Okay, I got another idea, and I hope it will turn out to be a good one. If I can execute the plot properly, hopefully it won't suck at least. You'll have to let me know what you think. BTW, they're OOC. How much, I can't really judge, you can tell me, but I try to make them a real as possible.
To defeat Naraku, Inuyasha and his friends realized that they needed allies to win and come out of it alive. That had not made it easier for Inuyasha to accept. Their new allies had consisted of Sesshomaru, Jaken, Rin, Ah and Un, as well as Koga, Ginta, and Hokkaku. So there had been grudges held about being forced to team up.
To recruit Sesshomaru, they decided they needed a person who was patient and had a way with words. The only person who was deemed to have a possibility of surviving a negotiation with the taiyoukai was Miroku. Sango had bitterly said that it was because he was good at deceiving people.
Miroku took Shippo along as his "secret weapon". This had confused them until Shippo told them what made Sesshomaru decide to join them. Shippo had informed him that it was very amusing to travel with his half-brother because of all the stupid things he did and all the mistakes he made. He even threw in a few stories just to give Sesshomaru a sample. Sesshomaru was intrigued, and decided that another added bonus would be better protection for Rin. So in the end, he agreed.
To recruit Koga, the obvious choice was Kagome. There were concerns that he would not allow her to come back from the negotiations, so Sango accompanied her with Kilala. With some poking and prodding and a few good points from Kagome, he agreed. Their suspicions proved right when Koga tried to bring Kagome with him before they met up with the rest of the group. Sango had to use a smokescreen ball she had been working on to make a hasty escape.
After Naraku had been defeated, his incarnations had been set free. Kagura went to roam "free like the wind" as she put it. Kanna just sort of wandered off, as if in a trance. Kagome was worried that she would be lost without Naraku, and that they should help her which was strongly protested by all the demons. All Naraku's other incarnations and minions had been killed in the fight. Including Kohaku. It had taken a while for Sango to deal with her little brother's death, and Kagome had been with her through the whole thing. As for the new extended group, they decided to stay together for reasons that were shared or left unshared. Koga was all too quick to say why he was staying, but Sesshomaru was mysterious and cryptic.
Kagome suspected that Sesshomaru had become attached to them. She could see the gleam of laughter in his eyes when Sango beat Miroku or a spark of annoyance when Inuyasha and Koga fought over her. And she would occasionally see him staring at her in a way she didn't recognize. It made her confused and fuzzy inside. She wasn't sure if she liked it or not.
Kagome decided to spend most of her life in the past. She had friends and some family that she had acquired and she didn't think she could live without them anymore.
"Bastard! Kagome's mine!" Koga shouted, his face right in Inuyasha's. Sesshomaru looked like he wanted to strangle both the wolf demon and his half-brother.
Well, sometimes. Other times, Kagome felt as if she could do without all the fights and arguing. She was trying to think of a way to solve her problems when she saw Kaede. Since they expanded, Kagome had brought some tents so they could sleep outside and not impose on Kaede's hospitality.
Speaking of Kaede, the village priestess had made it to their camp site. Kagome turned to greet her but Kaede silenced her with a meaningful look. Looking over her shoulder, Kagome saw that no one had noticed the elderly priestess. Kagome frowned thoughtfully and walked over when Kaede gestured.
"Child, do ye want to stop the fighting of ye friends?" Kaede asked her.
Kagome looked back to her friends and saw that the arguing had escalated into fighting. She was glad they decided to stay outside of the village. They would be destroying all the villager's huts if they were in the village. Inuyasha had Tetsusaiga out and was slashing away at Sesshomaru who was dodging easily and Koga was interjecting their fight with his punches and kicks. Everyone else had stopped what they were doing to watch.
"I think I had better before they take the fight into the village." Kagome told her with a weary sigh.
"Aye. Then hold one of these and do as I do." Kaede instructed, handing her a rosary that looked like Inuyasha's with the exception of the beads being brown instead of black. Kaede held one that had silver beads and had started chanting. Kagome followed her lead.
The beads on Kaede's necklace flew off of it and reformed around Sesshomaru's neck.
Kagome thought quickly. 'We need a word to make Sesshomaru back off and stop fighting. Maybe get him away from the situation that's bothering him. And another word to make Koga stop doing everything since he would most likely run around and taunt Inuyasha and Sesshomaru if had the chance to do so without repercussions.'
Thinking again of dog commands when she saw Sesshomaru, Kagome shouted, "Come boy!"
Sesshomaru found himself automatically running over to Kagome. He looked positively pissed. Meanwhile, Koga and Inuyasha were going head to head. Kagome started chanting again and this time the brown beads went around Koga's neck. Deciding to stick with the dog commands, Kagome called, "Stay!"
Koga froze. Inuyasha let out a laugh of triumph before Kagome told him, "Sit boy!" Inuyasha slammed face first into the ground.
Kagome let out a sigh of relief. Until she remembered who was standing next to her. "Wench! What is the meaning of this!" Sesshomaru demanded.
Kagome gulped. Sesshomaru was usually polite enough to call her 'human' or 'woman'. If he was calling her wench then he must be very mad. Kaede decided that now was a good time for an old priestess who didn't want to die to leave. Sesshomaru tried to stop her but Kagome said, "Come."
Sesshomaru growled and his eyes started to take on a reddish hue as he ran back to her. Before he could totally freak out, Kagome tried to explain. "It's a precautionary measure. A safety thing, you know?"
Sesshomaru's eyes turned their normal gold, but he still looked unusually mad, suspicious, distrusting, and hurt. "I'm sorry. I just didn't want you guys to fight." Kagome explained further.
Sesshomaru just turned his face away from her and walked away into the trees. Kagome felt extremely guilty. He really seemed to be taking this personally.
As for Koga… "Kagome, why did you put a leash on me like the mutt!" He had worked hard to shake off the rosary's effects and was at her side in an instant.
"Koga, it's not a leash. It's a rosary necklace. And I did it so you three won't always be at each other's throats." Kagome told him.
"I have to make sure they don't keep threatening my claim on you. Those bastards haven't said anything about you being theirs, yet they have the gall to act as if they had!" Koga told her angrily.
"Really?" Kagome was surprised. She could understand how he saw Inuyasha as a threat, but Sesshomaru?
"Yeah. The mutt is as annoying as always, but his brother recently started contesting my claim on you too! He says that 'Kagome would never belong to you.' and 'Only a taiyoukai is worthy of her.' Can you believe it?" Koga asked in an exasperated voice. He was obviously expecting her to sympathize with him.
"Oh." Kagome said in a small and slightly dazed voice. "Koga, I think I'm going to go to bed now. I'm not feeling right."
Inuyasha had immediately rushed over when he heard that. "Really Kagome? It's probably the wolf stink that's making you sick. We should get you away from this fleabag right away." he said in a offensive tone to Koga and a concerned one to Kagome. He started to pull her away but stopped as she said something.
"I think you two should take long walks in opposite directions." Kagome told them in an authoritative tone. When Inuyasha started off in the direction that Sesshomaru had left in she added, "And don't go wherever Sesshomaru went either!" They could tell she meant business. They looked like little children getting a time out as they folded their arms stubbornly and walked away from Kagome.
Kagome sighed once they were out of earshot. Behind her she heard applause. She turned to see Miroku, Sango, and Shippo clapping for her.
"Way to go Kagome!" Miroku congratulated her.
"Maybe things will finally start to settle down since they're in your control now." Sango said in a weary but hopeful voice.
"Kagome, what just happened?" Rin asked with confusion in her eyes. Rin had really taken to Kagome and Shippo, and they were now like a family with her as their mother. Rin said that Sesshomaru was her father now, but that made Kagome get a weird look on her face, so she didn't say it often.
"I'll tell you what's happened, a human just tried to control Lord Sesshomaru! Wench!" Jaken spat at her.
"Don't talk to our pack sister that way!" Ginta and Hokkaku shouted at the same time. They growled at the little toad demon menacingly.
Jaken got so scared he almost dropped the Staff of Two Heads. He hurried away from them all, leaving Rin in the care of her newfound mother.
"Rin, Shippo, I think it's bedtime. Sango and I also need to talk about some…things." Kagome said uncertainly.
"Kay!" Shippo and Rin responded. They raced each other to the girls' tent. Kagome and Sango had their own tent that was considerably smaller than the boys' tent. The boy's tent was a three dome one. Inuyasha and Miroku were in the left dome (if you were facing the tent), Koga and his pack got the biggest middle dome, and Sesshomaru grudgingly shared the right dome with Jaken.
'Why do things always just get more and more complicated?' Kagome thought to herself as she and Sango followed the children to the tent.
First chapter is done. Tell me what you thought about it. Bad descriptions, flimsy excuses for getting them together as a group ( I know they aren't great.), or who you think Kagome will end up with? Let me know. I don't even know where this will go or how it will end, so it's up for debate. (Not heated debate please, flames hurt.)