Disclaimer: AIM is for amateurs, this story takes Sess & Inu for one hell of a fucking ride.

This story is dedicated to my sister, Freshgal, who is the co-writer and the fabulous co-star in this crazy AIM story we did on the side. We've been doing this for 2 months and now it's a serious thing. This is an 'anything can happen' story and be forewarned that that is what we do best. (P.S. this story mainly focuses on Sesshomaru) (This is also the only third-person story I will do for fanfic. OK!)

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Chapter 1: Unexpected

"She owes you how much yin!" Rendaku's normally quiet voice echoed through the canopy of trees in which she and her sister were hiding. She blew her bangs away from her hawk-like eyes, scrutinizing the forest brush beneath her.

Midori smirked at her younger, smaller sister. "Twenty yin. And be quiet or we'll never have the element of surprise on the bitch." 'So much spirit in one so small.'

"Yea, but Kagome-" Rendaku immediately quieted when Midori placed her finger to her lips. The larger girl motioned down below them where a thin, dark-haired girl wandered through the thick woods, alone. "Now?"

Midori nodded to the excited youth sitting beside her and pulled out her own katana. "Now." The two girls jumped down and knocked Kagome off her feet, with Rendaku behind her and Midori in front. "Hello there, my unlucky debt."

Kagome shuddered against the ground. "Midori! H-hi." Her eyes traveled the length of Midori's blade. "So, what's with the sword?" She tried to back away only to bump right into Rendaku, giving a satisfying yelp of surprise. "W-who are you?"

The smaller girl just smirked down at her victim. "The last thing you'll see if you don't pay up to my sister." Her eyes became dark and her voice threateningly demonic. Kagome did the only thing that registered in her mind. She ran.

She fled deeper into the forest with the two witch sisters at her heels. Gaining a lot of space between her and her predators they seemed to disappear altogether. Soon she collapsed against a nearby tree that was covered in moss, letting out a relived sigh. "Hope I lost them." She looked around the seemingly empty area around her. "Think I did."

"Think again, Baka." The duo jumped down from the very tree Kagome had been resting under. Rendaku grabbed the young priestess roughly by the hair, holding her securely in place. Midori hovered close over the frightened Kagome, clearly amused. "Look, Renda. Our prey came to us." Above her head she held her katana in both hands, ready to plunge it down through the miko's scrawny body. Midori winked at her joyful partner and began to lower the sword in a torturing, slow manner. "It'll hurt more if I ease it in at this pace."

"Ok, ok!" Kagome put her hands up, defensively, fearing for her very existence. "I'll give you what you want." She rummaged in her skirt pocket and pulled out a change purse of coins. "Here, just take it."

Midori grabbed the gaudy bag from the frightened, shaking girl and pockets it. "Thank you for your business." A wicked grin gleamed at the victim.

Kagome hurriedly stood up and dusted herself off. "I'll never borrow anything from you- you- uncivilized mongrels." A groan rose from her lips and a look of fear washed over her face as she realized her fatal mistake.

Midori and Rendaku gave each other a surprised look before pulling out the weapons they had just put away. "What did you just say!" The two girls glared, bloodlust pools in the depths of their eyes.

Kagome yelped and raced away from the violent girls, with branches scratching at her legs and face. She ran until red flashed in front of her eyes. "Kagome! What happened to you?" Worry etched Inuyasha's face. His gruff voice somewhat kinder, towards her.

Sudden thrashing through the forest caught his attention as the two girls burst out into the clearing. They would have been gorgeous had it not been for their bad attitudes. The taller, thicker one was the color of dark sweet mahogany with reddish-black hair. Her demeanor made sure you knew she's the one in charge. Her shorter, slimmer companion was a pretty bronze with dark brown hair and golden highlights. She glared at Inuyasha and Kagome with venom in her every movement.

"Oh, so you have to run and hide behind your boyfriend, Kagome. Not brave enough to face the ones you disrespected." The taller one hissed their way.

Kagome clung to Inuyasha's shoulders, blushing feverishly. "He's not my boyfriend…" She looks sideways at him, her normally timid eyes sparkling with a mix of fear and lust.

Inuyasha put up a defensive arm, blocking her. "Keh, what do you two wenches want with Kagome?"

Midori studied the hanyou, carefully. "You must not hear right. She disrespected us." She advances on the fear-stricken teen and her 'protector'. "And if I have to go through you to get to her, I will."

Inuyasha smirked and pulled out the Tetsusaiga. "Hell, I could use a little excitement. But you're just a human. Where's the challenge in that?"

Midori's eye twitched, the hanyou had touched a nerve, not knowing he'd soon regret it, very soon. She growled and rolled up her sleeves, Rendaku put a delicate hand on her sister's shoulder, firmly holding her back.

"Just a human… just a human! I'll let you know that I am the daughter of the hearth witch and prophesier Akemi and the highly ranked alchemist Daiki. I am not just a human, you pompous half-breed!"

Inuyasha's jaw dropped as the taller one finished her tirade, "Why you little-"

"Don't say 'bitch,' because from those ears I'm pretty sure that was your mother."

Crimson flooded his features as he sunk into his fighting stance. "Keh, You talk shit but can you fight?" he asked, sarcastically. "I ask because I want a worthy opponent for someone who disrespects my mother." As always, he acted fully on impulse, ignorant of the hurt it causes him time after time.

Before he could say anymore, Kagome having backed away, Midori tackled him to the ground and straddled his chest, her blade resting at his throat, right on top of his jugular. "You were saying, hanyou?"

He bucked her off of him and glared. "I normally don't fight girls to the point of death but for you I'll make an exception!"

Instantly, he was on the ground with a large gash across his chest, his shirt in pieces on the ground. Midori's blood-covered blade shone in the faint moonlight. She fingered her katana, lovingly. "You're really thick, aren't you?"

Inuyasha stuck Tetsusaiga in the dirt and used it to hold himself up, one of his eyes were closed and blood seeped through his bangs down his cheek, dripping onto the damp soil. "You're really serious, a serious pain in the ass!"

Midori and Inuyasha run toward each other at breakneck speed, both riled up. The sound of metal clanking against metal resounded through the entire forest. Inuyasha pushed hard against Midori's blade with both his hands but she effortlessly slammed him to the ground and slashed his cheek before jumping a couple of feet away. "And you're truly pathetic." She pouted, slightly, putting her sword away. " This is no fun if it's too easy." Inuyasha's pain-contorted face twitched with anger. He ran straight at Midori only to fall to the ground once again. "Like the taste of blood?" she wiped her fist on her kimono. "Or is it dirt you like so much?"

Inuyasha spat out soil and leaves as he tried to stand up, only to find out he couldn't. Midori smiled in satisfaction, but her victory was cut short by a mind-rattling scream. She looked around. Her sister was nowhere to be found.

"Renda?"

No answer.

"Rendaku?"

Sudden movements in the trees attracted her attention.

"Show yourself, Baka!" She yelled at the foliage half angry, half scared.

A handsome dog demon with striped cheeks jumped tree branch after tree branch, away from her. Midori screeched when she saw Rendaku struggling in his strong arms. She tried to run after them, only to lose sight of them as the tree branches blocked her view, like a living shield.

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"Put me down, you demon freak!" Rendaku fought against the man cradling her as he jumped through the dense trees with great ease. "I'll slash you in half, if you don't!" Her words fell on deaf ears as the Demon Lord ignored her petite fists pounding continuously, on his back. He seems absolutely amused at her plight, having been the cause of it. He smirks at her, which only enraged her, further. "Do everyone a favor and play dead, you stupid dog!"

He landed gracefully on a large tree branch and studied his captive. He raised a curious eyebrow at her. "Is that what you really think? Because your shaking says otherwise."

"You pig!" Rendaku kneed him hard in the chest but he doesn't even falter. "Ugh!" she studied him for a second before yelling. "I'll aim lower if you don't let go of me!"

"It's a good thing you hit like a girl." Her sick expression gave him pleasure.

She curled her fist, preparing to hit him when she heard the one thing that could make her heart skip. "RENDAKU!"

The tree shook as Midori climbed up the rough tree-bark to get to her sister. Rendaku looked down, shaking uncontrollably. "Sis!"

Her cries only distracted the ascending girl, and her body fell the thirty feet she had worked so hard to cover. Inuyasha, having followed her, caught her. "Unh!" The two toppled to the base of the tree. "You're heavy!"

"And you're an ass but we can't all be perfect. Now if you would put me down, I have to save my baby sister."

Inuyasha drops the ungrateful witch on her butt. She glares at him before looking back at the tree. Reaching into her sash, she pulls out a piece of twine and ties back her hair. Her hand quick as lightning, flip up the diminutive hem of her short kimono pulling out two daggers.

She turned back one last time, "Thank you." Inuyasha felt a warm feeling wash over his body and he found that he was no longer in pain from the earlier fight. He touched his face to find it smooth and without dripping blood.

"I'm coming, Renda!" She stabbed a dagger high into the tree and pulled her body up. She did the same with the second one, beginning the steady climb to her younger sister and her captor.

Sesshomaru didn't even seem bothered by Midori's approach; in fact he lowered himself and Rendaku a branch, making the enraged Midori growl. Rendaku struggled in his arms and managed to slip, slightly. Before Sesshomaru could get a tighter hold on her Midori yanked his foot, sending the three of them tumbling to the ground. Securely holding his casualty in place, he attacked Midori with his Poison Whip, forcing her to back away instead of advancing. "Damn you, demon."

He smirked at her and started to walk away. As he turned around, Rendaku struck him hard him his chest, breaking the armor. "Why you-"

Before he could finish, Midori pushed her sister aside and launched into a relentless pummeling of the Demon Lord. He struggled and even he had to use his demon speed and quick attack to make her back off.

His hair was soled with blood and his speed had diminished. She studied him, amused. "Truly, this can't be the Great Demon Lord, Sesshomaru, could it?"

His hand fell to Tokijin. A slight growl in his throat. "I'm just biding my time until that potion of yours wears out. Which would be in 3, 2..."

He smirks as Cece sinks to the ground, clutching her stomach. He was so preoccupied with watching the young witch he didn't sense Rendaku behind him until it was too late. Rendaku had him against the cold earth, Tokijin landing a few feet away from them. "No one hurts my sister." She hisses, her wavering hand hovering above his throat.

"Renda, not now!" Midori slowly rises from the ground. "The battle is done here, lets go." Rendaku wavers still. "Lets go!"

Rendaku's eye twitched as she dismounted Sesshomaru and put her blade away. "She's right. You're not worth it." She starts to walk toward her sister when Sesshomaru grabbed her arm. "Hey, you mind letting go?" Instead, he tightened his grip. She studied his face for any emotion, finding none she smirked at him before she sideswiped him and he released her. "Like it your way, Baka?"

Midori quickly grabbed her sister's hand. "I no longer have the energy to fight my battles, let alone yours. Lets go!"

Rendaku growls before turning back to the demon. "This isn't over."

Before the Demon Lord nor his hanyou brother could do anything the two girls disappeared into the forest.

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For the last couple of weeks, Rendaku had been sneaking out of the house, the night world calling to her. 'I love the dark.' She smirked to herself as she slid down the hill leading to her dwelling. In a stealthy way, completely natural to her manner, she picked through the trees until she came upon a shore. Sitting on one of the high-perched rocks, she swung her feet just above the salty brine.

Staring up at the placid sky, she sighed. Her aura fraught with yearning. 'What am I doing here? And for what reas-'

The slightest of noises caught her attention. Not the brush of the waves against the shore or her own misery but the presence of another. She didn't even turn around. "Back again?" A deep voice made her grit her teeth.

"I'm not supposed to be here, nor can I fight you, so do with me what you will." She doesn't move, as if signify nonresistance.

Sesshomaru steps out of the shadows. "I'm only here to observe. I intended no harm to you, human."

"Shut up. And it's Ms. Rendaku to you, demon." She crosses her arms, annoyed. "Besides, I've known you've been watching me. My question is why?"

"For some odd reason, you interest me." His blank eyes focus on her.

"Has to be odd, if it concerns me. You must be out of your mind." Rendaku shrugs it off; she can feel his body tensing, which makes her smirk. "Further more, you-"

"RENDAKU, DAUGHTER OF DAIKI AND AKEMI!" Rendaku flinches as she feels her sister's hand grip her hair she came out of nowhere. "What are you DOING!"

Rendaku flips her sister off her of her. "Snuck off, like I can handle your massively horrendous snoring, dear sister."

Midori's eye twitches, she's about to say something when she notices Sesshomaru, watching them, intently. Midori's kitanas come out in a heartbeat. "What is he doing here?" Her voice was almost painful.

"I'd say, silent company or stalking but why not ask him yourself?" Rendaku smirks at her sister's angered face.

Sesshomaru looks between them. "My normal voyage is to hunt down Naraku but yes I was watching Ms. Rendaku." Midori growls at him, both tense and uncertain of what will have next neither seemed to notice Rendaku flinch at the mention of 'Naraku.'

They circle each other but only Midori was out for blood, Sesshomaru was simply biding time. Rustling form the forest edge caught their attention and both turned just in time to see Inuyasha burst from the trees. "Sesshomaru! How dare you-"

His face goes blank at the scene before him; before he could react Midori had him on the ground. "Stay out of this half demon, it does not concern you in the least."

Laughter from behind her catches her immediate attention. "And what may I ask is so dam n funny?" She hissed.

Rendaku smiled. "I'm obviously the smart one of the family if you cannot see they mean us not harm. And if they did then we can kill them."

Sighing, Midori reluctantly rises and holds out her hand to Inuyasha. "I guess I see your point."

Inuyasha refuses her hands, scoffing up at her. "I don't need your help, I don't need anything from you."

Rendaku calmly walks over before swatting him in the back of the head. "I just saved your ass, the least you could do is be polite, or is that a physiological deformity on your part?"

His eye twitches lips start to form a retort but Sesshomaru's smirk throws him off. "She's right, you know."

Everyone blinks up at him, surprised. Rendaku is the first to recover, she saunters over to him and leaning up presses a light kiss into his cheek. "I'll take it you're the smart one of the two?" she asked, referring to himself and Inuyasha. He simply nods at her, surprised by her action.

"Renda?" Midori face is pale as moon as she studies her sister. She seems to completely forget about the presence of the Demon Lord and the hanyou as she runs over to her sister. "Sis?"

"Hmm?" Rendaku gives her sister a completely innocent look, but it doesn't fool her for a second. Midori's hand flies to her sister's face and stains it slightly. "You-!" But before Rendaku could finish her insult Midori had already disappeared. "Damn her…"

The brothers stare at the odd scene before them. Inuyasha's is first to break the silence. "Hey, did we get you in trouble or something?"

She pouts at him. "My name's not 'hey', its Rendaku. And no, that's her way of 'claming' to love me." Rendaku rubs her cheek softly. "I think she may love me too much."

Sesshomaru shakes his head when Inuyasha scoffs at the girl. "This Sesshomaru is annoyed to be related to you."

"Yea, well you're no picnic either!" Inuyasha retorts back. He turns when he hears noise behind him seeing Rendaku's retreating back. "Hey, where are you going?" He gets no reply, sighing he corrects himself. "Rendaku, where are you headed?"

She stops only to answer him. "If you two idiots are going to argue then I've no business here. I came here for peace."

Sesshomaru glares at Inuyasha before using his demon speed, getting in front of her. "If we stop, you'll stay?"

Cocking an eyebrow, she slowly gives him her answer. "Yes, but you care why?"

"I don't know. You're just very interesting." He studies her, making her flinch.

"You always this weird or am I just lucky? Because-"

Inuyasha's gruff voice sliced into heir conversation. "Hey, girl! Why'd you kiss my brother? You like him or something?"

Rendaku flinches. "What the fuck did you just say!" She turns on him, and he realizes that wasn't the best thing to state.

"Uh….you like Sesshomaru?" He barely mouths it.

"Oh, that? Yea, I like him. But you're brothers? God, me and Midori at least get along sometimes." She scoffs at them, they exchange looks before gawking at her.

She taps her foot. "Excuse me but I don't like those looks."

"How else are we supposed to look at you. You're so…" Inuyasha fails to finish his sentence at the searing gaze Rendaku sends him.

"What? Short? Temperamental? Strange?" her eyes flicker from hurt to anger.

"No, I was gonna say smart…and…." Inuyasha recoils.

"And what!" Rendaku yells at the poor hanyou, losing patience.

"I think he likes your pretty ass back, Renda."

(A/N: Ok ok. For starters? Hiya! Um, ½ cred goes to my sis, Fresgal. Cuz like hell I could write this on my own. This chappy and the ones to follow will be 'Blessed by the Freshgal touch.' Enjoy, love hate flame, fuck peaz.. InaShioriInuyashazgurl)