Smile Like You Mean It

Chapter 26: This Is The New Shit

Kagome continued watching from the tree. Millions of thoughts flooding her mind. She sat there watching Sesshomaru and Inuyasha fight one on one with their swords. She swung her vision to her friends who were sitting there, shocked that Sesshomaru kissed her.

She looked back at the brothers but quickly looked away when Sesshomaru took a ruthless slash at Inuyasha with the Tensaiga. She looked back at her friends then slowly moved from tree to tree, trying her best to hide herself.

Soon she was right behind Sango and Miroku just as they jumped into the fight. She looked around quickly and ran over to the two kids, scooping them up into her arms.

"Kagome-Chan!" Rin said in a whisper.

"I missed you guys…"

"Kagome, stop them from fighting" Shippo said struggling to get down from his foster mothers grip.

Kagome let him down onto the floor along with Rin. She was going to do something that might get her killed so she wasn't going to risk Rin's and Shippo's life.

She looked at the group and Sango flew across the field slamming her back roughly into a large tree, her Hirakotsu smacking her in the stomach when it returned to it's owner. She heard a disgruntled cry from Miroku as he got pushed out of the way by Inuyasha.

"Miroku! Stay out of this! This is my fight" He yelled through clenched teeth.

The monk stared at his friend then nodded. As much as it hurt him the Hanyou was correct, it was his battle and he had no say in the matter wither or not to join without request.

Kagome almost cried watching her friends fall to almost the same fate as about a month ago. She didn't want to see them dead again. She wouldn't be able to handle it.

She looked back at the…um…well, you can't really call it a group when it's only Sesshomaru and Inuyasha fighting. But she still looked back at them. She looked back down at the two children who looked rather confused.

She patted them on the head and stood up. She wanted to do this. She took a deep breath and started walking towards the two feuding brothers. Miroku stopped when she calmly passed by as he ran towards his loved one (I need more Sango Miroku fluff, Grr).

Soon she was about 20 feet from the fight and she started off in a run then thwacked (yes thwacked) herself against Sesshomaru's side. They both fell to the ground and she rolled off standing up and putting her arms out to the side.

"Inuyasha, Don't fight him." She looked him dead in the eye.

He stopped and looked at her, lowering the Tetsugia.

"But…Kagome! It's SESSHOMARU we're talking about!"

"I don't care."

"He kidnapped you."

"I didn't mind"

"Wh-what! You didn't mind!"

"No, I didn't. Now, I'd appreciate it if you two stopped fighting." She felt Sesshomaru stand up behind her. "It's scaring me and the kids." (haha, she's a mother! Sorry, I'll stop interrupting).

"Kagome, listen to me, if you go back with him, you'll never come back with us. He won't let you." Inuyasha said stepping forward, ignoring the angry growl that he's brother let escape.

"I don't care. Get that through your thick skull Inuyasha!" Kagome looked rather pissed.

Inuyasha stood there, the look of rejection crossed his face.

"What do you mean Kagome. Why don't you care if He takes you away again?" Inuyasha tried to say with his voice lowered.

She racked her mind, she didn't know what to say. She didn't want to blurt 'Because I'm madly in love with him'. She continued thinking for about half a minute before finally giving in.

"Because, I don't like you like I did before Inuyasha, Seeing you makes me cry, I don't like being around you." She said bluntly.

"WHAT!"

"Ever since...gods… ever since you started talking about Kikyo a lot more, ever since you started disappearing at night and coming back hours later tired. Ever since Kikyo showed up in my life." She hissed at the Inu Hanyou.

"it's about Kikyo! Kikyo is DEAD! Sango killed her." Inuyasha mumbled.

"I don't care, she'll find her way back into my life some how." Kagome said looking away and backing up slightly.

Inuyasha went silent and lowered his head. He was defeated. And it looks as though not even Koga will get a chance. By the way, were was he?

Koga was sitting in the tree, still shocked by the motion Sesshomaru made and Hearing Kagome basically tell Inuyasha she didn't love him anymore.

"So now what? What are you going to do Kagome?" Inuyasha asked, his head still down.

"I'm going to take Rin and Shippo with me, and I'm leaving with Sesshomaru." She said holding her upper arm.

"I see…" The comment still hit Him hard, he couldn't stand the feeling that Kagome wasn't 'his' anymore.

"One more question before we leave you Kagome." Miroku said walking back over with Sango over his shoulders.

"Hai, Miroku." She smiled hearing her friends voice again.

"Are you serious? About leaving us? What if, we never see each other again, and if we do its amidst a battle?" The monk asked, obviously sad he was loosing a friend.

"Yes, I am serious, If we never see each other again, I'll be deeply sad, unlike what I said before, I'll try and stay in contact with you. And if it's in battle the next time we see each other, prepare yourself, I won't hold back, and I won't hold anyone else back." She stated lowly.

The monk Nodded just as Sango regained some consciousness.

"Erhm, Miroku? Where...am I? Where's Kagome?"

"She's right here." Miroku turned around so Sango could face Kagome without straining herself too much.

"Sango, oh my word, Sango are you okay?" Kagome knelt down and put a hand on her friends cheek.

Sango looked at her and smiled a tearful smile. She felt like giving her a hug but she felt pain just talking and smiling. But Kagome was being herself again the whole 'are you alright?' statement when she quite obviously just got hit with her own weapon.

"Yeah, I'll make it." Sango said in a whispered hoarse voice.

Kagome laughed a tiny bit realizing she just asked the stupidest question.

"That's good, listen, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be staying with you."

Sango looked at her like a disease infested monkey that was scratching its butt.

"nani?"

"I'm sorry."

"NANI!" The demon slayer yelled barely above a normal tone.

Kagome winced from the pain she could hear in her best friends voice.

"I'm…so sorry, I just need to be with Rin and Sesshomaru."

Sango stared at the Miko until she felt like crying, it was sad, I mean wouldn't you cry if your friend said they were never going to see each other ever again? The demon slayer looked away from her friend and slumped over the monk's shoulders.

"Do what you wish" She said bitterly.

Kagome felt insulted but stood anyway.

"Okay, fine then, I guess…" She said glumly then walked back over to the kids. She bent down and picked Rin up and Shippo crawled to the top of her head.

She patted the kids' heads then walked over to Sesshomaru, who was looking at Inuyasha expectantly.

"Now that this is settled, would you mind moving?" Sesshomaru asked and raised a thin eyebrow.

Inuyasha looked up at his older brother and scoffed.

"I don't know should I? You have the one thing I want and me blocking your way seems like the only way to get her back"

"she already told you she doesn't want to be with you" He hissed towards his brother and wrapped his arm protectively around Kagome's waist (PyroChi…Don't you love me?).

Kagome could see Inuyasha's face become red and angry, and without even looking at Sesshomaru she could tell he was smiling viciously. She wanted to smile too, I mean she didn't like Inuyasha anymore, who wouldn't get a kick outta pissing him off?

Some lyrics crossed her mind 'Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie, killing ourselves one kiss at a time.' (Drunk on Shadows by HIM). She wondered what Inuyasha would do if she kissed Sesshomaru.

MWAHAHAHAHA! ERM! Um…sorry.

She didn't though, she didn't know if the reaction of Sesshomaru and Sango would be something she could bare. She hid the thought and tried to bring her attention to the group In front of her.

Inuyasha was, yet again, yelling mindless things at Sesshomaru who was just standing there and looking at the idiotic Hanyou.

"Sesshomaru! GIVE HER THE FUCK BACK!" Heh heh.

Sesshomaru just stared at him, he wasn't going to say anything because, just like everybody else, heard her say she wanted to stay with Sesshomaru.

Inuyasha glared at his brother.

"FUCKING ANSWER ME!"

"Why would he need to answer you Inuyasha? You heard what I said. Now watch your mouth, there's kids around." She nodded towards Rin mainly.

Inuyasha looked over at Kagome and she suddenly felt terribly bad, for some odd ungodly foreseen reason that look in his eyes made her want to wrap her arms around him and beg for forgiveness.

But that wasn't going to happen, she made up her mind and she was going to keep it that way. She looked down quickly suddenly thinking her shoes (high top converses all the way dudes!) were more interesting then his argument.

She heard him scoff then heard his feet walk away.

'thank you' she said in her head. She looked ahead through her bangs and watched him help Sango and made their way back to the little camp, hopefully to pack up. She straightened up and looked at Sesshomaru.

"Do we…just go?" She said, she had no clue it was going to be this easy to get past them, well, the worst part was an enraged inu Hanyou and a certain demon slayer.

He looked down at her and nodded.

They started walking at an awkwardly slow pace until they past the gate and continued in a more leisurely stroll towards the palace...like thing…heh. Yeah, well they were walking and Kagome slightly thanked Inuyasha oh so much for not putting up a huge fight.

Then she looked at Sesshomaru who was just calmly walking on his way, ignoring everything, erm, except the stories Rin was talking about on the way to the entrance. She looked down at Rin, who hasn't shut up since they got her and noticed something.

She kept limping.

"Rin, why are you limping?" She asked breaking off the young girls story.

"Oh, My leg got hurt a while back. It's okay now, I guess." She shrugged nonchalantly.

"How? Are you sure. No you're not okay, your still limping. Oh my god, I wasn't here so I couldn't help you. Who did?"

"Shippo, and Sango-Chan." She said looking up at Kagome after noting how worried she sounded.

Kagome bit her lower lip and told her to hold on till she got to her room then Kagome would try something. They were all (yes all of them) soon gathered around Rin's futon while Kagome inspected her leg, knee, ankle, you choose.

After about five minutes she sighed a loud, and possibly extremely melodramatic sigh.

"Yeah, it's sprained but, for some reason its not healing correctly." She nibbled on her thumb trying to think of something to do. After racking her mind she thought that maybe she'd give this healing thing Kaede kept telling her about after the incident with Kagura.

She concentrated as hard as she could on healing the leg and the leg alone then placed both hands on either side of it. He closed her eyes and hoped it would work.

After a moment all feeling left her as she almost went numb and she hoped that she wouldn't pass out. Soon some of her feeling came back and she opened one of her eyes to see Rin just staring wide eyed down at her.

Kagome looked at her hands and watched as the light violet light vanished completely returning all of her feeling. Rin got up and started walking around, not limping in the slightest.

"Thank you Kagome-Chan!" She squealed quite happily.

"Oh no problem." She stood up and looked around hoping to see an approving nod from Sesshomaru but nether Sesshomaru or Shippo were in the room. She blinked and walked toward the door to see Shippo laying against the wall with swirlies in his eyes signaling that he was out. But still no Sesshomaru.

She picked the Kitsune up and walked down the hallway a little further to where she heard loud gags and gasps for air. She turned to corner to see Sesshomaru with one hand on the wall coughing up a storm.

"S-Sesshomaru? What happened"

"Purification." He said in a hoarse whisper and he coughed again.

"wha? Oh my…you mean when?"

She walked a step closer to him taking note that something was out of he ordinary. He wasn't just holding the wall with his only hand. But somehow he got a second hand that was clutching his chest in a painful looking manner.

"SESSHOMARU!" She screamed earning a warning growl from him, who quite obviously had a tremendous headache. "Sorry. Your arm! You have your arm back!"

He coughed some more then looked down just now noticing that his other arm had grown back.

Author's Note: I know, it's short, and it took FOREVER to update, I'm mucho sorry, I'm trying to stay afloat at school. Cause you know, if I do bad I cant get to my puter and then you wont get any updates what so ever so yeah….

To my lubbly reviewers who are oh so patient.

Moonscout11: I know, but it made me giddy to write it!

TopazOwl: (has some kawaii looking thing chewing on her head) OMS! Sorry!

Hermoine: (feels bad) (sniffle) I didn't mean to take so long…blame Mrs. Fox.

Megan Consoer: whoa, so familiar

Isisoftheunderground: Hopefully I got this out on time for you! (smiles)

Youko Kurama lover: You know, Maybe I should put a note in the memo…but see this is a KagSess Fic, cause I DESPISE INUKAG! Sorry. Their relationship seems to fake.

PyroChi: You know, I read this when the review came in an email, but I don't feel like rereading it. But I remember something about rooms full of anime stuff. Sorry.

RIN14: My friend does that to me, it hurts.

Love you till I don't!

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