Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha and co. I don't own any of the songs that I put into the story, except on cd's. But I do own Shiori, Miyu & Koshin Hakogami, Kil Kai-another snow demon from feudal times & Aisu- female snow demon from feudal times, they are all mine.

AN: " " is speaking, ' ' is thought

AN. Just to let you know that I've made spelling/grammer corrections and added a little more detail to the story's chapters. I'm reposting the corrected chapters. But this is still the same story & story line. See if you notice the corrections. And thanks to those that read & review. The reviews mean a lot.

Glossary:

youkai-demon

inu-youkai-dog demon

ningen-human

ookami-wolf demon

osuwari-sit

aisu-ice

CHAPTER 10: The Meeting

The gang had found a place to camp for the night. Everyone pitched in to get things together for the night. Kagome pulled out Ramen for dinner, with Inu Yasha fairly drooling.

Shiori just watched as everyone was settling down. "So, I take it this is just a normal day for you?"

"Yes, we usually have to fight a demon or two a day," Shippou said, eating his cup of Ramen. "And, sometimes we get jewel shards, too."

"Talk about a fun filled day," Shiori teased.

"Well, if it's too much for you, you could always go home," Inu Yasha sneered.

Shiori turned cold eyes on the inu-hanyou, which caused a shiver to run up his spine. "I can handle anything you can handle, puppy."

Before Inu Yasha could get started, Kagome spoke up. "Hey, Inu Yasha, be nice, okay? Remember, she is family," she pleaded.

"Feh, okay."

"Shiori?"

"Yeah, I can be nice." Shiori turned to her bag and began digging through it.

Shippou wandered over to see what was in this black bag. He saw Shiori put out a strange little box. It had a white vine-like thing coming out of it, that split into two. The vine was attached to two padded cups.

"What is that thing?" Shippou asked, still staring at the little white box.

Shiori looked down at the little kitsune. She had wondered when he would ask by the way he had been staring at it. "It's my i-pod jukebox. It plays music that I tell it to." She began to lay back and put the ear phones on her ears.

"What kind of music?" Shippou persisted, curious.

"Any kind that I want it to." She looked at him and then sat back up. "Here, why not take a listen." She placed the ear phones on his ears, and making sure the volume was not too loud, she turned it on. The song that came on was Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix.

Shippou let out a yelp and pulled the ear phones off his ears. "What is that noise?"

Shiori smiled at the kitsune. "That is a guitar riff. I like to listen to music called rock. I guess, you don't like it?"

Shippou rubbed his ears, "Sorry, but I don't."

Kagome had been watching the little scene. "What song played?"

"Purple Haze, it's a classic."

She just sighed. "You and your rock and roll."

Shiori just smiled and replaced the ear phones on her own ears. "Yeah, but I like it. I even have a few songs on here that you like. Like Bon Jovi's Bed of Roses."

Kagome gasped, "Really?! Can I borrow that from you? Please?" She even tried to sad puppy dog eyes.

Shiori just laughed and began digging through her bag again. She pulled out another little white box and tossed it to her cousin. "I thought that you would want one. So, here you go."

Kagome actually caught the little box and the screeched. "This is mine?!"

"Yes, now you don't have to steal mine."

"Yippee!!"

"What is that," Inu Yasha poked at the i-pod in her hand. "What's the deal?"

"It's the same thing that Shiori is using. You can put songs on it and take it anywhere. You can listen to your music anytime you want."

"What's this Bun Jooovi?"

She laughed. "That's Bon Jovi and he's an American rock singer. He sings some great love songs. One of my favorites is Bed of Roses."

"Oh." Inu Yasha stared at the i-pod. 'How can something so small play music?' he wondered.

"What does the song sound like, Kagome?" Sango asked, curious.

"Well, here, let me find it for you and you can listen." Kagome began to scroll down the menu. She stopped and listened. She smiled, paused the music and scooted towards Sango. "Here is the song." She placed the ear phones on Sango's ears, then pressed play.

Sango began to hear the beginning of the song, then she heard a male voice singing. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the sound. At the end of the song, she opened her eyes and smiled. "He sounds so. . so. . ." she blushed, at a loss for words.

"Sexy would be the word you're looking for," Shiori filled in, smiling.

Sango nodded, still blushing.

Miroku was puzzled. "She was listening to a man singing in her ear?"

"Yes."

"What else is on there?" Sango asked, watching Kagome scroll through the music list. Sango decided that she liked this little magic box from Kagome's time.

The two women had their heads together looking at the music list. Shiori just shook her head. Then she caught sight of Rin sitting by herself. She felt sorry that the little girl seem to feel so alone. Rin really seemed to miss and love her guardian like a father. Shiori got up and went to sit next to the quiet girl. "Hey, are you okay?"

"I just miss Sesshomauru-sama," she answered quietly.

Shiori smiled and teased, "What, am I lousy company?"

Rin's head snapped up, afraid that she had offended the young woman. But, she caught the smile on Shiori's face. Rin smiled. "No, I just want to go home is all. I feel real safe there."

"Well, that's understandable. Everyone should have a place where they feel safe."

"Hey, Rin," Shippou called out, he was by Kagome's bag. He was holding up two brightly wrapped suckers. "You want one? Kagome always carries them in her bag."

Rin smiled and went to the kitsune. Shippou unwrapped the sucker and gave it to her. "You put it in your mouth. It's called candy and it's real sweet."

Inu Yasha and Miroku had inched closer to the other two women and were looking over their shoulder.

"Are all those the names of songs?" Miroku asked.

"Yes, they are. This thing can hold a great many songs. Hey, here's the song Change the World." (an: couldn't help it, had to include it. )

Just then the group heard a rustling sound overhead. Everyone jumped up, grabbing weapons. The three women getting in between the kids and the sound.

"What is it?" Shippou whispered.

But before anyone could answer, one male figure with wings landed near the group. He just stood there looking them over. His eyes stopped on Shiori and studied her.

Shiori was not liking the way she was being stared at. She tensed up and stared back. She knew what she was looking at, a full grown, male snow youkai. 'Great, just what I don't need,' she thought with a sigh.

Inu Yasha snapped out, "Who the hell are you? What do you want?"

"He's a snow youkai," Kagome whispered and shot a quick glance over to cousin.

The snow youkai just laughed. "Well, I find it a little interesting that you know what I am. Maybe you're the one that I'm looking for."

"I don't think so, bird boy," Inu Yasha said, moving closer to Kagome.

"Do not worry, little brother," a deep, seductive voice called out from the left of the group. "I doubt that your wench is the one he is looking for."

"Sesshomauru," Inu Yasha growled, Tetsusaiga in his hand.

Hearing the taiyoukai's voice, Rin darted out from behind Shiori. "Sesshomauru-sama! You found me!" She ran over and hugged his legs.

He looked down at his charge and placed a hand on top of her head. "What are you doing with these. . . people?"

Rin looked up at him with a smile. "Shiori, Kagome and Sango saved me from some snake men."

Sesshomauru and Kil Kai turned to look at the three women. Miroku, Inu Yasha and even Shippou moved closer to the three women. This caused Sesshomauru to raise one silver eyebrow in amusement. 'They think they could keep me from taking any one of those women? How amusing,' he thought.

He looked back down at Rin, "Tell me what happened."

Rin began, by telling him how she was playing hide and seek with Jaken and how she got separated from him. She told him how she ran into the three snake youkai. "I ran as fast as I could. I ran into Shiori, Kagome and Sango, but Shiori was different looking. And, when the three bad snake men came out of the bushes, Shiori put me in a tree so I would be safe. They took on the snake men!"

When she stopped for breath, Sesshomauru knelt down and looked at her. "What happened next?" He was interested and so was Kil Kai.

"Well," Rin continued, "Sango was thrown into a tree pretty hard because she was trying to stop a snake man from trying to get me. And then, Shiori threw her sword and bam! It stuck in the snake man's back and he turned to ice! It was neat!!"

"Sounds like it," Kil Kai said, looking at Shiori, his eyes a little wide. 'Could she be the female I had detected?' he thought. 'But how? What is she?'

Sesshomauru looked at Shiori out of the corner of his eye, thinking the same thoughts. "What happened next, Rin?"

Rin drew in another deep breath. "When Shiori threw her sword, the snake man that she was fighting bit her shoulder. It bled a lot. I screamed. I was scared. But, she just turned around and dug her claws into his chest. And then, poof, he was just dust!! Kagome was able to kill the snake man that she was fighting with this really cool sword. I didn't know she could use a sword."

"And you were unharmed," Sesshomauru asked, still stoic, hiding his concern very well.

"I was okay. But, I was worried about Shiori and Sango. They both got hurt protecting me. I owe them," Rin said, trying to sound like a grown up.

The two youkai turned their gazes to the group again.

Sango spoke up, "She owes us nothing. We would have done it no matter who it was."

Shiori stayed quiet, watching the two youkai. She was a little taken back by seeing the man from her dreams in the flesh. And she was surprised to see a male snow youkai staring at her. There was something about him that was nagging at her mind but she couldn't put her finger on it. "What do you want?" she asked just as stoic as a certain taiyoukai.

Kil Kai began, "I was flying over the forest when I detected a female snow youkai. It was not a female that I was familiar with. I am the lord of the snow youkai of Mt. Fuji. I am trying to find her to learn why she is here."

"And, what about you, Sesshomauru?" Shiori asked, turning to the stoic lord.

"These are my lands, I can go anywhere I please," he answered, looking at her.

Kil Kai spoke up, still studying her, "You're that female, aren't you?"

Still looking at Sesshomauru, she answered, "Maybe, maybe not. Why do you want to know?"

"Either you are or not. Why don't you just tell us," Sesshomauru said with deadly calm.

"Or what? You're going to make me, fluffy? You could try, but you won't like the results," Shiori bit out, growling, clearly getting ticked off with these two men. 'Who are these two to question me?'

Sesshomauru raised his eyebrow at her audacity. "Fluffy? How dare you think you can disrespect me."

"Oh bite it! You're full of hot air and quite frankly, I'm tired of hearing it. So, why don't you just fu. . ."

"Shiori! There are children present!" Kagome yelled, stopping her cousin from swearing a blue streak.

Shiori stopped and looked at Rin standing next to the offending youkai. "Fine," she growled, sounding like Inu Yasha.

Rin was looking from one to the other. She ran over to Shiori and hugged her waist, surprising Sesshomauru. "Shiori, are you mad at me for telling them about you saving me? Gomen nasi."

She turned to look down at Rin's sad face. She smiled a small smile and knelt down. "Munchinkin, I'm not mad at you. It was bound to come out sooner or later. So, don't worry about it. You just promise me you won't play tag with snake youkai, okay?"

Rin nodded her head, smiling. She turned to her guardian and smiled at him, too.

All of a sudden the ground began to shake. Something large was heading straight for them.

AN: Well, hope you guys like this chapter. I'm sorry it's so short but I thought that I would let Naraku's little plot have its own chapter. And again, I'm so sorry that I have been slacking on updating. I admit that is was because of a bit of writer's block and because I got so caught up in reading the other wonderful stories on this website. How do you guys like it so far? Please read & review. Or I won't write any more!!! just kidding, please review.

I would like to thank my wonderful editor, ninjawarrior4life, my bro. glad you like it.

And thanks to everyone who has been reading this story from the beginning when I first started posting it. And to those who read and like it.

THX to all my readers.