Kagome pointed to herself. "Me? Why does everyone keep blaming me?"

"What has my lord done to you?" Jaken cried. "He doesn't do anything to you and yet you pull him into these frivolous things and get him involved with your silly hanyou games."

"Hanyou games?" InuYasha said, making a face. "Going after Naraku isn't a game, imp!"

"Well now you don't need to find Naraku, do you? You're a full yokai now. Poor Lord Sesshomaru now has to find him so he can get is former self back." Jaken leaned on Sesshomaru's stomach and began to cry. "Oh, Lord Sesshomaru! How your glory has been taken and given to someone like this hanyou!"

InuYasha and Kagome looked each other in confusion. They decided to ignore the imp for now as Kagome reached out and touched InuYasha's face a little.

"Wow, they're really in your skin…"

"What are?"

"The marks. For some reason I always thought that the magenta marks were painted on. Why I thought that I don't know why… I guess I couldn't just ask Sesshomaru. He wouldn't give me an answer anyway and I couldn't ask you."

InuYasha smiled a little and took her hand from his face.

"Yeah, they're imbedded in the skin… I wonder why he hasn't woken up yet."

"Miss Kagome, Lord Sesshomaru's head is warm!" Rin said, looking at her.

Kagome turned her attention back to the former daiyokai and she put the back of her hand on Sessomaru's forehead. He had a small fever and Kagome frowned a little, confused as to why he had a fever and was still asleep while InuYasha was fine.

"We should move him to the main room so that Kaede can help us out."

"And let a human take care of my lord?!" Jaken yelled. "That's preposterous. Rin and I can take care of him."

"Um, Master Jaken, I think we should let Miss Kagome do what she needs to do. Lord Sesshomaru isn't himself." Rin said softly.

"Shut up, you stupid girl."

"Both of you be quiet." InuYasha snarled. Jaken quieted and Rin put her arms behind her. "Look, I don't care what you do with that idiot but Kagome thinks it's her civil duty to help everyone out. She's not going to let you take him with you."

"Hey." She said, putting her hands on her hips. "He's your brother, InuYasha."

"So? Do you think he'd care what happened to me? He wouldn't have stuck around to make sure I got out of that jar safely or waited until I woke up. He'd say I was an idiot and leave. I think we should let his imp and Rin take him away."

"InuYasha is right." Kaede said, coming into the room. "I overheard your conversation when I came in." She looked at InuYasha and then at Sesshomaru. "Oh my, what's happened?"

"That jar did something to them and it looks like it switched their forms. InuYasha's a full yokai now and Sesshomaru is a hanyou… He's got a fever and still hasn't woken up."

"I see. Well, I think we should let Sesshomaru's friends take him and do what they see fit. We have more important things to worry about now that InuYasha is a full yokai."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, my sister did this for a reason. We need to know if it's permanent or will it wear off; what was the purpose for it? I think that's why she needed Sesshomaru there too. There was only so much she could do. She did this for a specific reason and we need to know what it was. InuYasha, do you remember anything about being inside that vessel?"

InuYasha stood up and rubbed his chin. Kagome looked up and him and realized he had gotten taller, almost Sesshomaru's height. Sensing her looking at him, he looked down at her.

"What?"

"You're really tall now."

InuYasha looked down at himself and shrugged.

"I guess it comes with the territory."

"Poor Lord Sesshomaru will be a short small fry! You stole his height too!" Jaken wailed from the floor.

Jaken suddenly yelled as they watched him fly across the room. They turned back as Sesshomaru sat up, putting his hand to his head.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin said, happy he was alright. "Are you alright? Your head was warm."

Sesshomaru looked at her and squinted for his vision to clear up. She seemed so dim…

"Are you alright, Lord Sesshomaru?" she asked.

"What happened?" he asked, ignoring her question.

He looked around and saw his brother looking at him, his human girl looking as well in worry and he looked back at InuYasha. Magenta marks, no ears, taller… Sesshomaru thought. He frowned mentally (or so he thought) when he suddenly felt something on his head move. He frowned deeper and reached up to see what was on his head.

They felt like ears.

On top of his head.

On top of his head.

Sesshomaru suddenly got up, feeling a feeling he'd never felt in his chest as he looked all around for something to look at himself in. His chest was tight and he could feel his blood pumping quickly.

"Is this what you're looking for?" Kagome said softly, holding something out to him.

He walked over to her and saw that it was a small mirror. He grabbed it and looked at himself. Seeing the ears on his head, his lack of markings, the expression he was feeling actually on his face, he handed the mirror back to Kagome.

"I see…" he said, trying to compose himself. "I am… a hanyou."

"Maybe you should sit down." Kagome said, reaching out to touch him on the arm.

"Don't touch me." He snarled.

"Sorry."

Sesshomaru put his hand to his head, feeling lightheaded. He didn't want to show his weaknesses to these people. Not yet. He would get a hold of himself before he let InuYasha's humans see him falter…

Sesshomaru suddenly toppled over and Kagome ran to him along with Rin. InuYasha just watched as Kaede nodded in understanding.

"Hmm, it looks as if the draining of his power has left his body taxed."

"So his body is in shock?" Kagome asked.

"It could be. For a person with such power, having it drained almost completely, or even half of its normal strength could affect the body like it would one who has lost a lot of blood."

Kagome looked back at Sesshomaru, who was breathing shallowly. His skin was clammy and the fever had spiked.

"InuYasha, he can't go back out there like this. He could die."

"Serve him right for being such an ass all the time." He said, crossing his arms.

"Sit!" she yelled.

He yelped, falling to the floor and Kagome asked Rin to help her make Sesshomaru comfortable. InuYasha sniffed and then looked at Kagome's foot for a second.

"Did you hurt yourself, Kagome?"

"What do you mean?" she asked, putting a small pillow under Sesshomaru's head.

"I smell blood in your shoe."

Kagome looked and then sat on the floor, taking off her shoe. As InuYasha had said, there was blood in her shoe from where she had kicked the vessel. She had screwed up her toenail and she may have even broken her toe.

"Aw man…"

InuYasha got up and walked over to her, kneeling in front of her foot. He took it and took her toe with his fingers, moving it a little. She hissed and he nodded.

"It's broken."

"Great…" she grumbled. "Now how am I supposed to get where we need to go?"

InuYasha smiled. "You can stay on my back as usual." He stood up. "Old Woman, where are your bandages?"

"In that chest over there. I'll go get some cool water from the stream for his lordship and some healing plants for your toe, Kagome."

She nodded and watched InuYasha for a moment. She didn't know if it was her, him, or what happened to him, but it seemed in that one moment, when he was holding her foot, that he was more mature than ever. Kagome felt her heart skip a beat even more than usual. She hoped whatever Kikyo was trying to do didn't involve trying to take him from her or she would surely die.

i figure that as powerful as a youkai that the sessh is, having at least half if not all of it drained from him would leave him weak. especially in a weak body like a hanyou is to a full yokai (inuyasha don't hit me!) anyway, i think it would be more like hypovolemic shock than anything. but that's just me. the fever is due to his body changing. as a hanyou, i would think it's more sensitive than the other is. the broken toe scene turned into a sudden fluff scene but it has meaning, i swear!