Reincarnation Chapter 11, an inuyasha fanfic

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, the crew, or Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru… drools

Okay. I am going to put this at the beginning of every chapter except the one after chapter two. I would call it chapter three, but I already have one. So the one with the notes on it is the one I won't put this on because… it's a bunch of notes! Don't assume that everything written here happens in every chapter. Because it doesn't Also, as my Algebra II teacher said last year, 'When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me." As she said 'ass', 'you', and 'me', she pointed to the words inside the word 'assume'. Assume. Cool huh? Learn something new everyday! Now, go tell your folks. Then, come back and read. Then R&R.

Arigatou- thank-you (might be spelled arigato, but it's the same thing)
Hai- yes
Hanyou- half demon or half breed ((We call my friend this. She's half Caucasian and half Mexican. She wanted us to I swear. She calls herself a hanyou all the time. Sad isn't it?)
Houshi- something along the lines of Buddhist monk (Miroku)
Iie- no
Kami- God or the equivalent thereof
Kawaii- cute
Kitsune- fox demon I do believe
Miko- priestess
Oi- something I made up or I heard from somewhere. I use it to get someone's attention
Osuwari- sit
Owari- something like 'Bye!' I think. I really don't know for sure.
Tensuaiga- Sesshomaru's sword
Tetsuaiga- Inuyasha's sword
Youkai- demon

Italicized words means the person is thinking to themselves in their own heads or something needs to be emphasized.
'Words written in these' means the person is speaking to someone else in their heads. Confusing I know, but you'll know it when you see it.
"Words written in these" means… Do I really need to explain this one?

I do not know what the future is like. I am purely guessing so no harping, okay? I am also guessing on what Kaede looked like when she was young. I've only seen her when she was young one time and that's right after Kikyou seals Inuyasha to a tree and then died. I'm sorry if I'm wrong. Just try to be nice as you yell at me, okay? Also, just because it says y'all somewhere doesn't mean they are in Texas. I am in Texas and the word y'all is something I say all the time. 'Kay?

I am very sorry if I have misspelled anything in Japanese, like names or the words above. I know 'ou' makes a long o sound. Like Shippo should probably be Shippou since Kikyou and Kouga follow that rule. But, I did Kouga like that from the very beginning and Kikyou became a sudden habit. Everyone else I saw it first as I have spelled it. If I have defined anything wrong, please tell me. It's not considered a flame if I ask for it. I promise. And if I've misspelled anything in English and you catch it let me know. I am a real big spelling and grammar freak. It's… Never mind. Also, my friend helped me write this. So anything wrong or stupid is her fault. wink wink And the cursing. That's all hers too. With that being said…

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Seth and Rachel were dismissed to their rooms to gather their things, and since the two had rooms close to each other they saw the other as they were coming and going. "Rachel!" Seth called out. "Guess what! Guess what! I'm getting adopted! By Mrs. Bassi, Karen's mom! I get to live with Karen!" he paused to look around and then said quietly, "Again!"

"I'm getting adopted too!" Rachel squealed. "Sesshomaru-sama… I mean Sam, Immanuel's older brother, is adopting me!" They shared a brief hug and then ran back into their rooms to get their things and leave. They walked out together. "It'll be just like old times," Rin said. "I get to live with Sam, and you with Karen. It'll be great! See you at school Seth."

"Bye Rachel!" Seth called back as he put his things in the trunk of Mrs. Bassi's car. They rode home in silence, but Seth was so excited. I'm coming Kagome. We can do things just like we used to, only now I'm not a baby fox demon and you're not a Miko from the future. I wonder if you'll treat me the same, help me with my homework, take me to places with the rest of your friends.

"I haven't told Karen yet though so she'll be very surprised when we get home," Mrs. Bassi was saying. Seth turned his head from the window he was looking out to her. "I think she has Sara, Matt, and Immanuel coming over. You know them, right?"

"Yes Mrs. Bassi," Seth answered. Although he hadn't heard the first things she said, he was paying attention now. "We have several classes between us and we're all friends."

"Oh, that's good," she said, turning onto her street. "Well, welcome home Seth." She stopped the car in their driveway and turned it off.
"Are you okay?" she asked, seeing that Seth was crying.

"I'm just, so happy. Karen was so nice to me at the orphanage and now she's my sister and you're my mother. The closest thing I had to a family was Karen when she visited, and Rachel, who was a great friend to me. She was adopted today as well," Seth said, swatting the tears away.

"Well, like I said, Karen is expecting a surprise, but not exactly you. So let's go surprise her before I have to go get Steven from school," Mrs. Bassi said, opening the car door. "Leave your stuff in the car for now." They walked into the house. Mrs. Bassi set her keys on the counter and Seth put his backpack on a kitchen chair. "Karen, are you home?"

"Yes! I'm upstairs with Matt, Sara, and Immanuel," Karen called down. The four of them came down a few minutes later. Karen went to the fridge and pulled out four sodas. "Is there something you needed Mom? Hi Seth. We're working on a project for-" She stopped suddenly, almost dropping her drink. "Seth! What are you doing here! Are you okay? Is something wrong?"

"Karen, Seth is going to be staying with us. Permanently," Mrs. Bassi explained to her still stunned daughter. "I adopted him today. Seth says that Rachel was adopted too."

"I'll give you one guess who adopted her," Immanuel said quietly. Matt snickered behind his hand. "And another as to who hates that."

"Sess- I mean Sam adopted Rachel?" Sara asked, trying not to laugh as well. "You know Jacob's going to be unhappy. Well, at least there's someone at home who's nice to you now. Maybe they'll chill out, or at least Sam will now that Rachel's there. Wait, how is that going to work?"

"What do you mean?" Matt asked.

"I mean," Sara continued, "how are Rachel and Sam supposed to hook up now that he's her, like, father or something? I know the age thing would be in the way just a bit, but not really. He's only a year or two older than her. But the whole adoption thing… I don't know."

"Come on Seth," Karen said. "We're working on a project on our past lives. You can help. We'll continue in there. Come on everyone."
They went back to Karen's room and sat down on the bed again. "We'll worry about Sam and Rachel later. If at all." To the surprised looks on everyone's faces, Karen sighed. "Sam is a big boy, and Rachel is almost a big girl. They can handle themselves. Yes, I'm still worried since she's my friend… and sorta Immanuel's sister. I'm sorry but that is just too weird."

"Please, I knew it was going to happen eventually," Immanuel huffed.

"You knew Sam was going to adopt Rachel!" Seth asked, eyes wide.

"No, baka. I knew she'd become my sister eventually. Sam was going to marry her one way or another. He wanted them to be together when they were Sesshomaru and Rin. But we all know how that turned out. So anyways, what are we going to do for this project? How and why do you want our help?" (A/N: Baka means idiot, stupid, moron, etc.)

"Well, Karen and I are doing a report on our past lives," Sara repeated for Seth's benefit. "We have to come up with a fictional story and since no one in the class would believe us-"

"Except for Kris," Karen interjected.

"Yes, except for Kris, then it's okay if we play this all out. I want it to be as close as possible to the real thing though. That's why we need you guys. One, your pasts. I know we all knew them, but I'm still a little foggy on Matt's, Seth's, and Rachel's. Oh, I wish we could get Rachel over here. She could help as well," Sara said, a little dejected.

"We won't bring in our weapons because it's school of course," Karen said, taking over. "However, we do want drawings to scan into the computer of them so we can put them on a slide show. Two," Karen continued, "we'll need outfits made. Sara and I can sew so don't worry about anything like that. We promise not to stick you with a needle or pin… too often"

"I can sew as well," Immanuel said quietly. Everyone looked at him, shocked. "What? You know I was Sam's and Jacob's personal slave for the first seventeen years of my life. Besides, there's a certain technique to my fire rat outfit. None of you would understand it. Not that I can get fire rat's fur anymore. Which sucks," he mumbled to himself.

"Yeah… well…" Matt said. "What do we need to do now?"

"Start writing your history from the first thing you remember to meeting us and then when you met everyone else in the group. I'm trying to place who came when. I know Seth was first," Karen said. "I remember him and Inuyasha getting into fights and then him riding in the basket of my bike. Then came..."

"Me!" Matt said happily. "I came after Seth, and then was followed by Sara."

"Okay then," Sara said, making notes. She handed pieces of paper to everyone and told them to write their history down as Karen handed out pencils. "Scatter about, sit where you want, write what you want. Just be sure to write your history there. Okay, go! I want to talk to you, Karen, about other things." While Seth, Immanuel, and Matt wrote their histories on the paper they'd been given, Karen and Sara were talking about presentation. And they continued in this manner until Mrs. Bassi called them down for dinner.

"Welcome home Rachel," Sam said as he opened the front door to their house. "Do look around." Jacob walked in behind them, grumbling quietly as he went straight to his room. "Join us for dinner, Jacob?" Sesshomaru asked. Jacob threw a hand up as if to say 'Yeah, sure, whatever' as he turned into his room. "Don't mind him. He's not one for change."

"He never was, if I remember correctly," Rachel said, a bit sad. She brightened up immediately. "Well, where's my room?"

"Pick," Sam said, walking into the middle of the entry where several halls branched off. "You saw where Jacob's room is, and although he likes his privacy, you're welcome to a room in that hall. This one leads to the living, dining, and sitting rooms. This one to the kitchen. This one leads to Immanuel's rooms. I prefer you stayed away, but it's your decision as you are friends anyways. This hall leads to the gardens outside and this one," he said, pausing as he motioned with his arm, "leads to my suite eventually. There are rooms down every hall besides the ones I've mentioned so it all depends on where you want to stay"

Rachel wanted to be near Sam, she always had. When they lived in the past, she was allowed to sleep with him. For her safety is what Sesshomaru had said. Yeah right, Rachel thought to herself. That's what he tried to push it into. Not this time Sesshy. However, she didn't want to smother Sam or throw herself at him. So she pointed to the hall that lead to the gardens. "Here sounds good. And I can visit the gardens whenever I like?" she asked in a hopeful voice.

"When we moved here," Sam said, gathering her bags and starting toward the hallway, "I had this installed for you. I knew one way or another you'd end up here so I wanted you to be as at home as possible. Feel free at any time to wander there, pick the flowers, or add any that you choose. Immanuel usually does the gardening but I'm sure he wouldn't mind a hand"

"Does Immanuel do everything?" Rachel asked quietly, already knowing the answer. Of course he does. They treat him like a slave. Well, no more! I will help him in everything he does. Whether he likes it or not.

"Rachel," Sam asked in an accusing voice. "What's going through that head of yours? I can practically hear the wheels turning and grinding against each other. And I don't like it much."

"Tough," Rachel said airily as she flounced into a room. There were bright pastels (does that make sense?) on the walls. Pinks and blues and green and yellows and purples. The bed was four poster with pastel purple hangings that were tied to the bed posts and a pastel blue comforter and pink pillows. She nearly gasped at the beauty. There were four ceiling to floor windows covering in pastel yellow curtains, pulled back to allow the sun in. She could see the gardens that stretched into the horizon it seemed and they sloped down so it looked like she was above most of the flowers. "Sam! This room is gorgeous!"

"Not so much," he muttered. She didn't hear him so it didn't matter. "Come on Rachel. I have to begin making dinner since Immanuel's not here to do it." Rachel pouted for a second. They really did treat him like crud around here.

"Steven, even you could help if you want," Karen offered as her family and friends sat around in the living room eating dinner. "Your point of view from the 'future' would be interesting as well. I would ask you Mama, but you're… my mom. That'd be kinda weird. So anyways, this is what we've got so far. I travel back in time, unseal Immanuel, lose the Jewel and then bust it into shards. As we travel, we pick up Seth who lost his father to the Thunder Brothers, Matt who has a curse in his palm, and Sara who just watched her brother kill her entire village on an assignment. Sorry to bring up bad feelings by the way."

"Yeah, you have a real delicate way of putting it there Karen," Immanuel grumbled. "In the mean time, we have Sam and Jacob over here who come upon Rachel, save her, and then she follows them around. For 'unknown reasons' apparently."

'Get those thoughts outta your head Immanuel,' Sam thought-spoke to his younger brother.

'And if I don't?' Immanuel responded haughtily.

'Don't make me come over there. I am cooking dinner with Rachel right now.'

'Awe, cute first date daddy.'

'And what is that supposed to mean?'

Immanuel couldn't help but smile for real as he said, 'You're Rachel's father now. You can't do anything for another eight months. You were closer when she was at the orphanage than you are now. At least you could date her until she turned eighteen. Then you could pursue and full relationship when she turned eighteen'

"Immanuel! Sit!" Karen yelled. Immanuel hands grasped the glowing beads around his neck as he groaned in pain.

"What was that for!" he yelled when he could talk again.

"You hadn't said anything for a few minutes now, completely ignoring everyone. And you had this evil smirk on your face. What in the world-?" She was cut off by Matt's laughing. He was laughing so hard he fell off the couch and onto the ground. "And what is so funny Matt?"

"I know… why… he… was evil… looking!" he said between laughs. When he calmed down enough to speak a full sentence, he looked at Immanuel and said, "You were talking to Sam, weren't you? About Rachel?"

"Yeah. It was great," Immanuel said with a small smile. "Until someone ruined it. Thank goodness Sam doesn't know you sat me. He'd never let me live it down"

"Anyways, as I was saying," Karen continued.

"Oh Gods he's right," Sam whispered.

"Sam? Sam? Sam! What's wrong!" Rachel asked, running to his side from across the large kitchen. "Sam! Hello! I swear, you're the one who needs the Sit Charm, not Immanuel. Will you answer me?"

Sam turned to her, still in a slight shock. "He's right! Now it's even worse! Ah man!" He walked over to a chair and sank into it, putting his hands over his eyes and still muttering about someone being right. At Rachel's persistent pestering, he answered, "Not until this summer. When I adopted you, it was so we could be closer. But now we're even farther apart. As your legal guardian now, it's illegal for me to even date you. When you were at the orphanage, I could have dated you until you turned eighteen at least. Now… you simply live with me." He groaned into his hands once more. 'I am such an idiot.'

'Yes, yes you are,' came the smirking reply.

'Oh shut up.'

'Fine, I'll just sit here and laugh.' And so Immanuel did.

"Sam? When I turn eighteen, I'll be a legal adult, able to do anything I want. Right?" Rachel asked slowly. Sam nodded after a moment's hesitation. "Well, when I turn eighteen then we can change legal guardianship of me over to myself. Then we date. I don't mind waiting a little longer. That way, we can get to know each other better."

"But I already know you," Sam complained. "And I don't want to wait."

"Well you have no choice," Rachel huffed. "So stop complaining and tell me what else you need for the noodles."

A/N: And somewhere outside the Inuyasha-verse is a young female of the human race laughing her head off at Sesshoumaru's idiotic mistakes. That would be me by the way. sighs Yes, Sesshoumaru was stupid in the chapter. I'm sorry to all the fellow Sesshoumaru-lovers out there; I felt it was good for the fic.