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If you noticed the mistake I made in the last chapter, then you're on top! For chapter five, if you looked at the top right, the clicker thing tells you what the name of the chapter is. Well, it's wrong. The name of the last chapter was actually Kimisa's Gaze and Sango's Anger, instead of Separation of Friends...? So don't be confused when you see to different names for this chapter and the last one. Hope you aren't too confused...ugh, just go on!

Hello, I hope your in the mood, cause this is a long chapter. I counted seventeen and a half pages on Microsoft word. (Yeaness!!) This chapter was fun to write though it was long. Especially all the cute parts that make you wanna go awwww.... So! Slip those bifocals or whatever you use on, and read!

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Finding What Was Lost

By: Sanci J

Chapter 6: Separation of Friends...?

Last Chapter...

The sun was disappearing quickly and it became difficult for her to see. She jumped when she heard a few twigs snap. Swiveling in the direction of the noise, she almost crashed into a tree. Jumping back, she gripped her boomerang. Her protection.

"Shippou, is that you?" Sango asked nervously and stepped forward slowly, letting her eyes adjust to the darkness.

End of Last Chapter.

"Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!" Kagome screamed, all the while covering her naked body up with her peach towel. She kept her eyes on Inuyasha through all of his sits to make sure he didn't peek at her. "That's what you get for crashing through my bathroom door! You sicko!" She stood up slowly, closing her eyes to block out the dizziness that washed over her.

As he stood back up, Kagome pushed him away and grabbed the door handle to close it before he saw her any more. She struggled because she was concentrating on holding the towel to her body at the same time. She turned the knob to the left so the door would close properly, but it only hit the side and bounced back off.

"Just so you know, I didn't see anything worth looking at. So don't get all excited." Inuyasha said glaring at her from her bed. He smirked when he saw her struggling to shut the door in his face and it wouldn't. 'It's broke...'

Her mouth gaped when she saw the broken hinges. "Inuyasha...you broke the door!"

He snorted. "Took you long enough."

She glared at him so much that he could feel the icy wavelengths coming from her sharp eyes. She was really angry, that much he knew. She was almost shaking there with her grip on her peach towel and her left hand on the doorknob still. "Oh...you are dead when I get out of here Inuyasha. Mark my words...you...are...dead!" She slammed the door shut as far as it could go and he could smell her anger and a tinge of embarrassment.

There was a lengthy silence after that episode and he felt his face go red. 'I just walked in on Kagome while she was naked! I can't believe it...I didn't even think before rushing in to her rescue. I'm a damn idiot!' He mentally slapped himself.

"You are just like Miroku!" Kagome said loudly through the door. "You...pervert!" She came out with the peach towel wrapped around her and a second one on her head.

He looked at her funny, forgetting about the comment she made about Miroku. "Why is that on your head?"

She stopped and stared at him curiously for a minute before answering. "It's a towel. It will soak the water out of my hair."

He grunted in response and got off the bed. Sitting on the floor against the wall, he turned his head away from Kagome because his face was turning pink. He was embarrassed to be seen looking at her when she barely had any clothes on, even though he had seen her before...but those times were by accident. 'This one was as much of an accident as the others were!' he fought back. 'She didn't think so though. The way she was yelling at me...'

Sighing, she took her clothes out of her dresser and disappeared back in the bathroom. When she came back out, she was wearing dark green pajama shorts and a matching t-shirt. She saw him still in the same position as he was when she left him. Could he be angry with her? She stared at him, but he didn't look back at her. 'Did I scare him when I yelled at him like that?'

"Stop staring at me." Inuyasha's voice said angrily.

"Well, so-o-rry, mister crabby pants! I didn't mean to scare you that bad!" Kagome waited for his reaction and anticipated the worst. She grinned evilly.

His eyes narrowed and the next thing she knew, he was standing over her with a death grip on her right arm. She winced in pain and looked at the spot his fingers were. Her skin was already red and it would surely become a nasty bruise.

"I am not scared of you or anyone! Stop saying things you don't even know, and keep your mouth shut!" He hissed, his face directly in front of hers and his eyes were black.

Her head leaned back in fear and shock. "Let go of me!" She threw his hand off her bruised arm and rubbed it. "What's wrong with you?" she exclaimed. 'He's going crazy! That's got to be it! His eyes were black a moment ago...what does that mean? I have to do something...but what? I'm going to have a nasty bruise now for a while, so I'll make him feel bad. He also broke my bathroom door, and that won't be cheap to replace.' Kagome was hit with a struck of brilliance. 'The Secret Weapon everyone falls for. Tears. Fake tears.'

Inuyasha saw tears come to her eyes and he blinked. 'What- what did I do?' He saw the large bruise on her arm that she was holding. He gasped. 'I did that?' He felt horrible. 'I hurt her and I didn't even know it. I'm disgusting!' "Kagome...I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to-to hurt you. I was just angry...I didn't know what I was doing." Inuyasha began and stepped away from her. "I'm doing exactly what I said I would protect you from..."

Kagome inwardly laughed, but after hearing his sad explanation, she sobered. All she had wanted was to make him feel bad. He even apologized, for goodness sake! She felt her heart crack with guilt. 'I didn't really think he'd fall for a dumb trick like that...' She felt so bad that the tears fell harder. "I'm sorry." She stepped forward to him, but he went farther back and almost fell back on her bed. "Inuyasha, don't start that...you barely even hurt me. Don't beat yourself up...please don't." Kagome reached out her hand to him.

He stared at it as if it were a disease. "No Kagome. I promised. And I broke it." He stood there like a statue.

"Inuyasha, listen to me. You didn't hurt me...just my feelings. That's all. Well...and the door. But other than that, nothing." Her eyes welled up again. Inuyasha had done this before...but he hadn't reacted this way. She was scared...really scared. But if she acted like it, Inuyasha would freak out saying he did hurt her and that she was lying.

She walked to him in an effort to show him she was fine. All she had was a bruise, and that would heal. He moved back and fell on her bed, and in the motions, he grabbed her hand and she went flying on top of him. "Ah!" She shrieked as she hit his solid chest.

Inuyasha's arms came around her and he gasped at the impact. When he hit the bed, she smacked into him, which caused them to bounce up and down again. "Oh..hell."

Kagome held onto Inuyasha by gripping his shoulders and her legs went around his legs. When they stopped bouncing, Kagome rested her head on his chest and sighed. "That was an adventure." She murmured and closed her eyes, luxuriating in the feel of him.

Inuyasha was quiet. He was too busy trying to get enough air into his lungs to notice Kagome's body and how intimately it was positioned on him. Once he did, his face went beet red. 'Is she going to sleep on me?' he thought incredulously. He growled and shoved her off, immediately missing her warmth and fragrance. "What are you trying to do?" he said, sitting up and getting off the bed.

Kagome felt her anger rise again at his mean tone. "You can be so mean, Inuyasha. Why do you think I get upset? Maybe you would like me more if I were like Kikyou." She stared down, sitting on her bed in sadness. She shouldn't have said that. The part about Kikyou. What if he went ballistic again? Maybe he should go back in the well.

Inuyasha was shocked that she mentioned Kikyou. He stared down at Kagome. 'Does she think I'll like her more if she's like Kikyou?' "Why would you want to be more like Kikyou than you already are? I like you fine the way you are Kagome. Being like Kikyou won't change anything." His eyes were cold and he shook her shoulders. She avoided his gaze. "Kagome, look at me."

She wouldn't look at him, because he would see how scared she was. She shook her head.

"Kagome! Look at me, now! Kagome!" She refused to look him in the eyes. Didn't she believe him? He pushed her down on the bed and laid next to her, holding her down.

She struggled. "Get off me!"

"You chose to do it the hard way." Inuyasha said gruffly. He put his left leg on hers and with his right hand held her face. He turned it so they looked directly into each other's eyes.

Kagome took shallow breaths. She was shocked Inuyasha was almost on top of her. She stared at him, and noticed he had just pounced on her...like a dog. She was so close she could almost...no! She wouldn't think that-she was just starting to get over him. She squeezed her eyes shut before the tears could come. Then she'd be explaining nonsense...

'Why did she say that? Kagome wants to be like Kikyou? No...I won't let that happen.' He was careful not to squish her arms again. "Don't ever try to be like Kikyou, ever. You got that?" He got up and glared at her, but she just stared at the wall in front of her. He grabbed her shoulders again. "Kagome!" he said desperately.

She shoved him away. "Fine then! Get out!" She pointed to the window.

Inuyasha stepped back in the dark. 'What did I do now?'

"I said out! In the tree, now!" Kagome ordered. Usually she would never do something this cruel, but Inuyasha could take it, and if she didn't have at least fifteen feet in between them, she would either pop a blood vessel or wake everyone up with her yelling.

"I was going out there anyway!" He retorted partly in surprise and hurt as he opened the window and Kagome shivered when the cool air hit her.

He didn't look back at Kagome, but closed the window softly behind him.

Now Kagome felt alone and real tears gathered and she couldn't stop them, so she cried softly in her pillow so he wouldn't hear her. Crawling under the covers, she forced herself to fall asleep, telling herself she would apologize in the morning.


Miroku felt the presence of a demon when the wind picked up. But he couldn't tell where it came from. He stopped running and slowed to a walk. The trees swayed, ironically pointing towards the forest, and he ignored it. He frowned and hurried to Kaede's hut to talk to Sango. "Lady Kaede!" Miroku called as he walked into the small abode. "Lady Kaede, are you here?"

"Aye, Miroku. I am here." Kaede was sitting next to a burning pot Kagome had given her, stirring the brew.

Miroku saw the contents and asked, "Is this to help locate Shippou?"

Kaede looked up at him and stood. "Aye. This would be much easier if Inuyasha and Kagome were back. Do ye know how long they are staying in her time?"

"They were just staying for the night. They should be back anytime now, I suppose." Miroku sat down cross-legged when Kaede did. "But hopefully sooner. You do know that Lady Sango has a shard of the jewel? One of us could use it to go back and get them." He set his staff against the wall and glanced around. "Where is Lady Sango?"

"She left earlier to find Shippou." She stared at Miroku. "She is angry with ye and if she sees ye anytime soon, ye will suffer." Kaede walked stiffly to the door opening and looked outside. The sky was getting much darker. Black clouds rolled inward, darkening everything. "A severe storm is coming." She said.

Miroku frowned and couldn't believe Sango just ran out like that in the dark. Couldn't she tell a storm was coming? He didn't approve of Sango wandering by herself in a storm. "Why did you let her go then? She would have listened to your advice." Miroku watched for Kaede's facial expression.

She looked at him sadly. "Miroku. Ye know I am but an old woman. I couldn't stop her. She is too stubborn to listen." She returned her gaze to the current weather. "Especially when she is upset."

"I don't remember making her upset." He said then wavered, remembering how angry Sango was getting because he was paying too much attention to Kimisa. 'Could she really have been jealous about that?' He shook his head. 'No, she wanted to find Shippou. That's all that's important now.' "It doesn't matter now Lady Kaede. Their safety does."

"Aye Miroku. That it does." She sighed. "Ye might as well go."
Miroku raised his eyebrows.

"I already know ye are planning on following her. Ye know I can't stop ye." Kaede sighed.

He didn't reply because she was right and he stepped up to the opening on Kaede's left to study the upcoming weather too. In the distance was a pounding thunder. Then rain began to fall slowly and then sped up quickly, sounding like hail.

Miroku felt his chest tighten. 'Please let them both be sheltered.' "I need to find them. My best bet is to find Lady Sango first, so we can both search for Shippou together. This weather will be a set back so it's best for me to leave now." He retrieved his staff and made sure he had enough spirit wards.

"Miroku, maybe it would be best for you to wait till morning to go. That is when Sango said she would be back." Kaede said helpfully. She was already worried about Shippou and Sango. She didn't need anyone else to worry about.

"No...I can catch up to her easier if I go now."

"Hurry back then." Kaede had half a loaf of bread in her hands. It was wrapped in some colored stuff Kagome gave Kaede along with the pot. She put it in his hands.

He looked at her surprised. "You knew?" he half yelled over the noisy rain outside.

"I figured, and was right. Just be careful. I've been sensing the presence of demons nearby all day." She said loudly back and returned to her seat.

He pulled his kimono closer to his body as he left the warm hut. The pounding rain hit him and left stinging welts in their place as he walked. He had to plant his feet against the ground in order to stay put when the wind raged. He couldn't see a thing other than darkness and the occasional lightning. 'I can't do it. I could never make it in this weather. I will have to spend the night in the hut until the storm dies down.'

He turned back to the hut angrily when he heard a voice.

He stopped.

A voice was singing.

He turned back around and squinted his eyes to try to see anything. The voice stopped. 'Could that be Lady Sango? No, I must be imagining things. I could never hear anything in this type of a storm.' He sighed and slowly returned to the hut, seeking the warmth and shelter. 'I sure hope there alright out there.'


Ten Minutes Earlier

"I thought I told you to lure him into the forest and torture him." A voice boomed from the air into a small cave.

"I-I-I'm...sorry master. I was going to, but there was an interference so I couldn't. Master. I promise I will succeed if you just give me one more chance." The young person cowered and bowed before its master. The only attribute that was showing was the master's evil eyes.

"You messed up my plans! Only because I'm feeling generous to spare your life, I will give you another chance. Go find him now and lure him to you." The voice said impatiently.


Kagome tossed and turned, caught in a nightmare.

"Where is he? Where? Where?" She mumbled in her sleep. "Why can't I find you? Where are you?"

Her cries became louder until she stopped talking and began to cry.


Inuyasha was jerked awake at the sound of Kagome's cries. It was hard for him to smell her because while he was sleeping it had started to rain out. He heard her scream and he jumped to the window. Ignoring the rain that was falling on him, he opened it quickly. After shutting the window behind him, he shook the water off himself before going any closer to Kagome. He smelled Kagome's tears and saw her scrunched in a tight ball.

His heart hopped in his throat and he sat next to her body. "Kagome." Inuyasha began. She didn't respond and he noticed her eyes were closed. 'She's sleeping.' He sighed. 'She's having a nightmare.'

"Kagome, wake up." He said, shaking her arm.

Her eyes popped wide open and she stared at him as if he were death coming to get her. Her eyes were bloodshot and puffy. She blinked and slowed her heavy breathing some. "Inu...Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha saw perspiration on her forehead and noticed a piece of her hair was stuck to her cheek. His hand itched to push it behind her ear, but he held himself back. "Are you alright Kagome? You were making loud noises in your sleep. Did you have a nightmare?"

Kagome sniffled and a tear fell down her cheek.

Inuyasha's stomach clenched. 'Oh no...' He touched her right arm tentatively. "Kagome, why are you crying? You know I hate tears." He said gruffly.

Kagome slowly sat up keeping her covers at her waist. "Yes, I had a nightmare." She croaked out softly.

He wished he could make her feel better. But he knew he couldn't. He was a measly half-demon and to top it off he wasn't a good listener. "Well, what was it about?"

Kagome thought in silence for a couple minutes. "That's the thing. I don't remember what it was. I mean, I remembered right when I woke up, but I gradually forgot. All I know is that it was really scary and sad."

Inuyasha seemed dumb-founded. "Oh."

Kagome stared at him. 'He's trying. He's being nice to me as an apology for earlier.' She half-smiled warmly. She wanted him to smile, or make fun of her now. Something. He was just so quiet. She couldn't see his face because it was not close enough to her nightlight. "Inuyasha, I'm sorry."

His face returned to hers, and she could now see it in the light. Sadness was written all over his face, as was guilt. Kagome thought that at any moment his ears would pop back out and they would be bent down. They didn't. "What? Kagome, you have nothing to be sorry for. Everything that happened was my fault, not yours. I'm the one who crashed through the door while you were-um-changing." A pink blush rose on his cheeks and he avoided eye contact. "I'm the one who broke your door, and I'm the beast that hurt you. You don't deserve it. None of it. And-I'm sorry." He said shakily.

Kagome felt happy tears coming on and she bit her lip. 'He apologized. I'm so happy he cares that much. Oh...why does he have to love someone else...'

"You don't have to say anything." He said flatly. Then he met her eyes and was alarmed to see more tears in them. He gulped. "Is your arm okay?"

She nodded. "It's just a bruise. It'll go away soon. Don't worry about it. It doesn't even hurt."

"Who said I was worried about it?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome was shocked to see that his mood had changed so quickly. "Um-no one."

He relaxed and she laughed. Inuyasha looked at her as if she were crazed. "What's so funny?" he growled.

"Earlier when I told you to get out, you looked like the sad puppy who had lost his way." She giggled and he glared at her.

For a second he thought about dumping her on the floor. No, that was too mean. She was too fragile to be throwing around. Maybe when she gets better. He smirked.

Kagome raised an eyebrow when she saw his smirk. "What?" she asked curiously.

"Nothing, wench." He said, then immediately regretted it.

She tightened. "Don't call me that." She said calmly.

He couldn't tell if she was serious or not because her eyes were hidden beneath her bangs. He had to provoke her. He didn't want to make her upset, but he loved getting a rise out of her.

"What...wench?" he asked innocently and smirked again.

Growling, she lunged at him and he fell backwards in shock. He landed still on the bed, with his head hanging off the end of it. His eyes were huge when they settled on Kagome's sparkling ones. "See what happens when you call me names?" she retorted and smiled sweetly. She was directly on top of him, but her top half had risen up. She was looking down at his shocked expression with glee.

Then he grinned mischievously and flipped her over in a second. "You need to get some sleep, wench. Tomorrow is going to be a long day, remember?" he asked smartly throwing her own words back at her.

She sobered and they sat back up to an uncomfortable silence. "So...um-uh..."

"I'll just head back outside." Inuyasha started to stand when Kagome grabbed his red haori.

"No, don't go back out there." She struggled to find her words when he stared back at her. "It's raining still and its too cold for even you to stay out there. Stay in here." She said simply. Yes, she was worried about him having to sleep out in a storm. But really she only wanted him in her room for selfish reasons. She wanted him to be close to her. She just felt safer that way.

"It's alright Kagome. I can stand the rain and the cold." Inuyasha said, reassuring her, but she wouldn't release his haori.

"I don't care if you're equipped to handle it. I want you to stay in here. It was wrong of me to even send you out there. I feel terrible." She said softly gazing at him.

He looked at her curiously. "If you say so."

She sighed in relief. "Thank you."

He went and sat on the floor leaning against the wall. Actually, he was glad Kagome didn't want him to go back outside. He didn't want to sleep in the rain (though he would never tell her that) and he didn't want to be too far away from her in case she might have another nightmare. He looked at her to see she was still sitting up with her eyes awake staring across the room. Why wasn't she going back to sleep? "Kagome, why are you still sitting up? Go back to sleep."

She looked at him fearfully. "I'm too scared to go to sleep. I might have another nightmare." Sighing, he got up and sat on her bed. He leaned back against her headboard and brought her back against him.

Her eyes widened in surprise when she felt his arms around her waist, pulling her back to his lean chest. 'What's he doing?' She spoke her thoughts to him.

"Well, your too afraid to sleep alone, so I figured if you were with me, you might go to sleep and not keep me awake for the rest of the night bugging me." He replied.

As much as Kagome was enjoying being this close to Inuyasha, she lifted her head. "Well, I kind of-um, can't sleep sitting up..." I

nuyasha raised an eyebrow and then pulled Kagome down laying flat on the bed carefully so he wouldn't hit her bruised arm. "Is that better?" He asked. Now they were both laying on her pillows with his left arm around her head.

"Yes." Her head snuggled unconsciously into the side of his chest.

He gulped when he felt her snuggling. 'What the hell did I get myself into? This is wrong...all wrong!' He thought and pushed any mushy feelings he had away. Her left arm inched across his waist. His stomach tightened. 'Oh no...' he thought. 'She's getting way to comfortable here. She-she's hugging me! What the-and I like it...' He told himself to stay as far away from her as he could, but right now all he wanted to do was hug her to him and breath in that new whiff that was coming from her hair. It was an intoxicating smell that drew him like a dog to a bone.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome said sleepily.

"Yeah?"

"Thank you."

Inuyasha stared at the ceiling stunned. Why would she tell him thank you? What did he do? He couldn't remember doing anything special... "For what?" he yawned.

Kagome never answered. She was already soundly sleeping.

He sighed in obvious frustration, but he let her sleep. A couple minutes later Kagome said something he couldn't understand and pulled him closer, burying her face in his warm neck. A shiver went up his spine and he blushed. This made it harder for him to resist the hair. It was only about six inches away. Knowing he would regret it in the morning, he put his right arm around her waist pulling her closer so he could bury his face into her sweet smelling hair. It smelled like oranges and cream. Not as good as ramen, but it was still tempting. He sighed, deciding he would tell Kagome she kept hugging him in the night if they woke up in the same position. But that wasn't until the sun came up, which was hours away still. He still had time to smell her hair as much as he wanted...and pretend.


"I miss...you Kagome." Shippou whimpered, figuring out he was lost. He couldn't find his way back to Kaede's. 'I'm cold and...wet. I want Kagome!' He sniffed and heard a noise in the brush coming from underneath the tree he was perched on. "I shouldn't have run away...they forgot about me. Or they're all mad at me. Now-now somebody's gonna find me and kill me!" He began to cry because he was scared. It was dark out and storming, so he couldn't see where the noise was coming from. He also couldn't smell very well.

He shook his head to throw the cold water off of him and shivered. 'Where am I? Kagome, where are you?' Shippou let the tears fall down his cheeks. Would he ever see his friends again? He sure hoped so. Shippou had just huddled into a ball when he heard footsteps behind him. He still couldn't smell who it was, but he guessed it was Kagome. 'Kagome! She's come to get me!' he thought happily, his eyes shining.

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See, didn't I tell you it was a long one? I've decided not to put up any more sneak peaks for future chapters. If you liked them...sorry! I hope you liked this chapter, if you did or didn't, just review!!!