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.

"Do you want those anchovies?" Tensaiga asked, swallowing the remains of his sixth slice of pizza.

"I will never kiss you again," Tetsaiga said, grimacing.

"So what is it that you're drinking?" Tensaiga inquired.

"Tomato juice."

"With what in it, pray tell?"

"Er, nothing."

"Perhaps little chunks of pineapple, and…is that coffee ice cream?"

"Um…no?"

"I rest my case."

"It's better than anchovies!" Tetsaiga defended his slop- er, drink.

"Says you. At least other people eat anchovies," Tensaiga said, taking his next slice.

"Only sick, sick, sick deranged people. Probably the people who invented board games. I bet that they have anchovies on their pizza!"

"Yes, it's a conspiracy. Only the rich and powerful eat anchovies. It gives them power to stomp on the little, less important ones."

"Then why are you eating them?" Tetsaiga asked, grinning.

"So where do we keep the rat poison?"

"I didn't say anything."

"That's what I thought."

"I'm bored."

"Then make noises while you chew to keep yourself amused," Tensaiga suggested dryly.

"You're so funny."

"I know this."

"How about a food fight?"

"How about not."

"You're no fun," Tetsaiga pouted.

"Someone shoot you now."

"Oh shut up."

"All right, how about I continue the story now?"

"I said I was bored. This doesn't usually suggest that you do something dull."

"So that rat poison…"

"Tell away…"

Chapter 15: And What Comes Around Will Be Kidnapped

"Dead?" It appeared to me as though little brother was a tad nervous. I suppose one couldn't expect more out of a weak half-breed. I'm sure to him the threat of these two pathetic annoyances was alarming.

"Do you really think you could kill me?" I however, held no such fears. Those two were minor inconveniences at best if they thought they could harm me, but if the other half of their proposition was true…then perhaps once silenced things could begin.

However, I had my doubts about the truly annoying one Inuyasha had brought with him. That one would probably just have to be killed.

"Yes," it replied cheekily, confirming my thought. It was irredeemable. There was something about it that made me want to rip it limb from limb-

No. It was not worth the effort of transforming.

"Therapy, long, long hours of private therapy." The puppy muttered under its breath. It seemed to almost be twitching.

In a way I was reminded of Jaken whenever Rin appeared.

"Huh, like a weak fang as yourself could harm me," I said dismissively. The annoying one would learn soon exactly why it had made a mistake trying to go up against me.

If it thought a pathetic show of claws would alarm me, it was sadly mistaken.

"Are you challenging me?" I questioned. As father's former fang, it was possible that it has something resembling intelligence. As Inuyasha's former sword, I felt I could give it one more chance to acknowledge its stupidity.

But I really hoped it wouldn't. I was looking forward to watching it die.

"Inuyasha!" came a sudden, piercing, horribly familiar voice that sent chills down my spine.

Someone had made a mistake.

She was not supposed to be here.

"Inuyasha!" came the shouts of the rest the bothersome group that insisted on pathetically following Inuyasha around.

They were not supposed to be here either.

Someone had made a large mistake.

"I can save myself," my puppy growled. Amusing. It thought it was capable of such a feat.

But what, dear brother, was it that you had to save yourself from? Them? Because if so, I assure you that you will not get that pleasure.

They are here, and I will dispose of them.

First, however-

"Jaken," I hissed.

He was the one who had made the mistake. For his sake, I hope he was already dead; because I would much rather have the pleasure of resurrecting him and killing him again. Simply killing him was too easy.

"Inuyasha!" the wench called out again.

I narrowed my eyes. What were the foolish mortals planning? Breaking into my castle, perhaps taking my Inuyasha from me to further poison his mind?

I would not allow it.

Jaken was going to pay for this, and his punishment would not even pale in comparison to the time that Rin had found that carnivorous plant, poured glue onto him, stuck dead insects all over him, and then fed him to said plant, but instead of letting him being devoured completely pulled him back out and then traded him as food to a starving village for a new kimono.

Or the time she had sold him to the traveling show as a prop and then went and watched as they used him a dummy that they set on fire.

Or the time she had "accidentally" pushed him off a cliff on Mt. Hakurai.

Or even the time she had knitted him a sweater and then forced him to wear it in public.

"Might I suggest moving," Tensaiga said pleasantly.

"Why?" the annoying one inquired. "I think this is a perfectly nice hallway in which-"

There was suddenly a sickening crack.

Those damn humans were going to pay.

"In which to throw large boomerang type weapons into the wall in an attempt to break in," the annoying one finished.

Everything seemed to be a joke with those two. I was certain I was going to have to introduce them to Rin. After all, when I deprived her of her favorite plaything, it was only fair that I presented her with two new ones…

"Inuyasha!" the monk shouted as he jumped into my castle, with the harpy and the rest jumping shortly after.

"Yes, we all know my name now," Inuyasha muttered. I smirked a little to myself. Perhaps I could let him kill one of them; he was growing into such a nice dog after all.

"Inuyasha! You're all right!" the little priestess shrieked, rushing forward and embracing him.

Embracing my Inuyasha.

Mine.

The less annoying one was looking at me.

"Feeling jealous, are we?" it said slyly. Jealous? Of course not. Jealously would mean that I was insecure.

I was not jealous of that girl. She was certainly no competition, just another annoyance to be taken care of.

"Let go of me," Inuyasha growled, pushing her away.

Exactly, my pet. Teach her, teacher the pathetic mortal her place in your life.

A safe distance away if she wished to live a little longer.

"Hey! That's not way to treat Kagome! She was really worried about you!" the small fox demon yipped. I had forgotten about him. The three humans had to die, but him…perhaps he could still be taught to be a demon. He was young still, and if Inuyasha could be bothered to take him in then he might have some potential.

He might be useful later on.

"Shaddup," Inuyasha barked, smacking the little fox over the head.

"Inuyasha, sit!"

That wench! How dare she! How dare she think she had power over my Inuyasha! How dare she harm him! She would be the first to die, I could not allow this to continue.

She was no better than all those humans who had scarred him as a child, had turned him against his demon half. Against me.

"Die," I hissed.

Mortals were so slow, she didn't even realize I had moved until I was behind her, my claws poised, already gleaming poison. Just a second more and she would be gone.

Just one more second was all it would take.

"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha yelled, halting me. "Don't you dare hurt her!"

"She needs to die, Inuyasha," I told him calmly. The girl trembled, but wisely did not move. "Surely you can see that."

"Oh please," he snorted. "Because she's a mortal, right? Get over your better than thou attitude, you're not better than her. Hell, you're less than her. If anyone needs to die, it's you!"

I was well aware that everyone in the room was watching all. They were all waiting to see what I would do next.

No, not waiting. Expecting, they were expecting me to attempt to strike her down against Inuyasha's protests.

I knew I should. Inuyasha could not reach me quickly enough, I could kill her, I knew. But that could be the what set my brother against me forever. He thought he harbored some affection toward her, and though he was wrong, if I went against that now…

Did he really want me dead?

"Sesshomaru, don't you dare touch her," Inuyasha stated clearly. Are you challenging me too, little brother? Will you and your disgraceful annoyance of an ex-sword team up and attempt to take me down?

"Inuyasha, what does this mortal girl mean to you?" I had watched them for some time now, and while I was certain that she was in love with him, I was not sure what Inuyasha thought he felt toward her. And I couldn't correct him if I didn't know what I was trying to fix.

"What kind of question is that?" Inuyasha snarled.

"A simple enough one," I answered steadily. "And one I suggest you answer if you wish this girl to remain unharmed."

"None of your damn business!"

"Anything that concerns you is my business."

A collective gasp filled the room. Mortals were so easily surprised.

"Can you feel the love tonight?" the annoying one sang quietly.

"Sesshomaru, how do you feel about Inuyasha?" the demon slayer had the nerve to ask.

Somewhat surprised that she had the courage to ask that, I lowered my hand. The wench took the opportunity to cower behind Inuyasha.

I debated glaring, but there were so many choices at who I glare at, it was too much effort.

"How about we go somewhere and we all discuss what's been going on since last night calmly, without violence, and without firing questions like that without a little bit of exposition. Like, how about you all go, hey, how've you been? We missed you last night? So what have you been up?" Tensaiga suggested. The annoying one smacked him.

For once I was in agreement with it.

"No, I like how things are going!" it argued. "Come on, let them fight it out. That way, the ones who are still alive then get to argue it out who is allowed to fall in love with who."

"If we let them fight it out, only Sesshomaru and Inuyasha will be alive!" Tensaiga pointed out.

"Exactly, so we'll be back where we started to, and while they continue to do that stupid avoidance thing they were doing, we can do what we are supposed to do!"

Listening to them, a person's brain just kind of shut of.

"I feel my brain cells dying," Inuyasha murmured.

Heh, at least, little brother, we are in total agreement about one thing.

"Wait," the wench said from behind Inuyasha. "What are you two talking about? And who are you two anyway? Some of Sesshomaru's flunkies? Are you the two he had kidnap Inuyasha?"

"Flunkies?" the annoying one asked, a vein pulsing in his forehead.

"Kidnap?" Inuyasha repeated. "Sesshomaru didn't kidnap me!"

Well, I didn't expect to hear him say that.

"And I'll be taking this one for further…studying."

That was it. No one else was allowed to suddenly come into the castle. No more mortal annoyances, and no more demon one's either.

I did not have time to deal with Naraku right now.

"Naraku!" everyone else shouted.

"Since you all seemed to be so wrapped up in your little personal problems, I'm sure you won't mind if I take this."

"Keep him," I said, watching as he disappeared with Tensaiga.

I was going to go find a nice little quiet corner and meditate until I could properly punish myself. It was one thing for him to mask his demon aura from the pathetic weaklings, but that I hadn't noticed him…

"Fuck," Inuyasha said, clearly disgusted with himself too.

"How could we not notice him?" the wench cried.

"Because," the monk tried to reason. "Because…I don't know."

The annoying one began to snicker. I knew he was insane, but to laugh when his counterpart had been stolen…it was even more off balance than I had realized.

"Poor Naraku, doesn't know what he getting himself into," Tetsaiga said through his laughter.

Things were getting a bit too complicated. I longed for a time when one could simply take his brother with the intention of claiming him and not have to deal with foolish mortal friends, crazy ex-swords, and now apparently demons appearing out of no where to kidnap crazy ex-swords.

"What is going on?" the wench exclaimed.

"Good question," I said. At the same time as Inuyasha.

"Oh I see," the demon slayer said.

Somehow I found myself thinking that whatever she thought she saw was not something I wanted her to share with the group.

Somehow I knew that whatever she had to say was going to complicate things even further.

But this paranoid feeling might just be from seeing what seemed to be Jaken's walking corpse appear where the wall used to be.

Author Notes: Thank you so much for all the reviews! I really appreciate them! And now, I hope you all have somehow managed to get through the longest chapter of Nothing Emphasized thus far. I realize it was painful, especially toward the end there at which point it sort of became, "Naraku! What! Where did he come! Now he's gone! What!" but I promise this is actually supposed to be significant…Ah well, I hope it was all right. And now look at it this way, if you're more of a fan of Inuyasha, now you're guaranteed a really long Inuyasha chapter next time…so it's not a complete loss –grins weakly- Least I hope not…So now that you've all read this chapter, now you're all going to review as well, am I right? Of course…we'd hate to crush the author's spirit at this point in time…

InuSessyYaoiGirl: Thanks…you know, I've recently found out there are actually Jaken plushies. It was somewhat shocking, because then I found myself actually wanting one…I hope you liked this chapter of Sesshomaru (I admit, it worried me a little) and like I've already said, the picture I saw that you posted I liked! And, in even better news, Sada (I think that's her name, actually) is dead! Very, very, in a completely melted away sort of way dead! So the world I better again. Hehe…

A word of advice: when starting your band, try to use real people, because otherwise you will end up with animated characters who cost over a million dollars to take on a world tour. And you won't be that good anyway.