Lead Me To A New Path

"bleh" - speaking

bleh - thinking (also sometimes used to put emphasis on a word)

bleh - author (me) talking

A/N: Sorry for the delays. Been busy. Oh yeah, there's a tiny bit of slash in this, but if you don't like it just tell me okay? Enjoy.

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Chapter 6:

RECAP: They ran after them to the hot springs. . .but saw something they did NOT want to see!

"KAGOME!", Inuyasha screamed and grabbed his hair in disbelief.

"Oh, hey Inu.", Kagome greeted and waved her hand.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING. . .?", he gritted his teeth.

Inuyasha growled so loud the ground shook.

"Nothin', just having some fun.", she answered and slid her hand down. . .

"WITH KOUGA?", Miroku very screamed.

Kouga smirked. "What's the matter Inuyasha? Is the little puppy mad his chosen mate picked a wiser and MUCH better looking male?"

"Chosen mate?", Kagome asked and got up. She walked over to Inuyasha, swaying her hips back and forth, in all her naked glory.

"I-I-I-I. . .", Inuyasha stammered. He stared at her in even more disbelief than before as she rubbed her body up his.

Kouga grinned. "Later!" He got up, grabbed his clothes, and ran off in a whirlwind.

"What?", Inuyasha thought out loud as he looked from Kouga's departing whirlwind, and back down to Kagome. "What's going on?"

"Just wanted a confession is all.", Kagome smirked.

Inuyasha's mind was spinning. "Wait a fucking minute. . .! This is all a hoax? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?", he roared.

Kagome laughed. "No. I really do have my period. So a lot of the emotions were real, I just exaggerated them a tad bit more." She grinned innocently.

"What's a period?", Inuyasha asked.

"It's when a woman bleeds from–"

"OKAY, THAT'S ENOUGH!", Kagome and Sango screamed.

Miroku sweat dropped and decided to skip that part. ". . .Uh, yeah and they appear to get extremely hormonal during the given time of the month."

Sango and Kagome giggled. "Yeah so that's what's been wrong with us lately.", Kagome said and Sango nodded.

Inuyasha nodded as he took all this in. "Uh-huh. . .okay, but where do they bleed from? Are they hurt?"

Kagome and Sango's eyes bulged. Miroku feel to the floor laughing. "Curiosity killed the cat, Yasha!", Miroku joked and fell over once more.

"What cat?", Inuyasha asked them all.

Miroku laughed harder, along with a few snickers from Kagome and Sango.

"Inuyasha, that's something you don't need to know. It's not important.", Kagome waved him off.

Inuyasha 'humph'ed and folded his arms. Kagome went over to him and petted one of his ears. "Time to head back." She looked over to Miroku and Sango and smiled. "Call me when you know the date. . .I mean, drop a note through the well or something." She laughed along with them and continued. "I'll help with preparations. It'll be really pretty, I promise."

They smiled and nodded while giving her good bye hugs.

"See you guys later.", she waved and walked off in the direction of the well.

Inuyasha cursed to himself and ran after her. "Kagome wait!"

He ran out of sight from the camp-site.

"Think he'll tell her?", Miroku wondered aloud.

Sango smiled warmly. "I don't think he's that much of a wimp."

Miroku laughed and nodded.

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"Kagome wait!"

Kagome 'huh'ed and turned around from almost nearing the well.

She saw Inuyasha chasing after her.

"What's up?", she asked as he caught up to her.

Inuyasha breathed heavily as he tried to catch his breath. "I wanted to talk to you."

She smiled and said, "Oh sure. What about?"

"Well–"

guys, this is where the slash starts so when you review. . .or IF you review (heh). . .tell me if you want it taken out or rewritten or something, okay? the slash is between Inuyasha and Princess Tutu, but only slightly. you'll see. nn

"Lovey-dovey–zura?"

Inuyasha and Kagome looked towards the one who said the cute little statement and saw a little girl with blue-ish hair and skin, wearing small colorful clothes with puffed-out pants, with a drum hanging from her neck and holding drum sticks in each hand, standing in front of the well. She was in one word, adorable.

Kagome kneeled down to her and smiled. "And who might you be little girl?"

"My name's Uzura–zura.", she said and gently tattered at her drum.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and asked, "Your name is Uzura-zura?"

She shook her head and said, "No just Uzura."

Kagome laughed and nudged Inuyasha. "Hey Inuyasha, she's smarter than you."

Inuyasha's vain popped out at her joke.

"Well that's no surprise."

Everyone looked towards the person who obviously finds Inuyasha an idiot.

"Sesshomaru! What are you doing here?", Inuyasha yelled.

Rin came out from behind him and giggled. She ran over to the little drummer girl.

Uzura looked at her. "Happy–zura!"

Rin laughed. "Yeah, I'm very happy!"

"Rin, you're manners.", Sesshomaru stated without looking over to them. "Don't end up like my idiotic brother who has no grammar skills."

Inuyasha fumed while Kagome chuckled slightly.

"Yes, milord."

Rin waved to the drummer girl and ran back to the side of Sesshomaru.

Uzura walked up to the side of Kagome while tapping at her drum. "Lovey-dovey, Rin and Lord -Shomaru–zura!"

Inuyasha burst out laughing. That was probably the funniest thing he had ever heard. Kagome even let a few giggles out also.

Rin giggled and clapped her hands together.

And for possibly. . .okay, most definitely the first time in his life, Sesshomaru let a grazing blush slide over his cheeks, yet incredibly small, and almost unseen by the naked eye. XD!

Uzura looked at everybody and asked, "What's so funny?" She walked over to Sesshomaru and poked him in the stomach with her drumstick. "Why you blushing–zura?"

Sesshomaru lost his mask. He sneered down at her. This little girl was pushing him over the sanity edge.

He whacked her stick away and out of her hand. "Don't touch me with that infernal twig."

Uzura gasped. She glared up at him. "-Shomaru mean–zura!" She took her remaining drumstick and poked it hard–and I mean HARD–where the sun don' shine.

Inuyasha literally fell down laughing. This was killing him. Never in his life had he met such a girl to go up to Sesshomaru, talk freely to him, embarrass him in front of everybody, and then poke him in the you-know-what. Hell, no body he knew even had the guts to talk to the guy, forget pokin' him!

Kagome was having the same thoughts as Inuyasha. She is a very petite girl and knows to practice her etiquette skills, BUT THIS WAS JUST TOO DAMN FUNNY! She was trying her hardest to keep down her lunch at this point!

Rin was also laughing, although she had no idea what was going on.

Sesshomaru had it.

He picked her up by the neck, all the while squeezing the breath out of the poor girl.

Kagome gasped. "Sesshomaru stop!"

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes. He went over to them and tried to grab her from him but got punched in the face.

"Damn!", Inuyasha yelled and wiped some blood from his face. "What the hell is your problem?"

Rin looked up and frowned. "Lord Sesshomaru?"

Kagome was getting mad now. "Sesshomaru stop it! She's just a little girl! She didn't know better!"

Sesshomaru growled and retorted coldly, "Any girl who does not have the manners towards a tai-youkai Lord, such as my self, does not deserve to live in this world."

Uzura wanted to get down. This was hurting her.

She bit roughly into his hand, while also shoving her remaining drumstick into his stomach.

"Agh!", he screamed and held his hand in pain. He looked at it and noticed it was bleeding. He looked a little bit closer and saw. . .were those splinters?

"What?" Sesshomaru looked from his hand to the girl. "What are you?"

After getting her drumstick back she looked up to him and replied, "Me are me–zura."

He glared and turned from her to Rin. "Come Rin, we have no business here."

She smiled and nodded to her lord. "Yes, milord!"

Sesshomaru walked around his brother and their company with Rin following closely behind him.

Inuyasha and Kagome watched as they left. "Wonder what that was all about.", Kagome said, still staring after them.

Inuyasha shrugged and turned away. "My brother is always like that."

Kagome gasped. "Inuyasha, you know you just called him your brother, right?"

"So? What's your point?", he asked looking at her.

"Well, I don't know, it's just that whenever someone addresses you as his brother you get pissed off and say, 'He's my half-brother.'", she said, doing the quote of him in a mockingly-manly voice.

He scoffed and replied with a muffled, "whatever."

Kagome laughed slightly.

She turned towards where she saw where the little drummer girl last was.

Uzura looked up at her with surprisingly sad eyes. "How come mean -Shomaru didn't know me was me–zura?"

Kagome frowned and kneeled down to her. "Sesshomaru just got mad is all. Don't you worry about it." She smiled and patted her on the head.

Uzura brightened up and tattered on her drum once more.

Kagome giggled and stood up again. Hm. . .I wonder where she came from.

"So. . .um, Uzura, how'd yah get here?", Inuyasha asked, now being the one to kneel down next to her.

Why is he being so. . .caring. . .all of a sudden?, she thought, quite annoyed.

"Drosselmyer–zura!", she answered and banged loudly on her drum.

Inuyasha and Kagome looked to each other and back to the girl. "Drosselmyer?"

She stopped banging and put down one of her drumsticks. She reached into her coat and pulled out a book.

"Hey, it's one of those book-things Kagome reads to me.", he said and reached for it.

Kagome snagged it away from him quickly. "Nah-ah-ah! Let me read it first. I don't want you learning any more 'unnecessary' words."

He grumbled and stood up.

Kagome looked at the cover of the book. It presented:

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The Prince and the Raven

par: Drosselmyer

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"Hm. . .I've never read this before." She looked through it.

Inuyasha tried to get a peek into the book, but no prevail.

She closed it and looked to Uzura. "So you are his. . .daughter, I'm guessing?"

She shook her head. "No. I'm his puppet, Edel, but with a heart–zura."

Inuyasha and Kagome lost their marbles. "PUPPET?"

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