Chapter 12

A New Home.

Sesshomaru could tell the miko was walking in a daze and was glad that he was efectivly steering her in the right direction with the hand on her shoulder or she would probably ether run into a wall or make a wrong turn. He was also glad that he had already informed her friends of this change and they had seemed rather happy about it, or at least all but Shippo and Rin who had become almost inseparable, but to please his ward he promised that he would be here almost every day. Even if he needed to get the miko away for now the kit did still need his training and so he would send Ah-Un to pick him up and bring him back everyday.

After all, the miko would be busy during the days trainer as well, and though he had found a miko willing to train her, just like all others the old woman had a hate for demons of any kind, to her they was all evil. So she couldn't really safely take her kit with her.

As they finally made it outside Kagome saw that her friends was already ready to go, Kirara in her larger form and Miroku and Sango already on her back. Just to the side of them, she couldn't help but smile, even though it was a somewhat sad smile, as she watched Rin give Shippo a ring of flowers by putting them around his neck and with a quick hug Shippo hopped up to sit on Miroku's shoulder.

She supposed she was the next to get her goodbyes from Rin because the girl ran right up to her and wrapped her arms around her waist and she reached down and hugged the girl back. "Rin will miss you Kagome-chan..." The poor girl was on the verge of tears but she still pulled back and gave her a big toothy grin. "But Rin will see you again soon, she just knows it!" It was great how a child could make you feel better. She smiled down at the little girl and patted the top of her head.

"You're right, you'll see me again, and until then..." She paused as she slid her bag off and placed it on the ground before she started to dig through it, it didn't take long to find what she was after and soon pulled out a small stuffed dog. She had gotten it so long ago she had forgotten about it. In fact it was just after the first time she met Rin, they had both been kidnaped and she found out that Sesshomaru had adopted her. She had planed to give it to her the next time she saw her, but that never really happened and had forgotten about it while she was here.

She had it made just for Rin from what she remembered Sesshomaru looked like in his animal form, it wasn't perfect, it didn't look mean and scary, that was for sure, it looked more like a sweet puppy. But it was fluffy, white, and had his markings on the face. "You can have this." Right away the girl took it and looked it over carefully and a big smile came other her face. "It looks like Sesshomaru-sama if he was a real puppy!" She squealed happily. Kagome couldn't help but laugh at that and nodded to the girl.

But the moment didn't last to long, soon she stood back up and placed her bag back on her back and she felt a arm snake around her waist and soon, instead of feeling the ground under her, she seemed to feel as though she was standing on air and looked down to see a cloud under her. "Jaken, if anything should happen, you forfeit your life." Said a cold voice just behind her to the little green toad demon standing to the side as if he was ready to go with them.

Sesshomaru had to admit, the gift she had given Rin was a surprise, it must have been something from her time, it was so well made, but how had something that looked like him been made if there was no demons in her time? He would have to ask the miko about it during the trip. Without warning he lifted into the air and once he was sure her group was following he started towards the village she would be staying at for now.

Once they was going at a good speed he noticed how she started to turn in his arm, trying her best to block her face from the cold wind that was assaulting it, and soon she found herself standing backwards and facing him, thankfully the moko moko was there so it helped to block the wind. "Miko, where did you get that... thing, you gave my ward?" He asked her simply, though he wasn't really sure what it was he should call it.

"Oh, well when I first met Rin and found out she was yours, I figured while I'm sure you get her everything she wants, you wouldn't really be the type to get her something thats really most little girls want, and even if you would, that was something that you just couldn't. So I had Shippo draw and color a picture of you in that form by telling him what I remembered and I took that to my time and had it made into a stuffed animal. I had planed to give it to her long ago, but I guess I forgot about it." She explained to him with a little smile, though he only saw it from the corner of his eye because he refused to actually look at her. Just having her this close to him was enough to make his inner beast purr in the back of his mind and he found himself wishing he had gotten Ah-Un for her to ride.

The rest of the trip was made in silence and as it went on, he found that she was getting more comfortable around him, and just tired of standing so she would start to lean into him more and more. Which it really wasn't even a long trip, it was just made a little longer because of the slower pace they was taking for the benefit of the humans who while wasn't actually doing anything but riding, the cold wind was something they couldn't handle as well. All in all, it took a couple hours before he started to see the village and the miko in his arm was resting her face on his moko moko, her eyes closed, and her arms wrapped around it, he supposed it was just so she was more comfortable in this position, and he found he was okay with it, it gave him a break from his normally raging beast.

As he started his decent she finally pulled her face away and started to look around. It was a nice little village, the largest thing was the shrine that she could see on the other side of where they was going, and where they was going was just outside the village, somewhat sepporated from the rest but not so much that it would be a long walk to get to. It was a rather large hut and from what she could see, it might even have more then one room inside. Outside to the side was a garden with herbs and flowers growing, there was even a cow? Well she guessed that was a good thing, it would be easy to get milk from it instead of having to buy or trade for it.

They settled down just in front of the place and as he let her go she stepped forward and as she pulled the mat on the front door away to look inside she heard Kirara land behind her someplace and Shippo came bounding off and ran between her legs inside to see as well. She had been right. The first thing she saw was a front room area, with a fire pit in the middle for cooking and heat, and she could see three more doors covered by mats that she was sure was bedrooms with smaller fire pits in them and bedding. "Mama! Can I pick our room?" Her kit asked her from the middle of the room, his tail, or now two tails ever since he had changed to his animal form, wagging behind him, he was so existed about the new place.

"Of course hunny. Whichever one you want thats the one we will have." She told him and right away he bounded off into one of them to check it out. She turned back to the others with a smile and bowed to Sesshomaru. "Thank you, it's great." She told him and he simply nodded. "Now come miko, we will go to the shrine while your pack becomes antiquated with the place." He informed her and turned to start towards the village.

He heard her as she jogged up to him and slowed to a walk once she was right beside him and with a glance he could see the smile on her face and feel the excitement coming off her in waves. She was ready to meet the woman who would be training her, it was just to bad he was sure she would be disappointed. The woman wasn't that strong really, but she knew everything there was about miko powers and how to use them. But she also hated demons like most did, and because she was older, there would be no changing her mind, even the little miko at his side couldn't pull that off.

But he was sure she would be fine. Because if there was one thing that humans loved more then they hated demons, it was money. And he had payed this woman well to train the miko, and knew that if she was to kill her for her being a 'demon lover', as the humans they was now passing in the village was calling her as they watched them and whispered among themselves, she not only would not get the rest of the payment, but he would have someone come and wipe this whole place out. And because she was not strong enough to, she wouldn't be able to stop them.

Kagome didn't say anything as she walked along, she just looked around this little village, smiling at the people as they gathered to see who the new people was. She really didn't get any smiles back, but she was sure that would change, after all, what could she expect with the demon lord there, most people in their right mind feared him. She would simply have to wait for him to leave to start to meet others there. After all, if she was going to be training there she was sure she would also be doing much of the same things as she did while Keade was training her, helping with the sick, births, and really everything else that could go wrong in the village.

She finally looked away from the people when they came to the bottom of a hill and she looked up to see the entrance of the shrine and the old woman in miko garb looking down at them. She didn't look that happy as she stood there, bent forward with old age and using a bamboo pole as a walking stick. But that didn't effect Kagome in the least who didn't miss a step or loose her smile, in fact it only grew as they made their way towards her.

Once they was right in front of her she bowed to the old miko. "Hello, it's a pleasure to meet and train under you, I'm Kagome and this is Lord Sesshomaru." She told the woman before coming up again and now that she was so close, she could see the hate in her eyes.

"You introducing this thing like that girl is much like you trying to introduce to me a filthy animal, it is pointless and stupid." The woman said in a hard voice that was warn down over time and Kagome couldn't help the shock that came other her face, he was the lord over the lands, but instead of doing like many, she was opening disrespecting him and she expected her chances of training to die before her eyes along with the old woman but instead when he reached out his hand he let a pouch of coin drop into her hand.

Sesshomaru couldn't say he didn't entertain the thought of killing this miko, there would be nothing she could really do after all, he could feel how weak she was and and was convinced she wouldn't even be able to harm the miko's kit. But if he did that he would have no one to train her and then what? The whole excuse to get her out was so she could train. He of course planed on honoring his word about her staying in the palace to train, but not now, not with his head guard falling for someone so simple, and his own inner beast wanting the woman for a night. Thats right, only a night, he had many women over the years that he would use and toss out, they was not worth it and he had no need or want to mate and have pups as of yet. So the thought of doing it again wasn't the problem, it was the fact she was a human.

That was one thing he refused, even just as a rut. Not only because of his father and the thought of half breed pups, but because they was weak. He didn't see how demons was able to even mate with them, or at least most of them. Demons, mostly the animalistic ones and depending on their species, was rather rough when it came to mating. Dogs being one of them. After all, coming from the people who enjoyed fighting with their mate to let off steam, it wasn't that surprising that in the bedroom it wouldn't be all cuddles and love. He didn't see how Inuyasha's mother had handled it really, he figured his father had just forced himself to be careful with the frail human.

"Be here just after dawn girl." Said the old woman before turning around to hobble away from them. And Sesshomaru let his self go back into his mind as they made their way back to her new hut. He couldn't help but think about the fact that while he would probably kill or at least seriously hurt the human who was walking beside him, not seeming quite as excited about her trainer anymore after meeting her teacher, Shoji, being a fox demon, actually wasn't a bad matching if one was okay with the matching of human and demon. Foxes tended to be more the the gental types. They was naturally calm and sneaky demons, they went about everything in a way that a dog demon would take on full force differently, so he assumed that they would be different in that respect as well.

But he still didn't like the thought of it. He had to stop his train of thought right there as he heard the growls in the back of his mind when thinking about the miko with anyone else besides his own thought of himself and her for a night.

Kagome wasn't near as happy as she had been about her training, there was something about that woman she just didn't like, and she had tried to say something about it to Sesshomaru, but the stoic demon lord didn't even act like he heard her, and she didn't know why, but instead of feeling like he was just ignoring her, she felt like he just hadn't heard her, even with his super hearing. And she could swear that even though his face never really changed, she could tell he was deep in thought. But that was a silly thought, she couldn't read him and never would be able to. He was simply not in the mood to hear her complain about it, and she wouldn't blame him for that. After all, he had payed for this just for her. It was rude to do so.

So she simply walked the rest of the way in silence and when they made it back to her new temporary place she was greeted with the sight of everything sitting outside, enjoying the sunlight that shown down on them, Miroku was meditating with his staff laying across his lap while Sango was polishing her own weapon and closer to the wood line she could see Kirara in her kitten form looking around and sniffing the ground until she finally jumped into a bush and out came a bird who was flying low to the ground until there was a poof and said bird turned out to be little Shippo who just laughed as he ran away from the fire cat who was chasing him.

The picture of the old days was almost perfect, her friends seemed to be much more comfortable then they had when staying with Sesshomaru where they seemed to think that he would kill them for breathing wrong. The only thing missing as she looked up to the branches of a near by tree was the red clad dog boy that she had come to believe was her friend and had even loved, she sighed. But she was brought out of her thoughts pretty quickly by a hard voice to her side and looked over to see that Sesshomaru was looking at her with a raised brow. "Oh! I'm sorry, what did you say?" She asked him, a little blush of embarrassment tenting her cheeks.

He actually sighed, and surprisingly, it wasn't because she hadn't been listening to him, but out of frustration of himself when more flashes came to his mind about a night with the miko and how he was sure he could make her blush just like she was now with the things he was thinking and how much he would like that. "I asked what it was that you found unsatisfactory about this place." He told her and watched as her blush faded and she blinked at him a couple times in her confusion, though it didn't seem to take long for her to realized that he could smell her disappointment with something.

"Oh nothing! Really, this place is great, I was just thinking of something else." She told him and seeing as he smelled no lies coming from her he left it at that with a nod. Now that things was settled he could finally leave and hopefully leave behind the thoughts that was plauging his mind. "Very well, I will send Ah-Un to pick up the kit in the morning so that he may train while you do the same." He informed her before his cloud formed below his feet and he was soon in the skys and heading back home, happy to be rid of the little miko for awhile.

A/N:::

Alright guys, this is another one that I haven't been able to edit. I'm finding out that I have a issue with people I know reading my stories, mostly because they feel the need to read them over my shoulder while I'm writing. And since the bf moved in with me, I've have no chance to edit or to even get new chapters done. So all that I'm posting up is chapters that I've had done for awhile. But I promise I'll try to stop being lazy and work on editing and new chapters, even if I have to wait till he falls asleep at night to do it!