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Well here is the second Inuyasha fic I had promised. This one will have Kagome bashing, because I want to explore different ways of writing the story. So while 'Our Story' will be more fluffy and cute, 'Tokidoki' will be more angsty with some 'hurt/comfort' thrown in. After these two I want to write a more modern AU, and also a KougaInu fic. So yeah, I'm kinda going through all the themes. Hope to many people wont have a problem with that.

Well with that done, I hope you all enjoy! Thank you for reading

Beta read by the wonderful Kiya-chan!

Chapter one: It could be worse, right?

"SIT, SIT, SIT!"

Oh how he hated that word.

That single word managed to shatter his whole world, over and over again.

He couldn't breathe as his head was crushed into the ground. His lungs felt like they were going to explode from the pressure. Rocks and dirt went into his mouth; scratching his gums and making them bleed. The pressure didn't seem to stop, he was sure his nose and jaw were broken by now, so he simply laid there too tired too move. He laid there hearing her light footfalls as she stepped away from his prone form, huffing and muttering in anger about how 'insensitive' he was.

Right, insensitive.

Inuyasha staggered up into a crouching position, he spat out the dirty blood, already feeling his mouth starting to slowly heal. The Hanyou rubbed his neck where painful bruises from the beads were starting to form, what had he done now to deserve this?

Oh yeah, he volunteered to scout the surrounding area. Kagome had then accused him of slacking off; they had argued and then she had sat him into oblivion. He always scouted the area off first before they set up camp, that's one of the reasons why he always went ahead of their little group. Yet recently he had been feeling sluggish, and weighed down, so he hadn't managed to complete his normal tasks. It took him longer to heal, and his skin felt more sensitive; maybe it just had something to do with the fact that the he was so close to the new moon. Still for some reason this felt different from all the other times he transformed into a human.

He could hear Miroku, and Sango talking with Kagome, asking her to calm down; but she kept on throwing a tantrum like a child. Inuyasha could already feel a vibe coming off her, which only promised him more pain. So with one last glance he staggered away from the group and deep into the dark forest.

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A wolf youkai perked from his perch, sniffing the air vigorously. Kouga he had been following Kagome's scent for hours now, her group never stayed in one place for too long and that just made it difficult for him to track her down. Except now there was a different scent nearby that had caught his attention, it was sweet, and absolutely delectable.

His pupils dilated with euphoria, it was calling to him, but as he continued to sniff the air he noticed something particular. Under that sweet scent however he could smell that half-breed Inuyasha. It was a mystery. The Ookami licked his lips in anticipation; this was something that he would have to investigate.

Kouga enhanced the power of the shards in his legs, to increase his speed tenfold. He couldn't wait to see what this was about, and dove head straight into the forest.

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Sesshoumaru strode elegantly through long grassy fields; his long silver hair waving in the gentle breeze. Although the wind carried with it more than just cool air, but also a distinctive scent that lit a fire through his veins. He stopped in his tracks suddenly causing his retainer Jaken to collide into him. Sesshoumaru only gave him a passing glare, and the imp scurried away from him in fear.

The Daiyoukai turned to sniff the air again, to make sure his over sensitive nose wasn't fooling him. But no he was right the first time, it was Inuyasha, yet there was something different about his scent that he could not place. It was spicy and full of pheromones, and even caused the Inuyoukai's cold eyes to widened.

"What trouble are you causing now Otouto...?" he murmured to himself. Sesshoumaru turned to look sternly at Jaken. "Jaken I need for you to take Rin back to the castle; I have some business to attend to and will follow on later, understood?"

"H-hai Lord Sesshoumaru!" the imp squeaked and quickly ran towards Ah-Un.

"Will you be back soon?" asked Rin in her usual cheery voice.

"Yes Rin." She smiled and gave him a quick hug, Sesshoumaru stiffed at the contact, no matter how many times she hugged him he never got used to it. She dislodged herself from him and then ran towards Ah-Un while waving him goodbye. He didn't wave back; instead he gave her a curt nod and stood there till they were out of sight. Then he turned around followed the scent that would lead him to Inuyasha.

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Inuyasha had found a nice large tree, with thick branches and a dense canopy of leaves to hide him from everyone's view. He jumped up high 'til he found the most comfortable branch and sat down with his back resting against the rough bark. The Hanyou was so tired as of late, not to mention how his powers were starting to flux, one moment he would feel energetic, and the next thing he knew it would all drain out leaving him tired and cranky.

Of course Kagome had not been happy with that, and they had gotten into even more arguments then usually, which lead to him getting 'Sat' more often.

He hissed in pain when he tried to move his head around from to side-to-side, his healing abilities had gotten slower as well. Usually he would have been able to heal from something like this in seconds, but minutes were turning into hours and his neck still hurt. Maybe sleep would cure him.

Although getting back to the group so late would only cause him to suffer more 'sit's'. Then again he couldn't help it now, because before he knew it, he was already asleep.

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Inuyasha didn't know how long it was that he had slept, or for that matter what was waking him up now. He felt a light nuzzling at his neck, the Hanyou tried to move whatever thing it was away from him in his half-asleep stupor, but a gentle growl stopped his movements. His body stiffened when he felt something wet glide up his neck, sucking the pulse from the jugular vein. He whined at this new sensation. The suckling stopped, and the figure shifted away from him. Yet whoever it was still looming too close to him.

"Damn puppy, you taste as good as you smell," that snide remark was what woke the Hanyou up from completely his half-asleep state. He looked up at the towering figure and almost fell out of the tree when he saw who it was.

"Kouga!" he exclaimed, as he wiped off the saliva off his neck.

The Ookami just smiled smugly at him, canines glinting in the moon light, Inuyasha shuddered when he noticed the red tint that seemed to cloud his usually crystal blue eyes. Inuyasha took a deep breath of air and he tried to be brave, so he sat up and placed his hands inside the sleeves of his Haori and glared at the wolf prince.

"Kouga, you flea bitten mutt what are you doing here?"

Kouga ignored the outburst and continued. "Who'd have thought that the 'great' Inuyasha was destined to become someone's bitch!"

Inuyasha's glare hardened; and his anger exploded. "What the hell are you on about, you stupid wolf?" he growled out. Kouga just kept smiling; a pink tongue darted out from between the row of sharp teeth to lick his lips. The wolf prince leaned down so that their foreheads almost touched, and took a deep whiff of Inuyasha's scent.

"You smell like a bitch in heat Inuyasha, that's what I mean..." he purred out, his hot breath tickling the Hanyou's already sensitive skin and making his shiver. Kouga took another whiff of Inuyasha's scent, and frowned slightly. "Although you aren't quite ripe yet, but I can wait."

Inuyasha gritted his teeth together, and tried to push the wolf away. The Hanyou growled, but instead of it coming out threateningly he only managed to do a pitiful whimper. The wolf chuckled and Inuyasha felt that tongue glide over him again.

"K-Kouga stop it!"

But the wolf didn't seem to listen, instead he just pushed his hard body against Inuyasha's, while his hands clasped onto the Hanyou's pushing them away from his chest and forcing them again the bark. Inuyasha shut his eyes, he struggled against Kouga's hold, but he felt so weak and tired his youkai just wanted to melt against the hard body, but his human side was screaming at him to get away. He went with his human side; he didn't want the wolf on him.

"STOP IT!" he screamed out.

"It might be best if you listen to him Ookami." Kouga turned around swiftly when hearing the new voice. He growled threateningly at the intruder who had dared to disturb him. "Don't growl at me you disgusting low-life wolf, unless you'd like to be at the receiving end of this Sesshoumaru's poison?"

Wait? What? Sesshoumaru? As in his brother Sesshoumaru? No that couldn't be right. He must have misheard it. Inuyasha took a tentative sniff of the air, and gasped. It was Sesshoumaru's scent.

Inuyasha felt like crying, his brother was there right in front of him, probably sneering at him about how he could be subdued so easily by a lowly demon such as Kouga. Cautiously Inuyasha slowly opened his eyes. Kouga was crouching in front of him with his back turned towards Inuyasha, while he growled and snapped at the powerful Daiyoukai like some rabid animal.

But when he saw Sesshoumaru he almost pissed his pants. The Daiyoukai looked furious; his usual passive face was etched into a scowl, baring his teeth threateningly. Inuyasha had also noticed that his brother had drawn out Toukijin, and was holding onto to the hilt of the sword in anger. Both of the demons were in attack position, with their youki flaring up in agitation of a fight.

Suddenly Kouga pounced onto Sesshoumaru, who drew his sword upwards and hitting the wolf square across his face with the hilt of Toukijin, sending the Ookami flying into the branches. The sound of branches braking and bark being shattered could be heard, as Kouga collided into a tree, but with a ferocious growl he run back, his sharp claws poised to dig into Sesshoumaru's flesh. The Daiyoukai put his sword back into its sheath and quickly extended his poison tipped claws to grabbed Kouga with deadly accuracy around his neck, raising him into the air.

Inuyasha could only watch, mesmerised by the fight, the fluid motions of Sesshoumaru against the brashness of Kouga. He didn't even notice that Kouga was in the verge of dying by his brothers poisons claws digging deeper into his neck, until he heard a pained yowl from the wolf. Inuyasha jumped up. He didn't know what he was doing; he didn't even know why he did such a suicidal move. All that he knew was that he had to do something; but why did he have to wrap his arms around Sesshoumaru's waist?

"Let him go Sesshoumaru, he isn't worth it..." Inuyasha whimpered out.

Sesshoumaru stopped, his posture relaxed against Inuyasha's hold, he growled softly and swung his arm around tossing Kouga back inside the forest. Scurrying could be heard as the wolf fled deeper into the woods and away from them. Inuyasha sighed heavily and relaxed his grip on Sesshoumaru. He breathed in his brothers' musky scent and almost melted against him. He was still panicking but he couldn't bring himself to move away from his brother's strong body. Although he mildly wondered what his brother would do about his 'lowly half-breed brother' touching his esteemed self. Maybe he should think about running away as quickly as his legs could carry him?

Inuyasha slowly, and with some effort let go taking a few hesitant steps back. Sesshoumaru still wasn't moving, so he hoped that his brother was giving him the chance to run away before deciding cleave him in half. Usually he would have stayed and fought, but in his unusual condition he didn't think he could.

"Inuyasha..." the Hanyou froze in his steps. Was Sesshoumaru mad? Of course the bastard is mad, when has he in his lifetime had he not been mad at him? "Why are you so afraid Hanyou...?"

'WHAT?' That little voice in his mind shouted. He looked at Sesshoumaru bewilderedly, but the Daiyoukai just stared back in his usual stoic state. Inuyasha took a deep gulp of air and glared at the older youkai. "Who says I'm afraid you asshole? Because I'm not afraid so just fuck the hell off!"

"Then why are you shaking Little brother...?"

Inuyasha frowned and looked down at himself and just like Sesshoumaru had said, he was shaking. He couldn't be that afraid of Sesshoumaru, or was it what Kouga almost did to him that had him in such great shock? He needed to get away...

"Piss off you bastard-"

"I can't do that half-breed, especially not in your... condition."

"What the hell is that meant to mean?" asked Inuyasha as he took another shaky step back from his older brother. Sesshoumaru lifted a delicate eyebrow, and noticing the movement took a step towards him.

"Don't tell me that you haven't noticed how your scent has changed."

"You smell like a bitch in heat Inuyasha..." Kouga's words echoed through his mind.

"W-what does that have to do with anything?"

Sesshoumaru frowned "Don't you know what is happening? Hasn't that cowardly retainer of yours taught you anything about this?"

Inuyasha just kept staring at him in confusion and fear, Sesshoumaru sighed and sat down elegantly on the branch. "Sit down Inuyasha, there is a lot of explaining that I have to do."

"Why the hell should I trust you-" he stopped when the deadly glare that the Daiyoukai passed him, and quickly sat down on the branch himself.

The Lord of the West was quiet; he regarded Inuyasha with great interest as if inspecting a foreign specimen of some kind. He didn't know how to tell the ill-tempered Hanyou such...delicate, you could say, information. It's not like something like this happened very often; maybe once every few hundred years, but as usually starting at the beginning would be the best.

"Inuyasha, what do you know about a Demon hitting maturity?" Inuyasha just blinked a few times but didn't say anything.

Sesshoumaru sighed inwardly, it seemed like that old flea had taught the boy nothing... "Every youkai goes through a period of maturing, it is usually after this time that they take mates and can bring on offspring. Before that time if any youkai is involved in anything sexual there would be no chance of attaining young, so that time you spent with that dead miko would have been pointless."

Inuyasha gritted his teeth together but Sesshoumaru continued on. "It is very rare, but there are some male youkai that are gifted with a special ability that makes them very valuable," se stopped, and tried to reconsider his words carefully.

"And...what is that ability?" Inuyasha asked, getting impatient.

"Some males… in very rare cases can give birth."

"WHAT?" Inuyasha sprang up, and stared at his brother with a mixture shock and surprise.

"It's true little brother, even if it is rare it can happen, you for one are one of those-"

"You've got be fucking kidding me! There is no way in hell that is possible! This is fucking crazy!" Inuyasha started pacing around, he didn't like the idea of where this was going, he didn't want to hear anymore, he needed to get away! He stood up getting ready escape, but Sesshoumaru continued.

"No it isn't Hanyou, in the past few days you must have felt different from usual; and then there is your scent or are you telling me you hadn't noticed that it has changed."

Inuyasha stopped in his tracks, his breathing was laboured, and his heart felt like it was going to explode from his chest. But Sesshoumaru was right, he had been feeling weird he thought it was first because of the closeness of the new moon, and now with what Kouga had told him...

It couldn't be… could it...?

It didn't take Inuyasha long to think about it. That bastard was always right, and he wasn't one to lie about this kid of shit!

"Inuyasha sit down," the Hanyou didn't move; his mind was in too much turmoil to even comprehend what was happening. It was all too much…

"Snap out of it Otouto, and sit down!" Inuyasha turned his head to look at his brother; his usual determined face was a picture of misery.

"What do I do now? I don't think I could deal with this, no one else will understand..." he muttered to himself.

"That's why I'm here little brother; I will take care of you till you can find a suitable mate..."

"YOU?" Inuyasha felt the hate, anger and confusion that had been welling up inside burst out, he needed to blame someone for this and Sesshoumaru was the perfect person for that. "You are the one person who has been trying to kill me since I was born and now you want to look after me? No fucking way asshole! You can fuck right the hell way-"

In a blink of an eye Sesshoumaru was up, and grabbed onto Inuyasha's hands binding them with his mokomoko-san behind him.

"Let me go you bastard! LET ME GO!" He screamed while fighting against the bindings. Sesshoumaru didn't listen instead he used his right hand to wrap around Inuyasha's waist and pull him down into his lap; he growled softly hoping to calm the scared boy down. Soon the trashing subsided and Inuyasha remained there panting heavily.

"Why...why after all this time...?"

"Little brother this affects both of us, any pups that you bear will have eligibility to be heirs to the Western Lands. If you had managed to ever couple with a human it wouldn't have mattered, they would have died after a few years; but if a demon ever found you and ever managed to couple with you-"

"I would have never let that happen!"

"Really...what about when that Ookami attacked you?" Inuyasha went silent, he remembered how that encounter turned out; he couldn't even defend himself against that mutt...but why?

"In a few days you will go into your first heat, meaning that your youkai will be more docile towards other males, it can't be helped; you may not want it but your youki calls out for them," the Daiyoukai said as if almost reading his mind. "Usually females stay close to their fathers in their first heat for protection but since father isn't here anymore that duty falls to me."

"Oh please the Old man asked you to look after me when I was young and you abandoned me anyway-"

"Yes, a mistake on my part, but this is about tradition and honour of protecting what's mine..." he used his hand to grab Inuyasha's chin and turn his face towards himself. Sesshoumaru gazed into those sun burned golden eyes. "Or would you prefer that I left you out here to be raped by some rugged youkai?" the Daiyoukai hissed.

Inuyasha whimpered, all of his senses were quickly telling him to submit; he had angered a much more powerful alpha which he shouldn't have done. He shook his head in negation. Head filled so many conflicting thoughts.

"Good," Sesshoumaru said and released the younger man from his grasps. Inuyasha quickly scurried up into a standing position away from his brother.

Sesshoumaru followed suite although in a much more dignified manner then his brother. He wiped away any imaginary dust from his kimono and frowned at Inuyasha. The Hanyou had his head bowed, his eyes averted while he exposed the vulnerable part of his neck in perfect submission. Even if Inuyasha didn't like it, it's already starting to happen; his body will tell him to submit during the heat to any stronger male.

"We'll be leaving right now, gather your things and we'll move."

"What about my pack? I can't just leave them behind!" Sesshoumaru looked at him in his usual stoic manner, but Inuyasha remained standing even if his youkai was telling him to back down. The Daiyoukai barely managed to suppress the smirk that was quirking on his lips.

"Hn...if I can tolerate one human, then I can tolerate a few more, bring your ningen companions with you and then I shall escort you all back to the castle safely."

Inuyasha nodded and lead the way, at least now he wouldn't be completely alone with his brother, but now he had the job of explaining things to his friends...

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