Disclaimer: How many of you here watch Inu-Yasha? Please say all of you, 'cause other this will be confusing. Now that we've got that cleared up, how many of you remember those funny credit things? You know, the things that "Give Credit" to the people who actually helped with the creation of Inu-Yasha? And it tell you based off the manga by Rumiko Takahashi (Turns out the YGO creator actually has the same last name)? Believe it or not, I'm not in the credits. Because I didn't create Inu-Yasha, and even more shockingly, don't own it. If I did, Sesshomaru would be in it so much more, because clearly he's the best character… Oh, and I don't own Twister, Trivial Pursuit, or Star Wars…or Operation.

"How much is that doggy in the window? I do hope that doggy's for sale," Tetsaiga hummed.

"Are you trying to use irony?" Tensaiga asked, cracking his knuckles.

"Irony?"

"…I'll take that as a no."

"This is boring," Tetsaiga declared.

"What is boring?"

"This telling the story thing. We need to do something. We need a break," Tetsaiga said decisively.

"I could win more board games," Tensaiga suggested. "That's always fun."

"Come on, we can do better than that! I am the great Tetsaiga! I refuse to reduce my activities to board games and pointless story telling!"

"Hey, look, a phone book!" Tensaiga exclaimed.

"I highly doubt that in an alternate dimension we get phone service-"

"Hello? Yes, I'd like to order a couple pizzas with everything on them. I'm in the alternate universe of utter darkness. Half an hour? Sounds good. Thank you, bye."

"I could be wrong, however."

"How about we watch some television?"

"There is not television-"

A television magically appears.

"There is no cable or satellite-"

"So no one told you life was gonna be this way…"

Static.

A well appears.

"We're all going to die!" Tetsaiga screamed. "Run for you lives!"

Static.

"You're job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A."

"We're all going to die!" Tetsaiga screamed again. "Let me out first!"

"Perhaps no television, then," Tensaiga said dryly.

Television magically disappears.

"This place is haunted!" Tetsaiga shouted.

"Do you see dead people?" Tensaiga asked seriously. Seriously mocking his lover.

"No! Worse!" Tetsaiga sobbed. "I see dust bunnies!"

"Perhaps we'll just spend a little while looking up therapists in the phone book."

Chapter 14: However, Back-story's a Bitch

-Present-

"Shippo," Inuyasha interrupted suddenly. "I was wondering..."

"What?" I asked suspiciously. Did they want me to add full color illustrations now?

Wow, I had gotten bitter.

"What, Inuyasha, do you not want me to tell the next part?" Sesshomaru questioned, smiling softly at his mate.

I suppose the only bright side about agreeing to write down their story, is that I know it has a happy ending. For the most part anyway.

"Of course, but I was thinking-"

"Perhaps Shippo should take this opportunity to run?" Sesshomaru interjected teasingly.

"Ha, ha," Inuyasha said, glaring half-heartedly. "I was thinking that Shippo could tell about what he and the rest of them had been up to while we had been slowly going insane."

"Slowly went insane? We started off insane," Sesshomaru pointed out.

"Not the point! Don't you think that would be a good idea?" Inuyasha said cheerfully.

"Well-"

"See, you should do it Shippo." I had a feeling I was facing and 'or else' situation.

"Um, okay," I agreed feebly.

I knew I should have left while I had the chance.

-Back to the morning the story began-

Inuyasha had disappeared sometime last night. I admit, I was worried. After all, who knew where he could have gotten off to without my supervision? The other were debating whether or not we should stay at the camp and wait to see if he came back.

"This is my fault," Kagome choked out. "If he's in trouble-"

"I'm sure he's fine," Sango said comfortingly. But I didn't miss the look she gave Miroku.

"Let's stay here for a time to see if Inuyasha comes back," Miroku offered. "I'm sure it's only a matter of time. He probably just needs to get hungry enough."

"No!" Kagome shouted. "Inuyasha wouldn't just wander off and not come back! Last night was the new moon, remember? What if he came across some demon and it killed him?"

"Kagome, you must have more faith in him. I'm sure it's like Miroku said and he's just being stubborn," Sango insisted. Kagome always got so hysterical whenever Inuyasha had a hair out of place. It was obvious she loved him, so I don't know why she was so mean to him sometimes. I think I heard her say something to Sango a while ago about it just being she couldn't handle being so worried about Inuyasha all the time, but I don't know why that made her sit him all the time.

"We have to go look for him!" Kagome snapped. "And if you aren't going to help me then I'm going to do it myself."

Kagome was always so dramatic, running off, getting kidnapped. It got rather tiring at times. I could almost understand why Inuyasha would run off.

"Kagome, wait for us!" Miroku called after here. She didn't listen, not that that was surprising.

Miroku turned to me. He was going to give me an important mission, I could tell. I was going to find Inuyasha single-handedly and-

"Shippo, stay here in case Inuyasha comes back."

"H-here?" I stammered. But it was in the middle of the forest, and I was such a little guy. What if a stray demon came along and ate me? I was too young to die! "S-sure."

"You can come if you're scared, Shippo," Sango offered kindly. "Inuyasha probably won't come before we get back, I don't expect that this will take long."

"I'll go with you!" I said, eagerly scrambling up on top of Kirara with Sango and Miroku. "But not because I'm scared, it's just you might need my help."

"Of course," Sango said generously.

Kagome could run a lot faster than you would think. It took us a few minutes to catch up with her, I for one was impressed. You wouldn't expect a puny mortal girl to be so quick.

"Kagome!" Sango yelled. "Stop!"

"I have to find him!" Kagome yelled back.

"Kirara, go down to her," Sango commanded. The faithful cat demon growled in affirmation.

It smelled kind of funny down here. Like...

"Sesshomaru was here!" I said in surprise from on top of Sango's shoulder.

"What? Sesshomaru!" Miroku exclaimed, sounding worried. I gulped nervously. I didn't smell blood anywhere, but his scent and Inuyasha's faint human one definitely led away from here. Who knows what awful things Sesshomaru had done to him?

"Can you tell if he hurt Inuyasha?" Kagome demanded frantically as we stopped next to here. She stared at me, looking kind of wild. She was scary looking to be entirely honest.

"N-not here," I squeaked, hoping that wasn't the wrong answer.

"What do you mean not here?" Miroku asked me, sounding much calmer than Kagome. I cleared my throat, best to be clear when I said this the first time.

"I seems as though Sesshomaru and Inuyasha headed off that way," I said, pointing.

"Together?" Kagome said in disbelief.

"And I don't smell blood anywhere nearby, so I don't think they fought," I said, nodding. See, I knew what I was talking about.

"If they headed that way, then they were going west," Sango said thoughtfully.

"What are you thinking, Sango?" Mirkou prompted her. I had no idea what they were getting at, but it seemed like they thought they knew something.

But then again, they always liked to seem like they knew something. So it was hard to tell with these two.

"Well, isn't Sesshomaru Lord of the Western Lands? I heard about his castle when I was younger, sort of a place even demon slayers should stay away from, and if I remember correctly, it actually isn't that far from here," Sango said.

And suddenly the three of them got very excited, even if they tried not to show it.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Kagome said, jumping on behind Miroku (it was getting very crowded up here. I felt bad for Kirara.). "Let's go!"

"Let's think about this logically for a moment, though," Miroku said, trying to be the voice of reason. He was so pathetic, always trying to so calm and intelligent...except when a pretty woman walked by. He was such an actor. "Why would Inuyasha be at Sesshomaru's castle?"

"Sesshomaru kidnapped him!" Kagome said. "It's the only explanation."

"But what reason would Sesshomaru have for kidnapping his brother? It would serve no purpose," Miroku said, a frown forming on his lips.

I rubbed my nose. The scents, there was something wrong about them, and it wasn't agreeing with my nose.

"Achoo!"

"Bless you," the three said without thinking.

"Stupid scents," I muttered.

"What did you say?" Sango said, suddenly very interested in me.

"Well, it's just that there's something wrong with Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's scents," I explained. It was so difficult with humans and their weak noses. "I don't know what though."

From the look on Sango's face, however, I guessed that she did.

"Kirara, let's go," she said quickly.

And then we were back in the air again. Joy.

"Sango," Kagome called from in back. "What's wrong?"

"I'd rather not say, in case I'm wrong," Sango replied. "But if it is what I think, then we'd better hurry or Inuyasha could be in serious trouble."

-Present-

"And so after we finally reached the borders of the land surrounding your castle and we'd started walking, we came upon the corpse of a green toad, who appeared to have been killed by singing broccoli. I suppose that's about it," I finished lamely.

"All right, your turn, Sesshomaru," Inuyasha said.

I think I bored him.

Ungrateful dog.

"Well, as I was going to say before Inuyasha came up with that brilliant idea..." Sesshomaru began.

Joy. More recording of the seemingly endless soap opera.

I should make them pay me.

Authors Notes: Thank you for all the reviews! And please, keep your tomatoes and rotten fruit! It wasn't that bad…honestly. We can all take a little annoying chapter now and then, and hey, this might be the longest chapter I've written for this story so far. Though I expect that next chapter from Sesshomaru's POV will be even longer, since next week's vacation and I fully intend on doing absolutely nothing all week, which leaves a remarkable amount of free time for writing. And come on, don't tell me you didn't enjoy the little Jaken part at the end…because even if you didn't, I'd like to pretend that it was at least a little funny. But now that you've managed to get through one of the hardest chapters to read, don't you all feel like you've accomplished something? And now, to make me feel the same way, you feel compelled to review. Even if it's simply to scream at what a horrible idea this chapter was. But hey, I needed a break from the brother's. So now next chapter should be good…we hope…

InuSessyYaoiGirl: Glad you liked last chapter…hope you got through this chapter…the one thing that really bother me about 'The Woman Who Loved Sesshomaru' was Inuyasha was in it more than Sesshomaru! And then at the end they didn't give any previews, just in words 'The Woman Who Loved Sesshomaru Part II'…but hey, since she dies, at least we know this ends well.

We try, we fail, and then we blame the person in closest proximity to us.