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Sango followed Inuyasha, worried about the look on his face. When she stepped outside, the chilly wind clashed into her warm body, she shivered and brought her hands up to rub her upper arms trying to warm herself.

"Inuyasha?" She said quietly, knowing his hanyou ears could hear her wherever he was around here and she didn't want to wake the other occupants of the small hut. She heard a rustling to her right and her head snapped in its direction. It was still way too dark too see much but the hanyou's bright red outfit seemed to reflect the minimal light from the sliver of moon left.

"What?" His voice was sullen; it sounded like he was trying to make up his mind about something—about what, Sango didn't know.

"Are you okay? Is anything wrong, Inuyasha?" a small amount of concern laced into her voice and she took a small step toward him.

"Kikyo's here. She asked me to go to hell with her again. She said that this was my last chance to give her an answer; after this she'll be gone forever. She knows Naraku is planning to kill her, but if she takes me to hell now, then we could live there together." Inuyasha told her, he felt like he needed to confide in someone, and since Kagome was still sleeping and he didn't want to wake her, he talked to Sango.

"What did you tell her? You know Kagome loves you…and we all thought you loved her too…" Sango said, worry more distinguishable in her voice. Sango was like a big sister to Kagome, their friendship had grown in unimaginable ways since that fateful day she met her when Naraku tricked her into fighting Inuyasha for revenge for her slayer village, her brother, father, and comrades.

Inuyasha looked at her, his eyes held guilt. Sango saw this and took his hand and led him to Goshinboku. Sango knew he liked this old god tree and she thought that he would feel more comfortable if he was around it. Once Sango turned back around to look at Inuyasha he was looking down at the ground, deep in thought.

"Inuyasha? What was your answer for Kikyo?" She asked. The last thing she wanted was Kagome to be miserable because Inuyasha chose to go with Kikyo to hell for all eternity.

"I-I told her…no, I told her I loved Kagome. But I feel so awful, Kikyo was my first love and I rejected her for her reincarnation. And now she has to die at the hands of Naraku." Inuyasha spat out the last part every; every cell in his body loathed the existence of the evil half demon.

"But I told her I loved Kagome…" He trailed off, repeating it to himself.

"You made the right choice, Inuyasha. Kikyo is dead; she is not meant to be alive now. I just hope she doesn't have to go like that—by Naraku. She deserves to be sent to the spirit world by someone she knows and loves, so she won't enter her afterlife with remorse and hatred…" She looked up at the hanyou.

He knew what she meant and looked at the ground as he walked off back into the woods. Sango stayed at Goshinboku and waited for his return with the news on Kikyo. While alone Sango thought about how Kagome would react when she found out that Inuyasha finally chose her over Kikyo and they could tell each other their true feelings.

After about half and hour or forty-five minutes, Inuyasha solemnly walked out of the forest, his eyes cast in shadow. Sango could tell he'd done it: he'd sent Kikyo to hell. He'd finally be able to be with Kagome.

"How are you?" Sango asked, tilting up his chin a bit so she could see his eyes. They were red like he'd been crying, or trying to hold back tears.

"I-I did it. Kikyo's gone." He said, his voice a bit choked up.

"Oh, Inuyasha, you did the right thing. Kikyo wasn't meant to walk with the living. Her time had come a long time ago; she's in her rightful place now, and you can go on with your life." Sango brought her hand up to brush a tear that reluctantly trickled down his cheek. She leaned up and placed a soft, gentle, motherly kiss on his other cheek.

"It's alright." she said soothingly, "Just make sure to tell Kagome exactly what happened so she won't get upset, okay?" Sango pulled away from Inuyasha's ear. He nodded and suddenly his eyes went wide and his body went ridged. He stared at the swinging flap of the hut.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha said quietly, he exclaimed in a quiet tortured voice. His mouth was open in panic. Did she see Sango's little comforting kiss? It was so dark she probably thought she was doing something else! What would she start thinking? Sango noticed and looked back at the hut.

"Oh god, don't tell me that she's thinking…" Sango started guilt and worry in her voice. Inuyasha nodded sadly and tried to get around Sango to go comfort the girl he loves.

"No, Inuyasha. You'll only make it worse, when she's like this she won't listen, give her until morning to calm down. Believe me, she'll be even worse if you try and explain things to her right now." Sango told him gently.

"And same goes for me…" Sango said more to herself than Inuyasha.

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The next morning Inuyasha and Sango left early to let Kagome finish calming down completely before trying to talk to her, they walked into the woods.

"Hey, Sango, don't you think it'll look suspicious to her if we're both gone after what she thought she saw last night?" Inuyasha asked, sitting and waiting on an old rotting log until Sango, who was leaning gingerly on an equally old and mossy boulder, said it was alright to go back to his love, Kagome.

"Oh, well guess so." Sango realized, "let's get back now." She said quickly, what Inuyasha said made a lot of sense. They started to pick through the forest but Inuyasha knew it would be faster a different way.

He crouched down and told Sango to get on. After she was secure, he leapt straight up, past the trees and vines and forest life. He landed and bounded up again, in a couple more leaps he touched ground next to Goshinboku, the old god tree where he was pinned and where he now saw Miroku sitting alone with his ever present staff leaning against the tree's massively large trunk, no Kagome in sight.

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Inuyasha and Sango flew over the trees, his inhuman ears swiveling around on his head until the hanyou heard quiet sobs of a small child coming from below them with his demon hearing. Inuyasha twisted his body to stop himself from sailing any further in the air and he streamlined through the treetops and sniffed around for the fox kit's scent.

When he located the kitsune, the little demon was leaning against a berry bush. He was crying softly and clinging to Kirara in her small, compact form. When Inuyasha came in view of the young fox's watery eyes, Shippou glared as icily as a small demon child could possibly imagine to at him. Sango immediately rushed to him and Inuyasha cringed very slightly from Shippou's bitter glower.

"Oh, Shippou! Are you okay!" Sango cried, the worry in her voice easy to read.

"I hate you! You made my Okaasan run away!" Shippou wailed at them and pointed a quivering, accusing finger at the two of them. The morning after Kagome saw what she thought she saw she was sitting on her cot in their hut and told Shippou all about it, the kitsune was the only one with her, and Miroku was outside chopping fire wood at the time.

"Shippou, no! it was an accident, what she saw wasn't really what happened. I'm so sorry!" Sango tried to explain, drawing the trembling fox kit into her arms, offering soothing words to the softly hiccupping and distressed child.

Shippou eventually quieted down, and soon fell into a fitful sleep, cradled in Sango's arms. The taijia stood up and looked toward Inuyasha. He had Kirara on his shoulder—for some reason she stayed away from Sango while she was comforting Shippou. But the main thing Sango noticed when she gazed at Inuyasha was that his soft golden eyes had quickly turned to a bloody, murderous expression; his lips pulled back in an unmistakable snarl.

"Inuyasha! What's wrong?" Sango asked quickly and took a couple steps backward, fearful for the sleeping child in her arms.

"Sesshoumaru…" He growled, "That bastard!" Inuyasha roared. "He was here a couple days ago with Miroku…and Kagome." The hanyou's voice was getting progressively louder and more thunderous, when he was finished with his shocking statement, he emitted an earsplitting roar and he ran off in a direction, his legs where a swift blur.

"INUYASHA!" Sango yelled after him. The hanyou skidded to a halt, digging his heels into the forest floor, making long, deep tracks. Inuyasha cursed himself for forgetting Sango, Kirara, and the kit. He ran back and scooped the bunch of them into his arms all at once, not bothering to put anyone on his back.

'If Sesshoumaru touched one hair on Kagome's head…god bless him…he'll need it.' Inuyasha thought roughly and quickened his leg speed, reaching a speed the Shikon shard enhanced wolf demon, Kouga, would be proud of.

They sped on for about ten more minutes before he stopped and sniffed the air, taking large breaths to try and catch his friends' scents and swiftly changed directions and bolted off again, not informing the other passengers aboard the crazy hanyou express where exactly they where going.

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A/N: 8D please continue on!

JA NE!