DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Inuyasha! (I, however, do own Koinuyasha though!)

Koinuyasha

Kagome was happily wrapped in Inuyasha's arms when she smelled smoke. Inuyasha looked down in disgust. Oh, yeah! That's right, he can smell it better than me! Kagome thought. The first thing Inuyasha did was puncture the locked door with the Tesusaiga. The door instantly flung open.

"Do you- do you smell that?" Sango said, sniffing the air.

"I smell it! Sesshomaru must've lit the castle on fire!" Miroku replied. Shippou was lying on the floor, covering his mouth and pinching his nose.

"We've gotta get out of here!" Inuyasha mumbled, and picked up Kagome.

"Kirara!" Sango called, and Kirara transformed into the giant flaming cream-colored cat. Miroku and Sango, with Shippou in her arms, hurried onto Kirara and flew off.

"Sheild your eyes Kagome!" Inuyasha warned. Kagome obeyed, placing a hand above her eyes. Inuyasha hopped up and crashed through the ceiling, pieces of it shattered around them. Inuyasha hopped about the trees, and Kagome could see that they were above an evergreen forest. In the distance she could see the castle they were just in burning up into flames. Out of nowhere, a giant boulder flew inches away from Inuyasha's head.

"What the…?" Inuyasha grumbled, and looked down. "It's Sesshomaru, he's throwing boulders at us!" Kagome grabbed on tight to Inuyasha's arm. Inuyasha took the Tetsusaiga out of it's sheath and yielded it. Two more boulders were hurled at their heads, but Inuyasha managed to block them. Another boulder flew at them, and caught Inuyasha off guard. It hit his shoulder and knocked him backward. Kagome flew out of his arms.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha cried out, and dove to try to catch her. Another boulder hit him in the stomach, and all he could hear was Kagome's scream.

Kagome woke up surrounded by a bunch of green trees. All she remembered was falling and then everything went black. She was surrounded by what looked to be a tropical rainforest of some sort. It was colorful, with many fruits she had never seen before. Beautiful birds hovered by the tops of the lime-green trees.

Kagome looked to her right and saw a shadow. She looked more carefully and it was in the shape of Inuyasha! The shadow had long hair and dog ears and a human-like figure. It must be him! She thought.

"Inuyasha?" she said walking towards the shadow. "Is that you?" She walked over to the shadow and looked in front of her. There stood a mini version of Inuyasha. He had the long silver hair, the cute dog ears, and the sharp claws. He was obviously a hanyou.

"I'm not Inuyasha! I'm Koinuyasha! I can see you know my brother, Inuyasha, though. I've been looking for him! I haven't seen him since we were little."

"Wha-what? You're Inuyasha's brother?" Kagome said, shoked.

"Yes I am" Koinuyasha said matter-of-factly.

"You're a-a-"

"A hanyou?" Kagome nodded.

"Are you from the same mom as him?"

"Yes. Does Inuyasha remember me?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't think he does." Koinuyasha looked hurt.

"How old are you?" Kagome asked.

"I'm 300 years old, but I guess compared to you, in human years I mean, I'd be like 12. I see my older brother has a taste for humans. It runs in the family" For a weird reason this statement made Kagome crack up.

"What's so funny?" Koinuyasha asked.

"Nothing. We'd better find Inuyasha. It'll be hard to convince him that you guys are brothers."

They started making their way through the forest, Koinuyasha clawing down trees in their way. Kagome had no doubt in her mind that Koinuyasha wasn't Inuyasha's brother because they looked exactly alike. She was still in shock over the whole thing. They finally found where the group had settled down. All of them were shouting Kagome's name.

"Hi you guys" Kagome said. Inuyasha rushed over to her quickly and pecked her on the lips.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome shook her head.

"No, I'm fine thanks"

"Thank god you're alright!" Miroku and Sango chimed in. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango looked down at Inuyasha and their jaws dropped.

"Inuyasha, meet your little brother, Koinuyasha!" Kagome said. Shippou hopped over.
"Whoa, they look alike."Shippou said in awe.

"Ok, jokes over Kagome. Haha" Inuyasha said carelessly.

"But, I'm serious! He's your brother!" Kagome insisted.

"Inuyasha? You don't remember me?" Koinuyasha looked offended. "Think, Inuyasha. Don't you remember? Anything at all?" Inuyasha shook his head.

"Nope, sorry" Inuyasha replied.

"Inuyasha, please? Try?" Koinuyasha begged. Inuyasha nodded and thought hard on it. How could this be his brother? All he could remember was his mom. But who was that in his memory, standing next to her? Could it be?

"Little brother! I remember!" Inuyasha said and hugged Koinuyasha. Miroku, Sango, and Shippou sat with confused looks on their faces. Hours passed by as Koinuyasha shared how he had ventured to find Inuyasha, and Inuyasha shared his journeys looking for the shards of the Shikon Jewel and of Kagome being Kikyo's reincarnation.

"You know, I could help you look for jewel shards." Koinuyasha offered.

"No, it's much too dangerous" Inuyasha replied.

"But, this little kitsune is younger than me, yet, he is safe!" Koinuyasha protested.

"Alright, you can stay. But if it gets too dangerous you must leave" Inuyasha said."This'll be great!" Shippou said.

"Indeed. It would be pleasant to have Inuyasha's little brother around." Miroku agreed. Sango nodded.

"You guys, have you forgotten that Sesshomaru still has the jewel shards? You know that he's gonna give them to Naraku. We have to catch him before he does." Kagome said.

"Right" the group agreed.

"First thing in the morning?" Koinuyasha asked.

"Definitely" Inuyasha agreed.