"Just let her get some rest and she should be fine in a few hours." The middle-aged villager thanked her profusely and tended to his wife. Kagome gave them a tender smile, gathered her supplies, and began walking back to Kaede's hut. When she was halfway there someone called her. "Kagome!" It was her lovable hanyou Inuyasha. He raised a left clawed hand in the air and moved it sideways so she would see him. A sweat drop appeared on her forehead; of course it wouldn't be hard to spot him in his fire rat haori. His right arm was wrapped around the waist of Kikyo, his dead lover.

'Two years ago me and Kikyo had made a deal with one another and came to an understanding' Kagome thought as she redirected herself to walk towards the happy couple. 'We both said we loved Inuyasha and he loved us both. He couldn't decide between us and went out of his way to save us both and even sacrificed himself so we both would live. Luckily Miroku saved him from death, a fate not even Kikyo wanted to see despite her efforts to drag him the hell with her. We talked and decided that Inuyasha should stay with Kikyo because of his promise to her even though we both agreed he would be better for me since I was still alive.'

"If you walk any slower Kagome, Kikyo and I would be dead! Hurry up!" His voice snapped Kagome out of her thoughts but only long enough for her to walk faster. 'We decided that I would also keep my promise to Inuyasha and stay with him. Kikyo would be the one to bear his children and live like an ordinary woman until she could no longer find souls and eventually die. I would join Inuyasha as more than a friend but less than a mate and take care of him and his children. That way I would also feel as if we were together instead of him and Kikyo. We sealed the deal with apologies and acceptance and forgave all the arguments and desires to kill between us. It was so funny to see Inuyasha have a pitiful look on his face when I caught them together but after awhile we finally explained it to him and he came to terms with it and agreed.'

"Hello Kikyo, Inuyasha…I was just on my way to Kaede's hut. Why don't you join me?" Kagome, Kikyo, and Inuyasha, together, made their way to the old priestesses hut.

"Sesshomaru-chan!" Sesshomaru groaned inwardly. It was that annoying wench Anisha again requesting his presence.

"Sesshomaru-chan," came a pathetic whiny voice, "you haven't dined with me since I've been here! It's been three weeks! Come and eat with me and that pathetic oops I mean lovable child Rin." A growl rose up from his chest. He knew Anisha hated Rin. When Rin came to her with flowers she picked them up and either ate the heads off or threw them back in her face but only when she thought he wasn't looking. Rin was depressed these days and begged Sesshomaru to let her be with him at all times despite the fact that Anisha was there also.

'I can't let Rin be this unhappy. She needs a new tutor since Anisha drove away Natara. I can't let her be wild around my palace without any knowledge anymore. She is growing fast and needs to be taught a lesson about the world. I would teach her myself if I was not so busy.'

"Sesshomaru!" Her earsplitting scream made the taiyoukai leap from his chair, overturning it in the process. He ran to the door and opened it just as she was about to yell. He restrained from grabbing her because of two reasons. One was because she liked it and two is because she was the heir to the Eastern Lands. He observed her with disgust. She had red hair with wide pink eyes and thin lips. She wore a white and pink kimono full of flowers.

"I will accompany you today, but only because Rin is there as well." Anisha frowned but then brightened thinking she would get that brat out of Sesshomaru's mind at the dinner table.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin's wide smile was enough to make Sesshomaru stay at the table. He sat at the head of the long table and Rin sat to his left. To his disgust, Anisha sat on his right. Anisha ate every piece of food seductively trying to entice the lord but he wasn't even tempted. The only time he looked at her was to tell her to stop playing with her food when she pushed around a piece of cat youkai.

"Lord Sesshomaru, will you please take me to the garden today?" Rin looked at her lord pleadingly and yelled a squeal of delight and smiled wildly at him.

Anisha snorted a grunt of annoyance and looked at Sesshomaru with pleading pink eyes. "You still haven't shown me any part of the castle, less your bedroom. I hear it's elegant" He looked at her for a second and then stood up and walked to the door. "Come Rin we shall go to the gardens."

Thanks for the reviews I got. I was happy that I got them because this is my first fanfic and it's given me the courage to write more. Sorry if I use any japanese inappropriately because i'm new at it so please tell me if I get anything wrong. As usual RR!