Not even going to lie to you... I didn't have time to write this, but it's been bugging me about how I didn't update this in a while... I hope you all enjoy this chapter...

Chapter Fourteen: Making It Through

Kagome was finally home. In her beautifully decorated home that she sorely missed.

The ride home from the hospital was sorely strained, but Sesshomaru and her got through it. He had stopped by his home for a bit to gather some clothing that he would need for the past week, but he had done that surprisingly easy. Kagome thought that he would put up a fight and she did not want to have to go through that again.

The little apology that she had offered Sesshomaru in the hospital had calmed the tension in the air to breathable standards, but the ride home in his Camaro set so much fire her veins that she had denied the offer to accompany him into his home while he packed. When he had offered, his voice had sounded like a caress over her body and she almost accepted. The simple fact that she knew what would have happened when she stepped foot outside of that car had stopped her like a freight train.

She knew that if she had gotten out of the car, then there was no turning back.

Kagome was actually curious about his home though, but held back all thought of wanting to go inside.

For a guy like Sesshomaru, she thought that he would have a great huge house with a hundred acres, but when she arrived, Kagome saw what looked like an above average looking home. It did have lots of land, but not enough to gasp about.

Looking at Sesshomaru now as he entered her home, Kagome was hit with a wave of nervousness. Would he like her home? What would he expect now that they were going to be living with one another for a short amount of time?

She knew that she was digging herself into a nervous painfilled grave thinking of such things, but she couldn't help it.

Sesshomaru's face didn't tell her anything about how he felt about her living quarters.

His face was a mask of indifference.

Looking around, she could see nothing wrong with her own place, but this was her own eyes. How could she look through the eyes of another and tell how they felt?

"Do you like it?"

It was a loaded question. Only one answer would work. If he failed to answer right, Kagome vowed to dump him right outside where he would stay for remainder of his time.

"It is not unpleasant. Who decorated your home?"

"Me."

Sesshomaru gave her living room another quick inspection before nodding his head. "That must be how you got hired in my business."

It had to easily be the easily the most nicest thing someone had ever said to her. He didn't even comment on her overly bright orange carpet.

When Kagome smiled at Sesshomaru, he felt everything in him stop. His bags dropped to the floor and he advanced towards her. "Kagome," he said it, but it came out more as a low growl.

A flash of desire shone in her eyes and he could not stop himself from pinning her body against the nearest wall; his nose buried in her neck, his hands spread wide on the wall on which her head lay, clenching and unclenching.

"You will refrain from looking at me thus." Another spike of desire rolled off of Kagome and Sesshomaru could not stop the moan from leaving his throat.

He pushed her harder against the wall, wanting go grind his pelvis into her.

"Your going to drive me insane."

Kagome took in a deep calming breath before she tried to speak. She knew this was a bad thing right now and she had to force her body from moving against his own.

"I cant help the way I look Sesshomaru."

He didn't answer.

Kagome whispered, "How are we going to survive the rest of the week if we can't get past the first night?"

Sesshomaru could not answer her question. How could he when he couldn't even think of an answer himself? The situation that they were in was far from normal and he still had no clue how to get himself out of it.

He thought about blaming his father again, but that would be pointless. His father was like a big spoiled child and it would be an insult to his intelligence to even THINK about blaming him.

After a moment of breathing in calmly, without the help of Kagome's arousing smell, Sesshomaru pulled himself off of Kagome and stepped back to collect his bags, all without looking at Kagome and not even trying to answer her question.

Kagome gave a forced smile and nodded for him to follow her.

She turned on the lights to the stairs and made her way to one of the guess bedrooms. She almost hated the fact that both of the guess bedrooms were on the side of her own, but that's how she had gotten the house and she wouldn't dare complain.

The house was already paid for and all she had to pay for was taxes and the utilities. She felt bad for a moment that she didn't have any t.v.'s in the house besides her room, but she was the only one living in her house besides..

"HERO!"

Kagome completely forgot about Sesshomaru as she made her way to her room and burst through the door. Shippo was underneath her covers, but when the door opened, he jumped up on the bed and fell over on the floor with a thud.

Kagome rushed to his side and helped him up. "Oh Shippo, I'm sorry I woke you up and scared you half to death!"

"Kagome?" When the little fox demon noticed who it was out of his sleep fogged brain, He hugged her like there was no tomorrow and then apologized for squeezing her too tight, asking her a million questions at once.

"Shippo, I'm alright. Calm down. I know you have tons of questions, but it will have to wait until morning. Now! Where's my Hero?"

Sesshomaru was standing in the door throughout the whole commotion. He was angry at himself for not noticing the presence of someone else in Kagome's home. Distracted or not, he didn't like it. It made him feel weak, like he was shirking in his duties to protect Kagome like she needed to be.

Pausing in his thinking, Sesshomaru notices the furry little thing that the kitsune named Shippo had picked up out of the covers.

Kagome squealed when she saw Hero. She was afraid that he wouldn't remember her after her day away from home. Surprisingly the commotion did not wake him up like it would have a normal pet and that worried her a little.

"Hero," she whispered. "Hero, it's me. Did you forget me so soon?"

The little downy haired puppy yawned prettily and shook opened his eyes a small fraction. Kagome was holding her breath, waiting on him to remember her. When recognition did spark in those little eyes, Kagome felt like someone threw a party in her heart.

"There's my little puppy. How are you doing?"

Another yawn and something like a smile was gifted to Kagome and she smiled back.

As Shippo chatted about how he has been and all of the things that was going on, Kagome finally did notice Sesshomaru standing in the doorway of her room.

"Oh, Shippo. I don't want to interrupt, but there's someone here." At that, Shippo closed his mouth and followed Kagome's eyes and met those of a taiyoukai. Fright was all the things that Shippo felt right then. He was a demon himself and he didn't even sense a small portion of that bottled up energy standing in the doorway.

Kagome was complete oblivious to the fright of Shippo as she introduced the two males.

"Sesshomaru, this is Shippo, Shippo this is Sesshomaru. I don't think that tonight is the night to get acquainted so we'll all do that in the morning. Shippo, you are staying the night, right? I don't mind."

Shippo didn't take his eyes off of Sesshomaru and he didn't miss the small flare of energy that brushed against his skin. it wasn't a threat, but a warning. Sesshomaru was marking his territory.

It scared the hell out of Shippo.

He was small and if the demon tried anything, he would not be able to stop him. Shippo did notice how when the taiyoukai flared his aura that it didn't rub against him the same way as it did Kagome.

For him, it was like being shocked by metal. For Kagome, it was almost soothing, like a caress. It was time for Shippo to go.

"No Kagome, I think It's about time for me to head home. I'll come by in the afternoon after I come from school."

With a hug from Kagome, Shippo left out of the house and locked the door behind him, leaving Kagome and Sesshomaru completely alone. Hero had gone back to sleep and Sesshomaru was standing there looking at Kagome. Trying not to cross the room to her like he wanted to.

It was a tiring day and he needed to rest so that he could start on work in the morning. Just because he took off for a while did not mean that he would shirk on his responsibilities.

"Are you going to show me my room, miko?"

Kagome was snapped out of her staring and told Sesshomaru to go to the room on the left because that one had the bathroom attached to it. With a nod of his head, Sesshomaru left, shutting Kagome's door behind him.

Separately in their own rooms. They both thought about how they were going to get past all of this.

It would surely be hell.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter and tell me what you think... I do have some things to tell you all, but you will have to go to the profile to read about it... It's telling you all how I will be continuing the stories...

With all kinds of weird and strange love...

~_~^-^~_~ - Ditto Princess