Sesshomaru's One True Kind Act

By 246Nakuro

Summary: WARNING: This will be a bit of a tearjerker.

Chapter 1

Sesshomaru watched from the shadows as Inuyasha made the wish on the jewel that would forever seal his fate. As Inuyasha's eyes flashed to red then gold, then red and stayed that way. He turned and started to run off transforming into a grey dog and rushed towards Kyede's village. Sesshomaru hated to see just what his brother had become but rushed after him.

Right now, he needed to focus on protecting the village, not his brother. He ran using his demonic speed and stood in front of the village ready to fight. People rushed out of their huts to see why there was a demon seemingly protecting them. Suddenly the newly full demon Inuyasha rushed at the village and was tackled to the ground by this new demon.

This caused everyone to scream and rush into their huts. Everyone that was, except for Kagome. She walked out just as Sesshomaru was thrown hard into a tree. She winced as she heard the SNAP of his leg breaking. But he didn't have time to worry about his now shattered leg; he had to fight Inuyasha off. Suddenly a priestess Arrow cut through the air effectively silencing the two demons for a time. Kagome didn't know why Sesshomaru was protecting the village, but he needed help and she was willing to offer it.

Inuyasha fearing Kagome would purify him after he just became a full demon and took off running. Sesshomaru turned and growled at Kagome. He hadn't needed a human's help. And definitely not a priestess' help. He ran over to her keeping his injured leg safe. Kagome gulped and prepared to fire another arrow but the bow was knocked out of her hand breaking her wrist at the swipe of Sesshomaru's massive paw.

Then Sesshomaru sighed and walked off. It was bad enough that he was hurt, the last thing he needed was to see how Kagome reacted when she knew the truth. He rushed to his castle only to find everyone dead. Rin, and Jaken were torn apart and their body parts were scattered around the ground. Sesshomaru vowed to kill whoever had done this, when he had to dodge a priestess' arrow and his now demon turned brother.

Sesshomaru glared but knowing with his wounded leg that he would be unable to fight took off running fighting tears as he heard Inuyasha howl, claiming his castle as his brother's own. He ran for a long time and collapsed on the ground miles from his home, alone, and lost. He wanted death to claim him; it would take all this pain away.

Kagome had been worried about Inuyasha for a while now. He had been gone for much longer than he ever had before. She had given up on loving him about two years ago but saw him as her younger brother and therefore her protector. She excused herself from the pregnant Sango, Miroku, and their three kids. She grabbed her bow and arrows and headed out.

She was even more concerned when it started to get dark and pulled out her flashlight. To her shock she did find a dog demon but it wasn't Inuyasha. As she moved the flashlight over the white dog body with white semi floppy ears she gasped realizing it was Sesshomaru. She quickly rushed back to the modern era and asking her mom for help, got the required things for a high trauma surgery. Then she rushed over to the feudal era and over to the badly injured dog demon.

Sesshomaru awoke drowsy and in pain, as he looked at his injured leg he was shocked to find it cut and sewn after a drastic surgery. How hadn't he felt this? Usually surgeries were painful and he had to fight not to growl and howl at the pain felt. But he hadn't felt anything, no pain, no cutting, nothing. What had happened? He heard someone coming though the bushes and growled trying to jump onto his leg and tripping, then landing hard on his non injured side. He stared at the plastic like thing around his leg that prevented it from moving at all.

"Hey easy. Don't want to rebrake that leg do you?" Kagome asked him slowly and softly. "Unfortunately though you'll have to stay in demon form until it heals."

Sesshomaru looked over at her with the normal cold face and eyes. "How come I didn't feel this drastic surgery?"

Kagome gasped and looked embarrassed, she hadn't thought of how to answer that question. "Well uhm…" She sighed and pulled out the first aide kit that had held what she had used. "I used these."

She opened the box and let him look at it. He pulled his nose away almost instantly; the smell burned his nose and made the fur on the back of his neck stand on end. The smell was like poison and so he assumed it to be that.

"You poisoned this Sesshomaru?!" He growled at her furiously.

"No! This is medicine. From where I'm from." Kagome told him quickly. "It's what I gave you to keep you asleep during the surgery so you wouldn't feel pain."

Sesshomaru growled and took another sniff only to pull back. "It smells horrible and burns this Sesshomaru's nose."

"Yeah." Kagome responded with a sigh. "It doesn't smell great but it's sterile, so… that's good. Anyway, what happened? Why were you out her all alone?"

Sesshomaru's eyes fell as he remembered what had led him to this point, the sadness hit hard, but he placed on his icy mask before Kagome could even realize his mask had fallen. "This Sesshomaru was beaten."

Kagome frowned and upon taking a step towards Sesshomaru to offer him comfort received a growl and he attempted to stand again, the speed making him land hard once again. Kagome sighed but took a step back, with his injury she didn't want to push it.

"Well… Why don't you join me and the others at Kyede's hut, we have room."

Sesshomaru looked at her like she was insane. 'How can I follow you when I can't walk?'

Kagome smiled lightly. "Want me to show you? I'd have to touch you."

Sesshomaru glared at her but made no move to stop her as she helped him to stand. To his shock the thing surrounding his leg, not only helped his balance slightly, but he could limp on his broken leg with little pain. He limped after her for a few minutes stiff baffled by this thing's strength and ability to help him.

"What is this?" He finally asked but Kagome didn't even look at him as she answered.

"A cast."

"What's a cast?"

"It's a mixture of cloth, glue, and water."

"Cloth, glue, and water?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"Well when the glue dries and the water evaporates-" Kagome looked back at his raised eyebrow and explained. "When the water becomes the air, the cloth is very hard and strong."

They continued on in silence.

Meanwhile with Inuyasha and Kikyo.

Inuyasha growled at the servants loving how they feared him. He'd only been here for a few days and he loved it. He couldn't begin to understand why Sesshomaru had ever left. No matter with Rin and Jaken gone and killed, he would commit suicide sooner or later. He loved how rich he was and started to kill the servants that angered him in anyway, increasing their fear of him and therefore his version of respect.

One thing that bothered him though was that no one could tell were Sesshomaru was. They couldn't find him. Inuyasha liked to play games but hated how boring it got after a while and as such insisted that the death penalty be given to anyone who lost to him. But if he were to lose to someone, the servants wondered would the death penalty apply to him?

Daichi, Sesshomaru's top servant, and unfortunately Inuyasha's servant for the time being, started to look into things involving Sesshomaru, Rin, and Jaken. But Inuyasha attempted to stop that by threatening death. While Daichi was afraid to die he was more worried about his master. Inuyasha might have tried to attack him and come across as his master but the dragon demon was not only Sesshomaru's lead servant, but also his best friend. Daichi figured he OWED Sesshomaru to figure out a way to find him.

Meanwhile with Kagome and Sesshomaru.

Kagome and Sesshomaru had been walking for three days to get back to Kyede's. Why were they so slow, because Kagome refused to let Sesshomaru push himself and forced him to take it easy. Seeing as how she had saved his life, by demonic law he had to obey her. Even if half the time he wanted to bite her head off. By the time they arrived Sango had had her fourth child and was shocked upon seeing what had taken Kagome so long to arrive.

"Kagome? What in the world?" Sango asked as Kagome came out of the woods and gasped and the dog demon following behind her in a blight blue cast. "Lord Sesshomaru?"

"He was beaten and-"

"It's just Sesshomaru now." He interrupted Kagome who looked at him shocked.

"You never told me that!" Kagome growled at Sesshomaru.

"You never asked." He retorted coldly. "Now if you'll excuse me I'd like to be alone." He told Sango with his same cool voice before turning to Kagome and growling loudly at her. "Or am I not allowed to do that?"

Kagome was aggravated, all she had tried to do was help him and he had treated her like she was so beneath him ever since he woke up. "Fine! Get out of here!" She yelled at him and he limped off.

"Come on Kagome." Sango told her friend helping her inside the hut. "Maybe losing his title made him have a short fuse."

Sesshomaru looked at the water but didn't want to drink, hell he didn't want to live. Anything but life would be better right now. He had nothing. No one to protect, no one to ask for help, no alliances. Nothing. He was completely alone in the world and he hated it. He should have been the one to die, not Rin and Jaken. True they were annoying as all get out but they were his pack. Now he didn't have a pack anymore. He was on his own. And for a dog that's naturally a pack animal, being alone made him feel worse.

Once Miroku heard Kagome's story the monk walked outside and over to Sesshomaru who was sitting in the grass his head down looking at the water but his gaze was far away and not really there.

"Well…" Sesshomaru's gaze snapped back to reality and he turned to growl at the monk. "You've had quiet the day. But I know you're not selfish enough to turn on anyone without a reason. So why'd you really snap at Kagome?"

"I've had a long day."

"Haven't we all? That still doesn't answer my question."

"I'd rather not talk about it."

"Alright. For now I concede, only because you're injured and need to rest according to Kagome, but I'll be back and one way or another Lord Sesshomaru, you will tell me." Miroku stood to get up and heard Sesshomaru mumble.

"Just Sesshomaru."

He looked back at the dog that was looking off into the distance. "You'll always be a lord to me."

Sesshomaru watched as Miroku walked back to the hut and a small smile grazed his features. It was nice to know, someone saw him as a lord even if he wasn't one anymore. He saw the sun setting and fought not to howl his pain to the world. If he wished to survive any amount of time, he had to fight his instincts. He didn't think he would be getting any sleep when he felt someone touch his head. He looked over to his right and into the smiling face of the monk. Tired and weaker than normal he made no move to get the monk to remove his hand.

"Can't sleep?" Sesshomaru didn't answer him but just looked out at the river he was in front of. "I can stay up with you if you'd like."

"Don't you have pups that need you?" Sesshomaru asked him and saw him nod.

"Yes. But you need someone to stay with you and I know Kagome would be angered if I asked her, therefore the girls can care for the kids tonight."

At this Sesshomaru turned his eyes to face Miroku. "Really?"

"Oh yeah. Everyone takes care of the kids here. It makes it easier if the mom and dad aren't the only ones to care for kids. They can get a bit rambunctious as I'm sure you know."

"Yeah." Sesshomaru smiled weakly remembering how he loved having Jaken, and Ah – Un, and Daichi look after Rin. "They can be a handful."

"No kidding." Miroku chuckled noticing Sesshomaru's smile but not bringing attention to it. "I have four of them and they can run me ragged but when it's over and it's done they are so worth the anger and frustration."

Sesshomaru thought back on Rin how she often annoyed him with her constant chatter and games and flower crowns, but he had learned to love her. Her and all her odd quirks. He cried tears of pain and sadness and cried and cried, and to his shock Miroku didn't berate him telling him he couldn't cry but just hugged him and offered comfort.