Disclamier: Errr......

~*~Last time: "By the way...Kikyo is going to join us.""You are in my house and therefore I will call you what I wish.""Because Jaken isn't smart enough.""You should look before you enter an unknown room. I guarantee you'll live longer.""I can't go back home! I can't see my mom or brother or grandpa anymore!"~*~

~*~Chapter 5: The Joys of Being a Taiyoukai and Confronting Inuyasha~*~

Kagome cried on Sesshoumaru's shoulder until she had fallen asleep. He wrapped his tail around her and carried her to her bedroom, then set her down on the futon waiting for her. On his way to his study Sesshoumaru checked on Rin, the little girl had rolled off her futon and was rolled up in her cover and was sucking her thumb.

~*~In Kagome's Dream~*~

Kagome was running, the trees going by in a blur of colors. Suddenly she stopped to catch her breath. Kagome looked around and found herself in a bamboo forest. White fog swirled around her ankles and the bases of the bamboo stalks. The miko looked down and gasped, instead of her school uniform she was wearing a heavy kimono light green in color; matching the bamboo perfectly.

Suddenly she smelled the air and growled an unhuman growl. Kagome started running again and the bamboo became a blur of color once more. In front of her the fog seemed to form a blue orb, Kagome reached out to grasp it but found it just out of her reach, then there was a scream and-

~*~End Kagome's Dream~*~

Kagome woke up and looked about her. The first thing she noticed was that she wasn't in the dojo anymore.

'I could've sworn I fell asleep in there....after I was crying against Sess-he must have carried me to bed.' Kagome sighed and opened the huge closet that housed all the colorful kimonos. She picked out a nice cherry blossom color that had white sleeves. When she opened the door she found a group of humans standing around.

Only they weren't quite human, all of them had pointy ears and 2 of the 5 had tails. All of them also had markings on their faces.
Kagome froze on spot.

"Well...who are you?" One of them asked. All the others turned to look at her. Kagome quickly bowed and tried to escape the youkais' glances.

"I knew Sesshoumaru had one human girl....I didn't know he had adopted another one." Another youkai said. Kagome tried to leave but found the youkai blocking the hallway.

"Kagome. You are awake." Kagome turned at the familer voice and saw Sesshoumaru. Kagome inwardly sighed, not really wanting to be around all these unknown youkai.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, you never told us you adopted another human." The first youkai said. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes and faced Kagome.

"Take Rin outside." He said.

"You're not going to introduce us to the little miko?" One youkai said. All of them nodded, having felt Kagome's miko presence.

"Kagome, these are the other Taiyoukais of this land. The Taiyoukai of the North is Katzumi, Taiyoukai of the East is Hayato. Then there is the Taiyoukai of South, Akihiro." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome bowed to each of them and they nodded their heads as Sesshoumaru said their names.

"It's nice to meet you all. But I must go eat." Kagome slipped past Sesshoumaru and the other Taiyoukais. Rin was already eating, wolfing down food and talking to Jaken, who didn't looked pleased.

"Keep Jaken out." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome nodded and headed down the hall while Sesshoumaru led the other Taiyoukais down another hall.

"Good morning Rin-chan." Kagome said taking a seat next to the girl. Rin stopped shoveling food into her mouth to wave and then continued eating.

"It's about time you woke up woman! You know how long I've been watching the brat waiting for you?" Jaken said. "Did Sesshoumaru-sama say I could go to the meeting now?" The toad asked, looking hopeful.

"Sesshoumaru said to keep you out." Kagome said. Jaken looked agast.

"What do you mean human? Sesshoumaru-sama wouldn't leave his loyal servant behind! You must be lying human!" Jaken started to walk down the hall Sesshoumaru had gone.

"Oh wait Jaken." Kagome said. She handed the toad a little rock. "Can you give this to Sesshoumaru?" Jaken grumbled but stopped as the rock grew bigger and bigger. Soon it was so heavy that the toad couldn't hold it any more.

"Curse you woman! Remove this rock!" Jaken cried. Kagome shook her head and smiled.

"Sorry Jaken. There is a spell on it and only I can remove it." Kagome said. "Sesshoumaru said not to bother him." Kagome and Rin walked out, leaving Jaken on the floor with a huge rock pinning him down.

'Thank you Shippou.' Kagome said as she and Rin walked out to the garden. The fox kit had taught her a couple useful tricks, Jaken was still cursing Kagome when the closed the door to the garden.

"Where's Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin asked.

"He's with a bunch of other Taiyoukais and they are having a meeting right now." Kagome answered.

"Ohh....does that mean Hayato and Akihiro and Katzumi are here?" Rin asked while looking at a pretty flower.

"How do you know them?" Kagome wondered....how did a 7 year old human girl know the Taiyoukais of a good part of Japan?

"Sometimes Akihiro-sama and Katzumi-sama bring their pups and Rin and Ai and Etsu and Kane and Haru get to play together." Rin chirped. Kagome was a bit surprised to find out that a human girl knew the next Lords and Ladies of Japan, the miko giggled at the thought of little Taiyoukai's running around.

"What's so funny Kagome-chan?" Rin asked, watching as the miko continued to laugh. ~*~
Kagome and Rin came in for lunch and were surprised that the Taiyoukais were eating as well.

"I would prefer if you didn't play kitsune tricks on Jaken Kagome." Sesshoumaru said, tossing her the enchanted rock she had used to pin Jaken to the ground. The other Taiyoukai's chuckled and Kagome blushed a bright red.

"Sesshoumaru-sama...Rin is hungry." The little girl chirped. Sesshoumaru looked at her and she jumped into a seat at the other end of the table. Kagome took a seat next to Rin and watched the girl stuff herself with food.

"The human reminds me of my pup." One of the Taiyoukai's said. "When we meet again I shall have to bring Ai and Kane."

"And I shall bring Etsu and Haru." The Taiyoukai of the South added.

"But that shall be next time as I believe this meeting is over." Sesshoumaru said. The others nodded, whether by fear or agreement Kagome wasn't sure.

"Then we shall see each other in four moons." The Taiyoukai of the East said, getting up. Everyone else followed and bowed to each other then headed their own ways. The Taiyoukai of the South created a cloud like thing and sat on it as it flew to his lands. The Taiyoukias of the North and South changed into their true forms and set off as well.

"You wanted to see your friends?" Sesshoumaru asked Kagome.

"If it's not too much of a problem." Kagome answered. Rin had run off to annoy Jaken, leaving the Taiyoukai and miko alone.

"Then we will leave now....I don't wish to stay long however." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome nodded, he wrapped his tail around her and took to the air, leaving Jaken at the mercy of Rin.

"Sesshoumaru....what if Inuyasha..."

"My baka of a brother will not harm or do anything else to you unless he wants his arms ripped off."

"But...." Kagome stopped her question, knowing the answer would be the same answer as her first question.

Kagome fell asleep again and Sesshoumaru was left to comtemplate things on his own. 'Rin must be making me soft...taking in another human....especally Inuyasha mate....no..he chose the dead miko.....Kagome's no one's mate...wasn't I going to use her for bait for Inuyasha? And now look...I'm taking her to see her friends....'

About 2 or 3 hours later Sesshoumaru landed and poked Kagome with a claw to wake her up. "Kagome, wake up..."

"....Five more minutes..." Kagome answered sleepily, snuggling deeper into Sesshoumaru's tail.

"No, not five more minutes."

"Fine....I'm up, I'm up, I'm still tired..." Kagome got rewarded with another poke. She finally opened her eyes and saw Sesshoumaru staring back down at her. She instantly got lost in his golden eyes, his face might not show much emotion but his eyes sure did.

"Come Kagome, your friends await, then I would like to get back, I don't trust Jaken to keep Rin out of trouble....or vis versa."

Kagome walked towards the village, Sesshoumaru following her. Sango caught sight of her first and ran to her, hugging her like she was a long- lost sibling. Shippou followed suit, grabbing onto Kagome like Rin attached herself to Sesshoumaru.

"Kagome-chan!" Sango said happily, breaking the hug. Miroku walked up and hugged Kagome as well, the miko broke the hug before his hand started to wander. Only then did Sango, Miroku and Shippou notice Sesshoumaru.

"Sesshoumaru! What are you doing here?" Sango growled at the Taiyoukai, ready to get her boomerang.

"It's alright....after the Inuyasha....err...thing....he kinda took me in...now I'm helping to teach Rin, his...err...human compainion." Sango and Miroku nodded.

"If he hurt you I'll-"Sango started, her protective side starting to show.
"No...he's been a real gentleman." Kagome said. "He's even teaching me to defend myself using a sword."

"Why?" Shippou asked.

"Because what if we're battling a youkai and I can't use my bow and arrows?" The others nodded. Then the happy reunion was rudely interrupted.

"BITCH!" Inuyasha came running up to Kagome. "Where the HELL have you been?! Kikyo and the rest of us have been-"

"What do you mean, 'Kikyo and the rest of us?'" Sango interrupted, everyone was giving the hanyou death glares. "We are not in your little group with the dead miko...we only travel with Kagome!" Inuyasha growled and then growled louder when he saw his brother.

"What the hell are you here for Sesshoumaru? You bastard!"

"My my Inuyasha, is that any way to talk in front of the fox kit?" Sesshoumaru said. Inuyasha was about to draw Tetsusaiga to slice his older brother into two when-

"Inuyasha." A voice called. Kikyo walked up and hugged Inuyasha. Kagome felt sadden but then felt ready to tear Kikyo limb to limb. Sesshoumaru saw the hate in Kagome's eyes and held her back with his tail.

"What's the matter youkai?" Kikyo asked. Inuyasha saw Sesshoumaru touching his Kagome and growled.

"Let Kagome go you bastard!" Inuyasha yelled to his half-brother.

"Afraid I might kill the wench?" The dead miko asked. Kagome growled, more dog-like than any human.

"No, but I would hate for your blood to get on her kimono, as it is new." Sesshoumaru answered, smirking when he saw the hate rage in Kikyo's eyes. She pulled out her bow but before she could do anything the Taiyoukai drew Toukijin and sliced her bow in half.

"I suggest we leave now." Sesshoumaru said.
"You're not taking Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Sit." Kagome said, watching the hanyou fall on his face. "I'll come see you again okay Sango, Shippou, Miroku?" They nodded and Sango hugged Kagome one last time before saying good-bye.

"You're not taking her!" Inuyasha yelled again, the subduing spell wearing off.

"Inuyash...sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit and SIT!" Sesshoumaru smirked as his younger brother made a hole in the ground. He wrapped his tail around Kagome and set off back into the sky.

~*~*~*~

WD: Yay! Another chapter done! Hooray! Ummm.....I'm only going to reply to the reviews for the current chapter...so I'll reply for chapter 5...but not chapters before that....resons, 1: I'm short on time. 2.I'm lazy. Sorry.

~*~Reviews~*~

Sukera: *hands out more candy* I'll update ASAP

tbiris: I feel sorry for Kagome too.....so why is it that I make her go through such hell in my stories......

Spirit of the anime angel: I'm glad you like it!

Mmm.....Inuyasha: I know....Sesshou-chan is sweet! *huggles her Sesshoumaru plushie* yay for Sesshou-chan!

Killiara: Yup...Inuyasha is stupid.

eddie4: thanks! I'm glad you like

~*~Recommendation~*~
28 Days by Rosefire1 Kikyo's a nurse, Miroku's a surgeon (the hands on sort), Inuyasha's a doctor, Sango's the peskiest patient in the world and Shippo is a kid who 'doesn't talk', and kagome has 28 days to live. And this is a humour fic?

Great story! I demand that you read it!