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Heiya all.. Thanks for the reviews. My distraction is well.. pretty distracting so far. I still haven't gotten serious about this fic (thank GOD). Well I hope the product of my free loading mind is at least amusing if not alluring.. he he, or at least readable.. (one can only hope…hmmm….)

The Chill Fury

Chapter 2

Kikyo looked out of one of the three large windows of her bedroom on the second floor, at the woods that lay beyond the garden at the back of the Taisho manor. Kagome in the mean time was busy telling her about everyone in the family and the sometimes crazy things that went on here, while sitting comfortably on Kikyo's soft double bed.

"But who is Rin?" Kikyo asked when Kagome stopped to take a breath.

"Rin is well…well… she is kind of part of the family…" was all Kagome managed to say.

"There is something you are not telling me Kagome." Kikyo said with a serious expression. "Spill it."

"Well.. I bet you didn't know that Inuyasha has a half brother." Kagome said smiling nervously.

Kikyo's stunned expression was answer enough. "Inutaisho, had a son with his first wife who died. He is a pure youkai like Papa and he lives in Japan." Kagome said in an almost hushed voice.

Kikyo didn't know why Kagome was acting so nervous. "What is his name?" Kikyo asked, thinking that she might have heard of him since she had companies in Japan, and frequently visited there. If he was from a wealthy family like Inutaisho's then she must have heard about him.

Kagome fidgeted with the pillow, she had on top of her folded legs. She knew the question was coming, but she had a good guess of how Kikyo would react when she heard the answer… "His… his name is…. Sesshoumaru Taisho…"

"…hmm…., never heard of him." Kikyo said shaking her head. Kikyo had heard about a few Taisho's in Japan, but never Sesshoumaru Taisho.

Kagome's head shot up to look at her sister's face, in shock and disbelief. How could Kikyo not know about the Business Tycoon Sesshoumaru! In fact Kagome knew for a fact, with the little knowledge she had about her sister's businesses, that it was only one of his, companies that she had failed to buy off. Kagome then remembered that it was the people who worked for her who had had the meeting with Sesshoumaru, and failed to get the company from him. In hearing the news, Kikyo, who was staying at their mansion at the time went into a fit. Kikyo had shouted and shouted through the phone that day, in the end throwing it out of one the windows, neatly hitting one of the servants square in the face. Kikyo had got into another fit when she found out the amount of money she had to spend on getting the servants face fixed; she almost threw her shoe at the doctor! Kagome had managed to stop another 'incident' from taking place that day and dragged her sister away.

Kagome then remembered that Sesshoumaru had received a package labeled 'Maru Taisho'. She immediately figured out that Kikyo probably didn't know him as Sesshoumaru Taisho and knew the owner of that company only as Maru Taisho. Kagome wisely decided that it would be better if she didn't explain that her brother-in-law was the one person whose company Kikyo hadn't managed to buy off – and since then; even though she had never personally met him, had placed him at the number one spot on the list of people she had to grind to the floor in the business world.

"Kagome,… are you alright?" Kikyo asked, bringing Kagome out of her thoughts.

"Uhmm, yeah." Kagome recovered. "Anyway, I only met him the day of the wedding. I almost fainted when mama introduced him as Inuyasha's half brother. He stayed here for a week or so, because papa forced him to, and that was when I found out that he had Rin. Rin was an orphan, who Sesshoumaru had saved one day, and since then she has always been with him. Rin took a real liking to me, and since Sesshoumaru had some… ahmmm.. 'prior engagements' that required his urgent attention, he left Rin here to stay with us. It took me a while to get her stop calling me Kagome 'sama' and to just call me Kagome. She is the sweetest little thing I've ever seen."

Kikyo couldn't disagree with that. Rin was indeed the sweetest little girl she had seen. "So how come Sesshoumaru lives in Japan rather than living here?" Kikyo asked incredulously.

"Like us he was born there, but he decided to stay back when papa and the rest moved here. I guess he's just too fond of his mother land." Kagome said with a fake smile. Kagome mentally laughed at the idea of how the Sesshoumaru who she had come to know, could actually be 'fond' of anything…. except maybe Rin. She wondered whether she should explain that, Inutaisho was Lord of the Western Lands in Japan, and now Sesshoumaru had been handed down the responsibility of taking care of their lands; but she decided against it.

Kikyo not knowing anything about Sesshoumaru, accepted Kagome's rather soft answer. "Do the brother's get along?" Kikyo asked with a sly smile.

"As much as two brothers with demon blood could be expected to get along." Kagome smiled, inwardly remembering the few spats between her husband and her brother-in-law. "Inuyasha can be made to settle down easily, but only mama and papa can calm Sesshoumaru down, and I think I've managed to have that affect on him as well. You know me… nobody can resist my innocent charms…" Kagome smiled innocently.

"I bet!" Kikyo said throwing a soft pillow at her sister. "So they do fight." Kikyo remarked.

"Well, it was a lot worse a few years ago, but then something happened to Sesshoumaru's sword and then he began ignoring his little brother's annoying taunts and insults." Kagome said with an impression of Izayoi. "Those were her exact words by the way. They get along much better now I think. But I'm sure you've noticed, my hubby can act a little immature at times."

"Look who's talking." Kikyo teased seriously. "You two are made for each other.."

Kagome blushed, remembering how her sister scolded her many times for being immature. "Well I think I am a bit more mature when it comes to certain things than him." Kagome said with a defiant pout.

"Umm… I suppose.." Kikyo said, images of a flour covered Inuyasha flashing across her mind. "Then who is Jaken? He is always running behind Rin like her shadow."

"Jaken has been serving Sesshoumaru for a loooong time now, I think more than a few centuries, so he's the only demon that Sesshoumaru trusts to be close to Rin and watch out for her." Kagome said, rubbing the back of her neck. "Sesshoumaru decided to give Jaken a rest, as long as Rin stayed here, but I guess the old goof just can't stay still without worrying, if Rin is not in his sights. The kappa demon has grown quite attached to her."

"Apparently this whole demon family has an attachment to humans." Kikyo noted as she sat behind Kagome on the bed to massage her neck for her. "Why hasn't Sesshoumaru adopted Rin?"

Kagome took a while to answer, she was too busy enjoying how her sister massaged her neck. Kagome mentally scolded Inuyasha for not being able to do it softly like this; she always had to ask Rin or mama. "Whoah, nobody would dare question or tell Sesshoumaru what to do in this house! Only papa has that right, or rather Sesshoumaru only listens to papa. In fact it was papa who convinced Sesshoumaru to let Rin stay here, he and mama had already thought of Rin as their grandchild and wanted to spend some quality time with her. Sesshoumaru unwillingly entrusted Inuyasha to protect Rin, since he now has Tessaiga and not papa. But nobody really asks him about him adopting Rin." Kagome said with eyes closed. "You know, like you hate demons, Sesshoumaru hates humans, except for mama, and now meeee… and is usually very cold and can be quite mean. So apparently it was a big surprise to everyone when they visited Japan and found Rin, running circles around Sesshoumaru and him not minding it….. much… Sesshoumaru hadn't bothered telling them that he had taken Rin in, and they wouldn't have found out either if they hadn't made that surprised visit. Mama told me that they had tried unsuccessfully for years and years to get Sesshoumaru to stop hating humans, and it never worked, but this was when the sword did something and made Sesshoumaru find Rin. I don't know how she managed to make Sesshoumaru care for her, but she did, and I hear that it was in a very short time. But Sesshoumaru still hates all other humans, he didn't like me at first either, but I managed to warm up to him, you know with that cute pleading face of mine.. hih hih hih.."

Kikyo smiled secretly behind Kagome. She always admired the fact that her sister could make anyone like her… "So Rin doesn't mind staying away from Sesshoumaru?" Kikyo asked with no particular reason.

"Well Rin was used to mama, papa and Inuyasha visiting her in Japan regularly after she came to stay with Sesshoumaru, so she was quite excited when she came here to America to see them and Inuyasha's wedding." Kagome said stretching her legs and bending forward a little, so that Kikyo could massage her back as well. "Rin said okay to staying here without Sesshoumaru, but no sooner did he leave, that she started crying. We had quite the time trying to comfort her. She kept crying often, especially at night. Either mama or I always had to sleep with her during the nights for a while. But since Inuyasha looks the closest in appearance to Sesshoumaru she kind of took comfort in him, even refused to let him go to work for a few days. Now she hangs around him all the time, good thing too, coz Inuyasha is a total mutt when it comes to handling children, but he's learning."

Kagome earned a firm but gentle knock on the head from Kikyo, for calling Inuyasha a mutt. "oww.." Kagome winced, rubbing her head.

"Still as immature as ever." Kikyo said sternly.

"Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Kagome muttered. "It's not like he minds, you know, in fact he calls me his bitch at night when we….." with a sudden realization at what she was saying she choked on her words, going into a coughing fit. Kagome was in the process of telling her own sister about what Inuyasha and she did at night and their playful dirty talking… oooohhh, how embarrassing..

Kikyo immediately stopped massaging, wondering if Kagome would realize on her own that she was about to explain her and her husband's bedtime habits. Kikyo heaved a sigh of disappointment when Kagome had choked and gone into a coughing fit; realizing too late where she was heading with her conversation. Kikyo got up from the bed and handed her sister a glass of water from the table near by.

Kagome's face had blushed a bright red, as she tried to hide her face from her older sister who was staring at her with arms crossed. "Sorry…"

"Jheeez Kagome, you still haven't learnt to think before talking." Kikyo scolded, inwardly smiling at how her younger sister was squirming under her gaze. "What if someone else had been here?"

"He.. he" was all Kagome managed to voice.

"So Rin is doing okay now?" Kikyo asked trying to get back to the conversation and ease Kagome's tension a bit.

"Oh yeah! She is doing just fine now." Kagome said glad that her sister had gotten back to a rather less personal topic. "Sesshoumaru has shipped down some of her favorite toys and even Ah-Un."

"Ah-Un!" Kikyo asked with a frown, sitting in a comfortable leather sofa in front of Kagome.

"Ahmm.. yeah, Ah-Un, the two headed Dragon." Kagome said sipping the glass of water.

Kikyo almost slid off the leather material. "What?" Kikyo almost shouted. "A two headed dragon! Rin has a two headed dragon, and you people actually let her get near it!"

At first Kagome didn't know why Kikyo was shouting. Then it hit her, of course, she had just told her that a ten year old child had a dragon beast. "Relax Kikyo." Kagome said smiling. "Ah-Un is Sesshoumaru's and it, or rather they, are used to Rin. They may look scary, but Rin loves them and they are very protective of her. Ah-Un is quite powerful, it almost ripped one of the demon servants to shreds when he picked Rin up from behind. Even Inuyasha had quite the time trying to get the dragon off the servant, it was only when Rin commanded it to back off that it obeyed. It was quite amazing to see the beast obey a little girl, not to mention the demon servant who had pissed in his pants and Inuyasha imprinted into the ground when Ah-Un accidentally stepped on him."

"It sounds dangerous to me." Kikyo said seriously.

"Well Ah-Un will only obey Sesshoumaru, Rin and Jaken, and nobody else, not even papa." Kagome said with a little amusement. "As long as nobody tries to hurt Rin, they would be safe. And it only allows us to touch Rin, it doesn't allow any of the servants to even go near her. Sesshoumaru must have trained it that way. I remember Inuyasha was screaming his head off when I tried to play with it."

Kikyo looked at Kagome with displeased irritation, "And why pray tell would you want to play with a dragon Kagome?"

"Actually Ah-Un can fly, very fast too, so I kinda wanted to go for a ride on it." Kagome admitted sheepishly. "It was Rin who convinced me that it was safe."

"Perfect, blame it on a ten year old child." Kikyo said shaking her head.

"Well it was, and after I got used to Ah-Un, me and Rin went for a lot of rides over the woods." Kagome said clapping her hands together like a little child, remembering the exciting experiences. "Inuyasha got a little jealous one day, and tried to climb the dragon and take a ride of his own. I remember like it happened yesterday…."

What happened that day…

Inuyasha was wearing his red haori and hakama's as he watched his wife, and Rin; who he thought of as his niece, climb down from Ah-Un after a ride and open a small picnic basket nearby.

"Feh!" Inuyasha scoffed at no one in particular.

"Does my little boy want to take a ride on the horsy?" a strong voice asked him from behind, almost making Inuyasha topple over the balcony railing he was leaning against.

Inuyasha always hated it when his father would mask himself, and surprise him from behind. Unfortunately Inutaisho had done the same thing when Inuyasha was just five, and when Inuyasha got scared and ran for his mommy, Inutaisho made a mental note to make it a special thing just between him and his son. After all these years he still enjoyed how his younger son jumped every time he did that.

"I don't know what you're talking about, dad." Inuyasha said adjusting Tessaiga around his waist.

"Indeed." his father said.

That was another thing Inuyasha hated, that damn word. He especially hated it when his older brother dismissed his meaningless babble, using that one word.

"I was just checking to make sure that Kagome and Rin were alright." Inuyasha said lightly.

"They have a dragon demon guarding them, and they are inside our lands, what possible harm could come to them?" Inutaisho asked in mock amusement.

"Well you can never tell." Inuyasha managed to say. "And I think that Ah-Un flies too high up into the sky, what if its saddle broke off or something?"

Inutaisho knew for a fact that Ah-Un's saddle was made of the strongest material, and practically you would need an electric saw to even make a scratch on it, but Inutaisho also knew that Inuyasha was aware of this fact as well, so he decided to play along. "Perhaps it's best that you check on it then."

Inuyasha's eyes sparkled. Perfect excuse. "Ahmm.. yes.. yes.. perhaps I should, safety is very important you know."

Inutaisho watched with a slight grin as his youngest son leapt over the balcony and made a dash for the dragon.

"Where is he running off to?" Izayoi asked walking up from behind.

"He… my dear, is going to take a ride on the horsy.." Inutaisho said with a smile.

Inuyasha bounded towards the picnic area and Ah-Un, but as he neared them, he slowed down and began an all too obvious slow, steady walk.

"Where are you going Inuyasha?" Kagome asked as she saw her husband walk past her.

"I am … a…. going to test Ah-Un's saddle." Inuyasha stammered. "Continue.. continue with your picnic."

"Uncle Inuyasha, do you want to ride on Ah-Un?" Rin asked him with bright open eyes.

Inuyasha tripped on his own leg, but managed to recover without too much embarrassment. "What? No. Why would I want to ride a scaly dragon? I just really have to test its saddle, so that you can ride safely on it you know."

Rin accepted the answer whole heartedly, but Kagome sighed in silent understanding.

But one thing that Inuyasha failed to notice in all his secret spy sessions, was that Ah-Un would only take Kagome for a ride or let her get onto it, when Rin came along. Inuyasha ignored Ah's menacing stare and proceeded to move to its side and kept his foot to hoist himself up onto its back. No sooner had he placed his bare foot on one side of the saddle and was about to haul himself up; Ah-Un lurched forward into a run. Inuyasha hopped, skipped, hopped and skipped again, on one leg, trying to maintain his balance and prevent himself from falling under the very heavy dragon. Just as he was about to untidily pull himself up, Ah-Un shot into the air. Inuyasha lost his grip, and fell backwards; he was only hanging on by the foot that was caught in Ah-Un's saddle.

"Yeeaaahaahaaaa….." Inuyasha shouted, after which he tried "Shoooing" the dragon to land. But Ah-Un completely ignored the half demon's muttering and shouting as it rose higher and higher into the air. "Land! Blast you!" Inuyasha shouted. "Laaaaaand!"

Finally Un who was the more sympathetic of the two heads, spared a glance at the unwanted, uninvited passenger who thought he could have a ride on them, and saw him dangling like a worm. Un rumbled softly to Ah, who was determined to drop their master's pestering brother in the river at the end of the woods. Finally giving in to its brother's deep rumbles, it agreed to turn and go back.

Kagome watched in shock, slight fear, and a lot of amusement as the two became a tiny speck in the light blue sky. Kagome knew that Inuyasha wasn't in any real danger, after all, half of him was the product of one of the most powerful demons in existence.

Ah-Un swooped down low and made a sudden descent, dragging their cargo along the ground before they came to a stop at the exact spot they were before.

"Ooohhh.hhh.h…." moaned Inuyasha as he sat up on the ground; grass and green all over his body, with a few bruises and a dazed expression on his face.

"Are you all right sweetheart?" Kagome asked kneeling down beside him. "You look a little… worn out."

"Being dragged along the ground will do that to him." Inutaisho said walking to stand beside Kagome, with a smile.

Kagome didn't look at Inutaisho, for she was sure that she would start to laugh if she did, and thus cause her husband to get upset.

"Uncle Inuyasha, are you okay? Is Ah-Un's saddle broken?" Rin asked with worry, kneeling down on all fours.

"Inuyasha spit out a mouthful of grass, "It's juuuuust… fhhine.. Rhinnn.." Inuyasha fell back to the ground.

Ah-Un smirked.

Back in the Bedroom…

"… and Ah-Un smirked!" Kagome finished unable to control her laughter.

Even Kikyo couldn't help but laugh at the incident.

Minutes turned into hours, and hours into days, and days into weeks; Kikyo got along very well with Kagome's new family. Kikyo hated demons, but this family was different, they were so very different. Kikyo couldn't remember the last time she had had this much fun, and feel this loved. Rin saw Kagome as a sister, but the much stronger and steadier Kikyo, she saw like a mother. Rin began spending a lot of nights with Kikyo, snuggled in close to her, feeling the warmth of a mother she barely had the chance to know. And Kikyo saw Rin, like she did Kagome when she was small, very quickly becoming very protective of her, and Rin simply loved that; only her Sesshoumaru sama showed a much fiercer form of protectiveness than her Kikyo.

Back to the Present (The Setting)…

Kagome refocused on Inutaisho who picked up the phone for what must have been the fiftieth time, to check if it was working. Jaken dejectedly walked in, carrying a tray with hot cups of tea that he had had made for no one in particular, it was just something to do to take his mind off the truth of the situation. Inuyasha picked up a cup, and emptied it instantly, the heat not affecting his numb senses or his tongue. He soon returned to stare out the window at the front entrance, again fingering Tessaiga. His instincts were telling him to unleash the wind scar, on those who had caused this upset in his family. Izayoi still had the wool and string in her lap, only now she was watching her husband shout at someone through his cell phone; desperately hoping for some good news. Kagome felt Kikyo's miko aura flare within her, in unrest, she was sure that Inutaisho and Inuyasha could feel it too. Kagome worried deeply about her sister, Kikyo was the type of person who always let her anger out, but this time she would do nothing but sit still, her face washed with anger and her palms clutching the soft fabric of her red skirt. A single tear rolled down Kagome's face as she wondered how what started as such a beautiful day, could turn into such a dismal one.

Their Thoughts…

Inutaisho; 'How the hell could this happen? Who would dare do this?'

Izayoi; 'Please, please, please, let everything be okay..'

Kagome; 'How could this happen to us…'

Jaken; '……………………………'

Inuyasha; 'When I find them I am going to tear them to pieces…'

Kikyo; 'It shouldn't be like this… it shouldn't, it shouldn't…'

They had waited for hours now,…… and she still hadn't come home from her private school….

'Oh kami, what is going to happen when he, learns of this…' Izayoi thought with a shudder.

It was a sad afternoon indeed, after all; their sweet, innocent, beautiful little Rin, was gone…

""Rin had been kidnapped""

I know it's not accurate, but how many times could people possibly read one chapter;56 Hits for this one. I thought people won't even bother opening this story… (well, I…, thought the stat was interesting…hmph!..)

Next Chapter; find out where (he) is, and what he is doing. At least that's what I think the next chapter is going to be about. But with this story, I have no idea, I am writing it on a whim. I almost 'never', 'just' did anything, let alone write a story. It's a freakishly weird experience, he heahehae heaheha.. I have the power to do anything to them, coz I don't have a theme to go along with this story. He he he heee… Maybe I'll kill someone… I .. meant … in the story.. he he. Seriously.. in the story…