A/N: OMFG! O.O! Larxene was SO easy to beat but Axel... omfg… I swear he had like 1 hp left and HE BEAT ME ANYWAY D! Oh goodness need more number zero cards x.X Anyway… enough of my ranting on some GBA game xD Hey it might be a game but it's a FUN game:D!

Anyway :huggles reviewers: I getted so many reviews:D! Even if half of them were more to the flame side �.�;; You know… one thing I never understood about people is… if they don't even like the story why bother reading it? Besides, lots of people have low self-esteem and can't take flames and/or critique and like they say; "Mean words leave scars forever no matter how many times you say sorry" or something like that. Take me for example... I write for the FUN of it. I don't WANT critique or to improve or else writing just won't be fun anymore. I know of lots of people who quit writing because people wouldn't listen to them when they said they don't want critique -.-' because it became to stressful for them, as if a job. Everything HAD to be perfect. Can't anyone understand no one is perfect? We're humans… we're perfect by being imperfect o-O;

Okay…. o.o… enough from my ranting. Here's the next chapter:D

Chapter Twelve

Weeeee! Jumpie back in time! (I'm just doing this to annoy you guys :P)

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.

Sesshōmaru's eyes widened at Kane's foolish attempts. He glared at the dog then noticed the ground was splitting up. Lucky for Sesshōmaru, the cliff was on Kane's right side, and Sesshōmaru was on Kane's left side while Inuyasha was more to his right side. Dust blew through the air making everyone's vision blurry and unclear. He tried to spot his mother but then managed to see Inuyasha with the Tessaiga in the ground.

"Mother!" He heard Inuyasha cry.

Sesshōmaru got annoyed at his senses for not working. He looked over to Kane but couldn't see him anymore. He started walking to where he remembered his mother was, trying to follow his nose, but the dust and wind completely mixed everyone's senses up.

"Inuyasha!" Sesshōmaru heard the human woman's feint cries. He decided to walk towards her since he remembered his mother was with the human.

Izayoi coughed and saw a figure walking towards her. "Inuyasha?" Her vision finally became clear as Sesshōmaru was close enough for her to spot. "Sesshōmaru!" She said with relief in her voice, even if it wasn't her own son. His face remained emotionless, then the ground at Izayoi's feet split and sent her towards the edge of the cliff. Sesshōmaru's eyes narrowed with annoyance then he caught the human woman and jumped over to a saver spot.

Izayoi looked up at him, "Thank you…"

He just looked at her as though regretting saving her life. He looked back and knew his mother would be okay if she was to fall down with Tōkijin's attack with the boulders from the cliff, Inuyasha would probably too, but a human would never survive. And even now if he was to walk back there now, he'd put his life in danger.

Back to current time…

"Inuyasha!" Setsuko yelled in an attempt to get him to wake up. "No shit Inuyasha, please don't be…" She pulled her ripped kimono piece from his neck to reveal his neck had gone black. "…poisoned!" She finished. "Ugh! You idiot!" She felt like giving him a smack through the face. "Can't you complain when you start to feel dizzy, light-headed, nauseous, or when you have any other symptom of being poisoned!"

She watched his neck and noticed the black colour was increasing. 'Shit the poison is spreading… no wonder Kane flew the scene, because he accomplished one of his goals…'

She picked Inuyasha's head up and rested it in her lap. 'Shit, don't die on me now, Inuyasha…' She pleaded in her head. "Where's your mother when she's actually needed?" She admitted Izayoi was good when it came to poisons… Setsuko didn't know which herbs cured which poisons or how to make the remedies, but Izayoi did.

She looked up when she smelled her son's scent. She looked up at the cliff and noticed Sesshōmaru was jumping down. A look of utter disgust was on his face. "Mother, what are you doing?" He asked as soon as he landed and walked towards her.

"He's been poisoned… by Kane…" Setsuko informed him. "Where's Izayoi?"

"Up there," Sesshōmaru motioned with his head.

"Go get her."

"What?"

"You heard me. Go. Get. Izayoi."

"What for?"

"She's the only one who knows how to cure poison…"

"And you care about Inuyasha… why?"

"Well your father would be very upset if he was to die…"

Sesshōmaru sighed in defeat then jumped back up the cliff. Izayoi was surprised to see him again. She thought he wouldn't come back.

"Isn't Setsuko down there?" Izayoi questioned.

"She is. With Inuyasha," Sesshōmaru replied and held out his hand.

Izayoi was touched by his kindness but she knew he wasn't doing this out of his own free will. And if he was… why? She accepted his hand and Sesshōmaru jumped down the cliff with her.

"Inuyasha!" Izayoi gasped once they landed. She ran towards her son. She kneeled before Setsuko and touched Inuyasha's face, taking notice of the marks on his neck and that fact that his neck was changing colour to black. "Poison!" She gasped.

"Izayoi-sama!" Myōga the flea jumped on Inuyasha's chest.

"Myōga?" Izayoi said surprised.

"When did you get here you flea-bag?" Setsuko asked and picked him up with her fingers.

"Excuse me Setsuko-sama," Myōga jumped off from her hands back onto Inuyasha. "I can suck some of the poison out to buy you some time!"

"Where'd you come from?" Izayoi asked.

"Uh… I was on… out on very important business! But I am here now…" Myōga said then started to suck some poison out of Inuyasha.

"That must mean the area we're in is safe…" Izayoi said. "I'm going to get some herbs." With that she stood up and went to get some herbs.

Myōga rolled on the ground, "That's some powerful poison… but that should buy us some more time…"

Setsuko looked up at Sesshōmaru, "Sesshōmaru…"

He looked at her, as if he did not want to.

"Come here…" She said and looked back down at Inuyasha.

Sesshōmaru was clearly annoyed, but he walked towards the woman anyway, "What is it?"

"Sit, down."

Sesshōmaru rolled his eyes in annoyance then sat down. Setsuko smiled then lifted Inuyasha's head up from her lap and rested his head in Sesshōmaru's lap.

Sesshōmaru's eyes stretched wide. "What… the… fuck…?"

"He's related to you, not me," Setsuko chuckled, yet stated.

"Is this your idea of a joke? Or are you trying to spite me somehow?"

"Don't be ridiculous Sesshōmaru…" Setsuko couldn't come across the thought why she had done that… maybe she was starting to reason with their father…

Sesshōmaru looked down at his brother. He found his position most utterly uncomfortable. He just hoped Inuyasha wouldn't wake up while they were like this, or that anyone would find them…

"You stay here and look after Inuyasha," Setsuko spoke. "Your father would be mad if both Inuyasha and Izayoi were killed, so I'll keep an eye on her. C'mon Myōga," she said and picked Myōga up. She walked after Izayoi.

Sesshōmaru watched them disappear. Somehow he felt like his mother did this on purpose. He looked back at the sleeping (pphht, yea right) Inuyasha. How did he get stuck with this task? He looked at the hanyō in his lap and studied his neck. Indeed he was poisoned, but this was a strong poison and you'd probably need some strong acid to burn it out. His Dakkasō might be too strong, but what does he care anyway? If Inuyasha's mother doesn't return in time, he'll try the Dakkasō. More credit for him if Inuyasha actually dies from it then.

"Ugh, where'd she disappear to?" Setsuko looked around to see if she could spot the woman. "Myōga, you look that way, call me if you find her," She said and put the flea down.

"Yes, Setsuko-sama!" Myōga smiled as he could finally communicate with Setsuko again. He started hopping in the opposite direction that Setsuko was going.

Setsuko walked again and looked around her. Odd that she couldn't smell the human anywhere, she couldn't pick up her scent at all. What a time for her senses to be giving in. She sighed then stopped for a mere second to try and refresh her senses. She inhaled, and as she inhaled her eyes shot wide open. 'That smell!'Were her first thoughts and she instantly ran towards the direction of the smell. 'I haven't smelled that since the battle with Ryukossei!'

Setsuko stopped in her tracks when she found Inu no Taishō sitting and resting against a tree. She could clearly smell his blood all over the place and as she studied it she saw the dead bodies of three soldiers. Not knowing what to say, she just said the first thing that came to her mind.

"Are you okay?"

Inu no Taishō looked up at the woman. "Of course I am."

Setsuko walked over to him and kneeled beside him, on his right side. "Oh my gosh, you're bleeding!" She said referring to a wound on his right shoulder, and the blood dripping down his arm. Clearly whatever weapon was used against him was strong enough to cut through his armour.

"I have had worse wounds, Setsuko," he informed her.

"Then why are you just sitting here not doing anything about it?"

"I'm resting," He could smell Inuyasha's scent all over Setsuko, and that worried him. "Where's Inuyasha?" He asked with suspicion all over his face.

"Oh…" she noticed she had his scent over her and that's wasn't a normal thing. "He's been poisoned… by Kane's claws…"

"Poisoned, by Kane?" Inu no Taishō asked shocked.

"By your expression… I'm thinking that isn't a good thing… But don't worry, Izayoi went out to get herbs and Myōga sucked some of the poison out…" As if that was supposed to make him feel better…

"Shit," He murmured then pushed himself to stand on his feet, but Setsuko stopped him and pushed him back down.

"Wait no… don't get up, you'll lose too much blood…" she whispered, with her hand resting against his chest. "Sesshōmaru is with Inuyasha, I don't think there's anything to worry about," she spoke with concern shining in her eyes.

"Is that supposed to make me feel better?" Inu no Taishō asked her.

"Well for one, Sesshōmaru is smart, and two, he has his pride. Killing Inuyasha now would mean that he is as low as low can get," Setsuko stated.

"Setsuko, how can you want me to just sit here when my son is dieing? Herbs can't help anything for Kane's poison. His poison is one of the strongest out there, and no human - not even a half human - can survive his poison, unless it's burnt out with a strong, slightly weaker poison than his," Inu no Taishō had another attempt to get up but Setsuko still didn't let him get far.

"Wait…" she said. "Inuyasha isn't an ordinary hanyō. He got his demon blood from you, and that's way too strong for him to die over a silly little poison from Kane."

"I don't want to take chances," then their eyes met.

The minutes just went on like days for Sesshōmaru. He sat against a rock, with a hanyō's head on his lap, in annoyance. Somehow the thought crossed his mind that why is he letting Inuyasha's head rest on his lap? His mother left, and no one else is there, he could just shove Inuyasha off. So why was he allowing his brother's head on his lap? His thoughts were interrupted when he heard Inuyasha's breathing changing. He began to pant. In this case it was normal in a dangerous way, as it was a symptom of the poison working its way through Inuyasha's body, and seeing that he had poison injected to him by his throat, his lungs are one of the first organs to be infected. To put things short: Inuyasha is getting closer to his death.

From the lack of oxygen, Inuyasha's eyes opened up and he blinked a few times. It wasn't everyday that he woke up to see his brother's face. "What the HELL!" He spoke in between heavy pants.

Sesshōmaru's eyes dodged downwards to Inuyasha and he was amazed by his strong pose, instead of showing that he was busy dieing. "You are aware that you are dieing? I'd strongly suggest you don't waste your breath by screaming or yelling. You'd probably only die faster that way anyway."

Inuyasha looked at his brother in awe. Even so, he still didn't think he was doing all of this on his own free will. Inuyasha sat up and looked around him to see if there were any signs of his father or mother or maybe even Setsuko. No signs of them were visible. Inuyasha refused to believe that Sesshōmaru was doing this on his own free will, there must be some strings attached. But even so, he can't worry about that now as Sesshōmaru was right, he was busy dieing and his oxygen was running out. Fast.

"It'd be best if you lay down, bro, sitting up or moving for that matter makes the poison spread faster. Don't you know that by now?" Sesshōmaru said referring to all those many times Inuyasha encountered Sesshōmaru's Dakkasō.

"Don't be ridiculous! I'm fine!" Inuyasha said without hesitation but was obviously wrong. He just kept on breathing heavier and heavier.

"You don't sound, or look fine to me in any way," Sesshōmaru stated. "You know bro, it'd be a pity to see you die like this…" putting emphasis on the word bro.

"What's your point?" Inuyasha growled.

Sesshōmaru remained silent but only raised his claws to reveal Dakkasō.

"So you'll just put me out of my misery for me?" Inuyasha's eyes twitched.

His brother still remained soundless. He took his claws and in the same holes that Kane made in his throat, he inserted his claws, also in his wrist.

Inuyasha's eyes only stretched wide at his brother's sudden actions, leaving him expressionless - just confused and dazzled.

Sesshōmaru didn't know if his Dakkasō was strong enough to burn everything out. His father's poison was probably the only strong enough against Kane's to burn it all away. But even if that is true, his Dakkasō should clear up most of it. The rest would probably just work itself out of Inuyasha's system… eventually. He's not completely human after all.

Inuyasha couldn't get why Sesshōmaru would want to kill him now, but then he felt his throat clearing up and he could breathe again…

Sesshōmaru let go of Inuyasha, they both were still sitting, in front of each other looking each other in the eyes.

"Why the hell did you just do that?" Inuyasha asked.

"Because father wouldn't be happy if I just watched you die," was Sesshōmaru's simple reply.

Inuyasha sat back and decided to stay calm on this one. Sesshōmaru actually saved him. He better be grateful about it. "Well… thanks…" he said as if he didn't know the meaning of the word.

"Don't mention it, and I mean it," Sesshōmaru said then a snowflake landed on his shoulder. Both Inuyasha and Sesshōmaru looked at the snowflake, then soon more fell from the sky. "Snow?"

"This time of year?" Inuyasha added.

Setsuko looked deep into Inu no Taishō's eyes, searching inside of them to see if there's just maybe a little bit of love left in them for her. And being alone with him right now wasn't helping her to move on… it was tempting… too tempting. In the forest alone with her one true love and he's injured. What more could a girl ask for? Her right hand was still against his chest. She lifted up her left hand and rested it on his cheek then she leaned in and sealed her lips in a kiss with his.

Inu no Taishō's eyes closed… probably more from anger than joy. Setsuko just suddenly yelped in pain then pulled away from Inu no Taishō, her eyes shut closed.

"Setsuko, no!" Inu no Taishō said with anger in his voice.

She opened her mouth allowing blood to drip from her tongue. "You… bit… me…" She put her hand under her chin and caught the blood before it dripped onto her kimono. She finally opened her eyes, hurt.

"Setsuko, I thought I made it clear that everything was over between us? I love Izayoi, and that's how it's gonna stay. I know about your plans to break us up so you might as well quit," he spoke.

Setsuko sighed and licked up her own blood. "Sorry, okay? I just miss everything… I was stupid back then… I was young. I didn't think right."

"Just drop it. I'm willing to put everything aside and be friends. For Sesshōmaru's sake anyway."

Silence conquered their conversation but then a single snowflake dropped down from the heavens in between the two. Setsuko blinked, "Snow?"

Inu no Taishō looked up into the sky when he saw more falling down. "Something's not right. It's not supposed to be snowing now…" He then finally got up to his two feet. "I'm going to find Izayoi, you go to the boys and make sure they're fine."

Setsuko sighed, "Can't I go with you?"

He glared down at her, "Don't you think you caused enough trouble already?"

"I said I was sorry! At least let me make it up by helping you find your wife! Your senses will anyway be a bit down thanks to that wound," she said and pointed at his wound. "Not to mention both of our senses will be knocked sideways as long as it's snowing. Two noses are better than one after all."

"And what about Sesshōmaru and Inuyasha?" Inu no Taishō sighed.

"Trust me," Setsuko said and got up to her feet. "They'll be fine! Sesshōmaru wouldn't do anything stupid. He loves you too much, he doesn't admit it, but he'd rather stay in your good books, so he wouldn't kill Inuyasha…"

"Fine, I'll trust you on this one since they at least can protect themselves. Izayoi on the other hand is only human… she's left defenceless…" Inu no Taishō spoke out of concern then started to walk.

"What about your wound!" Setsuko ran after him.

"What about it?"

Setsuko sighed, but smiled, at his stubbornness. She really needed to get away from him before she did something as stupid as that again… But she wanted to make up for it by helping him find Izayoi… at least that's what she thought.

'If what Setsuko says is true, then by now Sesshōmaru should have used his poison to burn Kane's out of Inuyasha's body…' Inu no Taishō thought with a smile. He had faith in Sesshōmaru. There was no doubt that Inuyasha would die tonight.

Inuyasha stood up, "I don't know about you but I'm going to go look for my mother."

"I wouldn't if I were you," Sesshōmaru said.

"Why not?"

"There's still some of Kane's poison left in your body. My poison isn't strong enough to burn it all out. If you move too much it will spread all over again. Father's poison would be strong enough though."

Inuyasha sat back down. He supposed his brother knew what he was talking about, but why would he stay with him? He decided not to ask anymore questions before he pissed Sesshōmaru off and make him leave. He had to admit he kind of enjoyed the company.

The ground was getting white and the air grew colder. Inuyasha tried his best to keep himself from freezing to death.

Sesshōmaru looked up at his freezing brother. They were two… they both had their body heat, Sesshōmaru had a fluffy… and if they work together then they'd probably survive. Sesshōmaru growled at his silly thought. Like that would ever happen.

"Izayoi-sama!" The flea jumped onto one of the herbs she picked.

Izayoi sighed at the flea. "I believe I have enough." She stood up and started to walk back. Then she realised a snowflake fall upon the herbs. "What?"

"Snow?" Myōga said and jumped up and down.

"Something can't be right…" she started fastening her pace into a run. "I hope Inuyasha's still alright…"

It wasn't long before nearly the entire place was white. "What's going on?" Izayoi came to a halt as she observed her surroundings. This was everything but normal.

"Izayoi!" She heard her husband calling her. She turned around and saw him running out of the trees towards her.

"Are you alright?" he embraced her, making sure she was warm enough.

Setsuko just leaned against a tree minding her own business.

"Yea, I'm fine. It's Inuyasha I'm worried about…" She said and embraced the heat she received from Inu no Taishō's body and armour. (A/N: Even though it's steel so that could be quite cold o.O;;)

"Oyakata-sama!" Myōga hopped happily. "See I kept Izayoi-sama save!"

Inu no Taishō smiled at the flea. "Well then let's get going," he said and ended the embrace. "C'mon Setsuko!"

"Setsuko?" Izayoi said confused and glanced over at the yōkai. "I thought you were with Inuyasha and Sesshōmaru…?"

"Nah, left the two boys alone. It's high time they do some bonding anyway…" Setsuko spoke and walked closer. She was definitely friendlier towards Izayoi which could be scary depending on which way you look at it. "Well let's get going," she had a mysterious smile plastered on her face, then she walked past the couple towards the two boys.

Izayoi then noticed what she should've noticed earlier. "Your arm…" she whispered.

"You try getting him to sit still so you can treat it. I've given up with his stubbornness, but since you're Inuyasha's mother, maybe you actually can do something," Setsuko spoke from the far front referring to Inuyasha's personality being too similar to his father's.

"Let's just get to the boys first," Inu no Taishō said and Izayoi nodded.

They approached their destination and Setsuko just stopped a few feet away from it. Her jaw nearly dropped to the ground.

"What's wrong, Setsuko?" Inu no Taishō asked

"Shhh!" She motioned by placing her index finger over her lips and pointed at Sesshōmaru and Inuyasha with her other hand.

Inu no Taishō and Izayoi looked over there and amazement was as clear as the summer's light blue sky in their eyes. Inu no Taishō smiled, whether it was at his children's former foolishness or the brotherly love they currently shared - he didn't know. Maybe both for all he cared.

Over on the other side… it seemed though as if both the two brothers were asleep, but in the most unimaginable way possible - or at least in their case. You could clearly see that Inuyasha was lying in Sesshōmaru's arms, with his fluff wrapped around the both of them for heat.

"You know if Inuyasha wasn't poisoned I'd just walk away and come back tomorrow," Inu no Taishō spoke slightly shaking his head.

"So what now?" Izayoi asked.

Sesshōmaru's eyes instantly opened when the smell of his father's blood reached his nose. He looked over to where the smell was coming from, and to his horror his parents and Inuyasha's mother were standing there, staring at them in amazement.

A/N: YAY! I think o-O;;; Well this chapter ended sweetly in inu brotherly love:DDDD Sorry for crappy chappie... don't know when I'll update again...

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