Sorry, guys, it's another day with me as your author. But, hey, at least i know where it's going now! Yay! And i have something for all of you at the end in my author's note too!

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"Sango will send someone after us if she wakes up. Okay? Now are you coming or not?" I asked, turning away.

"Sure. Just let me grab the..."

"We hunt the old fashioned way here. With our noses and claws. You have them, it's time you used them for something other than maiming." Inuyasha said, walking down the hallway. Not bothering with the tennisshoes in the doorway. Rei followed him out.

"What are we hunting?" He asked, curious.

"Take a whif. What do you smell?" Inuyasha asked, taking a long sniff of the air.

"Rabbit, and foxes. And human blood. and...DAD!" He yelled, racing off in the general direction of the scent.

Inuyasha caught up to him easily. "Alright, now stop." He stopped the wolf. "In which direction? I already know where he is. He is fine. Focus on the hunt." Inuyasha coached.

"What are we hunting?" Rei asked, confused again.

"Something you've never smelled before. Try." He said, taking a deep breath.

"It's that way!" Rei said, pointing east.

"Alright, find it's tracks." Rei nodded and sprinted ahead, following his nose.

When Rei stopped, Inuyasha approached. "What is it?" Rei asked, staring down at deep clawed gouges in the wet earth.

"Follow the tracks and it'll take you to where it is. That way you can ask it yourself." Inuyasha said, amusement in his voice.

Rei obeyed, following the tracks, and when they disappeared, his nose.

They finally stopped about a mile and a half from the village.

"He's here." Rei said to inuyasha, his voice low so that it didn't disturb whatever creature they were tracking.

"Actually, i'm a She, hatchling." Came a bell-clear voice from behind them and Rei turned in shock, claws bared in preperation to fight. "You bring hatchlings of other demons, but not your own, Inu-chan. When shall i meet your Kaouru?" The huge, silver scaled beadt turned to Inuyasha, rubbing her big snout over his face and chest. Snorting, she lifted his hair and clothes as if a gust of wind had blown through the clearing.

"This is Rei, Sapphira. He's the wolf cub i told you of." Inuyasha said, sratching a long dark scale with his nails.

"Hn. He's not much. But i suppose that is to be expected for a hatchling. He wishes to mate your kit?" Inuyasha nodded.

Sapphira turned toward Rei abruptly and looked him up and down with a wary black eye. "I approve. He will protect her with his life. And he loves her. He must to put up with you and your brother, inu-chan." She said, then trotted off. She turned her long neck to look back at Rei. "Are you coming, Hatchling?"

Rei looked at Inuyasha, then back at the monstrous lizardlike dragon. Shrugging, he followed her.

When they stopped, they were atop a mountain. "Pick those." She said, motioning to the black roses a few feet over the edge of the cliff.

Rei did so without asking why. he knew better. This was a magical creature, and not one to be questioned.

"These roses are called the infinity rose. They will live until your love dies. And she will live for quite some time. Take one for you, and one for her, and plant the rest here. Give the one for you to her, and keep hers with you. These will always tell you if one is hurt or in pain, or even joyous no matter how far you are apart." The dragon then flew upward into the sky and disappeared into the sunlight.

Rei stared after her. Amazed. He had actually touched a dragon.

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kagome stared down at the black rose. It was full and open. gloriously blooming. Inuyasha was well. And happy.

She glanced over at Ayame, her fever had gone down, but she had not woken up since the blood moon. And that was two days ago.

The pack had come and gone, Bringing herbs they thought would help. Though she knew none would. She needed to get Ayame out of here. Out of this land. She knew these symptoms, Miasma poisoning.

She stood, wavering slightly, hoping it was vertigo. "Kagome?" Shippou asked, hovering near her.

"I'm fine, Shippou. We need to move the pack. Or at least stop the miasma. It's getting worse." She said, bracing herself against his shoulder as another wave of dizziness swept over her.

"Kagome!" She heard the muffled yell as her world went black.

She could feel everything. Hear only muffled things, but she could hear. She couldn't move, though. And she couldn't open her eyes or speak. Everything spiraled down to one voice. "Someone! Get Shikara, Hurry!"

And then..Nothing.

When she drifted back to the surface, she felt hands on her throat and chest. She opened lead eyelids to focus on the kitsune above her. "Shippou...It's in the water. In the rain...Tell them...escape." Her confused words only startled him. "Inuya.." Then the darkness covered her again and she sunk below the surface.

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"Kagome!" Inuyasha gasped as he pulled up the image of the rose in their time. It had wilted drastically, but had not died. He had to get to her, NOW!

He jumped high into the air, racing toward the mountains where the wolves were. He didn't have time to find Rei and tell him. Or the others. He Flew over the village and let his note flutter down to the guards at the gate. He had one goal. Get to Kagome.

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Yup, i'm leaving it there. yet another cliffie. I know i'm getting repedative, but it's an art. (Clifffies i mean.)

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