Thirty-Eight.
Keeping the truth from Sango was harder, but Kagome had managed.
"Jaken-sama couldn't be more specific", she told her friend, one of the twins sitting comfortably on her lap. "He said he is merely obeying orders, and that it wasn't his place to question his lord."
The miko wondered when exactly had she become so good in lying.
"I'm not quite at ease with the thought of you crossing the lands with only Jaken as your comrade", the taijiya pensively countered. "Why didn't Sesshoumaru come himself?"
Kagome shrugged because, honestly, what could she say?
"Perhaps he was busy", she suggested.
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(100 words.)
