disclaimer: i dont own inuyasha or naruto or fairy tail

Ally

Sesshoumaru's gold eyes slid over them, batterd from the previous fight, wary and prepared and scared for the next.

Kagome's lungs semed to have trouble drwing breath in. she had never experienced such a terrifying and lethal battle aura, not even during the first time she and Inuyasha had faced him, the time when he stood on the shoulder of an ogre beautiful and cold and remorseless as he taunted his only brother cruelly.

Unbidden, her reikii rose to the surface of her skin, and she could see Sesshoumaru immense aura shrouding his body like an impenetrable shield, as black as hell and as cold as steel beams left outside in winter. She could even feel it, and it was so painful that she wanted to cry out in agony. She couldn't see or feel others, and panic rose as her reikii was snuffed out like a bonfire before a tsunami, and black spots danced as she struggled to draw in air—

She was dying, dying, of cold and cruelty of years past and where was Inuyasha, sango, miroku, Shippou, Mama, souta, jii-chanand Inuyasha, Inuyasha—

The pressure vanished, leaving her coughing and spluttering like she had recently been drowned, and there were tears on her face and her limbs were shaking like leaves before a storm.

As her senses slowly returned she could hear a faint whoosing noice, which she realised was her gasping and she was clutching Sango for dear life, whom she had no memory of being near. She also registered Mitoku's soothing voice, and the warm weight of Inuyasha on her other side, who clutched her and shouted insullts to his brother. Shippou was in right her face.

"Kagome?", he asked uncertainly as she coughed.

Even In her current indisposed state, Kagome couldn't help feeling rather irrated and embarrased.

"s'ok", she mumbled.

"thank you, Sesshoumaru-sama.", she could hear miroku'svoice, formal with a hard edge," Kagome-sama is much more sensitive to your aura than we are, as you can see."

She sat up, leaning on sango.

"are you allright?", asked Inuyasha. He seemed tornbetween letting her go and taking itup with his brother.

"any better?", asked Sango, rubbing her back reassuringly.

"yeah", said /kagome,, speaking to themboth.

Sesshoumaru who hadn't spoken a single word, finally decided to grace themwith his words.

"don't waste your breathe on me, Inuyasha", he told his brother flatly, and /kagome saw he had enterd the circle of firelight finaaly and there was dry blood on his sleeve." I was merely cleaning housee and you were unfortunate enough to be in my way." His eyes flashed towards her and she cringed," thogh, you were the reason I was cleaning house in the first place."

Inuyasha stared at his half-brother with barely concealed contempt." How so?"

"her jewel shards attract demons."

"so what, you suffocate her? You pig headed dog."

"quiet." Snapped the demon, who seemed a little tetchy tonight. " I will not have an untrained pritess travelling with a half-breed stirring up trouble in my domsin."

" apologies, my lord," said miroku, before Inuyasha ould say something that'd kill them all." We will leave at once."

Sesshoumaru gave him a digusted look" you will not last the night."

"bet you will send more demons our way." Inuyasha grumbled.

Sesshoumaru glanced at her calmly before staring straight at his brother.

"I am offering your group my protection for the time being." He said, tunning them to bemused silence." Do as you please. Inuyasha can track me down."

With that, and the moonlight and fire glinting off his gloosy silver hair, Sesshoumaru vanished into the forest as silently as he had come.