I'm trying to update soon because I know how annoying it is for a reader when the author does not update. I tried to update sooner but a few things came up (including five hours worth of miserably failing to get online.). I would like to announce that the pairings will be made official next chapter and the lead pairings will be hinted at this chapter. I would like to thank Sessy'sgrl, Frozen Lighting, and sarah.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~Author POV~

Kagome held Shippou for the remainder of the time. Out of Kagome's pack Kirara and Kagome's neko-youkai jumped out onto Celest's shoulders. "Kirara, Teiji, get down from there," Kagome spoke to the two.

"Lighten up, Kagome. They're fine," Celest said back. Kagome moved her mouth as if to speak, but scowled instead when she saw Celest pouting. Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, Hiei, and Kurama were deep in thought after they realized something. That something specifically was that Shippou, Kirara, and Teiji were demons.

'Fox, tell me wow they harnessed those demons,' Hiei said telepathically.

'I don't know Hiei. All I know is that Shippou is concealing his form himself and that the neko-youkais were bound.' Kurema replied.

To Kagome and Sango it seemed liked Celest had been waiting to say something, but they couldn't tell what was stopping her. 'Damnit. Down they ever quit talking?' Celest thought angrily referring to Hiei and Kurama's telepathic link.

Finally she opened her lips and spun around as though a thought had just struck her, "Hey, Kurama? Is your "Kurama" the same as in Youko Kurama?"

All the boys tensed and stopped dead in their tracks. Sango and Kagome stopped and turned to see what the boys were going to say, Shippou's eyes were wide as saucers as he looked at Kurama.

~Kurama POV~

I could feel my heart stop as Celest said that. Wat did she know about Youko Kurama? I voiced my thought simply with a calm tone that was forced.

"I know that Youko Kurama was a fox kitsune who was probably the worlds best thief," Celest replied. "Now answer my question,"

The tension was so thick that it was hard to breathe. "I read a book and liked how Youko Kurama acted, so I used his name." I answered.

"Ah. That would explain it." Celest stated.

'Hiei, use your jagan eye and find out as much as you can on Celest through Sango, Kagome, and Celest herself,' I told Hiei telepathically.

Hiei didn't answer but I could tell that he was using his jagan eye.

~Celest Pov~

I cut in on their telepathic communication and threw up a strong barrier up around Sango, Kagome, and myself. As Hiei's jagan eye tried to read us it reached the barrier. He seemed to be especially focused on reading Kagome's mind, but he couldn't reach her. I wonder why.

~Hiei POV~

I sent my jagan eye's power towards Sango only to be repelled by a barrier, I encountered the same with Celest and Kagome. I was losing patience. I didn't really want to find about Celest, that was the Fox's problem, But I wanted to find out about Kagome and it was ticking me off.

'Fox, there was a barrier. I couldn't read their minds in the slightest,' I said to Kurama. He looked like he just wanted to find out how Celest knew so much about Youko. But he hadn't really asked me to read minds before and I think he suspected that Celest knew a lot more than she let on, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Please review and tell me what you thought of the chapter. These are the pairing votes thus far:

Kag/Kur - 6, Kag/Hiei - 8, Kag/Inu - 1, Kag/Yus - 3, Kag/Sess - 1, San/Hiei - 7, San/Yus - 4, San/Mir - 1, San/Kur - 3.

As you may have noticed even though Kagome will most likely be paired with Hiei, I am at a loss for Sango. As far as I see it Sango will be paired with Hiei in an amazing twist of fate, or the runner-up pairing will win. I recommend that you vote for someone besides Hiei for sango so that I can have a runner-up, but that's just me.