'Oh shit,' was the only thought that passed through Yusuke's head as Sesshomaru looked him over before Yusuke went once more into his I-don't-give-a-shit-what-you-think mode.
"I remember you detective, they claim that you are the strongest human that has ever walked the earth," Sesshomaru stated with a wrinkling of his delicate nose.
"What did you expect, he is family after all," Kagome giggled and added in a wink. "So what if they got their facts a little mixed up," she remarked with a soft smile as Yusuke shifted nervously from one foot to the other without catching the last part of what she said. He had been too busy looking over Kagome's head and out towards one of the large windows that lined the hallways outside of the main meeting room.
"By the way, these three," Kagome gesturing towards the other three spirit detectives, "are all members of the team that Koenma sent, as well. The red head is Kurama, the one with gravity defying hair is Hiei, and the one that is currently drooling on my nice clean floor is Kuwabara," Kagome introduced the boys, with her voice rising slightly in anger as she introduced Kuwabara.
"A little over kill don't you think love?" Sesshomaru question while raising one silver eyebrow at the group of four males.
"I suppose but you know that Koenma is just trying to be cautious," Kagome sighed and shook her head as she snuck out of Sesshomaru's protective embrace.
"Yes, simply protecting his hind quarters from a good beating," was the muttered response of the demon lord into his mate's ear as he once again brought her into his arms and smelled her hair. Kagome whacked him lightly on the arm and rolled her eyes, once again easing her way out of his hold.
"Well should I take them down to the training dungeons and introduce them to the head of the guard? I have yet to do that, I was going to wait until you returned incase you wished to speak to him, as well," Kagome questioned as she latched onto Sesshomaru's arm and began to tug him in a direction, leaving the spirit detectives to follow.
"I will accompany them down to the dungeons. You, go and get changed. I will meet you once I am done. Please make sure that the two of them are dressed and ready this time," Sesshomaru said with a sigh and rubbing the bridge of his nose remembering the chocolate incident that happened right before the last visit of the lords and ladies. "I would prefer not to have a repeat performance from those two."
"You can't blame them, you know how boring those meetings are, and all of the other children have no sense of fun," Kagome pouted.
"Yes, and unfortunately your son developed your unique brand of humor. The lord he pranked last year has yet to recover and still refuses to drink anything remotely close to the color red," was the smirked reply.
"Yes well, he was trying to entertain his sister. Besides the owl was being a complete jerk and can you really blame a fox for tryin'?" Kagome giggled as she kiss Sesshomaru on the cheek. She then proceeded to walked down the hallway leading to the West Wing and to their room; hips swaggering slightly as she winked over her shoulder at her mate.
Sesshomaru merely shook his head with a silent chuckle and the ghost of a smile before turning back to the spirit detectives with a look of blank stone. "Follow me," was the only thing he said to them in a monotone voice.
The boys quickly complied and followed the demon lord down flight after flight of stairs. Yusuke was oddly reminded of the shrine Kagome reside in and how he used to complain about how many stairs there were. Well that was now a drop in the bucket compared to these stairs.
The only sound the five made was the sound of Yusuke and Kuwabara's shoes tapping lightly on the floor and the occasional dripping of the walls as they descended deeper into the bowels of the stone castle.