Kagome sat around the campfire, mindlessly thinking of the days events. It hadn't been very unusual, they fought a demon that had been plaguing a village, almost got a jewel shard but Naraku's saimyoushou picked it up and carried it off before they could retrieve it. They came across Sesshomaru later in the afternoon, so of course him and Inuyasha scrapped, Kagome ended up sitting Inuyasha to make him quit being a jerk, and eventually made camp in the forest.

She sighed and looked at the jar of jewel shards in her hand. The stupid things attracted far too much attention from demons, especially Naraku. In fact, the only demon she could think of that they had met that wasn't either after the shards or didn't already possess any shards, was Sesshomaru.

She wondered why the demon lord didn't go after the shards of the Jewel of Four Souls. She knew that he quested for power, that he desired to be the most powerful youkai in the lands. The jewel made demons many times more powerful than they already were, so why wouldn't the taiyoukai be after the jewel? With it he would be many times more powerful than any demon.

"Stupid stick-up-his-ass motherf..." Inuyasha mumbled as Sango bandaged his injuries from the battle with his brother.

"I wonder why he's so frosty? Even to Jaken, who's blindly served him all these years," Miroku mused.

SLAP.

Kagome looked to see the monk's hand twitching and a bright red hand print forming on his face. "Keep your hands to yourself, monk," Sango growled, turning back to Inuyasha.

"Some things never change," Shippo commented, sucking on a piece of candy.

"He is rather cold, isn't he?" Kagome continued like Miroku's perversion and Sango's intervention hadn't happened.

"He's always been cold, always will be cold. And he'll always be a jackass," Inuyasha muttered. Kagome kicked his bruised shin. "OW! What was that for?"

"Watch your language around Shippo," Kagome growled back. She stared at the fire awhile longer, then giggled. "I wonder if anyone could defrost him?"

"I'm sure a lovely lady could make him a little less aloof," Miroku smirked as a hand connected with his face.

"I wonder if anything short of cutting your hand off would stop you from caressing my rear?" Sango growled, her eye twitching with irritation.

"Miroku has a point, maybe a woman is just what he needs to break the ice around him," Kagome thought out loud.

Inuyasha snorted with contempt. "Oh, and you're going to be the one to do this?" he laughed. "You couldn't defrost an icicle in your 'micro-wave' thing."

"I could so!" Kagome fired back, insulted.

"I bet you that you couldn't so much as make him smile, let alone thaw that ice barrier he holds around his heart!"

"And I bet that I could not only thaw him, but make him fall in love!"

"You can't make a demon fall in love with you just by shaking that ass of yours!"

"Okay, fine, if I can make if fall in love with me, you owe me whatever I so chose for you to give me!" Kagome yelled with fury.

"So when you fail, I get anything I want from you?" he asked with a wicked grin.

"Deal."

"Fine."

Kagome lay down in her sleeping bag, turning her back to Inuyasha. "Goodnight everyone." Inuyasha jumped up into a tree with his back facing Kagome, prepared for watching out for demons.

Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all sat there staring at the two in awe. "Did that just happen?" Sango whispered to Miroku.

"Indeed, I think these next few months are going to be very interesting," he replied. Sango slapped him once again.

"Go to sleep, houshi."