Hello. This is my first fiction on this site and I am excited to hear your feed-back.

Warnings: Yaoi/Shounen-Ai, Un-Beta-ed, Incest, Swearing, Kikyo bashing, Kagome bashing through the eyes and thoughts of Sesshomaru, Constructive criticism is welcome; however, flamers will be dealt with slowly and painfully, short chapter.

I thought that it would be fun to play around with the plot a little bit. So instead of Kagome and Kikyo battling for our favorite little Hanyou's heart, it shall be Sesshomaru, Kagome and Kikyo.

So in other words, as the story progresses, Sesshomaru will begin to loathe Kikyo with every fiber of his being.

Enjoy.

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Inuyasha fluttered his eyes open as the early morning sun hit them. He cursed under his breath, yawned and stretched. He began his morning ritual of waking his companions up. The only one who had not obliged with his demands was Miroku, who groaned and lashed out playfully at the hanyou, and rolled over onto his stomach and continued snoring. "Dammit, Miroku!" Inuyasha growled. He picked the lecherous monk up bridal style, and tossed him into the creek that they had camped around. "Eeeek!"

The monk let out a girlish squeal to which everyone chuckled at. They all ate breakfast and set out to continue their split-search to find Naraku and the Shikon shards.

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They had successfully obtained one Shikon shad so far. They had gotten it from a lizard youkai. Though it had not been an easy battle. It would constantly regenerate itself from they body parts that they had tried to split off, much like Naraku could do. And it had holes in its body that would ooze poison, so Miroku could not use his wind-tunnel. But after a grueling half an hour battle, they had killed the demon and snatched the shard.

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They all collapsed on the ground panting. Miroku groaned. "Inuyasha…" he started. He sat up on his elbows and noticed that his dog demon friend already knew by the way he was posed. "Yeah…. I know. Naraku is near by." Despite their resistance, they all posed themselves as usual. Kagome hopped onto Inuyasha's back, Shippo, Sango, and Miroku mounted a transformed Kirara, and the all took off. As they got further and further into the forest, Inuyasha picked up on some other scents.

"Sesshomaru is with him!" he declared.

They all plastered on confused faces. "Sesshomaru?" Questioned Sango. "Yeah... And I also smell that little human girl that he totes around… and that weird toad thingy."

"That's strange. He never brings Rin and Jaken into battles with him…" mused Kagome. Inuyasha didn't have time to reply when they broke through the forest tree line. Before them were Sesshomaru and Naraku, raging in battle. Naraku stopped and smirked. "Well, well, well. Inuyasha and his little companions, I see."

"I am your opponent, Naraku." Sesshomaru snarled as he slashed at Naraku's shield. Smirking, Naraku turned his attention back to Sesshomaru. Upon further inspection, the gang noticed that Rin and Jaken were hiding in the bushes by the tree line. They all dashed over to where the girl and imp were and Inuyasha shouted, "Protect them as well as yourselves!"

"Right!" they shouted. Rin looked absolutely delighted to see Inuyasha and just before Inuyasha leapt off into the battle, Rin shouted loudly, "Please be careful, Uncle Inuyasha!!!" this made everyone stop and stare at the little girl and the hanyou. Even Sesshomaru turned towards them slightly wide-eyed.

Naraku saw this as an opportunity and forced a tentacle out of his back and knocked Sesshomaru's sword right from his hands. Glaring, Sesshomaru used his light whip and slashed Naraku's tentacle before dashing to pick up his sword.

Inuyasha, quite baffled that of all people, the great almighty SESSHOMARU would lose his sword for a reason so petty.

Jumping into the battle, Naraku sneered, "Well, Sesshomaru. It looks as if your brother loves you enough to come and help you." Sesshomaru glared death at both hanyous. "This Sesshomaru does not require your help, ototou." Inuyasha glared and shouted, "You're not the only one after Naraku, Nii-San!" Deciding to take this opportunity, Naraku lashed out one of his tentacles and aimed it strait at Inuyasha's head, hoping to kill the hanyou.

"INUYASHA!!!" shrieked Kagome. Turning his head swiftly, Sesshomaru slashed the tentacle before it penetrated Inuyasha's head. Inuyasha ground out a, "Thanks." For if Sesshomaru hadn't been there, he would be dead right now. He was furious at himself for letting his own brother have to save him. He could take care of himself! He just didn't need anymore distractions.

"Hn." Was his monotone reply. Rolling his eyes, Inuyasha leapt off into the battle once more, followed by Sesshomaru.

(I am skipping the battle scene until the end, for I am awful at them. If anyone wants to write one for me for the future chapters, please do not hesitate to message me.)

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Inuyasha was frantic. Every single one of his attacks on Naraku had failed, as well as Sesshomaru's. "I think, that if we both do one attack, it would merge, break his shield, and we could get to him." Inuyasha said. Then tacked on, "It still wouldn't do any good because his heart is not with him."

"What makes you think for even a second, that this Sesshomaru would work with a lowly half-breed like you? The bastard child of our father? His only mistake?"

Inuyasha felt another pang of hurt strike his heart. He had tried with all of his might to become immune to such words, but he couldn't do it. So when they were said, he had to put on a scowl to cover it up. He wouldn't let Sesshomaru see that though.

Never in a million years.

"I don't know." Inuyasha said in a somewhat sadder voice. "Whatever. Do what you wanna do." He added bitterly. And leapt off to resume fighting.

Sesshomaru caught the sadness in his eyes. The fact that calling him that hurt him. It had all of the other times too, Sesshomaru could see that. But he hadn't cared all of those other times. His youkai growled out, Why do you hurt our destined that way? Sesshomaru internally widened his eyes.

'Silence!' He snapped, forcing his youkai into the very corners of his mind. Deciding to contemplate what had happened some other time, he decided that Inuyasha was right, though he would NEVER say that out loud, he noticed that Inuyasha was about to strike with adamant barrage, he rose his blade to do dragon strike, when the two collided and merged it looked so deadly, yet beautiful at the same time.

A mystic blue light combined with glowing, shards of diamond. It tore towards Naraku and shattered his shield. Naraku cursed as his body was once again, torn to shreds. He erected another barrier, and flew off to re-plan and recuperate.

Inuyasha turned around only to see that Sesshomaru had already gone, along with his companions. Strange… ThoughtInuyasha.

Inuyasha sauntered over to where his companions were. They all looked uncertainly at the hanyou. "What?" he asked in a soft voice. Sango was the first one to speak up. "She said 'Uncle Inuyasha'…" Sango said with a glint in her eyes that Inuyasha himself could not quite place. "And…? That's a problem?" another long silence descended upon the group. "Never mind about that…" Kagome said, trying to break the awkward silence. "Let's go find camp so I can tend to your wounds, shall we?"

"Sure, Kagome." Inuyasha said softly. Kagome furrowed her eyebrows at his nice-ness, but decided to address it later when they were all settled down somewhere.

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Sesshomaru watched as Rin continued pestering Jaken with her constant chatter. It was night and they had settled down for the night, Sesshomaru needed to regain his strength and Rin would do anything he said. So it was easy to find a place to sleep. He sat to one side of a campfire that Rin had made and thought about the day's events.

'Why did you call Inuyasha our 'Destined'?'

Because he will be ours one day. I yearn for him and if I do, then guess what Sesshy? So does your ass.

'But I do not want him. He is a male, my brother! And even if I did want him, how could he ever forgive me for the torture that I have put him through his entire life? And I hate him, don't I?

Sesshomaru, I know your deepest desires, don't forget that.

'What significance does that have in our conversation? He is a half-breed, a low-life, and I do not want him. He is trash in my eyes.'

I can't boss you around, but trust me, one day you will see the light. Do not deny yourself what you deserve, Were his youkai's last words before it receded into the depths of his mind. He really hated how his Youkai was a polar-opposite of him.

Sesshomaru snapped back into reality when he saw Rin waving her little hand in front of his face. "My lord? Are you ok?"

A curt nod was her reply. She brightened up as a blinding smile decorated her face. "I found this flower for you, my lord!" he looked down at it. A dazzling white Gardenia. That was his favorite flower. "Do you like it my lord?" she asked eagerly. "Yes, Rin. Those are my favorite flowers." He said. He decided to give her a little more attention then he normally did. She really did deserve it. She seemed to burst at the seem with joy. She reached to put it behind his ear, and then drew back.

"May I?" she asked. He nodded and she squealed. She tucked the white flower behind his ear then sat down next to him at the fire. But a good distance away. She knew that her lord liked his personal space. They sat there for some time before Sesshomaru asked, "Why did you call Inuyasha your uncle?" it wasn't a demanding voice, or a harsh one. Just a curious one.

"Well you are brothers, and I thought that you thought of me…. As…. As…."

"As a daughter?" He asked. She nodded and looked up at him curiously. After a while of him not replying, she stared into fire sadly. Noticing this, he reached over and pulled his moko-moko around her. "I do Rin, I do." He stroked her hair until she fell asleep.

This girl had changed his life, for the better.

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Yes, an Out-Of-Character Sesshomaru, but hey, the tender Father-Daughter moment between Sesshomaru and Rin was too adorable to pass up. Please review, for the sake of my sanity. For any curios folks out there, there will be no Rin X Sesshomaru in this story. They have a Father-Daughter relation-ship, that is all. And moko-moko is the fur pelt that resides on Sesshomaru's shoulder.