DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, and places are the sole property of Rumiko Takahashi. Any resemblance to any actual events, locales, organizations, or person, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

A/N: I can guess that it's been months but my laptop broke, I lost my phone, I started a new term, work and a boyfriend that's just plain needy. Since I've finally had time, I figured I'll do some needed updating.

I don't have access to a computer as often as I did before but I'll try.

CHAPTER 10

Just like the dog eared boy said, the spring was a little way's from where she woke up, though his use of the term were different from her own. A little's way is like five minutes to the corner store. This was like a short walk to the downtown mall in Shibuya from Tokyo on foot. Yup, totally little.

Kami, that boy had no sense of distance.

As she walked, she heard creaking and clutched the red kimono closer to her body. She would have ran off when they showed her the way to the spring but as she looked around, she couldn't find any buildings. No cars, people or even road pavement. Either she was held captive in a wooded area with no chances to call for help or they were really crazy and she became an unwilling victim with no memory.

She recalled the men's word from earlier, that they were friends but she still couldn't grasp the truth behind his words. She remembered her school friends, Eri, Ayumi and Yuka. She remembered a great deal of people and none of them included two silver haired brothers. She even remembered Hojo with his medical remedies...remedies? Now why would he give her medicine when she wasn't sick?

Feeling a throb on her left temple, she shook her head a bit and continued to walk. Though she wasn't the brightest person, she knew to smell the air for the sent of water or stay silent for the sound of rushing water. Keeping quiet, she heard light swooshing noises, indicating that there was a spring near by. Jumping for joy, she thanked Sango for teaching her how to find water.

She halted in her step a bit, wondering where she even knew the name Sango from but dismiss it as rambling and once more headed for the water. A few bushes later and she came to a spring. She would've preferred a hot spring, but normal water was better than no water. Turning her head swiftly side to side, she saw no one and quickly undressed, just in case someone walked by. She yelped a bit, her warm skin touching the cool water but soon relaxed and started to enjoy the treatment the water was doing on her sore flesh.

She moved over to a ledge and sat down, tilting her head up as she let nature take it's course. Just yesterday, she was an average girl in middle school and now a guy with dog ears tell her that she forgot the last ten years of her life.

Giving a unladylike grunt, she cupped a handful of water and splashed herself with it, letting the droplets flow down her face and back into the water. She watched as ripples distorted her reflection. Waiting, she held her breath, hoping to see her face as it was the day before. Young and not adult-like. As the water still, she gave out a startled cry at what she saw. Staring her in the face was not the same face of a fifteen year old girl from yesterday but a more mature woman with beautiful skin, nice blue eyes and slicker hair.

The hair should have given it away. She never had hair that long before. Seeing them float around her really brought reality into her. She wasn't a teenager anymore and if what they say was indeed true, she was twenty-seven and missed twelve years worth of memories. She always knew she was clumsy but enough to actually lose twelve years worth?! Dear Kami, how bad could she be? She continued to ponder of how much she forgot when she heard rustling. Startled, she jumped and moved away from the noise.

"W-w-who's t-there?" If she thought someone was going to respond, she was clearly wrong. She waited a bit more but nothing answered her or came out. She had just relaxed her shoulders when a frog jumped out from the bush behind her, making her scream bloody murder. Screaming while turning around, she calmed slightly when she saw that it was a little frog that could fit in the palm of her hand. Reaching out, she made a staring contest with it. She won of course, since the frog didn't know what she was doing but it made her feel better. "Kami, you scared me. Next time, can you croak or something? Goodness, frogs are so disgusting. Go. Go away now."

The frog didn't leave. It just sat there and croaked, blinking it's life away. She sighed really dramatically and went to the opposite side, where her clothes were. Thankful that no one saw her, she raise out of the water and had bent down with her wet naked butt in the air when she heard more rustling before she heard a footstep. Again, she wasn't a genius but she knew what a footstep meant.

Every so slowly, she straighten her posture until she was standing erect. She could hear the other person hard breathing and knew it was a man behind her. With her luck or rather bad luck, she just knew it was a man who would see her in her birthday suit.

Turning even slower than she did with the frog, she soon came face to face with one of the last two people she wanted to see her like this. The one who identified himself as Sesshomaru stood there behind her, rigid and red eyes. If she wasn't mistaken, she could see a fang in his snarling face and really, really sharp claws. His tattoos were jagged as well. Unfortunately for her, she didn't know the way of youkais so when she turned around, ready to run away from him, she wasn't expecting him to growl and jump her.

Now forced on her stomach, she struggled for all she was worth when she felt hands trying to hold her down. She screamed and fought her way until she elbowed him in the face. Suddenly released, she scattered to get up but was unsuccessful. Sesshomaru had manage to latch onto her leg and drag her back down.

Being a wet naked grown woman with the mind of a teenager, she did two things. First, she screamed for help that was most likely never going to come since Inuyasha probably knew what was happening and second...she grabbed anything and everything, such as rocks, grass, and her clothes to throw at him. Hell, she even threw the frog. It all hit him but it didn't slow him in the least. He continued to pull her close and when she was under him, he covered her, pinning his body in between her legs as her fists beat and tug at his head.

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He knew what he was doing was wrong but with his beast in control and it didn't want to relinquish its hold just yet. He came rushing in, ready to defend her but all he got was a face full of ass and the good kind. She was wet and bending forward so he got a lovely view of everything. She was unconscious the last time he saw her but now she was awake. He couldn't stop the chains his beast was locked up in from being released. Both he and his beast liked what they saw and as they were concerned, she was theirs to take.

Mine! Mine! I want! Let me take!

Usually he would have to refrain himself because he knew Kagome wasn't ready but it was hard on him to not react. He was hurting in places that only she can relieve and if he didn't get a grip, she too would come to know that fact as well. If she didn't lose her memory, he damn well would have made her cure his 'problem' but she had neither the fondness for him nor his mark to do such. He may be courting her but he will make no whore out of his mate and making her do such an act when she clearly doesn't see him in such a light.

What if she one day remembers everything? Remembers the events that took place in her relapse of time? She'll know that he made her do a vile thing and would surely ban him from ever being in the same province as she. While he would not do what others say, this was Kagome. If she told him to jump off a cliff and down into a spike filled pit into the ocean, he would. Love truly was a man's enemy and savior.

He had gained some control over his beast until he saw her turn her back to him. So close to the surface already, no amount of restraint would have been able to hold back his beast. To turn one's back was to give insult. For a potential mate to turn her back on her suitor showed that she did not want his suit and that was something he could not handle. Eyes returning to red and his beast in control, he snarled and jumped at her.

He pinned her to the ground on her stomach and tried to grab her hips, to further stop her struggles but were unsuccessful. She even manage to elbow him in the face where he unfortunately let her go for a moment to hold his nose before he went to grab her leg. When she was under him, he pinned her down with his body. In his rational mind, he knew he was as she said it once, "In some deep shit", but with his beast in the forefront of his mind, he couldn't do a damn thing about it.

In their position, he knew that anything he did from then on would be watched carefully by her but his beast needed to be sooth out that Kagome was not leaving them but needed a break. She didn't know who he was at the moment so there was no reason for his beast to go primitive. He snorted. Yeah right. His beast operated on natural instinct and one of them was to show discipline to unruly mates. Even now, all that could be heard was growls and snarls, though Sesshomaru was currently the only one who could decipher them at the moment.

She tried go! No leave! No allow! Mine only!

Ah, natural and primitive was his animal nature. If he was not the stronger part of him, he would have cast that side of himself away long ago.

She was tugging on his hair and beating her fist on his back but still he didn't let go. Until his beast was satisfied that Kagome had not betrayed them, he was going to be feral for a very long time. Thankfully, Inuyasha had thought better than to follow him. Had he shown up, it was likely that Sesshomaru's beast took it as a sign of challenge and would have fought him. If he succeeded in killing the boy off, Kagome would hate him forever. She wouldn't even have to ask him to jump off a cliff. Instead, she's more than likely purify him to dust.

When a particular hard jag got his attention, he liked what he saw. Kagome, squirming, wet and red in the face as she moved about underneath him. He may have been a human hater and still is with the exception of a few, but he could appreciate a woman's body, though the only one to draw his attention was her.

She really must be special to get him to perform such a feat.

Thinking little of it, he vaguely remembered a time when his own father asked him if he had preferred the company of the same gender. It took the slaughter of one village of only their men to get him to reconsider his opinion. While he do not actively search for bed warmers or women in general, he DO NOT seek the affections of the same sex.

Now, the woman under him was a different story. With her, he'll have all the sex he wants. She once confided in him that she wanted to be able to make a baseball team with her children. Not knowing what that was, he promptly asked her and got a response that made his eyes go wide. She may have jested, he know not, but he intends to make good on her dream of a 'baseball team'. He too would like to have that many children if they are to be birthed by her.

Dropping his nose into the corner of her neck, he took a sniff and groaned. Even after bathing, she still smelled of him. What he didn't like was that he catch light traces of the Eastern whore on her. Upset to have another's scent on her, he nipped her neck until he tasted blood. Ignoring her small cry of pain, he sucked at the wounded until he could no longer taste her blood.

Releasing his hold, he raised his head to inspect his handiwork. There on her neck, just as Inuyasha is red and loud, was a hickey that was just as red and proudly put on display. She may not bare his courting mark yet, but he can give a 'mark' of sorts to let others know that she was being courting by none other than the Western Lord. Satisfied that it would be there for a long while, he started to rub his face in her breast, purring, or as close as he could, being a dog.

"W-what are you d-doing?! Stop that! Hey, are you listening to me?! I said stop!" Again, the beast ignored her pleas,content to just laze himself on her body. He would have taken it further if she had his courting mark but he'll make do. Tired of the constant yelling, he decided to indulge her this once with an answer. "Mine. You mine. Scent mark. Know mine."

While he wasn't as intellectually as his master, he did communicate enough to get his point across. She had stopped her struggling so he took it as a good sign. If she continued to fight him anymore, he would have been forced to dominate her to show her who was male. He was male and she was female. He provide and protect. She serve and birth. That is the way of things and he'll discipline her everyday until she understood her role. Her alpha male. She may be alpha female, but she's under him. She had to know that he rules all.

Though he wanted to continue ravishing her body with his attention, he started to notice that she was shivering. Alarmed, he pulled back to see her. She was slightly damp now so she was most likely cold. Disappointed in himself for not realizing it, he quickly took off his armor and haori. He handed her the haori so that she could wrapped around herself. He didn't want anyone else to see her like this. He spotted Inuyasha'a haori a bit early when undressing but he wanted her to be covered in his scent, not his brother's.

When she was done, he once again groaned at the image she portrayed. Wrapped in nothing but his too big hoari, she looked owned. It pleased him how beautiful she look in his clothing. She now only needs be pregnant with three pups latching onto her legs and arms and the picture would be complete. He picked up Inuyasha hoari and motioned for her to come over to him but she refused, shaking her head. He didn't want to scare her with his beastly side but she was making things unnecessarily difficult. Reaching out, he made a move to grab her when she started to glow. Her eyes had tears and her face held a scowl.

She looked ready to kill him.

Feeling her spiritual powers gave Sesshomaru enough leverage to return to command and force his beast back into it's cage. Once done, he looked to Kagome and hope to high hell that he can fix what his beast had done wrong.

"Kagome...Kagome, this Sesshomaru wished you to know that he is sorry. It was not this one's intention to harm you. Had I been in the right state of mind, this Sesshomaru would not have-"

"Would not what? Attack me? Hold me down against my will? Attempt rape?" the more she spoke, the stronger her aura became, especially around her hip where the scar was at. That was where the most power was radiating from. "I don't know who you think you are buddy but I 'm not gonna take your shit lying down! I know my rights and the cops will be all over your ass when I get a hold of them. You claim to be my friend but what friend does that to another huh?! You're no friend of mine. You're nothing but-but a loser who gets sick kicks out of sick shit like this! Fuck you! I ain't gonna let you have your disgusting way with me!"

She was just getting ready to attack him when out of nowhere, they were attacked. They had been so busy focusing on each other that they forgot that they were in a time period where demons roam free and it looks like one just sensed the power emitting out of Kagome's body. He watched as she was thrown into the air by a centipede demon and saw her side get sliced open. He knew how she acquired that particular scar in the first place. Though he was not there personally, it was like a sense of déjà vu. She was attacked by a centipede demon and the jewel was once more revealed into the land of the living via her side. He's intelligent, so he knew what that demon wanted without being told.

"Jewel. Give me the Shikon Jewel girl!" But not everyone was as smart as him.

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He was sitting in a tree, both trying to cover up his laughter and eyes at the same time. He watched when Sesshomaru went crazy on her and nearly fell out the tree laughing. Seeing her naked was unexpected so he keep trying to cover his eyes.

He could hear everything from where he was at but hearing and seeing were two different things. He stayed put even when he felt the rising reiki in Kagome and an unfamiliar youkai's youki. Sesshomaru was her intended now. He has to protect her or he wouldn't qualify to be her mate. Not that it mattered. After this, he'll be lucky if she even looked in his direction, both after this incident, the cave, and after she gets her memories back.

Sesshomaru's strong so he'll win. They didn't need the help, so Inuyasha just contented himself to lay back in the tree and watch the events unfold while miserably keeping his humor in check. He may have mature a bit and allowed Sesshomaru to court Kagome but that didn't mean he couldn't mess with his brother every now and again. Besides, he liked breathing as much as he liked to annoy his elder brother.