chapter 7: Meeting Inuyasha

Sesshomaru had left for the night and since it was getting dark Kagome decided to make her new home a little bit more... homey?... oh well, she didn't know what to call it actually, but it didn't matter, as long as she was comfortable.

She swam down to the bottom, lazily, looking here and there. Once she reached the bottom she figured the far left side where the water was warmer would be her bedroom. Then everything else... she would figure out later, besides she had no possessions on her, except for her new necklace, but that would always stay with her never to come off. So she moved to the far left of the pond and then seeing the small river she remembered that she never got the chance to explore it. Well she might not remember later, so why not take the chance now? She grabbed her necklace with her left hand, and went down the river till it ended and the tunnel began. She peered down into it and noticed that it went pretty far down, maybe about twenty of her tail lengths, before it veered off straight ahead, she came up and poked her head out of the water to try and see where it might possibly lead. The only thing in that direction happened to be the castle, maybe it went underneath it or something. She went back down to the opening and a small bit of foreboding over came her briefly, it was small, but the point got across. She probably shouldn't go through with it, but now that thought crossed her mind she really, really wanted to know what was on the otherside of the tunnel. Pushing her fear aside she grabbed her necklace and could feel as it slightly pulsated and then it felt like a wall of strength and comfort over came her, reassuring her that everything would be all right. He then got up and walked to the bathing rooms.

Sesshomaru was merely relaxing, laying back on his bed, thats when he felt it. The tear around his neck pulsed and turned a shade darker, before in his heart he felt a slight bit of fear and nervousness. He grabbed the jewel and looked at it, there didn't seem to be any eminent danger coming from the jewel, maybe she was a little scared from being alone. He laid back down and stroked the jewel trying to soothe her from the other side of the connection, he wasn't sure if it would work but he really calmed down now and the muscles in his back relaxed, he had been tense without even knowing it.

she went for it and swam down the hole, it didn't take her long and she was making the turn very easily. She swam straight and felt the walls getting closer, thank Kami that she was small or she wouldn't fit in the places she tried to cram herself into. She kept going, it was to late to turn around anyways and she wanted to know where it led. Then she came to a fork in the road, well, tunnels and found herself stopping. Which one to explore first, she was going to take the tunnel on the left when she felt it. She had only inched up to it, but there it was. That wet dry heat that she knew so very much,

"an onsen." it was but a whisper. She was going to take the one on the right, she didn't want to end up in one of those again. She then wrote on the wall of the left tunnel "onsen" that way if she was able to get back out and came back down she would know. She then made an arrow pointing the opposite way she was going and wrote on the wall "Lake." now she would just have to figure out what was on the right side and what better way to do that then to explore. As she went down the right side she found another tunnel that came from the right. It was blasting freezing cold and funny smelling water into her tunnel. It had a weird taste and made her eyes burn, she then began to rub them. Nothing was helping no matter how much she rubbed, but she refused to panic, it wasn't life threatening and her eyes were just burning so she closed them and began to follow the tunnel she was already in going with the flow of the water. After ten minutes of slowly making her way down the tunnel it started getting harder and harder for her breathe. Now she was panicking, she opened her eyes and ignored the sting and shot as fast as she could down the tunnel, her muscles began to ache and she was becoming short of breath. What was up with the tunnels she took trying to kill her? And why did she have to be so darn curious? Gah.

he just sat himself in the water of the hotspring, and let loose a small, soft sigh. But then the jewel on his neck grew cold, he looked down to see it turning black, with only a small amount of light blue left.

This wasn't good. He was up and out of the water in a hurry and off towards the lake, but the further from the house he got the less the crescent moon pulsated.

He was confused, where the fuck was she? He than began to run large circles around the lake until he ended up in the area between the lake and the castle. The closer he got to the castle the more it pulsated.

'Think damn it, whats cold in the castle...' , he could tell she was moving and fast which meant she was still in water.

'Damn it, I don't know.' his thoughts were moving a hundred miles an hour when he heard her.

"Help, cant breathe, help, Sesshomaru?" he looked around but she was no where to be seen. The sound was screamed it was inside his head, from the jewel. What kind of connection did she make between them? If she was in the castle maybe he would pick up a scent, then he was gone again.

Kagome grasped the jewel around her neck for dear life, she knew he was coming, but she knew that he didn't know where to look, jeez she didn't even know where she was. She swam as fast as she could, but the burn was becoming unbearable. Then she saw a light. She rocketed towards it out of the tunnel and up, gasping for air. Her eyes were open and she was frantic. They burned and she resumed wiping them. Her heart that was hammering in her chest began to calm and she could feel her dai slow down slightly knowing that what ever danger she was in was avoided. But then she heard it.

"Who the fuck are you?"

she looked up and gasped, there in front of her stood a man with long silver hair.

"Sesshomaru..." she whispered so softly that the man almost missed it.

"Don't call me that son of a bitch's name!"

she shrank back, he scared her, she was confused where in the seven seas was she? She looked at him again and thats when her vision cleared enough for her to make out the differences between the two, for example, the two dog ears that were on his head. She titled her head to the side, and he copied.

"Your a hanyou?"

he crossed his arms and stuck his nose up at her.

"So what if I am?"

"Oh..."

she didn't know what to do. He then jumped into the water and surfaced near her, she quiclky moved to the otherside of the pool.

He stared at her.

"Hey how did you get in here, this pool is private?"

she didn't answer.

"Hey, im talking to you."

She didn't answer.

"Why you..." he paused and looked at her. Something was different about this woman, thats when he looked down through the clear waters and noticed the shimmering blue and white tail.

"What the fuck..." it was another whisper. "Come here."

"No"

he frowned, he always got his way what was up with this women, fish, thing?

"Come here."

"No." then the chase was on. Both people swimming around the pool, Kagome out maneuvering him every turn.

Sesshomaru was enraged, he heard Inuyasha's screams and knew right away that she had some how gotten herself into the pool. He was then moving in that direction, the hanyou would not be happy after he was done, nobody would hurt what was his. His eyes turned red as he ran off in the direction of the pool leaving many shocked servants speechless as he ran past them as naked as the day he was born.

Kagome was getting tired of trying to avoid the hanyou, it was impossible for her to breathe under the water for some strange reason and it burned her lungs, she had to keep surfacing for air. She couldn't believe this. Even in the water she felt like a fish out of the water! What was wrong with her? But what shocked her most was noticing that her jewel was making a continuous thrum, like hum. She stopped and looked around just to find a hand on her wrist.

"Gotcha!"

a murderous growl sounded in the room, causing Kagome to look and see her dai standing before her, she smiled and called to him.

"Sesshomaru, ugh..."

Sesshomaru watched as his Utako called out to him, just to be pulled behind the disgusting hanyou. Then he was moving, again.

Before she could tell what was going on the hanyou was flying across the room, and landed in the water all the way on the other side of the pool approximately five of her tail lengths away. She was then in the arms of her inu ho held her to his naked body. He was shacking, and holding her very tight, it almost hurt. She decided that it was best to hum to him. She stroked his hair as she began to hum a melodious and almost sad tune, it came flowing through her lips, dark and mysterious but calming all the same (The godfather theme).

Sesshomaru calmed as the tune slowly relaxed him.

Then he groaned as the many patterns she was drawing as she rubbed his back to soothe him, turned him on. He pulled her away and looked her in the face.

"How did you get in here?"

Kagome blushed, and dropped her head. Sesshomaru almost sighed and grabbed her chin softly and brought it up to look at him. He then gave her a pointed stare that meant with every bit of certainty, you are going to answer my question.

She sighed.

"I kinda, followed a underground tunnel and there was a fork in it so I picked the right tunnel, because the left tunnel had a bunch of hot water. So as I was going down the right tunnel there was another tunnel to the right of the tunnel I was in but it was pushing frigid cold water and... something else in this direction so I kinda just went with it and, ended up... here."

Sesshomaru only stared, before pulling them both to the shallows of the water and sitting down on one of the steps of the pool he pulled her in to his lap and sighed, a real sigh.

Kagome looked down at her tail.

"What am I gonna do with you?" he asked, and she looked up to see him smiling a small smile, which caused her to smile.

"Well you could find away to either take me with you, or stay with me?"

then the idea hit him, but before he was able to say anything inuyasha came sputtering to the surface, and glared at his brother.

"What the hell yuh do that for?"

"Do not touch what doesn't belong to you brother."

those little words sparked something in her, she belonged, someone wanted her, she wasn't alone anymore, but then his other words sunk in, brother?

"He is your brother?"

"Yes the hanyou is my half brother sadly, Prince Inuyasha."

"So sessh, who's the chick with the tail?"

"She is none of your buisness little brother, but if you must know her name you may call her Kagome."

Inuyasha gave Kagome a once over and caused a very possessive inu to growl and pull her closer to cover her with his body.

"Hey sessh, she is fine for a fish, you wanna share."

inu was smilling, and Kagome was confused again.

"Sesshomaru, what is he talking about, what does he mean share me?" Kagome frowned.

"No." it was directed at the hanyou. "Kagome we are leaving and with that he rose from the water which caused Kagome's tail to melt away leaving a pair of legs and a very naked Kagome.

Inuyasha whistled and then gagged. "Ewww, Sessh put some damn clothes on you bastard."

"Oh on the contrary little brother you are the bastard."

and with that last parting statement Sesshomaru left the pool room and walked over to his bedroom carrying Kagome. He stopped a servant on the way and told her to bring some kimono's, a clean bucket of water and cups and his mother's mirror.

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KAR