Kagome and inuyasha did not return to the village for five hours, in which he took her four more times. Kagome was unable to walk at this time and was being carried by inuyasha. The others looked up as they approached, sango smiling happily but blushing and miroku with a full blown perverted grin. "So...ummm...quite a commotion we have around here, eh inuyasha?" "What are you talking about monk?" Inuyasha growled as miroku chuckled. "Well it seems that there were reports of someone screaming in the forest...repeatedly...but no one could tell what they were screaming about..." kagome blushed and looked down. Sango whapped miroku in the back of the head as he snickered again.
Inuyasha blushed and sat kagome down by sango, plopping down by kagomes feet, unsure if he should be proud that he got his mate to scream out that loud or if he should be embarrassed that everyone knew what they were doing. "Im happy for you guys." Sango blushed as she continued "you are officially together now, its been a long time coming." Miroku dissolved into quiet hysterics at her choice of words. Shs sighed and knocked him out with hirakotsu. "Anyway...where are we headed next? Ive heard there was a jewel shard north of kiane village." Inuyasha nodded, turning to kagome. "You should stay here with kaede, it will be safer." Kagome growled at him "i will not stay here! If i dont go, you cant see the jewel shards! I will be fine, dont worry!" Inuyasha huffed and nodded, not wanting to fight in front of the others, when they were still instinctively fighting over dominance.
They waved goodbye to kaede and set off to the north, hoping the jewel shard would be easy to get.