The sensual sound of the music barely reached her ears as she took another sip of her water, her somewhat brother staring at her from across the booth.

The unspoken staring match continued until finally the man spoke, "I don't like him."

Kagome rolled her eyes, "You don't like anyone."

He put down his drink in order to look at Kagome properly, he did after all have a proper glare to give, "That's not true, I like Sango and Ayame."

"A fact that was not true until recently. I'm guessing the opinion changed when they called you," Kagome glanced to her left to see her other brother dancing with some guy that apparently hadn't figured out Jankotsu wasn't a girl yet.

"They encouraged you to put yourself in unnecessary danger, I was being cautious. Inuyasha on the other hand-" but he was cut off.

"Has nothing to do with this argument and you know it."

Bankotsu and Kagome continued their battle of glares across their booth.

After a few minutes of hard core staring Bank finally gave, "He's Widow's son, you are playing with fire."

"I know what I am doing," she countered.

"Do you? Ayame told me the plan," she tried to interrupt but was cut off, "and Sango confirmed it. What even makes you think it will work? That you'll come out unscathed?"

She quickly shut up when she realized she couldn't lie her way out of this. He always was the one person she couldn't pull one over on. She honestly didn't know what to say about him being here. This was the last thing she had expected. Bank and Jank knew her to well to be here with her. "I can take care of myself."

Bank rolled his eyes, "I know my baby sister, I am well aware of how well you can take care of yourself. You were trained for that…it's your heart I am worried about."

"Widow did not-" but again she was cut off.

"Widow trained you for her own purposes. I owe the woman everything and I would never deny that, but she trained you for more than the protection of her son and you won't get anywhere denying it," he said as he took another shot.

Kagome turned her water with her straw, "It's not like tha-" but she stopped mid sentence. Her eyes snapped open as the situation made itself known to her. A ringing sounded throughout her ears, a ringing she knew very well. Kagome's right hand immediately reached for the ruby earring on her ear. It was their emergency signal. The tone sounded through the jewelry the person wore, warning them of crisis mode. Sango wore hers on her wrist, Ayame wore a ring, and Kagome's device was embedded in her earring.

"Something's wrong, we're going to have to finish this talk later," she said quickly as she downed her water in one gulp.

Bank was immediately by her side, "Fuck no, I'm coming with. We are not done talking about this."

He pulled his left hand up to his mouth and made a whistling sound with his finger, "Jank and I are both coming."

Immediately Jank was by her side, "This better be big cause I was having fun screwing with that gu-"

"Something is wrong at the house. Suit up if you insist on coming," she turned towards both of them, "but this is my mission. Do not screw this up for me."

Ayame furiously typed in the emergency code into her computer. Kagome had to get here right away. After rolling over to the appropriate server she headed back over to her main computer. Here was where she could do the most help, she just hoped Kagome was in the right state of mind to answer.

Inuyasha was sitting with Rin when it happened. Rin, half asleep, was trying to finish her cartoon. It was about some little rabbit and its friend who were trying to find someone Inuyasha could care less about, but he would put up with it for the little girl in his lap.

The doorbell rang. Quietly Inuyasha scooted his niece over to the side so he could see who was at the door at such a late hour. He was kind of hoping it was Maten since he had said if he came up with anything new he would stop by. After silently shutting the door he made his way down the hall. While he doubted he would reach the door before the servants he would still like to be prepared.

After checking the hallway and being assured the guest was in the drawing room, though it was a woman, not a man, he quickly headed in that direction. He had to wonder who would be heading over to his house this late at night. It could not have been Kikyo since the butler did not know her, which narrowed down his options.

He stopped in his tracks when he pushed open the door. A maid was on the floor rolled into a ball, clutching her stomach in pain. The woman standing above her was dressed in a floral half length kimono, her hair up in decorated shop sticks, her lips painted bright red.

"What?" he stuttered.

She turned her gaze towards Inuyasha as a creek sounded through the floorboards. As soon as she saw him a wicked grin adorned her face, "The man of the hour." She looked down towards the maid on the floor, "I was bored and felt that you were taking too long."

"What did you-" he started but could not finish thanks to the gun pointing at his head.

"Hope you don't mind, but I am going to kill you now."

The gun that was four yards away from him fired and he felt blinding pain through his right shoulder as he tried to dodge. It was like the very bone in his shoulder had shattered upon impact, leaving his arm limp in its current state. Without thought he fell to the floor in agony as his hand immediately went to the gushing wound in an attempt to ease the pain.

Briefly he pulled his hand away in order to alleviate some of the pressure as he sat there on the floor. He looked at his callous hand. He couldn't see a patch of skin anywhere since his hand was already coated in the thick liquid running down his arm.

"You are faster than you look, though I guess it is in your blood," came the woman's voice.

Inuyasha managed to look at her one more time as she held the gun once again. He watched as the black contraption was raised to his temple, resting in her deceivingly delicate hand. He was going to die. The thought suddenly struck him in the gut, harder than any bullet the woman could have thrown at him. He was going to die. He was never going to see his bastard brother again, or any of his friends. The bitch would probably kill all of them as well. God, she'd probably kill Rin too.

Kagome's face was suddenly at the forefront of his mind. He'd never see her again. He'd never fight with her again. She'd probably get another job, never to think about him either. She'd end up married with kids to some bastard who would never appreciate her like she should be. Like he could. With that one mental image he felt a sudden burst of anger overwhelm him.

He watched as the woman moved her finger towards the trigger.

He was not going to let this happen. As if on reflexes alone he inched his foot to the side in order to properly hook his ankle around the door. Once given the change he kicked as hard as he could, hoping the brute force would be enough to throw the woman off balance.

Inuyasha watched as the door swung and hit the woman straight on, knocking her off balance enough to give him the proper time to get up. Inuyasha swung forwards and tried to reach for the gun but the woman was faster. She lunged forwards as well, causing the weapon to be pushed under the couch where it would remain useless.

"Fucking creed!" she yelled furiously. She woman pulled one of the metal chopsticks out of her hair. This quickly revealed the long needle like dagger. Inuyasha rolled to the side as the furious woman tried with all her strength to stab him. Even injured his reflexes were still in play. He managed to roll away but had to immediately jump when she threw the other one at his head. Inuyasha watched as the needle like dagger imbedded itself in the wall not a foot in front of his face.

He turned to see the woman's hair falling in front of her face, the black tendrils reaching just above her shoulder blades now that they were released.

Before another weapon could be thrown a large booming noise permeated the house.

The woman looked towards the direction of the sound, "Shit".

Inuyasha took advantage of the situation and immediately turned to run in the direction.

He heard the woman's furious yell but didn't care. He did not even feel the wound in his right shoulder, he did not even feel the shattered bones. He did hear the yell of his older brother though.

Inuyasha threw open the door and immediately turned around to shove a chair underneath the door handle in order to block the entrance. As soon as his makeshift lock was in place the door started to rattle.

"Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha swung around to find his two friends facing him, dirt and rubble dusting their clothes. He looked around briefly to find that he was in one of the ballrooms his father had commissioned for his mother, "Some bitch is out there trying to fucking-"

Another door swung open and the boys were immediately on guard. Fortunately Sesshomaru was the one to come through the door. He had two or three cuts on his face, but his lower right arm was slashed and bloodied. Though Sesshomaru was not who anyone was paying attention to, it was the still sleeping little girl in his arms.

Inuyasha was immediately there, "What happened to you?"

"Some freak attacked us, but I was able to get both of us out," finished Sesshomaru as Kouga took Rin out of his arms. "I wrapped my sweatshirt around her ears to try to block out the noise. This is the last thing I want her waking up to."

Miroku immediately sat his two injured friends down in order to properly look at their wounds.

Inuyasha howled as Miroku tore up his shirt into strips and tied the cloth tightly around his arm. After the pain subsided Inuyasha growled, "So there are two of them?"

Another blasting noise was heard as they all looked towards the door that Sesshomaru came through. Out stepped the same woman Inuyasha had met earlier, but there was someone with her. He was short, maybe five seven, but his hair was white and his eyes were red.

"Seems we will have to hurry Kagura," spoke the albino.

"Shut up brat, this is your fault," spoke the woman now identified as Kagura.

Another boom was heard but this one shook the whole floor. They all covered their eyes and ears as the blast became louder. Inuyasha could feel the fragments off wood and wall attacking his body. When the blast was over he looked up to see a woman in a black leather body suit standing before him as she walked over the rubble.

Her hair was in a high pony tail and her gloves were tipped in a bright hot pink. Aside from that her outfit looked the same as Shadows.

The woman surveyed the situation and looked at the two intruders who by now were in defensive positions, "I have a better idea, why don't the both of you shut up."

The albino spoke first, "Amazon, how nice to see you."

The woman grimaced, "Get out of this house Hakudoshi."

"Now Amazon, we only wanted to play," he snickered.

Kagura spoke next, "Two on one Amazon, bow out before we split you in two."

Amazon crouched in a defensive position as well, "Not on your life."

"He's just a creed, what does he matter to you?" asked Kagura.

It seemed Amazon was done with questions since the next thing anyone knew she had launched a handful of bombs she had grabbed from her pocket at the two assassins. They of course dodged but the blast was big enough to create a large hole in the floor, one which they would not be able to cross easily.

Amazon immediately ran over to the five targets. Without hesitation she grabbed the little girl from Kouga's grip, "There is a sleeping oxidant being released into the air, which is why she hasn't woken up. She was close to the vents so she managed to get a full blast of it. They plan on torching the place when they are done with you four. Virus is working on breaking the code that they have set as a protection measure but in the mean time we need to get you outside."

Miroku grabbed Amazon's arm, "What is going on?"

"Would you really like me to answer that right now? At this very second? It's a rather long explanation," she snipped.

A very familiar weapon flew past them as Amazon dodged to the side. They turned around just in time to see Kagura making her way across the rubble opening thanks to Hakudoshi's throwing strength.

The woman landed in front of them with a slight roll, "Ready to die?"

Amazon took her stance, "What if I just gave you the perv?"

Without warning a crashing noise was heard. Everyone looked just in time to see a black clad figure come tumbling through the now broken stainless steel windows. The woman landed on her feet and Inuyasha felt himself sigh in some sort of relief when Shadow's gaze met his own.

"Now Amazon, you know he's your favorite," snickered Shadow.

Amazon huffed, "That is not even funny."

Hakudoshi pulled out a twelve inch blade from its holder on his hip, "A dual with the great Shadow, this is my lucky day."

Shadow grinned at him, "Not many people consider their first class trip to hell their lucky day, but sure, we'll go with it." No words were spoken after that, jus the quick drawing of her own blade as the two immediately went head to head.

Amazon turned her attention back towards Kagura, "Ready to die?"

"I'm the best Amazon, I am not easily beat," countered Kagura.

Amazon looked back over at Inuyasha, "Yet he managed to get away."

Kagura looked furious at the comment and charged at Amazon full force. Amazon blocked the attack with a surprise blade that came from the forearm of her suit. Kagura attacked again with a dagger that had previously been hidden by the guarder on her dress. Amazon, realizing the situation reached aimlessly behind her where she felt an empty chair. She quickly yanked the object over her head and crashed it on top of Kagura's body.

Kagura immediately met the floor, but the woman was determined. She struggled to get back up but not before Amazon reached forwards and stuffed a handful of dust like powder into her mouth. Amazon immediately jumped back and kicked Kagura towards the previously made hole. Kagura, with the last of her strength, managed to catch herself and land not a foot away from the edge.

"Creed," yelled Kagura as she tried to breath.

"This creed just killed you, you remember that as you face all those people you've massacred on your way down to hell," spat Amazon viciously.

"You're going down with me, by the time you decipher the code we will have had enough poison pumping into this place long enough that everyone in here is dead unless given the antidote," struggled Kagura as she tried to sit up, but Amazon's dust was taking effect. You would be blind not to notice the blood gushing out of the woman's mouth.

Amazon smiled, "Your insane if you think Virus isn't at this very moment breaking your little password, or at very least directing the poison to the outside."

"Fuc-" she tried while reaching out, it seemed in order to have one last swing at Amazon, but she missed. Her arm went limp as she hit the ground, her body went cold.

Amazon immediately turned back towards the targets. Instinctually she picked Rin back up and held the girl to her chest. Amazon pressed her pointer and middle finger against Rin's pulse on her neck as she took in beats per minute.

Sesshomaru was immediately by her side, "Is she going to be alright?"

Amazon continued counting.

Sesshomaru looked around in a frenzy when the woman did not answer, "You said it was a sleeping agent."

Amazon growled as her concentration was lost. She was not a medic by any means. This meant she was going to have to start over, "Of course I told you it was a sleeping agent, I did not need you panicking on me."

Sesshomaru's grip was around her upper arm within seconds, "Is my daughter going to be okay?"

Amazon looked at him, "I'm no doctor but I think her pulse is regular."

He growled, "You think?!"

Amazon immediately turned on him, "You're the doctor in case you did not remember. I know it has been a while since your residency but I think you would know better than me."

"I-" he stopped when he knew he had nothing to say to that. His father had always wanted him to be a doctor, he had always wanted to be one, but he had given it up when his father had died. He did not know why, he just could not get himself to care about helping people when the people he had wanted to save could not be helped.

Inuyasha, after realizing that he was never going to get another chance like this turned towards Amazon, "What is a creed?"

While they could only see part of her face through the mask they could still see the agitation on her face. She appeared ready to throw something.

"The woman Kagura, she called both you and me a creed," he tried again.

"Yeah, she always was a bitch…A creed is someone with at least one parent who is…like us. They aren't normal civilians. It is meant to be derogatory when you call someone that. It is essentially calling them out on how good they will never be since they have a family reputation to live up to," spat Amazon.

A light tapping noise was heard as they turned their attention back towards Shadow and Hakudoshi. Silently they watched as Shadow leaped over the hole and towards her companion. They looked over to see a struggling Hakudoshi trying to stand.

"Virus has taken care of the poison, how is the girl?" she asked while walking over.

"Alive, she's going to need to flush out the poison though," said Amazon while looking at her leader.

"Oh, the whore needs to look after the little girl, always the little girl," tried Hakudoshi for one last fight.

Inuyasha looked over to see the albino had a slash across his throat and deep cuts all throughout his torso. How was this guy standing let alone talking?

"Shut up you crazy sadist!" yelled Amazon in her fury.

"Oh I already know I'm crazy, I've known that for a while. At least I admit it unlike the two of you," he said while coughing up blood.

Shadow picked up Rin and held the girl in her arms while pulling something out of her back pouch, "I cut your throat so I wouldn't have to hear you talk."

He coughed again but it seemed nothing was going to stop him, "Did you miss it? Holding her in your arms? It has been a while hasn't it? Or maybe you were one of those mothers that never held their children?"

All four men immediately looked at Shadow, their gazes filled with disbelief and wonder. Was Shadow…Rin's mother? That was impossible! The woman had died of a drug overdose last year!

"Oh, they don't know? Figures…" he laughed. Quickly he rested against a nearby pile of rocks. "Your little girl was raised by the women who are currently robbing you. After you knocked up that crack whore they paid the woman three million dollars to stay clean while pregnant and then hand the baby over to them, never to be heard of again after that. When the brat was born they raised her for an entire year before they handed her over to the likes of you. Apparently, you weren't responsible enough for a baby at the time."

Amazon had heard enough. She silently picked up one of Kagura's weapons and hurled it across the makeshift gorge, immediately making impact. They watched as Hakudoshi curled over while trying to pull the weapon out from his stomach, but he was too injured to really do anything about it.

He looked at Shadow one more time, "You always did look out for him didn't you? I guess you figured the best way to give him back a family was to bring his brother back from his depression, and you did that through a kid. You saved Sesshomaru and in doing so saved Inuyasha…That bitch of a mentor of yours would be so fucking proud…"

Slowly the man's eyes closed, his breathing stopped and his blood ran dry.

Shadow sunk to her feet and placed the small read pill into Rin's mouth. She titled the little girls head back as Shadow made Rin swallow.

"What are you doing?" asked Inuyasha.

"Saving her life. This will destroy any toxin she has in her body, but she will still need to rest. Probably about three days for the maximum effect. Without this pill and without rest she may have permanent lung damage so don't let her out of bed," Shadow looked up at her partner, "We are going to need to follow their trail before it gets cold."

Amazon stood up and dusted her clothes while watching Shadow hand Rin off to Sesshomaru, "Right, gotta find who hired them. I get it."

Shadow stood up but not before Inuyasha could grab her hand and pull himself up towards her level, "You raised Rin?"

Shadow looked at Inuyasha for a few minutes before answering him, "Yes."

Then she turned around and yanked the chair from the door, effectively unblocking it. Amazon was quickly behind her as they made their way through the partly blasted open door. Before they had entirely walked out of sight Shadow turned around to face Inuyasha properly, "Don't get yourself killed while we're gone. It's no fun stealing from a dead man."

Before anyone could answer the two walked out the door.

Sesshomaru held his daughter closer to his chest, determined to never let her go.

Kagome sat in a black Cadillac truck in the middle of a deserted parking lot. Bank looked at her questioningly, "I take it back," he started, "this will work."

Kagome nodded as she looked absentmindedly out the window.

"But I don't take back the comment about you getting hurt."

Kagome did not say anything to that. There really was not anything she could say after all, she knew he was right.

Sesshomaru had placed Rin in her room hours ago, determined to watch her until his body gave out. Absentmindedly he glanced out the window just in time to see the sun rising. Apparently, it was a new day.

"Sesshomaru, you have to leave her some time," stated Inuyasha as he walked into the very pink room with various drawings posted onto the walls.

"No I don't," argued Sesshomaru.

Inuyasha pulled up a pink boa covered kiddy chair where he was maybe a foot off the ground while sitting on it, "Yeah, you do."

"…They raised her."

Inuyasha looked over at his niece, "I guess so."

"They were right not to give me her right away. I would have been horrible at raising her. I have no patience for children. By the time I had her she slept through the night and was off a bottle. She hardly cried and would sit in my office while I made phone calls, content with the sound of my voice," he began, "if they would have given me before that…I would have sent her away somewhere that she couldn't bother me."

Inuyasha had nothing to say, he could not picture his life without Rin.

"Maybe they should have kept her," said Sesshomaru solemnly.

"What the fuck? You did not just say that Sesshomaru!" yelled Inuyasha as he realized his brothers words.

"I am not an ideal father Inuyasha. I do not pay attention to her like I should and I give her material objects instead of warmth. I am everything I hated about our father," he argued dejectedly.

"No, they trusted you with her for a reason. You heard that guy, she pulled you out of your depression…she gave you your life again. I…I had family again. They fixed our messed up lives by doing what they did," he argued.

Sesshomaru's eye's turned hard, "And what have we done for Rin? Given her a father who is working all the time and an Uncle who did not know how to hug her."

Inuyasha had nothing to say to that but he shook his head anyways, "No, we love her; we just need to show it more often, that's all."

Sesshomaru was about to once again point out his lack of worthiness but a small voice cut him off, "Daddy?"

Sesshomaru was immediately by his daughter's side and holding his daughters hand, "What? I'm here. You need anything?"

Rin just let loose a small cough, "I had a strange dream. You were really sad."

Sesshomaru grabbed his daughter's hand tighter. She must have picked up on the tone of his voice and it entered her dream, "I'm not sad, don't worry."

Rin smiled, "Good, Rin doesn't like it when daddy is sad."

Her eyes closed as she drifted back to sleep with the knowledge that he dream wasn't true.

Inuyasha shook his head, knowing Sesshomaru wasn't going to be leaving anytime soon. He turned to make an exit towards the door but was stopped by his brother's voice, "What are you still doing up?"

He spun on his heels so he could come up with a proper excuse while facing the man who knew him so well, "Couldn't sleep."

Sesshomaru smiled a true smile. That seemed to be happening a lot lately and Sesshomaru made sure to uphold his reputation of utter destruction towards his target when the smile surfaced, "Of course you couldn't, Kagome is not home yet."

Inuyasha knew he was caught but wasn't about to give in that easily, "Kagome? That's right she went out didn't she."

Sesshomaru tipped back in his own pink chair, "You've been pacing in the front lawn waiting for her for the past two hours."

Inuyasha gave up, "Why the hell isn't that wench home yet?"

"Maybe her brother convinced her to stay with him and quit her job here."

Inuyasha immediately let loose a deadly glare, "That's just plain stupid, she's got a great job here."

Sesshomaru nodded his head in agreement, "Her own room, a nice salary and is staying in a house that just had the entire west wing blown up. What overprotective brother wouldn't let her stay here…think of the benefits."

Inuyasha paled as his brother stated all that he feared, "You fucking suck Sesshomaru," Inuyasha growled as he stomped back out the door and into the hallway. But he didn't get far before he heard Sesshomaru's cold voice put in one last word.

"I wonder if that other brother, Jank, managed to find anyone for her last night. Maybe that's why she's late, she's not with her brother's at all."

Inuyasha swore he could have punched his fist through the wall.

It was two hours later that Inuyasha felt some semblance of relaxation, and even that came with a boost of an adrenalin rush. Accord to the police outside, courtesy of Maten, Kagome was back. He nearly ran towards the front door but somehow restrained himself from the act, but not from yanking to door open with all his might. This of course had to be done with his left hand since his right…he looked down at his sling, was currently incapacitated.

The doctors had come and looked at all of them. They of course were only willing to accept their regular doctors since they were no longer sure who was out to kill them, but they had all eventually been treated. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were the worse off.

Sesshomaru's arm was nearly dead from all the nerves and tendons that were destroyed. It would only be with an obscene about of physical therapy that he would regain full movement and strength. Inuyasha had been luckier. While he was shot and had a few nasty bruises on his upper and lower torso he would be okay. There was an estimated recovery time of two months. The bullet had not touched his bone but gone in one side and straight out the other, only meeting muscle throughout its route.

He looked around to see a black Cadillac truck pull up and into his driveway, windows tinted. From the passenger's side the door opened and out stepped Kagome a look of disbelief on her face as she surveyed the damage. The door behind her opened and the now bright blue clad Jankotsu was behind her.

"Now that looks like it is going to need some fixing," whistled the man.

Inuyasha sized Kagome up and down while slightly grumbling to himself. She was in fucking men's clothing. Men's! She was in grey sweats and an oversized black ripped workout shirt. The sleeves were ripped off; revealing the sides of her black bra, and her shirt was tied by a hair tie in the back, accenting her lean waist. While he was disapproving of the whole situation, mainly all the scenarios that she could have acquired those clothes, Jank and Kagome walked up to him.

Jank smiled, "Redecorating?"

Inuyasha tried to hold back his glare. This was the man that had taken Kagome away and tried to hook her up with another man. They were not on good terms. Inuyasha was not about to almost be killed and loose Kagome in the same day.

"Jank, get back in the truck," came a new voice.

Inuyasha looked back towards the truck to see the drivers' door open. Out from the truck came a five foot eleven man in a grey Prada shirt. He wore designer slacks and shoes. His black hair was tied in a long braid that reached past his knees, swaying every which way with his pace.

"But look what they have done to the beautiful house!" yelled Jank.

The man took off his sunglasses and surveyed the damage, "Kagome, you know you don't need to have a job…let alone one where the building is crumbling."

Kagome turned and hit him on the arm, "Shut up would you, I like my job Bank."

The man shook his head, "You know, years ago women listened to their brothers."

"Yeah well years ago they also couldn't vote. By the way, I don't appreciate you paying the bouncer to purposefully beat up people. Along with that right to vote we also learned how to stand up for ourselves," she argued.

The man put his sunglasses back on, "Even with all your bitching it was still worth it."

Kagome threw her hands up in the air in a dramatic manor. She turned towards Jank, "Please make sure he doesn't…stick around."

Jank winked at his little sister, "Don't worry baby, big sister's got you covered."

Kagome kissed Jank on the cheek as she went up on the tips of her toes in order to reach him properly. She turned to Bank and did the same with him. With that done she rushed inside, but not before looking once again at the damage done.

Inuyasha turned towards the two brothers not sure what to say to them. Though it seemed he didn't need to say much, Bankotsu cut any thoughts off, "Hurt her and I'll kill you."

Inuyasha, never one to take a threat, smirked, "What makes you think I'll touch the wench? She's rather annoying."

Bank didn't say much after that, he just looked like he was contemplating something, "She's had a hard enough life, I don't want it to be any harder for her."

Inuyasha raised his hands and rested them behind his head in a mock stretch, "Nothing I can do about that, when the wench gets something in her mind the devil himself couldn't stop her and you know it."

Bank let loose a small smile at the comment. He turned back around and yelled for his brother to follow. The two quickly got in the car and headed out the driveway, leaving nothing but dust in their wake.

Kagome warily looked around the ballroom as she surveyed the damage. She hadn't had time to asses all that was destroyed during the moment but she sure as hell did now. Kagura and Hakudoshi had gone all out; they had seriously wanted the four men dead. Nothing had been left untouched.

"So did you have fun last night?' came a familiar voice.

Kagome turned around to see Inuyasha standing in what was left of one of the doorways. His stance was stiff and his arms were crossed. He looked like he was in one of those 'I want to kill something' moods. She was surprised to see it on Inuyasha's face though; she was so used to seeing it on Bank's. His body language was telling her so much, but at the same time so little. Normally if she was viewing this type of stance she'd chalk it up to a jealous boyfriend, or even an ex, but come on, this was Inuyasha.

"Not as much as you…what happened here?" she tried. She was after all not supposed to know what happened.

"Just a few bomb's here and there. What club did you go to?" he tried.

Kagome's mouth would have dropped at his no so subtle attempt to find out what she had done last night. What was his deal? "Bombs?" she tried in her disbelieving civilian voice, "Like, the ones that go boom?"

"Did your crazy brother get you to dance with anyone?"

"Umm…not really. Were you shot?" she tried again.

Inuyasha looked down at his shoulder as an idea struck him, "Yeah, I need someone to change the bandages too. Looks like you got here just in time."

Kagome couldn't help but give him a glare, "I have this morning off, Sango is covering." The truth was that she was dead on her feet. She had been up all the previous day and all of last night. She honestly just wanted to go to bed.

"Sango is getting over the effects of the…ventilation malfunction we also had last night," he argued.

Kagome tried not to show her annoyance since she knew for a fact that Sango was fine but was undoubtedly playing the part of a sick maid since she was supposed to have been knocked out like everyone else.

He quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her across the mansion and upstairs towards his room. By the time they had made it there he was sitting on the bed and directing her on what to do, "I need you to clean everything off with that antiseptic over there and then reseal everything with the clear liquid bottle. Afterwards you are going to have to re-wrap everything."

Kagome looked at him skeptically as he sat without a care in the world on his bed, "What, you don't have any doctors in the house?"

He smirked, "Look-in at her."

Kagome rolled her eyes and decided to head over in his direction instead of staring at him from across the room. Once she was next to him he motioned towards his sling, "There is a clasp in the back."

Kagome stood her ground as she leaned over his shoulder to properly reach the clasp. What she didn't know was that she was giving Inuyasha the perfect opportunity to get a good whiff of her hair. He didn't smell any smoke, which narrowed the bars down immediately but at the same time he didn't smell any alcohol either. Aside from the musky smell coming from her borrowed clothes she didn't smell like anything other than the magnificent scent that was Kagome. He was more than willing to drink that smell in.

She eventually found the clasp and Inuyasha felt his arm come free. He suppressed a grimace as it fell to his lap. Kagome immediately held his arm when she heard his faint whimper, "I'm so sorry, I didn't even think that you might not be able to hold it up."

"Relax woman, I'm not incompetent," he bantered.

Kagome, realizing he didn't want her to see him in such a weakened state, slowly reached down so she could properly pull his shirt over his head. Inuyasha felt her fingers brush his now naked torso as the shirt rose inch by inch. Her fingers danced over his skin and he swore that if he wasn't in such a weakened state he would already have her under him with how turned on she was making him right now.

He felt her delicate hands slip into his shirt and pull his arm though the appropriate hole, her fingers intertwining with his own as she tried to support his muscular arm. He accidentally let loose as small groan as she wrapped her other arm around his upper back in order to pull the shirt off.

"I'm sorry, did that hurt?" she asked while pulling the shirt over his head.

Inuyasha caught himself just in time, "No, just…refreshing to be out of that thing."

Kagome placed his arm back on his lap as gently as she could and turned around to get the ointment, "The blue bottle?"

"Yeah," he tried to say while at the same time attempting not to stare at her.

She turned around and headed back over to him. She squirted some of the liquid in her hands and rubbed the antiseptic rhythmically between her palms. After warming it up a bit she quickly started on Inuyasha's back. Her hands worked in circles as she tried to rub the ointment in without actually hurting him. She started with the back and then moved onto the front, unknowingly causing more sensations in Inuyasha then he had experienced in a long time.

God Kikyo couldn't even do this to him.

Once she was done she moved over to the clear bottle only to find out that it was a spray. Inuyasha was sorely disappointed when he remembered that she wouldn't have to touch him in order to apply it. She quickly sprayed his back and his front and then applied the fresh set of bandages and gauze.

"So you seem to have a…nice family," he tried, determined to pay attention to something other than the feel of her finger tips running all over his body.

"That's a polite way of putting it. They are rather over protective, but endearing in their own way. Thank you though, for trying to spare my feelings," she answered as she wrapped another layer around him.

Inuyasha remembered the brief conversation he had with the Bankotsu guy before they returned to their car, "Actually, Bankotsu wasn't that bad. He thinks you are just as annoying as I do."

He suddenly felt a blinding pain in his arm as she pulled the bandage a little too tight, "I mean, nothing is more perfect than his little sister."

The pressure was immediately released and he felt himself sigh, "So how was last night?"

He heard her laugh, "Eventful."

He frowned, what type of eventful? Eventful with a guy? Multiple guys?

Kagome realized he wanted her to elaborate when he didn't say anything back, "Oh, we just ran into a few old friends of mine. By friends I mean…horrible people that I normally can at least pretend to stand."

He frowned at the lack of information. He still didn't have his answer. Was she with anyone last night? "How did that turn out?"

"Oh…well they crashed our little get together pretty quickly but I guess we kind of had the last word. They shouldn't bother us anytime soon with how torn up they left the club," she finished as she reached for Inuyasha's shirt.

He quickly steadied her hand, "I'm more comfortable without it," he said but he really meant, I'm thinking of bumping into you randomly just to feel you up against my skin to skin at least one more time.

Kagome nodded her head and reached for his sling, after placing it on properly she sat down next to him on the bed, "I'm mostly just tired, I spent the whole night convincing Bank to let me stay here. He's more stubborn than me if you can believe it."

Inuyasha felt himself smiling at her words. So the brother was good for something aside from intimidation. He kept her busy all night, which meant she did not spend the night in some other man's arms.

"I like your brother," he said spontaneously.

Kagome's eye brow rose, "You like the man who is trying to get me to quit?"

"Yeah, I think I do."

"Your-your insane."

Inuyasha just smirked, to happy about his discovery to really care about anything else. While he was being attacked he had come to a suddenly conclusion, Kagome was his whether she knew it or not.

Firevixen73- I updated! Can you believe it. They should be coming more regularly now that I am only taking two summer courses instead of six spring courses. Thank you for the amazing reviews, they really made me want to write for you guys again.