A/N: I keep catching up with my other story that's amazing. Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of its character except my ocs and this plot. Enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 24: What am I Training for?

Hikari jumped out of the way of another explosion. Shruiken ripped threw the cloud of dust towards her. She ducked then pulled out her blade to block Hiroshi's kunai. Daisuke and Rokuro went to attack her from behind but she jumped out of the way. Daisuke launched after her. He formed a sword out of one of his feathers and their blades clashed. Using his force she pushed herself towards the ground then back flipped out of the way. She put her sword away and caught Hiroshi's punch but he hand her a knife point.

"That's enough for today." Hiroshi ordered putting his kunai away.

"But I'm not done." Hikari protested.

"You went against all three of us today a week ago you could only go one on one. Don't strain yourself." Hiroshi explained.

"I know it's just…" Hikari looked away.

Daisuke hugged her from behind. "You did just fine. There's no point in pushing yourself to exhaustion if you don't have to." Daisuke kissed her cheek.

Rokuro and Hiro punched him in the face. "Knock it off." They shouted in unison.

"What?!" He sighed. "Hikari what's wrong?"

"Do you think I should have gone back with mom?" Hikari asked all three of them.

"If you want to go back you can. No one's going to stop you." Rokuro replied.

"I guess I could go back to see if mom needs any help."

"Well then go; we can take a day off." Hiroshi said a little disappointed.

Hikari's face lightened up and she ran towards the house.

"You don't want her to go do you Hiro?" Dai questioned.

"She's my sister I'm supposed to worry about her. But we're just starting to get to know each other." He answered.

"So go with her. She what she does." Dai offered.

They watched Hikari get smaller into the distance. Hiroshi ran after her.

"I knew he would go after her." Dai laughed.

~At the well~

"Hikari, Hikari wait." Hiroshi shouted running up to her.

"What's up?" Hikari asked sitting on the wells edge.

"I'm coming with you." He replied.

"Is dad okay with that?"

"Who cares, I'm 17. I think I have a choice on if I want to go with my little sister or not."

Hikari smiled at him "Then come on." She held out her hand and he took it.

They went into the well.

Hiroshi stumbled when they landed. "I don't think I'm ever going to get use to that." He laughed.

"Come on." Hikari was already half way up the ladder.

They went into the house. "Mom we're home." Hikari shouted taking off her shoes.

"Hikari what do you mean we?" Kagome walk into the kitchen and saw both Hiro and Hikari standing in the door way.

"Hi there." Hiro said.

Kagome hugged them. "I'm supersized that your father let both of you come."

"Yea about that." Hiroshi stated.

"You two didn't tell him you were coming here did you?" Kagome sighed "Well it doesn't matter I'm glad you two decided to come home."

A few hours later Kagome went to the store to get something for dinner Hikari went to take a shower and Hiroshi looked at all the pictures in the living room.

"Hiro you can take a shower now." Hikari said walking into the living room.

"I've missed so much." Hiroshi sighed picking up one of the pictures of Hikari. "You were cute when you were younger."

"Let me guess what happened right?"

"No. I wish that I was here with you."

"If we would have been an actual family you and I would probably hate each other's guts." Hikari laughed.

"That's true. But it makes you wonder what I would be like if I spent my life here instead of in the feudal ear."

"I guess we'll never know. You should take your shower before mom gets back."

"Good point." He set down the picture and walked past Hikari.

The phone rang. "Hello Tama residence." Hikari answered.

"Hey Hikari its Zen."

"Zen?"

"So you finally got home."

"Well yea a couple of hours ago."

"Hey do you want to go and do something later?"

"I-I don't know. I mean I have to do a lot here."

"Come on Hikari I haven't seen you for a while."

"We'll see. I have to go." Hikari hung up the phone.
"Who was that?" Hiro asked drying his hair. Hikari picked out three quarter dark blue jeans and white t-shirt that had a red cross that went down the left side of the shirt.

"It was Zen."

"How is that possible? I thought you said he was in the feudal ear?"

"That's what's confusing me."

"Hmm… … I got it how about you show me around that could get your mind off of Zen." Hiroshi suggested.

"Hikari, Hiro I'm home." Kagome called.

"Mother I was wondering if Hikari could show me around town."

"That's fine as long as you two are back before 6:30." Kagome said putting the groceries away.

"Thanks." Hiroshi ran out of the kitchen and grabbed Hikari's hand. "Come on." Hiro ordered.

Not like Hikari had much of a choice.

"Everything smells funny here." Hiro stated as they walked past a McDonalds.

"Hikari is that you?" Tricia asked running up to her.

"Hi Tricia, I haven't seen you in a while. Oh right this is my brother Hiroshi."

"You never mentioned you had a brother." She said astound.

"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you." Hiroshi greeted.

"You got your hair cut. It looks nice." Hikari stated changing the subject.

"Oh yea I decided to go with short hair for or first year in high school." Tricia grabbed Hikari's hand "you should get your hair cut too. Come on." Tricia pulled her towards the salon Hiro followed them.

"Tricia I don't have any money." Hikari mentioned.

"That's ok I'll pay for it." She offered and they went into the salon.

She got her hair cut up to her shoulders and short layers were put in.

"You look great." Tricia clapped her hands.

"Very nice." Hiro agreed.

Hikari looked at the time.

"Tricia I think we're going to head back home. Thank you so much."

"Don't worry about it. I'll see you soon." Tricia departed.

"Are we really heading back home well we're going to stop at the park first." Hikari mentioned as they walked out the door.

"This is a peaceful place." Hiro stated.

"Really the only peaceful place in a city." Hikari answered.

They sat on one of the benches.

"Hey Hikari I like you hair cut."

Hikari looked up and Zen was standing in front of her smiling with his goofy grin.

"How are you here? I thought you were…"

"In the feudal era?" He opened his eyes and they were deep blue.

Hiroshi put an arm around Hikari and pulled her close. "Get out of here." He ordered.

"I'm not here to follow some punk's orders." Zen smirked.

"Get out of here." Hiro growled at him.

"Come on Hikari just come with me. Why would you want to hang out with a guy like this?" Zen offered a hand.

"I happen to be her older brother. Now get lost you little brat."

"I don't think you heard me correctly I'm not here to follow your orders." A blade flipped out of the jacket sleeve.

"Hikari you have to run." Hiroshi pushed her away and the one of the strings to his yin necklace was cut by Zen blade.

It slid off his neck and made a small clank on the bench. His aura became visible round him.
"Hikari get away!" He screamed. A shock wave knocked Zen and Hikari back. His fangs grew. The whites of his eyes darkened to black his iris went to a golden yellow and his pupils slit. Time around them slowed down them to a stop. Hiroshi went after Zen. Hiroshi was too quick for him.

"What's going on? What happened to him?" Hikari whispered watching in terror.

She saw the necklace on the bench. "That's it I have to get it back on him." Hikari grabbed the necklace and tied it back together. She sprinted over to Hiroshi and Zen. Hiroshi was about to kill him when Hikari jumped on Hiro's back.

"Get off." He barked throwing his sister into a tree.

Hikari caught herself with her feet and pushed off the tree. With that force she slammed into him. He grabbed her by the throat and started to squeeze. His nails cut into the sides of her neck.

'I have to get this on him.' She thought grabbing opposite ends of the string and forcing her arms to move towards his head. She managed to slip it on.

Hiroshi instantly dropped her and she coughed. He dropped to his knees. "I told you to run. Why didn't you run? Now your hurt and it's because of me." He looked at his hands as Hikari's blood trickled into the palms.

"I couldn't run away I was taught not to run away." Hikari laughed.

"Where did Zen go?"

"He disappeared once I jumped you." Hikari explained. "We should go home."

When they got back home Kagome cleaned up Hikari's wounds. Hiroshi sat as far away from Hikari as he could in the room. He didn't look at her.

"Hiroshi it's okay." Kagome tried to comfort her son.

"No it's not okay 17 years and I haven't been able to control it. Now I've hurt someone I care about." Hiroshi gripped his pants.

"I'm fine I've taken worse hits." Hikari stated as Kagome put the first aid kit away.

"But what if I would have hit an artery?" Hiro complained.

"The point is you didn't I'll be fine." Hikari walked over to him. He tried to back up but he was in a corner. "Don't worry about me." She hugged him.

"I have to your my little sister. What have I been training for if I can't even protect you from myself?" He whispered in her ear.

…to be continued…

A/N: Very fun to write. I'm just putting that out there. I know I'm probably going to get hit from my friend because of the way I ended this chapter. Of course I try to keep going with a chapter until I get the point of the title of the chapter across. But sometimes I even confuse myself. I'll see you all next chapter.

-DTW-