Sango awoke with a dull pain in her arm. She opened her eyes only long enough to see the splint and then she closed them again. She suddenly remembered Miroku. He had been so sweet to her. She remembered his strong arms that had held her up and his sturdy chest. She blushed as she realized what she was thinking. She looked around the room confused. Where was Miroku anyway?

She stood herself up and walked out of the room in search of Miroku. She was shocked however when she saw him right outside the door.

"Sango" said Miroku standing up. "Are you feeling all right?" he asked with concern.

"Yes, much better." she said turning to look at the ground.

"Um...well that's good" said Miroku wringing out his hands. He was nervous and he didn't know why.

Sango noticed that he was nervous and blushed slightly. "Um...Miroku."

"Yes" he said looking up at her.

She blushed even more. "Um...thank you for last night." she finally said.

"Uh...yeah sure." he said lost in her eyes. He saw her face go from pink to red and she looked away.

Sango recovered herself and brought herself back to reality. "What are we going to do about Inuyasha?" she asked finally looking at him again.

"I've thought about that and this is what I've got." he said clearing his mind of how beautiful Sango looked. This was important business, yet he couldn't stop thinking about her eyes. "I figure that since Totosi forged the sword, that maybe we should find him and see if he knows what's going on. After we know what's going on we should be able to fix it." he saw Sango staring at him. "So what do ya' think"

"I think it's a great idea." she said.

"Good we leave this afternoon" he said. Then as if he just remembered something "That is if your feeling up to it." he added looking at her arm.

"I'm ready whenever you are" she said pushing the slight pain in her arm out of her mind. They needed to get Inuyasha back to his original form as quickly as possible and she wasn't going to be the one to delay the group. The group she thought. She couldn't really call them the group anymore. Inuyasha was a crazed demon who can't tell friend from foe and Kagome as much as she hated to admit it belonged to Sesshomaru. She shook her head regardless if they were standing in front of her or not they were her friends and she'd gladly do anything for them, whether they knew who they were or not.

The two started to walk around and get their things together. Totosi shouldn't be to far away if they rode Kilila. If they left that afternoon they should make it there by the next afternoon.



Kagome slowly opened her eyes to see that she was lying in the same spot she had been when Sesshomaru had jumped her. She sat up slowly the wound in her side felling worse instead of better. She brought her hand to her neck to feel the same mark that had been there from Naraku, except this time the mark was from Sesshomaru. At another time she would have started crying, but she didn't. She surprised herself by acting very calmly about it. She didn't over react, in fact she didn't react at all. She had cried all of her tears and spent all of her emotions. There was just nothing left. She pulled her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. She laid her head on her knees and just sat there not looking at anything in particular, or even really thinking about anything at all. She just sat there doing absolutely nothing at all.

"My' lord." said a small demon. "She has awoken." he reported. His master had assigned him to watching the human girl.

"And how has she reacted." asked the monotone voice from the back of the room.

"She has not reacted my' lord." he answered.

"What do you mean she has not reacted." he said in a snarl turning to the creature.

"She has showed no emotion what so ever my' lord." said the servant cowering in fear from his master.

Sesshomaru dismissed the creature and turned his thoughts to Kagome. After the way she had reacted last night when he marked her he had expected her to have thrown a fit whenever she woke up. At least cry or scream or something, but absolutely nothing. He didn't know how he should approach this situation. Perhaps he should wait until dinner. Yes that's what he'd do he's seen how she was at dinner and take it from there. She was probably just shocked, by dinner it should wear off.

Shippo let out a big breath and landed on the ground. He had blown himself up and had floated for about half of the day. He had left early that morning; he had to tell Kagome about Inuyasha. He knew Inuyasha was a demon, but he was sure Kagome could help him go back to the real Inuyasha. And even if it didn't work he had to try, or at least tell Kagome. He wasn't sure it would work, but he had to do something he couldn't just sit around and do nothing. And it wasn't like he'd be missed nobody had been paying much attention to him since Kagome had been kidnapped by Naraku. Whatever it was he had to try.