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"I want you..."

The statement hung in the air, permeating the silence. He had shocked himself by saying

those words aloud, and it was obvious he had shocked her as well. Her deep blue eyes were no

longer sparkling and angry, but widened...alarmed. He had most definately shocked her.

"You..." She couldn't seem to form words properly, let alone finish a thought. He...wants

me? His cold, deep voice kept replaying in her head. The entire idea was absurd. Just a few

moments before they had been flinging insults at each other, fueling each other's anger as they

always did. She was a wench, a human wench, a stupid human wench. And he was unfeeling,

unfeeling and cruel, unfeeling, cruel and egotistical. But she just as she had expected a bard from

him, he had said it. I want you... She must be losing her mind.

It was too late to take back the damning words, the words that he had been burying for

weeks now. Ever since he had seen her. On that cool, clear evening when she had been bathing in

the hot springs. He hadn't know she would be there, and she hadn't seen him. She had been waist

deep in the steaming, cloudy water when he had stumbled upon her, preparing to soak away a

day's worth of aches and pains. Her creamy colored, slightyly damp skin had glowed in the dim

light, the long black tresses of her hair gleaming. She had been so calm and relaxed, so different

from when she was with him. It had been intoxicating.

The unrelenting, deep desire had hit him so suddenly he had felt as if he would fall over. It

had been a miracle in itself that he hadn't mauled her right then and there. The only thing that had

stopped him was the one rational thought that drifted through his lust clouded mind. She would not

be willing. She was gorgeous, lovely...innocent. She was not willing. He had wanted her. She did

not want him. He ached with need like he never had before. He needed to feel her, hold her, make

her whimper. This human...this beautiful human...he wanted her, and he was going to take her.

But not yet. He needed to make her want him, burn for him. He wanted to see those blue eyes

cloud with passion, feel those fingers grip with possessiveness, touch her and make her tremble

with need.

"Sesshomaru?" Kagome raised her voice, repeating herself of the third time. As she tried

to regain some semblance of control in her whirling mind he just kept starring at her. And the look

in his golden eyes...could it be called hunger? No, no...definately not. The Ice Lord would never...I

midheard him, yes. "Sesshomaru?" She repeated herself again, a trace of her normal agitation

running through her voice. His eyes refocused.

"I want you...you heard me correctly." he stated plainly, as if discussing the weather,

answeing the question that was swimming in her eyes.

"W-want me? What could you...possibly mean by that?" Kagome barely concealed the

shaking of her voice, her mind sent spinning again.

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes slightly, the only telltale sign he was even a little annoyed.

He knew she was not daft. "I want you. Human sexual practices are very similar to demons. They

entail many of the same urges and desires. I...desire you."

Kagome blinked at him, those blue eyes seeming to not comprehend him, or perhaps she

was still far too shocked by his words. He couldn't be sure, but his annoyance was growing by the

second. Didn't she know how humiliating this was? A demon lord, the Lord of the Western Lands

admitting his desire for some lowly human miko, it was absurd. He had tried to beat it down, but it

simply kept growing...until he had blurted it out in the middle of one of their tete-a-tetes. She was

extremely fortuante he was even telling her instead of just pushing up her kimono and having his

way with her. He tried again.

"I wish to penetrate you...mount you, fuck you if you prefer to be crude." His tone was icy,

and the words were meant to anger her.

And she responded. "How dare you say something like that to me!" She was livid now, the

watery depths of her blue eyes filled with fire now. "Are you insane!"

And he was angry as well. "I must be. For a demon such as myself to be even

marginally attracted to a human like yourself is ridiculous, but nevertheless...I am." He ground out

the words, letting them puntuate the space between them with cool fury, the silence around the

ebbing with unease.