GI~ Well, this is my Saturday update, soooooooo it'll be long hopeuflly. I hope the ending will satisfy you more than Everything Unsaid. I'm so so so so soooo sorry about that! The companion will be coming soon, and I hope you'll like it better.

Disclaimer: As much as I can ever and will ever wish it, the fact remains that I own none of these characters... Sigh... Well, maybe, someday, when I live in a big mansion with my friend we'll buy them from Rumiko Takahashi...! Or... not... _

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Inner Love

Chapter One: The Love of One Youkai

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Sessho-maru glanced out his window, her scent still lingering upon his clothing. Yes, it was i her /i, Kagome, the one her bother had been tamed by. Feh, it'd figure. Why, oh i why /i would she have held a place in his heart? He should have never captured her. He knew it. In her time here, before his dirty hanyou brother had saved her, he had grown to like- no, love this miko. It would figure.

He ripped his shirt form his chest, tossing it aside. Jaken would attend to it later. He stood, a frown gently creasing his lips. He needed to bathe. This scent needed to be banished from his castle, but ho to do so he did not know. She was here for such a long time; the remnants would remain for a long time to his senses.

He shunned away from the shirt, brows furrowing. He had never been so frustrated. His emotions had become stronger since he had taken Rin into his care.

Rin.

She had become so attached to the human woman in her time here. But Rin had left. Sessho-maru had forced her to, though she was reluctant, she followed his order. She had become old enough to build her own life in a village without him. Jaken and AhUn had objected, but it was something that needed to be done. Anyway, he had grown i too /i soft to allow her to stay. This new love for Kagome had proven it so.

"Jaken," he called, voice monotonous, the word not even a question really, more a statement, as to show that him and Jaken were on different levels.

Jaken waddled in, the staff clinking against the stone ground of the castle, "Yes, Mi'Lord?"

"This Sessho-maru would like you to do him a favor," Sessho-maru silently cursed this horrid accent of talk he had taken from the childish Rin. He had begun using it just to make her cringe after she had grown up, but it had become habit. He had tried to break the habit, but it was the only thing left to remind him of the girl, except the small shell necklace she had made for him. He wore it around his neck as he had promised the girl. A Taiyoukai never breaks his promises.

"Yes, what is it, Mi'Lord?" There was that cursed Rin's speech-type once more. It had transferred to Sessho-maru and he had not stopped using it. It would figure a human could taint the mind of his Lord. Even that bitch-miko, Kagome.

"I would like you to clean all of the cloth in this estate. It needs to all be ridden of the scent of Kagome and InuYasha." It was the first time he had spoken InuYasha's name without a petty insult in a long time. Perhaps somewhere, at some time, he had developed a weak spot for the mutt. No matter, he would kill him at some time anyway. Grief had yet to become one feeling that had come to him.

Jaken hurried, grabbing the discarded shirt, "Yes, Lord Sessho-maru!"

Sessho-maru turned his eyes back out the window. The moonlight pooled into the amber color of them. Kagome, the miko that he had grown attached to, was back with InuYasha. It would figure that he would want revenge on the dirty hanyou. He had stolen his only love back from him. He had to take Kagome back into his home and have her become his mate- even if it would be hanyou children.

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GI~ Ok, not much of a cliffie, but it brings the intro. I'm i still /i not going to tell you what the love connections are. ^^ Please R&R!