Disclaimer: Inuyasha is not mine and blah blah blah.....yeah maybe it is? Hmmmm Ok just for you slow ones, this is what's happened so far. Hikara is the cat demoness of the southern lands, Mila is her mouse servant, and they are on their way to the western lands. Hikara's daughter has been missing but Hikara doesn't seem to care.ok then, back to the story.

Back in the forest that connects the Southern Lands to the Western Lands, Lady Hikara, our great demoness of the southern lands, and her faithful little mouse servant, Mila, are on there way to visit Lord Sesshomaru in the western lands. But for some reason, little Mila is afraid for her master to return there. Here our story continues with both ladies riding on the giant black and red horse, Chaos.

"Mila my dear, why do you seem so worried?"

Hikara said this with a slight tilt of the head. She may have been a lady but was still as curious as a child about everything.

"I am not worried for myself master, I worry for you."

"For me? But why is this?"

Hikara stops Chaos in his tracks. This conversation sounds like it might go down-hill.

"Because of the young mistress running away the way she did. It worries me that you might worry about her too much."

With a surprised look on her face, Hikara pushes her face VERY close to Milas'.

"Don't be such a fool. I do not concern myself with the well-being of her anymore. Besides, it was about time she started to live on her own."

"But my lady, she is still but a mere 70 years old."

"Yes but she is also just a hanyou. She won't live as long as me so this would have been the prefect time for her to start venturing out on her own."

"But my lady-"

"That is enough Mila. Besides she is way to troublesome for me. She needs to find a mate who can endure her 'spirit'. Now settle down, we are almost to the border."

"Yes my lady."

They start off their journey again with what seemed to be the beginning of a quiet rest of the trip.

Back at the castle Sesshomaru and Rin are standing in the den to the great lords castle. As his eyes soften he hands Rin a beautifully rapped box. The box has shiny silver paper and a red ribbon covering the box with a neatly tied bow at the top. Rins eyes widen with the excitement at what could possibly be in the box. She finally gets it opened and sees the new kimono she has received.

"MY LORD!! This is beautiful. Thank you."

"Why don't you try it on. I must make sure it fits your slim body."

"Yes my lord. Be back in a sec."

Sesshomaru waits as Rin tries on the kimono. The kimono is very special to him and to see it on someone like Rin, would definitely please him.

Rin comes out of her room. Her eyes are glowing with pride and happiness all from this new gift. She doesn't get very many things directly from Sesshomaru so this was a very special occasion in deed.

"Rin, you look lovely in that color."

The color was a royal blue with gold flowers and dragons sewn into the fabric. The sleeves were a bit long for the young woman but it gave her a certain elegance as it hung off of her finger tips.

"Lord Sesshomaru, if you don't mind me asking, where did you find such a rare silk?"

There was a long pause as he looked away. Then looking back, Rin saw a certain emotion she had never seen before. It seemed to be sad but at the same time very comforting, like his eyes were saying it was all right.

"This kimono....it used to belong to my mother, a very long time ago."

"Your mother? I cannot accept this. This is too valuable for a human girl to wear."

"No Rin, it is yours. My mother would have wanted someone like you to wear it in her place. Even though she did not favor humans as much as my father. And besides, what am I to do with a woman's kimono?"

With that said Rin started to let out a light giggle. Sesshomaru started to smile in the corners of his mouth. Hearing her laugh had become a great treasure to the lord over the years.

A knock came at the door to the room. Hearing the footsteps already coming, Sesshomaru answered the door barely after the first knock. Of course his first reaction was to look down for a visitor instead of straight ahead. This was because of Jaken. He always had a knack for coming at a bad or even seemingly intimate moment when he was with Rin. Sesshomaru often guessed this was because he did not like the idea of a human becoming a mate of his lord and he always wanted to make sure it stayed like that.

"Lord Sesshomaru, Lady Hikara has arrived at the front gates."

"Alone? That strange, or is there someone you are neglecting to mention about?"

"Yes my lord, there is that servant rat of hers."

Rin had to jump in at that comment. She happened to enjoy playing with Mila but Jaken always thought of her as useless, even though he does the exact same thing to Sesshomaru that Mila does for Hikara.

"Don't be so cruel to Mila Jaken. It isn't very nice."

"Don't tell me not to be cruel Rin. I could have slain her years ago if I had wanted to."

"And how would you do that you little toad, bash her in with your dead skull staff?"

"Now now, behave yourselves. We are not here to be rude when we have a guest that we must attend to."

In perfect unison, the two responded with a "Yes my lord". They always did this and didn't care to be scolded at once more.

At the front gates of the castle, There was a seemingly pissed off cat demoness waiting to be let inside. Her horse wasn't all too thrilled about the wait either.

"DAMN IT! LET ME INSIDE THE GATES YOU IDIOTS!!"

Hikara hissed and showed her claws as Chaos made all sorts of interesting noises to scare the guards. He rather enjoyed making people tremble at the site of him. But today he just wanted to get inside the gates and get all of that 'baggage' off of him.

"I am sorry miss, but I cannot do that without my lords permiss-"

Just then a toad, human, and dog demon came outside to attend to their guest. Rin saw what was going on and had to intervene.

"Just let her in the gates you stupid guards. Don't you know that that is Auntie Hikara out there?"

"Oh my, THE Lady Hikara, I shall let her in right away Lady Rin. As you wish."

As the idiot guards slowly brought the giant piece of wood from the doors, Rin had stars in her eyes for not seeing Lady Hikara in so long. She loved her and was allowed over the years to call her auntie. This was a very good thing,for Hikara did not like very many humans and to let herself have a nickname from one was almost unheard of. Jaken narrowed his eyes as he awaited the so-called 'rat' to enter the castle walls. Sesshomaru had his usual plastered stern face, and waited to 'discuss' certain matters with the demoness on the other side.

After several moments, the gates were finally opened and riding in came the Mistress and her group. As soon as Hikara was safely inside and the gates were beginning to close, she jumped off her horse for a well-earned stretch. She jumped off with such grace it was as though she was flying and once on the ground, started to reach high in the air as if to reach for an invisible object. She stopped her stretching when she sniffed the air and found the familiar jasmine scent of the young human girl she cared for. She looked where the smell was coming from just in time to catch the girl in her arms as she had done when the girl was younger. But since the girl was grown, she let go of her and looked in those bright brown eyes of hers.

"Auntie Hikara how was your ride. Not too long I hope?"

"No my dear, it was a lovely ride and a beautiful day to do it on. Oh Jaken, how have you been you little toad?"

"I have been fine My Lady, but now I must attend to other business. Please excuse me."

"Of course Jaken."

As she followed her eyes in the direction the toad was walking in, she noticed he was of course walking towards Mila. Probably to bitch her out about something. Not taking good enough care of the Lady, not tending to Chaos' grooming enough, something. But with them, there was always something to bicker about. Turning back around, she noticed a certain hostility in the air. She immediately brushed this off as just Sesshomaru. She looked up and saw him walking towards her.

"Why hello there Lord Sesshomaru. How have you been these past few years?"

Awaiting an answer, she looked down at Rin. Rin had her head down and looked very sad, from what she could see, and Hikara knew what conversation wasn't to be avoided this day.

"Lady Hikara, I thought I was supposed to go to your side of the land, or was I mistaken?"

"No, you weren't mistaken Sessy."

With that single nickname, Sesshomaru shivered at the thought of having a pet name from anybody. He absolutely detested having any name that would make him sound so...childish. But he figured this time he would let it go and start to discuss the matters at hand.

"Hikara, let us get down to business. I need to know if you-"

"If I absolutely needed to come over here? I realize I am banned from ever returning to your neck of the woods, but you know me. I can't follow orders all of the time. At least not for long."

Hikara smirked at the remark she had just made. She wasn't allowed to return here all because of her reputation. Awhile back, she had slain more that half of the population of the Western Lands. She had done this for revenge of her Father, the former ruler of the Southern Lands. Her father and Sesshomaru's father had hated each other since before they were even born. Sesshomaru's father had grown in an angry fit when he found out that Hikara's father had had a relationship with his wife (sessys' mother) and he wasn't happy about it. So he killed her father and when Hikara was old enough and strong enough, she slaughtered half of the population of the western lands, just to get back at him. Sesshomaru decided to do nothing at the time (A.N.-he hates humans-duh!) but since he figured that if she killed all of his miserable peoples, he would have nothing left for himself. So instead he just banned her from returning. But somehow, she has managed to slip past him every once in a while. This is how she ended up meeting Rin. The last time she crossed the border, Rin was but 9 years old. For some reason, the girl grew on Hikara and she was spared by Hikara's deadly claws.

"That is not what I meant and you know it."

"Don't pull any of that crap on me Sesshomaru. I know exactly what you want to talk about, but I just had a long day trying to get over here and I don't feel like talking about my daughter."

"But Auntie Hikara-"

"That's enough Rin. If she doesn't want to talk about it, then we will have to wait until she is ready."

Sesshomaru didn't like to keep a conversation at bay unless he absolutely needed to. But he couldn't very well make Hikara talk so he had to just be patient.

"Thank you sessy dear. Now, are you going to invite me inside or shall we enjoy the breeze a bit longer. I do believe I smell rain coming so we might want to do the first thing, hmm?"

"Yes, come inside. I wouldn't want you to get sick and have me take care of you."

Hikara started to walk past Sesshomaru to go inside.

"Oh yes, like you would ever take care of me."

As she walked past him, he noticed a bag that was tied to Chaos' saddle.

"Umm, Hikara."

"Yes sessy?"

"Are you...planning on....staying long?"

"Actually...."

She put on a face like she actually had to think about it.

"I think I might stay a bit."

As she said that, Mila comes running up behind Hikara. Mainly because Jaken was chasing her around but also she heard the conversation that was taking place.

"But my lady, I thought we were just staying for today?"

"We were Mila, but since Sessy reminded me that I brought a few things, I thought we might just stay for a while. What do you think about that?"

"I do not mind my lady, as long as we get our own room."

As Mila said this, a cold, dead stare fell on Jaken that made him shiver just slightly.

"Oh don't worry, this place is big enough to have a room for us to stay in."

Dumbfounded, Sesshomaru just stared at Hikara. He didn't plan on having her come to him in the first place, but to STAY with him was a real shock to the system.

As she walked inside the castle, Mila and Rin following close behind, Sesshomaru could only wonder why Hikara would even want to stay there in the first place. He always thought that she hated the western lands and didn't want anything to do with it unless she wanted to cause a bit of destruction on a sunny day. He was close on just saying that she couldn't stay, but Rin seemed so fond of the demon and decided to just settle things later. This was already to much for the simple dog demon to worry about. He would just have to deal with it until things were all straightened out.

~Well I finally got another chapter up!! Yeah for me!! Well alrighty then. Thank you for the reviews so far and I hope you dudes and chickies keep on readin'. Oh warning for next chapter, I am going to start concentrating on a "split" type of story. Next will be following Inuyasha for a little bit so don't hate me!!! I will just keep flipping the stories until Inuyasha's story and Sesshomaru's story meet up. Don't know quite when but eventually. I pwomis. =^_^= keep on trukin'.~