1Sesshomaru's P.O.V

I could feel her sorrow as I let the words slip out of my mouth and register to her. Maybe I was being a bit harsh? Maybe I can push her away from me if I continue with this, and then I will be able to rest my mind from the thoughts consuming her.

Next Day

"Alright Kagome, I want you to go find Shippou and Rin. They're off playing somewhere." Inuyasha said to me, I smiled at him and left to find the children. "Miss Kagome! Will you play with us now that you're awake!" the doe eyed girl asked. I couldn't help but giggle at her. "No Rin, I'm sorry but we have to get ready to start moving again."

She seemed sad if only for a moment before clapping her hands together and nodding. "Alright!" she said happily. "Lord Sesshomaru is still alright, right?" she asked me, turning around from running back to camp. "Yeah Rin, he's still able to move quiet well." I tell her. She smiles at me once again before heading off to camp.

"Rin, did you eat?" Sesshomaru asked her. I could tell he cared, if only for the little girl, I mean who couldn't? "Yes Lord Sesshomaru, Rin ate a whole bowl of ramen!" she giggled out. "Shippou, did you?" I ask him, he nods at me before answering "Yeah Kagome, I went out and caught some rabbits with Inuyasha!" he exclaimed happily.

With Kikyou

"May you rest in peace demon!" Kikyou said as she released the arrow on the demon. The demon's skin hissed before exploding into a bright white light. The other demons that saw what happened scurried off, hoping they wouldn't be her next victim

Kikyou then walked out of the town, down the road that looked best, hoping that it was leading her closer to Inuyasha. "Now now Lady Kikyou, didn't I say that I was going to take care of that miko traveling with him? Why do you go after him? Why not wait til my job is done." Amatsu Mikaboshi said to her.

Kikyou just nodded and went back towards the village. Amatsu just vanished into thin air.

With Amatsu

"Izanami I require your assistance." Amatsu said, resting his head against his head lazily. "Yes Milord, what do you request of me?"She said, resting on one knee with her head bowed. "Rise Rise, you are a god yourself, a goddess, do not bow before me." he told her.

"Yes Milord." she said to him, looking at him. "Very good, do we almost have the plans in motion?" he asked her, she started to fidget with her fingers. "Do we or do we not?" he waited a few more moments, no answer. "DAMNIT WOMAN ANSWER ME!" he shot up from his throne, in the process Izanami got thrown back against the wall.

"Mi-Milord, we do not have everything ready as of yet. Give us two more weeks and we will have everything prepared for you, sire." She said, trying not to stumble over her words. He always made her so scared she couldn't talk like a goddess should. "Very well, two more weeks. Tell me all that you have finished so far."

"We have the kimonos ready, milord, the potion is settling and the announcements have been delivered." he sat on his throne a moment, looking at her. "What is it you do not have complete?" he asked her. She started to fidget with her fingers again. "Woman." he warned. She shot her head up.

"The potion... I doubt it will work on her, she is of pure soul, pure mind, the potion cannot work if the person taking it does not have any regrets." She finished. Amatsu threw his head back and laughed a bone chilling laugh, so cold you could feel it in your soul.

"But you must see, my dear, that she will have regrets when I'm through with meddling on her life. She will regret ever going through the well, she will regret not going back to see her parents, that one last time." he laughed once more before abruptly getting up and walking out of the room, towards his bedchambers.

"I feel sorry for you lady Kagome, may you have enough strength and heart to resist this potion of fate." Izanami whispered, looking out the window towards earth. "Izanami, I'm waiting.." he called sing-songingly. She closed her eyes tight before walking into the bedchambers.

With Kagome

"Miss Kagome, I'm hungry, when are we going to stop and eat?" Rin asked me. I was about to answer when Inuyasha interrupted. "We're not stopping today, that playing of yours that you did yesterday cost us a few hours, I want to hurry up and get this over with." Inuyasha said to the little girl.

I was mad, yeah, he had to get back so he could see his beloved Kikyou. He was worried about her, and wanted to be with her. Well that's just fine! "You can turn around and go back anytime Inuyasha, we have Sesshomaru with us so we'll be just fine, you can go back to Kikyou if you so desire." I said to him, glaring daggers his way.

"Lord Sesshomaru." Rin corrected me. I smiled down at the little girl. She did have a lot of respect for Sesshomaru, I wonder how Rin even came into Sesshomaru's care.

"Miss Kagome, will you tell me how you met Shippou?" She questioned. I looked towards Sesshomaru to see if he would protest but he didn't say a word, so I begun.

Story

"Well, we were in the middle of an old battle field. Shippou came out of the sky, transformed into that pink ball thing he does, Inuyasha just merely popped him. He jumped into my pack and started digging through it, once he found the shards he tried to run off.

Inuyasha bopped him on the head and then I helped clean the bump that Shippou got from Inuyasha. He then told us that his father was killed by the Thunder Brothers and wanted the shards to avenge his father's murder.

Inuyasha of course was gloating about killing him. Shippou insulted Inuyasha and Inuyasha again hit him, Shippou then played some fox magic and then ran off, I of course ran after him, leaving Inuyasha under the stone statue.

Shippou ran into one of the Thunder Brothers and I tried to protect him, in the process getting knocked unconscious. And they came and rescued me."

"Wow Miss Kagome! Shippou was a bad guy at one time??" Rin asked enthusiastically. I nodded at her while looking at Shippou's expression. He seemed to be embarrassed for attacking us. Now that I think about it, Shippou wouldn't have stood a chance against Inuyasha.

"Keh, yeah that little squirt wouldn't have stood a chance against me." an over-confident Hanyou said, tossing his head to the side to prove his point more. "Shippou would have hurt you bad!" Rin yelled back at Inuyasha, defending Shippou. Shippou's faced turned red once again, but I somehow doubt it was from embarrassment.

"Miss Kagome! I want a bath after dinner! Can we take one? Can we?" Rin asked, tugging my arm and jumping up and down as we walked. I giggled at her before nodding. "You sure you want her bathing with disgusting nigeins?" I ask Sesshomaru, he looks at me a moment before answering.

"I see no problem with it." he stated as he turned his head back to the road in front of us. The road in front of us suddenly turned desolate. "I-Inuyasha.." I say warily, something's wrong. "I know kagome." he says to me, while putting me protectively behind himself. "Rin, get onto Ah Un." Sesshomaru said to Rin. Rin nodded and hopped on.

A voice boomed through the broken and ashen trees "Well, what do we have here? A lowly Hanyou, a demon slayer, a monk, a demon lord, a little human girl, a miko, and a toad?" "So Lord Sesshomaru, you're playing with filth now?" the figure to the voice appeared and looked over kagome.

"I thought it was below you." he seethed through his lips, glaring at Kagome. "It is, but unfortunately, I have to travel with these things, at least for a short while, we're here to get Kail's Tear." "Oh, for a friend?" he asked. I leaned up and whispered to inuyasha "Who is that?" "You dare speak human?" he shouted at me.

"Hey you ass! Don't shout at Kagome like that!" Inuyasha said to him. Inuyasha stood up for me.. I felt that fuzzy feeling start to come back up into my stomach. He cares. He started to laugh. "What makes you think you could stop me?" "Enough." Sesshomaru silenced them. "Who are you? " he said to him, I look at the demon, his expression hard, almost like Sesshomaru, it seemed to burn the person it glared at.

"I am Higimaru. You are my lunch. Let's eat." the demon said smiling. He then shot up into the air, spitting a venom like substance onto the ground. It started to bubble and burn the ground and the dead, burnt trees.

"That is the venom that will dissolve your bones as I suck out your blood." he said, cackling. I mentally cringed, that would hurt! "Kagome, I want you to take Sesshomaru on, we cannot afford this delay in our journey, Miroku, Sango, and I will join back up with you when we finish."

Inuyasha whispered to me as he prepared to strike down the venom spitting demon. "Alright Inuyasha.. Please be safe." I say to him, hugging him from behind. "Kagome, go now!" he says to me, trying to get me to release him, I nod into his back and go to get shippou, rin, and Sesshomaru.

"Alright guys, we need to go on." I say to the children, they nod at me. "Sesshomaru, we must leave, Inuyasha and my friends will take care of the demon, he's not that bad." I say to him. He does no respond but instead starts walking.

"Wind Tunnel!" I heard miroku say as we got out of range of the attacks. I felt the wind but it didn't pull us in. Then it abruptly stopped. I turned back if only for a moment and saw those poisonous insects again.

I was about to turn around and go help them when a clawed hand grabbed my shoulder "If Inuyasha said for you to leave and go on, he meant for you to leave and go on." he said to me. I nod and turn back around, and head for the mountains that seem so far out of reach.

With Kikyou

"Lady Kikyou!" I heard someone shout, a child, no more than 6 years old. "Yes little girl, what is it that you wish of me?" I ask her. Her tear stained face mixed with dirt looked up at mine. The pain and hurt swirled in her eyes like a mesmeric trance.

"My-My mommy an-and daddy we-were attacked, p-please help them Lady Kikyou!" she pleaded, tugging on my sleeve. "Show me to your family little girl." I tell her, she keeps hold of my sleeve while pulling me off into the direction of the forest. "He-here they a-are." she said, pointing to two motionless bodies in the forest floor. "Alright little girl."

I say to her and walk over to the bodies. They were still breathing. It looks like they were beaten though. "Little girl.." "Jackie." "Jackie" I corrected myself, "What happened to your parents, did you see them get hurt or did you find them?" I ask her, she wavers a moment before deciding to tell me. "I saw them." she said, her lip quivering.

"Okay, I need a few herbs and some bandages. Will you go ask the village elder for some?" I ask her. She nods and goes off to the village to get the items I require. They weren't all that bad but if they didn't get treatment soon infection would start in.

I started to remove the mother's clothes, she had a deep gash on her stomach, and a large bruise on her arm, the rest of her body was covered in scratches. Her leg looked broken and the bone was almost sticking out of her leg.

I proceeded to remove her father's shirt, from what I could tell already from the shirt, he had a deep gash, just as she, only there was more than one. His face was bloody like he had been beaten and he had a broken arm.

"Here you go Lady Kikyou." the girl says, returning to me with 2 baskets full of herbs and bandages. "Th-thank you Jackie." I say to her, no one would care about this family this much, would they? Unless..

"What's your family's status in your village?" I asked the girl as I was bandaging up her mother's wounds. "Did you find my baby brother..?" she asks me. I look at her a moment before answering "you told me there were only two people, where did your brother go?"

I ask her, she breaks out tears. "He wasn't born yet. Those monsters took my baby brother! They took my baby brother!" the little girl was almost hysterical now as she cried. It almost seemed as though her tears would return everything to normal.

So that's why the mother had a gash in her stomach. The kidnappers cut her belly and stole the child, and the father tried to protect his wife and baby, causing injury far worse than his wife's to himself.

"What's your family's position in your village." I said a little bit more sternly, that time it got her attention. "M-My fam-family i-is t–the ri-chest i-in the vi-vill-village." she said in between sobs for her little brother.

After I finished putting the herbs and the bandages onto her mother and father I rose. "What's the demons look like?" I asked her. "One is really handsome, the other one is a raven haired girl, they came here looking for a baby because she can't have one. And now they took my brother!"

She all but shouted. "I see" I said and started to walk off. "Jackie, which direction?" I ask her, she points the way I was headed and I slightly lowered my head in respect and left the little girl to her family.

With Inuyasha and the gang

"Miroku!" Sango yelled towards the monk as he swallowed the poisonous insects into the black hole that cursed his hand. After Naraku's death the wind tunnel still didn't disappear, as it turns out, Miroku will be the end of the line to the wind tunnel, his children wouldn't have his horrible cursed gift.

The demon shout out venom as Inuyasha dodged the sword that barely missed his shoulder. The venom hit his shirt and started to sizzle, but didn't burn through. Sango threw her Hiraikotsu and landed into Higimaru's side, he hissed in pain before pulling out her weapon and throwing it back at her, hitting her in the head, knocking her unconscious.

"Sango!" Miroku shouted out as she fell into unconsciousness. "You bastard!" Inuyasha shouted at him as he shot another wind scar the demon's way. Higimaru cackled before dodging the attack.

"You really are a pathetic Hanyou, how you managed to kill off my brother is beyond me." Higimaru seethed as he stabbed Inuyasha in the stomach. Inuyasha let out a choked yelp before pulling back off the sword and falling onto the barren wasteland, blood pooling underneath him.

"Now it's your turn monk!" he shouted as he shot a black light from his sword, aiming for Miroku. Miroku pulled off his sacred beads and sucking the attack right up. Miroku looked ahead of him, where the attack was from, and saw nothing, maybe he sucked him up along with his attack? "You are too slow, Monk, I will enjoy devouring you all in my lair."

With Kagome and Sesshomaru

"Miss Kagome!" Rin shouted tiredly as she almost fell over. "What Rin?" I ask her, just a little to tired to be dealing with a bubbly little girl. "Look! Look! It's the green grass again, we're out of the dead forest!" she shouts again, this time a little bit happier, to tell the truth I am too, I was getting tired of seeing dead things around me.

"We should be stopping soon." Sesshomaru said, turning to me. I nodded, where was Inuyasha?

"Let's rest here then." I say to them as they nod at me. We walk over to the trees and Sesshomaru automatically leans up against one.

"Lord Sesshomaru..." I say quietly, hoping he'd answer me. "Yes Miko?" he asked me, miko huh? "I need some water to fix the kids some food." I say to him. He quietly gets up and gets 2 water bottles, heading to fill them up.

"Sesshomaru." I call. He turns around to look at me. "Thanks..." I say, trying to keep the blush from coming onto my cheeks but failing miserably, "You're welcome. Kagome." he says to me before walking off into the forest.