Finally, another chapter done. Not that this is a task that must be completed; I do thoroughly enjoy writing. Please review and tell me how you think this is going. Sorry cannot think of much to say (I am not that type of person). You must read and decide for yourself.

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Chapter 4

"Inuyasha," a girl asked, "Do you have any brothers?"

"Yes," he answered, "Why?"

"Well, it would be nice to meet someone like you and be lucky like Kagome."

"My brother is an asshole and, besides, he is already…" they did not let him finish.

"Ah, he is already married," all the girls whined. Inuyasha cringed with annoyance the sound of that chorus made.

"Any other brothers," another girl asked with hope.

"None that I know of, only my older brother and I," Inuyasha responded.

"Ah, he was your older brother," they chorused again, "and is probably the heir."

"What are you talking about," Inuyasha asked dumbfound, but no one heard as they had begun speaking amongst themselves. What is wrong with people of this era, he thought. He searched above their heads for Kagome. Spotting her, surrounded by those friends of hers; he began walking towards her. Before he could reach her though, a young man stepped in front of him, cutting off his path.

"Hello," the man said, "I am Houjo."

"Hello," Inuyasha almost growled, "I'm…"

"Inuyasha…Yes, I know. You're Kagome's boyfriend." Inuyasha's eye twitched, "So you are the one who took her from me."

"She belonged to you," Inuyasha said sarcastically, "I did not think she belonged to anyone."

Houjo ignored the comment, "It seems so odd, she was ill so often; it is amazing that there was time for you to get to know her."

"I've been with her a long time; I've know her for two years already," Inuyasha said confused at what this Houjo-person could be implying.

"Did you attend school near here?"

"No, I had tutors," Inuyasha did not think the truth of that statement could cause any trouble—he was the son of a princess after all.

"Tutors," Houjo asked startled. Could he… "So you have been ill also." Houjo felt sad; maybe that's why Kagome got together with him.

"Ill," Inuyasha, not likely, "I've never been ill a day in my life."

"What? Then how did you meet Kagome?"

"Inuyasha," Kagome said sliding her hand through his arm. Inuyasha turned towards her, his annoyed expression softening as his eyes locked into her face. "There are some people I want you to say 'Hi' to."

For a moment, he looked like he might protest to meeting more people, but soon he went with her anyway. It had been quite nerve-racking that Inuyasha had been talking to Houjo, but Kagome had been finally able to tear herself away from her friends.

Soon after entering the party, Inuyasha and Kagome had been separated from each other. Kagome had been a little worried, but calmed down when nothing too 'distracting' happened. An hour later, Kagome had seen Inuyasha amongst a group of girls—which caused a twinge of jealously—but noticed that he did not seem to be enjoying himself with the showers of ogling he had been receiving. As a matter of fact, he looked trapped.

She had wished she could have saved him, but her friends and their questions had her trapped as well.

"Kagome," Yuka asked, "You told us why you two married in secret but you didn't tell us how you met."

"Yeah, when did you have time to meet him? How long have you've known him," Eri asked.

"Two years," Kagome answered automatically.

"That's right," Ayumi began, "He's that two-timing asshole that kept leading you on."

"No, it wasn't like that," Kagome tried to explain for the hundredth time.

"Oh, yeah, you explained: his family wanted him to be with someone else," Ayumi finished.

"That seems straight out of a soap opera," Yuka sighed.

"But exactly how did you two meet, especially if you've been in and out of hospitals all this time." Eri asked again.

Kagome opened her mouth to answer by did not have one. I never thought of that, she thought, Oh, grandpa, now I won't be able to keep my lies straight. It was okay that she did not answer right away because her friends just kept asking questions.

"You haven't said much about him or his family—other than that they disapproved," Ayumi said.

Luckily, Kagome did not have to answer because the group of girls that have been surrounding Inuyasha surrounded her small group. "Oh, he has an older brother," one girl said. They all looked to Kagome.

"Well, yes, he does; his half-brother."

"What does his brother do," Yuka asked.

"He runs the family business; Inuyasha's brother takes after their father. Inuyasha…" Kagome could thing of anything that could describe what he did except, "provides protection."

The three friends looked at each other knowingly.

A thought finally occurred to Kagome, if the girls were here with her group, where was Inuyasha. She quickly surveyed the room and finally spotted him talking with… "Oh no," Kagome sighed, then with a gusto she did not know she had, she parted the sea of women and made her way to the two men. Making it to him, she was able to get him clear of Houjo.

Her three friends had followed her, wanting to ask her more pointed question. Unfortunately, they had just missed her as she rushed Inuyasha away. "Damn, I wanted to know where they met," Ayumi seethed.

"Maybe they met at a special school," Yuka said.

"Nope, he didn't attend school," Houjo said, "He had tutors."

"Tutors…" the girls gasped, "Just who is he."

Kagome had brought Inuyasha outside, away from the stifling room. She heard him sigh and smiled knowingly. He was exasperated with all the people and all the attention. She asked, "Do you regret coming?"

"Tired of the people, tired of all the questions, but regret, no, I do not regret giving you this," Inuyasha responded, "You've had fun, Kagome?"

"I've had some fun, but the most fun I've had this night is my time with you, right now." Inuyasha bent his head down to her and closed his lips over hers.

It was then that they heard a scream. Breaking their kiss, they turned their heads towards the noise, it came from inside. They quickly ran inside and were confronted with an awesome sight. "Who the hell are you," Inuyasha asked.

The person who was standing in the center of the room turned toward the couple that just entered. He stood up as he sneered at the pair. "There you are," he said as he looked to Kagome.

Inuyasha moved in front of her, "I asked, who are you?"

"Your power is what attracted me to you."

"Bastard," Inuyasha growled. A demon.

"He made me specifically to destroy you and in destroying you, he will be destroyed." He had looked pointedly to Inuyasha.

"Kagome," Ayumi asked, "What's going on?"

"I don't know," she replied.

"Get back, Kagome."

"Right," Kagome retreated pulling her friends with her.

Reacting to her retreating figure, the unknown demon took out two katanas. Inuyasha dropped to a fighting stance. Damn, Inuyasha thought, Tetsusaiga is at Kagome's home. The demon attacked, Inuyasha dodged the double threat.

Finally figuring that this was a dangerous situation, people began running out of the room and tried to get as far as they could from the confrontation.

Inuyasha had told Souta he would teach him how to use a sword. A real sword. Was it any wonder that after dinner he could not resist sneaking into Kagome's room?

He knew it had not been taken. Kagome had been adamant, arguing with Inuyasha that he not take the sword. A party was no place to carry a katana, especially one that could not be easily hidden.

When he was safely in the room he scanned the interior and found what he sought near her bed, leaning against the wall under the windowsill.

A cool breeze wafted into the room. Souta smiled as he carefully treaded into the room further. After a few steps, a hand appeared on the sill. Souta stopped as he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Soon a face appeared over the sill—or what he could be defined as a face; it was covered by a mask with only violet eyes visible.

"Who," Souta begin, but the face and hand were gone before he could finish. Once gone, Souta thought that maybe he had imagined it. Then he remembered why he was there and began walking to the window to get… "The sword," he said when he noticed it was gone.

The fight had moved outside of the home which the party had been being held at. Before the two fighting figures had come crashing out, Kagome had been able to drag her friends and Houjo outside. As soon as Kagome had taken her friends a safe distance, Kagome had snuck away from her friends and rushed back towards the home where that party had been held. Before she could re-enter the home, Inuyasha came out to her. "Inuyasha," Kagome yelled to her demon mate.

"Stay back, Kagome," he said through a veil of his white hair. He was hurting a little, she could tell; he didn't have the protection of the Fire Rat hair kimono. Kagome had convinced him that he would not be needed it, the same as his katana, as Naraku was not in this world. I was wrong. "What is going on; how did he get here," Kagome asked.

"I don't know," Inuyasha answered honestly but got distracted by her questions. It was then that the demon got a good shot and Inuyasha got thrown almost to their feet.

"Inuyasha," Kagome ran to Inuyasha.

"Damn it, Kagome, I told you to get out of here," Inuyasha coughed.

"Inuyasha, are you okay," she ignored his earlier comment.

"Kagome, got out of here," Inuyasha growled this time.

"No," Kagome retaliated, "So stop trying to get me to go. We made a promise to each other. I will not leave you." At that time, the demon chose to attack. The blast hit the couple, scattering dust in every direction.

"Ku ku ku," the demon with the swords laughed, "I have destroyed them. I don't understand how Naraku could have thought they were hard to destroy." As the dust began to clear, something seemed to shimmer around them seemed then seemed to disappear. The demon was a little surprised, but smirked when his fun would be prolonged. Even more surprising, but not so enjoyable, was when something fell from above right in front of the couple. It was a sword—a dingy looking sword at that.

"Tetsusaiga," he heard the white haired guy say—after a blow that had sent shrapnel everywhere after the first blow, this 'man' had appeared. After a few moments from when the sword appeared, something else fell from above.

"A bow and arrows," Kagome yelled. Inuyasha rant to the weapons, dodging a swipe of the demon and drew Tetsusaiga.

"What," the demon gasped. When the white haired guy gripped the katana and unsheathed it, it grew larger and in the style of a scimitar.

"Now," Inuyasha said, "I will destroy you." He turned to Kagome and tossed the bow and arrows, "Kagome, your arrows."

"Right," Kagome had caught the bow and arrows when they came down. The demon now noticed that the white haired guy had kept him distracted. Soon, though, Kagome begin shooting her arrows. Each one hit the mark.

"Ku ku ku, you silly girl," the demon snarled, "you have missed. None of your petty shots hit me."

Kagome stepped back as he advanced. When he would have taken the second step a wall of light rushed up in front of him.

"Now," Inuyasha began, "you die." The demon turned quickly, but the last image he saw of his opponent was the red demon eyes, which was followed by a wall of energy that tore through his body.

The wall of light dissipated and Kagome ran to Inuyasha, hugging him tightly. "Wait here," he said as he let go of her quickly. It was not that he did not want to hold her, it was that he felt a presence; it was strong; she had felt it also. He jumped up to the roof of the building next door, landing lightly on his legs. His hand on the hilt of his Tetsusaiga, he stared into the shadows. "Show yourself," he growled. A little to his left he caught the movement of two figures as they tried to sneak off. Jumping, he landed in front of them, cutting off their escape route.

Their faces still in shadow, he was at least able to discern a few things. There were only two, one with long black hair and a streak of white; the other was the opposite with white hair and a black lock. They both wore red kimonos, worn in a battle style—similar to his kimono—however, they had additional armor, a breastplate and leg shield. The white haired individual wore a pelt, similar to what Sesshoumaru would wear. The blacked hair individual had silk weaved around its figured—it fluttered in the wind. They both wore katanas at their side.

"I will not ask you again," Inuyasha growled as he drew the Tetsusaiga, "Who are you?"

"We are no one you should worry about," said the white haired demon, it was male.

"We were only trying to help," the other said—it was female.

Suddenly, before he could ask more questions, the wind picked up. Inuyasha had to shut and shield his eyes, least be blinded by the dust that kicked up. "Go now," he heard a new female voice tell the others. It continued, directing the words to him, "They will not interfere again." Then it was gone.

Inuyasha looked around for a while but could no longer sense them. There was, however, a lingering scent left by the third individual that was somehow familiar. Inuyasha turned and returned to Kagome.

"That was unintelligent," the individual whose scent Inuyasha thought had seemed to have been familiar said, "You know you should not interfere. This is not your battle."

"Oh, do stop being a wet blanket, sister," the male said.

The second female was also offended, "Geez, sister, we're not idiots."

"Seems as you are," the sister whom seemed to be the older of them, "If father finds that you interfered in human matters…"

"Oh, do be quiet. That was not a mortal issue, that was a demon fight," the brother said.

"Beside, we were told…" the younger sister had begun but didn't finish as her brother shushed her.

"Told…" the older sister said. She swung in front of her two siblings. She was dressed in an orange kimono. Around her waist, a blue obi held it closed. Her hair was tied up in a simple ponytail and the length draped down her back, stopping at her lower back. In her hair there was a feather. "Most assuredly you were not told neither by father nor mother."

"No, not by them," the younger sister said as her brother tried to sign to her to be quiet. "Oh, do stop that, brother, we have been caught. We might as well own up to it."

"Women," he said and then promptly was hit on the head with a fan and a sword hilt. "Ow!"

"Serves you right, you big goof," the older sister said, "Now who told you to interfere."

"We were not told exactly," the younger sister began.

"We were, more or less, guided to the decision to what needed to be done," the brother said.

"Well, who guided you to you decision," the older sister's patience was waning thin, which was an amazing feat usually, except when it came to her siblings.

"Uncle," both younger siblings mumbled.

"Un…" the older sister began, "Oh, father will definitely not like this." She turned and flew away on a feather. The other two looked at each other mournfully and followed.

When Inuyasha had left Kagome to follow the possible threat, Kagome was left holding the bag—a bag of questions. Her friends, when they noticed that she had not continued to follow, turned back to look for her. They found her standing near the home where the party had been held looking at the roof particularly.

"Who was that guy that attacked," Yuka asked. The guy was no where in sight any longer.

"Where is Inuyasha," Eri asked, "Did he abandon you?"

"Why did you come back," Ayumi asked, "Where you looking for Inuyasha?"

"What happened to the guy that attacked," Houjo asked.

Kagome turned wide-eyed and open mouthed towards them; she had forgotten about them. As she stared at them dumbfounded, her friends converged. "Stop," Kagome raised her voice. They all stopped mid-questioning. "Now, one at a time."

Before she could answer any, however, her friends stared wide-eyed behind her. She turned quickly, thinking another demon was going to attack, but only saw her mate. She squealed with delight and ran into his arms. A few moments later, settling his violet eyes to the others, Inuyasha asked, "What's wrong with them?"

"Where were you," Ayumi asked tentatively, "Why didn't you run with the rest of us?"

"What did you do to that guy," Eri asked, "Why are you clothes so torn?"

"Why are you carrying that sword," Yuka asked, "Did you hurt him?"

"Do you know who it was that attacked Kagome," Houjo asked.

"He he he." How to explain this?