Summary: Kagome and Sango talk about Sesshoumaru while relaxing in a hot spring.

AN: I went the obvious route for this one, like the first chapter for Gold.

AN: LJ Dokuga-Contest, Seven Treasures Challenge – Silver

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~ooO Silver: Her Thoughts Ooo~

"Kagome-chan?"

"Hmm. Yes Sango?" The miko really didn't want to talk. She was enjoying her hot soak too much to disrupt the experience with conversation.

"Why is Sesshoumaru-sama paying so much attention to you?"

Ooo-kay, that was something unexpected. Kagome shifted so she was sitting straighter on her submerged stone bench. "What do you mean Sango?"

The taijija flushed, as though just realizing the wording of her question. "He ignores ningen, even that little girl Rin. I mean I don't think he even gives Her anything, other than clothing and food," Sango amended hurriedly.

The miko frowned slightly. Sango did have a point. Sesshoumaru had unbent enough to travel with them, to defeat Naraku, but it didn't explain why he gave her a pearl pendant! Sure she had given a coral necklace and the agate beads to Rin, but the pendant was worth a small fortune, in this time and the future!

"I don't know," she admitted, leaning back and closing her eyes.

Sango absorbed the answer and was silent for a few minutes. "And you aren't worried? About what he might be planning?"

Kagome opened one eye. "Sango-chan, am I mind reader?"

"Nooo."

"Can I make him change his mind?"

"No."

"Then I don't see any point in worrying. Sesshoumaru will do as he sees fit. If we are lucky it will benefit us as well." Kagome relaxed back closing her eye.

Sango was quiet as she considered the practical advice from the younger woman.

"Have you thought about Why he gave it to you?"

This time Kagome opened both eyes. "Sure, lots of times. But I doubt if I'm right. Sesshoumaru has a very unique thought process. I don't know him well enough to predict or understand his actions. As long as he isn't killing one of us I'm happy."

"I suppose."

"And having another fighter around is only good for us."

"When he isn't arguing or fighting with InuYasha," Sango argued.

"Most of time which is provoked by InuYasha," Kagome pointed out reasonably.

Sango subsided. "True."

"Jaken and Ah-Uhn are good at looking after the kids in a fight," Kagome added calmly.

"You're right."

"And Shippo is much happier having another playmate around."

"Also true."

"And Sesshoumaru is very nice eye candy."

"Tru—Hey!" Sango glared at the grinning miko. "You didn't mean that!" Kagome raised a brow. "You did?" Sango was horrified. "You're attracted to him?"

Kagome evaded the taijija's question. "Can you disagree that he's a beautiful specimen of masculinity?" Kagome asked reasonably. "I'm not saying you must be attracted to him, but he's gorgeous, is he not?"

Sango fidgeted, mumbling softly before bursting out, "Oh, alright! He Is beautiful. Beautiful and cold!" she added firmly.

Kagome considered her friend. "I have to disagree with that," she mused. "Yes, he's controlled, but he feels, he Is passionate." She trailed off remembering how the daiyoukai looked under the soft silvery light of the full moon.

His hair appeared molten, almost fluid, like silver. No, she corrected herself, silver is soft and it tarnishes. Sesshoumaru's hair is like platinum, white gold. InuYasha's hair is coarse, more white than silver.

The same burnished quality carried over when he was in youkai form. He practically glowed under the moonlight. Kagome remembered how InuTaisho had looked, when the brothers had joined forces to cast So'unga into hell: a great deal like his eldest son. Kagome could very easily understand how a sheltered Feudal Era human princess had fallen for the Dog General.

Kagome shivered slightly in reaction to her speculations. She was very glad Shippo and Rin had escaped after a five-minute bath. She really didn't want to explain why she smelled different to her little kit. It was too bad Sesshoumaru was not like his father in one sense: willing to openly care for and love humans.

"Are you cold Kagome-chan?" Sango asked.

"Not really. Just pruney," Kagome answered in deliberately cheerful tones. "I think it's time we returned to camp. Unless you want to soak longer?" she asked.

Sango shook her head. "I'm done. Again, thank you for the bath set. I like the cucumber and green tea scent more than your coconut and cream."

Kagome grinned. "I thought you would."

Both girls pulled themselves out of the pool, and wrapped themselves in towels before drying off and dressing in sleeping clothes.

As they walked back to camp Kagome glanced up and smiled at the full silvery moon shining down on them through the tree branches. It reminded her of the movie Mulan – the song Shang sang while training the new recruits, 'I'll make a man out of you'. As she walked she sang the chorus softly.

(Be a man)
We must be swift as the coursing river
(Be a man)
With all the force of a great typhoon
(Be a man)
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

Sango smiled at her friend. She was used to Kagome singing random songs in Japanese and foreign tongues. And she did have a lovely voice so Sango was content to listen and enjoy the experience.

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The End.

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AN: Please note the lyrics of the song comes from the animated Disney movie Mulan. I do not own it.

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