A/n: Oh and if it hasn't been mentioned yet in the story Shippou is 14 (I know it conflicts with the time and age of when he met Kagome but it will all work into its part) and Rin is almost 14
Dont Close Your Eyes
Izayoi's Castle
Early Morning
They had slept all threw the night and it was early morning when they arrived.
They were in a sandy beach area of the island it looked like a tropical paradise the water that once shot fear threw you veins now looked crystal clear and not a sharp toothed fish insight. The sandy beach looked as if had never been walked on not a grain of sand was misplaced like the whole area was frozen in place.
The most mesmerizing yet unusual looking trees made shade at the end of the sandy beach, their leaves bright green and they had the most stunning blue flowers on them. The grassy path leading from the sandy beach seem to be sprinkled in the petals of the blue flowers off the tree's.
There was a bit of wind and it woke Kagome with a cold shiver, "...Inuyasha. Inuyasha I think were here... Wow…"
Kagome said turning in circle's looking at the whole area as if combing through it trying to find flaws. " this place is incredible!"
Kagome said sitting up and looking around with a new burst of energy.
Inuyasha groaned a bit and tried to pull his 'little heat producer' back onto his chest and fall back to sleep but by the time his arms went to encircle her little waist and pull her back down she was already out of the boat and walking around.
"Inuyasha this place is good enough for a goddess its breath taking"
She sighed looking around "...and these trees I've never seen anything like them before"
Inuyasha got up with a pout and grumble but it went unheard over the 'ahh' and 'ohh pretty's' he grabbed her bag, throwing it over his shoulder he climbed out of the boat and tossed the rest of their junk in the bag and turned towards kagome
"My father had them 'made' for my mother"
Kagome turned her head to look at him and give him a puzzled look "made?"
Inuyasha just shrugged as he walked silently past Kagome.
"Yea made"
Kagome looked at him for a second before she followed after him down the dirt path that was covered with the lovely blue petals.
As they walked Kagome started daydreaming as she closed her eyes and tilted her head to look up at the sky.
"Most girls only dream of ever being in a place this amazing and your mother lived here… She must have been incredibly beautiful too… I wonder what it was like for her…"
Inuyasha didn't know how to answer her because he too sometimes wondered the same thing. So he just never answered period.
Kagome kept daydreaming until her foot caught on a uncovered tree root and was sent tumbling too the ground before she knew how to react.
Inuyasha would have caught her if he could but it happened to fast, when he turned around he saw her on the ground holding her leg like a small child with a cut.
"Owwie owwies owowowwwwwiiieee! Inuyasha! It huuuurrtttsss!" Kagome was whining and crying silently.
"that's what you get for 'not' watching where you were going" Inuyasha bent down and looked at her leg.
It was pretty bad looking, bloody red with dirt and pebbles covered in the cut.
Without saying a word he scooped Kagome up bridal style and carried her to a small pond hidden behind the tree's.
As Inuyasha set her down on a smooth flat rock so he could look at her wound and begin cleaning it Kagome wondered how he even knew this place was here.
"…How did you know.." Kagome started to ask when she felt a sharp pang in her leg.
"I lived here with my mother when I was a child."
While Inuyasha went to wet a small cloth in the pond Kagome looked around.
It was a shallow pond maybe three feet deep at the most and it had cute little circular pebbles in the bottom of the pond and they were all either blue pebble's or green and a small school of rainbow colored fish swam around happily in the pond along with some small tadpole's .
Inuyasha shortly returned to Kagome's injured leg and began to clean it with 'much' complaint and argument from Kagome's part.
After he was down cleaning it he wrapped in a white cloth bandage he pulled out of Kagome's backpack and then helped her up.
"Whoa.. Wait .. Get your balance or your gonna fall Kagome." Inuyasha had a good grip on her waist as she wobbled around trying to get her footing.
"ok ok I think I've got it Inuyasha." Kagome walked a few step on her own seeing if it still hurt and it didn't so she smiled, said thank you, and headed back to the path with Inuyasha.
(Meanwhile with Shippou Rin and 'Fluffy')
"Toad"
"Human filth"
"Green swamp muncher"
"fox brat"
"Shippou is not a brat! You little green snot wad!"
"Rin you called Jakken a snot wad.."
"..Rin is sorry Lord Sesshoumaru"
"…Amusing… a snot wad as a servant…"
"uh uh… M-M-Master would you really call your fateful servant Jakken a snot wad"
"…that word is beneath me"
"Ha! I'm no snot wad!"
Rin and Shippou both mumble in union "snot wad Jakken"
Rin, Shippou, Jakken, and Sesshoumaru were currently taking a small rest from flying and were gathered in a small clearing.
Rin was sitting very… very close to Shippou and glance at him every ten seconds then back to her hands.
Jakken was sitting with Ah and Un and Sesshoumaru sat by himself watching his ward and the young fox cub.
"…snot…wad….roasted frog legs…little green baby snot wad…" Rin mused to herself.
Shippou laughed at the thought of her last nick name.
Jakken of course did not and picked up a rock and hurled it at little Rin.
Shippou saw it and pulled Rin into his lap. "Jakken lay off you sorry excuse for a tadpole!"
Rin blushed against Shippou's chest it wasn't well muscled or manly but soft and she could here his heart beat faster.
"Why you-little runt someone needs to teach you some manners!"
Shippou looked down and whispered something in Rin's ear "hey Rin watch this."
Rin turned in his lap to look at Jakken .
Shippou took a small cage looking trinket out of his pocket and tossed it at Jakken.
A blue smoke cloud appeared around Jakken and when it dissipated Jakken was in a clear balloon and was closed by a string.
Shippou got up and got the string to the balloon and gave it to Rin.
"Wow Rin has a Jakken Balloon… Isn't Jakken too chubby to float?"
Sesshoumaru's lips turned upward for a few seconds before they lost all emotion again.
"…Lord Sesshoumaru can Rin keep Shippou's present until Jakken turn's back?"
Sesshoumaru just kept looking at something that must have seemed to deserve has intense stare "I see no reason why you cannot I think it is a lot more peaceful without his mouth… we need to keep moving tho lets go Rin"
"Yes Lord Sesshoumaru!"
Without saying a thing Rin kissed Shippou on the cheek and climbed on Ah and U's back holding her 'little baby snot wad balloon'
Shippou holding his cheek was dazed for only a few moment's to long before getting on the two headed dragon behind Rin and he grabbed it's reigns and one of Rin's hands along with it and made no move to drop it.
Sesshoumaru watched with pure amusement 'Rin is too good for him..' but without saying a word they took to the sky.
(Meanwhile in the village of Keade)
The sun was beginning to set as Sango and Miroku started to head home after along day of exterminating demon's and putting up protection scroll's they were quite spent.
"I cant believe Kagome and Inuyasha didn't even tell us they were leaving or that they were taking Shippou… I wonder where they wandered off too…"
A hand slowing began moving…
"Yes I cant imagine why they would go and leave us all alone…dearest Sango.."
"well I hope they come back soon I'm starting to worry.."
Miroku's hand kept moving towards Sango…
Sango already knew what was about to happen…
She readied her hand… Sango was going to really make it hurt this time…
Miroku placed his hand gently on her lower back and smiled at her shocked face.
"I shall not let my wandering hand get in the way of showing you that I care for you for more then just bearing my children."
Sango blushed a lovely pink and leaned closer to Miroku "..Thank you.."
As they neared the house they saw smoke coming from the forest of Inuyasha.
"Sango lets make hast!"
"Right."
Sango and Miroku rushed to the smoke looming over the tree's. As they entered the area where the smoke was coming from they saw something amazing yet horrifying.
"You filthy scavenger give me my coin bag back or I shall incinerate you! Lowly demon!"
'It's a female Sesshoumaru' Sango thought as chill's went down her throat as she heard the anger in the woman's throat.
'She is a elemental demon I didn't know there was any left' Miroku determined from the show of lack of control over her power's she clearly showed.
She was a fire elemental demon you could tell from the flames materializing from her clenched fist.
The demon woman was tall if someone had to compare her height to another she was close to Sesshoumaru's height. She had long red hair pulled into a ponytail high on her head.
She had pointed elf-shaped ears and she had bright amber eye's that currently looked like hot pool's of lava. She was undeniably beautiful and yet you would think you would get burned if you were to touch her.
From a first look of her she looked dependent and care free she had a child's spirit wild and untamed she was a bomb with a lit fuse.
She wore a orange tight shirt with only one sleeve that fell apart as it went down her arm and went back together at her wrist the shirt stopped before it got to her belly button.
She wore a long orange skirt that had a slit up the front of it that stopped at high thigh and fell open to show off her creamy white long leg's. To finish her outfit off she wore orange flat footed cloth shoe's.
She had a sword at her hip but you couldn't she the blade because it was sheathed.
The outfit really showed off her body's curves.
Miroku stepped forward and spoke up "Give the maiden her coin bag back and you will not die tonight." he said in a stern demanding voice.
The demon scampered to his feet begging forgiveness and giving her the black cloth coin bag back still tied in the strange knot she put in the draw strings.
"I should have your head for stealing from me you scum of the earth!"
The demoness glared down at the thief.
"Wait I shall have the hand you used to steal my coin bag with thief! Which hand was it left or right?"
The man didn't answer but started cowering at her feet begging for mercy.
"Hmm you cant remember huh? That so? Fine ill decide!"
She took her sword out and her elemental flame's crawled up the sword like ivy tangling itself in the blade.
"I choose both!" and with that she severed both his left and right hand.
The man's scream's echoed through out the forest.
"Now leave this area before I have you useless life sum!"
With that the little man fled area not stopping to look back.
The woman turned towards her nervous audience.
The lava pool's in her eyes faded away but now they were left with a peering gaze from a pair of bright amber eyes.
Sango felt like the woman was picking at her soul with her intense gaze and she shuddered and looked away.
"… I shall not kill you merely because your situation amuses me.. Demon slayer"
The demon darted over to Sango and whispered into her ear.
"I cant see your soul slayer… You have a trapped fire burning inside you… let it loose turn it into a wild fire… watch it grow… let it explode around you… let it consume you… Watch it explode around you.. Embrace it."
The demon moved to Miroku her eyes still watching Sango.
"hmmm… a monk huh?"
Miroku nervously nodded "Aye my name is Miroku and that." he glanced at Sango.
"Is Sango"
"I don't care what your name is monk…Sango…"
The demon made sure Sango was watching her and then she looked back at Miroku.
"Your kinda hot for a monk…"
"Turn a flame into a wildfire… if you keep it trapped it will die."
The demon then leaned down and kissed Miroku on the lip's making sure Sango understood her message.
Then she jumped back away from them.
"Nice kiss monk…"
"And the names Flare thought you should know who the new top demon is!"
And with that she ran off into the forest.
Miroku turn to see Sango's shocked face.
"Sango dearest I didn't kiss her I swear she kissed me!" Miroku knew he was in for it.
Sango walk towards him.
Miroku closed his eyes waiting for the pain.
'turn a flame into a wild fire… be true to your feeling's… Jealousy.. Anger.. Hate'
"I'll show her a wild fire!"
Sango grabbed Miroku's face and kissed him demandingly at first then she moved her arms around his neck as he pulled her in closer once he got over the shock of it all.
But it ended before it could become something bigger then just a kiss.
As she pulled away she spoke to him.
"Yea she was right… that was a 'nice' kiss.. But I knew you could do better then that…"
Sango's eyes were dazed over as she blushed and smiled up at him.
"Only for you Sango.. Only for you…"
They walked back to the house holding hand's.
(Back with Inuyasha and Kagome)
They stood onto of a huge hill overlooking Izayoi's castle as they watched the sunset.
They sky was orange as they sun began to disappear below the blue water that was reflecting the sky.
Inuyasha looked down at Kagome's face as he watched her hair blow in the wind and the light of the sun dance on her face… 'tell her… now is the time'
"Kagome…"
Kagome glanced up at Inuyasha.
"Kagome.. I think.."
Inuyasha blushed at her stare.
"I mean … Kagome…."
"…I-Love-You!"
Kagome just stared at him in shock.
When she said nothing Inuyasha's ears flattened to his head.
"I understand if you do not love me…"
Kagome forgot about her shock and she tackled him to the ground in a passionate breath taking kiss.
"I love you I love you I love you!"
As she pulled away images flashed before Inuyasha.
'Son in doing the you are not only making your life hard but you are going to completely destroy her's don't do this unless you truly love her'
Inuyasha saw what his father and mother went through in the blink of a eye and then he was back with Kagome as if nothing had ever happened.
'I do truly love her father.'
That night they slept in each other's arm's it was the beginning of their new relationship…
Heaven smiled down on them and so did Inuyasha's mother and father…
'the path you have chosen is going to be hard but I have faith in you my son'