Don't own Inuyasha... crys .o.o.

"talking"

'thinking'

In the forest surrounding Keade's village, known to the locals as Inuyasha's forest, the son of the the half dog demon was pacing impatiently as if waiting for something very early in the morning. The darkness of night was slowly ebbing away to the light of day when the winds shifted direction, high above the trees a large fan appeared with someone a top it. The figure jumped down to greet the boy, the moment they left the fan, it shrunk to its' normal size and glided gracefully to its' users open hand.

"Your aura is troubled... is there a problem brother?"

"I misjudged how much pain father put mother through before they were mated... I fear I must intervene," Inu turned to look at his sister, she held a look of panic on her face while he held one of confirmation of his actions.

"Inu you can't! It was you that said we can't interfere, out of any of us it is you that rule applies to most. If you fight father, you know he wouldn't stop until you are dead and you know that won't happen! I would have thought you had more control than to tease him in such a way." Anna was displeased with what he was telling her, she knew if they interfere with the past it may effect their time, it was bad enough he was to kill Kikyo... though when she found this out she couldn't say she wasn't happy about it. "I'm sure everything will be fine, it will work out as it should; if they were able to get over it and be with each other in our time you don't need to force them to so quickly now."

"He went to Kikyo again tonight... mother is giving up, I can sense it in her soul, she is tired of this. I have no choice."

"Are the dreams not working? There has to be another way, just give them time brother, we are so close."

"I have only been giving her the dreams, he has not allowed me passed his walls yet, he is always on his guard at night; but I have come up with another plan for now."

"Inu..."

"If I become an interest to mother and threaten his claim he will fight me, it may weaken him enough that I can get into his head... until than, we can not end this."

"End this... you mean go home? The others they... they've finished?" Anna eyes brightened with hope to be able to finally get rid of Naraku.

Inu nodded his head and looked to the reddened sky as the sun rose, "I am the only one left... and you know what I must do, the next time we meet sister we will be against each other."

Anna smiled once more before summoning her fan to its' larger size once again, "I look forward to see Naraku's blood on your sword brother... and father viciously tearing his body apart." Her words left him smirking and he watched her float away on her fan, back no doubt to the spider demon's newest hideout.

"What the hell was he doing here!?"

"Inuyasha... who are you refering to exactly?" Miroku and the others were trying to figure out why their half demon friend was currently pissed so early in the morning when they had clearly done nothing wrong. He had come in at sun rise and woke them all up with his ranting of someone apparently being in the hut that wasn't suppose to be... which is why they were trying to question him over his own questions.

"The damn bastard that has been following Kikyo around monk! He was outside of the hut when I got here, now tell me what he was doing here!"

"He was here? I didn't sense him enter the hut, do you houshi?"

"No I did not Sango... maybe he didn't visit the hut at all Inuyasha, maybe he was merely passing by and you happened to bump into him at the time," Miroku was trying to sound convincing, though he knew Kagome knew something about why her son was there last night seeing as her head had been down during the whole conversation and she was very quiet.

"Keh... like I'm going to believe that monk, he was in here I know it, it's faint but his scent is in here!"

"Maybe you're just smelling things baka, could that be a logically reason," Shippo snickered loving how angry Inuyasha was getting over something so stupid.

"Why you runt!"

"Ah Kagome help me!" before Shippo could spring up from Inuyasha's attack, Kagome's words froze everyone in the cabin.

"He was here to see me," she still refused to meet anyones' eyes and continued to slowly eat her breakfast, but it was only a matter of seconds before Inuyasha blew up at her words.

"WHAT!? What do you mean he was here to see you wench!?" Inuyasha was torn, split in two by both his sides, his human side wanted to run in fear that he maybe losing her to another male; and his demon side wanted to stay and show her just who she belonged to, and it sure ain't as hell was that guy.

"Kagome-chan?" Sango was worried, her friends words implied so much and she wasn't sure that the other girl knew what she was saying.

But Kagome knew exactly what she was doing, in what little sleep last night, she had Inu had come to her and told her that if Inuyasha asked about him the that morning she was to say that he was there for her... and just to let him handle anything that may come of it. "He came to see me, the night we first met him obviously became infatuated with me and has been following us; last night he came to see if I was okay, when I assured him that I was he left... but said he wouldn't be far away and that if I needed him I could just call; it's not a really big deal."

Before anyone could answer her, Inuyasha shot up from his seat and left the hut practically ripping the mat from the door, it hung loosely in his wake. Miroku debated on which friend he needed to talk to first, seeing as Sango would probably be more comfort to Kagome right now than he would, he went after Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha... Inuyasha slow down, we can figure this out if you wouldn't just run off every time," Miroku was hoping to anger the half demon enough so that he would stay near the hut and not run off and sulk in the woods; however that was looking to be difficult. He could already see the other man's body tensing to jump up in the nearest tree, if he did Miroku knew there was no way he could keep up, so he did the only thing he could think of. "Fine then go run off, I wouldn't be surprised if the minute you disappear he will show up again only this time to take Kagome away!"

That last sentence had Inuyasha stop dead on the path and tense up for a whole different reason than running away, he let the growl building up in his throat free, knowing that there wasn't anything close enough to him that he could attack and let his rage free... other than Miroku who was standing behind him, but he wouldn't attack his friend over this. "What's there to figure out monk? She obviously wants him around if she didn't shoo him away like she does Koga all the time, and she admits that she cares for him!"

"Um... Kagome never said she had feelings for him Inuyasha," Miroku had to hide the shiver that crawled up his spine just thinking about their friend falling in love with her future son, there was just too many things wrong with that thought.

"Does it matter if she does or doesn't, it clear by how he just went to her last night and she didn't push him away... she's never allowed the wolf to do that."

"If I may question Inuyasha... where were you last night that he had to come an check on her? It seems you were quite far away from the hut if you didn't sense him, come to think of it you never did come back in after dinner, Kagome went to go find you I think."

'Kagome... she came out looking for me!?' Panic laced throughout Inuyasha's body, his ears drooped and he had to hold in the whimper that wished to break free at the thought of Kagome actually finding him last night. He knew what he said to Kikyo, and after their meeting he had wanted to kick himself for not being able to tell her what he went there to tell her; which only meant it would be longer before he could be with Kagome... but after all this, maybe that wasn't even possible anymore. "It's none of your business mo-."

"You went to see lady Kikyo again... I'm not juding you my friend, your actions are your own, sometimes I wish you would think before you acted but that's besides the point. Right now, let's go back to the hut and talk calmly to Kagome and maybe we can find out what's going on, this could be another Koga thing... maybe just to anger you?"

"Keh... I doubt it."

"I'm surprised at you... every male that has shown any interest in Kagome over the last year you have fought tooth and claw against to keep her with you, and yet this one boy appears and you're ready to give up? What about your children, Kagome and you are together in the near future. You have solid ground to look forward to, all though with your future self being sealed in the well isn't that pleasant it's still a future... are you just turning your back on that now?"

"Feh... why are we standing here yapping? We need to get to the hut and see just what the hell is going on with that wench!" Inuyasha turned and walked past his friend back towards the hut where the girls were.

Miroku couldn't hid the smirk that came to his lips and the half demon's complete one-eighty attitude; the walk back give him a short time to settle himself and try to find a reason that Kagome... and Inu for that matter would do this to harm Inuyasha's ego. He knew there was going to be a lot more screaming before the day was over, and he was hoping there was still that solid future for his friends that was there yesterday.

"Kagome what are you doing!?" Sango questioned the minute after Miroku left in search of Inuyasha. She wanted to get to the bottom of this just like the monk, and she knew that he would be able to get Inuyasha to talk... Kagome would be harder to crack though; she had to be delicate about this. She surprised that the other girl spoke so quickly after her first question though.

"He was with her..." Kagome had bowed her head again, refusing to look at her friend as she shed yet another batch of useless tears over Inuyasha; she told herself last night that she wouldn't do this anymore, she wasn't going to follow after him or cry herself to sleep when he ran off... she was done.

"Kagome... I. I know it's wrong what he's doing and he shouldn't be putting you through all this... however I can't help but think what you just said. It's going to give him the wrong idea, it's bad enough when Koga is flirting with you and he gets jealous... but having to put up with another half demon that maybe showing an interest in you too, he can't handle that. It could push him farther away, you have to rethink this... there's no telling what this will do in the future."

"I didn't come up with this idea... it was Inu, he told me to tell Inuyasha he was here for me; I don't know what he's planning."

"Well we better find out before there is a fight between the two... you of all people know how stubborn Inuyasha can be, especially when it comes to fights... and you."

Kagome nodded, she too didn't want the father and son to fight, but it seemed that Inu was pushing for a fight for some reason; she only hoped it did get to out of hand. Just as they began to clean up the hut and get their feelings ready for the days trip father north for the next shard, the guys rejoined them inside. Inuyasha refused to make eye contact with Kagome, he was still angry for the fact that she let the other man so close to her... and he was also ashamed that she had once again had to suffer while he was with Kikyo; he could kick himself for yet again falling into her trap and being unable to tell her the true reason he went to her last night.

"Keh... let's head out, we've wasted most of the morning as it is," he turned and headed back outside, choosing to ignore Shippo's under his breath comment that it was his fault that they had been sitting around all morning.

As they set out again, Inuyasha every once and a while would check the surrounding tree line or rock ledge for the strange half demon that seemed to be following them because of Kagome... he couldn't sense anyone other than his pack and that ticked him off to no end. 'The damn bastard... he better stay away from Kagome or there's going to be hell to pay when I get my claws in him.'

Note: Well I've finished most of my finales... only one more to do so I thought I would put up a chapter for you guys for being so patient; only two more days of classes and then three weeks off to write! And christmas is coming... yay! I would also like to thank everyone that wished me happy birthday, you're all so nice! Back to the story, so Inu is going to get involved and cause Inuyasha to think he's going to lose Kagome... that doesn't sound good... what does the boy have planned?

Random comment: Have been watching the new episodes of Inuyasha (the final act) and note... Sess's mother is NUTS! What mother would do that to her son... no wonder he's the way he is... she's crazy! And it's just a little bit creepy how much he looks like her.... she could pass for his sister, she looks so young lol!

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