Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, no matter how much I want to. I know, it's sad.

From now on, English will be in bold and Pig Latin in italics.

"I'm going to be sick!"

With that, Sesshomaru and Rin watched as Cinder ran into the forest. Neither bothered to follow. They believed their companion's words, and knew she would be irritated if they caught her in the midst of her illness.

"Is Cinder-chan going to be alright?"

Sesshomaru looked down, meeting his wards innocent eyes. Her innocuous comment had a strange feeling running through his veins. It took him a while to recognize it, but when he did his eyebrows scrunched up. He was uncertain. Yes, that was the emotion. Uncertainty. He truly did not know if Cinder would be alright. He hated the emotion, but had to agree with it. Demons did not usually get sick, and cats were no exception. There had to be something wrong if she was off in the forest unwell from some unknown ailment.

Sesshomaru waited a bit longer before standing and padding past the tree line, figuring he had given the girl long enough. Rin stared after him, a frown settling on her features. He hadn't answered her question.

Cinder was lying on the ground when he found her, her arms underneath her cheek as she groaned. "What was in that stew?"

Sesshomaru thought back to what the villager had given them to eat. It was not unusual, the ingredients had been quite common. "Rabbit meat, carrots, water broth, and tomatoes."

Cinder groaned louder. "You have got to be kidding me!"

"No," Sesshomaru answered. "This is no joke."

Cinder glared, then realized he didn't understand her futuristic language. "That's not what I meant."

The demon lord didn't offer words, but instead a simple raise of his eyebrow.

Cinder sighed and propped herself up on her elbows. "I'm tomato intolerant. I would have thought that as a demon I would have got over it, but..."

Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed. Demons rarely had intolerances or allergies, and she should be no different. As a demon? What did she mean by that? "How can you outgrow something if you have not changed to perceive it in a new way?"

"Well," Cinder mumbled, "there aren't demons in my dimension."

And then everything made sense. He lack of demon skill and knowledge. Her odd appearance. Even though she seemed strange and unique from the humans in Japan, and she definitely had a demon aura and look to her, she overall gave off a human vibe. Instead of sinking to the background or being very bold as most demons were, her gray eyes with the demonic green rim and dirty-blonde hair gave her more of a mortal air. And then there was the fact of her food intolerance. "You were born a human."

Cinder nodded, not denying anything. How could she lie about the obvious truth? "Yes, I was once a human. I lived in America with my family. We were all human, but now..." the cat demon trailed off and looked down, not knowing what else to say to her lord's discovery. There was nothing else to say. But somehow, after one of the last final secrets being revealed, the girl couldn't help feeling closer to her lord.

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"Look out!"

Jazline sighed, dodging to the left almost effortlessly. It now seemed that she was getting quite used to battles, especially that phrase.

Kagome shot the demon down quickly, and once again they were on the road.

Jessabelle stood at her friends side, yawning. "So, don't you miss speaking in private?"

Jazline laughed. "Yeah, everything's a little impersonal with A DOG GUY HOVERING ABOVE YOU!"

And truly, her words were correct, for InuYasha had his ears pricked and was clearly eavesdropping. A slight blush coated his cheeks and he famously replied, "Keh."

Kagome giggled from ahead at her beloved hanyou's reaction, sending a wink back at the odd pair that traveled with them.

"Yeah," Jessabelle sighed. "Everything used to be so private when Cinder forced us to learn all those languages."

Jazline suddenly stopped, a shocked look adorning her expression. "Jessabelle, we've been speaking Japanese."

Jessabelle waved her off. "Of course, we'd never understand them if we didn't."

"No," Jazline said with more emphasis. "We've been speaking Japanese!"

Jessabelle blanched, and the rest of the group stopped, watching the two girl's as their eyes widened.

"Hey," Jessabelle shouted to Kagome. "Can you speak English?"

Kagome seemed astounded by the question, it having certainly not been what she expected. "Um, a little. Not very well though."

Jazline smiled, and encouraged, "Say something."

"Hello, welcome to Japan," Kagome started.

Jazline laughed. "So simple! Don't worry, we'll understand anything you throw at us!"

Kagome joined in on the laughter. "Alright then! I'll keep that in mind!"

InuYasha, Sango, and Miroku watched as the three conversed, having absolutely no idea what they were saying. They didn't even try as the two girl's squealed and started to speak something not even Kagome could understand. What was the point? InuYasha sighed and started to move again, the rest of the pack slowly following him.

"They're so cute together!"

"Yeah, I can't wait 'till they kiss!"

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Naraku watched the group through Kanna's mirror. The image was foggy, and he couldn't decipher their surroundings, but the group was working together, better than he had thought. He growled out, "Show me Sesshomaru."

The image in the mirror adjusted, now showing a pack of five. The green imp was sitting next to an equally colored dragon, both resting against trees. Sesshomaru had his eyes trained on Rin, his young human ward, and Cinder, his cat demon companion. Naraku couldn't help thinking that even through the mirrors hazy picture, the girl looked sick as she picked flowers. The evil hanyou smirked. "It is now time for our second attack against the Lord of the West and his pet cat."