I don't own any of these characters except for Izayoi, she is my friend's, so you can't have her!

Oh bother, I'm a horrible person and you should all hate me! (not really cuz I'm so cute ! Besides the fact that I am the best beta ever!) Just because my boss at work thinks that I am indestructible and can work 12 hour shifts 3 times a week, and on top of that SLEEP! I need to sleep, and I need to beta for the story Sleep, you should all read it! It's good. But here we go! Finally chapter 4, and soon to be followed by chapter five and six, most likely within the next two days or so, cuz I've made everyone wait so long for this chapter! Here we go!

Back with Inuyasha and Kagome

"I don't understand! If you came back then why didn't you try to see me? Or your own daughter for that matter?" At this point Kagome had Inuyasha pinned against a tree and was yelling in his face.

"I . . . . . . . I . . . . . . .umm. . . ." Inuyasha ducked from Kagome's grasp and started pacing around.

"Umm. . . I . . . .WHAT? 'I tried to see you' 'I'm really sorry?' 'I wanted to be there?' 'I love you!' WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?"

"I WAS THERE! All right! I saw the birth of my daughter and I saw my beautiful Kagome go through all of that pain! It tore me up inside! I wanted to die! So don't you dare accuse me of not caring about you or my daughter!"

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? You weren't there! I know I would have remembered if you had been there!"

By this point Kagome had Inuyasha by the shoulders and was trying (not very successfully) to shake some sense into him.

Then, so quietly that Kagome almost missed it, Inuyasha whispered, "They said you most likely wouldn't remember."

This took Kagome back a bit. She released him and stepped back to sit heavily on a log.

Then with the same tone of voice that Inuyasha had used, she whispered, "Who all saw you? Mom, Sota, Grandpa?"

"All of them saw me, you even saw me. Its just that you were in such pain and you were so, as your mother put it, drugged up, that you must not remember, but I was there, I was holding your hand, I wouldn't have missed that for the world."

By this point Inuyasha was sitting next to Kagome and looking at her, trying to make her understand that he wouldn't have ever made her go through that alone.

"Oh Inuyasha, I love you!" With that Kagome threw her arms around his neck and squeezed him as tight as possible. Then abruptly she let go and stood up.

"OSWARI!" (A/N that sneaky Kagome, she slipped another rosary on while she was distracting him with a hug!)

"What the . . ." Inuyasha was now one with the log. "I thought you gave that to Kouga?"

"Well yes, the original, this is a new one, its not as powerful as the old one (Inuyasha snorted, didn't feel like it) and the side effect is that it makes you about 10 times more powerful. Can't you tell?"

The cocky grin on her face (she has full right to be proud of herself!) just widened when she saw Inuyasha staring at her in disbelief.

"Of course Kaede helped me with it, along with the bracelets.

"Now back to why my family made no mention of the fact that you were in my time and why you didn't visit me!"

SNIFF SNIFF "We're almost there, hop on"

With and exasperated sigh Kagome got on Inuyasha's back and they sped off towards the origin of the scent.

They stopped at an entrance to a cave.

"The scent is coming strongest from in there."

Now Kagome is not one to hold off on a subject for long.

"You never answered my question! I need you to. . ."

Inuyasha raising his hand silenced her.

"What's wrong? Is there a barrier or something?" She got one of her arrows out.

"No," came the blunt reply, "it's the scent of the demon who attacked us in the village. We had better hurry." With that, he grabbed Kagome throwing her back on his back and ran into the cave.

Thanks to the flashlight Kagome had in her backpack, (A/N She has everything in that backpack!) they started walking slowly into the twisting tunnels.

"Why does a cave need this many tunnels?" Inuyasha whined for about the 300th time, "I think we have passed this piece of moss about 800 times!"

"Inuyasha! If you can't tell ALL THE MOSS LOOKS THE SAME! And besides, we are in a Labyrinth, I saw an American movie called Labyrinth (B/N Bestest movie ever!) And all the tunnels were set up like this. We are supposed to be lost."

Suddenly, a light that could have given the sun a run for its money, shown out from the darkness.

They heard a slight chuckle. "I didn't think you would get here so quickly, you two are smarter than I thought."

"It's Kesneia! I know that foul stench anywhere!" Inuyasha immediately went to attack stance.

"Now no need for violence," the light lessened so they could see the demon clearly, "my master wants you both, how can I say it? . . . . whole." There was a wicked glint in her eyes when she said that final word. "Follow me."

"Like he. . ." Inuyasha was about to protest this idea of following a demon that he knew wanted to kill him, when he noticed that he was alone and Kagome was starting to disappear in the darkness.

Quickly Inuyasha caught up with the two muttering under his breath, comparing Kagome and dangerous situations, to a little kid and candy.

"What are you saying, darling? Are you trying to explain why I haven't seen you in the last 8 months and why you and my family conspired not to tell me that you were there for our daughter's birth? Because if you have anything else to say right now, I don't want to here it."

"Well I was just saying . . . "

"Oswari."

Sango looked up when she heard the command and the usual yelp that followed.

"Get up," she poked Miroku in the ribs with her foot, "they're here."

Kagome walked into the spacious room with a satisfied smirk on her face listening to Inuyasha spewing curses.

Suddenly a ball of red and green came barreling into her chest. She heard the usual shriek of 'Kagome' as she clutched the ball to her chest.

"Kagome, what took you so long? I was worried about you!" Suddenly Shippo leapt from her arms to the ground and ran around her in circles looking at her from every possible angle.

"Are you hurt? Are you bleeding anywhere? OH NO! WHERE IS THE BABY? Did that baka of a dog fail to protect you?"

The words were flying out of his mouth so fast and he was running so fast that Kagome had to physically stop the kit from running and talking.

"Slow down Shippo!" Kagome chuckled, "I'm fine, see, not a scratch, and Izayoi is fine as well, I left her with . . ."

A small tornado blew into the room.

"Oh speak of the Dust Devil . . ."

TO BE CONTINUED

Wa-na-na! Yeah I know I'm a bad updater! Its not that my co doesn't write enough, its just that I don't Beta enough:'( waaah! But yeah more is coming! Sundays or Tuesdays! Most updates will be on those two days! (hopefully) I love Crysty! She is the best co-author in the world! (sorry for being slow!)