'I hope she does stay with us.' said the young dark haired girl, a little downtrodden, still watching the two cat demons playing. 'They look so happy together.'
'Humph.' said Inuyasha again, sarcastic as ever. 'It's just another mouth to feed, that means less for me.'
'Oh quiet you!' retorted Kagome frowning at him menacingly. 'She's only small, she can't need all that much food… besides, she's a cat demon, right? Cat's can hunt for themselves, can't they? So you don't have a foot to stand on.'
'She's got you there.' pointed out Miroku, smiling over at the disgruntled Hanyou who was fuming. 'I don't see what harm it could do, IF she decides to stay.'
'It looks like she will.' said Sango as the others started to disperse and the two cat demons lay down together. 'I've never seen one that colour though…' she added under her breath, a small crease forming in her forehead.
They all settled down to go to sleep under the starry sky, all with thoughts about the mysterious little visitor. Inuyasha glared at the blue cat demon for a moment before closing his eyes and letting himself get as comfortable as he could on his tree branch, ready for a long night of waiting.
'Damn cats.' he thought to himself moodily. 'Come here and mess with my friends… it's up to something, that's for sure… but what?' He lifted one of his eyelids to glower at the little creature. He watched it as it cuddled it's small body up against Kilala's slightly larger one. 'Damn cat… trying to be cute…' He could hear them purring from way up in his tree.
Suddenly there was a rustle of leaves behind the tree Inuyasha was sitting in; he leapt up and turned to face the foe hiding in the bushes. All of a sudden he saw the little blue cat demon standing beside him, glowering into the bushes.
'Go away!' he said forcefully, trying to shoo the little animal away. 'SHOO!!! Be gone!! Vamoose!!! Get lost!!!' he kicked out to try and make it go away, but it just sprang out of the way and glared up at him for a moment before glowering back into the bushes, the fur on it's back standing on end. 'Grrrr.' he growled in frustration as he turned back to the noise. 'Fine, but if you get hurt, don't blame me!'
From the bushes a small figure appeared on it's hands and knees. As it stood up, the half dog demon recognized it…
'Rin?' he asked, confused. 'What are you doing here? Why are you here? What are you doing up so late?' he asked in quick succession, putting his hands on his hips before quickly taking them off, reminding himself painfully of an anxious mother.
'Master Sesshomaru sent me.' she said quietly, trying not to wake the others as in the background she watched Jaken put the sleeping powder over their eyes. 'He says he wants to meet with you.' she finished, looking back into his curious yet hard face: he hadn't noticed a thing. She smiled sweetly, trying to emphasise her innocence.