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The morning air was cool around him as Inuyasha made his way over the rocky terrain of the mountain foothills. Misty fog hung low around the rocks; Inuyasha mumbled and growled to himself as he he clambered over and around the piles of boulders, but sound was muffled by the heavy air. He paused at one point, scanning the blank walls of wispy white that surrounded him, looking for some sign of his brother- he'd lost track of the demon at some point earlier in the day as they traveled. But even as he looked Sesshomaru stepped out of the fog, revealed slowly as if the mist did not want to give him up.
Sesshomaru's lip curled in annoyance as he regarded the obscuring fog. Not only was this weather bad for traveling, it made sensing the approach of other travelers more difficult as well. Even traveling together, he and Inuyasha had barely seen each other all morning as they cautiously made their way from one pile of rock to another in search of a trail. There hadn't been much of a sign of one so far, but he could see that Inuyasha seemed to have found an old trail- the only sure way out of this rocky labyrinth, particularly in this weather.
The pair started down the path, the way easier now, but the fog still hung heavy, close to the ground. The path widened at one point; Inuyasha stepped forward, a stray sound causing him to check the movement even as a strange demon stepped out of the mist in front of him.
The other demon was as shocked as Inuyasha to meet someone on this path; he called out and three faces appeared behind him out of the mist to face the brothers. On guard as soon as he saw the other demon, Inuyasha felt Sesshomaru step closer behind him, snarling softly. A particularly harried look on his face, the strange demon held his hands out, making a sweeping gesture as he spoke. The language was unfamiliar to Inuyasha; though he'd picked up several words of the regional tongue, he was nowhere near fluent enough to understand this group. Sesshomaru spoke a few words in return to the strange demon, but the tone of the language was slightly different and Inuyasha knew even before the other demon shook his head in incomprehension that they weren't going to be able to find a commonly understood language. "I wonder if speaking all kinds of different languages is one of those things Kagome learns in that school of hers," Inuyasha mused under his breath, frustration at not understanding mixing with a stray thought to bring him the bizarre mental image of Kagome as a professional demon negotiator.
A female demon, one of the three who stood just behind the leader, cocked her head to the side at Inuyasha's words; stepping forward, she spoke hesitantly. "You... are Japanese?"
Inuyasha looked at her in surprise. "Yeah, we are." Her accent was terrible, but he understood her words.
She smiled tightly and sketched a small bow to them. "Please excuse my limited knowledge of your language, but it pleases me to be able to speak with you. May I inquire as to your
destination?"
"We journey westward," Sesshomaru told her shortly. "And you?"
"South," she responded, "and east, to the..." She spoke an unfamiliar word, searched her mind for a
translation, and eventually finished, "great water."
Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed as he regarded her. "Unless I am greatly mistaken, the direction in
which you are currently headed is north by northeast."
She conversed with her leader and the other two who stood near. Turning back she said, "There is an... altercation between two large groups of humans to the west and just south of here. We are... moving around them."
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow in mild astonishment. "You are moving to avoid humans?'
Their leader bristled at his tone, but the female speaker spread her hands dismissingly. "It is...
annoying to deal with. We do not wish to have to deal with such annoyance."
Inuyasha had been watching the group of demons quietly. "How many humans? And what kind
of an... altercation?"
She looked at him. "More than three times our own number. They are parts from two different," she again searched for the right word, "two different groups... clans. They make war upon each other."
Inuyasha nodded. One of the other members of the group of demons came forward and touched the female's arm, speaking to her softly. She nodded to him then turned back to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. "We will bid you safe journey and continue on our way, leaving you to yours. But Arash," she indicated the other demon, "wishes me to warn you. If you are traveling westward we have heard rumors- nay," she paused, looking again at the demon Arash, "seen more than rumors- of a... a terrible power commanded by the greatest of these human clans to the west. A power that... works against demonic energy." She looked concerned, as if worried about imparting the seriousness of what she was trying to say and Inuyasha felt a shiver run up his spine. "Several of our number fell victim to this power during our last encounter with the humans known as the Turkish. We do not know what this power does, but it removes the scent of our companions from the wind." She still looked worried, as did the demon Arash, but Sesshomaru simply nodded to her in confirmation that he heard her words and moved to the side, allowing the group to pass by.
The female demon nodded to them and continued down the path, east and north, the other demons flickering through the mist as they followed their leaders. At first, Inuyasha just watched them pass by- there were a lot more of them than he'd expected to see- but when Sesshomaru continued westward, Inuyasha followed. He growled in warning to a few demons who allowed their gazes to linger too long on Sesshomaru's imposing figure, but they all turned away quickly when he did so and Inuyasha wondered if he should be glad that none of these seemed to discount him simply because he was half blooded. Instead, he was slightly annoyed; it had been months since he and Sesshomaru had encountered any other demons in the groups of mountains and patches of scrubby lowlands they'd passed through, and he was in the mood to pick a fight. Scrapping with Sesshomaru was one thing, but Inuyasha felt the urge for a down and dirty, all out brawl. He shrugged, rolling his shoulders experimentally as he eyed one of the last demons in the group, but the demon dropped his eyes and turned away. Inuyasha sighed and continued to follow after his brother; Sesshomaru, for his part, hadn't seemed to notice his admirers at all and Inuyasha couldn't suppress a grin at that.

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The sun had set and Inuyasha frowned at the moonless sky as he made his way through the darkness with far more stealth than most humans but with a noise he imagined broadcasted his exact position to anyone with demonic senses. He paused and watched a herd of deer moving through the forest, the broad, boney antlers of the male reminding him that the season was again well into autumn; it had been late summer, near autumn, when he and Sesshomaru had first left Japan. Had it really been... just two years now since they had left? That measurement seemed both too long and too short. Leaving the deer, he made his way back in the direction he knew Sesshomaru to be. The forest thinned, opening out onto a river and Inuyasha paused to take a drink. He saw and heard nothing, but when he looked up he was not surprised to find Sesshomaru standing beside him. The demon seemed preoccupied, his hand coming to rest lightly on Inuyasha's shoulder as he kept his attention focused on something across the river. Inuyasha knew
better than to pester his brother for some explanation, but that didn't mean he wasn't annoyed that, this night, he couldn't sense whatever it was.
"The forest is restless," Sesshomaru murmured finally. "Something is... hunting."
Inuyasha frowned. He turned around, scanning the forest, but Sesshomaru lead him in the other
direction, over the river, past a large, spreading willow, and into a thick, dark patch of trees. His hair shimmered slightly in the starlight and Inuyasha followed after the soft glow of it through the trees. He wasn't really listening for anything, but his human ears caught the sound of something familiar. He stopped, leaning back against a tree as he turned toward the sound, scowling into the darkness. He ducked down, closer to the tree, and tensed, an arrow cutting through the air close to where he had been standing, burying itself in a tree not too far away. The someone Sesshomaru had sensed earlier... were they out deer hunting or had they seen Inuyasha and his brother- were they hunting the demon? Inuyasha slipped around to the other side of the tree, searching the
forest ahead for a sign of his brother. He saw the shine of starlight on silver hair and slipped through the darkness toward it, moving as stealthily as possible and continuing to put trees between him
and the mysterious arrow shooter.
Sesshomaru stopped in a small clearing, turning to look behind him, wondering where Inuyasha had
disappeared to. A breeze informed him his brother was more to the side of him than behind and swiftly approaching, but he caught another scent, a scent that was... intrinsically wrong somehow. He frowned, pausing for another moment to analyze the smell, when he heard the whizzing sound of a pair of arrows cutting through the air. He easily moved out of the way of the first one, and grabbed the second one out of the air. This- this was the source of the strange, off-putting smell. He held it, looking down at it scornfully as he attempted to determine the reason for its abnormality. He hardly noticed the long, furrowed cut on the side of his palm from where the double grooved point of the arrowhead had caught his skin. His blood welled from the wound and mixed with the foul smelling liquid that coated the arrowhead, the source of the scent of unmaking. Dropping the arrow, he turned toward Inuyasha's scent, intending to meet his brother in the forest, but as he stepped forward he stumbled. Reaching out a hand, he leaned against the tree closest to him, blinking
rapidly. Something was... wrong. He couldn't see... He attempted another step forward and fell to his knees, the world going dim around him. He inhaled, gasping for air, but it didn't seem to be enough; he could hear his heart beating faster, racing, and his limbs felt unexpectedly heavier.
Something moved in front of him and he blinked blearily, trying to see through the black curtain that had fallen before his eyes. Hands touched his face and he heard Inuyasha saying his name though the sound was immeasurably distant.
Inuyasha's own heart was racing as he knelt beside his brother. "Sesshomaru," he called, panic in hisvoice. He reached out and brushed his brother's long hair away to take the other's face in his trembling hands. "Sesshomaru." His brother looked up at him and Inuyasha's worried eyes looked deeply into twin violet pools.
Sesshomaru lifted his own hand to tangle it in long black hair, realizing slowly that the hair was his
own, that the clawless fingers were his as well, that the strange feeling in his mouth was the absence of fangs and the shaded worry in Inuyasha's gaze was reflected in his own dark eyes as horror. He was... changed. Somehow, he... He was...
He was human.
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