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Chapter 18

A few days in Paradise

Sesshomaru was back to the camp in just a few minutes and after waking up everyone Kagome and Sango took Renamon from Sesshomaru and got to bandaging up her arm while Rika began to ask Sesshomaru what happened. Sesshomaru told them everything that happened except the conversation he and Renamon had. According to Sesshomaru he just removed the arrow from her shoulder and brought her straight back to camp. Renamon was listening to Sesshomaru while he told the story, and made a mental note to thank him for leaving out the more compassionate parts.

Rika accepted the story and went over to help Kagome and Sango with Renamon's shoulder. Everyone else except Inuyasha went back to where they had been sleeping. Inuyasha on the other hand had a gut feeling that Sesshomaru wasn't telling him something. So, after everyone else was a sleep Inuyasha went over to where Sesshomaru was sitting keeping guard over the group and said, "Sesshomaru."

Sesshomaru kept looking forward as he said, "What do you want Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha sat down beside Sesshomaru and said, "When you told us about what happened earlier I got the sense you weren't telling us the whole story."

Sesshomaru eyed his brother before he looked forward again and let his eyes where Renamon lay sleeping, her shoulder wrapped up bandages. After a few moments of silence, "After I removed the arrow from Renamon's shoulder she said that I just saved her life. I then pointed out that she had now saved my life twice, and how I actually owed her one. She then said I could repay my dept if I did two things for her. One was I would carry her back to camp after I did the second thing for her."

Inuyasha tilted his head as he asked, "What was the second thing?"

Sesshomaru closed his eyes as he said, "She wanted me to answer a question, just one question."

Inuyasha waited for Sesshomaru to say the question, but as the seconds grew in two minutes he finally asked, "Are you going to tell me what the question is, or am I going to have to guess?"

Sesshomaru was quite for a few more seconds before he said, "She asked if I loved her."

Inuyasha did a double take, and then thought to himself how Renamon must of overheard the conversation he and the others had earlier. He was silent for a second before he asked, "And do you?"

"You know what, I do. For the first time in my life I truly love someone, and felt so good being able to tell her that."

Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were silent for several minutes before Inuyasha asked, "So, what are you going to do when she has to go back to the present with Rika?"

Sesshomaru then realized he had never thought of that. He knew the Renamon would never forsake Rika for anyone, not even him. He began to fear he would never see her again when Inuyasha broke his train of thought by saying, "I have an idea, if you care to hear it?"

Sesshomaru thought about what his half-brother might be planning, but unable to guess for himself he said, "Okay, so what is this grand scheme you have."

Inuyasha smiled as he said, "Okay, here is my idea. We both know that Totosai forged the Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga from the fangs given to him by our father."

Sesshomaru raised an eye brow as he said, "So, what's your point?"

"If we can get one of your fangs out of your mouth when you're in your true form I can take it to Totosai and meet you guys back at Kaede's village with a completed blade."

Sesshomaru began to smile as he thought about the idea presented to him. He then turned to Inuyasha and said, "Okay, but it has to be a very special blade so when you take my fang to Totosai I want you to tell him he needs to make the blade have these specifications." Sesshomaru then spent an hour talking with Inuyasha planning the blade they were going to have Totosai forge for them. With one hour left before sun rise Sesshomaru and Inuyasha went a good mile away from the camp. They found a clearing and Sesshomaru transformed into his true form of a huge white furred dog demon. After completing the transformation he opened his mouth and Inuyasha got a grip around on of Sesshomaru's fangs.

Inuyasha made sure he was ready and said, "Okay, I am going to pull on three. One…Two…Three." Using all his strength Inuyasha pulled on Sesshomaru's fang and after a few seconds of pulling the fang popped out of Sesshomaru's mouth. Sesshomaru quickly turned back into his human like form. He looked over to Inuyasha who now had one of his massive fangs held up to his chest. Inuyasha smiled as he said, "All right, if Totosai is going to have the blade finished in time I've got to leave now." With that Inuyasha slung Sesshomaru's fang over his shoulder began running in the direction of Totosai's volcanic home. Sesshomaru used his tongue to fell the gap in his teeth. He could already feel a new fang growing where the old one had been removed.

Sesshomaru returned to the camp a few minutes before the others began to stir and wake up. In fifteen minutes everybody was up and getting ready for the day. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Jaken, Rin, Kagome, and Kohaku began to clean up the camp while Rika changed Renamon's bandages. Sesshomaru walked over to where Renamon was laying and asked, "So, feeling any better?"

Renamon nodded quietly as Rika finished redressing the wound. She then turned to Sesshomaru and asked, "It has never taken Renamon this long to recover from an injury like this."

Sesshomaru nodded as he said, "Well, she hasn't been hit by a sacred arrow before. The power contained within the arrow makes it so even if someone survives being hit by such an arrow the wound will refuse to heal for some time, but I wouldn't worry. Give it a few days and it will be completely healed up."

Rika nodded and smiled to herself as Sesshomaru helped Renamon get into a standing position. Everyone was about to leave when Kagome finally realized, "Hay, where is Inuyasha?"

Miroku looked around as he said, "Your right, I have yet to see Inuyasha this morning."

"I wonder where could have run off to?" Shippo said as he finished stuffing an item into Kagome's backpack.

Sango then said as she picked up Hiraikotsu as she said, "Maybe we should go look for him."

Sesshomaru kept his usual face on as he said, "I saw Inuyasha leave late last night. He said he was going to see Totosai, and that he would meet us back at Kaede's village."

Everyone shrugged, excepting Sesshomaru's story. They soon were all packed up and were on there way back to Kaede's village. They knew it would take them around a week to get back to Kaede's village if they returned the way they came. Jaken, however, believed that on there to Naraku's castle they had made an arced path because they were following Kagura's path. However, if they were to head straight for the village they could be there in four days. To be on the safe side Jaken consulted the staff of two heads. When he asked the question about which way was faster the beautiful head opened its mouth and screamed indicating to Jaken that by taking the route he proposed they could get back in less time.

After everyone talked it was decided that getting Rika home quickly would be the best option and they headed off, heading straight toward Kaede's village. The group traveled pretty much the same way the entire journey. Jaken was leading the way with Kagome and Rika walking a few steps behind him talking about the differences between feudal Japan and the time they lived in. Behind them followed Miroku, Sango, and Kohaku. Kohaku was in-between Sango and Miroku, talking with both of them excitedly, not knowing that Sango was using her little brother as a barrier between her and the flirtatious monks wandering hand. Behind them Rin and Shippo walked together talking about random things while Shippo showed Rin his wide variety of toys. Finally, in the very back Renamon and Sesshomaru walked. They were a quite a few feet behind Rin and Shippo, but they were glad about that because it allowed them to talk to each other. Renamon talked about the modern world while Sesshomaru talked about the past. Renamon told about some of the digimon she had defeated with Rika while Sesshomaru talked about similar instances. That was only the first day though. As each day pasted the pair began to talk more freely with each other, and on the third day Renamon had actually gotten Sesshomaru to laugh quietly at one of the jokes she had heard from a while back.

Sesshomaru was happier then he had ever been, and all he was doing was talking with someone who he loved, and he knew returned the feeling. His heart sank though when at the end of the fourth day Kaede's village came into view. By the time the sun began to set they had arrived and were being welcomed by Kaede.

After everyone had said their hellos, and Kagome had explained why Sesshomaru was with them Sango asked, "So, has Inuyasha gotten here yet."

Kaede smiled as she said, "Yes, he got her only a short while before you. He is sleeping back at my hut. He must have been exhausted because according to him he had left Totosai's mountain only this afternoon, and that is usually a day's journey for him. Well, no sense use standing out here in the dark why don't you all come into the hut? I'll wake up Inuyasha and we can all have a nice cup of tea." With that everyone filed into Kaede's hut, and while the old priestess went in back to wake up Inuyasha. Sesshomaru helped Renamon down onto the floor as he said, "I bet by tomorrow morning that will be completely healed."

Renamon smiled a bit as she held her shoulder and said, "I hope, I hate being treated like a baby because of something as small as an arrow wound."

Sesshomaru shook his head as he said, "It was not any old arrow, it was a sacred arrow, and I would count your self lucky. I was sure that it would take you a week to fully recover and here your almost there in four days." Renamon smiled and nodded her head as Kaede came out of the back room with Inuyasha yawning wide. Sesshomaru's face returned to its normal cold appearance as he said, "So Inuyasha was Totosai able to help you with the sword."

Inuyasha nodded as he sat down beside Sesshomaru. After a while Kaede passed out the tea and everyone was talking avidly when Sesshomaru leaned over to whisper in Inuyasha's ear, "So, how does it look?"

Inuyasha smiled as he whispered back, "It is better then I thought it was going to turn out."

"Where is it right now?" Sesshomaru asked as he took a sip of his tea.

Inuyasha finished taking a drink of his tea before he said, "It's hidden outside the hut, in the tree on the opposite side of the road."

Sesshomaru finished his tea as he said, "Show me."

Inuyasha stood up and said, "We'll be back in a minute." Inuyasha then lead Sesshomaru out of the hut and across the road to the tree. Inuyasha leapt up into the branches and after a few seconds returned to his brother's side carrying a sword in its sheath. He slowly pulled the sword out and Sesshomaru marveled at its beauty. It was a straight double edged sword with a very beautiful and detailed handle. What amazed Sesshomaru the most was the blade of the sword. The blade of the was discolored in places, the patterns of the shading making it look like there were flames burning half way up the blade of the sword down to the hilt. From there up the image of a great fox like beast with several tails took up the rest of the sword. If you looked at it from the side it looked like the ends of the fox like creatures tail were burning, creating the flames that ran down the remainder of the blade.

Sesshomaru smiled at Inuyasha and said, "Your right, this is much better then I had anticipated. I hope she'll like it."

"Hope she'll like what?" Sesshomaru span around hearing this voice as did Inuyasha. They saw that Rika had followed them out of the hut and was now glaring them with questioning yet irritated eyes. Inuyasha didn't know what to do, but Sesshomaru learned from Renamon that the best way to deal with Rika is to tell her the truth, and answer her questions as best you could. Knowing this Sesshomaru brought the sword forged of his demon fang out to where Rika could see it. Rika looked over the blade carefully, taking a lot of time to look at the fox like creature before she said, "That's Renamon's champion level, Kyuubimon, on that blade, isn't it."

Sesshomaru nodded his head as did Inuyasha. After a few moments of silence Rika asked, "This doesn't look like steel, what is it made off."

Inuyasha looked over to Sesshomaru before he said, "It was forged by Totosai, the guy who forged both the Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga. As for the material, it was forged of a fang taken from Sesshomaru while he was in his true form, a giant white dog demon."

Rika looked back down to the blade for a moment before she asked, "So, why did you have this Totosai guy forge this blade."

Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were silent for a few moments before Sesshomaru was able to say, "I had it forged for Renamon."

Rika waited a moment before she turned her back on them and said, "Hmmm. I guess you don't want Renamon to know about it till later, right." Rika turned her head to see Sesshomaru nodded his before she turned back toward the hut and said, "Fine, but we are heading to the bone eaters well right after breakfast tomorrow so you don't have much time left to give it to her." Rika was about to go in the hut when she heard Sesshomaru say something to quite for her to hear. She turned and walked back to him while Inuyasha passed her and went back into the hut himself.

After a few minutes of silence Sesshomaru finally said, "Rika, I have a favor to ask you."

Rika raised an eye brow as she said, "And what might that favor be?"

Sesshomaru swallowed a bit and then said quietly, "I am planning to remain in the company of my brother and his friends, and I was hoping that when ever we are here in Kaede's village Renamon might be allowed to come visit me, I mean us."

Rika smiled slightly as she said "Sure, no problem. I'll just ask Kagome to call me when ever you guys are here and I'll pass the message along to Renamon. Anything else you want to ask me."

Sesshomaru smiled slightly as he said, "No Rika, I don't." With that Rika and Sesshomaru went back into the hut, and in thirty minutes everybody was out like a light except Sesshomaru, who went outside and slept in the tree where the blade forged for Renamon lay hidden. As he dozed off he said to himself, "Hmm. I think I will call the sword the Rensaiga, after the one who it is destined to be its wielder."