Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own Inuyasha, any of the characters, or anything to do with the manga or anime. Those rights belong to someone else. Sniff! God, I wish I could own Fluffy, I would do so much to that great body of his. Attach him to a bed and do wicked things… mmh…

A/N: This is my second fanfiction since I discovered that I’m not so bad at writing! LOL! Anyway, this is also OCC like my first, especially Sesshoumaru and it will only be a mix of Kagome, Sesshoumaru and Sex! So those who are underage, don’t read (unless nobody knows ).

Summary: He’s going to love her…

Kagome Higurashi would love nothing more that to have a wild night with her downstairs neighbor, Sesshoumaru Taisho. When she accidentally discovers that he’s bought a how-to manual on “pleasing” women, she knows a wild night is out of the question! But when Sesshoumaru asks her for lovemaking lessons, Kagome knows she must do her part for all women and make him the best lover ever, and she’ll do it all by the book...

…chapter by chapter

Chapter One

Kagome Higurashi wanted to kiss the dyslexic postal worker who serviced her vintage brick apartment building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill. He’d mixed up her mail again.

Sandwiched between her own letters for K. Higurashi, Suite 325 was a bulky brown paper package addressed to S. Taisho, Suite 235. She’d have another excuse to see Sesshoumaru Taisho, megahunk. She hugged the package to her, as giddy as a schoolgirl with a crush.

Okay, she was a schoolteacher with a crush. And what a crush. Her downstairs neighbor made her shiver. It was a combination of a charming smile, tall, rangy body and a twinkle in his sleepy golden eyes that just hinted at devilry between the sheets.

They’d been exchanging mixed mail for months now. In all the misdirected letters, she’d noted nothing was addressed to anyone else in his apartment, and there was no sigh of a female when she’d delivered mail to his door, so it seemed logical to deduce he was single.

And hot.

Just as she was single.

And hot.

Getting hotter everytime she thought of S. Taisho just a floor below her and one suite over in 235.

Fate, in the form of the portly postie, had thrown them repeatedly together and the zing of attraction had been immediate and, she thought, mutual. The last couple of times Sesshoumaru had come to the door tousled and stubble-cheeked, his heavy-lidded eyes gazing at her as intimately as though she and Sesshoumaru had just made love. Oh, what those eyes could o to a woman’s blood pressure.

So why, apart from seduction by eye contact during their neighborly exchange-mail-and-chitchat sessions, hadn’t S. Taisho made any kind of move to get to know her better?

She bit her lip as she bypassed the elevator and jogged up the stairs to her floor. Maybe he was shy, or uncertain of her feelings or status.

Perhaps it was time she took charge of the situation and let him know both her feelings, attracted, very attracted, and her status, single. Very single.

The easiest way to give him the message was to ask him out. Nothing too intimate, just a movie or Chinese or pizza. A simple get-together that would give them a chance to become better acquainted.

She would run down with his mail, casual as can be, and say, “Hey, I was just going to grab something to eat. If you’re not doing anything, why don’t you join me?”

Yes. That was the way, easy, no pressure. If he turned her down she’d know where she stood and could ditch the adolescent fantasies that had begun to creep into her mind. Letting herself into her apartment, she snorted. There was nothing adolescent about her fantasies. They were definitely of the not approved for audiences under the age of eighteen variety.

She dumped her bag of marking on the dining table and picked up Sesshoumaru’s package. Taking a deep breath, she decided to go for it. She’d reply to the erotic messages his golden eyes had been sending her way. She’d ask him out.

Tonight.

A once-over in the bathroom mirror reminded her that teaching English to a bunch of high school students was no day at the spa. She couldn’t go anywhere without a quick shower. While she was lathered up under a warm spray of water she decided she might as well shave her legs.

After drying off, she brushed her teeth, fixed her hair, applied fresh makeup and headed into the bedroom. She reached for jeans, then changed her mind. She was sick of jeans.

A nice flirty skirt just jumped right out of her wardrobe and into her arms. She added a torso-hugging top in her favorite purple, some fun, dangly earrings and she was ready. She reached into the bottom of her closet for strappy sandals and caught herself. She didn’t want to look as if she’d dressed up for Sesshoumaru, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Kagome grabbed her Birkenstocks instead. Yes, they made just the right statement. She retrieved the package, then noticed a blob of something on her skirt.

Back to the bathroom. She put the brown envelope down, turned on the tap then reached for her handwashing soap. Ach, she needed a new bar and it was under the sink somewhere. ON her hands and knees rummaged through the bathroom cleaners, boxes of first-aid items, that time-of-the-month stuff, her travel bag for toiletries. Ah, there was the soap, right at the back. She found a clean facecloth, too, and rose.

And gasped.

Damn. The faucet was leaking again. Water tricked from its base gathering on the countertop in a pool that had reached Sesshoumaru’s package and soaked into the kraft paper. She grabbed up the brown envelope and gingerly poked at the wet end. It was a little soggy, but surely there hadn’t been time for the water to soak whatever was inside. Felt like a book. Uh-oh.

Best to get it into Sesshoumaru’s hands before the moisture penetrated. She decided to leave cleaning her skirt until later and just scraped off the blob with a fingernail.

She grabbed her keys, her black leather satchel and the package, let herself out of her apartment and ran down one flight of stairs to Sesshoumaru’s floor.

In not time she was standing outside his door breathing faster than anyone should who’d only run down a single flight of stairs. She took a deep gulp of air, rehearsed her casual dinner invitation and knocked.

Silence.

It hadn’t occurred to her that he wouldn’t be home. He was always home. She knew from their casual conversation that he was a journalist, she’d even seen his byline in the local paper. Almost as soon as she’d had the thought, she heard the lock scrape and then the door opened.

And Sesshoumaru Taisho cast his usual erotic spell over her. He was without doubt, the sexiest man she’d ever seen. No matter how many times she saw him, his in-your face sex appeal always struck her. And, just as reliably, her heart jumped an started working overtime, pumping blood to every erogenous zone in her body, and a few zones that ere borderline but just wanted to join the party.

The wonderful sizzle of attraction danced and popped through her blood and along her nerve endings as she gazed at him. It wasn’t just the devilish glint in his green eyes, hinting at intimacies they’d never shared, but so easily could. And it wasn’t just the dimple in his chin, or the disheveled long silver hair that reminded her of lazy Saturday mornings in bed, or the broad shoulders and muscular chest. I was, she decided, the way all the elements of his appearance went together.

Just right.

His mouth broke into a welcoming smile when he saw her and the package she held out. “Don’t tell me he did it again?”

He didn’t sound annoyed at the mail mix-up. He sounded as delighted as she felt.

She tried to keep the grin off her own face as she handed him his package. “Yep. He did it again.”

She wanted to say something to him, of that she was absolutely certain, but what was it? She gazed at him, feeling the powerful force of his animal magnetism drawing her closer.

His gaze skimmed her body, which immediately upped the sizzle wattage. “You look great,” he said. “Going someplace special?”

Oh, that was it. Her brain clicked back into place. She was going to ask him out. She glanced down at herself with what she hoped was a this-old-thing? expression. “No, nothing special. In fact I was wondering…”

She got no further. A damp squishy sound interrupted, followed by a loud thunk. She glanced down to wee the wet end of the package slit and a large paperback book fall, in what seemed like slow motion, to the floor.

The book, a garish-looking, large-size paper-back, landed face-up. The title, in black against a glossy red back ground, was in type so huge she could have read it from a block away.

Sex For Total Morons: A How-To Guide.

She stared at the title, as though if she concentrated hard enough the words might rearrange themselves into Home Woodworking for the Handyman or Financial Planning for Beginners. But even when she blinked, the words didn’t change; Sex For Total Morons: A How-To Guide imprinted itself like an X-ray on the back of her eyelids.

What a disappointment. She didn’t know if she was more embarrassed for Sesshoumaru, that he needed a how-to manual, or for herself, that she’d discovered his humiliating secret. All she knew was her face was at least as red as the book jacket.

After one of those awful moments that seem to stretch for centuries, she risked an upward glance to find Sesshoumaru fiddling with the remains of the brown envelope, a duller shade of red coloring his own cheeks.

“I’m sorry,” she blurted. “It was my fault. The…the envelope got wet. I meant to warn you. I was just, um, washing something in the sink and…well my faucet leaks…” Oh, Lord. She was sounding like a total moron herself. She pressed her lips together to stop her own babbling.

“I don’t suppose…” He cleared his throat. “I don’t suppose you’d believe me if I told you that book’s for a friend.”

“It was addressed to you,” she reminded him, feeling worse by the second.

He sighed. “There is that.”

Every second the awkwardness between them increased. Disappointment was a lead weight in her stomach. It wasn’t that she’d even planned on going to bed with him, she barely knew the man. But, well, the possibility had always crackled in the air between them.

At least she’d thought so. Now she had a feeling she’d let her own fantasies turn him into God’s gift to women. Something he clearly wasn’t. Not that she minded, of course. He was still a very nice man.

It was just that knowing he needed a how-to book took all the fun out of things. It was like easing open a gorgeously wrapped box of chocolates and finding nothing but Turkish delight, blech. Going to see Kenneth Branagh play Hamlet and discovering he was sick and the no-talent third understudy was taking his place. Picking up a book and… Oh, God. Don’t even go there.

Her discovery wasn’t earth-shattering. Just really, really disappointing.

As each uncomfortable second passed, the urge to escape grew stronger.

“Anyway.” She forced a bright smile. “I should get going. I’ve got this, uh…” She flapped her hands around, looking for a graceful exit line, some dreadfully important engagement she had to rush off to some… “thing.”

The glance he sent her reminded her that she’d just told him she didn’t have anything special on tonight. In fact, she’d said, she was wondering…and had been about to ask him out. Oh, damn. Her addled brain couldn’t think of any graceful way out of the awkwardness. “Well, I’d better be going.”

“Sure. Thanks for the…” he cleared his throat again “…package.”

“Anytime,” she called over her shoulder, already bolting.

Sesshoumaru watched his sexy, and seriously flustered, upstairs neighbor run the hundred yard dash to the stairwell, and wondered just how the evening might have ended if the envelope hadn’t broken open at that most inopportune moment.

Shaking his head at the vagaries of fate and the U.S. Postal Service, he shut the door and eased to a squat in front of the book. The cover was a bit more in-your-face that he would have liked, but it was certainly eye-catching.

He traced the title, Sex For Total Morons: A How-To Guide by Tenseiga Dokkasou. He picked up the heavy tome and whacked himself softly on the forehead. “Tenseiga, buddy. Your timing sucks.”

He gazed at the damp, jagged edge of the envelope. If it had only held together a few more minutes… It reminded him of one of the sections in chapter eight, and he shook his head. “Talk about premature ejaculation.”

Well, his babe-radar suggested he’d been intriguingly close to having a date tonight, till Tenseiga pooped out, uninvited.

Damn. With his latest men’s magazine article in the mail, and no looming deadlines for a change, he’d have loved a night on the town. And he couldn’t think of anyone he’d rather spend it with than the lady upstairs. Kagome Higurashi, Suite 325, the reward he’d promised himself when his most crushing deadlines eased.

Sesshoumaru groaned in frustration, knowing a night with Kagome wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. Sesshoumaru had seen to that.

There were places he could go tonight, but all of a sudden he didn’t feel like going anywhere. Instead, he went to the fridge in his galley kitchen, popped the top off a beer and returned to the living room where he settled onto the couch to flip through his new book.

“Chapter One. First Impressions.” Sesshoumaru snorted over his beer thinking about Kagome’s face as she read the title of the book. He’d made an impression on her she’d remember forever. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quit the impression he’d hoped for.

He most certainly didn’t want to be seen as a guy who needed a how-to book in order to bed a babe.

Why hadn’t he just told her the truth?

I wrote the damn book. The words had formed in his mind, but never made it out of his mouth.

He ought to be proud of his first book. Okay, it wasn’t the novel he’d always planned to write, but it was an honest-to-God book, with real pages and a cover. He’d certainly felt the urge to confess that he was, in fact, Tenseiga Dokkasou. He could have joked with her about all the fun he’d had inventing that pseudonym and hopefully have watched the disappointment fade from her eyes.

The beer cooled his throat but not his frustration. He was shy about letting anyone in on his little secret. Even though he’d written the instructional book, he wasn’t at all convinced a book could teach lovemaking.

Like most men, he imagined, he’d learned to make love to women by trial and error, by finding out from his partners what they liked, by being open about his own preferences.

It had always seemed to work fine. The women he slept with usually came back for more. Quite eagerly, in fact.

Sex education wasn’t, in his view, a matter of reading. It was a matter of getting out and doing. Sesshoumaru felt he’d learned something from every woman he’d been with. And he’d discovered that the sex was always unique, because the combination of bodies, likes and experience was always new. How could you explain all that in a few hundred pages?

How could he explain that there was nothing more sensuous or sexually exciting than asking a woman to show him how she liked to be touched, or stroked, or caressed, then giving her the utmost pleasure. And when a woman was equally open about asking him to share his preferences, he was only too happy to show her what turned his crank. That’s how sex worked in his experience, and no book could replace the honest give-and-take of new lovers.

He tapped the longneck against his teeth. Was he a hypocrite? He’d been writing a column and features in men’s and women’s magazines for years on the subject of sex, usually offering a man’s perspective on the dating scene, what turned men on, gee, that one had needed a whole lot of research. All a woman had to say was, “Wanna get naked?” and that did it for most men he knew. He’d attended various seminars and programs, some hokey and some mind-bendingly scientific, read countless books in the name of research, interviewed enough sexually active men and women to fill a small country. Through it all, Tenseiga had developed a reputation as an expert on matters sexual.

Then came the book offer. Frankly, he’d been flattered to be approached. Plus, the venture had sounded like fun. It was a nice big project with a nice fat advance, so he’d written Sex For Total Morons, secretly wondering if he wasn’t helping deforest the planet for nothing.

Can a book teach you how to be a great lover?

The question had plagued him all through the research and writing, and bothered him still. Too bad there was no way to find out if the program he’d outlined in the book actually worked.

About to toss the book to the table beside the couch, he once again saw Kagome’s pretty face flush as she’d read the title and its implication had sunk into her mind.

Wait a minute!

He sat bolt upright, his eyes bugging out of his head.

Wait just a damned minute there, Tenseiga. Maybe there was a way to test the book.

In his colossal arrogance, he’d never explored the possibility that a woman might actually believe he needed a book about sexual technique, never mind be willing to help him learn how to have great sex.

But tonight his bruised ego had learned that it was eminently possible. Kagome Higurashi had hightailed it out of Dodge precisely because she did believe that he, Sesshoumaru Taisho, had sent away for a brown-paper-wrapped book to teach him how to be a good lover.

When he got past the insult to his male ego, an intriguing possibility teased him.

Mutual attraction hummed in the air every time he and his upstairs neighbor got close to each other, whether exchanging mail or chatting as they passed in the entrance foyer. He’d been thinking about her more that he should, given his recent deadline hell. But every time he saw her, he got caught up in her full-lipped smile, the black hair that hung just above her curvy waistline, the killer body and the spirit of fun he’d sensed in her.

In fact, he’d written the last couple of chapters of Sex For Total Morons picturing Kagome in every glorious position his eager imagination could invent. He’d felt so intimate as he’d described the hard-edged pleasure a man feels as he drives himself into a woman who’s primed and ready for him, that it seemed inevitable he and Kagome would soon be lovers.

Tonight she’d appeared at his door like a fantasy brought to life. The sexual heat they were generating with no more that eye contact had made him feel as if he might burst into flame if he so much as touched her. After months of moonlike devotion to work, he’d wanted to start wooing his neighbor into be. And the way she’d returned the heat of his gaze, he’d half convinced himself the wooing wouldn’t take long.

Tonight, his body had begged.

Yes, he’d eagerly answered.

Then the book had tumbled to the floor.

Oh, yeah. Based on Kagome’s reaction, she believed he needed the how-to primer. Which raised some interesting possibilities. Would the lady be open to helping him discover his inner Casanova?

He’d always loved any kind of a challenge, but a challenge wearing a skirt, a short, sassy skirt that bared shapely legs, was his favorite kind.

What would it take to convince Kagome to help him test drive his new book?

He rose and began to pace.

Things had started feeling a little stale in his love life the past year or so. Nothing too specific, just that sometimes going home alone at the end of the evening was more fun than taking a woman with him. The company was better.

It wasn’t as if he was going to be popping Viagra anytime soon, but the old Johnson wasn’t clamoring for action the way it used to. Sometimes, even at the hottest clubs, with the hottest women, he’d feel restless.

Bored even.

The women he went after nearly always said yes. Where was the challenge in that? And Sesshoumaru was beginning to realize that he’d come to enjoy the chase almost as much as the catch. More, in fact.

He turned and the lamplight bounced off the red cover of his book like a lascivious wink.

Getting a woman into bed when she believed he was a complete loser in the sack would be a challenge unlike any he’d ever faced. Not just any woman, but Kagome Higurashi with her intelligent, sparkly eyes, trim figure and her recently conceived notion about his sexual prowess, that he didn’t have any.

He started to chuckle. If he could convince Kagome to work through the how-to manual with him, step-by-step and chapter-by-chapter, he’d be able to tell firsthand whether the book actually worked.

If she struck with him through the whole book, while he did nothing but what the manual recommended, and, at the end of it, she still wanted to sleep with him, then he could safely consider himself the Hemingway of the how-to book. And the Dr. Ruth of literature.

Getting Kagome to agree to his cockamamie plan was not going to be easy.

In fact, it was just this side of impossible, one of the craziest ideas he’d ever hatched. Which was why he liked it so much.

He glanced down and addressed his privates, which really hadn’t seen much action lately. “What do you say, are we up for the challenge?”

It seemed to him his answer was self-evident; his body snapped to attention at the thought of seducing Kagome.

Now all he needed was a plan of attack.

TBC…

A/N: Wow, this took me the entire night! Next, the seduction begins… Muahahaha! No, I’m not mad, well, maybe a bit crazy! Anyway, please review, it’s very important that you tell me your opinion on this fic because I won’t continue if I don’t have any review. I take all suggestions into account. I know I haven’t finished Twin Expectations and I shouldn’t begin this new story, but I could not help it. Since I just begin Twin Expectations, it won’t be awhile before I finish since it will have lots of chapters. I don’t know about this one through because I’m still thinking of how to develop this story, but I have a pretty good idea. Don’t worry, those who expect Twin Expectations, I did not give up because I’m not that kind of person. I will update the new chapter within the next few days. I just wanted to try something else, something a bit more daring. And I’m leaving you with the most three important words for an author:

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