Hiroshi: Yuki have you seen Tora-chan?

Yuki: Isn't she in front of her computer like normal?

Hiroshi: No, she just got off of work and she usually checks her email to see if she got any reviews from the last chapter. But her computer chair is empty and her computer only has a blank Word document open.

Yuki: Really because all I see on her computer is a blue error screen.

Hiroshi: Oh no. She's not going to be happy about that.

Tora-chan: About what? Ah, my computer! Not again. Good thing I'm planning on getting a new computer soon.

Hiroshi: Tora-chan, where were you?

Tora-chan: I was hungry so I went to get a snack. So what's going on?

Yuki: Have you check your email yet?

Tora-chan: Yep. No reviews yet. I did have five people read chapter 14 though.

Hiroshi: Aren't you upset?

Tora-chan: Nah. People are busy. Okay, people I don't own Inuyasha.

Hiroshi: That's my job.

Tora-chan: Well I did it this time. Now let the story begin!

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Last time: Vitanie's mother and brother (Akiasa and Akemi) let the group into the temple. They slept and then ate breakfast.

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Breakfast had been loud and chaotic. With so many people in the house there was a lot that Akiasa wanted to hear about. The majority of breakfast was Vitanie telling her mother of her journey, with Hiroshi filling in with a few details here and there. Mari was back to being quiet and shy now that there were people around she didn't know, even if Shippo was quickly drawing her back out by showing her and Akemi some of his fox magic. Yuki was sulking in the corner not talking to anyone and just being a major pain in Vitanie's mind.

After breakfast was over Akiasa had to go out to the temple and down to the village to take care of some business. Meaning everyone was on his or her own for the time being.

After about an hour of convincing Yuki that Sen wouldn't hurt her Vitanie was able to go into the forest to meet with the wood fairy like she promised. When she had tried to go before Yuki had started to follow her, which led to a long argument.

With Akiasa in the village, Vitanie in the woods, and Akemi taking care of the temple grounds everyone else was at a loss at what to do. Well everyone except Miroku.

"Well I should go down to the village and see if anyone would like their palms read," he announced smoothly.

"Meaning you're going to the village to hit on the women," Sango responded with an angry fire visible around you. "I believe I'll go with you monk. To make sure you stay out of trouble." With that she followed the now very depressed monk out the door and down the stair to the village.

Yuki watched the monk and demon slayer leave trying not to laugh at them. He easily saw how they liked each other but tried to hide it from the other. He turned his head back toward the open kitchen door and the woods behind. He had promised Vitanie that he wouldn't follow her, but he didn't trust the wood fairy. There was something about him that just set the wolf on edge. As he stared out worrying about the half tiger demon he saw Kagome and Inuyasha walk by.

-With Kagome and Inuyasha­-

They were walking quietly through the temple grounds enjoying the peace and quiet. Or at least Kagome was. Inuyasha kept fidgeting and his ears were twitching constantly making Kagome want to laugh.

"What's wrong Inuyasha?" she asked sweetly as the entered the shade of some fruit trees to the side of the house.

"Nothing," he mumbled under his breath.

"Inuyasha I've been around you enough to know that something is wrong," she laughed taking his hand and leading him over to a bench beneath one of the trees.

He muttered something she couldn't hear but didn't pull back from her. He let his eyes lift to what was around them and saw the hundreds of white blossoms on the surrounding trees. Looking back at Kagome he marveled at her beauty and saw how nicely the white blossom contrasted with her raven hair. He was once again in shook at the fact that Kagome was there with him.

"Inuyasha?" she asked noticing the way he was looking at her.

"Kagome, I love you," he whispered just before he leaned in and started to kiss her. She smiled to herself and kissed back deepening the kiss to something more passionate. When they finally moved apart she smirked up at him.

"It's about time you took the time to spend sometime with me," she teased. He looked at her with shock until he saw the sparkle of mischief in her eyes. "I mean really it's been almost a week since we told each other that 'I love you" and you just now take the time to prove it," she was smile at him.

"Is that right, wench," he started through there was no arrogance or insult in the word. "Why don't I teach you some respect," he said, but she jumped up and ran behind a tree.

"I don't think so," she laughed peeking around the tree. "You have to catch me first." With that a game of catch the priestess started as the dodged and ran around the trees both laughing until Kagome was worn out.

"I caught you," Inuyasha whispered in her ear when she finally stopped.

She turned her head so that he could look up at him, "So you did," she smiled as she grabbed and pulled gently on one of his ears. "So you did." With that Inuyasha picked her up and jumped into one of the trees where they could sit in peace in each others company for a while.

-With Sango and Miroku-

Sango followed a few feet behind Miroku as he walked through the village. He stopped and talked to a few of the women but didn't make in wrong moves. A few of the women offered his water when they noticed how much he was sweating, though none of it was from any form of exertion. No the sweat was from the glare that the demon slayer a few feet away kept giving him.

After several tense conversations he couldn't take anymore of the tension and walked toward the edge of town where the river wound its way around the town. Once at the river bed he took a seat under one of the wisteria bushes that the town got its name from.

"Why don't you join me, my dear Sango," he said patting the ground next to him.

"What are you planning monk?" she asked eyeing warily.

"Nothing, I promise you," he smiled putting his hands up in surrender.

"Don't you dare try anything," she threatened before sitting down next to him.

Miroku smiled off across the river and thought, this is much better then having her following me around glaring.

"This is a very beautiful and peaceful place isn't it?" he asked in hopes that some idea conversation would calm Sango down.

"It is. The villagers don't even seem worried about any demons attacking and seem very happy."

"They aren't worried about demons. From what I gathered they haven't had any demon attacks since the Tijian village was destroyed eighteen years ago," Miroku said a small frown appearing on his face.

Sango's head snapped around to look at the monk, "Wait, the Tijian village was near here?"

"Yes, not even a day's journey to the west I believe," he said eyeing the demon slayer.

"The Tijians were friends with the people of out village. Since they didn't like violence there was no reason for us to fight. We use to trade tools for some of their herbs and medicines. After the village was destroyed a young male made it to our village badly hurt. I played with him for several years before he died in a demon raid on the village," she whispered.

"You were friends with him, weren't you?" Miroku asked inching closer and putting his arm around her shoulder. He gently set his hand on her shoulder and left it there waiting for her to relax once she realized that he wasn't going to do anything. Sango relaxed after a minute and leaned her head against his shoulder sniffling a little at the memories.

"We were close friends; he was actually the one that brought Kirara to the village. He was the last of his kind," she whispered as she began to cry over the memories.

"I know this is hard but did he have anything features that remind you of Vitanie?" he asked cautiously.

Sango lifted her head slightly and looked at him, "You think that Vitanie might be Tijian?"

"Yes. When we first meet she did say that she was half tiger demon and Tijians are tiger demons if I'm not mistaken," he stated.

Sango pulled away from Miroku a little more as she began to think about it. "Well he did have the same golden tiger eyes that Vitanie has, but his hair was more of an orange brown, a normal tiger coloring. But I did see once a white tiger in the wild. They aren't as common. But how did she survive the destruction of the village?" she asked looking back over at the monk.

"If I remember she's eighteen and that how long around the village was destroyed. What if she wasn't born until after the battle?"

"That would explain her survival, but we should ask Akiasa when we get a chance," Sango said before turning back toward Miroku with a slight blush on her face. "Thank you," she whispered.

Miroku looked at her in surprise, "For what?"

"For keeping your hands to yourself; I enjoyed talking to you without having to worry about where your hands were," she said before standing up and walking back towards the temple, with Miroku following behind her with a small smile on his face.

-With Vitanie and Sen-

Vitanie walked through the forest with a slight smile on her face. She could feel that Sen was watching her and following her but in a way was also leading her to where he wanted to talk. She knew she was safe here so she started to hum not even noticing that it was Sen's song. That had caused Sen's step to falter for a second when he heard what song she was humming but quickly smiled and continued on. After about half an hour of walking Vitanie reached a small meadow surrounded by the forest. As she looked out of the grass swaying in the grass she saw Sen stepping out of the trees to the left of her and continue out into the middle of the meadow where a large group of rocks stood.

"Where are we?" she asked looking around.

"One of the many places I like to relax," the wood fairy answered with a smile motioning her to follow. "So how has your journey been?" he asked as he sat down on one of the rocks removing his flute from his quiver of arrows.

"Very interesting. I you say I made a lot of new friends. Though I've also had problems with demons and humans not liken me because of being a half demon, but that's something you probably already knew," she answered watching his absently shining the surface of his flute. After watching him do that for several minutes she started laughing startling him. "I'm sorry but when you polish your flute like that you remind me of Hiroshi and his lyre. He starts to either polish it or play when ever he's thinking about something."

He turned toward her a smiled at the sound of her laughter. "I really do wish we could have met before two years ago. I think we could have been good friends. I think you also would have been good friends with my Chika as well," he said with a sad smile mentioning his ex-lover.

"She left with a badger didn't she?" Vee asked remembering him mentioning it the first day they meet.

"Yes and no," he answered eyeing the four elemental stones around her neck. "She left with Makoto but not before we officially became mates."

"That doesn't make. . . Wait did you just say Makoto?" she asked now glaring at the wood fairy and not liking where her thoughts were going.

He smiled up at her and nodded. "Yes, the same Makoto that gave you that lute for Hiroshi and that ocarina. The shop and his appearance where all part of his illusion magic. I asked him to give everything to you. He wasn't happy to part with those itsutsu hoshi instruments, but I knew you would need them." Vitanie just continued to glare at him as she tried to get her temper under control. "Now don't give me that look having those instruments have helped a great deal I bet," he said waving his hands at her like he was trying to get her to quiet down.

She growled before talking again, "Now why did Chika leave with Makoto if she was your mate?" she snarled trying to get him back to what they had been talking about.

"She left to protect that water stone around your neck." Sen stated bluntly motioning toward the blue glowing stone.

"What? You knew about the elemental stones and didn't say anything. You could have given me messages through Makoto," she snapped in surprise.

"No I couldn't. If I had told you, you wouldn't have been able to get the stone from the demons that had them. Every one of the demons that had one of the stones knew that they would eventually be possessed by the stone they protected. Can I guess that it was a bull demon that you got that wind stone from, the fire stone from a dog demon, the earth stone from a moth demon," he took a quick breath before continuing. "And the water stone from a flower fairy - - my Chika," he finished dropping his head to stare at the ground between them.

"Oh, Sen. . ." she started tears coming to her eyes.

"Don't!" he snapped his eyes snapping up to look into hers. "We all knew the risk of taking the stones. If you want the spirit stone talk to her mother. She and I protect where it rests. No go," he finished with a slight growl. Vitanie quickly nodded and backed out of the meadow. Once in the trees she turned and ran, tears sliding down her checks, but not before she heard a sad melody drifting on the wind from Sen's flute.

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Tora-chan: It's so saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddd!

Yuki: Will you stop you're crying. I'm meant you are the authoress so you could change it.

Tora-chan: No! This is what came out when I sat in front of the computer so this is what you get. If I change it it won't seem right.

Yuki: Fine then stop crying! (Tora-chan sticks her tongue out at him)

Tora-chan: (sniffles) I would like to say something before I close this chapter out: I checked the stats on the story again and say that eight people have now read the story all the way through, but since I started this chapter last week only one person has reviewed. And I'm giving a huge thanks out to inuyashaswife12. THANK YOU! You have been the most loyal reviewer, being the first one and also being there through all of these chapters so far. Thank you a ton. Okay I'm finished now.

Yuki: Good because that was a little dramatic if you ask me.

Tora-chan: Well we didn't. So what do you think of the chapter. I told RoCkRcHiK that I would give Inuyasha and Kagome sometime together. So I decided that I would be a good time to give Sango and Miroku some time. Oh and if you're wondering Hiroshi was playing with Mari, Shippo, and Kohaku. More like Kohaku and Hiroshi were making sure they stayed out of trouble, but you get the point. Okay now I'm really done (walks over to bed and collapses).

Hiroshi: Thank you for reading and please review. (whispers: you don't have to live with her when she's depressed because she thinks no one likes her writing) Have I nice morning, day, or night (bows).