DPK13: My crappy computer is being Satan and won't let me post Chapter 3 so I'm writing chapter four in advance. YEAH! (Cheers for self) I probably won't post this until after Sunday. I have to go to the Miss Kingston Pageant and cheer my best friend on. (She's in it! I know she's gonna win!)

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Chapter 4: Injuries, Eavesdropping, and Inuyasha.

He gave her a small half smile, the only sound echoing around the hall was Kagome's mother sobbing. "I underestimated you, Kagome, but I won't do it again." She accepted his comment with a curtsey. "Will all of you leave this hall except for the Royal Family." Even though it was phrased as a question it was a statement, everyone except Kagome's mother and Hojo left. His half smile widened, "Now we must tell my half brother of his mate." At Kagome's confused yet inquiring looks, he explained, "its demon terms for wife or husband." Kagome nodded, and worry crept into her eyes.

"He doesn't know? He hasn't agreed to marry me yet?" She asked. Shessoumaru looked at her and didn't even flinch.

"No, he hasn't. He doesn't know. But, I am to be the heir to the demon throne and he is my half brother so he has to obey my command." Shessoumaru said calmly, stonily. Kagome's face expressed sorrow, and worry.

"I don't want him to be forced into marrying me!" She protested weakly. Shessoumaru waved away her protests and turned to Kagome's mother.

"Queen Aya," he began, "Your daughter will be taken to our palace to be introduced to her future husband, I swear to you on my honor and my lands that no harm will come to her." The Queen glared at him.

"You are most certainly right! My daughter will have an escort of the finest guards!" She began heatedly. Shessoumaru stopped her with a pat on her shoulder.

"I am afraid that's not possible. I can protect one weak human but I will not, cannot, protect anyone other than her. And, I assure you she will be perfectly safe. As my mate is safe." He assured her.

"Well your mate is demon not a human—."

"That is where you are quite wrong. She is human. Her name happens to be Rin." Shessoumaru said with not little satisfaction. With that he'd won the argument.

"Oh...oh..." Queen Aya said, and then took a deep breath, "You may take my daughter to meet her husband. My only requirement is they are married here."

"We can have to marriage ceremonies. One here at your lovely Palace and one in demon lands." Shessoumaru said diplomatically, "Now, we really must be going." With that he grabbed Kagome's arm and towed her up to her rooms to pack.

"On the road again, Oh I just can't wait to be on the road again."

Shessoumaru gritted his teeth. 'How long can this female sing that ridiculous song?!' He wondered, annoyed out of his wits. He'd been listening to this same song for the past couple of hours.

Kagome grinned, after she paused for breath. She could see her song getting through Shessoumaru's rock hard mask of emotionless ness. She drew in a deep breath and sang, "On the road again, Oh I just can't wait to be on the—."

"SHUT UP!" Shessoumaru finally exploded and whirled around dropping the suitcases he was carrying, grabbing the girl and slamming her up against a tree, knocking the breath out of her. Without meaning to, he dug his claws into the skin of her arms. Then calmly he said, "Stop with that pointless meaningless song otherwise I may lose my temper and do something I regret." He dropped her and Kagome hit the ground with a dull thud.

Finally she got her breath back and started to cry, there were bruises along her upper bicep with little puncture marks from his nails, which had started to bleed a little. A glare from Shessoumaru told her to be quieter and she choked back a sob. She hiccupped once then stood up and got back on the path. Shessoumaru picked up his suitcases and turned striding off along the path toward the demon castle. Kagome scrambled to follow him.

After about an hour Kagome voiced timidly, "Are we almost there? I'm getting a little tired." Shessoumaru looked back at her over his shoulder and Kagome cringed visibly.

"I am sorry; I did not mean to hurt you. You just annoyed me." He apologized without a hint of emotion in his voice. Kagome nodded and relaxed a little, "And to answer your question," he pointed ahead, "we are here." Kagome peered around him at the castle and gasped.

"It's beautiful!" She cried out in wonder, looking at the cream colored castle and the intricate style of the ornamentations upon the roof and balconies. "Whoever designed this didn't get paid enough!"

"We like to think that too." Shessoumaru said, "Now let's go talk to my half brother." Kagome nodded and followed him up the stairs, through the doors and down a hallway to a room. "Wait outside please. I will talk to my brother alone." Kagome nodded and sat on a stool beside the door. Shessoumaru went into the room closing the doors behind him. Kagome waited until his footsteps went away from the door then stood up and pressed her ear against it.

"Shessoumaru," the new voice was a little harsh toward his own relative; she thought then listened, "I see the humans didn't kill you off what a pity."

"Inuyasha, I see you haven't choked and died on your rice yet, maybe I can help." Shessoumaru replied wittingly. The new voice, Inuyasha, snorted.

"So what happened?" Inuyasha asked carelessly, he'd seen his brother coming home a girl, pretty thing really, following behind him. "Who's the bitch?"

'I agreed to marry that?!' Kagome thought horrified, and then returned to listening as Shessoumaru spoke.

"I told you it was peace talks my disgusting half-breed scoundrel of a brother." Shessoumaru said, disgusted.

'He's only HALF-DEMON!?' Kagome thought shocked, 'why wasn't I or anyone else informed of this?'

"Feh."

"I have managed to secure peace—." Shessoumaru began but then Inuyasha interrupted.

"Lemme guess, they told you if you got rid of the bitch we can have peace right?" Inuyasha said with a laugh.

"Mangy half breed, you would do better to talk about your mate in a kinder manner." Shessoumaru said, annoyed at his half brother. Kagome heard a sputtering sound and guessed it was from Inuyasha.

"M-Mate?! What the hell are you saying Shessoumaru?!"

"I'm saying, half breed, that that's your mate that I brought back with me. That is the price of peace."

"I AM NOT TAKING A STUPID BITCH AS MY MATE!" came the explosion. Suddenly, before Kagome could react the doors were thrown open and she fell to the floor.

"Far from stupid, half breed brother," Shessoumaru remarked. Kagome, sprawled on the floor, looked to her right and saw her future mate, Inuyasha. He had long silver hair, amber eyes the trademark of the Royal Youkai family, he wore a red hadori and fluffy pants with it, and the one feature that made him different from any demons she'd ever seen, were the cute fluffy white dog ears nestled on top of his head. At the current moment the eyes were narrowed to slits glaring in her direction, and the ears were flat against his head.

"WELL I AM NOT TAKING THE BITCH AS MY MATE EITHER WAY!" He yelled and stormed out. Kagome stood shaken and brushed out her dress.

"Don't worry he'll come around." Shessoumaru said. Kagome nodded, "Now I will summon our head guard, he will protect you for your stay and show you to your rooms."

"Alright," Kagome said, still a little shaken from the Inuyasha Encounter. With that Shessoumaru let out a whistle and a new demon dashed in at a high pace, almost like a tornado.

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Next Chapter is called KOUGA! Woot!

Wow...I am becoming obsessed...I wanna work on the next chapter!!! ....but I guess I should probably post chappy 3... and 4. Ah well. Hey please review. My goal is to become an author but I'll never get better if you don't at least give me some advice. Even flames are welcome as long as you tell me what's wrong with my story or writing style. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!