Chapter 9

"Damn! Their scent ends here!" Inuyasha yelled getting extremely annoyed.

"Calm down Inuyasha, we'll find them!" Sango assured, sounding as though she was trying to convince herself more then anyone else. "Stop pacing!" She snapped.

"Was that really necessary Sango?" Miroku asked kindly.

The only response was Sango mumbling someone about how only stupid people pace.

"I heard that!" Inuyasha's voice boomed through the forest.

"Good! Maybe now you won't pace like a moron! When you pace it makes me think that we aren't going to find Ka…" Sango couldn't say Kagome's name and she burst into tears. Inuyasha felt rather guilty, though he didn't really know why.

'How was I suppose to know that pacing bothered her so much!' Inuyasha wondered "Uhhh, don't worry Sango…uhhh, we'll find her!" He tried to comfort the demon slayer. "We have to find her, I don't know what I would do without her," He added very quietly to himself.

What am I thinking?

You love her face it.

Who are you? And what are you doing in my head?

I'm your conscious.

Well go away, I'm thinking.

No, your lying to yourself cause you love her.

No she's just a shard detector!

You've been through this with Kagome already! She's more then a jewel detector!

No

Yes

No

Yes

Fine! Maybe just a little bit…or a lot.

Miroku went to say something to Inuyasha but immediately forgot what he wanted to say when he saw Inuyasha's face. He looked depressed, then horrified, then angry, then content. But it didn't stop there, again his face changed into a look of depression. In a matter of seconds his face changes yet again into anger that showed more clearly then before. Suddenly every other emotion was gone from his face and a look of depression was left.

"Loosing another argument with yourself Inuyasha?" Miroku teased trying and failing to hide his grin.

"Shut up you stupid monk." Inuyasha snapped making Miroku laugh, if possible, harder.

"Sesshoumaru!" Kagome whined, "I'm tired, can we PLEASE take a break?"

"Fine, but not for long." Sesshoumaru sounded bored. "Weak humans." He said.

"You and Inuyasha aren't that different sometimes. He says the same thing." Kagome said… as though talking to herself. "But YAY! I get to sit down!" Kagome yelled childishly. Then she plopped down on the ground on the ground, resting her back on a tree trunk, she get comfortable and fell asleep.

"Stupid useless humans" Sesshoumaru mumbled as he picked her up bridal stile. 'She is rather beautiful I must say. But she weighs so little.' He thought rather shocked at how little Kagome weighed. Not that she looked like she weighed a lot but he still didn't expect her to weigh as much as she did.

Kagome awoke and was surprised that she was no longer resting against the tree trunk. She felt something warm at her side so she opened her eyes to see what it was. She looked up to find Sesshoumaru carrying her while walking. She noticed that his face still held no emotion but what surprised her was that the way he carried himself and her, it looked as though she was a featherweight.

She gave a small gasp, which caught his attention. He looked down at the teenage girl, who was now fully awake, and she was looking straight at him.

'Oh my God! Is he blushing?' Kagome mentally screamed. Sure enough Sesshoumaru has a light tinge of pink on his cheeks. And without a word he gently put Kagome down on her feet and then kept walking. 'Why would he be blushing?' Kagome asked herself. 'I wonder, did he do something stupid like trip? Or was he talking to himself and think I heard him or something like that?' She was so caught up in thinking about the things Sesshoumaru she didn't notice that he stopped walking and she walked right into him.

"Oof" she yelped, loosing her balance, only to be caught by Sesshoumaru. When he steadied her she looked up innocently at him and said "Sorry, I guess I wasn't looking where I was going."

"Alright" He said turning away from her and looking forward once again. "we are here." He let Kagome push him lightly out of the way so she could see past him to what he was talking about.

"Oh my gosh!" She gasped it was beautiful!

"You must truly love my castle if you are gawking like you are." Sesshoumaru said, but Kagome could have sworn she heard a hint of…nervousness in his voice. But she quickly dismissed the thought.

"It's one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen!" She awed.

Sesshoumaru mentally sighed in relief. 'Why am I so relieved that this human likes my castle?' he pondered 'It would not matter if she did or did not like it.' He turned his thoughts to matters at hand and said "We will go now. Rin and Jaken will be waiting." He headed toward the magnificent castle with Kagome following suit without a word.

Miroku was still laughing about catching Inuyasha loose an argument with himself, but to avoid new bruises he laughed silently. Inuyasha was frantically sniffing the air in hopes of catching a sign of Kagome or Sesshoumaru's scent. And Sango and Shippou were still crying because of how much they missed their friend.

"Come on you two. We'll find her and everything will be back to normal!" Miroku tried to comfort them once he was able to stop laughing. He hated seeing Sango cry and seeing her crying and still trying to cheer Shippou up was killing him.

"I know we'll get her back, but what if things don't go back to normal? What if she gets hurt? Or what if she is with Sesshoumaru and he does something horrible to her? He hates all humans! Who knows if he hates priestesses even more?" Sango sniffed, tears still streaming down her cheeks.

"He doesn't hate all humans." Miroku thought out loud. "Remember that young human girl that accompanies him? What if he needs her to help the girl? If that is the reasoning then Kagome will be safe."

"But do you really think that is why he took her? Because of the girl?" Sango asked quietly.

"Well…"

"Ha!" Inuyasha interrupted from his new perch on a tree branch "The greedy bastard is probably trying to get me to hand over Tetsuiga! He never thinks of anyone but himself."

"I don't know Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru does seem to have taken a liking to the little girl. And noticing that she is the only female in his company she has most likely picked up some unladylike habits."

"I'm not sure, both of you have reasonable idea's of why Kagome was taken. But do you think maybe he just took a liking to Kagome? It would be possible considering all of the men we have met on our travels who have fallen in love with her after seeing her for only a short bit of time." Sango stated.

"Yeah!" Shippou popped up suddenly "There's Koga, Inuyasha, that Hojo guy from Kagome's time, the Hojo from this time (ME: the second movie) and not to mention almost all of the male travelers that we meet are a bit over friendly with Kagome. And some of them even go as far as to asking her to join them." Sango and Miroku could only nod their heads in agreement.

"That would make sense," Miroku said "Sesshoumaru could have taken Sango but he took Kagome. Sango could have easily taught the girl ladylike behavior. She could also be bate for the Tetsuiga. We would go and get her also. So it has to be something specific with Kagome."

Inuyasha snorted "You guys actually think that my heartless, human-hating, half brother would have a thing for the same woman that I lov.." he slapped his hands over his mouth and looked around frantically.

"The same woman that you LOVE Inuyasha?" Miroku asked with a smirk on his face.