The two girls had been in the meadow for over two hours. During that time Jaken had woken up from his...nap. Sesshomaru had stayed by his tree the whole time. He was watching the two humans in the meadow. The woman now had her hair in a braid and flowers running through it with a flower wreath on her head thanks to Rin. Both girls were running around, playing "Tag", as they called it. However, Sesshomaru was still on the thing that was bothering him from earlier.

The woman, Nea, had come over toward him about an hour ago asking when she would be taken home. He guess since Rin was better and he had told her that he would take her home it was to be expected. But, for some strange reason, taking her back to that castle didn't seem right to him. It felt natural that she should be with them and travel in his company. She would keep his ward happy and take care of Rin. Plus, it was oblivious that both he and Jaken didn't know the first thing about taking care of humans.

He looked back to the girls. The more and more he thought about it the more and more it made since to keep the woman with them. She would be able to care of Rin better than they could. And now that he thought about it, she probably wouldn't be too welcomed back at that castle. Usually, women that were captured by demons and then returned back to a castle were normally hated. People came to the assumption that the woman had mated with a demon and was carrying that youkai's child, therefore usually resulting in the death of the woman. Also, he father had twenty other children as he recalled and she was supposedly the youngest. The man's eldest son was likely already named the heir so Sesshomaru doubted this woman would be missed at all.

That was it then, he decided. It wouldn't be much of a loss or problem if he kept this woman in his company to care for his young ward. He called her over to tell her of his decision.

"Woman. Come over here."

Nea looked up from where she was seated on the ground with Rin. She raised her eyebrow at him. Was he taking her home so soon?

She got up with Rin's hand in hers' as she made her way over to the dog daiyoukai. She got the strangest feeling in her stomach that something big was about to happen. She couldn't tell what, but she felt that whatever it was would drastically change her future plans. Finally she was facing Sesshomaru's side, seeing as the bastard would stand and face her for some unknown reason. The prick.

"Are you taking me home so early? I was hoping to spend some more time with Rin before I left you guys." She inquired.

"No. I am not."

"Oh well then in that case, when are you taking me back? Because there's still-"

"I am not going to be taking you home, woman." He cut her off.

She blinked at him, confused now by what he meant.

"What do you mean?"

"You will be staying with us. Rin needs a caretaker that is able to understand human needs. That is all." He told her. He made it sound so simply, like he wasn't determining her future for her.

Rin, who had been quiet the whole time, was now jumping up in down while holding Nea's hand. How could she not be excited? There would be another female in the group besides herself that she could do girl things with. She had tried to make Jaken play games with her, but he was always such a grouch. And Sesshomaru-sama was either busy or not around to play.

Speaking of Jaken... the imp had reappeared when Sesshomaru was telling Nea of her new job. The imp was practically in tears at hearing that they would have yet ANOTHER human with them. It was bad enough putting up with Rin, but now he would have to put up with this woman? His lord's taste in the company he kept was truly testing him he thought with a sigh.

Nea's thoughts were somewhere along the lines of Jaken's, only slightly different. She was slowly recovering from her shock and was becoming more and more pissed off. .Hell. Did this man think he was?! He had given her his word that after she had helped Rin get better he would take her back home. What the hell gave him the right to go back on it?! This fucker had some nerves if he thought she wasn't going object to his little half-assed proposal.

"You're fucking kidding me, right?"

So, what do you guy's think of my oc Nea so far? And how do you like the story? And worry not for more chapters are coming your way. I'm just waiting for some more reviews ;)

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Wolves10