Nope don't own Inuyasha or any other characters... (this day just keeps getting worse -.o)

Chapter 3: Sesshoumaru's defeat

Inuyasha went charging into him. Sesshoumaru made a quick dodge, but not quick enough. Inuyasha lodged his right hand into his brother's right shoulder blade. Inuyasha stepped back. "Maybe I can do this before night fall," thought Inuyasha. No he couldn't. Here came another blow from Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha dodged it, but at the last second didn't put his hand out to catch himself and fell down. Sesshoumaru didn't waste anytime. He swung the blade sending another blow to Inuyasha. It hit him right in the chest and sent him flying back into a tree. Sesshoumaru walked up to Inuyasha. He wasn't dead, "What a pity, you still live. I guess I'll have to finish you off now though"

"You shouldn't talk, it makes you look stupid"

"Still giving sarcastic remarks when you're near death?"

"Didn't know acting and being were the same thing," Inuyasha got up, he appeared to be all right. "Too bad, though judging by your condition, you won't survive another"

"I'll just make sure to dodge it"

"You may be able to dodge one or two, but you know you can't dodge them all"

"Want to make a bet on that?" Inuyasha said as he started to charge for Sesshoumaru. He moved and swung the sword around again. Inuyasha dodged. "What is this, it's almost as if he was...stalling, but for what?" Sesshoumaru thought to himself. Inuyasha stopped and looked out. There was a break in the clouds, he saw the sun, it was beginning to set. "Yes I did it, in a matter of minutes I'll be able to get Sesshoumaru," he thought to himself. Sesshoumaru saw his expression and realized what Inuyasha was stalling for. "But why is he waiting for the sun to set?" he thought as he decided to end this. He started to charge for Inuyasha, but all of a sudden became slower. He stopped and looked at the sword. It transformed back. He looked up and saw Inuyasha walking towards him. "Heh, you seem to have walked into MY trap, and blindly too," Inuyasha said as he came up to his brother. Sesshoumaru kneeled down. He looked at his white hair as it became gray, then black. He looked back up again. "It was good luck for me that you didn't know the date I became human," Inuyasha said as he picked up Sesshoumaru by the collar. "Night," he said as he punched his brother in the face, Sesshoumaru became unconscious.
Kagome came running up to Inuyasha with the jewel. She gave him a hug and said, "I saw you out there, you know every time you go up against Sesshoumaru I worry for you." Shocked by Kagome's words Inuyasha looked down at her. She let go and looked away, "I guess since you're full demon now, you have no need for the shikon no tama. Guess this is the last time we will be together." She seemed heart broken. "No, Kagome... I.. I know this is wrong. Kagome give me the jewel," he said as he took it from her hands. "In.Inuyasha?" She looked up at him. Was he going to do what she thought he was going to do? Yes he was! He walked over to his unconscious brother and touched the jewel to his hand. White light surround the two of them. A couple of seconds later Inuyasha walked out, his hair was black. Being the emotional mess that she was, Kagome ran up to Inuyasha and gave him a hug. A little shocked at first Inuyasha looked at her, he then too hugged her back. She let go and Inuyasha looked at her face, she was crying. He wiped her check dry, "Please don't cry," she nodded in acknowledgment. He then turned to Miroku and tossed the jewel to him. "Look over it ok? We need to get you back to normal," he smiled and looked back to Kagome who was now not there. She was over by the bushes where Sesshoumaru had told Rin to go. She poked her head over. Rin gave an excited look then realized it wasn't Sesshoumaru, it was a weird girl. She peeked timidly at her. Jaken saw who it was and yelled, "No go away, where is lord Sesshoumaru?" Kagome pointed to the unconscious demon lying in the field. "NO LORD SESSHOUMARU THAT RAT KI.." Kagome bonked him on the head, she was starting to get annoyed by him (not that she never wasn't). Rin looked scared. "It's ok, he should wake up soon, but we should go now," Kagome said in the most cheerful voice she could. She got up and walked back over to Inuyasha. They shortly set off, wanting to put some distance between them before Sesshoumaru woke up. They traveled most of the night. They were headed for Kouga and his wolf pack's den. They had the jewel, now all they needed was Kouga. After a time the lack of sleep became apparent in them, mostly in Inuyasha. He was exhausted from the fight and they hadn't stopped for even one rest yet. They looked around, being satisfied with the distance they had put between them and Sesshoumaru, they made camp. Miroku had found a hot spring and decided to take a bath. When he came back out the expression he wore looked a little bit better. Inuyasha walked over to him and said, "Feeling better?"

"Yah why?"

"O no reason," at that Inuyasha pushed Miroku into the water. He started to laugh and got ready for when he resurfaced, but he never came up. "Hey Miroku get caught on a rock? Come on up I was just joking around." Nothing. Inuyasha started to look a little bit worried. He stooped down and looked into the water. He stood back up and then felt something wrap around his ankle. He yelped as he was pulled down into the water. Miroku surfaced and began to laugh hysterically. "Man what a sap," Miroku said. Inuyasha surfaced and started to laugh. Kagome walked up to the edge and saw them and their only pair of cloths drenched. "Well you guys better give me those, I'll dry them off," she said as they took them off and gave them to her to dry. She sighed and walked back to the fire to hang them up. "Well looks like we are going to be stuck in here for a bit," said Inuyasha eyeing Miroku. He got what he was going to do but decided to act dumb. "Yah we are aren't we?"

"Yah," at that Inuyasha swam at Miroku fast and tried to dunk him but Miroku knew what he was going to do. He quickly swerved to the right then caught the defenseless Inuyasha and dunked him down, then swam to the large rock formation in the middle and sat on it. Inuyasha surfaced and Miroku pointed and laughed at him, "2 to 1 and I'm pretty sure you're loosing."

"I'll get you don't worry." Shippou decided he wanted to join the fun too. He got undressed and swam silently up to them. Inuyasha had his back turned to him. Shippou paused then jumped from his spot onto Inuyasha's head. The pushed him down. When he resurfaced Shippou dived before he could get his hands around him. He looked around for a second, then all of a sudden Miroku went down in the water. He came back up and said, "That miserable little rat, he pulled my tail!" They waited for Shippou to resurface, but he never did. They saw a trail of bubbles appear and go over behind the rock formation. They looked at each other and made a temporary truce with their eyes. Miroku dove under and swam to the other side of Shippou, where Inuyasha just swam up to Shippou's side closest to him. Miroku appeared and yell, "Hello Shippou don't" then Inuyasha yelled, "Look behind you". As this was said they both pushed their hands onto Shippou's head. He gave a yell before he swallowed water. Kagome heard and yelled out to them, "Don't kill Shippou." They were done with their fun anyways. Kagome came to the spring and told them their cloths were dry. She put them by a rock and left to give them privacy. She went back to Sango and sat down. A few minutes later they came back laughing. Kagome smiled. She had told Inuyasha to cheer up Miroku and looked like it worked. Exhausted they all went to sleep. Kagome sat in her sleeping bag for a second looking at Inuyasha. He sat propped up against the trunk of a tree, sleeping. She then fell asleep.

She woke to morning. Kagome sat up and looked around. Inuyasha lay there still sleeping. "Must be early, I'm usually the last one to get up," she thought. She laid back down and looked over to Sango. She was about to go to sleep when she heard her talk in her sleep. "No...Mir...how cou..." she shrugged and laid back down. "I wonder what she was dreaming about," thought Kagome. She awoke again to someone shaking her. She opened her eyes and saw Inuyasha. "MmMmmm?" Kagome groaned and closed her eyes again. "Come on get up, we need to go." Kagome rolled over then got up, stretched, yawned, and then said, "O good morning Inuyasha, up already?" Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Yes come on we packed up camp already, we're waiting on you"

"O ok," she said as she got out of her sleeping bag and rolled it up. She put it into her backpack, slung it around her shoulder and looked up, "Ready." They set out again, but a bit slower, it was a nice day and really no one was in a hurry, not even Miroku. Kagome, Shippou and Sango fell a bit behind talking. "Sango, have a bad dream? I woke early and heard you talking in your sleep"

"Um, bad dream? Can't recall." She was lying. She remember all too well the dream. She had dreamt that Miroku and her were in a field and all of a sudden he had just gotten up and walked away. Kagome looked at her. She knew that Sango remembered, but decided not to say anything. Up ahead were Inuyasha and Miroku. They were pretty much silent, thinking of different things. Miroku broke the silence by asking, "So why didn't you stay full demon and leave your brother to be half? He's only going to come after you again." Inuyasha didn't answer for awhile. "I have my reasons." Inuyasha finally managed to say. "Oh.." Miroku decided not to go any further.
The day light was starting to fade when they reached it. They stopped and looked out. There was the waterfall, and behind it there would be the pack, the pack they were looking for.