Kagome awoke from her rather irritable sleep in the tent her and the gang had been sharing to sit up and do nothing other than be bored. 'Ugh... why can't I fall asleep!' she thought angrily to herself. Sigh She figured some food would do the trick, she was rather hungry. So, in an attempt to cure her insomnia, she reached over to her dark hole of a backpack to see what sort of remedies it may provide.

"Hmm .Now let me see-" she unzipped the main compartment and started rummaging through a mass of female accessories, and, to her dismay, found nothing of edibility. "No...No...Dang it!" She grumbled as she continued to search for some type of food. "Didn't I pack any kind of-" She was cut off by the voice of a grumbling hanyou, who looked rather sick while he slept. Inuyasha tossed and turned in his corner of the tent, every now and then showing his youkai features slightly.

She noticed that he was without a doubt having a nightmare, seeing how he was talking in his sleep as he tossed and turned. "Ugh. Curse it. N, no. Uhhh." he mumbled, in the middle of a dream. Kagome looked over at Inuyasha, even though she knew she could probably do nothing to help him, but oh well. She felt sorry for him; he had been acting rather strange lately and she had no idea why. "He must be dreaming," she said to herself. ".Probably about Kikyo." She spoke with a frown, much to her disappointment. That disappointment however was soon to be shattered as she heard the hanyou's next few words, and all the while he tossed and turned.

"Kag. Ka. Kagome... don't...doh, mmm." Kagome blushed slightly, imagining what it exactly is that youkai dream about. 'What the? He's dreaming about me!' The young miko's mind wandered off to gutter land as some more or less pleasing thoughts came to her head. 'What could he possibly... No way. I, no way. He doesn't.' Kagome sat thinking to herself trying to get her mind out of the gutter; when suddenly all silence was broken as Inuyasha awoke full youkai and in a rage, eyes red aglow.

"STAY AWAY FROM Kagome YOU PATHETIC LITTLE PUP!" He screamed at the top of his lungs as everyone instantly sat up at the alarming noise. Miroku, who stood up and grabbed his staff, was the first to say anything. "Inuyasha, what's wrong! What happened to Kagome;" he asked alarmingly as his eyes searched the room for the young miko. "What the," he said in realization as he noticed that Kagome was just fine. "She's right there! What are you screaming about!"

Inuyasha stood in the middle of the tent, full youkai and breathing really hard; all the while spinning around cracking his claws as if to look for an attacker. The others tried to calm him down, but to no avail. Miroku however made a second attempt. "Inuyasha, what are you screaming about?" Inuyasha spun around at lightning speed in Miroku's direction, quickly looking all over the tent and beginning to get even angrier. "WHERE IS Sesshomaru!" He demanded, confusing an already confused monk. Miroku thought for a moment, and came to the conclusion that Inuyasha simply had a mere night terror.

"Inuyasha, calm yourself. Sesshomaru is not here; you were just having a bad dream. Inuyasha could feel his body getting hot. His desires and instincts almost completely took over him; when luckily Kagome tried her hand at calming down the enraged youkai. She did her best to walk over to him, in the not so big tent they were staying in, and spoke. "Inuyasha; SIT." Thud

Inuyasha looked up from his spot on the ground, where of he had just recently been sat via a young archer in training named Kagome. "Hey what the heck, whench! Would you stop with that already!" he said obviously quite annoyed. Kagome looked at Inuyasha rather angrily. "Hmph! You've certainly got a lot of nerve! If I hadn't sat you we all very well may have been dead! You know that!" she reasoned. "Now if you don't mind, would you please explain to us what was going on? And, what were you screaming my name for! You've sure got some talking to do!"

Inuyasha 'keh'd' and looked over his shoulder, the way he always does when he doesn't want to talk to Kagome. He thought for a moment whether or not to tell her what his dream was about, and came to the conclusion that it was none of her business. "Never mind, it was just a dream. That's all. Go back to sleep." He said, quite obviously not giving the whole answer.

But, for some reason, even Inuyasha knew that Kagome wasn't going to accept that as an explanation; and of course, she didn't. "Oh, so you think that we're just going to forget about it like that huh? Well, even if I cared to know the reason why you sounded so mad, which I don't, I think we have a right to know why you just woke us up like that."

Miroku added to the argument, which he already sided with Kagome on. "Yes Inuyasha, I agree with Kagome. We do have a right to know why you woke us up in the middle of the night." Inuyasha stood up, and turned around; surprising the others. However, Sango called out to him before he decided to make another move.

"Hold, Inuyasha! What do you think you're doing!" Inuyasha made no movement. He just sniffed around, as if to look for a specific scent; all the while becoming annoyed at his allies' constant bickering. "Would you guys stop yappin' at me for a minute! I said forget about it." However the hanyou could tell that, yet again, they did not accept his choice of phrase. But he didn't care; there was an odd scent in the air and it was beginning to smell a lot like Sesshomaru.

Kagome however became annoyed at the fact that Inuyasha was completely ignoring them in their demands for what he was so mad about. "Inuyasha, what are you doing?" The silver haired hanyou, who once again completely ignored Kagome, turned towards Shippo.

"Hey, brat, you smell that?" Shippo looked up at Inuyasha who suddenly sounded a lot more serious than before. Miroku suddenly became a little more serious as well; when he heard a phrase similar to 'do you smell that'. Whenever Inuyasha smelled something peculiar, it always meant trouble.

"What do you smell, Inuyasha?" he asked in an alert, concerned voice; which was replied to by an even more serious voice of a hanyou who knew that danger was now quite possible. "It's Sesshomaru." He said quite seriously. Everyone's hearts skipped a beat as Inuyasha spoke to them the absolute truth. Miroku wanted to be certain though.
"Are you sure, Inuyasha?" who was responded to by a nod. He then turned to Shippo. "Shippo, do you detect the scent of Sesshomaru as well?" Shippo looked up Miroku. "Yes, I'm positive." He said in assurance. Everyone quickly made up their minds as their instincts began to make their moves. Inuyasha grabbed Tetsusaiga and bolted out the door, who was followed by Kagome whom grabbed her bow and quiver, after which of course was followed by Sango, Miroku, Kirara, and Shippo.

They all began to run out towards the scent, or at least they followed Inuyasha who knew where the scent was. While they ran, Kagome decided to let go whatever it was that Inuyasha was so mad about and talk to him later. He'd tell her. Or at least she hoped he'd tell her. In any case, just about the only logical thing to do now was to follow Inuyasha and the others to where ever it was that Sesshomaru supposedly was.

Inuyasha ran at about one twentieth of his top speed, as to allow Kirara keep up with him. (Who was carrying Miroku and Sango, not to mention a rather tiny kitsune on her back.) They had just begun to accelerate when Kagome ran out of breath, and called out to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha! Wait! Don't leave me back here!"

Inuyasha stopped and turned to Kirara and motioned for her to continue on while he grabbed Kagome. After a short exchange of growls in an unknown tongue, Inuyasha leapt in the opposite direction to Kagome's side and bent down for her so she could fall on his back. He became annoyed. "Oi, Kagome. Why didn't you tell me you were tired? I would have carried you from the start y'know."

Kagome felt a bit angry, but then looked at Inuyasha and remembered that he was unaware that she was having a hard time sleeping that night. "Sorry," she managed to say in an extremely tired voice as she literally fell out cold on Inuyasha's back. Inuyasha was about to respond to her unnecessary apology, when he detected that her scent became so gentle that she must have been asleep. A 'feh' was heard as Inuyasha darted off towards Kirara and the others while making sure to hold on tight to Kagome; due to her being asleep.

On the way he thought to himself. 'I wonder if I made her so mad that she got tired? Oh, great.' He continued to think of other such reasons to himself which he later decided were all incorrect and unimportant; he knew Kagome too well. But in the current situation, it didn't matter. Because he no longer could see Kirara and the others, plus Sesshomaru's scent became even stronger. All he could do now was run head-on into battle.

Eventually Inuyasha caught up to Kirara and the others, and began to speed up even after he matched Kirara's speed. Inuyasha came to the conclusion that there was no reason to endanger the others, especially knowing that he very well may transform into his full youkai form during his well prepared fight with his older brother. He looked back at them and gave a warning.

"Kirara, you keep the others as far away from the battle as possible. I don't want anyone to get hurt in our fight." Kirara growled in agreement, but Miroku and Sango had some other things to say. Miroku was the first to protest. "Inuyasha, do you think it not foolish as to leave your allies in combat behind when you yourself may not be able to defeat Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha simply continued to run, ignoring the monk's logical argument. Miroku called out once more, this time sounding more commanding than as to ask.

"Well, I do not care to your opinion on the matter. You are quite obviously simply angry about our recent quarrel." Inuyasha came to a sudden stop, not even slightly bothering Kagome in her sleep. He turned around, and Kirara got close to him to stop as well. Inuyasha looked at Miroku. "Listen you lecherous poor excuse for a monk; I'm about to fight Sesshomaru, remember?" Inuyasha spoke as if to tell Miroku to recall something.

And when the priest did not respond, due to confusion, he asked of Inuyasha's reasoning. "What do you mean, Inuyasha? Since when did battling your brother become something out of the ordinary?" An irritated hanyou looked Miroku straight in the eye; and emphasized what he meant. "You dope. Don't you remember the last time I fought Sesshomaru?"

Something finally 'clicked' inside of Miroku's memory. And he said something, which was probably not the best thing to say, but hey, Miroku's an idiot! "Oh! You mean you do not wish to be defeated in front of Kagome like before!" Inuyasha could feel his blood beginning to boil, and Miroku, being the moron that he is, continued to add to his thought. "Like that time where-" He was cut off by a rather irritable hanyou's fist connecting to his skull.

A lump formed on Miroku's head as he began to ask why he had been struck. "Inuyasha, I trust you have a good reason for hitting me just now." He said sounding rather annoyed. Shippo and Sango however where chuckling to themselves on Kirara's back; for they understood Inuyasha's reasoning.

Miroku turned to Sango, and began to speak to her instead of Inuyasha. "Lady Sango, surely there is something of knowledge that you have acquired and I have missed?" Sango stopped chuckling and got off Kirara. She looked at him for a moment, and decided that he really didn't know what Inuyasha was talking about. So she explained it to him. "Miroku, I see you have failed to recall Inuyasha's most previous battle with Sesshomaru." She began. "Sesshomaru seemed to make it clear that he wanted to see Inuyasha transform, and that is probably what he will do this time if our guess is correct."

Miroku gazed at Sango, even more so indicating his stupidity. My apologies, Lady Sango. Did you speak just now?" He had made the mistake of thinking lecherous thoughts while observing Sango instead of listening to her words of wisdom. Which really seemed to make Sango mad. She grabbed Hiraikotsu and smashed him in the head, (putting him out cold) and looked at Inuyasha.

"Don't worry. I'll look after him and Kagome; you go fight with Sesshomaru." Inuyasha nodded in confirmation and thanked the young youkai exterminator. As he began to take his leave, Sango said one final thing. "Take Kirara with you, you can send her back to us just in case for some reason you need our help."

Inuyasha about-faced, crossed his arms, and 'keh'd', but none the less motioned for an original form Kirara to hop onto his shoulder. And as he began to leap off in Sesshomaru's direction, he said one final word of thanks and warning to Sango. "Thanks; but Kagome had better be all right when I get back, or it's on you."

And with that, Inuyasha leapt off towards the open plane where of he expected to see Sesshomaru.

Well that's my first chapter! Not too much romance yet, but don't worry, it'll get better in time. Please R&R!