AN:So here's chapter 7 and I hope you guys like it. I decided to speed and step things up a little bit and Chapter 8 will have a time skip in it, to the day the Kagome's parent's arrive.

Anyway I hope you enjoy and dont forget to read and review...I need you guy's input to motivate me :)

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any of it's characters :)

Kagome held the Western Lord's gaze long before she decided to respond "I assure you my Lord I have grown and studied my fair amount of flowers and plants, surely one touch will not kill them" she finished smiling as sweetly as she could at him, trying to bait the young lord into growing angry.

If she expected any kind of reaction out of him however, she was to be deeply disappointed, for Lord Sesshomaru's smirk never left his face. Instead he just moved closer to her, his eyes never leaving hers. Kagome quickly stepped back from him, when all of a sudden Sesshomaru reached out his hand toward her. Sesshomaru smile grew as he took in the way Kagome had unknowingly had stopped breathing, and the pink blush that grew over her cheeks.

'What is he doing?!' she thought frantically 'He's not going to touch me is he?'

Kagome could not help the feeling that grew in the pit of her stomach at the thought him touching her face. She wasn't blind and any woman could see how attractive Lord Sesshomaru was. She studied him as his hand grew closer and closer to her face. He really was beautiful for a man. His silver hair was framing his face as he looked down upon her, and with the sun shining directly on him, Kagome could not help but to think that he looked like a warrior god with his armor and red and white traveling hakama on.

As Sesshomaru's gaze softened on hers and lost their previous evil gleam, Kagome held her breath and closed her eyes in anticipation of his touch. However, the feeling was to never come, because as she opened her eyes, all she found was that his attentions had not been on her at all, instead they were directed onto the previous flower behind her that had held her attention earlier.

"It truly is a beautiful flower" Sesshomaru said distractedly, smirk still firmly on his face, as he pretended to be completely oblivious to the little miko's growing anger beneath him.

To say that Kagome was furious would be an understatement. Right now Kagome's anger was past fury. She was at the stage where anger felt like happiness. That stage where you momentarily left your mind only to come back after the murder had been committed.

She had fallen full force into the young Lord's trap. He had taken advantage of her innocence and the fact that she had never experienced anything like that situation before. She was completely aware that he had known exactly what he was doing and had done it to anger her. 'Well, that you have more than accomplished' Kagome thought, wanting nothing more than to hit the smug Lord in his face.

As Kagome contemplated all the different ways Lord Sesshomaru could suffer some mysterious violent death, none that could be traced back to her hand of course, Sesshomaru continued to pretend to study the plant that hung behind her. Just waiting for the moment the princess would finally explode.

'Surely she will do the same as any other woman who becomes frustrated with her own wild emotions, and strike out at whoever was to witness or be the cause of her moment of weakness.' he thought, becoming more and more pleased with himself. He could already see the look of shame upon the young girl and her family's face, as they were forced to take their unwed daughter back to their own lands.

Sesshomaru was absolutely sure that the eastern princess would lose control and try to bring some sort of harm to him, lashing out like a wolf that has been caught by some hunter's trap. 'This will only prove to this Sesshomaru that this girl is the same as all other weak humans. They are nothing but beings that allow their own weak emotions to rule their actions.' he thought waiting patiently, still choosing to ignore her.

However, he found himself unable to ignore her any longer when he felt movement underneath him. He slowly brought his arm back to his side in preparation to protect himself, and brought his eyes back to the young miko. But what Kagome did next surprised and confused the InuYukai more than all her previous actions and words had in the past. For when his eyes landed on her once again all he found was her back turned towards him and her only words were "Yes, it truly is."

Her words were spoken so quietly that he was sure, if not for his great hearing prowess, he would never have heard her. He watched her as she quickly left the garden, but he did not fail to miss the way her hands were balled so tightly at her sides that her knuckles were turning white. 'So,' Sesshomaru noticed 'she did not fail to grow angry' but she did not lose control like he expected her to.

Sesshomaru was almost never wrong in his predictions, and he was confident that he had seen everything that would hold any sort of surprise for him. He thought that he had figured out everything the human race had to offer, but this woman was making him unsure of his previous assumptions. He was not ready to believe that his assumptions were wrong, and he truly did not believe they were, but he was almost ready to believe that maybe the eastern princess was an exception. Even still it would not matter. The only thing Sesshomaru was sure of in this case, was the fact that he would have to work twice as hard as he had been if he wanted to get rid of the little miko.

Leaving the garden himself, out of the door opposite to the one Kagome left through, Sesshomaru thought as he made his way to his father's study 'I am sure that in time this Sesshomaru will find the miko to be no different from all other human women.' Maybe then, and when the woman was out of his life, his mind would be able to find some sort of peace and rest he thought, as he massaged his nose in effort to relieve the headache that had situated itself behind his eyes.

"Come in." Lord InuTaisho told Sesshomaru, feeling his son's agitation in his aura before he even reached his door.

Watching Sesshomaru as he slid open the shoji screen, InuTaisho failed to find any signs on his face of the stress he could clearly feel in his yukai. He correctly assumed, however, that whatever was irritating Sesshomaru had something to do with Lady Kagome though.

"Hello Father." Sesshomaru said, bowing his head in greeting towards his father who was seated at his desk, surrounded by paperwork, in the middle of the room.

Allowing silence to settle between them for a moment, Lord InuTaisho moved his paperwork to the side and finally asked "Is something bothering you?", even though he knew full well what Sesshomaru was there to ask him.

"Yes there is." Sesshomaru started.

Even though the fact that his father had chosen not to return his greeting irritated him, Sesshomaru knew that he would have to be very careful how he approached him in this matter. He could not let his impatience or agitation show, no matter what his father said, for he would surely use it as an excuse to change or end the conversation.

"I have come to you to discuss the true reasons behind this marriage between the eastern princess and I." he told him.

Holding his hand up in a request to be fully heard when he saw the look on his father's face, he quickly continued before his father could interrupt. "This Sesshomaru believes that he should be allowed the courtesy of knowing exactly what duties he will be taking on as mate to the eastern princess." He said looking his father directly in his eye. "Especially seeing as how I will be forced to live with her, and provide for her, for the rest of this Sesshomaru's life."

Sesshomaru watched in silence, as many emotions washed over his father's face and he brought his hands to rest in front of his mouth in deep thought. Becoming more and more impatient as the silence dragged on between them, he felt great relief when at last his father finally replied.

"Very well Sesshomaru." Lord InuTaisho said. He stood from his desk and walked to look out a window on the far side of the room opposite to Sesshomaru. "At first, I believed it not to be my place to tell you, but hearing it from your point of view I have decided to relent"

Motioning for Sesshomaru to take the seat in front of his desk, and re-situating himself back into his own chair, he studied Sesshomaru's features as he gathered his thoughts, preparing to continue.

"Whatever I tell you must not leave this room until at least after the wedding." He began, allowing the seriousness of his words flow from his eyes into Sesshomaru's as they stared at each other. "You must tell no one. The girl must not know until her parent's see fit to tell her themselves, which I have been told will be the day after the wedding."

Waiting until after Sesshomaru nodded his head in visible agreement, only then did Lord InuTaisho begin to dispense the truth to Sesshomaru…..

Kagome had to leave and she had to leave quickly, before she attempted to purify the idiotic demon prince. She felt tears of anger fall from her eyes and frustratedly attempted to wipe them away, hating her inability to stop them from flowing. She did not know where her feet were taking her, but she absently noticed that she was making her way to the front greeting area where she had been lead to when she had first arrived at the western castle.

As she exited the front doors of the castle, she ran over to the forest of sakura trees that she had noticed on her way to the castle, and she did not stop until long after she could no longer see the castle. She briefly felt surprise at the fact that none of the guards in the castle had stopped her. In fact as she thought back, she noticed that in her desperate dash to get away, she had not seen any guards whatsoever. This was a highly unusual thing, seeing as how she had seen plenty guards on her and Sango's way to the garden, and during her short stay here so far.

Standing still in the middle of the grove of trees, Kagome suddenly felt all previous feelings of agitation disappear as a feeling of great unease overtook her. Looking around at her current surroundings, Kagome could not dismiss the feeling that she was not alone. Not only that but she was sure that that someone was presently watching her.

"Who's there?" she called out loudly. Actually praying that despite the fact that she had been crying, no matter that they had not been tears of sadness, that it was Sesshomaru who had followed and was spying on her.

Feeling like someone was standing behind her, she quickly whipped her body around only to find no one there.

"Sesshomaru is that you!?" she asked, forgetting to add the respectful title in her fear.

Suddenly hearing a deep resounding laugh in the direction that she had just been facing Kagome, quickly turned back around, only to once again find nothing but the same trees that had been there the last time she looked.

Deciding she had finally had enough, and to return back to the castle to the safety of her own room to sort through her turbulent thoughts, she turned to run back in the direction of castle. However, before she could take another step a menacing voice rang through the trees.

"Do not worry yourself little miko of the east, soon all of your and your parent's troubles regarding this marriage will be laid to rest" it said laughing once again "They were foolish enough to think that I would not find out about their plans, but they did not escape my notice."

As the voice gradually faded away, its last statement was "Rest assured all will be revealed to you and those around you soon enough"

As the voice faded away, Kagome found no assurance in its words. And after looking around once more, only to not find any signs of its speaker, she ran as fast as she could back to the safety of the her room and the castle guards.

AN: So I know I said that the meeting would be in this chapter and it would hold alot of important info,and I didn't completely lie

(^-^), but once I started writing the chapter it just didn't seem to flow that way. So this is what came out but I PROMISE the next chapter all will become clear :D

Because there is a lot to write however, it may take me awhile to complete Chap 9 :( but I promise it will be worth the wait!

IMPORTANT NOTE: I may be raising the rating on this story from T to M for future purposes but I want your feedback first. So please leave a YAY or NAY in a comment if you do or do not want this change to occur