Kagome looked down at the five jewel shards that were being held in a small glass vial.
She sighed 'Two weeks of traveling, and all we have so far, are five shards?' she thought sadly.
It's been two weeks since she had met sesshomaru, inuyasha's older half-brother. And two weeks since she had broken the shikon no tama, revieled to the two inus that she was too a demon, traveled with both to hunt down the shards, and trained with sesshomaru with her demon abilities, to get stronger and destroy naraku, speaking of which, when he said he was going to train her, he meant it. Kagome was sore all over.
She has yet to find a powerful miko to train her. She has found many other mikos but they were either weak, or tried to purify her.
Again she sighed 'I'm sore but we have to keep going, it's still bright out' with that, she got up from the tree she was currently laying under, and began walking off towards her group.
When she reached the group, inuyasha and sesshomaru were having another spat.
"Sesshomaru, ya bastard! I ain't weak, just because I'm half human, I could still whip your ass!" inuyasha growled out.
Sesshomaru scoffed "oh little brother? Then let's see how weak you truly are, with that vile human blood running through you veins.
With that said sesshomaru, ran towards inuyasha at such a fast speed, he didn't see it coming.
Inuyasha was thrown into a tree, and hit all the branches while falling down said tree, until a landed face first on the ground.
Kagome chuckled in amusement, she knew that sesshomaru would stop after that hit; the fight never went too far.
Hearing the slight chuckle inuyasha's head whipped around to see a highly amused kagome, he looked at the ground he was currently laying on, in embarrassment, and got up.
"Tch, wench what're you laughing at? The bastard simply caught me off guard, and…..and the sun was in my eyes" he said looking away from her before she could see his crimson blush that coted his face.
Kagome snorted at the obvious lie, as they were currently camped in a well treed area, and the trees, shaded everything. She decided not to say anything. Though, she did not see the blush that plagued his face.
Sesshomaru though, did in fact see the blush, and raised an eyebrow. 'hm, interesting' his thought was interrupted when kagome spoke up.
"Ok, I think we should start heading out again, I sensed a few shards north-east, about 200m from here, it'll take at least until tomorrow to get there if we travel fast" she stated.
After packing up (sesshomaru brought the supplies) they were ready to go.
Sesshomaru summoned his cloud under his feet, kagome did the same thing and they were off.
Inuyasha, not being full demon and didn't have many demon abilities, had to run as fast as he could just too slightly keep up.
After about four hours, they stopped (lucky inuyasha) and rested until tomorrow.
When both demons stopped, they lowered themselves to the ground, only to meet up with an exhausted hanyou.
Inuyasha saw them start to lower themselves to the ground, and sighed in relief, he stopped when they landed, he was breathing fast and hard (oh shut up ya pervs) and collapsed.
Sesshomaru and Kagome looked at the hanyou that now occupied the ground, and raised an eyebrow, then looked at each other.
Kagome was the first to speak up "We weren't going that fast were we?" she asked.
"No" he answered simply.
"Then why is inuya-"
"He is a hanyou, he does not have the full demon strength, speed, abilities, and endurance, he only has a little portion of what you and I have" he said, obviously disgusted at the hanyou.
Kagome noticed this and spoke up "Why do you hate inuyasha, I mean he is you broth-" he glared "half-brother, so why hate him?" she asked.
Sesshomaru looked at his brother then at Kagome "He is a hanyou, he has tainted our family name with his vile half breed blood" he said coldly.
Kagome sighed "Ok that's interesting, now why don't you tell me the real reason, that is only a little part of the problem" she said.
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow 'hhmm, smart girl….. I might as well answer'.
"My Father and mother were once happily mated, I too was happy, then my father started to stay out of the palace more to 'inspect' his lands, my mother got suspicious, and followed. When my father stopped at a village, she was heartbroken; my father was meeting a human female all this time. Later, she told him of what she saw, they argued, it ended with my father mating the human wench, and mother being kicked out of the palace. I was only 100 years old, that is only 7 in human years." He paused to see her reaction, she had a sorrowful looked then washed it away.
She was about to say something, when he went on "that mutts mother ruined my family, my father may have accepted him but I will not" he said as coldly as he could.
He and Kagome stood there, in silence, when Kagome spoke "But why blame inuyasha?"
He looked at her with confused face 'didn't I just" his thoughts were interrupted by Kagome again.
"I mean, it wasn't his fault, he can't control what he is, he can't control who his parents are, so why blame him, in my opinion, he did nothing wrong. When you see him, you see a filthy hanyou that broke you family apart and hates your guts, what I see is an innocent hanyou, that never met his father, always was hated for what he is, that looks at his own brother, with not hate, but the the look that says, he wants you to approve of him, he looks up at you,, and sees a brother that hates him for what he is, he hides his pain with cruel words" she said and walked away.
She looked back at him "Think about that" she walked off to a hot spring she could smell.
Sesshomaru pondered at what the miko inu said 'not his fault? Not his fault?...she…may be right, but does inuyasha truly look up at me' he broke away from those thoughts with a jolt 'what the hell am I thinking, that stupid girl has gotten too me, he is a bastard hanyou, of a human wench'
Sesshomaru looked at inuyasha one final time before walking away to a near tree he sat under it and closed his eyes 'I have a headache'.
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