Chapter Fourteen- Wishing You to Wish For Me

Mitsuaki stood motionless as he slowly wrapped his arms around the crying woman's form. He had come because he noticed the everyone had disappeared and weren't around the fire like they had been when he fell asleep, but he didn't expect to be holding the woman who was causing his father so much misery.

"I told you not to go near her Sesshoumaru. She doesn't need someone to act superior over her." Inuyasha growled, pushing Tetsusaiga forwards in attempt to meet his brother's face.

"I didn't go near her little brother, she came to me." Sesshoumaru challenged.

"I told you not to touch her. Kagome isn't one to start touching people." Inuyasha glared at his brother, the only thing keeping him from tearing him apart was the fact the Kagome would never forgive him.

"If that is all you are worried about I want to get back to finding my niece." Sesshoumaru said slightly bored.

"I don't think so, you will not be accompanying my mate and I on this mission." Inuyasha glared. "Rian is our child and my responsibility."

"If I am to go, Mitsuaki goes with me. I know as well as you do that without Mitsuaki you cannot find your precious daughter. I will not have Kagome go through the pain of losing all of her family because of you." Sesshoumaru lashed out, watching as guilt accumulated Inuyasha's face he hesitated for a while, weighing the pros and cons.

"So be it, but if you touch her again Sesshoumaru I swear I will kill you and you son." Inuyasha's words were made in promises, carved into his very soul. "I will not have my mate's mind twisted in the false love you show her." Inuyasha began to walk away, trying to control the jealousy that grew within him.

"I am not the one offering false love little brother. You should not give her false protection when you don't care for her that way." Sesshoumaru called from behind him.

Inuyasha continued to march back to camp, finding Kagome asleep in Mitsuaki's arms, her face tear strained and her breath shuddered. He shook his head. Why should he care that she was crying in someone else's arms, she had always done that to him, finding someone else to comfort her when he was clearly there.

"You know I hate to admit it but my father is right. If you care so much for this Kikyou person why do you stay around this woman?" Mitsuaki said slowly, not quite sure if he wanted to get into the middle of this. "I mean isn't it just hurting her more in the fact that she changed for you and you don't even accept her-…" Mitsuaki heard a growl and stopped talking.

"She didn't change for me, she changed for-…" Inuyasha stopped. What could her say to the young pup. 'She didn't change for me she changed for you, so that no matter what she would never forget the fact that you were a dirty blooded hanyou. So that she could live with the same pain that you were forced to carry.' Inuyasha sighed. "Never mind pup." Inuyasha finished.

Mitsuaki began to get anxious. If the woman knew so much about his mother, maybe this hanyou did as well. Inuyasha could hear Mitsuaki take a deep breath so he prepared himself for another question, but no matter what he would never be prepared for what the young pup asked him. "Did you know my mother?"

Inuyasha froze. How was he to answer that one? 'Yes I do, you see your mother is the one you are holding in your arms.' Inuyasha mentally shook his head. He couldn't say that, but he couldn't lie to the pup either. "Yes" Inuyasha forced out quietly.

Mitsuaki exhaled slowly. Trying to remember what the female hanyou had told him. "Which one, the one who raised me or the one who gave birth to me."

Inuyasha's breath caught. How did he know about Kikyou? "Both." He wheezed out, exhaling his breath quickly.

"Both?" Mitsuaki said amazed. This must have been why his father had brought him here, to find out more about his mother without telling him. "Do you know their names?"

He heard the old half demon laugh at him. "Of course I did. Almost everyone did after she defeated Naraku."

"Naraku?" Mitsuaki asked quietly. He closed his eyes.

[Flash Back

"He shall not die, I will care for him, and I will take him out of the village!" Kagome said determined.

"Heh, you are you to act as his mother, you strange girl." The woman spoke up again. The rest of the crowd grew quiet, waiting for her answer.

"I am a traveling miko and the slayer of Naraku himself." Kagome stood with pride among the villagers each started to mumble of her claims.

"If you are such then prove yourself!" one of the men cried out again.

Kagome just nodded and raised her bow, letting her miko powers flood into the arrow. She released the string and the arrow soared with her power to the ground, flaring on contact, then dying. Looking up at the villagers she could see them mumbling between themselves once again. Kagome took the advantage she slowly crept out of the Village Square.

[End flash back

"Yes Naraku was your mother's greatest enemy, well actually all of our greatest enemy. Even your father was at ends with him, but your mother. She despised him more then anyone she killed him you know."

Mitsuaki shook his head at the older dog and frowned. "What was my mother's name? The one who raised me?" Inuyasha's shoulders slumped he refused to lie to his young boy. He took a deep breath trying to answer his question.

"-…"

"Miko." Sesshoumaru's voice stepped in, glaring at Inuyasha. "Her name was miko and she went by no other name, now Mitsuaki stop pestering the boy with silly questions and go to bed." Sesshoumaru walked over to his son and picked up the sleeping miko gently. She began to move in discomfort. Sesshoumaru growled softly as she settled down.

Inuyasha released a growl of his own when Sesshoumaru sat down with Kagome in his arms, stroking her hair to settle her whimpers. Inuyasha just gawked at his older brother. Never in all the years that he had known Sesshoumaru had he seen such gentleness. "You really do care for her don't you?" Inuyasha asked softly, watching as Sesshoumaru's head lifted a small smile graced his lips and Mitsuaki gasped.

The small unease that she felt coming from Inuyasha and Mitsuaki made Kagome restless, causing her to wake up. She opened her eyes slowly, her breath still ragged. She found golden eyes staring at her gently, silver hair tickling her face.

"Sesshoumaru?" Kagome stuttered, not quite sure what to make out of her position. Then her eyes snapped open and she attempted to back out of his arms gradually. "Where's Inuyasha?" Kagome's voice shook in fear. What would Inuyasha do if he saw her sleeping in Sesshoumaru's arms like that?

The small smile faded off Sesshoumaru's face as he let her go steadily, making sure she didn't stumble because of her sleepiness. "Inuyasha?" She cried out slowly, never taking her eyes off Sesshoumaru. Everything in her wanted her to go to him, she yearned for his embrace, but her duty was to Inuyasha.

"I'm here Kagome." Inuyasha watched as his brother put the mask back on, masking the smile, the love that he had for Kagome.

Kagome whipped her head around and stared at Inuyasha as he watched his brother. Tears gathered at the front of her eyes as she waited for her mate to kill his brother, but Inuyasha didn't move, he just sat there staring at Sesshoumaru as if he was trying to read Sesshoumaru's face. Kagome moved her stare to Sesshoumaru's face, watching as he turned his head to face her. His face was clear of emotion, but Kagome could see the look of hurt and pain in the smallest part of his eyes.

"I'm so sorry." Kagome's voice broke at the last word. She didn't know who she meant it to, Inuyasha, for being in his brother's arms or Sesshoumaru for denying him the one thing she really wanted to give him.

"Rest Kagome, I don't care how, just rest ok. You need sleep it been a long day." Inuyasha's voice was go gentle, so understanding that Kagome could help but have the salt water spill over from her eyes. She gathered her arms around her legs and cried into her knees, looking to them for reassurance, knowing that it would never come.

She felt two arms wrap around her growling reassurance but Kagome didn't move, she didn't loosen her grip on her knees as the male pulled her into her body, letting her cry in his arms. He was soft and gently, his body warm and welcoming, each characteristic lulling her to sleep.

She could feel herself loosen her knees and twist her body so she could cry into the demons should. The words around her becoming more dream like.

"I will keep fighting for her." Inuyasha's voice said quietly and the body beneath Kagome moved challenging him.

"Hn, you're welcome to try." The body beneath her rumbled. "I always did like competition."

[Kag's real dream

Kagome stared off of the cliff that ended at the ocean, blue and green waters splashed up the side of the rocks in attempt to get her. She frowned. She could hear in the distance of the waters Rian calling out to her, but what was she to do, she couldn't see her, only hear her.

She felt tears rolling down her cheeks as she was about to lose the only thing that kept her alive, the only thing that kept her from going back down that forsaken well. That was when she saw it. A black substance rolled through the depths of the water, surrounding a glowing pink circle that protected her little girl. "Rian!" Kagome cried, staring at the endless sea of black.

Kagome got read to jump of the cliff, to save her little girl. "Rian." She sobbed the name, crying in pain as she watched the pink circle shrink, a scream of pain echoed through her mind as her breath hitched, her heart stopped in fear. She could feel someone hold her tight as she thrashed in horror. She couldn't lose Rian. She couldn't lose her little girl. She knew that Rian would be very powerful when her training was complete, but she was just a little girl. She was just fifteen.

"Kagome it's alright, calm down." Kagome interpreted the growl that she heard, but still she cried as the pink light faded in color.

"Rian." Kagome cried out again, her heart in twisted in pain. She watched as the pink faded completely as she struggled against the hold that was around her waist.

"Kagome, my love it's alright." Kagome sobbed again, feeling the presence of her little girl fade.

"Rian-…" Kagome sobbed.

[End of dream

Sesshoumaru heard her cries as his heart tightened in sorrow. He knew Kagome was in pain, but what was he to do. Slowly she growled reassurance in her ear, watching as her body attempted to calm down, but her soul refused.

Inuyasha stirred in his sleep as Kagome cried out in pain. She stopped breathing as fear gripped her heart. Sesshoumaru let out another growl, but it was too late, Kagome's body was a slave to her emotional wreck. She sobbed her daughter's name, still not taking in any oxygen. Sesshoumaru shook her little body that clung to his.

Kagome's eyes opened suddenly, her face tinged with blue, fear in her eyes. "Sesshoumaru." Kagome cried out softly as she looked into his concerned face.

"You alright?" Sesshoumaru asked, not knowing why he was co concerned for her.

"What that you speaking to me?" Kagome asked, ignoring the question. She watched as his magenta strips get darker in a small blush.

Sesshoumaru shook his head to get rid of the embarrassment. "You were trashing about stupidly, I had to say something." Kagome just frowned slightly and nodded. "Are you alright?"

Kagome managed another nod before she moved into Sesshoumaru's chest, feeling warm and oblivious to anything else. "I'm sorry." She whispered into the wind, hoping it would be carried to her daughter who she knew would be waiting for her.