Yay! I can be relied on as an Inuyasha source! Well, Book Missionary Author, here's the answer to your question: There's really no answer. Kagura and Kanna must've gotten out when Naraku escaped. Of course, the Inuyasha movies are filler, so you know that there's gonna be loopholes.

If anyone else has questions, tell me so I can help! I dun mind!

Now here's the chappie! Woot!

Two Days Later

Sesshoumaru followed Rojin's plan unconsciously. He took at least twenty four hours to recuperate from the stress of having been tainted and purified within one week. After that, it was decided that since they weren't going back to the castle anytime soon, Sesshoumaru should get a new kimono. His old on was in so many pieces as it were…

"You ready to get new clothes?" Kagome asked him.

Sesshoumaru stared at the sunrise as she spoke.

"Sesshoumaru…"

"Oh? What is it?"

"We need to get you some new clothes. Are you ready?"

She sighed in frustration. He was staring at the sunrise again. Annoyedly, she grabbed him by his arm and dragged him with her.

"Ow! Hey! Kagome, I command you to stop! Ow, damn it! You are hurting me!" he snarled.

"Then pay attention!"

"Fine, I'll pay…oh, look! A horse!"

"Grr!"

"Hey, Kagome, what's wrong?"

Inuyasha showed up with a container full of boiled numbweed.

"I'm going to kill him if you don't take your shift, Inuyasha!" she snarled. "He doesn't pay attention to anything!"

"Uh, Rojin said he wouldn't…what are you staring at, Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru's golden eyes were trained on the Tetsusaiga.

"Hmph. That sword should have been mine," he muttered, hand glowing green. "IT IS MINE! MY TETSUSAIGA!"

He charged Inuyasha and tried to reach for the steel-cleaving fang at said hanyou's side. Inuyasha barely sidestepped, but he didn't look so angry.

"3…2…1…" he counted. As soon as he reached 1, Sesshoumaru slumped down in a dead faint.

"How can you time it so well?" Kagome asked.

"I have better sixth sense than you. Now hold this numbweed. I'll carry him."

Inuyasha lifted his brother up and carried him.

"He'd better not drool. That's all I'm sayin'."

They made excellent time to Kaede's village, where they rejoined Miroku, Sango, Kirara, Shippo, and even the rest of the Sesshoumaru-gumi.

"Hey, Rin! What are you doing here?" Kagome asked in surprise.

"Master Jaken and I were attacked by a centipede youkai and Sango-chan saved us!" she explained. "W-what happened to Sesshoumaru-sama?"

"He got sick," Kagome replied, deciding it best not to relate the wound to Rin.

"Oh. Can I help?"

"No, Rin, we can handle it," Kagome said.

Inuyasha set his brother down leaning on the hut where he soon came to his senses.

"Inuyasha…I do not feel very well," he said softly. "My stomach hurts…"

"Lemme see…" Inuyasha said. Sesshoumaru, who was wearing his brother's outer haori for the moment, removed it and exposed his bleeding stomach.

"Rin, let's come over here for a while!" Kagome cried, turning the child before she saw anything.

"Just hold still. I'm going to put in some numbweed. We'll have to be quick, Kagome's distracting Rin…" Inuyasha explained.

"…a butterfly…"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and began to spread numbweed over his brother's gut.

"Guh…hmm…"

Sesshoumaru was at first surprised, but he soon adjusted to the slight pain.

"Kagome, let's rest here for today. He's not well enough to go shopping," Inuyasha told the young miko.

"All right," she replied. "We'll rest here. But we can still go shopping if we have his measurements…"

"I ain't measuring now! He's starting to look real bad, like he's gonna spew!"

Sesshoumaru was panting and his face registered pain.

"You're right. We can't move him."
"What in seven hells happened to him?" Miroku asked.

"Long story. I'll tell you later," Kagome assured the monk.

Later that Night (After Rin has fallen asleep)

"So, Kagome, what did happen?" Sango pressed as she poked at the fire.

"Yes, I think we would all like to know that," Kaede added.

"Well, Sesshoumaru transformed two days ago, and when he threatened me and Inuyasha…we didn't have a choice but to fight…"

"What went on?" Shippo asked.

"I transformed," Inuyasha said. "He separated me from Tetsusaiga and he had me under his paw, so I changed. And when I did, I scratched his face up and ripped his guts open…"

Sango groaned.

"Is that why he's feeling so much pain? That I can understand, but he seemed out of it, you know? Like he wasn't all there…"

"His cousin is a healer," Kagome began. "When it began to snow the day after Sesshoumaru transformed and got mauled, Inuyasha went to Sesshoumaru's shiro and got Rojin to help us. And Rojin used a purification spell to cure him."

"Hmm…wouldn't the purification kill him?" Miroku wondered. "I know he's strong, but still…"

"There's still a possibility of that," continued Inuyasha. "But to answer Sango's questions, he seemed out of it because that's a side-effect of the spell. It healed him, but there's a price. He can't eat for three weeks in order for his stomach to heal, and apart from that, he's going through chronic pain, has short term memory loss, and temporary obsessive-compulsiveness."

"Sounds like a daily basis of you is a part of him now," Shippo said. To that, Inuyasha gave him a very ugly look.

"Shut-up, runt!"

"Inuyasha, you forgot the fainting thing," Kagome said quickly, trying to dispel the hanyou's murderous thoughts.

"Oh yeah. That too."

"So he' s more of a danger to himself than anyone else now?" Sango deduced.

"Yeah."

"Inuyasha."

"Yeah, Miroku?"

"How are we going to hunt Jewel Shards with a demon who can't focus on anything and does the first thing that pops up into his mind?"

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