Wow... well, thank's for all the reviews and the encouragment! Keep 'em coming and you'll be rewarded with some Fluff in the next chapter!
Well, actually you get fluff anyway, I just really appreciate reviews. Even if you feel like you'll only be saying exactly what everyone else is saying, please say it anyway! It makes me happy in my soul and gives me the strength to carry on with this very, very OOC story.
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"Why? Why is this all happening?" Kagome raged in her distraught mind. There were too many revelations in the past 24 hours, too many events that had taken place in rapid succession. She was too shocked to even care about the wellbeing of Kouga as the now fully female Inuyasha attempted to cleave him in two.
She watched with no feeling as Sesshomaru restrained the ex-male from behind. Inuyasha, of course did not enjoy this.
"Calm dow-" Sesshomaru's words were cut off with a choking sound. Inuyasha had cracked her head back against his throat, and then forward to sink her fangs in his arm. This resulted in a cry of pain, and what she was after, her release.
"Ma'am, miss, whatever. Look, I don't know you!" Kouga tried desperately to appease the insane woman he had never seen before in his life. He was met with a guttural scream of rage, too angry and terrible for words.
Whether it was the moments that it took for these events to pass were what allowed Kagome to regain her senses, or the scream of rage, she never knew, but she did regain her senses long enough to subdue the vengeful half-demon.
"Inuyasha, sit." She almost sighed, just wanting the world to stop for a second! Couldn't it just stop for a measly little second?
"Inuyasha?" Kouga sent a confused look Kagome's way while Inuyasha was sent to calm down in the dirt.
"Kouga." Kagome sighed and rubbed her temples as if she had a massive migraine. "There's some major things going on, so I would appreciate it if you would just... run off." She waved a hand absently in the direction he had come from.
Kouga continued giving her a questioning look but eventually, after what seemed ages to Kagome, he turned around with a wave and departed with a, "Later." His minions had previously fled before the wrath of Inuyasha, and now Kouga ran after them.
At this point, Inuyasha had regained enough movement to swing her leg forward and catch Kagome in the back of the knee and the reincarnated priestess joined the half-demon on the ground.
"Hey!"
"Mine hurt worse!"
Kagome groaned in frustration. Inuyasha may have a woman's body now, but she was still as horrible as ever. "Why do you even care about Kouga? You're a girl!"
"Cuz I don't like 'im!" Inuyasha growled back. She got up stiffly. That particular sit had hurt more than usual. It would have merited more mulling over, but Inuyasha was too enraged to care much about pain at the moment.
"And you!" She spotted Sesshomaru and her rage was diverted. "You give me back my sword now!" She lunged at him but he dodged her.
"No! The wrongs of our father have been righted. I'm no-"
"I SAID GIVE IT!" Inuyasha did not care what ever her brother had to say. This time she successfully managed to grab hold of the scabbard of Tetsaiga and the strap holding it to Sesshomaru's side was ripped apart as she wrenched it from him. She unsheathed the weapon but it did not change. She had no thought of protecting humans, only exacting her revenge.
"NOW GET THE HELL OUT!" She trained the rusted old blade on Sesshomaru's throat. He opened his mouth to speak but Inuyasha interrupted him. "I SAID NOW!!!!"
Just as the past 24 hours had been filled with strangeness, so was the next moment, when Sesshomaru actually turned and was gone. He just left... What the crap?! After all the gang had been through, if you had told them yesterday morning that tomorrow Inuyasha would order Sesshomaru to leave and his brother would have gone, they would have laughed and considered you nuts. And that was if you didn't even mention Inuyasha's sudden switch of genders.
Inuyasha was tempted to now take out her overwhelming anger on who ever she saw next, which would have been her friends, but Miroku stepped in. Whether he had seen the danger to their limbs or not, he managed to calm everyone down with wise and gentle words that no one really remembered or understood. No one said a word as they trudged back to the shack. They all realized that Inuyasha's anger was easily excited at the moment. Maybe it was his... er, her death shrieks and the attempted maiming of Kouga and Sesshomaru.
The rest of the day was filled with mindless chatter. Like anyone could focus on anything other than the days happenings! Inuyasha made a point of not speaking, skulking in a corner with her arms crossed furiously across her chest. If it weren't for the loss of height, bulk, and other masculine features, one wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between the Inuyasha of the present and the Inuyasha of that morning.
As the day was approaching it's close and the sun began to nestle behind the trees, the inevitable could no longer be postponed.
"How long till I change back?" Inuyasha growled at Totosai and Myoga.
The two shot nervous glances at each other until Inuyasha asked again, this time more angry, "How long?!"
"It might be tomorrow, it might be till the next new moon..." Myoga gulped. Neither dared to say the next option.
Inuyasha didn't reply with words. The half-demon snarled, seeming about to attack the two conspirators if they didn't say something that would appease her anger, and fast.
"W-when you turn human, think of that night as a refresh night. If last night hadn't been a new moon, you probably would have remained... the way you were unless you still didn't have the sword at that time of the month." Totosai explained. Inuyasha seemed somewhat sated, but not fully.
Before Myoga and Totosai could begin a tag-team effort of not getting butchered, Inuyasha turned her attentions to the door of the shack and stood up. As she unsheathed Tetsaiga, and the rest of the gang started guessing who was about to show up, Sesshomaru appeared at the doorway.
"I told you to get lost!" By means unknown to everyone but Tetsaiga, the sword allowed Inuyasha to make it transform. It stayed in the air, menacingly trained on Sesshomaru... for about half a second. The giant length of metal crashed to the floor, leaving a long dent in the wood. Inuyasha fumed at her loss of strength and growled at Sesshomaru, "Leave or I'll lunge this thing forward and then I won't be the only man in the room with a pus-"
"I'm not leaving till you know the whole truth, then you can decide to carry out crude threats." Sesshomaru interrupted. He seemed unconcerned by the curved point of Inuyasha's sword now pointing straight at his crotch.
"I know you are angry at me, and you have every right to be. But you should be even angrier at them." Sesshomaru gestured towards Totosai and Myoga with a glance. "In his old age, our father had taken leave of his senses. When he died, his two servants wished to blindly continue to follow his orders." Sesshomaru explained, "One of which was to twist and warp the fate of an innocent baby girl and abandon her to fate with her human mother. Tell me if this is fair."
"And if you've cared so much, then all those times before must have been 'love taps,' is that it?"
"Have you ever died? Have I ever harmed you enough for permanent damage?"
"You've run me completely through with you're bare hands!" Inuyasha countered, referring to the first time Sesshomaru had managed to steal Tetsaiga away by means of a borrowed human limb.
"I was frustrated. You weren't cooperating." Sesshomaru replied more quietly than he had his other explanations. He obviously regretted the action. "Whenever I could manage it, on the new moons I would-" Upon seeing Inuyasha's surprised and somewhat alarmed expression, Sesshomaru added, "Yes I know you're secret. Anyway, whenever I could manage, I would be there to make sure nothing happened to you."
"...you... Liar! Plenty has happened to me on tho-"
"Not when I was there!" Sesshomaru said forcefully. "The point is, I've been there for you, whether you were aware of it or not, and it has been they who have been the cause of much of the hardships of your life, no matter how I've tried to thwart them. That is the reason for my search for our father's grave and that damnable sword that went with it and why I couldn't let you know about it unless I couldn't find another way to right this wrong."
There was a silence, a rather uncomfortable one for the two accused, while Inuyasha quickly processed what had just been presented to her. Then with great effort, the Tetsaiga was lifted and pointed at its new targets. It fell to the wood once more as Inuyasha growled now at Totosai and Myoga.
"I don't ever," Inuyasha shook with terrible anger, "EVER want to see you two again."
They got the hint and Sesshomaru stepped to the side as they skedaddled out of there before Inuyasha could change her mind about allowing them to live.
"Don't think this means I don't still hate you." Inuyasha grumbled to her brother as Tetsaiga was transformed and re-sheathed. "I just hate them more now."
"Fair enough." Sesshomaru nodded. "May I stay?"
Inuyasha seemed to allow it, for her next response was, "Don't get any funny ideas. I'm going back to how I was before as soon as this damn swords spell kicks in."
No more was said as the group bedded down, including Sesshomaru, and the first day of the 28-day wait for Inuyasha's genes to change back to XY chromosomes ended.