Summary: Only certain people can bond with a dragon. Sesshomaru, a dragon rider, happens to be one. Kagome, wanting to fly like her secret love, finds a dragon's egg. Can she hatch it, or will she stay grounded forever? Sessy/Kag

InuyashaForever1989: This Fic is one of two I have dedicated to KibaSin who came up with the name and the summary and who is allowing me to use them thank you

There are youkai, hanyou, miko and ningen in this fic

Disclaimer- I do not own the characters of Inuyasha

Chapter One - Kagome's Secret Love

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Kagome sat on the edge of the forest, her long ebony black hair swaying with each breeze and her chocolate brown eyes shimmering in the midday sun. Beyond the woods was a clearing where she would watch the dragons take off from. She loved to watch the dragons and their riders take off and go flying about the skies. She watched and studied closely and soon she had learned every maneuver they would perform in the practice area.

Kagome had always wanted to fly ever since her father had first brought her to the Dragon Dens when she was a little girl. Her father had been one of the best dragon riders ever before he and his dragon, Uwibami (A/N: actually from Japanese Mythology), disappeared. But, even now Kagome loved to come out to watch them hoping that one day she would be able to fly with them.

One in particular had caught her attention. He was a very good rider, one of the best Kagome had seen since her father. She had only seen him from a distance, but she could still sense with her miko powers that he was a youkai. Being a youkai meant he had a natural advantage over the ningen riders any way, but then he was still better than even the other youkai in the troop.

Kagome had fallen in love with him just by the way he and his dragon flew the air ways with such grace. Whenever he flew, even if he would fly in formation exactly like everyone else, she would know him because of his long silver hair that she could she even from this distance, shining in the sun. Besides, even if she did every get a close up she didn't know if she would be able to tell him that she had fallen in love from afar, anyway. He had one of the very rare red dragons; which was so beautiful that Kagome could stare at it all day.

Kagome hadn't told anyone that she found herself completely head over heals for some one she'd never met. She never even told her best friend Sango, which was a big deal since she told Sango everything no matter what.

Today she couldn't stay too long, she had to get ready for a party tonight. She had turned 18 recently and was now old enough to attend all of the parties that her mother would. Kagome had forgotten what it was called, but she seemed to remember something about it having to do with a ball held by the dragon riders.

She returned home early to get ready to go when her mother came running up to her as giddy as a school girl with the news she had for Kagome. "Oh, Kagome you're going to be so happy I got you a date for the ball tonight. He's a youkai and the son of one of your fathers friends. The young Wolf Prince . . . um what was his name . . . um . . . oh yes Kouga." (A/N: what fun would it be if he wasn't there to chase after Kagome too?)

'Oh great another one of mom's set ups,' Kagome thought to herself though she continued to put on a smile for her mom's sake. "That sounds great mom, just great," she said in a less than excited tone but her mom didn't seem to notice.

"I know and you're going to love this . . ." she paused for effect, "He's a dragon rider and I know how much you love dragons so I thought it would be an interest you two would have in common."

Kagome began to wonder if maybe it was the one she could always pick out of the rest, the one with the silver hair and red dragon. If her mom had set her up with him she was sure she could find the courage to talk to him. "Um . . . Mom do you know what color his dragon is," she asked hopping she didn't sound suspicious or anything. She had thought asking about his hair would be too suspicious.

Her mom stopped to think for a moment, "Hmm . . . I don't really know, but I do remember something about it being rare." Here is where Kagome got her hopes up.

'The red dragons are rare,' she thought to herself. She had completely disregarded the other rare colors like the gold, silver, purple and blue dragons, in order from the rarest down. Most of the dragons hatched where either green or brown. The rarer the dragon's color the more powerful it was. Although all dragons were strong of course but they were the strongest; the red dragons came in after the silver ones.

And of course not just anyone could form a bond with one of these magnificent creatures. Kagome always wished that she would someday. 'Then maybe I'll be able to fly with him,' Kagome thought wistfully.

With the thought that her mom might have set her up with the sliver haired rider she brightened up a bit, but not too much because she still didn't want her mom to get too excited on her. Her mom would tend to go over board on these types of things; like how she was always trying to fix Kagome up, which she wasn't totally dreading this time.

Kagome finally got to her room and found her mom had bought her a new dress just for tonight. It was beautiful it was golden colored with gems circling the waist and on the edges, the neck line and ends of her sleeves, and then scattered gems on the skirt part of it. Once she had put it on she did her hair, she always did her own hair. She put her hair up into a bun on top of her head and let curls of hair fall down from it. Kagome didn't like to wear makeup, she felt if she wasn't pretty enough then nothing, not even a ton of makeup couldn't make it better, besides people should like how she looks naturally. (A/N: how I really feel)

Kagome's mom had hired a special carriage to take them to the ball. It sparkled with luminescent silver in the moon light as it moved over the cobble stone road toward the palace. The Lord of the Western Lands was the one holding the ball as he did every year. Kagome faintly recalled hearing something about his sons being dragon riders as well as himself, which might explain why he held the ball.

When they arrived their names where announced and they entered the grand ball room. This was the first time Kagome had ever seen the grand ball room and she was simply amazed at the sheer size and beauty of it. The decorations where absolutely splendid, ribbon and such hung all around the large room.

Kagome was brought back to reality by her mom's voice, "Dear, this is Kouga." Kagome turned expectantly toward the Wolf Prince and was greatly disappointed, but she didn't let it show of course. The Wolf Prince wasn't who she had thought, he was tall with long black hair that he had put up into a somewhat high ponytail, but if nothing else he had the most beautiful piercing blue eyes she had ever seen.

She reached out her hand to shake his, but he surprised her by instead taking her hand and giving it a kiss. Kagome blushed slightly, which made Kouga smirk. 'He may not be who I thought he was but I'll be damned if he's not one of the better guys mom's picked out so far,' Kagome thought and her blush deepened a little.

Just then the music started to play and Kouga bowed to Kagome. "Would you like to dance?" he asked his deep and gentle voice catching her off guard. All she found herself able to do was nod. So they danced for a while and then he left her for a minute to get them something to drink. She soon found herself thinking how nice he seemed.

Then she started to walk forward only to hit something 'no someone,' she thought as she looked up. She looked upon the face of a young man that she sensed to be a youkai, but it was his long silver hair that had made her eyes go wide. Suddenly all the thoughts she had of Kouga disappeared.

The youkai was tall, even taller than Kouga, with purple strips on his cheeks and a blue crescent moon on his forehead. Kagome knew instantly that he was the one that she had watched from afar. She wanted to say it, tell him how she felt when she watched him fly but instead she said, "Um . . . I'm s-sorry. Uh . . . I'm Kagome Higurashi."

"It's ok. My name is Sesshomaru," he bowed slightly. She found his stare and his words to be a bit cold, but for some reason she couldn't explain she felt it that wasn't really him and suddenly wanted to know more. Then Kouga returned with their drinks and . . .

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InuyashaForever1989: Yay I finished chapter one and I think I'm doing pretty good, but I would like to hear what you people have to say so please review and please no flames although I do except constructive criticism. So until next time