Last time:

Running his hands down her sides, Inuyasha forgot why he had started the kiss. He only knew that he wanted it to continue forever. He was already half out of his mind with want for her. His demonic instincts demanded that he claim her, and he was losing the battle to those instincts. His sanity slowly started to drip away, and passion took its place. Letting out a low growl of contentment, Inuyasha moved his lips from Kagome's neck to her shoulder, leaving a trail of abused skin. He nibbled slightly on the juncture of her shoulder and neck, and was about to claim Kagome when a crashing sound could be heard.

They were discovered.

For a moment, Inuyasha stayed on top of a startled Kagome, growling at the two weasel demons that had crashed through the bushes. Getting to his feet, Inuyasha pinned them with a look that promised a slow and painful death. Drawing Tessaiga, Inuyasha had been about to slice the newcomers into itsy-bitsy pieces, but he was too slow. The two weasels slumped to the ground, dead. Looking around in confusion, Inuyasha let out a deep snarl as he saw what had killed them.

Sesshoumaru.

"Inuyasha, I come here to talk to you, and find you rutting on the ground with a human. Disgraceful." Taking a closer look at Inuyasha's face, the stoic Sesshoumaru started, and nearly fell off the tree-branch he was standing on. "You have markings, half-breed. What trickery is this?" Jumping down from the tree branch he had inhabited, Sesshoumaru walked closer to Inuyasha, then glanced at the sprawled-out form of Kagome. "Miko! What did you do to him?" Raising herself from her prone position on the forest floor, Kagome glared at Sesshoumaru.

"For the last time, I didn't do it! I don't know why he has those, ok? Why does everyone seem to think that it was something that I did?" Kagome started to pace. "I mean, I have no idea. What could have triggered it? One moment he was there, fighting with Kouga yet again, and then it's like he snapped. He threatened Kouga's life…no big surprise there, but then he actually followed through with it! Then he turned around and I saw the markings. It has nothing to do with me, Fluffy." Glaring coldly at Kagome for that last remark, Sesshoumaru ran the events that Kagome had described through his mind. He looked at Inuyasha, then back to Kagome. Then back to Inuyasha.

Kagome was beginning to get freaked out, and if the look on Inuyasha's face was any indication, so was he. It wasn't every day that one could make Sesshoumaru's eyes bug with just a few simple words. Kagome was about to go over to see if he was ok, when Inuyasha's hand placed itself on her shoulder. Kagome turned inquisitive eyes towards Inuyasha.

"Don't. He's unstable as it is, there's no telling what he'd do to you." Inuyasha's voice was gruff, and his mouth was set in a straight line. Still holding a drawn Tessaiga, Inuyasha prepared to do battle with his older brother, when Sesshoumaru suddenly took to the air. Letting out a collective deep breath, Inuyasha and Kagome looked at each other.

And blushed. Pretending yet again as if nothing had happened, Kagome inquired of Inuyasha,

"So…want some ramen?"

"Yes!"

Sesshoumaru was freaked out. Actually, he was beyond freaked out. If what was happening to Inuyasha was what he thought was happening; then he was in deep shit. There was a prophecy he had read when he was younger, but he had figured that it wouldn't apply to the half-breed. Scowling, Sesshoumaru flew farther and faster than he had ever flown before. Landing at his castle, he strode into the main hall, and headed towards the library. Giving Rin a curt nod, and a ruffle of her hair, Sesshoumaru didn't stop.

"My lord! How was your trip! What can I get you? You didn't run into that filthy half-breed Inuyasha and his human wench, did you m'lord?" Sesshoumaru reached out with his sword and sliced Jaken in half. He would revive him later with Tensaiga, if he felt like it. Reaching his destination, Sesshoumaru strode into the library, and shut the door behind him.

He had never even broken his stride.

Inuyasha watched the water within the pot as he waited for it to boil. Hearing an exasperated sigh utter forth from Kagome, Inuyasha turned his head towards her.

"What's wrong now, wench?"

"A watched pot never boils, Inuyasha." Kagome munched on a piece of fruit and looked at Inuyasha speculatively. An evil smirk appeared on her face as she recalled her foiled plans of seduction. Waiting until Inuyasha had started watching the pot of water again (and not seeing that it had begun to boil), Kagome asked him a simple question that sent him sputtering.

"So, care to explain to me why you've been so horny lately?" Inuyasha gave a little jump at the question, and ended up knocking over the pot of water. Onto himself.

"I said I was sorry Inuyasha! But I still think that it's a perfectly valid question!"

"The hell it is! What the fuck's wrong with you, bitch?" Inuyasha grumbled as he allowed Kagome to wrap bandages around his torso. That water had been hot. Angry red welts had appeared on his skin, and though they were already beginning to fade, Kagome had insisted on putting some ointment on them and bandaging him up.

"Well, it's not as if it's not true. First the river, then that lovely little scene back in those bushes over there. What would you call it?" Inuyasha mumbled something under his breath. "Eh? What was that? I couldn't hear you!" Kagome chortled in amusement. Inuyasha's eyes widened in realization.

"You bitch! You planned this all along, didn't you? All those touches, the skirt, the 'accidental' falling! They were planned! I can't fucking believe this! Here I was, going out of my mind trying to stay the hell away from you, and you…you…." Inuyasha took deep ragged breaths as he tried to stay calm. "Fuck this, spend the night alone bitch." And with those eloquent words, Inuyasha bounded from sight, narrowly missing the crestfallen look on Kagome's face, and the near-silent patter of tears as they hit the ground below her.

AN: Well, I know that I said that this chapter would be long. But, seeing as how ya'll decided to review so much, I put up what I have so far. As always, R&R.