Disclaimer: Inuyasha and characters do not belong to me. However Shimiko, Yori, Yasahiro, Saki, Kiyoshi, Renjro, and Iasha do belong to me they came out of my brain.

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Chapter 7: Caught In A Fight Between Brothers

By InuShemeeko

Inuyasha snarled as he watched Sesshomaru came into view. His anger built as he saw Kagome in Sesshomaru's grasp.

"Alright you bastard, if you got a point you want to prove. Do it with me and leave Kagome out of this."

Inuyasha tighten his grip on the Tetsusaiga. He then he scanned his surrounding. Yori was standing near Shimiko in a protective stance. Yasahiro however seemed to have disappeared. Sesshomaru kept himself and Kagome floating in the air. He knew he was safer up in the air then what he would be on the ground.

Sesshomaru smirked down at Inuyasha.

"I would love to take this up with you dear brother. However I always enjoy watching you squirm when the life of someone you care about hangs in the balance."

Inuyasha looked up at Sesshomaru as he placed his fake hand around Kagome's waist. He then placed his clawed hand around her neck. Inuyasha watched as fear welled up into Kagome's eyes.

"Inu....yasha, I'm sorry."

Sesshomaru looked down as he saw tears forming in her eyes.

"How very quaint, Inuyasha she's not even dead yet and already she is asking you for forgiveness."

Inuyasha's gold eyes burned as he gazed at the claw marks running down the right side of Kagome's face. His ears twitched as he heard Kagome take in a quick breath. The borrowed arm of Sesshomaru's slid up toward Kagome's breast. Pulling her shirt up with it. Revealing several large bruises covering both sides of her ribs. One looked told Inuyasha that she had not received these bruises from Sesshomaru but the Snake Demon they had fought earlier that day.

'Kagome was really hurt today and she didn't tell me.'

"Sesshomaru get your filthy hands off of her!"

Sesshomaru's golden eyes widen at Inuyasha's remark.

"You forget little brother, you are the one who is filthy. All that human blood running through you disguises me."

Inuyasha's ears twitched toward Kagome as he heard her gasped. His eyes then watched as a small drop of blood slid out underneath of Sesshomaru's claws. Inuyasha unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and prepared to strike out at Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru then shook his head. " I wouldn't do that dear brother if I were you."

Inuyasha backed up as he watched as a green vapor started to come from Sesshomaru's claw.

'That's poison Sesshomaru is going to poison Kagome.'

"NOOOOOOO! Kagome!"

That's when Inuyasha saw Sesshomaru lurch forward. Yasahiro then appeared behind Sesshomaru.

"Paralyzing Claw!"

Sesshomaru's eyes widened as he felt claws digging into his back. He hadn't even seen it coming.

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Kagome was thrown forward into the air as Sesshomaru lost his grip on her. She felt the air whip by her as she fell through the sky.

"Ahhhhhh! Inuyashaaaaaa!" Kagome screamed as she fell toward the ground.

She then felt warm arms wrap gently around her. Before she knew it she was being held in the arms of Inuyasha. As they dissented toward the ground Inuyasha spoke,

"Don't worry I got you."

Inuyasha's feet then landed gently to the ground.

"There your safe now Kagome I promise."

Kagome smiled weakly up at Inuyasha. She was hoping that he hadn't seen the hurt that was drawn on her face. She tried her best to hide it. Inuyasha looked down at her and frowned.

Kagome what is it? What's wrong?"

Kagome waved her hand at him.

"Oh don't worry about it Inuyasha it's nothing."

Inuyasha frowned at her again and continued to ask.

"Come on Kagome it is never nothing with you so come on."

Kagome sighed, "It's just that here lately it always seems that I can never keep myself safe and you always I to save me."

Inuyasha shook his head, "That's not true you do great sometimes, I've seen you Kagome."

Inuyasha then noticed the small breads of sweat that were dotting her forehead.

"Kagome are you okay?"

Inuyasha then placed a hand on her forehead. He flinched when felt how warm her forehead was. He then remembered the green vapors that had came from Sesshomaru's claw.

"Sesshomaru's poison has made you sick."

Kagome shook her head. "I'll be fine Inuyasha."

However her body betrayed her words when her knees buckled and she fell into Inuyasha's arms.

Inuyasha tried not to laugh. "Yeah you look real fine to me."

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Four sets of golden eyes watched as the battle raged on between Sesshomaru and Yasahiro. One set seemed very focused on the battle, while the other watched Yori and Shimiko. Suddenly a dark figure appeared behind Yori. A very feminine hand came out of the shadows and wrapped around Yori's mouth. The hand held on tightly as a purple mist spread out of the hand. Yori's eyes started to widen and then drifted closed. The figure then let Yori's body slump to the ground.
Yori's attacker then slowly walked toward Shimiko's unconscious body. To reveal a very beautiful dog-demon, her hair was white with bronze trimming around it. A green-blue eight-pointed star rested on her left cheek. Three green-blue stripes could also be found on her forehead one in the middle and one on each side of it.

Her cold golden eyes burned with hatred as she stared down at the sleeping dog hanyou in front of her. She stretched her left claw out to attack, when a voice spoke to her.

"Now, now Saki do you really want to kill your little sister when you might lose your brother as well."

Saki's eyes widened as she turned to see who had caught her. She was started for a moment as she looked at the demon in front of her. Saki then let her eyes look around her Yasahiro was still locked in battle with the demon Sesshomaru and the hanyou Inuyasha was still standing with the human in his arms. She then looked back at the male dog-demon that stood before her.

"Iasha you bastard what do you want?"

Iasha moved so that he stood between Shimiko and her angry sibling Saki.

"What I want Saki, is for you to leave Shimiko alone. Why must you bring such sadness into Shimiko's life?"

"I want her to suffer. Like I have suffered."

Iasha frowned at her. "Where have you taken her human companions, and why did you take them?"

Saki's eyes drifted toward Inuyasha and then back toward Iasha. The resemblances between the two were uncanny. In fact the only three things that made them different was their ears and the fact that Iasha had one blue stripe on each side of his forehead as well as one on each cheek. Oh and the fact that Inuyasha was a hanyou and Iasha was a full-blooded dog- demon. Saki's anger started to build.

"Why is it every time I want to kill her you interfere with thing?"

Iasha let his arms fall to his sides.

"Because Saki I still have feelings for her even if she does not for me any long."

Saki smirked at Iasha as she turned away.

"If you still had strong feelings for her 55 years ago you would had never let her mother take her away from you. Also Iasha my dear you would have never let that young monks parents seal her in stone."

Iasha stepped forward and gapped one of Saki's arms spinning her toward him.

"Don't you ever doubt my feelings for your sister. I tried everything I could think of for the first 20 years. And I couldn't break the seal placed on her. Once I even tried to talk to the young monk Toshihiro's parents. They would not listen to any reason."

For you see Toshihiro's parents still blamed Shimiko for their youngest sons death. Toshihiro's older brother Taro however had never blamed Shimiko for his little brothers death. Taro had ever tried to stop his parents from sealing Shimiko into stone.

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Renjro blinked his eyes a few times, trying to get them in focus. The room he was in was almost completely dark. He felt like he had spent the whole night drinking sake. He shook his head trying to clear it. Renjro eyes then focused on a figure that lay motionless beside him. He then remembered the 17-year-old monk that he had been traveling with. Renjro thoughts then traveled to their two female companions one, a 14-year-old Coyote-demon named Yori, the other was a dog-hanyou named Shimiko. He guessed that Shimiko was maybe 19 maybe 20 years-old heck with demons it was hard to tell their age.

'Shimiko, I wish you and Yori were here.'

Renjro jumped a little when he heard his companion moaned as he started to wake up.

"Kiyoshi, can you heard me? Are you okay?"

Renjro tried to kneel beside him the best he could but the ropes that where binding him cut into his wrist and ankles. Kiyoshi moaned as he tried to pull himself up from the dirt ground.

"Uhhh. Renjro is that you?"

Renjro's answer was. "Yes oh holy one."

Kiyoshi wanted to smack him when he realized his hands where bounded as well as his feet. So he sighed.

"Renjro how many times do I have to tell you not to call me that. Just because I popped out of a scared temple doesn't mean that I'm some holy being."

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Iasha took a step toward Shimiko's unconscious body. She still looked the same as she had 55 years old. Iasha's fingers form a fist, to many years had been wasted he knew that he could never have her heart now. Shimiko may still have feelings hidden inside her heart but he knew she would never belong to him again. Her heart and soul now belonged to the human named Kiyoshi. Iasha walked closer to Shimiko's body and lifted her into his arms. He slowly pulled her green fire rat cloak away from her left shoulder. There in deep dark letters was the same magic seal that had been placed on her mother Hoshi. Iasha sighed as he slid the haori back over her shoulder. He knew that he could never free her now. Iasha then turned and started to walk away from the battle. His golden eyes glanced down at Yori who still lay unconscious on the ground. Iasha then looked down at Shimiko one last time his golden eyes burning with desire.

"I will have you for one day my sweet. Then I shall let you go to him."

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Inuyasha held tightly to Kagome for he feared he might lose her. Inuyasha looked down at Kagome. He then pulled her chin up so then her brown eyes met his sparkling gold ones.

"I thought I was going to lose you Kagome. I don't know what I would do if I ever did." Kagome looked up at Inuyasha she was getting dizzy off of being this close to him. Maybe it was a side effect of Sesshomaru's poison she wasn't sure. Inuyasha could feel himself getting excited. Her flowery scent was intoxicating, he just didn't know if he could hold himself back any longer. Kagome's lips were so close he could taste them on his lips already. Kagome gasp as she felt Inuyasha pull her closer to him.

"Inuyash...a."

Kagome breath was taken away as Inuyasha leaned down and gently pressed his lips to hers. Once he knew that she wasn't going to pull away he harden the kiss a little. Kagome felt flushed as she leaned closer to Inuyasha she could feel his muscles harden against her. She could feel herself blush as she pressed more into the kiss. Feeling himself harden Inuyasha pulled gently away from the kiss.

Kagome was surprised when Inuyasha pulled away first.

"Inuyasha?"

As soon as Inuyasha turned to face her, Kagome could see the heat building in his golden eyes. She then understood why he had pulled away.

Inuyasha swallowed hard before he spoke.

"Kagome I..."

Kagome slowly placed a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"It's okay Inuyasha I understand. I don't want to rush."

Inuyasha looked down then up again.

"Neither do I Kagome, neither do it."

(A/N: oops that's all for now don't you hate that. :-) Oh well the more reviews I get the soon Ch. 8 comes ^_^ .)