Chapter Twenty

Sesshomaru was furious he couldn't sense his brother's presence sooner. His lips curled, this was his chance, a chance to finally kill Inuyasha. He noticed nothing else around him all he saw was red.

Sesshomaru drew his sword and at the same time leapt forward. Inuyasha was just about to dodge and pull his own sword when his brother stiffened up and fell to the ground. He lay there unmoving face down for a while until Inuyasha, who was the only one brave enough, went to his brother's side. He kicked Sesshomaru with his foot a few times, but each time his foot landed the demon did nothing.

Sesshomaru had no idea what was going on. He had his brother at the tip of his sword and then for no reason he was paralyzed. He simply lay there and felt his brother kick him in the side. He thought back to the exact moment when he lunged. Yes there it was, a small aura speeding toward him, it hit him in the back and he went down. But, no, it wasn't an aura but something more powerful, but it was smaller. Sesshomaru wondered what it could be as he felt himself being turned over.

He face to face with a girl, she had brown hair and she was defiantly human. If he could have Sesshomaru would have sneered. He hated humans, a dirty and filthy race. She started speaking and Sesshomaru listened only because he didn't have anything else to do.

"You're going to pay attention, because if you don't then I won't take the spell off of you. I want to know a few things and your going to tell them to me." She did a small flick with a stick in her hand and Sesshomaru felt his mouth moving.

"I don't have to answer to you human."

"Oh yes you do, you see only us three humans here can take that little spell off of you. I mean maybe you could get lucky in a few hundred years and snag some wizard into helping you, but I doubt it. Now what were you saying?" She leaned forward, Sesshomaru felt hatred burn through him, but he stayed silent.

"Good, now how did you wake up?" Harry looked over at Hermione in surprise, why did she want to know something like that? Wouldn't a reason for killing Inuyasha be a little more pressing?

Sesshomaru was quiet for a while; the air around him wasn't filled with spite, but more with concentration and confusion. "I honestly don't know how I ended up where I was. I remember it being very crowed, but I couldn't see a thing. I kept bumping into different objects some of them were moving just like I was and some were stationary and cold. I saw a feeble ray of light and I followed it, trying to push my way through everything else. When I reached the light I awoke to find myself sitting on the grass in a world so…. different." Before anyone could speak, Inuyasha spoke up.

"Yeah I had that too. I don't remember it very well but yeah, it was so filled up that it was impossible to move. I didn't see any light though, I just closed my eyes and awoke outside Kagome's house at the spirit tree."

"I too had a similar experience," Everyone had forgotten Jaken, and the poor demon was sitting up shaking his head recovering from a Stupefying spell delivered by Ron. "I could neither move nor see, but I kept thinking about Master Sesshomaru and before I knew it I was by his side." The demon looked over to see his fallen master and gave a terrified squeak but before he could rush to his side Ron grabbed his robes and held firmly. Jaken glared up at him, "May a curse fall upon you quickly." He said darkly.

Hermione meanwhile was leaning over Sesshomaru's body. "Is this true Jaken just appeared out of nowhere?" This time Sesshomaru took little time to reply.

"He didn't appear he seemed to fall from the sky." He gazed up at her, his face showing no emotion. "I have answered all of your questions, now release me."

"I have one last thing, before I release you, you must promise never to hurt, or kill, any member of this party, human, demon, or whatever Inuyasha is. You must also swear you will stay by our side and help us whenever you can. That goes for Jaken as well." Sesshomaru seeing no loopholes in this agreement, continued to glare at the girl standing above him, she was smart and since he had no better offerings he would have to take the deal.

"Fine."

Inuyasha watched his brother in complete wonder. He had never seen his brother so mad and not be able to do a thing about it. He grinned wickedly Sesshomaru was annoyingly loyal, once he made a deal he would never go back on it, this meant Inuyasha would be able to play any kind of trick on his brother and Sesshomaru wouldn't be able to do anything.

Kagome watched Inuyasha's face as he openly smirked down at his brother. She went to the hanyou and whispered in his ear. "Not planning anything devious are you?" He jumped guiltily, but shook his head. "Good. SIT."

Inuyasha found himself face to face with his brother. Both looked as if they were going to kill the other right on the spot. As they each stood in unison they never took their eyes off of each other.

"Right well this is going to be a pleasant trip." Ron said behind Harry.

A note from your author: OK so I know this chapter isn't the longest of pieces but bear with me, I swear on Blamey-Fomorrii's life that the next chapter will explain everything.