"So why did you bring all this ramen? Not that I'm complaining but I don't believe I asked for it." InuYasha said as he help Kagome unpack her backpack.

"I made a mental bet in my head about getting Sesshomaru to come with me back to my home and I lost. I bet you a month's worth of ramen."

"I see. Maybe I should put myself in more situations that require you to make internal bets."

Kagome made a face and he grinned at her. For some reason this InuYasha was giving her feelings she never felt before. Sure he liked InuYasha before but this calmer version of him seemed to be able to say things correctly and thoughtfully… and quite seductively. Must get it from his father… and must be the only one with this. she thought to herself as she looked over at Sesshomaru, who was still trying to not look like he was brooding over the subjugation beads.

"How did Rin get a hold of subjugation beads?"

"I told Kaede to make some for Sesshomaru just in case he goes haywire. I know you've saved me plenty of times when I would turn full yokai with those things."

"Are you really worried about your brother?"

"I'm worried about his arrogance. Sure he may have been a full yokai a week or so ago but he has no idea what it's like when it suddenly takes over your body like a foreign entity, making you do things. He'd probably have a better control over it but it's different from being one and turning into one."

"I see. Where's Sango and Miroku?'

"After Kikyo tried to make me go with her, Sango and Miroku volunteered to track her and see if they could find out any information. They should be back soon. I'm hoping they have found something so we can fix this issue. I miss my arm." He said with a frown to the empty sleeve.

She smiled and separated different things in her backpack and then repacked it.

"Well, I'm all set for whenever they get back."

She turned to look at InuYasha and found him staring at her quite intently.

"Wha- what?"

"Nothing."

"What, thinking of Kikyo?" she spat impulsively.

InuYasha was actually quite hurt by the comment and frowned at her.

"No."

He got up with a bit of difficulty and walked out of the hut. Kagome sighed.

"You're quite the idiotic thing, aren't you?" Sesshomaru said from his corner.

"What?" she growled, looking at him.

He smirked. "I'm still trying to understand your engagement with one another."

"What are you rambling on about?"

"It's quite obvious he sees you as a potential mate. Why do you keep casting him aside like he is the weakest of the bunch? Although I can't say I blame you…"

Kagome laughed. "You must have eaten too much chocolate and it made your brain all foggy. InuYasha doesn't think of me that way."

"I am not still suffering from your tasty blocks of doom. Have you forgotten that this Sesshomaru was a daiyoukai? I think I would know when a man is looking at a woman with thoughts of a potential mate in mind."

"Then, again, you're wrong. InuYasha is still in love with Kikyo."

Sesshomaru sighed and stood up. "You're insufferable. I don't see anything of value in you other than your sad excuse of miko powers."

"I resent that!" she yelled as Sesshomaru left the cabin.

Things were a little awkward between everyone until Miroku and Sango came back with news about Kikyo.

"Did you find out anything important?" Kagome asked, hugging Sango.

"No, unfortunately she disappeared on us and we lost track of her. But we think we know where she's headed."

"Where?" InuYasha asked.

Sango gasped as Miroku looked at him sadly.

"What happened to your arm?"

"Fell off. Since it's that guy's body it's modeled after, apparently, the loss of arm comes with the territory."

"Just as these stupid ears." Sesshomaru said, wiggling them for emphasis.

Miroku and Sango looked at each other. It hadn't been that long but they could see the definite changes between the two brothers' demeanor.

"Uh, anyway, we saw her going into a cave about a day's journey away but when we got into the cave, she was gone."

"Then that's where we should start." Kagome said. "I'll be a little on the slow side-"

"You're coming with us?" InuYasha asked, looking at her wrapped up leg and crutches.

Kagome made a face.

"Of course I am."

"Do you plan on hobbling after us at breakneck speed with your sticks?" Sesshomaru grumbled.

Kagome hit him with one of the crutches and InuYasha rolled his eyes.

"Kagome, I think you should stay here. This is between me and Sesshomaru and Kikyo."

"Sure, just go off and be with your Kikyo." Kagome grumbled.

InuYasha rolled his eyes again and looked at Sesshomaru.

"You'll have to carry her."

"You think I'll be your lackey? She's your human, you do something about her."

"I only have one arm."

"So did I and I lived with it. Maybe you should have thought before you sliced it off."

"I didn't really think that I was going to be switched with you one day."

"All the more for you to think before you do things. You never have been one for strategy, always going in when you have no idea what lay ahead of you."

"Yeah well I kicked your ass doing it, didn't I, Mr. Strategic?"

"Boys!" Kagome yelled, putting herself in between the two. "I'm not helpless. I may be slow but I'll just crutch myself along. Shippo will keep me company I'm sure."

"The hell he will." InuYasha growled.

Kagome looked at him in surprise.

"What's wrong with you?"

InuYasha looked away. "I don't know."

Sesshomaru knew but decided not to tell anyone since he had had quite enough today.

Sango sighed. "You can just use Kirara, Kagome. I'm sure she wouldn't mind letting you ride on her due to your injury. As much as I agree that you should stay, we may need you."

Kagome snubbed her nose in the air. "Hmm! See, I'm needed."

The two brothers looked at each other and for once agreed in an eye roll in regards to this particularly fickle maiden.

As they started down the pathway, Kagome wondered what had gotten over InuYasha in regards to Shippo keeping her company. He had never acted that way with her before… even when Koga would take her, he acted like it was no big deal and would sometimes even leave her with him. She suddenly sensed two jewel shards and looked out before them.

"I sense two jewel shards heading this way."

InuYasha sniffed the air and lifted his lip.

"It's just Koga." He growled.

Now that they got a little closer (or rather, Koga had) she could see the small tornado that Koga usually cooked up when he ran and his poor subordinates running behind him.

"Those two… I feel so sorry for them." She said to herself as the tornado stopped and Koga skid.

"I thought I smelled you, Dog Turd." Koga made a face at InuYasha. "Whoa, what happened to you? You smell different."

"You still stink." InuYasha said.

Koga ignored him, as usual, and turned to Kagome, frowning at her leg.

"What happened to your leg? Did that idiot cause you to get hurt?"

"Uh, well, not really. I kicked a jar and broke my toe."

Koga turned to InuYasha, who was really not in the mood to deal with Koga, but knew it was coming anyway. He was never really in the mood to deal with him in his hanyou form so it didn't' make a difference now.

"You dare hurt Kagome's delicate foot? What kind of man are you, Dog Turd?"

"I don't know, Wolf Pup, what kind of person tries to take another person's things?"

"Oh ho! So now she's a thing? I didn't think you were so possessive over her, InuYasha. If she's so precious to you, then why did you let her get hurt?"

"I didn't let her do anything. I had no choice in the matter. Please leave me alone, I'm not in the mood for you." He growled, walking past him.

Koga took a big whiff of his scent and then noticed that he didn't have his ears and he looked slightly taller.

"What the hell? You're a full yokai!"

InuYasha looked over his shoulder. "Why? Ya scared?"

Koga grinned. "HELL NO!" He ran in front of InuYasha to stop him. "Now we can have a real fight! What do you say? You and me in a fight for Kagome!"

"Hey, stop it!" Kagome yelled.

InuYasha began to pull Tessaiga out.

"You sure you want to deal with me? I'm not like I was before."

"Even better."

Kagome knew that Tessaiga wouldn't work anymore since InuYasha was no longer a hanyou, so all it would be was just a cruddy sword. Plus, she hated it when they fought.

"Sit boy!" she yelled out of habit.

To everyone's surprise, InuYasha slammed to the ground and seemed to slam down pretty deep into the road as he gave out a loud noise that sounded like the yelp of a wounded dog. Kagome gasped, not realizing that the beads would still work on him.

Sesshomaru frowned, not happy about that revelation.

Kagome got off of Kirara and hobbled over to InuYasha.

"InuYasha! I'm so sorry! I didn't even know it would work. I just did it out of hab… it…"

A very ominous aura surrounded him as he got out of the hole he had made in the road. Kagome gulped, not knowing what was going to happen. InuYasha sat up and turned to her, his eyes red and his fangs showing, his nails having grown very long. Koga backed up, not having ever seen InuYasha in this state before.

"You said it didn't work anymore." InuYasha snarled, glaring at her. "I trusted you!"

"I- I'm sorry! I just didn't want you to get hurt! Tessaiga won't work when you're like this and-"

He reached out suddenly and grabbed her by the throat, squeezing.

"You knew it would be worse than before, didn't you?! You mentioned the beads because you were hoping that I'd keep them on. You knew how much pain they would cause me!"

Pain? Kagome slightly thought in between trying to breathe and getting InuYasha's hand off her neck.

"No, InuYasha-"

"SHUT UP! I trusted you and you betrayed me by making me think I had made my own decision. That I had a choice. I chose to stay with you but you betrayed me!"

"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled, sending the boomerang weapon towards him.

InuYasha dropped Kagome, moving out of Hiraikotsu's way. He snarled at his friends, fear and anger taking over his body. Miroku ran to Kagome and helped her sit up.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Miroku, what does he mean by pain? He's never said anything about being in pain before. I mean-"

"As if you didn't know." InuYasha snarled, glaring down at her. "For a hanyou it's not so bad because I'm half human but for a full yokai… Cheh, you really had me fooled."

"About what?! InuYasha, I never meant to hurt you! I really didn't think the beads would work on you, honest."

"Likely lie. You're just like Kikyo, always saying how much you care about me and then turning on me in an instant."

Kagome held back tears. "Don't you dare compare me to her! I didn't trap you in that jar, I didn't cause this. I truly didn't know that it would do that and I certainly didn't think it would cause you pain... I would never do anything to cause you pain…"

Kagome got up, hobbling to him. He glared at her but she hugged him.

"Please; I'm so-" She gasped, feeling something under his robe.

Without asking permission, she undid his robe and pulled the hakama apart and down, turning him around. When she did, she found a large, very angry looking scar that went up his back to his neck and she turned him back around slowly.

"InuYasha…" Kagome said softly, truly sorry. "I… I had no idea. Honest."

InuYasha looked at her and anger filled his eyes.

"You're a liar."

He was about to use Iron Reamer, Soul Stealer when a whip cracked and hit InuYasha in the hand. He snarled as Sesshomaru set Kagome down beside her friends some feet off. He glared at his brother.

"It seems that you still have no idea how to control your yokai blood, even if your body has changed. You have much to learn."

"I have learned plenty in these few seconds."

"You're forgetting yourself. I do not like these humans but I have an unnatural desire to protect them for some reason. I'm assuming that's your human conscience affecting me." He growled. "Either way, getting angry over a mistake is weak and foolish. It's quite obvious -if you were not focusing on what happened- that it was an honest mistake. Besides, why would your human purposefully want to hurt you?"

InuYasha seemed to calm down for a second and looked back at Kagome. Seeing the bruises begin to show on her neck, he backed up unknowingly into Koga. Seeing him, his anger only flared since if not for his presence, Kagome wouldn't have said anything. For once, Koga was actually scared.

"Get. Away. From. Me." InuYasha snarled.

Koga said nothing and left.

With Koga gone, InuYasha could finally contain himself and he looked back at his friends. They were all staring at him in caution but in Kagome's eyes, he saw fear. Fear that he had never seen and it bothered him because secretly: he liked it.

there is nothing i saw that said that the beads wouldn't work on a full yokai. plus in the wiki it said that kags actually helped inu in his full yokai form by yelling sit. but kags really didn't know and it was her usual reaction to the situation. but since inu has never really been a full yokai, his body is still reacting like it used to when he would turn full yokai except since there wasn't anything to bridle it, it spiraled out of control. i think that makes sense. do what you will