Hello everyone. I've been gone forever and a day, BUT I'M BACK BABIES!

I've decided to start up a new Inuyasha story :) I hope you all like it. This is just the first chapter to see if anyone likes it. Even I haven't decided on the main pairing yet so it'll evolve one of a few ways lol.

WARNINGS: Lots of Wump, Inuyasha gets abused, Kagome is hated on (but it's explained later on, promise), there's LOTS of cursing, eventual smut, trigger warning for child abuse. Oh and I gave Sesshomaru his arm back!

This is set a fair ways in the future from Naraku's downfall.

-X-

"INUYASHA! Where are you?!" A shrill call sounded from the futuristic miko.

The hanyo stifled a groan, he had felt like shit for the last week, and rightfully so he had told his friends he was ill and irritated, warning them he'd probably become hostile if his instincts managed to take over to help his body recover. Sango and Miroku had instantly agreed, knowing the hanyo wasn't able to control his instincts; it was only natural for him to give into them when feeling sickly. They didn't want to deal with Inuyasha's moods when he was injured, as they were always unpredictable, and would eagerly avoid his grumpiness.

Kirara and Shippo had decided they were going to 'nurse' Inuyasha back to health, and started trying to coddle him, though Inuyasha did take reprieve in Shippo not making rude remarks around him. He knew the kit only meant it in good fun for Kagome, seeing how the female giggled at every single one, but Inuyasha felt it was extremely insulting. Not that his opinions mattered, ever! 'Damnable miko,' Inuyasha thought grudgingly.

Kagome didn't believe him, she didn't care he felt bad, she felt he was faking because he was a 'half-demon' and could easily heal from the virus.

"What?" Inuyasha quipped back to her annoyingly screechy tone. Looking down to her from his place in a large tree. Sango and Miroku heard the screeching and started over. Inuyasha looked to them and related a message 'Don't bother, she'll just get angrier' the two nodded and stayed back. Shippo and Kirara watching as well, all were slightly worried. With Inuyasha's paper thin patience waning and Kagome's petulant behavior rising…things did not look good.

Ever since the downfall of Naraku, Kagome had become rather pushy, much much more so than before. She seemed to take credit for dispelling Naraku from the world, and liked to forget all those who also had part in it. She often screeched at Inuyasha as if her were a servant rather than a friend. And quite honestly, everyone was quickly tiring of it. One week she was here, the next she was gone to the human world. Inuyasha didn't even go to get her anymore, he honestly saw no point in it, subjugation beads be damned. This, however, made the young woman even more affronted with him, as she secretly had adored the attention poured on her when Inuyasha came to get her. She seethed when she realized that Inuyasha just stayed with the others and waited for her now. She felt betrayed, like he was ignoring her, even if she had never given him an inclination to continue going after her, and how she had always berated him for cutting her visits short.

She was a whirling mess of insanity, at least to most of the outside viewers. To her, she seemed perfectly rational. She thought it proper to give 'the big lug' a lesson in respect when she got back and he wasn't waiting for her, she would 'sit' him at least three times just on being within ear shot. Kagome and Inuyasha had no romanticism between them. They had not had anything even resembling tender feelings between them for over a year; at least Inuyasha harbored nothing at all for the mortal, except for probably annoyance and grudging acceptance of her presence on most days. He had moved on from his feelings, accepting that it was easier to move on than to try and get Kagome to act as she had previously, as she had before the fall of Naraku. Kagome, however, loved to play Hojo against Inuyasha. She would go home and tell Hojo about this boy (no longer using the term boyfriend, as that seemed to make Hojo uneasy) who would stalk her. Hojo wanted to defend her, being the idiot he was, and Kagome lapped up the attention, finding it very good for her bruised ego, now that Inuyasha didn't seemingly want her any longer. Inuyasha had made it clear to Kagome's family and even one of her friends, Eri, that he was no longer interested in her at all. And he left after that, and had yet to return to the future.

"Don't 'what'me!" Kagome snapped, and then said in a sugar-sweet tone that sent chills up the hanyo's spine. "I've cooked a meal for us. Come and eat."

"No. I'm not hungry," Inuyasha replied, not coming down from the tree he was resting in.

"I wasn't asking, get your snooty butt down here and Eat. What. I. Made!" Kagome said, hands on her hips, her tiny skirt riding up and an ugly scowl on her pretty face.

Inuyasha sighed loudly and before he could answer Kagome lashed out at the apparent diss to her.

"Ouswari! Ouswari! Ouswari! Ouswari! OUSWARI!" Kagome shouted, her eyes alight with agitation.

'CRAAAAACK'

Inuyasha yelped in surprise as the branch under him broke and he went spiraling into the ground face first. Miroku and Sango ran forward when Inuyasha didn't instantly jump up and glare at the miko. Kagome just 'hmphed' "Don't bother. He's just being lazy, again."

"Kagome, his collar bone is broken," Sango said grimly, gently probing the tender and swollen area making the hanyo groan and swipe slothfully at her tender hands.

"INUYASHA! Are you ok?" Shippo asked in his shrill child's voice, hurrying over with a look of shock. Inuyasha was never this easily hurt. Kirara mewled angrily at Kagome and hissed at her when she tried to move forward. Inuyasha blinked lazily, slightly in awe that Shippo seemed concerned for him…then again, the kit had never crossed major lines, he was just a kid acting out…Inuyasha's train of thought slammed into a proverbial iron wall when throws of dizziness he should've been able to shake off stayed on him like a thick veil. What the hell was wrong with him?

"Inuyasha, my friend, are you alright?" Miroku asked, trying to get the dazed hanyo to sit up. Inuyasha's head lolled backward and Miroku supported him as the black splotches started to clear from the hanyo's vision. Shippo was hanging onto Inuyasha's good arm, mad and worried tears pooling in his eyes.

"My Goodness," Kagome sneered. Sango stood up quickly and slapped Kagome across with face with all of her strength as her anger, outrage, disgust, and disappointment towards the miko became too much to bear. Kagome gave a squeal and fell back onto her ass.

"Take them off," Sango growled. Miroku stood as well after assuring himself Inuyasha wasn't in danger of passing out. The hanyo blinked at the scene, his mind was still swirling from the thick impact to the ground. Shippo was sniveling into his sleeve but Inuyasha made no move to comfort him, he couldn't easily move his other arm.

"Wh-what?" Kagome whimpered with a pout on her face, she was clutching her cheek were Sango had slapped her.

"Take. The. Beads. Off. Of. Him. NOW," Sango gritted out an angry vein was ticking in her right temple and her fists were clenching and unclenching. Kagome had never seen this much of Sango's ire directed at her. She truly couldn't understand what she had done differently to cause such a downward disintegration in their friendship. She, Kagome, couldn't understand the angry glares from Miroku and Sango. At the same time, Sango and Miroku (along with Inuyasha and the two little demons) could not understand her actions.

"Enough is enough Kagome. Inuyasha is under the weather, he told you this days ago, yet you are abusing him. He may be half-demon but you BROKE his collar bone and nearly knocked him unconscious! Take them off or we will force you to," Miroku backed up Sango. His blue eyes were glistening with anger. Kagome had the nerve to look hurt and affronted.

"B-but I have to control him! He's a dog! He's so unruly and he's such an asshole sometimes!" Kagome whined loudly, stamping her foot.

Sango glared at her and grabbed her by the front of her sailor fuku shirt. Sango told Kagome off in a very deathly serious monotone that did not fit the striking and generally calm mannered taija, "Take them off or I'll break your jaw Kagome." Her tone was like death. "Enough is enough. Miroku and I are sick and tired of watching this abuse you've decided to lay on him. Inuyasha doesn't want to harm you, for some reason, and he knows he'd become the villain if he were to defend himself. So we are going to do so now, for I cannot take much more of this. I do not know what happened to change the way you act towards him into his obscene way, but your maltreatment of him will end. NOW."

"Take them off," Miroku added in a stern tone, a fatherly like voice almost.

Kagome sent icy glares at them and big fat tears rolled down her now puffy cheeks. She grabbed the beads and jerked them off painfully. Inuyasha didn't react. He just sat there and to the sting to the side of his neck as the beds of subjection and the spell binding them shattered. He felt freer than he had in an age, and yet something broke inside of him as the beads did. Kagome never wanted to free him...Kagome...had...enjoyed enslaving him.

"Get out of my sight," Inuyasha snarled. His disbelief and anger were boiling over. The shock of his friends standing up for him had worn off and the rage at the treatment he'd endured over the last five years was sinking in, deep in his mind. He knew that it hadn't been horrible always. He and Kagome had been good friends before, perhaps that's why he felt so upset about her actions now. He simply didn't understand...understand why she lashed out at him as if he were an enemy prisoner.

He simply couldn't understand her hatefulness towards him. And, now that she had gone this far...as to hurt him so and then not even seem to care...Inuyasha didn't know if he ever wanted to understand.

Kagome sneered distastefully at him and ran into the woods, yelling and shouting about how she should just go find Kouga and marry him because at least he wasn't a jerk.

"Th-thank you…you two," Inuyasha mumbled almost silently. "I don't know how to thank you enough for that. No one has ever stood up for me like that."

"We will always be here for you Inuyasha," Miroku assured gently.

"And she's had that coming for years, my friend," Sango added, a proud smirk on her face. Then her smirk turned to a frown of concern. "Inuyasha, shouldn't you lie down. You've never been this shaken by one of her ouswari attacks, and you've been sick lately."

"I'm fine. The break will heal by tonight; I just need a nap…and some water…and I'll be fine," Inuyasha said stiffly, brushing off the concern. Sango clucked her tongue but left to get some water and some food, hoping the hanyo would also eat.

"You are sure you're ok my friend?" Miroku asked once Sango was out of ear shot.

"No," Inuyasha groaned, lying back against the poor abused tree he had been sitting in. "I've figured out what's wrong with me…my scent just changed. Shippo and Kirara can probably smell it."

"Yeah. I can, since about dawn today, so…why did it change?" Shippo asked carefully. Hoping Inuyasha wasn't still angry. Inuyasha used his good side; Kagome had broken his left collar bone, his right side was still useable but his left was out of commission for at least a day while his demon blood healed it, to pull Shippo into his lap and let the kit snuggle into him. Which Shippo did wholeheartedly, rubbing his chin against Inuyasha's chest in childlike submissive apology, Inuyasha was his protector and his 'alpha' until he mated, he saw that now, Kagome wasn't going to protect him forever – just until he stopped being cute.

"I'm not angry at you Shippo, calm down," Inuyasha said softly, in a parenting-type tone. He then said to Miroku, Shippo, Kirara, and Sango as she walked back towards them, "My first heat will start in a few days, my scent has changed because I'm…I'm a natural uke…apparently. That's why I've been weaker lately. My body is preparing itself for the first heat. According to most uke demons I've met, it's a really really rough time; you're overly submissive to everyone, you're hot all the time, you're begging for any physical contact. It's harsh as fucking hell, but it's a device ukes use to get a mate faster, an incentive, I guess. And that's why my smell is changing, to make it obvious to seme males in the area that I am getting ready for my first heat."

"Doesn't that mean every seme male demon in the area will be vying for your attention to get to mate you?" Sango asked handing over the bamboo canteen filled with water and a few pieces of raw deer meat, it had been salted but it was better than the present day food Kagome brought, or at least it was for Inuyasha. Although, his love for potato chips would never be stifled completely.

"Oh Kami Sango! I think I love you. I didn't know we had anything raw left," Inuyasha smiled hungrily as she hid a giggle while Inuyasha wolfed down the food and then drank the water.

"I managed to salt it and hide it from her, Kirara can't stand that crap Kagome tries to feed her," Sango said honestly. "But go on explaining."

"Yeah…though…they'll smell me and try to 'court' me, or if it's mindless enough, it'll just try and take me," Inuyasha grumbled getting back to the conversation at hand. Sitting up further and trying to get up. Shippo pushed him back down.

"You're still hurt!" The kit squeaked indigently.

"It doesn't matter. Miroku, could you go find Kagome, she'll get herself killed running around yelling like that this close to mating season. Not like she understands," Inuyasha groaned.

"Why don't I go?" Sango asked quickly.

"Uhhh…ok," Inuyasha agreed. Slightly worried about her eagerness to see the miko she'd just smacked.

Once Sango had left Miroku burst out laughing.

"What?"

"She's going to school Kagome so badly, that girl will come back brainwashed, I believe," Miroku said shaking his head. He turned to the hanyo then. "Can I help you up my friend? Shippo get off of him."

Shippo grudgingly let Inuyasha up and Miroku helped him stand.

"I'm fine, I'm not that weak," Inuyasha muttered dolefully.

"Still, shall we go find a hot spring to soak in? Shippo, will you be alright with Kirara?"

"Yup! I'll be fine Miroku, you two go have fun," Shippo said, his voice cheerful but his hands shaking slightly from holding onto Inuyasha so tightly. He really was worried over the Inu's health. Miroku and Inuyasha went off to find a hot spring. The hanyo was limping from what Shippo could see, he and Kirara shared a look of amazement…he was hurt elsewhere and Miroku and Sango hadn't noticed. Inuyasha really didn't want them to worry. Shippo hoped Inuyasha would be ok; he now hated it when Kagome 'sat' the hanyo. Over the last year, it had become less of an amusement and more of a torture for the young youkai.

-x-

When Sango found Kagome the girl was weeping against a stump. She looked pitiful and Sango had to bite her tongue to keep from saying something overly rude.

"Get up, you don't deserve anyone's pity for what you are suffering Kagome," Sango snapped in a military-like voice learned from her father. Kagome jumped and glared at her.

"NO! Why should I, you're just going to side with him even more. He's so so so rude! He never eats with us, he's always off on his own, he yells at poor little Shippo for the slightest thing, he fights with Kouga when he comes with visit me and Kouga's so gentlemanly; he always compliments me, unlike fucking Inuyasha! GAH! I hate him! And now you and Miroku are on his stupid side! I hate him! I wish he'd go die! He deserved to be sat for everything he did!" Kagome screamed in a rampage of uncontrollable anger and Sango looked on with the feeling you get when watching a two year old throw a fit.

"And what did he do that a normal alpha of a pack wouldn't? He was teaching Shippo in the same manners all parents teach their children, they discipline them when they are bad. Though apparently your mother never disciplined you enough, or else you wouldn't be acting like a spoilt child who is actually 19. You are a woman Kagome, stop acting like a seven year old throwing a tantrum. Since you've apparently never been disciplined I smacked you because that is how parents in this era discipline their children. I shudder to think of all of the unruly children in your era if you are the norm. You decided to stay in OUR era, so you need to act like you are a part of this era or GO HOME. You cannot force your futuristic family or group ideals onto us, for we do not live in the society in which you were raised. Inuyasha is our pack's alpha, he protects us as we sleep so we don't have to take watches and only around dawn when I wake does he sleep. That is why he is always resting in trees while we make camp. He fishes for us, he hunts for us, he finds us safe places to camp, and yet all you do is complain and force him to cart your things around treating him like a yak. He is not your personal slave Kagome. He is the protector of this pack and as such we have to take care of the smaller things like making camp and cooking the food so he has the energy to protect us. Do you honestly think you'd last more than a night out in these woods alone with no one to protect you?" Sango asked as she finished the first part of her lecture. Kagome was stunned into silence. It appeared as if her brain was about to burst.

"B-B-But that's not right! Everyone should pull the work!"

"I just explained how Inuyasha pulls more than his own load! You selfish, self-absorbed girl!" Sango snapped. She grabbed Kagome by the arm and jerked her into a standing position. "If you dislike the way things are run then go home. Run to Keade's village and jump down the bone-eater's well! But none of us will take the time to escort you there. It is a two-day walk or a one-day flight on Kirara, we are trying to get to the slayer village. The fight with Naraku is over but there is still lots to work we must do rebuilding. Inuyasha wants to help Miroku and I rebuild and with him there it will be much safer. Do you not ever think of anyone but yourself? You wouldn't survive the trip alone! You are so spoilt by all of his protection and I am personally amazed Inuyasha lasted five years of this without beheading you just to SHUT YOUR INSOLENT MOUTH!" Sango stifled a scream and Kagome gulped as the onslaught returned full force.

"S-Sango?"

"You act as if you are entitled to get everyone to do everything for you! Are you honestly that pampered you can't see how hard we all work? You NEVER used to act like this! " Sango questioned, then continued to rant out her anger and frustration with the girl "Inuyasha especially, and Miroku, work to lead us in the correct direction. Here, human men tend to be influential than women, however biased it is get used to it Kagome, or go home. I am self-assertive because I can back up my words with strength and knowledge. Inuyasha's first heat is upon us and he has just discovered he is an uke. Meaning we have to get somewhere safe before his heat hits full force or he won't be strong enough to protect the five of us from the onslaught of seme demons in the area that will be vying for him as their mate. A uke male is rare and even if Inuyasha is a hanyo he will be coveted by those around us."

"…He…He…" Kagome was stunned into silence.

"And you refusal to wear anything but those overly revealing clothes and run around with things from another era are too obvious! Anyone will be able to find Inuyasha by merely finding you! So are you going to come back with me, shut your mouth, and do as you are told seeing how you are the youngest and weakest of our group. Or are you going to blindly walk all the way back to Kaede's village in hope's you'll make it there alive?!" Sango asked heatedly.

Kagome was at odds with her survival instincts and her stubborn pride, but after a moment she bowed her head and murmured, "I'm so sorry Sango…I'll…I understand better now."

"Good, now come with me, we need to change your clothing so you'll fit in better, I have extra clothing. The next time we light a large fire we're going to rid ourselves of your things from the future."

"WHAT?! But I need those things!" Kagome exclaimed, Sango raised her hand again, Kagome wisely shut her trap before the older woman could land another smack.

"No, not here you don't. If you want them so badly take them with you and go home, or else shut your mouth and do as I tell you. And as Miroku and Inuyasha tell you. The time of your petulant hardheadedness is over, Kagome," Sango said, turning and marching back to the camp, leaving Kagome scampering after her.

-x- Meanwhile, with the guys –x-

Thankfully they found a hot spring not but quarter of a mile from camp.

"This smells great, it must be volcanic," Inuyasha murmured softly, scenting the relaxing, earthy scents floating around him in waves of steam.

"You can tell by the smell?" Miroku asked as he set down his staff and started undressing. Inuyasha too started pulling off his layers.

"Yeah. Sulfur, normally I can't stand that smell but when it mixes with the water...hmm, great."

They slowly sunk into the waters. Miroku glanced at his friend. "Are you sure you're alright? It was five times, it even broke that huge tree. Are you…"

"I'm fine," Inuyasha repeated. His limbs were shaking with pain as he let his muscles unclench; he battled the moan of pain that tried to break free from his lips. "Really, just stiff." He shrugged and bit back a hiss as his battered collar bone was shifted.

"Might I try to soothe it?" Miroku asked, holding up his hands as if to massage. Inuyasha shrugged again and turned so the Monk could try.

"You're very stiff Inuyasha, is there a reason why?" Miroku asked as he gently rubbed and massaged the lean and strong muscles of the hanyo in front of him. But Inuyasha was clenching.

"S-Stop," Inuyasha managed, his breaths were coming in short pants. Miroku moved his hands away, fearful of unintentional harm wrought from his hands.

"Inuyasha? What's wrong? Am I hurting you?" Miroku asked, pulling his hands away and swimming around to Inuyasha's front. Inuyasha was biting his lip so hard it bled. "My friend. Kagome is lucky you didn't lash out at her for this, I've never seen you in this much pain from a broken bone, the mating season must be very close indded." Miroku said softly. Inuyasha snorted as he pointed out Miroku's scars from where he had deliberately drunken poison to stop himself from feeling pain from the wind tunnel. "Touché."

"Keh! She's just a bumbling fool, some of the time she's ok. Although, mostly, now a days she acts like a lost little wench who has gotten everything until she fell in this era and feels as if it owes her something," Inuyasha muttered. "And I won't listen to Keade's grumblings if we return to her village and Kagome isn't with us because of her own damn foolishness. And her mother deserves her back…Kami only knows how she loves her but Kagome's okaa-san and brother are good people."

"I assume you're right, shall we go back so you can rest? I'll take up watch tonight, besides, you're heat is likely the cause of your current intolerance to pain," Miroku added in an afterthought.

"Let's go. And yer probably, seems like an uke wouldn't need to have the pain tolerance I've developed…we're 'sposed to depend on our family to protect us and then our mate…che," Inuyasha grunted irritably, "Thanks for trying monk."

"Of course, my friend." Miroku didn't mention the saddened tone Inuyasha had taken on just then. They climbed out and clothed themselves.

They then set off back to camp, both very much aware of the far-off pin-pricks of power which were strong seme demons, coming to investigate the scent Inuyasha was now excreting full force. For his heat was early.

-X-

Did y'all like it? Should I post the rest that I have? Should I even finish it? R&R and let me know!

~Ley