A/N: I'm actually home for a weekend! For anyone that cares, it was a great college, MCAD, and I'm seriously considering going there.

Disclaimer: You know the drill…

Kagome and Kikyo were again working on the loads of homework they got over the break. They were in the middle of the living room, book spread about them everywhere.

"So a plant is a goes through two types of reproduction?" Kagome looked at her worksheet, about plants and their reproduction cycle.

Kikyo groaned in frustration, "Something like that…Gosh, this is so confusing."

They struggled through the worksheets and finally decided on a snack. Kagome bounced up and debated what they should have, "Cheese and crackers?"

Kikyo sat up, pinching the bridge of her nose, "That sounds really awesome right about now…"

Kagome ran out in the kitchen and rummaged through the counters, grabbed the crackers. She looked around and skidded to the refrigerator to pull out some cheddar cheese. "Kikyo, melted or not?" she asked while evenly distributing the cheese across the crackers.

"Melted, please." Came Kikyo's reply.

Kagome nodded to herself and stuck the plate of about twenty cheese covered crackers in the microwave. Setting the timer for about thirty seconds, she poked her head around the wall asking Kikyo, "Anything to drink?"

Smiling at Kagome's over polite services, she just said, "Water."

Kikyo turned back to her papers; pencil to her lips…why was this so confusing? You think that plants…she shook her head as she found the answer in her textbook.

"How come I didn't see that before, Hey Kagome?" Kagome came in the room with snacks and water on cue. "I figured it out."

"Good, explain it to me." She sat the plate between them.

Kikyo helped herself, pointing to the text and explaining the plants reproduction process.

Kagome smacked her head, "How confusing!"

"You get it?" Kikyo took a sip of water.

"Ya, I think so." Kagome finished the last few questions on her worksheet.

Shutting their textbooks in unison, they sat back and sighed.

Kagome pulled out the music that Taijya had given her. "Where did you get those?" Kikyo asked.

Kagome laid on her back, a sheet of music in one hand and a cheese dripping cracker in the other, "Taijya, that's why I went over there with you."

"Oh…" Kikyo took another sip of water. "You like them?"

Kagome smiled, "Oh yes, their so nice…I've already come to adore Mr. and Mrs. Taisho."

Kikyo smiled and finished the rest of her water.

"Takanaka, I will come tomorrow after noon to pick it up." Sesshomaru suppressed a yawn, this was taking forever.

InuYasha was in the waiting chair, head lolling to the side.

Takanaka, the car dealer, was behind his computer entering information. Typing a few more buttons, "That will be great; I just have to enter all this information about the insurance and all…tomorrow would be great so you won't have to wait around for hours."

Sesshomaru got up and gave a quick bow, the man had made this deal easy, but it took forever. "See you tomorrow."

Walking over to the waiting chair InuYasha was currently occupying, he gave him a quick poke in the arm. "We're leaving."

InuYasha quickly shook his head, trying to be rid of his state of drowsiness and sprang up. After they walked outside the dealership InuYasha asked, "Soo…which one did you end up getting?" He scanned the cars.

Sesshomaru gestured to a red corvette and InuYasha's eyes got big, "NICE!"

There was one thing Sesshomaru and InuYasha had in common…

their taste in cars.

"Yes, well, I'm picking it up tomorrow, lets go."

InuYasha kept a mental note that his father said he could get in the next few months. He knew where he was coming now.

It was still drizzling out and they were about half way home. The wind suddenly picked up and the rain came in a sudden down pour.

InuYasha held his arms out, looking down and yelling to no one in particular, "AWW MAN! I'M SOAKED!"

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes, "Well the faster you walk, the less you complain, the sooner we get home and the less 'soaked' we will be."

InuYasha continued to grumble…what was with the weather?

Sesshomaru took a few steps and stopped. Something wasn't right.

He felt really dirty all of a sudden.

InuYasha wasn't watching were he was going, and ran right into his back.

"Gosh," he growled, "First you tell me to hurry up, and then you stop? What gives?"

"InuYasha, quiet."

The hanyou rolled his eyes, "Now your telling me to shut up, WHAT NEXT YOU STUPID BAS----"

Sesshomaru wiped around with inhuman speed and covered his mouth, saying sternly, "Shut. Up. And. Listen."

InuYahsa relaxed and listened, something was wrong.

There was a rustle some nearby brush and Sesshomaru readied himself to attack. He willed himself into his normal being…poison claws ready to strike.

InuYasha had also gotten ready, his claws elongated as well.

From behind the bushes stumbled a classmate of InuYasha's, a kitsune by the name of Shippo.

Instinctively, InuYasha ran forward, "Shippo? Is that you? Are you alright?"

The teenage red head looked up, streams of blood running down the right side of his face.

"InuYasha! Stop!" Sesshomaru said in an authoritive voice.

Ignoring his brother, InuYasha caught the kitsune as he started to fall, but a figure jumped from the bushes and slashed him in the arm.

InuYasha let out a blood curdling scream of pain.

Sesshomaru jumped back, keeping the figure in his sites. 'So, this must be one of them.' He tried attacking with his poison whip, but somehow this person…or whatever it was…managed to get out of the way.

Sesshomaru tried again, but to no avail.

'Them' came down on Sesshomaru, using iron claw to slash across his face and hand he was using to defend himself. It went back to advance on InuYasha, who had set Shippo down. He jumped up in the air, yelling, "BLADES OF BLOOD!"

He dug his claws into his injured arm and made a swiping motion toward 'them'. Sesshomaru, likewise, jumped up and went for a swipe with his poison claws.

'Them' saw Sesshomaru coming and rolled down toward the ground, landing on all fours. Bring up a hand to the side of its face; it had been nailed with the claws of blood.

Readying to finish off these two brothers, it started to conger up dark energy. Sesshomaru and InuYasha could sense it, it was sickening. InuYasha turned away, feeling like he was going to retch.

'Them' got up and started to run at the two brothers.

Suddenly, a point of a sword punctured through its chest, and it looked down, then behind.

InuTaisho stood there, wielding a fantastic sword, scowling at the creature.

A/N: well, there you have it, finally one of 'them' have appeared. I only referred to this singular one as 'them' because what I want to do in the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed!

Oh, I'm changing the way I'll be answering reviews, I appreciate all the complements, but it gets old typing back to 'Great, love it' and 'Awesome, update soon.' So I'll probably only reply if you have a question or something, but those complements are very, very much appreciated!

Phalon22: You were the only one who actually sent in a suggestion for a car, that wasn't silly, so I put in in! Thank you!

kagome of the western lands: If you were confused on were Kagome and Kikyo went, I think in either chapter eight or nine they went back to their place. Don't worry, fluffy didn't put them in a stew or anything (That was random)

Kimonolover: Don't worry, I'm getting to that Kag/Sess stuff. I don't think it will happen anytime soon though…love takes time. (I'm a bird!)