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Chapter 13:

They had been walking for hours in silence, Kagome and Hachi, and were almost out of the western country, entering the east. That's were Koga's clan was settled. It was practically treason going there; the wolves and the dogs had never been on good terms, and were actually on the verge of war, 'what can I do? I don't have that many friends over in this time other than the people in Kyede's village, and if I go over there Sesshomaru and Inuyasha will defiantly find me.'

"Kagome" Hatchi called her.

She stared at the ground continuing to walk

"Kagome"

"Huh?" kagome looked down at Hachi. "sumimasen. I'm so flustered I can't keep my mind from wandering. What were you saying?"

"I was just wondering, is Koga still, well…"

Kagome smiled "No Hatchi Koga's married now, well mated I should say. To Ayame and last time I heard they have two children already"

She looked ahead a small meadow came into view past the trees "How we take a break up there?"

"Y-yes that sounds good!" Hatchi said happily

"Humph" wall all Kagura had to say Flying on her feather. "Well this is gonna be fun" she rested her elbow on her knee and her chin on her hand.

"Kagura"

"Mmmm."

"We must hurry we won't have much time once the Lord of the West notices" Kanna said in her blank emotionless tone.

"Yeah, yeah, I know"

Inuyasha stood there leaning against the door frame his arms crossed. Shippou was still unconscious in Naniko's grip.

Akia peeped her head around the back corner of the armory Naniko's back to her. 'S-Shippou-kun'

She quickly turned back around the corner her mind in a state of panic. 'What is going on? Why is Naniko doing that to shippou? I thought she liked him.' Her hand grazed over a large decorative vase sitting on the floor. Her hand flinched to her chest from the cold porcelain touching her hand. She grabbed her tail nervously; worry covered her face and body. She looked back down at the vase letting go of her tail.

Naniko took her free hand to touch Shippou's face. His eyes blinked and opened slightly, "You're a cute little kunsine aren't you"

"Get your filthy hands off of him"

Naniko turned around in just enough time to feel a large porcelain vase knock her unconscious.

'That moronic brother was actually of use to me, surprising' He had been running for an hour now and he could tell that he was catching up to her. 'She hasn't used the sent protection barrier. Why?'

He stopped running and he picked up a broken twig and sniffed it, 'She's not too far from here' he looked up and saw the remains of a fire and the smell of Kagome's strange spices. He would never admit it, even to himself, but he always liked her cooking better than the cook's he had back at the castle.

Kagome laid on her back looking up at the sky, she sighed, "Hatchi?"

"Yes kagome?"

"Do you think, if I had stayed, that Inuyasha would have still accepted me? I mean me being Shesshomaru's mate and all."

"Well that's difficult to say, it is Inuyasha after all. But I would think that he would have even though, gulp, he loves you"

Kagome sat up "what did you say?"

"W-w-well b-before he l-left I over heard him t-talking to M-m-miroku and he told him everything a-about why he was l-l-l-leaving and Miroku was to t-tell you the n-next day."

"But then you we got attacked by Naraku" kagome's eyes began to fill with tears.

"I had thought Miroku had already told you so I didn't say anything"

"Hatchi?" kagome's tears fell freely now at the thought of her lost friends.

Hatchi weekly looked back at her.

"I know this might be difficult but could you, please tell me what Inuyasha said to Miroku?"

Hatchi looked back down at the ground "Hai."

Inuyasha stared at Akia still clutching onto pieces of vase. She sunk to her knees slowly staring at Naniko blood flooded around her head.

Inuyasha jumped over to shippou who was lying on the ground in a heap. Inuyasha checked his pulse and sniffed the air a few times before sitting Shippou up against the wall.

Akia was shivering clutching the front of her shirt and the piece of vase tightly in her other hand. She felt a hand on her shoulder. She jumped and looked up, Inuyasha offered his hand to her and she took it dropping the piece of vase in her hand. She stood still shaking and wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's waist.

'What the?' Inuyasha thought as he held his hands up awkwardly away from the now crying girl. He patted her back a few times and pulled away from her. He bent back down again this time to Naniko's body. He felt her pulse and sniffed the air again. "She's not dead" Akia looked at him he could hear her sobs dying down, "but you need to stitch up the cut in the back of her head soon or she will be" Inuyasha heard footsteps running across the floor and the door slammed opened. He looked up at the door were Akia had just left 'Weird' he thought his heart skipped right then.

Inuyasha stood back up looking at shippou. He grabbed a standard samurai sword off the wall much like the un-transformed version of his tetsaiga but much fancier looking.

"Sorry Shippou," he smirked at the un conscious kunstine "looks like your gonna be left behind this time"