Author's Note

Okay, I've escaped. Again. Don't get captured by Naraku. He'll keep you holed up and make you write filler chapters and… oh, it's just too indescribable. Be thankful that I'm not putting those fillers in. Those were TORTURE! Anyway, let me get back to Sesshomaru and Kagome, before that awful-smelling half-demon comes back and finds me! WRITE! WRITE LIKE THE WIND!

It was dark by the time Kagome had finished bandaging Sesshomaru. He'd refused at first, but Kagome would not take no for an answer.

"I don't care if you're a human, half-demon, or demon. You need to be fixed up. Good think I got these supplies before we came here." Sesshomaru looked away, not looking at the girl as she checked his wounds. She pulled out all the feathers sticking to his skin, trying to make it as painless as possible. Thankfully, all his injuries were on his arm and neck. Nothing too serious.

"Sesshomaru…" Kagome began. His eyes shifted toward her, but he did not turn his head. "You didn't smell Karashima. In fact, you didn't know he was here until I shot my arrow at him. I haven't traveled with you long, but as a full demon, shouldn't you have stronger senses than…" She didn't say InuYasha's name, for Sesshomaru's sake and her own. "Not to mention the fact that that guy could see me. You've got to give me some answers." She put the last band-aid on his neck and sat back, looking expectantly at him.

Sesshomaru was leaning against a tree. As Kagome sat there, he raised himself up to be upright. He held out his arm, then grabbed Kagome's right arm. Her heart skipped a beat as he inspected the cut she had received. He looked at her eyes, then said, "It's been bothering you, hasn't it?" Kagome pulled her arm away, trying to keep her grimace from the pain off of her face. How had he known?

He gazed at her for a second, then at the stars. "Ever since that night, the air has been different." Kagome looked at him quizzically. "Ever since the Shikon fragment touched your hand, my senses have changed." He didn't continue. Kagome got the gist of it, though.

"How terrible," she said. Sesshomaru, as an inuyoukai, relied on his senses greatly. Without them, well, he must feel lost. "And what about Karashima?"

"His senses were just as good as mine used to be. His sense of sight, at least. He was a raven lord. A karasu daiyoukai. Just like me, he can see what any other demon, human, or in between could not see. In this case, you."

"Well, how come you can still see me?" Kagome asked, puzzled.

"I did not say that my senses were gone. I said that they have changed. I can still see you." He looked at her cut again. "Thank you for helping me heal. It was unneeded, but thank you. Now, tend let me tend to your wound." Sesshomaru grabbed the antibiotics he had seen Kagome used, and repeated the process on her arm. It wasn't a large cut, but it wasn't small either. It went across the width of Kagome's arm, which made moving it somewhat difficult.

Kagome's heart raced throughout Sesshomaru's treatment. Not even InuYasha had attempted to used her medicines. She usually had to care for herself. Not that they didn't care for her. It was just that they didn't want to somehow mess up the treatment.

But here was Sesshomaru, a full demon, helping her heal. Later that night, when Sesshomaru seemed to be asleep, Kagome's mind wandered back to InuYasha. Had he noticed that she was gone yet? Or was he still thinking about Kikyo. Kagome was used to this by now, but that didn't mean InuYasha had any right to say that behind her back. He should have told her to her face.

That night, a single tear slid down Kagome's cheek as she drifted into a land of dreams.

So, what do you guys think? Review, Review, PLEASE review!

"InuApril, if you think I can't hear you, then you are so sadly mistaken. Or clinically insane. Either or."

Oh no! Naraku! Why can't that guy get a life already?

"Now you're going to get it!"

Geez! On the run again! Please, review! Naraku can't catch all of us! Now, yeah, YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE SUCKA!