"…and here are some antidote against certain poisons and I also brought with me some bandages"

Kagome Higurashi said as she plucked out one thing after another from her big backpack. As all the things lay on the wooden floor in lady Kaedes hut she rose and smiled at her friends.

"Well, I gotta' go, see ya!"

Before they could stop her or before her plastered smile fell from her face she hurried out of the hut and into InuYashas Forrest. She was soooo going home and not ever coming back.

She was so… oh, what was it? Mad? Sad? Or both? Yeah, definitely both. InuYasha had promised that he wouldn't see Kikyou all by himself. And did he follow his promise? No.
Then Kagome had spotted them by the Sacred Tree were Kikyou had nailed InuYasha for fifty years. InuYasha had… promised Kikyou he would protect her, that her life was his and vice versa. And then Kagome squeezed her backpack, and blinked away the hateful tears. Then when Kikyou had gone and InuYasha realized Kagome had seen and heard everything he had just looked at her. Straight at her. Why hadn't he turned away his eyes? What was it that had made it feel as if he had chosen? As if…

"Baka!" she muttered and mentally slapped her face. "What do I care about that jerk? If he wants to hook up with a dead girl, so be it! I don't care!"

Yes you do, an annoying little voice said in her head. She was pretty sure it was her broken hearts voice.

"Lord Sesshomaru! Lord Sesshomaru! Where are you?"

The dog demon made a face as his servants voice screeched in his ears. How had he, this Sesshomaru, got such a lowly servant? An imp by all means! Jaken were convenient at times, but most he only made this lords ears hurt as if Hell were there to take him.

"Sesshomaru-sama! Sesshooooomaru-samaaaaa!"

And that little girl, what had he been thinking when he brought her along? She had showed him kindness when his little brother InuYasha had used Wind Scar at him and nearly killed him. She had brought him food and water. Even though demons didn't necessarily eat the same things as humans and hanyous. And then when wolfs came and killed both her and whole her village, Sesshomaru had pitied her. In the end he had saved her using the Tenseiga to bring her back to life.
Nonetheless, little Rin made almost as much noise as Jaken. Worse, she was a human.
With his inherited speed he rushed to the noises, and soon he had kicked Jaken out of his seat aat Ah-Un.

"Ouch! Who dare to.." the imp growled, but lost his train of thoughts as he saw his lord. "Lord Sesshomaru! Where have you been? We have searched for you for so long! Not that we were worried for your safety or so, because we know that no one can beat Lord Sesshomaru-sama. Well except that damn half-demon brother of yours.."

When Jaken realized exactly what he had said to his lord he squealed.

"Not that that worthless hanyou could ever defeat you in near combat, my lord! Please forgive my rudeness at speaking without my mind, I, Jaken, humbly ask for your forg-"

"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin leaped of Ah-Un and ran up to greet him. "Welcome back, my lord!"

"Hnn" the demon lord answered, without giving Jaken another glance.

"My lord, would you please tell me what you were doing in InuYasha's Forrest?" the girl asked cheerily.

Sesshomaru didn't answer right away. "I sense a danger in these surroundings. I wanted to see what it was, and if it was any threat, but I could not find what or were it was."
"Maybe it was a ghost, Sesshomaru-sama?" Rin said and put her hands on her cheeks in played fear. "What if it finds us here?"

Sesshomaru didn't care to answer so Jaken saw it as his job to correct her.

"Girl, if it had been a ghost it would not have sent out such aura that would make lord Sesshomaru think there was a danger nearby. It must have been something else."

"Like… another demon?"

The imp shook his head sadly over Rin's ignorance. "Not particularly a demon, only a strong foe would make lord Sesshomaru worry."

"Then what about…" Rin thought, "… a priestess or a priest?"

"Hmm, you can be right Rin. But I doubt our great lord Sesshomaru would sense danger for a human, but it is a really good guess." Jaken was pleased over her answer and turned to his lord. "My lord what do you think? Awa-! My lord, were did you go?"

A miko? Sesshomaru rushed through the forest. Yes, that had been a very good guess. He did recognize the smell, but he hadn't been able to place it until he had heard Rin's statement. But mikos were nearly extinct in the Feudal Era – Sesshomarus own father had seen to it. That could only mean his idiot brother with the bothersome girl were nearby.
Hi crackled his knuckles on his only hand. Yes – he would see so that his brother reunited with his mother. And the girl could just as well follow him.