"It won't hurt! I promise." Kagome pleaded as she held out the necklace to Sesshomaru. He cut his eyes at her dangerously.

"I know what that thing is." Kagome blinked innocently. "It is the collar you use to sit my brother with."

Well she wasn't going to lie. It was the same thing. But it was also what allowed Inuyasha to travel to her time. It was his spirit link to her and if Sesshomaru didn't put it on the well would not work for him. She'd gone to Kaede to ask if the aged priestess could create another for Sesshomaru but now her youkai husband was refusing to wear it. With understandable reason perhaps but it was still a necessity!

"You can't travel through the well if you don't wear it. There's only one way to get through and this is it!" He said nothing and Kagome bristled beneath his stony calm. "I'll take it of the second we get back. I promise! Please." She peered up at him pleadingly.

He remained unmoved for along while but finally he sighed and reached out to take the necklace. "I will not be held responsible for my action if you say that word even once."

She smiled innocently. "I promise not to say...that word." Carefully rethinking her sentence at the warning look he cast her then sighed in relief as he clipped the prayer beads around his neck. "Lets go then!"

She yelped in surprise then as he lifted her up in his arms and, without looking at her jumped into the well without hesitation. She marveled for a moment at his trust as violet started to envelope them as they fell slowly. He'd had no positive assurance that the well would work and yet he didn't doubt for a moment. Hear heart swelled and her rested her head on his shoulder as the drifted downward through the well. After a moment she felt his feet touch down on solid ground and he set her down again.

She tugged her skirt down carefully then looked at Sesshomaru. His attention was fixed on the ceiling above and she could tell that he was casting his senses out. Her curiosity sparked. "Well?" She questioned.

He looked at her for a moment and Kagome saw the flicker of amusement he always tried to make. "Something is cooking."

Kagome brightened. "Mom's making dinner! I'm sure you'll like it." He gave a toneless grunt that Kagome knew translated into 'we'll see' and she turned and climbed up the ladder that was draped over the well's edge.

"What do I say?" Kagome asked nervously as they hovered outside the house.

"You tell her who I am. Tell her you are breeding and then we leave." Sesshomaru said lightly and she threw him a look. He either didn't see it or ignored it and Kagome had a feeling it was the latter.

"You stay out here. Yes! That's what we'll do. You wait out here until I tell her. Good." She muttered to herself before taking a breath and opened to door that entered into the kitchen. Her mother jumped and looked up in surprise but then smiled.

"Oh Kagome! You're home."

Kagome smiled. "Hi mom! What are you making? Smells good." 'Great way to stall.' She thought silently.

"Oh well you grandfather and Souta wanted fried egg..." her mother trailed of and blinked at her daughter quietly for a second before speaking. "Kagome. Who is that?"

Kagome tilted her head then turned to find Sesshomaru standing behind her. Her annoyance and embarrassment flared. "I thought I told you to wait outside!" His eyebrow went up and Kagome sighed knowing there was no arguing.

"Kagome..." her mother prompted curiously.

Kagome turned back. "Mom this is...this is Sesshomaru. Lord Sesshomaru. And ah...I...I'm..." Kagome played with her fingers hesitantly. "And he's my husband."

"Oh." Her mother said slowly staring at Sesshomaru for a while then Kagome then Sesshomaru again. "He'll be staying for dinner then. I'd better go set the table." And then she wandered absently out of the kitchen.

"I thought you implied she would be upset." Sesshomaru said with amusement.

Kagome was blinking after her mother in surprise. "I thought she would be. Maybe she's just in shock. I'd better go talk to her." She moved to follow her mother then glanced back at Sesshomaru. "Stay here!" His eyebrow went up again but she had turned away before she had timed to see it, disappearing through the doorway.

Sesshomaru was left standing in the strange room. Familiar yet unusual smells coated the room, the scent of food, strange foreign food but food all the same, was rising from a round instrument on the top of a huge metal box. He eyed it a bit, moving forward to scrape a claw over the flashing metal then growled at the produced sound and the heat that radiated of the thing.

"You gotta watch out. It's hot." Sesshomaru turned, growl starting in his through then dying away when he saw the young boy standing in the entrance that led from a flight of steps. He held a shiny bag and more odd food scents were lifting from it. "You must be one of Kagome's friends. I'm Souta."

Her brother. Sesshomaru should have realized it earlier by the similar scent he had to Kagome's. Sesshomaru inclined his head slightly with the respect the brother of his wife deserved however young and...human.

"Want a chip?" The boy asked holding the shiny bag out to Sesshomaru.

The demon lord hesitated a moment then reached out and took one of the thin circular things. He'd been right. They were food. He sniffed it discretely before eating it. The taste was not overly unpleasant. Good, perhaps, in a delicate way, the stinging taste of salt actually not as bitter as he'd judged it would be from the smell.

"Cool sword! Can I see it."

"No." Sesshomaru said lightly and the boy sighed.

"Oh man. Oh well. Wanna go play video games."

Sesshomaru felt his eyebrow go up. "Video games."

The boy laughed. "Oh right. You probably don't know what those are. That's alright. I'll teach you. Come on." The boy turned and started to ascend the flight. Sesshomaru glanced in the direction Kagome had disappeared in before following her brother up the stairs.