Hey guys! Hope your week is going well! Anyway, this chapter is dedicated to... Mori-quessir! Okay, I know the pairing is overdone, but I like it! I think Sesshy is really good at heart! . And a special surprise to those of you who wanted Shippo in the story... Enjoy!

11 - Another Disaster

Inuyasha awoke the next morning to a scream and a burning smell. "Miroku!" he heard Kagome yell.

He ran out to the sound, thinking Miroku's hands had got a little too far this time. But what he saw surprised him even more.

There was Miroku, running through the living room and kitchen. And chasing him, frying pan in hand, was Kagome. Sango sat on the couch, watching this little display while laughing her head off. "Miroku, damn it, you ruined our breakfast!" Kagome hollered as she swung the frying pan at him, missing his head by a couple inches.

"Oh, come on, Kagome! I was just trying to help!" he said in his defense as he dodged another swing from the frying pan. Fearing for Miroku's head and Kagome's sanity, Inuyasha grabbed her around the waist.

"Gome, what did he do?" Inuyasha asked her as she struggled to got out of his grip. "Well, he poured an entire bottle of hot sauce on our eggs, put cinnamon-sugar all over our bacon, and skittles in our pancakes!" she yelled.

"Did you really?" Inuyasha asked him seriously.

"Yep," he said proudly.

"Awesome!" Inuyasha said as he and Miroku ran into the kitchen to eat Kagome's 'improved' breakfast.

Kagome's jaw dropped to the shag carpet as she watched them wolf down all the food. "How can they stand to eat that?" she asked Sango in pure amazement.

Sango laughed. "They've eaten weird stuff like that ever since they were little. Some of the things they've concocted have been fairly good, now that I think about it." She shot out of her seat and ran to the kitchen. "Save me a skittle pancake, you guys!"

Kagome sat on the couch with a look of disbelief on her face. 'What have I gotten myself into! I'm stuck with these guys in this suite for Lord knows how long!' She sighed as she watched Miroku gobble down the rest of the bacon and Inuyasha and Sango fight over the last pancake. "Yet, I love them all..." she said as she got up and ran to the kitchen, entering the fight for the sugary pancake.

The rest of the day went by slowly. By 6:00, Kagome was done with the large dinner that she prepared. With a little persuasing from Sango, she begrudgingly let Inuyasha and Miroku make the appetizer. When she saw the concoction, however, she regreted her decision.

"Doritos, covered in peanut butter and grapes, with chocolate sprinkles?" she said in a monotonous tone.

"Yeah! Isn't it great?" Inuyasha said with a smile, obviously proud of his and Miroku's new dish. "Just thought it up today!"

"Then how do you know it tastes any good?" Kagome questioned.

"Hmmm..." the two young men said together.'

"Only one way to find out!" Miroku called as he and Inuyasha both picked up a dorito and stuffed them in their mouths. They chewed thoughtfully for a moment, trying out the tasted of the patch work snack.

"And...?" Kagome said impatiently. Suddenly, Inuyasha and Miroku both shot toward a bathroom and started puking their brains out. Sango was compleately grossed out and all Kagome could say was, "I told you so..."

Sango went and rubbed Miroku's back and Kagome held back Inuyasha's hair as the boys emptied their stomachs into the porcelin toilets. A while later, Inuyasha and Miroku were sitting on the couch, rubbing their growling tummies. "Come on, I'm hungry!" Inuyasha called to Kagome.

"Grrr... With you shut up already!" Kagome yelled. "You've been complaining for an hour!"

"Well, now our stomachs are devoid of food, leaving a large whole..." Miroku said.

"Whatever! All's I know is that I'm hungry!" Inuyasha proclaimed.

Kagome let out a large sigh. "Well, if you guys would've just let me fix the appetized in the first place..."

"Feh!"

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. They all looked at it expectantly, waiting for it to magically open on it's own. "Inuyasha. Stupid brother, open the door!" Inuyasha sighed as he went to the door and opened it, finding his brother, family in tail.

In less that a second, Inuyasha was attacked by two small bodies, one gripping his shirt collar and one wrapped aroung his right arm. "Hey! My favorite neice and nephew!"

"We're your only neice and nephew, silly goose!" called Rin from his arm. He scooped her up with his left arm and gave her a light hug before putting her down.

"And as for you, runt..." he said to the small ball of fluff attached to his shirt. The young boy's green eyes sparkled and his orange-brown hair was tied in a bow.

"I told you guys not to tie his hair in a ribbon," he said as he started to pull at the boy's hair tie. "It makes him look like a girl!"

"I do not look like a girl!" he pouted as he dropped to the floor to escape his uncle's claws.

"Give it a rest, Shippo. I was just kidding," Inuyasha said as he rolled his eyes.

"Well, I see you're as fiesty as ever Inuyasha," a woman said as Sesshomaru closed the door behind her. Her short black hair was up in a high ponytail and her ruby red eyes gleamed happily.

"Nice to see you again, too, Kagura..." he replied with a grin. She swept over and gave him a hug. His smile broadened with the show of emotion from his sister-in-law. He wrapped his arms around her and returned the hug tenderly.

"We were so scared for all of you," she whispered in his ear. "I'm so happy you're safe." With that she released him and walked over to her husband, who was chatting with Miroku about his little 'problem'.

"I swear, my hand is possesed!" he told Sesshomaru after being karate chopped of the couch by Sango.

"Yeah... I'm sure... lecher..."

"Hey! Come on! Be kind! It's been forever since I've seen you!" Miroku said with a punch to Sesshomaru's arm.

He looked down at where the teenager hit his upper arm. "Don't ever do that again," he said in his flat tone.

"Gotcha!" Miroku replied with a grin as he ran and hid behind Sango. At first she didn't know what to do, but after feeling a farmiliar hand rub her bottom, she flung her elbow back, hitting Miroku right in the rib cage. As he fell to the floor, Sango walked over to Sesshomaru.

"So, long time, no see, cousin," she told him as she embraced the stoic dog demon. To her surprise, he hugged her back.

"Kagura and I have been very worried about all of you. We'll do everything in our power to help you," he said emotionlessly. Despite this, she knew he ment every word.

"Thanks, Sessh."

He nodded quietly as Kagura approached him. Seeing Sango, she went and hugged her cousin-in-law tightly. "I've missed you, Sango sweetie!" Kagura said happily. "After this all blows over, you and me will go shopping, okay?" Her attempts at cheering up the young woman did not go unnoticed.

Sango smile brightly. "I would love that! But would you mind if mu best friend, Kagome, comes too?"

Suddenly everyone looked over to the couch, where Kaogme sat with Rin and Shippo. Rin was snuggled to her side and the fox demon was curled up on her lap as Kagome ran her fingers through the coarse fur on his puffy tail. She looked to the group and smiled. "Go on. When they wake up, we'll eat, okay?" Kagome whispered, as to not wake up the sleeping children. The group nodded and entered the kitchen.

Making sure they couldn't be heard in the livingroom, they sat down at the large kitchen table. Miroku and Sango sat next to eachother near the end, holding hands underneath the table. Inuyasha sat at the head of the table between Sango and Sesshomaru, who was sitting next to his wife. They were quiet for a moment, looking to eachother's eyes for reassurance.

"Let's get right to the point," Inuyasha said bluntly. "Exactly how much danger are we in?"

"The boss wants to get rid of the Hirugashi family all together. He fears that the girl," Sesshomaru said as he jerked his thumb to the livingroom where Kagome sat, "knows too much information."

"But she doesn't know anything!" Inuyasha growled.

"Maybe so, but the syndicate won't accept that she knows nothing about it. She witnessed her father's murder, am I correct?" he replied cooly.

"Yeah, so what?"

"Just because of that fact, she's a liability."

Inuyasha looked down at the table. "So there's no hope of getting them to leave her alone without violence?"

"None." Kagura finished.

He cradled his forehead in the palms of his hands. "Damn it, we can't just live our lives indoors!"

Sango put her free hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Calm down. We'll figure some way out of this."

"Will we Sango? The syndicate is too powerful. They'll kill us all!" Just as he was about ot hop out of his seat, sesshomaru punched him in the side of the head. The only one who seemed concerned at all was Sango, and that was because he fell on her foot.

"Damn..." she said as she rubbed her foot.

Inuyasha stood up and rubbed where the bruise would form. "Thanks, I needed that," he said as he sat down. "Now, what can we do?"

"The only way they will leave us alone is if they think we're dead..." Miroku pondered.

Suddenly Sesshomaru's narrow eyes widened with an idea. He got up and went down the hallway, pulling out his cell phone in the process.

"He has a plan. Don't worry," said Kagura, the same idea also coming to her.

"Mommy!" two young children wailed as they ran into the kitchen and pratically tackled their mother.

"Grrr..." she said as she was pushed out of her chair by the force, landing on her rump. "Oww..." she said as she got up, haulinh the children with her. "It's rude to tackle people without warning them, especially mommy..."

"Sorry Mommy!" the two cute children chorused as Sesshomaru glided back out of the hallway.

"But it is okay to do it to your daddy..." Inuyasha said to them with a grin.

"Yay! Pile on Daddy!" they said as they made a mad dash toward Sesshomaru. Hearing their little footsteps, he braced himself for impact. Each child bull-dozed though a leg, sending one of the wealthiest men in Japan to the floor. An uncharacteristic grin spread across his thin fae as he grabbed each of his children with one hand and started tickling them. Happiness filled the room as the twin's joyful giggling spread. Eventually, everyone started laughing, releasing all the tension of the previous discussion.

Once the laughter died down and Sesshomaru regained his icy composure, Inuyasha pulled Kagura to the side. "So, what's this plan you guys have cooked up?" he whispered.

She smiled as she looked over to where Kagome, Sango and Miroku were playing with the kids under the watchful eyes of her husband. "Inuyasha, don't worry about it now. Let's just enjoy the time we have togehter as a family. Besides, I can tell your friends need a little break from the stress."

"Uncle Inu, come play beat up Miroku with us!" Shippo called as Rin was smacking Miroku in the head with a couch cushion.

"Come on Rin, this hurts!" Miroku yelled as the firm pillow hit him again. "Sesshomaru, make her stop!"

"Don't be a wimp, pervert," he said as he slammed Miroku's head with another cushion.

"Daddy," Rin asked as she continued hitting the young man's head with the cushion. "What's a pervert?"

"Ummm..." he said with a surprised expression.

"Hahahaha!" Miroku laughed at the man's predicament. Sesshomaru slammed the cushion into his head twice as hard, sending him rolling into Sango, who in turn slammed into Kagome. She then did a backwards somersault, rolling to the corner where Inuyasha and Kagura were standing, stopping upside down at their feet.

"Ummm... hey?" she said, feeling very stupid with her butt facing up to them. Suddenly a mischevious grin spread across Inuyasha's boyish face. He brought his hand down, and in one motion smacked Kagome's butt -hard- sending her tumbling the opposite direction.

"Inuyasha! You're gonna get it!" she said as she stood, wobbling slightly as she ran toward him. A frightened expression crossed his face as he started running toward the end of the hallway, being followed by laughter and his mad girlfriend. When he reached the end of the hall, he had no means of escape. Seeing Kagome's room to his left, he shot into the room. In his haste, he forgot to close the door behind him.

"INUYASHA!" Kagome said as she sprinted into her room. She saw Inuyasha trying to hide under the covers on her bed, and jumped on him and started throwing random punches.

"Owch!" the people in the living room heard over and over again.

"I think they need some 'alone time'..." Miroku said as he grabbed a chair from the kitchen and ran down the hallway. He slammed the door shut and placed the top of the chair under the knob, jamming it. He giggled stupidly and went back out to the group of people and told them that Inuyasha and Kagome wouldn't be joining them for dinner this evening.

When Kagome heard the door close, she instantly stopped beating on Inuyasha (the blanket lump) and went to the door. After pulling on it for several minutes, she gave up. "I'd bet you anything that perv Miroku locked us in here! Grrr... I'll get him..." she said as she hopped onto her bed and crossed her arms as she sat indian-style.

Inuyasha slowly wrapped his arms around her and kissed her neck tenderly. "So... you forgive me?"

She smiled and leaned back into his chest. "Yeah, I guess..."

Inuyasha scooted back to where he had his back against the head board of the bed. Then he pulled Kagome to him, sitting her on his lap. She circled her arms around his neck and looked him in the eyes.

"Inuyasha?"

"Yeah."

"Tell me the truth. Are we gonna be okay?" she asked as pain filled her eyes.

As he looked into those deep brown eyes, his heart melted. "Gome... I'm not sure," he said after a moment. "But we're gonna try. I... I have something I want to tell you."

"Yeah?"

"I want you to know that you've changed me. Before I met you, my world was a living hell. After I broke up with Kikyo, I thought that my life was pointless; that I would never find anyone who could understand me. Until I met you. When I saw you, my heart skipped a beat. You're everything to me, and you're the reason I live." Kagome's eyes were wide and were very close to tears. "What I'm trying to say, is that if I had to chose only one friend for the rest of my life, I would pick you without a second thought. You're the most precious thing in the world to me, and I won't let anything come between us. Okay?"

The walls that held Kagome's tears broke as she burried her head in his chest.

"What? Did I say something wrong?" Inuyasha asked cautiously.

She sniffed and looked to his warm amber eyes. "No, silly puppy. You said everything just right." She hugged his shoulders tighter as she took a breath.

"Inu, I miss you if we're apart for just a moment. If I could chose, I would spent every day of my life with you. Every single day. You're the first person to break me to where I could talk about my feelings. I know in my heart that you'll protect me from anything that comes our way. I just wish I could be more helpful..." she said with a sigh.

"We can't do anything about our situation right now, so lets just let it go for now, okay?" he said as he pulled Kagome closer and kissed her forehead gently.

She nodded her head and cuddled closer to his body.

"I love you, Inu."

"I love you, too, Gome."

They sat there in silence for what seemed like hours, until their perfect evening was cut short.

After dinner, the rest of the group sat in the living room. Miroku, Rin, Sango, and Shippo were playing go fish at the clean kitchen table as Sesshomaru and Kagura sat snuggled together on the couch, admiring the crackling flames in the stine fireplace.

"Go fishies!" Rin called as Miroku stuck his hand into the 'pond' and pulled out another card. So far Rin won three games, Shippo won four, Sango won one, and Miroku had a big fat zero wins.

"I stink at card games..." he whined.

Sesshomaru was saying something to Kagura when he heard a small clicking noise coming from the fire place. He stopped talking abruptly, causing Kagura to ask what was wrong. Putting a finger to her lips, he got up and went closer to the flames. As he approached, the clicking got quicker. Suddenly he saw an odd shadow in the flames and his eyes widened.

"What's wrong, love?" Kagura said from the couch.

"We need to get out."

"What?"

"Now!" He ran to the kitchen and grabbed his kids with one arm and sprinted back into the living room. He picked up his wife with his free arm and went to the door.

"Sesshomaru, what are you doing?" Sango asked, very confused.

"Quick, get out! There's a bomb in the fireplace!"

Sango and Miroku ran to the door and the group sprinter to the fire escape and ran. As they ran down the many stair wells, they warned the staff about the bomb and the building was evacuated immediately. Everyone made it out just in time to see the upper half of the building explode.

"Shit! Where's Inuyasha and Kagome?!" Sango yelled.

"They're still in Kagome's room!" Miroku said with wide eyes as he sunk to his knees.

"No..." Sango said through her tears as pieces of the once regal hotel building fell off in chunks as the bright orange flame engulfed the building, the crackle drowning out the ringing sirens of the fire trucks in the distance.

To my Friends and Reveiwers -

Hanyou Vixen - Well, I tried to add some fluff in there for you, my buddy! Thanks! Big Hugs!

Suaru - Oh, stop! (no, I'm kidding, keep going...) Thank you so much! I put my heart into it, and I'm so glad that I have people out there who appreciate it!

Mori'quessir - Inu could never hate Kag! It just wouldn't be right! Fluff rocks my socks! ;P p.s. - no more elvish, please!!

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Kanon-Chan - Oh, I wouldn't ask Inu for his ears. They are way too cute on him! I love Inu and Sesshy, so I had to have them get along! I think at heart, Sesshy is nice. I thought hiding in a hotel was a good idea, too, but see where it got them... :( But thanks!

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