Chapter Thirteen- Problems arise

A servant showed Kagome, Sesshoumaru, Rin and Shippo their rooms. Kagome's was across from the children's while her room was also joined up with the room next door, which happened to be Sesshoumaru's room.

Sesshoumaru was sitting at a desk in his room and growled quietly to himself. Tomorrow was the official first day of the ball; tomorrow he'd be bothered by every male youkai with daughters old enough to mate. He was to say the least, not looking forward to tomorrow. He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard a tiny knock at his door and he sighed, "Enter"

Rin peeked her head into the room nervously "uum, Sesshoumaru-sama, can Rin play with Kagome-chan and Shippo-chan outside? And can you join us?"

Sesshoumaru stayed silent for a moment maybe if I watch then I will forget about this ball even for a little awhile "I shall not join in your games, but I will watch"

Rin grinned as she watched the taiyoukai walk over to her. She walked with him to Kagome's room, right next door to his, and knocked. Rin smiled when she saw Kagome open the door.

Kagome looked to Rin then to Sesshoumaru before gazing back at the child "is there something you want?"

Sesshoumaru bowed "Rin wishes you and Shippo would play with her out in the gardens"

Kagome smiled "I'd love too" she looked into her room where Shippo was helping Kagome unpack her things "let's take a break and play"

Shippo looked at her before raising his arms up into the air and yelled "hurray!"

Sesshoumaru led them down the many halls till they finally reached outside and then led to a garden, free for children to play in. He watched as Kagome ran around with the kids. Sesshoumaru had to admit, once again, Kagome was different than other humans and was worthy of his respect. She was the only human to try to attack him with no chance in winning, the nerve to stand up to him when he could easily kill her and yet she had patience to deal with children and the love and the caring that went with it. And she was a human girl, normally Sesshoumaru despised them the most…or more their behaviour towards the demon lord which was either total fear or they would want to get laid by him and Sesshoumaru was only disgusted with them, but Kagome was a different human female. Not like the others he's met.

A servant came out and looked at Sesshoumaru "pardon me, Sesshoumaru-sama, but the other lords wish to discuss personal matters with you before supper"

Sesshoumaru nodded and stood up. Rin saw him starting to leave and ran up to him "where are you going, Sesshoumaru-sama?"

He looked down at her "I must speak with the other lords, go continue your play"

Rin nodded and ran off while Sesshoumaru went inside.

Inuyasha growled behind him where Sango and Miroku were walking to slow for his likely "hurry the hell up! We should have been in the northern territory by now!"

Miroku let out a tired sigh "can't we rest for a minute Inuyasha; we've been going almost non-stop"

"No" was the hanyou's reply

Sango frowned and turned to Miroku; letting Inuyasha getting further away "I hope Kagome and Shippo are alright. I don't think I can stand any more of Inuyasha's nagging"

Miroku nodded "I agree, I hope we find them soon, but I seriously need a rest"

Inuyasha growled louder "hurry the hell up!"

Miroku groaned "which I'm guessing won't be until Kagome's safely in his arms"

Kagome ran around for quite awhile until she found herself too tired to continue. The kids still had lots of energy so she told them to continue while she caught her breath. Kagome let out a deep, breathless sigh "boy am I tired"

"Who couldn't be tired after all that running around," said a voice from behind.

Kagome turned her head to see a lizard youkai standing there, male by the looks of it. Kagome gave a nervous smile "uum, hello"

He smiled and nodded "hello, my name is Euro, what is yours?"

"My name is Kagome" she replied. For some reason she still didn't feel comfortable around this demon. For some reason she felt more calm around Sesshoumaru, taiyoukai of the west, than she did this lizard youkai.

Euro nodded again "are you the human girl who has been battling Naraku, are you not?"

Kagome nodded "yes I am, but how did you know th-"

Euro suddenly pushed Kagome to the ground and held her wrists above her head "then you shall die!"

Shippo and Rin quite playing when they saw the lizard demon pinning Kagome to the ground. Fear gripped them both and they both called out to her. Kagome raised her head to look at them "get Sesshoumaru! Hurry!"

Rin and Shippo nodded and ran towards the castle as fast as their legs could carry them.

Sesshoumaru let out a frustrated sigh. From the moment he entered the room there was nothing, but talk about Naraku and his plans of trying to get the lower class youkai to attack the higher class.

Naylor, the northern lord, growled "we need a plan to stop them if they try"

Edoksu, the eastern lord, crossed his arms "and how do you suggest going about it?"

Naylor sighed "I don't know, but you have to agree we need a plan if those damn low class youkai try anything"

Sabura, the southern lord, sat in a chair and listened to the argument "if they do try anything it would take awhile to kill all of them"

Sesshoumaru looked at his cousin "what are you getting at?"

"War" Sabura stated, "That's what you might as well call it and if that's the case than we need all the allies we can gather and we should find the demons who are planning this and kill them"

Naylor took a seat in a chair "you may be right nephew, but how do we fi-"

Suddenly Shippo and Rin busted into the room. Sesshoumaru growled at their manners and was about to tell them to leave when he noticed the fear in their eyes "what is it?"

Rin started to cry, "Kagome-chan is in trouble!"

Edoksu, Naylor, Sabura and even Sesshoumaru were now paying attention. Shippo held back his tears and steadied his voice "hurry! She's out in the gardens, some demon is threatening to kill her, please hurry!"

In a flash all four inu youkai lords were out in the gardens only to see Kagome trying to fight off the lizard youkai. It growled, "Stay still bitch and this will hurt a lot"

Kagome's eyes widened when she saw Euro open his mouth, revealing all of his teeth, but she could find her voice to scream so she closed her eyes and waited to death to come claim her.

Sesshoumaru growled. She was too rare of a human for him to let her die so easily; not to mention he still hadn't figured her out yet. That was all the drive he needed to charge forward as he saw the demon go for the kill, Sesshoumaru punched the youkai away from Kagome. He looked down at her and watched as her eyes opened to look at him. He was taken slightly aback when she stood up and ran into his body with a death grip, pleading her thank you.

Naylor grabbed the lizard demon "who are you? And why are you trespassing on my lands?"

Euro looked at him and hissed like a snake "soon you youkai lords will all perish" with out another word he slit his own throat, killing himself.

Naylor growled and dropped the creature "this could be the work of Naraku's twisted games" he looked at Kagome who was still clinging to Sesshoumaru and looking at where the lizard demon's body lay "why would the creature be after Kagome though?"

Sesshoumaru pulled away from Kagome and saw her blush and gave a quick 'sorry' before moving a few steps away from him. Sesshoumaru stared at the dead creature "Naraku wants her out of the way"

Edoksu looked at his cousin "why? She is a mere mortal" he quickly looked at Kagome "no offence"

Kagome gave a nervous smile, still shaken up "none taken, Naraku wants me out of the way because I've come close to beating him a few times and spoiled most of his plans"

Naylor sighed "then we shall have to find you a personal guard while you're here"

Edoksu smirked "why? She's already got one"

Naylor looked at his nephew "what are you babbling about?"

Edoksu walked over to Sesshoumaru "he is her guard"

Sesshoumaru growled, "I believe you have been misinformed"

Edoksu chuckled "I think not" he then walked over to Kagome's side "of course youkai are not known to look after humans just because their life is at steak, especially us lords"

Kagome gave a nervous smile "well then I guess we'll just have to think of something else"

Edoksu shook his head "I think not my dear Kagome" he looked at the northern lord, his uncle "since she is fighting Naraku already and seems to be fairing well against him, she should be protected by a youkai and a taiyoukai would be her best benefit"

Sesshoumaru glared at his cousin "I will not lower myself to guard a human"

Naylor walked up to his western nephew "you seem to be doing that already" he then frowned "though Edoksu's idea is a good one it will not really work because of that fact that we lords and other youkai do not protect a human's life"

Sabura chose then to speak up "well uncle, youkai and taiyoukai alike have been known to mate with humans" he hinted "all we do is tell the youkai at the supper tonight that Kagome is Sesshoumaru's potential mate"

Sesshoumaru used his speed to sneak up behind the southern lord and gripped his throat "everyone knows my reputation for hating humans and it still stands"

"Sesshoumaru! Put him down," ordered the northern lord

Sesshoumaru reluctantly complied with his uncle's wishes. He then growled, "I refuse to go along with this plan"

Naylor huffed, "no choice it's been decided. You will protect Kagome and act like prospective mates" he gave a warning look "do I make myself clear?"

Sesshoumaru remained silent, but Kagome didn't "don't I have a say in this?!"

All four lords turned and looked at Kagome. Sesshoumaru remained silent while the other lords spoke as one "no!"

Kagome jumped back a bit startled geez demons sure are bossy she thought then again they are lords maybe they're suppose to act that way or something She watched as the three lords left to greet the other youkai, hanyou and humans that were arriving.

Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome how did I get into this? he wondered. He then remembered the deal he made with her. She healed Rin and she would get to stay at his castle until she felt ready to go to Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru only agreed because he was curious about her all because she was human and didn't fear him now I know why cat youkai die young he thought curiosity shall be the death of me

Sesshoumaru then saw Rin and Shippo were standing around and knew they had heard everything by the look in their eye that said 'yay'. He growled to himself.

Rin looked at her father figure "Sesshoumaru-sama? What does mate mean?"

Shippo grinned, "It when a two people get together and have children" he looked up at Sesshoumaru "so when do the children come?"

Kagome blushed a deep red "Shippo! We're not actually a couple, we're only pretending"

Sesshoumaru growled, "Go play with Jaken" the kids looked at him "I must speak with Kagome alone"

Kagome watched as the kids ran off to find Jaken and torture the poor unsuspecting toad. She then looked at the lord of the western lands and saw him glaring at her, which caused her to gulp I think I'm in trouble

. I hope everyone enjoyed their first day of skool, if they had it. Boy mine was fun, we had a special assembly for grade 12s where we learned that our absentness for one year (including the other grades) total 76 000, damn that's a lot. Principal said something like its totally 9.8 years for a normal skool. Lol. That's funny. Okay enjoy skool, note it may take longer for me to update, I've already written a few chapters a head, now it's just finding time to update them. Being in grade 12, I have more homework and it's insane.

.Taiyoukai- great demon

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