I Need a Hero

Title: I Need A Hero
Author: Pucie
Chapter: Discovered

A/N: I had planned on this being a one-shot, but decided to go ahead and add a few more chapters, since everyone asked so nicely. This one is going to be a bit more humorous than the first chapter. . . . . The first chapter originally started out as a parody, but grew into something more. The third chapter, will have more humor in it, but you'll just have to wait and see what I have planned!

---------------------Back with Inuyasha and the Gang-------------------------

~Inuyasha's Viewpoint~

"Inuyasha!!" he opened his eyes blearily, as he felt someone shaking him awake.

"What the FUCK?" he muttered, still half asleep.

"Inuyasha! Wake up! Wake up you stupid hanyou!"

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT, SANGO??" he roared, definitely not happy to be dragged out of his peaceful sleep, with dreams of his love, Kikyo. . .

"I can't find Kagome! Shippou says she never came back to camp last night, and even though I had planned on going to the hot springs to take a bath myself last night, I fell asleep before she returned!" she said frantically, still shaking him back and forth, and twisting her head this way and that, oblivious to the death glare she was receiving from a certain hanyou.

"Oi, stop shaking me wench, you're making my brain hurt!" he said as he snatched his arm out of her grasp, "Feh, I wouldn't worry about Kagome, she probably fell asleep at the springs again." But despite his confident demeanor, he was starting to get a little worried himself. . .something about this seemed odd. The one and only time Kagome HAD actually fallen asleep at a hot springs was when she had been sick. . . .she had seemed just fine yesterday, tired, but okay regardless.

"Wake up the monk, we need to go search for her," he said gruffly, abruptly changing his mind.

"I thought you just said not to worry," Sango said with an edge in her voice.

"Forget what I just said, bitch! WAKE --UP-- THE--MONK! Kagome might need us!!", he said growing frustrated.

"FINE-- DON'T--YELL--AT--ME!!" she replied, and she started muttering as she walked away, " stupid bouzo baka hanyous. . ."

"I HEARD THAT!!!"

*&~Twenty Minutes and A lot of Shouting later~&*

Inuyasha looked at his friends, who were now all dressed and semiconcious, "Let's start by going to the hot springs, she could still be there. Even if she's not, at least we might be able to find out what happened to her, agreed?"

"Well, let's go already, then. Maybe she fell asleep before she remembered to dress again. . ." Miroku said with a hentai gleam in his eye.

Inuyasha glared at the monk, and quickly restated," Me and Sango will go look at the hot springs. You-Hentai!" he pointed at Miroku, "Will stay here with Shippou at camp, just in case she's already started back, and we just happen to miss her, got that? S-T-A-Y-H-E-R-E!"

"You sir, offend my delicate nature with the treacherous way you refer to my noble actions. ." The houshi started saying, but got cut off by a . . .

SMACK!

"Delicate my ASS!" Inuyasha said standing over the unconcious monk, then looked over to the kitsune," Shippou! Make sure nothing happens to the monk, and make sure he don't try to follow us, understand? If Kagome comes back before we return, keep her here, ok?"

"O-ok Inuyasha!" the kitsune replied, surprised that the half-demon was addressing him as an adult.

-------------------------------Meanwhile, Back at the Hot Springs------------------------------------------

~Kagome's Viewpoint~

She leaned back from her new mate, and took the time to really appreciate a lingering view of his form. . . . They had both been too caught up in the moment the day before to really get a good look at one another.

Her eyes drank in the sight of the perfect male beauty before her, slightly broad shoulders and lean muscles tapered down to a narrow waist, and narrow hips. Her eyes continued on to his muscular legs, and she noticed that he had an even dark tan all over his body. 'How does he manage that? I've never seen him walk around naked or anything like that? How is it that his tan is so even?' she thought with wonder.

She heard what could be mistaken as a strangled snort come from her mate, and looked up at him with a question in her eyes, but she could tell from his expression that he wasn't going to share whatever this particular thought was as of yet, and felt her gaze drawn back down his body. She blushed as she worked up her nerve to at least glance at the one area of his body she had not been able to look at yet, and suddenly took a peek at his crotch.

Her eyes almost bulged out of her head at the sight. . . ."How in the HELL did all of THAT go in me? How did it FIT?" she muttered.

And looked up sharply as she heard him suddenly start laughing. . . .

'Oh, My KAMI!' she thought to herself. . .'Who the hell is this, and what the hell did he do with Sesshoumaru??'

No more had the thought left her head, than she noticed him start laughing even harder . . . . .

~Sesshoumaru's Viewpoint~

He had watched her as she started to drink in his body with her eyes, and decided to go on a little ocular adventure of his own. As his eyes raked up and down her body, he found himself amazed at how much she has really changed in these past few years. . . . Gone from her was the woman child body he had seen when they first met those three years ago in his father's tomb, and in it's place was replaced by the body of a beautiful woman.

True, he had despised her upon sight of her and the apparent ease with which she had withdrawn the Tessaiga, but that didn't mean he didn't appreciate the beauty he had seen before him that day.
He had never really been able to decide if he had despised her because she was able to release his father's fang, or because he saw how beautiful she really was, and was attracted to her even though she was a ningen, not youkai.

She had never been afraid to stand up to him or to stand up for him, and for that he realized he loved her even more. Every other human he had ever come across feared him, even the human's that he protected in his own lands were afraid of him. . . . . but she wasn't.

And unlike every youkai female he had EVER met, she didn't throw herself at him constantly. He knew there would be a lot of unhappy females when they heard of his taking a mate, but, 'Enough distraction,' he thought quickly, and returned to his perusal of her body, and felt himself growing hard at just the sight of her. He suddenly knew that no matter how long they lived, he would never be able to get enough of the beautiful creature before him.

Ivory pale skin, no matter how much time she spent in the sun, full, pert breasts, a narrow waist that flared out to womanly curved hips, and long, trim legs completed this vision of loveliness he now had the honor of calling HIS MATE.

He noticed her eyes quickly darting from his chest , to his legs, to his arms and back again, and heard her sudden thoughts of, 'How does he manage that? I've never seen him walk around naked or anything like that? How is it that his tan is so even?', and couldn't contain a sudden snort of amusement. . .

'Should I tell her we can sense each other's thoughts now. True, I'll have to show her how, but we can,' he thought to himself, and noticed how she quickly brought a surprised gaze up to his face. . . .'Nah, I'll tell her later, I'm enjoying this. . .' he thought rather impishly, he was amazed that she affected him the way that she did, he had taken lovers in the past. He WAS a demon. . .. And demons have raging sexual appetites, but never had he felt so free with any of his other lovers, then again, he never would have considered taking any of THEM as his mate for all eternity.

He smirked as she finally glanced at his groin, and saw her blush instantly as her eyes widened more than he would have thought possible, and he heard her mutter, "How in the HELL did all of THAT go in me? How did it FIT?"

And found that he couldn't contain his laughter any longer, and let it burst forth. It only got worse when heard her thoughts of, 'Oh, My KAMI! Who the hell is this, and what the hell did he do with Sesshoumaru??'

He decided it was time to let her in on a little secret, and as soon as he was able to contain himself, he told her," Oh my darling mate, you have just MADE my day, you've made me laugh, and inflated my ego. Kami, I love you so much. Contrary to popular belief, I do indeed have a sense of humor, but I can only express myself like this around you and our pups."

"Me and our pups?" she said with a questioning tone.

"Yes, to anyone who is not in our immediate family, I must always remain the ever stoic "Sesshoumaru, Lord Of The Western Lands". The other lords and demons would consider me weak if I didn't, but for you and our children, I will always be just Sesshou-chan, mate and Otouto-san, father, and hopefully, eventually with my own brother, I will eventually be just his Onii-chan, brother." He said, the love he felt evident in his voice.

He saw tears well in her eyes, and gathered her to himself in a close embrace. . . . .
"Sesshou-chan, Aishiiteru," he heard her whisper.

~Inuyasha 's Viewpoint~
As they drew closer to the springs, he noticed the smell of his brother grew stronger and so did the slight smell of Kagome's blood. 'Oh shit! Surely he wouldn't have hurt her, I thought that we had become allies. . . .brothers. . ' he thought as he felt anguish twist at his heart slightly. He slowed as they reached the area around the edge of the clearing of the hot springs. He felt Sango stop just slightly behind him, and he gasped at the sight he saw in the clearing. . . .Kagome had his back to him, and she was with his brother, they were just sitting there talking. . . . . .NAKED!! Sango stepped around him, and laid her eyes upon the scene in front of them, and he heard her mutter quietly, "That bastard! If he's hurt her, I'm sorry Inuyasha, but your brother is dead!" But he put a restraining arm in front of her when he noticed the Mark which seemed to cover her whole back He quickly made out the words that were in Kanji on her back, and rapidly looked back up at his brother's face and saw all of the love that was on display there.

"Sango, no!" he whispered back vehemently, "He hasn't hurt her. . .they. . . .they've mated. They are mates now."

"What?" she replied, quietly but more than a little incredulous. . .

Their attention was quickly brought back to the situation happening in front of them when they heard Sesshoumaru laughing. . . .

Sesshoumaru. . . . .was. . . . . . . .laughing. . . . .

'What the HELL?" he thought, and strained his ears forward to hear what was being said. . . He only just managed to hear the last of his brother's words to his best friend in the clearing. . . . .

"Yes, to anyone who is not in our immediate family, I must always remain the ever stoic "Sesshoumaru, Lord Of The Western Lands". The other lords and demons would consider me weak if I didn't, but for you and our children, I will always be just Sesshou-chan, mate and Otouto-san, father, and hopefully, eventually with my own brother, I will eventually be just his Onii-chan, brother."

That last word seemed to echo in his mind, '………..Brother', he thought. He knew that Sesshoumaru had been acting differently since right before they defeated the dark hanyou, Naraku. . . . .but he had no idea that he was trying to become his brother again. . . . .

When he looked up again, he saw the two lovers embrace, and a micheivious twinkle glinted in his eyes. . . . .. . . "Oh this is just too much to resist. . . .hehehe," he muttered, and didn't notice the odd look Sango shot his way as he made his way into the open. . . . .
She knew they were dead meat as soon as that idiot hanyou opened his big mouth and shouted," Oi! BAKAS! I could have lived the rest of my damned LIFE without seeing the two of you makin Kissyface out here in the open where Kami and everybody see!! Damn hentai's the lot of you!!"

Surprised and embarrassed beyond belief, the couple jumped apart quickly, and he noticed a red tinge entering his brother's eyes. . . ."Oh SHIT!" he muttered.


~Kagome's Viewpoint~

She heard Inuyasha's taunts from across the clearing, and very quickly tried to reach for anything to cover herself with, when she heard a low growl coming from her mate. Glancing up she saw the faint red tinge that started to enter his eyes. . . . . ."Oh shit!" she said.


~Sesshoumaru~

He heard his brother's shout and started to grow angry, when a sudden idea came to him. .
Using his demon speed he whirled around, whipped on his hakama's and grabbed his father's sword, now his sword, Tensaiga, and took off after his brother, who had by now ran from the clearing fearing for his life.


~Inuyasha's Viewpoint~

He saw his brother putting his demon speed to good use as he quickly jumped up, dressed, and grabbbed one of his swords, Inuyasha wasn't sure which one, and start after him. 'Time to make my exit, he's gonna KILL ME! What the fuck happened to BROTHER'S???!!!' he thought to himself as he ran top speed out of the clearing. . . . .


~Kagome's Viewpoint~

She suddenly felt a very deep fear as she watched her mate race out of the clearing after her friend. She saw Sango making her way to her quickly, and together they tried to find her clothes which had been strewn all across the clearing the night before. . .

"You don't think that Sesshoumaru would actually hurt him do you?" Kagome asked the demon slayer, in a frightened voice.

"I don't know sister. Inu Youkai are very protective of their mates. . . .I really don't know what I can tell you. . " She said in a worried voice.

Kagome's head sharply turned toward the direction they had run in when they heard a shrill scream of pure terror issuing from their hanyou friend. "Oh no," Kagome whispered horrified, "He's caught him"

Tears started to flood her eyes, as her worry grew. They had finally found all of her clothes and she frantically started to dress. Once completely clothed, they rushed to the edge of the clearing, intent on following and finding out just exactly what was going on when the two brother's returned to the clearing.

Sesshoumaru had bound Inuyasha's hands and feet with some vines he had apparently found in the forest, and was carrying him back into the clearing over his shoulder. Though bound, the hanyou was struggling fiercely, trying to get away, a wild look of fear in his eyes, when Sesshoumaru finally stopped and dropped him on the ground. With bated breath, they waited to see just exactly what the Taiyoukai before them planned to do to his younger brother.

~Sesshoumaru's Viewpoint~

He chased after his brother, and when he finally caught him, he screamed, at which point Sesshoumaru grinned somewhat evilly and said superiorly to his brother, "You scream just like a little girl."

Once he had him restrained, he reached for some vines he had spied and grabbed when he was trying to catch up to his brother, and bound his feet and his hands. Then picking up his burden, he returned to the clearing at the hot springs and threw his brother on the ground. He could feel through their bond that his mate was worried and fearful for whatever punishment he had planned for his errant brother. . .and suddenly he grinned. . . .

~Inuyasha's Viewpoint~

Although he had been furious about his brother's comment of how he sounded like a girl when he screamed, he was scared shitless on the return journey to the clearing. He knew that his brother had killed people for less than what he had said to him, and now he was worried.

Once they reached the clearing, and his brother dropped him on the ground, he saw his brother smile. . ..

'Oh yeah,' he thought, 'I'm dead'

~Kagome's Viewpoint~

Kagome watched as her new mate smiled down at his brother, her best friend and shouted to him, "Please, Sesshoumaru! Don't hurt him! He didn't mean anything by it!!"

"Do you see this?" She heard him say, "Not only do you scream like a girl, now you have a woman fighting your verbal battles for you!"

~Sesshoumaru's Viewpoint~

After he heard his mate's plea to spare his brother's life he couldn't help but taunt him a little bit more before he unleashed his punishment, "Do you see this?" he said, "Not only do you scream like a girl, now you have a woman fighting your verbal battles for you!"

He started speaking, once again addressing his younger brother, "It has come to my attention that you enjoy acting like a foolish child at times, as demonstrated by your behavior just a few moments ago. So I have no other choice but to discipline you as I would my own child. . ."

He sat down on a boulder by the edge of the springs, and heaved his brother up and over and onto his lap, facedown. Inuyasha's head was hanging towards the ground, and he was quite helpless as he was still tied up. Sesshoumaru reached for Tenseiga, and promptly started SPANKING his younger brother with it.

He felt his little brother jerk and yell out, "What the FUCK?? You're going to spank me?"

"That Was Very Bad Young Man!" he said, laughing and punctuating every word with a smack from his sword. "You Are Never To Do That Again!"

"You stupid FUCK!" his brother was screaming and struggling on his lap, infuriated that Sesshoumaru was spanking him like he was five years old.

They heard laughter coming from across the clearing as soon as he let Inuyasha up.
"What the HELL do you two loons think is soo damned FUNNY!" Inuyasha yelled at them.

~Inuyasha's Viewpoint~

As soon as his brother had draped him over his lap, he couldn't help but wonder what the hell was going on.
He felt the blood rushing to his head, and then his brother started SPANKING HIM!

SPANKING. . . . .HIM!

"What the FUCK?? You're going to spank me??" he yelled, infuriated.

He heard his brother laughing as he spoke and continued to spank him, "That was very bad young man! You're never to do that again!"

"You stupid FUCK!" he yelled as he started struggling to get up.

Finally, his brother relented and let him up, still laughing, and then he noticed the laughter coming from across the clearing.

~Kagome's Viewpoint~

As soon as she realized what her mate was going to do to her friend, and now brother-in-law, she started giggling.

The madder Inuyasha got, the harder she laughed, 'Oh, I'm gonna have to tell his kids about this one day' she thought as more gales of laughter erupted from her.

Her mate finally let him get up, and he stared at Sango, who was laughing just as hard as she was, and yelled, "What the HELL do you two loons think is soo damned FUNNY!"

That just set them off worse, and when they had gained some semblance of control, Kagome shouted, "Don't worry, Inuyasha. We're not laughing at you. . . . .We're laughing next to you!"
Which in turn set the girls off again.

Sesshoumaru finally cut the vines that were holding his brother's wrists and feet captive, and Inuyasha rubbed his wrists as the blood started flowing back into his hands.

"That will teach you to burst in on an intimate situation, little brother, ne?" Sesshoumaru said to him with a smile.

"You KUSO! I thought you were gonna kill me! You nearly gave me a heart attack!!" He yelled back.

~Sesshoumaru's Viewpoint~

He looked at his brother strangely, "Heart. . . . .Attack? How can a heart attack?"

"Don't worry about it, it's just an expression of speech from my time," he heard his mate say.

He smiled at his mate and made his way over to her, only to sweep her into his arms.
He heard his brother, "And you, you scared us to death, not coming back to camp last night!"

He saw her grin rather sheepishly and say, "Ummmm, I'm sorry? I was ummmm engaged in nocturnal activities?"

"Keh, I DO NOT need to know. . .Keep it to yourself, it's not like I describe what Kikyo and I do. . . . .whenever. . . . .shit" he said.

"You. . .You mated Kikyo?!?" his mate exclaimed from the circle of his arms.

"Yeah. . ." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"AAAAHH," she screamed and both the Taiyoukai and his half brother winced at the sound, "Congratulations!! Why didn't you bring her with us?" she said breaking away from her mate and running to hug her friend.

"Kaede needed her help with somethings in the village this time around, I was planning on asking everyone if it was okay if she went with us next time. . ." He said blushing.

"Well, it's about time you mated that miko, little brother. That is one of the longest courtships I've ever seen. . .fifty years?" Sesshoumaru said teasing him a little. 'Turnabout is fairplay' he thought to himself.

"Hey, that wasn't our fault! We need to get back to camp. We need to check and see if the Hentai Houshi is conscious yet, and we need to let Shippou know that you're ok. Speaking of which, what are you going to do with the Kit now that you two have mated?" he said.

Sesshoumaru started gathering the rest of their belongings that were strewn around the clearing while his brother was talking and made a bundle out of his haori, so that it would be easier to carry everything back to the camp, before he answered, "He will be our son, we've decided to adopt him."
"Good for you guys! I'm glad you decided to adopt him, Kagome," Sango said, smiling, "He is rather attached to you, you know."

"Just as attached to me, as I am to him," she said smiling back.

They made their way back to camp, and were surprised by the scene that greeted them when they arrived.

Miroku was nowhere to be found. . .

~Kagome's Viewpoint~

She looked around and saw Shippou cuddled back up in her sleeping bag. He was looking rather frightened, so she ran over to him and picked him up gently.

"Shippou, honey, what's wrong? What happened? Where's Miroku?" she asked him, patting his back soothingly.

"I don't know, he left in a hurry, Momma, What if something had gotten me?" he said with a whimper.

"It's ok, Okaasan and Otouto-san are here now," she said trying to calm the kit down.

He suddenly became very still, "Otouto-san?" he asked, "Huh?"

~Seshoumaru's Viewpoint~
Sesshoumaru watched as the kit sniffed his mate, and then threw a glance his way. .

"Sess-Sesshoumaru is your mate?"

"Hai, Shippou-chan, he is my mate."

"You don't love me anymore?" he said as tears filled his tiny eyes.

Sesshoumaru couldn't bear to see the little kit cry, as he had become attached to him as well during the time he had spent with his brother's pack. It was a little known fact, but he really did have a soft spot for pups.

"Shippou, come here," he said suddenly, and saw the worried glance from his mate. He sent her a reassuring feeling through their bond to let her know that everything was alright, and held his arms out to the little kitsune.

He looked at his mother questioningly, and when she nodded her head, he shyly made his way over to the demon lord.

He picked the youngster up, and cradled him in his arms and said quietly, "Shippou, I know that I can never replace your real parents, I do not presume that much, but. . I would like to be a father to you, in my own way. I love your mother very much, and believe it or not I already regard you as my son."

He watched as the Kit took his word's into consideration, and was very surprised when the orange ball of fur jumped up and wrapped himself around his neck, "I love you too, Otouto" he heard, and felt the Kit's tears against his neck.

~Kagome's Viewpoint~

She watched the exchange between her mate and her son with trepidation, which was immediately relieved when she saw her son embrace her mate.

She walked over to the pair and gave them both a gentle squeeze, before she untangled the kit from Sesshoumaru.

Holding him in her arms she asked him, "Did Miroku say where he was going?"

"Not really, he just said something about a Witch Doctor. . . ."

A/N Duh duh DUH! What happened to Miroku?