Never thought writing a fanfic could be so much fun. I can manipulate the characters however I want. I am the supreme ruler. Mwahahahaha! Errmmm...ok then, sorry for the outburst. ;; From now on I'll try to write somehting at the bottom or the top. Most of it will probably make no sense whatsoever to people who don't know me personally, but what the hell.

Yes, yes. Sesshoumaru has been acting OOC. That's the point. I'm gonna have him keep going like this then he'll revert back to his old human hating self, with the added exception of Kamia. And I'm planning a Rin-saving thing. Dunno when it'll turn up though...

Yes I know my chapter's are veeeeeeeeeeeryy short but bear with me! At least I update often right? And once my mum comes back I'll be able to update even more. But I'm ranting. Here's the chappie. Enjoy!

Chapter 9 – Falling

Kagome

Kagome watched, frozen as Inuyasha and Kamia began sliding out of her sight. I have to do something! Her mind cried. She tore herself into motion. As they slid out of her view, she flung herself to the edge, just missing Kamia's outstretched hand. She stared, her arm still stretched out as if they could pull her friends back, as the two plummeted down into the abyss.

Inuyasha

Why was he on his back moving? Why wasn't he tunneling through into the ground? Ass his shirt caught onto a branch jutting out from the side of the cliff he realized with a jolt that there was no ground underneath him. That's right! He thought angrily. Kagome sat me!

"Kagome, you baka," he growled. There were a lot of footholds around. When he got to the top he'd show her. That's when the smell hit him.

Blood. His eyes widened. Had Kagome been hurt too? No. It was someone else's blood. He reached towards the nearest foothold, determined to get things straight. Something fell past him. He stared after it and sniffed. Wasn't that…

"Inuyasha!" Inuyasha looked up to see Kagome looking at him with frantic eyes. She was safe, thank Kami. He looked closer. Something was wrong. "Kamia fell too, Inuyasha!" Inuyasha gaped in shock then that thing that fell past him was… "You have to save her!" Kagome's voice faded away as she saw that Kamia wasn't even visible. Inuyasha looked down but he couldn't see of hear a thing. He could only smell her faintly but he knew he couldn't get to her in time. He just wasn't fast enough. No one slower than Sesshoumaru could save her now, and he definitely wouldn't.

Kagome had apparently reached the same decision because he could hear her slump and smell the salt of her tears. He gritted his teeth. Sure he didn't really like Kamia all that much but still…

A silver streak sped past him. He stared as he recognized the scent.

Sesshoumaru?

Kamihana

Kamia felt the ground give way under her slowly, but even though she was close enough to jump to strudy ground her legs remained frozen in place.

Everything seemed to move like a slow-motion movie. She was moving in slow-motion as she felt her body lean back and obey the call of gravity. She saw Kagome leap for her as if in a dream and raised her hand to warn her away. Her fingers slipped though the other girl's and she went flying into the open sky.

So this was falling, she mused. She felt strangely calm. Kamia closed her mouth without a sound.

Kamia's fall was broken only by a thorn bush growing off the side of the mountain. It scratched through her skin and cut her arm as it broke under her weight. She was falling again. Dimly, Kamia was aware of rushing past a red-clothed man hanging on a branch and of Kagome's distant crying. Though how she heard them was a mystery.

She gasped softly as the back of her head slammed against a dull rock. Blood ran out of the not so big yet not so small split in her skull. As she slipped into the dark obliviation of unconsciousness, she was vaguely aware of an arm that appeared suddenly around her waist, supporting her, and twin fiercely golden eyes.

Sesshoumaru

Sesshoumaru watched the others awake from under hooded eyes. If they believed he was asleep it would be so much easier to watch them. He was still grinning inwardly at last night's scene. Inuyasha had tried to run away 7 times, taking an unfortunate protesting monk with him. Sesshoumaru had caught him 6 times. On the seventh time though, he decided Inuyasha wasn't worth his time and simply knocked him out, much to the relief of the monk.

Kamia had not been gone for 10 minutes when he heard a faint "Sit!" and the slam of a jaw hitting dirt. There was also the sound of rock cracking. Was he little brother's skull really that think?

A smell drifted to his nostrils. Blood. More specifically, that wench's blood. What was her name…Kamih? Kamihan? No, Kamia, that was what everyone had called her. He rose smoothly and, ignoring the startled glances of everyone else, raced at top speed to where the scent was coming from.

"Inuyasha!" Inuyasha's woman was yelling. "Kamia fell too, Inuyasha?" What? Damn that sit command. "You have to save her!"

Sessohumaru burst into a small clearing. The reincarnated miko wench was sitting on her knees, slumped, and crying. Without thinking, Sesshoumaru dashed past her and down the cliff. He rushed past his half-brother without a glance and within seconds was holding the unconscious Kamia in his arms. Or rather arm. Sesshoumaru cursed Inuyasha for the thousandth time for cutting off that arm. A nearly transparent mist came to being underneath them and slowly lifted them back up. Sesshoumaru wanted some time to think.

Why in the world had he saved the wench? He snarled at himself. He risked hihs own life to retrieve her from that fall. Why? She was only a girl. And a human one at that.

Damn her! He was taking on his father's weakness for humans. All because of that damn human bitch!

It had to be her power. That was it, he reasoned. Without her aura detecting abilities, finding Naraku could take years of his time. With her, it might only take a few weeks.

That had to be it. So why did he feel like there was something else?