"Tetsusiga has been broken has it?" The old man had a quizzical look on his face.

Sheumaru nodded, handing the blade over to him.

"How did you quiet his demon?" Totosai questioned, looking over at the sleeping InuYasha on her back.

"Pressure points," Sheumaru shrugged, readjusting InuYasha slightly.

"I see, well I shall bring this to you in a few days time, but I will need a fang to seal it." Totosai's hand went up to his chin, rubbing it.

"Yes, I thought of that already," Sheumaru reached into her hakama pocket and pulled out a tooth and handed it to the old man.

"I will be back in three days, that should be enough time?" She asked as she turned to leave the cave.

"Yes, It should." Totosai nodded, placing the tooth and the broken Tetsusiga on one of his tables made of stone.

XxXx

"Woah, what happened?" InuYasha blinked the blurry images away, rubbing the spot where Sheumaru had hit him.

"Good, you're awake," her voice was cold.

Sango was already asleep alongside Kirara, Shippo next to her, cuddling in the demon cat's fur. There are times where Sheumaru thinks that not only does he sleep with Kirara to keep warm but also that it might remind him of his father.

Kagome was busy making food for them all to eat, and Miroku was just staring at the bright twinkling stars, that seemed to wink at you mischievously if you ever looked away.

"I hate to be rude," Sheumaru said in a tone that greatly suggested otherwise, "but what in all the hells were you thinking?!"

She saw her elder brother cower away from her at her sudden loud voice.

"I didn't do anything-" her brother started but Sheumaru cut him off rather roughly.

"Did you do it to become full demon? Did you think the idea of your soul being devoured was the best way? Do you not care about my warning?" She hissed.

"How would I know he could bite Tetsusiga in half?!" InuYasha roared.

There was a pause as they searched each other's eyes.

"I-you.. ugh!" She snapped and got up, marching away from the fire.

Stupid InuYasha! He could have died, or killed any one of us for that matter!! The look in his eyes... was that how my eyes look?

"Sheumaru!" Her brother's voice brought her out of her head and back to reality.

"It's best not to talk to me right now." Sheumaru growled though there was a break in her voice near the end.

"Well tough cause I'm talking to you anyway." InuYasha sat down beside her rather gruffly.

"I really didn't know Tetsusiga was going to break.. I didn't think it ever would." He sighed and looked at her, but she refused to look at him, staring instead, very intently, out from the cliff and down to the dirt roads that were nearly covered from this height by the trees.

"I'm sorry," she said finally, " for snapping at you, not me hitting you and you go unconscious part. Now don't go giving me that look, if I hadn't done that you would have killed us all, even your precious Kagome." She added at his disbelieving look.

"She's not my 'precious Kagome'" he huffed indignantly.

"Quit fooling yourself." Sheumaru gave a smug smile.

"Where is my Tetsusiga anyway? It wasn't anywhere at camp." Sheumaru decided not to mention the subject change.

"While you were out, we stopped by Totosai's while everyone else made it here." Sheumaru said, picking at some grass blades.

"How did you get me here?" He asked.

"I carried you of course," Sheumaru shrugged, "now get back to bed," she ordered.

"But I just woke up," InuYasha pointed out.

"I don't care, having your demon blood awake for as long as you did does nothing for the body except exert it, not to mention I hit you hard enough on your pressure point, that even if you were half-demon at the time you would still be out now." Sheumaru got up and shoved him towards camp.

"Sometimes I think you're just as bad as Kagome with injuries." InuYasha remarked as he made his way back through the trees.

XxXx

"He went to see Kikyo again?" Sheumaru tried to keep her voice calm.

This had been the third time in which InuYasha had followed Kikyo's soul collectors, last time he had gotten them all in trouble by allowing her to get away with their chunk of the jewel shard.

Luckily, Sango had stayed behind with Sheumaru to help her heal from the Wind Scar incident otherwise Kikyo wouldn't be breathing, to put it nicely.

Kagome nodded solemnly, never really catching anyone's eye.

"Is he back?" Sheumaru asked, now having increasing difficulty reining in her building anger.

"Yes, he's off sulking where you two were talking last night," Miroku answered her when Kagome did not.

Without a word more Sheumaru sighed and left the group. Before she left the trees to talk to her brother, she took a few deep breaths, trying to calm her festering fury.

"A little bird told me that you saw Kikyo again last night?" Sheumaru sat down beside him.

"If you know than why do you make it sound like a question?" Her brother snapped.

Sheumaru ignored him and moved on, "why do you keep going back to her?"

"I'm sick of hearing that question!" Her brother yelled suddenly, "you guys keep yelling and giving disapproving looks in my direction. She was my first love, alright? And although in time it was fifty years ago, everything that happened between us feels like yesterday to me!" He finished his speech with an irritated huff.

"I understand," Sheumaru placed a clawed hand on his shoulder, "believe me, I do. But I stand where I stood before, and I shall say what I said then: what you have for the priestess isn't love." All anger was gone from her voice now, it was more concern than anything behind her words.

Her brother said nothing so she continued, "she manipulated you so she could be a normal human being. She wanted you to become a full human so she could paint her lips and not have a care to deal with; but she is the one who chose to purify the jewel, the one who took on the responsibility. You just happened to be there, and so she took the opportunity. It is hard to hear, I know, but the shadow of the woman you loved is nothing but a vengeful spirit encased in old bones and graveyard soil."

"It wasn't like that. You know nothing of what it is like to feel the way I did when I was with her." Her brother didn't look at her as he said those words.

"I know nothing do I?" Sheumaru snapped, unable not to, "you are not the only one to fall for a human, InuYasha."

He gave her a confused look as it was now her that couldn't look at him.

"I used to have a love, a human love. He was sweet, and treated me well. We even promised each other we would get married when we were older. He told me that when we had kids he hoped that they'd have my ears because he liked them that much. He was not ashamed of me." Sheumaru's voice broke off quickly trying to stop herself from crying, or at least make the tears silent.

"What happened?" Her brother asked after a moment, his voice tentative as if he were testing the waters.

"My past caught up with me, that's what," she growled, her hands gripping at the grass as if the blades were her life line, "and when I left my eternal sleep I tried to find him, only to be told that he had died not ten years after I was shot with the arrow. He died in a war with a rival empire." She cried now, she couldn't help it.

"You have a perfectly good thing with Kagome InuYasha, stop holding onto your past, Kikyo is forever frozen in time. She can not be put to rest until you set her free. You are being selfish brother by holding onto her so tightly."

"I can do as I please." InuYasha said with the same snappish attitude from the beginning of their conversation.

"Well at the very least, set Kagome free." Sheumaru huffed.

"What do you mean?" He sounded confused.

"Kagome is sitting at camp, sulking because of the way you feel for Kikyo, the way you sneak away from her to go visit a woman from your past." Sheumaru raised an eyebrow at him.

How could he be leading two women at once and have no idea how Kagome is feeling about this? Honestly...

"Whatever," InuYasha turned away from her and looked over the ledge.

"You really are the dumbest person I have ever met," Sheumaru sighed, placing her hands on the inside sleeves of her hakama, she left her brother to himself.

XxXx

Sheumaru hadn't gone back to the camp when she stopped talking to InuYasha, but instead went to the lake to clean herself.

She wondered if it was okay to do this, to go to a waterfall without telling them. She had done this once before, but they were all asleep, though besides having a knocked out wolf on her arm they didn't seemed all that dazed by her absence.

Sheumaru froze, pulling her arms from her hair down to her sides slowly, as if she were to be hurt if she moved to fast.

"I can smell you Sesshōmaru," she growled, "What is your business here?"

"I would like you to send this warning to my little brother, I will be back in two days time to fight, as soon as the sun rises on the second day." His voice was in the same whispered tone as when Sheumaru first met him.

"Might I have the privilege to know what it is you will be fighting about?" She kept her tone steady though her heart was beating rapidly inside her chest. She was certain he could hear it even over the fast flowing waterfall above her head.

"Must you ask?" There was a slight menacing tone added to the rhetorical question.

The Tetsusiga, that's fine all I have to do is tell Totosai to wait a day... but if that happens than InuYasha will stand no chance against him and Totosai will likely die if he refuses Sesshōmaru.

Before she could growl out her own warning in turn Sesshōmaru's scent dissipated and was finally gone from her nose.

InuYasha! You are lucky the new moon is tomorrow!

Sheumaru couldn't help the sigh of relief that left her, and rather unsettled, she left the lake to march back up to her friends and give them the warning she had so ungraciously received.

Author's note: Here's a little of Sheumaru's past, I realize that it's a little gloomy giving the holiday season and all but never the less I hope you have enjoyed and if you did please leave reviews.

Happy holidays!

Bye bye now!