I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I know I know I know. I should be being a decent, respectable, upright citizen and attend to my other stories. Well you know what? I'M NOT. I feel like writing this, and so that's what I'm going to do. For the record, right before this first chapter here I was trying, TRYING REALLY HARD, to write new chapters for other stories. But I couldn't satisfy myself with anything...So here we are. Besides, I'm under a tad bit of emotional stress during spring break, and that's never fun...to be stressed on a vacation. This is a form of therapy for me children. Now listen up, I don't think there's anyone out there who's so obsessed with Inuyasha that they'd pick apart the following text. This story starts in episode...what was it...seven, I think. Where they're still in the tomb and such of that nature, you know what I'm talking about. Yes, anyway, let's begin.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha... anything related to it, etc., and nothing else that I stupidly mention and you feel isn't mine.

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Lei non Deve Parlare, Sento

Chapter 1-It Surprises and Scares

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She shuddered with shock as something rippled over her heart. A brooding something, a wicked something that chilled her blood and caused her hand to stop abruptly before tossing another skull at the toad creature Jaken's head. Her skin began to shiver while every individual hair on her body stood erect in tense fear. Dimly, without realizing it, she uttered very softly, "Inuyasha..."

Her surroundings blurred intensely for a moment, and she felt herself stumble, nearly fall while she struggled not to feint under the pressure of this new feeling. It was not long before she moaned very softly in pain and screwed her eyes shut; all sounds faded out and she was deaf to everything but the pain that was beginning to consume her steadily. What was going on?

A familiar voice overflowing with cocky superiority brought her back to reality. "Hey," it shouted dejectedly at her, "You'd better not be about to die or anything! Do you hear me you stupid girl?! Kagome!"

Kagome's eyes blinked open suddenly and she found herself trembling where she stood on the bed of bones that stretched across the bottom of the skeletal remains Inuyasha's father in every direction. She took a hesitant step back to gain her shaky footing and then tried to locate the half-demon.

A thundering crash made her jump and she spun around, remembering the dire situation at hand. Towering above her and far too close for comfort, a mighty white demon dog was stomping over the skeleton-tomb furiously. A red blur was darting frantically in and out of Kagome's range of sight; dodging well aimed blows from the massive demon narrowly and just barely escaping the barrage of stone debris that followed after him with each impact. Inuyasha landed near enough to her to yell back in her general direction again, "Don't you die on me!" He pointed an accusing finger at her. His other hand was wrapped stiffly around the fraying handle of a dying old sword.

Kagome breathed slowly and deeply as she watched him take off again just in time to avoid a gigantic paw coming down on top of him. She shielded herself momentarily from the breeze and wave of dust that was kicked up from the blow and then called back to him, "Inuyasha, I'm fine, don't worry!"

"Worry!" He yelled back, "Who said anything about worrying?! You're obviously more helpful alive than dead! Although sometimes," he moved away from another attack, "I question that!"

Her anger blossomed inside of her in seconds, and her fists clenched up immediately as she responded to the frenzied speck that was Inuyasha. "Oh REALLY?! Just who was it who got the Tetsusaiga for you?! ME!"

He moved out of her glare again in a panicked bolt. "Yeah, and a lot of help it turned out to be!"

Kagome stood rooted to the ground in fury for a second, trying to register the total insensitivity of the half-breed, when the chilling numbness crept back into her without warning. She gave a little noise of surprise when her blood suddenly froze again, but this time was able to gain control before it dominated her senses like the time before. It was a foreboding feeling, a warning feeling. "Inuyasha!" She cried, this time with terrified concern ringing in her voice instead of spite.

"What?!" Another monstrous noise of destruction followed his voice.

"Something bad is going to happen!" Every syllable was wavering, "I can feel it...!"

"Something bad IS happening, you idiot!"

"No..." Her voice became small and scared, and he was too far away to hear her while she was too frightened to raise her own volume. "This is different...Inuyasha, Inuyasha!"

"WATCH OUT!"



The white demon dog, Sesshomaru, lunged at her forcefully with both front paws put forward in a direct motion to stomp out her life. Before she even had time to react, it was too late, and he was nearly on top of Kagome's small frame when Inuyasha hurried in and bounded upwards with her in his arms just in time. They rose into the air and then drifted down gently to land safely on an upper rib far enough above Sesshomaru so that he wouldn't realize where they were for a little while at least.

Inuyasha released her immediately, "Are you trying to get yourself killed just to piss me off or what?!" Kagome was trembling violently and her eyes were clamped shut. Inuyasha hesitated, "Quit doing that. It wasn't that bad." She continued to shake uncontrollably, and her hands were still holding on as tightly as possible to his shoulders. She was making soft sounds that alarmed him more than anything, like she was in pain. "Kagome...Kagome? Snap out of it moron!" He shook her roughly by the shoulder and presently she started to gasp.

Kagome took great breaths, as if she had been drowning moments before. When she finally raised her face to him there were tears running down her cheeks. "Inuyasha..." The name came out almost like a sob.

He could only stare at her in abysmal confusion as he released her shoulder. "What is it with you?" he asked quietly as he gently removed her small hands from him. She was quick to grab back.

"Promise me you won't go back out there! You can't go back out there! Promise me!" She wept again after the sudden outburst while still trying to be as stern as possible. Her shoulders heaved with the sobs, but her eyes still stared out so piercingly that Inuyasha could not look away.

"What are you talking about?" He said skeptically.

"Listen to me!" Her voice became startlingly serious again over the tears, "You can't go back out there!" And then more softly, "You'll...something, will happen. I had a feeling..."

His features changed rapidly from uncertain concern and doubt to the smug haughtiness Kagome was used to; he stepped out of her reach coldly. "You're insane. I can't walk out of a battle just because you have a 'feeling.'" He started to turn with Tetsusaiga in his grasp. "Just stay here and watch. This rusted piece of junk has got to be good for something, and I'm going to find out what that is." With those parting words, he leapt off the edge of the bone and soared off towards the noise of Sesshomaru waiting below for him at the bottom of the skeleton.

Kagome scrambled after him until she was leaning precariously over the edge and staring down at the familiar scene of a frenzied red dot trying to combat an enormous demon monster. "Wait!" She called desperately, "You don't understand!" Realizing that he was beyond her voice, she bit her lip and felt a fresh onslaught of tears start in her eyes.

A strange springy noise like the sound of a ruler being snapped just barely stirred her attention, but she still didn't bother to look at the arrival of Myouga the flea on her shoulder, even though the fact that he hadn't run away for good already was a bit of a surprise. "Lady Kagome," his small, congested voice drifted up to her ear, "What is this feeling you speak of that troubles you so?"

Kagome couldn't respond, her eyes were fixed on the two brothers below her, but had she been able to, she would have whispered, "I don't know..." All that she was certain of, all that she could gather and assume from the feeling she had gotten was that something truly awful would happen if the fighting persisted very much longer. Something truly awful that would happen to Inuyasha.

The said half-breed's voice suddenly bellowed up to them from the ground in a fierce warning. "Climb!" He shouted, "Quickly!"

Kagome hesitated in confusion for a second before Myouga's voice announced the meaning of Inuyasha's command. "Poison fumes!" He cried; and then he was gone, scampering up as fast as he could move.

She looked around blankly for a moment longer, still puzzled, and then saw that there were indeed luminous green fumes curling up the walls, and they carried an acrid, burning scent that Kagome reeled from even when she was still far above it. After coughing briefly into her arm and looking down apprehensively at Inuyasha, she started to climb, feeling that Inuyasha was right; she was more helpful alive than dead.



Forceful blow after blow rang in her ears and made her flinch often. The sounds of bones being scattered and crushed, and walls being destroyed fiercely pulled at her heart. Kagome did her best to pursue Inuyasha's order, but soon found that she was frozen in place, just listening to the deafening noises repeating themselves. Her bleak thoughts stretched out to Inuyasha, and the combination of guilt and foreboding anxiety made her turn her head down into the green sea. She shivered, and then began to lower herself. 'I have to help him...' She thought, 'Somehow, I have to help!'

Before Kagome was able to take more than a step and a half down a flurry of racing red caught her painfully in her waist and she was soon being dragged upwards at alarming speeds. Inuyasha was panting as he carried her up, and his skin was an unhealthy shade due to too much exposure to the poison. Kagome gripped him tightly, relieved for the moment that he was at least still in relatively good condition...But the disconcerting fear still had not left her completely yet.

Light started to fade into their sight, and in a matter of seconds they emerged together out of the mouth of the skeleton into the strange sunlight of the tomb. As soon as they reached the outside Inuyasha stopped so quickly that Kagome tripped forward and landed on her hands and knees some few feet away from him. Gasping slightly she hurried to her feet and rushed to the half-demon's side. "Inuyasha," she whispered frantically. Checking him over for wounds with a sinking sensation rapidly growing stronger in her heart, she found that he was covered with numerous scratches where his fire-rat clothing wasn't able to protect him adequately enough, including a large gash on his head that was quickly leaking blood into his once pure mane.

Kagome's trembling fingers immediately tried to attend to his wounds, but he batted her away, panting laboriously for his efforts. "I'll be fine," he muttered softly.

"No you won't!"

His ominous yellow eyes swerved up to her and met her gaze evenly from beneath his disheveled bangs. In the look that he was giving her, as he breathed so raggedly and with so much obvious pain, Kagome felt that he was actually believing her feeling...That he knew what it might mean, even if she didn't, and that he wasn't afraid to meet it. The look scared Kagome more than anything else, and although words weren't necessary, she still uttered quietly one last time, "Please don't Inuyasha..."

He didn't respond, he didn't have too, and he wouldn't have any other opportunity, because Sesshomaru suddenly burst forth from the mouth of the skeleton, soaring above them before landing gracefully some ways away. Kagome noticed bitterly that Sesshomaru's elegant body displayed no wounds at all, not even the slightest scratch.

Fumbling at first, Inuyasha stood up tall and proud as ever; he knew what his chances were now that he was so injured both externally and internally from the poison, but he would never admit them before an enemy. Sesshomaru stood before him, equally challenging, and his image beckoned his brother forth to fight.

Kagome continued to kneel on the ground, and looked away when Inuyasha rushed back into battle, finding that she couldn't bear to watch him go because her premonition-feelings would surely overwhelm her.

Jaken crawled out of the skeleton behind her and stood resolutely a few yards away cackling evil remarks to her about the state of her hero and his weapon. Kagome ignored his taunts with focused determination; her attention belonged entirely to Inuyasha and his fight.

Inuyasha was standing only a little ways in front of Sesshomaru, holding Tetsusaiga grimly and moving as cautiously as possible around his enemy. His brother recoiled, not out of fear, but in preparation for an attack. In turn, Inuyasha stepped back to answer the threat nobly. He raised his sword and shouted, "Come on then!"

In a flash, Sesshomaru leapt forward in an effort to crush Inuyasha beneath his two front paws, but he stepped to the side skillfully in time to dodge it and moved just as skillfully away from Sesshomaru. His brother followed him and tried the same attack again, Inuyasha escaping him in the same fashion.

After a few tense moments the motion was tried a third time, and Sesshomaru was quick to snap to the right with is jaws. But instead of dodging in that direction, Inuyasha had gone to the left where he then took advantage of the fact that Sesshomaru's head was lowered to leap deftly onto the demon's neck. He clambered up onto his brother's face in seconds, despite the fierce opposition of Sesshomaru as he shook his head in an effort to rid himself of Inuyasha.

With as much speed as the damaged half-breed could muster, he knelt down, and with a roaring cry, drove the rusted Tetsusaiga down deep into his brother's right eye.

Sesshomaru howled in frustration in pain and reared his head back with such force that his brother was thrown off. He slammed into the ground hard and could only lay there for the pain that was attacking his body mercilessly at that moment. Inuyasha could hardly open his eyes, and so therefore he was not able to see the danger as Sesshomaru's paw came crashing down on top of his chest, pinning him to the ground and crushing him indefinitely.

Inuyasha screamed in agony, and Kagome mimicked him from where she sat, quivering since the beginning of the fight. The feeling of deep, wrenching misery and grief nearly reached its peak in her at that moment as she watched Inuyasha's pain heighten dramatically. Jaken's cheers never reached her ears, she only had senses for Inuyasha.

It seemed like a wicked nightmare then, as she watched his eyes narrow and muscles tighten. Her intense shivering stopped in an instant and all was still while she watched his efforts slowly begin to subside more and more...until he was simply lying on the ground with his eyes just barely focusing ahead of him.

Sesshomaru stood growling for a few seconds more as a light flow of dark blood streamed out of his maimed eye from where his little brother had pierced it so viciously. Then, he removed his paw, and a bright red light shone from him as his body began to shrink gradually, until he was lost in a single sphere of red. When the light dissipated entirely he was left standing solemnly as he had been before in his humanoid form. He regarded his half-brother then, and slowly started to make his way forward.

Kagome chose this time to return to reality. "No!" She screamed, and bolted towards the brothers as fast as she could. But Sesshomaru was already upon Inuyasha, who could do little more than stare at him with a burning, narrowed gaze that reflected his suffering in the form of intense anger. Almost gently, Sesshomaru lifted his brother's torso with one hand, and drew back the other for attack. "No, don't! Please don't!" Kagome's heart beat wildly.

His claws raked the air once briefly in preparation for the final blow.

"Farewell, little brother."

With that, he let his hand rush forward and tear mercilessly through Inuyasha's flesh, burrowing deep into his chest only to emerge from his back shortly. Even more quickly, he ripped his hand back again, although this time his long, graceful talons were no longer so immaculate, but bathed in his sibling's blood.



Kagome came upon them at the half-demon's last, fading moment. She had screamed when Sesshomaru struck him, and just as he was pulling his hand back and letting Inuyasha drop back to the ground, Kagome caught him in her arms, and instantly held him close to her.

His lips moved ever so slightly in an effort to speak; Kagome was silent, and strained to hear him as his soft, cracking voice drifted to her. "I'm sorry..." Inuyasha whispered.

Kagome stroked him gently, letting the burning tears fall onto him without hesitation. "Don't be..."

"I'm sorry...that I couldn't protect you..." In his left hand, the momentarily forgotten Tensaiga pulsed as if with its own heartbeat.

The light then faded out of Inuyasha's eyes, and his body ceased its struggle and went limp in Kagome's arms. She began to weep mournfully then, and buried her face in his silvery-white hair while still holding him dearly as if he might simply disappear out of her embrace at any moment.

Sesshomaru watched them silently for only a few seconds before his interest died out and his attention was restored to the sword. As Kagome hung over the body of his dead brother, Sesshomaru reached out for the weapon with a smile on his lips. The wonderful sensation of triumph was almost too much; to finally achieve his goal, to be able to hold his most precious Tetsusaiga in his own grasp...

As soon as his fingertips grazed the hilt of the sword brilliant blue flames sprouted around his hand and showered his flesh with waves of pain. He drew back immediately with a cold, unwavering stare fixed on the Tetsusaiga. His fury was almost great enough to make him lash out. It was impossible...Impossible that the Tetsusaiga would refuse him, not now when it was lying right in front of him!

"You don't deserve it anyway."

Kagome's bitter voice interrupted his thoughts. Sesshomaru's icy stare turned from the sword to the girl in an instant, daring her to speak again. Her head was lowered to him, and her eyes were still looking down blankly at the fallen half-demon still wrapped up in her arms. When she spoke, her words came to him from behind a curtain of dark hair that was hiding her face from the rest of the world.

"What did you say...human?"

She looked up at him slowly, with a new face that burned with an intense, quiet hatred. The loathing in her gaze was something he had never seen on one of her race. It seemed far too controlled and dangerous to be real...

"You don't deserve the sword," her voice began to rise steadily until she held a firm, silencing tone, "that was meant for Inuyasha."

Sesshomaru's rage got the better of him at that time, and he struck at Kagome with demonic speed. Before she could even blink he had his hand wrapped around her throat and his talons were ripping her delicate skin. Kagome cried out in pain softly, and again the Tetsusaiga pulsed. This time, however, it did not go unnoticed. Sesshomaru's grip slackened in his momentary shock, and they both turned to regard the seemingly lifeless weapon.

Yet as soon his fingers left her throat, Kagome moved again. Her upper lip curled in a snarl, and she raised her hand in a motion to hit Sesshomaru as hard as she could possibly manage... Kagome knew she was dead, she knew that we would kill her as soon as she let her hand fall, but she didn't care. He would kill her no matter what... She was just sorry that she couldn't do more to avenge Inuyasha's death. All that Kagome could think of, all that she was possessed by was a new, blinding, thundering anger that filled her entire body.

In a flash, while Sesshomaru's head was still turned, Kagome let her hand fly, aiming its palm for the demon's cheek while it was to her. It carried all of her strength, and it sailed through the air with flawless precision...

Her wrist suddenly stopped, though not by her own will. Sesshomaru glared at her with dangerously narrow golden eyes that glinted with wild anger. In his right hand he held Kagome's wrist in a burning hold. His claws glowed a hazy green as he pressed them into her flesh. She turned away in pain and stifled a scream by using her other hand to cover her mouth. "You dare..."

In a flash he had ripped her remaining hand from her mouth and held it in a searing grip as well. Bringing both hands together he wrenched her forward to him so that their faces were only inches apart. For agonizingly long seconds he held her before him, slowly burning the flesh of her wrists until he felt Kagome's blood begin to flow freely from the wounds.

"I will make you regret that, human." Abruptly he released her and allowed her to snatch back her hands and hold them to herself in misery. "You've chosen your fate now." He observed the blood that covered his hands, the blood of both the girl, and his brother. Collecting a bit of dirt from the ground in between his fingers, he used that to scrub away the excess liquid that covered his flesh.

After finishing this task, he once again looked over the small human girl before him. She remained hunched over, trying to prevent too much blood from escaping her body from the burns on her wrists.

"You are able to hold the Tensaiga."

She still did not look up. It appeared that she was crying, and once again her eyes were on the lifeless Inuyasha.

"You shall carry it then, for now."

Kagome's face darted up to him suddenly. She growled low in her throat and glared with fury more venomous than before. "I will never carry it for you..."



He struck at her again and caught the side of her head in a painful hold. Standing up, he lifted her with him by her hair until they were both on their feet, facing one another coldly. Sesshomaru lowered his head to her eye level, "You will do it, or I will destroy the village you abide in."

Here eyes became wide and vengeful. "You wouldn't..."

His unwavering golden eyes were her only answer.

She bit her lip with uncertainty, faced now with her inescapable fate. Kagome had never imagined that Sesshomaru would go to such ends for a mere sword. Not that it was below him to do such horrible things, it was that she hadn't thought of him as being able to understand the emotional value of the village to her. Kagome didn't know he had the ability to see that compassionate side of human nature...and she was disgusted by that ability. She would have had him be unknowing of it, not understanding of it.

Tears slipped out of her eyes again. She realized that whatever life she now had, short and fleeting as she knew it would be, was with Sesshomaru.

He in turn realized that he had defeated her spirit, and promptly released her in an almost violent fashion. "Lift it."

Slowly, she knelt down in shame near Inuyasha's body as she reached for the Tetsusaiga. "I'm sorry," she whispered to him briefly.



Her small fingers clung numbly to hilt of the sword as she carefully brought it up. Now holding it with both hands, she stood up slowly and faced Sesshomaru with a look of having been crushed, forever.

The previously silent Jaken who had been standing ignored by their side for some time hurried forth with his staff at his lords bidding. Lifting the two heads together, he summoned a portal leading out of the tomb and trundled past them into the swirling vortex.

Sesshomaru looked to Kagome as her signal to follow the creature. She hesitated and observed Inuyasha's body one last time. She knew it would be useless, and possibly costly to argue taking it with them for a proper burial, so she had to be satisfied with this painful farewell. His hair and clothing were disturbed by the wind created by the portal, and made him seem noble and elegant, a true warrior. Kagome gasped in the middle of a sob because the sight was so hauntingly beautiful.

The elder brother suddenly caught her eye as well, and for a moment she might've forgotten that he was Inuyasha's murderer. He was also watching his sibling's body with a cold stare, one that was devoid of emotion but didn't necessarily present a look of smug victory or disgust. Just quiet observation, like an ignorant onlooker. Then he stirred and turned towards the portal again, as if to cue her that it was time to leave him to rest. Kagome turned reluctantly.

'I would have loved you, Inuyasha...'

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That be the end of the first chapter boys and girls. Spring break is bliss, let's see if I can get to writing more in this next week. Oh, and we're going to assume that it would still be impossible for Sesshomaru to pick up the Tetsusaiga by wrapping it up in a piece of cloth or something. I mean, come on, would a bit of cloth be enough to break a spell? I don't think so.