Chapter 1 The Spell

Kagome and the others watched the two brothers fight once again. They were tired of this. Almost every day since Sesshomaru had joined their group, they have been fighting. First it was verbal, now physical.

Sesshomaru had stopped his quest to gain Tetsusaiga and had stopped calling Inuyasha a worthless half breed, but because of Inuyasha's stupidity, the two always ended up fighting, even for little things.

This became a normal routine for everyone, even little Rin had gotten use to the battles and Inuyasha's foul mouth. Rin sat in Kagome's lap, looking bored than Sesshomaru would on a daily basis. They were all tired of it. It was just too old now.

Kagome and Rin even tried to stop the fights many times until they finally realized it would be useless. The two would stop for nothing. No one could even remember what started the fight this time.

Shippo lay his head against a curled up Kilala as he watched the fight. Even he was bored out of his mind as he play with the loose blades of grass in his little paws.

Laying her head on Kagome's shoulder, Sango said, "Wake me up when they're done."

"Ok." Was all Kagome said. She too was getting tired, not just from watching the brothers fight, but because Inuyasha had forced them to walk for three days straight without rest.

"Give it up already would ya. We're tired here!" Kagome shouted at the brothers.

"Shut it wench!" Inuyasha growled as he continued to fight Sesshomaru. Giving up, she rest her head on Sango's and fell asleep herself. Though still cautious incase of danger. So far all she could tell was the fight hadn't ended and Sango was keeping her senses open incase Miroku's cursed hand was going to wonder. Like she knew he would do, she could sense his hand slowly reaching for her.

"Move it or lose it monk." Knowing how bad of a beating he would almost normally get for his action, Miroku did as he was told. But he wasn't going to give up. When she least expects it, he will aim for his prey. As for now he would be a good monk.

He has to stay awake to protect his sleeping companions. Ah-Un came up behind him and nudged his head against Miroku's shoulder, telling him that he would look after the others so he could rest.

Traveling with Rin had helped the dragon learn everything and anything about humans. He knew humans need their sleep in order to stay energized and aware incase of battle. Because of the Hanyou's actions, his pack was worn out. Excepting the two headed dragon's offer, Miroku fell asleep against Ah-Un's warm scales.

The song the swords made once in contact rang louder every time.

"Give up yet little brother?"

"Not a chance ice prick. You're goin' down."

"As if you could defeat me half breed."

"Wanna bet smart ass." At this point they were touching noses as their growls grew louder, trying to over rule the other. They always thought they could bring the other down but they always failed to notice they were equal in strength and in every way.

They had more in common than they realize, even the similarities they inherited from their father other than their swords and appearance. For one, they would do anything to protect their pack, they were more compassionate then they appeared to be and the most obvious sign is they both have taken a liking to a human girl like their father did.

They were busy annoying each other that they didn't realize a threat to their pack was close.

Noriko, a dark and selfish witch was traveling to find shards of the shikon jewel, had sensed many jewels ahead of her. Smiling evilly, she crept up behind the trees and watched the fight. Seeing that the Taiyoukai and Hanyou were busy with their own quarrels, she took that opportunity to snatch the shards from the sleeping woman.

Kagome had completely fallen asleep and lost her focus on hearing everything outside her dream world that she didn't sense the witch spring into the air and land in front of her.

Ah-Un on the other hand had saw the whole thing. He sprung to his feet and growled at her, waking everyone up and getting the brothers' attention. Kagome's eyes snapped wide open to the sound of the dragon's warning and was face to face with the young witch. Instantly finding her clawed hand reaching for the flask of shards around her neck, she grabbed a near by arrow to stab her with, only to miss as the witch jumped back and ready herself for the ambush the girl's friends were about to do.

Like Inuyasha, Noriko would be in action before thinking. She would cast random spells at the enemies in hopes of getting away without a scatch. It was foolish but helpful at times. She dodged all their attacks and sprung into the air, holding out her staff of shadow. Again without thinking of a certain spell, she sent a light of red rushing towards Kagome in hopes of what ever spell she had cast would grab the shards to make this easier.

In a flash, Sesshomaru shielded Kagome, his arms wrapped tightly around her small form and took the hit for her. It took a bit of time for the red light to dim and instead of a dead Taiyoukai, there was a five year old child Sesshomaru starring up at Kagome, his arms still around her, looking confused. Disapointed, Noriko flew off as she yelled over her shoulder, "He is you problem now."

Of course she couldn't stay there, she had no clue how to reverse that particular spell.