Ch9

Morning came, and every one was up. But something seemed different… Sesshoumaru wasn't in the hut that he was supposed to sleep in that previous night.

"Where could he be anyways? Do you think he left?" Miroku asked no one in particular.

"Feh… are you kidding. Where else do you think he might be… think about it." Inuyasha muttered. Every one thought about where he could be… then there was a 'duhh' moment. They all went to Tsuyara's hut, and there suspicions were correct. Sesshoumaru was lying next to the dead Youkai, sleeping. He had her hand in his. Despite Tsuyara being dead… this site was actually pretty cute. Kagome reached into her back pack, bringing out a camera. The sudden flash of light startled Sesshoumaru awake.

"Morning!" Kagome smiled. Sesshoumaru jumped up.

"what was that…" Sesshoumaru asked, obviously about the flash of light.

"it's called a camera. It takes pictures." Kagome tried to explain… that didn't work, Sesshoumaru just gave her a very confused look. Sesshoumaru stood up, looked at every one then left the hut. Inuyasha was the first to follow him.

"you looked ridiculous like that. You know." Inuyasha snickered playfully. Sesshoumaru glared at him. He was still very upset about the whole thing.

"I'm really not in the mood for your antics." Sesshoumaru snapped. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"hey, I'm only trying to cheer you up. You don't have to bite my head off." He snapped back.

"then stop trying!" Sesshoumaru yelled.

"if you would just stop being an ass, we can get your stupid sword fixed and bring you lover back!" Inuyasha yelled mockingly. Sesshoumaru was silent. "I want to help you Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha said calmly. Sesshoumaru looked at him angrily

"why?" he asked annoyed. Inuyasha sighed.

"this isn't like you. In fact it freaks me out. You being in love freaks me out, but I'd take that over this any day." Inuyasha said then walked off to find Kagome. Sesshoumaru stood there, engulfed in his thoughts. After a few minutes Inuyasha was back with Kagome, Sango, and Miroku.

"hey Sesshoumaru, do you have all the pieces of your sword?" Inuyasha asked. Sesshoumaru took out the tip and held it up.

"this is all that I found, I'm not sure about Tsuyara." Sesshoumaru said, his voice still quite and sad.

They went to look, finding that Tsuyara had all the pieces. Sesshoumaru became more upset at himself now. He knew that she couldn't find all of the pieces because he had the tip but, he didn't know that she had all the others. Guilt was overtaking him more each second.

"Sesshoumaru, you ok?" Sango asked seeing that he was obviously beating himself up inside his own mind. Sesshoumaru didn't answer.

"hey you think Toto-sai could fix it? He fixed Inuyasha's that one time." Kagome suggested.

"well, didn't he make both of our swords in the first place?" Inuyasha muttered. "yeah I'm sure he could, we can go see him today if Sesshoumaru would stop pouting." Inuyasha mocked looking at Sesshoumaru.

"keep quite hanyou." Sesshoumaru sent a deadly glare.

"both of you! Cut it out!" Kagome yelled.

"Inuyasha is right though. Sesshoumaru you shouldn't continue to let sorrow take you over like this. It's not healthy" Miroku said. Sesshoumaru sighed. Just then a familiar little flea jumped onto Inuyasha's nose.

"Master Inuya…squish" Myouga got squished and fell to the ground.

"And where have you been?" Inuyasha was very annoyed by his absences like he always is when danger is amidst.

"I-I- was… uh." Myouga was caught.

"Don't even try. You ran off when we started fighting Sesshoumaru." Miroku pointed out. This caught Sesshoumaru's attention.

"What about fighting me?" he asked, Myouga nearly had a heart attack…

"Master Sesshoumaru! Why…why is he hear… why is he not attacking you?" the flea at first was startled but then became confused… the two brothers weren't fighting.

"It's a long story." Sesshoumaru muttered, glancing at Tsuyara

"It's not a long story; you just don't want to talk about it." Inuyasha mocked.

"It feels long to me! You don't know what I'm going through!" Sesshoumaru snapped

"Would you stop complaining?" Inuyasha yelled.

"What is all this about?" Myouga asked, sitting on Kagome's shoulder. She pointed at the dead Youkai woman.

"Oh my, who is she?" Myouga asked, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha bickering in the background

After the fighting settled, they told him what happened.

"Well, I would have never imagined Sesshoumaru to fall for a half breed." Myouga said… then was squished by Sesshoumaru.

"Uh… Sesshoumaru is a little shy about that, I wouldn't rub it in Myouga." Kagome smiled.

"Damn flea." Sesshoumaru mumbled, his arms folded and looking away from every one, while tapping his foot. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"We need to see Toto-sai before too long, because Sesshoumaru is obviously getting irritated, and that is starting to annoy me." Inuyasha said glancing at Sesshoumaru. The lord Youkai growled.

"The sooner the better." Sesshoumaru muttered

Eventually they did leave to find Toto-sai. It didn't seem like they ever would though, Sesshoumaru was reluctant to leave Tsuyara, and that led to him and Inuyasha fighting. And the fighting continued through the entire trip. It almost seemed as if Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha were arguing just for the sake of it. The topics at first involved Tsuyara but then were about very random, very insignificant things. Inuyasha got sat quite a few times though. Thankfully Sesshoumaru was more easy-going and wouldn't lose his temper as fast.

Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Myouga and Kagome were the only ones who would go, every one else stayed behind. Kagome only went because she could stop Inuyasha… she wished she could stop Sesshoumaru if she had too, but fortunately he was still too upset about Tsuyara and probably wasn't in the mood to kill any one. More then likely he wanted to avoid any presence of death.

Finally the four reached the burning lands that Toto-sai created swords. Inuyasha was the first to walk into his little cave that was more like a giant skull of some Youkai.

"Hey Toto-sai! You in here?" Inuyasha yelled through the mouth of the cave. Then an old man came out and greeted him a little surprised to see Inuyasha. He didn't seem to notice the others.

"Inuyasha? What are you doing here?" Toto-sai asked.

"We need to ask you a favor."

"we?" Toto-sai looked behind Inuyasha, and just like Myouga did, Toto-sai jumped a few inches off the ground when he say Sesshoumaru, and again just like the flea Youkai, became very confused. He saw the lonely, sadden look on the lord Youkai's face

"What is Sesshoumaru doing here?" the old man asked… worried for his own sake and curious as well.

"You going to show him Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha turned to look at his brother. Sesshoumaru walked up slowly and held out the shattered Tenseiga.

"Ah! What have you done to my beautiful work? I could understand Inuyasha, but you?" Toto-sai annoyingly grieved over the broken sword… an artists work is always his life… (Jaroo: I should know I'm and artist my self sigh)

"I… I'd rather not talk about it, please." Sesshoumaru said in a low whisper.

"Can you fix it Toto-sai?" Kagome asked pleadingly.

"I might… it would take longer to fix then Inuyasha's sword did since there's multiple brakes… but I will need something to bond it with." Toto-sai said surveying the sword. Inuyasha let out a little laugh quickly holding it back. He knew what Toto-sai meant when he said 'something to bond it with'

Thus… just like Inuyasha when his sword broke… Toto-sai took one of Sesshoumaru's fangs. For a split second Sesshoumaru had acted like his old self before he had met Tsuyara… nearly knocking Toto-sai out. But Sesshoumaru was held back by both Inuyasha and Kagome who were telling him it was for Tsuyara… that calmed him down, maybe too much. Sesshoumaru then became very sad again. Toto-sai was confused… and as always, Kagome and Inuyasha told Toto-sai, he was surprised, same old same old. Before they left Toto-sai told Sesshoumaru this last thing

"I'll be sure to fix your sword as soon as I can." Toto-sai was very glad that Sesshoumaru had found someone to love… he wasn't as reclusive and emotionless now.

(sigh… sorry this chapter took me sooo long to type, I know its short. I'm like in this serious writers block… but seeing that I finished this blasted chapter should signal that I'll be out of that block soon, god I hope so, oh well R&R)