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Ch. 4

"Were-Dog?" Kagome said fearfully.

"Were-Dogs are like werewolves, but with one difference. Only Inu Youkai can become them, and they're a lot more dangerous. With the strength of a youkai, a Were-Dog can level an entire city in one night," Inuyasha said.

Just as the hanyou's explanation came to an end, a huge white blur leapt in front of the shard hunters.

Saliva dripped in huge ropes from the animal's jaws, and its eyes were pure red and lacked pupils. It snarled menacingly, its overly hunched shoulders quivering as it stared at them.

:Sesshoumaru, come on! It's me, Inuyasha! I know that doesn't give you much incentive to spare me, but don't you want to relish my defeat? In this form, you can't. Fight it: Inuyasha barked in animal youkai language.

:Hungry…need to eat…you are food, little man:

Sesshoumaru's words struck Inuyasha hard. The taiyoukai didn't even remember him!

"Run, Kagome!"

Sesshoumaru leapt up and tried to tackle Kagome and Sango down, but Inuyasha sliced at him with the Tetsusaiga. The taiyoukai's remaining foreleg was laid open to the bone.

HROOWWWRRRR!

Sesshoumaru snarled, baring his overlarge teeth, and snapped his jaws at his brother. His eyes were rolling madly in his head as he dove for the hanyou.

"Back off!"

The demon was sliced over the foreleg again. He collapsed.

:I NEED FOOD:

Sesshoumaru took a final leap at Inuyasha and succeeded in knocking the Tetsusaiga away. His claws dug into Inuyasha's flesh and he prepared to bite and sever…

The sun rose and bore down on the group of shard hunters.

Sesshoumaru howled as the moon disappeared from the sky. His full Inu-Youkai form began to ebb away and he was left screaming in his humanoid form as he became normal once again. An enormous wound was spurting fountains of blood from his arm and his chest wound was open once again.

"Sesshoumaru's really hurt!" Shippo said in alarm. "What do we do?"

"Make him stop screaming!" Sango said, covering her ears.

It was true; the taiyoukai was screaming in pain still. Eventually, his voice was lost and he was left rasping as the wounds on his chest and arm continued to bleed. He stood, eyes wide, with no feeling in his eyes as his skin paled to a translucent state once again.

"He's in shock again," Miroku stated.

"Inuyasha!"

Kagome was fawning over the unconscious hanyou, who had large, but shallow claw marks on his chest; only the middle one was deep.

"Oh, my God! He's going to be a Were-Dog too!"

"No, Kagome," Sango said consolingly. " We wouldn't even know if a hanyou could get that. It's for Inu Youkai. And besides, Inuyasha wasn't bitten. He was only clawed on the chest."

"Thanks Sango. I was really worried…"

"I think you should worry about Sesshoumaru."

Kagome turned to Miroku, then Sesshoumaru and gasped. The demon lord was still standing, but his bleeding was somehow stemming itself.

"Well, at least he's beginning to stop bleeding…"

"Lady Kagome, that's because he's being tapped dry."

Kagome blanched. Miroku was right, there was an enormous pool around Sesshoumaru, and because his shock-affected legs were weak, he collapsed face first into the life liquid.

Instantly, Kagome began to wrap tourniquets around his gashes. Knowing he had youkai blood in him (however little of that was left) she hoped to God that he would survive. She didn't want to see death…

During the afternoon, Sesshoumaru stopped breathing.

Sesshoumaru's POV

I knew not where I was.

I knew not what I felt.

I did not even have a sense of self anymore.

What I did know was what I had been mere hours ago.

I had been a beast of insatiable hunger.

A beast of legend.

A Were-Dog is what I had been.

During my period of nothingness, I felt my body shut down, but I was somehow brought back to the world I knew.

My eyes opened, just for a moment, and I saw raven hair and…sailor fuku?

Normal POV

Sesshoumaru slept the good part of a week away in critical condition. Only on the sixth day did he wake up, and he was very much disoriented.

"Where am I?" he asked weakly.

"You're in bed, stupid!" his hanyou brother replied.

:Inuyasha…:

Sesshoumaru turned away from Inuyasha in shame.

:Even as a taiyoukai, I am no better than you any longer. I am unable to rule my lands, for every crescent moon I become worse than a hanyou…I become a Were-Dog: he replied in anger.

-Don't think for a moment that this changes anything, Sesshoumaru. You are still my enemy. However…I guess fighting a Were-Dog can be dangerous, so you think you wanna hang around with me until we find a cure-

:Inuyasha, there is no cure. Do not be a naïve fool. And I shall never join you. But as for Rin, Ah-Un, and Jaken…:

The demon lord sighed.

:You may take them. If I am a danger upon myself, then I am a danger a thousand fold to them.:

-I'll take care of them: Inuyasha growled the promise. :And I swear on our old man's grave I'll find the cure.-

Hanyou and Taiyoukai met eyes and, for the first time, they were not murderous, but filled with sadness and determination.

:I await the cure.:

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