Inuyasha and the gang had reached the village, the smell of smoke and blood was almost unbearable. It didn´t take them long to find the one responsible for this, as he wasn´t hiding.

It was a demon that looked like a frog, exept it stood on two legs. It was very skinny, and if Inuyasha hadn´t known better he had thought that he had starved.

"You´re Narakus new offspring, ain´t you?"

"That is correct." the frog answered.

Inuyasha quickly scanned the frog with his eyes, then asked.

"Kagome, how many shikon shards?"

"4, no, 5 in each leg!" Kagome replied a little shocked. Naraku had never given any of his offsprings as many as 10 shards before.

"Seems like this fight will be worth it!" Inuyasha said with a confident grin.

As inuyasha gripped tetsusaigas hilt the demon smiled, and with all his senses on full strech Inuyasha noticed another presence.

"Don´t let your gaurd down, there´s another one nearby. I can´t tell where it is cause they smell the same, but he should be weaker than the one I´m fighting." Inuyasha said before he lunged towards the frog.

Inuyasha started to get annoyed. The frog had avoided all his attacks with ease for at least 10 minutes. Not only that, but it hadn´t even tried to attack him. Was it so strong it just played with him? Inuyasha let his annoyance get the better of him:
"Why ain´t you attacking me? Is running away rhe only thing you can, huh!"

"That is correct."

"Huh!" Inuyasha stopped. "What!"

"I am the lightest and fastest offspring of naraku, and with these shikon shards I can avoid any attack. But my attacks are useless."

"Why would Naraku send such useless offspring to fight me?"
"To divert your attention of course." he said with a grin.

Inuyashas eyes went wide and it felt as if time hade stopped. He turned around in what felt as slowmotion, to find all his friends lying on the ground. With his eyes he checked them one by one.

Miroku had a gash in his left shoulder, but it was not fatal. Sango had no wounds but was uncouncious, the same for Kirara. They had probably been knocked out by the same attack. Shippo was unconcious with a little blood comming from his mouth, he lay not far away from the body of...

"KAGOME!" Inuyasha screamed. She had a wound in her chest, through her heart. Inuyasha who had already ran to her side and fallen to his knees stared into her lifeless open eyes.

"Kagome... no... please no...Kagome." It was no louder than a whisper. Tears started so stain his cheeks as he places his hand on her cheek. A loud laugh came from behind. Turning around Inuyasha faced another frog-demon, significantly bigger and stronger. His laugh was evil, just like Narakus own. Inuyasha stood and threw slash after slash towards him, cutting him up piece by piece. The demon countinued to laugh until Inuyasha stopped, and then said:

"Does it feel good Inuyasha, cutting me up? Does it satisfy you letting your anger out? Come on, finish me! Let anger edge your sword!"

"So it was his plan from the beginning, to kill Kagome and make me lose it... If Naraku want me to feel satisfied by killing... HE HAVE TO COME HIMSELF!"

Inuyasha threw the last attack, no more than dust was left behind. Inuyasha dropped tetsusaiga and started to scream towards the sky. If he hadn´t been so concentrated on his fight he could have had noticed that his friends was losing. Even thought the air was already full of the smell of smoke and blood, he could have noticed it. It was all his fault! He didn´t know how long he was going to scream, but for now it was the only thing he wanted to do, the only thing he could do... So he screamed, until a fist connected with his face. Inuyasha fell to the ground, and stood up slowly.

"Sesshoumaru?"

"Inuyasha, you´re so weak." Inuyasha was already as down as he could be, so these words did not hurt at all.

"I know, and not only that, I´m dumb, foolish, a disgrace and all the bad things. Why don´t you just dispose of me as you always wanted to? I don´t mind!"

"... Screaming, dying, can´t you see such things will make nothing better!" Seshoumaru had unshealthed tenseiga and swung it over Kagomes body. The wound healed and her eyes fell closed as she breathed easy, asleep.

"Your woman will be fine now..." he turned around and started to go away.

Inuyasha was in shock. Sesshoumaru had saved Kagome!

"Sesshoumaru... why..?"
Sesshoumaru stopped, after a moment of silence he whispered:

"Somehow, I can understand the feelings you felt..." He quickly started to move his feet again to get away from his brother.

Same scene, Sesshoumarus point of view:

Inuyasha was screaming and crying, Sesshoumaru saw this as a way to show weakness, an annoying way to show it. So he decided to shut his little brother up.

He pounched Inuyasha hard in the face so he fell to the ground. It disapointed him to see that Inuyasha didn´t quickly stand up again, but slowly, weakly stood up.

"Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha looked at him in disbelief.

"Inuyasha, you´re so weak."

Sesshoumaru hated to see his brother as depressed as he was, and hoped that insulting him would help to wake up his angered, confident side. However this was a subcouncious act, as he wouldn´t even admit to himself that he cared for inuyasha. Anyway it didn´t help as Inuyasha offered him to kill him.

Sesshoumaru who had looked around, took a good look at Kagome. ´Killed by Naraku´ was a fact that made it´s way trough his mind. Without knowing why, he pictured Kagura laying like that, with a fatal wound though her heart. A familiar pain stabbed his own heart and he felt a small urge to scream; as Inuyasha had done not to far ago. He didn´t, however, because Kagura wasn´t really dead, he had only imagined it. But now he could understand Inuyashas pain from the loss of the young girl, a pain he didn´t want Inuyasha to have; subconciously.

"... Screaming, dying, can´t you see such things will make nothing better!" He revived Kagome to take the pain from inuyasha, but told himself that it was only to make Inuyasha stop acting like a fool. He felt a sudden urge to go away from inuyasha, and followed it. Inuyashas voice stopped him, asking why he had done what he had done.

The image of Kagura lying dead flashed for his sight again and his mouth speaked on its own.

"Somehow, I can understand the feelings you felt..." Even if he had just answered the question, Sesshoumaru did in fact wonder as much as Inuyasha, if not more. Anyway, the urge to go away grew stronger and his feet faster as he made his way away from Inuyasha.

With Kagome healed Inuyasha could calm down. Everyone was still unconcious, and he took this moment of lonelyness to think.

He felt so weak, even if he had gained powers of a full demon he was instead to easy distracted. He had failed to protect Kagome, and had been unable to save her.

Even Sesshoumaru could do more for Kagome then, and he was an enemy. Why had he done it anyway? Inuyasha could not imagine that Sesshoumaru really had understood his feelings. Sesshoumaru was up to something, but he left it be because Kagome had started to wake.

Kagome sat upp and breathed roughly. She put a hand to her chest, - no wound. She sighted. When she saw Inuyasha she threw her arms around him. She hugged him tight and tears started to make their way out of her eyes.

"Inuyasha!.. I thought I died." She trembeled and Inuyasha embraced her. "I must have deamed... but it seemed so real! Felt so real..."

She started to shake even more voilently.

"Its okay now... I... I saved you just before you got damaged, but you fell unconcious, it was all a dream!" He rocked her from side to side slowly. He couldn´t tell her that she actually had died, it would have been to much for her to take. It was best if she thought he had saved her, that way she could calm down and feel safe. Kagome and the others shouldn´t have to worry about him being weak, not now anyway. Right now all of them had to rest.

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Hope you liked it.

Anyway, I have thought about making a flash-series out of this, what do you think about it? I will of course continue to write the fanfic.

Everyone that want to see a flash-series please review. It is much work to make a flash movie, and I will also have to gather voice-actors, so I will need much encouragement from you to even begin with it. So start reviewing already :P