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Chapeter 4

They had been flying all day and personally Kasumi didn't think she could take sitting on her ass another second. She jumped off Ah-Uh and landed gracefully on the ground. She started running around the area, never losing Sesshomaru. She made sure she stayed close. After about two hours of running around in circles she was bored and wanted to take a bath so bad. She jumped on Ah-Uh and willed the beast to go next to Sesshomaru. "Can we stop for the night? It's getting dark and I need a bath." Kasumi did her best impresion of a sad puppy but it wasn't working.

"No. We will keep going."

"That's no fair! I've been helping you and you won't even let me have a bath! I probably spell and your not smelling so nice yourself! Can't we please stop?" Sesshomaru gave Kasumi a sidewards glance. Sometimes Kasumi could really bother him and yet he would let her have her way or she'd only get worse.

"We will stop for the night but only because the smell of you is disturbing my navigational skills." Sesshomaru smirked.

"Oh my God. Your so mean! I can't bele-," she paused. "Wait a second. The perfect, undefeatable, graceful, unforgiving, Lord of the West has admitted his weakness. Smell! Haha!" She smiled a goofy little smile and wondered how on earth she came to be this weird. She finally settled that it was all this timetraveling. She must be going brain dead.

Sesshomaru fought the urge to roll his eyes and settled for searching for a place to stop. It was useless trying to argue with her. Somehow she always kept up her side of the arguement no matter how wrong she was.

He finally settled on a little clearing and the second they hit the ground Kasumi jumped of Au-Uh and ran in the direction of watter, practically jumping with joy. She ran throught the woods untill she came to a little hot spring. She sighed and didn't even bother to cheack her surroundings before peeling off her clothing and jumoing into the water. She sank low enough so that her mouth was covered and the watter came up tp her nose but left her enough space to breath from. She sat there for about an hour when finally she decided it was time to get out. She was in the middle of washing her hair when she sensed it. An aura.

She jumped out of the watter and tugged her clothes on. When she was finished she jumped into a tree just overhead. Almost as though he were waiting for her to leave the very next second Sesshomaru walked through the trees and into Kasumi's line of sight. She growled and jumoed out of the tree right behind him.

"Ya kno, sneaking up on a girl while she's bathing is how you get yourself killed." She folded her arms and waited for an explanation.

"Really? And would do the killing? Because as far as I know your here to help rather you like it or not."

"You are such a-" She was cut off but a russle in a bush behind her. She turned just fast enough to see an arrow heading sraight for her heart. She snatched the arrow before it could make contacr and anapped it between her fingers. After having been disturbed during her bath and no this, well lets just say Kasumi was not a happy bloodsucker.

She narrowed her eyes as a miko who looked like Kagome walked through the line of trees. Kasumi almosth thought it was Kagome trying to kill her but then she looked into this woman's eyes and instanly know it wasn't her.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Kasumi the Vampire. I've heard so much about you. My grandmother you talk bout you all the time." Kikyou just stood there waiting for Kasumi to speak.

"Uh-huh. And you are?" Kasumi was getting more annoyed by the second. This bitch was really begging for it.

"My name is Kikyou and I've come here to offer you a way out of your torment." Kikyou smirked knowing this would make Kasumi curious.

"Yea? What it that?"

"The Shikon Jewel. Kagome has it. All you have to do is kill her, take the jewel, make it whole, and make a wish. Whatever you want and you will get it."

"Hmm...kill Kagome...not kill Kagome...kill Kagome...not kill Kagome...I'm gonna have to go with no."

Kikyou was surprised to say the least. She tried again, "You could be free from this! Live a normal life."

"I have a soul. You don't know what it means but I do and I won't kill an innocent girl for my own selfish reasons."

"You would have 200 years ago." Kikyou was begging for it.

Kasumi rushed up to her, wrapped her hands around Kikyou's throught and lifted her off the ground, "You have no idea what your talking about." As if to prove her statement Kasumi beared her fangs. She threw Kikyou to the ground.

"You'd do well to stay away from me. Go. Now."

Kikyou rose from the ground and began to depart, but before she was totally gone she looked over her shoulder, "Think about it."

"Leave." And with that Kikyou was gone. Kasumi turned around and began walkin to the campsite with Sesshomaru right behind her.

She sat down in front of the fire and starred at the flames licking the air. She began thinging about everything she had gone through untill she couldn't take the silence anymore.

"You should go take a bath. You smell." As if to prove her point she waved her hand in front of her have and wrinkled her nose.

"Not half as bad as you did." With that he got up and headed to the hot spring.

Kasumi jumped into a tree and streched out on a thick branch. She sat there and starred at the moon thinking for a while, sighed and jumped down. Just as she landed Sesshomaru walked into the clearing, hair still damp. Kasumi was bored, "I'm going for a walk." She began to walk away when she stopped and turned around, "Do you wanna come?"

If Sesshomaru actually showed emotion (which he doesn't, heaven forbid) he would have gapped his mouth in suprise.

Despite the shock he nodded and joined her.

They walked through the woods in almost complete silence. Not an akward silence though. Without thinking Kasumi spoke, "Me and your father took a couple walks like this once. Quiet. Sometimes we would walk for hours and wouldn't say a word. But other times I just wouldn't shut up. It feels kinda wierd walking with his son after all these years. I was very sad when I had to leave him. We had become great friends and it broke my heart even more that he'd never remember me."

Sesshomaru looked at her, "I find it hard to beleive that my father would befriend anyone."

Kasumi smiled, "Ask me anything and I'll give you the right answer."

"What is the name of my father's third sword?"

Kasumis smiled, "Sounga. Anything else?"

"What is my half brother's name?"

Kasumi smiled, "You now I can't answer that. I was there before even you were born."

Sesshomaru smirked, "Then you do not know everything."

She giggled, "Would you care to enlighten me on everything I don't know?"

"With your lack of information I don't beleive the world itself would live to see me finish."

Kasumi burst out laughing then, "You are a piece of work you know that."

"So I've been told."

"Yea, but I bet who told it isn't alive to tell the tale."

Sesshomaru smirked, "Your right about one thing."

"Yes, well its getting late i beleive we should return." They turned around and headed back to the campsite in silence.

When they got there Kasumi jumped into a tree and snuggled into the branch, "How much longer till we arrive in the north?"

"We will be there by the end of the next day."

"Mkay...Sesshomaru?"

"Hm?"

"You look just like your father."

"So I've been told."

"Does this person live to tell that tale?"

"No, she doesn't."

"What? You killed her? Why? Who was she?"

"I did not kill her. She was my mother. She died of disease."

"Oh my God. Sesshomaru I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to."

Sesshomaru nodded.

"Sesshomaru?"

"Hm?"

"Goodnight."

"Goodnight, Kasumi."