So…… It seems I'm not too great when it comes to sitting don and writing out chapters, neh? Heheh. Sorry about the huge delay. Senior year was complicated, and then I got a job that took up practically all the time I wasn't sleeping, and now I'm in college! At least my dorm has an internet connection, and I usually have enough free time to just relax a couple hours each day. It wasn't until recently I remembered I actually had started a story on here, and thought maybe I'd use those two hours a day to work on it.

Anyway, I'm rambling, sorry. Onto Chapter 4! ^^;

"Speaking"
Thinking

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Inuyasha.

N-NANI?! Kagome stared, wide eyed at the cold lord as he loomed above her, his dangerous eyes narrowing in impatience. Oh dear Kami, began to repeat in her head, over and over, like a mantra. She had to be dreaming. Had to, had to, had to. Unfortunately, the sensation of sharp nails closing in around her neck seemed far too real and painful to be a dream. Which meant… Sesshoumaru was now in modern day Tokyo. Oh no. No, no, no, no, no!

"Answer me." His low tone was accented with a squeeze of his hand, cutting off her air supply as he forcefully dragged her up onto her feet and backed her against the dirt walling of the well shaft. Her mouth dropped open as she wheezed, her lungs catching with her lack of oxygen. "P-Please." She managed to whisper out. He observed her paling complexion at her plea, and 'hnn'd' as he relaxed his arm, allowing her to breathe once again.

"Home. We—re—at—my home," she managed to huff in between her gasps of air, her body greedily drinking in the air around her. She was relieved when his arm dropped back down to his side, and immediately lifted her own to massage her neck. It was obvious that there would be a bruise by tomorrow.

"Which is where?" He prompted. When he noticed her eyes wondering he lifted his hand, hesitating only slightly when he saw her suddenly flinch. If she was so scared from such a mundane movement on his part, he would definitely get the answers he wanted. "T-Tokyo, Japan!" She blurted out.

He scowled, although the only change on his countenance was the narrowing of his eyes. Did she truly believe that she could fool him with such a ridiculous lie? He had been all over Japan, and never once had he ever encountered such an odor, nor, as he began to listen more intently, such noises. Just what was up there? "Fool," he hissed, stepping closer to her. She whimpered, pressing herself back against the rooted knobs in the wall and folding her head and arms in toward her chest.

"I-I'm not lying! I swear!"

When nothing met her statement she wearily opened one eye, jumping when she noticed how close he was to her again, his golden orbs scrutinizing her. "This Sesshoumaru has traversed the lands in all direction, even those across the sea. I do not see your pleas as anything but the untruth. Explain yourself to me, wench."

He won't believe me. There's no way he'd believe me. He'd claim I was lying and kill me on the spot. He's probably going to kill me anyway, even if I do manage to convince him. "I—I don't think you'd believe me. It-I-Perhaps it would be easier if I explained while showing you, so you have proof of my claims?" she suggested fearfully.

She really wasn't expecting him to agree, so when he nodded his consent after deliberating her words she almost collapsed in both surprise and terror. Now she had to take him outside of the well house… Kami, I probably just doomed all of humanity.