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Chapter 5: From one to another

As Kagome fell from the purple miasma cloud to her certain death images of her life flashed before her eyes. The images in her mind were so peaceful and loving, especially when she saw fond memories of her and Inuyasha together. She smiled as she remembered the the time by the river when she saw Inuyasha sitting in his usual perch position on a tree branch.

Flashback

Kagome had been mad at him earlier that day and had run off, the only reason she came back to him was to tell him to sit one last time, but when she saw the saddened expression on his face she couldn't help but let her anger subside. She watched as the intricate wind played with Inuyasha's silver locks of hair and his loose haori. She saw hims close his eyes and mumble her name. After a while Inuyasha had sensed her presence and was a little startled by her just staring at him, he slowly backed along the tree branch and watched as Kagome's orbs followed him, almost smiling. Inuyasha was trying his best to get closer to the ground just in case she wanted to 'sit' him as ventilation for her anger towards him. He smiled back at her uncertain as to what was going on in her mind, but he didn't want to make Kagome even madder than she was. He backed along the tree branch some more and heard a faint crack, like a fire was burning somewhere and the flames were engulfing wood. Inuyasha sniffed the air but didn't smell any smoke, he then looked at Kagome who was- Gone! Kagome was gone! Inuyasha looked all around the area in which the beautiful miko had been standing. He turned around to scope out the area behind him and walked a little further out on the branch. He searched the flowing river and the blowing greens that were swaying in the wind for any sign of human life, but couldn't find Kagome. Of course, what he didn't know was that she was right under his nose.

"Kagome-"

Crack!

There went the branch he was standing on, right into the river with the silver hanyou falling after. Inuyasha hit the water with a big enough splash to get Kagome wet, who had been standing right under Inuyasha and the obvious cracking branch of wood. Kagome walked over to the rivers edge and peered over into the rippled water of blue and reflections. She watched as the bubbles of air subsided and noticed Inuyasha wasn't coming up.

"Inuyasha?" she yelled. Kagome started taking off her shoes and socks just in case he didn't come up soon. "Inuyasha if this is a trick quit it!"

Kagome got on her hands and knees and looked throughout the watery area of mud and lily pads. The sun shone on her back and the transparent water reflected her worried face in it's depths. She searched the surface of water one more time before she decided she was gonna jump in. She got in her diving position but saw something red spreading throughout the water. 'Is that blood? Oh no, Inuyasha!" Kagome quickly dove into the river and swam to the pool of red as fast as her arms could take her. When she got to the redness in the water she noticed that it was not blood, but Inuyasha's red haori. Kagome lifted it's drippiness from the water and was very confused as she stared around her scared body. 'What if something happened to Inuyasha?' she thought. Just then she felt something brush up against her leg and she shivered. Something was swimming around her, and maybe that something had gotten Inuyasha. Kagome put on Inuyasha's fire rat haori, praying that whatever creature was near her would go away and find another victim. Kagome opened her eyes to the sun and wanted to cry. 'Where is Inuyasha?' The circular swimming had stopped around her and she mustered up enough courage to dive under. She buried her head deep beneath the water and looked around the dark covered rocks and underwater life as she kept her senses more alert. After running out of breath Kagome resurfaced and dunked her head back to wash the raven hair form her face. She held the haori tight to her chest and began to cry. The river was too dark for her to see anything and if Inuyasha had gone this long without air he would surely be dead.

Kagome took the haori in her arms and started to swim back to shore. She squished her hands in the mudd from the rivers' bank and noticed a pair of footprints in the liquid dirt. Kagome closed her hand in a fist and the mud oozed from her fingers. 'He tricked me!' Kagome stood up like a mud wrestler and was madder than ever. She stomped over to the tree she had used for hiding and flung the haori over the broken tree branch, thanks to a certain hanyou then looked around for the demon joker. She gave up her search after running around the river and looking behind rocks and boulders in hopes of finding a pair of dog ears or a hanyou with a spell bound necklace so she could comfort herself and torture the demon jerk. But, there was no success, she figured he probably ran back to Kaede's village to escape her wrath, so instead of chasing after the coward she decided to sit by the tree while the haori dripped dry. As she was sitting against the bark of the tree she asked herself why she hadn't just yelled 'sit' out loud. If she had then she would have found him in a heart beat.

"Hmmm, I wonder. SIT!" Kagome strained her ears for any sound of a thud or a cursing yell, but she heard nothing. Kagome stood up and took the haori off of the branch and folded it in her arms.

"Better get back to the village." Kagome began to head back when she heard a faint yell. The sound was getting closer and closer by the minute. 'Is something running towards me?' she questioned in her mind. Kagome looked in front of her but saw nothing, even though the sound was getting closer and closer. 'Come to think of it, the noise sounds more like someone is yelling.' she thought

Thud!

Kagome jumped at the sudden sound. A silver hanyou was lying sprawled out on the ground in an earth crater created by his own body.

"I-Inuyasha?"

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" Inuyasha boomed.

"What do you mean? I thought you were back in Kaede's village."

"Well I wasn't!" Inuyasha scowled as he flicked tiny pebbles that were embedded in his skin away.

"Then where were you!" she yelled.

"I was at the top of the damn tree! I knew you wouldn't be able to find me up there!"

"Why were you hiding from me Inuyasha!" Kagome already knew why but she wanted to hear him say it.

"Because I didn't want to be bothered by you!"

"What? Bothered! Do I bother you! Inuyasha, you scared me half to death when you didn't come up from the river! I thought you were dead! And I would have kept on thinking that if I hadn't found enormous foot prints in the mud!" Kagome turned away from him as tears started to crawl to her eyes, but she fought them back. She really had thought Inuyasha to be dead the moment she found his empty haori, and only just now the tears decided to fall.

"Kagome, don't cry." Inuyasha whispered.

"Shut up. I'm not crying."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes mentally and sighed as he smelled her salty tears. The wind began to pick up it's pace and in doing so it whipped leaves from their branches and they created a whirlwind around the silent duo. Inuyasha lifted his head to the sky and saw the sun, then he walked slowly over to Kagome and put his clawled hand on her sobbing shoulder. The contact made Kagome feel a bit better but she still put on the act of anger when she was turned around by Inuyasha. She looked into his deep golden eyes and the tears stopped.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome's tear streaked face and felt guilty. 'Maybe I shouldn't have tricked her like that.' He stood there holding onto her shoulders then pulled her close to him, he embraced her whole form and nuzzled his nose in her beautiful raven hair that smelled of rose petals.

Kagome had her head buried into Inuyasha's chest and she started to sob some more, except these tears weren't for pain, but they were for happiness.

End Flashback

(Wow. She must have been falling pretty slowly to remember all that) Kagome felt the wind whip her hair and clothing about as she fell. She was started to regret the jump as she neared the hard earth down below. She closed her eyes and braced herself for the impact of land against flesh, when, she felt flesh against flesh. Someone had saved her from death, the person had silver hair and golden eyes, his touch was so soft and his chest was so strong. 'Inuyasha.' Kagome thought as she was sped off into the forest.

"So the miko was trying to escape Naraku by killing herself was she? Well, we can't have that now can we Jaken?"

"No Lord Sesshomaru we cannot I know you have a special need for her."

The two youkai traveled through the forest as the unaware miko slept in the dog demon's arms and noon made itself present to the world.

A/N: Ha! You thought it was Inuyasha didn't you? I did too until I decided it should be Sesshomaru. And no I'm not gonna make Sesshomaru fall i love with Kagome or the other way around, he just needs her for something and that's it. And don't ask me why Sesshomaru suddenly appeared out of nowhere okay? I'm just weird like that. -