____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ Chapter 8; Family Reunion ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ -Sarah?!- he thought, -how can this be?! She disappeared nearly 600 years ago, wait, had she been enslaved too?- he looked at her neck. Surely enough there was a collar around her neck, -so... she didn't... run away from me? Oh, Sarah, I'm so sorry for underestimating you, if only I could speak with you.- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Oh, Kamet, you're back," Arai said, then noticing the slave she added, "so, you bought her, what did you do to get Miroku to let you buy her?" "I persuaded him," Kamet said fanning herself with about 50,000 yen bills. "Kamet, you always have a way with, err, words, when are you going to learn money won't buy you everything, just because you have money doesn't mean you have to spend it." "Oh, sister, just because I have more money than you do you don't have to be jealous," retorted Kamet still fanning herself with the yen. "I have just as much money as you, remember, father divided it equally." "Oh yeah, I forgot that part of the deal." "Anyway, why did you want to talk?" "Oh yeah, I told you to come here didn't I?" "Yeah, and would you please hurry, I have other things to do today." "We'll start as soon as my mate arrives." "You invited Kouga?! You know how much he hates Inuyasha and his kin!" "What does that have anything to do with?" "HELLO!!! Sesshoumaru and Sarah are blood kin to Inuyasha!" "Oh yeah, they are, aren't they?" "Yeah, duh!" "Sarah, please take Sesshoumaru with you to the back." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sesshoumaru looked at his mistress, "it's O.K. Sesshoumaru, go with her." "Yes, Arai." As he turned to leave he heard his mistresses sister say, "Arai? He's calling you by your first name?" "Yes, I told him to, thank you very much," retorted his mistress. He heard a howl of laughter come from his mistresses sister followed by the rest of the wolves. Looking around he noticed how many there were, they were completely surrounded by them, wolves in human form, and wolves in true form were everywhere, but all of them are female. "Oh, shut-" his mistress began, but right as she was saying it Sarah closed the door that they had just walked through. He turned to her, "Sarah?" "Yes, Sesshoumaru." "Is it really you?" "Yes, Sesshoumaru." "I... I thought you had run away from me." "I know you did Sess." "But... but you didn't?" "No, because, you see, I love you more than anything in the world, so I would never run away from you." "I... I'm so sorry for doubting you, can you ever forgive me?" "Yes, I can Sess. Can you forgive me?" "Forgive you for what?" "For, not believing we would ever meet again." "Of course I can forgive you," he embraced her in a brotherly hug. "YOU WHAT?!?!" rang through the cave. "What was that?" asked Sesshoumaru. "I don't know," replied Sarah. "Well we can't go see because our mistresses ordered us to stay here." "Well, not straight out..." "Well your mistress told you to bring me back here, and my mistress told me to go with you." "Yeah, but, I brought you back here didn't I, so I could just wander on out there, and you would have to follow, because your mistress told you to. Then if anyone gets in trouble it would be me, but I can just say I misunderstood her and pretend I thought she said take Sesshoumaru then come back." "Well, if you want to then go ahead." She headed to the door and peeked out, he followed. As soon as he had his head out the door he knew who had shouted. It was his mistresses sister. She was now towering over a cowering male wolf. "P-p-please Kamet." "PLEASE WHAT KOUGA??!!" "Please don't hurt me." "Kamet," it was his mistress, "it isn't that big a deal, he only asked Ayame to come over for dinner." "ONLY?!?!" she had turned on his mistress now. "Yes, only." "ARAI, AYAME AND I ARE RIVALS, JUST LIKE KOUGA AND INUYASHA ARE!!!" "Kamet, calm down, it was just a neighborly gesture, wasn't it Kouga?" "Ye- yeah, what she said, a neighborly gesture." "KO-" She started but his mistress broke in, "Besides it's nothing compared to what you did." "AND WHAT EXACTLY DID I DO?!?!" "Don't you remember who you invited?" "THE ONLY PEOPLE I INVITED ARE STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!" she shouted pointing at his mistress and the male wolf. "Exactly," said Arai pointing at the male wolf also. "AND WHAT, MAY I ASK, IS SO WRONG WITH ME INVITING MY MATE FOR DINNER?!?!" "Well, let's think about this, shall we, Kouga here," she pointed at the male wolf who was still cowering, "hates Inuyasha and his kin." "SO WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!?!" "Remember who you're hiding in the back?" "WHO- ohh, oops." "Umm, Kamet," broke in the male wolf, "who's in the back?" "Ahh, nobody," now it was she who was doing the cowering. "Who is it Kamet? Is it Inuyasha?" "No, of course not." "Hey Sarah, come here for a minute," sang his mistresses voice. Sarah got up and started to walk to his mistress, he followed, still not relieved of her last command. Sarah knelt before his mistress, he did too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Se- Sesshoumaru? KAMET!!!" the male wolf shouted. "Yo, Kouga," Kouga jumped from being addressed in such an odd way. He turned to look at his mate's sister. "What do you want and what are you trying to make of it saying 'yo'?" "Did you notice, Sarah is here as well," she pointed to what looked like a female Inuyasha. "Who in seven, bloody hells is she." "Hey, wolf brain!" he looked over and saw Inuyasha standing in the doorway. "Mutt-face what are you doing here?" "I smelled Sesshoumaru and decided to follow his scent. Then when the smell started getting stronger I heard yelling, then I heard your name, then Sarah's name, then I heard Sesshoumaru's name."