"I assure you, I sense a dark cloud hanging above your residence." The group had traveled all day, and not until night did they reach a village. Miroku had immediately began looking around, inspecting each house until he found the largest. He had then started preaching about an omen hanging above the household.

"Are you sure? Are house was just blessed by a monk last month, he promised us we would be good for many years." The headman at the door replied.

"I'm positive; if you would just let me in I could get rid of this threat."

"But you look badly wounded, are you sure you can handle it?"

Miroku nodded, "Yes, these wounds are merely scars from my last exorcism, I am quite the experienced monk."

The house owner led them inside and to a free room, while Miroku left to do the "exorcism".

"Odd how the biggest home has a dark cloud hanging over it." Sento commented.

"Heh, this is just another one of the monk's cons. He does this all the time, swindling people of their money and food." Inuyasha said.

"At least we get to sleep inside for once! Much better then sleeping on the cold ground!" Kagome snapped at him.

"What do you think I'm supposed to do about it? Do you really expect an inn to be on every damn corner?"

"There they go again..." Sango sighed before throwing down her weapon and sitting down.

"Inuyasha, you really should just calm down! You half demons may like sleeping out in the wild, but we humans like the indoors!" Sento laid a hand on his back.

"Oh so you're gonna get in this now? Taking Kagome's side as usual? Well, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be too happy with you if I told her about last night..."

"You mean when you went to look at them bathing? All I was doing was taking a walk..."

"Really? Well-!" Inuyasha was cut off as Miroku opened the door.

"I just finished the exorcism, and the headman was so grateful he's preparing a huge dinner!"

Later as they ate the food so graciously given to them...

"So, after we go to this village we should get back to finding the jewel shards." Inuyasha said in between mouthfuls of food.

"There you go again with the jewel shards, why do you want them so bad?" Sento asked, also stuffing his face.

"For your information I'm going to use the jewel to transform into a full demon."

"Why do you want to become a demon? You're already strong enough as it is." Sento asked curiously.

"I've got more reasons than just getting stronger! As if I would tell you about it thou..." Inuyasha's and Sento's chopsticks met as they both reached for the last piece of fish. Their eyes locked.

"It's mine, I saw it first!" Inuyasha yelled.

"You've already had enough, I want it!" They both immediately jumped across the table and started fighting. They grappled onto each other, each one trying to break free to reach the food and keep the other from doing so at the same time.

"Alright, the last piece of fish!" Shippo yelled happily before gobbling it down. The both of them were still fighting and hadn't even seen what happened.

"Some things never change..." Kagome sighed.

"Uhnn" Sento mumbled as he tossed in his bed, unable to sleep. He looked over to see Miroku asleep, but found Inuyasha absent. Where did he go at this hour? He wondered until he noticed the door slightly open. He got to his feet and headed outside.

The moonlight sparkled beautifully against the pale pond. A cherry tree sat near, it's peddles completely covering the area. Sento would have stopped to admire the scenery for a bit longer had it not been for his curiosity. He hopped over the small wall surrounding the house.

He's gotta be around here somewhere... Looking around he found an odd sparkling light coming from behind another house. He rushed over and peaked around the corner.

"So then it is only her you care about, hmm?" A woman in white with long black hair asked. What the? She looks just like Kagome! Several long snake like sprits floated between them both.

"No, it's not like that!" Inuyasha pleaded, "I do care about you its just-"

"Then why can't you choose? If you do care about me then pick me!" She must be that one priestess Kagome told me about, Kikyo! The one that Naraku pitted against each other, the one Inuyasha loves!

"I can't right now, I need some more time..."

Her previous face of anger was replaced with one of sadness. "Very well then, goodbye Inuyasha." The snake sprits flew over to her and surrounded her, they carried her off into the night. Inuyasha remained silent and still for a few moments, Sento took this time to scurry back into the house before Inuyasha returned.

They awoke early in the morning and immediately began getting ready to leave. Inuyasha urged them to hurry up, wanting to get to the village as soon as possible. Before they left Miroku received a hefty sum from the headman, payment for his "work".

"And then, using the backlash wave Master Inuyasha sent Ryukotsuseis power back at him tenfold! It torn the mighty demon dragon to pieces!"

"Wow, sounds like quite a fight. But It seems a little farfetched..." Sento said, he had just heard Myoga's long story of Inuyasha's fight with Ryukotsusei.

"Oh yeah? Want me to show you it?" Inuyasha replied, ready to unseat his sword.

"Actually, you wouldn't be able to use the Backlash Wave on him; he's human so he possesses no demonic aura." Myoga corrected.

"Shut up ya stupid insect!" He turned his back and continued walking.

"Seems to me strength isn't one of the things on your wish list."

"I told ya already, I don't want to be a full demon just to get stronger!"

Sento was just about to pester him more about it when Miroku said something to him. "If anything Inuyasha wants to become a full demon so he can match his brother."

"What? He has a brother?" Sento whispered back.

"Yup, and he's 100% demon."

He ran over behind Inuyasha and laid a hand on his shoulder, "I see now. You have brother problems, I can relate to that."

"So you have a brother?" Kagome asked.

"Well, were not blood brothers but we grew up together. You see, in my tribe if you're a male as soon as you're born you're placed with 5 or 6 other kids. You eat, live and sleep together. When they enter their early teens they begin training, and by the time war rolls around they join in groups. So basically, I had 5 brothers." Sento explained.

"Yeah but at least your brothers were the same species as you, you can't understand."

The whole conversation seemed to be getting on Inuyasha's nerves so he dropped it.

After a long day of traveling they finally set up camp. By the rate they were going, they would reach the village by tomorrow.

Sango, Miroku and Shippo had gone to sleep, leaving the others awake. Sento had gone off to get some firewood to fuel their dying fire. He tried to object, not wanting to leave the two alone together but they insisted it was his turn.

As he arrived back Kagome and Inuyasha were sitting right beside each other. His mind filled with disgust at the sight of it. He at first thought of just interrupting Inuyasha, but quickly thought of a much better plan. One that would finally kick the half demon out of the picture.

"Nice night tonight, isn't it." Sento remarked.

"Huh?" They both turned around to see him. "Hey Sento." Kagome said.

"Why you sitting so close to Kagome?" He looked directly at Inuyasha.

"She was cold, so back off!"

Sento smiled at the brilliancy of his plan, this was so going to work.

"Do you really need two women, Inuyasha?" He asked.

"Wha-"

"You know what I'm talking about." Kagome looked at them with an odd look on her face. "Remember last night, Kikyo?"

"What? You were out with Kikyo again!" Kagome flipped.

"I hadn't seen her in awhile okay!"

"What did you say again? Oh that's right, you said you cared about her and you needed more time to pick."

"More time to pick? I'm not a piece of meat you know!"

"Just listen Kagome," Inuyasha pleaded.

"No! Stay away from me you two timing jerk!" She stood up and violently stomped off to her tent.

Inuyasha looked at him with an extremely pissed off look. "What? Just saying what I saw."

"You know what? After we see this little village of yours your leaving for good, or else." Inuyasha jumped up into a tree.

Sento was extremely surprised how he took it, he thought he would be extremely angry and would probably have beaten him to a pulp. But was he serious about the leaving thing? He can't be that upset about it, can he?