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From the second that Sesshomaru had left InuYasha had refused to leave the spot he was in, although he consented to sitting down and turning around enough so that he could eat his ramen Kagome cooked while they were waiting. After InuYasha had gobbled up his lunch, he turned back around towards where Sesshomaru had taken off. And because of the fact that cooking and eating ramen did not hold Shippo's interest for long enough, Kagome decided to give him some chocolate to tide him over for.

"Kagome...Do you suppose that InuYasha wants some chocolate as well? He usually loves this stuff" Sango said through bites of her own chocolate bar.

"I guess...Hey InuYasha! Do you want some chocolate?" Kagome yelled at the hanyou, though she needn't, for he didn't even hear her anyways. "Hmm...Seems he's not listening...Maybe I should try something else." Kagome said devilishly as she chucked a piece of chocolate at InuYasha and put the rest of that piece in Miroku's lap.

And as InuYasha turned around Shippo yelled "MIROKU DID IT!" and pointed at him before running and grabbing the chocolate from Miroku, while InuYasha yelled at Miroku, being as gullible as he possibly could be that day.

And as promised, forty minutes after he had left, Sesshomaru arrived behind the screaming InuYasha, followed by an unrecognizable demon-woman. She wore a kimono, that looked like the sea after a storm . As the entire group, except for InuYasha and Miroku, who where busy yelling and/or looking scared, observed her they all noticed different details about her.

Shippo noticed, by her smell that she was most defiantly a full-blooded inu-youkai, although she smelled much like his mama and papa had...He could never quiet place what the sent was, but it was his thought of what a memory was. And whenever the group's journey took them towards the south, he could swear he smelt it there as well.

As Sango studied the strange woman she noticed the two leaf marks on her neck, showing where the fox demon-lord of the south, had marked her as his, and his alone. Putting two and two together, Sango fell into a deep bow for the Lady of the Southern Lands. Sango had lived in her Southern village, up until two years back, and the demon lord and lady had always been extremely kind and generous to her village, and were highly respected among her people.

After Kagome gave the bowing Sango a confused look, she turned towards the woman again to look to see if there was a reason Sango was bowing. The woman, Kagome noted, was obviously a demon. She looked very similar to Sesshomaru and somewhat like InuYasha. She had long silver hair, that went past her waist, accompanied by bangs exactly like Sesshomaru's. She had the same amber eyes, same pointy demon ears, same blue crescent moon on her forehead, and the same red cheek and wrist marks. And to top it all off she had the same huge fluffy silver tail as Sesshomaru did.

"Ah InuYasha, still bickering and yelling in your free time, are you?" The woman said with a bit of a giggle as InuYasha turned around as fast as he possibly could.

"Nor...Noriko? What are you doing here? I thought that..." InuYasha said then suddenly sniffed the air, "YOU'RE PREGNANT?!?!" he shouted before a deathly silence overtook the group for quiet a few moments.

"Well what do you really expect, brother?" she seemed to put an emphasis on the last word and looked at the humans in InuYasha's group. "When you turned fifteen I was sent to live with Kasugano, the LORD OF THE SOUTHERN LANDS" she seemed almost as if she was trying to inform everyone, rather than talk to InuYasha.

"What? You're...mated? How come I never knew of this?" InuYasha asked, beginning to take a step towards her.

'So that's why Sango was bowing...' Kagome thought while noticing that Miroku was for once holding back from asking her from bearing his child 'It's a good thing too.'

"Noriko, the reason I brought you here.." Sesshomaru butted in, while everyone suddenly remembered the fact he was there.

"Oh yes, hmm the demon slayer? Or the...MIKO???" Noriko said the last word full of disbelief, while Sesshomaru tried to respond to what she was saying. "Well Sesshomaru, I do believe that you've out done yourself this time. I mean yes, you always want something one-of-a-kind, but, a MIKO? I thought the last one in Japan died fifty years ago..And wasn't she InuYasha's mate?" Noriko said all of this quiet rapidly, then jumped down to barely inches from Kagome. "Hmm..." she said as examined Kagome. "Interesting...very interesting...She looks very much like the human child..."

Kagome backed up, confused at what was going on.

"Although you mistaking what I wanted to show you, is quiet entertaining, I wish to get down to business." Sesshomaru said from the same spot he had been in the entire time.

Noriko sweat-dropped in a sign of embarrassment, "Oh and what do you wish to show me, dear brother?" Suddenly that and what Noriko had said earlier to InuYasha, finally registered in her mind.

'Wait...that means that Sesshomaru and Noriko are brother and sister, and InuYasha is her half brother?" Kagome mentally slapped herself, 'Of course no wonder they all look so much alike!'

"InuYasha, show Noriko what you inherited." Sesshomaru said waiting for InuYasha to un-sheath his sword.

'Oh crap' Kagome thought.

'Oh no, she won't be happy when she sees the tetsaiga she'll kill us all.' Sango said grabbing onto her weapon.

Meanwhile Miroku worried of inflicting the demoness' wrath, because he could tell that she was not extremely strong, just like her two brothers, but she could call upon the Southern Lord, and his army, if she needed.

InuYasha pulled out his sword without thinking and held it in both hands, like always, ready to attack Sesshomaru. What he did not notice was how Noriko reacted to his sword, while the humans (and Shippo) did. Her curious expression seemed to have failed her, and her face now looked much like her brother's did, emotionless through and through. Yet her body did not agree with her lack of emotions. Her arms came out from the opposing arm's sleeve, and she seemed as though she was about to jump on InuYasha.

"You filthy hanyou...How is it that, you got a sword, yet I recieved nothing?" Noriko said with a strained voice while everyone else (save for her two brothers) thought 'Uh-Oh.'

The moment she was actually going to pounce at InuYasha, Shippo saved all their lives, by speaking to Noriko.

"Au-Aunt Noriko?!?!?!" Shippo screeched rather loudly, with eyes full of tears. She and his Uncle were the last remnants of his family.

Noriko turned quickly towards the kitsun, very angry being interrupted. Once she placed eyes on the crying fox demon, her face immediately became overwhelmed by emotions once again. Happiness, sadness, hope, surprise, love, and thankfully kindness.

"Shippo-chan...So this where you've been all this time...Kasugano and I thought you were..." Noriko's sadness came over her face and she looked down.

"No! I'm fine! See?" Shippo said, and did a little dance, to prove it.

Noriko giggled slightly looking up again. "Well, Shippo both of us have missed you so much, will you please stay with me for a little while, before coming back with me to our palace?" She asked, then saw the look on Shippo's face before he clung onto the miko's leg. "Well maybe you can just come back for a while to the palace and stay with me in West before hand?"

"But Sesshomaru...He's evil and he'll get me!" said a voice behind Kagome, while she stood in one spot, in shock.

"Oh, don't worry about him, you're my guest, and it's half my palace anyway." She said, then saw that it wasn't convincing him, and started to speak in small barks, and whines.

"What?" Kagome said absolutely confused by this point.

"Fox demon talk." Sango said shortly, the whole staring intently, "Although I'm not sure how she learned it, even her mate IS a fox demon..."

"OH! He's a fox demon! So that's how they're related!" Kagome said, starting understand somewhat.

Shippo's "Okay" brought them all back to the ground, when they realized that he was being picked up by the scruff of the neck in Noriko's neck. A gesture Kagome did not understand just yet. Once she figured out that it was how animals carried young, so demons would probably as well, she felt more at ease with Shippo being picked up in such a manner.

"Wait! I want Kagome to go!" Shippo said while flailing about frantically.

Noriko paused, looked at Kagome, then Sesshomaru, and once again Kagome, and nodded as a sign of approval before putting Shippo in her arms to hold him better.

Kagome thought for a moment. On one hand she didn't exactly trust this woman she had just met, nor Sesshomaru. But also she wasn't truly needed with the group, and she wanted to be with Shippo so much. She finally decided that it wouldn't be too long and walked over to stand behind Noriko and Sesshomaru, while the others stared at her in shock.

"Sesshomaru, she and Shippo are my guests. They are coming with us, unless you wish to break our alliance." she stated, as if she was in control over him. Sesshomaru nodded and summoned the cloud beneath their feet.

"Bye Sango, bye Miroku, bye InuYasha." Kagome said, feeling extremely guilty, and traitorous while she and Shippo said their goodbyes and flew off on the cloud.

InuYasha, Sango, and Miroku watched the three demons, and one human disappear in silence until they could see them no more.

"Shouldn't we go after them?" Sango said desperately.

"It seems as though Shippo is safe with the beautiful demon." Miroku said dreamily before being whacked on the head by Sango.

"But at least after Kagome?" she pleaded again, this time more towards InuYasha.

"No...As long as Noriko is there, Sesshomaru can't do anything. And with both Sesshomaru and Noriko there...She and Shippo will be safe." InuYasha said in a far off voice before jumping off in the opposite direction.

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