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Fiery Demon Fox – I guess you'll find out who wins the tug-of-war this chapter won't you? Or will you? …Nah, you will.

I really am sorry…

I really don't own Inuyasha…

I really wish I did though…

Because this place is being such a pain, I never know if italics will show up or not, and in case you haven't noticed already, I'm too lazy to go back and RE-add all the italics in the previous chapters where they should be, so thoughts will be marked with this '…' just so you all know. I hate having to change my writing style, but it must be done if I want things to be legible.

And on with the show!

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Kagome pulled her sleeping bag tighter around her, staring up at the clear night sky. 'A view you rarely see in modern days,' she thought to herself. For some reason unknown to her, this thought sparked a few flashbacks of their previous encounter with Kouga, leader of the wolf demon tribe, wearer of fur skirt, and total hunk.

"She's my mate!" Kouga insisted, tugging on his half of the distraught teen.

"Is not!" Inuyasha growled, pulling her back his way. "She's too good for a stinking wolf like you!"

"Then she is certainly too good for a half-breed mutt-face like you!"

"Why you—"

"Guys," came a timid voice from the middle of the two demons, "uh, guys, your hurting me…"

"Oh my gosh, Kagome! I'm so sorry!" With a hard tug, Kouga whirled Kagome around and caught her in his arms. "I didn't mean for this to harm you. Are you alright?"

"Uh, yeah, but…"

"Hey, don't beat around the bush!" Inuyasha cried, charging at Kouga, fists at the ready. "You're fighting me!"

Suddenly, Kagome found herself spun around again, only this time no one was there to catch her. She fell on her butt as Kouga and Inuyasha went at each other.

Cautiously, Sango and Miroku approached the spot where Kagome sat. All three watched in silence the fight breaking out in front of them.

"Lady Kagome, don't you think it'd be wise to perhaps use Inuyasha's sit?" Miroku asked.

Kagome shook her head. "I'm to shaken up at the moment." After a moment of deliberation, she turned her attention to her demon slayer friend.

"Sango, is Kouga REALLY my mate?"

"No, I'm afraid he is not. I suspect that he is just using your amnesia to his advantage."

"Oh…"

Kagome sighed. Something nagging from the corner of her brain told her how annoying these fights were, and that they came often whenever Kouga was nearby. She hated to admit it, but she did kind of like the fact that there were guys who would fight over her, and for her…even to the death. Even a morbid thought like that brought a warm tingling in her stomach.

She turned over. More flashbacks clouded her mind, preventing her from getting to sleep.

"Kouga," Kagome began gently, "I want you to understand, its nothing personal, but I think I think I'm going to continue traveling with Inuyasha for a little while longer." She wanted to avoid the 'I know you're just using my amnesia as an excuse to make me your mate' issue, as he and Inuyasha had clearly had enough of that topic. The latter was sitting under a tree, covered in bandages and dirt, his hair frizzled and tossed every which way. The former had chosen to perch on a rock while Kagome helped bandage a few of his own battle wounds.

"I just think that, you know, the others need me a little more right now. It's nothing personal." She emphasized 'personal' with a sharp tightening of one of his bandages. Kouga visibly winced, but said nothing.

"So," Kagome continued, "we'll go over this mate stuff" –Inuyasha stiffened– "later when this whole mess has been cleared up."

Kouga, still silent, pondered the girl's words for a moment before leaping to his feet. Out of shock, Kagome was sent to the ground on her butt.

"Okay! I'll leave for now, but don't forget. YOU'RE STILL MY WOMEN!" The last sentence was shouted over his shoulder as he sped off in a gust of wind. Ginta and Hikaku looked quickly at each other, gave a quick "Bye sis!" directed at Kagome, and ran after their leader.

Now the fire dimmed to mere embers and the trees cast moonlit shadows on the small camp sight. Kagome shook off her strange feelings of anger at the memory of being called "my women." Her last coherent thought was when she would next get to see the handsome hunk who had so much love for her, before sleep finally wrapped her in its comforting darkness.

"Inuyasha! Slow down, would you?" Kagome yelled as he weaved between trees. "Why are you in such a hurry anyway? Inuya–" she had to stop to avoid a face full of tree branch. Inuyasha, meanwhile, just kept running.

'I smell it. It's that stupid Sesshoumaru. Why is he here? Unless Naraku is nearby.' He pushed himself a little faster at the thought. 'There's no way he's getting to Naraku before me!'

Just when Kagome was about to screech again into Inuyasha's sensitive ear, she caught a flash of white out of the corner of her eye. It was gone quickly as it had come, so she disregarded it as a bird and focused instead on not being bitch-slapped by trees.

That was when Inuyasha burst into a field, stopping a few feet from a very tall, very sexy, very familiar looking back of a man. Or was it a demon? It was hard to tell.

"Sesshoumaru…" Inuyasha growled.

Kirara approached with a load of Miroku, Sango, and Shippo and Kagome dismounted to join them. Running over, she turned around just as the sexy-demon did. She gasped in surprise when she noticed how similar he looked to her current dog-demon friend.

"Sango, who is that?" Kagome asked, gesturing towards Sexy-demon.

"That would be Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha's older half-brother," Sango said darkly. "They don't get along very well."

Kagome looked from Sango to Sesshoumaru. "Why don't they get along if they're brothers?"

"I suppose it is because Sesshoumaru is a full demon." Sango shrugged as if this explained everything. Kagome just blinked.

It was then that something dawned on Miroku.

"We never told her that he is a hanyou."

Kagome looked at the monk. "A wha?"

Sango gaped at Miroku. "Oh my, you're right! What do we do?"

"Tell her the truth?"

"I guess we have to, don't we?"

"Um, hello? I can hear you still."

Kagome broke through the conversation and looked at the two curiously.

"Inuyasha is a half demon," Shippo said. "It means that his mother was a human and his father was a demon. He isn't a full demon like me. Him and Sesshoumaru share the same father; only Sesshoumaru had a different demon mother. Hence them being half-brothers." The little fox crossed his arms in an all-knowing fashion while Kagome let all of this absorb. Miroku and Sango smiled weakly at him.

While all this conversing had been going on, a fight between Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha had broken out which involved Inuyasha being knocked back repeatedly by Sesshoumaru's sword, only for him to get back up and charge forward again. This cycle repeated endlessly, and as Kagome grew more and more bored, she noticed three other figures across the field also watching.

One was a small girl, no more than 6, if that. She called out to Sesshoumaru every now and then, encouraging him. The little figure next to her was a small green midget-toad who walked on two legs and carried a two-headed staff. He too would call out to Sesshoumaru, and cast a glare at the girl every now and then. Behind them stood a giant two headed lizard-horse thing.

"Ugh!"

A flying Inuyasha narrowly missed Kagome's head and hit a tree behind them. This time, he did not get up as quickly. Tetsusaiga had been thrown far across the field. By now, Kagome had actually gotten a bit worried.

"Stupid Inuyasha. You will never be able to defeat me." In the blink of an eye, Sesshoumaru was holding Inuyasha up by his neck. "Now you will die."

"No! Stop!"

Sesshoumaru was caught off guard as the raven-haired girl ran up and punched him in the side.

"You put him down!"

"Kagome, you idiot! Get away!" Inuyasha managed to choke out. But by then it was too late. Sesshoumaru dropped Inuyasha and swiftly moved in front of Kagome. At a loss for what to do, she simply stared.

'He's sexier up close…but also intimidating.'

"You are the miko girl, are you not?" Sesshoumaru more stated this than asked it. Seeing her not back down, he asked, "Do you not fear me?"

Kagome shrugged. "You're just a bully. Why should I be afraid?" She looked at his swords, then at his limp sleeve, then back at his face. "You only have one arm. I seriously doubt you could do me much harm."

"You show her, Lord Sesshoumaru!" said a squeaky voice from the side. Kagome glanced over to find Sesshoumaru's party had moved closer to the fight.

"Lord Jaken, is Lord Sesshoumaru going to hurt the pretty lady?" asked the little girl.

"Yes, Rin," replied Jaken. "Do not ask such silly questions."

Kagome gulped, and then looked back at Sesshoumaru.

"Full of impudence," he muttered. "What am I to do with such a foolish girl?" He promptly grabbed at Kagome's throat, until Inuyasha began to beat him with the Tetsusaiga scabbard. Kagome took this moment to run.

"Lord Sesshoumaru! Beat that hanyou!" Jaken called out.

"Shut up, you little imp!" Miroku shouted, beating the midget-toad with his staff.

Rin wandered up to Kagome and stared.

"Yes?"

"I think you're pretty. I won't let Lord Sesshoumaru hurt you."

"Oh…kay. Thanks…I guess."

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There you have it. Chapter 6. All done. After like, half a year.

I want to thank everyone who is still bothering to read this. You are the reason I will try to write another chapter. (smiles)

Until next time (hopefully not as long) fare the well!