Yosa!

Ah and to Miroku fans:

Did I give you a hard attack? Want another one? :) Read on....

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"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

Kaede, Sango, and Kagome, alerted by Shippo's loud screams, found them selves rushing towards the hut where Miroku was staying. Entering the hut, they found the small fox demon jumping on Miroku crying, "BREATHE! BREATHE! MIROKU!!"

Sango rushed to his side, eyes wide, tears splashing down her face, dead eyes meeting her own. "No...NO!" Kaede pushed past Kagome, "Out of the way child!" She revealed a small pouch in her hands and poured the contents into his mouth.

She placed her hands on his chest, and began to push up and down, puffs of powder coming out Miroku's mouth as she did so. Kagome held onto the sobbing Sango. "Don't give up!" Shippo pleaded.

The room fell silent as the sound of a sharp intake of breath filled the air. Miroku was coughing, and fell back into a fevered sleep. "I was afraid that might happen. Lord Miroku is very weak, his heart could stop at any moment." Kaede held up her pouch. "We have to do our best to see that he makes it, and that means taking watches." Kaede massaged her brow.

Sango had her arms around Miroku, "Oh Miroku...don't do that again!" She sobbed whispering in his ear. Miroku moaned in reply. "He just died..." Kagome whispered, "How did-" Kaede shook her head.

"You should know that there are ways to jump start a heart again if needed. This crushed powder is a resource to help, but if Lord Miroku had been truly dead, for more than a minute..." Kaede shook her head. "We shall be havin' a rough time with this."

"He's no longer thrashing anymore, or screaming from madness, so he must be getting better." Kaede looked at Kagome, and shook her head, "I do not know...he is awake right now, and has been since Sango has been hugging him, if he was better don't you think his hand would have found...." Kaede pointed and Kagome looked over at Sango.

She was hugging him, leaning over to do so, his hand was in the perfect place to grab her tush, but he remained slack in her arms. "Lord Miroku is strong, if it had been anyone else, they would have died a long time ago." Kaede pat Kagome's back, "Have faith in Lord Miroku."

Kagome stood still, and whispered, "When...can I go look for Inuyasha...he's alone out there..." Kaede looked at Kagome's tormented expression, and felt her old heart break. "We will find time, but Miroku is weak and still riddled with madness, he needs us more than ever now..." Kagome nodded.

She wanted to help Miroku, but her thoughts drifted back to the younger, crying Inuyasha. She covered her eyes, "Please be alive."

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"Lord Sesshoumaru, where are we traveling to?" Jaken asked trying to keep up with his master. "To the Place where Inuyasha appeared from." That was the only reply Sesshoumaru would give. He glanced back, seeing Rin and Inuyasha were playing together.

They trailed a little behind, Rin was teaching Inuyasha how to make flower crowns. When he mastered it he ran up to Sesshoumaru, followed by Rin and they offered him their flowers. He stopped taking them both, letting his hand briefly hold theirs.

Sesshoumaru felt an odd warmth gazing into his little brothers eyes. The same warmth he got from Rin. Sesshoumaru sighed defeated. He loved his little brother. He couldn't deny it. He remembered how much he cared for Inuyasha when he was this age a long time ago.

Sesshoumaru also remembered how they grew distant. When both their parents died, Inuyasha came to him for comfort, but Sesshoumaru drove him away. Now that he thought about it, he couldn't remember why he drove him away, or even why he felt he needed to kill him....

But Inuyasha was no longer the thorn in his side, wielding the Tetsaiga, now he was just a pup again...someone to protect just like before. A job he planned to take on upon himself again.

Sesshoumaru found a large clearing that showed signs of a battle. "Sesshoumaru-sama...look!" Yellow eyes glanced down and fell upon Jaken's feet. He was standing in red blood. Sesshoumaru sniffed it, It wasn't Inuyasha's but smelled like that fox demon's blood.

He smelt the others Inuyasha hung out with too, the female he was attached to, the other wielding that large boomerang, and the other male. There was something off on his scent...

It finally hit Sesshoumaru that the monk that traveled with his brother smelt like Toki, someone near death. "Did his whole group die? There are signs of carnage everywhere!" Jaken cried scurrying around.

He smiled up at his lord, "Maybe we can find their corpses, and the shikon shards they carry!" Sesshoumaru ignored them, and instead turned to Inuyasha. "Where are the humans? Did you see them here?"

Inuyasha looked up at his brother and nodded. "Un-huh! They wanted me to come with them, but I ran! I didn't want to go near the male human...he was shaking!" Sesshoumaru raised his eyebrow.

Shaking?

Rin looked at Inuyasha and asked, "A lot?"

"Yeah!"

"Rin remembers of an old lady who used to do that before she died!"

Sesshoumaru thought on then and then concluded, "Hmm...seizures...Something must have been killing them." Jaken plucked up a piece of hair, "Look Lord! Demon hair."

Sesshoumaru took it, and sniffed it. He growled, "The witch Shinra, the child eater." He looked at his little brother. He now knew what had happened. Shinra captured the fox demon, and planned to eat him when the others showed up. There was a battle and Shinra released one of her curses.

One of the witch's abilities was to turn adults into children, and even if you managed to escape the witch, if you did not find a way to return to the form you were before, you would die within a week. Your body was not built to shrink, one is only supposed to age and get older, not the other way around.

He could also guess at what happened to the other male of the group. If the smoke gets in your body, any other way than being inhaled then you will suffer horrible pain, possible death, and could even get permanent insanity.

Sesshoumaru looked back at Inuyasha who was playing with Rin.

One week...one week and he would die.

"Inuyasha."

"Hai!"

Sesshoumaru waited for the small hanyou to approach. Sesshoumaru knelt down, "Where did the humans go? Did you see them?" Inuyasha thought hard, "I don't-"

"THINK!" Sesshoumaru snapped. He took in a deep breath at Inuyasha's startled face. "Think hard."

Inuyasha eventually pointed, "That way....but Sesshy-"

Jaken's little heart would have exploded if it could at what happened next. Sesshoumaru embraced his brother without a word, holding onto him tight. Rin watched confused, she had never seen such a sad expression on his face.

To anyone else, they would not have known he was sad, but Rin knew Sesshoumaru. She recognized even the slightest changes in his actions, and face. She approached him, "Sesshoumaru-sama?" She frowned concerned, and was also swept up into a hug.

Jaken fell on the ground, his left arm hurting, and chest tightening. "Ah my heart!" The little creature gasped, but no one paid any attention to him.

Something was coming over Sesshoumaru. Something he'd only felt when his father was dying. Fear. The realization that he loved his little brother, and now would lose him within a week was filling him up, as well as Toki's death, which caused him to wonder about Rin's fate.

Would he lose the two pups at a young age? He rose releasing the children, who were both surprised and not used to the affection shone by Sesshoumaru. He marched on the two children following him, Jaken still on the ground about to die....

Sesshoumaru felt like pulling his hair out, now he was going to go track down the humans, they could help him. They would find a way. Part of him wanted to hurt them for leaving Inuyasha alone, but the other part reminded him they were the only ones that could help him.

He sighed.

He's never live down getting help from humans if anyone found out....

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Sorry no time to spell check

Well things are gonna start getting interesting...

Miroku goes for a midnight stroll...but uh...not with permission or clothes...

0.o wanna know what I mean? Read the next chapter then!