I own Inuyasha so WHAT! Feel the jealousy. Oh, and I decided to start counting the prologue as a chapter. I wasn't before. It was confusing.

Author's Song of the Day 1: Bitch Please
Author's Song of the Day 2: Gangsta's Paradise

Did you know that Inuyasha got the SPJA Awards for best TV Series, Best Male Character (Inuyasha), and Best non-human Character (Kirara).

I took a Personality test, and I'm an INTJ. Heheheh.

JaPaNeSe: Dokacho - poison fang / Oi - hey / baba - like old woman / youki - sorta like youkai aura or energy / youkai - demon/monster / hanyou - half youkai / jaki - evil energy type stuff / sattou - dash or rush / kaze - wind. Kaze-sattou is a word made up by me.
Anything I forgot? Tell me.

Any ideas for techniques that Inuyasha could learn? He uses Tetsusaiga a lot so… and keep in mind poison things like Sesshoumaru uses is out of the question.

You know, I just noticed that ramen is popular anime food. I know of at least two main characters that have an obsession for it. Them being Inuyasha and Naruto. I love it too. I have it almost every day. Lol.

Jezunya: Ok girls get emotional REALLY FAST. Ridiculously fast actually, but thanks for telling me. I need to know how I can improve. Everyone, FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF JEZ AND TELL ME HOW BAD I AM! That way I get better.

Ludacris: Yeah. *hangs head in shame* I hate it. I can not write it, but… grrrr whatever. I can't get past the 'I can't write it' part.

Princess Sapphire: Er sorry. Aishiteru means 'I love you' but really really really strong, like 'I want to spend the rest of my life with you' coupled with a nice romantic poem or something. Daisuki is like we've been going out for a few months kind of I love you.

Recap: Inuyasha has a chat with his conscious and Kagome comes and they talk and he says she's his friend and they hug and fall asleep. Lame huh?
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Kagome awoke to find herself warm and extremely comfortable. While she was stretching, she noticed she was being hugged. By Inuyasha. Memories came flooding back at her. With a smile, she snuggled deeper into his embrace and closed her eyes, savoring the moment. His sleeves made surprisingly good blankets. She giggled lightly. Inuyasha cracked open an eye and yawned.

"Oh. Kagome it's you. Keep it down." he said, feigning disinterest while tightening his embrace on her. Kagome continued smiling. Maybe there is a chance… she thought.* Suddenly, Kaede walked in.

"Ah. I'm sorry for interrupting. I'll be leaving." she said with a sly smile on her face.

"Oi, baba, we're not doing anything." he said in an annoyed tone of voice. Standing up, he stretched deeply. "Is my brother awake yet?" he asked

"Yes. Sesshoumaru has been awake for some time now."

"Good. I'm going to go see him." replied Inuyasha.

~~~Sesshoumaru's hut, Inuyasha's PoV~~~

Inuyasha stepped in the hut, and looked at his brother. "Sessho--" he gazed in shock. "What in the hell are you wearing?" he asked. Sesshoumaru was sitting calmly, with a crown of flowers on his head. They appeared to be daisies. Sesshoumaru glared at him.

"Rin asked me to wear it." he said icily. You could tell he was just trying to cover his embarrassment.

"And you wore a crown of daisies just because a little human girl told you to?!?" he asked incredulously. Am I dreaming again? he asked himself. Sesshoumaru reached up and took it off, setting it down carefully.

"What do you want, hanyou." he said.

"Ah ah, you acknowledge me as family now." Sesshoumaru was beginning to regret making that bet. He had been so sure he would win…

"What do you want, brother." he said.

"Tell me how to look human." Inuyasha asked.

"Why would you want to know such a useless thing." he asked.

"Damn it Sesshoumaru, just tell me." he said, exasperated.

"Come here." Sesshoumaru said, not moving. Inuyasha complied, and fast as lightning, Sesshoumaru grabbed his head, squeezing at his temples. Kagome chose this moment to come in. She gasped. Both brother's youki were fluctuating wildly, Sesshoumaru's appeared to be trying to dominate Inuyasha's.

"Be still brother." he said boredly.

"What the hell are you doing??" Inuyasha asked, still struggling.

"Giving you your markings." Sesshoumaru replied in the same bored tone of voice.

"What? Why do I need them?" he asked.

"Shut up." Sesshoumaru said. The youki around Inuyasha's face began swirling. It continued to do so, occasionally burning Inuyasha, who was definitely uncomfortable at this time. Eventually it stopped swirling, leaving Inuyasha gasping in pain, with markings on his face, like when his youkai blood took control.

"Fuck! What the hell was that??" he yelled.

"The ritual. Congratulations brother, you're a man now." Sesshoumaru said, sarcasm thick on his voice.

"Wipe that damn smirk of your face!!" screamed Inuyasha, launching himself at Sesshoumaru.

"Calm down brother." he said calmly. Kagome was still gaping. She could see Inuyasha's youki now if she concentrated. She had never been able to before. She had always just figured it was because he was a hanyou.

"Now. You wanted to know how to make yourself look like a pathetic human." Sesshoumaru said. "Imagine yourself looking human. It's as simple as that." he said, disgusted that even his half brother would want to appear fully human. Inuyasha closed his eyes, and imagined himself human, as he had been not too long ago. Black hair, human ears, violet eyes. Kagome gasped, and Inuyasha took it as a sign that it was working. Kagome had gasped, however, for a different reason. His youki was swirling again, and it had seemed to condense into a ball, and retreat somewhere into his chest, causing his hair to become black, and his ears to melt into the side of his head. When Inuyasha opened his eyes, he felt much weaker.

"Oi, Sesshoumaru, why do I _feel_ human? I thought I would only look human." he asked.

"Only kitsune can appear human and keep all their youkai strength." Sesshoumaru replied. "It's because they cast an illusion on themselves, while other youkai make their youki disappear." he replied. Inuyasha noticed Kagome was staring at him.

"What are you looking at?" he asked Kagome.

"I'm trying to see your youki." she said, eyes squinted. She appeared to be looking somewhere in his chest. "Found it!" she yelled triumphantly. It had become a tiny ball, hiding where his heart was. Inuyasha shook his head and concentrated on regaining his youki. After his dog ears and white hair had returned, he turned to Sesshoumaru.

"Anything else you can teach me?" he asked. "Like your dokacho or something?"

"You wouldn't be able to do the dokacho." Sesshoumaru stated simply. This was becoming annoying for him. "But you would be able to do the kaze-sattou." he said.

"Why wouldn't I be able to do a dokacho?" he asked, concentrating on the negative again.

"Because you're all kaze inu." Inuyasha's brother responded. Inuyasha felt embarrassed.

"What's the kaze-sattou?" Inuyasha asked, trying to remember all the things his brother did. Not the poison claw or whip thingy.. he thought, maybe when he moves? Sesshoumaru quickly dashed up to Inuyasha, causing his image to blur behind him. Reaching out with lightning speed, he grabbed Inuyasha's throat, and held the hanyou up.

"That." he replied.

"Don't make me cut off your other arm." Inuyasha warned. Sesshoumaru actually laughed.

"Move your youki to the opposite direction of where you want to move." Sesshoumaru said, waiting to see how good his brother was at real youkai techniques. That was really only the first step.

"How do I do that?" Inuyasha asked, unaware that moving his youki was the equivalent of a 1st grade skill. Sesshoumaru sighed.

"Can you feel your youki?" he asked, his cold exterior crumbling into exasperation.

"Um…" replied Inuyasha. He'd never really tried to _feel_ it before, it was just there. Of course he didn't know that when he used a Sankon Tetsuo, he was actually moving his youki around his claws, or when he used the Hijin ketsuo, he was moving it into his blood… it was like reading and not knowing it. Very hard to do. "No.." he finally responded defensively. "Should I?" he asked his brother tentatively.

It must be because father was busy teaching me. Sesshoumaru thought. He probably expected to live for at least another thousand years after the hanyou was born. Demons were very old. Much older than any human knew. They'd watched monkeys evolve into humans, had competed with dinosaurs for food. Of course back then, there had been no human looking youkai. They had all been giant dogs or dragons. "Yes you should." Sesshoumaru finally said. Inuyasha had continued trying to feel it. He'd been completely ignoring Sesshoumaru. He was trying to look at his youki, watching the way it swirled. Kagome was watching their youki's also. She supposed it was a benefit of being a miko, but she could see both of them clearly when she concentrated. Inuyasha's fluctuated wildly, swirling around like water in rapids. Sesshoumaru's on the other hand was calm and controlled, flickering calmly. Inuyasha on the other hand was still concentrating. Finally, he could feel it, but he couldn't make it do anything.

"You bastard youki!" he yelled, making the other two people in the room look at him, trying to determine whether he was crazy or not. "Sesshoumaru, I can feel it but it doesn't _do_ anything!" he said. Inuyasha got frustrated easily.

Sesshoumaru sighed. This was going to take a while.

~~~A day later~~~

Inuyasha had decided it was safe enough for the rest of his comrades to come back, so he had gone and dragged Sango, Miroku and Shippo back to Kaede's village. He'd told them not to attack Sesshoumaru no matter what. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha had been sparring for the past 6 hours or so, and the rest of shard hunters had settled into a nice game of go fish, while an epic battle raged on that was scarring the very ground it was fought on. It couldn't really be called a battle though, as it was a little one sided. It was one sided because Inuyasha had agreed not to do anything but dodge as part of his training. He was practicing the kaze-sattou, and was getting ok at it, but still nowhere close to Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha had died twice, once by accident, and once because he'd taunted Sesshoumaru, who had taken advantage of their deal and killed him. When he was revived, Inuyasha was pissed to say the least.

"Let's take a break, brother." Sesshoumaru said.

"Why, I'm ready for more." said Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru merely glared at him. He wasn't tired, just bored. While beating his brother up had seemed appealing, it got boring after the first five hours or so. Maybe he would allow him to fight back after their break.

"Whatever, I'm hungry." muttered Inuyasha, wandering off in search of food. He then turned back, a small grin on his lips. "Oi, Kagome…" he said, causing her to look up from her cards.

"You want some ramen?" she asked. He couldn't fool her. Inuyasha hadn't been trying to fool her, just to get some ramen.

"You know it." he snorted, sitting down with the Tetsusaiga resting on his shoulder. He looked over to see Sesshoumaru conversing with Rin. He really has changed… Inuyasha thought. Before he was cruel, not caring about anything except his own power. Now… he's taking care of a human girl. With his acute sense of hearing, Inuyasha was listening to their conversation. Rin had asked Sesshoumaru to put on his daisy crown again. When Sesshoumaru actually did, Inuyasha snorted. Kagome noticed what he was looking at.

"It's cute isn't it?" she asked.

"Keh, whatever. I think it's pitiful. And strange." he said.

"Why?" asked Kagome.

"Well, it's pitiful because a 600 year old demon just put on a crown of daisies because an eight year old human girl told him to, and it's strange because it's my brother. He's a psycho sadist." replied Inuyasha.

"Well. I guess he's changed." Kagome said.

"I guess so."

"What are you doing?" the dog demon asked curiously.

"We're playing Go Fish. Shippo is winning." she said.

"Can you teach me how to play?" Inuyasha asked.

~~~Sesshoumaru's POV~~~

"Sesshoumaru-sama, what are you doing?" asked Rin innocently. Sesshoumaru sat wiping the blood off Toukijin.

"Cleaning my sword." he replied, continuing his task with cool precision.

"Sesshoumaru-sama?"

"What Rin?" asked the demon.

"You're done fighting with Inuyasha-san, will you put the crown I made you on again?" she asked.

Sesshoumaru was unsure. To do such a thing as put on a crown of daisies… but… he looked at Rin. She was staring at him with wide eyed innocence. He couldn't refuse.

"Yes." he replied calmly, putting it on. He looked over at his half-brother. Pitiful. he thought, ignoring the fact that he had just put on a crown of daisies on the behest of a human girl. He's just like father, falling in love with humans. Among the human world, we have a word for people like Sesshoumaru. It's hypocrite.
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End of Chapter 9

Well. I didn't put any waff or nothing in there, but I did have Inuyasha acting nice. Lol. Well, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha are officially training, and Sesshoumaru is beating the shit out of Inuyasha, as expected.

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Oh, and I gotta shout out to Yume. I'm editing the said author's fic. Read it. Playing With Fire by atashi-wa-Yume. Peace out, 'til the next chapter.