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Chapter 24: In the still of the night.

The wind swirled relentlessly around their forms. Eerie shadows cast by the red tinged moon sweep across the silent courtyard, as Kouga and Inuyasha walked cautiously over the slumbering bodies that littered the place.

Whistling nervously, the Ookami prince glances to his sides in rapid succession-his adrenalin pumping at the wrongness of the whole scene. Inuyasha's frown deepened as he strained his limited human hearing to detect any sound.

"Wwhaaat in kami's name happened here?" Shivered Kouga.

"How the f'ck should I know?" Grumbled Inuyasha. "We need to find Sesshoumaru." He continued gravely.

The two made their way further into the interior quarters where Kagome's room was situated. A couple of meters in front of the shoji screen that led to her room, they stumbled upon the sleeping forms of the three Taiyoukais.

"You think they're ...(GULP)... dead?"

SNOREEEEEE.

"Sh't!" Jumped Inuyasha, brandishing the old katana abruptly and swishing it wildly in front of his face. "Does that answer your dumb ass question?"

Kouga laughed hysterically. His voices bouncing off the walls that surrounded them.

"If a single snore was all it took to make you sh't your hakamas hanyou, I should've invited you to the den a long time ago!"

"Ha, ha, ... hardy.. freakin.. ha!"

Inuyasha puts tetsusaiga back in it's sheath.

"Well atleast we've found him... albeit.. snoozing..." Kouga hits Mushira's head. "Yep, definitely knocked out cold... soooo, what do we do now?"

'They all must be under a spell.' Pondered Inuyasha.

"Hey, didn't Kagome read us a manuscript from her time when we hunted Naraku?"

Inuyasha looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"You know, about how the sleeping hime was awoken by the young prince when he kissed her... perhaps..."

"THERE IS NO FUCKIN WAY I'M GONNA BE EXCHANGING SPIT WITH MY BASTARD HALF-BROTHER!"

"Well just a brush of your lips maybe?"

"DUMB SH'T I SAID NO WAY!"

"Will you just try it? Look.. our quarrellings is pointless! Kagome could very well die just coz you're afraid to show some brotherly affection to your older sibling!" Argued Inuyasha.

"I don't see you sucking your sosofu's lips!"

"Idiot! I'll do it for Kagome... besides, if you don't say anything and I don't say anything... no one will know." Pointed out Kouga.

Inuyasha shuddered. "But it's Sesshoumaru..."

"All the more reason why Kagome would praise your valiant efforts to save her Inukuro. It's a great sacrifice on your behalf."

"You better be right about this ya mangy wolf or I swear to kami, I'll use your furry ass as a pinata!"

Inuyasha holds both his palms together in front of his chest, praying fervently for any kami to bestow him a miracle. He narrows his eyes at his target.. his aniki's lips.. he shivers voluntarily as a coldness seep deep into his bones. He swallows away his nervousness as his cheeks blush virginally at what he is about to do.

"Oh for the luv of..." SMACK.

Kouga smacks the back of the hanyou's head propelling him forward. Inuyasha's puckered lips torpedoed headlong onto the Inu Lord's sealed mouth, when...

"Sesshoumaru-sama noooooooo!" (Re-live the matrix sequence-ya all know the slow mo with the flying bullets and stuff)

Jaken's puke green face, with it's sour-expression suddenly appears protectively in front of his masters cold facade.

Inuyasha tries desperately to avert his new target but it proves futile. His high pitched scream dying in his throat as his lips make contact with a slimy, vomit-flavored-jerky-like appendage. Kouga gagged loudly, the bile in his stomach erupting furiously.

"Ack...Hanyou! ...(retch)...Your last incarnation must have been one f'cked up number! No punishment is as sadistic as what just happened!" He turns away again as another wave of nausea hiked up his throat.

Inuyasha spewed curses while wiping the sleeve of his haori angrily on his mouth. Jaken recovers from his ordeal first and stomps toward the retching duo.

"Fools! What nonsense do you both think you were doing? They are all under a spell!" Jaken produces a leather pouch from the folds of his kimono and disperses it in the four winds in a grand manner. It shimmered into luminous sparks before encompassing on the Taiyoukais. They stirred, Kouga feeling his stomach contents settle down peers down at the three.

Sesshoumaru was the first to recover. He looked with unfocused eyes toward his servant.

"What enchantment befell this Sesshoumaru?" He growled out.

"Milord, the Lady Akemi came to my chambers not too long ago in bloodied clothes, she said no words but proceeded to kick your lowly servant out of the window. I landed outside the palace in some bushes near the Tiger gate. When I looked up.. my trained eyes beheld your injured mate in the arms of the Southern Lord, flying away from the palace. Your faithful servant then ran inside the gates to get help, but found in my distress that a sleeping curse had been placed on the castle grounds. So then I, your loyal servant hurried to my chambers to concoct a way to break the curse and hurried to your side but this despicable hanyou...hrmph."

Inuyasha choked shook the measly imp until his pupils rolled to the back of his eyes. Sesshoumaru snarled viciously thrusting his arm out to grab the near unconscious kappa youkai.

"Where did he take her?"

"Milord.. for my life I do not know... my nose is most inferior to yours! But they headed toward the ancestral haka (tomb) of your mothers family."

Mushira stepped forward. "On my honor and my life, I will do all I can to restore her to you safe and well."

Matsu braced both his arms to the Inu Lord's shoulders, "as do I, my friend, we stand together with for regarding this cause."

The Western Taiyoukai's chest heaved and shook, "should this Sesshoumaru find a single hair of hers harmed, I will skin and gut him to no end!" He swore, tenseiga flared to life instantaneously seemingly to agree with it's master's desire to inflict agony on the one that stole his mate.

The others stepped back, noting the raging fire behind the Inu Lord's eyes. For that brief moment they all pitied the fate of the Southern Lord. No body wished to upset Sesshoumaru, much less to anger him. The reckless abandon in which Iesu took Kagome thus bringing upon himself the wrath of the much feared Taiyoukai was worse than calling upon the worst damnation in the seven hells.

Jaken slides the shoji screen that led to Kagome's room. Even in the crisp stale night air, the demon-miko's blood hung heavily. All their eyes trailed along the crimson arc that painted walls and surrounding furniture with a scarlet tint. Inuyasha's heart sank. 'Kagome's hurt bad.' The air remained sickly sweet, as her alluring scent mingled with that of her blood.

A terrible growl rippled in their midst.

"Her blood bids me to do her justice!" Barked Sessshoumaru. "The hunt starts NOW!"