I don't usually write off-pairing fics (fics with pairings other than the shows imply), but I had an idea for a SesshomaruxKagome fic late at night (like 2 am) and it wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote a summary and resolved to work on it. Also, sorry for not updating my other fic, Growing Up. My home computer had the first part of the next chapter and it crashed or something messed up happened. I'm writing this on my laptop and then I'll try to post it on my dad's laptop that has wireless Internet access. Also I'm deeply sorry for InuxKikyo pairing. I hate that bitch as much as any other fan. When she comes onscreen during the credits, I shout, "Die bitch!" at the top of my lungs. So that pairing kills me inside too, if it's any consolation. Another note, the beginning is kind of bad since my heart isn't into the InuyxKik thing. I can like the SessxKag if it's well written.

"Oh, Kikyo!" Inuyasha said. He pulled her in closer.

Kagome was watching. Inuyasha and Kikyo were making out! And it looked like things might go farther than that! Kagome felt sick.

After Kikyo had purified Naraku and the Jewel of Four Souls, the Shikon no Tama, she had continued to wander the earth until she could have Inuyasha. Kagome knew that she had promised to stay by Inuyasha's side, but if he would be doing this kind of stuff with Kikyo, she didn't think her heart could stand that much pain and remain intact.

Thinking that she might actually throw up if she saw anymore, Kagome ran through the trees. She crashed through the underbrush, getting all sorts of nasty scrapes and cuts, but she didn't care. Kagome continued to run until she reached a river. There, she sat on a boulder, put her head in her hands and sobbed so hard that it hurt.

Kagome might have screamed once or twice out of anger, pain, or frustration, but she couldn't be sure. She felt a small hand rubbing her back comfortingly. Kagome was sure that Shippo had come when he had heard her scream, if she had.

She looked up, expecting to see Shippo, but instead seeing a small girl looking concerned. It looked like that girl that always hung around Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's older brother.

"Are you okay Miss…um, I can't recall your name." the girl said.

"My name's Kagome. And you're Rin, right?" Kagome asked wearily. All that sorrow had drained her energy. She sniffed kind of pitifully a couple of times and wiped her eyes on her sleeve.

"What happened to you girl?" a disinterested voice behind her asked.

Startled, Kagome whirled around to see Sesshomaru looking at her with his usual expressionless face. Kagome wasn't sure if it was because he asked, or because he was standing there with nothing better to do, or if it had to do with the fact that her heart had been ripped and smashed into microscopic pieces, but she found herself telling him everything.

"Inuyasha had said that he had chosen Kikyo over me, which I managed to handle. That was until I saw him with Kikyo doing…" Kagome's voice failed her. She didn't think she could bring herself to voice her suspicions about what they were about to do when she had bailed. "So I ran here, and I just won't be able to face him anymore. Not without having a total breakdown everytime I see him. So I can't travel with my friends anymore, and that's all there is for me in this world."

Sesshomaru didn't know about her coming from the future. He thought she was talking about killing herself. 'How pathetic. She can't see my foolish half-brother, so she can't even find the will to live. He's so pitiful. He picks his love who is dead and made of clay and bones, leaving his love who is warm and breathing and made of flesh and blood to mourn the loss of him. How is it that they both still love him when his is obviously not very loyal to either of them? There must be something…special about them. They are very loyal despite the fact that he is not. Hmmm.'

While Sesshomaru was musing, Kagome thought of something. 'Hey, wait, what's wrong with this picture?'

"Why do you care anyway?" she asked him suddenly, making him pay attention to her again.

"Don't be more stupid than you already are. I don't care." Sesshomaru, but his tone wasn't convincing Kagome.

"You don't sound like you don't care. So you do care?" she asked looking puzzled.

Sesshomaru replied by shooting her a look that said he hoped she'd be quiet on her own, to save him the trouble of ripping out her vocal chords.

Rin, who had been listening and watching them the whole time, whispered to Kagome, "That's his 'it's quiet time' face."

Despite her sadness, Kagome laughed while Rin tried to hide her giggles. Sesshomaru, who had been about to turn away and call Rin to follow, paused. That girl's laugh. It did strange things to his stomach that he was not familiar with. He glanced over his shoulder and saw the expression on Rin's face as she laughed with Kagome. They were becoming hysterical, which annoyed him, but he saw that Rin was beaming.

'No, that's a crazy thought…but it would be for Rin.' he thought, mentally arguing with himself.

He decided to say something before he could back out. "Kagome, would you like to come with me and Rin?"

"What!" Kagome asks, her eyes popping.

"If you think you are above traveling with me, you are sadly mistak-" Sesshomaru began, but Kagome cut him off.

"No, it's not that! It's just…Okay. Number one, you used my name, which I wasn't really sure if you knew, remembered, or cared about. Number two, you, if I accept, you the oh-so high and mighty Sesshomaru will have not one, but two human traveling companions." Kagome pointed out for him.

At this, Sesshomaru pulled her none too gently away from Rin and said in a quiet voice so only Kagome could hear, "Maybe. But I think that Rin could use a female presence in her life, like a mentor or mother of sorts. I've seen the way you treat that orphaned fox cub, as if he was your own young. That proves that your maternal instincts are very good."

Kagome looks stunned. "You know that makes sense. Rin could use someone to take care of her…with a bit more care and love. I think I will come with you." Kagome decided, reaching out as if to touch him.

Sesshomaru made a growling noise. His eyes flashed red and he slashed at the air very close to her face.

Her eyes grew wide and afraid as she asked, "Was that reflex, or do you really want to kill me?" She had a feeling that she knew the answer, and she was very afraid of what he would say.

"Both." Sesshomaru replied irritably. "Understand right now that you are not to touch me, as I have not given you permission to do so."

"Okay, I understand. Sesshomaru, I need to grab my bag and say goodbye to my friends while Inuyasha is still 'busy'." Kagome told him bitterly.

"Fine, but you must meet us here in an hour, or…" Sesshomaru let the threat hang in the air.

"I'll be back. I promise." Kagome assured him. She turned to Rin, who was looking curious and confused, and said, "I have something to do, but then I can come back and we can play, alright?"

"Alright Lady Kagome." Rin said with a mock salute. Kagome smiled. She was forgetting about Inuyasha already.

Coincidentally, Inuyasha and Kikyo were in the bushes a while away. Inuyasha was close enough to hear Kagome's voice, and he tried to disentangle himself from Kikyo to find her and explain in case she had seen them together, but Kikyo fought back to reentangle them. In the end, Inuyasha didn't have the willpower to resist.

Well, hopefully the first chapter wasn't too bad. I don't have the excuse that this is my first fic because I've had two Inuyasha fics finished that I won't post because they aren't so good, and three more fics started now, two of which are Inuyasha. So if it's bad, my only possible excuse is that I'm not used to writing these pairings. And that isn't a very good excuse. Well, I hoped you liked this enough to review and give your opinion and suggest ways that I can improve if you didn't like it (except pairings, I have a big plot idea, so the pairings are sadly set in stone. Maybe the InuxKik one might change, never know. That's high on my top ten list of hated pairings.).