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Caution: slight bad mouthing ahead. XD

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Chapter 7: The Naked Truth

The apartment was in a terrible mess, the word "pigsty" far from even scratching the truth of what it looked like. Thankfully, the rooms had stopped shaking and the storm had seemed to die out. Myoga was the only living thing that was able to maintain consciousness through the whole experience, his height being a miraculous advantage that kept him from getting hit badly like the girls had been.

The flea had held on to dear life on the closed bathroom door, and once the room stopped moving he let go of it and looked towards his hanyou master, afraid that something was amiss. He had heard their screams and howls of pain, but couldn't see what was happening to them. He desperately pleaded to his gods that everything turned out right, that he hadn't messed up the incantation and ritual, and that his lord's two sons were finally the way they should have been.

But something seemed wrong, something he couldn't put his finger on, and he looked on with high hopes and prayers to the tub where his hanyou lord had been given a bath. Suddenly, in five blinks of an eye, the sky's dark demeanor began to swirl around the building like a hurricane, the clouds and fierce wind encircling the top of the apartment building. The pinkish light that had flooded the streets like a huge wave earlier on was now returning in a flash, with the power of a thousand horses, pulled by the gravity of the Shikon Jewel. The earth shook again, but this time because of the force of this new attack. Light engulfed everything it touched like a sheer blanket, finally resting at the top of the apartment building.

There, it shot in like a hunter on its prey, caused the rooms to toss and turn for a small moment, and then let itself be swallowed up into the Shikon Jewel. Kagome's unconscious body arched its back as it inhaled the power of the Jewel, and once it finished, she shown like an angel that had fallen peacefully asleep, and all was calm.

Outside, everything-- from the streets and the people, the cars and the light poles—everything seemed to magically return to normal as the blinding light touched them, the once cemetery of destruction now spotless, as if nothing had happened. Once it arrived at the top floor at the girl's apartment building the world outside showed not the terrible disaster it had taken part of; people resumed their places on the streets either walking, playing, talking, and those ho had died were alive and well, as if they had never perished. Cars ran normally again, and all was at peace-- until every soul there awoke and was startled, as if they had come from a horrible, shared nightmare. It was like an unexplainable, unheard of dei-jah-vu they had all gone through together, but no one knew why and were left in a daze for a while, ceasing to react around their environment, resulting in new cars crashing into each other and accidents were had again, but this time, because no one could remember being in their positions before. Still, it was nothing compared to what they had gone through before and for their own sakes, the memory of it all was hidden well behind their minds, remanding like a mixture between a sad dream and a reality.

Inside the apartment there were no signs of the catastrophe that had past through there, the environment seeming warm and inviting as always. The meal Rin was preparing continued to cook on its own on the stove, and Rin's body resumed its original position on the couch, when she had been stroking Sesshomaru's fur. Her hand held the brush.

Inside the bathroom, Myoga lifted himself up from the floor, since that last assault had caught him by surprise. But once he opened his eyes, the fact that the place looked perfectly unharmed—aside from the fact that Inuyasha's wetting and soaping the whole place earlier on was still visible, nothing was out of the ordinary.

The Jewel had returned everything to its rightful state before the transformation had begun.

Just then the light of the Jewel sparkled and Myoga had to cover his eyes again, though he managed to see it glowing from its position in Kagome's chest. It was then that Kagome's back arched up again, but this time, she gasped for air as if she had been drowning, and started coughing, rolling over to her side. Her mind was in a little daze, but once she got hold of herself, she realized she was alright and that she was still in their bathroom. But the memory of some of the things that had just happened came back to her in a swift, and she got frightened again for her life. Myoga just stayed and watched. He was still speechless and startled form the whole thing to even come to explain all that had just happened to himself.

The shower was turned on, and Kagome was shivering on the floor while covering her head with her arms. Still afraid of what she could witness once she opened her eyes, she peeked an eye open and looked at the floor under her.

The first thing she noticed was the water running, and that she felt as if she had been plunged in a pool from the water dripping down her face, hair, and clothes. She was soaked! The next thing she noticed was the silence that followed the water running. Grasping for her valor, she quickly stretched out from her previous squatting position and looked around the bathroom, hoping that her place was still in one piece—or at least still standing that she didn't have to fear the building collapsing with her still in it.

Then one very important thing went through her mind: Rin had gone inside the apartment as well! Horrid images of her friend either dead or brutally hurt came racing through her mind and, trying to fight them back, was about to stand up when she heard the water in the half-filled tub splash a little, almost as if moved by some one, or some thing.

Turning her sight back to the tub and still on the floor, her breath caught in her throat when the first thing that she saw was a human-like figure standing up from the tub soaked wet, water running down the tanned, slick body, silverish hair clinging to it in all places.

It almost seemed like time slowed down in that instance, and Kagome could only follow with her eyes what seemed to be the head of that humanly figure, the two pointed, white peeks on it getting her particular attention. The peeks had perked up from their fallen position on the base of what seemed to be like the creature's head, and were now moving slightly as the whole body lifted up from the tub, halting around three feet above Kagome´s eye range and showing a manly face in a slumber-like state.

Kagome fell back in pure shock and maintained in an upright position thanks to her arms, which were the only things about her that were strong enough to withstand this situation. Her mouth dropped open in both shock and fear, and any memory of the room she was in, Rin, or the storm she had just been in vanished completely from her mind.

Her mouth now quivered as she studied the face of the man-like creature, following its hair down its body and discovering his arms, chest and waist, all signs of a human man, and a well-toned one at that. Looking at his hands now, she couldn't help but tense up more from the very sharp nails it had, which looked more like claws. She hoped now more than anything that this creature was friendly, whatever it was.

Her eyes reached now to his lower region, which made her blush like wild; never had she seen a naked man before, and what she saw made her positive that this was a man.

Trying to clear her mind of naughty thoughts, she continued down his legs until she saw them move. Fighting back a scream, she jerked her head upward as fast as lightning and witnessed the man's eyebrows scrunch together, as if disturbed from his sleep, somehow. Kagome crawled back an inch, but that was as far as she got when she froze again as she saw his eye lids draw up slowly.

The man's eyes were now visible, and they stayed in a mesmerizing state until they came to blink again, apparently now more focused at where they were. Kagome's breath caught up in her throat again as she saw that they were shinny, golden eyes, knowing that no human could have such alien eyes. His dark, slit pupils gave them away more than anything.

The young woman's body was now shaking, and she never let astray her sight from the stranger's two deadly yet beautiful orbs for one second. In a way she wanted the stranger's gaze to meet hers, but at the same time she hoped that in some way he couldn't see her there, just in case he was a foe.

But the stranger did seem to notice her nervousness and fear, for his head turned slowly to her and his golden eyes locked with her chocolate ones. Kagome's heart first skipped a beat as they looked at each other, and then began pounding in her chest like mad. What should she feel? Nervousness, fear, or was she enlightened? The man's gaze lingered on her for a while, and the two seemed lost in a dreamy state together.

For all she knew the guy could be hungry and she was her next meal! She tried to cry out to Rin or anyone that could come to her rescue, but she was still speechless. That's when the man's face finally shown a gesture different from bewilderment and shock as he did a double take on Kagome, and his once calm, angelic face turned into an angry one.

The young man pointed an angry claw at her, making strands of his wet hair fall from his arm, some still sticking to it. He yelled. "Hey! You're that bitch! What kind of a bitch do you think you are, scrubbing me like that! I swear, you practically pealed my skin to the bone, you wench!"

The man turned around to look at his back, looking for any damage from the scrubbing he had received and flashed Kagome yet again, this time, with his tight buttocks. Kagome still couldn't move, nor speak, nor blink, and for some strange reason she didn't want to, either. She couldn't.

The man turned around to Kagome again, lifting his fist up this time. "Grr! Your lucky I'm still in one peace, woman!" Now Kagome noticed something else about him: his fangs. This made her eye twitch a little, but the rest of her still remained motionless.

The man then noticed his fist at the end of his arms and held back a yell. Doing another double take he brought his fist up to his face and uncurled his fingers one by one, finally studying his open palm, then the back of his hand, startled and confused.

He did the same with his other hand and this time, was marveled! An excited and happy grin spread from each corner of his mouth and he then continued to study his arms, chest, hair, back, manhood, and legs. Screaming like a mad man he laughed, "I'm back! Yeah! I'm finally back to my normal self again! Yeah! I'm not a dog anymore! Take that, Naraku, hah!" At his last proclaim, he then held his fist up high in the air, a little cocky.

Suddenly blinking from another miraculous discovery, he finished with, "And I can see in color! Damn this is hot!"

Kagome then started to blink, and her breathing slowly returned to a more normal rate. Opening her mouth to speak, she managed to babble a little, since she couldn't get her words out right and didn't even know what to say to this. Still, she got one finger up and pointed to the man in front of her, shaking.

The stranger noticed her movement then and, after taking down his own hand, he blinked. Still a little confused at the situation and at the woman directing her attention to him, he implied, "What?"

Kagome started to babble again, this time actually starting to form words. "You…you…y-you're uh…uh…a…"

The man was now getting frustrated at her. He had no time for nonsense rambling! "What is it, wench! Spill it out already!"

"Y-you…You're a…a…"

"Master Inuyasha! You back! You back!" cut in Myoga, saying it between sobs of joy. Never was he so glad to see him!

"Master, you're finally back to normal!" The flea jumped towards the hanyou and hopped onto his nose, and continued crying, hugging him. "Oh how I've missed you so!" After rubbing his face on his master's nose, he began to suck his blood. At this Inuyasha slapped his nose and took the little flattened guy in his hand.

"Myoga, what are you doing here?" Still too overjoyed at what had just occurred, the flea remained sobbing in his hand, whipping tears off his face. Inuyasha looked on repulsed. "What a baby."

"Y-you…you…"

Inuyasha looked back at Kagome who was still trying to digest everything that was happening, her finger still pointing out at him.

"What, are you going to stay like that all day?" he asked.

Kagome then drifted her sight from his face to his lower body and blushed again, hoping that he could at least notice that he was still nude in front of her and cover himself up; then answer a million questions that were burning in her mind.

"Huh?" Inuyasha followed her gaze and saw what it was she was pointing her finger to. Blushing horribly, he realized that he had been naked all along and quickly covered himself with his hands. Hopefully Myoga had fallen from his grasp and fallen to the water not moments before.

Inuyasha then made a weird, embarrassed and squeaky noise and hid half his body in the water, his chest still out and facing Kagome, who had already let her hand down and now held it near her cheek, still blushing like mad.

After both stared and blinked at each other in a very awkward silence, Kagome finally got it in herself to take a deep breath and scream.

Inuyasha joined her.

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A few moments before that when Rin came to, she found herself still on the couch, legs spread apart where Sesshy lay in between. Realizing that she had survived what seemed like one of nature's wild wonders, she turned her head towards all areas around the room, trying to make sense of everything and see if she had gone out of it okay.

Rin was surprised to see that the kitchen and living room were unharmed now, though she knew they were in terrible conditions not a few moments ago. Now touching her arms, hands, face, head, and buttocks for any cuts, bruises or abnormalities, she sighed in relief to see that she was alright and still whole.

In her relief she plumped back down on the sofa and laid her back upright, her head drawn back as she closed her eyes and took another deep breath. Clearly this had been a miracle.

"Why did you stop brushing?"

Rin's eyes jolted open. Where had that sexy, deep, baritone voice come from? If it was a guy, surely she would have had seen him when she was scanning the room? Now remembering that she had been in the room with Fluffy all this time and had forgotten about him, she instantly sat upright, her arms on her sides, and looked down at where she had last seen her dog.

She was taken aback when the first thing that she saw was what looked like some brother of cousin IT from the Adams Family, but with long, silver hair instead.

She freaked out. Was that supposed to be her dog! What had happened to it! Its fur was longer—almost like hair! And something about him made Rin fear that her dog was seriously hurt, for life. Had he been hurt from all the commotion? She couldn't bare anything happing to her Fluffy!

"Why did you stop brushing me?" the voice came again, this time followed by the creature in front of her moving it's human-like head feature with a slow grace, facing the left side of his face to her. A golden orb with a black slit in the middle stared deeply into Rin's own eyes from the corner of his, while two streaks of soft-colored pink showed on its flesh, coming out from a pointed flesh that perked away from its head.

Rin immediately brought her legs up to her chest and held them still wrapped around her arms, as she scooted even farther into the couch if possible.

Millions of things ran through her mind now, like what the hell was that thing in front of her, how did it get there, how could she get out of there and if the thing by any chance ate humans. (ss pie: uh…heh heh heh… sweatdrop)

She started to tremble slightly, which made the thing in front of her blink. "What is it?" it asked her, again with its voice that sent chills up her spine. Rin gulped. It talked! It had actually talked! In fact, that beautiful voice she had heard had come from it! Somehow, between one unexplainable situation to the next, her mind told her that she was attracted to that voice, and that she found it to be quite sexy, even if her life could be on the line here. But the thing looked too beautiful to have such a cold voice to it. At the same time she was a little frightened at the still mysterious creature in front of her, not knowing what it wanted and if she was going to make it out alive, just barely surviving from the previous shake.

The 'thing' hadn't left its glare off her and, noticing her tense even more it inquired, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Rin made a fearful noise, followed by a desperate try to escape. She turned 360 degrees on the couch, then another 180 and tried to jump over the couch but failed and took it along with her, making her fall down on the floor and bringing the couch to fall backwards, legs facing the monster.

In a matter of milliseconds Rin struggled to sit up and hid behind the sofa, thinking of using it as a shield while most of the cushions could be used for ammo if needed. She hoped this thing in front of her was friendly.

After a few seconds of silence, she decided to see what had happened to the beast since it still hadn't attacked her. Bringing both hands slowly to the rim of the couch's sitting area, she lifted her head over the couch and hoped that the thing had already gone off to wince it came.

But there it was, still in the same position she had found it and left it in, looking at her. She quickly ducked her head, afraid that it would then take this time to kill her with an eye beam, but since nothing happened again she peeked over the couch once more.

This time it's head had turned completely to face hers, an eyebrow lifted upward as if questioning what it was she was doing. That's when Rin noticed that it had two pairs of streaks that led to two pointy things on the sides of his head, almost like Elvin ears, while the rest of it looked human, except for the color of the eyes and what seemed to be like eye shadow over them, a small, light blue, crescent moon in the middle of its forehead. The rest of it must have been covered by what Rin could describe as its hair, which cascaded down to the floor like a shining waterfall.

The young woman knew not if this was a creature of earth; all she knew was that it was beautiful. And for some reason, oddly enough, it reminded her of fluffy, once she connected the moon, the stripes, and the silver hair to her own dog.

Rin jumped to her feet. "Oh no! Fluffy! Where is he? Where are you, fluffy! Fluffy, where are you!" she looked around the room again for him but couldn't find him anywhere. Now she was scared. Could that thing have had eaten her Fluffy!

"Please stop calling me that."

Rin almost strained her neck as she turned to face the stranger one more time. She had forgotten that she had left herself in a vulnerable position. But even amongst all the previous questions she still dangled in her head, a new confused one appeared.

"Don't call me 'Fluffy'. Its pathetic." the thing said, its emotionless eyes burning a hole into her chocolate ones.

Rin gasped. Did he just refer to himself as being her dog?

"W-what d-did you say?" she asked, a little braver now, for some reason.

"I said do not call me that anymore. I am Lord Sesshomaru and no one shall address to me otherwise. I will not have it."

Rin's face went pale and her knees weakened, for if there weren't evidence of an intergalactic species before, she just knew that this would make up for it. Not knowing if to nod at him showing that she understood him or to shake her head trying to show that she was sorry for pissing the stranger off, she did both.

The creature blinked at her and scrunched its eyes, making Rin's hair crawl, thinking that she had done something wrong and that now she would pay for it with her life. The beast then asked her in a more curious tone, "You understood me?"

Rin immediately nodded yes, her headed seeming more like a bobbing toy than anything, while her eyes screamed for help and mercy at the same time.

Sesshomaru smelled her emotions and still wasn't too clear about what was happening, up until he heard Inuyasha's joyous yelps coming from the bathroom. He had been too accustomed to his prior canine, four-foot self that he failed to realize that his youkai senses had come back, and that he was no longer a dog, but a language-speaking youkai. Noticing that his brother had transformed back into a despicable hanyou, Sesshomaru widened his eyes in surprise—a feat that had only happened every year or so before—and stared down at what used to be his front paws.

Still on the floor and forgetting he had strong, hind legs now for standing, the once again youkai lord marveled at his claws, fingers and arms, letting his sight linger at the stripes on his wrists, which had been gone since he was in his dog form. Rin watched him the whole time and realized he looked almost human, from what she could see because he was facing her sideways, knees on the floor.

Sesshomaru turned his face away from Rin and started feeling his features, glad to have his un-furry and pointed ears back as well as his dry nose for once and smiling at himself, knowing that no one would see him do so.

The lord then stood up gracefully, as he always did, and Rin watched in amazement as what she was still trying to figure out was really her dog or not stood taller and prouder than her, its whole body still a mystery to her since its hair covered most of it. What she could make out was a pair of arms hanging on each side of its upper body, which she traced down until she saw its mysterious stripes and nail-like claws, which made her doubt that his hands were used for anything but tearing things apart. The other thing she could make out were two long, well-toned legs that came out from under the tips of the hair, which was long enough to cover his behind. Damn.

In a second Rin gasped. The voice, the face, the body—it was a man!

Well, sort of.

It looked beautiful enough to be female because of its soft skin and facial features, not to mention perfect hair, but the rest of its body was more muscular than a woman's could ever be and its voice was that of a male's. Rin decided that aliens were really genderless, or that this thing here was a result of human experimentation. Well, whatever it was, she liked what she saw, and hoped it stuck around for some time.

As Sesshomaru stood up, Rin blushed madly from check to cheek and covered her face as if to block her sight from him, her instinct telling her that he was as bare as the day that he came into the world.

Still not knowing what her thoughts of him meant, she then caught the thought that if she stayed that way he could do something to her while her eyes were closed. Opening them without a second thought and putting her arms down, she witnessed the stranger who called himself to be her Sesshomaru glare at her with his wondrous eyes, the same eyes that always made Rin get lost in them. That's when she just knew that, through some type of magic, it had to be her dog, reborn as a human male. Ca-ching! Jackpot!

The two stared at each other for some time, Rin not wanting to make sure if what she was experiencing was a dream that she didn't want to wake up from or not, and Sesshomaru, not knowing what to say or do to the human that took care of him when he couldn't of had, and in other words hurt his dignity and pride by doing just that.

No. He couldn't kill her. Not even if he had always hated humans and his hatred for them came back to him like a storm in that very moment. Something about her made him regret all the horrible things he used to do to those humans 500 years ago, and then he chided himself for thinking something like that. She was just like the rest of them.

Fighting with his own demons inside his head, Sesshomaru's wild thoughts told him to kill off every other human on the face of the planet for what he had had to go through as a mutt; but all except for her. No, not Rin. Not his Rin. He couldn't even dare lay a finger on her, for some weird, human emotion he was experiencing. Damn it. I've been stuck with them too long, he said to himself.

Instead, he felt like protecting her just as she cared and took care for him. And her eyes screamed for protection, even now, standing in his presence. Was she actually afraid of him? She had never been afraid of him before. Never.

Feel? I am feeling? Sesshomaru looked down from her gaze to try and brush off all the different signals he was getting that he had never had before and it hit him then that he was still without something to cover him up with. He knew that putting on his royal attire would make him feel fearless and powerful again, so he followed his nose to where ever their smell led him to. He disappeared into the hallway just as Inuyasha and Kagome's screams kicked in.

The last thing Rin could register other than that departing godly body of his was the fact that the air smelled like something was burning, and that smoke was rising from the kitchen.

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Oh. My. God!

Alright! Was this spicy enough for ya! I had this original idea for the awakening of the guys, but after writing the story and getting to this part I thought, maybe them being all naky's just not like my story's atmosphere. But then I thought, awe, screw it! I didn't want to have to come up with something else. It would be too much work. Besides, I think you guys enjoyed it…hopefully…(squeal!)...and find it in your hearts to forgive me for my vulgar mind! Muahaha!

And review; especially if you haven't yet for the chapters! I know that after seeing the two guys in their birthday suits that's the second thing that'll make my mouth water!