I still do not nor will I ever own Inuyasha, Rumiko Takahashi does, so *nyah*

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Previously:

"You two wouldn't happen to be Inutaisho Nishimura's sons would you?" he asked almost hesitantly. Both nodded their heads and continued to finish their meals. Luckily their heads were down so that they didn't see the panic in Shun, Ayame and Kagome's faces. Oh shit, they all thought at the same time, this is not good.

Chapter 10- Connections

Everyone had finished their meal and each paid their share and because Shun had brought Ai, Souta and Shippo he got to pay for their parts as well. As they were leaving the restaurant Koga grabbed Ayame by her arm jerking her to a stop.

"Hey," he started trying not to flinch from her glare. "I'm sorry about before. I was a jerk and…"

"And you were just being a guy," she finished for him. "Don't worry you're still my 'Protector'." At her words a smile broke out across his face. "But only because you're good friends with my sister's 'Protector'." His smile dimmed but was still there. I can work on her slowly, he thought, but this is the first time I'm starting at the bottom, usually girls just ask me out.

Shun had noticed that Ayame wasn't with them anymore so he stopped and hung back waiting for her. That's when he noticed her with Koga. He's the Wolf Prince, he thought. The one who didn't want her.

"Hey Shun, Ayame," yelled Ai. "You guys comin'?" Koga finally let go of Ayame's arm and they started for the rest, and then noticed the girl didn't call his name.

"Hey why'd you only call their names?" he asked. The girl looked at him like he was an idiot.

"One, I don't know you and two I don't know any of your names," she informed them. That's when Kagome and Ayame noticed they hadn't introduced their new friends.

"That's Rin and Sango," Kagome pointed to the two girls. "They're our new roommates. Those two," she said pointing to Riku and Takeshi "are Sesshomaru's friends Riku and Takeshi. That's Sesshomaru, Miroku, Inuyasha and Koga," she said as she point to each one as she said their names. "They are our 'Protectors'." Kagome said the last part rolling her eyes, but at her words Shun's head snapped in her direction.

"Wait, so those rumors were actually true?" he asked.

"What rumors?" Ayame asked.

"The rumors about girls being 'Protected' by demons here." Everyone nodded his or her head. It looked like he was about to say something when a yell was heard.

"Young master Sesshomaru, young master Inuyasha," yelled what looked like a flea demon as he was jumping over to them. His final jump landed him on Inuyasha's cheek where everyone could hear a sucking sound. Inuyasha slapped his cheek were the old flea demon was taking some of his blood. Why does the old flea only try to drink my blood when both Sesshomaru and I are here, he thought. The slap flattened the little flea but he popped back to normal pretty soon and stood on Inuyasha's hand.

"Young masters, your father requests your presence at a party tonight. Oh and you two as well, young masters Takeshi and Riku." All the guys groaned knowing that they were not allowed to bring any girls with them otherwise Inutaisho would have told them about the party before they moved back to school. Sesshomaru walked over to Rin and just looked into her eyes.

"Rin you are not to leave your apartment tonight. Neither I nor Takeshi and Riku will be here to 'Protect' you. Go back to your apartment immediately," he ordered. Rin nodded her head knowing that he was just worried about her safety but she didn't always like how he ordered her around like a child.

Just as the guys turned to leave to follow the flea demon Miroku's phone rang.

"Hello? Ah Dad what is it? What… Wait I can't toni… I know that you are paying for school but…Okay fine I'll do it. Yeah, yeah I'll see you in about an hour. Bye." Hanging up his phone he turned to the others and just sighed. "I have to get going. My dad just told me that he signed me up for late night duty at his 24 hour clinic, so I'll be gone all night." He looked to Sango who sighed.

"Yeah, yeah I know don't go outside without Kirara or some sort of way to protect myself."

"You know I just worry about you and don't want anything to happen to you," he said soothingly. She nodded her head knowing his words were true. Inuyasha was looking at Kagome who looked back at him with a raised brow.

"What, are you going to tell me not to leave the apartment either?" she asked.

"Please I am begging you don't leave the apartment," he pleaded with the beautiful girl. At his words his friends, brother, and Myoga the flea looked at him in shock. He never says please, they all thought. And he never ever begs, how did this girl do it one day? Kagome just looked at him seeing the worry in his eyes and seeing as she had already pissed off the most evil demon in school and just sighed.

"Okay I won't leave," she said, which made Inuyasha smile. "Until I walk Shun, Ai, Souta and Shippo back to their car later." And his smile went away. "But I'll go right back and if Sango isn't with us I'll ask if we could barrow Kirara for that short period of time, alright?" And his smile was back. He walked over to her and hugged her and kissed her on her cheek then walked to his brother. As he walked over to his brother he sent a silent signal to Koga to watch the girls, which he would have agreed to if three people hadn't run up to them.

Ginta and Hakkaku were Koga's seconds and completely loyal to him, however the third was loyal but there was something about him that made Koga unable to fully trust him, his name was Isamu.

"Koga!" called Ginta and Hakkaku together.

"What is it?" he demanded.

"Your father demands your presence back in wolf territory tonight," Isamu said. "Apparently there is some sort of problem with the area around the forbidden border." His words made all the girls and Shun twitch. Kagome looked closer at this wolf and saw something that scared her. He looks a lot like the man who had tried to kidnap Ayame eleven years ago, she thought. She then turned to Shun who had been there that night and asked him a question in Shadow language.

"Nach bhfuil an fear a labhair faoi na fadhbanna ceaptha breathnú ar an eolas? (Doesn't the man who talked about the supposed problems look familiar?)" Kagome asked. Shun had been there the night Ayame had come to the Shadowlands as well but he had been farther back but had gone with his father to return the man back to the location of Ayame's old house, so he remembered the man very well.

"Sea, tá sé cosúil leis an bastaird a thriail a ghlacadh uirthi aon bhliain déag ó shin, (Yes, he looks like the bastard who tried to take her eleven years ago,)" he replied. Sesshomaru noticed the two speaking in some weird tongue, what language is that? He thought. The others were completely oblivious to the conversation that Shun and Kagome were having.

"Damn it," Koga said. He looked to Ayame and inadvertently drawn the other Wolf Demon's eyes to her as well. "Ayame like the others please don't leave the apartment, but I know no matter what I say you're going to walk the others back to their car, that's fine just make sure you have Kirara with you, okay?" Ayame looked at his face seeing that he was trying to protect her and agreed.

So her name is Ayame too, thought Isamu and a malicious smile crossed his face that would have went unnoticed had he not already caught the eye of both Shun and Kagome, who became worried once they noticed what, more like whom, he was looking at. I wonder how he would feel if he couldn't protect this Ayame as well, thought the bastard.

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After all the guys left the girls, Shun, Ai, Souta and Shippo, who still had not yet let go of Kagome, left for the girls apartment. Once inside Kagome put up her Shadow Barrier. Shun looked at Kagome surprised, and then he looked over to Sango and Rin with a question in his eyes. Ayame having seen his expression explained.

"We already told them so you guys can drop your concealment," she said. Ai, Shun and Souta looked at each other then back at the sisters, but seeing the truth in their eyes, released their concealments. (Shippo doesn't have concealment because people noticed that Kagome had a fox child with her and would have gotten suspicious if he suddenly turned human.) There was a blinding light and where once stood five humans now stood five demons.

"Okay," said Sango. "Before we talk about anything else, what kind of Shadow Demons are you guys?" She was looking pointedly at Shun and Ai because if Kagome was a Shadow Dog Demon then Souta was most likely one too if he was a Shadow Demon.

"We're Shadow Wolf Demons," they answered quickly. Shun then turned to Kagome and said, "You two are so screwed."

"Why are they screwed?" asked Rin. The three demons just sighed but Kagome turned to Rin to explain.

"If Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are Inutaisho Nishimura's sons then that means our parents went to college together and they were friends, close friends." At her words they were shocked then Sango remembered her parents had been friends in college with them as well. "Yes Sango that means our parents knew each other and in fact they were all friends. If the guys start talking about two new girls both with the names of their friends' dead daughters they might become suspicious and come here to find out. I knew I could ask you not to bring us up to your parents or at least call Ayame, Aya and me Kageka, that's a nickname my dad gave me when I was little but he only used it around the Shadowlands so they wouldn't know it." Kagome sighed then continued.

"In actuality there were five Shadow Demons on campus for those yeas. My dad, Inurao, my uncle Inujiro, Shun's mom and dad, Kazuo & Tomomi and her sister Tsubaki who later became my uncle's wife. They all went to college here at Shikon no Tama but like us they used concealment jewels and my dad and uncle dropped the Inu part of their names. The only ones that knew about the truth were Ayame's parents, Shin and Akemi, and they only knew because Shin is the son of Ayame's Grandfather and had known about them for a long time and Akemi was his girlfriend and she just sort of found out. However it didn't take my mom long to figure it out. Actually it was one look at my dad and she was able to see through the concealment spell. She always said that even if he looked different to the world he always looked the same to her."

"Wait a sec," Sango interrupted. "Koga's parents…"

"Yeah they went to school with them at the same time. Either way they stayed friends for years but unfortunately when I 'died' my parents never told their friends the truth and they also never told them about Souta. A couple months later Ayame came to the Shadowlands and again they had to hide that from their friends as well. They didn't like it but knew that it was to protect us. I guess part of the reason might be because of my uncle."

"Why?" Rin asked.

"Because about 13 or 14 years ago him, his wife and their daughter, Rina, died and it was because someone found out they were Shadow Demons. The people who killed them were dealt with but it had been years since any of our kind had been killed because of them being found out. It caused wide spread fear and most didn't leave the Shadowlands for at least a year. So that fear of being found out and killed was back. It had sort of died out when we were accepted by Ayame and Koga's Grandfathers but the fear was back and in full force." At her explanation she received looks of horror from the faces of their new friends. "So you can see why we are a little afraid of others finding out about us."

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And to those of you wondering if the Shadow language is made up it is not! It's Irish or Gaelic and so sue I'm in Ireland for the semester and was in Dublin the weekend I was writing this and saw the writing everywhere and thought it would be fun for Shadow language.