Alison got to the front gate and saw her girlfriend, she snarled to open the gate, and Topaz walked into the estate grounds, before fainting at Alison's feet.

Maria came out to join her. "Bring her to the manor, she needs rest."

"Don't tell me what to do with my own mate." Alison states, as she bent and lifted the female wolf demon into her arms.

Maria moved out of the way while Yasha got blankets and pillows.

Alison growled as she kept on walking. Harry ran ahead and got the door to Alison's room open then got of the way. Alison put Topaz on her bed, and held her, she wasn't going anywhere for awhile.

"Sis, do you want me to get you anything?" Harry asked meekly

Alison didn't answer, her attention was focused on Topaz.

Harry closed the door and went downstairs.

Maria went back the family room, and sat down, "What does that flea bag think he's doing?"

Sesshomaru was thinking. "I have no idea but I'm going to get answers this is the most stupidest thing he's ever done."

Yasha listened "I don't think you're going to do anything, this is between Alison and the Wolf Tribe Leaders."

Sesshomaru showed his protective streak. "That's my daughter, he upset with this and no one hurts her."

"And she needs to fight her own battles." Yasha challenged "What will it say about her when Daddy Dearest always fights her battles, that the people will think she is weak, and we all know Alison is anything but weak."

"No one has hurt Alison, not directly. But through Topaz, its she that has been hurt emotionally." Maria reasons

"Fine fine we'll let her call the shots but if that mutt wants to talk it going to be here."

"You seem think He's going to want to talk. I think its more along the line that his daughter is in love with another Female." Yasha commented

"Of all the stupid things."

"its not that stupid when its not highly looked upon by either race, human and demon alike." Maria states

"Dad, why I would have thought he would be happy that Topaz found someone that made her happy?"

"Its not that simple, some people demons included believe that you shouldn't be with people of the same gender as you are, males with males or females with females." Sesshomaru answers

'But shouldn't they be happy if they found love, I mean You and mom have no problem with it right?" Harry asked confused "and your older than Koga."

"Koga's older then I am." Maria states "Your father and I have no problem, now in this time period, but we had our moments, he was courting me without my knowledge."

"Also I am a male demon, your mother is female. We're accepted most couples are not, just like demon-human couples weren't accepted." Sesshomaru adds

"Well he's being a jerk can't he see what he's doing to her and Ali."

"You all seem to think I'm upset. I am not." Alison states, as she walked into the room. "She's asleep."

"Well I don't know, okay. I'm just a kid and that's good she looked like she needed it."

"Our relationship isn't accepted because we were born girls. Topaz is emotionally hurt, because she's been exiled from her pack. Her family, because of her father's anger at her being with a girl." Alison explains

"That has to be awful, i mean to be with out a pack"

"It is, wolves think of each other as brothers and sisters." Alison agreed. "Dog Demons aren't the same as wolves, we could care less about our other relations besides direct kinship. Just like Our grandmother, we don't want to see her."

"My mother." Sesshomaru corrected "Not your human grandmother."

Harry looks over to his family and then upstairs and shook his head not understanding why someone would remove a family member.

Remus entered the family room, his eyes wild as he searched among the dogs for the howling, he heard. "What is going on. I heard a fellow wolf in pain."

Sirius followed "I heard most of it. I can empathize with your Topaz, Alison. I was exiled from my own family, after I ran away."

"True but you found yourself a new family in James and Lily."

"I in Kagome and her blood family." Maria agrees

"And don't forget Mr. Lupin as well."

"All true But the fact is that getting exiled from your family no matter the reason still hurts," Sirius pointed out.

"Yes, it hurts even worse when your own father won't listen to reason." A new voice agrees, as Topaz joined them. She went and joined Alison, as she laid her head in her dog demon's lap.

"I'm sorry that your dad is a jerk maybe on the same level as Malfoy."

"My father isn't a jerk." Topaz snapped "You sound just like the stories about InuTrasha."

"Hey! My uncle had a good name and say it right, InuYasha!" Yasha exclaims

"If he treats you this way yes he is."

"Your Father can't stand humans." Topaz snapped

"That's not true now in the past yes but he changed and grew up some more." Harry points out

"She's right." Sesshomaru admitted

"But you deal with humans all the time and what about my birth mother and father?"

"I deal with the humans because I have too. I do not like them, they are annoying. As to your birth parents, I never knew them. I tolerate Remus and Sirius, because they are only half-human. I am fond of you because you are special to me, you remind me of Rin." Sesshomaru answers

Harry sat down confused he didn't know this about his dad.

"That's why we're evenly matched, I love humans. Because I understand them to a point." Maria adds "Even now in this time, I am living with humans."

"Did you hear him, Mooney, we're only half-human." Sirius grins

"Do you know any other human that can turn into a dog at will?" Remus questions "or a wolf during the full moon?"

"True there Mr. Mooney, i guess our lord does have a point"

Maria stood up, and headed out to the kitchen since she gave the staff the week off to spend with their families, she needed to start preparing dinner.

Harry left to find Ron and to warn him about keeping his mouth shut with Ali and Topaz."

Ron shuffled into the kitchen and found Maria singing to herself and cooking.

"You have a very pretty voice, Mrs. Taisho." Ron said as he walked into the kitchen "Do you want a hand with making dinner?"

"Ouch! Damn It!" Maria yelped as she sliced her finger when Ron came into the room.

"Oh know,I'm so sorry here let me fine a first aid kit." he began looking a round.

"There isn't a first aid kit." Maria states, as she ran her finger under the water, watching. "Demons heal fast, and this is just a minor cut."

"Still I'm so sorry I was just wandering around after Harry told me and i thought I'll just come here for a bit."

"Don't be, and its just Maria. Or Aunt Maria, if you want. Every time, I hear Lady Taisho, I look over my shoulder thinking, I'll see my mother-in-law." Maria replies

"Sorry, still do you want a hand with prepping for dinner mum always made sure we helped out in the house."

"No thanks, this is my family's tradition as it were, I have to remind my mate that I can still cook. Even if I hate it." Maria responds as she shuddered at the memories of field dressing and cooking Sesshomaru's kills centuries ago.

"i guess so Maria but still i want to do something to help out."

"You are helping without even knowing it, with you being human, its making my mate think in new ways." Maria answers as she put veggies into the pan to fry, she went out and gathered noodles and meat.

Ron looks around "I'm sure your right ,Maria. However, sometimes I just wonder why, I mean Harry is a great guy and a good friend but then i see how smart and more charming he is and i just feel a like a bother to him and yours."

Maria smiled "For me, I had centuries of practice, do not worry so much, you'll learn in time. Aside from Sesshomaru and Yasha, you're the only male in the house that is Harry's friend. I am nothing more then his adoptive mother, someday, he won't need me in the role, I am now. None of my pups will. Friendship remains the same if centuries go by and humans weaken and die with age."

"Your right Maria, I just got to be a good friend to him and show him i would stand by him as well, but i wonder how he doesn't have more friends I'm sure he had to have made made some besides Kikyo?" Ron answers, " And Harry is always going to need his mum and dad that's just human nature there."

"That is my fault, I thought I was protecting him, he is only human after all. I've lost so much in the past, I couldn't bare to think that I would lose him to due to my negligence. I've home-schooled him...teaching him through my experiences." Maria answers

"My mum was like that too with Bill and Charlie but then with Percy and the especially to with the twins she learned to ease off a bit not saying she still don't drive us all bonkers with her mothering." Ron chuckled a bit then his stomach gave a small growl.

"Look at me jabbering on, while they're is supper to get on the table." Maria states, as she finished preparing dinner.

Ron helped her out by setting the table and calling everyone to dinner, Alison was still with her mate and choose to eat in her room with her.

The next morning, Maria and Sesshomaru stood next to each other as a tornado of leaves appeared in their courtyard, as a the female wolf demon appeared with her hands raised up in a gesture of friendship.

The rest of the group greeted her civilly as she entered the room. Harry was feeling conflicted as her saw her as his aunt but at the same time her mate hurt his sister by his actions.

Alison had her arms crossed. "Ayame."

"Look, Koga is a dumbass, I won't contest that part and what he did was dishonorable. I do not have a problem with you or Topaz being a couple." Ayame states

Sesshomaru just huffs as the rest just wait Ron being the only human in the room felt he really shouldn't be here right now. Harry just kept his eye on Alison and Ayame not knowing what to do.

"Good Grief." Maria muttered as she sat down. "Ayame have a seat, if you will."

"So.. " was all Alison said her glare burning holes into Ayame.

Everyone slowly settled in thier seats the tension in the room was some what less than it was before but still there.

Ayame sat down, "Will you stop glaring at me, I'm only one woman, I can't make the idiot see sense. He may have said Topaz was out of the pack, but I didn't say a word about that and I gave him a piece of my mind that evening."

"Good the wolf needs to learn that you can't force the heart to love someone if its not there." was all Sesshomaru said. The rest just nod in agreement.

"He didn't learn that lesson with Kagome choosing Inuyasha." Ayame pointed out. "I'm just saying give him time to think things through, the rest of the wolves are upset with him, and if I weren't the granddaughter of the last Elder. No one would listen to me."

"I just don't see what his problem is anyway Ali is a good person and I know she'll love Topaz like no other one could."

"I think we had this talk before, no one likes seeing people of the same gender as a couple some thinks it goes against nature." Alison answers

"I know sis but it just gets me so mad how someone as old as Mr. Koga is can be so closed minded to the point, he hurting his own daughter." Harry growled softly.

"And that is the point, I'm trying to make you see, cause he is older then us, he lived in a completely different era where couples of the same gender were not even looked at much less accepted, they were looked at as evil or possessed by evil spirits." Alison answers

Topaz walked into the room, "Will you stop talking about me like I'm not here, I am not hurt, you're confusing the emotions of being hurt and being pissed off."

Harry shrank back and looked at the floor shamed. " I'm sorry Topaz, I'm just confused by all this, thats all."

"I know father is a pig at times and that doesn't give me a good enough reason to just hate him for the rest of my life." Topaz replies "I've known that I wasn't normal since I was a younger pup."

"What's normal in this world anyway where magic is real and demons walk among us."

Ayame stood up, "I would love to stay more but I must get back before Koga notices I left...Topaz, my youngest daughter, jewel of my heart. Remember, that everything will be alright, you are not banished from the pack, just give me some time to make your idiotic father see reason. He doesn't understand with you and Alison together, the Wolf Demon Tribe and the Dog Clan are stronger allied then ever." Ayame turned to hug Topaz and Alison then left the room to head back to her home.

Topaz sighed as she left the room, "I need a long soak."

Finally, Christmas arrived and Ron woke up excepting gifts to be on the bed. Which there wasn't.

"Harry, where are the gifts shouldn't they be on our beds?" He asked looking around.

"They are in the living room around the tree." Harry answers

"Why would they be there?"

Keiko opened the door and toddled into the room, "Up, Up, Up! Shiny paper time!"

Harry got up and grabs her "Yes indeed kei its shiny paper time lets go get Momma and dad." He walks out the room bouncing her along.

"We're already up. Keiko's been up for an hour, we tried to get her to calm down." Sesshomaru answers

Harry just laughs "At least its not three pups doing it this time." As he tickles Keiko's belly.

"Give me my kid." Sesshomaru states as he took Keiko, "Alright, young pup. We need to wait for the others."

"Come on Ron lets head down the other won't wake till so coffee in in the air."

"Boy, are you wrong." Topaz states, as she came out wrapped in a housecoat.

Ron yawns and follows him down to the kitchen as Harry starts up the coffee pot.

Sesshomaru sets to work on making breakfast for the children. "Tea leaves are in the cabinet."

"Right sir, I'll get them." Ron pulls out the tin of tea leaves out.

Sesshomaru made a mixture of items, sausage, mushrooms, hash browns mixed with eggs.

The two older pups slowly make their way to the kitchen looking groggy and not wanting to be up right now.

Maria walked into the room, "How I love to see a male cooking." which earned her a growl from Sesshomaru. "Keep it up, Lord of the Fluff, and you won't get your gift from me."

Harry and Ron just groan at the flirting the grown-ups did "Mom please its too early."

"Get your mind out of the gutter, I wasn't suggesting anything like that. I meant I wouldn't give your father one of his gifts that are under the tree, he would wait until the new year." Maria laughed

"Still mom watching you two flirt this early in the morning to much sugar." Harry tried to tease.

"Well we could be like every other couple on the planet, fussing and fighting over every single thing?" Maria questions

"Nah then i would think your pod people like in that old movie we saw." Harry smiles Ron looked confused "You...they're not pod people in the first place.'' He then realized what he said out loud and blushed while giving an apology.

Sesshomaru and Maria grinned and waved off the apology.

Yasha just groans and reached for his cup of tea "You people are far to noisy for this early in the morning."

"Must be your side of the family." Maria comments