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Tessadragon

Chapter 1

"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha bellowed, jumping up and dropping the pot of noodles he'd been about to eat. The fact that they spilled across the grass only made him angrier as though his brother, who wasa full demon unlike him, standing tall and impressive far across the meadow, was personally responsible. "Get it through that thick skull...we were here first!"

Watching him, Kagome sighed and started folding up the picnic blanket. She'd travelled with Inuyasha for several months and it wasn't new to her, how Inuyasha squabbled with his older brother! Worse than me and Sota, she thought, thinking fondly of her younger brother back in the modern era. She never failed to hold private amazement at how right now she was sitting in a beautiful sunlit meadow in the feudal era, centuries before she was meant to have been born!

I'll never regret it either, she thought positively. The friends she'd gained here were amazing people: Miroku the lecherous monk, Sango the demon-slayer, Shippo the adorable little fox demon kid, and Kirara, such a sweet little cat demon--though when she had to fight she was definitely no kitten! And of course Inuyasha...she always knew it was why she was here. Inuyasha the half demon. She'd battle alongside him until they got all the Sacred Jewel shards back from Naraku! She didn't like to think of what would happen after that though, she just knew that Inuyasha wouldn't go and forget her after all the times she'd made him faceplant just by saying 'Sit!'

The sound of Tetsusaiga's gleaming blade crashing against Sesshomaru's ferocious sword brought her back to angrily realising that Inuyasha had completely forgotten the picnic she had taken ages preparing, just so he could fight his big brother. Gritting her teeth, she started packing Inuyasha's food away. I'm not giving him anything to eat when he comes limping back!

Miroku, looking amused, reached out and grabbed the last riceball. "Don't pack up the food," he suggested. "Inuyasha and Sesshomaru always fight like this, remember. We may as well all continue with the meal."

Kagome looked over at Inuyasha just as he sent the Windscar attack at Sesshomaru. Then she nodded at Miroku. Sango gave her a small smile then took her hand away from her Hirikoss weapon, realising there was no point in joining in this battle. Miroku reached out an offered her a piece of the omelette. A wary look in her eyes, Sango accepted.

Looking over, Kagome began watching as Inuyasha glared at his older brother who'd just batted away the Windscar easily. Sesshomaru was tall and resplendent as always, his aloof manner hardly upset, his eyes narrowed. Some metres behind him, at the edge of the woods through which Kagome herself and the others had travelled last night, she saw Sesshomaru's fellow travellers: Jaken (that nasty little imp, Kagome couldn't help thinking), and the adorable little girl Rin. Rin raised her hand and gave Kagome a wave, and Jaken's scolding rose through the air: "Rin! Don't wave at those pathetic humans!"

Kagome's eye twitched and a second later, a fist-sized rock hit Jaken on the head. "Ow!"

Rin giggled.

Sesshomaru had turned his head slightly to take in the sight of his vassal, Jaken, rubbing his sore skull, and Rin rubbing her toe across the ground uncomfortably, used to her lord's ways.

"Go, Inuyasha," he ordered coldly. "And I will not strike you down."

Inuyasha spat, "Do you think I'm that much of a weakling?"

"Yes," Sesshomaru said simply, sheathing the vicious second sword he carried.

A growl rose in Inuyasha's throat...

"Inuyasha!" Kagome called and involuntarily Inuyasha's head turned, his ears twitching. Kagome held up his treasured pot of noodles. A tortured expression rose on Inuyasha's face..."Kagome?" he demanded.

A stern look came over Kagome's pleasant complexion. "If you fight with Sesshomaru, I won't let you have the noodles."

"As if you could stop me," Inuyasha scoffed.

Kagome smiled blandly...Inuyasha got a sorry-for-himself feeling.

"Sit," Kagome said calmly.

With a bang, Inuyasha face-planted.

Sesshomaru humourlessly went back towards Jaken and Rin, then saw that Rin had gone.

Rin was idly wandering towards Kagome, Miroku, Sango and Shippo. Kagome smiled and offered her a spare pot of noodles. Rin looked at it in puzzlement, "What do I do with it?"

"Kagome!" Inuyasha howled. Sesshomaru didn't look pleased either, but that wasn't unusual for him. "Rin. Come back here. We are going."

Rin looked at the pot of noodles that Kagome had just poured the boiling water into. She looked torn between having her food and going back to Sesshomaru.

Kagome took over, standing up and going to Sesshomaru, "It's okay…she just wants something to eat. It'll save you having to wait for her to get something to eat later."

Sesshomaru regarded her like an insect but finally strode back into the woods.

Inuyasha glared after Seshomaru's retreating back for a few moments, then switched his glare to Rin who was hungrily devouring her pot of noodles, then he transferred his glare to Kagome, who glared back at him then shrugged and handed him a pot of noodles. He hardly hesitated, ravenously slurping the noodles.

"So, Rin, how's it going?" Kagome queried, nibbling a piece of omelette.

"It's great!" Rin beamed at her, a bit of sauce on her chin. Cattishly, her tongue flicked out to clean it, then she turned her head to where Sesshomaru had gone, a bit of worry in her eyes.

"It's okay, he won't go without you," Kagome assured her.

"Oh I know that," Rin said confidently. "My lord is a good person. He has saved me many times."

Inuyasha growled low in his throat. Kagome hid an irritated look. Rin smiled indulgently, used to demonic attitude, and devoted herself to finishing the noodles before jumping to her feet. She cast a courteous curtsey to Kagome, "Thank you! Bye!" Then ran back across to the woods to search for Sesshomaru.

"Aw," Kagome smiled, "What a cute kid…"

"It is strange for such a child to be so happy travelling with Sesshomaru," Sango agreed with what Kagome had left unsaid.

Inuyasha snorted. "She's probably retarded."

"Inuyasha!" Kagome lost her temper, jumping to her feet. "SIT!"

"ARGH!"

Kagome didn't even bother to wait and see how bruised Inuyasha's face must look. She stormed off, accidentally in the direction of Rin.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha thundered.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku snapped. "It was unreasonable of you to say such a thing about the girl. Be a man and say sorry to her."

Inuyasha glowered at him and walked off after Kagome.

Miroku and Sango sighed in unison, knowing perfectly well that Inuyasha wasn't apologising to anyone.

Shippo hesitated then bounded after Kagome and Inuyasha.

"I suppose we'd better tidy it up," Miroku said mournfully. Sango hid a smile and quietly watched the lecherous monk, her comrade, fold up the picnic blanket.