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A/N: Okay, Sorry for the delay but comp is on the fritz there will be more to this later on!

Hopes Like It!

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"Are we still going to train?" Kagome asked in child-like whine.

"Yes, but only now you couldn't possibly kill yourself." his smooth tone barely covering over his annoyance.

Gently, she bent down and picked up the staff and held it like a golf club. Sesshoumaru took in the picture of Kagome and groaned this is going to be a long night!

Chapter 2: A Dog, A Kit, and a Oka-san?

Night 3

Kagome cuddled more into her sleeping bag, it had been a long day. Inuyasha had decided that they needed to pick up the pace, because they have been lacking in the shard department. He even had the audacity to say that I wasn't even keeping up so that they would double the pace to build up my strength. What he didn't know is that I am secretly training with the devil at night, then having to fight and walk all day. Those kinds of things tend to take it out of a girl. Stupid dog demons!

That was when she felt the worst feeling in the world, Sesshoumaru's aura pulling at hers. If I ignore him he will just go away. I need sleep and I am going to have it! She thought as his aura pulled at her harder. Slowly Kagome started to pull in her aura, she thought that if he couldn't pull on it he would just leave me alone, I mean what could he do to me when I am in the middle of camp.

She slowly started to relax when she felt his aura recede back to him.She had won the battle tonight. Grinning she tucked herself further under her cover.

"Owww, that really hurt!!" Kagome yelled as she sprung up from her bed, cradling her left hand.

"Kagome are you all right?" asked the concerned Sango.

"Yes, what was with all the yelling, what happened?" asked Miroku as he too sat up. Turning her head, Kagome looked at her two friends, and smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry I just cut my hand on the ground while I was sleeping. I am just gonna go to the river and wash it off, and take some time to myself." And maybe kill a certain dog demon.

Slowly rising Kagome slid on her shoes and grabbed the first aid kit, along with her flashlight, and took to the forest. Somewhere in that same forest a demon leaned against a tree, smirking. He had won the battle tonight.

Meanwhile back at Camp

"That was strange." stated Miroku, still staring blankly at the place that Kagome had just vacated. "I agree. Do you think we should go after her?"

"No, My dear Sango, we should stay and bask in this glorious night." Miroku said turning to looked at Sango shaking form with a warm smile on his face.

"You seem cold. Would you like help to warm up?" Miroku asked with his signature eyebrow wiggle.

"N-no, I am fine... hehe... we should send Shippo to watch Kagome, I will get him." Swiftly getting up, she walked to Shippo's side and whispered to the young kit sending him in the direction that Kagome had left. Waiting for him to disappear from sight Sango walked back to her bed, only to see an additional blanket on it. Sango looked over to see Miroku back to sleep, blanket less. He gave up his blanket for me?

A cold breeze blew passed causing the bare monk to shiver, shaking her head Sango picked up the "extra" blanket and laid it on Miroku's sleeping form. Well, he does seem quite handsome when he's sleeping. "Good night Miroku" whispered Sango. As she laid down drifting to sleep, she could barely hear a "Good night my love."

Back with Kagome

"That... Argh!" Kagome mumbled as she walked through the forest to where she felt his aura. "When I see him, I will purify his ass to hell and back; Or I will cut out his heart and make him eat it; Or I will slowly cut off his fingers one by one; OR better yet I will take his arm again and have Inuyasha use it as a trophy!" Men are bastard, All of them. With a final nod of the head Kagome barged into the clearing to see Sesshoumaru leaning casually against a tree.

Sesshoumaru lifted his head towards Kagome, his indifferent mask firmly in place. "You're late."

Kagome just stared at him in shock, he did not just say that.

"You Sadist! I deserve at least one night of sleep, between you and Inuyasha I never get to rest. I want to sleep, is that so hard to ask for?"

"Yes"

"What?!"

"I do not repeat myself human."

Kagomes face started turning red from her anger, you could just see the steam rolling out of her ears. As her hands rolled tightly in a fist, she advanced on the demon charging her miko powers in her hands. She pulled back her right fist and slammed it into his chest, effectively throwing him and herself into neighboring trees. And that is how little shippo found them, groaning in pain in a miko charge field.

Shippo looked from the demon lord to the miko and back. "I'm confused"

It was Kagome's groaning in pain that pulled Shippo from his stupor, springing the kit into action.

"Oka-san!" yelled Shippo.

Kagome looked at the young kit in front of her with a slightly bewildered look "Oka-san?"

Shippo realizing what he had said turned ten different shades of red. Even though he always thought of Kagome as a mother he never intended that she found out about it. "Uh...um... I mean are you okay? What happened?" Shippo asked carefully avoiding the Oka-san subject.

"Oh, I am fine." said Kagome as she slowly tried to lift herself up, only moments later to yelp in pain. "Or I could just rest for a little while, that does sound nice right now."

Sesshoumaru on the other hand, just stood up and brushed the dust from his clothes. Showing no physical sign that he was in pain, graceful walked over to the injured miko and her frantic kit.

"Miko, might I suggest that in the future you never try that little stunt again." came his silky voice drawing the two's attention to himself.

"Leave my Kagome alone!" Shouted a slightly startled Shippo, taking a fighting stance between his "Oka-san" and the new intruder. Much to the young kit's credit only slightly shaking in fear of the great demon before him.

Sesshoumaru looked at the kit in front of him to Kagome, raising an eyebrow at the scene.

"Is this your kit?" came the statement in question form.

Kagome looked at shippo. Well I do treat him as if he were my own, but what about shippo? Well I am pretty sure that he called me Oka-san. "Yes, Shippo is my kit."

"Hn."

"Ah, Kagome... I mean Oka-san, I am confused. What is going on here? Why is Sesshoumaru here? And why aren't we dead yet?"

Kagome had to laugh at Shippo's questions, while Sesshoumaru did a very good job at hiding his amusement behind his blank mask.

Composing herself she looked to the stoic demon lord. "Can I tell him? It would be helpful in the future if someone else knew." She asked, trying to give him the best puppy dog eyes he had ever seen.

Sesshoumaru stared into her chocolate doe eyes, and could have sworn he had seen that look before. That's when it hit him, Rin. This was the exact look Rin likes to give him when she wants to pick flowers. This look was going to be his downfall.

He nodded his agreement, while silently cursing Rin, her ways, and flowers. Which had obviously put him in his uncomfortable position.

As he situated himself against a tree, Kagome began to tell Shippo the story of how she and Sesshoumaru ended up thrown against a couple of trees.

"There is something I don't understand. If you knew that you two had this "connection" through the necklace" Shippo began, making air quotes with his chubby fingers in the appropriate places. "Then why did you attack him that way?"

Sesshoumaru took the liberty of answering his question. "It would seem that, she spends to much time with a certain hanyou, and his actions are starting to rub off on her."

Shippo nodded his head in agreement, while Kagome just rolled her eyes at the whole thing. Turning to look at Sesshoumaru, Shippo asked. "Um... Sesshoumaru..-sama, do you think you could train me also. So I can help you and Kagome too. I tried getting help from Inu-baka but all I could learn from him was how to throw a sword around." Shippo's eyes started to glaze over as he thought about all the things he could do once trained by Sesshoumaru.

-Shippo's Dream Sequence-

Shippo strolled up to the campsite, with ten fish in each hand, only to uncover a horrid site.

"Please Inuyasha, we didn't mean to eat your Ramen." Pleaded Miroku, Kagome nodding in agreement.

"Yes, we didn't mean to but if you must punish someone, then punish the houshi." begged Sango, Kagome still nodding in the background.

"No! You all ate my special Ramen, so you all must suffer the punishment!" Inuyasha yelled, then threw his head back, hands in the air, and starting laughing manically.

"Oh, no who ever can save us." cried Miroku, one hand grabbing his chest, the other a top his forehead. The girls crying on each other in their desperation.

Shippo, not being able to hear anymore, jumped up onto a rock. One hand on his hip, One pointing to the sky exclaimed. "Never Fear Shippo Is Here!"

"Our Hero!" cheered the girls, Miroku crying tears of joys mumble something about "The kami's have saved us."

"Keh, like that little whimp will be able to stop me." Snorted Inuyasha.

"Think again you lowly dog!" Shippo jumped from his perch onto Inuyasha's head, bitting his ear in the process. To avoid the upcoming whack from Inuyasha, he somersaults into the air landing safely on the ground. With one final kick to the stomach Inuyasha was down on the ground begging for mercy.

"Three Cheers For Shippo!"

"Hip, hip, hooray!"

-End of Dream Sequence-

"Shippo?" asked Kagome, her hand waving in front of his face. "Are you okay?"

"Huh? Oh... ya um, wait where is Sesshoumaru? Did he say I could train? What about-"

"Calm down Shippo, we have to go." she said pointing to the rising sun. "Sesshoumaru left, but he said that you can come with me again tonight. Weren't you listening to the conversation?"

Shippo blushed a little a shook his head no.

"Oh well come on before the others notice we are missing."

"Okay, Oka-san!" exclaimed shippo following after her, eventually slipping back into his dream sequence.

A/N: Okay so I did have more to this chapter but my computer has been a little testy, so I couldn't add it. Um some parts of this is a little shaky but all in all I like it. Same goes with the next chapter of choice, but hopefully I will be able to make a compromise with it and get them updated.

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