Author's note- I... so... bored... need... to... write... Anyway, to Merayna, about the Sess/Kag thing, I'm half-and-half. It's all right... but all the characters (to me, at least) sound way too OOC, and... I dunno, I keep wanting Inuyasha and Kagome to be together! Anyway, yeah, it's slightly warped, but it's okay. I'm even thinking of writing one soon. But not in the not-so-distant future.

Oh, and if anyone has been thinking otherwise, this is strictly Inuyasha/Kagome! I'll absolutely never pair Inu with Kikyo. Even though I respect her character... before her death, of course.

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Chapter 7


Inuyasha's Half Brother

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~Okay, so you're now officially in the Sengoku Jidai. A hanyou is totally acting like he's always PMS-ing, and an eight-year-old thinks you're a reincarnated priestess. You nearly got killed, but the hanyou saved you. Confusing, ne? At least nothing can get worse, right?~


Inuyasha was strictly, and amazingly pissed at the story that Kaede told. Some freak youkai went off to kill Kikyo?! What the fuck did she do to it? He shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts. The problem wasn't that she was dead, but that someone dressed as himself and killed her.

Oh, he was gonna kill the sick bastard who did it.


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"And how old are you, again, Kagome-sama?" Kaede asked. After talking with the girl from the future, Kaede immediately started adding the "sama" to Kagome's name.

"I'm fifteen," Kagome answered. It took her ten minutes to try and stop Kaede from calling her "sama", but it still didn't work.

"I'm only eight. Kikyo was twenty," Kaede answered. "But she looked as young as you do. What do you do at this shrine you live at?"

"I'm supposed to be the miko of the shrine, but... all I do is learn old legends and sweep the floors."

"What's one legend that you've heard?" Kaede asked, her eyes bright with wonder.

"Um... Let me think..." Kagome said. In reality, she forgot every single legend Jii-chan told her. 'Think, Higurashi! Think!!' "Um... Miko... um... Kaede... and hanyou... um... Sesshoumaru.... married each other and .... saved a town from... the youkai.... Jaken." (xD)

"Oh... I'm training to become a miko... you wouldn't be saying my legend, would you?"

"Iie! Probably not, unless you know of another hanyou besides Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, with a sweatdrop. Kaede sighed before she replied.

"Iie."


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"Jaken. I smell that insolent hanyou's scent. He's in my territory," A cold voice said. Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands, owned that voice. His long silver hair and golden eyes matched Inuyasha, although he had crimson stripes on the sides of his face, and a blue crescent moon on his forehead.

Jaken, the small toad-youkai who followed him, carried a staff bigger than himself by twice, and tasted the air.

"Hai, you're right, Sesshoumaru-sama," Jaken replied. "That dirty hanyou could never keep himself out of your land."

"Find where he is. I have word that he slaughtered the miko who protected the Shikon no Tama. He's obviously going to use it to become youkai. We cannot allow this," Sesshoumaru said. "Especially if he is hiding the Tessaiga."

"Oh, Hai! We must retrieve the Tessaiga before your brother!"

"NEVER call him my brother," Sesshoumaru warned.

"Gomen nasai, Sesshoumaru-sama!" Jaken said. "Forgive me!" The tai-youkai paid no heed to the doting Jaken, as he flew off to seek the hanyou he was looking for.


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Inuyasha was busy growling at the ground when Kagome walked out of the cave with Kaede.

"So, I might even be able to shoot a holy arrow?" Kagome asked.

"Hai! And if you're really strong, you might even be able to kill a youkai by just looking at it!!" Kaede agreed, smiling.

"Sugoi..." Kagome said. "Hey, Inuyasha!"

"What do you want, wench?" Inuyasha asked, turning around to look at Kagome.

"I'm going with Kaede back to the village."

"Nani?! You are not going there."

"Hai, I am."
"Iie, you're not."

"Yes. I am."
"No. You're not."

"Hey, let her go, it's not like I'm gonna hurt her or anything," Kaede told him. "Foolish hanyou."

"Ugly wenches," Inuyasha countered, as Kagome walked off with Kaede. He didn't notice a huge crow youkai fly up to her.

"The Shikon no Tama shall be mine!!" He heard, before a loud yell from Kagome.


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A/n - I really meant for this one to be longer, I SWEAR!! Anyway, hope you like this chapter. ^^ I do, because my fav character made his debut (Hai, my favorite character in the series IS Sesshoumaru!).


Next Chapter - Shikon no Kakera


Sayonara!