a/n - told u i'd update soon!

anywayz, to Yuki Kurai, I can't believe you guessed all that! grrr.... u predicted my plans!! YY maybe they weren't all that hard to figure out anyway.... and i LOVE that pairing!!! coincidence? lol :)

and to the ????? reviewer person!! yes, I figured you're corrupt!! but i just LOVE how that sounds!!! "dog-on-fox action" that sounds so cool!! dog on fox action.... dog on fox action.... O.O oh, the perverse ideas from those words alone....

ok, obviously i'm going whoo whoo here, so just to get things clear.... i write limes... which are generally a notch 'safer' than lemons.... i can't write good lemons... i find it hard to write down... those words you know? when i write a lime, it's... well, it hints everything, but isn't too descriptive... YOU KNOW WHAT?? YOU tell ME if I can write a good lemon or lime or whatever by reading my other fic "Mistake". Plz, even if you don't know the anime, just read the limey part, and see if i'm good enough at it to write one for this fic. ; me so shy.... sometimes

ok, on with the fic, already! XD i think this is the most i ever wrote on author notes...

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Shippo gazed at Inuyasha just a good distance away from himself. 'Damn! He caught me following him already!' "Inuyasha, I-"

"Shippo, I've been looking for you..."

"Y-you have?"

"Yes." Inuyasha walked slowly towards Shippo, who was now on his feet and ready to get his 'limbs broken,' or so the hanyou had previously put it. It only took a few moments for that very hanyou to be right in the kitsune's face. "Shippo, I've been wanting to tell you something for a long time..."

"B-but what about the weird trail of scent you went chasing after?" Shippo felt slightly nervous, Inuyasha was too close for comfort.

"Oh that? .........It wasn't anything of real importance..... Anyway, I need you to tell me...." Inuyasha gently brought Shippo into a slow embrass, surprising the young kitsune, "....honestly......" his nails dug into the kitsune's back, slowly, painfully.

"I-Inuyasha! Let go, that hurts!"

".....if I hurt you now.... will you trust me again?" Inuyasha completely ignored Shippo's protest, finally finishing his question and grinning terribly to go with it all.

Shippo placed a small hand on the hanyou's neck, feeling dizzy and on the vurge of vommiting.... When he felt it... Eyes narrowing, he summoned the remaining strength in his body to violently push himself away from the hanyou. "You.. You aren't Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha looked shocked, then serene, "You're quick, little fox. Tell me. How did you know?"

"You... Smell different... You're not wearing the neckless, Inuyasha kept it as a reminder of Kagome! And besides, he's not a smooth talker!!"

"Just who's not a smooth talker, ya little brat?"

Shippo fell to the ground, but managed to see Inuyasha out of the corner of his eye, "Heh, Inuyasha.... I feel dizzy....."

"What did you do to him, Naraku?!" the REAL Inuyasha growled after watching Shippo faint.

With a puff, Naraku transformed back into his own self, smirking wickedly, "Just inject a little poison. He pushed me away before all of it could sink in, however... He just got himself a slower and more painfully death, the fool."

Inuyasha snarled, gripping his Tetsaiga for the first time in months. "I thought we killed you a long time ago! Why the Hell're you still alive?!"

"Dear, dear Inuyasha... Have you not learned? I am not one so easily slain.."

The hanyou gritted his teeth, glancing a final time at the unconcious Shippo. Naraku's not going to get away with this!! He looked back to Naraku.... Only to find he had fled. "....Shit...."

After checking to make sure that Naraku had really gone, he rushed to Shippo's side, the lifeless kitsune.

"You fucking bastard, you ain't dead...." He muttered, now regretting he had left Shippo alone for even a second, "Why didn't you listen to me when I told you NOT to follow! You stupid little BASTARD!!!" For the first time in what seemed like forever, Inuyasha shed a single tear. A single, beautiful tear that slid gracefully down the curve of his cheek. Dangling from his chin until gravity pulled it down...

He watched silently as the tear drop hit the kitsune's closed eyelid. The boy was paling..... But for some reason he refused to believe Shippo was dead. Some part of him knew the kitsune was still alive.... Just... Knew.

Inuyasha held his head in his hands, Tetsaiga resting uselessly on the ground to his side.

The only thing he could think of doing was stay there. By the kitsune's side.... His brain insisted his friend was dead, yet his heart denied it... And it felt like a repeating episode of when Kagome got stolen away and he never knew what became of her until he found her.... But this was different. He didn't exactly knew why he felt this way.

"Guess the only thing left to do is wait and see if he wakes up..."

The sun still shone brightly, and there were few clouds in the clear sky. Sure, the snow was sparkling clean and white, but it just wasn't right. How can something so horrible happen when one is somewhere so wonderful? In appearance at least...

Inuyasha sighed, trying to deal with the various emotions he was dealing with.

In fact, he was so caught up in his own confusing thoughts, he hadn't noticed the presence of a demon that hadn't been around for centuries.

"It seems you are in need of assistance..." A deep, emotionless voice sounded. Inuyasha, startled, got up and whirled around, ready to attack anyone who dared approached him or Shippo.... When he saw someone so far in his past he could barely remember what he looked like. Well, here came his reminder.

Just before him stood...

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a/n - ACK!! another short chapter with a cliff hanger!! alright, alright! i won't make a short chapter next time! next chapter will be long, ok? don't kill me for the cliffie either! [i know someone whom already knows the answer ]

sorry if this seemed a bit rushed, but i don't see a lot of Naraku, so I'm having a bit of a rough time... i think i'll get used to his character quickly though. yesh yesh, well.. um, i got nothing to say at the moment. so review, thanx for reading! :D