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As I walk out of the forest the smell of home makes its way to me on the breeze. I smell the people of the village, food but more importantly my family. Thank the Kamis that the full moon has not began to affect my senses yet. I see Shippo running away from Miroku who is trying to get his staff back and Kirara chasing after him and it makes me smile. I never knew they would become such important parts of my family. I continue to look around my eyes flying over the meadow and village being drawn to one hut more than the others, my heart skips a beat. There she is…She didn't go home after all. Great now I don't have to go drag her back. I hope this plan works! I try and hide my smile. Can't let them know how much they mean to me. She looks up and her eyes lock on Kikyo who is walking beside me. Here it comes…This is going to hurt. I watch as she spins around and heads into her hut. Wonder what has gotten in to her? Normally she would have sat me till I couldn't move. Oh well, I will find out what is going on with her later.

"Hey Miroku, can I talk to you?" I ask him loudly with a smile then I turn to Kikyo. "Kikyo, why don't you go talk to Kaede about our plan?"

"Ok." Her voice is just as unemotional as always but I can see the excitement hidden in her eyes. She makes it to her sister who is not that far from where we are standing just as Miroku finds his way to me. I have to suppress a smile as I catch sight of the staff that he is now holding.

"Hey InuYasha. What's up?" He gives ne a funny look. "Why are you smiling?"

Just tell him the plan and get it over with. "Well I have a plan to find the shards faster then we have been." I hope he will hear me out. I need him to be on my side when we take this plan to Kagome. Kami knows that I will need all the help I can get to convince her. "Well I was thinking a few days ago that if we had two people in our group who could detect shards that we could find them easier and faster. It would also help us when Kagome gets mad and goes home because we wouldn't have to wait on her or have me go and get her." I stop as the horrified look on Miroku's face finally gets through to me. Out of the corner of my eye I catch sight of Sango talking in a whisper to Shippo. What are they up too? Shippo turns around and runs into the hut. What is going on over there? "Miroku, do you know if anything is wrong over there?"

"What? After you just talked about bringing Kikyo along with our group, and do not act like that is not what you were talking about either. You want to flip over to being worried about Lady Kagome! That is baka, even for you! Do you honestly think that she would be ok with this, do you even care?" His eyes are almost popping out of his head and his face is getting redder by the minute. Of course I care! I just can't let them know that.

"What is so baka about wanting to get the shards before my brother or some other demon can… If that means we need two people to find the shards I think that we should do it!" I glance up as hear footsteps come running in our direction and catch sight of Shippo as he goes past us, I watch as he hugs Kaede. She is going home, I know it. He always gets this upset when she goes back to her time no matter how long she will be there for. But wait he isn't crying so that can't be it. He must just be worried that she was upset. I turn back towards Miroku because I don't want the others to see the relief on my face. Best to wait till Shippo goes back to playing because he would like nothing better than to run and tell Kagome before I can get some support from Miroku and Kaede. I watch as he turns around and instead of going to play in the meadow to play he moves towards us. He stops in front of Miroku and I hide a smile as he tugs on Miroku's robes.

"Miroku!"He waits patiently for Miroku to look at him. "You got to bend down so I can give ya a hug bye." That wipes the smile from my face. Where the hell is he planning on going? I watch as Miroku slowly bends down without a question hugs the boy with a smile. I have to hide my smile as they quickly give each other a kiss on the cheek. Wonder when these two became so close? Then her smell hits me… she was standing with Sango, they look as if they have been standing there for a while. Something is going on! I watch as Shippo starts to walk away but then he turns back around and runs up to me, we stair at each other for a few seconds. "InuYasha you got to bend down too." My eyes widen in shock. What? Surely he is not about to hug me! I mean we are a family at least to me we are but he never tries to hug me. Suddenly memories of all the times that I was left out of the round of hugs when something had happened to the group have my ears dropping briefly.

"Why?"

"Cause me and Kagome are going to go pick herbs and you may not be here when we get back."

"…ok runt." I bend down and awkwardly hug him to my surprise he kisses my cheek as well.

"Bye see ya later." With that I watch as he runs over to join Kagome and climbs up in front of her. I watch as Kirara slowly rises into the air, out of the corner of my eye I see Miroku waves bye to her. She is leaving without saying bye! She must really be mad at me. I watch her as smiles and waves back as Kirara just continues to rise higher and higher into the air. Suddenly I smell something that always sets me heart to pounding. Tears and not just any body's tears but Kagome's tears, I catch sight of the tear drop as it falls through the sky and lands at my feet. She is crying and when she cries either I get sat or she goes home. She wouldn't go home now! She has Shippo with her and I know she has not found a way to take him through with her yet. Please don't let leave and send Kirara back with Shippo… I am so lost in thought that it takes me a while to notice Sango is now beside Miroku with his arm around her. I scan the sky for a sign of Kirara. She went in the opposite direction than the well. Maybe I am over reacting? Kirara is no longer in sight and I am starting to get nervous.

"InuYasha you were saying?" Miroku had a smirk on his face. Sango on the other hand looks smug but very upset.

"Look if you don't like that plan then we have a backup plan too." Kami, why do I have to do this in front of Sango? She will kill me. Oh well… here goes. "We could send Kikyo through the well so Kagome can stay and find the shards with us and not have to worry about her family and school." I look at the ground and wait for doomsday to happen. After a minute of total silence I glance up at Miroku and Sango who were looking at each other in shock.

"You would choose to send Kikyo away and keep Kagome?" Sango asks in shock.

"What do you think Sango?"I yell in frustration. Why would she ask that…?

"I think that this is what Kikyo wants not you! Let me get this straight…"

"Sango, why was she crying?" The words are wrenched from my soul and I can see it on Sango's face that I have shocked her. I have to find her… see if she is ok… I hate it when she cries.

"Why do you think?" she snaps at me.

"I don't know that is why I asked you." I snap back.

"Well your plan doesn't matter now because Kagome is going away for a while and she doesn't want you to know where." She snaps at me. What!Just as the words leave her mouth Kaede and Kikyo join the group.

"Kagome doesn't want InuYasha to know what?" asks Kaede.

"That she and Shippo are leaving for a few weeks for a vacation here in this era since Shippo cannot go through the well. Seeing as how she is upset she chose to go ahead and leave now." She says as she glairs at me.

"Why did you let her leave?" I scream at her. How am I gonna be able to find her. The full moon will rise in about 3 hours and there is no way that I can find her before then.

"Maybe because I am tired of you hurting her over your obsession with Kikyo. She deserves better than that, she deserves a guy who will love her and only her not one who can't decide if he likes her let alone loves her. So I let her go off in this era on vacation to try and meet a man who might actually care about her."

"Are you baka? I know exactly how I feel about her. I know that I don't deserve her but I know that she makes my life better and I can't make it through a day without her." I glair at her. "Do you ever wonder where I go when she is gone? Do you not ever wonder why I am gone for as long as she is?"

"Actually we all thought that you went to Kikyo." she snaps at me.

"No, Sango I went to Kagome. I would watch over her during the day and sleep outside her window at night. Why do you think I would let you all force me to go and get her if I didn't want her back with me… with us?" How can they not see how I feel about her? How can she not see it? "I would come back here for a few hours each day while she was in school just so you all wouldn't notice."

"Actually Sango, InuYasha told me a long time ago that he would not go to hell with me. He only comes to see me now because he feels sorry for me." She looks at me without emotion. How does she know that? "I can tell that is why you come to me even if you don't want to voice it." She turns back to my friends and tries to smile at them. "InuYasha told me that he wants to be with Kagome because she gave him the two things that I never could." They stare at her with blank expressions and she sighs. "She accepted and loves him as a hanyo and she gave him a family… all of you."

I feel my face begin to turn red. Why is she telling them all of this? She knew how hard it was for me to tell her this. "Kikyo just shut up," They all look at me as if I had just grown two heads. "See you guys when I said that we could send Kikyo through I meant that she could go to school for Kagome and watch over her family. Not by pretending to be Kagome but by going to her time and getting a job at the shrine her family owns and going to her school." I stare at the ground so they won't notice my blush. When I look up I see the crushed look on Sango's face… This can't be good. "Why are you looking at me like that Sango?"

"I made a promise to Kagome before she left…I didn't know how you felt." She looks to Miroku for help. He only smiles at her encouragingly at her. "I am sorry I can't tell you where she went. She wants to be alone for a while and this was the only way she could take Shippo with her and still get away from here." She looks at me sadly. "I hope you can understand." Understand that I may lose her forever… that she may fall in love with some man or even worse some demon. Wait a minute…Koga he will be able to help me find her. Hell I would even try and be friends with him if I thought it would help me get Kagome back.

"I got to go." I start to walk away.

"InuYasha wait!" I stop and glace back at Miroku who is hurrying forward. "Sango is very sorry, you know that right. You and Kagome are both a part of her family now and she only wants you both to be happy. Kagome is like a sister she never had and you are the man Kagome has loved for a while now, Sango knows you are the only way for Kagome to be happy." At least she loves me for now…