Smile Like You Mean It

Chapter 19: Midnight Show

Dmitri stopped smiling once they were gone. He dusted his shirt off and straightened the said shirt. He looked back at the path they just visited.

"I shouldn't have helped her." He frowned then followed the path they went on. He knew where to go, he had to meet up with her anyway, she's the only way he could get home.

He stretched and looked up at the graying sky.

"I want my Coat back"

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Sesshomaru let her wrist go as they walked side to side.

"You know, you didn't have to do that to Dmitri."

He scoffed.

"He was only trying to help me."

Silence.

" You didn't have to pull so hard either, I wasn't in danger." She looked down either in embarrassment or pity.

"Don't look down"

"Why?"

"It makes you look bad"

She tilted her head to face him.

"And since when did you care?"

"Since things happened"

"Like what?"

"Don't question me"

She smiled then sat up straight.

He looked over.

"Why are you so happy?"

"No reason" She did a slight spin and walked backwards in front of him.

If he hadn't moved his head to the side and down a bit, she would of opened her eyes to see a blush form across his cheeks.

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Shippo woke up near a fire and a face staring down at him. It was Rin's.

"He's awake!" She yelped happily.
He could hear a crash in the background then Sango rushing to his side with a drink of some kind in one of Kagome's water bottles.

"Are you alright? Feeling sick? Here take this." She handed him the bottle.

He smiled faintly then drunk from the plastic bottle.

He coughed for the nasty cherry flavored crap they pull as an excuse of medicine stung the back of his throat.

He got up to a painful sitting position.

"Oh sorry about the crappy wrapping job, I was shaking and quite scared so you understand? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine Sango, Go do whatever you were doing"

Rin sat next to him as Sango looked down for a moment then walked back toward the fire to pick around in it (I did that the days I was camping, I burned a stick and threw it to the neighbors dog).

Rin looked over to the Kitsune.

"Are you sure your okay?"

"Yup, Just a nasty taste in my mouth"

"Hey, err, Shippo, Why are your friends so nice? Sesshomaru Sama never mentions them in a nice manner."

"I guess it's because their not friends like us, Sesshomaru Sama and Them I mean."

She nodded.

"But I have no clue what makes them so nice, Inuyasha is just a melodramatic Hanyou, Kagome is a Nice Priestess, Sango is a Demon Slayer with a troubled past, And Miroku is a Monk with a curse." Shippo frowned "They all have something bad haunting them yet their always happy and smiling."

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Sesshomaru and Kagome got back to Aion's quicker because he wanted to get back desperately and not have any interruptions for the rest of his 'vacation'.

"We are like the living dead, sacrifice is all we have, for a thousand miles with our soul on fire, we are like the living dead, craving for deliverance." Kagome whispered under her breath as they walked through the hallway.

"Nani?"

"It's a song"

Silence. They walked into the room and She went through her cloths picking a regular pair of black PJ's.

She then walked out of the room searching for the shower room. She showered then walked back to the room. He was sitting on the bed going through some papers and she was begging to see some reading glasses on like Jin from Samurai Champloo. Sigh. Nope. Damn.

She sat on the futon next to him and slightly looked over his shoulders to try and read what he was looking through. Nothing important, just information from Jaken and other Servants about what was happening in the western Lands.

She yawned and stretched then stood up ripping a few blankets from underneath of the reading Sesshomaru.

"What on earth do you think you're doing?"

"Sleeping on the ground"

"Why?"

"Because I sure as HELL not sleeping in the same bed as you."

He looked down at her for a moment.

"Unless you want to sleep on the floor."

"Never"

"But I called the bed!"

"No you didn't"

"It's mine"

"Nope"

"Grr"

"Iie"

"I hate you"

"I hate you too" He put his papers down and looked at her.

"Aw, your so mean"

"You can sleep on the bed I promise I won't do anything"

She furrowed her brows for a second then dragged the blankets back to their rightful position on the bed.

She stared daggers at him.

"Don't under any circumstances touch me or I'll kill myself and you won't be able to get Inuyasha to follow you anymore."

"I won't" He started to unbuckle his armor.

She stared some more then grabbed a blanket and separately wrapped herself in it, separating her from him. She also sat why on the other side of the futon.

He looked at her before following suit and lying on the other side of the futon.

Then sleep made an unforgivably annoying visit.

Author's note: Err, extremely sorry for the lateness and shortness, but err…sorry? I've been working nonstop on my drawings and Sunday was my birthday party! I'm legally 14 now! YAY!

To my Reviewers:

Moonscout11: I hope you will forgive the llama…

The Squabbit: Err! NO! Not the death-defying piano! NOOOO! But um…Do you mean I've changed from Klausbaudelaire to Impression writer? Or something else?

Hermonine: Forgive the llama already!

Isisoftheunderground: You're going to kill me the worst right?

Koganadkagomeforever: Yes, I brought Shippo and Rin back, I almost forgot about them for a moment.

AnimusPatronus: I hope you didn't wait too long…XI

Anime-death-angel-315: I love Dmitri Too…but the next reviewer doesn't.

RIN14: But…but…he KILLED Oz! NOT OZ!

YOU ALL SHOULD BE PRAISING DMITRI! HE KILLED OZYMANDIAS!

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