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You all know what im going to say here, the characters blah blah blah

Inu-Yasha stopped in the middle of the forest. Sango ran up to him,

"Why did you stop?"

"Their trail ends here, he ran from here fast enough not to leave a trail. Wait, his servant's slow." Inu-Yasha dropped to the ground and sniffed the dirt for a few seconds. He stood up and pointd of to the east.

"He went that way." Sango nodded and followed after Inu-Yasha as he sped off after the toad demon.

"Why is Jaken late?" Kagome asked Rin as they walked to the castle.

"He runs off in the opposite direction, then he does this magic thing with his staff, and he appears in the castle's main hall." Kagome nodded as they walked through he main entrance of the castle. Rin led her down the long main hall to a large dinning room. Rin took her to a seat at one end of the table and Rin moved ad sat down near the other end. Sesshomaru walked in a dn sat at the opposite end of Kagome.

"So, Kagome, what do you think of my home?" He asked taking a small drink from his wineglass.

"It's amazing." Was all Kagome could say, still somewhat shocked that she had never seen this place during her journey for the jewel shards.

"As you know, Inu-Yasha is following my servant right now, farther from the castle. You can stay here and plan whatever you want to get the half-breed back." He looked into her eyes, "Although such beauty us wasted on such a weak individual." Kagome blushed a deep red and looked down at the table's top.

"I'll stay for awhile, but I don't think I want him back. Just for him to feel the way I felt." Sesshomaru nodded,

"If it is heartbreak you want for my brother, or a renewed realtionship, it will not matter. Just as long as he a the slayer are no longer together." Kagome looked at him,

"What is the real reason you do not want them together?" He looked at her and said,

"Simply out, I don't want him to mate with a human, and further disgrace our family. The slayer is too strong to just kill after she is marked, unlike you. " Kagome sighed at that last remark, "Just so long as it can be stopped." Kagome nodded.

"I'll help you stp their relationship, I never want to be with him. He thinks he can toy with me, he's sorely mistaken." Sesshomaru cracked a small smile and nodded. They sat in silence for a few minutes, when Jaken walked in with food for everyone.

"Damn that toad!" Inu-Yasha yelled standing in the middle of a large meadow. Sango grabbed his shoulders,

"Sesshomaru's not that stupid as to kill Kagome right now, he'd want you to suffer first. We have time to find them. Let's go back to the village and get Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara. We'll search the forest and find them, hopefully before anything else does." Inu-Yasha nodded.

"Why couldn't she have just walke into the village, or told you she had come out of the well, instead of sneaking around?" Sango shrugged. Inu-Yasha picked her up and started to run for the village.

"Why did you pick me up, I could just as easily ran myself?" He chuckled,

"You are out of breath and tired, you'd have ran twenty feet before falling down." She glared at him and then started laughing. In all of twenty minutes they were back in the village, Miroku waiting for them with Shippo sitting on his shoulder.

"Have you found Kagome yet?" Shippo asked as they walked up. Inu-Yasha shook his head,

"Sesshomaru's little toad servant led us in the wrong direction. We need to search the entire forest, before they get to far away." Miroku nodded, Sango motioned for Kirara, and she transformed. Mirokus and Sango jumped onto the cat demons back, and Shippo hopped up onto Inu-Yasha's shoulder. They took off in search of their friend.