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"…" Speaking words
'….' thoughts
Baka - stupid / fool
Miko - Priestess
Ookami - Wolf
Shikon No Tama - Jewel of Four Souls
Youkai - Demon
Youki - Demon Energy
Houshi - Monk
Taijiya - Demon Slayer

Hakama - pants
Haori - Shirt

Chapter 2
The morning after

Kagome awoke with the sun shining in her face, the birds chirping in her ear and she slowly opened her eyes. She sat up half expecting to see Inuyasha breathing down her neck but he was not there. She turned her head and saw white silk. Last nights events came back to her in a sweep of memories. She blushed and looked up at his face he was looking right into her eyes with his normally unemotional face.

"Sorry, I did not mean to lean on you." she said with her head down.

He huffed, "We will be moving on soon. That half breed will undoubtedly catch your scent with mine and come running." He stood and began to walk.

She got up and said, "Well let me apologies to you in advance for yet more trouble I will cause when he comes here. He will probably think you kidnapped me. And you know how presumptuous he could be at times. He will come to the wrong conclusions and attempt to attack you." she looked up at him.

He was looking into her eyes with amusement shinning through. "You amuse me human. He can not harm this Sesshomaru." he turned and began to walk again

"That is not what I meant. I am full aware that he cannot even touch you let alone cause you any harm. I was just apologizing for what he will attempt to do." she replied.

"Why do you flatter me?" he asked while walking and not looking at her.

She blushed a light shade of pink and replied, "I was not flattering you. I was stating the obvious. There is a difference."

He turned at quirked an eyebrow at her. 'I do not comprehend this female. One month she is aiming an arrow at me, the next she is complementing me' still looking at her, he signals to her with his eyes to walk beside him.

She understood and sped up to walk behind him. When she reached the side of him he looked at her without turning his head and said "I do not understand you."

"Huh?"

He continued, "One month you shoot an arrow at me like a fearless priestess. Now you are complementing me."

She looked down and replied, "As much as I may admire the fighting form of an enemy in battle I cannot sit back and watch that enemy attack a friend or ally. Even if I know they can kill me in a second I would still have to try because I would feel horrible if they were killed or injured and I did nothing. Every time we met except last night you were the enemy and I had to respond as such no matter how scared I was or how cute I think you are. None..." she stopped speaking because she noticed him turn to her when she called him cute.

He quirked his eyebrow.

She blushed ten shades of red and turned away. 'I can't believe I told him I thought he was cute. Oh my god I could die of embarrassment!' She shook her head to clear her thoughts.

"So Miko how long have you been attracted to me?" he said with a smirk.

She looked at him smirking and turned red.

He was watching as her cheeks flushed red and how the blush carried down her neck and hide under her shirt. That was a question she would not answer.

When he asked her, her heartbeat sped up, telling him she was nervous and embarrassed. He smirked mentally, 'I like teasing this human she is amusing. Do not get attached to her she is not your ward she is your brother's alpha bitch. I wonder what she would say if I told her she could travel with me. That she does not need to go back to the whelp. That would surely go right up his ass!' Sesshomaru was laughing in his head at the idea of her saying to Inuyasha that she will stay with him.


*Shard Hunter Group*


They awoke early in the morning when they realized that Kagome was not there. Her scent was fading; meaning she had not been there all night. Sango was the first to awaken and notice her sister's absence. She woke up the houshi Miroku and asked "Miroku have you seen Kagome since last night?"

He looked at her then to Kagome's sleeping bag which only sleeps one Shippo. "No I have not seen her since she went looking for Inuyasha last night. I fell asleep before she returned." They looked at each other eith worry, and then the houshi Miroku said, "We need to find Inuyasha."

the Taijiya Miroku nodded, they packed up quickly grabbing Kagome's bag as well. They got Shippo then hopped on Kerira. As they began to pick up off the ground Inuyasha came walking out the forest towards where the camp used to be. He looks at everyone noticing they were missing an important member. "Where is Kagome?" he asked looking at the Taijiya Miroku then to the houshi Miroku.

They both sighed. "I should ask you that Inuyasha." the Taijiya Miroku said with anger clear in her voice.

He looked at her for a moment "What is that suppose to mean?" he bit back.

the houshi Miroku sighed then said "She went looking for you last night." When that was said he looked away. the houshi Miroku sighed again walked over to him and bopped him on his head with his staff.

"What was that for you baka" Inuyasha yelled.

the houshi Miroku began to talk, "You went to see Kikyou last night didn't you?"

Inuyasha turned away with a guilty look on his face.

the houshi Miroku sighed again "What I think happened is Kagome went looking for you and found you. When she saw you and what ever you were doing she probably ran."

the Taijiya Miroku could not be any angrier, "She is in the forest full of youkai with the Shikon No Tama shards; practically unprotected! You better hope we find her unharmed or I will..." she paused clenching her hands into fists.

They started to walk into the woods; it did not take long for him to pick up on her scent. The further they got the worse it looked. He started to pick up stale traces of Naraku's scent his face paled. He looked over at the others; they knew something was up.

"Inuyasha what is it?"

He continued sniffing and picked up another scent that made him even paler. He felt like he could cry. "I smell an old scent of Naraku."

They gasped in unison.

That is not all either "I smell Sesshomaru."

They were now afraid, if one wasn't bad enough now they knew she encountered two.

He continued sniffing, when he caught her scent and Sesshomaru leaving that area, "This is a good sign it guess. Kind of." he whispered more to himself then the others.

"What was that Inuyasha?" the Taijiya Miroku asked.

"Well it seems she and Sesshomaru walked off in this direction."

the Taijiya Miroku looked terrified for her friend.

They walked until they came into a clearing. the houshi Miroku looked up at the fire pit, "This must be where they camped last night."

Inuyasha continued to sniff until he got to a tree. Sesshomaru's and Kagome's scent mixed under the tree.

Seeing his face reddened with anger, the others asked, "What is it Inuyasha?"

He looked at her with his face red and full of anger. "This is where they slept." he said while pointing to the spot.

the houshi Miroku, grinning perversely said, "You mean they slept together last night?"

Inuyasha started to clench and unclench is fists before replying "I do not smell arousal or the scent of sex in the air so all they did was sleep." The idea of Kagome and his brother sleeping so close pissed him off royally.

"If they did not have sex Inuyasha then why are you so upset?" the houshi Miroku asked

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That was it Inuyasha had had it and he shouted, "Because my bastard brother has no business sleeping so close to MY WOMAN!"

They were shocked and annoyed at the same time.

'Did Inuyasha just call her his women?' the houshi Miroku thought. Then he decided to speak his mind "Inuyasha she is not your women you chose Kikyou; which is why she ran into the forest and could have gotten killed."

Inuyasha stood quietly then said "It does not matter we have to find her before he kills her for her tongue."


*Sesshomaru's pack*


They continued walking until early afternoon when he stopped at the next clearing and said, "We will stop here to eat. Jaken get the fire started."


Kagome was overjoyed she was starving not having a chance to eat breakfast.

Sesshomaru walked to a nearby tree and she followed. While sitting in silence. She was looking at her clothes they were ripped and stained with blood. She let out an audible sigh.

"What is wrong Miko?" Sesshomaru asked.

She looked up at him and smiled then replied "Oh nothing when I was in the woods my clothes got ripped up and now they are stained with my blood. I just wish I had my bag so I could change into something clean." While looking at her ripped and stained cloths. "Oh well… I better go find something to eat." she stood up and walked towards the area Rin was in.

Sesshomaru stood up and walked towards Jaken. "Jaken go to the village and get a kimono for Lady Kagome. And some rice."

Jaken huffed and started cursing humans under his breath.

Sesshomaru turned to him again and said "Do not anger me Jaken. And be quick about it."

Jaken bowed and replied, "Y- Yes milord" then scurried towards Ah Un and got on him and took of to the sky.

'If she does travel with me she needs to look presentable. Even if she decides to go back to the whelp she will have a keepsake to remind her of me and how I saved her. Besides, until he gets here she needs to look like a lady in case we receive visitors. I do not want people to think I am traveling with a whore, never mind a human whore.' Sesshomaru thought to himself.

After a few minutes Rin and Kagome were making their way back to the camp with fish. Kagome prepared the fish to cook. While it cooked she walked over to Sesshomaru and sat beside him.

She looked him over and noticed the missing arm. She started to feel bad because it was kind of her fault. That is when she got a brilliant idea. 'I can heal him as a thank you gift. Yeah, that will be a great gift!'

Sesshomaru noticed her staring and was about to say something when she beat him to it, "I want to do something for you. But it will require our close proximity. We will need to be touching."

He looked at her and raised an eyebrow then commented, "What could a human do for this Sesshomaru that would require our touching?"

She smiled a true smile her eyes sparkled. "I want to heal you. Now come stand up." she said to him while leaning in to take his hand. She tugged at his hand for a moment, he was not moving. "Come on I do not have all day." she said impatiently while tapping her foot.

He raised himself off the ground and stood still with his arm by his side.

She walked slowly up to him until their bodies touched. She wrapped her arms around his waist.

His eyes widened with shock. Before he could stop himself he had his arm around her as well.

She closed her eyes and started to relax. "Sesshomaru, please make sure you can handle my weight because when I am done I may be out of energy. I imagine what I am about to do will drain a lot out of me." she said in a whisper.

He heard her and held her tighter to him.

She felt her healing energy grow inside her body. She released it and started to glow light blue then it soon surrounded him.

He started to get nervous he was going to stop her until he realized it was not hurting him.

She took her hand that was glowing brighter blue and held onto the stub on his left.

He started to feel tingling in his left side but it did not hurt. She started to get limp in his arm so he held her closer. When the light died down she was asleep. He gently put her on the ground with both hands. '…both hands?' he thought with shock. He moved his left arm in a circle to test it. The muscles matched his other arm; the markings were where they could be. If he did not know any better he would have thought he never lost it in the first place. This was the first time in a long time he felt whole again. He leaned down beside her and whispered "Thank you!" That was the first time in his life he said thank you to anyone besides his mother and father. He was stunned that she would do this for him.

He lifted his nose to sniff, 'Jaken is back.' he said to himself, getting up from the ground.

They landed beside him and Jaken scurried off the dragon with two boxes. Jaken noticed both of his lord's arms and his eyes bugged out. "Milord your arms! How did you? When did you? That is extraordinary, you are extraordinary!"

Sesshomaru looked at Jaken, "Silence Jaken, I did not do this she did." he said while looking down at the sleeping girl.

Jaken's mouth opened in shock. "How could a lowly human be capable of such power?" Jaken whispered more to himself than anyone else.

Sesshomaru heard him fine. 'That is something I would like to know. Not even my sword could heal my arm. No youkai healer could do it either. But this human did it with ease and perfection.' he mused to himself.

After half an hour she started to stir. She opened her eyes, saw him, smiled and sat up. "Have I been out long?" she asked.

"No, only for half an hour."

She looked at him and saw his arm. She smiled a brilliant smile. "Did I heal it ok?" she asked.

He looked at her and replied, "It suits me."

She knew he liked it; she also knew he would not come straight out and say it. He looked at her for a minute as if he was trying to find the answer to an unknown question. When he could not find it he asked "Why? Why did you heal my arm?"

She looked at him seriously then replied, "It is a gift, a thank you for saving me and taking care of me. Besides I should have been the one to give it back anyway. Because if I did not take that stupid sword out of the tomb then it never would have happened." She looked at him and then said, "By the way, I have no idea how I was able to pull it out. I mean I had my hand on it and when I saw you attacking Inuyasha and he was losing I ran to him but I still had my hand on the sword and it just came out. I did not pull it or pry it, it just sort of fell out. I know that day probably bugged the hell out of you. If it's any conciliation I thought I was going to die that day. And the answer to the question you asked but I didn't answer: I thought so since that day." with that she was quiet.

He leaned over and grabbed the box that Jaken brought to him and handed it to her. "Here change into this."

She looked at the box for a second before reaching to take it. She opened the box carefully and found a light blue silk Kimono with dark blue Sakura blossoms. Her eyes widened with joy, "It's beautiful!" she whispered. She put the box down and threw herself into his arms and hugged him like he had never been hugged before. "Thank you Sesshomaru!" she whispered in his ear sending shivers down his spine.

He closed his eyes while in her embrace enjoying the feeling she was giving him. After a moment the spell wore off and he stepped back. 'Why did I let her hug me? Why did I hug her back? And why the HELL did I enjoy it?' He thought to himself. As she bent down to pick up then box and Sesshomaru noticed himself staring at her legs and ass cursing himself for checking her out.

Kagome walked over to a bush and began to change in to her new kimono. When she came out of the bush she walked over to Sesshomaru and asked, "How does it look?" then she twirled around to let him see it back and front.

"It suits you." he replied with a bored tone. "We should be moving on now."