A/N: Heheheh… :D just to answer my reviewer's question: yes I do read my revives and I love them :D they're the only things that keep me going ;) and again a big THANK YOU to all of you… :D … Anyway… I kinda lost track of time and date… I've been playing Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for too long o-O;; But I think I'm updating on my normal three-day-basis o.o'' But anyway, in other news (phhhht, yea right)

Chapter Eleven:

At breakfast everyone again sat where they sat for dinner, just with a few changes. Inuyasha and Sesshōmaru were still in front of each other, Setsuko sat next to Sesshōmaru and Rin next to her. Kagome sat next to Inuyasha, Sango next to her and Miroku next to her. Soyahana sat in front of Miroku and Shippō next to him with Kirara in front of him. Then it was Izayoi again. (A/N: It's HUGE table so there's big gaps in between them. They have lotsa space to put their plates and food, forks, chopsticks, etc. :P).

Setsuko looked around as she didn't spot her beloved. "Where did the old mighty dog king disappear to?" She asked half annoyed.

"Something came up," Izayoi spoke. "He won't be joining us for breakfast today. And I have no idea when he'll be back."

"So much for being his wife," Setsuko bitched. But before any reactions…

"Then I don't see a point for me being here," Sesshōmaru stated and got up.

"Sesshōmaru!" Setsuko suddenly said holding her forehead. "Sit down, will you?"

No one had expected that.

Sesshōmaru looked at his mother. "I am not eating with these humans, or that hanyō, again," He stated.

"Suits me," Inuyasha said in a cocky voice.

"Inuyasha!" His mother scolded. (A/N: Mommies are in charge:3!).

Setsuko glared at the hanyō though her expression changed into just a weird one from Inu no Taishō being brought back to her mind.

Inuyasha decided to keep his mouth shut. He didn't want to upset his mother, or disappoint her.

Setsuko pulled her glance away from Inuyasha and looked at Sesshōmaru.

Inuyasha looked over at his mother, "What came up?" He asked curiously. What could be so important to not have breakfast with your family?

"I'm not sure," Izayoi shook her head. "Something to do with Kane."

"Kane!" Hana gasped.

"Kane…" Sesshōmaru muttered in disgust.

"Kane?" Setsuko asked confused. "Isn't he supposed to be your adopted brother or something?" She looked at Hana.

"Yes, but he kind of wants the village for himself… so I'm thinking this is bad…" Hana said, or more of stated.

Jaken's little head popped up when he heard footsteps to only see his master. "Sesshōmaru-sama?" He blinked.

"Jaken, take Rin," Sesshōmaru ordered the green goblin and just kept walking towards the gates.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" Inuyasha yelled after his brother from the porch.

"Inuyasha, calm down," Kagome said and ran up next to him.

Setsuko walked outside and put her gloves on. She gave one fat glare at Inuyasha, then walked further after her son.

"But seriously though," Inuyasha said with a sheepish look on his face. "Where IS he going?"

"Probably to find your father and Kane," Izayoi walked up behind the two of them. Inuyasha and Kagome turned around to face her.

"I'd like to go, but someone's gotta keep an eye on the castle…" Hana spoke from the waaay back. "Inuyasha, go follow Sesshōmaru," Hana encouraged.

Inuyasha gave her a stare of confusion yet a face saying thank you. He then walked down to the gates.

"You should go too, Izayoi," Hana spoke whilst leaning against the wall and her arms folded across her chest.

"Why? They'll be fine on their own…" Izayoi said with a bit of doubt.

"Even so… this is just one of those 'family moment' that both the mother and father need to be present and the kids. In this case, both mothers, both sons and the one father," Hana shrugged.

Izayoi nodded her head then bowed politely at Hana.

"I guess this means I should just stay here and wait… huh?" Kagome asked a bit disappointed.

"It'd be preferred that way, Kagome," Hana spoke as she watched Izayoi walk towards the gates. "This is something they need to do. Talk to each other while they're all alone, yet together. Or else conflict will be everywhere… Sesshōmaru and his father, Setsuko and ō-aniki, Setsuko and Izayoi… Setsuko and Inuyasha, Inuyasha and Sesshōmaru, and the list just keep on going…"

Kagome nodded. "They have hardly ever been alone since they got revived…"

Miroku and Sango who were also there agreed to stay behind along with Shippō and Kirara.

They were walking in a forest close to the dog village. Sesshōmaru walked in the front with his mother, while Inuyasha walked at the back with his mother. Soon enough the three dog demons got a whiff of Kane's scent. Sesshōmaru instantly took off in the direction of Kane's scent.

"HEY! Where do you think you're going!" Inuyasha yelled after his brother then charged through the trees as well.

Kane turned around, just in time to miss Tōkijin's blade. Inuyasha stopped behind Sesshōmaru, a look of utter disgust on his face that his brother got to Kane first.

"What's this?" Kane asked with a smirk on his face. "The two brothers decided to work together?" He smirked.

Just then Setsuko and Izayoi arrived at the scene, amazingly together and both in one piece.

"Don't be ridiculous. As if I, Sesshōmaru, would even deicide to work together with a hanyō, let alone my brother," Sesshōmaru said, his eyes glowing with fury.

"Keh!" Inuyasha spoke up. It's not like him to just be walked over like a door matt. "Like I'd work together with you in the first place!" He drew Tessaiga and swung it in the air.

"Where's my father?" Sesshōmaru demanded to know.

"Awww, isn't that sweet. The two brothers came to save their daddy," Kane said in a mocking sarcastic voice. "Don't worry, he's fine, what makes you think I'd want to harm the great Yōkai of the West anyway?"

"Um, the fact that you want his throne?" Setsuko spoke from the back.

"Stay out of this woman!" Kane yelled.

"Then why the hell do you have his scent all over you?" Sesshōmaru questioned and pulled Tōkijin up to Kane's throat, inches away.

"We were together this morning in search of the enemy," Kane informed them.

Sesshōmaru's eyes clearly said I don't believe you. "If that's so… then how come you didn't take the armies along with you?"

"This wasn't to start a war, this was just to clear things up by words, not fists and swords…" Kane spoke, every word that escaped his mouth sounded like the truth, yet no one wanted to believe him.

"You think I'll believe your lies!" Inuyasha growled. "I'll just kill you now and get it over with! Kaze no Kizu!" Without second thoughts Inuyasha released the Kaze no Kizu and it went straight towards his brother and Kane.

Setsuko's eyes went wide and Izayoi too stared with amazement.

"Is he crazy?" Setsuko exclaimed, referring to Inuyasha attacking Kane.

Sesshōmaru jumped out of the way before the Kaze no Kizu could hit him, as for Kane's actions - they weren't seen. When the Kaze no Kizu had cleared up, they all could see Kane still standing there. He too had jumped out of the way, just later than Sesshōmaru.

"Don't be foolish boy," Kane spoke with a slight glare heading Inuyasha's way. "Don't forget that unlike you I was trained by the very best. Your own father," he said it though as if trying to rub it in, especially the last bit, and by Inuyasha's facial expression that clearly had worked.

"Well unlike you I can actually learn something without someone teaching me!" Inuyasha yelled and swung the Tessaiga again releasing another Kaze no Kizu.

Sesshōmaru growled at his brother's attempts of hitting Kane. Obviously he doesn't know what type of opponent Kane was, but how could he? He doesn't even know how strong his own father is.

Kane dodged the Kaze no Kizu again. Inuyasha stared at him with annoyance clear in his eyes. 'Why isn't he throwing any attacks back?' Inuyasha wondered. He wanted to use the Bakuryūha, but Kane has to release more demonic energy in order for him to do that. Could it be that Kane knows Inuyasha's strategy? 'How?'

"What's the matter Inuyasha?" Kane asked at the boy's sudden loss of actions. Kane then heard something coming from his left and he looked over at Sesshōmaru who stood on his left side. Sesshōmaru had released on of Tōkijin's attacks. Kane's face remained expressionless and he drew his own sword. Tōkijin's blue attack made its way to Kane and Kane placed his sword in front of him allowing his sword to absorb the attack's energy, but then the attack grew bigger and Kane was being forced to let go of his sword so that the energy can release itself. He hit his sword into the ground and the attack spread through the ground, blowing it up into cracks.

"What the-!" Inuyasha tired to keep his balance by placing Tessaiga in the ground, which didn't help much because that only helped the cracks stretch further. Inuyasha looked behind him to see if his mom is stick alright. "Mother!" Inuyasha raised up his fire rat kimono's sleeve to his nose as dust spread through the air and his sensitive nose just couldn't handle it.

"Inuyasha!" He heard his mother's feint voice but from which direction… he couldn't tell. He looked down to see the ground was splitting up, completely! He felt his weight being thrown aside and he tried to remain upright, but he was soon knocked over, then he started to slide to the edge and noticed the forest they were in was on the edge of a cliff. "Shit!" He cursed. There was no way he could escape this one, he was going to fall off from the edge of the cliff, and that was a fact. He felt his body being thrown onto the air and he held Tessaiga tight hoping it would break his fall, but as if matters weren't bad enough, boulders had to follow him off from the cliff.

Setsuko opened her golden orbs, 'Ugh… where am I?' She looked around and studied her unfamiliar surroundings. She was surrounded by rocks and boulders, she had obviously fallen off the cliff. "Sesshōmaru!" was her first reaction in a gasp. She pushed herself off from the ground and ignored the pain in her body. She looked around for any sign of her son, but not even luck could help her spot him. She started sniffing, hoping her senses will work in the dusty place. Her senses were indeed still confused. She got a whiff of someone's scent and she immediately ran over.

"Oh not that brat!" She moaned as she saw Inuyasha stuck underneath a boulder. Tessaiga lay unsheathed at a close distance. He seemed to appear unconscious.

Setsuko looked at the Tessaiga. "Hmm, I wonder…" She reached out to the Tessaiga to see if maybe, just maybe, its barrier will accept her. Before she even touched it the barrier burnt her hand and she pulled away. "Damn sword!" She cursed. She looked back at Inuyasha. She growled at herself for even thinking of helping him out of there, but it would probably help to stay in Inu no Taishō's good books. She sighed at her foolish thought then pulled out her sword and threw an attack at the boulder on top of Inuyasha and smashed it into pieces, not caring if she also hit him or not.

Inuyasha moaned and opened his eyes.

"Oh, you're awake. You don't give someone time to flee the scene, do you?" Setsuko said and just looked at him.

Inuyasha got up and looked at her, "Feh! Of course not. What are you doing here?" He had noticed the sword in her hands and to him it was obvious she helped him.

"Nothing," she replied and sheathed her sword.

Inuyasha picked up the Tessaiga and sheathed it. "Where's everyone?"

"If I knew that, don't you think they'd be here with me?" Setsuko said then turned around ready to walk away.

"Hey! Where do think you're going?" Inuyasha demanded to know.

"Away from you," Setsuko stopped in her tracks and looked back at him. Something in her just didn't want to leave him alone. To her he was kind of like a humanly version of Inu no Taishō, or just a mini version of him. Even if he did look more like his mom. She sighed, "Well I want to know what happened to my son, so excuse me."

"You might as well stick around, Setsuko," Inuyasha informed the motherly (a/n: phhht yea right) figure. "Sesshōmaru and my mother both are probably also trapped under these boulders. There's no way they could have gotten out of it."

"No, no, no, no," Setsuko argued. "There's no way your mother could have gotten out of it. Sesshōmaru's speed proves to be better than yours and of course he'd be faster than a human."

They both suddenly heard a boulder being knocked over and someone standing up, cursing in the process. "Shit…"

Both Inuyasha and Setsuko looked over to where the sound was coming from to only spot…

"Kane?"

"Kane!"

They both said at the same time, Inuyasha the one yelling and Setsuko the one speaking calmly as if questioning.

'If he was pushed down the cliff by the boulders…' Inuyasha thought.

'Then Sesshōmaru must have as well!' Setsuko finished Inuyasha's thought.

"What still alive?" Inuyasha asked. "I thought those boulders would've crushed you." And he unsheathed the Tessaiga again.

"I could say the same about you, boy! You're the weak, pathetic one here. These boulders were nothing!" Kane said and was about to pull his sword out when he realised he lost it whilst falling off the cliff. 'Shit!'

"Of course they were nothing. It was Sesshōmaru's attack that made them something," Setsuko rolled her eyes.

Kane looked annoyed at her.

"Where are you looking at? Kaze no Kizu!" Inuyasha yelled and released the winds from his Tessaiga.

Kane's attention was immediately brought forth and he dodged the Kaze no Kizu. "Seems to me like you never learn," Kane spoke with anger rising in his voice. He then flew towards Inuyasha (A/N: You know… like that fast movement Sesshōmaru does… .) and grabbed him by his throat holding him up in the air with his right hand.

"What… tha…?" Setsuko stared with amazement. She shook her head to remind herself that this was Inuyasha, not Inu no Taishō.

"I am superior to you," Kane said in Inuyasha's face and pushed his nails into Inuyasha's skin causing the blood to run out from his neck.

Inuyasha rose up the Tessaiga ready to knock Kane away with it when Kane's other hand grabbed Inuyasha's wrist, and his nails cut into Inuyasha's flesh there as well. He looked Inuyasha in the eye, enjoying the pain seen in his eyes. Though Inuyasha's right eye was closed from all the pain.

"These wounds are nothing!" Inuyasha managed to say, but then the smirk on Kane's face grew wider and he pressed his nails even deeper into Inuyasha's skin causing Inuyasha to yelp out in pain and drop the Tessaiga.

"Let him go!" Setsuko commanded.

"What's this?" Kane looked over. "Since when did you like humans?"

"I don't," Setsuko growled.

"Then what's with the mommy-act?"

"I don't want the Dog Lord barking at me for just watching as his son died," She said with a determined look on her face and pulled her sword out, holding it in front of her face ready to charge at any minute.

"Heh," Kane's smirk was filled with evil.

"Hmp!" Setsuko snorted and ran towards the yōkai.

"Are you brain-dead, Setsuko? Or just literally really stupid?" Kane questioned his brother's former wife then swung Inuyasha in front of Setsuko's sword.

"Hmmp!" Setsuko smirked as she quickly positioned the sword in a different pose and missed Inuyasha by an inch. "Don't underestimate me Kane. Inu no Taishō might have taught you everything you know, but he didn't teach you everything he knows," Setsuko spoke and removed her sword from Kane's chest.

Kane let go of Inuyasha and clutched his chest.

"Inuyasha!" Setsuko gasped as he fell to the ground. She quickly kneeled down and helped him sit up.

Inuyasha coughed then held his throat, trying to stop the blood from rushing out. "What the hell was that for!"

Setsuko's expression was a mystery. She was annoyed to kingdom-come, but at the same time relieved that Inuyasha was okay. But it was that attitude Inuyasha had… that one his father had when she met him. He kind of dropped his attitude when he was placed with all of the responsibility of running the dog village, and therefore became more professional. Not to mention when they met he wore the fire rat's fur… She sighed at the thought then got back up to her feet. "Is that the best you can do?" She said with her eyes closed.

"He's gone you dipshit!" Inuyasha informed her and stood up to sheath the Tessaiga.

"Ungrateful little punk, aren't you?" She raised an eyebrow out of annoyance at him. She rested her hand against his forehead and pushed him back down to the ground.

"Hey!" Inuyasha yelled at her. He didn't even get time to reach for the Tessaiga.

"Oh calm down, the Tessaiga won't go anywhere," she rolled her eyes. "Right now your wounds need to be treated, they're pretty bad. Besides wounds made by Kane aren't ones you'd wish to ignore," she kneeled down in front of him. She bit her kimono's sleeve and ripped a piece off. She ripped it into two pieces, a smaller piece and a bigger piece. She then rested her hand against Inuyasha's chest and pressed him backwards against a boulder so that he'd stay down. She leaned forward and started to lick his neck.

"WHAT THE HELL!" Inuyasha yelled and started struggling to get out of her grip.

"Would you sit still!" She demanded. "Don't you lick your wounds? God you're so impossible!" She complained then tied the ripped piece from her kimono around his neck to stop the blood from coming out. "We're dogs! That's what we do. Not that I'd expect you to know that seeing that you hang out with humans all the time." Then she removed her hand from his chest and took his wrist and licked it too.

Inuyasha kept his thoughts to himself this time and just allowed her to lick him. (A/N: As wrong as that sounds xD). This was quite awkward… sure he licked his own wounds, but he never had them licked by someone else before. She tied the smaller ripped piece of her kimono's sleeve around his wrist.

"There, all done," she said and got up.

Inuyasha sat up on all fours in his all stubborn way. There was no way he was gonna thank her. He didn't ask her to help. She did it out of her own will, so there's no way he'll thank her.

She sighed, "Not that I expect a thank you," she sighed remembering the good old times with his father and she couldn't help but smile at his idiotic doggie pose. "I have a feeling since it was Sesshōmaru's attack that caused the avalanche he's still up there," she said looking up at the cliff.

Inuyasha got up to both his two feet.

"You're mom's probably down here, you can bother looking for her, I'm going to find my son," She simply said and walked forward then she heard a thud behind her. "Ugh, what is it now Inuya-…" She turned around and she interrupted her own sentence by gasping when she saw Inuyasha lying on the ground. "What the hell? He's supposed to be able to handle attacks like that!" She said confused then kneeled down at his head. "Unless…"

A/N: YAY! Cliff-hanger:P Now you can hate me again! XD Omfg… KH… o-O must beat… Larxene x.X!

Anyway... this chapter had some Setsuko and Inuyasha goodness... the next one will have more Sesshō and Inuyasha goodness. YAY! Now review:D!

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