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Several days passed in agonizing sluggishness for the two brothers. Sesshoumaru was getting stronger with each passing day but Inuyasha still wasn't allowed anywhere near him because his elder brother was still not strong enough to fight back.
Feh; it's not like I'll kill the bastard. Father's sword makes it so I can't but I'd still like to make him bleed, Inuyasha thought as he glared at the dog demon from a tree. He didn't seem to realize that Sesshoumaru hated this just as much if not more but there was always something going on that kept his mind off his injuries. If Miroku wasn't groping Sango than it was Kagome sitting Inuyasha (his personal favorite) for a reason he did not know of. Little Shippo he was growing to have some respect for (something unusual for him) but it did not surprise him much. The fox demon showed great courage and great promise of becoming a grand leader someday.
He will need proper training, the dog lord thought as he watched his young ward and Shippo play, but for now it will have to wait. Already in his mind he was planning how he could train Shippo without scaring him into a blubbering mess. After all, he is a scary guy. Memories of women and children crying because he was near suddenly resurfaced without his permission and he shut his eyes to force them away. Children. Something he always had trouble with. He couldn't stand the sound of children crying or bear to see them suffer. The little otter was almost more than he could bear. To distract himself from such darker thoughts he watched Sango beat the stuffing out of the monk because his "possessed" hand rubbed her again. He let out a small sound similar to a chuckle but it went unnoticed. Stories of the lecherous monk had reached the Western Province and it was always amusing to listen to the stories of women who were asked to bear his child and some of those women were in fact demons in disguise; some from his own kingdom that played a cruel and private joke on Miroku. Pathetic creatures those. Women who would do such a thing to men, he thought but remembered the women who would adore bearing his children because nothing would give them more power than to bear a child whose father was a lord. Not that I'm interested, he mentally sighed. Kairi (see Bleeding of the Pastto find out who Kairi is) he was still hooked on and even though she was buried under nearly three centuries, she still had such a grip on his heart. It was different though than the grip Kikyo has on Inuyasha's heart. Inuyasha is infatuated with the undead priestess making it impossible for him to move on while his dead love merely makes it difficult to move on but he has. It hurt but I did move on. Kairi I did as I promised. No one could know of his secret though; that terrible secret that could be used against him. Naraku, he knew, would use that secret to absorb him….or at least try to.
Rin squealed her delight in watching Shippo changed forms for her. Jaken shook his head in annoyance because he was once more a babysitter but now had two rambunctious children to look after instead of one. Still, he did as he was ordered to. Lord Sesshoumaru may be injured but that hardly makes him harmless, Jaken mentally sighed as he watched the two children, this will be one long recovery.