Rin had drifted into an afternoon nap, and Jaken was mumbling something to himself as he kept Ah and Un company. Things had grown quiet and Sesshoumaru was growing anxious.
"We have lingered here for far too long," he thought.
Kanai had gone to soak in the hot spring once more. She didn't care really that Sesshoumaru and Jaken were still near. Mostly Because Jaken was far from bold enough to try and peak at her, and Sesshoumaru was too off into his own little world to really pay a great amount of attention. Though she did wander what he was thinking about.
The demon lord sat under a tree near the edge of the clearing.
"This is by far the least productive of days," he thought.
His thoughts were interrupted when Jaken came stumbling in his direction.
"My lord, how long do you plan to linger here at this lake?" the toadish asked.
His tone seemed impatient.
"We will be departing shortly," the demon lord announced.
Jaken let out a sigh of relief, and went to inform Rin, who was now awake and munching some fruit she had found earlier that mooring.
Though modesty was never one of Kanai's strongest attributes, she was a bit unnerved to look up and see Sesshoumaru looming over her in the spring.
"Make your self decent, I need to speak with you," he instructed.
"You may speak with me as I am," she retorted. A little irritated.
"As you wish," came his reply.
"We will be departing soon, if you are serious in your plight to destroy Naraku then I would assume you're not just going to linger at this spring," he continued.
"A reasonable assumption, actually, the only reason I am still hear is because you and Rin are." Kanai dryly stated.
"Me?" Sesshoumaru thought.
"In any case, when that sorceress confronted me yesterday evening, she revealed that she was using what she called Antinu Powder to cloud our senses of smell. She deducted that I, being a full demon was able to smell through the powder after a time. I didn't tell her that it had actually been Jaken who had alerted me to her scent," Sesshoumaru explained this, getting a questioning look from the hanyou.
"Well that's all quite interesting, but why are you telling me this?" She asked, still soaking.
Sesshoumaru was doing what he could to maintain eye-contact.
"I thought you might like to know what was going on between me and the being who's scent you seem to know so well." Sesshoumaru affirmed. "But the relevance is that she told me that the powder had worked flawlessly on my brother. That is what bothers me, something has happened to my brother involving Naraku." There was a pause."Lord Sesshoumaru, whenever you speak of your brother, your tone drops, as if you were ashamed to be related to him, yet now it would seem you are intentionally going out of your way to help him," said Kanai.
To this, Sesshoumaru gave no reply. There was another pause, and the demon lord noticed Rin and Jaken approaching.
"Kanai, will you join us? Naraku is powerful, his methods of deception are beyond compar."
There was a long silence after the demon lord finished. The Great Lord Sesshoumaru, usually a demon of very few words had just emptied his thoughts to this insolent yet, remarkably beautiful hanyou. Jaken would surely have had something to say had rin not quieted him. Kanai was herself, rather in shock. She had never expected something like this from the noble, yet arrogant demon lord known as Sesshoumaru.
"Is ths a plea for aid?" she asked, somewhat hesitantly."No, it is an invitation, one that not even Rin received," said Sesshoumaru.
"Then in that case, I gladly accept."
With that the conversation ended the four of them, along with Ah and Un. Departed. Leaving the lake behind, they moved northwest, the direction of the village ware his brother was pinned to the tree so long ago.