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Disclaimer: It hasn't changed since the other chapters. I STILL don't own...

Nightfall2525- I'm going to TRY to make this chapter longer. I hope you like it!

AngelTears1328- Yea! I love having loyal readers such as you. It makes me so happy to see the many reviews! Keep reading!

Marin M- LOL! I love the voice! We all have it and it's fun to hear it. And of course, she has to give in to it or else this fanfic would make absolutely no sense! I'm not sure if it makes sense now...

ShinkuKihaku- As was stated above, I'm TRYING to make the chapters longer. I also think this chapter has more depth to the characters in their dreams anyway. YAY FLYING PINK MONKEYS!

Lanicia Jichelle- Yet again, I'm trying to make chapters longer. Anyway, I love the voice, too! It took me loooooooong time to give in to mine!

RECAP:

He smirked. It was all part of his plan. He had decided to test her loyalty to him. He purposefully put himself in danger to see if she would save him or remain loyal to her friends. It might have been wiser to wait so that she would trust him more, but he was too anxious to find the answer. He was pretty sure that she would save him, though.

She watched him deep in thought. 'Kami I hate it when he smirks like that! Though it makes him look- NO! I have to get that voice out. But maybe it speaks the truth. Do I like him? He is handsome and strong and brave and Kami he's fast and powerful and rich and not a hentai- Oh Kami! Miroku! How does he feel about this? But no one said he liked you. But why else would he act how he does. Duh, he does that with every girl. Then why do I get jealous? Because I needed someone to love and of course not that stubborn hanyou! But Sesshomaru has so many more good qualities than Miroku. Hey, wait a second!'

She had finally realized that Sesshomaru had two arms!

'How did that happen...'

On with the show!

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Sango was dying to know why his arm was back. She decided she would ask after they gathered Rin and Jaken.

"If you don't mind me asking, how did you get your arm back?" Kagome had told her about the day he had lost it.

"I looked through many healers, ningen, hanyou, and yokai. Together they were able to restore my arm. The spell required the talent of a ningen and the power of a yokai which is why it has not been attempted for many centuries," he responded.

She looked at him oddly. She had not really expected an answer much less one so detailed. Again, she was not complaining, though it was strange.

They soon arrived back at the castle. Sesshomaru took Sango up to her room despite her insistence on walking and went to his study. He usually went there to think.

'What is this power that the onna has over me? Even I cannot deny to myself that I have some sort of weakness in her presence. Could it be that I care for her as I do for Rin? Or perhaps more.' He pondered what this power was and what having Sango around would mean to him. It was a long time before he realized that it was approaching dinner time. He went to fetch Sango, Rin and Jaken. He escorted them to the dining room.

The meal was incredible. There was every dish imaginable. They ate as much as they could before heading off to bed. The night was restless for Sango and Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru's dream

It was foggy. A dark figure stood on the opposite side of a meadow from him. It intrigued him. He walked towards it. He could see that it was woman. As he walked towards the figure, the fog dissipated. It was Sango. His heart raced. What was she doing here? And while they were on the subject, why was he here? Suddenly that didn't matter as she looked up at him.

He walked towards her and looked down at her. She looked so sad. He wanted to comfort her but was not entirely sure how. So he went with his instinct. He kissed her. To his surprise, she did not pull away. Then she was gone. He stood there sad and confused. Where had she gone?

He woke up, panting. So he did care for her. Why else would he have kissed her and been so sad when she was gone. Then he thought about it. What would happen when she did eventually go back to her friends?

Sango's dream

It was a beautiful night. The full moon was shining. She was standing by a river. Sesshomaru was there. She bowed but he lifted her chin to face him.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"For what?" she asked.

"For treating you the way I have in the past."

"You are such a baka..." she said quietly, but his demon senses still heard it.

"Oh am I?" He walked closer to her and she repressed a shudder.

"Yes. Do you honestly think I care?"

"No."

Their faces were inches apart. Sango looked towards the moon.

"It's beautiful..." she said wistfully.

"Not as much as you." To his surprise, she started walking away towards the river.

She walked until she was in the middle of the river with the water up to her waist and said, "It's nice out here. Come and see."

He walked towards her. Her gaze was still focused on the moon until he was right next to her. She looked up at him. They stared at each other for a few minutes. Then, of course, they kissed.

Sango's eyes widened when she felt razor sharp claws at her neck. There was a steady flow of blood. She broke away and sank to her knees.

"Why?" she gasped with tears in her eyes.

She woke with a start. 'What just happened? Is that to be my fate for eternity? To be betrayed by all whom I love?' She decided it would be best to go back to sleep. She could think about her dream in the morning.

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She was woken by a knock on her door. She saw the lord standing at the entrance and remembered her dream. She looked horrified for a moment but then Sesshomaru spoke.

"You should have been up already. You must get ready for breakfast. You may use the hot springs if you wish. I shall be back in thirty minutes to get you." She nodded.

She figured the hot springs would do her some good. If she only had a friend she could go with. Wait a minute! Shizuka!

"Um, Sesshomaru-sama, would it be alright if I brought Shizuka with me to the hot springs?"

"Very well."

She found Shizuka and they went to the hot springs.

"I'm telling you this is so much fun! My other friend and I did this all the time."

"Alright..."

"This is so much better when there is no risk of some hentai spying on you."

"Who spied on you?"

"Miroku."

"And he is?"

"An annoying hentai that enjoys asking all pretty women he meets to bear his children. And he gropes them."

"That's horrible!"

"I know. The worst part is I was the one he usually groped seeing as Inuyasha would have killed him if he groped Kagome."

"I wouldn't like that."

"Yeah. It's nice to have some time away from them and some hands away from my ass."

"So can you explain to me who Inuyasha and Kagome are?

"Sure. Inuyasha is a dense, stubborn inu-hanyou that likes Kagome, but he also likes Kikyo, and can't really decide between the two of them so he always ends up hurting Kagome. They really love each other though because they always manage to undo the damage and pretend like nothing happened. And Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation but she hates being referred to as that. She is a miko without full control of her powers but she could probably kill all of us when she does get control."

"But if Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation, then how come Inuyasha can't decide? I mean, Kikyo is dead, right?"

"Yes, but she was resurrected by a demon called Urasue. She has a body of clay and lives off of other people's souls and hatred for Inuyasha."

"Sounds like he has real woman problems."

"Yep. But he doesn't really want to admit how much he cares for Kagome."

"So what is with this Miroku? Are you and he, um, involved?"

"Well, kind of. I always get jealous when he's with other women. Then at the few times when a man finally likes me, he gets all sentimental and says he wishes me happiness."

"So do you like him?"

"Yes, but I think I like someone else more."

"Who?"

"That is the one thing I cannot tell you. In time, maybe. I can tell that I had a dream about him last night."

"Sure. What happened in it?"

"It started out by a river..." Sango explained her dream making sure not to tell who else was in the dream besides her."

"Ok. Did you hear that?"

"No. What was it?"

"I think a demon is approaching. Get dressed quick."

The two girls got dressed and readied themselves for battle. They had weapons ready for such an occurrence. Then a demon walked up. She was clearly powerful because she had a human form. Neither of them could tell what kind of demon she was from her markings. She a blue diamond on her forehead and swirled stripes on her cheeks.

"Konnichiwa. I am Iruka. I thought I had a sensed a powerful demon in this clearing, but now all I see are two weak humans. Are you going to stand in my way and get killed or let me pass?" The demon said this in a tone of complete boredom.

"You clearly are an evil demon if you would kill us simply for standing here so how about a battle?" Sango asked. She hadn't slain a demon for a long time and this demon didn't seem all too friendly so it wasn't as if it was bad to slay her.

"I don't know why you think you can defeat me but this shouldn't take much of my time," she responded. Soon everybody was ready for the battle.

Sango attacked first. "Hiraikotsu!" she screamed. Her boomerang flew at the demon. It was easily dodged by the demon.

She had not even gotten hiraikotsu back when she was attacked. Ice crystals flew at her and pierced every inch of her body. She screamed in agony. This was clearly an elemental demon. She looked at Shizuka. She definitely couldn't fight, and she had never seen Shizuka fight, but seeing as she was a servant, she couldn't be all that couldn't be all that good.

Her friend looked worried and she had good reason to be. Then Shizuka transformed. She now curved stripes on her cheeks and swirl on her forehead.

"What?" was the last word to come out of Sango's mouth before she collapsed.

When she woke up, she found it exactly how it was when Sesshomaru defeated her. She was in the now very familiar room with bandages covering her wounds, but this time Shizuka was the first person she saw when she woke. Then she remembered what had happened.

"What was that? How did you transform?" she asked.

"I'll explain," replied Shizuka. "I'm a demon as you can probably guess. A wolverine demon to be precise. I am the daughter of the guardian of my village and will someday take over that role. Nobody knows of my existence but my father and my mother. This was how they passed me off as human so I could infiltrate Sesshomaru's castle and see what he was planning, for my father finds Sesshomaru's emotionlessness very suspicious. I have found out nothing in the months that I have been here, though. Please don't tell anyone!"

"I won't. Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"It was to be secret. I didn't know how much I could trust you at first. I have been kept in secret, therefore I know little of the tendencies of humans and demons. Now I must get back to work."

"Wait, how did I get here?"

"Sesshomaru came. He said he smelt a demon, and he knew we were out here, so he came to see. It's a good thing he didn't come sooner or he would have seen me in my demon form. Now I really should be leaving."

"Alright. And, um, I'm a bit hungry seeing as I missed breakfast. Could I get some food?"

"Of course." Shizuka left the room. Neither of them knew of the taiyokai standing outside the door during their whole conversation. He bolted when he heard Shizuka approaching the door. He did not want them to know that he was eavesdropping. That might lower their opinion of him and more importantly, Sango's opinion.

He decided to use bringing up Sango's food to her would be his excuse for checking up in her. When he arrived at her room, he let himself in to see her lying on the bed looking very bored. She looked up as he walked in.

"Ohayo, Sesshomaru-sama," she greeted not wanting to sound ungrateful. After all, he had brought her back to the castle.

"Ohayo. Shizuka explained what happened to me. I think it is a good thing that you fell unconscious after killing the demon." He was referring to the story that Shizuka had told him even though he knew it wasn't the truth.

"Hai. A very good thing..." She trailed off.

"Here is your food."

"Oh, yes! Arigato, Sesshomaru-sama!" She nodded her head as a sign of respect. She was not arrogant. She knew he had spared her life in their battle and decided to be grateful. She started eating the delicious meal.

"You seem to be injured a lot."

She swallowed her food. "Oh, no, um, not really. These are very minor. I can be back to work in no time!" She tried to move, but fell back in pain. "Maybe a little bit more than no time..."

Sesshomaru couldn't help smiling. It was certainly a surprise to Sango who had never really seen anything but a death glare on his face. "Hai a bit more."

Sango couldn't think of a reply so she started eating again.

"I shall see you back at work in a bit more than no time... Sango."

"Um, right... Shitsuree shimasu Sesshomaru-sama."

He left. 'He called me Sango! He actually said my name! Is that good or bad? Well, it's nice to see that he is actually capable of pronouncing it. And it's bad because that is like a sign of affection for him! Is that a bad thing? Well if it's that he is beginning to respect me as a human being, that I am beginning to gain his trust, that I am becoming worthy despite the fact that I am a ningen, then no. I need to stop thinking so much. If I think for too long then the bad voice will come. But then of course, the bad voice is my subconscious so it expresses my true desires. Wait a minute! I think it's back! Kuso! I cannot trust him! He is a block of ice! Nothing but cold! But then why did he smile just a second ago? I guess that sort of shows that he has a sense of humor. Or that's what he wants me to think so he can gain my trust and use me to manipulate my friends! I rally do think too much. I think I'll go to sleep. But that's where my bad voice rules my mind! I could have another dream! But then again it would help me heal.' She mentally sighed. 'I guess I'll sleep.' So she did.

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I think this was a good chapter. A LOT longer than usual. Again, I am SO sorry I didn't update sooner! I'll do my best this week! Oh, and by the way, the dreams were supposed to emphasize their greatest fears. PLEASE REVIEW!

Language Guide:

Kami- god

Hentai- pervert

Hanyou- half demon

Ningen- human

Yokai- demon

Onna- woman

Baka- idiot

Inu- dog

Hiraikotsu- Sango's giant boomerang

Taiyokai- demon lord

Ohayo- good morning

-sama- suffix added for a lord

Hai- yes

Arigato- thank you

Shitsuree shimasu- good bye

Kuso- damn