I think I'm getting better at slightly longer chapters. This one's almost 500 words long (before this little intro thingy). Anyway, I'm defiantly liking this fan fiction. Well, tell me what you think, R&R all that usual stuff. XD

-Amagake

An emotionless DaiYouki stood overlooking the road that lead up to a human village. What is Sesshomaru-sama doing here? The toad like imp next to the InuYouki wondered. Who on earth could be in the village that would interest him?

Hmm... I must have been imagining it. Sesshomaru finally decided. I thought the scent on the wind was Kagura's, but that's impossible, isn't it? She's dead. Odd though. It's gone completely now. Suddenly, the scent of blood hit him. Kagura's blood. He didn't bother to stop and figure out why he could smell a dead girl's blood in the first place, he just barked out, "Jaken, Rin. We're leaving." and made his way toward the scent, desperately trying not to let the panic show on his features.

There she is. Her body lay sprawled across the road in a pool of her own blood. Rin ran towards her, cradling Kagura's head in her lap.

"Sesshomaru-sama! Can't you heal her?" Rin pleaded.

Sesshomaru kept his face static, but he was having a mental battle. I'll leave her and come back later and heal her. But she might die before then. But then we could be alone. Sesshomaru pushed the images that the word "alone" brought to mind.

"Why should this Sesshomaru heal her?" He said, suddenly deciding.

"Please, Sesshomaru-sama! She might die! And she turned good before she died. She died for Kohaku!"

It didn't take much to convince him. He willed his youki to his fingertips and gently touched her side, watching her alabaster skin mend itself.

"She'll wake soon." He said, scooping her up in his arms. "Both of you. Come."

With that he made his way into the forest that reached up and nearly touched the road.

He laid Kagura down on the grass and then began to leave. Of course, Jaken instantly followed him, however, Sesshomaru whacked him over the head and ordered him back to where Kagura and Rin were.

"Watch over Rin." He barked and left.

"Why does Sesshomaru-sama hit this faithful servant?" Jaken wondered out loud.

"Because he wanted to be alone."

"Oh, shut up Rin. What would a child like you know about Youki? Oh, I know! Sesshomaru-sama just wanted to be alone."

"I just said that Jaken-sama."

Sesshomaru sat on a large boulder and starred up at the sky, where a few stars were beginning to come out.

I can't believe she's alive. I got a second chance to make things right. What was that feeling when I found her? Despite her condition, all I could fell was happiness. But I also have this burning desire to hunt down that wolf and let him have a feel of my claws for hurting her. The thought made him cast his mind back to the night his father had died. Do you have someone to protect? He thought about Kagura and Rin. Even Jaken. Yes, Father. I do.

A slight smile haunted Sesshomaru's features as he stargazed.