Otose: Sorry about the wait.

Roger: Otose has news to tell you, but that won't be till towards the end.

Otose: Right, to the chapter, it may or may not be short, depends.

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Sanzo leaned in more to the kiss; her lips were so soft and warm. He pulled her closer, he knew they needed air, but he didn't want to stop, but he did.

They pulled apart, taking a depth breath, a light pink hue on their faces. Kagome smiled at him, that warm loving smile. He pulled her closer and just held her. both basked in each other's warmth, until Sanzo pushed Kagome behind him.

"Sanzo?" Kagome asked as she watched him, he had pulled his gun out and was scanning the area.

"Sanzo what's wrong?" Kagome again asked. He looked at her,

"Put a barrier up, We're not alone, and I have a feeling we're dealing with something big." Sanzo said as he looked into the darkness of the forest. She nodded and a light pink barrier surrounded them. They waited; soon they heard a growl and out jumped Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted in surprise, but she noticed something, his eyes were red, her eyes widen in horror, oh crap! His eyes were red, and had purple markings on his face, he turned full demon!

"Sanzo, Inuyasha is half demon, and at times, his demonic blood overpowers his human blood, turning him to an uncontrollable demon." Kagome said as Sanzo dropped his aim gun from him. He glared, how is he supposed to defend Kagome then if he can't kill the bastard?

"What do you suggest?" Sanzo said, as he aimed his gun as he saw Inuyasha move closer.

"I don't know, use your scripture, and see if it can snap him out of it out." Kagome said.

Sanzo nodded, "Alright, but you're going to need to concentrate on the barrier I need a few seconds to chant the correct spell to subdue him." He instructed as he began to think of the chant.

Kagome nodded and looked ahead towards Inuyasha. He growled a threatening growl and jumped at them, Kagome closed her eyes as she felt Inuyasha jump at the barrier and was shocked back. She winced, and buckled a little.

'I can do this,' Kagome thought as she tried concentrating on the barrier, Inuyasha got up and once more tried to attack, getting the same results. He kept on going.

Kagome winced and buckled every time he jumped at them, she never kept her barrier up for this long, 'Hurry Sanzo, please.' She begged as she took a chance to look at him, wrong move. Her chance made her drop the barrier.

"Oh, no!" She cried as she tried re-forming the barrier, Inuyasha even in his demon craze, saw his chance and swiped at them, before he could Sanzo sent his sutra at him. The sutra wrapped around him, he trashed trying to set free. Sanzo glared but kept chanting, unleashing the power of the matan scripture.

Inuyasha screamed as he was indulge in a bright light, both covered their eyes from the brightness and saw Inuyasha slump to the ground. Kagome ran over and checked Inuyasha, no markings.

"Thank goodness." Kagome sighed as she stood up.

"Is he alright?" Sanzo asked, not really caring.

"He's fine now, but how are we going to get him back to camp?"

They were answered by a mew, both turned to Kirara their, tilting her head to the side, giving off a confused or questioning look. She mewed once more before transforming into her larger form.

Kagome smiled, "Thanks Kirara," She said as she and Sanzo put Inuyasha on top of her. they began their little walk back towards camp. Within minutes the arrived, everyone else was still sleeping.

Sanzo had Kirara set Inuyasha down far away, but still within the camp site borders, from him and Kagome.

Sanzo sat down at the base of the tree, Kagome came over with a blanket and joined him, throwing the blanket over themselves.

"Thank you." Kagome whispered as she snuggled into his side. He grunted his response as he shifted his arm to rest it at her waist, pulling her a bit closer to him.

"You're welcome." He said as he felt Kagome lay her head on his chest. He sighed and breathed in her smell, apple. He smiled at the thought; everyone here would smell of apples. He kissed the top of Kagome's head as they both settled down to sleep. He gave a small faint smile.

This was a new promise that he would make to himself, the promise to protect Kagome with everything he had, even with his last breath, and to love her till he died. That was his new promise to himself, even if he actually died, protecting the one he cared about, Kagome, then the thought traveled to Goku, he would never admit it, but the monkey had grown on him, enough that Sanzo would have called him son.

He smiled, fine, he though, I'll protect the little monkey with everything I got as well. He sighed and looked up into the tree leaves.

Was he becoming soft? No, no one knew his feeling and he would kill anyone who got in his way, no way was he going to be some pussy pushover, nu-uh not him, he'll kick your ass and shoot you in the head. No mercy.

He heard soft snoring and looked down, he saw Kagome sleeping peacefully, she gave a smile in her dream, 'she must be having a nice dream' Sanzo thought as he watched her sleep. He then heard her mumble; he leaned in closer to hear.

"San…sanz…Sanzo..." Kagome mumbled in her sleep. He gave a shock look, she was dreaming about him? Her dream was about him? He couldn't believe it, but knew that he was the only Sanzo in her life, so it must be him.

He smiled, he would take in pride that she was even thinking about him in her sleep, dreaming about him. he looked back up at the sky, it was nice, till this happened.

A sudden blast of power tore through the camp waking everyone up and sending them flying.

"What's going on?" Gojyo shouted as he pulled out his weapon the other's doing so as well.

"Kukuku, ready to die Inuyasha?" Asked a sinister voice. Inuyasha was indeed awake, sooner than what Sanzo hoped.

"Show yourself you bastard!" Inuyasha cried Tessaiga ready.

"Silly little man you don't know that today you will die." Said Naraku emerging from the forest shadows.

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Otose: Done.

Roger: Guess it was short.

Otose: Also I started school again so might take a while for me to update, please bear with me.

Roger: Think anyone reads this?

Otose: I don't know, let me try this, question: What is your favorite anime and why?