Cave Craze by Kurau no Zetsumei

Chapter One

Cavern Craze

- Kurau no Zetsumei - Eater of Death

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Spoilers: Yes.

Warning: There will be extreme cases of sexuality [porn in writing], language and comdey. Anyone that does not have the maturity of 18+ should not be reading this fan fiction. Arigatou.

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha.

Author's Note: I do not own this fanfiction idea; it is rightfully MuteShadow's. All respect and recognition is given to her on my half.

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I've always been interested in writing a comedy and my friend MuteShadow has been kind enough to give me this rather comical story of hers. She is unable to update it due to the birth of new a daughter [your godmother aka. me, loves you dearest Oka], marriage and she tends to take on too much [notice her rather ridiculous amount of fanfictions?] at once. So she has given me the pleasure of updating and owning this fanfiction she has unfortunately left for the last year.

Please note I have made the decision to have this as a threesome; Sesshoumaru x Kagome x InuYasha. If you do not like it, I apologise but I am the authoress. Do not downrate/flame over a mere extra character in the relationship.

MuteShadow owns this idea/fanfiction; I am simply her writer and she my muse at the moment. Reviews and rantings will be appreciated - I only request for them to be honest and not disrespectful.

Thank you and enjoy.

Kurau no Zetsumei - Eater of Death

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Chapter One

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Boom

A white and green figure jumped atleast a meter in the air at the sound. A girl of eighteen years watched from behind a large rock as the bright light in the sky seemed to fill the entire cave. The sound of thunder came again after the flash of lightening, causing the girl to squirm. Staring outside at the hailing storm, Higurashi Kagome scowled. The wind was violent and the rain was coming down in what they said 'buckets' back in the future. Looking down at herself, she felt her anger rise. She had been out in that storm with InuYasha just a second ago. The girl's temper rose at the memory of the hanyou.

'Which reminds me...' she thought ventfully while she turned to the boy who she assumed was hiding from her at the moment.

Another lightning flash entered the cave and the rolling sound of thunder and its sudden crash caused her to squeak. Her bright blue eyes wide, she shook her head and turned herself towards the perpetrator of this unfortunate situation. A figure on the floor sat rather begrudgingly, drenched and sopping, his golden eyes watching her underneath the mop that was his silver hair. The girl glared at him furiously, her body trembling as she heard the 'drip drip' of the water dripping from her clothes. She looked bellow her and noticed the puddle forming underneath her.

"Lets go find the shikon no kakera, Kagome! Miroku and Sango are gone for a week so we might as well not just sit here! Naraku can't be that far ahead!" she mocked what the hanyou had said earlier as she wrung out her green fuku, the water splashing and adding to the considerably large puddle underneath her mud soaked shoes.

A pair of golden eyes narrowed at the girl, their amber depths flaring with impatience. The boy threw his arms across his chest, his lips puckered in a defiant pout. Sitting on the ground, his butt absorbing the mud, the half-breed raised his nose into the air haughtily, the stubborn look on his tanned face angering Kagome further. Mumbling under his breath, InuYasha began to try and wring out as much of the water out of his red hoari and hakama. Hearing the girl mumble angrily about 'idiotic hanyou' and 'arrogant, selfish jerks', InuYasha gave her an accusing look.

"Keh! How could I have known there would be a storm? Its your fault we're here...you could have said no." The silver-hair hanyou grumbled, his already foul mood heightening when he noticed his skin was becoming irritated by the wetness of his clothes.

The girl paused wringing her white shirt and shaking her rather short green skirt to turn and glare at her rather stupid companion. Her blue eyes widening and then narrowing furiously, she pointed an accusing finger at the boy and spat, "You dragged me on your back! I said 'no' how many times, InuYash?! I told you I have a math test tomorrow but-"

The boy flushed red and looked away stubbornly. "Did not! You just want to blame me because you don't want to admit you were too stupid to watch that stupid 'weather' thingy on your magic box at home."

Kagome sucked in her breath sharply, her tiny body trembling with her anger. Stomping towards her companion, the miko grabbed the pair of kawaii inu ears that rested upon his thick head roughly in her hands and tugged ruthlessly on them. "You baka! The weather report reports the weather for my time. Not for five hundred years in the past during the Sengoku Jidai!" she screamed as she pulled ferociously on the yelping hanyou's ear.

"Ow ow! You fucking crazy bitch! Let go!"

"No! Not until you understand just how stupid you're being!"

"Fuck you! This is your fault!"

"It is not, InuYasha! You could have waited until tomorrow instead of dragging me from my house, through the well and into this Kami-forsaken puddle in the middle of a Hell-knows-where forest!" Kagome furiously gave hard tugs on InuYasha's ear to emphasise her words.

The two struggled until InuYasha growled and quickly pulled himself away from the girl. Hurriedly, he distanced himself from the panting girl. He turned his back on her, intending to ignore her glare but thought better of it. If he turned his back to her she just might attack him from behind. The boy scowled and decided to find a defensive position in the cave. Noticing a corner, he walked towards it, ignoring the 'squish squish' sounds his wet clothes made as he walked to it. Sulking in his choosen corner, the hanyou scowled at the futuristic miko.

"Keh." He mumbled, glancing away from those narrowed and intent blue eyes.

Kagome sighed in exasperation and tried to calm herself. Staring at InuYasha thoughtfully, she exhaled loudly. "InuYasha...gomen nasai. I just hate thunder storms and I failed my science test-"

"Whatever! I don't care! Urusai, damare!" InuYasha snapped before turning his whole body around to face the cave wall, ignoring his earlier plan to not do so for very good reasons that were now forgotten.

"Nani?! What did you say?!" The miko shouted.

InuYasha glared at her from his left shoulder and gave her a contemptuous look. "Are you too stupid to understand Japanese? Leave me alone, wench. I dont need you or your big mouth!" The hanyou threw over his shoulder as he continued to face the wall, staring at it stubbornly.

Casting a vexful scowl at the half-breed, Kagome stomped away. "Osuwari!" she snapped before claiming her side of the cave which lay five meters away from the half-breed annoyance.

"Eyaa!" he managed to scream before his body slammed into the ground, placing a InuYasha-sized hole in the hard floor or mud and rock.

Kagome sat down, ignoring InuYasha growls that rose from the impressive indent. She then removed her knapsack from her back and settled it in front of her, intending to remove the more then likely ruined items from inside of the soaking bag and try and rescue them as best as she could. Her face became pale at the first sight of the destruction of her bag. The soaking remains of text books met her astonished gaze, her hands beginning to shake when she noticed the damage done to them. Taking out her books, the girl winced when her math text book fell apart, the soggy pages running with the ink kanjii of her work. Trembling, she searched her bag to find any surviving book all the while mentally praying she would be so lucky. As she drew out all her text books [a staggering amount of ten books], the miko stared in horror at her ruined school books.

Her hands tightened around her English studies textbook, the once impossible foreign language book now even more incomprehendable as it dripped, wet through and through, the ink smudged and the papers falling heavily on her crossed knees.

"InuYasha..." she growled, her voice making the fuming hanyou freeze in terror.

Having just pulled himself out of the crater, the hanyou froze in mid-body shake. He turned mechanically to face the now terrifying sight of a glowing and very scary looking Kagome. He watched her in horrorified silence while she stood up, a book in her left hand that shook rather apparently, and one thought came to mind. Run. The half-breed flipped himself onto his hands and began to crab walk away from her, his feet held out in front of her to stall her approach. He gulped. He noticed his vain attempt to escape did nothing and began to wave his claws in front of him desperately as if to ward her off.

"Ka-Kagome...Ca-calm down!" he pleaded shakily, his golden eyes widening in fear.

Kagome growled in response and thrust twenty pages that had fallen from the text book in his face, the wet pages splashing water on the hanyou. "Calm down?! How can I calm down when I have over ten books ruined? That's an estimated amount of 10 000 yen to replace those books! And how were they ruined?!" she shrieked. The boy winced.

"Because of your stupid idea of looking for shikon no kakera instead of relaxing with Kaede-baba!" The miko was now waving the pages insanely in front of his face, as if the book would mend itself if he apologised.

InuYasha gulped, his eyes following those hands in case they decided to go after his ears again. That thought in mind, his ears lowered themselves and practically pasted themselves to his scalp and hid among the silver hair. His golden eyes watching the miko's face [and occasionally glancing at her waving hands] he watched in stunned silence when Kagome suddenly switched emotions and became frightened. The girl began to pace back and forth in front of him, her face pale and worried.

"What will my Oka-saan say?! How am I supposed to do my homework? Where will I get the money to pay for the books? Better yet, how will I get the money?! With out text books I cant possibly do my work which means I'll fail another test and if I fail another test I'll fail school and end up as a nobody living in her Mom's house with no source of income or a job, feeding off her family as a leech! O Kami!" The miko swiftly turned to the cowering hanyou, her anger back and full blown.

Pointing an accusing finger at InuYasha, Kagome shrieked, "Its all your fault I'll be a loser with no life! And all because you wanted to look for the shikon no kakera!"

InuYasha stared at Kagome, gaping. His surprise and fear quickly vanishing, he stood and glared down at the girl who stood where she was, her fists tightly clenched at her sides. Bringing a claw up, he pointed it at her and leaned in and yelled in her stubborn face,

"What the fuck are you talking about you crazy bitch?!"

Snarling, Kagome leapt at the hanyou, her hands extended with a lethal intent. InuYasha screamed in terror when the girl's little body came into contact with his, her hands wrapping around his two large silver forelocks near his face. The two fell to the floor in a jumbled mess of flailing limbs, an occasionally fist and leg flying in the air and landing on the victimized boy. Kagome growled menacingly as the unfortunate hanyou tried to crawl away only to scream when she pulled onto his silver forelocks viciously, dragging him back to the one-sided fight. InuYasha yipped as the miko tugged mercilessly on his hair, causing the hanyou to feel the burning pain of his hair being pulled out from his scalp.

Yanking savagely on InuYasha's thick hair, Kagome screamed, "You insensitive, stupid ja-ku! How could you do this! This is all your fault!"

"Ow ow ow!" InuYasha yelped as he tried to push the crazed school girl off.

Boom

The lightning caused Kagome to freeze and quickly wrap herself around the boy, choking him to death as she hugged her body to him. Her arms in a vice-like grip around her neck, InuYasha struggled to undo her arms only to stall when he felt a chilling aura in the cave. He swiftly looked to the side to see a very unwelcomed visitor. Flashing amber eyes regarded the scene of the ningen over powering the half-breed. Pale, thin lips upturned into a mocking sneer. The sneer caused the boy to wince. The white figure walked into the cave further more, ignoring the growls it caused from the hanyou who was still being imprisoned by the ningen miko a top of him.

"Hn. This is degrading to our family, InuYasha as much as I am reluctant to admit my ties to you of all creatures." A cold voice interrupted the bicker smoothly. The two companions looked up and were met with the sight of a white figure. The white figure's amber eyes narrowed and glared at InuYasha. "Hanyou, are you so weak to be ruled by your ningen?"

Both girl and hanyou froze. Still holding InuYasha's hair in her hands and InuYasha with his claws on Kagome's shoulders, the two stared at the unwelcomed sight.

"Sesshoumaru..." InuYasha snarled.

The said intruder glared at the half-breed with obvious disgust, his high nose twitching slightly. "Hanyou." The youkai murmured in response.

Kagome gaped at the wet beauty of the taiyoukai. His long white and silver hair hung around him in soaking tresses, the water like crystals on the glossy mass of moon-kissed hairs stunning. His once loose hoari now clung to the well-defined chest and muscled abs of the taiyoukai's stomach, making Kagome suddenly feel strangely hot. InuYasha stiffened when the addictive smell of Kagome heightened. Blinking in confusion, the hanyou turned to see the girl staring at Sesshoumaru wide-eyed.

'What the...' The hanyou leaned into the oblivious girl and bent down, sniffing at her stomach.

Feeling something brush her stomach, Kagome yelped in surprise when she felt InuYasha suddenly press his face there, making the miko yipp. "InuYasha, what are you doing!" she demanded in embaressement, her cheeks flushing red.

InuYasha ceased his exploration of the forgein yet addictive scent radiating off of Kagome. Frowning, InuYasha looked up at her. "What am I doing? Why the fuck did your scent change?" he demanded jealously, ignoring his half-brother completely.

Kagome frowned at InuYasha. Still straddling the hanyou she hissed, "I don't know! Maybe its because the smell of wet dog is all over me now!"

InuYasha growled at the girl. Kagome growled back. Sesshoumaru watched the exchange silently, appearing to be indifferent yet a gleam now apparent in his now intent amber eyes, his gaze fixated on the miko. He too had smelt the swift change in the girl's sakura and jasmine scent when she had gazed upon himself. The taiyoukai repressed the urge to smirk at his confused, virgin half-brother. Was the hanyou that inexperienced he had not know the wench had become aroused? Sesshoumaru stepped forward silently, stopping a meter before the bickering pair. Withdrawing Tokijin, he pointed the blade at the now wary InuYasha.

"Little brother cease your immature argument with your bitch. This Sesshoumaru is not amused with your childish antics." The demon Lord interrupted the argument coolly.

InuYasha quickly pulled the stunned Kagome off of him and placed her behind him protectively. Snarling, InuYasha spat, "Screw off Sesshoumaru! Get the fuck out of the cave before I push your frigid ass with Tessaiga up it out of here!" The hanyou snapped.

Kagome winced at the freezing intensity Sesshoumaru's eyes took. The impassive, stunning features of the youkai became hard with the older brother's obvious annoyance and hatred of his younger half-brother. Stepping up, Kagome ignored InuYasha's growls for her to sit down behind him.

"Are you injured?" she asked curiously as she pointed to the blood staining Sesshoumaru's white hoari.

Sesshoumaru stared at the miko blankly, the inanimate quality to his eyes making the usually cheerful girl somber and nervous. "It is none of your business ningen. This Sesshoumaru does not need a ningen miko's aid; especailly one as trivially weak as yourself."

Kagome gaped at Sesshoumaru. Her mind screamed 'Asshole, asshole, asshole!'

InuYasha leapt up before Kagome could even make a retort. Tessaiga drawn and placed in front of him, InuYasha growled. "You will shut the fuck up and not talk to Kagome like that you bastard! I'll fucking hack you to pieces if you talk to her like that again!"

Sesshoumaru's lip curled slightly, the only outward sign of the taiyoukai's mockery of the hanyou's threat. "Hanyou do not speak to your betters in such a manor. I am finished with you and your useless wench." Turning on his heel, Sesshoumaru walked to the back of the small cave and stood there, staring out at the fierce storm that waged outside.

InuYasha spluttered angrily and quickly readied to follow Sesshoumaru to start a physical fight. Rolling up his sleeves, the half-breed was more then willing to throw the bastard out on his as and, if the Kami favored him for once, a bolt of lightning might hit the asshole. Sensing InuYasha's intent, Kagome grasped InuYasha's sleeve and pulled the furious hanyou towards her. Forcing those golden eyes to stare into her own, Kagome shook her head.

"Ignore him, InuYasha. Now is not the time or place." she whispered softly, her blue eyes holding his.

InuYasha huffed angrily and pulled away from the girl. Sitting akimbo on the ground, the silver-haired boy grumbled angrily and ignored Kagome completely out of anger for her intruding in his fight for her. Kagome threw her hands in the air, exasperated beyond comperehension. Ignoring both inu brothers, Kagome walked over to her side of the cave. Silently, the three people with in the cave claimed their side of the cavern. Sesshoumaru had obviously taken the largest and more comfortable part of the cave in the back while Kagome and InuYasha sat opposite to each other. InuYasha scowled to himself and withdrew Tessaiga again. Glaring at Sesshoumaru, he began to clean Tessaiga with his red hoari sleeve. the water still in it making it an easier job then usual. The taiyoukai glared back at hanyou, his amber eyes intense with his contempt for his inferior family member he would rather call a past victim of his claw. The miko watched the arrogant males scowl at each other. Shaking her head, Kagome shrugged. It was not her battle and she would rather ignore the both of them really.

Taking out a new pair of clothes that had been thankfully placed in a water-proof plastic bag by her Oka-saan incase of these circumstances, the miko pulled off her green scarf and threw it on her large yellow bag. Standing up, the miko blushed. She could not possibly change in front of Sesshoumaru and InuYasha but yet if she stayed in these wet clothes she would more hten likely die of hypothermia or pneumonia. Blushing, Kagome stepped forward to InuYasha.

"InuYasha?" she stammered quietly so as to not catch Sesshoumaru's attention.

InuYasha pulled his intent glower from Sesshoumaru unwillingly and looked up to see a flushed-looking Kagome. "Nanigotda?" He demanded sharply.

Kagome coughed and leaned down. Cupping her hand over mouth she leanded forward. "I need to tell you something." she whispered, her hot breath grazing InuYasha's sensitive ear.

The hanyou stiffened when Kagome came into such close primoxity to him, her smell and heat making him alarmingly aware of her. Flushing at these unexpected feelings and stirrings, InuYasha growled between clenched teeth, "About what?"

Kagome glanced at the stoney-faced Sesshoumaru and noticed the taiyoukai was still staring forward, obviously uninterested in her conversation. 'What was I thinking? Of course he doesn't care but..'

"InuYasha I need to change from my clothes. I can get ill if I stay in them."

InuYasha growled at the circumstance. What Kagome was saying was true. If she stayed in her wet and cold clothes, her weak ningen body would more then likely get ill. But there was the whole situation with Sesshoumaru.

'No fucking way am I letting Sesshumaru stare at Kagome! I haven't even gotten to stare at her naked so why should that prick?'

Sesshoumaru watched the two companions intently, his emotionless face still in tact while inside, the taiyoukai restrained the urge to sneer. So the miko was so modest she could not take off her clothes before him? Was the miko that intent on the thought that he, Sesshoumaru, would care to look upon her ningen body? The demon turned his attention to the flustered hanyou and found himself content. Atleast the half-breed thought so which now caused his irritatation. Growling, InuYasha glared at Seshoumaru who was now staring at them blankly.

"What the fuck are you looking at?" he demanded.

Sesshoumaru raised a silver brow at the boy. "Something that is not worth my time."

InuYasha clutched his claws together, drawing blood from his palm as his nails dug deeply in his flesh. Snarling, he turned to Kagome. "I'll stand in front of you and you can change behind me."

Kagome blushed. "I will be changing behind your back. I won't change in front of you, InuYasha." she stated firmly, the determined look rising in her eyes.

InuYasha crossed his arms angrily and looked away. Truthfully, he had wanted to watch Kagome change but obviously that wasn't going to be happening. "Keh! I wasn't even thinking at looking at your body." He huffed.

Kagome glared and leaned in. "What do you mean by that? Are you saying you wouldn't want to look?" The miko demanded hottily.

InuYasha shot the girl a stubborn scowl. "Why the fuck would I want to look at you, wench? There's nothing good to look at!"

Kagome gaped at InuYasha. Tears gathering in her eyes, the miko shuddered as she surpressed her sobs. InuYasha gulped and instantly regretted what he had said. Truthfully, he found Kagome beautiful but he was frankly too shy and unwilling to admit it - especailly with Sesshoumaru here! InuYasha could just imagine how much of a bantering he would recieve from the taiyoukai who despised humans.

'Attracted to a ningen miko yet again, half-breed? Disgusting. Are you planning to make her your mate as well? You are no better then a ningen with only the exception that you were honored with my blood. An honor too pure and superior for a dirty hanyou such as yourself.'

"InuYasha! Osuwari!" Kagome's voice broke through the vision of Sesshoumaru mocking him... again.

InuYasha groaned when he felt himself make yet another imprint on the ground. Watching Kagome get up and stomp to her side of the cave, he felt his gut flutter when she picked up her clothes.

"Kagome what are you doing?!" he shouted.

Kagome cast a furious dark look at the grounded hanyou. "I'm changing. I prefer not to die, InuYasha. Even if it means not having to put up with you!" she snapped.

InuYasha's ears lowered to his skull, his handsome face becoming sad. "Kagome..."

"Leave me alone." The miko snipped as she walked to where Sesshoumaru sat.

InuYasha watched this in a jealous confusion. Picking himself up off the ground as the spell wore off, he stomped over to where Kagome now stood a meter before the clam faced Sesshoumaru.

"Seshoumaru you hold the darkest area of the cave. Can I please use this place to change?" Kagome asked politley.

Sesshoumaru stared at the miko thoughtfully. Her large blue eyes, waist length black hair and creamy skin was indeed attractive. Contemplating, Sesshoumaru stared into those large cerulean orbs. "What have you to barter with with this Sesshoumaru?" he demanded coldly.

Kagome frowned. So Sesshoumaru wanted to be bribed for his corner? Sighing and ignoring InuYasha's furious snarls, she shrugged. "I don't have anything you would have need of Sesshoumaru."

Sesshoumaru's golden eyes flickered mysteriously, a certain light coming to the usually aloft depths. "You may use my corner, miko. We will discuss your repayment after." And with this Sessoumaru stood and silently walked to Kagome's claimed wall.

InuYasha growled at Sesshoumaru as he walked by, flashing his fangs as the taiyoukai in a way to say 'back off'. Kagome turned to InuYasha quickly, her glower pinning the half-breed instantly.

"Can you go away? I'm trying to change."

InuYasha stayed in place, his look defiant. "I'm staying here to block you from Sesshoumaru. Fuck no is that bastard seeing what is mi-" The half breed broke off, blushing.

Kagome frowned. "What were you saying?"

"Nothing!"

Sesshoumaru glared at the hanyou. For some reason, he did not appreciate the hanyou's constant claims of the miko. Standing elegantly in a fluid movement, the demon Lord hovered over the hanyou. "Leave the miko, InuYasha. She is blatant about her wishes to be left alone." His amber eyes narrowed at the growling hanyou who now pushed the flustered Kagome behind him.

"Screw off, Sesshoumaru! Since when did you care? Didn't you just tell Kagome to screw off when she tried to heal you?" InuYasha spat.

Sesshoumaru raised his claw. "Do not irritate me, half-breed. I have no patience for you nor your annoying tongue." He stated darkly, his emotionless face becoming steely.

Kagome coughed. "InuYasha, Sesshoumaru won't look! Use your common sense." She was desperate to stop the two from fighting. This was an enclosed, small space. They would bring the cave down on themselves and her if they fought!

Sesshoumaru glanced at the attractive miko. Obviously the girl trusted the demon Lord's honor. He respected her just a bit after noting her knowledge of who was the more respectable person present. InuYasha scowled and reluctantly walked away to his side. Sesshoumaru followed suit. Kagome stayed in the darkest shadow of the cavern wall and turned away. Even if she was in the dark, she was still uncomfortable with the thought that she was unchanging in the presence of two guys. Two attractive males to add at that. Pulling off her shirt and bra, the miko quickly donned a little green pajama tank-top. Unzipping her short green skirt, Kagome winced at her sore, red legs caused by the cold.

'InuYasha will definately pay for this.' she thought sourily.

Putting on a new pair of underwear, a pair of green pajama pants and a white tank top that was slightly baggy on her, the girl quickly brushed her now dry, beautiful black hair and picked up her clothes. Walking out of the shadows, she did not notice InuYasha's stare of appreciation. Nor did she notice Sesshoumaru's slow appreciative assesing of her new apparel. InuYasha, however, did.

"What are you looking at?" InuYasha snarled at his older brother.

Sesshoumaru dragged his unwilling eyes off the miko's curvy, petite body to meet the flashing gold eyes of his half-brothers. "This Sesshoumaru is merely curious to the miko's constant odd clothing." He lied smoothly.

Kagome glared at InuYasha. "See? You are turning out to be such a hentai like Miroku, InuYasha." The miko huffed.

InuYasha growled and pouted. Seeing Sesshoumaru glance at Kagome again, the half-breed scowled. He was definately going to watch Sesshoumaru and Kagome from now on. He was not losing Kagome to any one. Especailly some stuck up youkai. Silence entered the cave as the occupants sat in their corners, unable to start up a conversation. Sesshoumaru was aloner and enemy. InuYasha was jealous and angry about the situation. And Kagome was simply not willing to be coldly rejected by the taiyoukai or yelled at by the hanyou. The effect of the silence was sombering. The storm continued to wage a war outside. Kagome tried to entertain herself as best she could with soaked, incoherent books. Soon she had settled with exploring her side of the cave. In the mean time, InuYasha was more then content to glare at Sesshoumaru while polishing Tessaiga who in return stared at the half-breed impassively, no outward hint to his inner loathing of the filth who stained his royal blood line.

Kagome hunched over her bag, removing more and more ruined matierals from the depths of the giant yelow bag. The girl was actually surprised when she felt her hand disappear into a puddle inside her bag. Her bag did nothingn to protect her possessions. It had only proven to be a pool to hold the rain and drown it all. Poor things didn't have a chance. Sighing, the miko froze when she felt a strange sensation in her nose. Raising her hand, she felt a sneeze coming on.

"Achoo! Achoo!" Kagome sneezed loudly, her whole body shaking from the force of the sneeze.

Her brow furrowed as she felt chills begin to appear on her body. Rubbing her arms, the girl glanced at the two brothers. She couldn't possibly be getting sick. She had changed clothes and everything! She inwardly sighed. She needed to get warm and get some vitamin c in her pronto. Turning to the hanyou, she scowled when she noticed he continued to glare at Sesshoumaru as if the guy had killed his puppy or taken his favourite toy. Sighingm, the girl stiffened when she felt another sneeze coming.

"Achoo!"

InuYasha released his glare from Sesshoumaru who now seemed to be meditating. He looked over at Kagome who was currently wincing as if something had smacked her in the head. Frowning, he turned his attention back to Sesshoumaru. The wench could take care of herself. Besides wasn't she the person who let Sesshoumaru stay in the cave? InuYasha inwardly growled. His older half-brother and rival for the past few centuries, Sesshoumaru, was in his cave. And to make matters worse, the frigid bastard deliberately had dug Tokijin and Tensaiga into the ground before him which had caused two large barriers to block out InuYasha. Now he had no chance to cut the bastard;s hair off while he slept. Damnit.

"Achoo!" Kagome sneezed again.

Getting up, InuYasha strode towards the ningen, his golden eyes concerned. "Oi! You okay?" he asked curiously, trying to hide his concern.

Kagome shivered, her tiny body shaking. "H-Hai, InuYasha. I-I'm fine... Just re-reading some...b-books" she broke off, her teeth chattering from the chilling cold of the cave.

The hanyou looked at the books she was referring too. They made no sense, the words having been erased by the water. Hearing Kagome begin to cough and sneeze again, InuYasha swore colorfully as he noticed Kagome's attire. He had been too busy staring at her erect nipples and slight body to have noticed how little and thin the miko's clothing was. Growling, InuYasha pulled off his hoari which had now dried from his body heat.

Pushing it at the girl, he mumbled, "Here. It'll keep you warm. Last thing I need is for you getting sick. Ningen are weak like that."

Ignoring the end remark, Kagome nodded, her eyes dropping as she grew tired. InuYasha frowned at Kagome's wavering conciousness. Pressing his claw on the girl's forehead, he hissed at the ehat that met his palm. "Kagome why the fuck didn't you tell me you had a fever?!"

"You were a bit busy 'protecting' us from Sesshoumaru, InuYasha. I thought I had better not disrupt you." Kagome retorted, the sarcasm in her tone obvious.

InuYasha growled. "Kagome you're a fucking ningen! You can not sit in the middle of a fucking snow and rain storm in nothing but this-" The hanyou gestured to her tank top and thin pajama pants, "and hope to fucking see daylight alive!"

The miko shivered in response, too tired to retort to the half-breed and his accusations. 'It's not my fault he was the one who dragged me out here.' She thought sourily to herself. Suddenly, as if from the heavens, a white piece of cloth fluttered on top of InuYasha's hoari. Hearing InuYasha's growls, the miko glanced up to see a bare chested Sesshoumaru walking away back through the barriers erected by his katana and ken.

"Oi! Get back here you bastard!" InuYasha shouted furiously while shaking a fist at the stiff white figure.

Kagome looked down at the mixed clothing of red and white. 'So different...just like them.'InuYasha is red as in for passion, heat and burning aggresion. While placating white is beautiful yet calm and collected just as Sesshoumaru.' Kagome blinked. Why was she thinking like this? 'It's probably the fever. Why else would I start comparing InuYasha and Sesshoumaru?'

"InuYasha calm down he is just trying to help." The miko sighed, her eyes following the frantic angry gestures InuYasha was making too Sesshoumaru, her ears ringing with the profanities and curses the hasnyou decided to toss in as well.

InuYasha turned to glare at Kagome. "Give me that hoari." he demanded furiously.

Kagome raised a black brow at the boy and isntead hugged it closer to her body. The silken cloth was warm with the demon's heat and it was so soft compared to InuYasha's hoari. Besides it smelt way nicer. Frowning at him, she asked, "Why?"

"So I can fucking shuve it down his throat."

Kagome sighed. "He is only aiding me, InuYasha. Seriously, do you truly think Sesshoumaru of all people is interested in me like that?" she demanded impatiently.

She was tired, sick and running out of the competitivness of these two. She did not have the energy to listen to InuYasha bicker about Sesshoumaeu giving her a piece of clothing. InuYasha blushed and looked away stubbornly. Kagome sighed at the entire situation. Why o why did she have to meet an inu youkai pinned to a tree? Inu youkai were suck jealous, possessive creatures obviously.

"InuYasha, I am a ningen. Sesshoumaru probably offered me his hoari because he wishes me to pay my debt to him alive." The girl explained while putting on InuYasha's red hoari over her clothes.

InuYasha watched with wide golden eyes as Kagome stretched her arms over her head, the movement and position causing her firm, full breasts to thrust in the air. The pointed small nipples poked through the thin material of the girl's tank top, the aroused bosoms looking as if it were inviting the hanyou's mouth. A growl then intruded InuYasha's hentai thoughts, making him swiftly look around in confusion. Turning to see Sesshoumaru still meditating, he frowned. Had he imagined the inu growl? The growl distinctively sounded like an aroused male offering some sort of sexual escapade. Glancing at Sesshoumaru suspiciously, the half-breed ignored his suspicions. It was stupid to think ice prince over there was having hentai thoughts. Firstly, Kagome was ningen - his ningen at that which Sesshoumaru knew. And that growl was an orgy sort of growl of a male in heat. And he knew for sure by the scents in this cave none of them were in heat.

Scowling, InuYasha placed his attention back to Kagome. Seeing the miko laying against the cave wall, his hoari gracing her small body and seeming to envelope her because of its large size, InuYasha could not help but feel his heart flutter. The possessive happiness faltered and ceased when he saw Kagome gently wipe down Sesshoumaru's white hoari and place it over her legs, the white silk pooling over her skin gently. Sesshoumaru watched the scene from half-lidded eyes, his intent amber gaze fixed on the miko. Silently assesing the pair, the taiyoukai watched possesively as his hoari was then placed by the miko on her legs. Sesshoumaru smirked despite himself.

'Does the miko not know by placing my hoari on her legs she is outwardly telling all that I own the place between it?' Sesshoumaru looked at the girl's tired, peaceful face as she started to drift into slumber. No. She obviously didn't.

Hearing low toned growls however did allow the youaki Lord know his idiotic half-brother knew the secretive sign behind the placing of his hoari on the girl's lower body. Seeing InuYasha turn and glare at him with flashing golden eyes, Sesshoumaru merely raised a silver brow at the hanyou, outwardly saying 'I-win-what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it?'. InuYasha snarled at the cold indifference on the beautiful youkai's face. Seeing that one raised silver brow and mocking light in those amber eyes fustrated the hanyou beyond consolation.

'What is he getting at? Why did Sesshoumaru offer his hoari to Kagome? Does the bastard not know he's fucking pratically stating his claim on her?' InuYasha scowled darkly.

Of course Sesshoumaru knew what he was doing. Sesshoumaru was a full-blooded demon who had been raised in social graces and had been taught on how to court females. He also had pure instinct due to his inuyoukai heritage as well.

'But why is he interested in Kagome? Why all of the sudden is he looking at her?!'

Glaring at Sesshoumaru, InuYasha sat beside Kagome, his knee grazing hers. Casting a smirk at the now glaring taiyoukai, InuYasha picked up the sleeping Kagome placed her in his lap, wrapping his strong arms around her tiny frame. Before InuYasha could be comfortable, he felt the slight pressure of a blade resting against his throat. Raising his golden eyes to bright amber ones and a flawless face that remained emotionless, InuYasha growled. Sesshoumaru gaze down at the hanyou and the ningen in his arms. The miko was some how able to bring his youki to a rise, a gift only an intended mate could do. The taiyoukai fixed his deadly gaze on the half-breed.

"You will place the ningen down hanyou." He ordered calmly.

InuYasha growled. "No way. Screw off Sesshoumaru. Go find your own bitch."

Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed impatiently. "Then I will make you."

Before InuYasha could comprehend what was happening, Kagome was out of his arms and placed behind Sesshoumaru on the floor gently while he was thrown out of the cave into the raging storm. The hanyou landed in a large puddle of mud and pratically swam out of it. Snarling, he spat out the thick mud from his mouth and felt nothing but fury when he saw both Kagome, her bag and Sesshoumaru behind Tensaiga's shield.

"Sesshoumaru!" The half-breed yelled.

Sesshoumaru ignored the hanyou and searched the girl's bag curiously as she lay down beside him, still sleeping due to his intricate gentle care while handling her. Extracting a very fluffy pillow and a few blankets, the taiyoukai efficently placed the miko ontop of the blankets with the pillow beneath her head. Taking the last blanket out, the youkai Lord drapped the blanket over the girl's body. Turning to meet his brother's flashing red eyes, Sesshoumaru merely gave him a cold look as the hanyou banged his fists on the barrier. The hanyou shouted curses but the barrier was thankfully sound proof. Sesshoumaru sat statue-like on the ground and watched in sadistic amusement as the half-breed raged outside, his mud-caked hair, scratched face and furious snarls comical to the youkai Lord.

InuYasha howled angrily and punched the wall beside him, a large crack forming underneath InuYasha's enraged strength. Turning to see Sesshoumaru had placed Tokijin in the ground again thus fortifying the barriers, InuYasha roared angrily and unsheathed the Tessaiga. Ignoring the obvious hazards of blowing up the barrier which could cause both Sesshoumaru's and Kagome's deaths and the possibility of a cave in, the hanyou swung.

"Akai Tessaiga!" he screamed.

Sesshoumaru watched in shock as the hanyou moron actullay attacked the barriers. Snarling, Sesshoumaru watched the attack hit his barriers and were blocked. The taiyoukai and hanyou watched the blades of red energy shoot out in every direction and hit the walls. A sound of rock cracking and splitting alarmed Sesshoumaru. Feeling the ground tremble, he turned to see Kagome now awakening.

"Huh?" she groaned, her sleepy eyes opening hesitantly.

The taiyoukai quickly grabbed the girl and pressed her into his body intending too protecting her. Watching InuYasha through the barrier, Sesshoumaru damned the half-breed to Hell. Watching the huge boulders fall from the cielling, the taiyoukai closed his eyes to block out the dust that might damage them. Finally, the cave settled. Ignoring Kagome's shaky questions, Sesshoumaru placed her on the ground and glared at the blocked entrance. Stepping out of the barrier, Sesshoumaru walked towards the shaken hanyou. Lifting his fist, the youkai Lord thrust his iron hard fist into the hanyou's face, feeling the moron's nose break underneath his punch. Watching with cold golden eyes as the half-breed flew to the cavern wall in a mixture of blood and mud, he watched the boy sink to floor.

Kagome screamed and quickly flew from her place to Sesshoumaru's side. "W-What happened? What did you and InuYasha do?" she demanded. "Why-Why is everything dark? I can't see!"

Sesshoumaru growled. He could see well in the dark due to his superior vision. Looking at the confused ningen at his side, Sesshoumaru looked to the side to see InuYasha groaning as he rose from the ground, his claw covering his bleeding nose.

"The hanyou delivered an attack from Tessaiga which was repelled by this Sesshoumaru." Sesshoumaru stated frostily. "The repelled attack efficently caused the cave to cave in and block the entrance."

Kagome listened, her mouth agape. Stretching out her hands, she met a soft yet hard barrier. Sesshoumaru looked down amused as the miko felt his chest slowly, thoughtfully.

"What is this?" Kagome asked curiously.

"You are touching this Sesshoumaru."

Kagome yelped in surprise and placed her hands down, blushing. "Gomen nasai." she mumbled.

Sesshoumaru smirked a bit. "You have very comforting hands, miko." he murmured before walking towards InuYasha.

Kagome blinked. Was that, in some way, a sexually-related compliment? 'No....No way! Not from Sesshoumaru! I'm going crazy like InuYasha...' The girl's mind rang the alarm. InuYasha! Where was that idiot?!

"InuYasha? Where are you?" Kagome yelled, her tone hinting her concern.

Sesshoumaru frowned slightly. Did the girl ever forget about the pathetic half-breed? Hovering over top of the subconcious hanyou, Seshoumaru growled. "You are foolish and deserve death for your stupidity."

InuYasha blinked in confusion. "Whaaat?"

Sesshoumaru's lip curled. Wishing to inflict pain, the taiyoukai stepped on the hanyou to walk to the miko's side. "The hanyou is over at the northern wall, near the blocked entrance." he told her stiffly.

Kagome nodded. "Arigatou. Um...could you bring me there?" she asked shyly.

Nodding, Sesshoumaru stepped closer to the miko. Watching the girl step even closer to him, he was shocked to say in the least to watched her grab his wrist softly. "Okay! Ready!" The girl chirped brightly.

Sesshoumaru stared down at the small, soft hand holding his large, magenta striped wrist with so much trust in its grasp. Shaking his head slightly, the youkai lead the miko to the hanyou's side. Kagome got to her knees and felt around. Feeling two small fluffy things wiggling in her hands, Kagome sighed.

"InuYasha! You baka!" she snapped at the now regaining concious silver-haired boy.

InuYaha growled as he remembered the cause of his attack. "What are you fucking talking about! Sesshoumaru kidnapped you and held you hostage behind his barriers! I was trying to fucking save your ass, wench!"

"InuYasha! Osuwari!" Kagome yelled, furious at the 'wench' word.

Turning to the white pant leg that defined Sesshoumaru, Kagome frowned. "What is he talking about, Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru glared at the hanyou. So the fool decided to use him as a scape goat? 'He will pay with his blood for this dishonor.'

"This Sesshoumaru placed you within his territory."

Kagome sighed. "But why Sesshoumaru?"

"This Sesshoumaru knows cures for ningen ailments. I decided to aid you in your sickness." He answered smoothly, ignoring the other part of his reason. Sesshoumaru had truly wanted the miko at his side and there was a bit of a plot of his to make InuYasha jealous. He was a bit bored with this whole sitting and not doing anything during the storm arrangement.

Kagome growled. "InuYasha! Osuwari! See? You are such a hentai and baka! Now we're stuck in this cave because of your jealousy fit!" The miko snapped hottliy.

InuYasha yelped when his broken nose hit the ground. Feeling tears of fustration and pain rise to his eyes, he waited for the spell to wear off in sullen silence. Picking himself up, InuYasha turned away from Kagome sat on the ground, his arms crossed across his chest in a show of his unwillingness to talk. Exhaling to calm herself, Kagome clapped her hands together to gian both inu's attention.

"Well there is no use crying over spilt milk! We'll just have to wait until the storm is over to some how rid of the rocks at the exit!" she announced firmly.

Sesshoumaru frowned at the odd term but agreed with the miko. Watching the girl grab his pant leg and pull herself up to him, he noticed that the girl only reached his collar bone. This was strangely attractive and caused a dominating protectiveness to rise in the taiyoukai.

"Oi! What are you two doing?!" InuYasha intruded snappishly.

Sesshoumaru glared at the hanyou. Now, more then anything, the taiyoukai wished he had finished the half-breed off all those other times he had nearly rid of the inferior pest.

Kagome cast an angry look at InuYasha. "InuYasha, I can not see. I am a ningen; a factor you continously point out to me." Pausing, Kagome shrugged. "Sesshoumaru has been my 'eyes' in a way for the last few minutes."

InuYasha growled. "I can be your eyes!"

"Just like you can also be the person to dig us out of here." Kagome replied stiffly.

InuYasha huffed and quickly looked away. "Keh."

Kagome gave the meanest dagger-filled glare to the boy. 'Why does he have to be so jealous? It's Sesshoumaru for Kami sakes! It would be a one-sided attraction anyways.' Kagome blushed and tried to see the taiyoukai which she knew was bare naked from the waist up. Remembering the feeling of his chest caused her face to flame more.

"Hey...Why is your scent changing again Kagome?!" InuYasha demanded from behind them.

Blushing more, Kagome screamed, "Osuwari!"

Sesshoumaru watched the hanyou be grounded again and smirked. He definately liked the miko more and more with every utterance of that word. Sniffing the air quietly, Sesshoumaru felt his blood stir at the delectable scent of the girl's rising lust. Staring at the flushed appearance, he frowned. But who had caused this desirable rise out of the tiny miko? Sesshoumaru glared at InuYasha. The taiyoukai would rather the miko was being turned on by a dung beetle then the half-breed.

"Sesshoumaru can you bring me back to my bag? I have some sources of light, food and a few other things in there." Kagome interrupted the youkai Lord's thoughts.

Nodding, Sesshoumaru waited for the girl to clasp his wrist again. Feeling the small hand graze his wrist, Sesshoumaru repressed the urge to purr. Turning to see InuYasha's shocked, jealous stare, Sesshoumaru lifted a mocking brow yet again and lead the miko to his territory with in the cave. Bringing her to the bright yellow bag, he watched her extract a few things.

"Well I might as well make this place as comfortable as can be for a damp, cold and hard cave." Kagome sighed.

InuYasha shuffled to Kagome's side, his look dark and envious. "Keh. You're about as comforting as a prick up the ass." He mumbled.

Kagome stiffened. "InuYasha...osuwari." The miko bit out angrily while continuing to draw out her materials.

The hanyou yelped in pain when he felt himself grounded yet again. 'Fuck she is sitting me more then usual..' Looking up, the half-breed winced at the smirk on his older brother's face. 'Is she doing it because she likes Sesshoumaru?!'

InuYasha began to feel threatened and panicy. Rising from the ground, the hanyou perched hismelf as close as possible t the angered miko in a blatant sign of his posession of her to Sesshoumaru. This did not go unnoticed by Sesshoumaru at all. The taiyoukai gave a narrowed look that promised death to the half-breed. Suddenly, the taiyoukai calmed, his face remaining impassive. But inside, his mind's wheels were clicking. He was going to claim the miko. Not only would it sate his youki desires but certainly rile the hanyou more. Repressing the urge to smile evilly, Sesshoumaru remained blank-faced and watch the miko swear as she tried to start a fire with some very odd materials.

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Golden eyes flashed furiously as a pouting figure sat in the dark alone, his bare arms crossed over his lean chest in a sulking pose. InuYasha scowled at Kagome and Sesshoumaru who were only a meter apart from each other as they sat on the ground while he had been forced to the other side by the angry miko. While Kagome had been making the fire, InuYasha 'accidentally' tried to slit Sesshoumaru's throat. So now he was exiled. It wasn't fair. Grumbling, InuYasha huffed arrogantly. It wasn't like he really cared that Kagome was mad at him. He couldn't give two shits. His eyes narrowing jealously while Kagome continued to sit beside Sesshoumaru silently, huddling near the fire she had made with her odd supplies from her large yellow bag. Bringing his nose higher into the air, InuYasha 'keh'd and quickly tore his stare off of the two sudden allies and choose instead to become occupied with the tiny pebbles he could see due to the seven lighted candles and two flash lights Kagome had managed to set up around the trio for comfort. Gathering a few dozen varied sized rocks, the half-breed began to place one rock on top of the other, as if trying to make a tower. Frowning as the pebbles continued to slide off of each other, the hanyou growled.

Why wouldn't anything just give him a damn break?

Hooded, amber eyes watched the hanyou with contempt, their golden-flecked depths intent on the silver-haired boy. Sesshoumaru felt the urge to kill the half-breed sing to him as a siren's call. The boy was insufferable and a tainted stain of wasted flesh upon the earth.

'And to think he has my honorable blood running with in his veins; the blood of countless generations of inu taiyoukai in his puny, half-ningen body.'

Sesshoumaru's blank face remained unphased as he silently vexed his hatred for the half-breed. Suddenly a tiny cough caught the youkai Lord's attention. Glancing from the corner of his amber eye, Sesshoumaru frowned slightly as the miko shuddered, her blue eyes fevered in the tiny light with in the small cavern. Lifting his sensitive nose, the inu youkai took a silent sniff at the air surrounding the ningen miko. His amber eyes narrowing, the taiyoukai found his suspicions confirmed. The scent of illness was thick with in the girl's pleasing scent.

"Achoo! Achoo!" Kagome sneezed, her small body shuddering from the force of it.

The girl shivered from the biting coldness of the cave, her frozen body quivering from the damp chill clinging to her body. Pulling InuYasha's and Sesshoumaru's hoaris' closer to her, Kagome felt her teeth chattering together as she placed her hands closer to her pathetically small fire.

'Damn you InuYasha. You and your insufferable pride!' The miko thought furiously as she glared at thought hanyou.

Ignoring her foreboding illness, Kagome squinted her large blue eyes hopelessly at the wrinkled, ruined book in her lap. Seeing the kanjii text's ink run down the page in streams, making the once neat, immaculate columns of text now thick lines of drowned ink made the girl look up to give a chilling glare to the ired boy. Her hands tightening on her text book, Kagome growled,

"See? Look at this, InuYasha! Tamisha-sensei will never forgive me for ruining my mathetmatics book! How will I finish my homework?"

InuYasha looked up from his rock tower to gaze up at the small girl drapped in his hoari. Ignoring the rush of warmth in his chest at the sight, InuYasha sniffed the air haughtily. "Keh you could have made them water proof or something. It's not my fault you were irresponsible. Besides, you don't need that stupid 'skool'." InuYasha explained in an all knowing voice as he began to continue to place his rocks steadily on top of each other again.

Kagome's already dagger-filled glare worsened to one filled with swords. "O? Really?" she asked softly, her tone dangerous.

InuYasha, too intent on his game to noticed the dangerous edge to the miko's voice, nodded and continued to play with his rock tower. "Ya. You need to get the last shikon no kakera and after that..." InuYasha blushed. He couldn't let Kagome know he was hoping she would stay in the past with him as his mate. Blushing furiously, InuYasha mumbled, "There is other important shit here too."

Kagome stared at the half-breed with a strained look. "InuYasha I have to finish school to get a job. In my time women have their own careers and support themselves; they do not depend on their husbands," Seeing InuYasha's curious glance Kagome sighed, "or mates to support them."

Sesshoumaru listened to this with acute ears while feigning non-interest in the miko's and hanyou's discussion. 'So I was right. The miko is not of this era.' Sesshoumaru had concluded as much. He had made it his priority to figure out this curious wench after meeting her in his Otou-san's grave. She had some how been able to withdraw the Tessaiga as to where both he and InuYasha had not been able too. After seeing her bursts of power on other occasions during his battles with the boy, Sesshoumaru had followed the girl one day in a meadow on the outskirts of the hanyou's village to chance seeing her leap into a well. Thinking the girl was mentally unstable, Sesshoumaru had walked to the well to mock the girl only to find both she and any trace of her had dissapeared. Since then, he had admittedly been intrigued with the girl. Now as time went by slowly in the cavern and he was subjected to her presence more, Sesshoumaru found himself strangely amused with the girl. She was honorable with her loyalty to InuYasha despite his dullness and annoying personality. The miko was intelligent and strangely attractive which he had not noticed before on the random appearances he had made previously to she and her companions. His random appearances had always been focused on InuYasha; to mock and humiliate the boy.

Not knowing why, the taiyoukai's eye glanced at the thought of miko as he continued to pretend to be aloof and uncaring to the hanyou and miko. Seeing her gentle features lighted in the candle's soft illuminance, the youkai Lord frowned at the miko's appealing looks that were suddenly just there; as if out of no where. Seeing the small hand tuck a strand of hair behind her ningen ear, the youkai Lord looked away as the knowledge the miko was a ningen returned to his bothered concious. He had never favored the ningen race. He found them idiotic, arrogant and an inferior species that was no better then the weak insects he happened to step on while travelling. Yet this girl... she was oddly different from her lacking race. Her quick mind, caring attitude and thoughtful nature seperated her from the mindless animals that were ningen.

Hearing the miko shuffle to get into a more comfortable position, he watched her with a calculating look to his narrowed amber eyes as she drew his hoari more closely to her small frame. Withdrawing his gaze from Kagome, Sesshoumaru continued to plot; he was already forming a plot to win the girl's affections. The taiyoukai restrained the smirk that tried to form on his thin lips. It was exactly like hitting two birds with one stone. Not only would he have a mate that followed his Otou-san's will but he would also manage to finally take something from InuYasha with out having to use force. The mere thought of it caused Sesshoumaru to feel even more superior to the halfling. He had gone for to long with having the hanyou rub it in his face that he had Tessaiga and only he could use it. Too long did he, Sesshoumaru, have to be reminded that his hanyou was the product of his Father's love of a ningen he had choosen over their families' pride and honorable name.

Sesshoumaru's lips tightened imperceptibly at their corners. Now was the the time for his justification against the hanyou abomination.

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Kagome felt her head banging.

Bang bang bang.

Wincing in pain, the miko pressed her frozen fingers to her temples. 'Please..Kami...stop...' she begged the persistent drum with in her mind.

Bang bang bang.

Groaning outloud, Kagome felt herself breaking out into a sweat. Looking up through half-lidded eyes, the miko saw a crimson figure crawling towards her. 'What's happening? Why do I feel so weird?'

Seeing the figure coming closer, the miko felt herself sliding to the ground, her body suddenly to heavy to support on her knees. Just as she was about to hit the ground, Kagome felt an iron-hard arm wrap around her waist and hold her to a toned, defined chest. Looking up through glazed eyes, she saw an angel.

'So..beautiful...' she thought as calm, cool amber eyes stared down at her with their strong, determined light.

The smooth, alabaster skin stretched over the delicate, flawless face that was adorned with a long straight nose, narrow amber eyes, two maroon stripes on each cheek and with that attractive blue crescent in the middle of the smooth forehead made Kagome stare at the face numbly in her fevered state. Noticing something sparkly in the corner of her eye the girl turned and stared at the blanket of white, silver hair draping around the stunning creature and her. Feeling safe and oddly at place, the miko felt everything just seemingly fade. Her vision darkening, Kagome eruptly passed out. Sesshoumaru raised a silver brow in bemused silence as he heard the miko mumur he was beautiful. Ignoring InuYasha's growls, Sesshoumaru brought the girl closer to his face, her full lips mere millimeters from his own.

"Get off of her!" InuYasha snapped, his claws flexing as if readying to tear his old-brother apart.

Sesshomaru glared at the hanyou while he continued to hold the ningen to his body protectively. "Hanyou do you not sense the miko's illness?" He demanded softly, his amber eyes freezing the half-breed on impact.

InuYasha looked away, unable to meet those two frozen suns. 'Damn bastard.' He could only think as he saw Sesshoumaru continue sniffing delicately at Kagome. Snarling, InuYasha shouted, "Stop sniffing her!" when he noticed Sesshoumaru's nose at Kagome's neck, his eyes half-lidding, allowing his red eyelids hover over his amber orbs.

Sesshoumaru felt his mind going fuzzy as he managed to get through the scent of the miko's deadly sickness and was able to smell nothing more but her pure jasmine and sakura scent. He found himself becoming strangely obsessed with the smell and found his claw twitching to run itself up and down the girl's silky thigh or underneath the hoari she wore over top of her petite body. However, InuYasha's furious voice intruded the taiyoukai's thoughts. Drawing back from the girl in confusion, Sesshoumaru stared at the girl with interest.

'Interesting.'

Turning to cast a cold, unfeeling dagger-filled look at the boy, Sesshoumaru murmured, "Damare, InuYasha. I was merely trying to pinpoint where the infection is since it is to be presumed that your inferior senses are not able to due to your lacking heritage."

InuYasha's fists fisted instantly at the multitude of insults thrown at him in that small speech. Clenching his eyes closed to try and get rid of the sight of Kagome being held by his most hated rival other then Naraku, the silver-haired boy growled. "Whatever. Just hurry up." He ordered in a tight voice.

Ignoring InuYasha all together, Sesshoumatu stood gracefully in a fluid movement, the girl clutched to his lean body. Looking around the dimly light cavern, Sesshoumaru looked at the girl's bag pointedly. "Set a place for her." The inuyoukai ordered stiffly.

InuYasha grumbled beneath his breath but did so. Taking out the largest sleeping bag out of Kagome's bag, he set all the sheets and blankets on top of it. He watched Sesshoumaru step forward swiftly, his white pant legs moving across the space in a graceful stride. Watching quietly as the taiyoukai set the girl on top of the cushioned mass of blankets and sheets, his golden eyes were anxious and frightened. Seeing her pale face, sweat-drenched forehead and hearing her feverish murmurs, the hanyou's triangle dog ears stuck to his skull in guilt. Whimpering in the back of his throat, the half-breed felt his shame over coming him. It was all his fault Kagome was sick. He should have left her at home instead of dragging her to find Naraku and the shikon no kakera. But his damn stubborness-

"Whining willl not help the miko, hanyou." Sesshoumaru's deep voice interruped the boy's guilt-ridden thoughts.

Blinking in surprise, InuYasha looked up to see Sesshoumaru sitting besides Kagome's head, his legs folded neatly over each other. Growling, InuYasha glared at his half-brother. "I don't see you doing anything! So shut up!" He yelled.

Sesshoumaru's eyes slowly came up to pin the boy's flashing ones. His stunning face stoic, the youkai Lord murmured, "Do not take out your guilty conscience on me, InuYasha. I did not drag the miko out into this weather, causing her illness."

InuYasha froze. Trying to swallow over the lump that had lodged itself in his throat and settle the churning of his stomach, InuYasha looked down at Kagome. He would rather look at her then meet Sesshoumaru's frosty glare.

"What do we do." He asked reluctantly.

Sesshoumaru looked down at the miko thoughtfully. "The fever must be broken. She will need additional body heat and restraint to stop her from hurting herself." He explained smoothly.

InuYasha frowned. "Well she is on top of all the damn blankets and sheets...and I've got no more clothes and you only have that skinny shirt left." The hanyou frowned. 'What else do we have to warm Kag-'

The hanyou's thoughts ceased instantly when he saw Sesshoumaru lay down beside Kagome on the bed spread, drawing her into his body. Gaping in shock, the look of disbelief was swiftly replaced with an enraged mask of hatred. "Oi! Get off of her you sick bastard!" He screamed.

Sesshoumaru glared at the hanyou and drew the girl into his chest more. "This Sesshoumaru will only warn you once more half-breed; keep your voice down or I will make it my own priority to permantely shut that cesspool that you call your mouth." The taiyoukai stated frostily, his usually calm voice now snappish. Ignoring the hanyou's sputtering, the youkai Lord continued. "I am warming her with my body heat, baka hanyou. You are not a very intelligent ningen-lover if you do not not even know how to care for the creatures when they are ill."

InuYasha shut his mouth, his handsome face pulled into a scowl. "O ya? Whose the one holding Kagome?!" InuYasha demanded hottily.

Sesshoumaru lay on his back, the girl presently cuddling into his chest. Staring at the cieling of the cave with a bored impassive look, Sesshoumaru repsonded stoically, "I do not care for the girl if that is what you are implying. I simply wish to repay her for 'sitting' you. It is more amusing then listening to your annoying voice, hanyou."

InuYasha growled. Crawling behind Kagome, he snuggled into her back, sniffing her hair. Oblivious to how Sesshoumaru's body stiffened, he closed his eyes tiredly. Kami he was tired. Inhaling Kagome's scent one last time, the hanyou fell asleep instantly.

A pair of amber eyes continued to stare at the black cieling of the cavern top with a calculating look. He had much to think about. The youkai Lord frowned as he examined his reaction to InuYasha laying near the miko. He had almost growled possesively as the hanyou came behind the girl and his one arm had tightened on her immensely, causing a moan from the girl. His youki had risen immediately out of its possesive nature for the miko. It did not like the fact InuYasha was coming near Kagome especailly in her unstable, weak state. Closing his eyes thoughtfully, Sesshoumaru calmed his youki. The hanyou's body heat would help the ningen. It would be better to have a living miko that smelt like the hanyou then a dead one that smelt like him. Hearing Kagome's soft breathing and InuYasha's slight growls and snores, Sesshoumaru glared at the cave's cieling. InuYasha then began to mumble something quite interesting.

"Ramen... yes... over here... beef or chicken...? Mmmm... both... o kami... yaaaaaaaa."

Sesshoumaru felt his left eyes beginning to twitch. The knowledge he would living with this idiotic hanyou and infuriating wench was beyong comprehendable. He was reknowned for his patience and ability to ignore people. However, the hanyou and miko, together, would question the kami themselves. Hearing the hanyou begin to moan in his sleep in pleasure, the taiyoukai came to the final conclusion that the gods hated him and his plan to humiliate InuYasha with the miko was simply not worth this torture.Closing his eyes, the demon Lord tried to block out the sounds the hanyou was making. They were oddly sexual and he felt his primal self actually beginning to respond as disgusting and horrorifying as it was.

Slumber finally hit the taiyoukai when InuYasha was silenced with a simple gag in his mouth. All was well in the cave. Atleast for now.

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Translations:

Shikon no kakera: Jewel shards

Fuku: School uniform

Miko: Priestess

Hanyou: Half-breed

Kawaii: Cute

Sengoku Jidai: Warring States Era [Feudal Era]

Osuwari: Sit [Kagome's command]

Kami: God

Gomen nasai: I am sorry [formal]

Urusai, damare: You are too loud, shut up!

Ja-ku: Jerk

Onegai: Please

Inu: Dog

Nani/Nanigotda: What?