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~Both~ We don't InuYasha! Just the OCs!

"Where are we going, Father?" Sesshoumaru asked his father as they led a two - tailed cat demon and a two headed dragon away from the rising sun.

"We are going back to the palace," Lord Inutaishou told his eldest with a sigh as he watched four small children chase each other ahead of the two. They had only been walking for about an hour and he had expected the three human children to still be asleep by the time they had begun traveling but about ten minutes ago they had woken up and looked around confused. They had seemed frightened of each other and of himself until a small red bundle popped its head up, it's droopy little white ears twitching as he yawned and looked around drowsily. After that they had begun chasing each other around slowly getting further away as they did.

"Do not stray to far!" Inutaishou called making three of the children pause before running back to him with smiles on their small faces. Silently he named off each child making sure they were still there.

"InuYasha, Miroku, Sango...where's Kagome?" He silently questioned and looked up to see the small girl talking to a young wolf demon who was staring down at her with a strange look.

"Sesshoumaru keep an eye on the children, I will be right back." Inutaishou told his son as he seemed to vanish for a second only to appear in front of the wolf demon as he picked up Kagome, who immediately began to kick and scream.

"Put her down or die where you stand." Inutaishou commanded startling the younger demon into doing as he had commanded.

"Who are you?" He growled as Kagome ran behind his legs and stared up at the wolf, who glanced at her then back at him.

"My name's Kouga, and that's my woman! Why is she with you and like that?" He barked at him angrily just as Sesshoumaru appeared with the others, the two youngest ones awake and sitting up on Ah-un's back.

"I am Lord Inutaishou of the West, be gone now or die where you stand." Inutaishou growled and expertly swung the Tetsusiaga at Kouga forcing him to jump back to avoid being hit. With a threat to return Kouga quickly ran away in a swirl of dust.

"Are you okay, 'Gome?" InuYasha asked the scared girl hiding behind Inutaishou's legs. Slowly, as Inutaishou watched, she relaxed her grip on his pants leg and looked at InuYasha with big eyes filled with unshed tears.

'Uh huh," she said sniffling and rubbing her eyes with both hands. Inutaishou couldn't help but smile at the two before looking over at the rest of the group only for his eyes to be drawn to Miroku and Sango, who were huddled together and whispering to each other.

"I want to go home, that demon was scary." Sango whispered to Miroku who nodded.

"It's okay, I'll protect you I'm a monk!" Miroku said proudly earning a laugh from Sango, he smiled and grabbed her hand kissing her cheek as he did causing her cheeks to turn bright red before she stared at him in surprise lightly touching the kissed cheek before using that hand for something else.

"AHH!" She yelled and slapped him causing a small red hand print to appear on his shocked face. He stared at her in shock before gently cupping his face in his hand.

"Why'd you do that?" Kagome asked as InuYasha laughed and pointed at the shocked boy falling back on his butt with laughter.

"I saw a man do it to another girl and thought I should do it." Miroku mumbled as he rubbed his sore cheek and watched the angry Sango climb up onto Kirara's back, not once looking at him. Inutaishou laughed at the cute antics of the small children around him before speaking.

"The castle is still far off how about we fly the rest of the way?" He asked earning many happy sounds at the statement.

"Mr. Inutai can I go home? I miss my mommy and brother." Kagome told the demon, pulling on his pants leg to get his attention. Kneeling down he gave her a smile and looked at her.

"Don't worry, you can go home soon. Your mommy told me to let you stay with me for a few days so she can go do some grown up things okay?" He asked the little girl who after a moment's thought nodded and ran over to Kirara to join Sango as Sesshoumaru moved the now three year old Rin over to them and watched Miroku and Inuyasha get up onto Ah-un where a small three year old Shippo sat playing with a small doll that was in one of Auhn's bags.

"Jaken," Inutaishou called just as the small imp appeared from down the road.

"Yes, my lord?" Jaken gasped looking at Sesshoumaro who ignored him and watched Rin with interest.

"Go ahead to the castle and inform everyone of our arrival, also have rooms prepared for the children. I expect dinner to be ready by our the time we arrive." Lord Inutaishou told the imp before dismissing him. With a quick flash the imp began to run to the castle leaving the small group to enter a nearby village on their own.

"Father, why are we here?" Sesshoumaru asked with disgust as they entered the small village and met a large group of men with weapons of various kinds.

"Leave our village demon!" One man yelled boldly as he stepped forward with a large planting hoe in his hands.

"Be at ease, we are not your enemies. I seek assistance," Inutaishou spoke calmly as he stepped toward the confused farmers as they whispered among themselves.

"I am Lord Inutaishou of the West, I will not harm you, I swear it." He called out just as the villagers moved to reveal a small boy with black pointy ears and long black hair, much like InuYasha except instead of wearing a full set of comfortable clothes they boy wore a pair of worn pants that clung to him, showing various scars lining his body.

"Look at the pitiful whelp." "A sad excuse of existence." "Filthy hanyo." Lord Inutaishou heard the small boy called as he carefully walked forward and bowed in front of him.

"Sir, my mother says she may be able to help." The young boy spoke in a whisper as he continued to bow to the older demon.

"Stand tall young one. I seek clothing for my children." Lord Inutaishou knelt down to the boy's height and looked him in the eye, gold eyes meeting soft blue eyes.

"Then my mother can help, she makes very fine clothing sir." The boy said proudly as he looked at the Lord in front of him. Lord Inutaishou laughed softly and stood up motioning for Sesshoumaru to follow him as the small boy led the way. Sesshoumaru followed him after a slight look at the smaller children behind him.

"Kaoru! Kaoru, where are you?" A woman called out as she stepped out of a small hut a good distance from the village.

"Mother! I'm over here!" The young boy called out and quickly dashed toward her, his ears standing up at alert as she looked over at him and smiled. Inutaishou quickly took note of her human appearance, and quietly complemented her long black hair, soft brown eyes, and nice smile.

"I see you brought guests, you must be the demon everyone speaks of." The woman said as she hugged the small boy and looked up at the Lord of the West.

"Yes, your son speaks highly of your skills with clothing." Inutaishou told the woman as he again took note of the rugged pants clinging to the boy. The woman nodded after a moment and after looking over the group she walked inside.

"Father," Sesshoumaru growled causing Inutaishou to glance back at his son to see InuYasha clinging to his back, Miroku and Shippo clinging to his legs, and little Rin in his arms while the girls were playing a game of chase around Ah-un with Kirara, in her little form, watching them.

"It seems I may have bargained for to much." Inutaishou thought as he laughed at the sight of all the children.