Disclaimer: None of the Inuyasha char. Belong to me. Ami, however, dose.

W_W - I apologize for any spelling errors on my part, They are not intentional.

Chapter 5 - Kicked Out -

Miroku's eyes searched for any trace of the vanished demon lord. He found none. He turned back to the temple and found Sango trying to wrestle the knife out of the other girls hands to no avail. For someone so weak from hunger as she, she seemed determined to keep a tight hold on the weapons handle.

"Let it be Sango." He walked back to the pair.

"Miroku! This girl just threatened to kill you!" Sango seemed quiet perturbed. "And you want me to let her keep that thing!"

"It doesn't matter. She is to weak to kill anyone with it. She used all her strength to threaten me and keep you from taking it from her."

Sango stood up from her kneeling position next to the weak girl. In turn Miroku kneeled down.

"Your name is Ami, correct?"

She looked up at him and nodded weakly.

"Would you mind putting away your friend?"

Ami smiled.

"After you remove your right hand from its precarious position." She tilled her knife so that it pricked his wrist.

Miroku withdrew his hand and laughed nervously. Sango shook her head and scowled at him.

Ami used the wall to climb to a standing position thin switched the position of the knife's balance in her hand and retracted it into the handle. She placed it coolly back in her pocket.

Sango moved forward to support her but the girl brushed her away.

"How do you know my name? I am sure I have never seen you before. I would have remembered your beautiful face."

"Flattered, I'm sure." She reached for her back pocket and lifted out the book and handed it to Miroku. "Here."

Miroku shared much the same reaction as Sesshoumaru had towards the book, though he reviled more emotion. He dropped the book in the same fashion were upon Sango picked it up and read a few pages, then threw it away from herself.

They stared at each other and then they both turned to question Ami, only to find that she had fallen asleep.

"Oh dear." Miroku moved forward to pick her up to carry her back inside but Sango intervened knowing what he might try to pull. She lifted the girls sleeping form and walked slowly back towards the girls room.

Miroku stayed behind a bit holding the rather astonishing book in his hand. Then thought to himself. 'If Kagome were here she could tell me what this is.' He sighed deeply and set to fixing something to eat for their guest.

Sesshoumaru sat deep in the woods, almost as deep as he was in thought.

He had run, when she told him to go wait for her, he had. Who was that wench to give him orders.
'That bitch.'
He thought to himself, but somehow he felt he didn't really mean it.

Quietly he began to contradict his initial thoughts.

If she hadn't distracted the monk he might have been pulled into the wind tunnel. He wouldn't have been able to attack the priest with the demon wards so close behind him. Could she have known? How had she known what was happing outside? He was, though he would never admit it to her, grateful to Ami.

"Thank you" he murmured quietly to himself.

In an attempt to get his mind off the subject he went to go find his armor.

ONE WEEK LATER

"Let ME OUT!" a foot came threw one of the screen doors of the temple.

"Oh! Please! Don't do that!" Miroku's voice cried out as he tried to get her to stop kicking around. Sango, before she had left, had tied the girls hands so she couldn't pull out her knife when she got her strength back. She had told him so at the door.

'And boy had she got her strength back!' Miroku thought. It was a wonder she hadn't already broken loose of her bindings.

He sighed inwardly. In the week she had been there she had told him how she'd come to this time and what exactly she was doing with the demon lord.
'Searching for a way home.. .'

He heard wood splinter and a screen door fall out. When she looked up she was on her feet and running for the entrance.

"Ami!" He yelled after her. "Come back!"

She had drawn out the blade she hid in her pocket and cut the ropes, which now lay outside the temple door. She ran to the gate, turned, bowed, and yelled back to him.

"JA NE! Heinti Monk!"

The she disappeared down the road.

Ami ran through town, singing loudly, attracting much attention.

"Hold me now," "I'm six feet form the edge and I'm thinkin'" "maybe six feet's aint so far gone."

She mixed in a few more songs and by that time she reached the outskirts out town and stopped singing to catch her breath and walked along the main road toward the forest.

When she reached the over grown vegetation she broke trail and plotted her way through the underbrush and trees.

"Sesshoumaru!" She called but received no answer. She walked further in and began singing again.

"Like a sirens song, you rescued me."

"In your eyes I have found my way home."

"When the world outside falls, all I need is you."

"In your heart is where I'll stay."

She paused for a minute and called his name again and she spotted him walking toward her. Gracefully, she stepped in front of he. His wore full armor with his two swards at his side.

"Sesshoumaru!" Ami squealed

She jumped forward and trapped his waist in a tight hug. He hadn't been expecting that.

"What are you doing." He growled

"You actually waited for me!" She smiled up at him.

She released him from her grip, grabbed his hand and with a quick look around, pulled him westward.

"Lets go Sesshy! We gota keep moving!"

"Sesshy!?" he barked at her, with a disgusted look on his face.

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W_W - I like that one, even if it is short, Right Sesshy?

Sesshy - Did you have to call me that.

W_W - Well its your nick-name isn't it?

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