Kagome and the others, meanwhile, had stopped to camp out as well. InuYasha was up in a tree sleeping away, dreaming of being in a land of Ramen noodles. Below him, at a nearby lake, Sesshomaru had come to wash his arm off. "I'll need some time to think about this, Jaken" he said, "you return to the campsite." Jaken said "yes, me lord" and headed on his way. Sesshomaru made his way up a tree and gazed out from a view near the top branches. "How could I have completely missed those changes? That's probably nothing, but why am I starting to feel this way about her?" He stretched, only to hit his head on the branch above him. "What the heck?" he wondered. He then noticed that he had woken that branch's occupant.
InuYasha had, indeed, woken up. Sesshomaru thought "InuYasha" and hoped his brother didn't say a word. InuYasha turned and saw Sesshomaru. "What the heck are you doing here?" he asked. Sesshomaru replied "just getting some sleep." InuYasha said "so was I. Although, I heard noises from over that way and couldn't help but notice you and that mortal girl you hang out with getting a little funky." Sesshomaru asked "how would you know, brother?" InuYasha said "oh, come on" and, in a falsetto voice, said "do me, Lord Sesshomaru." He reverted to his normal voice with "I looked over that way and saw where you were camped at." Pointing in that direction, Sesshomaru saw a distant campfire with Rin, Jaken, and Ah-Un by it. InuYasha said "I heard her continue to yelp out passionately. I'm thinking you and her were getting down and--." "Wait! How do you know she wasn't just asleep?" Sesshomaru asked. InuYasha replied "please, Kagome never does that in hers." Sesshomaru said "she was asleep. Besides, brother, what is it like to be with a female mortal?" He went red in the face while InuYasha asked "aren't you already with one?" Sesshomaru said "I don't know how else to tell you this, brother, but…I think I may have fallen in love with her. What is it like?" InuYasha replied "it's like a section of heaven came down and encircled the two of you in paradi--. WHAT?" Sesshomaru asked "what is it?" InuYasha asked "you…in love with a human?" Sesshomaru said "it's true, InuYasha. Even I'm surprised at this." InuYasha was heading down saying "wait 'til Kagome hears about this." Sesshomaru said "wait, brother." InuYasha stopped and asked "yeah?" Sesshomaru said "please understand that I want this between us. I still need to uphold my reputation. You mustn't tell anyone, brother." InuYasha agreed and got out of the tree and over to Kagome's camp area.
Sesshomaru returned to his campsite and went to sleep. He dreamt that he was paralyzed and couldn't move. Many demons were laughing their heads off. Sesshomaru asked "who dares to paralyze me, the great Lord Sesshomaru?" A demon said "well, well, well, you still call yourself great?" Sesshomaru said "yes, I do." A second demon chimed in with "the great Lord Sesshomaru in love with a human?" Sesshomaru glared and asked "who ratted that out? My brother?" The demons stepped aside to reveal Rin. "Hi, Lord Sesshomaru" she said, casually as ever. "Rin? Don't tell me you said something. But, why?" Sesshomaru asked, "how many have you told?" Rin said "only one. He decided to precipitate it all over."
The demons then laughed again. Sesshomaru, getting ticked, asked "which one of you has this paralysis over me?" A Pterodactyl demon said "me, the original precipitator, and I want to thank her." Sesshomaru hissed "release me and I'll take you down like a real demon. You'll feel the power of Toki--. Where are my swords?" Rin asked "oh, these?" and held them up. Sesshomaru asked "How did you get them over there?" Rin said "he threatened to kill me if I didn't and will do so if I return them." Sesshomaru said "you cowards; not wanting to fight me despite threatening to kill a human." Rin said "I'd love to really--." She then glanced behind the pterodactyl demon, pointed, and asked "hang on, what's that behind you?" The demon looked and Rin jumped up and hit it where its legs met. The demon toppled over and Sesshomaru felt the paralysis disappear. "Rin, my swords!" he shouted. Rin passed the swords over and Sesshomaru said "Rin, get behind me." Rin complied and Sesshomaru readied Tokijin. "Dragon twister" he said. Another demon said "oh, shit." Just as the attack shot out, Sesshomaru woke up from the apparent dream.
He found the sun had risen and Rin had been cooking. "Breakfast is ready, Lord Sesshomaru." He asked "what's on tap for breakfast?" Rin, hearing Sesshomaru's stomach gurgle loudly, said "we'll start off with a breakfast tea." Jaken said "that would be a fine appetizer." Sesshomaru said "this'll be nice." Neither Jaken nor Sesshomaru were aware that Rin had infused their tea with a sleeping potion. Sesshomaru drank the tea and said "this tea is delicious, Rin. I've never had tea…that…tasted…" Jaken, too, drank the tea and had fallen asleep. Rin said "good, that'll give me a good two hours." With that, Rin made off on Ah-Un. "Come, Ah-Un, we need to find InuYasha's mortal friend" she said.
Back at InuYasha's camp area, Kagome and Sango had just woken up. They were starting to prepare breakfast when Sango noticed something overhead. "Kagome, look" she said. Kagome looked and saw Ah-Un coming in. "Oh, what does Sesshomaru want now?" she complained. Sango replied "I'm not sure." Ah-Un landed and turned to the side. Kagome said "that's strange; he's not even on board." Sango replied "then who is, then." Rin got off Ah-Un and went over to the two ladies. Sango saw her and thought "it's only that mortal girl he hangs around with." Rin asked "can I speak with both of you?" Kagome looked back at InuYasha and heard him mutter "look at all this chocolate" in his sleep. She then turned back to Rin and said "okay." The three headed elsewhere.
Once they were in a secluded area, Kagome asked "so, what did you want to talk about." Rin replied "well, I think I'm being possessed or…something." Kagome said "What do you mean possessed?" Rin replied "first off, I don't recall having either of these yesterday morning" and pointed out her two growths. Sango replied "you're not being possessed. You're becoming a young woman like Kagome and I." Kagome said "yeah, every girl goes through something like this." Rin replied "There's something else that kind of enhances my theory of possession: whenever I'm around Sesshomaru, I feel light as a feather for some reason. My heart feels like it's fluttering." Kagome said "again, I don't think anything is possessing you. I think you're falling in love with Sesshomaru."
Rin said "I think a little something happened last night. I had a dream where I was with Sesshomaru and had these urges that I couldn't control. I find that I'm removing my robes, getting on top of him, and shouting out phrases that didn't really make sense." An alarmed Sango and Kagome looked at one another and then Sango asked "what were the phrases?" Rin replied "well, I think one of them went 'do…me'?" Sango turned white and Kagome was a little shocked. Rin said "I get these urges a lot. I don't know what to do: follow them or…what." Kagome replied "well, I think that Sesshomaru might not be ready for you to follow those urges just yet." Rin said "okay, I'll try and wait, even though I sometimes accidentally call him 'Sex-sshomaru'." Sango got a very shocked look on her face, turned to Kagome, and said "we never acted like that at her age." Kagome replied "well, we weren't orphaned with no one to educate us at her age either." Sango said "that's true." Rin asked "have either one of you wanted to…in your case, miss…" Kagome said "oh, I'm Kagome." Rin said "thanks. Anyway, have you, in your case, wanted to get together with InuYasha and…well…?" Kagome replied "well, I want to wait until after marriage to do that." Rin said "okay." Sango said "if there's anything else you need to know, feel free to ask us." Rin replied "thank you, miss…" Sango said "oh, I'm Sango." After thanking them, Rin headed back on Ah-Un. Kagome and Sango returned to their campsite and finished preparing breakfast. Kagome said "I don't believe she's like that at such an early age; she's only 13 or so." Sango replied "true."
Sesshomaru, meanwhile, was having another dream. He found himself in a field. He tried to move and discovered he was paralyzed. He saw InuYasha's friends across the way. "Who's paralyzed me?" he thought. InuYasha was then running over to the others. "Guys, you'll never believe what I saw Sesshomaru doing the other night." Sesshomaru freaked and almost squeaked out "InuYasha, you--." He then thought "my voice; why can't I speak?" Miroku asked "what is it, InuYasha? What did you see?" Sesshomaru thought "who could have paralyzed me and frozen my voice?" He looked up and saw Rin holding two glowing orbs. "Hi, Lord Sesshomaru" she cheerfully said. Sesshomaru tried to speak, but his frozen voice was not able to produce even a squeak. He had tried to say "is that my voice you are holding, Rin?"
Rin split one of the two orbs into two smaller orbs. She then sent one of the smaller orbs into Sesshomaru. Now, when he tried to speak, he sounded very hoarse. "Who paralyzed me, Rin?" Sesshomaru asked. Rin just elevated the larger orb like a weight. "Rin" he said, "why did you paralyze me…and freeze my voice?" Rin said "just felt like it." Sesshomaru asked "is it okay to unfreeze my voice the rest of the way?" InuYasha, meanwhile, was saying "well, Miroku, I saw Sesshomaru and that mortal girl he hangs out with getting really funky." Sesshomaru said "unfreeze my voice now, Rin, and de-paralyze me as well. You're crazy for having done that." Rin asked "if I'm crazy, why don't you have any pants?" "WHAT!" Sesshomaru hoarsely yelled (or tried to, at least). He looked and found that she was right. Sesshomaru asked "Did you do this, Rin?" Rin said "no. I wouldn't have been asking otherwise." She let go of the other smaller orb and it floated into Sesshomaru, restoring his voice in the process. Miroku said "oh, do tell, InuYasha." InuYasha said "well, the mortal girl…" As the guy gossip continued, Sesshomaru said "un-paralyze me, Rin, so I can get my pants and kick my brother's butt." Rin looked and said "oh, nice manhood down there." Sesshomaru suddenly woke from the dream just as Rin was arriving back on Ah-Un. Sesshomaru said "that was one Hell of a creepy dream I had." Jaken wakes up and asked "what dream was that, me lord?" Sesshomaru said "you don't want to know, Jaken."