Disclaimer: All but the plot to this particular story rightfully belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Taunt
Her heart was pounding against her ribcage, yet strangely enough, very little blood was reaching her brain. She felt faint. How could he just... Something so personal! And so casually!
Sesshoumaru tilted his head at her with an unusually smug expression.
"A-a-and what, you have?!" Catching sight of his widening eyes, she threw her palm up towards his face and looked away, "Don't answer that!" She blushed furiously, holding her other arm up to cover her face with her sleeve. This jerk.
Sesshoumaru had lived for over half a millennia, yet he could not deny himself the amusement at taunting her like some child. "Then you deny Rin's implication?"
Kagome spun away from him, fully intent on storming out of the pavilion and risking getting lost or kidnapped or eaten. But as she suddenly felt his hot breath on her ear, her body went stiff and chills ran down her neck.
"Do not flatter yourself with your revealed purity, Kagome. I could smell your innocence the day that I met you," Losing himself in his game for the smallest moment, Sesshoumaru pressed his nose into her hair, "and I still can."