Here's another chapter for you, I deleted the authors note on the fic, since I'm back it seems kinda pointless to have it up there for you guys to see over and over again, and it could be misleading to anyone who finds the fic and decides to read it.I've changed what I use for signifing thoughts, Instead of just using ' text '> I will now be italisising(sp?) as well to help keep things less confusing.

What I Do for You
Chapter 15
Pondering

Everyone sat around the dining room table, with of course the exception of Naraku. Of all of them only Kagome was uncomfortable. She was in between Kiori and Kohaku; Kanna had made a special seafood dinner and in between the eating, visiting, and complimenting only Kageroumaru noticed her discomfort.

He found it… odd. Naraku had told him that her memory had been sealed; he had not seen her since Naraku made her his servant. Hell he had been dead. She would or 'should' only care if she knew what he had done to her half-demon lover.

Not that she really 'should' give a damn, the half-breed was the enemy she wasn't aloud to love him. He had himself confused trying to figure out his thoughts.

'Lets just leave it at she should not care about Inuyasha' He knew he would ask Kagura later, but for now. "Juuroumaru, pass the lobster will you?" His brother did so and Kageroumaru quickly cut up and stabbed a piece of the steaming meat and devoured it.

'Why hadn't Kanna started cooking last time we were alive?' Something occurred to him and gave Kanna an odd look. "Where did you learn to cook?" he asked inquisitively. "Kiori taught me." The young girl responded without missing a beat. Kiori started to choke on a piece of fish "Right." she agreed.

Kageroumaru, and frankly everyone else, knew Kanna was lying and Kiori was simply covering for her. Judging by the look on Kagura's face, she didn't believe either lye and didn't have a clue where she had learned but wanted to find out. Surprisingly she let the subject drop.

Kagome stood up gracefully, 'her demon blood has done her good' Kageroumaru thought, 'She's not as much of a klutz.' he thought. "I'm beat, see you guys in the morning." She said and left the room, turning to the left. Kageroumaru held back a snort. She was wide-awake and frightened and he could smell it. The others wondered what was wrong but nodded their heads and said good night.

Eventually, though it was hours after Kagome's exit, the others started to grow tired. Kohaku stifled a yawn but Kane saw it anyway. The young dog demon said goodnight and left, turning left at the door, pulling Kohaku along with him, he was talking about how it wasn't healthy for adults to be up this late and definitely wasn't good for kids.

Kiori bit back a laugh at the argument but got up and followed, "Come on Kanna. You'd better get some sleep to." Kanna nodded and left, turning to go right. Kageroumaru, Juuroumaru, and Kagura were the only ones remaining, they sat in silence sipping tea for some time, and finally Kagura sighed and stood up.

She had been debating something in her head but had decided against telling them. "Good night brothers." She said with a light smile. Both nodded at her as she left. Once they were sure that Naraku was in his chambers and the others safely in their rooms, they got up and left to their own quarters.

The two brothers shared a room; it was very, very simple containing only a mat to sleep on. Juuroumaru lay down on the mat while Kageroumaru stayed beside is head. They laid there, wide-awake for an hour contemplating.

They knew that Kanna lid about learning to cook from Kiori. Heck they doubted Kiori knew how to cook, who was going to take the time to teach a princess skills that she was never to use. She would have been expected to sit in the palace and look pretty and do this and donate that all to make her elder brother look good. They sighed, when would they learn, no secrets evaded Naraku for long.

They were just about to go to sleep when they heard a door open and shut followed by rushed footsteps. The person ran past the room, the moonlight creating their silhouette against the thin shoji screen. The shadow revealed a woman running through the halls with her hair flowing behind her.

Just moments after she passed anther shadow made its way pass. This time it was a man. Kageroumaru and Juuroumaru knew that that one had to be Kane; the woman was either Kiori or Kagome. Kanna was shorter and didn't make a sound and Kagura never wore her hair down. Plus both his siblings were on the opposite side from his room.

He waited until he heard another door open and close twice. Juuroumaru stood and Kageroumaru wrapped himself around his brother's throat in order to hold on, Juuroumaru silently went to the door and opened and closed it quickly without a sound. He ran silently to Kagura's room where he could here voices whispering.

He opened the door, slipped in, closed the door, and jumped up and clung to the ceiling in a process that went so quickly that the air wasn't disturbed enough to move. He hung there listening to the conversation. It had been Kane and Kiori that had passed his room.

Kiori was growling in frustration, "Damnit, we've gone through every idea already and every time we find something that we know Naraku will do to get out of it." Kane grabbed hold of her arm and she immediately ceased realizing that she was causing too much noise.

"It would seem that we're not powerful enough to stop him." Kagura sighed. Kiori and Kane stared at her in shock, "Kagura," Kiori said in shock. "You're the one who wants to get out the most." Kane said.

Kagura sighed, "Then perhaps it's best if I'm the first to admit there is no way we're getting out." She shook her head at the hopelessness of it all. "Even with Sesshoumaru's tokijin and Inuyasha's wind scar it doesn't seem that we have enough power."

Juuroumaru dropped down and landed behind Kagura. Kane and Kiori stood up and got into a defensive stance. Kageroumaru ignored them and directed his attention to his sister, "How long has he been able to use the wind scar?" he asked.

Kagura was extremely tense, she had no clue how the two of them were going to react,"Long enough." She answered. Kageroumaru nodded, "Are you sure that that is the only attack he can use?" he asked, "Pretty sure." Kagura answered again beginning to relax. Again Kageroumaru nodded.

"Why not believe that he has learned something else, he is stronger wouldn't that mean he wields his weapon better." It was Juuroumaru who spoke with his airy voice. "True, but we would need to now what the attacks were and what they do." Kane said.

Juuroumaru nodded and looked to the door, Kageroumaru caught on, "Perhaps you might be able to help with this dilemma." He said. The others turned to the door when they heard it open.

Kagome walked in and pulled the screen in place behind her. 'Inuyasha forgive me.' She thought. She walked forward and sat down next to Kiori and sighed, "The tetsusiaga'sultimate attack, the backlash wave."

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"You know we haven't seen Yumi or the other wolves in a while." Ayame pointed out that night while they sat around the fire eating meat from the deer Inuyasha had caught earlier. "It just might be do to the fact that you beat the shit out of her. Or at least scared her." Sesshoumaru said dully.

Ayame smiled at him, "Didn't beat the shit out of her, we were to busy, I just marred her beautiful face." The others snickered at the statement then Inuyasha spoke, "And there in lies the reason, god forbid she be seen without perfect features." this set off another round of snickers.

"We had better start getting some rest." Yuki said, he hated spoiling the fun but he knew the battle woul come soon and they had better be at their best. He looked around at the faces of his allies, freinds, and family; "We will train tomorrow so we'll be ready for that bastard." he said.

Again he looked around at each of the faces and as they made eye contact each nodded. Slowly he got up and made his way to his tree. Next Mai got up and joined him. They were followed by Sesshoumaru then Inuyasha both moving to their own selected tree's.

Next the human got up and moved to their sleeping bags, and finally Kouga and Ayame got up and shared a spot on a branch. On the ground Miroku sat up, "Who's on watch?" he asked. Sesshoumaru gave a very Inuyasha like grunt to signify that he volunteered.

Miroku nodded and laid back down as he mumbled "Luck." The dog lord rolled his eyes and heard the tajiya snicker, "K-nines or cats? That is the question." Sesshoumaru glared, "Kill the Tajiya or let her live? An even better question." he growled out knowing that she heard.

The tajiya just laughed, "That one should be 'To kill or not to kill?'" she said and laughed as the demon growled again. "The two of you are more alike than you think." she said as she drifted off to sleep.

He sat for a moment trying to figure out what that meant but Inuyasha wasn't cruel enough to let his brother suffer pondering the meaning, "Don't bother Sessh." he said to the older demon, "She wanted to figure something out and thats how she does it." and with that he went to sleep.

Sesshoumaru decided that for once he would listen to his little brother since he understood the's demon better than Sesshoumaru did. So with that he began his watch not knowing that a certain wolf dog was silently laughing with the knowledge that the brothers were finally moving on. And neither realized it.

Review responses:
Ganheim: I deeply appreciate your help with the first chapter. It has helped me realize how little consideration of my grammar, among other things, that I put into my writing. It also made me notice that I completely left out a scene of the story that refers to the Kikyo/ Inuyasha scene, which will be fixed once I find a proper place. But I would like to say, feel free to insult my typing ability, I know it's bad but I'm working on it, criticize my ability as a writer, again I'd like to think that I'm getting better at it, but I do not appreciate you insulting my intelligence.
Taeniaea: Man you were dead determined huh. LoL. Obviusly you've read by now. Thanks for the review.
BeccaPatty: LoL, You don't have to wait long my freind. Thanks for the reveiw, as always.
Hiei's cute girl: Don't, she's my alternate personality so she doesn't get abused. Just another part of my personality I decided to put up there. Plus I think I might get rid of those parts of my fic. Well thanks for the review.
Well that chapters over, and the fic is almost there. There's only two or three chapters left. At the end there will be many unanswered questions, once I'm done with this I'm considering doing a prequel that will give a better grip on somethings.

I also think that I might delete the Sato and Nagi stuff that I place on the top and bottom of almost every chapter. Tell me if you think I should, shouldn't, or don't care please. The last option willl lead to the deletion.

JaNe