Miroku handed Sango the bucket filled with water.
"Thank you" said Sango quickly, then rushing back inside.
Miroku walked over to Kouga and Sesshomaru. He had expected to hear Kouga complaining about something, but he wasn't. Miroku stood there for a while. No one said anything. He started feeling a little awkward. "So..." He turned to Kouga. "Why are you so quite all of a sudden?"
Kouga opened his mouth to answer when he caught sight of Sesshomaru looking at him. He closed his mouth. It obviously hadn't been an empty threat.
Miroku caught the exchange of eye contact. HE looked at Kouga and then at Sesshomaru. Still no one said anything.
"Kouga was saying it was all Inuyasha's fault that Kagome was like this. Sesshomaru go mad and flung him against that tree over there and said if he said another word he'd kill him" stated Shippo looking at Miroku.
"Right" he said looking back and forth between the two demons. "Makes perfect sense." he sighed as he sat down. "Sesshomaru caring about Inuyasha, and Kouga taking threats sitting down. That's right everything makes absolute perfect sense. "He closed his eyes. He felt Shippo crawl into his lap. He opened his eyes and looked down.
"Miroku is Kagome gonna' be o.k.?" asked the tiny kitsune, his eyes filling with tears.
Both demons focused their attention on the monk at the small fox's question.
"She'll be fine" said Miroku patting his friend on the head.
Shippo started crying. "I...I...I'm sorry...I...I didn't want her to get hurt." he cried. "She'd been able to change him back before. I thought she'd be able to do it again." He buried his face in Miroku's robes. "I'm so sorry."
Miroku was a little stunned, but soon recovered from his shock. "Shippo you have nothing to apologize for."
"But it's all my fault." he said trying to sniff back his tears.
"No, it's not your fault. It would have happened weather you'd been here or not." he lied to the small demon. Truth be told, if Shippo hadn't gotten Kagome, Inuyasha would still be a demon.
He was grateful though. They had gotten there right before he'd delivered his final blow. He didn't know, but maybe seeing all of them there had brought him back sooner. He didn't really care. As long as Kagome was alive and Inuyasha was back to normal it really didn't matter.
His train of thought slipped over to Inuyasha as the small demon in his lap began to calm down. He'd seen Inuyasha by the God Tree when he'd gone to fetch the water. HE had almost stopped to talk to
him, but...There had been something different about him. He had been crying, but that hadn't been it. His aura. It had been different. He would have stopped either way, but...he didn't know how to approach this kinda' of situation. He had no comforting advice to give. He was a guy after all. Maybe he'd have Sango talk to him later. Yeah that's what he'd do. Tell Sango. Later. The monk drifted off to sleep.