i am so sorry for the extra long wait, but school is killing me. i mean really i broke down in walmart because i couldn't figure out what shampoo i should get, and i wanted my mommy. sometimes i hate boarding school! so i went on sick list and took a day off, since i had finished my homework i decided to write this chapter...what can i say this one is not that exciting...it is more of a fluffy filling! for all those who wanted more fluff here it is...i mean really!

Don't let the past create the future, let the future erase the past.

Chapter Eighteen

Kagome just stood there and listened to the blunt ranting that boomed around her. "Sango?" She said the name to herself, squinting her eyes in concentration. Finally she figured out what was going on. She was so distraught that she was imagining her friends' voices.

"Inuyasha where the hell are you?! The girl still hasn't woken up!" Sesshomaru bounded a corner with a large heap of blankets in his arms. Sweat clung to his hairline and there was purple bruise of some sort forming on his left temple. A single hand fell limply from the cover. It was a very small hand, with a light pink polish adorning its fairly long nails. Kagome studied the hand, confused to no end. She had seen that color before. She could honestly say that she owned a polish just like it.

"Have you tried cold water?" Inuyasha inquired while releasing the oblivious Kagome. He watched her step forward and reach out to the blanket. Gently and almost hesitantly she opened the cloth and gasped at what she saw inside. There, as peaceful as ever, was little Rin. They had brought her dead body home with them. "Oh..." She brought her hand up to her mouth and spun away from Sesshomaru. Feeling that sick bile was etching its way quickly up her throat, Kagome raced to the empty sink and let her stomach drain.

"Kagome..." This time a face matched the voice. It really was Sango, a living, breathing Sango.

Kagome just wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and let the faucet water rinse whatever she had left behind. She stared at her friend in awe. "You're alive?"

The answer was obvious, but Kagome still had to ask. "Yeah, but Rin..." Tears sprang out of Sango's eyes as she looked off into the distance. "I think she had another one of her panic attacks, the worst yet. She freaked out when the guys came up. I haven't seen her run that fast since that time at the zoo. The next thing I knew she was flinging herself at the dude with the white hair, I don't remember how many times she hit him, and he..."

"What?" Disbelief was overwhelming Kagome. She could barely hear what Sango was telling her, and it was almost impossible to comprehend it, but she still tried. "What did he do?"

"He pulled a gun out on her..." Sango said briefly, as if that would explain everything. It did, well, at least it did to Kagome. Rin went crazy over three things. One of them being pictures of her family, the next was blood, but what really got her was the sight of a lethal weapon, the horrible man-made creations that destroyed her happiness, her childhood. "She was out so fast that nobody had a chance to catch her before she hit the bedpost."

"Inuyasha!" For the time being Kagome became sane yet again was on the verge of understanding the whole situation. In short, to her, Miroku, Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha went to kill her friends, but instead they try to kidnap them, Rin got upset and hurt herself, while Sango stays calm and handles the situation like it was one of her sports' games. "Inuyasha?!"

From another room Inuyasha responded to Kagome saying, "what the hell do you want?!"

"Get her in cold water!"

"Get who in cold water?!"

"Get Rin in cold water!"

"Why?!"

"To wake her up!"

"Oh, okay! Sesshomaru is going to do it!"

"Fine, but we need to talk!" Kagome shouted over her shoulder. She knew she should be more angry about everything, but there was no room because relief was taking up too much space. Her friends were safe, for the most part, and they were there with her.

"The four most dreaded words of mankind is 'we need to talk' and here I figured you would be thanking me, not divorcing me."

"I can't divorce." Complained Kagome quietly. "We need to talk about this."

"About what?" The dumbstruck Inuyasha asked, tilting his head to the side, hoping that would clear things up for him.

"About this!" Gesturing to Sango in frustration.

"You want me to kill them instead, because we sure can't take them back now."

"And why not?!" Sango inquired viciously, the sound of her voice making Miroku flinch in fear.

"Because we can't." The brave Miroku stated meekly to the furious woman before him. "and also because it might cost us our lives." He added in a huff.

"Who says? It's not like we'll go blabbing around about you guys! Just let Rin, Kagome, and me go and we will call it even." Sango concluded senselessly, secretly she knew that would never happen.

"Kagome isn't going anywhere." Inuyasha put in with a flat tone and a sturdy volume. "Nowhere."

"So you say, but if I know Kagome she could break out of this place with both me and Rin tied to her back. Don't underestimate her just because she is small." Challenged the fuming Sango.

"Hey! Both of stop talking about me like I'm not here!" Kagome stomped her foot on the hard floor to get the feuding people to quit there immature arguments.

"Yeah! Stop talking about me too!" Everyone looked at Miroku in his faze of stupidity.

"Who would talk about you?" Inuyasha questioned with a laugh.

Sango and Kagome took that moment to giggle at the poor man before turning to find their friend Rin. Together they made there way up the stairs to where they heard water running. When they walked into the room Sesshomaru was holding a shaking Rin tightly. The girl was awake fully and looked to be enjoying the embrace.

"Rin are you okay now?" Kagome asked gently, not wanting to stir up any anxiety.

"Kagome!" Rin unlatched herself from the arms of Sesshomaru and quickly found her way into Kagome's. She sobbed slightly, but anyone would be able to tell that she was going to be all right.

"Come on lets get you changed." Sango suggested, eyeing Kagome to get her permission.

"Yeah, I think that would be good, and then we can go downstairs and grab something to eat if you want to." Kagome offered to Rin, who was busy sniffling and nodding at the same time.

"I better go talk to Inuyasha." Slipping past the three girls, Sesshomaru raced to where is brother and cousin lounged. "She is weird."

"You say that about every girl you meet." Inuyasha quipped with irritation.

"I mean she is really weird, almost scary." The older man replied, his voice distant.

"No, what is scary is how you can make an insult sound like the best compliment in the world. Which is it? Do you think she is scary in a good way or in a bad way?"

"I don't know. It's more like an interesting scariness about her. It's kind of depressing."

"Just like you! Perfect! You should find out more about her. You never know when you're housing a homicidal maniac." Miroku wisely stated with a sigh.

"Why in the hell would Kagome have a psycho girl as a friend?" Asked Inuyasha.

"Because they are accomplices in the art of insanity." He answered with a sly eye creeping in motion towards the ceiling, where just above it the girls whispered in distress.

"And what about the third one? Sango or whatever, she could get my dead dad to shiver with that look of hers. She even twitches." Sesshomaru said, joining the conversation.

"No, no she is too sweet." Miroku rejoined in awe, obviously lost in his own world.

"Sweet?!" The two brothers yelled in unison. "Sure she is, sweetly evil!" Inuyasha finished. "I better go and try to talk to Kagome. She seemed pretty upset."

"Just tell her why you didn't kill her friends, and I am sure she will cheer up, little brother."

"I guess. Here goes nothing." Pushing himself off the couch, Inuyasha walked slowly up to Kagome's room. From behind the door he heard hushed voices and instantly felt as if he was interrupting a huge meeting of important people. He knocked rapidly before opening the door a crack and peeking inside. "Can I talk to you?"

He watched her nod and shoo her friends out of the room. "You guys should go get something to snack on. I have plenty of leftovers in the refrigerator.

"Okay we will." And with that the girls went straight to the living room, instead of the kitchen.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha started, nervously rubbing his right hand up and down his left arm. He stepped forward, towards the bed where his wife sat.

"Nothing, why?" She replied hoarsely, and was suddenly aware of his strong presence.

"I don't know, you seemed kind of upset or something." He stated uneasily, again moving closer to her.

"So what if I did?" Uncomfortably she sat up stiffly, avoided eye contact with him, and remained extremely still.

"Don't be like that." He ordered mildly annoyed.

"Like what?" She asked innocently.

"You're getting all remote and cold. I'm not going to hurt you." He paused and progressed onto the bed. Unhurriedly he brought his hand to her hair and effortlessly tucked loose strands behind her ears. "See are you injured from me touching you?"

"No." Kagome breathed out, trying to measure her intakes and outtakes of air.

"Good." Leaning into her he met her lips with his. Pressing lightly at first, but eventually breaking the barriers that restricted them from being together.

Downstairs things were getting interesting between the pairs of opposite sexes. With Sango and Rin on one side, facing the two confused men, the group eagerly finished their game.

"I spy with my little eye something-"

"Purple!" Miroku yelled out in glee, completely interrupting Sango.

"I didn't even finish what I was going to say. What are you some kind of retard?" She inquired half in humor, and half in impatience.

"Oh, I wouldn't go that far, but you might say his is by far he is the most unintelligible, mentally disabled lunatic I have ever been related to.

"Then he is a retard to say the least." Rin accomplished with a small grin.

"Precisely." Miroku said positively enjoying all the large words he was getting called.

"You just agreed to an unnatural insult, did you know that?" Sango asked, her eye twitching at his ignorance.

"No, but I did not agree to a compliment either!"

"That makes no sense." Her words leaving her mouth in a rush. She had never met anyone so, so stupid before, and yet she could swear that he wasn't a total idiot either. Unfortunately, all of this made Sango very confused, and she almost had herself thinking that he could possibly be cute.

Back in Kagome's rooms things were getting hazy. Surreal even.

okok so what did you think...the next chapter will be fun i promise...now remember that i have very limited time so please don't flame me because of my scheldule...thankfully i haven't gotten any fired up reviews yet but some of the emails i get can be pretty sad...::shiver::.

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