Sango and Miroku were standing outside the door.

"So her name is Kagome?" Sango asked; Miroku nodded.

"Doesn't it sound familiar?"

"Yeah, like almost as if it were someone special, or was going to be special." Sango said thoughtfully.

"Wait, it couldn't be her, could it? The Kagome that ran away right before Aunt Kimi adopted her."

"It does make sense, those scars look old and the ones on her arms look as if they were made by pavement. Pavement from a car accident, that one of her parents died in, I remember Kimi telling us about her."

"Yeah, those two must have found each other on the streets and grew up together."

Kagome had heard the entire conversation, and was shocked.

"What? That lady was the old woman that going to adopt me?" Kagome leaned against the headboard. "Did Inuyasha know? If he did I'm going to kill him!" she looked down at him and frowned.

She moved his head aside and ran to the door. She figured it would be locked but tried it anyway. It opened easily. She looked down the hallway; one direction was a dead-end so she headed to the left. She took off running and saw Miroku and Sango a few seconds later. She tried to call out their names but nothing would come out, so she continued running until she could get their attention.

"Hello, we figured you would stay in there with Inuyasha!" Miroku said cheerfully; that was getting on Kagome's nerves.

She was hunched over panting. She held up a hand to motion for them to wait.

"What, what did you mean when you said that Inuyasha's aunt was going to adopt me?" she managed through gasps.

"Oh, you heard us. Well we meant just what we said." Sango sounded a bit surprised.

"Inuyasha was going to be the only child in this house so Aunt Kimi was going to adopt another child to grow up with him, and I guess it turned out to be you!" Miroku explained. "Though it is quite ironic that you two found each other."

"Now I'm gonna kill him whether or not he knew." She mumbled before turning around and walking back to the room.

Miroku and Sango glanced at each other, "Um, shouldn't we be going to save him?" they looked to see Kagome entering the room. "Nah."

"I almost feel sorry for him," Sango crossed her arms and stood there watching the door half expecting to hear noise of a fight in there, but there wasn't any sound.

"Don't you think we should do something? I mean, she is pretty tough. She's almost as bad as Inuyasha."

"Let's go!" Sango stated and took off towards the room.

They barged into the room and saw Kagome sitting with Inuyasha's head on her lap again. She stopped rubbing his ears and looked up at them.

"Eh, but you said you were going to kill him!" Miroku stuttered.

"I meant I was going to chew him out when he woke up, geez I wouldn't kill him, hes like my brother!"

"Inuyasha and brother in the same sentence, meaning positive relationship. That will never happen." Sango almost started cracking up.

"Why couldn't he act like an older brother?" Kagome pouted.

"Because he has an older brother and let's just say their sibling rivalry was always really harsh." Miroku commented.

"He has a brother? Oh, maybe this wasn't such a bad thing, I'm finding out many things that I will get to torment him for."

Miroku sat in a chair and Sango sat at the foot of the bed.

"So how did you two find each other?" Sango asked.

"Um, well I don't remember much, a promise he made, him carrying me to go find something to clean out my injuries from the accident, and then waking up in the morning and seeing him in his hanyou state. He found me on the night of the new moon." She stared messing with his ears again. "Ever since then we've taken care of each other."

"Why did you show up today?" Miroku propped his head up with his hands.

Kagome chuckled before she answered. "We've survived by stealing. Today we were supposed to steal that box. We had been looking forward to this one for a while now; Inuyasha because of revenge for some clowns his aunt, I guess she's your aunt too, she had stuck some clowns in his closet and he still wants to get her back for that." Sango and Miroku almost died of laughter.

"That's just like him!" Miroku managed.

"So what about you? Why were you looking forward to this place?" Sang regained her composure.

"I don't know, I guess I thought it would be a fun challenge, I mean, this is the biggest house for miles and has so many people in it." Kagome turned to Miroku, "And if it weren't you we would have had it easy!

"See what I mean, Sango, she's almost as threatening as Inuyasha!" Miroku pointed at Kagome.

"Why do you keep comparing-" Kagome looked down at Inuyasha. He had moved; he turned over and started to roll off the side of the bed. Kagome grabbed him and held him in the spot. "You're not going anywhere mister!" but gravity wasn't on her side, soon they both fell to the ground, Kagome landed on top of Inuyasha, her head was on his chest.

"Why do we have so much bad luck today?" she sighed.

"Hey, get off!" she heard Inuyasha mumble, "You're crushing me!"

"Finally!" Kagome rolled off him and pulled him up. "You have some explaining to do!"

"Geez keep it down will ya?" he looked around the room and saw the other two. He plopped down on the bed. "Great, we're still here aren't we? What did you use this time Sango? Powder, gas, pill, or liquid?"

"Oh no, you're not the one asking questions here!"

"Someone give me that drink so I can figure out why she's screaming at me."

"Oops, sorry, here your go." Kagome pulled it out of her pocket and handed it to him.

"Thank you, geez. Now what's wrong?"

"You knew didn't you? You knew that your aunt was the one who was going to adopt me didn't you?"

Inuyasha stared at her for a few seconds then finally decided to answer, "Yeah I knew, but what does it matter?

"We'll be going now." Miroku motioned for Sango and they left the room.

Kagome was still glaring at Inuyasha. After the door closed she continued. "Inuyasha I asked you many times if you knew who the person could have been and you always told me you didn't know! You were lying to me!" She stood in front of him with her hands on her hips. "You were lying to me about something as simple as that! It makes me wonder what else you haven't told me."

Inuyasha stood up. "I didn't know how you would feel, and I didn't want the one person who I had actually come to trust to distance them self from me."

"I would have accepted it and moved on, you should know that; just like when I found out you were half demon, I would have found the good in it and moved on. I would have accepted it." He wrapped his arms around her and she sagged against him. She kept muttering stuff as Inuyasha sat back down on the bed with her still in his arms. She was soon asleep. After laying her down, he walked out of the room; Sango and Miroku were standing there waiting for him.

"She okay?" Sango asked as they set off down the hallway.

"Yeah, I guess she didn't take it as well as she thought she could, or maybe it's because I've been lying to her, who knows. She's asleep, she was tired from the beginning, and I guess that just got her worn out."

He stuck his hands in his pockets

"So, how long do you think we'll be able to keep you here?" Miroku glanced at Inuyasha.

"I don't know, not long. Couple of weeks at most. Neither of us has slept in real beds in years." The others shrugged. "I take it you got her to tell you how we found each other and what we've been doing all these years."

"Yep, thieves huh. Sounds fun." Miroku grinned.

"You have no idea." Inuyasha shoved Miroku into the wall.

"Hey!" Miroku attempted to push Inuyasha but he jumped backwards and Miroku ended up pushing Sango instead.

"Miroku! Oh you're going to get it now!" Sango glared at him. She started for him but at the last second switched and smacked Inuyasha in the stomach.

"Hey! I'm not the one that pushed you!" Inuyasha growled.

"I know; that was payback for earlier." Sango innocently grinned at him.

"What did I do to you?" Inuyasha yelled.

"You smashed my finger between your big feet!" Sango held up her left hand, the ring finger was swollen a little bit and the nail was almost split in two.

"That's you fault for helping!"

"Hey Inuyasha, she said you treated her like you were an older brother, she isn't younger than you is she?" Miroku tried to stop the soon to be all out fight.

"Uh yeah, by two years, today is her seventeenth birthday. Why do you ask?"

"She just doesn't look seventeen; she looks older."

"Well don't get any ideas, you're already engaged."

"Don't worry; my dear Sango here is the only one for me."

"Call me dear Sango one more time and see what happens." Sango threatened.

"You should get the rings now; you already act as if you're married."

"Oh ya Sango, I won." Miroku held his hand out towards her.

"That's right; I forgot we had made the bet."

"Bet?"

"Yeah, after we started going out we made a bet on you. If you came back before we were married I win, but if you showed up after then Sango wins. And since we aren't married yet I won!"

"You guys are almost as nuts as her!" Inuyasha scoffed and shook his head in pity.

"Almost as nuts as who? Kimi or Kagome?"

"Both now that I think about it, but I was referring to Kagome the first time. Where are we going anyways?"

"To an old room that hasn't been used since you left." Miroku and Sango grabbed Inuyasha's arms so he couldn't run away.

"Kagome says you're still upset about the clowns in your closet."

"Oh come on you've got to be kidding me! No, let go of me! Come on guys don't make me go in there!"

"Too bad, you're going to conquer your fears whether you like it or not!" Sango said as she pulled the door open and shoved Inuyasha Inside. She and Miroku followed closely so he couldn't get out.

"Now, now Inuyasha, calm down! The sooner you accept them as friends the sooner you leave the room."

"Miroku you're a psychotic moron!" Inuyasha ran towards the window and attempted to break it, but it didn't work. He was stuck in the room. He looked for somewhere to hide, but everywhere he went a clown was right in front of his face. He decided to give Miroku a piece of his own medicine. Thus the clown war was started.

When Kagome woke no one was in the room, so she walked into the hallway, again no one was there. She faintly heard yelling in the distance. She walked for a few minutes and came to a light blue door that was closed.

"Miroku! Stop! Get that thing out of my face!" Kagome heard Inuyasha scream.

"It's for your own good!"

"I said get that out of my face!"

"What the heck is going on in there?" Kagome opened the door and saw Inuyasha lying on his back flailing his arms. Sango was holding down his legs again, and Miroku was sitting on his stomach holding a clown doll right up in Inuyasha's face. "What the heck is going on in here?" She saw the clowns that were randomly strewn across the floor; some had a limb or their head torn off.

"Ah, hello Kagome!" Miroku was thrown off Inuyasha as he bolted up and ran behind Kagome.

"Keep those psychotic creatures away from me!"

"What the clowns?" Kagome picked one up and threw it at Miroku; it hit him square in the nose.

"No those two." Inuyasha pointed at Sango and Miroku.

"What were you guys doing? What is this room and why are there clowns everywhere?" Kagome Interrogated.

"We were helping Inuyasha overcome his fear!" Sango said as she helped Miroku up. "And this," Sango held her arms out and spun around, "is Inuyasha's old bedroom."

Kagome looked at the room again. "I fully understand why you ran away; half the stuff in here is pink!"

"Yeah and the funny thing is, Inuyasha picked it all out." Sango smirked.

"No I didn't!" Inuyasha barked.

"It's okay Inuyasha you don't have to be ashamed that it's you favorite color, I mean mine's purple!" they stared at Miroku with wide unblinking eyes. "Geez, can't you take a joke?"

"Um, ok. We'll be going now." Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's wrist and walked her outside the room.

"Are we leaving?" Kagome asked.

"No, Miroku and Sango would be on us in minutes, we're going to stay here for a while, that is as long as my aunt makes us stay. If she doesn't we're leaving as soon as possible."

"So where are we going then?" Kagome asked as she followed him through the winding hallways.

"Somewhere those two can't find us." Inuyasha stated. He walked into a room and went strait out onto the balcony. "Here, get on my back." He jumped up onto a ledge and then had Kagome climb into a tunnel. "This leads to the roof, unless you have a ladder you can't get up there."

She squinted her eyes when she reached the opening. She crawled out and gasped. She could almost see the entire city. It was autumn so the roof wasn't steaming hot, it almost seemed a little cold.

"Wow! How did you discover this place? It's beautiful!"

"Actually I was running away from someone."

"Who, Sango and Miroku?"

"Nope."

"Your parents or grandparents?"

"Uh-uh."

"Your aunt?"

"Not even close."

"Hm, was it a relative?"

"Yeah."

"Were you running away from your older brother?"

"Yeah, how'd you know about him?"

"How else? Sango and Miroku told me, though they never told me anything other than the fact you guys had a very abusive relationship."

"That's an understatement."

Kagome leaned forward and looked at him.

"So what happened?"

"I think I did something especially cruel to him and he got pissed at me; like usual. He started chasing me, and I wound up on that balcony, I wasn't going down, I would have landed in the bushes, I knew that. So I jumped up and I found this passage way. If I remember right, Sesshomaru jumped off the balcony and almost twisted his ankle." Kagome crawled to the edge and looked over the side, it was at least five stories to fall, how he only came out with almost hurting his ankle scared her.

"Do you have any idea where your brother is?"

"Nope, and to tell the truth I really don't care."

"Don't you ever wish you could have had a good bond with him, one that only requires violence when you're bored and have nothing else to do?"

"I used to, but then we met and i never really thought of him again. I bet he's just as arrogant as he used to be."

"Hey, someone's here! Who is that pulling into the driveway?"

"I don't know- oh crap, it's him."

"Him?" she watched the man with long silver hair climb out of the limo, he had a fluffy boa looking accessory draped over his shoulder. "That looks like a woman."

"It's Sesshomaru."

"Your brother is gay?"

"No! He isn't gay! He just wears that weird fluffy doodad to make himself feel all high and mighty."

"You have one really screwed up family you know!"

"Well it would have been yours too if you hadn't ran away."

Kagome shrugged. "You know I think we should go greet him! Come on! I want to meet your family! All of the other weird people that are related to you in any way!"

"You've got to be joking, right" He sighed. "Well that means we're staying here for more than a few weeks!"

"But as long as Sango and Miroku have their wedding I'll get to meet most of them right?"

"Yeah, unfortunately that means I get to meet them again too."

"Come on Inuyasha it'll be interesting!"

"You say that as if it's a good thing, how do you always do that? Why do you always do that?"

"Do what?"

"Make it to where I can't say no."

"I guess sisters are good at that!" she teased.

"Fine let's go meet Mr. Arrogance." Inuyasha followed Kagome into the tunnel.