Chapter 5: There you are.

Miroku offered another silent prayer to Buddha that for Kagura's sake Naraku was truly dead the idea of her being reabsorbed was absolutely abhorrent to him, after all she had kept Inu Yasha's secret from Naraku, and in the end had aided them in their attempts to reclaim the shikon no tama, and destroy Naraku, even if she did it for her own selfish designs, she did not deserve to be reabsorbed into that bastard. Miroku felt more then heard the soft sigh the demoness made, he looked down at her and noted how worried she looked and how sad.Miroku hated to see sad eyes on pretty girls it was unnatural, but he always had the solution to that problem, they just needed to be distracted, and he had the perfect means to do it too. Miroku grinned mentally while carefully keeping his face devoid of any hint of mischief. Miroku shifted his weight a little, then a little more, unable to keep the perverted joy off of his face the monk sighed half in frustration and half in bliss. Kagura was definitely soft in all the right places and warm all over, Miroku shifted again.

Kagura had felt it coming the calm quiet before the storm, he had been laying there unmoving like he should for some time, then his body had tensed just slightly, for just a second she had looked up at his face and into his eyes for some hint to what he was up to, they were purposely devoid of any sparkle, 'suspicious,' she thought her senses were telling her he was up to something. Then he did it he moved, and Kagura let it slid figuring that he must be searching for a more comfortable position and he wouldn't do it again.but he had, he did it again. 'Why that lousy pervert!" she thought with irritation. She looked up at his face and found the truth in his perverted smile and hooded violet eyes. Just as she was about to threaten him with his life again for the thousandth time, he sighed, cutting off her thoughts with it's soft breathy groan mixed in the end. "That is it.you pervert," hissed the now radiantly pink Kagura with embarrassed ire as she head butted the obviously very suicidal monk.

"Can you fly Kirara?" asked Inu Yasha. The fire cat indicated that she could and allowed Inu Yasha and Kagome on her back, Kirara leapt into the air with a growl of concern, the whole valley they fought in was now buried under a thick blanket of smoke and even from their vantage above the murk, they still could not see anything. "Go back down a little bit away from the smoke Kirara," said Inu Yasha with weary frustration his voice sounding raw and scratchy from the smoke. The cat landed gracefully on the grassy earth. "Kagome I want you to stay here with Kirara while I go and search for the others," ordered Inu Yasha stubbornly. "What? You're joking right?" asked Kagome in disbelief, "Inu Yasha, you are injured you can't go off by you're self, we are coming with you." Stated Kagome lifting her chin showing her stubborn streak. "No! You are not coming with me," growled Inu Yasha with annoyance. "Hmmm," said Kagome with a lifted eyebrow as she walked up to him and gently pushed the hanyou. "Wha?" said a startled Inu Yasha as he began to fall over. "Well since you're such a push over today, I am going with you weather you like it or not got that you idiot? Snapped Kagome as she glared down at Inu Yasha. The hanyous gold eyes flashed with ire but he wisely suppressed it, he'd seen that look in Kagome's eyes before it was the look usually followed by one or more sits