Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha or it's characters, though I wish I owned Sesshy, even if for one night...Yeah...I do own Erin and Rice. Pretty names, and a sexy one for a guy, just as sexy as Reese.;p

AN: I've read some fanfics and seen some deviations that have Sesshy saying 'This Sesshomaru'. I haven't seen all the eps with him in it, but does he really say that? HOLY SHIT! I just got a depressing review, saying that the first chapter stunk of mary sues! I know I've asked for reviews, whether good or bad, as long as it's constructive critisism. The jerk didn't even say how it was mary sueish, only that he couldn't get past the first paraghraphs! And guess what. The first paragraphs were just introducing my charas, their hair, eyes, height, name, and the way they dress! I do that with all characters! Please tell me how it's mary sueish before you completely down it! ASSHOLE! Damn, I'm miserable...T.T Good news though, I asked some of my buddies on a sailormoon fanfic mb, (Don't know if I should say it in my story, though it's on my profile) and they said that they didn't sound like Mary sues! Thanks:)

Night Treasure

Three

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Kagome rushed to the phone, "Hello?" she asked.

"Is this the Higurashi shrine?" a nervous female asked.

"Yes it is, how may I help you?" Kagome said automatically.

"Um, I'm part of the tour group of seniors on their senior trip. We came by yesterday," the woman said. Kagome noticed the worry in the woman's voice. "We just did a head check and two of our students have come up missing. We've been calling to all the places we went to yesterday and I was wondering if you had happened to see them. One is a tall male with blonde hair and dark eyes, he was wearing black pants and a red muscle shirt. The other is a girl with multi dyed hair and light purple eyes, she was wearing green plaid pants and a black tank top. I know they went to the shrine with us. They had had a race up the steps. I don't remember if they left with us or not. Please tell me you saw them?" the woman pleaded.

Kagome wracked her memory. No, she hadn't seen anyone like them. "I'm sorry ma'am, but no, I didn't see them." There was a distraught sound. Kagome quickly said, "But if I do, I'll keep them here and call you. I'm sorry that I couldn't be much help."

"That's okay. I'm sorry for having bothered you," the woman said distractedly, hanging up before Kagome could reply.

Kagome hung up the phone and called for her grandpa. The old man stuck his head around the corner. "Yes?" he asked.

Kagome asked him if he had seen the two teens. Her grandpa shook his head. "No, I'm sure I would have noticed such an odd sight as them. The only odd thing I saw was that the door to the Sacred Well was slightly ajar. Did you leave it open?" he asked, wagging his finger, "You know better than to leave that door open, who knows what could happen if someone were to go in there and accidentally fall in the well. We couldn't afford the lawsuit. What? What is it Kagome?" he asked at the horrified look on his granddaughter's face.

Kagome shrieked and ran out of the house. Once outside she made a dash for the Sacred Well. When she flung open the doors her heart stopped. On the floor near the well was a small cell phone, and the protections bore signs of disturbance. She cautiously looked down the well. It was empty.

She ran back to the house and up to her room. She took a large yellow back pack out of her closet along with a few pair of jeans. Then she dug in her dresser and brought out a few sweaters, socks, essential under things and stuffed these, along with the jeans, into the back pack. She then dressed into some warmer clothes in preparation for the trip ahead.

Her mother turned around as her daughter ran into the kitchen. "What is it Kagome?" she asked.

Kagome didn't turn from her task of gathering up various food items that one might take on a camping trip as she answered, "I'm going back to the past. I fear that two students from the tour group yesterday may have fallen in. And if so then I have to find them."

Kagome's mother nodded, she had had a feeling that someday her daughter would again be called back to the past. "Just be safe Kagome," she said, worry in her eyes. Kagome nodded and left to finish packing. "And tell your friends that I said hi!" her mother called after her.

"I will! Love you mom!" Kagome called back.

In a matter of moments Kagome was leaning over the well, dressed warmly against the chilly fall season she was sure the fuedal era was in. She took in a breath and let it out shakily. "It's been over a year since I last saw them, will they recognize me?" she asked herself. "I wonder how they've been doing?" She shrugged, "Well, I'll find out soon enough! Okay, here I go!" She jumped into the well.

A bright purple light surrounded her as she fell. When she touched the bottom the light died. She looked up to find a blue cloudy sky peering down on her from the top of the well. "Well, I guess I'm back," she said unneccessarily as she looked around for the vine-ladder. "I'm glad this is still here," she said to herself as she started to climb.

Once she was out of the well she looked around, wondering where she should start. "Hm, well, I guess I should start in the village, maybe Kaede might know something."

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"What!" Kagome yelped. She sat in Kaede's hut, staring incredulously at the old priestess. "You didn't escort her back yourself!"

"At the time I couldn't. The village was being attacked, as ye can see," the old lady said in her defense, gesturing towards the outside seen through her door. "I left her in young Rin's honest hands."

Kagome had noticed the destruction in the village, but she could see that the injured had already been cared for. She would get back to that subject later, right now the two missing seniors were her priority. "How long ago was that? And did you see a boy with her?" she asked.

"Nay, I saw not a young man with her. And it's been close to a full day since I sent her back to the well." Kaede answered. "I can guess that the young girl has yet to come home, since ye be here asking for her."

Kagome nodded, "Yes, I hadn't even realized anyone had fallen into the well until their teacher called and asked if I had seen them."

They fell silent, each in their own thoughts. Finally Kagome sighed, "How am I going to find them? Certainly not by myself! Oh if only I had Inuyasha here, then-!" An idea came to her, she leaned forward, "Lady Kaede? Have you seen Inuyasha recently?" she asked.

"Yes, a week ago I found him prowling near the well." Kaede said, nodding her head. "Actually, Inuyasha frequently goes there. He never talks. Maybe ye can leave him a note telling him ye be here," she said helpfully, seeing where the young priestess was going with the conversation.

Kagome saighed and nodded her head, "Great, now, do you have anything that might hold the scent of the girl? By the way, what's her name?" she asked as she rummaged through her pack to find a pen, paper, and something to pin it to the well.

"Young Rin called her Lady Erin, and I do still have her clothes that were being washed. She didn't have time to gather them when the demon attacked," Kaede said. She got up and left the hut. She returned shortly with a pile of darkly colored clothes.

Kagome thanked the old woman as she finished her note. "I sure hope this plan works," she said as she left to head back to the well.

"Aye, aye. I just hope young Inuyasha visits the well soon, for I fear that young Rin has taken young Erin to Lord Sesshomaru," Kaede said to Kagome's retreating back. Predictably, Kagome didn't here the last part.

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"So, who's this Sesshomaru?" Erin asked as she and Rin sat next to a stream, Erin soaking her slightly swolen ankle, and Rin readying some strips of cloth to wrap it.

Rin looked up and smiled widely, eyes sparkling. "Lord Sesshomaru is the tall and great lord of the Western Lands," she said cheerfully and respectfully, obviously she admired and looked up to this lord greatly.

Erin laughed, "Well, what does he look like?" she asked as she brought her ankle out of the chilly river. She found it odd that she wasn't too cold in her kimono, despite that it was definately fall here.

Rin sighed as she wrapped the ankle. "Well, he's tall. He has long silver hair, beautiful golden eyes, and is so noble."

Erin thought about it, -Silver hair? Gold eyes? Must be a real lady killer.-

The girls heard a rustle behind them. "Rin," a soft yet steely voice said. The girls turned around, both gasping, one from joy, one from shock.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin squealed and stood up, bowing slightly.

Erin stared at the man in front of her. Her earlier thought about Rin's 'lord' being a lady killer was an understatement. The tall pale Sesshomaru was a dashing figure. To Erin's mind he definately gave off the air of a nobleman and warrior, the way he held himself erect, wore his odd clothing, kept a hand casually near the two swords in his belt-sash. He also gave off the air that he was extremely dangerous. More than likely no one messed with this man. She even doubted that anyone made any snide comment on the girly fluffy boa he had over his right shoulder. She at least thought it was a fluffy boa. What caught her attention the most was his face. His high cheek bones were lined with magenta streaks, and he had a purple cresent moon on his forehead, but the most attention getter were his pink eyeshadowed golden eyes that stared intently at her.

Rin saw her new friend staring at Lord Sesshomaru. Rin giggled and helped Erin up. "Lord Sesshomaru, this is Lady Erin, my friend. I found her in the well that Lady Kagome used to come from her time! And now she can't go back, so I brought her with me. She hurt her ankle," Rin explained.

Sesshomaru stared at the 'Lady', calculating if she was a threat. Rin had once before befriended a boy that had later tried to kill her. He sensed no threat from the girl, but he did sense something strange about her. He turned to his charge. "Rin, it is time we leave." He purposefully said nothing about the strange girl. He didn't care if she tagged along, though he would watch her closely and if she did become a threat, he would dispatch her immediately for he wouldn't let her run off and possibly become a bigger danger like he had let the boy that had tried to kill Rin run off and become the messenger boy for the evil half demon Naraku.

Rin smiled, believing she had been given the 'okay' that her new friend could join them. She helped Erin back to Ah Un and mount him again. Erin looked down at the girl, readying to lean down and help her up, but Rin shook her head and ran up to take the reigns again and walk behind her 'Lord'.

Erin watched the 'interaction', if you could call it that, between the 'Lord' and Rin. Even though Sesshomaru never looked at Rin, Erin could tell that he was concious of everything the child did and also of all their surroundings. Erin also noticed that his hand never strayed far from his swords. -He acts as if he expects an attack at any moment.- That thought reminded her of what the old lady had said.

"Um, excuse me," she said out loud to Sesshomaru's back. The tall man gave no sign of having heard. "Uh, Sesshomaru, can you tell me something? I was wanting to know about these demon attacks." Still the man ignored her. She repeated her question.

"Ahem," the little toad demon coughed, catching her attention. "You must always address Lord Sesshomaru as 'Lord'," he reminded her rudely.

Erin glared. "Sorry Shorty, but I was born in the land of the free and bow to no one, least of all to a man that would leave a small child to wander by herself in a demon infested place!" she growled.

Jaken gasped, "Such impudence from a mere human girl! How dare you speak that way about Lord Sesshomaru! He takes very good care of Rin, and she does not wander around alone! I, Jaken, protect her when our Lord isn't around," he said huffily.

Erin snorted, "Yeah, alot of protection you'd be against something that can throw huts around like that one in the village. One swip at you and you'd go flying into outer space. Here's my imatation of Jaken," she smirked and waved her arms around dramatically, wailing "Waaaaaaaaah!" She let the 'wail' trail off, as if 'Jaken' were moving farther away.

"Why you!" Jaken said angrily, raising his staff in indignation.

"Quiet!" Sesshomaru ordered in a steely voice.

Despite Erin's earlier comment about bowing to no one she immediately closed her mouth along with Jaken. It wasn't the tall man's order, but the way he was standing that caused her to quiet down. He had his head cocked to the side, back rigid, shoulders tensed, and his hand clenching one of his sword hilts. -What's wrong that would make him go like that?- she thought, though she had a gut feeling that it was the same thing that was now making the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.

At that moment a large centipede crashed through the trees towards them. It was as big as a train found in an amusement park. Erin didn't even have time to scream before the demon was lying on the ground in peices.

She stared at Sesshomaru as he resumed his walking, an unfazed Rin skipping behind him. He hadn't used his sword, like she had expected, but had created some type of green-light ribbon from two of his fingers on his right hand and used it like a razor sharp whip. -Damn, he is dangerous!- she thought.

Jaken caught her staring and smirked, "See, Lord Sesshomaru is powerful and noble." He glared at her and swung his staff, "Which means you should show him respect!"

Erin turned her stare into a glare as she looked down on Jaken. It was her so called 'witch's glare', a name Rice had given it after having been on the recieving end of that glare several times. He swore that after each time she used her 'witch's glare' on him he would inevitable trip, fall, run into something or have something fall on him or run into him. Erin just rolled her eyes when ever he said this and replied that it was his own clumsyness and bad luck. Jaken didn't know any of this, he only knew that the glare she was giving him gave him chills up the spine, it was almost akin to the fear he felt whenever his Lord smiled, never a good sign. After a few seconds she gave a fierce cat hiss, opening her mouth and showing her slightly sharp canines, mimicking one of the big cats she would watch at the zoo. Jaken yelped and ran ahead to cower close to his Lord. Rin looked at him then back at Erin, who had an I'm-innocent-and-sweet look. Rin looked back at Jaken and shrugged.

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AN: Sorry if it's moving slow, mainly I'm getting them settled in. That and I haven't exactly written a plot outline, like I've done with a lot of my stories, and this is my first time into the world of IY, and it's not easy trying to write one with Sesshy as one of the main original chara's. You try to get a conversation out of him and still keep him 'in-character'. Though I think I'm gonna like the 'conversations' between Erin and Jaken! ;p