No I do not own Inuyasha, you know that already.
Inuyasha and his group were walking through the forest trying to get to Mushin's when all of a sudden Sesshomaru showed up.
"Why are you here?" blurted out Inuyasha suddenly. Wouldn't we all like to know that?
"Not that it is any of your business, little brother," said Sesshomaru coldly, "but I happened to be passing through this route and I would never allow myself to walk on earth which your feet have soiled." Sesshomaru looked on his brother with disgust, challenging him to reply with his cold, impassive glare. He expected Inuyasha to shout. He expected Inuyasha to swear. He expected Inuyasha to rip out his blade and try to take off his head but strangely his brother remained motionless. Sesshomaru fought back the urge to blink as he stared at Inuyasha's odd stature. Not only were his hands not moving to take his sword but he stood there solemnly with his head stooped and his ears pressed flat against his head, hair cascading down to shroud his face like a curtain. Surely the half-demon was not submitting to his lowly station now, as he, Sesshomaru, felt a filthy blood should?
An eerie half-minute passed and the great youkai lord waited. Then, suddenly, a faint scent of salt met his nose. Slowly, mysteriously, the half-demon before him raised his head and his messy mop of hair fell away to reveal two gleaming streams of tears coursing down the sides of his cheeks. Startlingly, the hanyou before him burst out into a violent, choking sob. Inuyasha clenched his fists and shouted.
"Of course you'd say that!" the emotionally disrupted hanyou shouted. "You always say that! You don't like me, but I wish… I just wish was once you treated me with some respect like I was your brother instead of some lowly creature like you think I am. That's all I wanted to be. I wanted to have an older brother! I wanted to have someone to look up to, someone to love me! But you hate me and I wish I were a human, or a girl, and then you wouldn't have to be so unkind to me. I wish I was a girl!"
Sesshomaru stared at the bawling youkai before him and Shippo took the opportune time to leap up on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"You know, when you bawl like that you kinda look like one," he said.
"Shut up," said Inuyasha returning a bit to his old self by sending thee kit flying after adding a lump to his head. Kagome scooted up to her hanyou.
"There, there Inuyasha," she cooed up to him. "Don't say such silly things. I love you and you know I think you are very manly. SOooo manly," she said looking up at him batting her eyes. Sesshomaru looked at her with only one thought on his mind: the madness is spreading.
With a wide grin, Miroku sidled over to the front of the group and wrapped an arm around Inuyasha's shoulder. "There there now!" said the monk jovially the grin still wider on his face. Sesshomaru wondered if they had all been drinking too much sake but he didn't smell any on the air.
"I, Miroku will be your brother Inuyasha!" He tapped his heart in promise and gleamed.
"You sure about that Miroku?" said Inuyasha breaking gout into a goofy grin and pulling Kagome tight flush against him so that she squeaked.
"Sure thing, bro!" said Miroku. "I've always looked up to you and you're my best friend. You know we'd pretty much die to get each other out of trouble (with law or women or angry demons) so we'd make great family!"
"But you ain't never got me out of women trouble yet," put in Inuyasha.
"Well, yeah, I guess we both do get ourselves into too much of that to serve as counsels. But cheer up Inuyasha! We're co-conspirators in crime."
"Keh. I ain't had nothing to do with stealing clothes at the bath," said Inuyasha mirthlessly. "That was all you."
"Hey, what was that!" said Sango overhearing. Wrathfully, she lifted her hirikatose so that it was poised to strike. "Nothing my dear Sango," said Miroku nervously. "Inuyasha was just mumbling about how happy he would be to call us all one big one happy family." Sango dropped her weapon and squealed giddishly.
"Does that mean I get to be an aunt?" said Sango happily.
"Aunt," said Inuyasha dumbly. "Well no we ain't done nothin' like that yet."
"No, I mean Shippo," said Sango catching up the short carrot-top by the tail. "I mean you and Kagome adopted him after all. That makes me and Miroku aunt and uncle. Um, I didn't mean to say that," said Sango. She began to blush furiously while Miroku slid over to her side, a look of great contentment on his face.
"Ah, I knew you'd see it my way eventually," said Miroku stroking her you-know-where impulsively. Sango squealed and decided to use her hirikatose after all.
"Letcher!" she screamed furiously.
Yes, Sesshomaru decided that they were all crazy after all and rather than catch their disease he decided to begin walking away, far, far away in the other direction. But he had to get through yet. So in a half-second after the thought he sent an acid whip through several of the trees by the chattering, arguing, and overly ludicrous group.
"Move," said Sesshomaru icily. Everyone there became very tense and glared at him.
"What a jerk," said Sango loudly. "And not only do you treat your brother badly but you look like you wear make-up too."
"And you have glue stuck up your nose," chimed in Shippo.
"And you got kicked out of bed by the woman you could not have," said Miroku.
"Good one Miroku," said Inuyasha snickering. "Not to mention he wears his tail up so tight it might as well be up his (warning censored content for modesty and young children sneaking glances at this story cause I know that you do. Emily cut that out!).
There was only one possible outcome for these comments. Sesshomaru didn't waste time with words but rather lashed out his whip again, this time to kill. Inuyasha yanked out his sword and blocked it. As it landed with a mighty crack on the blade face, everyone else ran helter-skelter behind him.
"You know," said Miroku quietly as he hunched down behind a boulder with the others. "This spell could make life more difficult." Everyone nodded.
Within a few minutes, the entire ground became scarred and littered from rubble. Things became more dangerous as Sesshomaru decided to stop playing around. Though the hanyou was improving, he still made the mistake of throwing an overbalanced blow which threw him forward at a momentum he couldn't control. Sesshomaru took advantage of this strike to block Inuyasha long enough to maneuver himself around to take a punch at Inuyasha. Surprisingly, Inuyasha managed to pull himself back just in time to avoid the full-force of his blow and he stood on his feet shakily, leant against his sword.
The two brothers glared at each other, gauging each other's weariness. Inuyasha's looked remotely tired and panted in an untrained but seasoned way while Sesshomaru drew in cold, calculated breaths to disguise any sign of wear. Predictably, Inuyasha raised his sword again first, giving Sesshomaru an added moment of recovery.
Sesshomoru used his fresh breath of air to slap the Tetsuiaga out of Inuyasha's wrist before he could react and the two went at each other with their claws instead.
Sesshomaru evaded Inuyasha's swipes and leapt away.
"What's the matter Inuyasha?" he said by way of mockery. "Why don't you take up your sword? You wouldn't want to endanger your friends by transforming now would you?"
"No I wouldn't," said a deep, guttural voice suddenly bursting from his lungs. It had a feral quality about such as no one had never heard before. "But I would want to kill you. You have made yourself my enemy Sesshomaru," said Inuyasha with his eyes now glazed over red and jagged purple lines zagging down his cheeks. "For that reason, I have to kill you, youkai lord or no. It is regrettable, because you have not inherited the weaknesses I did being bound to a human soul."
Sesshomaru stopped his tracks for a moment and narrowed his eyes. "Who are you?" he demanded. Kagome wondered the same thing. The demon before them smiled and cracked his fist.
"Someone who has wanted to speak for a long time," he said chillingly. "And its time you listened."
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Sesshomaru stopped his tracks for a moment and narrowed his eyes. "Who are you?" he demanded. Kagome wondered the same thing. The demon before them smiled and cracked his fist.
"Someone who has wanted to speak for a long time," he said chillingly. "And its time you listened."
Sesshomaru surveyed the figure before him. Surely this was not like the demon he had seen before at other times, the mindless bloodthirsty being. In truth, his nose told him that this strange new being before him was calming down yet still remained alert and very much on guard.
"I asked who you were," said Sesshomaru plainly. "If you won't answer then you are going to die."
"Hah," said the demon icily. "You were going to kill me anyway, so what is the difference? But why don't you calm down and listen to my story." Sesshomaru stared at him.
"Very well," he said sheathing his Tokejeun.
"Very good then brother. Why don't you sit down, or stand up, whichever you prefer."
Kagome tensed. Whomever this was it was clearly not Inuyasha as she knew him. Sesshomaru remained emotionless.
"You see," said the demon before them clothed in robe of the fire-rat. "That spell we encountered recently has affected all of us. All three us. My demon, my human, and my hanyou. We are all connected to each other. So much so that it was never like I was living on my own, I could not speak. But now this spell has made it possible to voice my own feelings. No, it demands it."
Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes. "What do you want?" he said.
"Nothing, brother," said Inuyasha. "I only wanted to say how much I regret fighting you. You drive me to it but truthfully this half of me despises my human nature. I am separate. I am demon. I am deeply ashamed of what I am and I only wish I could be a full-blood like you. But that is not what I was fated to be. The most important thing I have to say is this. Do not fight me. You must live, to carry on our father's line since it something which I am unable to do."
The ground beneath the two brothers remained empty, and silent. Yet, the air began to fill with what felt like a crackling energy of understanding and almost like… forgiveness? No, it was rather more like a waning in anger from off of Sesshomaru's pool of youkai energy. No longer did it lash so wildly against Inuyasha's own sea of kaze.
"This is unexpected," muttered Miroku.
"Shh, be quiet!" said Kagome hissing. She looked intensely at the figure before her and stepped forward.
"Inuyasha?" she asked certainly. The demon smiled at her.
"Yes that is my name," he said happily. "I am proud of it. My father gave it to me."
"Do you remember me?" asked Kagome pointing a finger to herself.
"Of course," said the demon. "My human side was always nagging at me to love you and at first I must admit I was reluctant. But you should know by now koishii, that I love you. All of me. That means demon included."
"You love me too? " Kagome repeated. "How did you come to that decision?"
The demon smiled. "I am also part of the hanyou. And you are also admirable. You are stronger and braver than any other woman I have met, youkai or human. You are more than enough a match to tame me, no matter how much I strain against your sits. I have actually come to like them in some perverse way as much as I fear them. As much as I fear you. My priestess."
Kagome sucked in her breath. "How can you call that love?" she asked boldly.
The demon turned his back to Sesshomaru and marched up towards her. Gently, he tilted her chin up, forcing her eyes to gaze into his fiery orbs. "I have loved you because you are my mate, or at least you will be. You have always run beside me and I have taken that as a promise."
Tear welled up in Kagome's eyes. "Yes it is a promise," she cried. "I promised you I would always stay by your side." The demon nodded and dropped his hand. He walked away to stand beside Sesshomaru.
"I have said all I needed to say. "Now we can resume the fight if that is what you wish. After all," said the demon smirking again. "It is during battle that I most truly get to live."
"Wait!" shouted Kagome. She tugged the Tetsusiaga up out of the ground and ran after Inuyasha with it. "Take this first, Inuyasha," she said anxiously.
Without hesitation, Inuyasha in his demon form took hold of the Tetsusiaga and his hanyou form began to be seen. Unexpectedly, however, the youkai around Inuyasha whirled up around him instead of dissipating into the sword. It whipped up in violent storm.
"What is happening?" shouted Sango holding on for dear life as a twister ranged through the area, Inuyasha at its center with Kagome clutched to his robes.
Kagome looked up at her nearly-hanyou companion as his eyes flashed between red and then violet. The same violet eyes that he had on his human night. Kagome realized that something was seriously wrong.
"Inuyasha!" she shouted standing up alongside him. She reached out a hand to wards the hilt of Tetsusiaga.
The moment Kagome's fingertips reached the blade the entire region lit of with a burst of light and then everyone was flung up off the ground as it trembled. The storm clouds disappeared and Sesshomaru was revealed as standing while everyone else lay sprawled out in the shifting dust. After a while, Kagome sat up weakly.
"Inuyasha," she muttered crawling over to him. It was then that she noticed his dog ears were gone. Instead of her beloved furry triangles, he has narrow ears like Sesshomaru's. Then she got another shock as looked another meter along the ground. There she saw a second Inuyasha getting up and dusting off his robes, all in his human form.
At this point Kagome used her famous catch-phrase. "What is going on?"!