well this is chapter four and i am truly sorry it took so long for me to update ia pologize

The story

As sesshomaru landed Kagome took off running as fast as she could. As fast as her human body would take her with her hair whipping around on either side of her. She was jumping over broken branches and trees and whatever else might possibly lay at the bottom of the forest floor. She was running so fast that it was almost like she was gliding like her feet weren't even touching the ground it would have been impossible for her to trip at this speed. 'How dare he lay with her? How dare he do this too me? I want him dead!'

As even more of her plans formulated in her mind she was still running towards the couple with lightening speed. She was quickly approaching the disgusting yet undeniable site of Kikyou laying on top of Inuyasha. She was running half-conscious half lost in her thoughts. It was more like her mind was guiding her to her destination while her mind frolicked about in a sea of severed Inuyasha limbs. 'Oh I will kill him. He will pay for the pain he has caused me and Miroku! Poor Miroku I was blind and didn't believe him. Will he forgive me?'

With her last thought she found herself standing right in front of Inuyasha. She could feel his enraged stare. His eyes were glaring fiercely at her his golden eyes were now set afire no longer did she see compassion she know saw hatred and had to take a step back away from the hanyou she had never seen such hatred in the eyes of anyone not even when she was staring Sesshomaru down when he attempted to kill her. 'Did he really give me a ride here? I wonder why? My mind is wondering snap out of it Kagome.'

Sesshomaru was about 10 feet behind her feeling that it might be better to give the trio there space. He was going to stay to witness the pain the young miko was about to put his pathetic half-brother go through. Sesshomaru loved to see his brother incur pain. He was an idiot and deserved it but Sesshomaru had realized a long time ago that he only started to wish his brother pain after he had chopped his arm off. Although Sesshomaru had wanted Tetsusaiga since his father had endowed Inuyasha with the great fang but while he coveted the sword he only wished to take it from Inuyasha not to harm him although that would be acceptable to obtain the sword a few bits and pieces of collateral damage was to be allowed if his half-brothers safety was one of those so be it.

He wanted to witness the action taken by the miko very much but he had to keep his disengaged appearance. He could not allow anyone to know the feelings he held for this miko nor could he allow anyone to see his need to see his half-brother feel pain. Sometimes the small affair of watching Kagome "Sit" Inuyasha was all he needed to raise his spirits. Yes, he had witnessed this action before but from a distance. To allow anyone to know this would be the end of their lives because yes he would have to destroy them to make sure his secret did not get leaked out. (So keep it a secret for your own safety)

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Inuyasha at the sight of Kagome shot up forcing the women on top of him to fall to an unsightly lump on the floor. He now stood face to face with the human miko her warm breath reaching his chest and her eyes not showing the tears that were threatening to fall any second. Inuyasha was glaring at the miko not because he was technically angry with her but more he was angry with himself for allowing himself to be caught but taking it out on the fragile human that he knew cared for him.

"Kagome what are you doing here?" As Inuyasha said that silence hit the air like a brick. Did he really ask her what she was doing there when he was the one with Kikyou. Even Sesshomaru was appalled by the hanyou's statement. While Kikyou was rooting her mate on. Kikyou despised Kagome because she knew that her mate had feelings for her and didn't think it right for Inuyasha to care for anyone but her. Forget the fact that he may only see Kagome as a friend or the fact that despite his feelings for Kagome he saw Kikyou it just wasn't right in her eyes.

"What? What am I doing here? How dare you even ask me that? I came looking for you and I find you here with her and you ask me what I'm doing! Inuyasha you have hit an all time low". Her anger was very evident on her face and Inuyasha had gone from slightly miffed at himself to livid with the audacity that Kagome held.

He grabbed her by the neck inching his claws in her neck and forced her back into a tree. She tried to scream but found that no sound or air would come out of his mouth. Maybe it was better that way. Inuyasha wouldn't get the satisfaction of hearing her scream. She would not let him see her in pain. Whether it would be physical or emotional. While he was slowly cutting off her air supply

she stretched her body sideways and reached down for her dagger.

Sesshomaru was now growling audibly. 'How dare he hurt her after all he has done to her.' But he stepped back stopped growling and he did not interfere. He did however grab Kikyou by her kimono when she tried to help Inuyasha with an arrow. He would not interfere but he would not allow anyone else to interfere either. He was watching the miko contentedly, how strong she was and how skilled she was. She was not an ordinary human she was something more he just did not know what yet.

Kagome now had the dagger in her hand due to Inuyasha underestimating his opponent horribly. He did not pay as much attention to Kagome as he needed to. He felt that she was easily defeat able something he was definitely wrong about. As soon as he saw the dagger in her hand, before he had the chance to seize it the dagger was jabbed into his arm. He immediately relaxed his grip on her as she fell to the ground only to jump back up again. As her feet were stationed on the ground she took up an attack stance in case he was ready for more. Kagome knew Inuyasha would not give up that easily he hadn't even unsheathed tetsusaiga which was his main attack.

Inuyasha was in shock he grabbed his arm very suddenly. "Wench" he managed to say that threw gritted teeth. How dare she attack him? With his arm in his grasp he saw that the miko was up and in her attack stance one that Inuyasha himself had taught her not to long ago but that she had failed to master. "Are you really going to attack me using one of my stances? Do you have a death wish?" he quickly and deftly let go of his arm and took up another one of his stances with a holier than thou attitude. What Inuyasha didn't realize was that the miko had grown stronger than he had seen for fear of dashing his little hanyou ego. Inuyasha knew he would have to spar with her seeing as he couldn't back down from a fight and she was obviously willing to have him hurt her. Not really wanting to have to kill her but knowing that would be the way it would have to end for she had openly and aggressively challenged him.

"Stop now wench before I kill you." Inuyasha had venom in his voice while he kept his volume to a close whisper. He had protected her so many times before and this was what it was going to come down to. 'How many times am I going to fight over a woman. No matter who it is I seem to have to fight over a bitch.'

Inuyasha's arm was still bleeding for some reason unbeknown to Inuyasha. For some reason his youki wasn't allowing him to heal. Inuyasha went to attack kagome but felt a sharp stabbing pain and stopped. "My arm is still bleeding. You wench. What did you do to me?"

"..."With a grin Kagome stared at him

Kagome with a single swoop of her arm and a lunge of her dagger had now managed to inflict the same wound on Inuyasha as he had on his brother so many years ago. His right arm was dangling by a measly piece stringy flesh that would not give up. Inuyasha was so angry he could barely see his vision was becoming impaired as he was so livid at the fact that he had allowed her to attack him. He could only think of how weak he was that he could not defeat a mere human miko. ' was my brother right? Am I just pathetically weak?'

Yes poor Inuyasha was losing to a human and Kagome at that how had confessed he devotion to Inuyasha not to long ago. Inuyasha ripped his dangling appendage with rage in his eyes he did this with such ferocity that Kagome actually grimaced. He was angry though his youki for some reason was not taking over his demon blood was not rising his eyes were still a beautiful golden color. It was amazing.

The pain was evident across the hanyou's face but whether he was pained with his arm or the blatant disloyalty he was being shown. Was it disloyalty if he was being untruthful.

"How dare you be disloyal to me?" Inuyasha asked with a hint of curiosity.

"Me?"

"You feel that I deserve this?"

"Yes you idiot?"

"Wench can I not sleep with whoever I feel like? I am not mated to you? And are you not the one that comes back smelling of men?"

"..."

"You have no defense do you?"

"Ugg there is no way we are going through this again. I tell you every time I come back that I haven't done anything or anyone. You are just not willing to listen and you are untrusting. Just because you are off fucking a ho doesn't mean I am one!"

Kikyou once again tried to shoot Kagome wit an arrow and once again she was blocked by Sesshomaru. "I will not allow you to interfere with this duel. It is a fair duel if not tipped in the hanyou's favor. If he does not win then he does not deserve to live."

Kikyou was shocked at hearing the Taiyoukai's words but sat back down obediently. She was not going to oppose Sesshomaru he was right. If Inuyasha could not defeat Kagome he was nothing but a mere weakling.

Inuyasha unsheathed Tetsusaiga because obviously he could not give her a handicap and would have to finish her off like one of the youkai's he fought but, Tetsusaiga did not transform. He didn't have time to wonder at why it didn't transform he would hunt Totosai (please tell me how to spell that) down later. He advanced on her with an untransformed Tetsusaiga he would have to spar with a normal piece of metal instead of the mighty fang.

Kikyou took a sharp breath as her beloved Inuyasha was getting beat by her reincarnation. Once again Kikyou rushed forward to save Inuyasha but once again she was stopped and she sat back down. 'Why is Sesshomaru still here? Probably to see how strong of an opponent his brother had become. Ha he isn't even showing his true skill. Obviously he was going easy on her not wanting to hurt her.'

Sesshomaru hadn't noticed but he had his hand around Kikyou's neck. His hand was showing his emotion however. Every time the swords clashed his grip would tighten. KIkyou was to worried about her air supply to notice but when Sesshomaru noticed he dropped and for the second time today she fell to an unceremonious heap on the floor. Kikyou stared at the Lord in utter shock. She had known for sure that she was going to die for not listening to him tell her not to interfere. Was the taiyoukai going soft? 'Does she know how I feel? Is she that intuitive? Why is she staring at me like that?' He looked down at the miko who was still staring at him and simply asked "Do you have something you would like to discuss, miko?"

Kikyou couldn't do anything but shake her head no. 'why did I not purify him

while his filthy demon hands were on me?'

'You know very well that you could not purify him even if you wished to. You do not hold that much power.' Kikyou's mind answered for her.

The clanging of swords and the insults between the human and the hanyou went on for about an hour neither one wanted to admit defeat. Hell neither one wanted to admit that it was even a tie. Kagome needed to release her anger and Inuyasha was just to proud. Actually the only one that wanted the two to quit was Kikyou she was paranoid Inuyasha would be harmed anymore. Sesshomaru was having a good time watching the miko learning her techniques. She was very skilled. Inuyasha also needed the practice he was starting to rely to heavily on the fang form to Tetsusaiga.

Sesshomaru watched the miko with great interest. He watched her move and skillfully block each one of his half-brother's pathetic attempts to kill her. Not to say that the miko was up against a pathetically weak opponent because although he thought very very little of his hanyou half-brother against a human he was a pretty formidable foe. To himself though, to this Sesshomaru he was simply a nuisance.

The Taiyoukai decided ha had, had enough of seeing the two fight. It was becoming monotonous she'd attack him and he would block. He would attack her and she would block. Not to mention the incessant insults that were starting to grate on Sesshomaru's nerves. He was very impressed with the miko's skill but her mouth was horrid.

Sesshomaru walked over ever so casually in the middle of the two fighters who stopped immediately. They were both shocked at the Lord. Why had he done this?

"What the hell do you have to say Mr. Important!" The hanyou was incredibly indignant.

Sesshomaru had to think quickly. He had not thought about why he was stopping the duel. He had only let his baser side take over. He felt the need to end it so he ended it.

'Shit' He thought to himself.

"I have a proposition to put forth to the miko and I will not allow you to kill her beforehand. Understood" 'Ahh that was good'

"You the Lord of Lord's needs a mere humans help." Inuyasha was laughing at his elder bother and he was treading dangerous lands. He was in no shape to duel with his brother he had one arm he was tired and Tetsusaiga wasn't transforming. Inuyasha stopped laughing.

Sesshomaru glared icily at the stupid mutt

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