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Kuwabara's Crucial Mistake

Chapter 5

As Kurama carried Kagome back to her home he stared off into space. She had passed out after making sure her children were safe. As he walked he took notice of the new group and immediately knew that these were the youkai and friends Kagome had showed him glimpses of from her mind the day before. But he'd had no idea they had the ability to shift into their human forms.

Kurama's thoughts were momentarily lifted as Kagome shifted in his embrace and she opened her eyes. /Safe...protected/ she purred, nuzzling her nose against his neck.

/Hai...Safe/ He agreed, leaning down and burying his nose in the curve of her neck. He breathed in her delicious scent and was instantly calmed. He purred to her now, trying to get her to rest so she would be awake during the explaination of whatever was going on here. Satisfied when she fell back into a light sleep, he glanced around at her friends again.

There were the two Inu Youkai, Sess and Inu. He was surprised to learn, upon observance, that Inuyasha was a hanyou, while Sesshomaru was a full youkai.

Inu caught him staring and gave him a warning growl, "what are you staring at fox?" Kurama ignored him, shifting his gaze to the two humans he assumed were the birds from before. He watched amused as the couple bickered. He could tell there was a deep love and devotion there, even as the monk groped the woman, earning him a knot on the head and a scream of, "HANTAII!" Finally he swung his gaze around to Sess. Why did that youkai seem so familiar to him? Hm, maybe Yoko once knew him or something.

Kurama turned searched Yoko's memories until something finally something caught his attention; a clear picture of Sesshomaru sitting at the head of a very long table. Kurama couldn't hear what was being said, but suddenly knew exactly who this youkai was. He was Sesshomaru, Taiyoukai of the Westernlands, thought to have been killed in battle 500 years ago. No one could ever find Inuyasha, either, and it didn't occur until now that these were the two from Kagome's memories.

"You are Sesshomaru, Taiyoukai of the Western Lands, aren't you?" Kurama asked, realizing that Sesshomaru was in hearing distance. Sesshomaru tensed then turned to Kurama.

"Yes," He answered truthfully. He stepped closer and Kurama noticed his gaze was now on Kagome. His instinct to protect, had Kurama growlingly warningly. But Sess merely chuckled before stalking forward. "You have nothing to fear from me, Yoko Kurama, Spirit Fox," he stated assuredly. Sess's gaze swung pointedly to Inuyasha. "But you may have to watch out for him. He's been in love with her for years." Seeshomaru wandered away to the front of the pask, leaving Kurama once again with his thoughts.

A few minutes later, found everyone inside Kagome's tree house. Kurama now sat on her bed, holding a still sleeping Kagome on his lap. After Sesshomaru's warning about Inuyasha, he had refused to be within more then two inches of his mate-to-be; not that he would want to be away from her in the first place.

Sango and Miroku had seated themselves on the floor in front of Kagome and Kurama. Inuyasha, Hiei, and Yusuke were all leaning against the wall, glaring at each other. Sess had sat himself opposite Kagome and Kurama in a chair covered in furs. Kuwabara was lying on the floor, staring at the wall and the two children were still unconscious in Kagome's lap.

"Okay, so who's going to explain this?" Sango was the first to break the uncomfortable silence.

"Yes, I too, would like to know what is going on." Kurama responded.

"I will explain everything in time," Sess began. "But first I must introduce myself, for those of you who don't know. I am Sesshomaru and this is my half brother, Inuyasha. The two ningens on the floor are Sango and Miroku. Sango is a taiyiji and Miroku is a monk. The two that you just encountered were Kikyo and Naraku. The two brats Kagome is holding are Shippo and Shiori, her adopted pups." At this, Kurama let out a relieved sigh. "Now, who are you people? And how did you come here?"

"Well, my name is Kurama," Kurama began.

"Yo, I'm Yusuke Urameshi. I'm a Spirit Detective and we're sort of here by accident."

"And I'm the great Kazuma Kuwabara!" Kuwabara exclaimed. He stood up and began forming ridiculous poses, causing everyone to sweatdrop.

"Did it hurt?" Hiei asked Kuwabara suddenly.

"Did what hurt, Hiei?" he asked stupidly.

"When your mother dropped you on the head."

"Yes....hey wait, my mother never dropped me!"

"Imbecil," Hiei muttered.

As everyone sweat-dropped, Kurama introduced Hiei. "And that is Hiei. So what are all of you doing here? And I thought you were cursed. How are you able to resume human form?"

"Cursed? Oi, Kurama what are you talking about? What curse?" Yusuke asked.

Kurama went onto explain what Kagome had showed him about everyone's past life, including Kikyo's curse on Inu and Sess and Naraku's terrible reign upon all of them.

"Hmm, so all of you were cast here after you were cursed?" Hiei stated/asked.

"And you," Yusuke pointed to Sess and Inu, "were both cursed by that Kikyo person, who you," points to Inu again, "fell in love with 500 years ago. Then she betrayed you by turning you both into your youkai forms?" Sess and Inu nodded. "And you two," he pointed to Sango and Miroku, "were curse by this Naraku guy who you all were fighting and wanted to corrupt this jewel called the Shikon no Tama?"

When everyone nodded and agreed, the Yu Yu gang were more than a little surprised.

"Interesting," Kurama murmured. Kagome shifted in his arms again and started purring contentedly. He knew she was waking up, and so he nuzzled her softly under her chin, trying to rouse her quicker.

/Kurama/ She barked before fully waking, to find everyone staring at her. She yipped and hid her face in Kurama's arm, more from the shock of every staring at her than from seeing her friends in their human forms. She knew how and why they were like that. Kurama nudged her affectionately smiled at her reassuringly.

/It's okay...safe...I'll protect/ He growled and barked to her, to which she smiled. She peered back up and found her friends, new and old, smiling at her. She smiled back and Kurama losened his hold on her. She glanced down at her children, smiling a soft smile, before lifting them off her lap and placing them down on her bed.

She makes a good mother, Kurama thought to himself.

She turned her attention back to her guests, first smiling at Sango and Miroku, who smiled back. She turned to Sess and Inu and started to get up to hug them both but sqeaked when she found Kurama's arm restraining her from jumping up.

/Kurama/ She growled, then whined. /Up/

/No/ He growled back. /Stay/

She struggled for a few minutes before he bit the back of her neck, drawing a little bit of blood and making her yip in pain. She turned to him with surprised eyes, while everyone watched, each with some different emotion. He knew it was kind of harsh, but he she knew the rules as well as he did. She wasn't allowed to touch or hug any other youkai or ningen.

She'll be okay, Sess thought, realizing what Kurama was reprimanding her about.

Grr. If she wants to hug us, she should be allowed to; this from Inuyasha, who was a bit jealous. For as long as he'd known her, he'd felt some attraction to her.

I wonder why Kurama bit her like that, Yusuke wondered. Although from what he had already learned about youkai mating, he knew that youkai were very protective of their mates; and judging how Kurama had been acting this week, he figured Kurama was just reprimanding her for attempting to touch another youkai, even if it was someone she knew.

This from Hiei who knew all too well what was going on.

Hey! Kurama shouldn't be biting girls like that, especially if she's his girlfriend, or mate, or whatever. I should teach him a lesson, thought Kuwabara, stupidly. Now if anyone had heard that thought, they would have immediately told Kuwabara not to voice his opinion like so many other times. As it was, no one but one short youkai had telepathic abilities. Oh, he'd heard that thought all right, but he didn't care. Kurama would take care of it.

"Oi! Kurama! What'd you do that for? You shouldn't bite people like that. She didn't do anything wrong." He jumped up and everyone looked on in horror as Kurama's eyes began flashing from green to gold to red and back to green. Because Kurama was so angry at Kuwabara's statement it took a moment to realize Kuwabara had reached around and pulled a startled Kagome behind his back.

"Moron," Hiei, Sess, Inu, and practically everyone muttered, knowing Kuwabara was about to die for touching Kagome.

"Uh, guys I think we should take this somewhere else, don't you think?" Yusuke gulped, seeing the look of death in Kurama's eyes.

So Yusuke, Hiei, Sango, Miroku, and Sess, who picked up Shippo and Shiori so they wouldn't get in the middle, left to discuss how they'd come to be in their human forms, leaving a nervous Kuwabara, a skittish female, and one super-charged Spirit Fox.

"You touched my mate and for that you must die," Kurama spoke calmly, the deadly edge clearly evident in his tone.

Kuwabara took one look at the Kitsune and wet his pants. Kagome was shaking so bad, hiding back on the bed. She was very scared.

Kuwabara was scared shitless and raced out the door, faster than you can say, "giggidy giggidy giggidy," (You know, that one guys from the Family Guy? haha :::Gulps::: as everyone brandishes knives at the stupid joke). Kurama raced after him in full silver youkai form, while pulling out his rose whip. Kagome stared in shock before diving under the covers, hoping when he came back he would be calmer.

Well, that's where I'm ending that chapter. Poor, stupid Kuwabara! I couldn't resist making him piss Kurama off. So, everyone read and tell me what you think.

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