Ergh I know… INU IS NOT MINE!

Chapter 13: Convincing Hate to be Loved

There was a silence. It dragged on for minutes then hours to days and months. Inuyasha was speechless for the first time since joining them. All eyes were on Hate. The cackling emotion seemed to be soaking it all in. Lust and Love turned to face the bastard of a brother they had.

"You couldn't have picked a better time to betray us brother." Lust spat at the cringing hanyou. "When we are all at our breaking point from this Sesshomaru's rendering, and you go rut the person who did the act."

Hate was soaking in all the negativity aimed towards Inuyasha. "Have you no sense of intelligence or common sense? Have you no idea how close you are to being torn apart by this Sesshomaru's claws?"

Kouga began to laugh; his mellow voice joined by Hate's baritone. "You bastards knew all along, didn't you?"

"We had an idea, but we were unsure. There were too many human scents to smell the death clinging to the Hanyou." Lust gripped Inuyasha by the throat and hoisted him into the air. "You dishonor the blood of Sigumi Taiyoukai and the Family of Inutashio. By rutting with the whore, you have damned yourself to a life of banishment from the kingdom of my father."

Inuyasha paled, "Feh, you bastard, you can't do that! Kikyou is innocent! She was brainwashed by you! She told me herself."

"IDIOT! Why would I brainwash a miko to separate my soul! If I had then why would I be asking another one to rejoin me?"

Lust then threw the hapless hanyou away, hitting a tree on the other side of the camp, knocking him out.

Hate smirked wickedly. "Of course this Sesshomaru knew, even as nine, I am a Taiyoukai." He turned to the Kagome, "You, wench, where is proof of your claim?"

Kagome had a stunned fox kit and a shivering little girl clinging to her as she stood. Her eyes narrowed and she began to glow a pale green.

"Rin, Shippou, please go to the girl and make sure she is unharmed." They nodded and jumped towards the shivering girl.

Her head whipped around to Hate, "First you terrify a young child, and then you come barging into our camp and insult my sister and friends, and disrupt the peace of the group. And now you doubt my claim? I am an elf; it is impossible for us to lie. My goddess would strike me where I stand if I were to lie." Her hand went to her throat. "You want proof? Well here is the damned necklace!"

She drew the crescent out and Hate began to glow, from around his neck, his shard of the Shikon rose and jerked him over to the fuming miko. Lust and Love were also pulled, in a less violent manner. A glow surrounded the four of them and as it faded, they could see six beams of light shooting off in many different directions.

Finally all light faded from the four and Kagome collapsed into the embrace of Love.

"She has worn herself out. Each time it will become harder on her. If three has this bad of an effect I worry that we will never be whole again." The dulcet tones of the emotion spoke everyone's fears.

Somewhere in the bushes, watching was a very jealous toad. Jaken had seen the whole ordeal and had restrained himself from leaping to his lord's side when he had asked for him. But his new master had told him not to be seen until he deemed it time.

The only reason he had agreed to follow his new master was because the human was too weak to join his lord back together. Only the one who undid it could do it back again. Just like those silly little toys the human child Rin played with. His master had been sure that Kikyou would do this for him if he gathered information on the group in front of him.

'Having to rely on a pathetic hoo-man, how low have I gone?' Jaken thought to himself. His inner musings were interrupted by a loud buzzing my his ear, "Yes master I know the signal, I will return now." He whispered as quiet as a toad could be. The answering buzz was faded, and then gone as Jaken crawled out of the brush.

Shiori was having the time of her life. Before the lady with the funny ears had started to yell, two children her age came over to check on her. After the lady had fainted and there was no more pretty glow, the kids became bored and began to play catch. Shiori had always been a fast runner, thus it ended with both the orange one and the giggly one chasing her around the camp.

When she turned to stick her tongue out at the orange one, she tripped over something and landed on something soft. She heard a groan beneath her and peeked one eye open. She was lying on the lady! She was so pretty up close! Her hair was so shiny and it looked so soft. She began to pet her hair and to her surprise, it was even softer than it looked! As she was petting her hair, she looked down to see two blue eyes smiling up at her.

She squeaked and jumped off, the pressure on her leap causing the miko to lose her breath for a moment before she burst into laughter. Shiori ran behind her two new friends and peered out at the strange lady before her.

Kagome had woken up to something sitting on her chest and petting her hair. She had been looking at the little, what looked like a bat hanyou, sitting there. When she had looked down her eyes had grown so big and she muttered a little 'eep' before launching off.

'How cute! She is adorable!'

'Isn't she mother?'

'I wonder why Hate attacked her?'

'Because he is a pompous jerk.' Kagome huffed at the thought of the Inuyoukai emotion.

' I'm sure he had another reason other than being what he can't help but be…'

Kagome sat up and turned to the hiding girl. "Hello there, I'm Kagome. What is your name?"

She looked around and when she saw Kagome looking at her not the invisible person over her shoulder, she pointed a tiny finger at herself. "Me?" no one in the village other than her mother had even looked at her.

Kagome giggled and nodded, causing Shippou to run over to her and place himself in his seat of power, Kagome's lap. Rin turned and tugged on the girl's hand, leading her to Kagome, murmuring, "Come on, Kagome is really nice."

Shiori allowed herself to be dragged over to the lady with the funny ears. The giggly one had said she was nice and the orange one was sitting in her lap, just like she used to with her mommy.

"Are you his mommy? You don't look like him, why is he orange when you are black?"

She just laughed and said, "I am his momma," she looked down at him, she seemed sad, "His real mommy was killed defending him and his siblings, I take care of him now."

"Is she your daughter?" Shiori asked looking at Rin.

Kagome looked at Rin and asked, "Would you like me to be your momma Rin?" Rin had been secretly hoping she would be for a while. Shippou had told her about the time she had defended him against her lord's meanie brother, and she hoped that she could somehow care for her while her lord was hurt.

"Rin would like that very much momma!" She leapt into her lap, next to Shippou, which caused him to fall out.

It had all been so sudden and funny that Shiori couldn't help but laugh at the funny people in front of her. She looked up at Kagome and smiled, "My name is Shiori Miss Kagome."

When the little human had tripped over Kagome, Lust, Love, and surprisingly, Hate had jumped a little bit in alarm. This elf was their key to returning to normal and they did not want to jeopardize their chances of getting revenge on the miko-whore. They looked to the sword resting on Kagome's pack, the Tenseiga. This was another key to their revival. They could only hope that they would be merged in time.