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Chapter 6: Naraku's Smell

Gesshoku moved in her sleep.

What was the really soft thing she was holding?

It was so warm. Gesshoku moaned and rolled over. She opened her eyes and saw Rin sleeping by her side. It was early morning at the sun just started to rise over a peak far off in the distance. She started to sit up when she realized she was holding that soft and.fluffy thing.

It wasn't a figment of my imagination?

Her eyes budged at what she saw. She was holding the fur around a very agitated looking Sesshoumaru. He was glaring so evilly too!

"Waking me up by tugging on this is quite rude and painful woman."

"What? I did it in my sleep, OKAY?" Gesshoku said, throwing it down angrily. This was no way to start off a morning together. Sesshoumaru kept his cool stance.

"Why don't you.ever do something?" Gesshoku yelled. Kagome awoke to find Gesshoku screaming her head off at Sesshoumaru, who looked like he was about to kill her. Rin stirred and yawned, stretching. Gesshoku quieted down. Rin opened her eyes and sat up.

"It was so good weather last night, huh, Sesshoumaru Sama? I didn't even shiver!" She stood up and started running around. Gesshoku looked at Sesshoumaru and glared.

"I told you she gets cold." Sesshoumaru clenched his fist, but did nothing.

The mounds that were Inuyasha and Kouga moaned and sat up, rubbing various parts of their body.

"Uhhh.by woman! I'll come to get you after I kill Naraku!" Kouga said, before speeding off.

"Did he lose his memory or something?" Gesshoku asked.

"Well, he's always been a little less of a short term memory person." Kagome asked.

"A little?" Inuyasha yelled. "Come back here you fucker!"

"Inuyasha sit!" Kagome said. Inuyasha sat hard.

"What did you do to get him to do that?" Gesshoku asked.

"A prayer bead necklace."

"Really? I've heard of them but never seen of them before."

"What kind of miko are you?" Sesshoumaru muttered quietly.

"A determined one, stupid!" Gesshoku yelled at Sesshoumaru.

"Whoa, you don't want to make him mad!" Kagome said urgently. Gesshoku quieted down. Rin had wondered over to Inuyasha.

"You bad doggy. It serves you right. You can't say bad words. No, no, no." Rin wagged her finger in Inuyasha's face. He looked as though he wanted to bite it off.

"Uhhh- come here, Rin-Chan." Gesshoku said.

"You don't want to make Inuyasha koru mad."

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME BITCH?" Inuyasha roared, springing from the ground.

"DOG TURD! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?"

"WHY YOU-"

"SIT DOWN!" Gesshoku laughed as Inuyasha face planted. So did Rin. Then she stopped and looked around.

"Sesshoumaru Sama, where is Jaken Sama?" Sesshoumaru looked to the side.

"He is gone, Rin."

"Gone where, Sesshoumaru Sama? When's he gonna come back?"

"He's not coming back, Rin." Rin started to understand.

"Sesshoumaru Sama, is Jaken Sama.dead?" Sesshoumaru nodded and walked away.

"Come, Rin. We are leaving." But Rin didn't budge. She had lost so many people she loved already. Why another one? (A/n: later on in the story, Rin and Jaken like each other (not mushy love, but kind of kid/hero type thing). Rin looked at her feet.

"Sesshoumaru Sama." She whispered. He stopped walking and looked at her.

"How come you didn't save him? Like how you did to me? Why didn't you save him?" Rin started crying.

"He's more important to you than me, right? All I do is slow you down. He can defend himself most of the time. Why didn't you save him?" Sesshoumaru faced her properly.

"Rin, we are going to save him. I found his scent leaving with you. Naraku has him and is using him as bait." He turned around and kept walking.

"How do you know he's that way?" Kagome called.

"My sense of smell is better that your mate. He is this way." Sesshoumaru turned around.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MATE?" Kagome shrieked.

"YEAH! She- SHE'S JUST MY SHARD DETECTOR!" Inuyasha cried. Kagome looked at him.

"Is that all I am to you?" They started bickering. In the mean time, Shippo and Gesshoku rolled their eyes.

"Maybe he was talking about Kouga and Kagome." Shippo said. Inuyasha and Kagome stopped for a moment. The next however, Inuyasha was punching the crap out of Shippo, making Kagome scream louder and sit him a few more times.

Gesshoku stood up and ran after Sesshoumaru and Rin.

"Wait up!" She called to them. They were a while away before Gesshoku looked back and saw Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo were still fighting.

"YOU GUYS!" She yelled really loud and unexpectedly, making Sesshoumaru almost jump and Rin turn around. Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo looked up and saw the distance between them.

"STOP BICKERING AND GET YOUR BUTTS OVER HERE!" Kagome picked up Shippo in her arms and started running towards them.

"You come back here!" Inuyasha yelled.

"SIT!" Kagome shrieked in reply.

It was midday, and all of the "pathetic human wenches" were eating lunch.

"Well, you should be used to this, Sesshoumaru Sama, after all, Rin eats lunch too, doesn't she?" Gesshoku said. Sesshoumaru stayed quiet.

"You do feed her lunch, don't you?" Gesshoku asked after a few moments.

"Rin fends for herself!" Rin cried happily.

"You're too young to fend for yourself. I couldn't go until I was sixteen!" Gesshoku cried in disbelief. Everyone starred at Sesshoumaru.

"Ahem.Rin, could you cover your ears really well and look the other way until I tap you or something?" Gesshoku asked. She nodded and hummed, doing it.

Gesshoku turned to Sesshoumaru with a smile that soon turned into a frown. Her eyes got big and she had the whole flames behind her thing, complete with a volcano exploding behind her.

"YOU DON'T FUCKING FEED HER? WHAT ABOUT BREAKFAST? LUNCH? DINNER?" Gesshoku yelled.

"WHAT THE HELL KIND OF FATHER ARE YOU?" More silence.

"YOU ARE BY FAR THE WORST PARENT I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS!" Sesshoumaru stood up, facing her.

"I have never had this duty before and I am to ready. If you're so great, you do it." He growled, his voice rising in defiant anger. He was, however, a bit shaken from the previous view of her.

Inuyasha's mouth was to the ground and Kagome's eyes were wide. Gesshoku frowned.

"Fine." She marched over and tapped Rin.

"Okay, Rin, it seems that I'll have to be your mother for a while. But your old mother and father liked each other a lot, right?"

"Yes! They loved each other!"

"Well, Sesshoumaru Sama and I aren't like that. He's just over there, nothing for me, nothing for him, okay?" Rin nodded, but a bit confused.

"Okay, are you hungry?" Rin looked to Sesshoumaru.

"Answer truthfully, Rin." Rin nodded.

"Okay, come with me." Gesshoku nodded and they both walked to the side of the trail they had been traveling on.

"Berries! Eat those ones!" Rin grabbed a handful of berries, which Gesshoku instantly recognized as being poisonous.

"Don't eat those Rin!" Gesshoku cried. Rin paused.

"How come?"

"Thos are poisonous. Here, you see the orange color at the stem?" Rin nodded.

"That is one of many things that signify the plant is poisonous." Gesshoku warned.

Gesshoku could tell Rin had had one of the best days of her life. The child was about to fall asleep.

"Rin, come here." Gesshoku said tiredly, opening her arms to her adopted child.

"Okay." Rin got up and went to her mother's arms. Gesshoku got into a comfortable position on the ground before Rin snuggled to her mother's warmness.

"My mommy, she used to hold me like this. I . miss her." The child said. All mommies hold their kids like this, Rin", Gesshoku said before the child fell asleep.

"Naraku's scent is still fresh." Sesshoumaru said, mentioning his presence.

"So?" Gesshoku said.

"I can.also see that moon lit trail of yours."

"You're supposed to." Gesshoku answered. Kagome turned over in her sleeping bag. She seemed to be having a nightmare, but awoke suddenly from it.

"Gesshoku?" She asked. "Have Miroku, Sango, and Kirara returned yet?" Gesshoku shook her head.

"Why?"

"I wonder if.they were captured by Naraku.I had a strange dream but maybe its just fate." Kagome said.

"Nothing is fate. Everything has a purpose." Gesshoku said.

"What happened in your dream?"

"They were searching for something. Then a light flashed out of the corner of my eye and they were knocked back wards, off Kirara. Kirara fell to the ground.which was a long fall- I don't know what happened to Sango and Miroku though."

"What makes you think Naraku has her?"

"Because, through out the whole dream, I felt a lot of Shikon Shards and an evil aura, though it felt stronger than Naraku."

"Does that mean Naraku's grown stronger or is it another person stronger than Naraku himself?" Asked Inuyasha, startling them all, especially because they thought he was asleep.

"I think-" Gesshoku was cut off from a swift moment of Sesshoumaru, silencing them all. He turned his head, obviously hearing something far off. He sniffed it.

"Your friend, Kirara, is coming." They all turned and Inuyasha stood up.

"Kirara's blood is everywhere!" He cried. The figure finally emerged. There was blood everywhere in her usual yellow-tan fur.

Shippo moaned at the smell of blood and opened his sleeping eyes.

"KIRARA!" He cried desperately.

Rin too moaned an opened her eyes. She crawled over to where the massive cat had shrunken to its small form. She closed her eyes and was enveloped in light. Then a bright, blinding flash knocked them all out.