"Where are we?" Kagome asked. She was answered by silence. "Um..Inuyasha? Myoga? Anyone care to answer?" More silence. After a while, Inuyasha finally said,

"I can't believe it.the fountain of youth is under my brother Sessho-maru's domain?" Inuyasha was in total disbelief. "But I thought it was in my forest behind the droopy trees next to the large lake.why -how?" Myoga sighed.

"The fountain changes places every thousand years you see. That's why I knew you wouldn't be able to find it." Inuyasha's eyes slit narrowly and he looked at Kagome with fierce determination.

"Let's get going! Where to go, Myoga?" Inuyasha's hands moved to his head where he knew the flea would be rested. He was shocked to find that he wasn't there. "Myoga!?" The flea wasn't on his head! "Kagome! We've lost Myoga!" He whirled around but Kagome wasn't there either. "What!! First the flea, now Kagome! What have I gotten myself into?! Kagome! Myoga!" He sniffed around. Kagome's scent was very strong towards the west. He followed the scent and found that Kagome and Myoga had journeyed forward abandoning him in his little daydreaming state. "Hey! What do you mean by just leaving me there?!" he was obviously very angry. His dark golden amber eyes flashed with parsimony.

"Sorry," Kagome apologized. "We have to get there quick.we didn't want to disturb you. We knew you'd find us later." She smiled and for a while, Inuyasha almost fell into a daydream state again.

'Her smile is so beautiful,' he thought to himself. But he snapped out of it pretty quickly and ran to catch up with Kagome and Myoga. "You guys had me going a bit there. When Myoga wasn't on my head, I panicked. But I thought it wasn't that big of a deal. He's just a flea anyhow. I mean, what do I care for a flea? And then I turned around and YOU were gone. I almost die--" Inuyasha stopped himself. 'Man, that was close,' he thought. He could feel himself blushing as Kagome turned around and said,

"What? What, Inuyasha? You almost.?" She was smiling again.

"I almost.panicked more than I did when Myoga wasn't there." he smiled back, nervously, twittering with his long, beautiful silver hair.

'Just look at his hair,' sighed Kagome dreamily. 'I just want to run my hands through it and.' "Do! Let us go on! To the fountain of youth we go!" she said as she shuttered out of her little reverie.

'What could she be thinking?' Inuyasha thought as he followed Myoga. Inuyasha thought so hard about Kagome that he didn't notice how far and how long they had been walking until Myoga announced proudly,

"Here we are! The fountain of youth!" Myoga pulled back a curtain of moss that had grown on the branch above. And there it lay, the Fountain of Youth, with gentle mist surrounding it. Inuyasha went up to Kagome and held out an arm.

"Shall I, being the ever decent dog-demon I am, escort you to the Fountain of Youth?" he asked, timidly. Kagome smiled up at him. She linked her arm in his and went up to the fountain. When they reached the rim of the fountain, Inuyasha scooped Kagome up in his arms, gently, oh ever so gently and used his unsheathed claws to close her beautiful eyes. He put her down in the fountain so that all the sweet-smelling water engulfed her body and a soft pink light enveloped the fountain and Kagome was sixteen again, except she would be sixteen forever. She was immortal. A voice rose above and a blinding light filled the air. Inuyasha shaded his eyes as he tried to look above to see what was there.

"Eternally young you now are,

And beautiful you are by far,

If you could touch this goblet above me,

Shikon companions you will no longer be." the voice faded away.

"Let's get away," Inuyasha said. "We don't know what we'll be if we're not Shikon companions." But Kagome was glued to the goblet. Obviously, something in the rosy water she had bathed in made her want it with greedy covet. She reached her arm out and tried to grab the goblet.

"Ugh!" She grunted as she stretched her arm and strained her neck to try to get the golden goblet. It seemed to go higher the more she stretched. 'I have the power of the Shikon no Tama.' she thought. An evil glint of light shone in her eyes. Her arm shot up so fast that when Inuyasha swirled around the goblet was in Kagome's hands and she was transforming into a hanyou. Inuyasha's jaw dropped.

To be continued.