Inutaishou's Gift By: OtakuSailorV

Chapter 6: Mortal

"Nani?!" Inuyasha looked at his brother with wide eyes that hardened almost immediately. He stepped back in front of Kagome and grabbed at Tetsusaiga, gritting his fangs.

Sesshoumaru smirked as he looked down on his brother. "Get lost bastard!"

Sesshoumaru's eyes hardened and he took another step forward. "Do not think you can scare me, hanyou filth."

Sesshoumaru was suddenly in front of him, his knuckles crack once before he slammed the claws against his brothers face.

Inuyasha growled as he was thrown out of the way, the poison in his brother's claws burning his skin. "D-damn."

Kagome screamed as Inuyasha was hit, clutching her arms to her body. Sesshoumaru watched his injured younger brother until he crashed into the ground, sending bones into the air.

He turned back to Kagome, looking at her dully. He reached out a hand toward her. "Human girl. Come here."

Kagome watched him, not moving an inch. His brow furrowed. "Mortal girl, are you deaf?"

Kagome glared at him. "I am not deaf! What are you doing back here?!" Kagome pointed to him, anger bubbling inside her.

Sesshoumaru grabbed her wrist and shot upward again. Kagome screamed, reaching down toward the hanyou on the ground. "Inuyasha!!!!!!!!"

"Kagome!" Inuyasha pulled himself from the bones, jumping upward as far as he could, trying to catch up.

But he couldn't catch up with the white streak that was his brother.

"Dammit." Inuyasha cursed, still shooting upward.

Sesshoumaru had landed outside of the mouth of his father's tomb, staring around vacantly. Kagome tried to pull her wrist from his grasp, but he refused to let go.

"Ugh. . .let go of me."

He showed no sign of hearing her. "Jaken."

It was a simple statement, but soon, the tiny frog-like-youkai was running toward them. Nearly tripping over his own feet as he scrambled to his master.

He looked only briefly at Kagome before turning toward Sesshoumaru. "What have you found?"

Jaken snapped to attention, turning to incline the head of Sesshoumaru's father. "In the right eye M'Lord, there seems to be some sort of. . .coincidence."

Sesshoumaru made a noise before starting toward the eye, Kagome's wrist still in his hand.

"Hey!" Kagome dragged her feet, trying to slow his pace.

"Kagome!!!" Inuyasha appeared from the mouth of the skull, charging full at Sesshoumaru.

"Bastard!!!!!!" His claws were extended, his fangs bared, his eyes were narrowed, and his ears pressed to his skull in anger.

Sesshoumaru watched him dully, then moved aside and watched him land on the other side of him, turning around and bolting back toward them.

Sesshoumaru dodged him again, dragging Kagome behind him. Kagome let out a scream each time she was yanked in a different direction. She tugged at her arm, wishing she could free herself from the grasp of the full youkai.

"Inuyasha!" She called helplessly. Inuyasha glared at his brother, half-growling as he shot at him again.

"Now, now Inuyasha, you wouldn't want your little mate here to get hurt?"

Inuyasha growled as he turned about and shot past his brother.

clang! both Kagome's and Sesshoumaru's eyes widened as he was hit.

"L-lord Sesshoumaru!!!!!" Jaken scrambled to the rescue.

He set the staff down and instantly fire sprang forth from the mouth of the head of the old man.

Jaken laughed as flames covered a stunned Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru made a grunt-like noise and headed for the right eye socket of his father's skull again.

Kagome struggled, trying to relinquish his grasp on her wrist. "Let go!!" She yelled, weaving her fingers underneath his. She only managed to get them caught too.

"Oh. . ." She moaned, trying to free them again.

She looked back, the fire was still raging, and Jaken was still laughing. There was no sign of Inuyasha amongst the flames. 'Inuyasha!' Her mind screamed, her heart rate jumped with her stomach. Her eyes widened in fear as she watched the flames. She felt sadness, anger, confusion, frustration, and a mess of other emotions cloud her mind as she watched the flames dance before her eyes.

And she only saw the flames. The fire burned in her eyes, singeing her memory, making her chest tighten with the need to scream. Her mouth opened and a whisper of air flowed out, but no noise. Her lungs, like her eyes, were hollow. She gasped as her foot dragged against rock, and her lungs were glad for the air. Her mind screamed as she was pulled so that she could no longer see the flames outside. Their light danced on the wall, but it was not the same. Her mouth opened wider and her entire body screamed with her.

"Inuyasha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Thanks you for the reviews everyone, and sorry that everything is so short. I've been meaning to get this up for a while, but I'm so lazy. No, that's a lie, the truth is, I've been busy at school. :P But I'm out for the summer now!! Yay for me!!!

Well, review please!!! Ja!!