A/N: I hope you all cried at that touching ending! ::cough: crickets chirping:: Well fine then! See if I care! ::cries in corner:: Anyway, back to the story.

Chapter 8

Back at the camp, a fire was roaring and the food was cooking. Kagome sat twirling her hair around her finger.

"I wonder why Miroku and Sango aren't back yet?" she mused out loud.

InuYasha looked at her from the tree he was sitting in. "Keh! None of your damn business wench! They can take as long as they want."

Kagome sighed, "Stop calling me that."

"What? Wench? Or was it bitch?" InuYasha smirked. Kagome stood up, stretching.

"Don't make me do this. Please, don't make me say 'it.'" Kagome sauntered over to the tree where InuYasha sat.

"Keh! Why do I care what you do?" He knew he was pushing it, but this view was just too tempting.

Kagome sat in front of the tree and buried her head in her arms. InuYasha's ears drooped, as he smelled the salt of her tears. 'Damn it wench!'

InuYasha landed gracefully next to Kagome. He sat down next to her and tried to see her face. He growled, "Come on Kagome! You know I hate it when you cry! Stop!"

He saw her peek out at him trough her arms. She sniffed and lifted her head. "I am really worried about Sango! I mean, she is going up against a man that mutilated her body and most likely used her and she just won't tell us what else! What if she totally snaps when she sees the castle and . . ."

She was silenced by InuYasha's finger. "Rambling won't help Sango and you know it! Now, what do you plan to do for Sango, to show her that she ain't alone?"

Kagome was shocked. Was InuYasha being a voice of reason with her? She didn't answer him and he grew impatient.

"If you ain't sayin' anything, let me go back into the tree!" Kagome cleared her throat.

"Maybe I should spend some one-on-one time with her?" She looked up at the surly hanyou.

"Are you asking or stating?" Kagome smiled.

"Thank you InuYasha!" She reached up to hug him around the neck and to place a kiss on his cheek.

She immediately pulled back, her face as well as his growing a bright red. "I . . .I'm sorry! Sorry! Didn't mean to, uh, well yea I did, but . . ."

InuYasha once again silenced her, but this time with his mouth. Placing a soft kiss on her mouth, he reveled in the being that was Kagome. After a few minutes, a soft cough broke the silence, and the two pulled away.

Their faces grew into I bright red, like InuYasha's motercycle, as they realized who had broken their kiss. Miroku and Sango were standing at they edge of the clearing, their faces as red as InuYasha's and Kagome's.

Miroku said, "Um, we'll leave if you two want some privacy." He drew back from InuYasha's menacing glare.

Instead of InuYasha jumping the poor teen, Kagome stood up and said to Sango, "Hey. Um, do you want to go for a walk? To like, um, talk? Girl to girl?"

Sango smiled shyly. "Sure. That sound's good." Kagome went over and whispered to Miroku, "I would start running if I were you."

Miroku nodded and backed away from the advancing hanyou.

Sango and Kagome walked for a while in silence. Kagome finally stopped and collapsed on the ground.

Sango kneeled next to her friend and hurriedly asked, "Kagome? Are you all right?"

Kagome grinned stupidly up at Sango. "Have you had your first kiss yet?" Judging by Sango's blush, Kagome guessed that she had.

Sango nodded, the memory of her time spent with Miroku flashing by her eyes. She understood exactly why Kagome collasped. Her legs felt like Jell-O when Miroku broke the kiss.

Sango asked quietly, "So that was your first real kiss?" Kagome giggled and nodded. Sango smiled.

Suddenly Kagome got an evil glint in her eye. "So Sango. What exactly were you and Miroku doing in the forest, hmm?" Sango blushed furiously.

"I, uh, we were . . . well, first kisses aren't really that bad." She looked at Kagome and smiled.

Both broke out in the case of the giggles. Sango grasped her side as her laughter died down.

Kagome noticed her friend's suddenly stillness. "Sango? Cramp?" she held Sango's sides as she doubled over in pain. "Sango? Sango! Answer me! Come on Sango!"

Kaogme's voice rose an octave as her worry became more evident. She lifted her head back to the direction of camp and took a deep breathe. "InuYasha!" she yelled as loud as she could. The memory of the afternoon in Sango's house flashed in her eyes as a loud crashing noise became evident in the distance.

"Ka . . .gome," Sango whispered before she blacked out.

A/N: Cliffy! I know, sorry! And the chapter started out as Inu/Kag, sorry. I just love them so much that I had to put something in here. I thought that there were not many Mir/Sang fics, but I was wrong! No, Kagome and InuYasha have not kissed yet in this fic until this chappie, for anyone who will ask, "Well, didn't they kiss before?" You are lucky it is the weekend and my parents haven't kicked me off the computer yet! Two chappies in one day! Whew! My fingers have been working away!