Kanai wandered Inuyasha's Forest. She found herself strangely at ease beneath the tall tree that stood above the rest.

"This tree is ancient," she thought allowed.

Her mind wandered. She wandered why they were here, and she wandered about Sesshoumaru's brother. The demon lord rarely spoke of his brother, and she noticed that neither Rin nor Jaken ever brought him up when in his presence. She also noted the coldness of Sesshoumaru's tone when ever he did speak of him. It was quite apparent that Sesshoumaru and his InuYasha were not on good terms, yet every thing she had gathered indicated that it was him were searching for. She figured it would be wise not to ask about him, but that didn't render her curiosity.

Rin could see the kit in the top of the tree, but she couldn't climb up, and he seemed too scared to reply to her calling. And In spite of the noise she was making, Kanai seemed oblivious to Rin's presence on the other side of the tree.

"Lady Kanai" Rin said, "the kit is in the top of the tree."

Startled, Kanai stood up and told Rin not to scare her like that.

Shippou was staring down at the two females beneath him.

"That's the girl who travels with Sesshoumaru, but whos that other demon?" Shippou thought out lowed.

"Fox-child, I am but a hanyou, my name is Kanai. You will come to no harm if you come down." She told him.

Shippou thought for a moment and decided he was safer in the tree.

"I think I will take my chances up hear," came the kit's voice from much higher up.

Kanai rolled her eyes and jumped into the tree grabbing the unsuspecting Shippou by the tail and returning to the ground.

"You said you wouldn't hurt me!" Shippou wailed as they landed.

Kanai informed him he was not hurt as she sat him on the ground, assuming he wasn't going to try and escape.

Noticing that he was actually less harmed by Kanai's carrying him by the tail than he normally was when InuYasha did it, Shippou decided she really wasn't going to hurt him.

"I'm confused," Shippou confessed as he stood up and looked around.

"And why is that?" The hanyou asked.

"Because every time we have come into contact with Sesshoumaru before, there has been a battle and Sesshoumaru says that he hates humans, and that InuYasha is a disgrace because he's a hanyou, but now it would seem that he travels with you, a hanyou, and her, a human." He explained.

"I see," kanai said with a look of puzzlement on her face.

That did indeed sound like the Sesshoumaru she had heard of, but not quite the Sesshoumaru she had met. Kanai then took a moment to shake her head no at Rin who she could see was fighting an urge to grab Shippou's tail.

"I really don't know how to explain it to you, since he has never really displayed any feelings of hatred towards me or Rin in the time I have known him, just slight distaste." Kanai was now speaking to the fox-child in the tone she usually used with Rin.

"I think I might know why" Shippou said, "because you are very pretty and maybe Sesshoumaru notices."

"Thank you, but I don't think that's it" Kanai said, starting to blush. "I have only been traveling with him for a short while."

"Oh." Was all that shippou said in reply.

The three of them. Rin Shippou, and Kanai proceeded back to ware they last saw Sesshoumaru. When they entered the clearing, they saw the demon lord sitting and listening to what Keade knew about his brother's whereabouts. Apparently, the girl called Kagome. Who Sesshoumaru suspected was his brother's bitch )meant literily, as in female dog(, was back in her time with InuYasha, and the other two humans he traveled with were off on their own somewhere. The kit, Shippou was obviously left here with the old priestess.

"Kagura must have been lying when she told me the antinu powder had been effective on Inuyasha." He thought. Sesshoumaru told the priestess that he still wanted to find out what the kit knew, because he is usually with InuYasha, therefor would have some idea of why he had gone with the girl through the well. Perhaps Kagura was not lying, and his brother was injured, and was seeking refuge on the other side. But Kaede knew that sesshoumaru knew next to nothing about the well, or ware it went. And she told him as much. Shippou heard the demon lord say he wanted to speak with him and he instinctively wanted to run away. But a glace at Kanai between him and his escape route caused him to reason that he was better off standing still.

Sesshoumaru began to stride in the direction of the young kitsune, when out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of waving fan.

"Kanai! Take rin and the kit into the forest!" he said, almost shouting.

Ah and Un followed making sure they were safe.

"Something is very wrong here" Sesshoumaru thought.

Before the words left his tong, the crescent shaped blades of wind came soaring in the direction of Kanai and the two children, only to b dissipated by a lightning blast from Ah. Jaken was caught completely off gourd by the sudden urgency.

"Sorry Lord Sesshoumaru," came Kagura's mocking voice, "Naraku told me not to let you find out too much too quickly."

The demon lord suddenly become aware that it was the kit she was after, the kit who was with Rin and Kanai.

Kagura approached the edge of the tree-line, and her quarry, only to received a flaming spew from the toadish's staph. Thought somewhat simple, he wasn't stupid and he cut off the flames before she could send them back in his direction. The wind sorceress was caught off gourd by the flames and her kimono was singed. But what she expected even less was to be attacked by an angry hanyou. Kanai leapt and swiped, barely missing the face of Naraku's detachment.

"I despise the smell of you!" Kanai screamed as she brought her arm back for another swing.

Kanai was a bit surprised when she was thrown back by a gust from Kagura's fan. And all the while, Jaken was wildly flaming every thing in the vicinity. Kagura escaped on her feather, leaving the group dazed and confused. Their confusion was gone when they spotted Shippou laying face down in the grass.

"Sesshoumaru sama is the dead?" Rin asked.

The demon lord disliked the pleading look in her eyes.

"No," he said, bending down to check the poor kit's vitals. "But I doubt he will be telling us anything any time soon."

Apparently as kagura was leaving, she fanned a different something at the fox-child, rendering him inert.