InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cavern Craze ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )

Cavern Craze
-By MuteShadow
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Disclaime r: I, MuteShadow, do not own InuYasha. Any InuYasha related topics are respectfully owned by Rumiko Takahashi and her producers/lawyers.

Warnings: Sexual Situations [Lemons, Lime etc…], Violence, Language and extreme Parody ~_^.

Author's Note: This is a threesome pairing. I do not know if it will be a threesome lemon but I'm contemplating it ^-^. SessxKagxInu
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-MuteShadow

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

InuYasha released his glare from the Sesshoumaru who now seemed to be meditating. The half-breed growled at the reminder that 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.

"Achoo!" Kagome sneezed again.

Getting up, the silver-haired boy crept 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…" she broke off, her teeth chattering from the chilling cold of the cave.

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 priestess' 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."

Kagome nodded her eyes dropping as she grew tired. InuYasha frowned at Kagome's wavering consciousness. Pressing his claw on the girl's forehead, he hissed.

 

"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 said softly, the sarcasm in her tone very small but obvious.

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

The priestess shivered in response, to tire 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 sourly to herself.

Suddenly, a white piece of cloth fluttered on top of InuYasha's shirt. Hearing InuYasha's growls, the priestess glanced up to see a bare chest 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.' she thought. 'InuYasha is red as in for passion, heat and burning aggression. 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?'

"Thanks InuYasha." She whispered before placing a placating hand on the hanyou's bare, tanned arm.

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

"Why?"

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

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

InuYasha blushed and looked away stubbornly. Kagome sighed. "InuYasha, I am a ningen. Sesshoumaru probably offered me his shirt 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 intended mate warding off a curious male from his female. Scowling, InuYasha placed his attention back to Kagome. Seeing the priestess lying 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 girl. Silently assessing the pair, the taiyoukai watched possessively as his hoari was then placed by the priestess on her legs. Sesshoumaru smirked despite himself.

 

'Does the girl 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 demon 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 frustrated 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 practically 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 human in his arms. The girl 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 girl 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 half-breed landed in a large puddle of mud and practically 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 half-breed 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 efficiently placed the miko on top of the blankets with the pillow beneath her head. Taking the last blanket out, the youkai Lord draped 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 Tetsusaiga. 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 Tetsusaiga!" he screamed.

Sesshoumaru watched in shock as the hanyou moron actually attacked the barriers. Snarling, Sesshoumaru watched the attack hit his barriers and were blocked. The taiyoukai and half-breed 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.

The taiyoukai quickly grabbed the girl and pressed her into his body, protecting her. Watching InuYasha through the barrier, Sesshoumaru damned the half-breed to Hell. Watching the huge boulders fall from the ceiling, 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 half-breed. 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 human 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 Tetsusaiga which was repelled by this Sesshoumaru." Sesshoumaru stated frostily. "The repelled attack efficiently 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 priestess 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. "Sorry." 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 with alarm. InuYasha!

"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 subconscious 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. "Thanks. 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 watch 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 conscious 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 could not stand watching the hanyou hold her. Period.

Kagome growled. "InuYasha! Osuwari! See? You are such a perverted idiot! Now we're stuck in this cave because of your jealousy fit!" she snapped hotly.

InuYasha yelped when his broken nose hit the ground. Feeling tears of frustration 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 gain 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 human; a factor you continuously 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? Its 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 chest. Remembering the feeling of his chest caused her face to flame more.

"Hey...W hy is your scent changing again Kagome?!" InuYasha demanded.

Blushing more, Kagome screamed, "Osuwari!"

Sesshoumaru watched the hanyou be grounded again and smirked. He definitely liked the girl 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 priestess? 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. 'Fuck is she doing it because she likes Sesshoumaru?!'

InuYasha began to feel threatened and panicky. Rising from the ground, the hanyou perched himself as close as possible t the angered miko in a blatant sign of his possession of her to Sesshoumaru. This did not go unnoticed by Sesshoumaru at all. The demon Lord 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 Kagome swear as she tried to start a fire with some very odd materials.

'You will learn your place, InuYasha.'

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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 was only a meter apart from each other as they sat on the ground while he had been forced to the other side by an angry Kagome. 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-mortal 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.

'D-Damn you InuYasha. You and your insufferable pride!' the miko thought furiously as she glared at InuYasha.

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 mathematics book! How will I finish my homework?" she hissed between clenched teeth due to anger and the cold.

InuYasha looked up from his five rock tower to gaze up at the small girl draped in his hoari. Ignoring the rush of warmth in his chest at the sight, InuYasha sniffed haughtily. "Keh you could have made them water proof or something. Its 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 notice the dangerous edge to Kagome's voice, nodded. "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. She 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 Father's grave. She had some how been able to withdraw the Tetsusaiga 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 disappeared. 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. She 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 priestess as he continued to pretend to be aloof and uncaring to the half-breed and wench. Seeing her gentle features lighted in the candle's soft luminance, the demoni Lord frowned at the girl'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 ear, the youkai Lord looked away as the knowledge the miko was a human returned to his bothered conscious. He had never favored the human race.

He found them idiotic, arrogant and an inferior species that was no better then the weak insects he happened to step on while traveling. Yet this girl...she was oddly different from her lacking race. Her quick mind, caring attitude and thoughtful nature separated her from the mindless animals that were humans. Hearing her 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 Tetsusaiga 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 human he had chosen over their families' pride and honorable name.

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

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Ka gome felt her head banging.

Bang bang bang.

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

Bang bang bang.

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

Seeing the figure coming closer, she 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, she felt everything just seemingly fade. Her vision darkening, Kagome abruptly passed out.

Sesshoumaru raised a silver brow in bemused silence as he heard the miko murmur 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 InuYasha while he continued to hold Kagome to his body protectively. "Baka do you not sense the her 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 girl'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, "Cease your annoying noise, 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, Sesshoumaru 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 stubbornness-

"Whining will not her half-breed." Sesshoumaru's deep voice interrupted 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 shouted.

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 girl out into this weather thus 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 permanently shut that cesspool that you call your mouth." the demon Lord 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, moronic half-breed. You are not a very intelligent human-lover if you do 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 hotly.

Sesshoumaru was currently on his back, the girl presently cuddling into his chest. Staring at the ceiling of the cave with a bored impassive look, Sesshoumaru responded 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 ceiling 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 lying near the priestess. He had almost growled possessively 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 possessive nature for the miko. It did not like the fact InuYasha was coming near Kagome especially in her unstable, weak state. Closing his eyes thoughtfully, Sesshoumaru calmed his youki. The hanyou's body heat would help Kagome. It would be better to have a living priestess 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 cavern top. Damn the weather and all Kami.

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Translations:

Damare: Shut up
Otou-san: Father
Youki: Demon energy/aura