Thank you to all my lovely reviewers! WOW what a response on that last chapter. I should be doing homework right now, instead I am doing this...but yay another chapter.

Just a reminder that Mayumi and Izayoi are Inu/Kag's daughters stuck in the modern era now that the well has closed permanently. They live with Sesshomaru in Gobodo-sama's castle in the sky.

A note about Trafficked: Because it's Au...the updates are slower, it takes more brains than I have to write it right now because of school.

I actually got a tumbrl account under the same username.

Mayumi-present

What's the fun of having special abilities if you aren't allowed to use them? Mayumi kicks her sneakers back and forth while leaning forward on the bench. She doesn't have the heightened hearing that her Uncle and father have. Even Sota and Izayoi hear better than she does. She doesn't have the spiritual power that Taisho has, it's never manifested itself in her although there were times she wished it did. Especially as Ojisama comes stalking into the school. His skin is paler today, his hands in his pockets. She knows he does that to hide his claws and his shaking hands. His face is more creased than usual. He is slighter than the Uncle she left in the past and in her mind, she prefers the demon he was five hundred years before.

He spares her no glance as he enters the office. He doesn't even acknowledge her presence as he tells the secretary he is there to pick her up. The Headmaster immediately leaves his office that is lined in see through windows and brings her Uncle back and Mayumi wishes she could hear what they are saying. The headmaster takes out a thick file folder. She cringes. She had hoped to keep that file from him. "You're back?" says Kaito, a boy in her class. He's taller than her with high cheekbones and lips that she has dreamt about kissing. "Are you trying to set a record?"

She laughs, flushing red at his comment. "Having fun. What are you in for?" her tone is flirtatious and inviting.

He raises his eyebrows and leans in so close she can smell the chocolate on his lips, "stealing test answers. Tell me Higurashi, do you have plans tonight?"

"My uncle is in there right now," she points through the window as the Headmaster takes out a large file, stacked full of her infractions. Sesshomaru lowers his head into his hands and even she can see his left leg struggling to remain still. "I'll be lucky if he doesn't ground me until I'm a hundred years old." Or kill me, she shudders knowing what he was capable of 500 years before. She once saw him fight with her father when a horde of bear demons attacked the village. Ojisama flew between them, one and the next, silver hair flying, and when he came back his claws dripped in their blood and his eyes were so icy, she nearly ran from him.

Kaito is a bad boy which is part of what makes him so attractive. "Fuck him," he nods at her Uncle. "He looks like an albino."

Mayumi purses her lips begging in her head for Kaito to stop talking as one of her Uncle's eyes rolls back at them.

"Meet me at the mall tonight. We'll have loads of fun." Kaito is a bad boy who's been kicked out of almost every school he's been in since he was a boy. Rumor has it, his arrest record is so long it takes days to get through it, he's hot.

The door swings opens as her Uncle bows to the Headmaster. He never used to bow to others. "Mayumi," the way he says her name makes her flinch.

"I didn't do it," she lies, her first mistake.

Sesshomaru leans over Mayumi's shoulder his gaze fixed on Kaito, "if you so much as look at my niece again…go on look behind you." His claws dig into the metal of Kaito's chair, "the chair will be in better shape than you will be. Do you understand?"

Kaito nods, lips cracked and dry as he stands and goes to the headmaster's office.

Sesshomaru takes her by the hand as if she is a child again and forcefully leads her from the school. "I have patients and a practice to run. I do not have time for teenage girls having tantrums that are obviously lying through their teeth. I can smell the chemicals on your hands." He yanks her across the street with more force than necessary.

"You're a coward," she lets her blades loose on the hand holding her.

He laughs lifting up the unmarked flesh. Her yoki is no match for his. He pulls her into an alley and looms over her, crossing his arms and demands, "Do you wish to tell me why you have chosen to behave like this?"

"Like you care," she attempts to elbow passed him only to get pushed against the wall again. She looks anywhere but his face, pushing back embarrassed tears. It's more fun to break the rules when you don't get caught.

"If I didn't care, I would have left you with your grandmother for the next ten years." He pulls her back onto the busy sidewalk and shakes out one of his legs.

"Why did I have to go with you if you're just going to die anyway!" she screams at him. "You're a coward! You're weak! The Ojisama I knew would never act like you, love sick pathetic jerk!"

Tears stop her from seeing the oncoming traffic. Getting hit by a car was not what she had in mind until she feels arms around her waist and is cradled in the warmth of his chest. But it's too late. The car rams Sesshomaru in the back. He's shaking, she can feel the trunk of his body shivering and hear the rasping of his breath. The car bunches around his side.

He shakes it off wincing at the pain. She knows she's in even more trouble as he apologizes and pacifies the driver of the car and ensures them that he is fine. He refuses to stay for medical care and leads her to his office. "You can work on the files today."

"You just got hit by a car." She wipes the tears that are finally falling from her eyes. She can't tell if he's been injured.

"Because you acted like a spoiled brat and ran in front of it. If you are trying to kill yourself at least do me a favor and do it correctly. Do not expect me to save you from your own stupidity." He pushes her through the door of his office, making polite small talk to the patient who is with her family. She's young and the woman with her definitely doesn't look Japanese. "Why does she have a dog in your office? Ow!" Mayumi rubs the back of her head.

"Manners," Sesshomaru reminds her tersely.

"Like you had any 500 years ago. To-san should have cut off both of your arms," she groans when she is dragged into his office by the arm like she is a little girl.

"When you are in this office, you will respect me."

"Or what? You'll spank me?"

He raises his claws in the air and his whip forms, flying in circles around the room and cracks next to her ear so loud it makes her flinch and she can feel the sting of its energy. "It worked on Yuki, sadly you don't have enough yoki to heal yourself if I chose to."

"That's child abuse."

"Who will you call Mayumi? What authorities will fly to my home in the sky and rescue you? I control the demon foster care system, I control the demon legal system, who would rescue you?"

"I hate you," she turns away from him.

"I'm flattered. I have a procedure now." He kicks the door open with his heel and hands her off to her sister. "Izayoi, your sister will arrange the files in order by year. When she is done, you will begin to load the information onto the computer system. Now." He leaves through the door to the procedure room where his colleagues wait for him.

Mayumi tries to cover her face as Izayoi pulls her into the backroom where the files line the walls like monoliths. "What were you thinking? If you use your blades and someone finds out about us!"

"It was five hundred years ago Izayoi! You're a myth now! I'm not! I look human, why can't I live in this world?"

"Because…it could happen again. What do you think they would do if they knew Ojisama was a demon, not a human? What about me? It would be a freak show. Why can't you think about someone else besides yourself?"

"That's what he did?" Mayumi scoffs, "I hate it here. I want to go home."

"We don't have a home anymore," Izayoi leans against one of the file cabinets. "The monks saw to that."

"Yeah, well I still look human and I don't care. I could be a super hero."

"Or a lab rat," the older sister shoots back. "Stop pushing him."

"Why? Will he die faster?" She says sarcastically, then stops seeing the look on her sister's face. Izayoi's face falls and she cries into her hands. "How long?"

"Soon…he won't say how long. He's already made arrangements with Natsuki and his children to care for us. He doesn't have that long anymore."

Is Mayumi being a butthead or what?

Please review ya'll! Keeps me going!

Coming on January 23rd: Interlude VIII Last of the Interludes.

Mechine: I know, I get bored reading all fluff and can't write it. I'm tempted to write an all fluff story, but I literally cannot. Originally if I wrote a reincarnation story it was going to be that way, but I couldn't think of what to write. Nina doesn't have the heartbreaking memories yet and yes OMG I would not want to hear about what my dad was doing in bed either!

Angel-sama: I know it was so close! Poor Taka is trapped between her two parents and not wanting to hurt either one of them. I get it on the taking forever to update. I've noticed that too and no longer read unfinished SXR stories. I will definitely check out those stories. The chapters are shorter because of the POV's. Fairly I could have put more into one chapter itself but I like it better this way for the sake of Cliff-hangers!

Guest #1: So...I have started the Avatar ones. Trudy's One Night Stand will be a few chapters. I wrote a Star Wars one for fun. I'm working on adding original work to my Wattpad account which you can find under the same username. Really I want to write a publishable original. I may write a Law and Order SVU work and I started a Sess/Kag for fun! Really I want to focus on originals once school is done and back away from fanfiction, so please follow me on tumblr or twitter for updates.

Gina: You are so very welcome. Most weeks you will see two chapters get posted.

Luin-Fanel: Thank you so much for reviewing every chapter! It warms my heart and makes me soo happy! Yes how else was I to force Taka to take her back?

Guesswho: Was it all sad? I thought Taka being offended by her father's sex dreams was hilarious. We shall see how things move!

Morality: This whole story is ironic because everyone is sick. What makes you think she's going to die?