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Chapter 8: The Battle

Inuyasha stared at Kagome, mouth open, unable to find his voice for a few minutes.

"What did you say? Did you say you love me?" Inuyasha said, having finally found his voice.

"I said I love you Inuyasha." Kagome didn't know why she repeated it, but she saw a little glint of happiness wash over Inuyasha when she said it. Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, when his ears flicked to the door, listening. He closed his mouth and walked over to the door.

"Shippo, leave us, we are having an adult conversation, it is not for young Kitsunes like you." Inuyasha said turning away from the door after a few moments's being satisfied that he couldn't hear or smell Shippo any more. His heart sank when he looked at the bed. There laid Kagome, sleeping.

Inuyasha sighed and walked over and laid in the other bed, facing Kagome so he could watch her.

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The next few days, Kagome slept and healed, quite fast thanks to the healing herbs Sesshoumaru provided. Inuyasha was walking about the halls, trying to take his mind of Kagome when he bumped into Sesshoumaru.

"Umm, thanks." Inuyasha replied, not making eye contact.

"F-for what?" Sesshoumaru asked, slightly surprised.

"For saving Kagome, I um, appreciate it."

"Your welcome I guess."

They turned and walked down one of the halls that Sesshoumaru himself had not been in a long time. Inuyasha's golden eyes widened.

"Father?" Inuyasha gasped, mouth-hanging open at all the pictures of his father, in human form and in full dog form.

Inuyasha's father looked like him, had his loving eyes, not as cold as Sesshoumaru's normally were. He had the same long tail as Sesshoumaru, and had it slung over his right shoulder, like Sesshoumaru. He had fluffier hair that went straight back and looked like it was silk, unlike Sesshoumaru's hair, which was parted slightly in the middle and went back, looking rough and older. He wasn't as pale as Sesshoumaru, but wasn't as dark as Inuyasha, more in-between. In one of the pictures, Inuyasha noticed his father wearing a Fire Rat out fit, just like his. Inuyasha stared at this picture.

"He gave you that when you were a little boy, I think you were four. You don't remember him do you?" Sesshoumaru asked, looking quite sad.

"No, I don't. He gave me this? (Inuyasha looks at his fire rat outfit) How did it not tear?"

"It grew, as you grew Inuyasha. I remember when we were, almost really like brothers." Sesshoumaru said, still sadly, and not making eye contact.

Inuyasha's eyes widened more. "Really? For as long as I can remember you've hated me, you've hated my mother, you've hated everything about us."

"That's not, entirely true, young brother. I tried to save your mother, when the demons killed her; I was there while you were in hiding, fighting off the flames. I was fighting them off, although I was about your age, maybe a bit older when she died. I had hoped I could have made them run off."

"Why?" Inuyasha asked, puzzled.

"I know how it feels to not have a mother. I only had mine for a short time, before Father found your mother. She tried to take care of me, but I wouldn't let her, I told her to leave me alone, I could live on my own. God I wish I had let her care for me, maybe I would have grown up better." Sesshoumaru put his back against the wall and slid down it into a sitting position.

Inuyasha walked slowly over to his brother. He looked at him and thought about what he had just said.

"I'm sorry, brother. You are truly my brother, and I thank you. I thank you for being there for my mother, while I ran and hid."

Inuyasha got down on his knees and leaned over Sesshoumaru and hugged him, Sesshoumaru was surprised at first but slowly began to hug him back. Suddenly realising that he was hugging hi brother, Inuyasha let go, and moved beside him to talk more about his father and his mother, and Sesshoumaru's life before they became bitter.

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Kagura suddenly cried out, alerting Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru, her babies were on the way. They ran to Sesshoumaru's room where was on the bed, panting.

"Hunny, its going to be fine, just breathe, you'll be fine." He grabbed her hand. Miroku and Sango ran in to help.

The first baby came out; Sango wrapped it in a towel and got it to breathe, for it was in dog demon form. It's eyes and ears were closed off and Sesshoumaru could hear his baby stating to breathe, he was almost in tears. Kagome burst into the room and gasped, taking the baby and cradling it in her arms. Inuyasha's nose went into gear when he smelt something weird.

"Umm Kagura, I think the baby just turned human." Sesshoumaru sniffed and confirmed Inuyasha's statement. Kagome looked at Kagura's baby and realised it was a girl.

"This one is a girl, is the other baby a girl or a boy?"

Inuyasha sniffed again. "Boy." Sesshoumaru sniffed as well. "Yes, it's a boy."

Inuyasha drew his attention back to Kagura, who had been getting used to the human formed baby inside of her. He realised the shape was shifting again, to a MUCH bigger dog demon form. Kagura screamed loudly in pain.

"Miroku! QUICK GET SOME TOWELS! AND THE HEALING HERBS FROM KAGOME'S ROOM! QUICK! DON'T JUST STAND THERE! MOVE YOUR FUCKING FEET!" Inuyasha was becoming frantic, he could smell the thick scent of blood in her, and he glanced over at Sesshoumaru and noticed he had become paler than he normally was. "Sess, she's going to live don't worry, we'll save your pup and your life mate."

Sesshoumaru nodded and grabbed the towel as Miroku came in. Inuyasha grabbed the healing herbs and rubbed them gently over Kagura's stomach. Kagome watched in awe at how gentle Inuyasha was being, and how he cared for Kagura now. Sesshoumaru had laid the towels under where the pup was to come out; he could smell her life slowly drifting away. Sesshoumaru did something no one would have believed unless they were there. He started to cry. He gripped Kagura's hand and cried.

"Don't leave me, I love you so much, I don't want you to die." He said, stopping every few seconds to sniffle. He felt as Kagura suddenly got stronger and watched as Inuyasha applied more healing herbs to her stomach.

"Inuyasha, smell, she doesn't need them anymore." Inuyasha began to sniff, *SNIFF SNIFF* he could smell her getting stronger, and he knew she was going to survive. Sesshoumaru helped the big pup gently out. He was crying some more.

"My boy. My beautiful boy." He whispered as he got him to breathe, his ears and eyes also closed off. He took his little daughter who was quite a bit smaller than his boy because she was female. Kagura looked at them; she touched her daughter's white furry head.

"Ruri. That is your name, Ruri."

She then touched her big boy's furry white head.

"Shoji, my boy your name is Shoji." She leaned over and kissed both their heads before being taken into Sesshoumaru's arms and having both pups placed in her hands. She kept them warm as she, her pups and her husband slept. Inuyasha and Kagome went to their room to have another talk. Miroku and Sango went off to their room and Shippo stayed on Kirara's back with Kanja to look around the castle some more.

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While exploring, Kanja, Shippo and Kirara walked into an extremely large bathroom.

"Wow, this is HUGE!" Shippo squealed. He walked over and looked at the big swimming pool like bathtub that was sunken into the floor, he reached in. He got an evil idea; he dipped his hand into the water and splashed Kanja and Kirara. He secretly liked both Kirara and Kanja, but Kanja was more his age. He liked her enough to maybe get together when they got older. Kanja gasped as Shippo splashed her with some water. Kirara didn't look to impressed but she got and evil idea also, she started to run towards Shippo and just before she got to him she transformed into her big cat demon and pushed him into the pool-like bath tub. She flew up then landed back down beside Kanja in her little cute cat demon form, looking at Shippo innocently. Shippo started acting like he was drowning but was really just splashing around, enjoying the warmth of the pool. Kanja got worried and dove into the water, pulling Shippo to the shallower end.

"Shippo are you OK?" Kanja asked, looking at him with her big emerald eyes.

*LAUGH* "Yes Kanja, I'm fine, but I'm glad you care enough about me to think I was drowning and to try and save me." Shippo told her, giving her his child-like smile. Kanja blushed. Shippo smiled at her and they continued to talk in the shallow end of the pool until Kagome came and found them. Kagome could tell they liked each other. "How cute, they have a crush on each other!"

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A few days later they were on their way, Kagura, Sesshoumaru and their twins rode on the back of Sesshoumaru's two-headed dragon. Sesshoumaru yelled down to the others, that if they got tired they could hitch a ride on his dragon. They all had their weapons, Kagura with her fan, Sesshoumaru with his poisons, Shippo with his foxfire and his body split and various other tricks. Miroku with his cursed hand and Sango with her giant boomerang. Kagome was with her bow and a quiver full of arrows, and Inuyasha, of course with his Tetsusaiga.

They were headed towards a castle that they had heard rumors of the lord of the castle, attracting young women and young girls from the village and trying to get demons to come out of them. If the demons that supposedly possessed the children didn't come out, he would kill the woman.

They walked into the lord's castle and were brought to the lord himself by the guards. The Lord looked hungrily at Kagome and Sango, both Miroku and Inuyasha started to position themselves protectively in front of the ones they loved.

"We've, heard some rumors my lord, that you can possibly try and clear up." Kagome said, pushing Inuyasha gently to the side as she looked deeply into his big golden eyes.

"Ah, yes, I've heard them myself, about me taking in young women and trying to get demons out of them, and if the demon doesn't come, I'll kill them. Is that the same rumor?" The lord said, looking Kagome up and down. Kagome, with Inuyasha protectively still by her side and the Lord of the castle continued to talk while Miroku was walking around, with Sango by his side, looking at the objects around the room. He glanced towards the Lord's chair he was sitting in and noticed something grey and furry sticking just under it. He advanced closer, pretending to look at the lovely rug when he realised what it was.

*GASP! * "It's a baboon pelt... NARAKU!"

"So lord of this castle, do you know Naraku?" Miroku asked, walking back in front of him.

"We did talk, but I'm not friends with him."

"As if." With that, Miroku ripping his rosary beads off and sucked up the clothes of the lord. He put them back on, he had revealed that Naraku was sitting in the chair. Inuyasha tensed up.

"Naraku, BASTARD!"

"Such harsh words, Inuyasha. Do you kiss your woman with that mouth?" Naraku asked, smirking evilly, and nodding towards Kagome.

"Keep her out of this, she has nothing to do with you." Again he didn't deny that she was his woman, because to him she was.

"So you don't deny that you love her?" Naraku asked smirking more.

"No I don't, I'm going to kill you anyway so why bother keeping it anymore?"

Kagome gasped at his reply and was over come with joy. Naraku smirked even bigger and suddenly a tree-like tentacle shot out, speeding right towards Kagome's head.

"KAGOME!"

"Help!" Was all Kagome could manage to say?

A/N: OMG NARAKU YOU BAD MONKEY BAD! -Spanks Naraku- getting even more interesting eh? Next chapter, will Inuyasha rise or fall? Well.... HA I'M NOT TELLING! Until next chapter :o) have fun.