Rin was confused. One moment Kagome was picking flowers with her and the next, she was gone. It seemed almost as if the meadow of flowers had swallowed her up. So Rin went about the tall meadow of flowers, searching for Kagome. She even called out to her but not once did Kagome ever reply or even appear. Rin new Kagome was a bit...not normal for the moment. Lord Sesshomaru had told her so, and to keep aware of the Miko's actions. But Kagome didn't seem dangerous to Rin, she actually seemed fun!

Then there was a rustle of grass. Spinning around, sure enough Rin saw a trail of grass moving as if a snake crawled breath it. It went from side to side and even once stopped with a loud curse. Rin giggled, knowing that Kagome had crashed with a boulder that peeked above a patch of tall flowers. But right after the loud curse, the trail of grass went around the boulder and continued its trail from side to side. "Kagome, what are you doing?" Rin asked her. But a response never came to her. Instead, the grass stopped moving abruptly. Tilting her head a little, Rin bounced to Kagome's direction. Once there, Rin kneeled beside Kagome who was on her hands and knees.

"Kagome, are you alright?"

Kagome let a small moan and replied, "I was chasing this cute white bunny! And the next thing I know, it went down this hole, right here!"

Looking to where Kagome was pointing, Rin giggled and replied, "It went home, Kagome. Are you hungry? I'm hungry. Let's go to Lord Sesshomaru and see if he can find any food for us!"

Kagome sighed defeated and stood. Dusting off her hands and knees, she followed Rin back to where Lord Sesshomaru stood surveying. After Rin told Sesshomaru they were hungry, he turned and left in search for food. Normally he would do no such thing, but his nose caught the scent of food far and close to the edge of the mountains and he would not send the girls on such a long trek. And Master Jaken seeing his Lord leave, turned an evil eye to Kagome and took his advantage.

"You stupid girl, why did you have to come with us? You're worse than Rin, and stupider even more. I have no clue why my Lord Sesshomaru puts up with you! If it were my choice, I would roast like a pig this instant!"

Rin gasped, "Master Jaken, don't say those things to Kagome!"

"And why shouldn't I?" Jaken screamed at her and scoffed, "She's so stupid, I bet she didn't even understand what I just said about her!"

Snapping her head towards Jaken with a deathly glare, she snatched him by the hem of his shirt and said hissing, "You said you were worse than Rin, even more stupider. And you have no clue why Lord Sesshomaru puts up with you. And if it were my choice, I would roast you like a pig this instant!"

"Your breath is even worse than a rotting corpse!" Jaken lied to show that he wasn't afraid.

Kagome gritted her teeth and screamed, "Why you little piece of shit! Think you are so smart, do ya? When Lord Sesshomaru returns, he'll find me and Rin stuffed of a 'Boiled Green Toad'! I'll peel you out your clothes, skin you, and boil you up with mushrooms and garlic! And-" But Kagome was cut short of her threat when Jaken smacked her over the head with his Staff of Two Heads.

"Serves you right," Jaken screamed in victory, "the nerve to touch a great demon such as myself."

And while Jaken laughed and skipped happily around, Rin was concerned. For Kagome was on her hand and knees again, hair covering her eyes, and ragged breathing escaping from her mouth and nose. She stood, slowly and shaking, and began to walk towards Jaken who was too busy dancing to notice her approach. And then she laughed, laughed loudly and deeply. Bending down, she snatched up Jaken again this time by one of his legs. She ripped the staff away from his hands and ran up to a tree. Rin was then stunned, baffled, and confused for the very scene that was happing in front of her; she didn't know what to do.

Kagome swung her arm back and fourth, smacking Jaken over and over again into the tree. Then she would stretch him, stretch him and stretch him and scrap him on the tree. By this point Jaken was crying for mercy and for his Lord. "If I'm to boil you," Kagome declared while stretching him again, "I must tenderize you so you can cook wonderfully in my stew. But as I'm seeing it," Kagome said while smacking him on the tree again, "you aren't becoming soft, let alone dying. So die and become soft, you little pile of green shit!"

Sesshomaru returned with a variety of food, and this time he made sure he did not bring any food that needed to be cleaned or skinned. He brought only two fishes, wild mushrooms, and edible sweet flowers that he had seen Rin eat once and enjoy very much. But when he counted his group, he only counted two; Ah-Un and Rin. Rin was busy making a necklace from little yellow flowers while Ah-Un slept and snored softly. Handing the food to Rin he asked her, "Where is the Miko and Jaken, Rin?"

"Well," Rin began, "when you left, Master Jaken began saying very mean things to Kagome. And Kagome became so angry, she began smacking Master Jaken into a tree. Then she turned to me and said to close my eyes and I did. And when I opened them, her and Master Jaken were gone!"

"Gone?"

"Gone. Poof!" Rin said with her arms extending to her sides as she said poof.

And now the Demon Lord understood. In his return, he had seen a smoke rise above trees with meat cooking. He dismissed it because he thought it was another camp of humans. But now he was sure that it was the Miko cooking his servant. And exactly how long had he seen that fire...? His eyes widen a bit as he turned and went to that fire camp as quickly as he could. And the closer he got, the more screams he heard from his servant. Then fully bursting upon the camp, Jaken was strapped to a stick that hung over the fire and turned slowly. Jaken's body was as red as ripe, sweet, and plump cherries that still hung in the trees and shone like brilliant red jewels when the sun caught them. Pink warts and boils popped from his body and tears ran down his face which quickly steamed away.

"What have you done?" Sesshomaru roared at Kagome who was personally turning the stick over the fire that Jaken was strapped to.

"I know, I know," Kagome replied, "I also wanted to make a stew out of him! But he was so hard to tenderize, that I just decided to roast him instead!"

"She's crazy," Jaken screeched. "Mad, insane, stupid! Help me Lord Sesshomaru!"

With no hesitation, Lord Sesshomaru threw Kagome away and with a kick dropped Jaken away from the fire and onto the floor where some of his blisters popped. Jaken screamed even more when his blisters popped and then fell unconscious. Kagome sat on the floor and pouted, "You ruined my dinner. You better pick up that toad, wash it, and set it back over the fire."

"My servants are not to be your delicacies or for your pleasure to cook!" The Demon Lord said raggedly to the human girl who sat on the floor in front of him.

"Then I was doing nothing wrong!" Kagome defended herself. "You'd actually think I'd eat that thing? I was merely torturing him by roasting him! So pick that toad up, wash it, and set it back over the fire so I may resume my torturing and possibly...maybe also eat one of his arms."

"Miko, I will not have you in my company if you are threating my servants and not taking our bargain seriously. This is the only and final time I warn you. If another incident occurs such as this one, your life ends that very moment. Do you understand, Miko?"

Kagome pouted even more as she crossed her arms over her chest looking away and mumbled, "I understand, Lord Sesshomaru."

Turning, he walked over to Jaken who was still laying on the floor fully awake and weeping softly. "Stand Jaken, or I'll be the next to roast you." Sesshomaru warned him and gained a road by walking beside the river, so that the rushing noises of the water clamed his anger.

Hearing this, Jaken stood as quickly as he could without causing much pain to his pink body and painfully walked beside his Lord, snatching a giant leaf on his walk to hide his half-cooked naked body. Kagome stood and followed Lord Sesshomaru as well, but she dragged behind as she was disappointed that she didn't have a chance to at least eat one of the stupid toad's arm. And seeing one giant boil on Jaken's butt that peeked from behind the giant leaf as he walked, Kagome smirked and picked up a long stick. Using her teeth for a moment, she sharpened one of the stick's end to a fine point and thrust it at the giant boil. The boil immediately popped, making Jaken choke in his scream of pain. The pain also jerked his body to run forward so fast and hard, that Jaken crashed into the legs of his Lord and sent them both tumbling into the river. Seeing this, Kagome gave one quick look at the stick in her hand and threw it far away from her just before Sesshomaru resurfaced with a growl.

"Oh, this feels nice..." Jaken sighed happily as he resurfaced floating on his back beside Lord Sesshomaru, with the cool water removing the pain from his popped blister. But to Lord Sesshomaru it didn't feel nice and glaring at Jaken, he spotted a patch of blister on his pink stomach. And growling even more angrier, he landed a punch right on those blisters and made Jaken choke on the water as he screamed and then floated away down the river.

"See, you should have let me roasted him and this wouldn't have happened to you." Kagome told him very collected, as she was still a bit nervous that he would find out that this was her fault.

"I am not in the mood for your jokes, Miko." He replied very aggravated as he began to climb out of the water.

"I'm just saying," Kagome said shrugging.

So Kagome stood there, watching the Demon Lord as he fumbled very angry with removing his armor and soaked clothing. But his soaked pelt was not helping whatsoever in trying to untie the small tie knots that held his armor on his body. And his building anger and frustration was also not helping either. When he was just about to give up, Kagome offered to help. With his guidelines of where the ties were, the armor was off his body and in his hand. Finished, Kagome stood back and then noticed his wet clothing. Feeling it was not right and knowing that he might catch a cold, which she presumed, went underneath his arms which were busy shaking the water off the armor before the metal could rust and began to remove his outer kimono shirt.

"Miko, I will not get sick if that is what you are thinking." He told her while ignoring her.

"Are you sure about that?" Kagome asked him, having almost removed his shirt completely.

"Sure." Sesshomaru replied and shrugged off his pelt so Kagome could fully remove his shirt. Kagome removed his shirt and caught his pelt as well before it hit the dirt floor.

"Are you sure you're sure?" Kagome asked him again, slinging the wet clothing over her shoulder.

"I'm sure I'm sure." He replied with a bit of annoyance.

"Are you sure that you're sure that you're sure?"

He looked at her, "I'm sure that I'm sure that I'm sure that I will kill you if you ask me again if I am sure."

"Alright, if sure already," Kagome said shrugging. Then, she shook the pelt like she would shake a wet shirt at home. But it didn't turn out as she thought it would. When she only gave the pelt one shake, the pelt shook itself quickly which sent another spray of water that soaked the Demon Lord again. Staring meekly at his glare, Kagome held the soft and dried pelt up to cover half of her face and said, "I dried it for you."

"Just set it over on that trunk over there and stay away from me." Sesshomaru said sounding hopeless.

Sighing, Kagome did as she was told. And after a time when she was almost done drying his shirt the best she could, her arms went limp with her hands still gripping tightly at the shirt and her face darkened and became angry. Catching sight of her like this, Sesshomaru was baffled until he understood it himself. His brother and dead woman were coming straight them.

"Bastards, I hate them..." She hissed quietly and venomously.

"Quick, bring me my clothing Miko." He demanded.

Walking slowly and angrily to hand him back his shirt, her anger and dragging feet made her foot get caught underneath a rock. The rock dislodged itself, but the harm was done already as Kagome lurched forward and crashed into Lord Sesshomaru's arms. "Miko."

"What the hell, Kagome! Sesshomaru!"

Even in his warm arms and chest, Kagome could feel herself becoming cold with hatred and anger as Inuyasha's voice rang in her ears.