Author's note: WHOA! He almost kissed her! Does he really have feelings for her? He blushed in front of her too-he NEVER blushes- especially when it comes to a human! He didn't like Jaken interrupting him either-ooooooo! Let's find out what happens now I want to find out what happens! Does he ever kiss Lauren? Or is he just acting like this to get Lauren to kill Inu Yasha? OOOOOOOO plot thickens! I like, I like! COOOOOOL!
Chapter 4: Sesshoumaru to the rescue!
She walked a few feet, then stopped and looked back at Sesshoumaru. She smiled and waved, then ran off to meet her friends. After a few minutes, Lauren came into sight of Kagome.

"Lauren!" Kagome yelled. "Are you ok?"

"Yea I'm fine." Lauren said as she and Kagome hugged.

"Lauren!" Shippo yelled.

"Hey Shippo!" Lauren said hugging the little kitsune and swinging him around.

"Did he hurt you?" Kagome asked.

"Who?" Lauren asked.

"Sesshoumaru! Did Sesshoumaru hurt you?" Kagome asked half frightened.

"No, he was actually-"Lauren paused looking at Inu Yasha. "No, No. He didn't hurt me." She said not wanting to give away anything.

"Good. Oh, hey. That reminds me, Inu Yasha. We can go jewel shard hunting now. I felt a shard in that direction a minute ago." Kagome said with a smile.

That woke Inu Yasha from his sleepwalking. When Kagome mentioned jewel shards, Lauren grabbed her necklace.

"Let's go then!" Inu Yasha said, grabbing the two girls hands. Thank goodness Shippo was in Lauren's arms or he would have been left behind.

While they headed in the direction of the shard, Sesshoumaru slammed his fist against the wall.

"JAKEN!" He yelled.

"Y-Y-Yes My Lord?" Jaken yelled running toward Sesshoumaru.

"Before Jaken even stopped, Sesshouamru grabbed his neck and held him in the air.

"Jaken! Be sure that ANYTIME she is here, and with ME, I do NOT get interrupted AGAIN! GOT THAT!" Sesshoumaru yelled.

"Y-Y-Yes My Lord!" Jaken shrieked.

"Good." Sesshoumaru said calming down and dropped Jaken.

Sesshoumaru was so angry that he's always getting interrupted when he's around Lauren. He walked his anger of and ended up in the garden where Rin was picking flowers for Lauren.

"Rin?" Sesshoumaru asked as soon as he saw Rin in the garden.

"Sesshy-sama?!" Rin yelled and ran to him. Sesshoumaru sat down under a tree in the shade. Rin cam and sat on his lap.

"Why is Sesshy-sama sad?" Rina asked.

Sesshoumaru smirked. "I'm not sad, Rin." He said.

"Sesshy-sama miss Lauren, right? Rin does too. When will she be back?" Rin asked.

"I don't know Rin. I'm not sure yet. It depends on if she wants to come back." Sesshoumaru sighed looking down at Rin.

Rin showed him the flowers that she picked for Lauren, and that made him smile slightly. Meanwhile, Inu Yasha was fighting a bear demon that had two jewel shards.

"Umm, Inu Yasha!" Lauren yelled, slightly jumping away from Inu Yasha's violent swinging.

"Hey! Will you be careful! Ah!" Lauren yelled ducking.

A wolf demon had come after her. "Hey! I'm not the one you want! Get away from me!" Lauren yelled.

Kagome and Shippo were watching Inu Yasha fight the bear demon, when they saw Lauren get attacked. They ran to help her.

Lauren tripped on a tree root and fell to the ground. The wolf demon had a chance to attack her. He swung at her with his sword but something stopped him from hitting her. Something blew up around Lauren and made the demon go flying toward Inu Yasha. Kagome and Shippo froze when they saw what just happened.

"Inu Yasha! Look Out!" Lauren yelled. Inu Yasha looked just in time to see what was coming toward him. He ducked and watched the wolf demon fly into a tree. Then he cut the bear demon in half and watched it fall with the jewel shards.

'Whoa! How did I do that?' Lauren thought as she watched Inu Yasha pick up the two jewel shards and looked over toward the dead wolf demon.

As soon as she saw the jewel shards she remembered her necklace and what Sesshoumaru said about not telling anyone about it.

"Here, Kagome." Inu Yasha said a little out of breath. Kagome took the jewel shards and put them in the little jar around her neck.

Lauren got up and walked over to Kagome and the others.

"Hey, Kagome? You ok?" Lauren asked clutching her necklace.

"I don't know. I think so. A little out of breath, though." Kagome said with a small smile.

"Maybe we should 'sit' down and rest for a minute." Lauren said watching Inu Yasha fall to the ground.

"Umm Inu Yasha? Kagome didn't even say s-- " Lauren's sentence was cut short because Kagome put her hand over her mouth.

"Sorry Inu Yasha, -accident." Kagome said with a slight smile.

"AHH! WENCH! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! I just saved your ass back there and this is the thanks I get!" Inu Yasha yelled spitting out dirt and wiping off his face.

"Umm guys, --I -umm think we have company." Shippo yelled jumping into Lauren's arms.

Lauren looked around and saw what Shippo ment by company. "Shippo's right!"

"What are you guys talking about? I don't see any--" Before Kagome finished her sentence Lauren caught an arrow that was right about to go into Kagome's heart.

"Are you sure, Kagome?" Lauren said, snapping the arrow in two.

"Then again-maybe not!" Kagome said, now seeing a group of demons in the forest. A demon that looked kind of like a cheetah jumped toward Kagome.

"AAHH!" Kagome yelled, when the demon scratched her arm.

"Don't touch her!" Inu Yasha yelled kicking the demon. "Shippo, help Kagome!" Lauren yelled.

"What about you?" Shippo asked. "I can take care of myself!" Lauren yelled as Shippo jumped out of her arms and went to help Kagome.

Arrows went flying toward Lauren. "AAH!" She screamed, as all the arrows broke in half before they hit almost hit her. Kagome looked at Lauren and saw a faint glow around her. Every time an arrow came close to her the glow grew brighter, but it seemed to be coming from one place. But where?

"We've come for the girl!" One of the demons yelled. "Well you can't have her!" Inu Yasha said, getting in front of Kagome and Shippo.

"Not her! Her!" The demon said pointing at Lauren. 'What?! ME, Why Me?' Lauren yelled.

Some of the demons attacked Lauren. 'Sesshoumaru, I sure could use your help right now!' Lauren thought. She watched as the demons tried to hurt her. Kagome and the others watched too. Kagome saw that faint glow again, around Lauren. But after a moment the glow disappeared and Lauren got hit with a demon's sword.

"AH!" Lauren yelled, falling to the ground. "Lauren!" Kagome yelled seeing her friend fall in the see of demons that surrounded her.

"Owch." Lauren whispered. "Inu Yasha Help her!" Kagome yelled at Inu Yasha who had just killed the demon he was fighting.

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" Some of the demons yelled as they flew through the air.

"Inu Yasha?" Lauren asked. "Look, you! I'm only saving your ass because your Kagome's friend, got that!" Inu Yasha said slicing through a few demons. Lauren just nodded.

"Lauren are you ok?" Kagome asked running to her. Lauren smiled slightly and held her arm.

*~*BOOM*~*

Lauren looked up to see what happened, but her head immediately went back down when she saw a big explosion. She just froze. She could hear some of the demons yelling in pain, around her. She looked up to see what was going on. In front of her was Sesshoumaru.

"Sesshoumaru?!" Lauren yelled slowly getting up. "Owch!" She tightened her grip on her arm.

"Your useless, brother! I leave her with you for not even two hours and she's already hurt!" Sesshoumaru yelled.

"I'm fine, really." Lauren said, still holding her arm in pain.

"Sesshoumaru?! What are you doing here?" Inu Yasha yelled. "I'm here to kill things, what does it look like?" Sesshoumaru yelled.

"You're here for something more than that!" Inu Yasha yelled cutting the demon that attacked him in half.

"I got bored! I needed something to do." Sesshoumaru yelled looking back at Lauren. Lauren smirked, knowing he came because of her.

"Sesshoumaru, look out!" Lauren yelled, pushing him out of the way of a demons attack. They fell to the ground, Lauren falling on her bleeding arm.

"Owch!" She yelled in pain. Kagome and Shippo ran to her and helped her get out of the way of the fight.

"Die, demon!" Inu Yasha yelled. Sesshoumaru got up quickly and was hitting the demon (quite hard) that Lauren tried to protect him from.

Kagome and the others watched Inu Yasha and Sesshoumaru fight while the three of them sat aside, away from everything.

"Hey You!" Lauren yelled jumping up. Kagome jumped when she heard her friend yell.

Lauren ran off. "Lauren, what are you doing?" Kagome yelled after her, but Lauren didn't hear.

"Hey you! Yea, I'm talkin' to you!" Lauren yelled running close to a demon near Sesshoumaru.

"What are you doing?!" Sesshoumaru yelled.

"Savin' your ass!" Lauren said smirking as Sesshoumaru saw the demon that almost attacked him.

"Come here! Leave that half-breed and his brother alone! Come after what you came for!" Lauren yelled.

The demon came running after her. She ducked out of the way of the swinging sword the demon threw at her. Sesshoumaru tried to help, but the demon he was fighting kept him from getting to Lauren.

"Hey, why did all of you come after ME anyway?" Lauren asked the demon as she ducked from another swing of his sword.

"To take you to Naraku!" The demon said swinging his sword many times, but Lauren always ducked out of the way before he even got close to her.

"Nara-who? Who's that?" Lauren asked. "The most powerful demon alive." The demon answered, a little surprised.

He swung one more time. Lauren ducked and ran into something. The demon froze and dropped is sword. He ran in fear. Lauren turned around and looked into the eyes of a VERY big, VERY angry, dog demon. Inu Yasha saw his brother transform into his dog form and grabbed Kagome and Shippo.

"Umm, heheh sorry." Lauren said backing away from Sesshoumaru. (Apparently she didn't know that Sesshoumaru could become such a huge scary creature, so she didn't know it was him).

Inu Yasha ran to grab Lauren, but Sesshoumaru put his huge paw in front of Lauren so Inu Yasha couldn't get to her.

"Hey, I said I was sorry!" Lauren yelled as Sesshoumaru tore the flesh of the remaining demons. Lauren looked around.

"Ew, that was gross." Lauren said as she watched the dog demon shrink.

"Wow, that really did help get my anger out. I was holding back because of you." Sesshoumaru said looking at Lauren. Lauren stared open mouthed.

"I see my brother left you behind." Sesshoumaru said walking over to Lauren.

"W-W-WHAT WAS T-THAT?" Lauren asked.

"Oh, that? My true form." Sesshoumaru said smirking. He looked into the sky and saw what were his brother and the others, as a little black dot. They had left Lauren behind.