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INUYASHA DOES NOT BELONG TO ME!

Chapter 3: Instincts

The young demon marks her spot on the tallest tree she could find. Not far from her friends but high enough to stay safe for the time being. She knew he would find her, he always has. Always will. Dangling her leg on the branch of an evergreen she examines the huge plant. Stupid needles keep pricking her to now end, "ow, dang this itches."

"Master Jaken did you hear that? I think something's in the tree?" softly utters a little girl; a pony tail on the side of her head. Yuri could only know one person who would call Jaken a master, young, innocent Rin. Having her predicament on the correct path she sees Rin and Jaken settling at the trunk of the precise tree she was on. The child and the dwarf demon were warming next to the fire, and being the only source of light in the blackness. The quarter moon had been blocked by grave clouds.

"It's probably just a squirrel," Jaken squawks, "though the presence around this area isn't quite as settling as it was a few seconds ago." The woman up above just ignores the sounds down south hoping they wouldn't see her. Not wanting to be rude she didn't want to deal with them at this time.

I wish I had my sketchbook. Thank you for my night vision.

A drizzle of rain began to surround the forest and its environment. Thankfully, the cries from heaven didn't soak her due to the branches as the teardrops got heavier. The cleansing of precipitation gave the forest a foggy appearance that made it peaceful and wonderfully mysterious to the naked eye. Gentle strokes of water roll down the lush leaves to be captive into the darkness of the soil, never to return to the surface as their fate were sealed. Rin and the toad demon huddle under the safety of the vegetation with Ah-Un. Yuri watches; interest smothering her teal irises at the characters movement.

"What are you doing?"

Jumping at the unnoticed encounter Sesshomaru stood on the other side of the core of the evergreen, and she slowly turns her features to him. Freshness of the rain and the sight of his implausible appearance made her paralyze, literally!

I can't move!

Suddenly the world around her disappears and a scene unfolds to her eyes. A memory perhaps; she couldn't tell as it digs her deeper into the core. It was tepid, blissful, and longing as she lets go of herself.

Her eyes meet the dark form of a man that she could greatly see was a demon from its pointed ears poking out from the man having a ponytail. He seemed burly and loyal in his well suited fighting stance that he appeared to always bare. His armor spoke of a dangerous and lethal battle as she sees armor sticking up outwards on his shoulder. Almost as if it was connected to something that he lost - torn from its other half – as the metal smoothly curves.

It is pouring outside as she could see something furry like a puffy coat of some sort on her. Most likely to keep her from getting sick from the rain she thought. Somehow she could feel the rain itself but she couldn't feel the strands of hair in front of her eyes nor of the furry object on her. The rain is the only thing see can feel. Why? The soothing roar of the rain caught her ears though. It wasn't the only noise.

A giggle came out of the quiet atmosphere as it was Yuri.

I laughed! But I didn't even feel my mouth moving! And it's not even my voice! This is so confusing!

They were the only ones out in the maze of trees of what she could see. It is a little girls adorable voice calling out to the grown demon, "this is the weather that we first met in teacher."

Without hesitation the scene cut to an immediate halt as her eyes laid again to the lord. Like it never happened…

"Yuri?"

The demon snaps out of it as Sesshomaru had called her name, a headache trembles in her skull. The lord then asks of her wellbeing and she just waves her hand as an 'ok' sign.

What was that? That demon, he seemed familiar. Like I should remember him. Like…he was a big part of my life at one point of time, but I've never seen him in my childhood…his clothing and the surroundings seemed like this time. The Feudal Era. I must've been seeing and feeling that girl's memories, but…

Who is she?

Sesshomaru then leaps next to her in his soaking state and stands towering over her. His armor is blanketed in a thin sheet of slippery liquid as the waterdrops trailing down twinkle. Like Yuri's his sun kissed eyes glow in the dark of the night. Yuri stands in front of him.

"We need to talk," breaks out the lord. She shivers a bit inside from predicting that he said that because of what Kagome asked of him. Blocking out of her imagination she retorts, "ok."

"I assume you know of this unknown presence. I could catch your scent in the temple enough to know you heard my asking of Kagome before you head off," Yuri nods of his saying praying to god that he doesn't bring up the question that he was asked of.

"What irritates you?" he always kept that plain expression on him as if it was the only outlook he knew of.

"I've just been having these throbbing migraines almost every day since I could sense this unknown presence, that's all…," Yuri knew he knew the new advanced word of serious headaches from being on the other side of the well once before. Otherwise it isn't the only subject that had been messing in her brain. Those nightmares had returned and they were already worse than the last time. Feeding on her energy, her life source, to the point where when she physically stands up she gets lightheaded. Due to that it made her faint once. Luckily nobody saw it.

Practicing long enough it is now easy for her to hide the weakness in her as she battles it as nausea now swirls lightly in her stomach. Avoiding it she holds a straight face but she wasn't sure it was outstanding enough to hide it from the lord compared to everyone else who had been fooled.

"That's not all. You're tense," he converses as the edge of his tone comes out seriously. He hated people who hid things from him, especially her. He knew why from his own past. The breed doesn't return anything of his speaking.

"You're scent, it's changed…like last time," remarks the dog demon.

"What do you mean 'like last time'?" slightly scrunching her façade her dim bronze hair flows with her movements. If the moon had been out you would see the strange strike of silver. Nobody had her hair; nobody has ever claimed to be half dog and half wolf demon. Such a combination of demonic power that everything about her was a combination. Her eyes; the combination of blue and green irises of her parents, and her hair the combination of silver of the dog in her and the dark brown of a wolf. The breed was the only one of her kind, the only breed of canines. Like Inuyasha was the only breed of the uniting of a dog and human.

"When you had those nightmares."

"Oh, well I'm fine," no she wasn't.

"You're lying."

"Why do you care!" she shouts, "I can keep things to myself if I want to and if it's my choice to tell-"

She gasps as she feels a shock in her as another scene then unfolds and she freezes again. Like last time everything is replaced with the dark form of that male demon again.

She was back in the body of that young girl once more. The girl is mad, shouting in frustration at the demon and crying from what she hears, "DON'T LIE TO ME! SOMETHING BAD HAS HAPPENED TO THEM! WILL YOU STOP ACTING LIKE MY TEACHER FOR EVERYTHING AND LET ME GO!"

The saddening, unbearable yelling fades away as Yuri comes back to Earth and the second she sees Sesshomaru she snaps, "stop acting like a teacher! I'm not your student!"

The lord bulges his eyes just for a second and rids of them in realization. His mind going haywire.

It can't be...

"Why'd I say that!" the teen turns her head away from him and talks to herself. Yuri then wonders if Jaken, Ah Un, or Rin heard it, but it also was raining. The water had cleaned their scents from others to sniff them nearby and the rain drops sounded like drums beating all over from their sensitive hearing.

"Sorry I don't why I just said that I just…"

"Don't force yourself."

"Y-yea, um…I know what I just said will make what I'm about say sorta…awkward but I was wondering. Could…could you train me?"

He slightly raises his brows, "I count that way more than sorta awkward."

Yuri huffs in irritation and gives him a questioning outlook, "Ugh, can you or not?"

The female kind of predicts of his teachings to be rough and challenging. The lord gives her a slight nod at a moment of agreement.

"You know of your duties?" requests the lord as he was reminding her about what he had told Kagome to tell her.

"Yeah."

"Then I have nothing else to conclude, I shall be off in searching around the lands for anything in relation of this disturbing presence tonight," he takes off in leaving her to her privacy.

"Alright then."

Something wet rubs on Sango's cheek as this action awakens the demon slayer. Her eyes crack open in response to the tickling of fur on her nose. Tan and black blankets her image as the object moves to see red eyes with black slits. A cat's eye. A meow reaches her ear drums. Kirara had just licked her cheek.

"Kirara? Hey girl, guess you heard about me going with Yuri last night, huh?" Sango pats the tiny demon cat on the head as Kirara meows again in saying a yes.

Sitting up in her covers she hears rustling as she rotates her head to Miroku, her husband, moving in his sleep to her right. She smiles at him as she could make out a small snore coming from him. Sneaking her way to an empty room she got into her everyday green, white, and dark pink kimono.

That was the first time Miroku and I slept next to one another and this also was the first time we slept together as a married couple. Too bad he was drunk but it was nice…

Heading back into the room she halts in slight shock at the now standing Miroku. With the exact clothes he had on yesterday he stares at her in a daze. Like he was possessed by something. Sango walks up to him with her hands cautiously stretching out to him, "M-Miroku, are you sleep walking?"

"Sango," Miroku said. The girl didn't sense anything troubling so her eyebrows scrunch together in confusion. Why would he be acting this way? She calls out to him softly, "yes, your wife."

He scratches his head and then brings out a cheerful beam on him and hugs her unexpected. She yelps as he devoirs her, "good morning my lovely Sango! I hope I did a good job in keeping you warm?"

God, and I thought he was possessed, he was only half asleep!

Blushing like crazy at his question his face then tenses as she worries for him, "are you ok?"

"Excu-" his palm covers his mouth as the monk forcefully, but trying to be gentle, shoves her out of the way as he runs to exit the room. Following his footsteps he then sees a door cracked open leading out into the wilderness. The exterminator heard him hurling outside. Not daring to take a look at Miroku's first signs of a hangover. At least he was alright compared to what she was predicting. He'll live.

Yuri wasn't in her room; she wasn't here. Sango had searched for the places where she would know for sure where Yuri would reside. Nothing. Sango then heads to the rest of the group were they had their own separate areas. Inuyasha didn't remain in his room either. That is not surprising to the woman because of the stubborn hanyou not always using his time of rest inside but outside in the trees. And also cause he was an early riser.

Or maybe he's having his hangover as well?

Last but not least was Kagome's room. Yuri could've slept in her room from a late night chat. And even if she wasn't there she could ask the priestess if she...

Sango stops in her tracks and in her thought process comes to a halt at the view of her black haired companion's room. Her eyes bulge at a disbelief of what she was seeing. Her mouth jarred open.

Inuyasha and Kagome were sleeping together.

Relaxing at the bliss of the moment she makes a smirk on her face at the cozy couple. Everyone knew of their relationship and their love for one another but the woman probably won't ever get use to seeing this from them two always being so stubborn to show their feelings to others. Yes, she's caught a glimpse of him laying by her side and one secret kiss behind the trees, but only when he was human. Never in his demon form had she ever witnessed this picture. Come to think of it he has always acted his demonic stubborn self to his girl like old times, always acting like children when they impressed a fight with one another. He only went as far as hugging or rarely smelling her hair. Holding hands came to be more or less an everyday occurrence now days. He still held his pink cheeks at times in minor awkwardness.

Kagome is facing towards Sango on her side in a feudal night gown that reaches to her mid shins. A blanket cocooned to the shape of her body to the waist down. Bluish black strands of her wavy hair root out on the red, warm pillow or his arm that she laid her cranium against. Inuyasha slept right behind her in a close manner as his head is supported by a white pillow. His chin touching the pinnacle of her skull as his other arm was over hers as their hands meet against her belly button. The said young man and woman's legs from the knee down intersect as the girl leans against him. Him being the only object from preventing her to fall on her back. Crimson all over her

Sango didn't want to wake them but she wouldn't have if Yuri had been around. Nudging the miko in her subconscious her friend awakens in a what-do-you-want groan. With her free arm she rubs the sleep out of her eyes, "why so early, it's still dark Sango?"

Sango whispers, "have you seen Yuri?" the reviving girl grants her a negative answer, "as you can see I was asleep."

"She's not here though and I thought she would've at least told you where she headed or if she might've left early."

"No she hasn't, she said before I fell asleep that she already knew what Sesshomaru requested from her about the village. I guess she may have left early and not have heard about you wanting to go?" Kagome now had her eyes wide open.

"I guess," Sango goes along.

"I'll help you find-huh?" Kagome tries to get up when an arm blocks her. Getting the picture in seeing a clawed hand united with hers and feeling the grip of his feet on her ankles. Blending in with his fire rat kimono her face explodes in red and her eyes were as big as saucers.

WHAT THE…why…how…he is going to freak if he wakes up like this. Why'd Sango have to be here!

Kagome flexes her neck to see his peaceful appearance of slumber. He always had that tensed look on his mug when slumber came to him, and that was when he knew about danger lurking around and that always occurred throughout his whole life.

Even as a child.

She felt glad that she has given this infrequent effect on him. Part of her jokingly just thought it's because of him being drunk but she knew full well. Even if her hanyou denies feeling weak or soft he couldn't hide it from her. He was right, she did know him better than anyone.

"Mind if I ask?" Sango wonders from the couple's position, Kagome just shrugs in confusion to her friend, "He woke up not long after being out cold in his confrontation with Sesshomaru. He wasn't doing anything destructive but wondering around the building and outside so I just went to bed and left him be. I guess he got sleepy and fell asleep in here…"

"With you?"

Her blood cheeks still stay, "…m-maybe…so," the miko slowly, in not wanting to wake him, slides away from his grasp. She exhales deeply as she was off of him and makes her-

She swiftly got jerked back!

She makes a squeaky noise at dog boy's force. Back to her starting point she knew she wasn't going anywhere as he tangles his arms and legs to her roughly. And he is doing this in his sleep! Kagome almost dies in unease as he… nuzzles her neck!

"Ahh…he's…he's purring in his chest and he's….what is he doing!" studders the priestess; she couldn't think.

Sango's left eye twitches in bewilderment at the male's actions as she uses her purpose of being a demon slayer. And that's to know everything about demon's characteristics and their instinct's, "d-don't freak it's his instincts. His instincts right now are telling him to keep him close to you cause even though he's asleep he can still sense my presence and that's why he won't let you go. To keep you safe in case of danger."

"But you're not a threat."

"That doesn't matter his subconscious is saying to keep you close until he awakes because this is the only defense he has in protecting you. And if you stop tensing up he'll stop purring; that's also the cause of him nuzzling you. His trying to relax you."

Feeling more humiliated at the cause and effects that Sango lead to say it made Kagome want to kick him off of her or aim where it hurts and escape with an immediate 'sit' to snap him out of it. The only thing that got her to hesitate over it was that Inuyasha doesn't even know he's even doing this, "so it's his demon half that's doing this?"

"Yes, but please try to relax or else he'll-" the brown haired woman warns as the hanyou starts growl in demanding the said girl beside him to relax. He starts to nip her neck with his teeth. Sango continues, "…does that."

Listening Kagome calms down and Inuyasha stops his comforting movements and purring in drifting back to slumber. The teen sighs in relief, "I'll wake him up while you get your things. Might as well head back to the village," Sango nods.

Checking on Miroku after him entering in sober Sango gives him his monk outfit and isolation in his changing. Loud vocals then combat against one another in a specific room. Miroku finishes his doing and pops out holding his golden staff, "there they go again."

It woke everybody up…

"IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU WERE DRUNK!"

"SO YOU JUST TOOK PITY ON ME AND LED ME TO YOUR ROOM!"

"I LEFT YOU SO YOU COULD DO WHATEVER YOU WANTED CAUSE YOU WERE SUCH A PAIN!"

"AND I WOULD'VE NOT JUST COME IN HERE TO SLEEP WITH YOU CAUSE I WANTED TO CAUSE I DIDN'T!"

"I DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WHEN YOU WERE ASLEEP!"

Kagome barges out of the room and slams the door in noticing everyone who had poked their head out of their rooms. She gives them a cold stare, "what are you look'in at?" They burst back into their rooms with their tails between their legs.

Kagome walks to Sango in giving her the fake smile that gave the slayer and the monk the creeps. By that time Inuyasha speeds out of Kagome's room in frustration, but curiosity also claims his expression, "what do you mean Kags? W-what did I do in my s-sleep? KAGOME!"

"All ready to go?"

"Uh, almost."

Inuyasha marches to his girlfriend, "KAG-!"

"SIT BOY!"

Ok sorry for the long wait but summer is a bit busier than I expected it to be so ...yeah. Hope you like it!

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