Summary: What if Inuyasha had to choose between Kikyou and Kagome who would live and who would die? What if Sesshoumaru's heart was destined for a Miko's? What would happen if Kagome and Sesshoumaru had the chance to heal one another's wounds? My 1st Inuyasha story. Kag/Sess. Pleeeease R&R!

AN/ hey peeps. I had this random idea inspired by all the Inuyasha fics I've been reading lately that have Kagome and Sesshoumaru paired. I know, my random ideas can be rather scary but I think this'll be fun. Don't 4get to R&R!! thnx bunches!!

EDIT AN/ This is the original chapter still. When I finish rewriting it this will disappear and be replaced with much goodness.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and gang so don't sue. Although I do wish I owned Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. Sigh if only.

Lessons in Trust; Miko and the Taiyoukai

Author: Gundamgurl84

Chapter 1: Should Have Listened to Shippo

Inuyasha cursed again as he ran through the forest. The leaves underfoot hardly had time to crackle before he was gone. Every once in a while he leaped to the air, flying forward 20 or more yards, moon shining in his silver hair, before descending to the forest floor again. He was a red blur in a world of dark browns, greens and the shadows of midnight.

"Gods damn it all! I should have been paying more attention to what that stupid kit was saying." He muttered as he followed the invisible trail.

/Flashback/

Everyone sat quietly about the crackling flames, afraid to break the silence. Kagome was having one of her mood swinging days and Inuyasha hadn't helped. She had said that tomorrow she was planning to take a week long trip home, more than likely to help her brother care for her sickly mother. Inuyasha responded with his usual, "No way in hell!!" and it escalated to their worst fight yet. It ended with Kagome 'sitting' Inuyasha so hard he was out for almost half an hour. When he awoke again and clamored from his personal crater, he found the highest perch he could and skulked there, licking his wounds.

No one dared say anything lest they disturbed the quarreling people.

A smell slowly began to drift up to Inuyasha's sensitive nose. He looked down and saw Shippo nervously shifting. He snorted and looked up at the sky. Annoying kitsune.

Unable to bear it any longer, Shippo suddenly burst out, "Guy's, I have a bad feeling. Like something's watching us. And I keep smelling something that doesn't smell right." He looked at everyone around him, hoping for a positive reaction.

Inuyasha leapt down from the tree, startling everyone to look at him. "Will you stop whining already! It's hurtin my ears for fucks sake! I don't smell anything and in case you haven't noticed my nose is more sensitive than yours so just shut up already!" He plopped down on the ground leaning against a tree trunk.

Shippo leaned further back into the fur of Kirara, searching for some protection from the hanyou's words.

Kagome's anger flared again as Shippo whimpered. "Inuyasha!!" she yelled. His grey ears flattened against his head in pain. "WHAT have I TOLD you about cursing at Shippo? He is ONLY a KID!!"

He could no longer repress the growl that had risen in his throat as she yelled. "Will you shut your trap bitch?! I'm tired of listening to you complaining about everything!"

"Can you stop ordering people around for once?! You're the one who's always complaining about everything!"

"Sure, I'll stop ordering people around," his voice was too calm and did not match his fiery, angry, golden orbs. "I'll stop when you stop being a SELFish BITCH!!"

"ME? SELFISH?" she screamed on the top of her lungs. "Sure, I'm the selfish one after giving up my life to help you on your stupid search for the Shikon no Tama. I flunked out of high school, missed my opportunity to go to college, missed my grandfather dying, missed my brother growing up and leaving him to tend my sick mother all by himself and even as we speak I am losing my chances to find a good husband while I go tramping around the Feudal Era looking for jewel shards and fighting 500 year old youkais!" She finally stopped because of her intense need for air as the echoes of her shrieks dissipated. "But of course, foolish me, I'm the selfish one." She whispered venomously.

Inuyasha shook his head vigorously and finally dared to take his hands off his ears and put them upright again. "Feh" he spat. "Everything just has to be about you, doesn't it? May I remind you as well that you're the one who broke it in the first place?" He crossed his legs, tucking his hands into the big sleeves of his haori and sticking his nose into the air.

"First of all, Inuyasha, it's not like I asked to be pulled through a well and have a jewel ripped out of my side. When I shattered it I was just doing like you told me to, get it away from that stupid bird. Second of all, you're the one who made this out to be all about me!" At that, she spun around and walked off into the woods.

Miroku stood and called after her, "Kagome, where are you going?"

"Away from HIM!" she hollered over her shoulder.

He looked down at Sango who shrugged in a manner that said 'let her go'. Shippo leaped up onto the top of the monks staff.

"Guy's, I don't think it's such a good idea that Kagome go off into the woods. I know I can smell something that smells menacing."

Sango gave a sigh and said softly, "Shippo, it's obvious you don't understand woman very well so let me tell you something. Kagome just had an argument with Inuyasha and she's very mad. All she needs is a little time alone to walk it off and she'll come back fine. If there was anything out there then Inuyasha would know it. You must be tired and your little nose is playing games with you. Don't worry, Kagome will be fine."

"But I know I'm not imagining things! I can smell something!"

Sango opened her mouth to protest when Miroku caught her eye. He gave a meaningful glance at Kirara so she looked at the fire cat youkai. The yellow, kitten sized cat demon stood with her back arched, her three tails tipped in black upright, sniffing the air mistrustfully. Finally discerning the smell she had searched for, she bared her fangs and growled softly in the direction Kagome had gone. Shippo had heard Kirara's tiny growl and looked as well.

He brightened slightly. "See, Kirara agrees with me." He said happily then realized what it meant and his face darkened. He looked at Inuyasha whose ears had perked in their direction the moment Kirara had started to growl.

He opened one golden eye a crack and looked at the fire cat in her smaller form. He closed his eye and said, "Feh".

Sango stood at Inuyasha's response but before she could say anything Shippo spoke.

"Inuyasha!" he yelled as shrilly as Kagome would. "How can you say that when Kirara agrees with me? Her nose is as good as yours and you know it!"

He stood suddenly, glaring at the kit. He took slow steps towards him until their faces were a foot apart. Shippo cowered in the face of the bigger, stronger hanyou but held his ground on Miroku's staff.

"If that's so then why don't I smell it?" he asked menacingly.

"I don't know." Shippo squeaked. "Maybe your nose is defective tonight." A moment later he realized his foolishness in saying such a thing and leaped away just as Inuyasha reached for him.

Inuyasha bowled Miroku over and lunged for the red headed fox pup. He grabbed him by his shirt back and, picking him up, dangled the kitsune in front of his face.

"Inuyasha!" Sango yelled.

"You little pip squeak! My nose isn't defective! A nose just doesn't go defective any damn time it wants to."

"It does if you have a cold." Shippo piped then cringed with his hands held over his head as Inuyasha brought his fist back, preparing to punch him.

"Why you little…" Inuyasha started then stopped, his face puzzled. He sniffed the air and Shippo looked fearfully hopeful. He stood strait suddenly, staring into the woods and forgetting the kitsune in his hand. "I smell it." He said.

"I told you!" Shippo hollered up.

A heart beat later a renting scream came from the depths of the dark woods and was suddenly muffled.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled then, dropping Shippo, started into the woods at full hanyou speed.

A moment later he stopped in a clearing and dropped into an offensive position. Standing in front of him was a fully grown, fox youkai. He had an evil, lusty grin on his face as he observed Inuyasha. Restrained in his arms was a struggling Kagome. He had his hand clamped over her mouth and the other around her waist, pinning her to him. A growl escaped from behind Inuyasha's bared teeth.

"You bastard! Let her go!" he yelled.

The youkai only laughed, eye's glistening. "Follow me, Inuyasha," he hissed. "and you will make the decision that till now you have been too afraid to make yourself." He grinned maliciously one last time then draped Kagome over his shoulder, turned about and ran into the woods at full youkai speed, which was faster for him as seen as he was a fox youkai.

"Fuck" Inuyasha swore then ran into the woods after him.

/End Flashback/

"If that bastard's done anything to Kagome then I will kill him and that stupid fox pup!" Inuyasha muttered as he followed the youkai's and Kagome's scents. So far he could smell no blood, but that still didn't make him feel any better.

He skidded to a halt at one point, sniffing the air. The fox youkai was nearby, he could smell. But another scent was added to the two he had been following. A scent he knew all too well.

"Kikyou?" he breathed.

He walked hesitantly forward. Slowly, he stepped into a clearing. The sight that met his sharp, golden eye's shocked him dumb. The fox youkai stood in the center of the clearing, a glistening sword laid across his open palms, his mouth twisted in that evil, lusty grin. But they weren't alone in the clearing. On Inuyasha's left, Kagome was dangling a yard off the ground. Her ankles, legs, arms and wrists were tied and she was gagged with a dirty rag. She was dangling from a tree limb, tied by her wrists. Her sapphire eye's glistened desperately at him. On the right side of the clearing, was Kikyou in her red miko's outfit. She was tied, gagged and dangled just as Kagome was except she didn't seem to be conscious. Inuyasha looked from one miko to the other, lost as to what to do.

"Here is your challenge, Inuyasha." The youkai called.

"Let them go you bastard." He growled.

This only made his smile crueler. "One. I shall let one go and one only. The other I shall keep to use and to kill." Kagome gulped uncomfortably. She didn't like the way this was going. But she was sure Inuyasha would not be schooled to choose.

"Feh, like hell I'm gonna let you take one of them." He said and dropped into a fighting position again. Kagome stole herself to give a sigh of relief. She knew Inuyasha would never choose.

The youkai started to laugh. It echoed across the clearing and sent foreboding chills down Kagome's spine.

"What the fuck is so funny!" Inuyasha demanded.

"You! Like I would give you the option of fighting." He started laughing again. A growl erupted from Inuyasha's throat. Suddenly, the youkai stopped laughing. He took his sword hilt in a paw and pointed it upright so the blade pointed to the sky. He gripped it with two paws and smirked. A moment later, he brought down each hand and the sword split to two. He stood between the two miko's and pointed one sword at each of their throats. Kagome could not help the small, desperate squeak she emitted as the cold tip of steel touched her vulnerable throat. This definitely complicated things.

"You have no choice. You must choose who shall live and who shall die. If you try to fight me I shall slit both their throats and neither shall live. There fore, choose now. Who lives? Who dies? Kagome or Kikyou?"

AN/ I know, I know… how can I do this? Start out with a cliffhanger straitoff! /Evil laugh/ bwahahahahahahahahaha!! Very easily. Truth is, i'm not too sure im gonna continue with this. Soooooooooooooooooo… if you really like it then send me a review telling me to update. If I don't think enough people want it then I wont update any at all and you will be left wonderin if he'll choose Kagome or Kikyou. Which one, which one? Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!

An for all a you's who are wonderin about Weeks Notice, I did write a little bit down but it still sounds like shit. Plus my comp's no picnic. As soon as I fix it up right ill update so never fear. Also I wanted to thank those of you who read my looooooooong, gundam one shot, The Unknown Yet Unforgotten Past. It means a lot to me to know you appreciated it. Thnx!

And now, if you'll jus press the little purple button at the bottom of your screen and leave a review I might just tell you who he picks and where Shesshou-san comes in. Gundamgurl84 over and out. ;-P