through Kanna's mirror. His anger increased with every giggle and every kiss he put on her cheek.

"DAMN IT TO HELL!!" he yelled throwing a cup at the door.

"Ah!" Kagura ducked as she saw the cup coming toward her, "I just come back in here and I get something thrown at me. I have done nothing wrong."

"They're in love! Kagura you are right. Fuck her being here willingly. I will take her and she will be mine!" Naraku said walking passed her and down the hall.

"Finally, you see it my way." Kagura said following him.

Well there is another chapter. That was long compared to my others… Lol REVIEW OR NO MORE!!

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