"Have you ever been here before?" Arkwyn asked, leaning mostly on the support of her hand leaning against the brick walls on the sidewalk.

My wounds are so sore! She thought solemnly.

"Yes, once on a trip," Sesshomaru replied, watching her from the corner of his eyes.

"Here, you can lean on me." He said sort of gently as he took one of her arms and put it around his neck.

"Thank you?" Arkwyn said bewildered.

"This way....you uh, wont get the clothes dirty." Sesshomaru said, his voice showing the shyness.

Arkwyn smiled.

"Hey, there the shop is!"

(Inside.)

The three looked around.

Small cozy shop with Japanese music playing, witch like designs on quilts all over the walls, incense smelling like sage and a forest roaming the area at the cash register.

A very wrinkly old lady sat content watching them with a smile.

"Oh good, a family. It's nice to have some customers." She said joyfully.

"Oh! We aren't," Arkwyn started, but with a shock was cut off by Sesshomaru's voice.

"Yes....This is my wife Wyn, and my daughter, Jen. We are on vacation."

Arkwyn waited till they were a bit a ways from the old lady till she asked Sesshomaru about what happened.

"What, was that all about?" She asked awkwardly.

"We have to play it safe, we shouldn't go around blurting out our names if word gets around." Sesshomaru replied.

"Ok."

"Are you looking for anything special?" The lady asked kindly.

"Yes!" Rin replied, handing her a piece of paper.

The lady mumbled to herself about something while she read the piece of paper, then walked over to a shelf, picked out a small red bottle filled with grin looking liquid, and handed it to Rin.

"This is one of our best medicines we've got. Put some on the wound twice every day, and in two weeks it shall heal very quickly."

"Thank you!" Rin replied as Arkwyn handed the old lady some money.

(Back through the little path in the woods, leading toward the road with all the servant's houses and the lord's land.)

"Guess I should put some on." Arkwyn stated, stopping walking and pulling the small red bottle from her bag. (The bag that Rin was still holding.)

She lifted up her shirt, and cringed as she ran an icy finger along the slash marks.

"This is taking too long." Sesshomaru said, grabbing the bottle from her hand.

"Huh?"

He dabbed a small portion on his finger, and gently smeared it on her wounds.

"Um....thank you."

"Whatever."

Arkwyn smiled at him.

She was right. He WAS going soft.

"What are you smiling at?" Sesshomaru asked, noticing the way she stared at him.

"I think you're going soft," Arkwyn replied soothingly.

"Or melting a block of ice." Rin laughed.

Arkwyn playfully glared at the small child.

"I'm not going soft! I'm not."

The two girls just smiled at him.

"I'm not going soft god dammit! All I did was help out a bit!"

"Don't worry, You're still somewhat bad." Arkwyn replied, a small seducing smile spreading on her lips, one only Sesshomaru noticed at least.

God this is torture! Sesshomaru thought wildly as his thoughts raced around his head.

"I'm going to pick some flowers over here!" Rin called, dashing off into a small clearing loaded heavily with wild flowers.

Rin's words just echoed in his mind as he stared at Arkwyn.

He knew what he wanted.....and he was going to get it.

"Sesshomaru? Is something the matter?" Arkwyn asked, suddenly shocked as she was pulled forward to Sesshomaru's face, his arms carefully locked around her side.

"You gotta stop saying things like that." Was All Sesshomaru said.

Then he kissed her. Soft at first, but deep and passionate as he felt a tingling sensation run throughout his body.

"This happened in my dream too!"

The both jerked apart quickly as Rin stood next to them, carrying a few small flowers and smiling at the two.

(Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Just wanted to let you all know that I will soon be starting a story called, Kagome's Inner child. It's about a curse put on kagome that changes her into a five year old. I have it all planned out from start to finish. Hope you all will check it out when I post it.)