Another Chapter? So soon? Welp, I was in the zone for this...So...Hm.

This one mostly features on Kagome and Sesshomaru...Soooo...

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Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaah...

Because...Sneezing keep's you up.

Kagome had to wonder what the hell had happened to her over the last few days. She had turned fifteen and was going to be late for school, she and Souta had stayed at home for a bit to pay respect to the small shrine for their older sister- and father- Kaname since it was her birthday as well, and the day she had disappeared was the day after. Kagome had told Souta about their sister, he could barely remember her since he was only five at the time, as they stared at the picture. It was a picture of Kaname reading a book under their sacred tree, she was studying for a test and had looked up with an amused smile, wearing a red jacket and cargo shorts. Her sandals were next to her, on top of a stack of school books, and a box of pocky on her other side. Her long hair was let down, blowing in the breeze, and her black eyes sparkling in question as to what the person taking the photo was doing.

Souta had left first, Kagome sitting for just a few seconds more to comfort her mother, before she had also gotten up and headed out the door. Then, she had seen her brother hanging around the hidden well house, trying to get their cat Buyo out. She had decided to go get the cat, wanting to just go to school since Souta was taking forever, and just as she picked up the cat something busted through the boarded well and dragged her inside.

Things just got weirder and weirder after that. First, was finding herself in the Feudal Era if all things, then finding a boy pinned to a tree- which she then found out was a half-demon named Inuyasha- before night fell and a centipede demon was after her. A freaking jewel- the shikon jewel to be exact- had come out of her body. Said jewel could transform a demon into a more powerful being, and or grant a wish, so that just made her even more confused as to why it was in her body. After the demon was taken care of, Inuyasha- that she was able to free from the tree- tried to kill her until Kaede did something with a necklace of beads that somehow subjugated Inuyasha to her will if she said 'sit'.

Once that night was done, Kagome had awoken the next day depressed and worried, it was her sisters death anniversary, and she wasn't at home to comfort her mom and tell Souta about their older sister and dad. She was sure that her own disappearance had devastated her mother, Kagome had remembered how her mother acted after Kaname was gone, and she didn't want to put her in that pain again. She decided to try and find a way back home, ignoring Inuyasha as he told her to hand over the jewel, and somehow she ended up being kidnapped by bandits.

She had never thought she would regret not taking up martial art's like her sister did as much as she did right then.

Turned out, the leader had been long dead and a demon crow was using the corpse as a nest, and it was trying to get the jewel. Kagome and Inuyasha had chased the crow, Kagome had picked up a bow and a quiver of arrows and tried to shoot the thing down.

Kagome had also now regretted never practicing/taking up Kyudo, like her sister had told her to, or doing any miko training...Like her sister.

She had found a way to get the bird...But that resulted in the jewel breaking and scattering all around japan itself.

The day after that, a demon that came from a comb- Yura- had attacked her, she was pushed down the well and then, poof. She was home. Kagome couldn't believe she was, she had cried into her grandfathers arms and was so glad to be back. Her mother had broken down in happy tears, glad that her daughter had come back, she had thought she lost another child, and was glad she was wrong. But sadly, Kagome wasn't safe as Inuyasha had somehow gotten to her time period and so had yura of the hair, forcing Kagome to go back to finish off the demon. She had to protect her family. Once she reassured her mother that she would come back, Kagome went off with Inuyasha and together beaten the demon.

It was night, and Kagome was walking towards the tree that Inuyasha had occupied earlier. She sensed that she had somehow offended him when she asked about his mother, and Myoga had started to speak about her. As she walked, Kagome had to wonder what her sister would have said about all of this if she was still alive. She probably would have murdered Inuyasha and those demons, before dragging me back to our house and destroying the well, and not even caring about the jewel shards or what they could do. Kagome thought with a nod, knowing thats exactly what her sister would do.

Kaname woke up with a sneeze. She frowned, furrowing her brows as she grumbled about something. She noticed that her door was opened, did I leave it open? She thought, she was too tired to think about it and shut the door with a yawn and went back to sleep. If she was more awake, then she would have noticed the lingering traces of youkai that was on the tree outside.

Kagome arrived at the tree, and sure enough the half-demon was sitting there, looking up at the moon. A thought occurred to Kagome, If his mother was human...Then... She furrowed her brows up at him. Hanyou...Half-demon... Half...Human? She thought just as a shudder ran down her spine, making her freeze and widen her eyes. Wha...What is this feeling? She thought just as Inuyasha fell from the tree, grabbed her by the head, and slammed her to the floor.

"GET DOWN!" he yelled.

"..." She lifted up her head and glared at the boy, it wasn't as effective with non-black eyes, but she thought it could do the trick. "Inuyasha..."

He ignored her and still stared upwards, "Get it now? Theres a huge amount of youkai..." he trailed off as both of them saw something in the sky.

A carriage? She thought in confusion, it was close enough to see that there was someone in there, but not enough to see detail. Ah, a woman. She thought in surprise, Kagome then noticed that Inuyasha stood up. He seemed to have paled as he stared, "Ah?"

"M-Mo...ther?" he whispered, making Kagome stare at him in surprise. Didn't he say his mother was dead?! She questioned mentally. Out of nowhere a giant hand came from the sky, grabbed the carriage and squeezed until it broke and all that's left was the woman. Kagome still didn't know what to say, even when Inuyasha jumped towards the demon to save his mother.

He was stopped short by a blast of fire, from- what Kagome could tell with her human eyes- a toad demon with a staff. Next to the toad was a seemingly handsome demon, he had long white hair, bangs parted in the middle showing off a crescent moon, fancy looking armor and clothing, a fluffy thing over his shoulder and an arm guard.

"Jaken-" The male said towards the toad, "We'll talk first. Kill later."

Even though he had a great voice, and only looked to be in his early twenty's late teens, Kagome knew he wasn't kidding when he said that. Jaken said something that Kagome couldn't hear, but she could tell it was a conformation on his orders. Inuyasha had landed near her and he looked pissed.

"YOU BASTARD SESSHOMARU!" he yelled, as the giant demon got close enough for Kagome to hear and see them clearly, making her wonder how they knew each other.

The other guy, Sesshomaru, looked amused by Inuyasha's anger. "Oh? Well done, it seems you've remembered the face of your elder brother." he said mockingly.

These guy's are siblings?! Kagome thought. She didn't know what to think, Inuyasha's elder brother just tried to kill him, and seemed to plan it. Kagome honestly didn't think elder siblings could do such a thing, her sister had been protective of her and Souta all her life. She would defend them to the point of getting hurt, there was nothing Kaname wouldn't do to keep her safe-

(EventothepointwherSheKILLEDandTourTUredtheMeNWhotooKthemShewasjustLIkeaDemoN-)

So, she didn't understand why Sesshomaru didn't seem to have mind that his little brother almost got burned.

She was brought out of her thoughts when Sesshomaru noticed her.

And. He.stared.

She saw something flash in his eyes, but she didn't know what it was, and that was unnerving that he seemed so focused on her. He looked her up and down, and Kagome decided to inch her way behind Inuyasha, wanting Sesshomaru to just stop. He seemed to have finished what ever he was doing, because that arrogant smirk came back.

"Well, If it isn't a human girl."

"S-So what?!" Kagome retorted. She shivered when he again stared, thankfully not that long though.

"Inuyasha, how fitting that one such as yourself would keep the company of humans..." Kagome swore she saw his lips twitch down for brief second, but he seemed the same. He then grabbed the chain around the woman's neck and pulled, forcing her to lift her head and look at Inuyasha and Kagome. "A hanyou whose mother is a vile creature like a...human..." He seemed to be rubbing it in Inuyasha's face, but seemed to slightly stall at the word 'human'. "You have brought shame upon our family."

That made Inuyasha growl and Kagome to confirmed her thoughts on Inuyasha's origins. "Sesshomaru, you bastard, did you just come all this fucking was to say that?" He growled, his claw's up threateningly as he cracked them.

All Inuyasha received for his efforts was a dainty eyebrow raised. His brother looked at him like he was an idiot for what he just said, "Moron, I do not have that much spare time." That just made Inuyasha get even more agitated, but Sesshomaru didn't even bother showing that he noticed. "I've come to ask for the location of Fathers tomb." he said, making Inuyasha furrow his brows at him. Kagome was interested in where this was going, she wouldn't have mind hearing more about Inuyasha's father.

"Ha? I DUNNO! I HAVE NO CLUE!" Inuyasha told him.

Sesshomaru stared at him, before a disapproving frown made it's way across his features. "Is that so? Well then, it can't be helped..." he said in false worry that even Kagome could hear, the demon he was sitting on took that as some type of cue to start crushing the woman in it's hold. "Your mother will just have to suffer."

"Ah!" Kagome gasped before turning to the hanyou. "I-Inuyasha!" she prompted, only for Inuyasha to sneer up at his brother and his mother.

"THINK I'M STUPID, YOU BASTARD!? MOTHERS BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS! YOU PHONY!"

The elder demon just seemed amused by that, "What a moron you are, when, especially for your sake, your mothers soul was brought back from the land of the dead. I even gave her a body." Sesshomaru stated, getting comfortable where he sat as he watched the shock of Inuyasha's face, along with observing Kagome again as he seemed to be debating something about her.

"Inu-Inuyasha...!" The woman gasped out, her hand that was free trying to reach out towards him. Sesshomaru briefly narrowed his eyes at Kagome, making said girl stiffen and really wishing that her sister was here to beat this demon up for staring at her.

"A-ACHOO!" Kaname sneezed again, waking up for a second time in the middle of the night, irritated. "Ugh, I should hope I'm not getting sick." She muttered, rubbing her forehead as she sat there. "I don't want another incident with leaving Sayuri on her own...She still hasn't paid off her debt to that merchant." she grumbled with a sigh. Her eye's caught the vibrant red of the apples that sat in her room, the same apples she use to give the demon lord when he visited, and wondered what he was doing at this moment. I knew I should have at least tried to asked when and or if he would be back. She thought before deciding to study the shards she had collected.

Meanwhile, Inuyasha had just freed his mother from the clutches of the giant demon, ordering Kagome to take her and run. The hanyou saw the demon making to crush both his mother and Kagome with his other hand, Sesshomaru and Jaken making a move to stop them, and used his own body to shield them.

Inuyasha's mother, seeing him hurt to protect them, held out her hands as if to reach for her child. A glowing orb appeared and expanded to engulf the two women and hanyou, when Sesshomaru looked they were gone. The demon didn't look to perturbed by this fact, if anything he seemed satisfied by what had happened, he then turned to Jaken. "If you should fail, then I will kill you." he informed before turning and leaving the frantic imp.

Sesshomaru needed some time to think about what he had just encountered. For years he had been trying to find his fathers tomb, along with his legacy, the Tetsusaiga. He had followed up every lead he could to find the sword, tortured and slaughtered anyone who didn't cooperate. Nothing could stop his search...

Until three years ago when he had seen something bright falling out of the sky.

It was the day he had met that woman, Kaname, the day where he ran out of hints and leads to his fathers sword. He had gone out of pure boredom to inspect what had landed not too far from where he was resting, out of all the things he expected it to be, it certainly was not a young girl. Well, by mortal standards she was a woman, be he was hard pressed to be able to see her as such.

He was going to leave her there alone, not caring if she got devoured by a passing demon, but the crater she was in piqued his interest. There was a barely visible red barrier around the crater, protecting her, and not even he could pass through it without his flesh starting to sear off. When she had woken up, he decided to observe her without having to go through the usual routine when a female saw him. The first thing he noticed was that the barrier disappeared as soon as she opened her eyes, which were the next things that held his amber eyes.

Onyx-black eyes.

He had never seen a human with those eyes before, the closes was a very dark brown that seemed black but was not. He noticed the naginata next, mentally cataloging that into his mind, watching as she mumbled to herself and climbed out of the crater. Her scent was also unusual, he smelt Lotus flowers and apples, along with a strange musky scent that made his nose scrunch up. She seemed to have noticed him, he was slightly impressed by that. He was masking the majority of his youkai.

He had watched as she faced the ogre, and wasn't surprised when she turned out to be a miko. Then again her shrine clothing was a dead give away. Sesshomaru had decided to follow her, it's not like he had much else to do with the dead end in his search, just so he wouldn't be bored.

He had concluded that Kaname was a strange mortal. She didn't appear to care about modesty, she had at one point informed him that if she could, then she would go around walking in the nude. She was from a different time period then his, from the future in fact. And despite this being the first time she ever met a demon, Kaname didn't seem to fear him, or try to purify/attempt to kill him like the other monk's and miko's he had met. So long as he did nothing to her, she left him alone. She had talked to him without a care in the world, but still addressed him with respect, she didn't try and get an answer from him like most females would. He was thankful for that, seeing as he really didn't know what she was talking about half the time. He had slightly enjoyed her company, she wasn't so needy of a response as others were, and she didn't annoy him- sometimes she did for fun- like Jaken did. That tree near the shrine was his haven of peace from the imp's squawking. Nor did she show any form of cockiness when he asked a question about things he did not know, she had just smiled at him and explained what she knew.

It was only last year when he had heard of a possible fruitful rumor about his fathers tomb. So, he had left after the night he showed her what he looked like, to see if this would lead him any closer towards his goal. That all lead to finding out that Inuyasha was unsealed, and Sesshomaru could just get the tombs location out of Inuyasha.

Thus, leading him to tonight's surprising events. Sesshomaru, making it a point to listen to Kaname's story's to learn some new things, knew exactly who that girl that was with his brother was.

He knew that she was the sister that Kaname had often told him about, the one where she had admitted to killing a few men for. The girl resembled Kaname when she was fifteen, they have the same small nose, the fair skin, the hair that looked blue and soft in the moon light or any other certain lights. Their blood smelt similar as well. But, she didn't seem to have that air of maturity that Kaname had at the age, nor her glare that could send demons running. She didn't even look like she could fight, and could feel no power from her at all. She was scared from just looking at him, opposed to the miko who had admitted that she found him attractive, this made him wonder how she could be related to Kaname.

His brother had confirmed her identity further by calling out her name, Kagome, as she had stood there petrified by the giant demons hand coming towards them.

Yes, Sesshomaru was not impressed by Kaname's sister at all. His brother, while also not very impressive, at least could fight. He wondered what Kaname's brother was like, if he was just as pathetic as this Kagome was. Suddenly, it makes sense on why the woman seems so mature at such an age.

He knew it may take a while for the MuOnna to do her task, so he played with the thought of going to check up on the miko. He had checked in on her a few days earlier when the lights in the sky started to head towards the village she resided in, he told himself that he was just making sure his safe haven from Jaken was fine and untouched, he was not concerned for her safety on any way. He was going to stick with that story. And right now, he was just going to go to that tree to relax from Jaken's infernal voice, along with his brothers and the headache known as Kagome.

Right, that's all he was going for.

When he arrived a few minutes later, he was surprised to see Kaname awake, she hadn't stayed up after Sesshomaru had stopped coming (To her knowing anyway), there was no reason to when no one would keep her company. Kaname was staring at something that was in her hand. She didn't seem to pay any attention to her surroundings, so he went unnoticed for now, he made his way to her. As he got closer, he noticed how different she seemed then a year ago, he had been around her for two years since she had arrived, he had never bothered to take note of the changes from her fifteen year old self. Her hair had gotten longer, it now reached the back of her knees, her face had grown more define and lost the bit of roundness due to her time in this era. Her eye's were more narrow then they had been, she was now 5' 8'', growing three inches. She had also- not that Sesshomaru would admit it out loud- filled out quite nicely, her body lost the childish quality to it along with the baby fate that clung to her, it was obvious seeing as the top half of her sleeping kimono was shrugged off. The shimmer of scars littering her torso showed in the moon light, he had wondered what happened to get those, but decided not to ask.

He decided to settle in the tree to wait out the time it would take for the demon to finish her task. He watched Kaname for twenty minutes, figuring that she was too tired to notice his presence with two new apprentices- if the two new smells in the shrine were anything to go by- around to watch over along with the small child, sayuri.

He left after that, arriving at the swamp that the onna occupied. He arrived around the time that the MuOnna mentioned a black pearl. He watched, trying to figure out what the pearl meant to find the tomb of his Father. He pondered on this for a while, watching as Kaname's sister took the staff from Jaken, and seemed to figure out what to do so Inuyasha would be free. It was then that the lord understood what the pearl was, and where it was located. He hummed in an approving hum towards his deduction, stalking up to the two, "Inuyasha, I believe I now know where fathers tomb is located." he announced, grabbing his brother by the neck and lifting him up. He ignored Kagome, he didn't think about what should happen if Kaname found out about this, tilting his head to the side. "To think that it would be in such a fantastic place, that even I failed to perceive it." he said, a smirk towards his fathers ingeniousness about the whole thing. He started to squeeze.

"S-Sesshomaru...!" Inuyasha gasped out.

"Father certainly hid the tomb in a strange place..." he murmured, after all it did take years just to get this point. "The right black pearl..huh..." he mused aloud, not all concerned that there were other people there. "Perhaps to prevent his corps from being violated, Father packed and seal his tomb there."

"B-Bastard! What the hell are you babbling about!?

Sesshomaru stared at his half brother, honestly forgetting that the pup was there with him, before looking uninterested at his brother. "Was it entrusted to you without your knowledge then? Well, in that case..." he said casually, lifting his free arm and suddenly shoving it into his brothers eye. "Why don't we pay a visit to fathers grave together!?" he asked mockingly, ignoring the sudden cry from Kagome and surprisingly myoga the flea.

Tearing the pearl out with a satisfied smile, he dropped Inuyasha to the floor and observed the key to getting to the sword. "Hmp, No wonder I couldn't locate it no matter how much I scoured the earth. There is only one clue to the tomb's whereabouts... 'A place one can see, but never seen. A place that the grave keeper can never look upon.'" he lifted up his bloody fingers, the pearl in between them. "So thats it, the black pearl was hidden in this bastards right eye."

"Just for that, you went so far to make that fake copy of my mother..." Inuyasha growled then charged at Sesshomaru in rage. "I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!" Sesshomaru just dodged it, flexing his fingers.

"I'm in a hurry, so if you get in my way, you'll have to die." sadly the MuOnna got in his way and stopped him from reaching his wretched half brother. Sesshomaru scowled and glared down at it, irritated that it had gotten in the way.

"The MuOnna...Protected Inuyasha...?" Kagome mumbled in confusion, seeing as that same demon tried to kill him earlier.

"The MuOnna is a youkai created of a mother's feelings towards her children," Myoga pipped up from Kagome's shoulder. "So protecting a child would also be in the MuOnna's nature." the revelation shocked both Kagome and Inuyasha, not at all considering that the youkai felt that way.

"My...B...oy-"

Sesshomaru stomped on the faceless head, not having any further use for the demon as it had served it's purpose. "Worthless thing." he huffed out.

"J-JUST A MINUTE YOU-!" Kagome cried out in rage at how Sesshomaru could treat the demon. Sesshomaru slightly scowled towards her, not appreciating his ears being blown out by her loud voice.

"WAH! KAGOME! DO NOT OPPOSE HIM!...Or I'll be killed too!" Myoga said frantically.

"BUT-!" she was interrupted by the toad she had kicked earlier coming back.

"Ah! Lord Sesshomaru, I have retrieved the staff of two heads!" he called out.

"Lose it again, and I'll kill you." was all Sesshomaru responded with, taking the staff and dropping the pearl to the ground. "Heh. I'd grown tired of waiting for this." he then raised the staff and hit the pearl with it. The old man's face laughed, Jaken saying something before a portal opened up. He smirked once more before stepping inside of it. When Sesshomaru reached the remains of his father, as he flew towards the inside, he thought of all he could do once he has obtained the sword.

Suddenly the image of Kaname sitting and tending her garden, a serene smile on her face as the sun shone down onto her, entered his mind. It startled him, since he didn't understand why that had come up out of no where. He frowned to himself, ignoring the small inquiry from Jaken, and walked towards the stage where the rusted looking sword was placed, ignoring the bones everywhere he stepped. "I've finally found you...Tetsusaiga." he muttered happily. Finally, I can take my rightful inheritance. None will be able t-

"My lord Sesshomaru..."

He paused when he had reached his hand out towards the sword.

"Lord Sesshomaru...?" Jaken asked, looking up towards said lord. He glanced from the paused hand to his lords passive face.

"Oh? Here again are you?" a giggle. "I meant no offense, Lord Sesshomaru, I was merely surprised."

His eyes narrowed at Kaname's voice filtering through his head. His hands clenched, "I've finally arrived here..." He muttered, as if trying to convince himself to just reach out and take it.

"Those pesky bandits had tired to come again," a small impish smirk. "Such a shame they decided to make their camp under the tree that had a nest of demonic wasps, probably would have made it if not for that."

"To the treasured sword kept within Father's corpse." he muttered wrapping his hand around the hilt. "A sword that can destroy a hundred youkai in one swing, the fang sword...Tetsusaiga..." he gripped it tightly, he was not going to let a mortal woman's voice distract him.

"SONNAVA' BITCH!" Kaname yelled out in frustration, waking up a third time that night from a sneeze. She was really getting irritated by this, so she decided to fix the problem by storming over to her garden, plucking the leaves of a plant that had a sleeping quality to it, and made it into tea before downing the scalding drink.

The effects were immediate as she face planted her bed.

Sesshomaru sighed as he stared at his burned flesh. "...Figures...Theres a barrier on it..." he muttered, watching his skin immediately fix itself. Father and his paranoia... He thought as his ears picked up on some noise outside of the giant corpse.

"SESSHOMARU!"

The mentioned- yelled really- youkai sighed as he looked up to see his brother and Kagome coming down towards him. He sidestepped the claw aimed towards him, he glanced at the struggling girl trying to climb down the ribcage, marveling on how much trouble she was having doing something so simple, before looking back at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha...Did you come to dig your own grave?" he questioned, then tilted his head in thought, "Or could it be that...you came here for a chance at Fathers sword, Tetsusaiga?"

His brother didn't seem to have noticed the sword before, "Tetsusaiga?" Myoga took that opportunity to voice his own opinion's, trying to get Inuyasha to try and draw the sword.

"Sesshomaru-sama! It must be that...Y-YOU COULDN'T DRAW TETSUSAIGA, COULD YOU?!" Myoga questioned.

Sesshomaru stared at the flea, "...Are you suggesting that Inuyasha can?" he questioned, he listened as myoga stated that he could since he was intrusted to their fathers tomb. That just made Sesshomaru glare at him some more, before Inuyasha declared that he wasn't interested in some 'worn-out old sword', and tried to his the demon lord. Impudence pup. The elder brother thought with a sneer at Inuyasha for disrespecting their fathers sword.

Then the next few minutes went on with Inuyasha trying to hit him, and Sesshomaru dodging with ease while mocking him. Myoga kept trying to get the hanyou to grab the sword, but Inuyasha did not listen. It wasn't until Kaname's sister spoke out and prompted for Inuyasha to grab the sword, encouraging Inuyasha to ruin Sesshomaru's honor.

The demon lord sent a chilling glare at the girl, mentally scoffing at the squeak she she provided.

Inuyasha seemed to decide to do it, leaving Sesshomaru to watch as the half-breed grabbed the hilt, without the barrier burning him, and started to tug. He narrowed his eyes as Tetsusaiga seemed to have jiggled a bit, but other then that it didn't move from it's embedded spot.

"..." Sesshomaru wanted to be done with the stupidity of these people. So, he had tried to kill Inuyasha with his poisoned claws, missing Inuyasha's arm by a bit and hitting his fathers bones instead. He heard the small gasp from Kagome as she seemed to have seen the melting properties of his claws. Inuyasha was losing the battle, and it wasn't until Jaken yelled out something that Kagome interfered.

Mentioned girl had jumped on top of Jaken to stop him from interfering.

"You little monster!" she growled.

"D-Damn wench!" Jaken retorted, hit hat scrunched up from Kagome. He then threw her away, making her land near the sword. "This time I won't be defeated!"

Kagome winced as she started to get up, grabbing the sword for support, and when she saw Inuyasha about to be impaled by Sesshomaru's claws she quickly got up and tried to get to him. "Inuyasha-!" everyone jerked to a stop when the sword came out, with her holding it.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...Sorry..." she apologized when they stared at her. Kagome gulped, "It...slipped..." she trailed off, looking at the sword in her hands, surprised that it even came out.

That look Sesshomaru was sending her made her skin crawl.