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I think a few things here are funny, right? Next chapter will be hilarious. At least I plan for it to be, if all goes to plan I will title that one Ring Around The Rosie.

Oh, I don't own Inuyasha.

"What did she say?" Sesshomaru asked, watching Melissa sob into her hands again. Kagome shrugged and shook her head. She spoke to Melissa while rubbing the woman's back. So humans did pet each other, just not on the head.

"Rin, go on inside and go back to bed, we'll be in shortly." Kagome told the young girl.

"But I want to know what happens." She protested.

"Rin, you need to rest. It'll probably take a bit to calm her down enough to find out more." Kagome told her, she looked to Sesshomaru for help.

"But..."

"Rin, go to bed." Sesshomaru ordered the girl.

"Yes, Sesshomarusama." The girl didn't dare argue with Sesshomaru.

"She was speaking so fast I couldn't really make it out." She began after the child left. "I think I might have understood part of it, I hope I didn't. Is there a possibility she was raped?"

"Someone was attempting to rape her when I found her. I killed him and Jaken disposed of the body in the river."

"A half a body floated by here, I thought it looked like your work." Inuyasha stated.

"I can not say what happened before that. She didn't have any clothing. I do not know if her attacker threw them in the river or if something else happened to her."

"You said her name is Melissa?" Kagome asked, noticing the woman seemed to have calmed down a bit.

"Jaken, is that the way she pronounced her name?" He asked his retainer. It sounded as though they had been mispronouncing her name. But he didn't know how to pronounce the name Kagome just said.

"Aye m'lord. I apologize, I attempted to say her name right but I was unable. I beg your forgiveness, m'lord." Jaken groveled prostrating himself before his lord.

"English is a hard language. They have sounds we don't learn in Japanese." Kagome said smiling. She then turned back to the young woman and spoke gently. Melissa shook her head and spoke. Kagome sighed in relief.

"She says she wasn't raped, you saved her." Sesshomaru nodded, it was a relief to know that much. Kagome was talking to Melissa again. They stood and turned toward the house.

"Inuyasha, find Keade, Miroku, and Sango please." Inuyasha nodded and went to find the elderly miko first as she was the wisest and it was her house Kagome was taking the woman into.

Sesshomaru went and sat beside Rin, who had fallen asleep. Melissa followed, sitting beside him and looking curiously at him and Rin. Kagome smiled, at least she had someone here she trusted. Kagome and Sesshomaru didn't exactly meet under ideal circumstances to say the least. But Rin and Melissa both saw something in him that wasn't readily apparent to others.

Melissa Wiped away her tears and forced herself to calm down while Kagome and the men spoke. She thought she'd cried more in the past week than she had in the previous year, and she hated herself for it. She was trying to be strong but damn, how much was one person suppose to handle?

She then heard a sound she hadn't heard in over a week, her name being pronounced properly. Kagome was asking Sesshomaru if her name was Melissa. Kagome sounded like she struggled with the L, and she imagined Kagome would end up calling her Merissa more often than not, but it was comforting to hear her name right now.

Then Kagome was by her side again. "I sorry, I not understand all you say. You were... You were raped?"

Melissa shook her head. "No. A man tried to rape me, But Sesshomarusama saved me." She heard Kagome's sigh of relief then Kagome spoke to the men again. Melissa pushed herself to her feet and allowed Kagome to guide her into a near by house.

"Come in house. I send my husband to get friends." She then spoke to Inuyasha and he walked away. Inuyasha was her husband? Then why was she taking care of Sesshomaru's kid? Where was the mother?

There was no furniture in the house. Even the little girl's bed was just a kind of thin mattress on the floor. She supposed since there were no chairs you just sat where you wanted. Sesshomaru was sitting next to his daughter.

She decided to sit near him. She wouldn't bother them, but he was the only person she knew here. He protected her and she wanted to be close to him in these unfamiliar surroundings.

They'd been seated only a few minutes when someone else came into the building and bounced straight up to Kagome. It was a little boy... with a fluffy orange tail? He spoke to Kagome then turned to look at Melissa. He was absolutely adorable. He had pointed ears like Sesshomaru, claws like both Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, and his feet were paws, but otherwise he was just a little boy with red hair and green eyes.

Inuyasha had dog ears and this little boy had a fluffy dog tail. Sesshomaru had neither, and his daughter looked completely human... Was Sesshomaru part human perhaps?

"Melissa," She looked from Rin and Sesshomaru to Kagome when the woman called her name. "This is Shippo." Kagome then spoke to Shippo and she heard her name. She lifted her hand and waved. The boy smiled at her. Then Sesshomaru seemed to ask a question.

"Melissa, that wave mean hello and goodbye, yes?"

Melissa nodded. "Yeah, it's usually used for kids though."

Kagome nodded then spoke to Sesshomaru. He nodded and then they all looked at the door as an elderly woman came through the door.

She had a patch over one eye and might have looked quite intimidating if not for the gentle smile she gave their lost visitor. She was followed closely by a man in purple with a small child on his hip and a golden staff in his other hand and a woman with an identical child on her hip and a baby strapped to her back. Inuyasha brought up the rear holding a tan and black kitten that looked at Melissa with blood red eyes then waved both it's tails.

While everyone seemed to be friends she was glad she had chosen to sit beside Sesshomaru and that Jaken had, at some point, sat on her other side. She had friends between her and these strangers. Kagome made the introductions then spoke to Shippo who led the two small girls out side to play while the adults talked.

With Kagome's help she explained how she ended up where ever she was and learned she was In Japan, just a few hundred years in the past. Kagome was from close to her time, 2000, Melissa was from 2015. But Kagome's way back to the future had been sealed, that was OK with her because she had a husband and son here.

Melissa also had to explain why she was naked when Sesshomaru found her. Well as he had clothed her he had a right to know. Then Kagome had asked about the markings Sesshomaru said she had on her body. Her tats.

She could have easily shown Kagome her wrists, but what fun was that? Sesshomaru wasn't interested in her at all and Jaken wasn't even human. It seemed like the women were in charge here so there shouldn't be any danger from the men. She decided to have a little fun and instead of showing her wrists she pulled her kimono up clear to her hip and extended her leg to show them the rose vine tattoo.

She looked at the men out of the corner of her eye. Inuyasha turned blood red and looked away. Miroku covered his eyes to avoid getting in trouble with his wife, but was peeking through the smallest gap between his fingers. She didn't even glance at Sesshomaru, But Kagome noticed he looked at her leg before focusing his gaze elsewhere. He was a youkai, but he was also a man after all.

Of course Kagome had shown a lot of skin once upon a time, but that had been a long time ago. And her legs had been constantly visible so they had gotten used to it. But to have a strange woman pull up her kimono and expose her leg... especially now that they were both married...

Kagome had a feeling she knew before she did it that exposing her leg would make the men uncomfortable. A little harmless mischief. A way to regain some small measure of control. She'd seen it in Melissa's eyes as she discreetly watched their reactions but didn't comment on it.

Melissa let the kimono fall and sat back down while Kagome started to explain tattoos to the best of her knowledge. That Melissa had sat or laid still for hours while an artist pierced her skin with a needle over and over to place small amounts of ink under her skin.

Melissa wasn't sure how long they talked but Sango had left the group twice, once to feed the baby and once to change him. Rin had woken up, though she'd mainly lain in her bed listening and drinking herbal teas Keade gave her for her cough.

Eventually Miroku and Sango left, they had some chores to do and it was time to feed the girls. After a quick lunch Kagome and Keade needed to get back to their chores. And with Sesshomaru watching Rin Kagome decided to go to the field and gather herbs. Needing to stretch her legs and eager to learn about Japanese herbs Melissa asked to tag along.

"Sesshomaru and Inuyasha are related, right?" Melissa asked after a while, helping to gather an herb for coughs that Kagome had shown her.

"Yes, they are brother. Have same father, different mother."

"They look a lot alike. And shippo? Is he related to them?" Melissa asked.

Kagome laughed. "Shippo and Inuyasha act like brother. They not related. Shippo is Kitsune, fox. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are inu youkai and hanyou, dog demon and half demon."

"Half demon? What's the other half?"

"Human."

"Ah, I did wonder." Melissa stated tossing a handful of herbs in to the basket between them. "He doesn't have dog ears or a tail, and his daughter looks to be completely human."

"What?" Kagome asked turning to look at her.

"Sesshomaru, he's the one that's part human, isn't he?" Melissa asked, looking at Kagome over her shoulder as she pulled more of the herb.

"No! Sesshomaru youkai, demon! Inuyasha hanyou, half demon." Kagome quickly explained, horrified a Melissa's mistake

"Sesshomaru is the demon, the youkai? Then is Rin a half demon?"

Kagome shook her head. "Rin not Sesshomaru daughter. I not know word... her parent die. Sesshomaru keep her safe, but not father."

"So she's an orphan and he adopted her? That explains why she doesn't look a thing like him. I wondered where her mother could be, I guess he's not married then?"

"No, I don't think so. Please never tell him you think he part human. Probably kill you."

"Is it that big a deal?"

"Yes."