::Author's Note::

This chapter only has Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, Sango, Inu-no-Taisho, and Kagome... I might add Shippou in this chapter too... depends...

Chapter 12: Keep A Secret?

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Kagome and Sango started into the woods after rejocing after 1 long year of seperation. They were heading twords the Sacred Tree. They were silent untill they reached it. Kagome ran up to it and felt the bare spot where Inuyasha was found. Sango just gazed upon the tree.

"Can you actully believe that this tree is where everything started?" Kagome asked Sango. Sango just shook her head and closed her eyes.

"I know... This one tree is the beginning of it all..." Sango replied. Kagome smiled and turned twords Sango.

"At least with the Naraku insident. Yours started when a priestess refused to marry somebody!" Kagome said as she cracked a laugh. Sango just stared at the tree, it seemed to Kagome that she was in very deep thought about something, but she wanted to know what.

"Kagome... I'm sorry about... the comment I made when Kohaku was killed... I want you to know that... I didn't mean it..."

Kagome smiled and forced a giggle out of her mouth.

"Sango... I don't care if you did or not... I shouldn't of even considered helping Inuyasha with that task... I was just-"

"I know Kagome... I know your feelings tword Inuyasha... You were just upset that you might leave him and you hopped that if you helped him with that.. he might try to make you stay.."

Kagome gasped, and then a nod followed very shortly. Sango smiled and looked into the sky.

"Kagome.. It's not you that I despise... It's him- I just don't see any way that I can ever forgive him for that...But somehow, I managed to do something for him... and I don't know if I did it for him... or somebody else.."

"Sango...What did you do?"

Sango sighed and reached into her kimono pocket. She pulled out a bundel of red velvet cloth and opened it slowly. She pulled out the necklace Kikyou gave her. Kagome looked confused at the sight of the necklace.

"What did you do Sango?"

"I used this necklace... to revive his father's soul into his body once more..."

Kagome started at Sango in disgust.

"What?! You used that THING to revive the great dog demon? A NECKLACE?!"

Sango nodded and sighed.

"This necklace is called the Tajikawa Jewel. It was made from the angered soul of Tajikawa after Midoriko rejected him. This necklace has the power to revive the dead... I used it to revive Inuyasha and Ses...Sesshoumaru's father." Sango said to Kagome. Kagome noticed that Sango had a bit of trouble saying Sesshoumaru's name.

"Alright... I understand that.. but how does this small thing call back the souls of the dead?"

"All souls go to either heaven or hell correct?" Kagome nodded."Well, this necklace aims for only the souls of heaven. To gain back the soul of hell you must give up more than a crystal... I don't know the cost of the soul but my theory is that you put your soul in place of it..."

"And Inuyasha's father was a soul of heaven?"

"I don't know... its not a permenat thing... But if I am asked to by... well if I'm asked.. I will make it a permenat thing..."

"Sango... Why help Inuyasha?"

At that very moment... Kagome suddenly knew the answer to her question. Sango had said earlier that she might be helping someone else.

"Or are you helping... Sesshoumaru?"

Sango didn't show a reaction to Kagome's question

"Kagome... If I tell you something... do you promise to keep it a secret and carry it to your grave?"

Kagome's honest nod told Sango that it was time to finally let something be known.

"Kagome... I think i'm falling in love with Inuyasha's very own brother."

Kagome suddenly felt everything around her stand silent and she found herself beiginning to float.

"WHAT!?"

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"Sesshoumaru!! Where is Sango?!"

Sesshoumaru smirked and remained silent.

"SESSHOUMARU!"

"Calm down little brother... She went somewhere... I have no idea where but she is relativly fine... and she will remain fine as long as she dosen't see you."

"Well then, I guess shes gonna be horrible cause as soon as I'm done tearing you to shreads... I'm gonna give her a piece of my mind!"

Sesshoumaru suddenly found his hand rising, it was as if he had no control over it. He then found it coming up eye-level with Inuyasha and it swung across his face. SMACK!

"Are you deaf?! She hates you because of your selfish actions to get a jewel shard! You destroyed her whole life... her brother was the only thing that she had left in this world... and you took that away from her!"

Inuyasha glared at his brother. Then his glare all of the sudden softened a bit.

"What happened between you two... to make you stand up for her?" Inuyasha asked his brother in suspition.

Sesshoumaru didn't show a reaction on his face, but his heart showed a unforgettable reaction to his brother's question. He turned away from Inuyasha and faced the ocean.

-FLASHBACK-

"Father, do you insist on going?"

"Do you intend to stop me, Sesshomaru?"

"I will not stand in your way. However, before you go, you must entrust the swords Sounga and Tetsuseiga to ME. "

"And if I refuse, will you kill me, your own father?"
"Do you desire power so much? Why do you seek power, my son? "

"The path I walk is the way of supreme conquest, and it is power that will reveal the way for me. "

"Supreme conquest... tell me, Sesshomaru, have you someone to protect? "

"Protect?"
"The answer is no. I, Sesshomaru, have no need of such "

-END FLASHBACK-

"Inuyasha.. save your pothetic human emotions for a needed purpose... we are nearly traveling together... Why? Because she made me an agreement... a life for a life sort of proportion... Now as for standing up for her... that is also non of your bussiness... and you will not hear the solution from me... Nor her for that manner..."

"Why? What is the big secret?"

Sesshoumaru shook his head.

"Leave her alone Inuyasha..."

"And If I don't... will you finally dispose of me? Or will you become a coward once again..."

Sesshoumaru remained silent. Then he walked past his brother's body and walked down the cliff.

"I won't have to Inuyasha... she will get to you long before I have ther chance to..."

Inuyasha gasped and turned around to see his brother leave. All of the sudden Sesshoumaru's body stopped and turned around slightly.

"And Inuyasha, there is somebody that wants to have a talk with you somewhere around this area."

"Who?" Inuyasha replied, wondering.

Sesshoumaru turned back around and walked down the cliff.

"Somebody else who choose you over me..."

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Inuyasha watched his brother take off and disapear into the forest. Who could he have meant? Inuyasha suddenly thought of Sango...

'I'm going to have to go off and find her... Stupid Sesshoumaru didn't give me as to any hint of were she might be... thats just like him!' He thought. Inuyasha sighed and went to the edge. He tried to smell Sango's scent but didn't sence it at all. It was like she had compleatly disapeared from the world.

He turned around only to see somebody in the way of him and his was out.

"Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha looked very puzzled at the man.

"Who the hell are you?!"

The man smiled, and replied.

"Inuyasha... I'm...Your father." The man said.

And it was, for this man was Inu-no-Taisho... reunited with his son at long last.

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Next Time!!!

"Ahh yes.. The tajiya... Inuyasha please... leave her be... Follow your brother's advise to you."

"Kagome.. I said I think so... I don't know for sure...All I know is that he is very diffrent from the Sesshoumaru we all saw when he fought Inuyasha all those times."

"Kagome promise me! Promise me that you will not tell anybody about me bringing you back! If anybody finds out I have the jewel... They will come after me in a heartbeat! PROMISE ME KAGOME!"

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