See? Just as I promised. More updates. I'm not much into watching or reading this series anymore though. Forgive me? I just want to finish this story because I had a good thing going here…and I like playing with complex relationships. I might get back into it another time..I might not. We'll see. Anyway…chapter whatever.

Best Laid Plans

Unstoppable

Kagome sighed as she admired the reflection of the nearly new moon in the lake. It was waning, Inuyasha would be human tomorrow. She hated it when he was human. Somehow his behavior got worse. She suspected it was because he felt insecure. He was vulnerable at that time like no other time.

Both brothers were fragile. Neither of them had succeeded in getting past their father's death. It made Kagome almost wish that she had met him. Simply because he must have been wonderful, for both of them to idolize him so. Even though Sesshoumaru found fault in his father's loving of a human woman, he still strove to be like him, and to maintain his father's legacy. Inuyasha just lived.

Kagome wondered if approval from Sesshoumaru, true approval, instead of his rather blatent hatred of Inuyasha would calm Inuyasha's wild temper.

On the other hand they both had tempers. Inuyasha was quick to flare at the least offense, and both were strongly territorial. She supposed she figured into Sesshoumaru's territory now. Not that she was happy with the idea of being anyone's territory.

Truly this was a problem, for she wasn't sure which brother she liked more, and she trusted them both with her life equally. Kagome stood and went back inside to get some sleep. She would return to Inuyasha tomorrow. She couldn't leave him so weakened during the new moon.

But somewhere inside, her heart had decided already.

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Sesshoumaru watched his wife as she plucked a wildflower from it's place in the ground, amidst the leaves and turned to him, placing it in his hair with an impish smile. She was unlike the women he had known before he reflected. Future Japan was unlike modern times, as much as ancient Japan must have been. Apparently they had somehow managed to unite all of the people living here. He thought the idea was perfectly ridiculous, but it had produced strong-willed women it seemed.

Like the strong willed woman who was so very close right now, her body almost pressed up against his, fingers in his hair. He closed that tiny distance, pulling her against his body and she stared up at him, unafraid to meet his eyes. She made country girls look shy even sometimes though, and what was in her dark brown eyes at the moment would have made any country maiden blush, and probably a few that weren't maidens even.

After an eternity of staring he growled, an animal noise coming from somewhere deep in his chest and kissed her hard enough to bruise those small human lips. Her hands wandered, she always was in a hurry it seemed. Slim fingers tugged at his clothes, loosening the

As Sesshoumaru woke suddenly he firmly denied the cold sweat covering his body.