Ok, I'm REALLY sorry for the reallylong wait, but I've had a lot on my mind andother stuffI haveto do. This story doesn't seem to be that popular so chances arethat it won't be updated as often as "For The Love Of It" or "What I Deserve". I'm still going to continue the story but if anyone has ANY ideas please tell me. And if anyone wants to, theycan write the next chapter to the story. And if a bunch of people write chapters I'll pick the best one. This will also help me with my language marks because apparently I need to work on my proof reading skills. So I'd be able to update faster because then I wouldn't have as much homework.

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"Come on" he said out load. "It's only half a days walk in that direction."

"Cool! Let's go." Kagome said.

'Cool?' thought Sango. 'But there's a warm breeze out today. It's not at all cold.'

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The gang and Shimatta had been walking for two hours before they decided to take a break for lunch. Inuyasha finished first (as usual) and jumped into a tree to think about what had happened so far.

'She thinks I don't love her. But I do. Maybe I need to show her I love her, but I can't come out in song and dance singing "Kagome, I love you won't please be my mate?" She'll just think I'm crazy and won't believe me, so I'll have to do it in small steps. Damn. That'll take forever. O well it'll be worth it in the end. Now what should I do first? I know I'll get her a gift! But I can't let the others know what I'm up to. I'll have to force them to stop somehow. What to do? What to do? I've got !'

Inuyasha got up and ran into the forest.

"Wonder where he's going in such a hurry." Sango commented.

"Don't know. Probably going to eat some raw meat off in the forest." said Kagome.

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"Hey. You there. Mantis demon! I need a favor." Inuyasha yelled.

"Why should I help you?"asked the Mantis demon in a raspy voice.

"Cause it involves human and demon blood that's why."

"Ok what do you want?"

"There's a group of travelers up ahead. I want you to cut the fox demon's arms and legs so that he can't walk. No deeper. No lighter. And the older females arms and legs too, Just enough so that she can't fight. Got it?" Inuyasha asked.

"Got it. But why exactly am I doing this?"

"Because I need to get something in the next village and they are not to know about it."

"Ok."

"One more thing." said Inuyasha. "Touch the in the strange clothes and I will slowly and painfully kill." Inuyasha warned.

"Deal."

"Now go do what ever it is you need to do." said Inuyasha as he headed off to find Kagome some nice jewelry from the next village.

"I shall enjoy this very much." said the bug.

XxXxXxXWith Inuyasha XxXxXxX

Inuyasha ran to the next village looking for a jewelry maker. He needed to find something decent, but not over the top. He didn't want to scare Kagome off with commitment.

XxXxXxXWith the rest of the Gang XxXxXxX

"IT HURTS! Kagome why did the demon attack us! What did we do to it!" cried Shippo as Kagome bandaged up his legs and arms. She had already bandaged up Sango's arm and leg and now had to deal with Shippo.

"We're gonna have to stop. Sango and Shippo can't do any walking or fighting. (When has Shippo EVER fought?) In the end we'd slow ourselves down even more if we didn't stop now. Inuyasha isn't gonna like this one bit." Miroku said.

Then Inuyasha came through the forest. Everyone groaned. There was going to be hell to pay because of the wait.

Kagome slowly approached Inuyasha, trying to think of an excuse. What was she going to say 'Sorry Inuyasha, but we were attacked when you were gone, so we have to put the journey on hold.' Yeah and Inuyasha went out to buy her some jewelry. (hehe.)

"Ummm, Inuyasha..." Kagome started, still not know what exactly she was going to tell him.

"What?" he asked.

"Ummm... Sango and Shippo go hurt when you left so now they can't fight."

"So?"

"So we're going to have to stay here for a little while."

"How were they hurt?" he asked even though he knew the answer.

"A mantis demon just came out of no where and slashed at the slayer's leg and arm and the fox demon's leg and arm and then left. Their wounds aren't all that bad but we will have to stop. Kagome's right." Shimatta explained. (I need to get him more active in the story.)

"Fine."

Shimatta grinned and ran into the forest for a little while. (Good now I don't need to write about him.) Kagome slowly started to make her way back to the camp. Or at least, she tried to. Half way there she fainted. No one had noticed but when the mantis demon had attacked some more of Kikyo's Souls Stealers had come. This time they took a large portion of her soul they knew getting the soul would be harder now that Inuyasha was on to them.

Inuyasha ran over to where Kagome had fainted. When he got there he noticed she had fallen unconscious. He sniffed her body looking for a reason for the sudden fainting spell. (Not magic spell.) There it was. The faintest smell of Kikyo's Soul Stealers. Kikyo had done this to kagome. He left her alone to get her something nice and them she gets more of her souls stolen.

'I know.' he thought. 'I'll nurse her back to health to show her how much I care. Then I'll give her the necklace I bought.'

He carefully picked up her body and put her into her sleeping bag. He knew this plan would work.

Ok. That's all for now. Please review.

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