"What do you want, flea-bag?" Inuyasha yelled out, narrowing his eyes at his attacker. This guy knew his name. How? Inuyasha was sure he would remember such an aggravating person.

"Ah, not much. Just the girl and her life." he replied casually as he scratched the back of his neck.

Kagome glanced around her surroundings with pitifully optimistic, and hopeful eyes . She was rewarded with the sight of lush green forestry on all sides, flowers, a dead squirrel, and a frightened Shippo cowering behind a thick oak tree a few yards away. Unfortunately, no other girl, or anyone else for that matter, regardless of gender besides Kagome was around. Crap. That meant he was talking about her.

She felt a heavy, sinking feeling violate her stomach. And she knew it wasn't because she needed to use the little girls room. Been there, done that.

"Sorry, wolf, I can't let you do that..." Inuyasha said, blocking Kagome from the smirking demons sight.

Kagome felt the sinking feeling start to lift -

"... Under any other circumstances, you could have her."

- only to have it crash back down.

"Oh, thanks." Kagome grumbled from her pathetic hiding place amongst the tall grass.

If Inuyasha heard Kagome's sarcastic remark he ignored her and continued on talking to his opponent. "Unfortunately for you, she's under my protection."

Hmm? Maybe there was hope for Inuyasha.

"Hah! It's you whose going to be unfortunate if you get in my way, puppy. Move aside. It will only take a moment for me to finish this." The bold wolf demon declared, taking a purposeful stride forward.

Inuyasha grinned maliciously, and gave the demon a slanted look implying annoyance. "I told you once before, you half wit, the girl is under my protection."

The dark haired demon, clad in black leather pants, and a jacket to match that left his chest bare, put his hand to his forehead as though he suffered a headache. He gave a slick half smile that would showed elongated fangs had his hand not been blocking his face, "Well, you'll soon be protecting a corpse."

Without warning the demon shot past Inuyasha and was upon Kagome before either of them could register what happened.

With a surprised squeal Kagome tried to back away from the wolf. This move was futile since she had been crouching on her knees, all the desperate motion did was to make her overbalance. She managed to fall over backwards. The brawny demon towering over her slim form smiled down at her.

"Don't worry about it." He soothed in a tone that implied he could have been telling her not to worry about stepping on his boots. "I bet it will be over before you get a chance to even feel any pain."

Kagome heard Inuyasha give vent to an infuriated yell the same point in time the wolf picked her up by her middle and tossed her over his shoulder.

She tried to yell indignantly but her captor jumped away from Inuyasha's claws, causing her head to slam against his back , muffling her voice and causing her open mouth to get a good taste of the material of his jacket.

Kagome sputtered and used her arms to push her face away from his body. "Put me down this instant, you jerk!" She commanded the back of his head.

"Sorry, no can do." He replied loftily resuming his pace at a brisk walk.

"Hey! Where are you taking me? Why not just kill me here? Do you usually drag your victims off into the woods so you can kill them, feel like nailing me to a tree do you? Or molesting me? Are you a Pedophile or something? I'm not going any where you son-of-a-"

Kagome let her sentence go unfinished as she used all her strength to strike the guy in the back of his head beneath his flowing pony tail with her fist.

"Feisty one aren't you? Shame you have to die." he cut her off, turning his turquoise eyes to her like nothing had happened. "You're a pretty, young thing too."

Kagome and Inuyasha both stared at him dumbfounded. "Oh, and I won't be the one to actually kill you. I'm just supposed to bring you to someone so you can be killed. I'm Koga by the way."

"Uhh..." Kagome said unintelligently.

Inuyasha moved to stand in front of Koga. "I don't think so you flea infested idiot." He snarled.

"Look, puppy, let me do my job. Your being quite a nuisance." Koga scolded Inuyasha the same way an adult would scold a small child.

Kagome felt her stomach lurch as Koga took to the air as he tried to avoid Inuyasha's gleaming, blood thirsty claws. Fear was beginning to settle in, and she desperately wanted out of this guys clutches.

Seeing that her struggling had no effect on him, her only hope was Inuyasha. Twisting beneath the demons grip she sought out the silver haired hanyou.

"Inuyasha!" She cried, her voice thick with fear.

Inuyasha was getting very tired of this Koga person. Normally, getting rid of such a pansy (Who where's that much leather anyways?) would be a fairly easy task, but he couldn't attack with all his strength for fear of hurting Kagome. And for some unfathomable reason... he didn't want to kill in front of the girl.

He clenched his fists and glared at Koga's retreating form. Where had this guy come from anyways? More importantly why was he making off with Kagome... did he want her for her resemblance to the Higarashi's as well? No that couldn't be it. He had openly declared that he wanted Kagome dead.

He watched as Kagome struggled futilely in Koga's grasp, and cursed the wolf demon for being so quick. Her wide, frightened eyes searched for him as she called out his name.

Inuyasha didn't know why, but the moment his name left her lips he had a feeling, more like a irresistible desire to protect her.

Feh! Like he was going to let this pathetic sod make off with the one person that could hand him the Shikon on a silver platter.

Reaching out to all his reserves he made another charge at the wolf. This time Koga narrowly avoided a gaping hole in his back.

"Your really starting to bug me, puppy!" Koga yelled turning to face him.

'Damn it all!' Inuyasha cursed in his mind. 'If the fag would just stay still for one moment...'

As if she had recently developed the power to read his mind, Kagome grabbed hold of Koga's pony tail, as well as a good fist full of the back of his bandanna, and pulled. Anger replaced her fear as the hold she had on Koga's hair caused him to turn in mad circles, whilst trying to escape her firm grip.

"Let me go!" She commanded.

"You let me go!"

Kouga had no choice on the matter, however, as Inuyasha slammed his shoulder into his body. Startled, and unable to compose himself from the impact, Kouga dropped Kagome and landed without grace against a tree trunk.

Kagome found herself in Inuyasha's embrace for the second time that day. "Inuyasha!" She called out, this time her tone light and filled with joy.

Inuyasha had a will of iron, and a brick wall protecting his heart... but even he felt his heart strings being tugged at by her adorable antics. She reminded him of a kitten. No matter how annoying, or troublesome she managed to be, her innocent nature and cute mannerisms made it nearly impossible for him to stay angry with her.

Put in simpler terms: She scared the shit out of him. And he didn't like it.

"I'm beginning to think you attract trouble." Inuyasha said looking down at her with an unreadable expression. He let go of her, allowing her to stand on her own, and resisted the feeling to flee as far away from her as he could. Instead, he simply placed himself in front of her.

Kagome rubbed her forehead with the back of her hand. "I'm beginning to think the very same thing." she replied in a very pessimistic tone.

"Oi!" came Koga's frustrated yell as he pushed himself away from the tree he had become entirely to familiar with. He rubbed his face with his hand, taking some of the blood that had trickled down his face away from his eye area. "If I have to kill you first to get the girl I will! Actually I should do the world a favor and get rid of you now."

Inuyasha growled low in his throat. Stupid full-bloods. Only they could walk away from such an impact so unscathed.

"Just try it!" Inuyasha dared. Now that Kagome was out of the way he could fight the way he wanted to. It would be an easy task to take this fool down.

As if Koga could sense the change in Inuyasha's confidence, the yokai stopped his attack. This hadn't gone exactly as planned... He tilted his head to one side as his hearing picked up a familiar sound in the distance. Time to go. Oh well, he could think of better things he could be doing.

"This ain't over yet, mutt. You lucked out today." Koga turned as walked back to the place he had parked his bike. He stopped only once to glance over his shoulder, "Don't worry, Kagome! I'll be back for you soon, you won't have to spend too much longer with that puppy. Hah! I bet your looking forward to death after spending time with him." Koga resumed walking away, laughing heartily as he did so.

Inuyasha responded with curses not fit for any of the living to hear. He was ready to rush after the demon and rip his beating heart out, but the wolf had disappeared into a whirlwind, and the hum of a engine soon followed.

"The nerve of that ass wipe!" Inuyasha fumed to himself, still tempted to hunt Koga down and finish the fight he started.

Kagome, whose ears were already burning from the dog demons last string of colorful swear words, quickly decided that she needed to distract Inuyasha from his anger.

Inuyasha was pulled away from his dark thoughts by a gentle tug on his sleeve. He looked down into the shining eyes of Kagome.

"Thank you!" she told him brightly, gracing him with an impossibly angelic smile.

Inuyasha's ears flattened, and he felt his composure slip away without any consent from him, as well as he felt his heart rate go up, and was it just him or had the sun just moved closer to the earth? That would explain the sudden uncomfortable temperature.

"Thank you?" He repeated as if the words were a foreign language to him. "For what?"

Kagome tilted her head up higher so that she could look him in the eye, he was considerably taller then she was after all. "Oh, I don't know... Saving my life perhaps?"

Without meeting her eyes, he scoffed. "It's not a big deal."

"Not a big deal! You just saved me from someone that obviously wanted to cause me bodily harm. I find it a very big deal. I wish I could do more then thank you, you saved my life." She said, saying the last word more loudly then the rest of her sentence.

"Feh! Whatever, don't flatter yourself princess. Your life means nothing to me. You just happen to be under my protection, and you will remain there until we reach your mother. And until then no one is going to carry you off, you think I would just let some idiot run off with you? Over my dead body."

"I don't believe this!" Kagome said feeling shocked. " My life is just a matter of pride to you. Just when I was starting to think you were a good person. You've just blown it to smithereens now! You hear me? Smithereens! From here on out you'll always be an egotistical jerk that thinks pride is more important then human life in my book. Good going." Kagome fumed waving a finger threateningly close to his face. Her mind spoken, she started to stalk off.

"Uh, hey!" Inuyasha called out slightly cautious of her.

She spun back around to face him. "Smithereens!" She shouted before resuming her walk down the path that was more then slightly disturbed, thanks to Koga's attack.

Shippo approached Inuyasha, now that all danger was gone, and stood beside him and gaped at Kagome along with him.

Inuyasha shook his head, "Hey, princess!" He called.

Kagome spun around to face him once more, although she was a good distance away from him now. "My name is not princess. Nor is it girl. It's not sarcastic wench, as I've heard you call me underneath your breath either, and guess what? It's not klutz. My name is Kagome. Ka-go-me!" She sounded out her name like she was talking to a mentally disabled child. "Now I'm going back to the train, I find Sango and Miroku's company much more pleasant then yours." she sniffed.

"Well, Ka-go-me! Your going in the wrong direction."

Kagome paused, all her anger floated away with the breeze as embarrassment filled it's place. She checked both ways and read a sign she spotted.

"Ah."

"I wonder what's taking them so long..." Sango asked Miroku in a tone laced with worry. "The train is leaving in ten minutes... What if they've gone and murdered each other out there? Hardly anyone else was down there with them, they... they could have murdered each other by now."

"Calm yourself. I hardly think Kagome could kill a butterfly without having a emotional break down, and Inuyasha isn't stupid enough to kill the one person that can get us that reward. Now I can think of something else they could be doing..." Miroku left off with a distant, almost envious look in his eyes.

Sango reached forward and boxed his ear soundly. "Stop that you lecher." She told him with a cold glare. "Shippo is with them anyways."

"Then perhaps your theory came into play, and they killed Shippo so he wouldn't run his mouth about - "

The only thing that stopped Miroku from finishing his sentence and Sango from beating him within an inch of his life for finishing his sentence was Kagome's greeting that rang out.

"Sorry you guys! We ran into a little trouble." Kagome informed them with a quirky smile.

"Explain it to us when we're on the train. Hurry, we only have a little bit of time left." Sango said ushering everyone to the train.

"We only have a little bit of time left before Naraku starts questioning me! How could you screw up such a simple task, Kouga? All you had to do was grab the girl and give her to me. Is that so hard?"

Kouga had returned to his home only to find a seething Kagura waiting for him. A few members from his pack were in the room, all of them watching Kagura with distaste.

Kouga watched the pacing woman dressed impeccably in a red patterned skirt and blouse to match, with a well mixed combination of arrogance and amusement. Her maroon eyes were blazing with ferocity, ferocity directed at him.

"Back off Koga, lady. You ought to remember that he's helping you and you should be grateful for that. You would be in quite a predicament without his help."

Koga turned his bored gaze to the owner of the voice, a young woman from his pack with a pretty face, named Ayame. Her striking green eyes were narrowed at Kagura.

"I'm in quite a predicament now." Kagura reminded Ayame.

Ayame frowned and turned to Koga, her bright red hair bounced around her shoulders at the sudden motion. Her eyes seemed to ask him if they really needed to put up with this woman.

He turned a corner of his mouth into a smile and the female wolf demon brightened considerably. She slipped back into the routine of tolerating Kagura.

"Listen Kagura, I told you I would bring you the girl. And I intent to keep that pact. In due time."

Kagura sighed, long and loud. "I see. Fine then. I can see I chose the right person to do the job. Who is more loyal then a wolf anyways?"

Koga winked at her. "No one."

Inuyasha made another face behind Kagome's back as she and Shippo retold their version of what happened while they were out.

Kagome was giving him due credit... Maybe even making him sound a little too heroic for his taste, but he didn't mind too much. It was better then her attempting to chew him out. She had forgave and forgotten easily enough. Maybe to easily. He made sure to keep one ear trained on her just in case she was playing the innocent card.

Bored, he went back to starring at the wall paper inside their compartment. While the wall paper, decorated in random shades of red floral patterns, was making him sick, the rest of the "car" was pretty nice.

It was a decent size. It smelled clean and the seats were rather comfortable. He wondered how Miroku got them such nice quarters. He knew Miroku often got a lot of things by simply, smoothly talking his way into them. If that was the case Inuyasha decided he would live more comfortably not knowing.

Stupid lecher was going to talk himself into an early grave one day.

The red cushioned seats started at one wall on both sides of the room, and stretched all the way to the opposite wall. Inuyasha found that by resting his back at the start of the seat he had enough room to stretch out. He laid down on his back, both legs stretched out languorously. Tucking his hands behind his head he deemed himself comfortable and went on to check all the sounds of the train, looking for anything suspicious. One must always be on his guard.

Kagome came to the end of her tale slightly out of breath. Sango sat in her seat Indian style with a comical expression upon her face.

"Lucky for you this Koga didn't know you were leaving. Solves that problem doesn't it, Kagome-sama? Although I must wonder why he came after you in the first place" Miroku said.

Kagome giggled at Sango's expression and replied to Miroku, "Yes, I suppose it does. I don't have the slightest clue why he came after me... And I thought I told you to stop saying 'sama'. You sound so formal."

Miroku smiled softly at Kagome's care free nature in answer and nodded his head.

"I'm bored." Shippo stated. "What do you do for fun on a train?"

"We can always tie you to the roof..." Inuyasha suggested.

Everyone chose to ignore that particular comment.

"I brought cards if you want to play with them." Sango told the young kit as she stood up to retrieve her knapsack from their baggage which was placed above them in a hollow compartment. She pulled down her pack and groped blindly for her deck of cards.

"Ah." She said triumphantly as her hand found purchase on the square box. "Here you go." She said handing it over to a eager Shippo.

"Thanks Sango!" Came his energetic response. He bounded into Kagome's lap. "Can we all play together?" He asked, his large childish eyes full of hope.

Kagome and Sango quickly agreed to play a game of Shippo's choice. Miroku stood and explained that he had something important to take care of. Inuyasha snorted at the idea of playing a card game and kindly told Shippo to piss off.

Of course his comment didn't go without notice from Kagome, whom promptly took her shoe off and threw it at his head. Inuyasha caught her shoe and refused to give back.

Sango reluctantly dug into her bag once again and added another mark under Inuyasha's name, being as discreet as she could. No one was really paying attention to her, so it was easy. Shippo was happily watching Kagome beat Inuyasha around the head with her other shoe, trying to reclaim her missing one, while Inuyasha was forced to take that shoe away from her too.

Who needed a card game with this kind of entertainment?

Naraku was the type of person who was in a omnipresent bad mood. But lately the few around him noticed the increased animosity hanging over him like black storm clouds.

Therefore, everyone stable in mind found excuses to stay away from him. Kanna, however, was a constant source of companionship, if one could use such a fond word to describe anything relating to Naraku.

For the past five years his health and power had been off the charts. Their was always a small bit of something holding him back from using his powers to the fullest, but he had payed no attention to it.

Until recently. Instead of his strength rapidly increasing as it should have been, it was decreasing in rather large amounts. For a while he had wondered in ignorance why he tired so easily. Why he was literally wasting away. Why he had to consume a large amount of demons running free and un-missed in the mountains to keep himself from a state like death.

Slowly it had dawned on him that someone from the Higarashi blood line must still be alive. Impossible, he had thought at first.

But then the empress had issued a reward for the return of the daughter she still believed to be alive, sealing her daughters fate. Not that she had known Naraku still lived. All assumed he had died or moved on to a distant land, since he had not shown himself for years.

How could she have known that he was "dying" because that one girl still lived. Naraku cursed the Shikon no Tama vehemently. The stupid jewel had taken his words too literally. And now he was slowly slipping away, the same way the small grains of sand in an hour glass fell through the crystal tunnel and into the bottom of the container.

Perhaps he should have forgotten the girl and gone straight to the jewel... but perhaps not. He suspected he was tied to the jewel in a warped way. Destroying the jewel would mean destroying a part of himself as well.

Why did everything look bleaker on a Monday?

Even though he hated it, he would have to leave this task to Kagura. She would not fail. He would see to that.

But maybe she could use a bit of assistance, other then the wolf demon in leagues with him...

"Kanna" He rasped, "Bring your mirror to me."

"Say it."

"No."

"Say it!"

"No."

"You have to say it."

"No I don't."

"It's part of the game!"

"Oh for! Go the fuck fish!"

"See? That wasn't so bad." Kagome said trying to keep up the positive attitude, but couldn't help sticking her tongue out at him. Childish? Yep! But is sure was satisfying.

Sango hid a smile behind her hand of cards. She had never thought the words "Go" and "Fish" would ever be uttered in the same sentence from Inuyasha's mouth... even is he had personalized it a bit.

She took a moment to wonder how Kagome had even managed to get Inuyasha to play. But then she remembered that if Kagome won she would get her shoes back, and if Inuyasha won he would get to throw them out the window.

Inuyasha never could ignore a challenge...

"Sango-chan it's your turn." Kagome said from next to her.

"Oh, right... Umm, Shippo, do you have any threes?" She asked, roused from her thoughts. She really didn't know if she needed threes or not...she hadn't been paying much attention to the game.

With a deflated look Shippo reluctantly handed his threes over to Sango.

How weird that she was the only one who wasn't intent on winning this game...and she was winning.

"Jeez, Sango-chan. Your really good at this." Kagome complimented.

Sango smiled. "You should see me play Uno."

The better part of the day was spent playing cards, getting tired of the cards, and unsuccessfully building a castle out of them. This was very hard to do on a moving train so they quickly dropped that idea.

Miroku came back to find a very smug Inuyasha and a shoe-less Kagome. Somehow he knew some fresh marks were in Inuyasha's page.

Shippo throughly enjoyed the evening, as they ate a well prepared meal and a taste of Ice cream for desert. After eating Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango went on to tutor Kagome, much to Kagome's displeasure.

"Come on you guys." Kagome pleaded. "My head hurts too much for studying."

"Your head hurts!" Inuyasha blurted out. "Your not the one who got pummeled in the head with a freakin shoe."

"Speaking of which, I would like to have them back by morning." Said Kagome as she eyed her shoes tucked away in his pockets. Stupid tailors just had to make boy's jeans with stupidly large pockets. Where as girls had pockets they could barely stick their hands in.

"I'll just bet you do." Inuyasha taunted lacing his fingers behind his head.

"Jerk" She mumbled.

"Jerk? If I remember correctly you were thanking this jerk for saving your life just this morning."

"Pfft. I could have taken that guy..."

"Oh, really? I'll just let you handle it if he ever shows his cowardly ass again."

"... Okay..."

"We'll start in the morning." Miroku declared, trying to prevent further argument.

"Fine." Kagome said crossing her arms in a, although she didn't notice at the time, Inuyasha like fashion.

"Fine." Inuyasha said crossing his own arms over his chest.

Miroku and Sango watched with weary gazes as the pair, seated across from each other traded glares, then turned their heads in opposite directions, intent on pretending the other didn't exist.

"Maybe we should go to sleep." Sango suggested, wondering how she had acquired such a violent headache.

"Wonderful idea." Miroku said quickly.

"But... it's still light outside." Shippo countered.

"Maybe they're right, Shippo-chan. I think going to bed early is a good idea." Kagome said thoughtfully.

"I guess." Shippo agreed reluctantly.

The girls (Plus Shippo) left the compartment to find the restroom so they could change into their night clothes.

Kagome came out first, sporting midnight blue baggy pants and a sleeveless top to match. She had picked it out during her and Sango's small shopping exploration. She liked her night ensemble because it felt like silk on the inside and the cutest puppy dog decorated the top.

She brushed out her raven locks while she waited for Sango and Shippo to return. They did so with Shippo perched on Sango's's shoulder.

The small kit was clad in red plaid pants and a small plain red shirt. Shippo's outfit had been particularly difficult to find since he was such a small size. Fortunately they had found his size in the toddlers section, much to Shippo's chagrin.

Sango yawned. "I don't know about you but I'm looking forward to an early bedtime." She wore pajamas similar to Kagome's, only different because it was a rather bold orange and the sleeves reached her elbows. She was also missing the animated puppy, in it's place were multi colored beads in the design of a flower.

"Sleep sounds good." Kagome agreed as she followed her companions back to their compartments. The first thing she noticed was that Inuyasha was missing.

"Where is Inuyasha?" She asked as she helped Sango pull down blankets from the compartment above.

They distributed the dark red blankets to the boys and kept the light purple ones for themselves. The seats were long enough for Kagome and Sango to lay down on opposite ends of the seat, leaving a few inches of space between their feet. The seats were comfortable enough, but she wished they were a tad bit wider.

Miroku did the same and curled up at one end of the long seat that protruded from the wall. "Good night ladies."

"Night Miroku." Sango and Kagome bid in unison.

"I'm not a lady." Shippo huffed as he hopped into Kagome's seat and curled up by her stomach, reaping the benefits of two blankets.

"Good night Shippo." Miroku corrected with a light laugh.

It grew darker inside their car, but sleep did not find Kagome easily that night. Her friends found it easily enough, if their snores were any indication.

Kagome lay there, wide awake. Shippo's small, comforting form normally would have lulled her into a blissful slumber, but tonight she felt restless and stuffy.

The empty spot on the red clothed seat, filled only by a half-heartedly folded blanket kept her awake.

She frowned and closed her eyes. Perhaps sleep would find her if she just lay quietly. Or maybe she would get really bored.

She needed a drink of water.

With a legitimate excuse she pulled her blankets off and left Shippo buried in them.

Kagome tip-toed to the door and opened and closed it as softly as she could. A barely audible click was her only giveaway.

Now, to find Inuyasha and see what he was up too...er...and grab a drink to ease her thirst along the way.

A/N

I am so terribly sorry for the long update. I was having the worst...worst, um..man I hate this word! Writers block. Okay? There! I said it. I had a horrible case of writers block for this chapter. So Please excuse the crappiness of this chapter. I promise I'll never write something so bad ever again! Augh, I am so, so sorry. I don't know what happened. My WB should be gone now, seeing as I know what I want with the next chapter. I just hope you weren't discouraged by this bloody pitiful attempt at writing.

You'll all probably bombard me with rotten vegetables...

And to my WONDERFUL reviewers (of whom I hope I didn't disgust):

inuhihe27:

I'm flattered. I really am. You probably won't think so highly of me after reading this crap-tastic chapter TT . But thank you for reviewing, it really helps. Oh, and I don't mind your spelling at all

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I wonder if you'll still supply me with your wonderful (Choc full of information) reviews after you read this. Writers block sucks. So sorry! So, so sorry. Thanks for all of your reviews. I hope I haven't seen the last...

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I'm glad you think so. (And I hope you continue to think so) And yes, I was inspired by the animated movie Anastasia. That's why there is a like-ness. Thanks for reviewing

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Umm, Please don't eat me with a spork. I know it took me forever to update and I know this chapter sucked...but really! Resorting to cannibalism? (lol) Thanks for the review. I'm very happy that you like Fragment so much. I try. I hope to hear from you again! Oh, and yes, this was Anastasia inspired.

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I have lost my title as Mojo girl. This chapter sucked! I'm sorry, I have failed you and all of my readers. I should be locked up... Of course Koga is gonna be a butt hole. That's what he does. But as for Koga/Kag, Uh-uh. Nope.

Cries on your shoulder I need a vacation. Oh, but thanks for the lovely review. I would write more but I'm dead on my feet..uh..seat.

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I will take your ideas into consideration! Thanks a lot. I can only hope I haven't lost you as a reviewer. ; I'll get more Sango and Miroku later in the story, thanks so much for the compliments. They really mean a lot.

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