Chapter fifty three.

Kagome smiled at both men " You know there is something that you could do to occupy your minds for some time. There are two grown elves in need of a lesson in not instigating a fight between inu's with pregnant mates. As she said that all three males looked at each other and smirked each thinking 'that was certainly a worthy endevor if there ever was even with those two it was going to be totally worth every inch of ignoring their instincts to guard their mates. To pay them back'

Kagome then stated " The best thing is we females will have our own form of getting even with them two. How's that kagome?" Asked Inuyasha truely wondering. " Simple you three will be collaborating together against them two thus giving us females a chance to spend some time in each other's company that is how. You know come to think of it where you are now mated Inuyasha to kikyou what are we going to do to ensure that she is kept safe like mother and I are when we all go to work hmm?. The only reason I ask is there is sure to be others who will take up naraku's cause to kill us now that I have all my power back and I am wearing the armour that my grand parents wore. What is to be done to keep kikyou safe?".

She went silent for a moment thinking leaving the males to all look at each other briefly and wonder the same thing. Then kagome looked up, stood on her feet " excuse me will you three for a moment I need to talk with kikyou and mother to get their thoughts on some things." She went to go leave only to have her mate follow her til she reached the door. Kagome turned then embraced her mate saying to him in a whisper " Do me a favor mate pay those two elves a visit and give them hell for me. Make them pay for their trick. I would but the pups will act up inside me and you know just how bad that can be."

Sesshoumaru chuckled lightly then nuzzled his mate as he held her. Saying loud enough "I think it is time father that we give those to elf eared weasels a taste of their own medicine. Don't you think?." Kagome mean while laughed lightly at all the hell Aleana and Alexander were going to get this day. She let go of her mate but not before she nuzzled under his chin. " I will see you later mate. But before I go you should know that their room is on the north side of the palace down past the library. I would say about the fifth door down as it is the only one covered in vines at the moment."

Sesshoumaru smirked then whispered " That is what I love about you mate your devious mind." Kagome then stepped away and walked out of the room, she sniffed the air searching for kikyou's scent. She found it then followed it down to the sitting room which was down by the dojo on the left just not as far down to the end of the hall. As she went down she felt her eldest son hiding in the shadows. She smirked then asked " Circa what are you doing hiding in the hall way behind the armour of the roman soldier hmm? You know that I know you are there and that you cannot get away from my eyes".

As she said that she turned her gaze toward her son. She looked at him and saw him step out from behind the armour his head down looking toward the ground. " Mother is it true that grandfather was going to kick you out of the pack if you had killed uncle Inuyasha?. Yes it is true but he knew on some level that I would not as I had more honor and respect for him then that. Oh I was just wondering cause if he did I want to go with you mother. I will not stay in a place that would believe lies over the truth. The others believe that you would kill them too if they lied and have chosen to stay with grand father and grand mother. Though grand mother is telling them along aunt kikyou that you would never harm them ever."

At that kagome hung her head and said " I guess I deserved that one". She walked past her son leaving him looking at her slack jawed thinking to him self ' she thinks she deserved that one. She does not deserve that at all. They all know that she loves them and if they dont they should' He followed her silently to the sitting room where the others were. Kagome opened the door to the sitting room only to have all the pups nearly scream in fright. Kagome looked at them all and straightened up looked at them with tears in her eyes.

" I have come to tell you all I would never harm a hair on your heads. Most of you are of my own flesh and blood. You should all know that I would rather die than harm any of you. Kikyou your mate told me to tell you that he is sorry that he ever said that. He also said that if you saw fit to leave him then he would understand. But he wishes you to know that you are his everything right now and he would gladly die if you wished it. Now that I have said that I will leave you all so as to not scare any of you children anymore. As she said that she then looked at her eldest son and handed him her naginata. Saying run me through with it son and prove to them that I will not strike my own flesh and blood."

Risa cried out "don't you dare do it Circa if she is run through then you run your own father through as well ". Mean while kagome looked at risa and said " Mother don't! you know this must be done to show the pups that I will not hurt a one of them. AT WHAT COST KAGOME THE COST OF YOUR LIFE AND THAT OF YOUR MATES, MY SONS IS THAT THE COST?. CAUSE IF IT IS THEN YOU MAY AS WELL HAVE HIM RUN ME THROUGH AS WELL.!!! "Risa shrieked.

Circa looked at his mother and shook. Then dropped the naginata and backed away " I can't mother I wont so don't force me to do it please." Kagome looked at him and smiled that is alright son I understand." She then picked up the naginata then raised it up to her own chest and willed the armour to move out of the way. The armour refused to budge kagome got mad at it and said move. The armour then spoke loud enough for all to hear in the room. " No you will not end your life to prove your love for your children. You are needed to keep them all safe. They do not know that at this moment their lives could and would end if you and your mate were to die this night".

"The naginata will not help you end your life. It was ment to end the lives of those who have wronged your family line not take the life of a innocent mother infront of her family. Just because they choose to follow the elder inu male who at this second is comming with your mate". As soon as the armour finished the sound of feet could be heard. Kagome dropped the naginata just intime for the door to slide open. She hung her head knowing they would say what they saw.

So she spoke first " I know you were summoned mate because of the armour and I know that you know why. No the armour was not what summoned me it was the link with the pups we have together they all called out to me. I saw through their eyes what you tried to do to prove that you cared. Why would you go to that level to prove you cared? They knew you cared for them the second you told them you would rather die then hurt them. You are to never utter words like that in their presence again woman. Further more your armour will remain on you except durring sleep when in my presence and durring your baths the rest of the time you will wear the armour. But your weapons will remain with me until such time as all thoughts of committing suicide leave your head."

Kagome stood and snapped her fingers as soon as she did that all her weapons came off her person. Then laid down on the floor in front of him. She hung her head and walked slowly toward the door and said "I am going to our room mate." As she said that she shifted forms to a kitsune then ran for their room with her eldest son trailing her to make sure she went there. Which she did when she got there she surprised her son by turning around and licking him then saying "good night son". She then went to the bed hopped on and shrank to the smallest form she could which was a small three month old kitsune.

She then set a barrier around her that would not allow her to subconciously expand to a larger size until the next morning that it would keep her in her small form. Circa seeing that knew that she was doing that to avoid being seen by the other children. Circa then reached out and touched his fathers thoughts ' father mother is in your room as she said she would be, but you need to come and see what she has done to her self in her shame.' Sesshoumaru hearing his sons thoughts left the room after giving the children a serious lecture at mistreating their mother. He made his way to their room and saw his son standing in the door way looking in.

He entered the room and looked around the room for a second and was about to say that Circa was telling a lie but then he saw his mate laying curled up on the bed and she was much smaller than she was the last time. She was the size of a three month old pup. He looked at his son stating " Leave us I will handle your mother son" Circa left knowing that his father would indeed handle his mother. He closed the door and walked away Only to get half way down the hall before he heard a bark and a quick yip of pain. He winced in sympathy for his mother.

Mean while Sesshoumaru waited for his son to get some distance away before he growled at his mate for shrinking to a form that would make her small enough to over look. He struck her barrier with claws blazing gold knowing just what was needed. He barked at her at the same time to startle her awake. Which worked as she yipped as soon as he barked and struck her barrier. Causing it to fall quickly. Kagome instantly shifted to a six month old form then backed away from her mate before her butt hit the wall and she could go no further.

He looked at her anger simmering in his eyes as he saw her back away " Why would you shrink so small as to make your form easily looked over mate. Are you that ashamed to be their mother that you would hide your self?. No I shrank down cause I know they are ashamed of me as are you mate that is why I did it. I figured that if I was small enough that your shame would not be as bad." Kagome replied.

Sesshoumaru looked at her and growled out " You will never hide your form from any of us no matter how bad you think we are ashamed of you. Your presence lets us know that you are here and safe not in danger some where. So you will not do that again" As he said that he shifted forms and got on the bed. He grabbed his mate by her collar and dragged her to him as he lay down. He placed her beside him then curled around her keeping her with him as he placed his tail over her. Kagome feeling the pups protest against being cramped shifted one more time til she was the same size as her mate. He made her stay put by laying his head over her shoulder.

She eventually fell asleep while her mate watched her til he knew that she was fully asleep. Then he got up and covered her with his own barrier that would keep her there and keep her comfortable. He then silently padded out of the room heading toward his children who he knew were getting a lecture from their grand father. He walked into the room again and barked out " Enough " then he shifted forms to his human form. He looked at them all " you should be ashamed of your self all of you thinking that your mother/ aunt would ever harm a hair on your heads. You have all made her feel like she should be invisible to you all. Tommorrow when your mother, myself along with father, mother, Inuyasha and kikyou are gone to work you will all spend the day training strictly under your grand mother Aleana and grand father Alexander. I am sure they would love a chance to punish you for mistreating your mother which is partly their daughter."

As he said that both Alaena and Alexander stood up as they were both angry at the pups each had a piece they wanted to say so Alexander went first. " Your father is right you will be punished by my mate and my self and I believe we will start with stripping you of your powers thus keeping you in human form only." As he said that he muttered a spell that took away their abilities to shift shape.

Aleana then stepped forward " You will all be training hard tomorrow and we will start with the cleaning of the castle walls in the dining room tommorrow and if any of you get cute in the way of trying to shirk on your chores, you will be forced to scrub grand fathers armour when he gets home from a trying day training or what ever he does". At that the children paled considderably knowing just how hard it was to get grandfather to want to part with his armour. ( A/N he does not like to part with his prized possession at all unless absolutly necessary. )

Inutaisho looked at the pups then did something that he would not ordinarily do he took off his armour. Then set it on the floor he chose to do the same thing with his tails that his son had and had them split then curl over his shoulders on either side. The pups watched in wonder seeing their grandfather take off his armour then set it on the ground. He looked at all of them stating "it better shine like new or many of you will be sorry."

After he said that sesshoumaru looked at his father and smirked thinking he had a good idea. As he snapped his fingers causing his old armour to appear beside his fathers then looked at them " You will polish this armour as well and it will be done to grandfather Alexanders expectations as you can see by looking at his armour he is meticulus in his cleaning. Alexander smiled at the children then nodded " you will clean those two sets of armour til they shine like mine." Sesshoumaru looked at his children " It is time for all of you except you circa to go to bed. I would like to speak with you circa for a moment".

Circa remained behind curious as to what his father wanted with him. Sesshoumaru waited until his father told his younger siblings to go to bed as well. Sesshoumaru then looked at his son " Son that armour that sits on the ground beside your grand fathers is for you to wear from now on as you are old enough to wear it. Your job from now on as the head heir is to protect your younger siblings along with your brother and sister".

"They will recieve their armour when they prove they are worthy of it. You proved your worth by not doing as your mother commanded and again by following her when you thought she would run away. Those are the most basic things of a leader. The ability to think for ones self and judge wether what your doing is right or wrong and knowing when to follow after a member of the family when you think they are up to something they should not be up to. So you have earned your armour".

Circa straightened up then bowed to his father " Thank you father I will try to live up to the honor you have bestowed on me." With that he straightened up then stated " excuse me father, grandfathers, and grand mothers. But it is past my bed time so I will retire for the night." At that he left leaving kikyou, Risa, Alaena, Alexander, Inutaisho and sesshoumaru in the room. All watching him leave. Inuyasha who was waiting out side the door with two pies one in each hand waited until circa left.

Then stood still listening for the other adults to leave. Sesshoumaru knowing that his brother was out side the door looked at kikyou and said " I believe your mate is waiting for you in your room kikyou. I assume you wish to give him a piece of your mind." Kikyou nodded then left for their room. Inutaisho looked at risa " come mate it is time we retired for the night as well. We will all have a busy day at the office as usual." Risa nodded walked to her mate and both left pointingly ignoring Inuyasha who stayed there with the pies.

Alexander looked at his mate and stated "maybe we should retire as well cause heaven knows those pups will be a handful even without their powers". At that Sesshoumaru waited until they got to the door then said " Good night you two may you both have a peaceful sleep this night." Alaena and alexander looked back as they opened the door together not seein inuyasha there with both pies held up at face level. As they said "the same to you sesshoumaru". They stepped out and turned their heads just intime to have the pies smashed into their faces as they walked into the pies held out.

All the while that happened Inuyasha stated " That is what you two get for putting a potion in my food that made me spew what ever entered my head. With that he took off running laughing as he ran back to his room. Mean while sesshoumaru looked at them both with a shocked look on his face. Then asked innocently as he could " What was that all about?" They both wiped the pie off their faces and looked at him then said "nothing that was what it was." They both left for their room hoping and praying that there was nothing else that was going to happen to them.

What they did not know was that Inutaisho and sesshoumaru had a surprise waiting for them in their room. They had put itching powder in their bed so when they slept they would get it on their skin and start scratching. Alaena and Alex both got back to their room glad that no other mishap happened to them other wise than the pie. They were feeling lucky at the moment neither one knew what lie in wait for them. They both climbed in to bed for the night and fell asleep not knowing that they were laying on itching powder at all.

Sesshoumaru and Inutaisho stayed up waiting for the inevitable yells of itching that they knew they would hear. They did not have to wait for long before they both heard two yells of "AAAHHH WHY AM I SO ITCHY". Then they both busted a gut laughing at the next sentance " OH MY GOOD NESS LOOK AT YOU YOU LOOK LIKE A RED AND WHITE ZIT ON TWO LEGS. ME LOOK AT YOU YOUR NO BETTER". Then they both heard a simultanious yell of " GODDAMN THOSE TWO INU'S THEY ARE GONNA BE SORRY IN THE MORNING." Sesshoumaru and Inutaisho busted a gut laughing knowing they would both have to take a long bath in oatmeal before the itching went away. They both went to their mates wearing smiles on their faces at the stunt they pulled. Each knowing the two elves would look like prunes in the morning.

( Alright every one as you can see the taisho boys got even with the elves in a good way. But also kagome got put in her place and is temporarily not trusted with weapons. We all know how well that is gonna go over right? )

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