After an awkward night of silence, the group awoke to find Sesshomaru gone. They all remembered that he said he would be going to get Rin and the others in the morning, but they thought he would have at least told them he was leaving before he left. It upset Kirai to know that Sesshomaru left her without even saying goodbye. He'd never done that before.

"Do you think Rin and the others are okay?" Safaia questioned as she and her sister were trying to start a fire. Eodum had collected the sticks and left the actual starting of the fire to the girls.

"They better be, or else Sesshomaru will flip." Kirai simply responded as she stood up, annoyed with the lack of fire. They were trying to start a fire without using magic, but clearly, that wasn't going to work, so Safaia used her Witchy-Witch powers to light the fire.

"He would? I didn't realize he had emotions." It was Eodum from the tree he was sitting at who'd spoken. He was cleaning the fish he'd caught in a river nearby as he idly listened into the girls' conversation.

"I could say the same thing about you, you know?"

"I suppose us demons feel quieter than you humans do."

"I suppose so," Kirai spoke with such bitterness that it worried her sister.

"Is everything going alright with you and Sesshomaru?" Safaia questioned as she stood up from the fire that was now burning. She looked over at her sister with worry in her eyes. As far as she'd known, ever since the fight with Hakai, everything was going good between Sesshomaru and Kirai.

"I don't really want to talk about it..." However, one look at Safaia's face and Kirai changed what she had to say. "I just feel like something is changing between him and I. That's all..."

"I see... I'm sorry, sis." There was nothing else the girl could say to her sister now. So Safaia just walked over to Eodum and began to put the fish of stakes to cook them.

~

It was later that afternoon when Sesshomaru returned with Ah-Un, Rin, and Jaken. Rin seemed to be excited to see Kirai and Safaia once again, while Jaken just seemed to hate his life even more.

"Did you miss us, Kirai, Safaia?" Rin questioned as soon as she hopped off of Ah-Un.

"Of course we didn't, you obnoxious teenager." Kirai jokingly grumbled, knowing fully well that Rin wouldn't take her words to heart. The two went to hug but was stopped by Eodum speaking.

"How do we know that's really Rin?" Eodum was standing protectively in front of Safaia as he spoke. "How do we know any of them are who they say they are?"

"How do we know you are who you say you are?" Jaken snapped instantly and defensively.

"The password, this is when we're supposed to say that, right?" Rin was about to say the password when Kirai stopped her.

"Wait, all of us need to say it at the same time."

"Alright."

"Potato." Everyone, except Sesshomaru, spoke all at once. Everyone then processed the situation and turned to Sesshomaru. They all instantly felt a sense of distrust towards the man.

"I'm not saying that." Sesshomaru instantly said almost angrily. He wouldn't look like a fool randomly saying "potato".

"Come on Sesshomaru, just say it." Kirai began to approach the tall demon as she spoke to him.

"Kirai, there's no point, he knows the password now and it would be meaningless now," Eodum explained simply as he pulled the girl away from the other demon. Kirai struggled for a moment but was then pulled back by her sister, causing her to not fight any longer.

"Prove who you are," Safaia spoke next, defensively. She was clearly on edge now.

"Lord Sesshomaru doesn't need to prove himself to people like you!" Jaken yelled out in response to Safaia's demand.

"But Jaken, what if that isn't Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin was the voice of reason, saying what was on all of their minds. Meanwhile, Sesshomaru just looked annoyed. He clearly had no intention of trying to prove himself.

"Sesshomaru, please." Kirai nearly begged, just wanting her lover to prove himself so she could go over to him already.

"When did you start calling me that again?" That was what Sesshomaru finally responded with.

"What?" Kirai was clueless about what he meant.

"You stopped calling me 'Maru'. Why? You always have called me that."

"Oh..." Kirai just looked down to the ground. "I'm sorry." Sesshomaru wasn't sure what exactly she was sorry about, but he knew those words caused pain in his chest. "Please... Maru, just prove yourself."

"Do it, unless you truly are Ken'o," Eodum growled at the slightly taller demon. He was now protectively in front of the whole group, excluding Sesshomaru. Speaking of the demon, Sesshomaru was just glaring at all of them for a few moments, until he finally sighed outwardly and began to speak.

"Kirai, we recently fought against a warlock, Hakai... Does that not suffice as proof of who I am?" Kirai instantly pushed passed Eodum and threw herself at Sesshomaru. She was close to crying, which surprised Sesshomaru and the rest of the group.

"I'm so sorry I doubted you," Kirai spoke as she hugged Sesshomaru. The demon wrapped his arms around her in return, in a rare show of affection.

"It's fine, Kirai." Sesshomaru's tone clearly stated that it wasn't fine, but it was clear to him that now was not the time to get into it with his lover.

"Maru, I'll never call you 'Sesshomaru' again, I swear!"

"Calm yourself." Kirai pulled away from her demon only to smile up at him. Tears were in her eyes, but she was determined to not shed them.

"Alright, so now that the situation had been dealt with, is it time to head out again?" Rin was eager to head out on another adventure, but she was also nervous. "What exactly happened while we were gone anyway?" To Rin's question, Safaia explained the situation quickly.

"Let's go now." Sesshomaru demanded as he turned away from Kirai and the others. For a moment his eyes met Eodum's and they exchanged glares, but nothing more. The taller demon wasn't in the mood to get into a fight with the other demon. Not yet at least, he would save that for later.

~

The group was continuing on like usual when suddenly they all began to sense demons approaching them. Instantly, the two who wielded swords unsheathed their weapons, while Safaia pulled out her scythe from her enchanted bag.

"Ah-Un, Jaken protect Rin," Kirai told the dragon demon before turning away from them.

"I don't listen to your orders, woman." Jaken snapped, knowing fully well that now wasn't the time to get into it with Kirai.

"Jaken, protect Rin," Sesshomaru ordered after the little demon was done talking. He sounded annoyed, though that wasn't any different than usual. He didn't like Jaken talking back to Kirai.

"Eodum, don't die, alright?" Safaia chuckled as the demons made it to their location.

"You don't die either, Safaia," Eodum smirked at the girl who was already cutting into a demon. There were a few demons running along the ground, but most of them were flying. Meaning there were now demons diving down at the group angrily. There was a huge swarm of them, making it so none of the group could count exactly how many demons were attacking them. They only knew that there were a lot of them.

"Hey Maru, I bet I can kill more than you can!" Kirai yelled out as she swiped at a group of demons. Her powers cut down the demons similarly to how Bakusaiga does.

"Hmm. I think not." Sesshomaru himself them swung his sword, eliminating just a little more demons than Kirai had killed.

"Dammit," Kirai muttered as she watched Sesshomaru easily take down another group of demons before Kirai could.

"You two focus on the task at hand and stop trying to one-up each other!" Safaia yelled out as she cut down a few demons herself. Eodum was at her side using his claws to take care of demons that Safaia didn't get. They were working as a perfect team, while Kirai and Sesshomaru made it a game and were going against each other.

"Oh hush, the demons are getting killed, who cares how it's done!" Kirai yelled back as she took down even more demons than she'd done before. It tied her and Sesshomaru up in the number of demons they'd taken down.

"Ah! Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin yelled out as demons began to swarm around her, Ah-Un and Jaken. The little demon was swinging his staff around using the fire, but it just wasn't working well.

It was then that the adults all realized that the demons were there with a purpose and not just randomly attacking people. The demons were sent there to hurt or kill one of them, and Rin and the others were good targets, due to how weak Jaken was compared to the other adults.

As soon as Rin had yelled out, Sesshomaru was there in an instant. He took care of the demons that were surrounding the little group within a second. All it took was one swing and the demons were destroyed.

"Thank you, milord," Jaken muttered, only earning a glare from Sesshomaru in return.

"There are so many of them. Where are they all coming from?" Eodum questioned, annoyed by the never-ending stream of demons.

"They must have been conjured here by Ken'o." Safaia simply responded as she sung her scythe some more. She was eliminating demons slowly, but it was more than enough to hold them off for now. Kirai and Sesshomaru together were quickly eliminating the demons, but every time they killed some, more appeared.

"This is ridiculous!" Kirai finally yelled out as she nearly dropped her sword. She was not used to using her sword so much, so she was starting to get fatigued.

"Keep going Kirai." Sesshomaru demanded as he looked over a bit worriedly at his lover.

Suddenly, the demons began to thin out, making the group believe they were winning, however, they were wrong. With the demons now mostly gone, Ken'o popped out with a sword and attacked Eodum.

"Eodum!" Safaia yelled out as she watched the man get stabbed, yet again.

"Fuck!" Eodum cried out as blood began to pour

from his wounded abdomen. Ken'o just laughed and went to attack Safaia next. However, she swung her scythe and managed to keep him at bay long enough for Sesshomaru to approach and begin to attack the man.

Sesshomaru and Ken'o fought for a moment, but the half-demon was able to shift into a bigger demon. He shifted into an ogre-like demon and was able to throw Sesshomaru off long enough for him to get a good swipe in with his sword, causing Sesshomaru to get cut.

"Maru!" Kirai yelled out, panicking as she watched blood begin to flow from Sesshomaru's wound. With Ken'o now distracted, Safaia threw her Witchy-Witch powders on him.

"Ow, fuck!" Ken'o screamed out as his skin began to boil and melt off of his body. He was forced to shift back into himself, still with skin melting. "You bit-" Ken'o couldn't finish his cursing, as Safaia swung her scythe at him once again. This time, however, the scythe hit its mark; directly in Ken'o's chest.

"Oh my god, sis..." Kirai was shocked at her sister's action. Safaia was normally quite a pacifist and all about helping people, rather than hurting, or in this case, killing them.

"I'm not going to let anyone else hurt my loved ones!" Safaia strongly spoke as she pulled the scythe from Ken'o's chest. Blood instantly began to pour out of the wound. All Ken'o could do was cough up blood and fall to the ground. He wasn't dead quite yet, but there was no way anyone there would heal him, meaning his death was imminent. "Eodum!" Safaia quickly dropped her weapon and moved over to the injured man. Kirai was already at Sesshomaru's side.

"Bi...Bitch..." All four of the adults who'd heard Ken'o speak looked over to the man. His head was turned to face Safaia, and it was clear that he was now dead. There was no more life in his eyes.