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Inuyasha, and the characters therein, are the property of Rumiko Takahashi. I am in no way affiliated with Takahashi, or VIZ Productions. I make no profit from this or any other fanfiction.

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Warnings: OOC, violence, supernatural content, cause language, nudity and sexual scenes

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Recap: "With great patience," Sesshoumaru replied just as softly "And a sick sense of humour."

A smirk made the younger demon seem feral and Sesshoumaru held one of his own in check, he enjoyed this. Having his brother at his side.

"My lord, might I ask were we are going so late?" Jaken beseeched as Rin clambered onto Ah-Uhs back with a yawn.

"No."

Opps so doesn't cover it

"It's the ears isn't it?" InuYasha asked looking down as his elder brother, who was watching him, perched in his tree as he was. Rin lay a few feet from the lord; practically comatose from exhaustion her little chest rising and falling as she slept. Eyebrows rose minutely, not high enough for humans to notice really though InuYasha did, they were even speaking in what Kagome would call 'whispers' though InuYasha was sure had he been raised with Sesshoumaru they would rarely speak louder.

Not getting a comment he stared back at his brother as Inu watched him with those odd eyes, having never seen himself when his demon blood went all homicidal on him he'd never noticed how weird and down right scary he could look. Sesshoumaru, who sat beside the demon looked soft and almost, but not quiet weak and defenceless, soft. His face was pail, soft looking though his eyes could have been made out of metal and InuYasha knew for a fact that he could hit his brother in the face with a tree and the tree would break before his would.

The markings made him look vaguely feminine; the crimson strips above his eyes, on his eye lids looked more like makeup than a birthmark. The crescent moon on his forehead appeared to be of a different texture to his face and the strips on his cheeks looked as if they were deeper, sunken into his face.

A clawed hand came up, the jagged strips on his wrist flashing as he brushed a nonexistent errant stand from his shoulder. "Look, you can touch them but only touch them is I can touch your markings," he murmured as Shippou looked from him to Sesshoumaru. Lips twitched before falling still before his brother spoke, "Truly InuYasha, do not be a fool," his voice just as soft as InuYasha's as Miroku looked his way, purple eyes distrustful.

"To ask such a thing," his brother said shaking his head slightly, "Such arrogance is unbecoming of you InuYasha," molten gold eyes met solid cold gold and the great demon smirked murmuring "Or is it ignorance? Do you not know what the markings mean to a demon such a myself?"

Glaring InuYasha rolled his eyes before looking back at the blue sky, the puffy white clouds floating by as he watched his ears twitching as a cool breeze whipped past and he sighed.

Gods he wished Sesshoumaru would shove off, though at the moment he was better company than Kagome, who was currently fawning over Yasha, brushing and braiding his long black hair as he sat there.

"See InuYasha," she called and he glanced at her as she cast him a nervus smile, "It's not that hard to take care of your hair," she said as she released the heavy braid.

An odd sound came from Sesshoumaru's direction as he scoffed at the human teen, "Kagome, you yank at my hair like it's not attached last time," he said loud enough for her to heard and at the same time hurt Sesshoumaru's ears.

"Did not!" she shrieked and Yasha turned taking her hands in his, murmuring "Kagome, thank you," which made her blush and look away, completely forgetting her argument with InuYasha. "Stupid human," the Halfling muttered before Yasha looked at him with those large obsidian eyes.

"InuYasha, please," he whispered his eyes begging his counterpart to be nice to Kagome, so that in the end they could keep her.

"InuYasha," Inu rumbled and he looked at the demon who gave him a wicked smirk, his eyes full of an emotion close to relish, "Gut her, sink your claws into her soft underbelly." It said as its clawed hands twitched and its tongue darted out, "Don't drag your self down. You ain't a stray dog she picked up, you're a great warrior, you have fathers blood, don't disgrace your self or your heritage," it said as it cast a hungry look at the blushing teen.

"Guys, quite it!" InuYasha snapped overly loud, getting the rest of the packs attention "I ain't gonna do any of it, so bugger off!" he said.

"InuYasha what are you going on about?" Miroku asked making the golden eyed half-breed look at him, "Nothing, just ignore me," he snapped as he narrowed his eyes.

Rin made a small sound as she sat up and rubbed her eyes, "Lord Sesshoumaru, why are people yelling?" she asked looking at the demon as she pulled her hand away.

"Rin, go play," the demon said and the girl smiled, "Can Jaken play with Rin too?" she asked her voice high with excitement though she still spoke in hushed tones.

"Yes, Jaken," the demon said looking at the bug eyed demon, "Attend to Rin," he said steel in his voice and the imp swallowed.

"Y-yes, my lord," he squeaked loudly making Inu and InuYasha wince before Rin pulled him away calling to Shippou, "Come on! Lets play hide-and-seek!" making the fox kit beam, running after them.

Day quickly turned to night and the camp fire sizzled away as the six males sat watching the flickering light, the demons picking up the sounds of the girls bathing and conversation. Bored InuYasha tossed a stone into the air before looking at his elder brother and asking what had been bugging him all day, "What did you mean?" he asked making all eyes turn up to him.

"What InuYasha?" Miroku asked as cold yellow eyes watched him curiously.

"Just something Sesshoumaru said earlier, well big brother, enlighten me," the Halfling said a challenge in his eyes.

"Ignorant fool," Sesshoumaru sighed, a small puff off air that was no different to his normal intake of air.

"Ones markings, like I suspect your…ears are, very, highly sensitive to any form of contact. They can be a great source of pleasure," the lord said and InuYasha blinked stupidly.

"You mean that if I were to touch them you'd…get off on it?" he asked horror in his eyes.

The demon nodded his hand stroking the fluffy thing that wrapped around his shoulder.

"Like this Sesshoumaru said, they are highly sensitive, which is why most who have markings guard them from unwanted contact as you do your ears," his brother said and said ears pressed back, nearly hidden in his hair.

"What do you know," InuYasha bluffed trying to stop the blush trying to flood his face with little success.

"Enough," the lord said as a small frown creased his brow, his eyes becoming blank as if he were listening to something.

"Bothersome," he sighed his lips tight and InuYasha grunted "What?" he asked and after a moment his brother said, "An unknown…demon has gone into my lands," before looking up at him.'

"Bothersome," the lord repeated and InuYasha nodded, not really getting how that could be bothersome.

"Err, Sesshoumaru," Yasha called from his place by Miroku and the demon looked at him with a bored look.

"How come it's…bothersome?" he asked and InuYasha sighed, sometimes he really hated his human side. When it was scared it tended to show it, when it was curious it asked questions and often made him look or feel really stupid.

"…" Sesshoumaru waited, staring at the human part of his brother until it began to squirm and its face showed its discomfort.

"It could harm my people, it could do much damage and then I would be forced to…remove the irritation, making it bothersome for I would most likely have to chase it down," he said when InuYasha coughed in his throat, a small hint to tell before Yasha did something stupid.

"You're people?" Yasha asked and a small frown marred the demon lords' face, "…yes," he replied as a strong wind whipped past, and the scent of a female demon hit them.

"Kagura," Inu and InuYasha growled at the same time as Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed, his demonic energy swirling around him for a moment, freezing Yasha's insides and causing Inu's head to tilt in a very dog like manor as InuYasha raised eyebrows at his brother.

"What?" he asked as the wench and her feather floated by, the scent of blood carried in the wake of her passing.

"Do not bother chasing after the wind wench," he said "She is of no consequence, nor will she lead us to Naraku," he murmured closing his eyes as he leaned back.

"You're just going to go to sleep?" InuYasha shouted his eyes wide with horror.

"No," he said and then they heard a shriek and a thud, as if someone had fallen a great distance.

Power raised every hair on InuYasha's body as Yasha asked "What's he doing?" as Inu rumbled in something like approval as Miroku shivered and the girls broke into the camp.

"I do not know, my friend, but it is…" Miroku said swallowing, "I do not like it," he muttered as Kagome asked "Why are we waiting? We should be going after Kagura!" her voice shrill.

"Little brother," Sesshoumaru whispered, his voice so soft InuYasha had to strain to hear it, "Tell your wench to shut up."

"Kagome-san" Rin said pulling on the older girls skirt, "Lord Sesshoumaru needs you too be very quiet," she said when dark brown eyes met hers.

"Why?" Kagome asked with a frown.

The little girl shrugged saying "I don't know but every time he does this he needs quiet, if he's to aim correctly, otherwise bad things could happen," her voice soft though still loud enough for the other humans to hear.

"Oh? Like what? He wouldn't get enough beauty sleep?" Kagome asked scathingly before shrieking her hands coming up to her head "oh god! Make it stop!" she screamed a moment later as images of her family danced in her head.

Souta's bloody, mangled corpse.

Her mothers screams and her blank, blind eyes. Blind with death.

Grampa's withered face ripped away by long clawed fingers as he screamed his wrinkled hands falling open, releasing his sutras as he fell to the ground, dead.

Her worst nightmares come true.

Then they were gone, leaving her panting as tears ran free down her pail cheeks, sobbing her families names.

"No," she chocked and a clawed finger touched her chin, tipping her head so that she met cold, hard yellow eyes, "Shh, silence stops slip ups," the lord said and she realised that he had danced those vivid images before her eyes. Her family, five hundred years in the future was safe.

"You bastard," she crocked and his eyes narrowed, and pain flared in her stomach, as if claws were raking into her intensions, a burning feeling flooding her system.

"Bitches are to be seen and not heard," the lord said releasing her chin and she fell screaming in pain seconds before there was none.

Gasping for breath she pulled her top up, baring her waist and her eyes rounded as she saw her stomach, perfectly fine and completely uninjured.

"It was all in my head," she said as Yasha knelt by her, helping her to her feet as she shook all over and pulled her into his arms murmuring soothing words into her hair as she sobbed.

"What the fuck did you just do to her?" InuYasha demanded and those cold gold eyes turned to him, though they seemed softer, lingering on the curve of his cheek and the brown speckles in his eyes.

"He… he was playing with my head!" she sobbed turning accusing eyes at the demon lord, "He…he showed me my family! Their deaths!" she said pulling away from Yasha who watched with widened eyes as she glared at Sesshoumaru.

"He made it feel like I had a poisoned hand in my gut!" she shrieked turning blazing eyes at InuYasha.

"And to think you want to be full demon!" she screamed turning to run off into the forest, Yasha close at her heals as the rest of the group either watched her go or glared at Sesshoumaru.

"Lord Sesshoumaru…you used the Soul Possession on the mortal wench?" Jaken asked trembling and squeaked when Sesshoumaru stood on his walking away.

"Rin," he called "Stay with InuYasha."

"Yes my lord!" she called back and looked up at InuYasha with large dancing eyes.

"That was the Soul Possession?" Naraku murmured watching Kanna's mirror as Kagura panted on the forest fall, tears leaking from her eyes. "Interesting, though I did not know he had that ability," he frowned as the scene changed to the dog lord removing his armour at the hot spring.

"You…my lord Sesshoumaru are an odd creature," he muttered as the lord dropped his haori, which he'd neatly folded into a bolder his hand working on the tie on his pants. Taking in the sight of the nude demon Naraku's eyes travelled to the only blemish on the great demons body.

His left arm.

The raw, scared stump left after one of the first battles he had with his little brother.

"Why have you never used that on me?" InuYasha's voice came and Naraku's eyes widened as the Halfling stepped into view, just as Sesshoumaru enter the hot spring, the bubbling, steaming water covering him to his waist, the globs of his buttocks just showing.

"I have my reasons," the lord said as he scooped up a handful of water and caressed his left arm with the wet, shinny substance.

"Yeah," InuYasha grunted as he curled up on a rock glaring at his elder brother neither noticing that they were being watched "And I wanna know why!" he snapped.

Wanting to know himself Naraku sat back in his throne, of European design it was a large piece of furniture that seemed odd in the oriental styled room.

"…" Golden eyes narrowed as the dog lord submerged himself then appeared and Naraku's breath caught, that demon…wow, slick with water, glistening in the full moon light he was magical and then he turned and Naraku swallowed harshly.

"Damn," he muttered lust burning through his body as a pink flush covered the dog eared boys face.

"You, I wish to fight, I have no need to break your mind," the lord said, "Nor does this Sesshoumaru believe he would enjoy such a thing," the demon shrugged as gold and crimson eyes widened.

He did not wish to break his brother?

This…this was interesting

"Break me?" InuYasha demanded "Don't you think killing or fighting someone breaks them?" he near shouted and his brothers' eyes narrowed.

"InuYasha," he warned and InuYasha shrugged, "Sorry," he muttered looking away, Ever since that dumb demon had joined them, not even a full day ago he'd been more confused and irritated than he'd ever know possible.

"Your…spirit," Sesshoumaru murmured unsure why he was explaining himself to his little brother; the boy had annoyed him all his life though Sesshoumaru had never, ever hated him.

Been irritated with, wanted to crush, wanted to hold, indifferent about, enraged at but he had never ever hated his brother.

Though he had always said he had.

"What about it?" InuYasha snapped embarrassed, he never apologised as a rule. Stupid Sesshoumaru!

"I do not wish to break it," his brother said before silence rained and the demon lord finished his bath.

"How do you do it? The 'soul possession' stuff?" he asked on the walk back and Sesshoumaru blinked his eyes thoughtful.

"…it is a family trait, one of my mothers," he finally said, "We simply reach out, find what the individual fears most and pull it to the forefront. Like a nightmare or we introduce a phantom sensation, such as this Sesshoumaru did to your priestess, creating the illusion of my claws embedded in her midsection, my poison flooding her inferior system," he murmured as they entered the near silent camp.

Miroku, Sango and the kids where fast asleep, Jaken muttering as his leg jerked caught in some dream as Ah-Uh breathed heavily.

Yasha and Kagome huddled together on her sleeping bag, Yasha rocking the still distort teen gently as he cast Sesshoumaru a murderous look and Inu watched the forest wildling a piece of wood with his claws.

"Cool, you try it on that spider asshole?" InuYasha asked as he jumped up into his tree.

"No," Sesshoumaru said, "With the weak minded or those 'open' to the world it takes little concentration to none to do so. Those with something to hide, or a strong mind, those I must be able to concentrate just at the beginning," he said "To enter. You, little brother, I would need to concentrate," he smirked as if it amused him.

"Your priestess on the other hand," he said a nasty gleam in his eyes, "A mere thought is enough, and this Sesshoumaru knows all the fears and or desires the wench has," he said and InuYasha nodded.

"I'll take first post," InuYasha muttered thinking about it and the implications it brought.

"You little brother, need far more rest than this Sesshoumaru requires, I shall watch this night," the lord said and InuYasha rolled his eyes at the low blow to his human blood.

"Whatever," he muttered crossing his arms as he looked up at the sky, a shooting star crossing it in a blaze of light.