Kagome walked on with Rin right beside her. 'What did he mean by honor? Why is he letting me travel with him? Why does he seem to care? Why is he staring at me? What the hell, why did he stop…'
Kagome was brought out of her train of thought when she slipped on some mud from the rain the night before, slid down a hill, and stopped in a puddle. When she got up she didn't she a tree root sticking out of the ground and tripped over it and landed face first in the mud.
When she got over the fact that she was now caked in mud she finally noticed that Rin was next to her, but to make matters worse, Rin was laughing at her!
"Why you impudent human. I knew Lord Sesshomaru shouldn't have let you tag along! You're a disgrace!" Jaken yelled.
"Shut up you stupid toad! Or I'll purify your ass!" retorted Kagome.
"Girl you will clean yourself up as soon as we find a place I find suitable," said Sesshomaru.
"Fine by me," Kagome replied.
-----------2 hours later--------------
'I feel so gross. Please let there be a hot spring close by.' Kagome thought.
"Sesshomaru is there a hot spring around here?" she asked.
"Human, you do know that if you were paying attention you wouldn't have slipped?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Yeah, well, if you would have warned me, since I was obviously wasn't paying attention, I wouldn't have slipped and I wouldn't be covered in mud right now."
"I did warn you, you were the one that chose to ignore me."
Kagome's cheeks turned light pink at that statement. 'Great! Now, not only am I covered in mud, I'm also blushing AND Sesshomaru knows. Can my life get ANY worse?'
As if to answer her question Kouga showed up.
"Hey Kagome! Where's mutt face?" Kouga asked.
"I don't know," Kagome answered.
"HEY! Why are you covered in mud and why are you blushing? Who's that?" he asked.
"That's Lord Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's older brother," she answered.
"Half brother," Sesshomaru corrected.
"Why are you with him and not the mutt?" Kouga asked (boy he asked a LOT of questions)
"Because I can't find Inuyasha," Kagome replied.
"YOU MEAN HE LET YOU WONDER AROUND ON YOUR OWN?!?!?!?! WHEN I FIND HIM I'LL KILL HIM!!!" Kouga exclaimed.
"But I…never mind," Kagome started but didn't finish because Kouga was already gone.
With Inuyasha
Inuyasha was leading his pack in the direction of Kagome's scent.
"Inuyasha I sense to jewel shards coming very fast our way." Kikyou informed him.
"Yeah I know I smell that scrawny wolf comin our way," Inuyasha replied. Not long after that, sure enough Kouga showed up. When he did he punched Inuyasha in the face sending him to the ground.
"What the hell was that for?!?!" Inuyasha screamed.
"How dare you let Kagome run off on her own she could've gotten hurt!" Kouga yelled.
"How do you know she ran off?" Inuyasha asked.
"She told me!" he replied.
"Wait, you've seen her?" Sango asked.
"Yeah," Kouga said.
"When did you see her?" asked Miroku.
"About an hour ago, but she with this Sesshomaru dude." Answered Kouga.
"WHAAAAAAAAT!!!!!???!!!!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
With Kagome
"This feels sooooo good," Kagome said, "Don't you think so Rin?"
"Yea! It's soo warm!" Rin replied. Kagome dunked her head under the water and when she surfaced she heard a faint 'WHAT!?' 'That's odd it sounded like Inuyasha.'
"What's wrong Kagome? You look troubled?" Rin asked.
"Rin did you hear someone yell just a minute ago?" Kagome asked.
"No," she replied. 'Strange' Kagome thought.
Elsewhere
"What are you planning boss?"
"You shall see in due time, be patient."
"Yes! Sir!" (this will make more sense as to what is going on in later chapters)
With Kagome
"Sesshomaru I see you have returned," Kagome stated.
"Indeed," he replied.
"Shall we go then?" Kagome asked. Her only reply was Sesshomaru nodding his head.
--------hours later---------
After countless hours of walking, Rin started too get tired.
"Sesshomaru can we set up camp for the night?" Kagome asked.
"You filthy human, we will not be resting on your account," Jaken said.
"I don't need to rest right now, Rin does," Kagome countered.
"Then we will rest," Sesshomaru said.
While Jaken stood there, amazed that his Lord would let the humans have their way, Kagome set up camp.
After a good meal Kagome tucked Rin in a sleeping bag and sat at the fire for a while before going to bed herself.
-------Three hours later---------
Kagome woke up to the sound of a tree branch snapping. When she looked around the camp she noticed that Sesshomaru was not there. 'He probably found a demon and went to kill it. I don't think that's true and neither do you. Not you again. Were you expecting someone else? Ha ha ha very funny. And all this time I thought you didn't have a sense of humor! GO AWAY!' Kagome sighed. She ALWAYS hated when her inner self decided to put its two cents in.
'Better go find him' With that decided she left Jaken in charge. She walked into the forest in hopes of finding Sesshomaru. After hours of walking Kagome decided to sit down for a little while. 'Where did the jerk go!?! Chill out girl, no one told you that you had to search for him.'
She was snapped of her train of thought when she heard some talking just upon the tree line. So she walked over to a nearby bush to see who was talking.
When she realized just whom it was she gasped, 'No….'