Chapter 7

It had been a day's travel to reach the dragon's hide out. Emeri knew that she would have to respond to her old name and she knew that she would have to get Kyashi alone in order to kill him. If the other dragons still wanted a fight then she would kill them off as well. Just as they landed, Emeri froze when she heard Sota's voice say, 'I'm sorry…please stay safe.'

"Princess Jezebeth, this way." Waku was heard.

'Sota…I know you are but please…trust me…believe in me.' Emeri replied before she turned to Waku and asked, "Will I have my own room?"

"Of course my Princess by Lord Kyashi would like to speak with you first." The dragoness stated.

"Every well then." Jezebeth said as she continued to follow the two dragons that he stayed at her side. As she walked down the halls she couldn't help but notice that it was a mixture of the western lands and the eastern lands design. Just as she was about to ask a question, as was led into a room where she could feel Kyashi's growing aura. Before she could even say or see him for that matter, Jezebeth heard him say, "Welcome to your new home…Princess Jezebeth."

"Kyashi…why did you not listen to my grandmother. I value family more than anything else." Jezebeth hissed as she used up all of her miko energy to keep her mate mark hidden.

"I am sorry, if it will please you so than I shall take you to your grandmother so that we can finally declare war on the dogs that made us all believe that you had died." Kyashi growled as he easily pulled her into his arms. "I do not want to loss you again."

"Kyashi…I…I am grateful but I do not feel that way toward you. You knew that I had an intended before my battle with Naraku. Why can't you accept that?" Jezebeth asked as she quickly got out of his hold.

"Jezebeth please, give me that chance to show you that I will be a far better mate." Kyashi asked as he knelt down before her.

"I will give you the chance after I have spoken with my grandmother. Now show me to my room. I wish to sleep." Jezebeth ordered as she began to get a feel for her role in all of this.

"As you wish; should you need anything know that my room is connected to your my princess." Kyashi said.

Meanwhile, Sota had just felt her aura push him back, trying to get him to close the link. Just as he was going to fight to get a hold of her again he heard a growl say, "If you want her to stay safe then stop it."



'We are her inner demon and will protect her however you are draining her of energy she can not waste.' A wiser voice was heard.

Before he could even say anything, Sota felt a warm aura surrounding him and urging him to wake up. As Sota opened his eyes, he realized that it was his sister's aura that was trying to wake. Once he had his eyes open, Sota looked and realized that he was in his room. Just as he began to sit up he heard Inuyasha say, "Thanks."

"Oka! Otu!" Shippo was heard as he woke up from him nightmare.

"I got him." Inuyasha said as he looked

"Thanks…Sota are you alright?" Kagome was heard as she appeared in his line of vision.

"Yeah, I'm just…damn it…I just want to get Emeri and get the hell out of here." Sota answered as he slowly stood up.

"What are you doing?" Sango asked as she watched Kagome's brother slowly get up.

"I'm going to go and talk to my brother in laws brother. I'll be fine. Just wait for me here." Sota answered as he walked out of the room.

"Do you think we should let him go alone?" Miroku asked as he watched the young boy go.

"Yeah, once he and Sesshomaru are done talking we'll leave and we'll go and talk with Queen Yume." Kagome answered as she turned around to hold her son.

"Feh, if you ask me we should just leave him here." Inuyasha growled.

"I'm not leaving my brother behind." Kagome growled in anger.

Sota walked down the halls and followed the Demon lord's aura. It wasn't that had to find or to follow. 'Why is it leading me to the garden?' Sota thought as he continued to make his way. He knew that he would have to make peace with him in order to go through with Emeri's plan. He also wanted to know more about the mating ritual and not wanting to ask Inuyasha or his sister he'd figure he'd go to the one person that would not see him as a child but as a mated man.

"Why are you not resting? Did something happen?" a worried Rin asked as she popped out of no where.

"No…um…Rin…where's your father." Sota answered.

"Oka and Otu are in the garden. I was there but I got board. Do you want to play with me?" Rin asked.

"Sorry but I have to talk to your Otu…maybe some other time." Sota answered.



"Rin, I thought I told you to stay in the garden with us." Kagura was heard as she appeared out of thin air.

"Lady Kagura." Sota said as he gave a slight bow. After that talk with Emeri she had given full access to her memories so that he would show respect when it need to be shown.

"Sota…my mate is in the garden waiting for you. I am sure he will have the answers you are looking for." Kagura replied before she dragged her daughter away from Sota. 'Now I have to talk to my daughter about using the right words when talking with males…Sesshomaru is not going to like this.'

After giving a quick bow, Sota quickly made his way to the garden. Once he reached the garden he was surprised to find Sesshomaru standing tell and talking with someone that looked very important. Once they were done talking, Sota slowly walked over to the demon lord. Just as he had reached him, Sesshomaru turned to face Sota and said, "Your mate is not here therefore I will not all you to hit me again."

Sota closed his eyes and took in a deep breath before he bowed and stayed like that before he said, "I am greatly sorry about that Lord Sesshomaru, however I am here to speak with you. Not to fight you."

"I would seem that mate of yours has finally given her wisdom over to you. Now what is it that you need to speak with this Sesshomaru?"

"I would greatly appreciate it if you could go into detail and explain to me the rules and what it means to be mated to an inu mix breed." Sota answered as he stood up straight to lock eyes with him. "I feel that you are the only one out of my family that will not treat me as a boy but as a mated man."

"In that you speak the truth, my baka of a brother will not treat you as a mate of another but as the brother of his mate. What is it you wise to know?" Sesshomaru answered as he led Sota to an area where they would be able to talk.

A/N: Sorry but I couldn't help it…Sesshomaru is going to give him 'the talk' about mating. Anyway I hope you liked the chapter and please let me know what you think. I'm thinking about adding a lemon but I'm not really sure…please let me know what you think.

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