Sesshomaru stopped and starred with no expression at a bunch of trees. "Well then."
Kagome looked at him with a half glare. "What?"
"Father and Hiromi are mated."
Inuyasha blinked. Then turned around and glared. "I won't call her…"
"That is the last thing that I would expect from you Inuyasha. The only thing I do expect from you is that you respect her." Inutaisho walked with Hiromi next to him through the bushes. But something was wrong. He could still smell the fear that hung in the air around her, and the blood lust that he knew followed him.
With a heavy sigh he turned a glare over his shoulder. "You truly have a death wish."
Hiroshi stepped out from behind a tree and glared as his hand went to his sword with a growl. "You bastard."
Hiromi was shaking violently now. She clung to Inutaisho as if he was life itself as she waited for her brother to charge at them. 'Father!'
Inutaisho moved Hiromi out of his arms and put her behind him his glare darkening as he looked at the wolf. "Back off now Hirosho. I really don't want to have to kill Hiro's only son but if you insist on it. There will be no other way."
Hiroshi growled as he glanced from Inuyasha to Sesshomaru and then back to Inutaisho. "I will kill all three of you!"
Sesshomaru arched an eyebrow as he looked at the wolf then turned his back. "Your fight is with my father wolf. I will not interfere in it."
Inuyasha moved so that Kikyo was behind him with a glare. "Yeah. What the hell you trying to drag us into it for?"
Hiroshi glared right into Inutaisho's eyes. "That bastard decided that he was going to take my filthy sister as his mate. I will kill her. Erase all traces of human blood ever being in my pack with that!"
The sudden surge of rage that was in the air made even Sesshomaru flinch and jerk wide eyes to his father. "Kagome get Rin and get on A-Un. Monk you, the slayer, kit and Kikyo do the same thing. Now." As they did what he said he cautiously walked up to his father. "Father."
Inutaisho had his teeth clenched as his brow started to furrow and elongate. "Take her. Get her out of here."
Hiromi looked up as her hold on him tightened. "I am not leaving you!"
Sesshomaru kept his eye on his father as he gently pried her hands free then jumped just as the wolf charged to land on A-Un's tail. "He will be fine. You with me and mine is the only thing that is keeping him from truly going into a rage right now."
Hiromi watched as with ease Inutaisho deflected blow after blow of Hiroshi's sword with nothing more than his own demonic energy! "Please be careful."
Hiroshi smiled as he kept up with his weak attacks. The second that he knew that Inutaisho memorized his pattern he would deviate faster than them all and strike his sister down! He would see her dead!
Inutaisho growled as he felt his movements in the air. He knew he was planning something and was ready for it. And then it happened! He was going for Hiromi! Faster than anyone knew he was there kicking the wolf in his gut sending him flying back to the ground. "Your life is mine!"
Hiromi watched as her brother vanished into a cloud of smoke then the strong scent of lavender was everywhere. She kept her eyes in the smoke and waited for it to clear then sighed when it was Inutaisho standing there. She broke free from Sesshomaru's grip on her and fell through the sky and landed not far from him. Though his eyes were still slightly bleeding she ran to him anyway and threw herself into his arms, racked with sobs.
Inutaisho calmed the instant that she touched him and sighed as he wrapped her in his arms and looked up to Sesshomaru. "I am taking her and going to the palace. I know it is in ruins but that gives me something to do. All of you come to me when you are finally rid to fight Naraku. I will be there."
Sesshomaru nodded then watched as he flew off on his cloud with his new mate. "That was interesting."
Kagome nodded. Then she looked up at him with a smile. "Would you do the same thing if someone was trying to kill me?"
"That and then some. Father was holding back. Had he truly lost control, the world would have once again seen his true form."
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Inutaisho flew as far away from the area as fast as he could go. Still feeling her shaking in his arms he sighed as he kissed the top of her head. "I am sorry for that itoushii. I tried to stay in control, but then when he went up for you, I lost it for a second."
Hiromi looked up at him with tears brimming her eyes. "I should be the one saying that I am sorry to you. IF not for me then you wouldn't be in this situation."
Inutaisho gasped as his eyes went wide. "Do you regre…."
Hiromi violently shook her head side to side. "I would never regret you. But I still can't help but feel like it is my fault that you are stuck with this. Because of what I am."
Inutaisho growled as he glared down at her now. "Would you stop saying stuff like that!? I don't care what you are. Hanyou, human, youkai. It doesn't matter to me. You were strong enough in will and spirit to call out my youkai. Only you. A beautiful, strong hanyou."
Half smiling she nodded. "Thank you. It will take me some time to get out of the habbit of talking down about being hanyou though. I have done it for so many years."
"Well that is something that we are going to have to get you out of the habbit of then isn't it."
Hiromi smiled as she once again laid her head on his chest with a heavy sigh. She was glad that he didn't see her as weak, but at the same time she knew she was. She couldn't shake the feeling though that one day, at the hands of her brother, she would die. 'After all there will be times when he won't be there to save me.' "Inutaisho?"
"What is it?"
Hiromi looked up into his golden orbs as he looked down into her green ones. "I want you to train me to fight. That way I won't be a burden to you or anyone else anymore."