Disclaimer: I now own all of these shows! Yes! (Looks at contract) NOOO! I don't own any of these shows...
Erika Daae: Okay! Chapters one through four revised! This isn't as hard as I thought it would be. : 3
Kagome: You say that now...
Hey! Three chapters in two days is a record in my book!
Kagome: Yeah. Cause you never update.
Shut up. Let's just get on with the next chapter, shall we?
Oh, this chapter is the old three and four combined. Enjoy!
Chapter 3
Sesshomaru stared, his eyes drifting back and forth between Kagome and Sango. He didn't know much about these people...only that the half-demon smelled like him and that Inuyasha and the priestess, Kagome, fought a lot...
He pointed a small, chubby finger towards Sango, knowing his ears were less likely to suffer with her.
Kagome, jaw dropped, stared on in shock. "Why her?!" she shouted, causing the little demon to flinch and cover his puppy ears.
"He says you're too loud." Inuyasha laughed slightly. Kagome and him argued to often, not to mention Kagome had a habit of shouting everything she said. Inuyasha's ears could handle it now, but he remembered when he first met her...it had been unbearable.
Sango blushed slightly. Thinking back to previously...then she smiled.
"Of course I'll be your new mother! If only till you return to normal..." she moved to pick the boy up, setting him gently on her lap.
"I promise I'll do my best as a mother, Sesshomaru." she promised, hugging him tightly.
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Sesshomaru hadn't said another word for a week, which made it difficult for the others during the travels. For example, Inuyasha had been sent out to go hunting for Kagome and, as he had since he first joined the group, the child followed Inuyasha, without the knowledge of the others.
The group had stopped everything to try to hunt down the young dog lord, trudging through the thick woods and fighting off lesser demons. After hours of searching, they had returned back to the campsite, only to find Inuyasha and Sesshomaru sitting by the fire, waiting for them.
Needless to say, they wanted Sesshomaru to speak to avoid anymore of those incidents.
Sango sighed, watching the attempts to make the puppy speak. (A/N: hehe...Speak, boy! Speak!)
"Sesshomaru." she called from across the room, the young lord came obediently, eager to escape the noisiness of the others. Sango bent down and awkwardly picked up the young boy, surprised at his lightness, and set him on her lap.
She smiled gently at him while he simply stared back in reply, head slightly cocked to the side in curiosity.
"Hello, Sesshomaru. Do you think you can tell us something?" she asked kindly, arms wrapping around the small Sesshomaru's waist. He nodded.
"Sesshomaru...where are your parents?"
He stared down at his feet, the little puppy paws being kicked back and forth. A small tear fell onto the leafy forest floor.
"I'm sorry! What's wrong, Sesshomaru?" Sango gently rubbed circles on his back as the small shoulders shook.
Inuyasha paced over, arms crossed and a small frown marring his face.
"Wrong thing to say Sango...if I remember correctly...his mother hates him. Him and father."
'Ah. That's why.'
"I'm sorry...I didn't know..." she apologized, trying to sooth the young demon.
Kahanaro. The great Dog Demoness who also happened to be the Goddess of the Moon...and Sesshomaru's mother. She depised her husband for his many mistresses, not an unreasonable thing to hate him for. But in her anger, she had also learned to dispise the child she had with the womanizer.
After a few minutes, Sesshomaru calmed down, just as shadows suddenly appeared several feet away from the reach of the campfire's light. The gang jumped into their positions, weapons at the ready, and Sesshomaru and Shippo hiding behind Sango and Kagome.
As the three figures stepped into the light, Sesshomaru's eyes widened when he recognized the scent of two of them.
"Brothers!" he shouted, eagerly running forward and jumping into the arms of the taller one he recognized, while reaching over to hug the short one.
Illuminated in the light of the campfire were three men. Well...one man, one teenage boy, and one suit of armor. The one in the armor stood a good 7 feet tall, a light blue loincloth wrapped around where the man's waist would be.
The regular man, who was holding Sesshomaru, stood about five feet, seven inches tall, wearing what looked to Kagome to be a military uniform, dark blue in color, decorated with silver, chains, and medals, boots covering his feet. His pitch black hair and black eyes contrasting sharply against Sesshomaru's pearly white hair and amber orbs.
The teenage boy, who Sesshomaru had hugged, appeared to be between fourteen or fifteen, and was very short for a boy his age. He had amber eyes that matched Sesshomaru's, and long blonde hair tied back in a braid with messy bangs. He wore leather pants and boots, with a tight leather vest and a crimson trench coat, decorated with the design of a black snake wrapped around a cross topped with a crown with wings at its sides.
"Roy! Edward! Where have you two been? And were's Al?" the young demon lord eagerly asked, bouncing up and down in the militant, Roy's, arms.
A sweat drop suddenly appeared on the suit of armor. "That's me, Sesshomaru...I'm Alphonse."
Sesshomaru sized up the suit of armor. "But Al was short. He wouldn't have been able to wear such large armor."
The blond, Edward, chuckled. "Long story, we'll explain it later."
The blond seemed to suddenly realize something, and he turned to stare at Sesshomaru with a questioning eye.
"Sesshomaru...you were older than this last time we saw you...and you should be an older teen or adult by now..."
The other two, Roy and Alphonse, seemed to realize this as well.
Inuyasha stepped up, telling the others to put away their weapons, sheathing Tetsauiga as well.
"He was cursed by a priestess. Now who are you?" he ordered, crossing his arms and scowling slightly.
A concerned look crossed Roy and Edward's faces.
"A curse, huh..." Roy's brow forrowed in annoyance. "Being cursed seems to run in the family...speaking of which..."
"HEY!! IT AIN'T A PARTY WITHOUT ME!" shouted a black form as it catapulted down from the starry night sky through an open section of the canopy resting above them. The figure landed gracefully on the ground--after showing off with a back flip first--revealing itself to be a teenager with amethyst eyes and "neatly messy" purple hair, longer on the sides of the front, shorter in the back, with uneven bangs. He wore a black vest lined with white and leather pants with matching black boots. From his back sprouted two large black wings.
Roy and Edward both frowned in annoyance, while Sesshomaru jumped from Roy's arms to tackle the purple-haired teen.
"Dark!"
"Hey, Sessho! Woah..."he remarked as he took in Sesshomaru's current age. "What happened to you?"
"Curse." Roy answered, eye twitching at his brother's antics.
"Hey! Seems like being cursed runs in the family!" Dark laughed as he hugged his brother before rising to his feet and helping the child up.
Miroku coughed, earning the newcomers' attention "Sesshomaru...I believe introductions are in order." Miroku reminded, examining the four new arrivals and their strange appearances.
Sesshomaru rubbed the back of his head, giggling slightly at his forgetfulness.
"Oh...right. Well...this is Roy Mustang, half dog demon, half Phoenix demon, and my half-brother."
Sesshomaru stated as he pointed to the tall black haired man before moving on to the man in the suit of armor."This is Alphonse Elric, Al for short. He's my half-brother, Edward's full brother, and half dog demon, half cat demon. And Edward Elric, also half dog, half cat, and half-brother."
The others stared when they learned the one in armor and the blonde were half cat, half dog, but they simply shrugged as though they'd been asked that many times.
Then, motioning towards the purple-haired teen, "Then this is--" he started, but was interupted when the winged teenager cut in. "The one and only...Phantom Thief --And Ladies' Man--" he included, winking at Sango and Kagome, who both blushed, "Dark Mousy!" he announced proudly, giving a little bow. "Oh, and I'm also Sessho here's twin. Or maybe triplet now...naw, we'll call it twin." he grinned.
"But you two don't look anything alike..." Shippo pointed out.
The two smirked at each other, then they suddenly began glowing, Dark a dark purple, Sesshomaru white.
The glow enveloped their bodies, and, when it faded seconds later, Dark and Sesshomaru were posing in a fighting stance, back to back, Sesshomaru in an outfit to match Dark's, only reversed in color. Dark had also sprouted dog ears and a tail, his hair now a purple replica of the older Sesshomaru's, while Sesshomaru had grown beautiful white wings.
"We're still..." "Only fraternal" "And I took after mother more..." "While I took after father more!" Dark and Sesshomaru explained, switching off between parts without hesitation.
"Uh..do you do that a lot?" Shippo asked curiously.
"Yes." they answered together, smirking. Then they both returned to the forms they had before their little show.
"Oh, we're joining you, by the way." Dark smiled before sitting between Sango and Kagome, Sesshomaru hopping onto his lap. Edward and Roy joined him, while Al stood behind Edward.
"Great. Just what we need! More annoyances!" Inuyasha huffed, leaning against a nearby tree.
"Hey! We're probably stronger than you, so shut it!" Dark defended himself and his brothers, glaring up at the hanyou.
Inuyasha scoffed before jumping up into a tree to rest on a branch.
"Why did you four come anyway?" Inuyasha called down from his branch.
"We felt something strange happening to Sesshomaru. Hence, we came to check it out." Roy answered, gratefully taking a bowl of food from Kagome.
"But...you four seem like you're more from my era than from the feudal area..."
Edward smirked. "Hehe...yeah, that's obvious. But we're not even from Japan. Me, Al, and Roy came from Germany, during the Industrial Revolution."
Dark provided his own answer. "I was in Japan actually...but, from your uniform, I was around your time."
Kagome frowned. "Then how did you three get here...? And how could you be brothers?"
"Simple!" Sesshomaru piped up from his place on Dark's lap. "Dark can control time, which includes time travel! It's a gift of his." Dark smiled. "Yup!" he laughed.
"Anyways...it's been a long day...we should all get some sleep." Miroku reminded the others, setting up a bed of his own.
"Then tomorrow...we'll set out to help Sesshomaru."