Hot Commodity

By: Kibou32

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.

Summary: The fight against Naraku is over. They won and everyone is feeling good about themselves. By mistake of a compound wish made by Kouga, Kagome and Miroku, Inuyasha is turned into the ultimate being and now everyone wants him. But how can he in turn be free of such gift when those who want him don't seem to want HIM as himself but that of who he is now. What will Inuyasha do now when told that the only way for the gift to disappear is if he chooses someone else?.

A/N: Alternate take on what would happen if a miscontrued wish on the jewel makes Inuyasha the target of unwanted attention from both male and female alike. By the way, no squick: ie.: no Kaede + Inuyasha or Jaken + Inuyasha.

Warnings: You've been warned. There is to be a lot of angst. Lots of both Homosexual & Heterosexual connotations and talk of hard core yaoi scenes.

Part I: The Wish. Kagome

It was a long and hard fight, but when all was finally over and done with, she grabbed the jewel from Naraku's carcass and watched without any sort of remorse as it turned to dust and dissolved into the wind. She purified it just with wishing that it was finally the end of it all. And here is where things got complicated… Purifying the jewel didn't exactly mean that it was going to go away until a wish was made.

She looked over at Sango finally falling down on her knees to weep over the loss of her brother. She wanted – very much – to go over there and try to comfort her but knew her efforts would be worthless because there wasn't anything she could say or do to ease her friend's grief. The thought that Kohaku was no longer being used as a puppet was no small comfort and she stopped herself from ever saying it out loud because it could bring Sango to more tears or to anger. Grief often manifested itself between those two emotions and in worst cases sometimes it could morph into hate.

She turned her line of sight to Kouga who had also lost a great deal… not only was his clan dead, but he had also lost one of his two good friends: Hakkaku. Hakkaku had taken in one of Naraku's tentacles when the fight was going strong and had died inmediately after that of serious blood loss. She saw him looking up at her and her solemn stare apparently brought him out of his misery because he stood up. Was he going to come over to her and demand that she be his woman now? God, she hoped he didn't because if he did, she'd have to firmly tell him no and then he'd be feeling worst than now. She saw him walk over to her and wondered what was on his mind as he came over to touch her hand – the hand that had the jewel enclosed tightly to her fingers. She looked up at him wondering what he was doing when she felt another male hand come in contact with her arm. The arm that was connected to the hand that held the jewel and suddenly there was a great infusion of power and she felt herself being bathed over by a pure white light. Midoriko. She heard her voice like a whisper in her mind and puzzled over the meaning of her words:

"Your love for Inuyasha, your care for the future, your intelligent wish for power. It will be done and after this there will be no more jewel to worry about. Goodbye."

Miroku

He was happy. He was much more happy when he saw Naraku's carcass blown away into dust by the wind. He was ecstatic when he opened the hand that was held by beads and found a hand without a hole in it. He was sad when he saw Sango grieving for the loss of her brother. He was confused as to what was going to happen to Kouga and Kagome when he saw him reaching to touch her hand. He hadn't even noticed that he was standing by Kagome's side and was astounded when he heard a voice's whisper rang into his mind with the words: "Your love for Inuyasha, your care for the future, your intelligent wish for power. It will be done and after this there will be no more jewel to worry about. Goodbye."

And then there was an infusion of power, the loss of the jewel and both – Kouga and he – were blown away from the power that drew away from Kagome's body and he realized what it was. Kagome's missing soul had gone back into her, he had missed the incredulous look of both Shippou and little Rin when the dead priestess crumbled into ashes that strewn about the floor and into the sky. Kikyou was gone and not coming back. He would've thought that Kikyou would have wanted to be alive, but he was certain that the dead priestess was aware that she was dead and that the dead were better off dead. With that he turned to see Sango and though he expected Sango to yell at the sky for her brother, he saw she was only shaking off the tears. He looked over at Kouga and found him lying on the floor looking shocked. Was he shocked for how things turned out to be? The answer was no. It seemed that he was looking at something else… something that was veritably more shocking than the thought of Kagome getting to be more powerful than she was already. It was because Inuyasha had collapsed. It was because Sesshoumaru – Inuyasha's brother of all people – was kneeling by his side over-looking at him with worry and concern sketching his face harshly. He struggled to stand up and try to understand what was going on. He struggled to open up his mouth to try and speak, but found that he couldn't even breath correctly. Was he suddenly dead? With a swoosh of air that rushed into his lungs, he discovered that no. No, he wasn't dead. He patted himself and looked around them to find new people about them. Shippou and little Rin were there looking concerned over their guardians. Ayame – the wolf princess of the northern mountains looking at Kouga in horror. For a moment everything was quiet and then sound was incorporated to the scene with Sesshoumaru turning red eyes to them three…

"What the fuck did you do?!" – and this made him stutter and try to come with an answer, but all he could do was open and close his mouth without managing to form a coherent sentence, much less a coherent word. More over, he was very much in shock over the words that had been thrown to Kagome because as far as they knew, Sesshoumaru would never ever use Inuyasha's lingo in any sort of shape or form! There had to have happened something really weird from the result of the wish… what was going on?!

Sango.

What the fuck did they do alright. She could see that the changes that had overtaken them all – all those who were in the clearing – were a direct result of the combined wish of three people: Kagome, Kouga and Miroku. She hadn't been privy to the comings and goings of them all since the battle had finished for all she could think of were the fact that Kohaku could never come back to her. Her father had once told her that if there was something that she should never ask for is for the dead to come back to life. If the dead were dead, then they had to stay dead. Even so, she had to grief. She wondered briefly – if only for a minute – if she could ask the jewel for her brother to come back to life. But then coming back to life when he had been dead for more than a day, more than two years actually because it had taken them four to five years in total to recollect the shards and finally kill Naraku; that she realized that even asking for that was a bit foolish of her. Kohaku was better off dead. If he were to suddenly come back to life, he would remember everything and that would've driven him insane with guilt. Not to mention that if he were to come alive all of the sudden, there was a good chance that whilst his body might function, his heart might not because he could've crossed over and a body without a soul was nothing more than a shell. Even Kikyou had been nothing more than a shell up to the point of her snatching half of Kagome's soul into her body. And even then, Kikyou had not been the same person that Inuyasha had known once before. Which brought her back to the current dilemma… Inuyasha had collapsed. Sesshoumaru – lord of the western lands – had rushed to see what was wrong with his idiot half-breed brother.

She settled her eyes on Kagome who had lost her composure and inmediately tried to touch Inuyasha but was batted away by Sesshoumaru who cuddled Inuyasha in his arms – here Sango made a pause as she realized that not only Kouga looked to be in shock, but Miroku could not form a word, and Sesshoumaru had completely recovered his left arm back – carefully and would not let him go for a second. What was going on? And would anyone care to explain to her why Sesshoumaru's toad was unaffected by all the comings and goings of everything that was occurring? She saw Sesshoumaru stand up with his brother lying in his arms softly and tenderly and what the fuck?!?! Did she suddenly stepped into the twilight zone or something? Was Kouga looking a little jealous because Inuyasha was being carried by Sesshoumaru – of all people – to safety?

She turned to look at Inuyasha again and found to her utter confoundment that whatever the hell they wished for managed to turn Inuyasha into a full-blooded demon. He looked so deceptively fragile that Sango had to wonder if this new change made him different. What did it make him now? Did the wish make him stronger? It certainly gave him an alluring scent that even she could smell. But other than that the extent of Inuyasha's new abilities would have to wait since the young man was nowhere near conscious and yet she found herself wishing a bit that she could touch him. She shook her head in disbelief. She was grieving. Period. There was no open door in her heart to allow anyone in, for her grief was deep and she did not want to have anyone anymore. To care meant to love and to love meant to hurt. And she knew she did not have the strength to do so anymore… at least not right at the minute. She stood up and said…

"Miroku. Please come over here so that you may help me with the last of my brother's ashes. I wish to help Kohaku's soul go in peace and I cannot do that on my own." – and was pleasantly surprised to see that this set him quickly in motion, though his eyes often trailed after the demon lord and his brother and was it any wonder that she felt no jealousy for this when before the look that Miroku bestowed upon Inuyasha was the same lecherous thoughts that came across his seemingly innocent face whenever he asked any maiden that crossed into his road to bear his children.

Kouga

Days passed as they had made their way back to the village they had all made it back to Kaede's village. Although why it was called as such was nobody's guess, but what did it matter anyway? He realized immediately that this was all their combined effort (Miroku's, Kagome's and his) fault. If he had not touched Kagome when she was at her maximum purifying strength (it was a surprise that he was alive at all), Inuyasha would not be 'comatose' as Kagome had explained. He was sure that the hanyou – well not a half-breed anymore – was still in unnatural sleep. He didn't understand why he was suddenly feeling such need for him. Why the scent of his once rival-enemy, made him want to do things he only thought of doing to Kagome once? It was bizarre and he didn't understand why he felt the crave of being sexual to the beautiful Inuyasha. He hoped that this was just a passing want and that once everything returned to normal, he would be back into his own comfort zone and… could he ever want to mate a human priestess? Like Kagome? He decided that perhaps his want in mating Kagome was purely out of childish wish to control his future, whereas saying to Ayame that he would not mate her because she wasn't the one, was something of a petty wish to annoy her.

He would not mate either of them, he decided. The question now was, who was he going to take to the council now that he had acknowledged that both females who he had once said he wanted to take as a mate were unworthy of him. He found he didn't know the answer to that question.