Chapter 10: It's Not Gonna Be Okay

Inuyasha dodged Sesshomaru's fierce attack and jumped up into the air. He then swooped down at his older brother and swiped his claws at his face. Sesshomaru flew to the left, sinking his poison claws into Inuyasha's side, dragging him with him.

"Foolish hanyou!" Sesshomaru hissed and thrusted Inuyasha to the ground hard. Green, pulsing poison seeped out of Inuyasha's stomach as he held his side. Inuyasha glared up at his half-brother, smirking.

"What? You think you can get rid of me that easily?" Inuyasha snickered. He slowly got up off of the ground still clutching his wound. "Damn you to hell, Sesshomaru! You're never getting the jewel! You've got to be crazy if you think I'm just gonna hand it over to a lunatic like you!" Inuyasha spat.

"Don't speak down to your brother like that, Inuyasha." Sesshomaru stated simply.

"Feh. Like I would EVER consider you being related to me, you overrated, ass wiper!" Inuyasha shouted and lunged forward at Sesshomaru.

Before he had a chance to attack him, Sesshomaru trusted his hand through his chest and out through the other end, poison splattering out. Inuyasha moaned out in pain.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome ran out of the hut with many remedies for Sango's wound and with her bow and arrow. Kagome positioned herself with her weapon and shot an arrow toward Sesshomaru's head.

Sesshomaru dodged the glowing, whizzing arrow and released his hand from his brother's chest and Inuyasha collapsed to the ground, blood and poison oozing from his injuries.

"Inuyasha!" The other's said in unison. Kagome ran quickly to Inuyasha and fell to the ground beside him crying. She tenderly touched his cheek and ran her fingers through his hair.

"Bastard!" Miroku wailed and was about to use his staff to hit Sesshomaru with when he was caught off guard with a slight pain in his right palm. He reluctantly peered down at his hand and examined where the wind tunnel once was. A fierce wind suddenly flew around him and a bright blinding light swarmed and tangled his arm. He cried out in shock and pain.

"Miroku..." Sango managed to gasp and stumbled towards him, but was almost sucked in by some enormous amount of wind. Miroku slumped to the ground, holding his arm. The lights and wind went away. Miroku looked down at his hand to find that the wind tunnel was there once again.

"How the hell?" Miroku whispered. Sango crawled over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. Sesshomaru laughed evilly.

"You idiotic fools! You actually think that you could defeat me?" Sesshomaru shouted.
Miroku got up and was about to use his new wind tunnel on the full dog demon, when a loud buzzing was heard all around them. A moment later, Naraku's old poisonous insect flew out of the woods and surrounded them all.

"But... but that's..." Miroku stuttered.

"Naraku's poisonous insects." Inuyasha lazily said and sat up, clutching his chest. "His still alive somewhere!" Inuyasha gasped and fell into Kagome's arms, wincing with pain.

"You mustn't move like that." Kagome hushed him and began stroking his hair again. Inuyasha peered up at her blushing. Kagome smile down at him and kept stroking his long, silver hair. "It's gonna be okay Inuyasha..." With that, Inuyasha sat up again, even though he was in pain.

"No, Kagome. It's not gonna be okay. Miroku's wind tunnel is back! The poisonous insects are about us! The jewel is whole and Naraku is still out there somewhere! And to make this an even worse situation, Sesshomaru is here, trying to kill me and to get the jewel for his own sick purposes! It's not gonna be okay Kagome! Nothing is..." Inuyasha was immediately cut off.

"NO!" Kagome spat and pulled Inuyasha harshly into her chest. Tears began streaming down her flushed cheeks as she squeezed Inuyasha tighter to her. She snuggled her face into his shoulder and whimpered as she cried.

"Kagome..." Inuyasha whispered. Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her stomach and held her tighter to himself. "Kagome... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..." He began.

"No..." Kagome sputtered. "No. Don't apologize for something you didn't do..." Kagome clutched his shoulders and peered up into his amber eyes. "This is all my fault. All my fault!" Kagome shouted and flung herself onto his body again. Inuyasha began stroking her hair and hushing her down.

"What's this Inuyasha? Gone soft, have we?" Sesshomaru snickered, hoping that Inuyasha would say something back. There was no answer. Inuyasha only focused his eyes to glare towards his brother as a warning to leave them all alone for now. "I see. Well... whatever you say Inuyasha. But next time..." Sesshomaru clinched. "It's not gonna be as easy to get away..." With that, Sesshomaru flew away with Rin and Jaken on his maroon demon, chuckling lightly.