The Psychiatrist and the Estranged LoversBy Darkness

Shenji Katakana was a psychiatrist, yes, but he was no where near perfect. He was a youkai, yes, but he was no where near full-blooded. He was a shape shifter, a combination of hundreds of youkai that had bred into the same family and he had been blessed with the ability to look like any one of them. He could look like other things too, if he took part of them into himself. That was why Shenji was currently impersonating a human. He wanted to be trusted by all of the humans who strolled into his office. He wanted to be trusted by all of his patients.

But Shenji Katakana could never have been prepared for Sesshomaru and Kagome Tashio and their marital problems. They were a feat even he could not overcome. But, alas, he was on a payroll, thus he helped those he was told to and the Tashios were his patients, despite his desperate pleas otherwise.

So when they had walked into his office the first time, he was nervous as hell and he tried to hide it. Little did he know, there was no hiding from Sesshomaru.

"Demon, stop trying to hide your nervousness…This Sesshomaru does not like the stench of your tainted shape-shifter power. My mate needs this therapy and it would be done best if you were calm."

"Hai, Mr. Tashio. I—" Shenji was interrupted by the woman standing next to Sesshomaru. The woman named Kagome.

"Who says I'M the one who needs the therapy? Your arrogant ass is the one who needs it."

"This Sesshomaru does not need therapy. I am perfectly fine as I am."

"Yea, sure…that's why you don't talk to me or the kids anymore."

"I never talked to any of you to begin with. You are over-exaggerating, mate."

"I am not! Stop talking to me like I am a child! I am only a few hundred years younger than you, you bastard!"

Sesshomaru quirked an eyebrow at this and looked Kagome in the eye. "I know who my father is, mate, thus this Sesshomaru is not a bastard as you so like to call me." Shenji laughed at this but this only served to anger Kagome more.

"Fine then, you're a big, giant, inu-youkai, arrogant, ASS!" She then threw a punch Sesshomaru's way. It landed square in his black silk-shirt covered chest. Shenji thought Sesshomaru would merely shrug it off but no such luck.

"You dare hit me, woman?"

"Kagome…You'd think that after 500 years you'd know my name by now, Sesshy. Remember…Ka-go-me. You learned it the hard way 500 years ago. Don't make me remind you." Shenji swore he saw her hands glow pink but the vision ended when Sesshomaru growled and pulled Kagome into his lap. He licked at the star-shaped mark at the nape of her neck: their mating mark. Kagome calmed immediately.

"Arrogant, manipulative, ass…"

"But, mate, you seem to be fond of my ass." Shenji held back a laugh as Kagome paled and then turned a pretty pink color. Her eyes clouded in embarrassment and she closed them to try and regain her dignity.

"And you of mine." It was Sesshomaru's turn to laugh. He hadn't expected such a reaction from Kagome but it had come all the same.

"Interesting observation…" As if in retaliation, Sesshomaru grabbed her said ass and she turned an even brighter pink before she turned and slapped him soundly across the face.

"HENTAI! No more spending Saturdays with Miroku." She then settled back into his embrace, AFTER grabbing both his hands tightly and pulling them in front of her so she could see them. The strange pink glow returned for a second when Sesshomaru tried to remove his hands from her grasp. He immediately stopped when the glow appeared.

When he had settled his hands in her lap, the glow disappeared and Kagome flashed Shenji her first smile of the day.

"So, doctor, what do you need us to tell you?"

Shenji straightened his tie before pulling out a tape-recorder. "Well, Mrs. Tashio—" She interrupted him.

"Kagome…"
"Ah, yes, Kagome. Well, Kagome, why don't you start from the beginning?"