A/n~ Wow, people are actually liking my story!!!! I want to thank all the reviewers! And the people who read and do not review (I love you too, but not as much ^^ j/k) This chapter goes out to the little angel who sent me and e-mail, getting me motivated to write this chapter. ~.^


Disclaimer~ me will never Inuyasha......never EVER!


* I big gomen-nasi goes out to the fans who could not sleep, due to the fact they wanted to see if Sesshoumaru would live or not. ME SORRY FOR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS!


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Milika looked down at the earth below here. She gripped the two headed dragon's mane hard with her hands and looked at Rin and Jaken calmly sitting on the dragon's back. She hated heights. Why was she doing this? She quickly remembered when she saw Sesshoumaru's limp body in front of her. "We got to get to the castle. Sesshoumaru needs to get better."

Milika gave Jaken an impatient look.

"Jaken, how far is Sesshoumaru's castle anyway? Sesshoumaru really needs some help."


"Will you stop griping girl, it is only a bit away." Rin slowly made her way towards Milika, and snuggled up next to her.

"Are you afraid of heights, Mommy Milika?"


Milika slowly nodded. Rin smiled, "Milika need not worry, Ah-Un is flies very good and never falls.."


Milika grip's suddenly became tighter on Ah-un's mane. Her look turned towards Sesshoumaru in front of her. " I hope he is okay. I am actually glad Jaken found us, then we can get Sesshoumaru-sama some help."

Milika squinted in the distance, then she saw the castle coming quickly upon them. It was a majestic gray stone masterpiece. The ivy and vines intertwined, almost in a dance. Milika thought it almost came out right from a fairytale. Ah-un made a soft landing right in front of the castle.


Milika slowly got off of the dragon. Then the sun made a peek, right at the horizon.

"I stayed up all night, didn't I."


Rin slowly slipped off, still in the pajamas Milika gave her. She started to rub her eyes as sleepiness overtook her. Milika slowly picked her up and held her to her shoulder as Rin rested. Milika looked behind to see Jaken getting off also. He walked ahead and tapped the huge door with his staff. The doors slowly opened. Milika gazed in wonder at the gray marble spiral staircases that climbed their way to the ceilings. Jaken kept on walking and muttered,

"His room is at the top."

Milika gave a questioned look to Jaken.

"How are we going to get him up there?" Suddenly, like an answer, Ah-un came trudging through the door. Amazingly, the door was so big that his dragon body fitted through the door. Rin sleepily pointed to the top of the stairs and yawned, "Rin's room is up there too..."


Milika slowly made her way up the stairs, every once and a while looking back to see Ah-Un trudging behind her. Jaken eyed her suspiciously,

"You can stay in Rin's room."


Milika finally came to the top of the stairs. Rin slowly slipped off of her and she gently grasped Milika's hand in her own. "Rin's room is right here." She pushed open a wooden door.

Milika gazed at Rin's room. It seemed like it hadn't been occupied in a while.

Rin glanced at her and Milika's pj's. Both were blood soaked from the wound Sesshoumaru had acquired from his fight with his brother Inuyasha.


Rin went to a small dresser in the corner of her room. She pulled out a small red and yellow checkered kimono. She quickly stripped herself of the bloody clothes and threw on her kimono. She shuddered as she put the old pj's in a pile on the floor.

"Rin doesn't like blood. It gives her bad memories."


Milika looked at the dresser. "Don't suppose you have one my size?"

Rin shook her head. "Sorry, Rin only has Rin sizes."


Milika took off her robe. " At least my robe took in most of the blood. My pajamas look, not too bloody, I think." Milika shivered a bit when she disposed of her robe. Rin jumped into her bed. Milika followed her. Rin clutched on to Milika's hair, like a little girl would a doll, and quietly asked, "Does Milika think Sesshoumaru would be alright?"

Milika heard Rin start to snuffle. Milika quietly answered her back,

"I think, he will be okay. If I had you around, I would be sure to live to see the next day with you."


Rin slowly grinned, "Do you really think Sesshoumaru would say that about Rin?"


Milika slowly cradled Rin and whispered, "I am sure."


Both fell asleep, to the bright rays of dawn crawling in the window.


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"Inuyasha, you need more ice." Kagome protested. Both her and Inuyasha went back through the well after the little "incident" with Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. Kagome was trying to put more ice on Inuyasha's head after the rounds of sits she gave to him to stop his rampage.


Inuyasha frowned and went up to sulked in a tree holding the ice pack to his head. Kagome sighed and made her way to have a seat with Miroku and Sango. Shippou joined them and made a seat on Kagome's shoulder.


"So did you two see anybody come through the well last night? Like maybe Sesshoumaru...."


Both stared at her. "Sesshoumaru! How in the heck did he get through the well?"


Sango stared at Kirara on the ground sleeping. "Kirara was a little bit antsy last night but she didn't go after anything though."


Kagome looked off in the distance, "I wonder where Milika is..."


Both Miroku and Sango looked at her with questionable faces. Miroku commented, "And may I ask who is Milika? Another young maiden in need of Miroku's assitance?" He grinned while Sango bonked him with her boomerang as she had done about a million times before.


"Nope, sorry Miroku, I think she has already her guy."


Inuyasha, still angry, sulked down from the tree and demanded.


"I don't know why the wench is hanging even around him. I mean he hates humans. Okay maybe not Rin, but she doesn't count."


Kagome glared at Inuyasha, " You just can't admit maybe your brother can get a girl and you can't even decide on one!"


Inuyasha became flustered and shouted, "What do YOU MEAN?!?!" He winced, for he knew it was coming."


Kagome quietly said, "Sit."


Shippou laughed as Inuyasha went down to greet the earth, yet again.


Kagome then got serious. "We have to find Milika. She has an aunt, and if she goes missing, I mean, what would happen if people find out about the well??? I t would be horrible."


Miroku glanced at Kagome, "And how do you propose we get her back from the all powerful, Sesshoumaru?"

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Milika squinted her eyes slowly open. It was still daylight, the sun rays coming through the windows. She looked over at sleeping Rin. She carefully got up from her resting place, and recovered Rin with the blankets. She quietly tiptoed and sat down on the floor. She pondered what to do next. " I want to go and see Sesshoumaru, to see if he is okay. But maybe I should change my clothes. They are beginning to reek!" Milika study the room closely and saw the one door that lead out to the hall. Then she discovered another door. It was near the bed she was sleeping in.


Milika quietly got up and walked to the door. She slowly pulled on the handle, hoping not to wake Rin. The door began to squeak, and Milika stopped. She slowly began to open the door once again, carefully this time, and quietly made her way into a dark room.


Milika could barely make out anything in the room except, "A dresser!" She quickly ran to the dresser, in hopes to find something, anything to wear. Milika rummaged through the drawers till she came upon a shirt with long, bell like sleeves.


Milika quickly stripped herself of the bloody pj's, both shirt and pants, and rolled them in a bundle and set them atop the dresser. She felt a cold air tickle her bare skin. She quickly put on the shirt. It went down, almost to the bottom of her knees. "Gosh this is more like a dress."She took a sash she found and tied it around herself. Milika felt a cool breeze again and turned around to see, barely visible in the dark room, an outline of a, window?


Milika went to the window, to find a strange shades covering it. She tugged at the various strings until, the shades zipped up, revealing the light from outside. "That is better." Surprising to her, she found a large mirror right next to the window. Milika slowly inspected herself in the mirror, until she finally realized something. " This is Sesshoumaru's shirt!" She quietly exclaimed. Milika looked into the mirror once again. To her surprise, there was a large bed, and in it, none other than, "Sesshoumaru.." Milika whispered quietly. Milika slowly walked up to where he laid.


Sesshoumaru laid on the bed. Milika noticed a finely wrapped bandage around his bare chest. Milika took the tip of her finger, and traced the well developed muscle lines. She grinned as she thought, "He got some muscle, going on." She glanced at his face, swearing she saw a slight smile escape his mouth. Milika was surprised at this.


"Is he still sleeping and dreaming? Or did he really feel that?"


Milika slowly sat herself on the edge of the bed next to Sesshoumaru. She gazed at him for a long time. She had to get it out. Confess it all. She took a deep breath, and quietly said,


" Sesshoumaru, I want to just, thank you. For everything. I almost died, not one but two times, and....you saved me. I mean, at first I have to admit, I was a little frightened, well, to find out that you were a demon, but heck you....you..are not all that bad. You have Rin who seems to follow you everywhere, you are like almost, a father to her." Milika gathered up the last of her courage to summon the last bit of words out of her mouth.

"What I mean to say is, that I lov... I mean care about you." She couldn't say the love word, not yet should she say it. She glanced once more on his sleeping form.


"He had to be sleeping. I was hoping he just had his eyes close." Milika signed and slowly got up from the side of the bed, but something kept her from getting the rest of the way up. She looked down and there, wrapped slightly around her waist was Sesshoumaru's tail.


Milika slowly gasped, "I thought that was a cloak to wear, IT IS HIS TAIL!" She wanted to get loose of the tail because of the feeling it gave her through her spine. It made her shiver. Milika tried to get up again. Sesshoumaru's grasp, was still there.

"Gosh darn it, why won't he let go?" Milika slowly took a hold of his tail and unwound it from her waist and laid it gently next to him.


Milika carefully got up from the bed, not to wake the sleeping Sesshoumaru. As she made her way to the door that connected both rooms, she heard a slight cry. It wasn't loud nor soft but almost like a whimper. Milika turned around to see Rin right behind her. She looked at Sesshoumaru with sad eyes. "Sesshoumaru-sama looks badly hurt." Milika could soon see tears slowly forming in her eyes.


Milika slowly kneeled next to the tearing girl. "Hush, Rin. It is okay. Sesshoumaru will be fine. Come here." Milika grabbed a small wooden chair and pulled it near Sesshoumaru's bed. Rin hopped right into Milika's lap and kept her stare intently on Sesshoumaru. Milika combed her fingers through Rin's hair, trying to comfort her, like she use to do the same for her own sister. Milika sighed as she remembered.


Rin looked up at Milika with a questioning face. "Milika, do you have a mommy and daddy?" Milika looked down at Rin solemnly. "I use to have a mom and dad and even a little sister." Rin wondered why wasn't Milika with her family now. Rin questioned, "Where are they now? Rin didn't see them at your house."


Milika looked straight off, into space trying to remember that horrid day...

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"Milika does this dress look okay?" Kila whined, as ten year olds regularly do. Milika sighed. Kila was really getting in her nerves today and Milika didn't have the time for it.

"Kila, it is fine we are just going out to dinner for your birthday, that is all." Milika flopped on her bed, looking in the ceiling, hoping it would do something interesting.


"MILIKA! You need to get dress for dinner." Kila squealed right in Milika's ear. Milika took her sister by the hair and screamed back,

"DON'T DO THAT" Milika looked to see tears forming in Kila's eyes. Milika tried to shush her before those words escaped her mouth, but it was too late.

"MOMMY!" Kila screamed, "Milika hurt me!" Milika grinded her teeth and prepared for the worse.


Milika's mother and father both stepped into the room. Milika's father had his eyes in a hard cold stare and Milika's mother angry face was made even worse when her hateful words came through her mouth. "Milika, why do you always do this? You use to love Kila but now all you do is fight with her." Milika bit her lip in attempt to stop the tears. With that she ran off, looking for anywhere to hide from them.


Milika came to the hall closet and hid it. She let the tears flow silently and laid down. She hated her family. Period. She slowly fell into a slumber.


After what seem like a few moments she awoke, to silence. Milika opened the door and looked around calling out, "Mom, Dad....Kila?" She wondered the halls looking for her family. Surely, they would have called for her if they were going to leave, would they? Milika called all around, until she heard the front door open. Milika ran to the sound. She found her Aunt Tiama, with redness in her eyes. She threw her arms around a stunned Milika, "Thank the gods you are alright."


Milika gave a questioned look at her aunt. "Why wouldn't I be? Hey, where is Kila and them?" Aunt Tiama's eye's again filled up with tears. "They're gone...."

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Rin gave Milika a questioned face and quietly whispered, "What happen to them?"


Milika remembered her aunt telling her , that her mom, dad and Kila went looking for her. For they did not know where she was. They took the family car and started searching the streets. They went to the park where Milika's favorite spot was and searched there.


Milika started, "Some man." She paused, "Some evil man, came and tried to pickpocket them. My dad tried to stop him, but the guy had a weapon and....killed them." Milika began to stare off again, but her sight was blinded by tears. She silently whispered, "It is all my fault. The reason they are dead, is because of me." She hugged Rin tighter to her. "I will make sure, on my life Rin, that nobody hurts you." Milika glanced over at Sesshoumaru, sleeping in all his glory. "Even though I am weak Sesshoumaru, I will make sure, nothing happens to you either."


Rin finally noticed Milika in her new attire. "Hey Milika, Isn't that Sesshoumaru's clothes?"

Milika broke out of the solemn thought and giggled, "Yeah, it was the only thing I found." She stroke a pose for Rin. "Don't you think I look fabulous, darling?" Rin laughed but quickly covered her mouth, not to awake Sesshoumaru-sama.


Milika still heard a slight smirking coming from the room. She pun quickly around to find, the Lord himself, sitting up in bed, and smiling.

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