This is the normal set up, thoughts and all. Nothing more than a couple OC that are being introduced now. So here it is Chapter 6: Open Opportunities

Chapter 6: Open Opportunities

Inuyasha ran until he was a least a good five kilometers away and stopped. He dropped to his knees and ran his hand through his hair, tugging harshly at his ears. His mind was a chaotic arena swirling with guilt, disgust, anger, sadness, worry, fear, nervousness, and the worst of all, his demonic lust. He tried to close his eyes to calm himself, but all he saw was images of what Sesshoumaru looked like as he practically raped him. The thought made Inuyasha sick to his stomach, and he started to painfully dry heave his stomach acids up into his throat. The burning caused his eyes to water and groaning and heaving sounds came from him. He could still feel his demonic side near the surface, but the Tetsusaiga kept it a bay.

Inuyasha turned his head as the wind into his face. Along with the wind came an unwelcome scent of demons and by the smell of them they were low level but a lot of them, maybe thirty. A strong smell of blood washed over Inuyasha. It was such a strong assault on his nose that he could taste it in his mouth. He felt awful and a wondrous idea came to mind. He knew how he could get his mind off …stuff. He stood up and took a deep breath and headed south toward the groups with nothing but fighting on his mind.

Sesshoumaru had always had a hard time dressing himself in all his clothes, so he rarely took them off completely. It took at least an hour to get all the layers on, and in the proper fashion that Sesshoumaru liked it, since he had only one arm to do so. After that, he tied his outward obi in an elaborate knot that only he could undo, or have the patience to do so. Sesshoumaru looked down at the knot when a realization hit him.

'Why did I do that? I haven't done that in years. Why would this habit come back all of a sudden?' After contemplating on this idea, Sesshoumaru noticed Kirara sitting patiently a couple feet away. Her eyes were staring bravely straight into his eyes with what looked like sadness or worse sympathy. Sesshoumaru felt the weird sensation as if his stomach had dropped and then anger rose up in its place, a more familiar emotion for Sesshoumaru. "How long have you been sitting there, neko?"

Kirara mewed, "I came when I heard something hit a tree hard and I saw it was you. I saw Inuyasha as well, but he wasn't himself." She stalked towards him and sat on her hind legs looking up at the taiyoukai.

"So, you sat there the whole time. Why didn't help him afterwards? He was in shock and he's your pack leader?" Sesshoumaru was confused and was angry at the neko for just being a spectator.

"I knew that he would go off eventually, and get through it, but you I don't know, so I thought I should watch after you, your lordship, if things became unsavory." Kirara responded in respect since she was from the Western land originally before she joined her first miko companion years ago. How humorous! She is older than her own lord and knows more about him than he does himself.

It was an eerie feeling being watched over as by something that he could fit in his hand. Father had done the same thing when he was away except Sesshoumaru didn't know that was his Asuki, a small violet-blue bird. Asuki was taken away from him when father went into battle and he was left behind with his trainers. They had decided that he didn't need it and it made him too soft by caring for something as purposeless as Asuki. So he made it clear that they were also purposeless by slaying about half of them in his anger. He remembered that day clearly, and from then on he made sure no one knew what mattered most to him so it would be safe away from other that tried to take this Sesshoumaru's happiness.

"Transform. That form doesn't suit you and its easier to talk to that form than this kitten form." Sesshoumaru changed the subject.

Flames wrapped around the small creature as the fire-cat transformed, sitting on her haunches tails flaring behind her. "Better?" she growled mockingly.

"Yes. I will go in search for the half-breed." Sesshoumaru stated, turning on his heels and walking away in the same direction Inuyasha had gone.

Sesshoumaru swiftly made his way through the throng of trees in the shadows of the sun until he came across what looked to be a battle ground with trees gashed with blade marks and the grass torn away. Blood littered the ground and hung fresh in the air. Sesshoumaru followed the trail of dirt and gashes until his brother came into view.

Inuyasha had his back turned and the Tetsusaiga in its rusty blade form covered in blood. Sesshoumaru stopped at a distance from his bother, still hidden among the trees from him. "Have you dealt with all your energy?" Sesshoumaru asked quietly, knowing that the hanyou's dog ears could hear much farther than this.

Inuyasha's head spun around to face Sesshoumaru, eyes half crazed and opened wide with surprise. Inuyasha finished turning around, straightening his back. He was now facing Sesshoumaru, looking slightly below his eyes, not wanting to appear disrespectful, but Inuyasha couldn't bring his eyes up to meet his brother's.

Sesshoumaru examined the scene around him and the remains of the demons that were scattered everywhere, which was very unusual for Inuyasha to be so sloppy. 'Hmm, that most be how he deals with things and he tells me that I'm emotionless killer.'

"What do you want, Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha asked though clenched teeth.

"I came to see if you had taken the offer to accompany me in acquiring what is mine. If not I will leave," Sesshoumaru said in a monotone while walking around Inuyasha, observing all the corpses and damage.

'Damn! I haven't thought about anything. How could I? How could he think about that after what happened?! At least the icy mask is back up. That's a good sign.'

"I haven't thought about it, I've been a bit preoccupied here." Inuyasha responded

"Well think about it I don't want to wait all day and night for you to decide, half-breed." Sesshoumaru said coolly.

"Ah, back to the insults, ay. Well what is that we are going to get if I do say yes to all of this, bastard?"

Sesshoumaru turned to face his brother with narrowed eyes. "Everything that has been taken by those foolish traitors. Firstly, it would be to gather my own companions before they are also mistreated." His voice came out in just the same volume and tone, but slightly different than usual. Only Inuyasha's ears picked this up since he had known his brother for a long time. He could tell that he was anxious about it and furious, an odd contrast to his normal icy demeanor that didn't allow anything in or any kind of reaction to because he was Sesshoumaru.

"You're talking about that human girl, that toad, and two headed dragon that I see with you when we use to meet up?" Inuyasha queried.

Only a slight nod came from the demon lord, since he never bobbed his head in a vigorous and immature manner.

"Well, I guess that you kind of need help now, don't cha? I guess there are other demons that want your head now that you have been pushed out of where ever you live. I'll go, but I have a question, frost queen," Inuyasha stated, running his hand over the top his head, careful not to cut his ears.

Sesshoumaru did nothing. He already knew what was bothering him, but waited until the younger bought it up.

Inuyasha took this silence as a signal to go on. "Well, how is it you can totally shut off things from others in your head? I mean, act as if things in front of you aren't there, or what just happened didn't?" Inuyasha rattled off.

"I have control over my emotions when ever necessary and it doesn't help to act on what 'just happened'. I have answered your questions. We leave at dawn tomorrow. Stay wherever you please, but just away from this one, half-breed." Sesshoumaru said lowly, which Inuyasha's ears had to pick up on it.

Sesshoumaru turned to leave and walked out of the clearing into the nearby trees, leading to the little area where he had left, leaving Inuyasha in the field of dead bodies.

Inuyasha stood there thinking, while birds came to scavenge off the bodies as nature tells them to do. 'What should I do? I wish he wouldn't talk to me that way as if I couldn't think of that on my own. I guess I would need to help him out until this heat is over. Damn, how long is this heat anyway? He didn't say. I could hardly tell he was in heat the way he acts and commands. Most female demons in heat are mean, but would act like a human whore if you were strong enough for them. I guess Sesshoumaru would be different about that since is a lord and a guy, damn it.'

Inuyasha traveled after Sesshoumaru's path into the woods, planning to launch toward the camp that they had shared, until remembering that his brother didn't want him near him; so he stopped and went southeast away from the lake and grove that Sesshoumaru probably was staying at. He stopped as he came to a cliff overlooking the land of field and forest. Jumping up into a tree he sat as he usually did, and looked over the land. His mind was clear and blank while he just observed his surrounding. The sun was beginning to go down over the fields as dark red and purple clouds encircled the orange giant.

As he was thinking, a thought dawned upon him that he still had another thing to attend to before he could set off.

Kagome.

Sesshoumaru headed back to the grove and found Kirara fighting, or to be more accurate playing, with some small low level demon. As he approached the neko pounced on the unknown demon's head, then turned into her saber toothed tiger form, and ate him up. The small one's screams and pleas for its life were muffled inside her clenched jaws.

"Please don't eat me! I have a message that I have to deliver to Sesshoumaru-sama before it is too late!"

That certainly caught his and Kirara's attentions. The fire cat opened her mouth and spit the small demon out her mouth, which turned out to be a young wind demon.

It stood up and stumbled around in a dizzy daze until the minute demon regained its composition. It opened its wide light green eyes and glared at Kirara. Huffing, it glided up into the air and swatted at her. Kirara roared as the small demon seemed to whack her nose.

Sesshoumaru watched the scene with slight annoyance and indifference.

"You have a message for me," came his deep voice, making his presence known.

The wind demon spun around and faced him while the green-eyed demon floated upward.

"Oh, there you are your lordship," the demon bowed, "I am Sawa, a messenger from my master, Tomonori-sama. He has this for you. Sorry it took me so long, but I couldn't find you and you weren't with the others that I was to find." Sawa handed a scroll that came magically from thin air.

"Dear Sesshoumaru-sama,

I am most sorrowful about the betrayal of your comrades and subordinates. I am still a loyal subject, for I neither could, nor ever would, betray you and the royal family. I have been run out and I'm hidden among the forest of my people. Many are still loyal and have either fled or been executed by Hiroto. My utmost wish is to help you the best I can. Please pardon my indirectness in my location; hopefully you understand that my messenger could be intersected. Please contact me as soon as possible if I can be of service to your lordship.

Tomonori"

'Tomonori. I have not spoken to him in a long time. I guess he could be of some help as well as those whom I have. I will go and speak with him after I have gotten Rin to safety along with Jaken.'

Looking down, Sesshoumaru noticed a PS that was added to the bottom of the letter- "Also I would ask a favor of you. If you do come please let Sawa come with you? He is my fastest messenger, and I don't want him to hurt or lost because of his scatterbrains as you have probably witnessed if you have gotten this letter."

Sesshoumaru looked up from the letter to see the little demon spinning around in the air looking at his hair, absolutely fascinated by its shininess. Sesshoumaru held in a sigh. He flipped his hair, smacking the demon back to attention. "Sawa it seems you will have to accompany me as well until we reach your master's abode in the Dark Winds Forest."

"Okay. Is that what master said? Hmmm, that's weird; he usually never leaves me with anyone but his younger sister, Kyoko-sama. She is pretty and looks like master. Have you seen master? Of course you have. Sorry, forgot. Of course you would know him or I wouldn't be here." Then Sawa fell into a fit of giggles.

"Silence," Sesshoumaru ordered.

"Oops. Shhh kitty." Sawa looked at Kirara with his finger in front of his month. The larger demon narrowed her eyes at Sawa in annoyance at the idea that he would blame her for making noise, when she had not talked the whole time.

Sesshoumaru turned around as the sun set in the west through the trees overhead. It wouldn't be easy for him to get the Western lands back. There were many stresses and obstacles to overcome.

You have probalby noticed that a chapter is missing but that is because I am adding to the story and I have put a chapter in teh middle. The chapter before the beast is new and now the chapter 7 is missing so wait a minute and it will be up soon I hope.

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