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"Speaking English"

{Speaking Japanese}

[Speaking Youkai]

---Pov---

Recap from Last Chapter;

"Are you coming Gumbo, or are you going to keep standing there looking like an idiot?" I ask him.

He turns and looks at me and smile's as he start's walking toward me.

"All Remy can say is that the Petite will more than likely be worth getting to know better. Come on Logan let's go and find out what kind of rumor's that Jube and Rogue are spreading about the new teacher. They are the one's who told Remy of the spat that the two of you had earlier." he says with a grin.

There's no telling how far they have spread the rumor already or how much has been added to it. Just wait until Monday when I get them in my class, I'll keep them so busy that they won't have time to spread gossip.

Chapter 6

---Kagome---

Sess just left, he promised to come tomorrow and help me test Shippou on his fighting ability's. That way we can figure out where to pick up his training. Shippou is so happy to be with us again, and as much as I hate to bring up the subject of his fathers death I know that I will have to get him to talk about it, if only to help him work through the loss of his father.

"Shippou-Chan, will you tell me who it was that killed your father?" I ask him as I walk up to him and lay my hand on his arm.

"You're not going to give up until I do, are you?" He asks quietly.

"You shouldn't keep it all bottled up Shippou-Chan. You've seen what happens to people who keep their emotion's bottled up, eventually they blow their top's and normally at someone who is innocent. Please tell me, so I can help you through it. I love you like a son and it hurt's me to see you suffer like your suffering." I say quietly while I pull him into a gentle hug.

"I know that everyone here think's that human's killed my Dad because he was a 'mutant', but Dad wasn't killed by human's. He was killed by a couple of mutant's who were trying to recruit us. They didn't like it when Dad said no thanks." He says with a scowl on his face.

"Do you know the name of the group?" I ask him.

"It wasn't even the whole group Gome, it was just two from the group. The leader and his second in command, it was Magneto and Mystic. Thats why I'm here Gome, because the X-Men fight against them. You know that I'm able to take care of myself, I've already learned everything that I need for my education, hell Gome I could teach any of the classes here at the school and I could even take over a teachers position in any college in the country and teach it. Dad was real good at investing our money, I'm no where as rich as Sess is, but with what I have I could live the next three century's and not have to lift a finger.

Kami, I miss Dad so bad Gome! It's so unfair! I want to make them suffer for all of the pain that they have caused me." He says angrily.

I hug him tighter and start to rub his back in a comforting motion as he starts crying into my hair. I feel Shippou start to drop to his knee's I follow him down to the floor to my knee's. He suddenly starts sobbing, so I start to rock him back and forth like I did when he was small and needed to be comforted. I suddenly realized that I am crying right along with him, I hug him tighter as we sit on the floor sobbing our pain and anguish together. My poor little Shippou, he has suffered so much! I keep rocking him until he stops crying but I continue to hold him close to me.

"I'm so glad that you're here Gome! I wouldn't have asked you to come, but I'm glad that you're here." He says quietly against my shoulder.

"Why wouldn't you ask me? I love you, and you shouldn't have been trying to go through this alone Shippou! No matter what happens pup, I will be here for you as long as I live. You're my son, in my heart if not body. You are one of the most important people in my life!" I say fiercely to him.

"The reason I wouldn't ask you to come is that I don't want you to get hurt. I love you Gome! You're the only Mom that I can remember. You've alway's been there for me, you've always shown me that you love me, and you've always protected me. But I'm afraid of losing you too. Like I've lost everyone else! Don't you see Mom if I lose you in my quest for revenge, then I have nothing left to live for. Because right now you and my need for revenge is the only thing stopping me from taking my own life!" He says quietly.

"Shippou, you are a very caring and loving young man, who has so much to live for. I don't want to ever hear you say that you plan to kill yourself! Promise me that you won't kill yourself. Shippou you know that I will grow old and eventually die and leave you. I'm human and there is no stopping my death. Death is a part of life and it will eventually claim us all. You can't live your life fearing death, because if you live in fear then your going to miss out on life. All you can do is live your life to the fullest and remember the one's who are gone. And you can't base your life on seeking revenge against someone, if thats all that you think about then your not really living. You have a lot going for you here, you have found people who took you in when they didn't know a thing about you. You've even made friends here without saying a word to any of them. These people only want to help you, and to help the other kids who need it. I think that you would do better if you thought more about helping those here that you can instead of revenge against Magneto and Mystic. Beside's as you said, the X-Men fight against Magneto but they fight against him because of what he's trying to do. He's trying to destroy all human life, the X-Men are trying to promote peace between mutant's and human's, so everyone can live in peace. It's Xavier's dream for everyone to live together in peace and harmony, it's also become mine Shippou. I want to live long enough to see it, to see human's, mutant's, and Youkai live together peacefully. I think that is something worth fighting for, don't you?" I ask him quietly.

"You're right Mom, that is something worth fighting for. But all I can say is if I get the opportunity to fight Magneto and Mystic I won't hold back against them. I will do everything in my power to stop them, by any means necessary. They've destroyed so many people's live's in pursuit of their goal of domination. Not just mine." he says stoutly.

"You still have me, Sess, my family, and you have the people here at this school. We all care for you and love you. I guess this means that I won't have to fight with you to get you to take your training seriously?" I ask him.

"I promise to take my training seriously Mom, I want more than anything to prove to the X-Men that I am worthy enough to be one of them. I want to help them almost as much as I want to see Magneto get beaten." He says seriously.

I give him an encouraging smile as I pull my self out of his grasp and stand up. I hold my hand out to him and once he takes hold of it I quickly pull him up off of the floor. Once he's on his feet he grins at me as he Lay's his arm across my shoulder.

"Beside's Mom, I really want to see you wipe the floor up with Logan. Because if I've learned anything in the last two week's about him and the X-Men, I've learned that they are going to want to see a demonstration of you're fighting skill. If only to see if you're good enough to be training me in self-defense. I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when you kick Logan's ass. Make sure you warn me ahead of time so I can bring a camcorder to record their expression's. Talk about blackmail material!" He says with a devilish grin on his face.

I shake my head at his expression. I look over to where we had left my suitcases sitting in the floor and groan at the idea of unpacking all of it. Sess had brought all of my clothes and most of my weapons, he's bringing the computer's and the rest of my weapons and equipment tomorrow. Shippou look's at me with a grin before he walks over to my suitcases and puts one of them on the bed and opens it and start's handing me a stack of clothes.

"Come on Mom, it's going to take both of us to do this if you want to get it done before supper. Besides knowing Jube and Rogue they're going to have most of the student's curious to meet the woman who wouldn't back down in an argument with the Wolverine. He intimidates most people who don't know him very well. I don't know why though, he may growl and snap at people but he normally doesn't bite anyone. He kinda reminds me of how Inyasha would act sometimes. You know what I mean, they're both of kinda gruff, never wrong, and rude at time's but you know that deep down that they are just trying to hide their softer side from the world." He says with a smirk on his face.

"Just do me a favor pup." I say to him as I start putting the clothes away in the dresser.

"What?" He asks me as he hands me another stack of clothes.

"Don't try to play matchmaker between me and anyone, okay?" I ask him as I put that stack away.

"I won't play matchmaker. I won't have too." He says smugly as he opens the next suitcase.

"And just what do you mean by that statement Shippou?" I ask him.

"There already seems to be two who are interested in you. All you have to do is guess which two." He says with a grin on his face as he hands me another stack.

"Sure there is Shippou." I say with a grin as I put them away.

"Seriously Mom, two of them are attracted to you. I smelled it." He says.

I could tell that he was dead serious by the expression on his face. But to which two is he referring to? Hmm I guess I'll have to tread lightly around all of the single male's until I figure out which two.

"Shippou the last thing on my mind is getting involved with anyone. So don't worry about it, okay?" I ask him as I put them away.

"Why don't you want to get involved with anyone? You're a beautiful woman Mom, you deserve to find someone to love you. Beside's if you don't get involved with anyone, then you'll never fall in love and get married, and I'll never have any younger sibling's to watch out for. I would love to have some younger brother's and sister's." He says with a grin as he opens the bag with my clothes on hangers.

"Shippou I would hate to come between two men who are friends, it would cause problems between them, and that is the last thing that i want." I say quietly as I take a load of the clothes and hang them up in the closet.

"I really don't think that they would hate each other over it Mom. One might be upset for a while if you choose the other one over them, but I think that their friendship would survive it and probably be stronger for it. You really should give it a chance, you might just find your soul-mate in one of them. Or you could end up with two really close friends and still be looking for your other half. You'll never know unless you allow yourself to keep an open mind to the possibility's. That's all I ask Mom. I want to see you happy and loved. You could always marry Sess I guess if you're afraid of becoming involved with someone else." He says with a grin as he hands me the next load.

"Shippou! That's gross, I think of Sess as an older brother and a friend and he thinks of me as a younger sister. Beside's you're assuming that I'll fall in love with one of the two who are attracted to me. They could end up thinking of me as a sister, a friend, or they both could end up hating me after they get to know me better. Besides physical attraction is hardly the major basis to a good relationship." I say to him as I hang them up.

"True, but it's a good place to start from. Just give yourself and them a chance to get to know each other better. Who know's you may have more in common with them and gain two new friends and maybe find your true love in the process. I hope you do settle down with one of them, because if you do then think of all of the extended family that I'll have then." He says with a grin as he opens up the last bag of clothes on hangers and hands me a load to hang up.

"So that's what this is about? You want a larger family. I don't think that I have to fall in love and marry one of them for you to think of them as part of your family. I think that it would please Professor Xavier and the others if you thought of them as part of your family. I don't have to marry anyone for you to do that pup." I tell him as I hang up that load into the closet.

"I know Mom, but then I'll never get to be a big brother if you never get married." He says as he hands me another load of clothes to hang up.

"Well Shippou, thats not really true. If you think of these people as your family then you already have more younger brothers and sisters then I could ever give you. You are after all the oldest person in residence here at the school and that includes the teachers, so you could say that they are all your younger siblings." I tell him as I hang up the clothes.

"Thats true enough I guess. But the teachers feel like older brothers and sisters, some of the younger students I could learn to think of as younger siblings, but I see most of them as friends than siblings. Besides I want actual siblings from you Mom. You and Sess are the only ones who know everything about my past and my true age. If I tried to explain it to most of the ones here they would think that I was crazy. Besides these people have no idea that there was ever any Youkai they only exist in myths and legends to them, if they've even heard of them to begin with. And most of the Youkai that are still around had rather let people think that they are mutants, and in a way I agree with them. Humans and mutants both would freak out if they ever found out that Youkai were real." He says with a frown as he hands me the last load of clothes to hang up.

"I know Shippou. Its sad that Youkai will probably always have to pretend to be something that their not. They either have to pretend to be human or mutant. And their is even some of the younger Youkai out there that don't know that they are actually Youkai, they believe that their mutants. Partially because their parents believe that they might be accepted into society easier as a mutant, or their parents abandoned them or were killed before they were old enough to understand. Besides if you think that they would think that your crazy if told them that you were over five hundred years old, just think of what they would think if I told them that I met you and Sess five hundred years ago because I traveled through a well back and forth to the feudal era and fought demons and gathered pieces of a powerful jewel while traveling with a hanyou, a Youkai exterminator, a perverted monk, a kitsune child, a neko Youkai, an inu Youkai, a toad Youkai, a two headed dragon Youkai, and a little human girl. They would lock me up and throw away the key. You say that Sess and I are the only ones who know everything about your past, but you know ours too. You have to keep in mind pup that if I did get involved with someone here at the school that I would have to keep that part of my past from them, because they would never believe it. I would have to lie to them and you can't build a relationship built on lies." I say to him sadly as I hang up the last load of clothes.

"I've learned one thing Mom, in a relationship you don't have to tell them everything about your past and not telling them everything isn't lying. Because in almost every relationship that I have ever seen there is some things better left unmentioned." He says as he open my weapon case and starts to hand them to me to put away.

"I know Shippou but it isn't how I always thought that a relationship should be handled. Secrets are the biggest destroyer of relationships, they are also the thing that destroy live's. I couldn't get involved with some one and not tell them about my past. I refuse to lie about who I am, and my past is what molded me into who I am today. It must be fate's way to keep me single." I say to him sadly.

I hide my face in my hands and turn away from him, I don't want him to see me cry. I hear him walk up behind me and then I feel him pull me into a tight hug. I hide my wet eyes from him by turning my face away from him, I feel him start to rub my back in a comforting motion.

"Mom don't cry, your soul mate is out there somewhere. Me and Sess will help you find him. And if he's your real soul mate then he'll believe you when you tell him about your past. You should never give up hope of finding him. If anyone deserves to be happy its you Mom, you gave up a normal life to fight for the peace and safety of perfect strangers. Just like you're now taking up the fight to bring peace and safety for humans, mutants, and Youkai. You always see the good in people, if you didn't then you wouldn't have half as many friends as you do. How many people would have tried to befriend Youkai and hanyou, and to treat them the same way she would have a human. You're a special person Mom, you also deserve to be happy, and to find your soul mate. I think that we both will find a place to belong to here, a place that will give our life meaning, and maybe we can both find our soul mate." He says as he hugs me tighter to him.

I reach my hand up and wipe away my tears as I step back out of his embrace. I give him a shaky grin as I stand there, he lays his hand on my shoulder and gently squeezes it.

"Now you should have enough time to clean up and change before supper. It wouldn't do for them to see that you've been crying, they would want to know why. And you know as well as I do that it would be impossible for you to explain." He says with a grin.

" I know pup, do I have enough time to take a shower before dinner?" I ask him.

"Yeah you have over an hour, I'll leave you to it and come back in 50 minutes to walk you to supper. All right?" He asks me.

"All right Shippou-Chan, I'll see you in a little while. Okay?" I ask him.

"All right Mom besides that will give me enough time to see what kind of rumors are floating around about you so far, because knowing Jube and Rogue they're going to be some good ones." He says with a grin on his face.

I just shake my head at him as he walks to the door and leaves shutting it gently behind himself. I quickly start gathering my things for a bath and then head to the bathroom.

---Shippou---

It hurts me to see Mom so upset, and she really doesn't have a reason to be. Everyone here has secrets that they will never reveal to anyone. But if she feels like she has to be completely honest in any kind of relationship then I'll do my best to help her convince whoever that she is telling the truth. In a way I think that either of those two could be perfect for her. Logan is a lot like Inuyasha was, he's gruff and barks a lot, but he does it to hide his tender side, he's a great friend who would die to protect those he care's for. He can also be very compassionate. And Remy can be a lot of fun, he's friendly and out going. He can also be fiercely protective over his friends and those he cares for. He's open and honest most of the time, and he's understanding. I bet he would be great with small children.

I think in a way Remy would be a better choice for Mom, he doesn't have any kind of crushes on any one here that would inter fer with his chase of Mom, and everyone here knows that Logan is in love with Jean. Hmm I guess Logan is more like Inuyasha was than I originally thought. Yeah now that I think about it Remy is the one that I think would be the better choice for Mom, and if he's intent on chasing her than I will do everything that I can to help him catch her. I guess I'll hunt him out to find out what he thinks of her, because no matter how well I like him, if all he is after is a casual fling then I will keep him as far away from Mom as I can. She deserves someone to want a serious relationship with her and not as another notch in there bedpost.

Hmm Remy is close by, I can smell him. I walk into the common room to see him looking out of the window. He seems like he's deep in thought.

"Hey Remy, what has you so troubled?" I ask him.

"Nothing has Remy troubled Shippou, I was just thinking." He says quietly.

"About what, or should I say who are you thinking about?" I ask him.

"Hmm Kagome, she is beautiful." He says.

"Yeah she is pretty, but she can be hurt easily. She doesn't need to be hurt again." I say to him.

"You think Remy would hurt her?" He asks me.

"Maybe not on purpose, but if you're not careful you could destroy her. She's been hurt enough in the past and she's still recovering from it. I don't mind if you try to date her, but if you hurt her I'll make sure they never find you're body." I say to him with a scowl on my face.

"Remy would never hurt the Petite on purpose Shippou. Remy just doesn't know if he would ever be good enough for someone like her. Remy doesn't have the best kind of past." He says.

"I think you might be good for her, and she's been through more than you would think. So you're past shouldn't matter, and she never judges anyone on their past. But you're not the only one who seems interested in her," I tell him with a grin.

"Who else is interested in the Petite, and how do you know anyway?" He asks.

"You'll have to figure out who else is interested in her on your own, and I know that he's interested in her the same way that I knew that you were. You're scent gives it away, and I've already warned her that two guys are interested in her." I tell him.

"And what did the Petite think when you told her?" He asks.

"Well her first instinct was to bolt, but I talked her out of it. Then she wanted to know who it was, and lets just say that she's a little upset because I wouldn't tell her, she has to figure out who they are on her own. Just like you have to figure out who is your competition. You'll go farther with her if you become her friend first." I tell him.

"Remy would like to be friends with the Petite, and Remy will remember to tread lightly with her. And if friendship is all that comes out of our relationship, then Remy will be content." He says quietly.

"Good, do you want to go with me when I go and lead her to supper in a little bit?" I ask him with a grin.

"She might become suspicious, if Remy came with you. I don't want to scare her off. If Remy could sit with the two of you?" He asks with a hopeful grin.

"That can be arranged. Besides I can always say that you want to know the both of us better. That way she won't be scared off before she get's to know you better." I tell him.

"The Petite must have been very badly hurt in the past." He says with a frown on his face.

"Believe me she was. She has secrets that she afraid to reveal, she's afraid that it would cause problems if she did get into any kind of relationship." I tell him quietly.

"Remy would like to meet the one who hurt her so badly! I would make him hurt for causing her pain." He says with a frown on his face.

"You'll never be able to meet him. He died years ago, after he chose another to share his life, even though he knew how much Gome loved him." I tell him sadly.

"He must have been a fool to choose someone else over her." He says with a scowl on his face.

"Oh he was, because he had her heart in his hand and he crushed it. Without a second thought, even after all she had went through to help him achieve his goals. Well I guess I should go and get cleaned up for supper, before I go and get her. See you later Remy." I tell him as I walk away.

Well there's one that I have warned not to hurt her. Logan will be much harder to talk to about it, because he won't admit that he's attracted to her. Oh well whats meant to be will be. I just want to see Mom happy and I'll do whatever I can to help her.

Thats all for this chapter, sorry you had to wait for so long to get it. I'll try to speed up with the next chapter.

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