Chapter 7-Brotherly Love
"She was with me." A deep voice said, "Where she belongs."
They both turned to see Sesshoumaru standing before them. InuYasha whipped out the tensuiaga.
"What do you want! I never called a family reunion!" InuYasha said, with the sword pointed at Sesshoumaru.
" Oh dear brother, I get the pleasure of watching you die again." Sesshoumaru said in a flat tone.
" What are you talking about?" InuYasha was angered by his brother's lack of enthusiasm.
" Kagome's return from the future has altered it, but no matter, you will still die."
" Kagome, what's he saying?" InuYasha asked.
" Don't fight him InuYasha! RUN!" Kagome cried, tugging at his sleeve.
" Forget that! Don't worry, he doesn't even have a good sword." InuYasha said in an attempt to anger his brother.
" How little my foolish brother knows." Sesshoumaru declared, as he too took out a tensuiaga.
" Hey where did you get that!" InuYasha yelled in confusion.
"Just run!" Kagome warned.
" If I still have the Tensuiaga it means you will still die!" Sesshoumaru said as he lunged at InuYasha.
InuYasha just missed his attack.
" Get out of here, Kagome!" InuYasha yelled.
"No, I think she should see this. " Sesshoumaru said while taking another lunge at his brother, "She should see you for the failure you are!"
Kagome screamed. InuYasha leapt back and landed on his heals.
"Now this is a fight." He mused and leapt towards Sesshoumaru, who dodged the attack with seconds to spare.
Miroku and Sango came running from the forest.
"Oh no! It's Sesshoumaru." Sango sighed.
" But he's different, somehow. I'm sensing a very similar demon approaching." Miroku said.
"What should we do?" Sango asked calmly.
" Take Kagome! Get her out of here!" InuYasha answered her question as he landed from a backward leap.
"Let us go, Kagome!" Miroku yelled to her.
"NO! I must help InuYasha!" Kagome resisted.
"There is nothing you can do." Sango said, and pulled Kagome away into the woods.
" You are slow. There's no use resisting. I WILL kill you in the end." Sesshoumaru claimed.
"Try it!" InuYasha yelled taking a swing at Sesshoumaru. The blade hit Sesshoumaru's chest, but only left a scar.
" Fool!" Sesshoumaru yelled in anger, and attempted to sever InuYasha's neck, but only was able to swipe his face with the blade tip.
"I will have Kagome again." Sesshoumaru declared.
"Again? Hah, you couldn't get her even if I wasn't around." InuYasha bragged.
"Oh really, did you know that when Kagome and I were making love she..." Sesshoumaru began.
" Shut-up you liar!" InuYasha yelled, and came to a stop.
Sesshoumaru also stopped, and began to attack InuYasha's emotions.
" I've been with her where you've only dreamed. That's all you care about isn't it. You're attracted to her sweet scent, but you've never cared about her as a person, only that hideous priestess Kikyou." Said Sesshoumaru.
" Leave Kikyou out of this!" InuYasha yelled.
" So you do care about her more than Kagome."
" You don't know half of it Sesshoumaru! You are incapable of love!" InuYasha was hurt more than angry, hurt that what his brother was saying may be true.
" Just leave Kagome with me. I will give you a night to bring her here to me. Then I will take her away to where she belongs. Then she will be loved and you can have your pathetic Kikyou." Sesshoumaru said bitterly.
InuYasha was silent. How could he even think of giving up Kagome for Kikyou?! He was angry with himself for even considering it for that short second. But the thought crept back and he remained silent.
" I know you are thinking on it. With me Kagome will be loved, and safe. You only cause her pain." Sesshoumaru added.
"This is the time. I have to choose. It's either Kagome or Kikyou." InuYasha said to himself a loud.
*****
Sango, Miroku, and Kagome hid in the forest to view the events, and be ready incase of an emergency.
" What is he talking about?" Sango asked Kagome.
" I was in some sort of future of this time. I was with Sesshoumaru. He and…and I killed you, but I didn't! It wasn't this me I swear!" Kagome tried to explain to her friends.
"We know you wouldn't Kagome. Now continue with what happened there." Miroku said softly.
"" Sango and InuYasha were dead. I saw you, Miroku, but Sesshoumaru learned of out plans for escape and... Killed you. I was able to run from him and get the jewel. And the Shippo…Wait…Where is Shippo?" Kagome just realized he was missing.
" We don't know. He went to search for you and then…" Sango's voice faded.
" We have not seen him." Miroku finished.
" I came here with the Shippo from that future." Kagome said thoughtfully.
" Well that explains it. When that Shippo came here, the two merged into it, and were sent back to that future." Miroku decided.
"OH NO! So Shippo is in that horrible place! We have to save him!" Kagome yelled. Just then she heard these words…
' Kagome is only good for one thing, and that's finding the jewel. She just seems to work faster if you pretend to care for her.'
Kagome's heart broke into small, painful pieces. So it's true, She thought, I AM going to kill InuYasha.
