Chapter 23

Green eyes widened as they caught sight of the small female standing next to his bastard of an elder brother. Her shapely form wrapped in the female version of the RAD uniform, putting most succubi to shame. Her hair was tousled and he knew for a fact it was only due to her not brushing it for the day. He had often braided her hair for her before they went to bed in the past knowing the raven locks would be a tangled mess the next morning.

Her normally glittering blue eyes were tinted pink, the surrounding skin red and puffy letting him know she had been crying recently, a sight he had only witnessed twice in the whole time he had known her. Each time had stirred to life in him a rage that could have burned down the realms. Her hands were clasped behind her back, her fingers no doubt fidgeting in that ever so endearing way she did when she was nervous.

Gritting his teeth to glared at his brother, not even caring that the sheer anger and blood lust that began to roll off of him made his sounding brothers tense up. "What is she doing here?" His voice was a low growl, his angry green orbs demanding an answer from his shocked elder brother.

Lucifer was hard pressed to not shift, the amount of rage filling the room making the lights flicker. Sure Satan was known for his rage, the man was born from it, yet he had not seen it stoked to life so quickly and intensely in hundreds of years. Narrowing his eyes at his younger brother he placed a hand on Kagome's trembling arm, ready to pull her behind him should he have to. "It's just as I said this is Kagome the new exchange student...remember I asked you about her a week ago and you had no knowledge of her so how is it you seem to recognize her now..." The suspicion in his voice was easy to hear and it only added fuel to the fire that was Satan's rage.

"Don't you give me that shit. How was I supposed to know my Kagome was the same one you were asking about?!" His demon form was just below the surface, wanting to be freed, to lash out.

Kagome frowned, sure she was just as surprised to see Satan here as he was to see her. Yet she knew he was letting his anger get the better of him, he always did. It was part of what made him who he was and she understood that. Yet at the same time she didn't want things to spiral out of control, not again. She was still so very drained from yesterday and this morning's events that she didn't think she could handle much more...

"Ano Satan calm down...let's sit down and talk it out. Please." It was a long shot, he was already so riled up that her words could either pull him back or push him over and with him it was never easy to guess which way he would go.

He could hear it in her voice, see it in the way her shoulders slumped, she was tired, drained and it made him pause, she rarely asked him for anything and as always she was the voice of reason in his life.

Taking a pause he let out a deep sigh through his nose, closing his eyes to focus on her scent, drawing it deep inside of him and letting it pull him back. His killer intent fizzled out, though it leaked lurked just under the surface, waiting watching.

Snapping his eyes open he glared openly at Lucifer before turning semi softer eyes to Kagome. "What are you doing here? I thought you wanted to spend some time with your human family..." It was the reason she had given him when she told him she would be leaving the apartment they shared for a few years, wanting to spend the last remaining years of her family's lives with them.

He respected her choice, didn't like it nor agree with it but he respected it. What was fifty or sixty years of separation when they had the rest of their seemingly never ending lives to make up for it?

So to see her here, next to his brother who was standing in front of her as if to protect her from him of all people. It made him gnash his teeth together in anger.

"Well, that was my plan but you know those go when it comes to me." The small smile she gave him was genuine and let everyone in the room know that the two not only knew each other but on a much more intimate level then they should.