Chapter 3

Inu-yasha sat in his room looking at the sunset in front of him. He never knew how much it would hurt not knowing somebody who was suppose to be your long life mate and never have the chance to meet them.

He sighed and walked over to the window, leaning his head against the post of his bed. He would get revenge on Naraku for what he had done.

"Lord Inu-yasha?" A voice squeaked from the door.

Inu-yasha looked over at the door to find Sesshomaru's imp looking at him in terror. The imp knew that if he was in his room he shouldn't be disturbed, but here he was. His eyebrow twitched in frustration as he spoke, "what do you want Jaken?"

"Lord Sesshomaru wishes to see you," the imp squeaked. Inu-yasha sighed and walked over to the door, kicking Jaken out of the way. He made his way down towards the study hall and entered looking at Sesshomaru tiredly.

"Yes Fluffy?"

"Inu-yasha . . . I'm sorry . . ."

"For what, because I don't have a mate!" Inu-yasha yelled, grabbing the chair in anger. It looked like her was about to throw the chair at his brother.

"Your acting immature, if you want to stop him then we have to work together." Sesshomaru said calmly looking at Inu-yasha with deadly eyes.

"Sesshomaru?" A voice said softly from the corner.

"Rin, what are you doing here?" Sesshomaru said softly, walking over to the woman and taking her into her arms. Inu-yasha looked at them longingly, wishing that was him and his mate. He lowered his head, his bangs covering his tear stained eyes.

"I heard yelling and I woke up noticing you weren't there." Rin sighed comforted in her mate's arms.

Sesshomaru smiled then realized Inu-yasha was behind him, "Rin I will meet you back in our room after you have cleaned up. Now isn't the time, I'm sorry." Rin nodded understandingly as she gave her mate's torso one last squeeze before leaving both her mate and brother-in-law. "Inu-yasha . . ."

"If that is all, I would like to return to my room." Sesshomaru nodded as Inu-yasha left. He felt bad for his brother. He had a mate to love but his brother did not, and his brother would be like that unless a miracle happened and his mate had survived the massacre. Sesshomaru's head popped up at the idea but then sunk in sadness. There was just no way, she would have been so young back then that there was no way. The children where slaughtered in the forest of no return by Naraku. The woman who had been with them was no where to be found.

Sesshomaru sighed and looked up at the ceiling and spoke, "if there's a god please save my brother."

He got up and walked back to his room seeing Rin spread out on the bed. He smirked as he crawled onto the bed with her and kissed her. "I love you Sesshomaru."

"I love you Rin," he said smiling as he took her into his arms and fell asleep.

Kagome looked around the room her brother and her shared. It wasn't much but to them it was an improvement from the cell they once slept in. "I wonder what Master's thinking up this time . . ."

"I don't know but what ever it is, I don't want to get on his bad side," Hiei stated casually. Kagome scoffed looking at her brother like he was stupid or something. Hiei looked at her and sighed, "You want to get flogged again?" He hated bringing it up but sometimes it was the only way to calm his sister from doing something stupid again.

Kagome sighed, she hated getting flogged and avoided it as much as possible but sometimes she wouldn't care. She would do the stupidest things just to piss Master off and it worked, most of the time. "You know sometimes I don't really care."

"I know but right now, you do." Kagome chuckled at her brother. He was so blunt at times that she couldn't help but laugh as her brother joined her.

"Ahem," a feminine voice grunted rudely, looking upon the two with boredom. The two straightened up and looked at the woman in front of them. "Master would like too see you. It seems he has another mission for you." The two groaned out in protest but where soon interrupted, "shut up! You will do what Master says!"

They only looked at each other as they followed the woman out and into the hallways. It had been awhile since they traveled this way through the dungeons and cells but it wasn't like they weren't use to the spiders crawling along the floors. Kagome shuddered a bit though, no matter how many times she had walked down this croaked hallway she would shudder as the spiders crawl along her feet. Hiei held her hand as they walked down the hallway and squeezed it reassuringly as she shuddered.

"Have a problem the spiders Kagome?" The woman smirked.

"Kagura, shut your mouth before I decide to shut it for you," Kagome ground out as she looked at the woman, her eyes narrowed.

"You can't, I'm apart of who u call Master, you hurt me and you flogged."

Hiei soon narrowed his eyes as venom laced his words, "that's never stopped us before." Kagura looked at Hiei and too Kagome and rolled her eyes.

"That's what makes you too the stupidest of them all," Kagura sighed as they had finally entered Master's chambers. The room was dark as usual and was adorned with the skeletons of the castle guards. It was comforting at all and it had always sent chills up Kagome's spine but as of late, she was able to suppress them, "Master; their here."

"Thank you Kagura," his cool voice spoke.

Hiei stood their, his hands in his pockets, mumbling incoherent words that sounded like, 'stupid son of a . . .' Kagome smirked, she new very well Hiei hated Master, like she did. "What is it you want Master," Kagome asked in a huff. She was certain it was another mission and if it was she wasn't quite ready to leave, seeing as she just got back home.

"Now, now Kagome, remember our lesson on manners?" Master asked, his brow quirked up quizzically. Kagome snarled under her breath as her hands clenched up in a fist. Her eyes where fixed on Masters, they shown with complete and utter loathing. Her mind raced back to the time where she had been rude, it was purposely of course but the punishment wasn't what she had expected. She had been thrown against the walls as the tentacles tied her to the spot, her back facing Master. She had been flogged, two hundred whips to her back, and sent back for her brother to care for her. She remembered not being able to move for a week after that. Master chuckled, also remembering that fond memory.

"Yes Master," Kagome almost spat but was lucky she didn't.

"Very good," Master said as he continued, "Your wondering why you're here aren't you."

"Not really," Hiei muttered under his breath but Master caught it.

"What was the Hiei?"

"Nothing Master," Hiei snarled as he leaned against the wall.

Master let it slide, "alright, now I have another mission for you. This will be the most dangerous of them all, seeing as you will be in the Western Lands."

"Isn't that Sesshomaru's Land?" Kagome asked looking at Master as if he were insane.

"Yes," Hiei answered for her, "but it's not just Lord Sesshomaru's land but also Lord Inu-yasha's. They rule the Western lands together." Hiei looked at Master comically, "why send us there?"

"There are some demons down in those lands that would like to see me dead." Master began but was interrupted by Hiei.

"Afraid of them?" Master's eyes grew red and threw Hiei against one of the walls he wasn't leaning on.

"Let that be a warning. As I was saying, their names are Koga; he's the Leader of the Wolf Demon tribe. Another is Kurama, he's a kitsune fox demon, and I also want you to kill his son, Shippo."

"What about his mate?" Kagome asked.

"She's already dead," Master answered, "She died in the war between the Western lands and the Northern lands." Kagome nodded, taking in the information. "I also want you too get rid of two human villages."

"Human, that's getting rather pathetic . . ." Kagome smirked.

Master stood up as Kagome stood her ground; he walked over to her and punched her in the face. "You will learn obedience!" Master yelled, punching her in the stomach. "As I was saying, I want you to destroy the demon slayer village and the village that holds a priestess named Kikyo, destroy her and the village."

"What will our award be?" Hiei asked looking at Master; he had always been the type to award people for a job well done.

"Nothing," Master said, "and you can think you sister for that one too, now leave."

Kagome and Hiei nodded as they left the room and walked back threw the staircase and to the outside. Their mission was set and they wouldn't come back to their Master without the mission done. They didn't need proof, for Master watched them in Kanna's mirror.

"I guess we should get sunset and midnight, they would want to come along." Kagome said, heading towards the stall.

"Lazy," Hiei mumbled knowing fully well why she wanted the two winged horses to come with them.

"Yea and don't forget it!" Kagome laughed.

Inu-yasha looked at the picture of a little girl. The girl had short raven hair, beautiful cat ears had adorned her head, her eyes where maroon as they shown in the sunlight and all together she looked happy.

A single tear rushed down his face as he looked upon the picture. "I didn't even know her name."

"Kagome," a voice said. Inu-yasha looked at the door and saw Sesshomaru walk in and look at the picture. "Her name was Kagome and that boy with her was her brother, Hiei."

Inu-yasha looked back at the picture and then at his brother, "thanks."