A/N: Hey guys, two things. 1) SORRY, there is one error that some of you helped me out on, I said Youkai when it should be Youki! MY BAD! 2) Voting for a Jar of Pens has not yet opened, but I'll be sure to tell you when it is! Apparently my link on my profile is naught working, so I'll work on that. ;; also I'm glad I'm alive. I got several threats on my life if I killed off the twins. Don't worry, they have a BIG part to play towards the end, they NEED to be alive. And with that….

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My Pet

Of Naps and Necessities

Brittney Spears. Need I say more? Hated by many (a/n: INCLUDING ME!) hailed as one of the worst singers of the decade, pregnant supposedly, again. What on earth is she doing still singing? More importantly, what was one of her horrible songs doing being played 500 years before she even lived in the beautiful, if not celestial, castle of the Western Lord, Sesshoumaru.

Saku pondered this while wondering what 'fat sag wrinkles' were. (Kagome had told him about them about the same time she informed him that the horrid singer was pregnant.) He blissfully meditated, thankful Kagome had thought to bring wax ear plugs for herself and him.

Together the two sat in chairs by the Twins' bedsides, now the only occupants in the hospital wing because the scratchy music had chased out all other Youkai out, patient and healer alike. The twins were still unconscious, although they showed signs of waking up in the way that their ears painfully twitched while they were subjected to the 'music'. It had been a part of Kagome's master plan to keep them from 'a coma', whatever that was.

"Are you sure this won't make them worse?" Saku asked Lady Kagome, Lord Sesshoumaru's cherished pet. (Saku had to snicker at this one, he had come up with the 'cherished' part. It no doubt was the inspiration Amarante had used when creating her paintings. Saku did love to see Sesshoumaru in a good lapse of anguish every once in while. Sadly only Kagome and Amarante could achieve this.)

"As soon as they wake up I'll give them a piece of heaven, and they'll forget all about the torture they had to go through in order to get it," Kagome yelled over the blaring stereo.

The pair fell silent again, Saku wondering how the miko could possibly obtain a piece of heaven. Kagome, meanwhile, sat reading some strange sort of book, occasionally glancing up and giving him a smile before turning a page.

They sat there for another hour before a visitor entered the hospital. It was General Windsor, who, Saku noted, looked perhaps a little pale under his golden bronze tan.

"Lady Kagome, please shut that infernal racket off!" General Windsor bid.

"Or?" Kagome asked, raising an eyebrow before flipping a page.

"Or Lord Sesshoumaru has given me orders to silence it, without your permission." General Windsor nervously said.

"Oh yeah?" Kagome asked, glancing up at him with innocent blue eyes. "You and what army?" She asked, peeping behind him.

General Windsor cringed, Saku could see his mind whirling under his white hair. The horse demon turned to Saku, but Saku merely pointed to his earplugs and shook his head. The general ground his teeth, closing his eyes as though accepting a fate worse than death.

"If you cease the noise I will accompany you for the day, going wherever you choose to." General Windsor spat out.

"Really?" Kagome asked, abandoning her book.

General Windsor grimly nodded, taking a hit for the castle.

Saku shook his head, if only the poor horse knew what Kagome would do to him now.

Kagome jumped up and shut off the stereo. She quickly zipped up her yellow backpack and paused, stepping in between the cats' cots.

"Haruko, Hiroshi, wake up," She softly said. Slowly they heeded her call, their faces grimacing with pain. "Good morning my sunshines." Kagome greeted. "I just wanted to give you two a treat before I left. Be good for the healers, don't bite them, don't get up or leave until you are completely better. Did you hear that Haruko? I mean 100 better!" She lectured, amazing the steward and general with how well she knew the brothers.

She reached into her pockets and unwrapped something covered in brightly colored paper. A sweet sent sprinkled the air as Kagome hand fed each of the cheetahs some brown sort of food.

"It's chocolate. Hershey's to be exact. Get better you two!" she said, giving them a very light hug each.

The twins purred before drifting back to unconsciousness, each of them falling asleep with smiles on their faces.

"Okay, let's go," Kagome said, brushing off her hands.

"Go where?" General Windsor questioned, he still had one more mission he had to fulfill before the evening was finished.

A malicious light entered Kagome's eyes. "You'll see. You're coming too Saku, right?" She asked.

Saku laughed. "Of course Lady Kagome. Lead on!"


In her room in her tower Amarante, the snow leopard, snorted. Perhaps she had an idea where Kagome would drag off the helpless horse and the playful otter, perhaps she didn't. Either way she wouldn't be waking up for a while. But that didn't stop her from still creating mayhem in her sleep. Nooooo, that was why she had written instructions on her door (Silly Sesshoumaru would never venture up to her room) for all of her trusted servants to see.

They would act out her will, and stir up quite the scene during the coming evening….


"This is wrong. Just plain wrong!" General Windsor insisted. "We shouldn't be bathing, not to mention I do not appreciate bathing with a pet!"

"I can hear you!" Kagome called, stepping out of the hot springs house in her swimming suit. A beaming Saku and glum Windsor were already plutching around in a gigantic hot water spring. "You're just upset because you're in the girls section!" Kagome laughed, hopping into the outside water spring. (She had spotted it in her previous hot spring visits, and it only just occurred to her that the outside springs were separated by gender. Yes indeed this was the perfect way to embarrass the general, although Saku seemed more amused then upset.)

Windsor let out an upset grunt.

Kagome opened her shampoo bottle, Herbal Essence, the strongest scent, and craftily waded through the water, toward the lightly clothed horse demon. "Turn around General Windsor, please."

The General put up mild resistance. "My lady, this out steps my boundaries, surely Lord Sesshoumaru would be furious if his cherished pet (Here Saku let out a snort)…washed…. His general." Windsor coolly said, pushing himself up against the edge of the hot spring, his blue eyes growing wider as the young slip of a teenage girl approached him.

"You promised!" Kagome sweetly said.

General Windsor swallowed and glanced over at Saku, pleading for help. The otter demon shook his head, his black obsidian eyes glowing with laughter as if to say 'you got yourself into this mess'.

General Windsor clenched his eyes shut and submitted to the suddsing of his hair, concluding that it was the worst wound he had ever received.

Saku snickered in his corner, the horse now smelled like a walking garden as Kagome thoroughly washed his hair.

"Oh yeah Saku, don't think you're getting out of this!" Kagome said with a throaty laugh.

Saku blanched in spite of himself and Windsor allowed himself a triumphant smile.


Sesshoumaru sat behind his desk in his study, doing his best to ignore the scandalous pictures plastered around the room. Before him sat ten old, dusty scrolls. A frown marred his face, he hadn't found much.

He had been told as a pup about the Rising Power, the White Maiden, and the well known prophecy. The Mirrors were a new piece of information, and they weren't mentioned at all except there were references to symmetry, identical constellations, and one scroll even blatantly spoke of a pair of twins.

If Sesshoumaru had connected everything properly, the prophesy Amarante had just uttered linked two ancient legends together. One of a White Maiden, a human girl, who was to be the heart of the Rising Powers, whatever that meant. The 'Mirrors' were to be the White Maiden's guard, although one of the scrolls muddled around in something Sesshoumaru couldn't quite grasp, something about their powers. However, the Timeless Enchantress was a new development. The only other person mentioned in the legend of the White Maiden was the Timeless Prophetess. But, a person called the Timefold Enchantress appeared in the other legend that Amarante had linked, a legend which was known through out all of Japan and was whispered with hope. It was a legend of goodness and peace, speaking of the day that humans and youkai would get along.

Sesshoumaru shook himself from his musings and gathered up the scrolls intent on taking them up to his room for further studying before the sun set. As he walked through his castle at a breakneck, almost invisible, pace, Sesshoumaru noticed that Windsor had gotten the miko to cease the racket. He hoped that he would be able to carry out the second part of the mission, Sesshoumaru had no wish to do it himself since it would be rather difficult without receiving the full blown wrath of the dramatic miko.

Sesshoumaru stopped outside his bedroom chamber and opened the door, speeding across the room to drop the ancient scrolls on a table. He paused, and then froze before turning around and blinking.

On his wall was a giant tapestry portraying a sleeping Kagome on some sort of bed, Sesshoumaru bent over her, dressed in his war kimono and armor, about to kiss her. The floor was dotted with little bunnies, several that looked suspiciously like Kagome's friends, Inu Yasha, the female youkai slayer, the monk, the fire cat, and that Fox. A large, cackling snow leopard was sitting in a tree above Sesshoumaru and Kagome, and two bronze eyed kittens were sitting next to a mischievous otter. In the background Sesshoumaru could spot a palomino colored horse, fully tacked as though Sesshoumaru had ridden him. Windsor….

Something made Sesshoumaru raise his gaze to the ceiling, and as soon as he did he wished he hadn't. Painted across the entire ceiling was one of the horrible paintings Amarante had wallpapered his study with. It was the worst one out of them… the one in which Kagome was petting his tail.

Sesshoumaru took a deep breathe. "AMARANTE!"


A ways away Amarante snickered in her sleep. Ohhh yes. Her poor cousin had no clue that the worst was yet to come.


Saku and Windsor watched Kagome skip ahead, racing through the meadows. "We should jump her!" Windsor growled, his cool aura spoiled for once.

"Agreed." Saku happily replied back, struggling to remain calm. He smelled like a girl.

Kagome started picking several pink colored flowers.

"We have to be careful though, she'll kill us if we don't do this right." Windsor said, holding out his clenched hand to let a small object fall into Saku's hand.

Saku raised an eyebrow. "Lord Sesshoumaru gave you this?"

"He told me to carry it out, or else the castle might crumble before our very eyes." Windsor said.

Saku heaved a sigh. "Very well, this is suicide, or at the very least extremely difficult."

"That does not matter; when a mission needs to be carried out I will see it through with my dying breath." Windsor stubbornly said.

"Very well then, I'll do my best to distract her. You can do the cloak and dagger stuff." Saku said before striding off after Lady Kagome.

"Lady Kagome, are you aware that a wave of your purification powers swept through all of the Western Lands, possibly Japan, correct?" Saku called to the prancing young girl.

Kagome stopped, her pile of flowers growing. "Are you serious?" She asked, turning to look at the otter with startled blue eyes.

"It wasn't harmful or anything, it just made most youkai uncomfortable!" Saku hastily said.

"Wow, I didn't think I was using that much power. I guess it was because that stupid charm had been holding me back for so long!" Kagome said, tapping her chin with her finger.

"Speaking of that charm," Windsor said, darting forward. Within the blink of an eye Windsor was inches away from Kagome. He reached out for her neck, there was a little click, and than he leaped away, doing his best to stand next to Saku and not look apprehensive.

Kagome felt for her black chocker and frowned, a little crescent moon charm was now attached to it again. Kagome could feel the power beneath her sinking deeper into her soul. "Well done General Windsor." Kagome said with an admiring smile. "That was well played."

"Thank you, Lady Kagome." Windsor said with a bow.

"But it won't go unpunished." Kagome said in the same sweet tone. Windsor paled and Saku held in a chuckle.


"Don't you feel so pretty now General Windsor?" Kagome asked, weaving another flower into the horse demon's mane.

The General snorted and swatted at her with his tail, impatiently tossing his golden head.

"Do you have a fly you would like me to swish?" Saku innocently asked the general, who was in his true demon form, lying before Kagome who was standing on her tip toes to reach his mane.

She had braided and plaited roughly thirty flowers into his mane, and she was only halfway done, not to mention his tail would still have to be done.

The horse demon patiently bore it, only occasionally glaring at Saku who had gone as far as to dare say that Windsor probably liked it.

"You're so beautiful!" Kagome said, snuggling into the silky mane of the general. The general snuffed her hair, shooting a warning glance at Saku.

"I always wanted a pony!" Kagome said into his soft fur.

"Congratulations, you are now the proud new owner of a pony demon." Saku slyly said.

Windsor snorted and would have lunged at Saku if Kagome hadn't leaped in front of him, her fists on her hips.

"Saku, you be nice too or I'll have you transform and I'll smuggle you into the hot springs with me again!"

Saku gave a smooth smile and an apologetic bow. "I apologize Lady Kagome." He said as Windsor sneered over Kagome's shoulder. "I should remember that the pony has delicate feelings."

At this Windsor did lunge, and Kagome couldn't help the laugh that bubbled out from the depths of her stomach.


"What do you mean you lost her Dogboy!" Kouga shouted.

Inu Yasha sniffed the air. "Shut up would you wolfbreath? I keep picking up her scent in the Western Lands!"

"That can't be right, we were only on the edge of its borders when we encountered the dragon." Sango said, tightly hugging Shippo to her.

Kouga now paused too and started sniffing. The two canines stood side by side for a moment, sniffing.

They both stiffened and paused, sniffed some more then turned to each other.

"NO!" They both thundered before turning back to sniff again.

"DOGBOY!" Kouga shouted.

"KAGOME! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN SESSHOUMARU'S CASTLE?" Inu Yasha shouted.

Sango's jaw dropped and Miroku smirked.

"Perhaps she is offering him special assistance?" He ventured while the wolf and half dog demon quarreled.

Sango rammed her bone boomerang against the monk's head. He fell over, knocked out, and the demon slayer sighed and started off in the direction of Sesshoumaru's castle, her cat following her. Inu Yasha and Kouga would catch up. Unfortunately Miroku the parasite would too. Sango frowned, Inu Yasha was correct…why was Kagome with Sesshoumaru?


Namir trembled in the shadows, she hadn't been discovered yet. Lord Agu, before the fight, had instructed her to stay out of sigh incase he failed. The Chatel line had to be destroyed, that is what the shaman of their tribe had told them. In order to accomplish that mission Namir stayed behind while her kinsmen went ahead. Namir had a feeling that she would never see her sweet African home again, but she was glad that she would be able to help Lord Agu and kill the twins and their ward.


Sesshoumaru waded through the flowery meadow, intent on finding Kagome, just as the sun set beyond the horizon. Following his nose he came upon Kagome, leaning up against a gigantic tree, a crown of flowers in her hand, and Saku, his nose in a book.

"Ah, greetings Lord Sesshoumaru!" Saku said, rising to give a bow, speaking in a hushed tone since the miko was fast asleep.

"General Windsor succeeded?" Sesshoumaru asked, bending forward the touch the crescent moon charm with a nail.

"That he did sir!" Saku said, more playfulness in his voice than usual.

"Where did he go?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"I believe he went to his rooms to remove some, hair decorations, Milord." Saku vaguely said.

Sesshoumaru grunted before reaching down and picking Kagome up, slinging her over his shoulder. Saku brushed himself off and collected his book.

"Will that be all for now Milord?" Saku questioned.

"Yes." Sesshoumaru said starting for the castle. Saku gave another bow before melting into the shadows.

Sesshoumaru sped up into his run, reaching Kagome's room moments later. He opened the door and set the girl in her bed. He paused, watching her sleep as the moon rose into the sky while shy stars started twinkling in the darkness.

He reached into his pocket and uncrumpled the note he had received.

Dear Lord Sesshoumaru

Research has recently shown that it is an extreme necessity for humans, particularly females, to be involved in relationships. Close ones. Lots of them. Especially ones with boys. It is advised that you interact more with your Pet in order to keep her healthy and happy. Not to mention it will keep her from utterly destroying your castle.

Your most sincere servant

Scholar Iknow I. Talls

Sniffing the note Sesshoumaru could trace just the faintest whiff of snow, vanilla, and mint. Amarante. He was sure it was some big bluff just to make him spend more time with her, but perhaps it did show a minute shard of truth. After all, Sesshoumaru had seen how upset Kagome was over her guards, perhaps making her useful and sending her out to do minor chores would keep her mind off of it for a while.

At least that's what Sesshoumaru told himself. Perhaps deep down inside it was really because he secretly wondered that if he was injured, Kagome wouldn't be nearly as upset. Jealousy always killed the dog youkai!

At least that was what the gecko youkai perched in the upper ceiling of Kagome's room thought. Amarante was a genius, she had said the dog demon would be waaaayyy to distracted to sense his presence, not to mention that Amarante had given him some sort of aura talisman. The gecko continued to draw on the pad of paper suspended before him with his mouth, he wasn't considered Sesshoumaru's best spy for nothing.

The gecko shuddered, hoping Amarante wouldn't live up to her threat. Perhaps this drawing for the new set of paintings she was ordering for the dining room would be enough. If not the gecko would have to follow Sesshoumaru and Kagome around the following day, hopefully he wouldn't run into the two Haiku writers Amarante had blackmailed into making poems of Sesshoumaru and Kagome. They sounded sorta freaky.

As the gecko drew away, and as Sesshoumaru stared at Kagome, and as Kagome slept, Amarante snored away in her room, the cheetah twins softly snoozed in their cots with dreams of Hersheys, Namir huddled in a cold corner of the castle, Saku fluffed up his pillow, Inu Yasha and company (complete with Kouga) were just able to make out the pearly white walls of Sesshoumaru's castle, and the three demon lords of the North, South, and East received invitations to Sesshoumaru's newest ball.

Still no one knew what was in store, and so the Haiku writers wrote, the painters painted, and the seamstresses snipped away. Amarante wouldn't be stopped, nor would the glowing eyes of Kagome's enemy who had attacked her the previous day, nor would fate, even with all the meddling of a dog demon.


A/N: OH YEAH! I'm actually updating again! Thanks for reading, PLEASE REVIEW! REVIEW AND I PROMISE MY ETERNAL LOVE! Kudos to those who can guess what the 'legends' are about. (Like details) as well as who Kagome's new enemy is, and what/who the 'meddling dog demon' is/was.

Thanks for reading!