(author Peeks out of tiny rat hole) I'm sorry all right! My Uncle screwed up our Internet numerous times! So I couldn't get on. My computer got a virus twice! I've finally found out why and fixed the problem. My dad swears he did that the first time but he's full of crap. And Last but certainly not least…DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD THIS CHAPTER WAS TO WRITE…. It's basically setting up the scene for the next chapter and just did not want to work with me. On certain scenes I cut it short because I feel that I need to finish this chapter soon…but to make up for taking so long the chapter is really, really long…if you count 7 pages as long that is…. YOU MUST READ THE NOTE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE…VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION…if you're a fan of this fic.

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What I Do for You
Chapter 16
Training days

"All right guys!" a voice that happened to be disgustingly cheery for this early in the morning said. "Time to Start!" Yuki finished while pulling his little brother out of the tree above him. Kouga was still extremely sleepy, so much that he didn't even notice that he was on the ground or if he did he was making in a point to stay there. Well at least he tried to.

Moments after Kouga was dragged from his branch Ayame jumped down from hers and landed, standing up, in the middle of Kouga's back. "Start what?" she asked while rubbing her eyes, she had yet to step off of Kouga. "Training." Yuki replied not bothering to help his brother.

Sesshoumaru, who had been awake already since demons didn't require much sleep, he eyed Kouga, well most demons. He then began to glare at Yuki, he was highly offended, to think that he, this Sesshoumaru needed training.

Yuki was quick to notice the glare, "Fine practice, a warm-up." Sesshoumaru kept glaring and Yuki thought about who he was dealing with and bowed low, "Perhaps his lordship would be willing to help his younger half-sibling and his companions prepare for the battle against his enemy." Sesshoumaru's look darkened but this time it was because he knew that Yuki was mocking him.

Inuyasha rolled off his branch not wanting to use the energy it took to jump off as Ayame had but not wanting to take Kouga's course to the ground. He rubbed his eyes for a moment and realized what time it was. "Damnit Yuki, it's not even sunrise!" He shouted. His yell finished rousing the others awake. "Well your up now anyway, and I know that none of you will be able to go back to sleep." Yuki said with a smirk.

"Yuki?" came a dark voice. He looked towards the tree that Mai had chosen and saw two glowing orbs; he gave a gulp, and then turned tail and ran. Mai launched from her place on the branch and landed on the wolf demon and switched to strangling him, "Never wake me up this early again!" she screamed. Obviously she's not a morning person.

Once Mai was restrained and everyone was assured that Yuki was still breathing, they were told who they were to train with, Sango was paired with Ayame, Inuyasha with Mai, Miroku was up against Kouga, and lastly Sesshoumaru was against Yuki.

Sango and Ayame moved to another clearing to practice, they mainly were fighting hand to hand and were surprisingly close to the same skill. Ayame was a demon and thought that the pairing was slightly unfair to the human. Ayame thought highly of Sango but hadn't realized how strong she was. But then again she'd have to be strong to carry around the Hiriakotsu.

Inuyasha and Mai had also moved to another clearing but only to preserve the campsite. Inuyasha had been ordered not to use the tetsusiaga against her. This practice was only to help him warm-up with his non-weapon fighting skill. Mai who had not had a powerful weapon had been using her hand-to-hand combat skills constantly beat the younger demon. She was however impressed with how skilled he was; he'd merely gotten rusty from the lack of fighting without his sword.

Miroku and Kouga were both fighting; it was going quite similarly to Sango and Ayame's practice. Miroku had been of course forbidden the use of his Kazaana. Not that he would have used it…much.

Yuki and Sesshoumaru were nothing but blurs on their battlefield. Sesshoumaru, like his brother was not allowed to use Tokijin or Tensaiga. It didn't bother him, he was still permitted to use his natural demonic abilities, but of course so was Yuki.

After about seven hours of practice the group was given a break. Even Sesshoumaru had a hard time, they were only given an hour to eat and rest before they were up again with different partners. This time it was Sango- Miroku, Ayame- Kouga, Mai- Yuki, and lastly Inuyasha against Sesshoumaru.

All of training went by the same way it had that morning but all of the demons utilizing their demonic power. Only the battle with Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru was any different. Now they were practicing. Inuyasha used the wind scar numerous times as did Sesshy with the Tokijin. Finally Sesshoumaru sent a surprisingly strong blast at Inuyasha who instead of dodging brought up the tetsusiaga.

The elder brother would never reveal that he had been scared as hell for his brother's safety in that one moment that he was swallowed up by Tokijin's attack. But as it turned out Sesshoumaru finally got his first taste of Inuyasha's best and strongest attack. "Back Lash wave!"

Sesshoumaru's eyes widened in shock as his attack was sent back at him while being magnified by tetsusiaga own power. Just as the blast hit him Sesshoumaru grasped the hilt of the Tensaiga. This time it was Inuyasha's stomach that knotted up in worry. 'Since when did I start caring about Sesshoumaru' he wondered. For once his sub conscious reared its ugly head, 'Well he is your brother.' It said to him. Inuyasha frowned knowing that his more realistic self was right…he hated that.

Still Inuyasha didn't calm down until the smoke had cleared to reveal Sesshoumaru standing in the middle of a crater. They made eye contact for a moment and Sesshoumaru nodded in approval. He looked up at the sky, they had been practicing for another five hours and he could sense his little brothers exhaustion almost as well as he could feel his own.

Sesshoumaru turned and walked back to camp while listening to his younger brother's footsteps as he trailed after him. 'It would seem that your not totally useless my little brother' Sessh thought not aware that he had let some of his thoughts slip through his mental barrier allowing Inuyasha to hear it. Inuyasha couldn't help but smile. Maybe Sesshoumaru isn't as bad as he thought.

Back at camp the others were just arriving. Yuki quickly stoked the fire and Mai began cooking some stew. The two Inu brothers didn't even have the energy to climb into their trees so settled with waiting on the ground. There was dead silence, Inuyasha had the sneaking suspicion that it was because no could spare the energy to speak.

They did however have enough to eat something, as was demonstrated when Mai announced that dinner was done. No one really spent time eating their first bowl and just inhaled but took their time on the second.

After they were done eating the girls all headed to the hot spring were they eased themselves into the nice hot water. "Do you think that we should hurry up?" Sango asked as she leaned her head back against a rock. "Why would we?" Ayame asked. "I'm sure they're all sore, despite anything that they would say." Sango reasoned. "Nope," answered Mai, "They'll find another that's close." She finished.

The girls quickly scrubbed the sweat and dirt off of themselves and then started massaging their abused muscles, "I'm so tired," said Sango. "I could pass out here," Ayame stated in agreement. "Well, lets refrain from that shall we?" Mai put in, "The battle's coming up and if one of you drowns then training is going to get tougher." She finished.

The other girls thought about this for a moment then shuddered. "Point taken." The two younger women said in unison. "Good." Said Mai. Ayame decided to seize the moment, "So how are things with Yuki?" she asked Mai.

In response Mai quickly lost all reservations to drowning and promptly started to assist Ayame in this feat. "Sango help!" said Ayame when she finally got her head above the water for more than a couple of seconds. "I think that I would rather live thank you." Was Sango's response, to which she received a rather loud scream of "TRAITOR!"

-With the boys -

The male part of the group had indeed found a hot spring but were refusing to go anywhere near it. It wasn't that something was wrong with it. They were all men with very sore muscles, and a lot of bruises. But they were also men with enough pride and ego to…well I can't think of an analogy but you get the point. And that of course brought the bruises back into play.

They all sat very tense around the fire raging a silent war. Finally Miroku caved, "Well, since I happen to be the only poor and pathetic human left here I'll go to the hot springs to relieve my overused muscles." He said getting up.

He left and returned a full thirty minutes later, plopped down on his sleeping bag and went straight to sleep. Within the next hour Inuyasha got up to go and 'take a walk' he had said. When he arrived it looked as if his walk had taken him straight through a river, or at least it took his head through. His clothes were still dry.

Shortly thereafter Koga got up and claimed that he was going to gather more wood. Awhile later he returned with a pile of wood in his arms, at the same time as the girls. At their inquiring look he claimed that he had fallen into a spring. At this Ayame pointed out that his clothes and the wood weren't wet. With out waiting for a response she did as the others had done and went to sleep.

Inuyasha soon went to sleep, as did Koga. With everyone else out cold Sesshoumaru and Yuki simply left one at a time to take there baths and came back. Tonight Sesshoumaru took the night off guard duty and slept.

The next three days went very much the same. Inuyasha once again mastered his hand-to-hand combat skills, or rather the claw-to-some-other-demon-appendage skills. The humans were both faster and stronger than ever as were the demons. Though it was hard to see on those like Yuki and Sesshoumaru, they were blurs on the battlefield to begin with.

On the fifth however they spent the day resting and honing and repairing their weapons. Now Naraku's miasma was so thick that they could see it spreading out from a single point on the ground then going up into the air. It was far too obvious that Naraku was prepared for the fight. But so were they.

-Naraku's Manor -

Juuroumaru slipped through the shoji screen door without a sound. Kageroumaru was wrapped around his brother's neck. Juuroumaru moved silently across the room towards the sleeping mat in the center of the floor.

When Juuroumaru got within a few paces from the mat its owner turned over in its sleep. Juuroumaru, despite himself, froze. He silently cursed himself knowing that the slightest movement of his feet or shift of his weight would warn the prey of the intruders' presence.

Kageroumaru slipped from his brothers' shoulder and then glided noiselessly across the floor. The sleeping tenant made no move on their mat as Kageroumaru neared, but as he touched the mat the alleged victims eyes flew open.

The blankets were torn from their owner in a flurry of movements. The blankets settled to the ground they revealed a very pissed off Kagome holding Kageroumaru and Juuroumaru by their necks. Distantly they all wondered how she had gotten a hold of Juuroumaru who had been out of reach and didn't remember moving.

"Good morning." Kageroumaru said acting like Kagome wasn't looking at him as though she would personally drag the devil from hell for the sole purpose of being able to witness the torture because who knew if she was going to be anywhere near there when she dies. And she didn't intend for that to happen soon.

"What time is it?" she asked slowly. "You really should learn how to respect your elders Miss Kagome." Kageroumaru chided while ignoring her question. "What time is it?" Kagome asked again growing more irritated by the second. "Really a simple hello occasionally would be nice. But no instead I get this, purification claws to the neck.

The last comment inspired Kagome. She threw Juuroumaru to the side and charged her now free hand with miko. She held her now glowing blue hand up to Kageroumaru's face. "What fucking time is it?" she shouted in frustration. "Well why don't you go and see." he said calmly.

Giving in, Kagome dropped Kageroumaru and moved to the door. Juuroumaru grabbed his brother and stayed not but two steps behind Kagome all the way to the door. Stupidly Kagome flung the door open only to be facing the bright sunlight.

Kagome's room had been extremely dark, to the point that no human would have been able to see their hand if it was a foot from their face. It also happened to be about ten in the morning so the sun was up, even if she wasn't.

As Kagome was shouting in surprise and rubbing her eyes Juuroumaru slipped in front of her and out the door. Once Kagome was able to open her eyes in the light she spotted the note on the floor next to the door.

Kagome sighed as she spotted Naraku's seal. She picked it up and quickly read over its contents. Again Kagome sighed, apparently they were to spend all day today training. 'This is going to suck.' Kagome thought to herself. She got ready and went out to the courtyard. She arrived to find Kiori shooting poison blades of demonic energy at Kanna at high speed.

Kanna was absorbing them into her mirror and firing them back at Kiori who was forced to dodge her own attack while continuing to send more. Kagome walked to where Kagura, Kageroumaru, and Juuroumaru were standing. "Out of pure curiosity," she said, "who's in charge of training?" she asked. Kageroumaru smirked "I am." He responded. "Oh great, we're all going to die!" Kagome cried dramatically.

Kagura rolled her eyes, "Pull your self together or I'll have to disown you." Kagome laughed then looked around the courtyard as she told Kagura "You can only disown those who are related by name and title, not those by spirit." Kagome kept on looking across the grounds but smirked when she heard Kagura's snort. Finally Kagome figured out why it felt like something was missing, it turned out not to be a something but a some who. "Guys, where's Kane?" She asked.

Kagura, Kageroumaru and Juuroumaru all frowned at this. "No one has seen him since last night." Juuroumaru said in a quiet voice. Kagome was now frowning as well. "Did he leave or something, what did he say?" she said after a moment. Kagura sighed, "We don't know where he is, he didn't even say anything to Kio."

Kagome's frown deepened, "That's not like him." She stated worriedly, "He doesn't ever leave without at least hinting to us that he's going to be gone." The others nodded in agreement but Kageroumaru sighed, "He's a grown demon and can take care of himself, he'll be back when we need him." He said in a slightly depressed manner. Kagura gave him a suspicious look, "How do you know this?" she asked. It was Juuroumaru who answered in a grave voice, "That's just the way things work."

Kagome was about to ask what he meant by that but was interrupted by Kageroumaru bellowing out, "Kiori, you and Kagome switch places now." He ignored Kagome's glare as he pushed her out onto the now demolished courtyard.

Kiori strolled tiredly to Kageroumaru's side and plopped down on the ground beside him. She watched Kagome throw her first few attacks at Kanna who did the exact same thing as before. Kiori felt someone's gaze upon her; she looked up cautiously only to be faced with her new trainer's smirk.

She gave an exasperated sigh and sent him a wary look, "Your going to make me get up aren't you?" she said disdainfully. At his nod she slowly stood and sent him a glare. "No being lazy now." He admonished, his voice carried a mocking undertone.

Kageroumaru continued, "Now be a good little dog and go get your Daito." Kiori left grumbling but did as she was told. When she returned he ordered Kagura to keep an eye on Kagome and Kanna to make sure they didn't do too much damage to themselves or to the castle grounds.

They spent the rest of the day training Kiori with the Katana, only taking a break to have Kagura and Kagome switch places against Kanna and to have Kagome take Kageroumaru's against Kiori. Juuroumaru had left some time during the day with Kohaku.

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The next morning at breakfast Kageroumaru made an announcement, "Naraku has decided that we shall train in the ruins of an abandoned village a many few miles away from here." The others stopped eating and quirked their eyebrows. "Why not here where he can keep an eye on us?" asked Kagura.

Kageroumaru frowned sadly, "I fear that our lord was far from happy about the damage done to the courtyard yesterday." Then he added as though to retain some dignity, "Though in my opinion the damage was minimal." The others just nodded and quickly finished their meals.

As they left, eyes popped nearly out of their heads as everyone saw the damage done to the once lush courtyard. They had all been worked to the point of exhaustion yesterday and had not bothered to find out how badly they had wrecked it. There was no longer anything left but gouges in the ground where attacks had landed.

"Minimal damage my ass!" Kagura grumbled. "That's for sure!" Kohaku agreed. Once they reached the castle gates Kanna and Kohaku moved next to Kagura, when she was sure they were ready she pulled out a feather and started flying towards their destination. Juuroumaru, with Kageroumaru on his shoulder, stood to the side until Kagome and Kiori jumped from the ground and then ran ahead to lead the way.

It took about thirty minutes flying and running to reach the ruined city. Once there the entire group lined up to wait for Kageroumaru's instructions. They hated to admit it but his twisted training methods had been working.

"Kagome, have you gotten anywhere with that spell that I gave you a couple of days ago?" Kageroumaru asked the miko/hanyou. The rest of the group looked at her curiously. Kagome ignored them and nodded as she pulled out a small sack.

She tossed it to Juuroumaru who deftly caught it and emptied it out in one swift movement revealing numerous medallions. He quickly passed them out to each member of the group. As he did so Kageroumaru explained "It will stop the attacks from harming you to the full extent. It will sting like hell but the attacks won't kill you." Everyone nodded and pulled the medallions over their heads.

Once he saw that everyone was wearing one, Kageroumaru continued speaking, "Today we will be training with," He gave Kagome a nod "Youkai attacks." They all quirked their eyebrows, "Except you Kohaku, you will be practicing with Juuroumaru." He continued. Kagura gave him a dark look; "This had better not be the same thing as yesterday." She growled. Kageroumaru smiled, "Not quite."

Kagura, Kiori and Kagome sighed in frustration. Kanna rolled her eyes and said exasperated "Adults!" When the three being insulted turned to glare at her she was gone, then Kohaku decided he'd join in. "Always whining, so pathetic." He said mournfully.

When the girls turned to face him the only trace was a cloud of dust forming behind Juuroumaru as he ran away with Kohaku to train. They all once again growled in frustration. They turned back to see one of Kageroumaru's attacks coming out of Kanna's mirror straight at them.

"Well Shit." Kagome said in a slightlymiffed tone,and training for the day began. They all jumped aside and sent their own attacks whirling towards Kanna. This time Kageroumaru was joining them, they continued for hours, attacking and having more sent back at them.

By the time the day was over Kageroumaru was irritated at his own logic, 'What chance do you have against your enemy if you can't defend against the attacks of your own allies.' Yesterday he'd remedied the problem of them not understanding their attacks and what it was capable of doing.

What irritated him most however was the smirks being sent his way. He had chastened them all each time they got hit, up until he was struck with his own attack. Now they were all enjoying watching him squirm.

Like the Inuyasha gang training continued for three more days. Each day the training was very much the same. After that however they spent the days honing and repairing weapons. That morning Naraku had began to release his miasma into the air. By that night Kagome had been forced to put a special spell to on him protect him from it. Every member of Naraku's team was forced to pull out a mask much like Sango and Kohaku's and wear that all day and night.

All of the enslaved members of castles populace silently dreaded the next day, the time had come all they could do now was pray that they all came out of it alive.

Review responses:
INUYASHAANDKAGOMEALLTHEWA He he thanks for the compliment, I really appreciate your support. Now id you will excuse me I have to go and hide from angry readers and quickly write the next chapter. Once again thank you for the review.
Megijen123: thank you very much. I'm aware of my horrible grammar in my typing but the problem will be fixed soon. My goal for after I finish this fic is to repair all my mistakes before I continue on with the sequel.
Yami112123: Thank you for reviewing. As for Kagome helping Kagura and the others. In my opinion I takes far more courage to do what Kagome's doing now than to return to Inuyasha and forget about them. Or go home where she wouldn't have to deal with it at all. It's also nobler, she may be causing pain for her friends but in the end she's doing something that will help them and she's aiding those who need her more.
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Taeniaea: I'm really really really sorry for taking so long. The biggest reason I took so long was because I just couldn't get the chapter to go from my mind onto the computer screen. Like I said I'm sorry. The next chapter shouldn't be as hard because I've been planning it for a while. In the sequel I want people to personally e-mail me if I take as long as this again, and keep e-mailing me until I update because I really hate making everyone wait.
BeccaPatty: Hiya, As for the problem with it saying that you already reviewed it may be because I deleted an old authors note so all the chapters were moved up. I promise I'll update soon. But if I don't I'm asking you to send me IM's until I can no longer see my desktop. Well glad ya liked it and hope ya liked this last one. Thanks for the review.
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