"My father complained that you are appearing to be avoiding him," Sesshoumaru commented.

Kagome inwardly smirked, because he was correct. It had been two long and uneventful days. And she made sure to not stay around Sesshoumaru's family for too long. She's spent years avoiding interaction and she was an expert at it. Though admittedly it hadn't been too hard; everyday so far they've taken Rin to see some sort of medical expert. Currently, Kagome was lounging around Sesshoumaru's room, reading a book while casually leaning against a wall. Sesshoumaru was sitting on the edge of the bed watching her, waiting for a reply.

"And why would I do that?"

"How should I know?" he didn't give her a chance to answer. "I had my assistant look further into you and everything is under Naraku Onigumo's name and all 'documentation' only has your first name. Be cooperative and tell me, what is your name?"

Kagome arched brow. "You sure you want to open that can of worms? You're going to regret it. After all, you saw through my façade and look how much regret you are experiencing from just that."

"Your name," he insisted.

"Hitomi," she answered. "Kagome Hitomi. Now with my name doing a background check will be a breeze."

"Indeed," he agreed, standing up. "Now in regards to my family, do better or they may never leave."

Kagome simply rolled her eyes and then left. She figured she could sit with them and awkwardly make small talk. She came across Rin and smiled at the mute girl; she smiled back.

"Mute girl," Kagome said, Rin continued to smile. "I suppose you and I could bond. Or at least pretend to. You can't speak so who will know?"

Rin blinked in response.

Crouching down to her level she asked in a hushed tone, "So are your parents downstairs?" When Rin shook her head, Kagome smiled. "Great! Let's ditch this place, shall we?"

The two of them left the house, grabbing a set of car keys first. Kagome giddily unlocked one of Sesshoumaru's cars and told 'mute girl' to hop in and she drove out of the driveway.

"I switched out Sesshoumaru's bank card with a fake one," Kagome announced as if it was nothing illegal. "Meaning we can go shopping and everything will be on me."

Rin giggled and Kagome had to do a double take. "Are you really mute?" She would glance at her from the corner of her eyes – focusing mainly on the road.

Rin was silent.

"Don't you think you are being a little pathetic? Unless you put on this pathetic woe is me mute girl act to get a good family to adopt and love you. I can understand that. Quite smart actually. Well played, mute girl."

It was silent for a few minutes.

"Okay seriously, this is annoying," Kagome exclaimed. "I bring nothing to this sympathetic table so you're going to have to say something. So come on, let's hear it. We can start with why you are 'mute'."

Silence.

"I know you can speak. I know it for a fact. What are you so scared of?"

Rin remained quiet and looked outside as trees seemed to blur as they passed by. She spent years in a basement, beaten for uttering a sound. She learned to cry silently and to take comfort on dirt covered cement. She was orphaned and before Touga and Izayoi she lived with family members. They were so kind to their own children but had been so cruel to her. One day, she was so hungry that she dared to venture upstairs and grabbed a handful of rice and ate it in one bite. When she was caught she was beaten until she could barely walk but somehow she found the energy to run out of the backdoor and ended up in an alley. That was when she was found by Touga and Izayoi.

"Come on Rin Morimoto, speak up. You have quite a lovely voice after all."

Rin jerked her head to look at Kagome who was focusing on the road. No one knew who she was. Not her last name anyway. When she was found she only knew how to write her first name, in fact she had nearly forgotten the sound of her family name.

"H-h," Rin struggled at first. "H-how did you know," she asked slowly and unsure.

"You will find that I know absolutely nothing but absolutely everything at the same time. But don't go telling anyone that."

Rin simply nodded and quietly remembered her parents.

Sesshoumaru was irate at Kagome's disappearing act with Rin but decided that he would bother himself with it later. He called a private detective and told relayed Kagome's full name to him. He had already found basic things that didn't require much digging or prodding and faxed over the information. His fax machine was printing off page after page. His father walked into his study unannounced and unwanted.

"Izayoi has fallen asleep and it seems Rin has run off with Kagome."

"And?"

"I'm bored," his father whined.

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes. The moment the last page printed he grabbed the stack of papers and began to flip through them, leaning back in his chair. Touga pulled up a chair and sat to Sesshoumaru's right – though not so close as to invade personal space.

"What's that?"

"Information on Kagome," he stated, to which Touga immediately got up and stood behind him to look at the papers.

It wasn't anything unusual. Kagome Hitomi was 23 years old and born in Nagoya. She graduated high school top 5 in her class and went on to get an associates in psychology. Her parents, Nagasaki and Nanami Hitomi worked average jobs but still provided a good life for Kagome and her younger brother, Kagewaki. There was more background information on them but Sesshoumaru didn't care too much to read about it. There were shot records, hospital and school credentials. It seemed that Kagome lived a good life; Sesshoumaru wondered why she was the way she was.

"How ordinary," Touga sounded suspicious. Something about it rubbed him the wrong way.

"Hn."

"It appears I worried for no reason. Perhaps Kagome just likes to be mysterious."

Sesshoumaru could imagine that being true. "It does seem like her." But his mind could also imagine other things; other scenarios. With Kagome he never knew what was true and what was a lie but he desperately want to believe that his mate at least had a normal upbringing. Not the criminal background he was imagining. "Are you still looking into Naraku?"

"Not so much as I should. There are rumors that Kaguya had been dead for at least a couple of years. There has yet to be indefinite proof of that though so I am focusing on that – if we are lucky she didn't kill that girl yet and we'll be able to retrieve her."

Kaguya was a youkai who devoured priestess's for their holy power and would claim herself to be celestial maiden.

"It has been 10 years; I imagine that girl being long gone."

Touga shrugged. "Kaguya always did like to play with her food though."

"For a decade?"

He reluctantly agreed. "Yes, I suppose that would be a bit much, even for her."

While Touga pondered the thought, Kagome and Rin wandered in – both of them with bags in both hands.

"Nice office," Kagome said. "I bought you a present," she said eyeing Sesshoumaru.

"Really," he asked doubtful. "And with whose money, I wonder."

Kagome dropped the bags on the floor. "Hello Touga," she smiled. "Rin picked something for you to." Kagome pushed her towards him and said, "Come on mute girl, go ahead."

"What were you talking about," Kagome was now ignoring Touga and Rin. "Is Kaguya some ex-girlfriend of yours?" She handed Sesshoumaru a small bag.

Sesshoumaru didn't respond because he had heard something that rendered him speechless.

"Uhm, he-here you go," Rin said in a small meek voice to Touga, holding out a bag.

Before the emotional moment occurred, Kagome left the office and her bags to go hide out once more. She went into the bathroom connected to Sesshoumaru's bedroom and undressed, leaving her clothes on the ground. She turned on the shower and let the hot water cascade all over her body – turning her skin a bright pink. She hadn't been in there long, when Sesshoumaru walked in and undressed himself; he opened the glass door to shower to join her.

"Ever heard of privacy," Kagome asked as he was stepping in.

"You have none here."

Kagome merely shrugged and closed her eyes as the water splashed across her face; she could feel Sesshoumaru's bare torso barely on her back. Then he began rubbing a bar of soap on the front of her body, slowly running it over each breast and down her abdomen. "Isn't the water too hot for your skin?"

"Is it too hot for yours?"

Sesshoumaru placed his large hands on her hips, turning her around so she was facing him. Suggestively and methodically, Kagome ran her hands down his torso, enticing him. He leaned down and took her lips with his, lifting her up wrapping her legs around his waist. Kagome began kissing him more eagerly, biting his lower lip even. He lowered Kagome onto his entire length and began thrusting immediately.

She pulled her lips from his and started moaning, digging her nails into his shoulders.

He would bury himself completely to the hilt and growled in satisfaction. "So tight; so wet my Kagome."

The steam from the hot water and her deep breathing were making her mind hazy. "W – we're in the shower.. you.. idiot," she wanted to insult him.

He chuckled.

His grip on her rear tightened as he increased his pace. He could feel her walls tightening and he entire body tensing, preparing for her release. She moaned louder and urged him not to stop. As Kagome's orgasm took over her, she arched her back a cried out – her body trembling from its aftershock.

"Can't… breathe," Kagome said between heavy breaths.

Sesshoumaru soon came after, with one last deep thrust he coated her inner walls and turned off the water. Not removing himself for her, he walked out of the shower, Kagome taking in deep breaths as a result from their fuck and the steam.

After a moment, Kagome pushed off of him. "Let me down."

He complied and when he did so she stumbled a bit but pushed his hand away when he tried to assist her. "Thanks for the quickie," she was still out of breath and light headed, grabbing her towel she wrapped the towel around her body and turned to leave the bathroom.

Sesshoumaru grabbed a towel and followed behind her. "You're quite nonchalant after opening your legs to me, mate," Sesshoumaru questioned, devoid of emotion.

Kagome didn't answer right away. Instead she dressed and then wrapped the towel around her hair. "Sex should be natural like breathing; drinking water. Why should I not act so nonchalant afterwards? It's not as if I think of it as something more than it is. It makes me feel good, so I engage in it. I'm not going to act as if I made some sort of unsaid vow with you."

"And besides," she added. "It's not as if you were the first guy I had sex with. Trust me, there were many others."

Sesshoumaru growled, angrily narrowing his eyes at her. "But I promise you, I'll be your last."

Kagome smiled, mischievously. "Of course."