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Protecting Their Mommy

The next time they stopped Sango took advantage of that to separate from the group slightly to change into some spare clothes since her own hadn't been washed in longer than she cared to remember. Rubbing the body cream into her skin that Kagome had lent her Sango had to smile. This was probably the only reason why she hadn't really started to bother Sesshoumaru, Kouga and Inu yasha. The sweet, citrus smell almost masked the fact that she needed a washing as much as her slayer suit. Putting her slayer outfit into a cloth bag she fidgeted slightly in her kimono, not exactly good for fighting in now that her cat suit wasn't underneath. Well at least Sesshoumaru would have to make sure nothing killed her until these bracelets were off and no longer in effect. Lifting her wrist she studied the mark Sesshoumaru left there, no longer covered by the sleeves of her suit. Yet another reason she missed her suit, big time. Unfortunately that suit had been absorbing her sweat for too long to be wearable now that she had a choice. Sensing something she whirled around just as a demon came flying down from above, his claws raised to attack as she dropped her cloth bag to the ground, reaching for the sword she'd carelessly set on the ground beside her. The demon never got a chance to be a threat though since one second she was staring up at the demon's claws and then the next all she could see was a well tanned and muscular back with the kanji for demon tattooed onto his back.

"Now that was just a bad idea." Dare informed the demon as he punched the demon into flying back the way he'd come. "We don't take kindly to demons trying to hurt our mommy. Do we, Kohaku?"

"No." Was his brother's response as he walked over from the shadows of the trees, carelessly sending out his green, whip like attack that quickly sliced the demon into pieces. Without pausing in stride it was as if he'd done nothing but swat a fly from his shoulder. Scary.

"Kohaku? Dare?" Sango asked slowly, watching as the muscular back turned around to reveal an equally muscular stomach that someone could use as a washboard. Standing up from her crouched position Sango slowly lifted her head to look into a pair of mischievous golden eyes, a face just like Sesshoumaru's only without all the hair and a hell of a lot more personality.

"Hi, Mommy!" Dare announced as he pulled her into a big hug. "We found you!"

"Hello, Mother." Kohaku added, standing at Dare's side. When his annoying little brother was done hugging their mother to death he pulled her into a more sedate hug of his own before letting her go. "Where are the others? I understand that Sora, Kyo and Andrea are with you."

"You're wearing an earring!" Was all Sango could think to say as she stared at her first born. This son looked exactly like his father in every way except that Kohaku was wearing his hair up in a high ponytail and of course, the earring. "Oh and they're...on their way." Sango finished, hearing them call her name. "I guess they were upwind of you."

"Yes." Kohaku said as he and Dare turned to face the coming people, both neatly putting their mother behind them in an instinctively protective move.

Having scented demons near where Sango had gone Sora had alerted everyone to the fact that the demons they were smelling were in fact her brothers. It still came as a shock to everyone though as they came into the small clearing to see two replicas of Sesshoumaru standing there, with only small but obvious differences separating them from their father.

"What took you two so long? Where are the others? Why the hell are neither of you wearing tops?" Sora demanded to know, even as she headed over to give Kohaku a quick hug since she hadn't seen her oldest brother before. He wouldn't come over and hug her in front of people but she knew he'd want to. This way he could blame it on her.

"We kinda had to take a walk in a desert. By the half way point the only one of us wearing a top was Dad and Aiden." Dare explained with a grin as he lifted a hand to wave at his aunt and uncle who were staring at him dumbly. "Hey, Aunt Kagome! Nice skirt." He added with a charming wink.

Visibly swallowing as she waved back Kagome tried repeating over and over again in her head that this man was her nephew. Try telling her hormones that, Kagome thought with a sigh, trying not to drool. So this was what Sesshoumaru would be like with a personality adjustment. Wow.

"Where ARE the others?" Kyou asked as he came over to greet his cousins, yelping when Kohaku whacked him upside the head. "OWWW!"

"From Keely." Was his cousin's calm reply.

"Like you didn't enjoy doing that." Kyou muttered, rubbing the back of his head. Not that his head wasn't used to this sort of abuse. Between Andrea and Mika it was a wonder he hadn't been brain damaged by now. "And what did I do?"

"Do the words 'Don't mess around with those scrolls, Kyou' ring any bells?"

"It was an accident!"

"Now where have we heard that excuse before." Dare said with a grin as he threw a casual arm around his mom's shoulder, grinning down at her while she looked up at him like she didn't know what to do. "Takes some getting use to, huh?"

"You could say that. You're nothing like your father." Sango answered, instinctively looking over in Sessshomaru's direction. He hadn't moved and had yet to say a word to either of his sons. Jakken was watching in displeasure and it was obvious that Rin didn't know what to think at the appearance of these two men who looked so much like her master.

"You don't need to tell me that. I'd go over and hug him but he'd swat me for it in the future so I'd hate to see what he'd do to me now." Dare whispered to his mother, mischief gleaming in his eyes.

"I would hate for my son to die so young." Sango agreed, unable not to grin back at him. Oh but he was a charmer. It was a shame his father didn't take after him. Then again with Sesshoumaru's personality she'd never have to beat other women off with a stick the way she'd imagine her sons' wives would have to do.

"Here comes Triton and Aiden." Kohaku announced, giving everyone the heads up as they turned to see the latest additions to their group arrive. The fact that Aiden was unconscious and slugged over Triton's shoulder like a bag of grain didn't help.

"What happened to him?" Miroku demanded to know, rushing over to meet the two. This was his son after all, even if he hadn't even had the pleasure of creating him yet. "Is he hurt?"

"We had to knock him out." Triton explained, raising at eyebrow as he looked the monk over. The two could be brothers. Unlike Kagome and Sango Miroku had aged and Triton had never met this man when he was this young. The similarities were striking. "He'll awaken in a bit."

"What do you mean, had to knock him out?" Miroku demanded to know, not trusting this demon even if the others seemed to. Besides, why would they need to knock the boy out? It wasn't like the boy was a hot head like Inu yasha.

"We were in a desert situation and the pain became too much to bear. He asked to be knocked out and Dare and I took turns carrying him." Triton explained logically, not worried about the monk in the least. Of all the people he was faced with at the moment Miroku posed the least amount of threat, wind tunnel or not.

"It's because of the burns on his back, Uncle Miroku." Dare called out, knowing that Triton's explanation didn't really explain exactly why Aiden had had to be knocked out. "Kiyoshi and Ronin's healed well but because Aiden's human...well his back is extremely sensitive to heat and that's why he had to keep his shirt on and be knocked out."

Handing Aiden over to Miroku Triton turned his head as Mika came crashing into the clearing with an unconscious Ren over her shoulders.

"Hey, everyone!" Mika called out as she literally threw Ren off her shoulder before rushing over to catch Kyou in a big hug before she slugged him hard in the gut. While he fell to the ground in a fetal position, his arms wrapped around his stomach, Mika stood over him and launched into the lectures of all lectures as she tore verbal strips off of him for what he'd done. Everyone watching Kagome actually timed it, the speech ending at just under six and a half minutes. "And if you ever do anything so stupid again I'm going to castrate you to insure that you don't have children that can damage our family name even more than you have. Do you understand?"

Whimpering Kyou nodded his head rapidly, not daring to even sit up until he was sure she wasn't going to hit him again.

"Good." Nodding in satisfaction she reached down and hauled him up to his feet, keeping a strong hold on his collar just in case. "Now, what have I missed?"

"Where are the others?" Sora asked Kohaku while Kyou babbled out an explanation of everything that had happened since he'd arrived with Andrea. She was a little worried about the whole father meet father thing. Then there would be her mother in the middle which was probably not a good place to be under any circumstances. Things were bad enough between her parents as it was without throwing her 'real' father into the mix. Especially since her father had the memories and the history with Sango while her other father would probably want the both of them to end up six feet under.

"Hermione and Mina went out to get a lay of the land. The guardians of the gates wouldn't allow father and Shippou to come through the gates. Apparently it's not advisable to have future meet past."

"Well that makes sense. Not to mention that it would have been annoying having to clarify which one you were referring to when you said their name." Looking over at Kouga, who'd gone over to look at Ren Sora turned back to her brother. "What happened to him?"

"Ever since Mika brought him out of that test..well he was picking fights right and left. He started to shoot his mouth off about how Aiden was obviously struggling and Aiden refused to be knocked out because of it. Mika knocked Ren out first and carried him the rest of the way so that Aiden would let us knock him out."

"Remind me again why you brought the wolf with you." She disliked the wolf demon species on a principle, only putting a select few in the category of worthy of the air they breathed. Kouga and his family were some of those exceptions but Ren definitely wasn't. She would admit that Ren had potential but as long as he tried to be like his father the more likely it was that someday she'd be slicing him into bite sized pieces. Generally her immediate family kept away from the wolf clans but when the occasion called for it...it wouldn't be the first time the slayers of her mother's village, not to mention her family had shed the blood of wolves, particularly those belonging to Manta.

"It was Hermione's idea. Mika only let him come because she's hoping he'll be killed in the place of one of us." Dare called out as he came over with their mother, his arm wrapped around her waist as the family stood together. Looking over he watched his father watch them, little Rin at his side with Jakken looking none to pleased in the background. "And you know, I thought he was damn intimidating before. Now...scary."

"Want me to take you two over?" Sango offered, looking for an excuse to give the silent bastard a piece of her mind. Being cruel to their children was a perfect excuse and she knew she could count on Sesshoumaru to be his usual bastard self.

"Might as well." With an exaggerated sigh Dare slid his arm away and with a son on either side Sango walked over with a look in her eyes that just dared Sesshoumaru to say something to set her off. Both men knowing what to do they stopped just in front of their father and dropping gracefully to one knee, bowing their heads respectfully before their father. They only had to do this in their time on special occasions but right now it was better safe then sorry. Sango of course remained standing and glaring at their father. It felt like home already.

Pleased at the show of respect Sesshoumaru nodded his head regally, the two taking that as a sign that they could rise and meet their father's gaze. Both standing straight and tall, like they were in the military during inspection, not even Dare considered making a crack comment. He'd sworn to his father to look after his mother after all and he couldn't very well do that if he was dead.

So these were his sons, Sesshoumaru thought to himself. They certainly looked like him, especially up close like this. They'd obviously inherited the proper manners that their mother lacked and knew how to greet their father properly. He couldn't say he was particularly pleased that his oldest had an earring and his youngest that tattoo but overall they appeared to be more then satisfactory. Time would only tell as to how much of their mother's character and blood they'd been unfortunate enough to inherit. "Have things settled down with Ferio's troops in your time period?"

"Yes, father. There are the occasional raids against our family but most of the fighting remains in the mountains." As the oldest it had always fallen on him to give the reports and that aside it was better that their father be exposed to Dare's personality quirks in small doses, Kohaku thought in inner amusement. He had promised his mother to look after the idiot and it was his duty as the older, certainly as the smarter one. "They were weak before they lost Ferio's direct guidance. They're reduced to attacking weaker holdings now."

"Like my pack?" Kouga wanted to know, his ears having pricked up at the mention of the mountains.

"We've done what we can there. The amount of help we could provide was severely limited thanks to our presence not being welcomed by many." Dare answered with a regretful shrug. "I'm afraid it's very much a case of pride coming before a fall. Possibly a very big, very high body count fall."

"Manta." Muttering the name like it was a curse Kouga's eyes wandered back over to where Ren remained on the ground, still out for the count. "And it looks like the son that would replace him isn't much better."

"Actually, Darling, he'd be a big improvement." Enjoying the fact that she'd caught her husband off guard Mina slid her arms around his waist from behind, pressing against him as she nipped his ear playfully. "Hi."

Nearly leaping out of his skin Kouga whirled around, his dark eyes locking onto her mischievous green ones as she held his gaze. Animal sex appeal hitting him over the head like a club Kouga stared at her dumbly. Well this explained why he'd chosen to take her as his mate. By all the gods!

"Hi, Daddy!" Hermione called from the other side of the clearing where she'd gone over to check on Aiden who appeared to still be out of it. "Shouldn't he be awake already? Dare didn't hit him that hard." Hermione asked with a worried look in her eyes as she crouched down to get a better look at her friend. He did not look good.

"He'll awaken shortly." Triton answered with bothering to look in her direction. His attention was caught on the small girl who was slowly inching her way over to where he was. No one had to tell him who she was, even if he hadn't been a telepath. Walking over to meet her half way he got down on one knee so that he'd be closer to her own height and less threatening.

"Hi." Rin said shyly, looking into the exotic face that had been watching her so intently. She wasn't afraid of him and she thought he was really handsome.

"Hello, Rin." He answered, nodding his head slightly in greeting. "Do you know who I am?"

A considering look on her face she took his question to mean that he was related to the others in some way. He wasn't married to any of the girls here and he had been staring at her when he arrived. All the other girls were a lot older and prettier then her too. So maybe...just maybe... "Are you the demon I'm going to get married to when I'm big?"

Giving her another small nod he got to his feet, patting her on the head as he would one of their daughters. "If there's trouble, come to my side. I'll take care of you."

"That's Jakken's job."

"Yes, and he's never quite been up to the job, now has he?"

With a giggle Rin nodded her head, smiling up at him. "Good point."