I didn't make the tomorrow deadline, but I'm still plugging along

Chapter 15: Sorrow finds Joy

"Lord Sesshomaru! Lord Sesshomaru! We found you!" cried Rin as she came running up the stairs, straight into the arms of the waiting emotion.

"This Sesshomaru is sorry that he has made Rin unhappy by leaving"

"IT is not your fault Lord Sesshomaru, it was that icky, nasty, meanie, jerkface, poopyhead—"

"So! Let's go outside and greet the others, alright?" Kagome cut her off before she could get any more graphic. The was a growl as Kilala landed outside and without warning Lust, Love, and Hate were standing next to Kagome, but Hate was standing on the opposite side from them. Love and Lust began to growl, low menacing tones, while glaring at Hate. "What's going on?" She asked, "What did he do?"

"You pathetic worm!" Hate snapped, "You dare speak when not spoken to? This Sesshomaru is alpha in this pack and will not tolerate disobedience." Turning to where Rin was now comforting Sorrow, who had begun to cry silently the moment Hate entered the room. "Rin, get off that blubbering fool at once. If he will not shut up, this Sesshomaru will shut him up."

This is what Kouga, Kilala, Shippou, Miroku, and Sango walked into. Kouga immediately began to growl, "You are the alpha? You pompous mutt, you aren't even an entire youkai let alone an alpha."

Hate began to laugh, it was a horrible sound, "That will be remedied soon enough wolf. For what these fools have forgotten is that the bearer of the necklace can summon the emotions to her side."

Love and Lust began to growl louder at this. "You know why we didn't tell Hate, in order to summon all of us, or even the rest of us, the energy consumed would kill Kagome." They continued to the horror of the onlookers, "To summon even one of us would put her out of commission for a week at best, not to mention what lower demons it would attract form that show of misspent power."

"And? As long as she can hold out until the end of the summoning and the joining, This Sesshomaru does not care what happens next. I am sure even the humans could protect her from the lesser demons during the ceremony."

"…I can help…"

"You heartless bastard! You may not care now, but when we are all one again, you would. We would make sure of that."

"You? This Sesshomaru is the most powerful emotion here, you could not tell me to do anything."

"…This Sesshomaru can help with—"

"The most powerful? What blockhead gave you that idea? We are equals, in power, but apparently not in ego."

"This Sesshomaru can help with the summoning!" Sorrow practically shouted, "This Sesshomaru has done it before, that is why…" he looked away, tear coming back to his eyes, "That is why you are in this area after all…" looking up at Hate he flinched at the anger in his eyes.

There was silence for what seemed like eternity as all eyes were on Sorrow. "Since we are part of one being, our souls are still partially connected still. This Sesshomaru has had the most time on the surface than the rest of me. So This Sesshomaru has learned to deal with this soul."

"So…how? How can you help?" Kagome wondered aloud.

"The reason summoning takes so much power is you have to find us through the beginning of the ritual, if I found them for you, during the ritual you would have more energy to actually call them here."

"How would I know?"

"During the ritual anyone in contact with you will have access into your mind, another reason this consumes a person."

"Kagome! You really can't be considering this!" Sango snapped at her, "It could still hurt you for a long time, or worse."

"What other choice do I have? Unless I learn how to scry and we somehow find ourselves zipping from one area of the world to a complete opposite one, this may take the rest of our lives." She was Amazed at herself, yelling at her best friend? This wasn't like her.

"You aren't the one who needs to worry about speed," Sango looked as if she was about to cry. "We're only human, and Kilala needs to rest more often than you, she hasn't reached full adulthood." She began to turn, hiking her boomerang higher on her back, "You are right, you could take the rest of your life to do this, but as much as I love you and how we should never be apart, I and Kilala will go home and I will spend my short years elsewhere."

"Sango…I didn't mean to yell—"

"That's not it, I just finally realized the magnitude of this. I don't want to spend the rest of my life searching for these souls and be old and brittle by the time you fight Naraku." Everyone else watched in silence as the two began to weep and embraced.

"Kagome, I will still be there for you, but this way I can go home and train," Glancing at Miroku, she whispered to Kagome's ear, "And possibly have a few children."

Kagome began to giggle at this; the three softer emotions each had small smiles on their faces and Kilala let out a happy mewl. Kouga had his usual wolfy smile and Hate just scowled, 'Ugh, humans copulating'

Miroku however was incredibly confused, he hadn't heard a word of the last part and now everyone was smiling, he did know one thing though, he agreed with Sango and wished to go with her. "Now I don't know what is so funny, but I can not, in right mind, let a woman travel by herself. Miss. Sango may I accompany you? For it seems my traveling partner has made himself vanish."

This made Kagome jump a little, Inuyasha? Gone? He wasn't here and not even this morning had his brother exposed him as the traitor he was. "So what do you say Sango? Miroku is Human also and I am sure Kilala won't mind another passenger." Kilala let out a small mew in agreement.

By this time Sango was more than a little pink as she game a small affirmative. "Ok, you can come Miroku."

Kagome glanced around, Shiori wasn't here either…did she run off too? Inuyasha was expected since his stronger brother would have overwhelmed him easily, even in his weakened state. As Kagome was looking, her eyes fell on Sorrow and Rin. Rin was human as well…

"Rin?" Her little head popped up, "Would you like to go with Miroku and Sango?"

Rin's eyes got wide, "No mama-Kagome, don't make Rin leave her lord, Rin doesn't care if she is old, she just wants to stay with her mommy and her lord!" Running to hug her legs tightly, "Please don't make Rin leave."

Kagome pried her arms loose fro her legs and knelt down next to the, now tearing, girl. "Rin honey, I was never going to make you leave, I asked to see if you wanted to."

"Mama-Kagome that was a pointless question to ask Rin, as Rin would never leave her Lord unless he asked. And now that Rin has a mama again, she would never leave mama-Kagome"

Kagome smiled and gave her a little peck on her head, before standing and going over to embrace her sister, " I will miss you, but we will find some way to reach you before the final battle.

Inuyasha was in a huff, Kikyou had told him to leave her alone, that she had a new man now, more of a man than he would ever be. No, he wasn't in a huff, he was pissed-freakin-off the woman he had loved and he knew she hadn't done anything wrong had just told him to basically screw himself after he left his family, betrayed his brother, turned on his group of now-sorta friends, and gave her something he could never replace.

"Feh, this is just great!" Pulling Tessaiga out of its sheath he began to massively destroy the surrounding wilderness to vent his still growing anger. "That fucking WHORE!" his growls began to sound more animalistic by each passing second, while his temper began to manifest itself in the now-crimson pupils of his eyes.

Jagged stripes, like an earthquake, cut through the paleness of his cheeks showing vividly his immense fury. This however called to something outside of him, something rather far away, something that did not like to be challenged by such a blatant display of power.

It lifted itself from its last kill and began to run, gaining speed with each leap and bound, heading towards the unsuspecting fury.

With their goodbyes said and tears shed, Miroku Sango and Kilala took off into the air back towards the only home Kagome had ever known. Shedding one last tear, Kagome straightened herself up and marched back to where Sorrow and the two children were. "If we will summon another part, we should get started before dusk, to leave time for dinner if it is hungry"

Sorrow nodded as he handed off the children to Kouga and the two nicer emotions as he took Kagome by the arm and gently tugged her over to sit on a large flat stone that had once been part of a wall. "This Sesshomaru will find the nearest part for you to call here." He took a deep breath as if a swimmer before the plunge. "This Sesshomaru has not given you his crystal yet, but before I do, I must transfer the memory of where this soul is into the shard" Kagome reached around her neck to unfasten the crescent and take it off when her arm was stilled by a touch on the elbow. "Do not remove the necklace until I say, otherwise the urge to bind us will overcome the crystal and This Sesshomaru only has so much power in this form."

They sat facing the other; the others circled around, palms touching. The crystal shard sat upon the ground between them. Sorrow began to sweat, a slight glistening in the fading sun. After what seemed like hours, his eyes snapped open, and with a smile he uttered one word "Joy…"

BAD AUTHOR smacks self I am sorry about the crappy updatings again :P