Kagome awoke the next morning, to the morning sunrise and the smell of cooked fish. The birds were chirping in the trees, and Rin was waking up too.

"Something smells delicious!" Kagome said, getting up to pick up the blanket, which she had last laid on Sesshomaru. Rin got up, yawning, and walked over to the stream that they had visited last night. Kagome folded the blanket and put it back in her pack. She then followed after Rin. Once they arrived at the stream, they both started to wash their faces in the stream.

"I see you both are awake," Sesshomaru said, coming over to the stream too.

"Oh, good morning, Sesshomaru!" Kagome said, turning toward Sesshomaru, and smiling. Rin ran up to Sesshomaru, also to tell Sesshomaru good morning.

"I cooked some food for you two to eat. Fish same as last night."

"Thank you, Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin said, smiling with a sweet smile.

"Sesshomaru never smiles, is he unhappy or something? I wonder if he sleeps that often either." Kagome asked herself.

After they all had eaten, they got ready to go. Ah-Un got packed up and Sesshomaru put Rin and Kagome on Ah-Un to ride.

"Where are we heading?" Kagome asked, wonderingly.

"We are just going to walk around until Inuyasha catches onto your scent."

"I already told you, he won't be coming to look for me!" Kagome said

"That's what you think, but I already saw his little fox demon friend, so he should be here soon."

"You better not hurt them!" Kagome shouted.

"All I want from them is the Tessaiga" Sesshomaru said, sternly.

"I'm not going to let you take it from them! Its Inuyasha's sword and he needs it! You're powerful enough; why would you yearn for the tessaiga!"

"It's none of your business little girl," Sesshomaru said turning his head slightly to look at Kagome.

"Oh yes it is! If I'm going to get involved in this, I'd consider that my business, seeing how you're going to use me as an object in this so called trade! Inuyasha doesn't care for me enough to give up the Tessaiga. You should have taken Kikyo, instead of me."

"Is that so?"

"Yes!"

"Well then, that's like saying you don't care for Inuyasha. No matter, I couldn't care less."

"I do care, and that's why I want to make him happy, by letting him live with Kikyo, in peace. That means I can't let you take Tessaiga!" Kagome jumped off of Ah-Un and jogged up to Sesshomaru.

"If that means I have to give up my own life to make him happy I'll do it." Kagome said looking Sesshomaru in the eyes."

"She's so…pretty…and she's tough…I can't be…falling for her…can I? No…She's Human!" Sesshomaru thought. Sesshomaru suddenly stopped, making Kagome run into him.

"It…It can't be so, I've fallen for a Human girl."

"Fine I won't trade you for the Tessaiga." Kagome was shocked to hear those words escape from Sesshomaru's lips.

"You mean you're going to release me, and forget this whole ordeal?"

"I didn't say anything about releasing you," Sesshomaru said with a little smirk.

"I knew it was a little too much to hope for." Kagome thought

"Well you better get back on Ah-Un so you don't get tired out." Even though Kagome wasn't very happy with the idea of staying with Sesshomaru, no matter how nice he might turn out to be, she nodded and got back on Ah-Un.

"Sesshomaru is my papa now, at least I see him that way, and by the looks of it Kagomes going to be my new mama" Rin thought to herself, happily.

They walked around for hours doing nothing. Kagome had fallen asleep on Ah-Un's back and Rin was walking beside Ah-Un. When Kagome awoke, she found herself to be alone. It was nightfall and she couldn't find Sesshomaru or Rin.

"Hum, I wonder where they went." Kagome said, looking around. Kagome sighed and decided to study a little since she had nothing better to do. After half an hour of studying, Rin emerged from out of the blue.

"Oh hello Rin" Kagome said, greeting Rin with a wave

"Kagome! You're awake! I've just finished taking a bath in a hot spring; would you like to bathe too?" Rin asked

"Oh that would really hit the spot! Could you show me where it is?"

"Sure" Kagome got her stuff that she'd need for her bath. Rin lead her to a nice spring. Steam was rising from the water. In Kagomes eyes, it looked like Heaven. Rin headed back to Ah-Un and Kagome got undressed, putting her clothes by the spring along with her clean clothes and other bathing utensils.

"Ah this feels so nice" Kagome said to herself as she leaned her head back into the warm water to soak her hair.

Sesshomaru passed the spring, on his way to see Rin, when he spotted Kagome in the spring. Sesshomaru turned to gaze at Kagome through the steamy mist.

"What am I doing?" Sesshomaru asked himself trying to peel his eyes away from the young girl in the spring. He couldn't bring himself to do it. He just stood there, stupidly. Finally he gained control of himself and headed back to Rin.

Kagome shampooed her hair, and conditioned it too. Kagome went to get her body soap, but was so used to this being the part where Miroku ended up watching, she had to take a look around for herself, remembering she wasn't with a perverted monk. After she was finished washing her body, she climbed out of the spring and dried off. She then got dressed in her clean clothes and headed back to where Rin, Ah-Un, Sesshomaru, and Jaken were.

It was now time for sleep again since it was night. Before going to sleep, though, Rin and Kagome had to eat. After eating, it was really time for sleep.

Inuyasha POV

Inuyasha couldn't sleep, so while everyone else was asleep, he sat in a tree, staring at the stars.

"I can't believe she's gone, and with Sesshomaru of all people. She might even be dead by now! Everyone here is trying to ignore that fact. They aren't even trying to look for her. I would be looking for her if I knew where to start. Shippo knows where to start but, no, He has to sleep with Sango and Miroku." After these thoughts repeating themselves over and over again, Inuyasha's anger began to build quicker and quicker. Soon he was pounding the trunk of the tree on which he was sitting.

"I can't stand this! Kagome left me for that stuck up bastard, Sesshomaru! When I get my hands on him he's dead!" Inuyasha said, making one last blow to the tree knocking off the top of it.

Shippo couldn't sleep, even if he tried. Every time he fell asleep he had a nightmare that Kagome was dead. If she was dead what would they do? If she did die it would be all Inuyasha's fault. "I wonder what Kagome's doing now." Shippo thought to himself. "I wonder if it's any fun like those games she teaches us all the time"

By the time it was morning Inuyasha had beaten tops off of twenty trees.

"What happened here?" Miroku asked, taking a look around.

"Nothing, now are you ready to look for Kagome or not?" Inuyasha demanded to know.

"Calm down Inuyasha." Miroku said trying to settle Inuyasha. You said that the last scent you smelled was Kagome's blood. Is that correct?" Miroku said, looking at Inuyasha

"Yeah, so what's your point?"

"Well if her scent was gone she must have walked off or Sesshomaru took her, right?"

"Yeah…You're not helping!" Inuyasha yelled as he crossed his arms and turned around. "Humph"

"Well then, if you said that she was bleeding fast enough then she might have left us a trail of blood. Not to mention Shippo spotted her with Sesshomaru in the forest."

"Yeah, so what's your point, Monk? She has already stopped bleeding by now…or worse…"

"That's correct. That doesn't mean there aren't clues of where they might be."

"Fine" Inuyasha said, uncrossing his arms and grabbing Shippo. "Take me to where you saw Kagome last!" Inuyasha said shaking Shippo, violently.

"W-i-l-l y-y-you sto-p sh-aking me already!" Shippo said. Inuyasha released him, and Shippo transformed himself into his pink balloon like form, and they were off on their journey to find Kagome, in hopes she wasn't dead.

A/N: Do you think Kagome will fall for Sesshomaru! You never know what might come next, until its there! Hope you enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I did writing it. Please leave a review telling me what you think! Thanks a lot!