Higher Education by SunsetMiko

Chapter 5

All prompts are from Riku Ryuu's Random Prompts unless otherwise specified.

Prompt: Door

A strange sound woke Kagome from her rest and she sat up with a groan, trying to determine what she'd just heard. A minute or so later, she heard a thud coming from her door, then again after a short while. It was too far apart to be someone knocking, but the sound was definitely coming from her door. The miko considered ignoring it for several minutes, but the sound continued at random intervals. Growing irritated, she climbed out of bed, stumbling a bit. She glanced at the clock, learning that it was only five in the morning. She was likely still drunk, but she knew she wasn't imagining this.

Kagome kicked her shoes out of the way and finally reached the door. She peeked out the peep hole, seeing nothing. With a sigh of frustration, she opened the door, only to be surprised as Sesshoumaru's upper body fell into her room. He'd been sitting in the hall, leaned up against the door.

"Sesshoumaru?" she said with concern, kneeling by his side. "Are you all right?"

It took a moment for him to open his eyes, but when he did, he gave her an embarrassed smile. "I couldn't remember which way my room was."

The miko couldn't help but giggle. "So you decided to sleep outside my door? Why not tell me?"

"I promised you I would be able to make my way home."

"Come on. Get up. You can stay with me."

Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome with awe. "You would allow me to stay here?"

"Well, I don't feel like dragging you to your room, so yeah. Get off the floor and come inside."

Kagome watched in amusement as Sesshoumaru tried to get to his feet. He kept leaning too far to the right, making rising impossible. Finally, she reached down to help him, hauling the much larger male to his feet. She led him inside and directly to her bed.

"You're not going to throw up, are you?" she demanded before allowing him to sit down on her mattress.

"No, my stomach is fine," he assured her.

"All right, then, into the bed. Scoot over," she directed before climbing into the bed bedside him. She tugged off his shoes, tossing them into the darkness of her room. Then she yanked the blankets over them both and snuggled down, ready to fall back to sleep.

"I have never been in bed with a woman before," Sesshoumaru confessed, pressing his body to the wall as much as possible to give Kagome enough room in the small bed.

The miko smiled, never opening her eyes. She wasn't surprised by his confession, but she thought it was endearing all the same. "There's a first time for everything."

"This does not make you uncomfortable?"

"No, Sesshoumaru, it doesn't make me uncomfortable. Now go to sleep."

The taiyoukai was silent for a long moment before finding himself unable to resist the urge to speak. He was incredibly nervous and it seemed as if he couldn't control his mouth. "Your room is arranged differently than mine."

Kagome sighed and sat up, glaring into golden eyes. "Yes, it is. They're mirror images of each other. What's with you?"

"I am nervous," he confessed.

The miko lay back down, this time facing in, and she smiled. "Just relax," she said, reaching out to place one hand on his chest. Only then did she realize just how tightly to the wall he was pressed. "You don't have to pancake yourself to the wall, either. It's okay if you're touching me. We did enough of that already tonight." Though he was hesitant, Sesshoumaru shifted, moving away from the wall a bit. "That's better. Now, do you have anything else to say?"

"You have beautiful eyes," he said without thinking.

"Can you actually see me?" she asked. All she could see was the glint of his golden eyes. Everything else was just shadows.

"I can see you perfectly well, as if the light were on. Also, you are not wearing pants."

Kagome laughed. "I don't sleep in pants. Just an big shirt. Does that make you uncomfortable?" she shot his question back at him.

Yes, it made him uncomfortable, but not in a way he could tell her. The knowledge that he was in bed with a half-nude Kagome had him aching in ways he'd never experienced before. Of all the ways he had anticipated his night ending up, this certainly wasn't one of them, though he was enjoying it all the same, thankful that he'd been too drunk to find his own dorm room.

"No," he lied.

The miko could tell by his tone that he was lying to her and she rolled her eyes before rolling over to face out once again. She shifted in the bed, scooting back against Sesshoumaru's firm, warm body. She'd never slept with a male in her bed before either and she was curious as to what it would feel like to have him hold her. Without a word, Kagome reached behind her and grasped his hand, tugging his arm around her waist.

Now Sesshoumaru was even more uncomfortable as he fought his body's natural reaction to having a female body so close. Thankfully the alcohol in his system helped him there, as he wouldn't have been able to get it up if he wanted to. He was drunk far beyond that point. He closed the small distance between their bodies and buried his nose in her hair, breathing in her scent. It soothed him enough that he was able to stop saying whatever popped into his mind and after a few minutes, he drifted off to sleep.

The feeling of his breath on her neck and the weight of his arm around her waist made Kagome feel safe and secure, and she joined the taiyoukai in dreams within minutes.

Prompt: Discretion is the better part of valor. (Stella's Proverbial Challenge) Words: 240

Sesshoumaru awoke confused, in an unfamiliar bed with a body pressed against his own. He was instantly terrified that he'd done something stupid. He carefully sniffed the hair of the obviously female form in his arms and let out a sigh of relief. It was Kagome. He thought he'd made a terrible mistake, but being with her, that would be no mistake. Another sniff, this time of the air in the room, assured him that they hadn't done anything inappropriate.

Even if they had enjoyed a drunken night of lovemaking, he would never have told anyone. It would have remained a secret if she desired it. He would understand if she didn't want anyone to know that she'd been with someone like him. They certainly drank a great deal the night before, if his headache said anything about it. Even with the water he'd drunk before they left, he clearly had another hangover.

Sesshoumaru had no idea how he had ended up in her bed, and when she shifted against him and sighed, he set out to find out. "How did I get here?" the taiyoukai asked.

Kagome giggled. "You couldn't remember how to get to your room from here, so you plunked yourself against my door in the hallway. You kept thumping your head on the door until it woke me up and I invited you in."

"I forgot my way home?" he asked incredulously. "How drunk was I?"

Prompt: Conscience makes cowards of us all. (Stella's Proverbial Challenge) Words: 350

"Pretty drunk, Kagome replied. "You had the drunken lean going on."

"What is that?" he asked, growing horrified that he'd embarrassed himself in front of her.

"When your equilibrium is so messed up that you're trying to stand up straight but you're really leaned to one side. I had to help you stand up so you could get into bed."

"Oh," he replied, trying to remember.

"I have a question," Kagome started, humor in her voice.

"Yes?" he asked.

"What's that thing about?" she asked, pressing her back against his obvious erection.

Now he was well and truly horrified. Trying to sound as calm as possible, even though he was feeling anything but, he replied. "It is a normal bodily function. Every male wakes with an erection." He wanted to assure her that it had nothing to do with her, but that would be a blatant lie. His erection was harder and more insistent than he ever remembered it being before. He had no idea what to do, if she could ever look at him the same way again, and so the taiyoukai remained perfectly still.

Kagome could sense his distress and laughed, turning her head so that she could see his face. "You learn something new every day. Oh, don't look like that," she teased. "If it's completely normal then you have nothing to worry about. I get it. I've just never experienced it before. Never had a guy spend the night with me before."

"Not even your ex?" he asked, trying to get his mind off of his body's reaction to her nearness. If he stopped thinking about how close they were, maybe it would go away.

"Nope. Don't get me wrong, we had sex. He just never stuck around afterwards. Not the most impressive guy. He didn't want to cuddle with me."

"I think this is quite pleasant," Sesshoumaru confessed. "That any male would not desire to lie in this way astounds me."

"It is nice, isn't it," Kagome asked, sighing softly. "Too bad we have to get up and face the day. I've got class work to do."

"So do I," Sesshoumaru agreed.

Prompt: Quartz

"You wanna get breakfast with me?" the miko asked, not wanting to be separated from Sesshoumaru just yet. Checking her quartz clock, a gift from her mother, she sighed. "I mean lunch."

"Did we truly sleep so late?" he asked, surprised. He usually was up with the sun and had never slept so late in all his life.

"We were up late. I mean, I found you in the hall at five," she told him. "I'm not surprised. I'm going to have a hell of a time getting all my work done now though. That's what I get for procrastinating. I hope you don't have as much as I do."

"I got a great deal of my work done yesterday."

Curious, Kagome couldn't help but ask. "Did you go out yesterday and buy your outfit?"

Unable to lie to her, Sesshoumaru nodded before leaning in to breathe in the scent of her hair. He didn't know how long they would remain in this position and he wanted to savor it. "I did not own any jeans or t-shirts," he confessed.

"How can you live your life and never have jeans?" she asked in surprise.

"I have always dressed formally," he explained.

"That can't be comfortable."

"I am used to it, though I must admit, these jeans are not terrible. The t-shirt is quite comfortable as well."

"And you can't miss a button," she teased.

"Indeed."

Prompt: Lamp

"All right, time to get up," Kagome groaned, shifting in the bed. Sesshoumaru regretfully removed his arm from around her waist, missing the contact immediately. The miko sat up and then rose completely, clicking on a lamp.

Sesshoumaru's eyes widened as he took in the sight of her, dressed in nothing but an oversized t-shirt. He couldn't help but wonder what she had on under there, if anything. He could see all the way to her upper thighs and he soaked in the sight. Her legs were amazing, so long and lean, tanned, just like the rest of her. He had to swallow hard to keep from drooling, but when she turned his way, he had to look away, not wanting to be caught staring.

Kagome giggled as she noticed him staring intently at the wall and grabbed a pair of jeans, slipping them on. Then she pulled the t-shirt over her head, tossing it aside, replacing it with a purple blouse.

Sesshoumaru couldn't believe she'd just changed her shirt in front of him, as if he was another girl. Was that what she thought of him as, androgynous? Was he not a red blooded male in her eyes? Yes, she'd had a bra on and her back to him, but still! His heart ached, realizing that she would never see him as more than a friend, not if she didn't even consider him male.

The miko wondered if Sesshoumaru had enjoyed the mini show she'd just given him. She was enjoying teasing him, poking at him in an attempt to get some kind of rise from the taiyoukai. She found him incredibly attractive and she wanted him to know that, but she couldn't bring herself to say it. Instead, she was being passive-aggressive, trying to get him to make a move on her first. He sure as hell had the night before while they were dancing. She hadn't forgotten about him peppering her neck with hot kisses. She wondered if he remembered.