Amaya was the first to crawl out, shortly followed by Sesshoumaru.Unfortunatly, though, the clearing wasn't empty.

A young monk sat against the tree that was nearest to the well. He hadn't seen them crawl out of the well. And he wouldn't either. He seemed busy with a small bouqet of flowers. He was muttering to himself.

"Lets go." Sesshoumaru tugged on the sleeve of her kimono, but she didn't heed him. The soft faberic was blowing around her bare feet as she walked towards the man slowly and carefully. He still hadn't seen her.

She heard Sesshoumaru growl from behind her and the sound of a sword being unsheathed.

"Hello?" As soon as the words were out of Amaya's mouth, the monk grabed her hand and twisted it behind her back.

Letting out a yelp of surprised, she struggled and broke free. She moved to Sesshoumaru's side, who was growling and had his sword pointed right at the monks heart. The monk seemed to reckonise him because he let out a startled cry of "Sesshoumaru!"

"Who is this?" Amaya asked the demon lord coldly.

"Why speak so coldly, mi lady?" Amaya looked at him, surprised. Just as surprised as the monk. Sesshoumaru raised a single eyebrow, silently asking her to play along.

"He groped me," Amaya whispered in his ear, "And why are you...?"

"Later" Sesshoumaru whispered back."Monk, what is your name?"

"Miroku."

"Fine then, Miroku. Tell InuYasha and,"He paused glancing at Amaya.

"Kagome." She whispered, wondering where this was going.

"Kagome that this young lady is fine in my care. Goodbye."

Sesshoumaru grabed Amaya's sleeve and once again draged her off.

Miroku just stared at thier back as they retreated, dumbfounded.

"What did you do that for?" Amaya burst out when they were out of hearing distance.

"That was one of the ones that travel with your sister. I figured if I told him that you were ok he would pass it on to her. And as for calling you mi lady? Never again." Sesshoumaru said coldly.

"But why did you do it in the first palce? Not that I didn't like it or anything..." She added.

"I know he will pass it on to Inuyasha. It will bug the hell out of him. It seemed as though he disliked you when you two climbed out of that well."

"We dislike each other." Amaya made sure that there was a cold tone when she said that.

Sesshoumaru grunted.

"Besides, its not like i will have to spend the rest of my life near him or anything. Once the jewel of four souls is completed, Inuyasha will be a full demon and Kagome will want nothing to do with him. I plan to inforce his decision to become a full demon, as you can tell." She seemed proud of this plan.

"Indeed." Sesshoumaru continued walked in silence, ignoreing Amaya's blabering. She seemed to now be talking more to herself than to him. Either way he wasn't listening.

"Lord Sesshoumaru!" A sudden outburst came from the bushes along the road. A small girl in a checkered kimono jump out to greet the newcomers. The little girl hugged Sesshoumaru's legs tight before turning to Amaya. "Amaya-chan!" Rin shouted, embracing the demoness.

"Hello, Rin." Amaya laughed, hugging the girl back. Jaken and AhUn had just joined them, Jaken greeted his master, and completly ignored Amaya. AhUn, on the other hand, walked over and each of them gave Amaya a huge lick on the cheek. "Gack."

Rin giggled.

"Lord Sesshoumaru," Jaken started, "Where were you? You and the wench have been gone for almost three weeks!"

Amaya let out a low growl as Jaken refered to her as a wench.

"We were away, Jaken. I do not recomend you call her that any more."

Jaken glared at Amaya as if dareing her to do something.

Amaya took a step forward.

Jaken ran like hell.

And Rin laughed.

Amaya sat beside Rin near the fire later that night, listening as the girl told her the story of Lord Sesshoumaru saving her life. Or getting it back anyways.

Sesshoumaru had gone off in search for Naraku, for his scent was light and barly noticable, but it was still there. And Jaken had gone in search for food. AhUn lay behind Amaya, close enough so that her back could rest lightly on his side.

Amaya closed her eyes as she listened to the drone of the little girls voice.

Rin must have noticed that the young women had fallen asleep because she stopped talking and lay down beside her.

Sesshoumaru rentered the clearing later one that night. He had had no luck in finding Naraku. But what he seen before him was very cute indeed.

Amaya had her back resting against AhUn side while Rin was resting against Amaya. Rin had Amaya's arm resting on her side, the sleeve of her kimono practically covering the whole girl. Rin had her head resting on the demonesses chest.

Jaken lay one Amaya's other side, covered in red welts and black bruises.

Smiling ever-so-slightly, Sesshoumaru turned and sat down beside a tree. Watching his group of small compainions would be something he would have to do for quiet a while. Resting his head back againts the tree, he closed his eyes. He felt save enough to sleep. So everyone else would to.

Until, of course, Naraku showed up.

I hoped you liked these past few chapters...i've been updating alot lately. Don't forget to review!