Chapter 10
Hello . . . may i help you?

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" Girl you will turn around and face me now. "

As he said these words he heard her gasp and watched as she spun around her eyes wide with shock at the man before her. All she could do was stare at him in shock and disbelief. As she stared at him she did not realize when words had left her mouth.

"S-Sesshomaru . . . "

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"S-Sesshomaru . . . "

"Close your mouth girl, I will not harm you as long as you do as I say. Understand."

"Y-Yes." She stuttered getting coming from her shock of seeing him stand before her.

"Good. Now explain to me why my idiot half brother is not with you?" his eyes boring into her own watching for any lies.

"H-he did not want me back. He said I had betrayed him and that he did not want me." she said with her head hanging down as she remembered what Kouga had told her.
"Explain to me your betrayal towards him." He said if it was nothing more but another question. But when her head snapped up to look at him in defiance he noticed so many emotions pass by her, he was not surprised by her words.

"No! Its none of your business."

"Yes you will or I shall end your life now then later."

Not wanting to die yet she sighed and lowered her head down And told him what had happened up to what she remembered that day then told him what Kouga had said.
" I should have figured out that he would soon no longer need me nor want me but I would have thought it would be after we had finished the jewel but I guess that was not what he had in plan." She said as she finished her story.

He watched her carefully during her story to see if there was any hint of falseness in it; there was not, she told the truth.

' So my brother allowed the wolf to take her with him, and with out her around he will not have as much power with him and be weakened. I could use this to my advantage to have the tetsusaiga all to my self.'

He thought as he turned around and stopped at the barrier waiting till he felt the magic's fall and he stepped over the area it had once been placed on. As he continues to walk he heard her voice whisper so softly that he himself had almost missed her words.

"Please, Lord Seshomaru. Please if you do see your brother anytime soon please, tell him I'm sorry."

'why would the miko ask for forgiveness when she did not commit anything wrong?'

He turned around one last time to look upon her naked back moving through the water to the shore. As he watched her move about he noticed a bruise at the middle of her back as if she were thrown into something hard.

' Why should I care, if she is harmed or not.'

"I am no ones messenger; and don't hope that I shall give the message out of the kindness of a heart."

"I never expected you to. I only wish that you would."

Sesshomaru continued walking away from the girl to where the entrance in the mountains range was. As he headed back to the entrance that little voice came back with a vengeance.

How dare that stupid half brother of mine treat the girl in such a manner.

'GO AWAY!'
NO! he harmed her emotionally and physically that is unacceptable no one should ever harm her. NO ONE!

' Can you give me any reason as to why I should care as to how my half brother treats the girl.'

Yes I can! Because . . . if she is harmed it shows how dangerous he is towards all females. And you wouldn't want you young ward to be around him would you!

' How does this prove anything? Rin does not know my idiotic half brother is even alive.'

My point is that he harmed her and I will not except that when I see him, he will pay.

' You will not because this is my body not yours, as to why you care so much is beyond me.'

I find the girl to be very alluring s to everything about her and she will become mine!

'No she will not, I will not stoop to the level of my father and half brother.'

it is not a bad thing to love or even to care. You care about Rin, why not her!

' Enough of this, this is not for discussion.'

Yah right, yo-

'SCILENCE!'

Fine be that way.

With that he walked all the way back to his followers in science. And was not bothered by the voice the entire way he walked back to them.

It was complete silence as he walked away, not even his feet made a sound as they hit the ground. With that he was gone, when she could no longer sense him she climbed the rest of the way out of the pool of water. She recreated the barrier protecting herself from prying eyes and sat down on the smooth grass drying her body from the water.

As she sat there her body began to dry quickly and the breeze that blew across her did not help her dry only made her shiver from it.

"Why . . ."

Was the only thing that road on the wind. Soon it was followed be the sound of tears. Her body shook from the cold and from the tears that ragged through her body. Soon they subsided as she moved up to finish getting her clothes back on.

Moving around helped take her mind off the situation at the moment at hand. Placing her dress back on was not the easiest thing to do, especially when your hair is as long and wet as hers was.

" God what I wouldn't give for a towel." She said as she looked for something to put her hair up. Finally after looking for a while she found two decent sticks and carefully place her hair up using the sticks as chop sticks. After shacking her heads a few times to make sure it would not fall out she finished getting ready and lowered the barrier to go find the boys.

When she reached them she had to hold back her laughter so as not to wake them. She moved around them, then sat down next to them and watched as they slept. As she did her mind started to drift over to her friends, how could they not stop Inuyasha from doing those things? They didn't even argue when Koga said he would keep her.

'Was I really that big of a problem to them that hey wouldn't want to defend me? No they would and they did , but maybe Inuyasha kept them to himnot letting them come after me. Kikyo probably helped! Uhhh what's wrong with me? All I wish is to see Inuyasha and find out the truth. . . "sigh" Shippo where are you when I need you.'

" Shippo calm down Kiarra needs rest and so do we. We can find her in the morning when were better rested. Its already well into the early morning and you should be asleep already asking us to rest not ht other way around!"
Stated a very grouchy monk.
"But mommy is still out there, she could be hurt or worse. We HAVE to keep looking!"
shouted a very egger kit.

"Shippo wouldn't Kagome want us to find her when we were at out best and not all tired and not prepared to fight if nessasary?" asked a very tired Sango.

"Yah I guess."

"good then lets go to sleep and we can start fresh in the morning."

With that said everyone feel asleep where they feel, only one was awake.

"I'm going to find mommy on my own, and then well be happy." With that she took of in the woods following the trail of the wolf's foot prints. Going deeper and deeper into the woods with out a care except one.

' Got to find mommy!'