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Chapter Forty One: A Roll To Shippo's Disgust

Inuyasha walked cautiously up to the two girls sitting in the grass. He, along with the other guys, had been trying to keep their distance from them. Sango and Kagome had been going crazy with decorating Sango's house and planning the wedding. Every time one of the guys tried to spend time with the girls they would be bombarded with questions about what looks good on who or what should go where.

They all found it really annoying, so they tried their best to stay out of the process. As long as Kagome was beside him while she slept, he was happy.

"Inuyasha." Kagome smiled when she saw him. "What are you doing here?"

Inuyasha froze in place. Should I just slowly back away he thought to himself no, that would look suspicious. He sighed and walked closer to Kagome. "I came to make a deal with you."

"What kind of deal?"

"I can't stand your girly talk, but you won't stay at Kaede's house all day like you should. So I'll make a deal with you."

"Hmm." Kagome looked at him skeptically. Inuyasha and her had been having a bunch of fights because she refused to stay indoors all day.

"I asked a girl to stay with you."

"What!" Kagome shook her head. "Why?"

"She'll stay with you and Sango when I'm not around. I told her to help you out with anything you need help with."

Kagome rolled her eyes. She knew that Inuyasha was just worried that she would go into a false or premature labor. "Fine. Who is she?"

Inuyasha looked over his shoulder. It confused Kagome for a minute until she saw a woman standing behind him. "Her name is Sonia." Inuyasha stepped out of the way.

Sango and Kagome stood up to greet the girl. She dark brown hair that fell just below her shoulders and brown eyes that had little bits of green in them. She looked cautiously at Kagome then looked at Inuyasha. "How far along is she?"

"I'm eight months." Kagome said. If Sonia was going to ask any question, she might as well be the ones to answer them.

"Ok — umm — I'm gonna go now." Inuyasha said. He started to walk away, but Kagome stopped him.

"Inuyasha wait."

Inuyasha's ears drooped. He was hopping he would get away without having to give his opinion on something. "What." He closed his eyes and refused to turn around.

"Here."

Inuyasha opened his eyes again when he felt something fall into his hand. He looked down and saw a roll. "What is this?" he asked.

"It's something Sango and I cooked. We were thinking of serving it at her wedding."

"So."

"You have really great taste buds. Eat it and tell me what you think."

"That's it."

Kagome laughed. "Yeah." She gave him a tiny shove. "Now go on, or you'll have to put up with more girly talk."

Inuyasha stared at Kagome for a long moment before shrugging and walking away. Kagome smiled and sat back down with Sango and Sonia. "I don't remember the two of us cooking anything." Sango said.

"We didn't."

"If you wanted something served at my wedding, I could have tasted it."

Kagome laughed. "Trust me, you won't want to taste it. It's a little payback for the fight we had earlier."

Sango and Sonia both looked at each other then Kagome. Neither of them had a clue about why she was so happy. "So!" Kagome clapped her hands together, "Sonia, why don't you help Sango and I pick the type of flowers were going to use."

Inuyasha sniffed the roll suspiciously as he walked into Kaede's house. He hadn't, exactly, left Kagome on good terms last time they were together. So he wondered why she pretended that nothing had happened.

"What's wrong with the roll, Inuyasha?" Shippo asked.

"N-Nothing. Kagome wanted you to have it." Inuyasha tossed the roll over to Shippo.

Shippo grabbed the roll happily and sat down to eat it. Miroku was sitting by the door with a bunch of papers in his hand. "What are those?" Inuyasha asked taking the spot next to him.

"It's a list of the people Sango wants to invite to the wedding."

Inuyasha looked over the list. "And how do you plan to get a hold of all those people."

"Well we were hoping a certain half demon could track these people down."

Inuyasha folded his arms. "No."

"I will only take about a day. You should be done by the time night comes."

"I'm not some mutt that tracks people down at your beck and call."

"Do you have any other plans."

"I " Inuyasha tried to think of something. Damn it he couldn't.

Miroku smiled and handed Inuyasha the papers. "Thanks, I appreciate it."

Inuyasha was about to toss them aside when Shippo let out a loud yell. The small child had taken a bite of the roll meant for Inuyasha. Apparently Kagome had added all kinds of spices that made it extremely hot for whoever ate it.

"Ok, I'll go." Inuyasha laughed at Shippo's torture and walked out the door. He was still smiling brightly when he passed the three girls again.

"Why are you so happy?" Sango asked.

Inuyasha responded with out stopping or turning around. "I hate being greedy, so I gave Shippo that roll Kagome made for me."

Kagome gasped and brought her hand to her mouth. "Poor Shippo." She mumbled.

Inuyasha growled at the sun as it started to sink lower in the sky. If he didn't hurry up and finish his task, he might not get back to Kaede's house before Kagome falls asleep. "Stupid Miroku." he mumbled. Inuyasha had been jumping and running from village to village, so he could find the people on the list and tell them to come to the wedding. Some consolation was brought when he realized that he only had three more names left.

He found two of them easy enough. An elderly couple that housed Sango when she was younger and traveled to their village to slay a demon. They were both happy to hear that their 'little Sango' was all grown up and getting married. Inuyasha laughed. He couldn't picture Sango as a young child.

As he walked away from the village he looked down at the paper in his hand and smiled to see that there was only one name left, but that smiled quickly vanished. The name. "S-Sesshomaru. What the fuck is she inviting him for!" he yelled out. A woman walking along the path cover her daughter's ears and hurried her pace.

Inuyasha growled deeply and debated going back to Kaede's village without even trying to find Sesshomaru. It wasn't like he would come anyway ... would he. "Damn it!" Inuyasha crumpled the paper into a little ball and tossed it against a tree. He knew that Sango was counting on him.

She probably just wants to ask Sesshomaru to help with the whole... Kohaku situation he thought as he jumped to the top of a tree. He could never be completely sure where his half brother was, but he knew the general area that he usually hung out in. I'll go there and sniff him out Inuyasha decided before jumping off again.

Rin playful splashed the water when she saw a fish swim by. She was just finishing up her bath. Jaken was a few feet away with his eyes covered. "Are you almost done Rin?"

"Yeah. I just need to get dressed." she jumped out of the water and grabbed her clothing. She had a brand new outfit now. It was a lot like her old one, except white. She had kept bugging Sesshomaru until he finally got her one.

It wasn't that her old clothing was bad. She had started to outgrow it, plus she wanted to wear the same color as her lord.

"I'm clean now Jaken" she walked over to the little green creature and placed a hand on his head. "Can we go back to camp now?"

Jaken stood up and started walking back to the camp that Sesshomaru was waiting at. Rin ran happily ahead of him so that she could be the first to see him. "Lord Sesshomaru! I'm all clean now. So my smell won't hurt your nose anymore."

That was how it was with Rin. She would always put off taking a bath, so she won't slow down the traveling, until her scent would offend Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru just glanced at Rin once from the spot he was sitting. It didn't upset Rin, she was used to it. She sat down next to him and started playing with a little bug that walked across her path. Sesshomaru watched the girl play and titled his head to the sky again. A few minutes ago he thought he picked up the scent of someone, but it had gone.

"Rin, Jaken, I'll be back. Wait here." he stood up and started to walk away from camp.

"Can I come with you lor -" Rin started to call out, but Sesshomaru interrupted her.

"No. You wait here with Jaken."

Jaken and Rin watched him leave. When he was completely out of sight Jaken kicked a rock as hard as he could, sending it flying. "I hate when he leaves without telling us anything."

"He'll be back." Rin said in her sign-songy voice.

Jaken stared at the little girl. "How come you're always so happy to be with Lord Sesshomaru?"

"How come you're not?" Rin looked directly at him.

Jaken frowned. "You're such a stupid girl. Someday Lord Sesshomaru will get sick of having you around all the time. Then he'll leave you in the middle of the woods to fend for yourself." He regretted those words as soon as they left his mouth, especially when tears started to form in Rin's eyes. He didn't know why he was so upset with Rin. It was probably because Sesshomaru was always nicer to Rin then he had been to him.

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Sesshomaru walked away from his campsite towards the faint scent he had picked up earlier. If I didn't know better, I'd say that was. but he didn't have to finish his own thought before Inuyasha jumped down a few feet away from him.

After standing up and dusting himself off Inuyasha glared at his brother.

"To what do I owe this pleasure?" Sesshomaru stared coldly at Inuyasha. "Are you here to fight?"

Inuyasha tried to ignore the urge to attack Sesshomaru with his bare claws You're doing this for Sango you're doing this for Sango he had to keep repeating that in his head as he walked closer to his brother.

"I'm here to deliver a message."

"So you've become some human's pet dog. One that delivers something on command."

Inuyasha made fist and dug his claws into his own flesh to remind himself of his real task. "I was sent to invite you to a wedding. Sango's."

"Sango. Isn't she that human' demon slayer that you travel with."

Inuyasha growled. "I don't give a rat's ass if you come or not. But it would make Sango happy I guess."

Inuyasha couldn't stand another minute with Sesshomaru so he started to turn around and walk away.

"You've grown weak Inuyasha. Caring so much about the feelings of humans."

"You're one to talk." Inuyasha said without stopping. "I can smell that little girl. Now if you're done blabbing, I've got a mate to get back to."

Sesshomaru stood there for a long time staring in the direction Inuyasha had walked off in, thinking about what he had said. About Rin and about a mate. "Mate?" he spoke to himself. "Inuyasha has a mate? Why didn't I smell it on him?"

Inuyasha let out a sigh when he got back to Kaede's village. There wasn't a single fire lit, everyone went to sleep. He was hoping that he'd get back in time for dinner. Kicking himself for even bothering with Sesshomaru he made his way to Kaede's house. He was a little surprised, though, to see Kagome sitting outside of it, waiting for him.

"You shouldn't be out here?" Inuyasha said as he sat next to her.

"Why?"

"Because. It's cold out. You might get sick."

Kagome leaned on Inuyasha, resting her head on his shoulder. "Where did you go today?"

"I went to deliver messages for Sango and Miroku."

"That was nice of you."

Inuyasha rubbed Kagome's lower back with one hand. "So what happened to Shippo."

Kagome smiled. "Nothing. He just drank lots of water."

"What was in that roll?"

"Every kind of spicy ingredient I could get my hands on."

Inuyasha laughed. "I dodged a bullet there didn't I"

"Yeah."

He lifted Kagome onto his lap and ran his claws through her hair. "We should go inside."

Kagome leaned against Inuyasha's chest and took in the smell of the lawn just after it rains. "No. It's nice out here."

"Fine." Inuyasha decided it would be easier to just wait till Kagome fell asleep. "So did Sango pick a day for the wedding."

"Yeah." Kagome closed her eyes.

"When is it?"

"Three weeks from tomorrow."

"Why then?"

Kagome gave a small yawn and took a few seconds to answer his question. "Because. The baby is supposed to be born in two weeks. Sango wanted to have the wedding after the baby is born."

"Two weeks huh."

"Yeah."

Inuyasha leaned back against Kaede's house. "It'll be nice to sleep in a tree again."

Kagome laughed slightly, "Nothings stopping you."

"Feh." He wasn't about to sleep in a tree without his arms wrapped around Kagome.

Sorry it took so long to write this chapter. I've had to do so many essays for my teacher that the sight of a keyboard made me sick. But now I'm sitting here with a nice hot cup of tea hopping you guys will like this chapter.

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