Ok sorry for the long break (explanation at end of chapter), anyway, towards the end Sango and Miroku are a little OOC, but please deal with it for now... Ok now back to the story

Chapter 5- On the Move

Rin woke up with a start, she had fallen asleep sometime in the morning. It was now sunset, she had slept the whole day away. 'I'm getting soft,' she thought as she jumped from the tree. Rin gracefully landed on the ground without a sound and entered the hut.

Sesshomaru appeared asleep, but opened one eye when she entered. "Ah so you're awake," she moved to his side.

"Hai," he said.

Rin began to remove the bandages to examine his wound and was disappointed at what she saw. If anything the injury had gotten worse. Rin frowned in confusion, what was happening? She put more of her herbs on the injury and re-bandaged it.

Suddenly Sesshormau said, "Jaken is coming."

'Jaken?' she thought, the name sounded familiar. Then she remembered the green toad-like thing that had served Sesshomaru before they were sent to the other world.

She nodded her head, "Do you want me to get him?"

"No," he said before sitting up, "He can find us on his own."

Rin wanted to stop him as he moved but knew that nothing she did would prevent him now that he was feeling stronger. So she sat there resisting the urge to aid him and waited until the creature entered the hut.

"Lord Sesshomaru," said the toad, "Thank heavens that I've finally found you."

"Hello Jaken," said Sesshomaru from were he was seated.

"Lord Sesshomaru, why did you leave your faithful servant for so long? I was worried you were dead," Jaken slowly approached his master, relief could be seen in him eyes.

"I'm touched Jaken," was the only answer he got out of Sesshomaru.

"And who is this human you have with you?" he said in a demanding tone, acting like he was intitled to know. He shook his two headed staff towards Rin.

Sesshomaru coldly stared at him until he began to tremble.

"Ple-, please forgive me my lord. I shouldn't question you," Jaken said beginning to bow several times in apology.

Satisfied with Jaken's response he answered his earlier question, "This is Rin," he stated simply.

"Rin? The annoying little human girl you revived? But that can't be her," he said, "She 's at least 15 in human years and Rin was a small child."

"Jaken, we have been gone longer than you think."

Rin did not want to sit and listen to them anymore, Jaken was a weak mindless servant who couldn't speak him mind. So she said to them, "I'm going out to search for Inuyasha, I will be back in a few days." She looked down on Jaken, "I'm guessing you can take care of Sesshomaru until I get back, right?"

Jaken glared at her menacingly, "Of course I can, better than any human anyways." His arrogant tone bothered her, after saying this he turned his nose up into the air.

Before Jaken could move, Rin had pulled her knife from it's place at her waist and laid it against his throat, "I doubt that," she whisper into his ear. She felt the toad tremble in her grip and pressed the knife tighter into his throat, a trickle of blood trailed down the creature's neck. An uninvited whimper in complaint escaped Jaken's tightly locked lips.

"Enough Rin," said Sesshomaru interrupting her little game, amusement could be seen in his eyes, "You can play with him later."

Rin released her victim and walked out of the hut, sliding the knife back to its former position in it's sheath. She could hear Jaken's voice as she left, Jaken was whiningly questioning Sesshomaru, "What do you mean my Lord, you wouldn't actually let her do anything like that again would you?" Rin smirked as she walked off into the darkened trees, her blade would see more than enough blood to quench its thirst after she got done with that human wench.

~*~*~*~ Kagome sat on the edge of the bone eaters well, salty tears steadily coming down her face. She had left Inuyasha at the hot springs hours ago and walked to this place. After she had been sure that the hanyou was well out of hearing range she had begun to cry. The tears still flowed freely from her eyes as she debated whether or not to go back to her time.

Suddenly she looked up, briskly wiping away the evidence she'd been crying so that Inuyasha wouldn't notice. At the rim of the clearing she could make out a figure standing beneath on e of the many trees. 'How long has he been there?' she asked herself as she warily looked at the hanyou.

Inuyasha slowly walked across the clearing to her. After she left, he had been undecided about what to do. An hour had gone by before he had come up with any sort of plan at all. He then began to follow Kagome, using his nose to distinguish her scent from the night. He had kept at an excruciatingly slow pace so as not to catch up with her until now. 'Is she carrying over me?' he thought, his sympathetic eyes trailing over her, 'I hate it when girls cry, especially Kagome.' He could smell the salt in the air, it wasn't right, her scent wasn't meant to be combined with the smell of tears.

She got up when he was only a few paces away from her, her movements were slow and stiff, she had sat in her former position for an hour or more. They faced each other in silence for a few minutes, looking intently into the others eyes for some hint at what was to come.

Kagome was the first to speak, "I'm sorry," she whispered before looking down at her feet. "I, I shouldn't have gone so far."

There was a brief hush, "Kagome," he whispered her name, "Where you crying over me?" Kagome didn't answer him, choosing to continue to stare at her feet. The hanyou sighed and stepped closer to her. He placed his hands on her shoulders, "Please look at me," he told her.

Try as she might, she could not resist his sincere request, gradually she raised her head partway before another stopping, Kagome didn't want to face the hanyou. Inuyasha pulled his one hand from her shoulder and placed it under her chin, gently lifting her head up the rest of the way. The darkness made his eyes seem to glow and his hair stood out in sharp comparison to the night.

He looked at her lovingly, "Do you remember when you almost left my life forever? Just because I was naïve enough to think you wouldn't want to stay with me after I'd sworn to protect Kikyo. I thought you wouldn't understand, that you'd stay in your time and curse my name for the rest of your days," he paused, "But you didn't, you came back to me."

Kagome was so confused, the emotions running through her head caused a jumble of all her thoughts. "I remember," she said, trying to look away, but Inuyasha's hand prevented her from moving. Kagome thought back, trying to avoid his search gaze while doing so. It was when she first truly recognized her love for Inuyasha. Things might have turned out differently if she hadn't been so truthful.

He gently tilted her head up and kissed her briefly on the lips. Kagome as so surprised she didn't react during the kiss or as he pulled her into one of his bear-like hugs.

"I need you Kagome," he whispered, "I would kill myself if I let anything ever happen to you," he stopped, quietly breathing in her scent. "You have to stay in your world until I come to get you, ok? I don't want you coming back until I'm positive you'll be safe."

"But. . ." Kagome searched her brain for some argument, she had to find some way to stay here, she needed more time to sort through some of what she was feeling.

"Kagome, I will get you when it's safe for you to return," before she could protest, he had picked her up, cradling her, and dropped her in the well. His next words echoed through the well as the blue light appeared to carry her to her time, "Stay there until I get you. . ."

~*~*~*~ Kagome found herself at the bottom of the well, she slowly climbed out relying on the rope ladder that hung over the side. Trying to sort through her emotions she asked herself, "What am I going to do?" Kagome got out of the well and gradually slid down the well's side until she was seated on the ground. Staring off into the wall of the well house she said, "Should I obey him and stay here? Or should I go back?"

It was like she had split in two, each side was at war with the other. On one hand Kagome didn't want Inuyasha to worry about her, but, what if something happened to him while she wasn't there. Her mind went round and round fighting against itself.

Finally she got up, exhausted from the metal battle. She walked to her house where her family was waiting patiently as they did ever night, hoping she would pay them an unexpected visit. When she opened the sliding door to her home, her family looked at her hopefully, expecting a warm friendly greeting. Kagome didn't even acknowledge their presence as she slowly walked up to her room, each step creaking in protest to her weight.

Kagome gently shut her door before falling into her bad. She stayed there the rest of the night trying to think, until she drifted into a dreamless slumber.

~*~*~*~ It took the hanyou and hour to return to camp, he ran at tope speed, quickly covering the distance. When he finally reached Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, they were still sleeping. With dawn only a couple of hours away he didn't want to wake them, they would find out what he had to tell them soon enough.

Inuyasha quietly sat down next to them, and tried to get a few hours of sleep.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku exclaimed when he awoke to find his foul tempered friends had returned, and that he was sleeping against a tree.

"Quite yelling stupid monk," Inuyasha said in response opening one eye.

"Where did you disappear to last night? And where's Kagome?" he asked not seeing her as he searched the clearing with his eyes.

"I told you I'd take care of it didn't I?" Inuyasha said opening the other eye. He sighed before standing, he wasn't going to get anymore sleep that morning.

"So," Sango said rolling over so the boys could see she was awake and she propped herself up on her elbow, "You sent her back to her world?"

"Yes," the hanyou said nodding his head. Inuyasha slide his sword into place once he was up.

"How do you know she'll stay there?" she asked getting up, much to the dislike of Kirara who was sleeping on her stomach.

"She will, I'm sure of it," was all he would say to them.

"Where to now them?" asked Miroku who had begun search through Kagome's pack looking for some form of breakfast.

Sango prepared for them to leave. A half hour later Miroku had breakfast cooked and Shippo had waken up. They ate in silence, with Kagome gone it seemed as if something was wrong.

"When's Kagome coming back?" ventured Shippo addressing the question to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha ignored him like usual, and continued to shove his breakfast into his mouth. Sango sighed and muttered something about how immature they were.

Inuyasha's ears twitched and he glared at her, "What did you say?" he asked her.

"Oh, nothing" Sango replied acting as if some animal ha distracted her so she could look away from him.

Inuyasha continued to glare evilly at her for another ten seconds or so until he returned to eating his food.

Miroku watched their exchange of words while calmly devouring the breakfast he cooked.

As soon as Inuyasha finished his breakfast he jumped up into the trees. "I'm going to check out the area," the hanyou called over his shoulder.

"Not without me," Shippo shouted and followed the dog hanyou as he tried to lose the little fox.

Sango sighed, he always disappeared when the food was gone, leaving her with the monk to clean it up. 'Speaking of the monk,' she thought briefly looking up form her own job. Sango studies Miroku from underneath her eyelashes.

The monk was happily cleaning up their campsite area. Miroku had yet to grope her since the other night when he started acting weird. In fact, he hadn't even looked at her in that kind of way, she could always tell when those thoughts entered his mind because a mischievous sort of gleam sparkled in his eyes. Sango smiled to herself, she might just have to see for herself if he was putting on an act.

"Miroku," she called to him. The youkai exterminator quickly formed a plan in her mind, 'This is going to be fun,' she thought.

"Yes Sango," he said, the monk looked up from his task.

"Could you come over here and help me carry these dishes to the river?" she asked him as sweetly as possible, indicating the bowels and cup that they'd used for breakfast.

"I would be happy to," responded Miroku, he stood and began to approach her. "What would you like me to carry?" he asked her.

"Whatever I can't," she told him and began to gather the equipment in her arms.

Miroku bent down as well to assist her. Sango waited and let him take most of the dishes. It was a fair way to the river and she needed to have as much free movement as possible.

Miroku stood, his arms loaded with bowels and cups. He was having a difficult time balancing his staff in one hand and the tableware in the other.

Together they started off, Sango kept her eyes open along the way.

Suddenly Miroku's grip on a cup slipped and it fell to the ground.

"Let me get it," she told Miroku as he started to retrieve the cup. 'Finally an opportunity,' she thought.

Sango stepped in front of the monk and bent in half. She kept her one hand free preparing herself to slap him when the inevitable happened.

Sango picked up the cup and returned to a standing position without incident.

"Thank you Sango-chan," was all Miroku said before continuing to the river.

'That was weird,' thought Sango as she followed, 'Oh well, this just means it's time for drastic measures.' She watched the monk as the river creped it's way toward them.

Seeing her opening to act, Sango carefully placed her foot in Miroku's way, tripping him. He fell over landing on top of the youkai exterminator, unfortunately instead of stopping there continued to tumble over each other. Sango had failed to notice that there happened to be a slope on her left.

Dishes forgotten, they tried to stop their fall, only succeeding in tangling themselves up more. With a final 'thump' the monk and youkai exterminator hit the bottom.

Sango tried to catch her breath, though this was a little difficult seeing as Miroku was laying on top of her. He gradually lifted his top half up off of her, placing his hands at either side of her head so as to support his weight.

"Sango?"

"Hm," she said looking deeply into his blue/black eyes.

"Where are your hands?" he asked calmly.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

He sighed, and picked up his right hand, leaving his left to support his weight. Gently Miroku removed Sango's hands from his butt and moved off of her to one side.

'I don't understand,' though Sango as she got up sitting across from him. Her confusion quickly turned to anger, "What the hell's wrong with you?" she yelled at him using words that she rarely used.

Miroku didn't understand, a bewildered look crossed his face.

"What happened to you? Where did the Miroku I know go to? The one that gropes me every chance he gets, the one that's traveling with me and helped me overcome ever obstacle that's been thrown at me? The perverted monk that asks ever girl he meets to bear his child and get turned down ever time!" she stopped, having run out of breath. She panted bringing in the much needed oxygen to her lungs, tears began to form in the corners of her eyes when she saw her little speak had no effect on him.

"I don't know what you're talking about Sango," Miroku said, oblivious to the emotional state she was in.

Sango jumped up, forcing back the tears that blurred her vision, she wouldn't let the stupid monk make her cry. Calling to Kirara, Sango was determined to find her hanyou friend, she had to find out what was wrong with Miroku. ~*~*~*~

I'm so sorry this chapter took so long, please forgive me, *bows to all her readers*. But I've had a really busy week, (plus I couldn't get the chapter to sound like I wanted it too, and still can't, it sounds a little off to me... Oh well it'll have to do).