Summary: With drama inside and out of the courtroom, Kagome had no chance of catching a break. If there was one thing she was good at, it was functioning under pressure. A mouthy Miko is a nightmare to deal with, especially when she has the attitude that she does. Stubborn, temperamental, and with instincts that rival no one else, there's no chance she'd ever lose.

Pairing: Nahyuta/Kagome.

Disclaimer: I do not own either series. Each belongs to their rightful owners.

Note:
Might lack canonicity.

Chapter One

There was a distinct glimmer of agitation brimming in usually bright and bold blue eyes. The light overhead flickered with an annoying buzz every ten or fifteen seconds, which only served to heighten her already mounting frustration. There were no words exchanged as she glanced to her side, blue eyes catching the pair of gold she could feel boring down on her.

This, she could tell, was getting nowhere. Not for her, and certainly not for the person trying so much in vain to convince her of his innocence.

It didn't matter. After all, she could see through every one of his lies as if they were being written out on paper right before her eyes.

She fixed an unamused glare on his face, leaning to rest her chin on the back of her hand.

Another chance.

She was being far more generous than she should, yet she was never one to so freely give up on another person. Perhaps doing so would be a lesson she learned in due time, but as it stood right now, she didn't have that capability. Even though she knew that the man at her side wished for nothing more than for her to relinquish that side of her for something more practical and steadfast.

"You gotta believe me, I'm telling you, I didn't do it. C'mo,n get me off the hook here…"

Another lie.

Her eyes narrowed as she looked at his face. He was lying through his teeth, trying in vain to use the same deception that led him here to garner his way out. A tactic that worked on many before her, she presumed, yet she was not someone to be trifled with.

Wordless, she pressed her hands flat on the table's surface and pushed herself up. The chair dragged on the ground as she pushed it back out of the way.

"This is not going to work out," Kagome decided. She didn't look at him at first, her eyes closed as she fixed the chair back under the table. She felt the confusion plaguing his aura, and she cut her eyes to him.

"What do you mean? You're my lawyer-"

"I cannot represent someone who so freely lies to my face," she cut him off mid-sentence. Her tone was cold, aloof. "Perhaps if there was a shred of honesty in you, things might've gone differently," she added as a faint remark.

Her eyes caught the dark ones peering at her, but all the warmth that had once been present within her eyes had faded. She collected the few things she had and tucked them under her arm. There was a faint jingle of the red beads kept wrapped around her wrist as she righted her posture.

A stiff silence hung in the air for several long seconds, suffocating and oppressive. Anything that he might've wanted to say all seemed to fade away into nothingness as she held his stare. She commanded the attention with ease, her presence both daunting and comforting all in the same breath.

"I do wish you all the best, but I don't see this working out," Kagome remarked as she finally looked away from his somewhat slumped posture. "I'm afraid I have much better things that demand my attention, as opposed to the likes of you."

She gave him no chance to offer a rebuttal as she made her way to the door, hastily exiting it as her silver-haired companion led the way for her to follow. The door shut with a heavy slam as she fully turned her back on the person left on his own seated at the table in the room.

"I could have told you it was going to be a waste of time if you'd asked," Sesshomaru remarked in a flat, monotone drawl. She glanced up at him from the corner of her eye as she sighed and shook her head.

"You know I can't just do that," she argued back, grabbing onto the folder she'd tucked under her arm so she could cross them across her chest.

"Can't or won't?" he challenged in response. He halted his pace when he realized she'd stopped walking. The following second he turned to fully face her. "You're only subjecting yourself to pointless idiocy from those who no longer deserve what compassion you offer them." She was far smarter than others around her because of her instincts alone. She saw what others failed to catch onto. Deep down, she knew how it'd go every time she put herself into situations such as this. She knew that just as well as he did.

"Neither." She lifted a hand and carded it through her dark hair, a faint sigh spilling from her lips as she pulled her hand back, the strands slipping through her fingers like oil. She didn't look at him, instead pointing her gaze at the ground- her own undisclosed sign of discomfort. She grasped at the words to say for several long seconds before she finally regained her commendable composure. "Listen, I'm not someone who can just…-" She trailed off, giving a faint shake of her head as she sighed again, this time a bit louder. "That's not who I am." She'd never been that sort of person, and she wasn't turning into it.

She wouldn't let herself become so jaded that she could so easily brush off those who might have a chance to change for the better. Not everyone was able to believe in such things, she knew. She'd met her fair share of opposition from friends and companions alike.

It'd driven a wedge between some of them, but there was only so much she could endure. Fighting took a toll on her, especially since she was always so in tune with the other's feelings. Too many times had she pushed her own down to provide respite for someone else. As resilient as she was, even she had her breaking points.

"Perhaps it's time for you to let go and move on from such notions," he remarked. The comment lacked any form of hostility or spite, yet it made her flinch either way. He noticed, cutting gold eyes down to observe the reaction. Before anything could be said, she had turned and flicked her hand in a dismissive wave.

"Let go and move on?" she repeated. "You're starting to sound a bit too much like…-" Kagome trailed off with a shake of her head. "You mean well, surely, but I don't think I have it in me to deal with the thought of Nahyuta, of all people, right about now."

In the back of her mind, she could see his face as clear as day. The anger simmering in green eyes, just below the gentle surface when their disagreements only grew. Up until that final moment where she drew the line in the sand. Deep down, a nagging feeling coiled in the pit of her stomach, burning her from the inside with unease. She tried over and over again to tell herself that it was normal to second-guess herself, yet the regret she felt seemed to be much louder.

Because, despite it all…- There was still a part of her that felt something for him, wasn't there? It hadn't all been wasted time, right?

She covered her face with her hands, rubbing at her eyes as she pushed all those thoughts away. They weren't doing her any favors, and she really didn't want to dwell on them any longer.

Ugh… the mere thought alone was enough to lower her soured mood to levels that went far below ground level. She'd dealt with him for long enough, and she wasn't eager for him to invade any sort of reprieve she managed to get.

"You could always stray towards the side of prosecution?" It was a suggestion by whim alone, but it made her heart feel heavy in her chest. She shook her head, not bothering to slow her pace. "It'd come far easier to you, surely."

"... I'd really rather not," she murmured, those words spilling in a soft confession, almost as if she was hesitant that they might be used against her. Her tone shifted the next second as she forced a faint laugh. "It just wouldn't be a good match, I'm afraid," she added.

She felt the weight of his stare pressing down against her as he caught her in her own thinly-veiled lie. Oh, well, she'd never been that skilled at lying, after all.

Auroua-chan: ending this here. The following chapters should be a bit longer.

More on her relationship with Nahyuta will come a bit later, but it was always rocky at best. Despite that, she does feel something for him. (Good, bad, somewhere in the middle? It'll be revealed soon.)

There won't be any SessKag in this story, but there might be a few people outside them who assume they're together.

Anyway, that's it for now! Thank you all for reading and I hope you all enjoyed. Hopefully I caught all the errors before posting, but if not sorry.

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