Yay! FINALLY another chapter! I don't own the InuYasha characters. Those are Rumiko Takahashi's. It will ALWAYS be Rumiko Takahashi's.

The others stared at her.

"InuYasha couldn't have done that, Kagome," Sango said, her hand squeezing Kagome's. "He wasn't even nearby for the attack, and he said himself that he found you unconscious."

"Sango is right, child," Kaede confirmed. "Only a pureblooded demon can save someone from Hebi's poison."

'A pureblood?' Kagome thought confused. She was sure that she had seen InuYasha's eyes just before she passed out. But if that hadn't been InuYasha then who..?

"Could it have been just a random demon, lurking around?" she asked. "I mean, maybe it thought I would do better to it alive, or something."

Miroku scratched his cheek, shaking his head. "I don't think any demon would do that. What would a half-dead girl be for any use to it except food? And at that point, it's just troublesome if the prey is alive."

"Maybe," Shippo thought loudly," this snake-thingy gave his blood. 'Cause you're a powerful miko and all, so he may have thought you could become useful sometime."

'It wasn't Otoko,' she thought, a shiver running down her spine as memories blurred past her vision. 'And not a normal demon either it seems.' But those eyes…

"Hey, guys? Where's InuYasha anyway?"

The hut went silence. Four pairs of eyes avoided looking at her. Even little Kirara didn't look her way.
Suddenly it felt as if she couldn't breathe.

"H-he isn't… hurt, is he?"

It was Miroku who first recovered, and shot her a strained smile. "No, of course he isn't. I'm sure he's somewhere nearby – sulking perhaps."

"Y-yeah, that's right – sulking," Sango said, her laugh sounding forced. "That's what he's best at, anyway."

Shippo looked at the two young adults in surprise. "I haven't seen him since we found Kagome, so how can you know wh-"

But before he could finish, two pair of hands had clasped around his mouth.

"Ahaha, what are you saying, Shippo? Of course we've seen him – he's just somewhere in the forest around her, that's all." Miroku said hurriedly.

"You're right, haha. Shippo, you're kind of forgetful aren't you?" Sango said flustered.

Kagome stared at her three friends: Shippo struggling to get free, his face turning slightly blue. Miroku's smiling face which somehow looked strained and forced. Sango whose eyes darted everywhere but in Kagome's direction.

"There's… something you aren't telling me. Right?"

The others flinched and the older of them released Shippo. The kitsune took deep breaths of air and slowly his face turned from strangled blue to angry red.

"Why did you do that for? I only wondered how you knew where he were!" he shouted at them.

"Sorry, sorry Shippo." Miroku said to the kitsune and plastered a smile on his face.

"Tell me, Miroku, Sango!" Kagome were shouting now. Her heart was racing in fear and confusion. "Where is InuYasha?"

"Welcome back, Sesshomaru-sama!"

"Hello, Lord Sesshomaru!"

"…hnn."

After the encounter with the snake and the meeting with his worthless half-brother, Sesshomaru had wandered around in deep thought. Had it been worth it to offer his blood to that girl? What would have happened if not his brother had appeared?
So many why's and what's were spinning in his head, so in the end he had just wandered plane less. That was, until he appeared in Jaken's and Rin's provisory camp. He would have slapped himself for going back to soon, but that was under his dignity.

"Did you have a safe walk, Sesshomaru-sama?" Jaken was flustered, desperately trying to show his lord how worried he'd been.

"Hnn," was all the lord said with a displeased look in his eyes.

"Lord Sesshomaru, I've dressed up Ah-Un very nicely!" Rin grinned and pointed toward the two-headed dragon, it's entire mane full with flowers. One of the dragon heads sneezed, making it's crown of flowers tilt. No words in the world could describe what the dog demon thought of that.

"We are leaving," he said to them, walking straight through the camp and into the forest. Rin dropped her eyes when her lord didn't seem to care about her masterpiece, but she grinned widely when Sesshomaru called on her. Jaken stood where he were for a moment, before getting flustered again.

Not far from where Sesshomaru and his little 'pack' were, another demon stopped and sniffed the air. The pointy ears flinched at every branch that broke, at the sound of a waterfall far away, at the (ljud) of birds twittering. His eyes were closed and the tail whipped from one side to the other as he sorted the different smells out.
The smell of a human village nearby.
An appetizing rabbit rushing on the path before him.
The damp smell of rotting leaves and branches.
He frowned when the all too familiar smell of blood circled around him. 'Looks like I've just missed the party,' he thought disappointed as he drew another deep sniff of air. Then he tensed, his body wanting to run toward the source, his mind trying to understand what it was he sensed.

'I know this smell!' he thought and inhaled deeply as he opened his eyes. His ice blue irises darted from side to side, as he followed the smell toward the human village. Soon the demon had started running. Anyone who didn't know would have been shocked as to how he could create a whirlwind out of thin air.

"Kagome!" Kouga howled into the roaring wind around him.

Sesshomaru and his group had walked for merely ten minutes, when suddenly Rin's stomach rumbled. The lord's eyebrows rose, but he didn't comment her behavior.

"Rin."

The girl smiled as she looked up at him.

"Yes, milord?"

Sesshomaru didn't say anything for a while, just observing how her face seemed to resemble that of InuYasha's wench. Not a very pleasing thought for this lord, but somehow it didn't displease him either.

"Have I not told you that you have to catch your own food?" he said and turned his head forward again.

Rin thought about that for a moment, but before she could answer him her lord had scooped the girl up and placed her on Ah-Un.

"Milord?" she cried as the dragon lifted into the air, with a yelping Jaken clinging to its tail.

Sesshomaru was left on the ground, listening and sniffing carefully before he turned to the darkest part of the surrounding woods.

"Show yourself," he commanded as a shadow released itself from the darkness.

Oh My God! Now Kouga is caught in this mess O.O
Exactly how it's supposed to be, I guess... For this chapter I had a huge writersblock. So for at least three weeks I have walked around, come up with an idea and then realized "Hey, this doesn't work." So I'm very sorry about that .
Not only writersblock, but school have started again. Now I am in my second year in "gymnasiet" as we say in Sweden. Not sure what it is called elsewere, but it's after grade 9... so I'm in grade 11?
I'm babbling. Sorry about that.
I finally ended this chapter on the bus this morning, while working on another fanfic that I will upload... soon.
Thanks for review the last time! It's those who keep me going ^^