Author: Cool! I have reviews! Well… One review but I'm thankful! So here it is! Kagome-Forever thank you for reviewing my story! I know Akiko's hyper but my friends say I act just like her most of the time!

Miroku: *Rolls eyes* That's for sure! *smiles at the way Author begins to pout*

Author: *Sticks out tongue* Hey I am thankful that some one likes my writing… Besides Hashiko Nanashi and Elle! And I do act like her can't help it it's all her fault! *points at Nanashi* Yeah I'm talking about you Nana-Chan! She still hasn't reviewed my story yet though!

Miroku: Come on I'm still here! *reaches out for Author*

Author: Nope don't think so naughty little boy!

Disclaimer: *Pouts* Why do you love to torment me! I mean come on! I don't even own my Clothes let alone InuYasah! Yes my clothes were bought for me and I have no money to buy new one's with at this time! I don't even own my muses nope they just showed up one day!

Chapter two

Hoshiko and the Western Lands

Akiko had run off from Sesshomaru a while ago just to go to a river not far from where they had stopped for the night. She wanted to swim and it didn't seem like Sesshomaru was paying any attention to her at all. She sat down on a large rock a few feet above the water and let her feet dip in and out of it feeling the cold chill of it on her feet. She was getting ready to jump in when Sesshomaru came up behind her and startled Akiko fell in.

"What are you doing Akiko?" He asked staring at her calmly.

"You startled me and I fell in." Akiko said swimming around, her clothes getting heavier every second making it hard for her to stay above the water. Sesshomaru picked her up by the back of her kimono and set her on the dry ground. Akiko immediately put her hand on the key clasping it in her hand. Then smiled up at Sesshomaru.

"Thank you my lord!" Akiko said getting up. 'She is way to much like Rin. She must have all of Rin's spirit or she would not act the way she does.' Sesshomaru thought.

"Come we are leaving now." He said and began to walk past her but Akiko moved in front of him and stood up.

"Why don't you like to talk to me?" She asked curiously her hair dripped down in wet tendril's across her face.

"There is nothing really to talk about Akiko." He said and began to walk past her but yet again she came out in front of him.

"Why do I have Rin's spirit?" She asked this time staring at him with absolute wonder.

"I do not know." He said and this time Akiko moved out of his way and followed silently behind him. She had so many question's but knew he would not give her the answer she wanted. The bad thing was that tonight was the full moon she would be turning into a human tonight. It was amazing that it had been a full week since she had been saved by Sesshomaru. She wondered what Sesshomaru would do when he saw her change. The forest changed every hour it seemed the light either grew or left. But night was inevitable. Akiko stopped and sat down at the base of a tree very quietly, because when ever she moved she was always quiet she had some kind of power that stopped her from making a sound unless she wanted to.

Sesshomaru not noticing until her scent became a little fainter had gone on but then turned around to look for Akiko. When he did find her the sun had still not fully gone down but she had made a small fire and was humming to herself. Sesshomaru stood over her in silence until she would not look up at him.

"Why did you stop, it is not even dark yet?" He asked a bit irritated. Akiko looked up at him and smiled softly.

"It is a full moon." Akiko stated and began to hum again.

"That mean something to you but I don't know what you are talking about." Sesshomaru said still staring at the top of her black hair.

"It simply means that I change into a full mortal every full moon." Akiko said staring at the fire as the sun slipped out of sight and slowly the moon came up. Akiko's dog ears turned into human ears, her fang's became regular teeth, her hair turned from dark black to light brown, her claws shrank into small finger nails, her eye's turned emerald green, and her face turned even more into a child's than it had looked before.

"See Lord Sesshomaru. I am not a youkai at the moment and won't be until morning. At this time I am in more danger than I was in before. More easily killed." She said looking up at Sesshomaru. Her green eye's stared into his golden ones.

"How old are you Akiko?" He asked sitting down beside her.

"I am fourteen. Why?" She asked playfully.

"You are older than Rin was when I found her that's all." He said calmly slightly smiling at the fire. A sudden crash through the tree above them then a thud on the ground startled Akiko to where she accidentally jumped hitting Sesshomaru.

"Sorry lord Sesshomaru." She said then made her way to the spot of the small crash.

"Oh it's a Kitsune!" Akiko remarked as she picked up the small Demon. At the moment it's hair was the same colour as hers, light brown. Akiko cradled it in her arms and brought it over to the fire. It was dressed in a light red shirt, blue vest, and purple pant's. It's light brown hair was tied in a bow with a small blue ribbon.

"Look my lord it must have fallen out of the tree and hit it's head! I will take care of it!" Akiko said still cradling the small Kitsune in her arms. It opened it's eye's slowly looking around. It's eye's were deep blue as Akiko's usually were. It jumped slightly seeing it was being held by someone.

"What! Who are you and why do you have me!" It yelled at Akiko. Akiko smiled at it.

"My name is Akiko! That is Lord Sesshomaru! And you are here because you fell out of a tree and I found you. Do you have a name?" Akiko asked.

"Not that I can remember lady Akiko." The kitsune said. Akiko smiled excitedly.

"Then I shall name you!" She said happily. She looked around her then up at the star lit sky.

"That's it! I shall name you Hoshiko! The stars have given me the name and I shall use it! Hoshiko it is!" Akiko said hugging the small kitsune.

"Hoshiko? I like it very much lady Akiko! Does this mean I can stay with you?" Hoshiko asked trying to get out of the grasp of Akiko so she could breathe.

"Lord Sesshomaru can she please come with us to stay? Please my lord?" Akiko asked excitedly.

"Yes she can Akiko." Sesshomaru said looking over at her. Akiko smiled excitedly again and raised Hoshiko into the air and hugged her again.

"Yipiee! Thank you my lord!" Akiko said before setting Hoshiko down. Hoshiko stumbled around dizzy from being hugged so much.

"You need to lighten up on the hugging Akiko! But at least I have a place to be. Thank you Lord Sesshomaru." Hoshiko said walking over to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru looked at Hoshiko and nodded. Hoshiko smiled and walked back over to Akiko. Akiko pulled Hoshiko into her lap and yawned so did Hoshiko.

"I'm going to go to sleep now." Akiko said and laid down lightly hugging Hoshiko and they both fell asleep. Sesshomaru watched over them both and was lost in thought of how much Akiko was turning into Rin but yet there was still the rebellious youkai that she was that remained. That morning when the sun rose Sesshomaru watched as Akiko transformed back into a hanyou. The fire had burned out long before that and Akiko slowly woke up and yawned Sesshomaru saw that her fangs had grown back. Hoshiko crawled away from Akiko and stretched. Akiko stood up without making a sound and walked over to Sesshomaru.

"Good morning Lord Sesshomaru! Look's like I'm a Youkai again doesn't it!" She stated and bounced away Hoshiko running after her. Hoshiko jumped up and landed on top of Akiko's head resting there leaning against one of her dog like ears.

"Good morning Hoshiko! Having fun?" Akiko asked still bouncing around the tree's.

"Yes Akiko. But un like you I am not a morning person!" Hoshiko said a bit grumpily.

"Aww don't be grumpy my friend!" Akiko said falling down on to her knees. She playfully reached up and ruffled Hoshiko's tied back hair.

"Hey! Ruffle your own hair!" She yelled and tried to fix it.

"My lord are we leaving again? How soon will we be there?" Akiko asked falling onto her back letting Hoshiko fall to the ground.

"Yes we are leaving as soon as you get up. We should be there soon." He said and Stood up looking down at Akiko and the small Hoshiko playfully pinching each other. Hoshiko jumped onto Akiko's shoulder as she stood up.

"Of course my lord." Akiko said and began to walk away leaving Sesshomaru to walk behind her but he soon was walking beside her.

"Hoshiko I shall adopt you as my kitsune sister. We shall stay together as sister's. What do you think?" Akiko asked looking at her .

"That would be great! But where are we going?" She asked. Akiko smiled at her softly.

"Not even I know that yet! Lord Sesshomaru has not given me the liberty of knowing where we are going! But it's all good to me!" Akiko said excitedly wanting to start jumping about but she didn't want to make the grumpy Hoshiko even more grumpy.

"So he has not told you?" Hoshiko asked.

"Nope and he probably won't until we get there! It just makes the whole thing more exciting don't you think?" Akiko asked even more excited than before. Though she moved making no sound at all until she spoke was quite amazing to Sesshomaru. He had never met a Youkai who could keep so quite as to not be herd.

"Well actually that is quite fun! Hey Akiko what's that around your neck?" Hoshiko said pointing to the small silver chain Akiko was wearing. Akiko pulled the chain up to reveal a skeleton key dangling on the chain.

"I found it when I was two. Then stole the chain from...Well that doesn't matter." Akiko said. Sesshomaru kept wondering who she had stole the chain from and why she was hiding that person she had stole it from.

"Who did you take it from?" Hoshiko asked getting a little hyper.

"No one. Now will you please leave it alone it is a subject not worth discussing. Now are we almost there?" Akiko asked as the tree's began to thin out.

"Yes." Sesshomaru said as they left the tree's behind and came to the mountain's.

"Where are we?" Akiko asked stopping to stare at the large mountain's that loomed ahead. It was almost mid day and the sun was making her sweat.

"We are almost to my home in the western lands Akiko." Sesshomaru said walking on. "You are coming aren't you or shall you just stand there?"

"I'm coming my lord!" Hoshiko nodded as they began to walk forwards towards the large mountain's. It did not take that long to climb over the mountains with Sesshomaru's help. When Akiko saw the large palace in front of her jaw dropped momentarily and she was almost sure Hoshiko did the same.

"Lord Sesshomaru this is your home?" Akiko asked slightly stunned.

"Yes it is come it is almost nightfall I'm sure you are tired Akiko." Sesshomaru said walking past her and Hoshiko Akiko obediently followed. Sesshomaru showed Akiko and Hoshiko to a room with a small bed spread in the corner and another door that led to a small balcony.

"This is your room I hope you like it." Sesshomaru standing in the door way while Akiko went and sat on the bed spread.

"Goodnight Lord Sesshomaru." Akiko said and lay down Hoshiko in her arms. Sesshomaru slowly moved out of the room closeting the door as he left.

"Hoshiko get back here! I'm the one who found it now give it back!" Sesshomaru could hear Akiko yelling at Hoshiko. He could also hear laughter and something hitting the wall.

"Hoshiko!"

"No! You want it! You have to catch me first!"

"This is so not fair! It's mine I tell you! Mine!" Sesshomaru herd something crash to the floor and break.

"Now look what you've done Akiko! But looks like I still get to keep what you found if you can't catch me!"

"Oh I'll catch you! Just you wait! I can move faster than you think I can!"

"Oomph! Akiko that's unfair and you know it!"

"Finders keepers!" Sesshomaru stood outside the closed door and listened to Akiko giggle but he didn't hear Hoshiko.

"Owwwww! Get off! Hey give it back! How long are you going to do this? I mean I found it so there for it's mine!"

"Come on Akiko! I thought you loved games!"

"Hey what is that? Is that no can't be!"

"Owww! Hey now that really wasn't fair!"

"As I said before finders keepers! But now I can say Monkey's always look!" Sesshomaru slid open the door and saw Hoshiko jumping up and down on the floor but Akiko was no where to be seen but he could still hear her giggling.

"You'll never get me now!" He heard her say as he stepped into the room and looked around the room then onto the balcony but Hoshiko stopped jumping around and pointed up wards towards the ceiling. When Sesshomaru looked up he saw Akiko hanging upside down by her knees on one of the rafters.

"Good morning Lord Sesshomaru!" Akiko said a big grin on her face and something clutched in her right balled up fist.

"Come down from there Akiko." He said moving away from where Akiko was hanging.

"Yes my Lord!" Akiko said and let the grip go out of her legs and sent her crashing to the ground on her back. Hoshiko ran forward to try to get at what Akiko was holding but Akiko bolted upright and began to run around the room Hoshiko chasing her. Sesshomaru saw small glass fragments on the floor and knew it had probably been a glass jar that had probably contained what ever the two of them where fighting over.

"Both of you stop now." Hoshiko and Akiko both stopped running and stood as still as they possibly could and stared at Sesshomaru.

"What was in the bottle that has caused the two of you to fight?" Sesshomaru asked. Akiko held out her fist and opened it palm up with a small black crystal on it. Sesshomaru stared in wonder he didn't remember the crystal ever being in this room before but the stone slowly changed colour to a deep blue, then to a blood red.

"Why does it do that when you hold it?" Hoshiko asked. Sesshomaru took that to mean it never changed colour when Hoshiko held it but only when Akiko did.

"I dunno..." Akiko said still holding her hand out. Sesshomaru took the crystal out of her hand and it quickly turned clear like the crystal should have originally been.

"It does that to me too! It will only change colours for Akiko!" Hoshiko said a slight bit of jealousy looming on her face.

"Why does it only do that for me my lord?" Akiko asked holding her palm out for her crystal. Sesshomaru set it back in her palm where it turned emerald green.

"I'm not sure..." He said and slowly turned and walked back out of the room Akiko staring after him.