Tami: Hey! Tenshi no Yami, a.k.a. Tami here for your reading pleasure!

Inuyasha: They don't care about you. They care about us.

Tami: You jerk! You're so mean! *sniff sniff*

Kagome: Sit boy!

Inuyasha: *BAM!*

Tami: ^_^ Arigato, Kagome!

Kagome: NO prob. Just get started with the story.

Tami: Okies!

Roxi (Tami's muse): Tami does not own Inuyasha. If she did, the world of Inuyasha would be a much scarier place, and Kikyo would be tortured daily.


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"Come on, Inuyasha, I haven't sensed a jewel shard all day! It's time to take a break!" Kagome yelled.

"We're not stopping until we find one!" Inuyasha yelled back.

"Sit boy!" Inuyasha slammed face first into the ground. The group was walking through the woods, once again in search for shards of the Shikon no Tama. The wind shifted and blew into their faces. Inuyasha stopped short of yelling at Kagome again.

"What is it, Inuyasha?" Sango asked.

"I smell blood, and it ain't human." he answered. He ran towards the clearing, the others following as fast as they could. Miroku almost plaowed into Inuyasha when he broke free of the trees.

"What is it?" Miroku asked. Inuyasha pointed and Kagome gasped. Lying in a pool of blood was an unconscious Sesshoumaru. His normally immaculate silver hair was stained red. A lot of blood was coming from a deep gash on his head. He had various cuts all over his body. The Tenseiga was missing from his side.

"What happened to him?" Kagome whispered. She couldn't help but feel sorry for Sesshoumaru. He didn't look all that menacing and evil lying there like that.

"How the heck should I know." Inuyasha answered. He wa a little unnerved himself. Not that he hadn't thought about hurting his brother like that himself, it just made him wonder who out there is strong enough to do that to him. The injured inu-youkai groaned, his voice thick with pain. That, more than anything, made up Kagome's mind. She set down her over-sized yellow backpack and reached inside. "Oy, wench, what are you looking for?" She shot him a glare and returned to her searching.

"I'm looking for my first aid kit." she answered.

"You actually want to help him?! He's always trying to kill us!" Sango yelled. Kagome made a noise that sounded like a whimper.

"But he's hurt." She pulled the kit from her bag and moved to the demon lord's side, ignoring the blood. Inuyasha grabbed her arm.

"Don't." He glared at her.

"SITSITSITSITSITSIT!" Inuyasha slammed a few inches into the ground. She kneeled next to Sesshoumaru and gently moved his hair aside to look at the wound on his head. She winced, her head tingling. (Don't you ever get like that? You see someone else hurt and you hurt in the same spot?) She touched it gently, but jerked back when he jumped. His eyes snapped open glowing a fierce red. He tried to sit up, but he collapsed, dizzy. He blinked to clear his eyes and stared up at the people around him.

"Who are you?"