Frightening thought

A/N: Any flashbacks that I have in this story are going to be in italics. Also If there is something really wrong or out of place then please let me know and I'll do my best to ether explain it or change it.

The sun is just starting to break over the mountains in the distance. Kagome and the others are all still sleeping in their sleeping bags as the fire from the night before is lightly smoking. Everybody except Inuyasha, who has been restless all night. As the sun raises higher Kagome stirs in her sleeping bag.

Inuyasha sees kagome out of the corner of his eye, Kagome sits up and lets out a big stretch and yawn then looks up at Inuyasha.

Kagome says as she stands up, "Hey, what's up Inuyasha?"

"Nothin, don't worry about it." Inuyasha replied grumply.

"Let me guess, another sleepless night?"

"Hmph, maybe, I said don't worry about it."

"I wonder what's been bothering him so much that he won't tell me? He hasn't been acting normal at all ever since his last fight with Sesshoumarou." Kagome thought to herself.

Inuyasha stands with his tethsiga drawn and at his side, both of his hands are gripping the sword tightly and Inuyasha is staring at Sesshoumarou with hate filled eyes. Sesshoumarou is standing across from him with his sword drawn. In-between them is a large canyon. Inuyasha is breathing heavy with a few scrapes and cuts wile Sesshoumarou stands seemingly untouched and completly calm. Inuyasha tightens his grip on his sword and with a mighty effort he whips his sword up and with a roar he unleashes his wind-scar. Sesshoumarou with his lightning reflexes bounds away from the attack to the left and counters with his dragon strike. Inuyasha, unable to react fast enough , takes a direct blow from the attack and he can only watch as his tethsiga is knocked away from him and down the canyon.

Kagome sees Inuyasha's sword fly away and return to it's original frail looking self. In a fear induced fit she screams out. "INUYASHA, NOOO!"

"Oh no, his tethsiga was knocked away!" Miroku blurts out with his eyes growing as wide as they can.

"That means that there isn't anything keeping Inuyasha from transforming into a demon!" Sango says with the calmness that only years of being raised as a demon slayer would have, though her eyes are saying something very differint.

Inuyasha is now laying face up on a ledge, he is bleeding from his shoulder and his thigh wile he is also twitching violently from the shock of the attack. Sesshoumarou knows that he has to act fast to kill Inuyasha. Just as Sesshoumarou leaps for the kill a bright flash blinds him and he feels an intense piercing feeling in his back. He hit's the ground and rolls to his feet. He turns around and sees Kagome with another arrow drawn and already aimed at him.

"Fucking wench!" He snaps

"I won't let you hurt him!"

Sesshoumarou rises to his feet, he stabs his sword into the dirt and reaches back and grabs the arrow from his back. He snaps it between his fingures and reaches down and pulls his sword out of the ground then he raises his sword at Kagome and begins to yell.

"DRAGON…"

But before he can finish, he feels a massive amount of pressure on his side. Sesshoumarou can only watch as he listens the sound of cracking ribs and watch tiny drops of blood spray from his mouth. Inuyasha had transformed into a demon and while Sesshoumarou was distracted by Kagome Inuyasha charged at him and kicked him in his side. As Sesshoumarou fly's off to the side of the cliff Inuyasha runs and grabs his foot and pulls the upside down Sesshoumarou up. For only a moment he glares at him with evil hateful eyes and then a wide evil smile spreads across his face. With a strong pull he slams Sesshoumarou into the lesge ledge. Inuyasha, still holding on, flings Sesshoumarou into the air. Inuyasha leaps into the air and sinks his claws deep into Sesshoumarous gut up to his own elbow. Sesshoumarou gives out a loud yell. Inuyasha with his arm still in Sesshoumarous gut flings his arm and as a result flings Sesshoumarou down to the ground, Sesshoumarou hit's the ground, hard, but manages to roll away just before Inuyasha lands so hard that he crushes the stone ground beneath him. Sesshoumarou pushes himself to his feet then wraps his hand around his waist and bounds down one of the canyons and hides in a crevice to regain his composure.

"How can this have happened? How could he have gotten so much stronger and faster? Even when we fought the last time when he transformed into a full blooded demon he wasn't nearly this tough! What the hell happened to him? He's like another person all together now! I am Sesshoumarou, I will not be defeated! I - WILL - MAKE - HIM - SUFFER!" Sesshoumarou thought.

Just then Sesshoumarou peeks out and sees Inuyasha with his back turned as he attempts to follow Sesshoumarou's trail. Sesshoumarou fueled by anger then dashes out of the crevice and with a mighty blow, he slams Inuyasha in the back of the head with his knee, almost knocking him out. Almost. Inuyasha fly's forward into the side of one of the cliffs and crashes through it about 3 or 4 feet. Sesshoumarou races toward the spot where he hit Inuyasha. Sesshoumarou catches wind of danger and comes to a screeching to a halt, just then Inuyasha leaps out of the hole and slashes at where Sesshoumarou would have been if he would have continued to charge forward, but Sesshoumarou with his lightning fast reflexes, jumps up back onto the top of the cliff and then as soon as his feet touch the ground he dashes forward anticipating Inuyasha's next attack. Thankfully for Sesshoumarou he was right in his anticipation and spears Inuyasha, they fly forward a few yards then crash down onto the hard surface and roll a few times. Sesshoumarou gains his composure first and reaches down and rips his swords sheath from his side and cracks it over Inuyasha's head, finally knocking him out. Despite his wound he still has the strength to grab Inuyasha by his ankle and fling him over to the others then with no visible effort he bounds to within 15 feet of them all.

"I can't believe how much stronger he's gotten. The last time I fought him he was barley even a challenge and the last time I saw him he was standing guard over that mortal girl as she sat in a room with other mortals in her time. There's no way I can let him escape this time, our next encounter if he continues at this rate could end up… NO! Inuyasha, you're existence shall now end!"

"Hold on Sesshoumarou! You know that in your weakened state you can't escape my wind tunnel. If you come one step closer I'll unleash it sucking up both you and Inuyasha."

"NO! MIROKU YOU CAN'T!" Kagome shrieks.

"Y Yeah, you can't Miroku, please!" Shippo squeeks.

"Stand back you two, if Sesshoumarou gets one chance then Inuyasha's dead anyway." Sango says.

All Kagome can do is let out a pitiful whimper at the thought of Inuyasha getting sucked up into the void in Mirokus hand.

"Leave Sesshoumarou, wile you still have the chance to fight another day."

Sesshoumarou lets out a deep and terrifying growl and then shouts out. "I SWEAR THAT BEFORE MY TIME ENDS I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU. IN THIS TIME OR HER TIME I-WILL-SEND-YOU-TO-HELL!"

Sesshoumarou then leaps away from one rock formation to the next.

"I almost wish I wouldn't have told him, but he had a rite to know. How did Sesshoumarou know about anything from my time? Unless he was somehow there, but if he could go to my time then what's to stop Naraku or any and all of the rest of the demon world?" Kagome thinks to herself.

Slowly the rest of the group begins to stir awake. First Shippo, then Miroku, then with a loud scream a red faced Sango springs up, with her right hand soaring through the air and coliding with Mirokus face.

"PERVERT!"

"Damn this possessed hand of mine" Miroku says as he stares at his hand and rubbing his face.

"MY ASS THAT HAND IS POSSESSED!" Sango screams with veins pulsing out of her head and neck.

"Good choice of words Sango" Kagome giggles.

Inuyasha just sits on his tree limb continueing to stare out at the rising sun. Everyone on the ground turns at almost the same time and looks up at him. Miroku still sporting a nice red hand print on his face looks over to Kagome and says.

"Has he been up there all night?"

"Ya, he couldn't sleep again, I asked him is he was OK even though I know he's not but he's so damned hard headed he just plays tough and gives me the cold shoulder."

"I can hear you both down there you know."

Kagome and Miroku stiffen up and a cold chill run down their spines. Apparently they didn't think Inuyasha could hear them. Inuyasha doesn't even turn to face the group as he stands up and jumps down from his perch. With an emotionless tone he says.

"Now that everybody's had their beauty sleep can we get a move on? The jewel shards won't find us."

Kagome looks down at her feet and with a quiet and sad tone she says.

"Ya sure, just, just give us a few minutes to pack everything up."

"Don't take to long, aside from jewel hunting I'm also starving." Inuyasha says with a hint of cheerfulness.

Kagome lets out a sigh and under her breath she mumbles. "Figures that the only thing that can bring him out of a crappy mood is the thought of food."

"If we hurry, we can probubly make it to the next village by noon." Miroku mentions with his usual cheery attitude.

With that said the group packs up their stuff and begins the realitivily short hike to the close village. A few hours later Inuyasha's keen sense of smell kicks in and his nose twitches ever so slightly, within moments Shippo's nose is picking up the same smell, however, instead of twitching, his nose is scrunching up.

"Blah, whats that awful smell?" Shippo says wile holding his nose."

Everybody stops and looks at the tiny fighter all with the same look of mild confusion. Inuyasha, almost drulling take two running steps forward and with a slight growl in his voice he answers everyones unspoken question.

"Somebody's cooking something meaty up ahead."

Without another word the half demon takes off running.

"Inuyasha! Wait up!" She yells.

"Damn, he's really moving, in a very odd way however."

"What do you mean Miroku?" Sango asks.

"His movements are more like a wild animal right now."

Miroku was right, as Inuyasha took off he pulled his stance in tightly then sprang forward looking more like a wild dog on the hunt than a person thats just picked up wind of a good meal. Even the way Inuyasha was running was different, instead of making it a straight dash he's zig zagging as if to avoid attention from his prey. All the stranger is the reaction that Shippo was having, he not only seemed to dis-like the smell, he seemed down right repulsed by it.

"Come on guys we need to catch up to him."

"Your right, Kerara!" Sango snaps her head down to the tiny kitten and then with a burst of flames the once cute tiny kitten erupts into a large saber-toothed lion demon. Sango jumps on to the back of the giant cat and Miroku gets right behind her, all to happy to be right up on Sango.

"TRANSFORM!" Shippo yells out, he is then engulfed in a cloud of pink smoke. Once the cloud disapates a large marshmellow looking thing appears, with big white eyes. Kagome wastes no time and hops on the floating marsh mellow's back. With a grunt shippo quickly floats towards the direction that Inuyasha oddly sprang off to.

As soon as the group gets above the trees they can see various clouds of smoke off in the near distance.

"Over there!" Miroku calls out.

The group pushes forward as fast as they can, though Sango, Miroku and Kirara ar far ahead of the much slower Shippo.

"Come on Shippo can't you go any faster!"

"Hey it's not easy to move when your in the shape of a blob!" Shippo yells out with a stream of tears running down his pink face.

Even with how slow the blob moves it still doesn't take long to close the distance between himself and the streams of smoke that are floating up to the sky. Nothing in all the realms could have prepared them for the sight that they were about to behold. They may never be able to see Inuyasha the same way ever again.