A/N: Here are tidbits of what was supposed to fully be a completed chapter but I lost heart at the 10k mark of words but essentially you can see what I at least did.
Thanks for everyone that stuck with me through my computer crashing and to the end of this story. :D
Enjoy~
Snippets
Kagome made it a point a few weeks later to have a dinner with everyone. That meant that Sesshomaru had to go on a search to find Kenichi and his boy toys as well as find out where his mother had gone to. Kagome sicked Inuyasha on a quest to get Miroku and Sango as well as Shippo and Rin; he did not approve of this, which made it funnier.
She had sent a letter out to Naraku a couple days after she reunited with her mother and told him that he was wanted at her house in two weeks time. She asked him to bring Kagura and Kanna if he could.
She and Shiori were the ones making dinner for tonight, throwing whatever they could find and making that work. Shiori told Kagome that whatever she threw together would taste amazing, no matter what she was making.
Kagome called upon all her elements, giving them orders to help out around the house. Some helped out with the dining room table, setting up plates and glassware while the others helped Kagome out with food in the kitchen. Zhou-Mao refused to do any of that and stayed near the doorway, for a chance to escape if he could. His mate thought differently—of course she did.
Inuyasha had finally arrived back with Sango and Miroku, who were happily chatting with Rin and Shippo, trying to catch up with what the two of them had been doing. Inuyasha, the moment that he smelled food, whined to Kagome to give him a sample. He nursed his hands when she whacked him as he walked back out of the kitchen, flopping down next to Shippo. He snickered at him.
The door once again opened and in walked InuKimi—Sesshomaru actually managed to find her. They all watched the lady stroll up behind Kagome and hug her. Their reunion consisted of squeals and tears; it seemed like a habit when it came to Kagome. Despite being demon, she still had a ton of human emotions. InuKimi joined in the women with making food, adding her own thoughts into the mix.
Sesshomaru sat down next to Inuyasha and stared at his hands; they were red and swollen. His brother merely mumbled something incoherent but Sesshomaru understood what happened. His brother and his stomach led that to happened.
Kenichi had starting laughing when he heard what happened to Inuyasha as Jasper and Sebastian looked at each other in wonder. When Sesshomaru had appeared at the doorstep to their home, they were scared shitless. They assumed that he had finally come back to them to finish them off. Now that they thought about it, Sesshomaru played it off well in scaring them before asking where Kenichi was. And when Kenichi saw his friend, smiles and welcomes occurred.
And then there was a knock on the door; no one moved but Kagome came out of the kitchen with a grin as she went over to the door. The moment that she opened it, she flew into an embrace with Naraku. He was stunned that this was the reaction but nonetheless, hugged her back. Naraku could hear Sesshomaru growling and let go of the woman rather quickly. She welcomed him into her home before hugging Kagura, who was standing behind him with a smile on her face.
She made small chat with the two of them before asking where Kanna was. Kagura had answered and said that Kanna died about a hundred years ago. Kagome had a moment of silence as she grabbed Kagura and dragged her to help out with the food. That left Naraku, by himself, with people that he tried to kill in the past; that nerved him.
Kagome even invited over the elders of the West. They immediately agreed; who in there right mind would ever decline Kagome's food? Certainly not them.
She had phoned her mother and Souta that they should join the dinner as well. Her grandpa had died sometime after the time Midoriko had shown herself to explain what happened to Kagome. She didn't find out until after the first day of reuniting with her mother; a little bit after everyone was getting ready to leave.
They could all smell the divine food that was being prepared as well as hear the movement in the kitchen before Shiori came out and said, "Dinner is ready, follow me."
Everyone relocated to the dining room and gaped at the amount of food on the table. "Kagome, I love you, so much. Trade places with Shiori okay?" Inuyasha drooled as Sesshomaru whacked him over the head for even suggesting that. "Ow! Kagome, your mate is mean!" Inuyasha then noticed the glare aimed at him by Shiori and smiled at her sheepishly.
"My mate is your brother; of course he is!"
"Thanks for standing up for me babe," Sesshomaru said dryly.
x
InuKimi flushed with a giggle herself. It was funny and it was true, she didn't know how to cook. That was what servants were for. "That's why I have cooks in my home," she told her.
"I taught Shiori how to cook—I mean, I had to," Kagome laughed as Inuyasha's ears flattened against his head in shame. "Have you seen the amount of food Inuyasha can eat?" Half the table laughed at the joke; they all knew just how much Inuyasha could eat. "He could eat all of the food on this table and still be hungry!"
"Kagome!" Inuyasha whined. "You've gotten mean! You've picked up on Sesshomaru's habits!"
Kagome stuck her tongue out at him. "If anything, Sesshomaru taught me how to put up with you."
"So cruel."
x
Kagome giggled then said, "So, Naraku, how come you weren't at the festival this year? I missed you." Naraku's eyes widened.
"What?! I thought it was next month!"
"No, it's always been in in the middle of September," she told him as his head bent down and he groaned.
"No! I had the perfect kimono and the perfect hair style and makeup! You told me it was going to be next month!" Kagura whined. She glared at the man across from her as he nervously laughed. "Remind me again why I shouldn't kill you?"
"Because you love me?"
She scoffed. "Love you my left foot. You make me sick."
"Sounds like my hatred for Kagome," Zhou-Mao said as Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes on the god. Kagome flicked him off as her mother scolded her, everyone around chuckled at the sight.
"You are just mad because he punished you to her," Draicia commented, taking a bite of the delicious chicken.
The man scowled. "Well, he shouldn't have and he took away my ability to see what is going to happen! I thought being punished just to be her element was enough but no."
"Yes but I would not have milady any other way. Plus you have to admit that she has grown on you," Draicia pointed out as she turned her head in the direction of Kagome, who looked on in confusion, as did everyone else for that matter. Then she explained, "You see, Zhou-Mao, the god of time, was punished for his crimes for interfering with Fate and because of this, he dragged a lot of people down with him. You may know us as your elements."
Kagome gaped. "Wait, so you're saying that I could've actually not been an elemental?" Draicia nodded. "So Zhou-Mao is the reason I'm an elemental?" She nodded again. "Why did he interfere with Fate?"
Zhou-Mao sighed, deeply while glaring at his mate with a passion. Then Oras opened his mouth.
"You see," he started as the ex-god shook his head to try to get Oras to shut up. Oras smirked widely at him. "You see, Zhou-Mao was upset with his other mate; Fate."
"Holy shit!"
"Ooh, mom said a bad word!" Akira laughed. Kagome shushed her son.
"Bullshit!"
"Ooh, uncle Inu said bad word!" Hikari giggled as both Inuyasha and her mother shushed her.
"Fuck!"
"Ooh, dad said a bad word!" They both exclaimed. However, they shut up when their father glared at them. There were nervous chuckles around the table in that moment.
"Fate?! As in the blond jackass that attacked my bond with Sesshomaru? That Fate?!" Kagome growled as Oras nodded happily. "I don't get it, why would you mate with Fate?"
Zhou-Mao shrugged. "I was young and stupid, and he was hot."
"See, now that I can relate to. I was young and stupid too but the fact that Sesshomaru was hot, was a bonus." Kagome and Zhou-Mao looked at each other before both of them started laughing, hard. Perhaps it was the only thing that the two of them had in common.
"My dear, I think you should be offended by that statement," InuKimi said.
"I think I should be," Sesshomaru answered, "Kagome."
She looked at him, her hands on her mouth to try to resist the giggles that were coming out of her mouth. "Yes? What, you have to admit that I was at least one of those things! Inuyasha would agree with me at least on the stupid part!"
"Damn straight I would! I mean seriously, how stupid can one get for stattering the jewel?!"
"You're still on that? God, grow up! I said it was an accident! I wasn't about to allow that boy to die!"
"Regardless, you pulled off a horrible stunt!"
"Mister I-want-to-be-a-full-demon, blew a gasket for a gem." Inuyasha huffed at her. Kagome touched her side as Inuyasha honed in on that. "I guess it's a good thing that your plan didn't work out, eh?"
"Had it worked out, you would be dead, Sesshomaru wouldn't have gotten a mate and mellowed out, you wouldn't have kids, and I wouldn't have my Shiori," Inuyasha admitted to her as her eyes softened.
"Why would I be dead?"
"Have you not seen when I go full demon? Cause I'm pretty sure I attack everything and anything within my path with the intent to kill."
"Oh, yeah that would do it. Totally forgot that tidbit." Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Well it was true; Kagome was terribly forgetful.
x
Souta cleared his throat as all eyes went to him. He paused as he rubbed his neck in a nervous manner. He wasn't expecting every single person to look at him. "So, what do you around here for fun?" He saw his sister's eyes light up and wondered if that was a bad thing.
"We could have Kagome get kidnapped for a while, that would be fun. Just like old times," Kenichi piped in then whimpered when half the table glared at him. Jasper and Sebastian laughed from the sides. Souta stared at him like he lost his mind. He had to be for even suggesting that.
Sesshomaru sighed, "I prefer not to go rescue her anymore than I already have."
"You don't love me!" Kagome pouted.
"If I didn't love you, I wouldn't have saved you all those times."
"Well you rarely say you do." Sesshomaru felt multiple twitches on his face when she said that as he heard his brother snicker.
"That is because we are in front of company," he said slowly.
"My mom and dad used to say it all the time when I was little!"
"It's true," Michiko agreed but it didn't seem like Sesshomaru heard her as he only had eyes for his mate at the moment. Despite what her daughter was saying right now, she could tell that Sesshomaru does in fact love her. The eyes were the insight to seeing what others could not.
He leaned back against his chair, pausing in eating as he watched Kagome. She had her ears pressed against her head; they were drooped as her eyes looked sadly at him. Kagome always did this when she really wanted something to be said aloud. It could get annoying at times. Like now for example.
"Kagome, maybe you don't know Sesshomaru as well as you think?" Kenichi stated, not liking the sad look on her. She glanced down the table to him with a tilt of her head. He heard Jasper and Sebastian as well as Kagura, squeal. He rolled his eyes at them. "Sesshomaru isn't exactly one to show or play on his affection in front of others. It's just not how it works. Now if you're alone with him, that's different."
"I know, he says it all the time when I'm alone," she admitted with a frown. "But still, I would like to hear it every now and again in front of my family."
"Not going to happen," Sesshomaru uttered under his breath but he knew that Kagome and anyone that had good hearing, heard him as well.
"I can bribe you to say it," she said, her eyes flickering in a way that meant that she was up to something.
"Try, I would love to see what you say."
Kagome hummed, her eyes going around and catching everyone's, some smirking back at her as if she wasn't going to succeed in making Sesshomaru say those three little words. "Well, I can't bribe you with sex," she began as Inuyasha snorted. InuKimi's eyes widened; what a way to start. "Since I know just how much of a sex addict you are."
"I did not need to know that," Zhou-Mao muttered, gagging a bit.
"I agree," Inuyasha added, a little pale.
"Ew," Souta added, his face was twisted with disgust. Kagome giggled at the three of them.
Kagome snapped her fingers. "I've got it!" She turned to her mate. "If you tell me in front of everyone, I'll answer any question you want about anything. You know I don't normally talk about myself."
Sesshomaru actually looked intrigued. "Really?"
"Yup!"
"Really?"
"Yes," she said dryly.
"I can ask you anything I want about you?" She nodded. "Anything at all?" She continued to nod. "How do I know that you're not tricking me?"
"You can ask in front of everyone if you don't believe me but I should point out that I can't lie to save my life so..." she trailed off. "Go on, ask away."
Even though Inuyasha was a few seats down he whispered, "Take the deal bro! You're not going to get another chance like this!"
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow to him then slowly smirked. "All right, I'll bite." He took a moment to think of something then said, "What did you really do with Rin?" Kagome blinked, confused. "The day you saved her, she said that her heart felt like it was bleeding. What did you do?"
She gasped and sharply looked to Rin. "Rin, did you really say that?"
"Uh..." Rin nervously laughed then groaned. "Yeah, I did. Wow, that was a while ago. Sometimes I think Lord Sesshomaru is an elephant; he never forgets anything!" she complained as Shippo snorted into his glass across from her. Rin looked into Kagome's eyes and told her, "The day you saved me, later on after we dropped you off with your friends, I felt something off. I would not be able to explain it if I tried. All I knew was that I needed to be near you."
Kagome smiled weakly at her as Rin grinned back at her. "Aw, Rin."
"You know, that same day, Sesshomaru came to me asking did I ever feel like my heart was bleeding when I was away from my mate," InuKimi revealed as Sesshomaru looked away, finding the walls very interesting. Kagome intently stared at her. "I told him that yes, sometimes it felt like that, especially when he was very far away from me but that's a soul bond. They're meant for mates; I have never heard of it to be between a child and someone like that of Kagome."
"Midoriko said that I bonded with Rin with my whole being. How I did that, I will never know." Kagome looked to her lap with a sigh. And she didn't. Even to this day, the only way that she knew that she was bonded to Rin was because she could feel her everywhere.
"She also said that it was like a mother and child bond. There was no mention of soul bonds though," Inuyasha added, furrowing his brows in wonder.
InuKimi blinked a couple times. "That is weird, that much is for sure."
"So, you don't actually know what you did to Rin?" Sesshomaru asked as his mate nodded to him. "Okay, I suppose I'll accept that answer for now. Another one that I really want to know though, why did you never tell me you had family? I only found out about two weeks ago. And for that matter, that entire topic was taboo in our home."
Kagome twiddled her fingers together, feeling the eyes of her mother and brother as well as Sesshomaru's on her person. She was so happy when someone else answered for her. "Oh that's easy!" Oh god, Chewy answered for her; maybe that's not a good thing. "It's not like you talk about your family. We have never heard you utter anything about your father or even ranting about Inuyasha and or your mother. Plus, if Kagome really wanted to keep that to herself, she really didn't have to talk about it to you."
Dead silence as everyone waited for Sesshomaru to react. When he didn't, some worried, like his mother. "Chewy!" Kagome chided.
"What?! It's Chebawi! And it's totally true!"
"You call him Chewy?" Zhou-Mao simpered. "I'm so proud! Finally I have someone on my side when I call you that!"
Chebawi glared at him. "You know what, shut, the hell, up! No one is talking to you!"
"You're talking to me, you realize," he pointed out as Chebawi let out an annoyed sigh. The child twitched, itching to strangle Zhou-Mao.
"You know, the brat's right," Sesshomaru replied as the two elements looked at him. Kagome traveled her eyes back to him. "I never have said anything about my family so I guess you're off the hook." She glared at him as he grinned down to her.
"You owe me three words."
"I know, but first I'm going to get my fill of questions out of you."
"Which means, that you're going to question me until everyone slowly starts leaving so that you can say those words when we're alone."
"Oh, you know me so well," he smirked.
Kagome threw her arms in the air before banging her head against Inuyasha's arm. Inuyasha chuckled at her antics. "Can we question you as well? Or does it only apply to Sesshomaru?" he asked as Kagome groaned.
"Only applies to him."
"Damn."
"So, your means of fun, involves my sister getting kidnapped?" Souta suddenly questioned, still trying to get some form of an answer out of anyone. Inuyasha looked to him with a smile. Souta narrowed his eyes on him before Inuyasha looked away.
Kagome giggled. "It only happened three times though!" she said, purposely ignoring her mother's and brother's looks.
"Only three?" Michiko asked. She knew just how much trouble her daughter could get into but...
"Well only three while under Sesshomaru's care," she admitted.
"And a bunch of times while under my care," Inuyasha added as well. This earned him a glare from her mother.
That sounded more like her daughter.
Naraku chimed in, "I'm pretty sure I helped in some of those kidnappings."
"That's an understatement," Miroku muttered.
Michiko looked horrified. "Sweetheart, you mean to tell me that your friends with your kidnappers?" Kagome's laughter created a chain of laughs, mostly consisting of Inuyasha and Kenichi as well as herself.
"Well that's one way to say that," Sango nodded then shook her head.
"So being kidnapped is your way of fun?" Souta rolled his eyes. "Honestly sis, what the heck?"
Kagome looked at him then said, "My idea of fun is pile on Sesshomaru."
Inuyasha turned to her with a stunned look. "You only do that when you're alone with him though."
"And how do you know that, little brother?"
"I live with you, how else do you think? Plus, the walls are thin." He seemed to pale a little. "Then there's the scent that goes along with that." Kagome flushed.
"The same can be said about you and your... escapades," Sesshomaru addressed, causing both half-demons to blush feverishly.
"Ew," Hijitaka gagged. Iwasaki blinked then blushed as well. "Lord Sesshomaru, please for the love of everything and everyone in this room, keep your stories to yourself." Iwasaki nodded rapidly in agreement. Gou and Ichiyama watched on in amusement.
Sesshomaru allowed a smirk to makes its ways onto his face as he looked to Hijitaka while saying, "I am almost positive that everyone at this table has in fact done those... events."
"That's entirely besides the point. I don't need to know what the lord of this house is doing!" he whined, "Let alone what happens with the other occupants in this house!"
Michiko seemed to come to understanding when Sesshomaru said that then blinked. Clearly her daughter had done that, since she had grandchildren then her eyes locked with her son. "Souta!" she growled out as her son squeaked. They both heard Kagome's giggles. "What have you been doing to that poor girl?"
"Nothing, honest!" Souta looked cornered.
"Oh, you've been doing that with—that explains your scent!" Her brother looked appalled that she even said anything. He probably hoped that she would have kept her mouth shut. "Good job, little brother!" she approved, giving thumbs up aimed in his direction. Souta bent his head down in embarrassed shame.
x
Kagome suddenly clapped her hands together, getting the attention of everyone. "Okay! Since it's been so long since I last saw some of you, I would very much like to know what you all have been doing." That was probably one of the reasons why Kagome wanted everyone together. "I'll go first, I've recently reunited with my mom and brother, so that's awesome—only had to wait for forever to see them again." A couple of nervous chuckles came out of Inuyasha. "I've realized just how hard it is to get Sesshomaru to say three little words in front of loved ones and I really want another child."
There was a stunned silence for the last tidbit, especially for Sesshomaru, who stared at his mate with wide eyes as if to say, 'aren't two enough?'
"You want another child?" Sesshomaru actually whined as Inuyasha and his mother gaped at him. "Aren't they enough?" He pointed to Akira and Hikari, who were giggling at their father.
"Of course they are but I wanna be pregnant again!"
x
"I have been away in a rather large home that I had built a couple hundred years back—probably sometime after Kagome had Hikari," InuKimi announced, "I haven't been around a lot of you and I know that Kagome thinks that she was abandoned by me." Kagome gave her a tilt of head before a small 'oh' came out of her mouth. "I know, you don't think that anymore and Sesshomaru finally found me, although I am not all that sure on how since I have spelled away everyone from coming after me." InuKimi gave her son a pointed look.
"Kagome told me that I was to find you," Sesshomaru said with a roll of his eyes. "Well that and that if I didn't find you, I would be sleeping on the couch for a long while." Kagome nodded as if that would help him convince her. His mother looked amused by this.
x
Shippo sighed, knowing that it was half true as he started talking. "I own a fox stable for breeding foxes for people that can't help but love a fox. It appears to be working out well. I have been looking into finding a mate but have come up short so instead I take to bonding with Rin."
"As a sister right?" Inuyasha snickered when Shippo glared at him.
"Of course as a sister! God, get your mind out of the gutter!" Rin resisted the urge to laugh.
"Just making sure. I have heard a lot of things." Shippo threw his arms in the air with an impressive 'argh.'
"Inuyasha," Kagome warned as his ears flattened against his head, looking at her, pleading her not to say it. "I won't say it simply because Sesshomaru would have my head for damaging his precious dining table and chair."
Sesshomaru glanced to her with a slow blink. "Among other things," he added. She stuck her tongue out at him. He suddenly felt the need to bang his head against the table. Kagome poked him with her fork as he glared at her.
"I've gotten into trouble on more than one account and dad always takes the blame for me!" Akira snickered as he ratted out his father, who suddenly paled while his mother looked as if she wanted to strangle her son. "I broke a vase last week and blamed dad, he got to sleep on the couch as my sister and I got to sleep with mom." Inuyasha bit his lip to resist his laughter as Sesshomaru refused to look his mate in the eye. "And a week before the festival, I also broke a necklace that mom had and blamed dad."
Kagome looked down to her necklace—the one that was left, it also happened to be the one that she received when she met the elders. Then she turned her head to Sesshomaru. "You allowed your son to break those things and allowed yourself to be thrown on the couch? Are you looking for an excuse to not be in bed with me?" He glanced to her and shook his head. "Then why? Shouldn't you know by now that we have to punish him when he does things wrong?"
"Well, you see—the thing is—would you take it personally if I said it was to avoid your anger?"
"I took my anger out on you though!"
"Yes I know, but I was—honestly, I don't know what I was doing." Sesshomaru looked to her, her eyes flickering dangerously at him. Then he turned serious and said, "How many times have we fought or you fought with the kids where Akira has come up to you and asked 'do you still love me?' I was avoiding that."
She deflated, knowing that he was right. "But now I'm going to be questioning everything! If I start getting angered at you, I'll suddenly think that it's one of the kids' fault."
"Then think that, it's not that hard."
"But that's wrong teaching!"
"Oh shut up." The entire table gasped. Inuyasha, who was sitting next to Kagome, inched his chair closer to Shiori, who was watching on in wide eyes. Sesshomaru froze in a 'oh shit' moment. "Wait—that's not what I meant! I didn't mean personally for you to shut up, just—"
Inuyasha whispered, "You're digging yourself a grave."
"I realize this..." he whispered back. He kept an eye on Kagome, her eyes downcast before she stood up and left the room entirely. He rubbed his face before going after her.
"Well that was entertaining," Naraku stated with a satisfied smirk on his face.
"I totally agree, that was totally worth it," Zhou-Mao nodded with a chuckle as Draicia shook her head. "What, it's true!"
Michiko narrowed her eyes on the seats that once had her daughter and dared, "From what I have just seen, it is both good and bad. I am not all that sure that my daughter is happy anymore." She knew that her daughter was happy two weeks ago when she was reunited; this was different.
Inuyasha looked down to her with his mouth agape. "Whoa what? That was just a minor fight. Sesshomaru will calm her down; he's really good at making up with her. Don't know how he does it. I still haven't been able to figure it out."
Kagome's mother's glare aimed at him. "Perhaps, but I'm thinking I should take her away for a couple of weeks."
"You'd take mom away from us?" Hikari asked, eyes wide with her lips trembling a bit.
"Only for a few weeks, sweetheart. It seems like she needs a break."
Zhou-Mao took a second to understand what the hell was going on then grunted. "As much as I hate Kagome," he started as Michiko turned to him, "I'm going to have to agree with Inuyasha. You have nothing to worry about. I have been with Kagome for years; that was barely even called a fight."
"Exactly!" Inuyasha agreed.
"I don't think that my daughter is happy from what I have just seen."
"Then you don't know your daughter anymore," Inuyasha countered, trying to keep calm.
"I know her just as well as you all do," Michiko told them all.
"We have been around your daughter for hundreds of years. So no, you don't know her as well as we do anymore," InuKimi chirped. "You are surrounded by many people that would say otherwise and you can do nothing about it. If you so much as try to take Kagome away from her family, you will regret it."
"Wait what?" Everyone slowly turned to see Kagome, standing besides Sesshomaru, who was glaring at them with an intent to kill whoever suggested such a thing. "Who's trying to take me away?" Kagome questioned, suddenly scared that that would happen.
"Your mother," answered Zhou-Mao.
"Mom?" She glanced over to her mother in question.
Michiko huffed. "I don't think that you're happy."
Kagome looked offended. "Of course I'm happy."
"You don't have to talk about it my dear, I know that you're just covering for everyone."
Well this took a sudden turn for the worst.
Kagome walked over to the chair that was Sesshomaru's and moved it out of the way. She slammed her hands against the table, glaring at her mother, who suddenly didn't seem to think that saying this in front of her daughter's family was the wisest thing on her part. "You know nothing, nor do I want your opinion. You can do one of two things. You can either sit there, surrounded by those that I know will keep you in check or you can leave but Souta stays."
"Kagome I just—"
"No, I don't want to hear it. I thought that reuniting with you meant that you would see just how happy I was. I love my family! I will fight against you if I must but know that you will lose." Michiko fell silent, only looking at her plate.
"Damn sis! I approve! Anyone who can put mom in her place deserves the metal of honor!" Souta cheered, ignoring the glare his mother sent from across the table.
"Honestly, what gave it away that she thought I was unhappy?" Kagome asked her brother, who blinked then shrugged.
"Probably something along the lines that you and Sesshomaru just fought. I don't know, mom is weird."
Kagome tilted her head, all of her hair going to one side. "That wasn't even a fight."
"That's what I said," Inuyasha chimed in.
"And I agreed with you." Zhou-Mao made a face of disgust. "Me? Agreeing with you? Hell has frozen over."
"Zhou-Mao, shut up," Kagome muttered under her breath; he still heard her though.
"So you can say shut up to me but Sesshomaru can't say it to you?" he said, eyes locking with Kagome, who giggled.
"I like that small amount of power I have over him. It makes it funnier."
"I love you too." Sesshomaru paused then said, "Shit."
"Yes! Finally got you to say that in front of people!"
"Damn it!"
x
"Thanks Elder HIjitaka," Kagome nodded with a smile. "I assume it's your turn then?"
"Something like that," he answered. He thought on what to say. "Let's see, Iwasaki loves nothing more than to annoy me since during the festival, that was all he did." Iwasaki beamed at that as Hijitaka scowled. "I'd love nothing more than to get him to go away. Also sorry about this Lady Kagome..." Kagome was in the middle of sitting back in her chair, only to pause as he said this. "But just a couple weeks ago, Lady Kagome and her clumsy self, decided that Lord Sesshomaru was in need of a new portrait."
"What?!" Sesshomaru glared at her as she nervously laughed. "You said that, that the kids—oh, you have some nerve to be angered at me for the same reason!"
"That was different!" she replied, "I forgot I was holding a knife!"
There was a pause, then Hijitaka said, "Eh, she not only forgot about the knife but forgot that she was wearing a long skirt. She tripped, the knife went flying and well, I got to say, Lord Sesshomaru's face with a knife in it, is an odd thing to look at..."
"From this moment on, no one is blaming the other for their own faults, got it?" Sesshomaru threatened, his mate and kids nodding as quickly as they could.
Hijitaka smirked as Iwasaki took his turn. "Is this the moment when we all blame milady because I have a great thing that I could blame her for." Kagome paled, clearly knowing what he was talking about. Sesshomaru gazed at him then stared at Kagome with a blank look. Iwasaki missed both those looks. "Milady had just started experimenting on teleporting. I was helping her the best I could but one thing lead to another and well, I didn't think it was possible but milady actually managed to get from where she was sitting to the roof. It seemed like a good thing but when I got there, she was stuck between the roof and the floor below her.
"There was a moment where both of us didn't know what to do then we both heard something break. Apparently—since milady had her lower half in the floor—she had kicked something. I went to investigate and well, what she knocked over was a statue of Lord Touga. That thing smashed into a million pieces so fast, we couldn't stop it," Iwasaki finished before he noticed that Kagome was sweating. He continued to speak, "On a side note though, I have thoroughly enjoyed having milady around. Makes days less boring."
Inuyasha's face had dropped. That explains where that statue went! InuKimi had her mouth in the form of a circle, her eyes wide, her face written with shock. The both of them stared at Kagome, who was nervously laughing at this point. Sesshomaru had narrowed his eyes throughout the story before giving his mate a nasty look. Kagome was waving her hand in a nervous manner and clearly wanted nothing more than to flee from the table.
"Oh my god, Kagome, do you know what you've done?" Inuyasha asked, shock enlaced throughout his tone.
"Eh, ha, as a matter of fact I do!" What she'd gave to have wings to fly away right now. "Don't give me that look!" she half-yelled to Sesshomaru. He did not looked amused.
Inuyasha twitched. "Kagome, that statue was made when my father became a lord..." Her eyes widened on that tidbit. "That's not something we can get back."
To which Kagome seemed to have an epiphany as she slowly looked to Zhou-Mao, who noticed her look and scowled. "No," he said. Kagome looked at him like she was praying, pleading him. "No," he repeated with more authority. She gave him a high pitched whine as he groaned. "Fine! Damn it!" Zhou-Mao disappeared.
"How does that help?" InuKimi questioned. Kagome grinned.
"Is this caused he's the god of time?" Kenichi chimed in with his question.
"God of time? There's a god sitting at this table?" Souta had a look of mix horror and shock. There was a collective of chuckles.
Sango tilted her head to the side in wonder. "I thought that he said that he lost his powers?"
"Oh he did, but he can go back in time from this point and backwards. So since he knows me so well, I got him to bring the statue back to life." Kagome snickered as her friends gape at her. That would explain where he disappeared to! "So, Draicia, can I ask you something?" Kagome switched the topic once again.
Draicia paused from eating; if anything, she was the only one focusing on the food. She wasn't about to let the food go to waste when it was this delicious! "Of course, milady."
"If Fate is your mate—"
"Oh no, do not confuse me with him. I am not Fate's mate."
"Wait what?"
"Zhou-Mao mated me first then went after Fate."
"How is that fair to you? You are awesome and Fate is a jackass."
"I could not agree more, milady." They could only see her smile. "But to answer your question, Zhou-Mao pissed Fate off moments before you bonded with young Rin. Fate said to him that perhaps he would do well if he learned some compassion and thus sealed his fate to you as punishment. Fate is did not foresee this though; no one did."
Kagome was speechless. She didn't even ask her question and yet, Draicia seemed to know. Then she remembered that back when she met Zhou-Mao and Chebawi, they too could read her thoughts. Perhaps it was like that? "But why would it be a punishment?"
"Because Zhou-Mao can no longer go anywhere without you or at least without your permission. He is not as free as he used to be."
"That's sad," she told her as Draicia nodded. "If I asked Fate to release Zhou-Mao from his punishment, would Fate do it?"
"Of course not. Fate has not exactly forgiven him for what he did."
"Which was what?" Kagome leaned against the table, her head resting on her hand. "What did he do to piss Fate off?"
Draicia smirked. "He hit on Fate's sister."
"Fate has a sister?!" Most if not all, half-asked, half-yelled this out.
"My mind is blown," Kagome said with a nervous giggle. "Who is his sister?" By this question, everyone was eager to know.
"Her name is Destiny."
"What?!" Kenichi and Inuyasha shouted as Draicia resisted the urge to laugh.
"The god of time hits on Destiny and Fate interrvenes," Kagome laughed. "That's hilarious!"
"Not as hilarious as it should be," came a familiar voice to Kagome, who paled but slowly turned in her chair to stare behind her. Fate was standing there with Zhou-Mao off to the side, holding the statue that she broke all those years ago. Fate looked to Draicia, who smirked at him. "Making fun of me now?"
"Of course not, Fate."
He hummed, glancing back to his mate in displeasure. "Well, do you not have something to do, Zhou?"
Zhou-Mao grumbled as he dragged the statue closer to the fireplace in annoyance. Kagome told him quickly that it should be on the left, gaining a death glare. He walked back over to Fate with a frown on his face and made sure that he was behind him so he could glare.
"What are you doing here?" Sesshomaru asked, not amused that this male was interrupting the peace... what little peace there was that is. Fate barely gave any indication that he heard him. The lord growled at his incompetence.
Fate looked straight onto Kagome, who wasn't all that happy that he was here. He smiled at her; it wasn't welcoming like the first time that she met him. "So I have been caught up on the events with you now, courtesy of Zhou."
"How?" she asked.
"I made him freeze time so he could explain everything." Kagome's mouth formed a circle with widened eyes. "Now, I am going to give you a choice. Whether you decide to do something with it or not, is not my problem anymore since I am no longer interfering with your life."
Zhou-Mao grunted from behind; Kagome just knew that he knew what was going on and judging by his face, she was right. "What's the choice?"
Fate took a moment, simply watching her face before saying, "You can continue on with your life with your elements or I can take them away. What do you want?"
No one moved, breathed, blinked. "Why would you take away my elements?" Kagome questioned after a few moments to think things over.
"I believe five-hundred years is enough of a punishment." Draicia couldn't help but to gape at this. She looked around to the other elements at the table. None seemed to want to leave Kagome from the looks of it and the fact that Fate was here and offering this, was big.
"Do we have a say in this?" Chebawi asked, shyly as Fate spared a glance to him.
"No. Since Zhou-Mao was the reason that you are all here and the one that dragged you all down with him. So, no, you have no say," he replied sharply.
Kagome suddenly narrowed her eyes on the blond male. "Don't you dare talk to him like that!" she snarled at him as Fate raised an eyebrow to her with a silent question. "My answer is no. No, I don't want you to take my elements away from me. If anything, this is a punishment to you for royally screwing with my life."
Fate looked shocked at this. Zhou-Mao, behind him for everyone to see, looked so pleased and gave a soft, "Yes!" Fate glared at his mate as he grinned, waving knowingly at him.
"You do not want them taken away?" he asked her as she shook her head.
"No, because they've become my family and if you try to take or harm my family, you have a death wish," she confirmed. She didn't look like she was going to be convinced otherwise.
"Told you she'd choose us," Zhou-Mao bragged, walking over to where Kagome was sitting. She looked up at him, her eyes looking lost. He simply smirked down at her before turning back to Fate. "So from here on out, you no longer have a say with Kagome or anyone that relates to her. Although, you are more than welcomed to interfere with me."
"As long as you do not hit on my sister, I am good."
"Not my fault that she's hot."
Fate twitched. "That sad moment when you cannot get rid of a mating mark..."
"Actually you can," Kagome pointed out as Fate gave her a blank look.
"And in return, would kill Zhou, which then would kill Draicia," he countered as Kagome decided that she should shut up for once. Fate stared at Zhou-Mao, who tried to look anywhere but at Fate. "You do not want to come with me?"
His eyes widened a little and said quietly, "I still have Draicia."
"Am I nothing to you?"
At this point, everyone was watching them like a game of tennis.
"No, you still have a place with me. I just don't want to go with you because of what you've done with Kagome."
"I stopped interfering with her when I attacked the bond."
Zhou-Mao looked to the ground. "Right..."
"I thought you hated her? I am wrong?" Fate seemed to be trying to pull out everything to get Zhou-Mao to go with him.
"No, you're not wrong. I don't like her."
"But you would rather be around her than me?"
"Fate, what do you want me to say? I miss you, I love you, I can't be without you—although, that last one would be a lie."
Fate deflated and Kagome's heart went out to him despite what he's done to her. "So this is goodbye then?"
"I told you that you're more than welcome to interfere with me," he retold him with a roll of his eyes.
"Unfortunately, that is not how I work."
"Oh right, forgot about that. God forbid, you do something for yourself." Zhou-Mao decided to go back to his seat and glare at his food. Draicia placed a hand on his shoulder in comfort, he welcomed it.
"Fate?" He looked to Kagome in disdain; she flinched at the look. "I know a lot of the people here would disagree with me with what I'm about to say but you're more than welcome to come to our home and interact with Zhou-Mao if makes you feel better." There was, of course, angered shouts of her name that she simply ignored and waited for Fate to respond. Zhou-Mao looked at her in surprise. "Hell, if it makes you both feel better, I'll give Zhou-Mao free range to whatever the hell he does normally."
They looked at each other then back to Kagome in awe. "You would do that?" Fate asked gently, not fully believing her.
"Well, yeah—I mean, I would like an 'I'm sorry' from you for attacking the bond when it was new but yeah, I would do that so you don't have to be forever away from each other. I'm not that heartless." Kagome crossed her arms over her chest in defiance when Sesshomaru glared at her for even suggesting such a thing.
She, however, completely missed the motion that Zhou-Mao gave Fate to encourage him to apologize to her. Fate looked to the floor before saying, "I am sorry for attacking your bond. I know that I should not have and it was wrong for me to do so." She looked up at him with her mouth dropped. He weakly smiled at her.
"So," she started while ignoring the groans around her. "What have you been doing since the last time I saw you?"
Inuyasha grimaced as he glanced to Fate, who looked shocked that she was okay with this. "That means that she forgives you and also means... welcome to the family..." he said, throwing Fate for a loop.
"I know jealousy when I see it," Kagome pointed out with a smirk. Fate watched the side-glance she gave Sesshomaru and had to smile at that with a shake of his head. "So, gimme the dirt on you. What have you been up to?" Zhou-Mao barked with laughter as Kagome's eyes widened at that. "Don't do that you idiot! Way to give me a heart attack!"
"You go from being down right scary to accepting Fate back with open arms and I'm not allowed to laugh at this?" He huffed. "Plus! There's no room for him. Give him your food and he'll never leave."
Kagome clapped happily. "Why didn't I think of that?!"
Zhou-Mao slapped his face in agony as if to say, 'I can't win.'
x
She shook her head. "Fine, we can listen to Elder Gou then. What have you been up to Gou?"
Gou rubbed his face. "I see how it is, Lady Kagome." She stuck her tongue out at him playfully. "Let's see, what has happened?" he questioned himself softly then explained, "My mate had her... sixth child I believe just a couple weeks ago so it's been interesting around the house. I have learned that I can be bested by a mere child and my mate goes along with it. And to point out, your brats, Lady Kagome, are nothing compared to mine," he groaned loudly as everyone around him laughed at his misery. "You try handling six at a time."
"I'm actually really good with children though so I might take you up on that offer sometime," she beamed when Gou only groaned louger.
"She has a point you know," Sesshomaru admitted as Gou glared at him. "I mean think about it. She handled Shippo and Rin when they were younger and still does to this day actually. And then when Akira was born, followed by Hikari and now, she has her brother plus Kenichi and his boy toys. That is more than six."
"Hey!" Kenichi, Jasper, and Sebastian cried out as Gou shook his head. Inuyasha bit his lip to hold in his laughter.
x
Naraku took a second to realize that Kenichi said his name then bluntly stared at Ichiyama, who was nervously laughing and flailing. Kagome, Kagura, and InuKimi all looked like they were up to helping those two get together while everyone else, including all of Kagome's elements rolled their eyes.
"That explains everything," Naraku said with a blank look. Ichiyama bent his head again, this time in shame. "I knew hanging around Hijitaka and Iwasaki were bad for you."
Wait a second, what?!
"What the hell are you talking about?" Hijitaka asked, looking a bit scared.
"What, are you saying that you're not with Iwasaki?" Naraku actually looked surprised as both the other elders paled. "I could have sworn that was the case! Damn, my gaydar is off."
"I can't believe—did you really just—okay, well at least I know that Naraku has picked up on modern sayings," Kagome laughed.
x
"Eh, well I guess not really. I mean, if he wants to play on it, then by all means. Maybe it'll be interesting," he smirked wickedly at Ichiyama with a sinister chuckle that made the smaller man want to crawl under a rock.
Kagome cleared her throat, thinking that now would be a good time to change the subject. "Ok—ay, well then, that happened. Is there anything else you would like to had to that Ichiyama?"
He looked at her. "Help me," he whined as she smiled but he knew that she was holding into her laughter and wouldn't help him.
x
"Now, gimme the dirt on you Fate," Kagome demanded as Fate looked put out before rolling his eyes. "What happened to you after that incident?"
"Better question is what happened to those weapons that I sent back with you?" he countered as Kagome blinked, confused.
"They're hanging in our bedroom if you must know," Sesshomaru said, keeping his eyes on the blond; he didn't trust him whatsoever. Fate glanced at him then back to Kagome.
"Oh, those. Right, well, I totally forgot about them. I'm a little surprised that Sess even remembered what you were talking about," she muttered.
Rin whispered to her, "Memory of an elephant!" Kagome and Inuyasha snorted.
Fate didn't look amused then rested his head on Zhou's head while letting out an annoyed sigh. "Get off me," Zhou-Mao hissed. His mate ignored him as Draicia glared at him.
"I have been sitting around in the heavens with the Gods talking about your life mostly," he started as Zhou-Mao struggled to move him off his person. "We also started a drinking game, during the times when you were in the feudal era for every time that you got into trouble." He smirked as Kagome huffed. "Destiny cannot stop talking about the brother that she met along with his lover and how cute the two of them are; that was highly annoying on her part."
Inuyasha paled then gagged. "Ew! No! She has that all wrong!" He grimaced. "She met me with Kenichi and we are not together! I am with Shiori and will forever be with her."
The blond narrowed his eyes on the younger brother and said, "Really? Destiny seemed to think that you would end up with the lord, rather than the small woman that is next to you."
"Hey, don't start being mean to my Shiori!"
"As he completely misses what Fate was actually talking about," Shippo mused. Iwasaki couldn't help the snort that escaped from his lips.
"If you want me to be mean to her, all you had to do was ask." Kagome gaped at him. This was entirely different side to the Fate that she met before; it was mind boggling. She was still trying to come to terms with it...
Inuyasha glared at him. "Don't even think about it."
Fate looked amused as he looked to Shiori, who wished that she could hide. He opened his mouth but fell short when Zhou shoved a slice of bread into his mouth. Draicia smiled at this.
"Well then," Kenichi said. "Now that we have been caught up with what happened to him, could we try to focus on something else that doesn't involve Shiori being prey?" Inuyasha voiced in the background his agreement with this.
Sesshomaru rubbed his face exasperation before rolling his neck and cracking it. Kagome gave him a look, he gave one right back. "The things I do for you I swear," he muttered under his breath yet loud enough that she heard him.
"We don't have to give our sap story of what we have been doing, do we?" Zhou-Mao asked as he pushed Fate off him with a satisfied smirk. Fate looked ready to throttle him.
"Oh, I wasn't expecting my elements to say anything," Kagome grumbled and Zhou-Mao let out a relieved sigh. "Although, I would like to know who the pink-haired and other blond are." She pointed to the man next to Chebawi and the other man next to Zhou-Mao, who looked like he had fallen asleep.
Chebawi giggled, "The one next to Zoey is Imatsu, he's the one that we went to when we didn't know where Shiori was. He helped in finding her. As to the male next to me, that is Eeinu, he's the element of light as well as holy energy." Imatsu merely nodded his head towards his lady before going back to resting his head on his arms.
Eeinu gave Kagome a small smile as he sunk further into his chair. Kagome happily smiled back with a squeal, saying something along the lines that he was adorable. Eeinu blushed hard. She only squealed louder before Inuyasha whacked her over the head to shut up.
"Is Imatsu tired or something?" she inquired.
"Or something," Zhou-Mao, Draicia, and Chebawi uttered at the same time.
Zhou-Mao froze for a second then slowly aimed a glare at Chewy. "Wait a second, what, did you, call me?"
Chebawi broke out into a wide grin. "What's wrong Zoey?"
Fate brought a hand to his mouth to cover his laugh. Then he started silently laughing, his shoulders shaking. He would never be able to look at his mate the same anymore. Oh the blackmail!
"Nah uh, not happening. You have no right to call me a girl's name!"
"Says the guy that calls me Chewy," the kid pointed out.
"Kagome calls you that as well," he countered.
"Only cause you got it in her head!"
"I am the only one that is allowed to call you by a nickname. You are officially on my hit list for that name."
"Oh don't be a big baby, Zoey." Zhou-Mao growled at him. "And it's not fair that only you have a nickname. I think it's perfectly natural that I call you something since it's what you do to me."
"Bullshit."
"Not bullshit; fairness."
"You know what would be fair? My hands around your neck."
Chebawi paused, thinking that the ex-god of time wouldn't fall through with that threat. But no, he looked like he was very willing to do just that. "Kagome would be unhappy if you did that," he tried to reason but Zhou-Mao stood up from his seat.
"I could care less about how she would feel. Give me your neck, Chewy."
"It's Chebawi and no way!" The brat waved his hand, a ball of wind suddenly sitting under him. "You gotta catch me first!" With that, he flew away with Zhou-Mao on his tail.
"Do those two always fight like that?" Kagura asked in awe.
"Unfortunately," replied most of the elements.
Oras grinned, "They're getting better though. Zhou-Mao is actually following through with his threats now. This is progress."
Fate chose that second to sit in the chair that Zhou-Mao had just left and said, "That did not look like progress."
"Oh but it was!" Oras nodded, mostly to himself.
x
Sango took that moment to start talking about what happened with her. "So, that was entertaining," she began as she heard many of them hummed in agreement. "I wanted to say that for the last couple years, I have been trying to break Miroku of this one habit I hate. It has not worked so I brought in the big guns; a lovely flamethrower and threatened to use it on him, if he ever did it again." There was silence and Miroku was very, very pale. "Luckily for him, I have only had to use it once. He seemed to understand that I was serious. On another note, I have taken to helping Hikari to gang up on her brother as well as on Sesshomaru—now, that is fun."
"Wait, flamethrower? Why would you need to use that?" Inuyasha asked, his eyes wide at the thought of Sango wielding that.
"Why have you been teaching Hikari to gang up on Akira and Sesshomaru?" Kagome questioned, trying to glare at her daughter as well as her mate.
Her friend smiled. "Oh simple. To answer your question Inuyasha, Miroku has a habit of coming into the shower, while I'm in there and I do not approve of this." Inuyasha understood why Miroku was suddenly so pale now. Sango turned to Kagome and replied, "And someone has to put your boys in their place. Whether it's you, me, or her, someone has to do it. Hikari just seems like she has a gift with being a trickster."
Shippo's eyes lit up. "Oh really? Well then Hikari, as your awesome adoptive brother, I must teach you the ways of being a trickster!" Hikari clapped her small hands in excitement. "I don't know what Sango has been teaching you but I can help, and I'll definitely be showing you the ways of success."
"You will most certainly not!" Kagome twitched. "If you so much as go anywhere near Hikari with your teachings, you'll be meeting Sango's flamethrower." Shippo paled at that point.
"Is this why I suddenly find items where they're not supposed to be? Like when I found my armor in the dining room as if it was the center of the room on display," Sesshomaru deadpanned. Kagome snickered to his side.
Hikari sheepishly smiled at her father as Akira added, "Probably explains why my clothes were suddenly nowhere in sight and I had to wear something of mom's for a couple days." She then grinned at her brother.
"Oh my god, my family is one big joke. Holy crap, Naraku was right!" Kagome whined.
All eyes landed on Naraku, who blinked in curiosity. "I never said that."
Kagome waved her hand in a dismissive manner. "Well this Naraku never said it—although, I suppose it could be this one... then again, I'm not all that sure anymore. I should never question time-travel."
"Did Kagome just go into another world just now? Or is she high or something?" Souta asked as his sister narrowed her eyes on him. He smiled at her.
"There was a day when Sesshomaru told me he regretted his decision that caused a Kagome, five-hundred years into the future—obviously my future self—to switch places with me," she explained as Souta looked on in awe. "That was an interesting week," she added as if it was an afterthought.
"You never actually told us what happened to you during that week," Shippo said. "Granted, I didn't honestly understand what was going on back then all that well."
Kagome looked to her lap and smiled to herself. "You all want to know?" She saw nods and heard hums of agreement before glancing at her family. They were encouraging her to speak; they were just as curious. "Hm, where to start?"
"The beginning maybe?" Kenichi piped. She gave him a rude gesture as the brothers laughed at his face.
"Let's see, day one consisted of Inuyasha and his rambling about how he loved my cooking and then me, Shiori and him went out to the mall. Trying to listen to Inuyasha ranting about everything had to of been one of the most tiring things I had the not so nice pleasure of hearing," she told as Inuyasha glared at her throughout her talk.
"Getting Inuyasha to shut up, is probably one of the most hardest things anyone has ever tried to do," Sesshomaru added his input as his brother pouted.
"Damn it, stop ganging up on me!"
Kagome giggled as she said, "Day two, I met Naraku and he asked me if one of Inuyasha's pranks backfired or if Kenichi started experimenting on me. He was asking where the other Kagome was, the one that he knew well, cause I was clearly was not that..."
"I experimented on you?" The look on Kenichi's face was priceless. "And Sesshomaru was okay with that?" Was his next question that caused Kagome to give a sharp laugh. "I had help right?"
"Yeah; you, your boy toys—" Here, Jasper and Sebastian were not pleased at her calling them that, not that they weren't already used to it. "Naraku, and Zhou-Mao all helped other Kagome out to transfer her back in time and replaced me in her time. God that was confusing," she paused, clearly trying to remember what happened next. "Day three, I got my, what I call, my keep-me-out-of-trouble necklace from Sesshomaru. It was also supposed to be something that would help me get him to forgive me; I don't remember if that actually happened though."
Sango blinked rapidly. "A necklace that kept you out of trouble? There's such a thing?" Kagome huffed but pulled out the necklace in question. "Oh, it's a real thing. Huh, has it kept you out of trouble?"
"More or less, it didn't seem to help all that much out when the battle with the hell god happened..." she said, then pondered. "Although, I think it managed to keep me from killing Sesshomaru."
"And yet, you had still—both you and Zhou—managed to stab him, rendering him unable to move or protect himself," Fate interjected from behind his drink. "Speaking of which, how did you manage to heal that fast?"
"That would be my doing actually," Saiyu suddenly informed. Kagome looked to him in wonder. "I am one that does not always have to be healing milady. I can heal her friends, her family, and of course herself as well. Mi'lord healed fast simply because had he of died then, milady would have followed and I cannot simply allow that to happen." The male smiled to his lady. "I have grown rather fond of milady."
"Aw Saiyu."
"I think we all have gotten used to milady," Oras stated. "And her troublesome ways."
"Here, here!"
Kagome flushed. "You guys suck," she said, pouting.
x
Michiko looked at her daughter, catching her eyes. "You are happy with your family?"
"I'm where I'm supposed to be," Kagome answered. She leaned her head against Sesshomaru's arms with a content sigh, before standing up from her a chair a little. She planted a gentle kiss of his lips, loving the growl that came with it since they were still in front of company.
A/N: And that's all there is! Haha, I only managed to exclude 2k of words xD Welp, there you have it. And that's the ending to The Other Side.