Kagome looked around the little hut and noticed that Kaede was not in her hut. Maybe she had been called because a small child had been injured or someone had gotten sick. Still, Kagome preferred to ask. “Kaede?” Inuyasha looked around the hut. “She was there earlier.” When Inuyasha saw that Kagome was yawning, he said to her, “You seem tired, go to sleep.” Inuyasha sat down, it didn't really appear as if he were want to go to sleep.

Kagome knew he would take care of her while she slept. Happy, she lay down on the floor and curled up before saying goodnight to Inuyasha. But she couldn't sleep because she was cold. So she dug a blanket out of her backpack, covered herself up and soon fell asleep.

Inuyasha sat down in a corner and tucked Tessaiga between her legs. From there he watched Kagome as she slept peacefully.The night passed quietly and the next morning the sun was shining. Inuyasha was still watching over Kagome's sleep when, not far from the two of them, another group of people appeared. But it was too far away for Inu Yasha's nose to have noticed the hated smells.


Sesshomaru, the lord of the western countries, went his way and paid no attention to what his two companions, Rin and Jaken, were doing. He had raised his head against the wind and was inhaling the scents of the night. Immediately he smelled his half-brother Inuyasha and turned away in disgust.

Meanwhile, Rin decorated Jaken with white flowers and sang to himself. "Master Sesshomaru? Doesn't Jaken look pretty?" Without a word, Sesshomaru turned his head in the direction of the little girl. "Which color should I still use?" Asked Rin, not noticing that her master had long since turned around. What childish games ... Sesshoumaru didn't bother with that.After Rin had noticed that her foster father was already moving on, she trampled after him and Jaken happily. Ah Un trampled beside her. Sesshoumaru's calm and icy cold no longer impressed her. She happily jumped from behind on Jaken's back and hugged the croaking Jaken. "Jaken-Sama?" She asked politely. "Where is Sesshoumaru-sama going?"

"That is irrelevant", Sesshoumaru replied for Jaken. Then he turned to Jaken and Rin. "Jaken, you should take care of Rin and not allow yourself to be mistreated as a doll!" He said coldly. Jaken nodded. "As you wish, Sesshoumaru-sama," he said, bowing deeply.

Meanwhile, Rin preferred to run after colorful butterflies. When she saw a river, her stomach made itself felt by a lukewarm growl. "Sesshoumaru-sama? Can I get something to eat? I'm hungry." Her words were supported by a loud rumble from her stomach. Rin looked expectantly at her master.He just nodded slightly and didn't even look at Rin anymore when he spoke to her. "Yes, but don't get too far away. Jaken, take care of Rin." Jaken nodded. “Yes, Sesshoumaru-sama.” Then he padded after Rin.

The evening and the seam that followed passed quickly. The sun was already high in the sky when it woke Kagome with one of its rays. Kagome blinked and opened her eyes. The first thing she noticed after sitting up and looking around was that Inuyasha was not there. Where could he be? A few things occurred to Kagome immediately, but she forbade herself to think that Inu Yasha had secretly met with Kikyou that night. But Kagome's worries were unfounded. Inuyasha sat by the river and just stared into the water, his thoughts seeming quite absent.

Kagome got up. She was a little worried about Inuyasha. But when she realized that she had slept in her school uniform, she changed her priorities and padded sleepily to the river to wash.Inuyasha was still crouching by the river, the main difference being that he was no longer in his thoughts, but studied the river with alert eyes. In a flash he reached into the water to catch a fish, but unfortunately it didn't want to be eaten and jumped back into the water, which didn't seem to please Inuyasha very much. "ARGG! YOUR BIG FISH!" Kagome heard Inu Yasha's cheerful voice and calmed down a bit. He didn't seem to have been with Kikyou that night. "Morning, Inuyasha," she said sleepily and rubbed her eyes, almost plopping into the river from sheer tiredness. She hadn't slept well that night for unknown reasons. Inuyasha looked up and said good morning to Kagome too. Until he saw a fish splash in front of him. He grumbled at the fish, offended. Kagome put on a smile. That Inuyasha always made such an effort with breakfast! "I still have something to eat in my backpack, are you coming?"Inuyasha looked up in displeasure. “You still have something?” Sullen he looked at the fish, which was still splashing happily to itself. And he had bothered ... "Why didn't you say that right away?" "Because I was sleeping," said Kagome, washing his face as slowly as possible to provoke Inuyasha. With Inuyasha in tow, she went back to Kaede's hut and fished two apples out of her backpack. Inu Yasha's expression changed immediately. With a big smile he snatched an apple from Kagome's hand. "Delicious!" Was the only thing you would hear from Inuyasha for the next 5 minutes if you ignored the smacking. Kagome could only smile at this and crouched on the floor before she started to eat her apple herself. “Tell me, when are we going to see Shippou, Sango and Miroku?” Inuyasha only looked her over briefly before he grumpily said: “You should rather ask when they will be back. If everything goes according to plan, they have already moved on."Inuyasha squinted at her." We could have caught up with her if you hadn't slept so long, "he said." You could have woken me up, "snapped Kagome." I tried that. Sleepyhead. "Kagome shot Inuyasha a hostile look." That was mean. "Inuyasha returned the look, at least as hostile." Why? "" I'm not a sleepyhead, you just can't wake up properly. " "What? "Inuyasha stared at her." Don't wake up properly ?! "He crossed his arms." Okay, next time I'll shit you in the river ... "" Well thanks, "Kagome replied, trying to vent." OK, change the subject, what exactly is Naraku up to? "" Don't ask me that, how should I know? ", Inuyasha grumbled." You were at Kikyou's and asked her, you told me that yesterday! "He hadn't lied to her, did he? Woe to him if ...

"What? Uh ... yes, but she didn't know anything either." Did she have to remind him?"Yesterday you said something else," said Kagome suspiciously and thought about it. What did he say again? "Something with descendants or something."
“Yeah… there anyway.” Couldn't she stop asking?
"And what exactly? There must be something new," Kagome inquired further. Was she mistaken, or was he avoiding her? It could be portrayed either way ... Kagome swallowed. Inuyasha, please tell me exactly what was going on. " "What? Don't you believe me "I told you we were talking ..." "May I know what about?" Asked Kagome, persuading himself that he hadn't decided on her, no, it couldn't be, something like that would he doesn't do it to her, right ?? "About what ... the usual," Inuyasha pressed around. Then he looked at Kagome and did not avoid her scrutinizing gaze. "What are you thinking of?"

"Don't know," said Kagome, relieved. "At least you can look me in the eye while doing this, I'm sorry that I overreacted."Inuyasha nodded slightly. She couldn't take the truth.

Kagome was satisfied with the nod. “What do we do until the others come back?” Inuyasha thought for a moment. “Wait? We can't catch up with her.” Suddenly Inuyasha sensed something very disturbing. Immediately he jumped up and rushed out of the hut. Kagome followed, a little confused. The village lay there as if it were deserted, on the edge Kagome could make out two figures. One was Inuyasha, without a doubt, and who the other was she couldn't make out. As a precaution, Kagome grabbed a bow and arrow and walked to the edge of the village. Inuyasha and the other person appeared to be arguing. "Good nose, brother," said the stranger and Kagome immediately recognized who she was looking at. What was Sesshoumaru doing here? Inuyasha glared at his half-brother. "Sesshoumaru, what do you want?" Called Kagome. Sesshoumaru grinned his deadliest grin and didn't even bother to pretend he heard Kagome."My brother seems to let his friends do the work again so that he can be alone with a pesky human woman ..." "Stay out of there!" Inuyasha roared angrily. "What I do is probably MY thing all alone!" Inu Yasha pulled Tessaiga.

Kagome watched the scene with a worried expression. Should she leave it to Inuyasha? It would be safer for her ... Kagome hid behind a bush. If it got too bad, what Kagome already knew deep inside her, she could still intervene. She drew an arrow from her quiver and waited for an opportune moment.

Inuyasha started an attack, which unfortunately went wrong. Sesshoumaru grinned a bit nastier. "Already quarrelsome again?"

Kagome clamped the arrow in her bow. If Sesshoumaru went a little more to the left and Inuyasha took a step back and two to the right ... Then she could definitely meet Sesshoumaru, provided he didn't move.Sesshoumaru found the situation most amusing. "Does your human woman want to shoot me?" He sneered at Inuyasha, a little puzzled. How could the woman be so stupid as to think she could kill him, Sesshoumaru, a pretty strong youkai, with an arrow? Nobody could be that stupid. At most the human hide behind the bush, what was your name again? Sesshoumaru turned to Kagome, or rather, to the bush behind which she was hiding.

Inuyasha found the situation far from amusing. "I'm your opponent," he yelled angrily and attacked Sesshoumaru again. Kagome was very worried. Sesshoumaru had noticed that she wanted to shoot him, that wasn't good at all. She took another arrow from her quiver and placed it next to her. Then she cheered Inuyasha. "GO INU YASHA, do it ALL!"

But Sesshoumaru had easily dodged Inu Yasha's attack and hurled him with a blow of his sword against a