Trudging through the forest at an almost leisurely pace, Inuyasha had examined the remains of a tree torn down by an oni of some kind. And was on his way back to his what had Kagome called it? Yeah, his 'family', personally he thought that it was a fancier word for 'pack' but he didn't want to bother to find out why humans had to complicate things sometimes. He'd never understand most of them, let alone his own humanity. Whatever, he was going to head back to Kagome and see if he could manage to get down her pants again. He got a huge grin on his face at that thought.

He remembered the first time all too well, when he finally got to claim what he had considered his for the past three years. Hell, it was only about a week ago now, he wouldn't forget it anytime soon. All he wanted to do was add some happy memories on top of that one… And he was damn well going to try. Nothing could stop him now…

Aside from maybe that… He took one last whiff of the air to confirm and stopped his slow footsteps and pivoted around to face one of the last people he wanted to see.

"Sesshoumaru. The fuck do you want?"

Now even though they were blood related, they didn't exactly connect oh so well as anyone could tell. Inuyasha had a certain respect for him. (Although nobody would ever hear him say that out loud.) But that didn't mean he was going to be nice to him.

"Ah, ever vulgar mouth do we have Inuyasha? Is that anyway to greet your brother?" Sesshoumaru still had the ever-annoying monotone voice.

Inuyasha let out a 'keh' at that one. "Not related by choice asshole. Once again, what the fuck do you want?"

Probably the last thing Inuyasha expected his brother to say came as the reply. "I've come to ask for your help." Inuyasha almost let a surprised look escape onto his face, but he recovered quickly. And came back with the usual reply: "Keh, like I'd ever give you help even if you really needed it, stop wasting my damn time." He turned around and started walking again.

" I wasn't joking brother." Sesshoumaru stated. Once again Inuyasha paused and turned around. He studied Sesshoumaru's face. It betrayed nothing, as usual. "Whatever." He turned once again and continued on his journey. It didn't concern him, and he wasn't going to let his brother waste any more of his time.

Yet, a few hours later, with Kagome tucked and sleeping against his naked chest after they'd finished their 'activities'. Inuyasha sat staring at the ceiling of Kagome's bedroom thinking about – of all people- Sesshoumaru. His brother might be a dickhead, but as far as Inuyasha knew he wasn't one to lie. So armed with that knowledge, he had no choice but to believe him. And to see what he wanted he would have to run all the way to Sesshoumaru's castle. Looked like he had another long journey in front of him.

"Goddamit"

So here he was, still staring at the ceiling. He could probably tell Kagome more about this ceiling by now then she would even want to know. He was too preoccupied with trying to remember just how to get to Sesshoumaru's castle. Now even though his title was 'Lord of the Western Lands' His control actually spread far in mostly every direction. So the castle his spent to the most time at was, in actuality, north of them. You'd think that to befit his title he'd have his main castle in the west. But no, he was too big of a dumb ass Inuyasha thought with a scoff.

Anyway off of the task of thinking about his asshole of a brother, he instead thought about if he should just sneak out now and get whatever Sesshoumaru wanted done and over with so he could come back faster. Kagome would most likely disapprove, and scold him to the next moon if he left without her, but he was her mate. She had to listen whether she wanted to or not.

"Not a chance in hell Inuyasha." Kagome said sternly.

Should have seen this coming… Inuyasha thought with a small keh. It was the next morning and Kagome wasn't taking well to his plan

"Too damn bad wench. I'm going to go alone whether you like it or not." He said just as sternly

And just like he thought she would, Kagome went off into a rant of sorts on reasons why she was going to go. He ignored all of them until one caught his ear.

" We'll have more time to be alone."

And like magic, all thoughts he had set against her going flew out the window. And trying to act indifferent to what she had said he scoffed, followed by: "Fine, whatever wench. Just get off my damn back will ya?"

Kagome knew which line of her 'rant' had changed his mind, as she had a clairvoyant smile on her face as if she knew he would give in right then."

Inuyasha saw the smile on her face, knew that he had been tricked, and muttered under his breath. "Sneaky wench." Kagome heard it however, and laughed aloud at it.

But just to prove the fact she had won, she said to him: "we should bring Sango and the other though."

Inuyasha wasted no time in shooting that one down. "Now there's something that isn't going to happen." Smirking at a thought that just skittered across his mind. "This time it's just you, me, and whatever kinky thing we can think of on the way."

Kagome chuckled at that.

"Seriously dog-boy, you make it too easy to guess what's on your mind."

"Now that I've had a taste of what your time calls 'sex' that's what's always on my mind." He snickered. "Now that you know, don't question me when I try to take you away from everybody else…"

Kagome laughed at that too.

"Well, I'm off to get ready then, and to do that I need to take shower. So get out." She told him.

"But, I could take one with you…imagine how much better it would be if there was water everywhere." His face took on a leer.

"Your hopeless." She said as she headed towards the door of her bathroom. " You can use the other bathroom to wash yourself up. You need it." She said with a laugh as she shut the door.

Inuyasha tried not to actually check if she was right, but instead took her word for it, and headed for the other side of the room.

He wasn't too fond on the clothes from Kagome's time. But it was either that or go naked. Seeing as how her mother had been nice enough to wash his haori, while that was great and all he had also been left with nothing to wear. So he took some of the clothing out of a spare drawer on Kagome's dresser. Kagome had forced him to go with her to get these, so he might as well use them every once in awhile. And aside from that, he knew that Kagome ogled him whenever he was wearing these. So it was worth it.

He headed out her door into the hallway aiming for the other bathroom.

A/N This is what I've been dedicating my time in school too for a while. So I figured I'd put it onto the Internet.