Disclamer: I do regrettably do not own any of the Inuyasha characters.
Chapter one: The surprise.
Kagome went into the building and layed down on the floor. She closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep. Inuyasha went looking for Kagome and he followed her scent into a hut. He went into the hut and found Kagome laying on the floor.
He could see that her eyes were closed he whispered, "Kagome?"
But no answer followed. He went over to her and saw that she was asleep. He laid on the floor next to her and he brushed her hair out of her face and softly he caressed her cheek while being mindfull of his sharp claws. To his surprise Kagome turned into his arms and withcuddled up to his chest. He put his arms around her back and hugged her to his body. While Kagome slept Inuyasha closed his eyes and allowed himself a few hours of sleep. He wasn't sure whether he should or not because they weren't in her time they were in his and there were demons here unlike where she the present day she was used to. But he figured it would be ok so he went to sleep with Kagome in his arms.
Inuyasha smelled a demon enter the hut. He didn't recognize it. Or at least not that he noticed he didn't recognize it. The onlything he could think of was he had to protect Kagome. He opened his eyes slightly and all the demon saw was red and teal. Tetsuiaga was against the wall near the door so when his instincts to protect Kagome hit he turned into a full demon. The demon walked toward them and was about to kneel on the floor next to them and Inuyasha sprang on him and Kagome opened her eyes and let out a scream.
Kagome grabbed ahold of Inuyasha and pulled him off. Inuyasha turned around and grabbed Kagome by the throat and growled.
Kagome strained to say, "Inuyasha its ok. He's not going to hurt us. Please you have to calm down."
Inuyasha was still holding her when Sesshoumaru got up and grabbed ahold of Inuyasha's arm and said, "Inuyasha you are going to kill her if you don't let her go alright. I am not the one who is going to hurt her its you Inuyasha. You are going to kill her if you don't let her go. She can't breath with you holding her by her throat."
Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru with frightened eyes and then tried to take another breath and found she couldn't. Sesshoumaru saw the panic in her eyes and then her eyes closed.
Sesshoumaru clenched his fist and swung at Inuyasha and knocked him into the wall.
He got up and said, "Why did you do that Sesshoumaru?"
He looked and saw him kneeling on the ground with his hand on Kagome's cheek. Inuyasha crawled over to them and saaw the claw marks on her neck.
He said, "What happened to her? She was fine before I was over there."
Sesshoumaru told him what happened and said, "This is your fault Inuyasha all you had to do was wait for me to say something but no you had to attack me and when she tried to make you quit you attacked her."
Inuyasha looked at Kagome and saw that she wasn't waking up.
Sesshoumaru said, "Go get some water Inuyasha ok."
Inuyasha looked from Sesshoumaru to Kagome and back to Sesshoumaru who put a hand on his little brother's cheek and said, "I will be ok she will be awake when you come back ok. But she will need water when she comes to alright. So I need you to go get some water for her to drink."
Inuyasha left to go get some water and Sesshoumaru waited until he left to bend down and put his mouth on hers. when he lifted off her she coughed and opened her eyes.
All she saw was Sesshoumaru who lifted her into his arms and said, "Its ok now. Inuyasha is back to his old self ok. He will be back with some water in a little while ok."
Kagome's voice sounded really bad when she said, "Oh Sesshoumaru I was so scared."
She was crying when Inuyasha came back with the water and Sesshoumaru gave him a sign that said wait a minute. So he waited until Kagome was able to sit up on her own and then he went over to them and the minute she saw him she moved away from him like a frightened animal in fact the smell of her fear because of him hurt him so much he actually let some tears fall from his eyes down his cheeks though he hid them from Sesshoumaru so he didn't think any less of him for showing a human emotion.
Inuyasha went over to Kagome and put the water of the ground and pushed it with his nose over to Kagome. she kept trying to make herself melt into the wall but couldn't do it. Inuyasha managed to get the water over to her without her being to affraid of him but after she took the water Inuaysha went toward her. Kagome froze halfway through drinking the water and he could tell hse was really scared of him so he knew a way for her to allow him to come near her. Inuyasha knew this way was a total embarrasement but it was all he had right now.
Inuyasha let out this low whining sound as he lowered himself almost to the floor and put his head on her lap this Sesshoumaru noticed made the smell of fear almost unbearable to even his nose. He said, "Inuyasha leave her alone already ok. You are scaring her even more or can't you smell that." Inuyasha continued the whining only making it grow louder and then to Sesshoumaru's surprised Kagome put the water down and slowly began to reach for Inuyasha's ears. Sesshoumaru thought Inuyasha will never allow someone to touch his ears not even her. In fact there is only one person who has been able to ever touch his ears and that was his mother. Even I can't touch them and I am closer than anyone to him. Or at least blood wise I am. But to Sesshoumaru's surprise Inuyasha began to nuzzle her leg so she would scratch his ears like a mangy mutt. Sesshoumaru had seen a dog do this to his master once before in a village he had wandered throught once while on patrol and he thought Now I know Inuyasha is trying to get her to trust him again but to degrate himself fo far is not even funny. He's acting like a common house dog not a young prince at all.
Kagome scratched Inuyasha's ears and he leaned into it and whined even more. Sesshoumaru watched as Inuyasha rolled over on his back. He thought WHAT ON EARTH DOES HE THINK HE IS DOING? IF ANYONE SAW THIS THEY WOULD LAUGH THEMSELVES TO DEATH AND IT WOULD BRING DISGRACE TO OUR WHOLE FAMILY. WHAT WOULD FATHER SAY IF HE KNEW INUYASHA WAS ACTING LIKE A COMMON MUTT. Inuyasha had rolled onto his back and put his legs and arms into a normal begging stance and Kagome started to scratch his stomach and then to everyone's surprise
Kagome wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's neck and cried. Inuyasha uncurled himself and put his arms around her while she was above him and said, "I am so sorry Kagome I never ment to hurt you I promise you I will never hurt you again ok. I promise you with my life if I ever hurt you again in anyway you can kill me yourself ok because I will never fogive myself if anything happened to you becasue of me."
Kagome said, "Its ok Inuyasha you weren't yourself ok. I should have known if you attacked your brother that you weren't yourself and I never should have grabbed you by your neck when you were like that I am sorry it was my own stupid fault."
He said, "Your not stupid and it was still no excuse for me not to listen to you when you said it was alright. Can you ever forgive me for this?"
She hugged him tighter and heard the growl escape his lips and knew that she had gone too far.
She loosened her grip and said, "Yeah its ok I forgive you."
She let him go completely and got up and walked out of the hut to be alone.
Inuyasha got up and looked at Sesshoumaru.
He said, "What are you looking at?"
Sesshouamru said, "What are you doing? Letting that human filth touch your ears like that and treat you like a common house dog. You are part Dog demon live and act like it quit apologizing for things that are not your fault. And quit acting like a common house mutt."
He got up and Inuyasha said, "For your information Sesshoumaru the only reason I let Kagome touch my ears is because it calms her down alright. I allow her to do it ok in fact I love it when she does. I love the feeling of it. I act like a common mutt as you call it so she will trust me again. I love letting her feel safe when with me ok. Because I love her whether you accept it or not. She accepts me for who and what I am and thats alot more than I can say for you."
Sesshoumaru was faceing the doorway when he said, "I am sorry Inuyasha that you feel that way. I am sorry that I was such a horrible brother to you all these years. I was furious with father for allowing my mother to be killed while off with you and your mother. I was never mad with you at all I just couldn't stand that fact that father loved you more than me and I was the first born and the one who was to follow in his foot steps. That was all Inuyasha and I am sorry that I treated you the way I did I never ment to make you hate me really I didn't. I am so sorry about the way I have acted. I hope that in the future you can find it in your heart to forgive me but until then I hope you are happy with your life and I will nolonger bother you if that is what you wish of me."
Inuyasha couldn't believe his ears was the Great Sesshoumaru appoligizing to him. Inuyasha then took a quick sniff to see if it was in fact his older brother only to find that it was and that he could smell tears comming from him.
Inuyasha walked over to him and put his hand on Sesshoumaru's shoulder and said, "Sesshoumaru do I hurt you that much?"
Sesshoumaru didn't look at him.
He just said, "I know we are family and I know you hate me for everything I did to you. But Inuyasha you are my little brother the only family I have left. I really want you to forgive me and try and find a way to love me again like you used to but I know I have a long way to go in order to get that again. I just hope you can find a way to do it."
Sesshoumaru went to leave when he heard people come in through the other entrance. Both he and Inuyasha had heard them and they had heard everything that they had said.
Inuyasha at that moment didn't care who heard him. He got infront of Sesshoumaru and saw that his brother was actually crying this was something that Sesshoumaru was uncapable of doing. He wasn't capable of showing emotions or was he. Inuyasha cupped Sesshoumaru's face in his hands and wipped away the tears even as fresh ones hit his thumbs.
He said, "Sesshoumaru I don't care anymore alright. You know that you are my brother no matter what ok. That comes before everything else ok. No one can ever change that ok not even death itself can take that from us. No matter how we act it will never change the fact that the same blood runs through these veins ok. I will never allow any harm to come to you as long as there is breath in this body to protect you and I know the same can be said of you ok. I know you think the same. Now come on lets get out of here ok. We will come back later and try and fix everything ok."
Sesshoumaru gave him a small smile and nodded his head and they left the hut toward the forest.
Inuyasha heard the birds singing around him and saw the bright light that was the sun shining in his eyes. He sat up and looked around and noticed that he was in the forest. He felt someone move behind him so he looked thinking it was Kagome and found Sesshoumaru was lying there on the ground next to him. He touched Sesshoumaru's shoulder and he sat up straight.
Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha and then looked at the ground. Inuyasha went over to him and said, "Sesshoumaru are you ok now?"
Sesshoumaru said, "Yeah I am. I shoould get back to my castle soon. Rin will be worrying about me if I am not there soon."
Sesshoumaru was about to leave when Inuyasha jumped him.
Sesshoumaru threw him off and said, "What are you doing? Even I know you don't want me around here so why are you stopping me from leaving. Go back to your mate and your pack alright."
He was leaving when he heard this really pittiful and saddening whine coming from Inuyasha. He turned to see him still lying on the ground but he didn't look like he was going to get up. Sesshoumaru waited and watched Inuyasha for a while then went over to him.
Sesshoumaru knelt down next to Inuyasha and saw that he wasn't even awake. He couldn't believe that he had knocked his brother out then he smelled the other demon near by. Sesshoumaru looked around and saw Naraku just in time. Then all he saw was darkness.