Discalimer.. I don't own the characters of Inuyasha. You should all know this by now. :) TAKS is keeping me busy this week so next week I should be able to write more again. :)


Chapter 8

"INUYASHA!!!! DON'T HURT ME!" Yelled Shippou, running around in circles trying to evade the furious Inuyasha.

"COME HERE! SHIPPOU I'M GUNNA KILL YOU!!!" Inuyasha yelled.

"INUYASHA SIT!!" Sango screamed.

Inuyasha froze and just stared at her in fear.

"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!" Inuyasha yelled at her.

"Darn, it didn't have the effect I was hoping for. I guess only Kagome can do it." Sango said with a sigh.

"I really wish that did work." Miroku joined in.

"Are you people crazy? What on earth are you trying to do?" Kikyou asked clearly confuzed.

"When Kagome says "sit" Inuyasha does a faceplant." Sango explained.

"Why would you want to do that? That sounds like it would hurt."

"It DOES hurt." Inuyasha said.

"It normally calms him down." Sango tried to explain. She wished Kikyou was a bit brighter and imaginative.

"I see. Either way I can faintly sense the shikon shards going East. We best search for them before they get too away."

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING SOONER?!" Inuyasha was going to explode.

"Somethings take patience Inuyasha. Please calm down."

"Fine." Inuyasha snorted.


...Kagome...

It was really dark now and we were still going. I had given up my desire to stop for proper sleep. Instead I resorted in leaning on Ah-Un's neck and sleeping as we went along. It made things easier for everyone. Rin slept, using my back for a cusion, Jaken slept on his fluffy rabbit and Sessomaru kept a serious face and kept walking. He wasn't tired at all. He was determined to find Inuyasha. He wanted to close as much distance between them as he possibly could. If he could get a lead on Naraku, he would surely defeat him if their paths ever crossed. He would personally kill him so that he could live peacefully... with me. He wouldn't give up until he was gone for sure. He wanted this rat race to be over with.

Suddenly he stopped. He sniffed the air to try and define the scent he was picking up. Could it be... yes it was. It was Inuyasha and his friends. They were far in the distance but they were pursueing them. Hot on the trail they would be upon them in an hour at the most. What should he do? He decided to take a detour into a flour field and rub down everyone with the scent of it to disguise them. He didn't want to have to fight or put Kagome in danger when she was sleeping. There could be a good chance they might try to steal her back. There would also be a good chance that they'll stop for sleep since they didn't normally travel during the night and if they had lost the trail.

After waiting in the field for about an hour and a half, Inuyasha and the others decided to give it a rest. They set up camp and went to sleep hoping that the scent would return in the morning.

By morning the scent had faded but we where already on our way. I was awake by now but Rin was still fast alseep. It was nice when she was quiet. We walked in silence until I heard something familiar. The sound of... someone yelling. I recognized the voice but couldn't think of the name of the owner. Then I looked up and it came to me. It was Inuyasha. And there he was standing in front of us. My heart skipped a beat. I was afraid of what was going to happen next.

His glare held mine as all was quiet until I looked away, unwanting the attention. I looked up at Sessomaru, seaching for what to do next. I wanted be somewhere else, anywhere else but here.

"KAGOME! Give me the shards!" Inuyasha demanded.

So that was what he wanted. That's why they where searching for us. That was their only intention, to get the Shikon shards.

"KAGOME!!!" A sqeal came from the trees as a woman rushed threw the brush. It was Sango!

I hopped off Ah-Un and ran to meet her with an embrace, totally ignoring Inuyasha's demand.

"SANGO!! I'm so happy to see you! I've missed you so much! Where is Shippou?" I asked excitedly.

"He's with Miroku. They'll be arriving in a moment." She replied.

"EXCUSE ME!! I think I asked you a question! Don't you think I deserve an answer! ANYTIME NOW!?" Inuyasha yelled.

I turned to face him, I gave an expressionless look and said "Sit." It was all I had to say to him.

His face smacked hard onto the solid ground. He looked up at me with a growl and a slight gleam fear in his eyes. He was afraid of my expression. It looked... evil I guess you could say. He was afraid of what was coming.

"Why'd you do that!?" He yelled ignorantly.

"You know perfectly well that I'm not going to give the shards to someone like you." I said in my monotone, emotionless voice.

Inuyasha backed up and bumped into Miroku. Miroku looked down at Inuyasha who had been crawling on the ground, and then looked up at Kagome who had evil written all over her.

"Hi Miroku!" I said in my normal happy voice.

"Hey Kagome!" He responded. He didn't want to say anything to offend her and make her go into super evil mode.

Then Kikyou and Shippou appeared. What was she doing here? This wasn't right. Why does she have Shippou?

"Shippou!!!" I excaimed. I walked over to Kikyou and took him from her and walked back to my spot by Sango.

"KAGOME!!!! I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!!" Shippou said hugging me tightly around the neck.

"We'll now we're done with the reunion, I'd like those shards now." Inuyasha said. He was being persistent. He wasn't leaving without those shards.

"Inuyasha, I'm not handing them over. Get that through you're puny brain. OK! It's never going to happen." I wasn't going to let him have them.

Inuyasha then lunged at me to try and attempt and pin me down to steal them from me. I ducked down but it wasn't neccissary. Sessomary had already taken action and leapt in to stop Inuyasha. Inuyasha was now the one being pinned down and Sessomaru was getting ready to kill him.

"Sessomaru! Don't kill him." I don't know why I said it but I did. I guess I couldn't bare to see him killed.

Sessomaru stopped and let go of Inuyasha and turned his back and walked back in my direction.

Inuyasha just laid on the ground. He had many things to think out. Things like, what he was going to do to get her to hand over those shards without being killed by Sessomaru. Now she had him on her side, he was much stronger than himself and it would be a hard battle if they did fight.

I looked at him for one last time and set Shippou down. I said goodbye to Sango and turned to leave.

"Kagome, why won't you give us the shards?" This time it was Kikyou.

I stopped in my tracks and said "Kikyou, these shards are not for Inuyasha to hold. I wouldn't trust either of you with these, no matter what. You two are more than capable of finding Naraku without using the shards to bring him to you."

"What if we did a trade? Shards for a location?"

"What would you need the shards for if you know where he is? Do you think I'm stupid? I have a brain you know, unlike some people."

"I never said that you were stupid, but I just thought you might want to know where Naraku is. Isn't that why you were trying to find us?"

"Maybe, it wasn't my choice though. If had a choice, I would kill you here and now."

"Why would you kill me? What did I do?"

"... you tried to take Inuyasha from me whenever we were together. You wanted to drag him down to the Netherworld with you. You toyed with his emotions all of the time. And wasn't just his emotions that were affected."

"Those were my intentions yes, but now I have him and you don't want him so what is your point?"

I turned quickly to face her. This witch was smiling. I couldn't tell her intentions but I wasn't going to just sit here and take it. She wasn't carrying her bow and arrow, I was carrying mine. I had an advantage. Maybe I could take her down.

I reached for an arrow and quickly pulled back the string on my bow and aimed it at her.

"Kikyou! Today I'll get you back for all of the pain you caused me!"

"Go ahead, try and shoot me. If you shoot me, Inuyasha will forever hate you. Along with his friends."

"What do you mean. Sango, Shippou and Miroku. You think they like you as much as to hate me if I was to shoot you? Inuyasha already hates me so what's the difference?"

"Shoot her!" Sango was mouthing from the side.

Inuyasha didn't know what to do. He didn't understand what the fight was about now. First it was about the jewlel shards but now he didn't know what it was about.

"KAGOME!! DON'T SHOOT!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Why not."

"Because... I love her. Just like you love Sessomaru. I love Kikyou and I don't want you to shoot her."

I gasped. So he could admit he loved that worthless bag of dirt but when he did love me, he only picked on me and denied it. This only made me mad. It was true that I loved Sessomaru but right now this was between me and Kikyou. It wasn't over yet. I replaced my arrow and walked over to Sessomaru and grabbed his hand.

"Sessomaru can we leave?"

"Yes."

We walked away in the direction of Inuyasha's group. We just walked past and continued on without looking back. I didn't even want to think about it. I can't stand her. How could he defend her when she had done so much to him and caused him so much trouble. She wanted to kill him! This was messed up. Well he might consider me messed up too since I love his enemy, his brother. The man that was thought to be heartless.

I clung to Sessomaru's arm like glue sticking to paper. I cried and cried. I just wanted to let it out so that I wouldn't have to carry the feelings with me.

Sessomaru felt the wetness of my tears on his arm. He ignored it because if he bugged me about it then, I might cry even harder or something. He knew his boundaries.

Then, he felt his left arm hit a tree. Wait... He didn't have a left arm. He looked down and saw the impossible. It was there. He lifted it before his eyes and examined it. It was his hand alright. He looked down at the miko and silently thanked her. Her tears of sadness and her powers within them brought his arm back. They seemed to contain the power of healing. Sessomaru would have to thank her for it another time. He couldn't just thank her for being sad so that she could heal his arm. That would be awkward.


A/N: So i ran out of momentum and started playing solitair in the middle of this so sorry if you don't like it. Either way i hope you do like it and please review! Thanks a bunch and a special thanks to Randa15 for keeping my spirits up in my writing. :)

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