AN: Alright, I am reposting this chapter because of all the mis spelled words. Just a note, it wasn't me, my computer automatically changes things to what it thinks they should be, so I went through and changed what I could find to the right term, hope I got everything. Thanks for everything and please review!
Kagome held onto the little girl's hand as she swung it back and forth. Kagome listened as the small child smiled as she sung a song about her new favorite aunt. Apparently that what Kagome from now on, she was Aunt Kagome who saved her from the horrible woes of loneliness. Kids these days, they really were an odd bunch. Though at the same time incredibly fascinating and utterly amusing, it was like watching a sitcom or something.
"Oh, can you take me to the kitchen? Ice cream sounds so good right now. Daddy says that ice cream isn't good for you and that I shouldn't eat it but how could anything that yummy be not good for you? That's what Rin thinks. Rin thinks daddy just tells her that because he wants too keep all the ice cream for himself. So, when daddy thinks Rin is asleep she sometimes sneaks down stairs and grabs some. Chocolate is Rin's favorite, how about you Aunt Kagome?"
Man this girl could talk; they were going to get along just fine. "Umm, I really like Strawberry but I think Cookies and Cream is right up there with it. You know what I really like?"
The little girl shook her head in anticipation, eyes wide in wonder.
Kagome touched the girl's noise with her finger tips. "I really like ice cream sundaes!"
Kagome watched as Rin jumped up and down in excitement. "Oh Rin loves ice cream sundaes too!"
"Especially with all the whipped cream and strawberry, chocolate and caramel sauce!" said Kagome just as excitedly.
"Ya, it's just all so good!" said Rin while dreaming about her imaginary sundae which her father would suspiciously never know about.
"We should make one, actually, we should make two. I know I would finish one pretty fast," Kagome looked a head and saw that they were almost to the back porch. Where to go, find Kayede and drop off the girl or go make a couple of ice cream sundaes? Decisions, decisions.
Yuri, the head maid at Sesshomaru's mansion, was worried; there was no sign of Rin. Needless to say she was frantic. Oh, and Sesshomaru was going to be here soon too. Well, it was already 1:00 and Rin had to be getting hungry, so maybe she had found some food. Little girls needed as much nutrition as they could get. But it's not like she would go up and ask any of the maids here. Ever since Rin's mother's death she seemed to have a phobia of women in general. Her own retainer was a man, a grumpy old coot who was an opinionated suck up, but a man none the less. Come to think about it, Jaken must be shaking in his boots wondering what Sesshomaru has in store for him. He's probably more frantic than her, and that was saying something.
"Miss Yuri?" asked a middle aged maid with short black hair.
The older woman looked up in anticipation. In all her fifty seven years she had never been this worried. Oh please say they had found the girl, please, please, please. "Yes?"
"Um, Master Sesshomaru has arrived," she spoke quietly.
Shit, not good, not good at all.
Kayede was sitting in the middle of the great room when a loud banging noise hit her hearing aid. Seems as if Inuyasha was back, and Sesshomaru was with him. She sighed, time for another tiring day. She was getting to old for this.
The large door was suddenly opened as she watched the tall silver haired man walk into the room, a scowl plastered on his normally stoic face. She took another sip of her tea, defiantly to old for this.
Inuyasha, Miroku and Kouga soon followed, each with a different expression on their faces, yet somehow all radiating fear. Yes, Sesshomaru was scary when he was angry, mainly because it was so hard to get him angry. She watched as Sesshomaru gracefully stepped towards her, "May I help you Master Sesshomaru?"
She saw his eye brow twitch. "What is this about my daughter?"
"Oh, careful child, don't raise ye voice like that at me. Or do you forget who raised ye?" she said cautiously, yet fiercely.
"Quiet woman, where is my daughter?"
"Ye daughter? Ye are her father shouldn't ye know?"
His eyebrow twitched again, indicating how hard he was obviously trying to control his rage. "Why the hell aren't you looking for her? In case you haven't noticed I am your boss and can fire you at any given time if I find you insufficient in your duties, get that strait."
Suddenly his own head maid and Jaken, his daughter's nanny, came through the door, each looking extremely stressed. They each bowed respectfully as what was expected of them.
"Have you found her?" he asked. It almost sounded pleading yet everyone in the room knew Sesshomaru, and that he didn't plead, so it was automatically discarded.
The head officer who had walked in slightly after the first two bowed. "No sir, we have everyone looking but still nothing. Do not worry, we will find her. There is no way she could have gotten off the grounds and we have people stationed everywhere."
Inuyasha decided to speak. "Men or women?" Another glace up told the surrounding people that this officer had stationed whoever was available; probably mostly woman thinking that would be who the child would feel secure around. Inuyasha sighed and scratched his head. "Rin doesn't exactly…she's not big on women. Ever since her mother's death she has always been cautious and quite around them, never even talking to them unless the tall and stoic ass over here makes her. She, I guess, doesn't feel safe or secure around them. If anything you should station men, she would more than likely come to them than any of your woman officers."
The officer's face made an 'ohh' shape in understanding, "I will fix that."
Sesshomaru once again angrily turned to Kayede, his patience was already lost. It was lost when he first heard the news. "Why are you still here? You should be looking for Rin as well."
Kayede just took another sip of tea. "How is the child suppose to find me if I am constantly moving?"
Sesshomaru was outraged, here his daughter, the only thing he truly cared about was lost and this woman was doing nothing! This was outrageous, he didn't care if he had to call in the National Guard, Rin would be found. And this woman was going to severely pay for not being a part of his working force.
Suddenly the once closed door swung open and a stunning raven haired beauty stepped into the room. Slightly taken back, everyone in the room aside from Kayede any ways, had to take a deep breath of air. Her hair was up in a messy bun, which obviously was a last second thing, yet it still looked dignified, while small strands of black locks hung around her porcelain face. Her creamy white skin seemed to glow in the sunlight. She wore the traditional maid's uniform, well, traditional in Inuyasha's point of view, which automatically drew attention to her long legs. Her eyes though, her eyes were what really captivated any on lookers.
Kouga stared helplessly entirely taken back…she sort of reminded him of, could it be? "Kikyo?"
The woman's eyes immediately snapped in his direction, once again leaving him floored.
Sesshomaru looked on skeptically, he did have to admit that this woman was a beauty, but she was a maid, obviously below his standards. Besides, he had no intention of replacing his ex-wife any time soon. But the fact that she had caught his eye startled him, she should consider herself honored.
Miroku looked on as well, and he had to admit, this woman was lovely. It was more of an exotic sort of way, tempting yet pure. He had never met or seen someone like the likes of her, but, another maid in this household had already caught his eye and he intended to see that through. The maid before left him with a certain spark, something he had never felt. Well, that and the imprint of her hand on his cheek, he had never felt that before either.
Kagome scanned the room, damit, she had been looking for Kayede all day and who does she happen to walk into, fucking Inuyasha and his flipping merry men. Why did god hate her? Well there was that job in Athens where they pretended to be the voice of god and duped the ambassador into handing over the multimillion dollar treaty. She resisted smacking her palm against her forehead, but just barely. While she was scanning the room she heard something with her keen and practiced hearing…"Kikyo?"
It was barley a whisper but loud enough for her to catch. She immediately glanced in the man's direction, catching him off guard as she watch his eyes widen ten fold. Glancing again she saw a few more people, an officer, another maid and a scrawny little man who held a deathly green tint to his skin. Well she sure as hell wouldn't be sleeping for the next couple of nights due to the freakin ass nightmares that were sure to come from this encounter. Kagome looked farther down to see the one woman she had been looking for all day, finally.
Taking a bite of her ice cream sundae, which she had been holding behind her back, she stepped forward slightly. "Hey Kayede, you busy?" she took another bite, it was a mix of strawberry sauce, banana and vanilla ice cream. Man she loved these.
"Not particularly, why child?" asked the old woman.
Out of the corner of her eye she watched as Sesshomaru's mouth nearly dropped to the floor. Well that was something you don't see everyday, wonder what his problem was. She looked back over to Kayede, swallowing her bite. "Oh, well, I finished everything you asked and was wondering if I could have the rest of the day off."
Inuyasha seemed to have suddenly relocated his brain, oh lucky her. "Fuck no wench! You work for me and I say you work till your sorry ass drops," he smirked triumphantly.
What gave him the impression that he was winning was beyond her, "I don't believe I was talking to you jackass, and if you do plan on any type of communication in the near future with anyone belonging to the species of man, I suggest you start by referring to them by their first name," she turned back to Kayede waiting for a reply, in doing so completely ignoring the man beside her.
Inuyasha was livid. How did she do it? Somehow she always managed to get the best of him. It was like she had some secret command that had him whimpering on the floor with one word!
Kayede suppressed a laugh, it had been a while since Inuyasha had been put in his place properly. Ever since his mother's absence most had been too scared and well, that fear intensified as Inuyasha's heart became bitter. Not to mention it was magnified when his father died. "I normally would see nothing wrong with that child but we do temporarily need all the helping hands ye can manage. It seems as if Lady Rin had decided to play hide and seek with the help."
Kagome stopped mid bite, the ice cream dripping onto her tongue and off the spoon. Placing it back into the dish she looked back at Kayede, then at Sesshomaru, then at the officer in the back. Sighing, she once again glanced back at Kayede. "A girl huh? Black hair in a half pony tail, big brown eyes, goofy yet adorable smile, absolutely loves to talk?"
Inuyasha looked at Kagome with interest; it was almost like she had met Rin or something. He watched as Kayede nodded yes. Kagome took one last bite of her ice cream and placed the bowl on the nearest surface, which happened to be a glass coffee table. Placing her pointer finger in the air, telling them to wait a bit, she turned around and swallowed. Leaning over the door frame she glanced around the corner. "Hey Rin, can you please come in here?"
Kagome once again turned around and scooped up the dish, wanting another bite. Leaning against the door frame they all listened as the sound of running footsteps echoed through the halls. Kagome stuck out her hand as a small figure, which was unmistakably Rin, dashed past the door. But as she was running Kagome grabbed her collar and spun her inside the room. Kagome laughed, "This room Rin."
Rin laughed too, while trying to regain her balance and not spill her ice cream. Eye's spinning she giggled again as she saw two Uncle Inuyasha's, oh, and two Uncle Miroku's oh and there was even two Uncle Kouga's. Giggling again she re looked to see two daddies. Mid giggle she stopped, oh, two daddy's was not good, because neither of the two daddy's looked all that happy. She blinked a few times and waited for the two daddies to go away, she watched as they seemed to merge as one…one very unhappy daddy.
Rin immediately jumped behind Kagome, somehow still holding onto her ice cream, and grabbed onto the hem of the maid's skirt, well, if you could call it a skirt, it was more like a "sk-" and that was it. At least that was what Aunt Kagome had said when she was making the sundaes. "Um…hi daddy," she spoke quietly.
"Rin?" asked Inuyasha as he tried to get a good look at her.
Kagome turned around and smiled at Rin, hoping to give her some form of comfort. Walking her over to one of the couches, Rin stayed attached to Kagome's form. Placing her on the couch she looked at Rin square in the eye. "Alright Rin, I think it's time you go back with your daddy now."
"But…but we were having so much fun Aunt Kagome," wined the small child as her eyes got bigger.
"Don't give me the puppy face, I invented the puppy face, and besides, you need to pout your lips more. It gives off the pure look."
Rin frowned and tried to push out her lips more, "Like this?"
Kagome winked, "Much better, but I still think you need to stay with," she glanced around the room and found the green scaly man loosening up his collar, "that, umm, man is it?" She turned back to Rin, "Is that really a man?"
"But why?"
"Well," Kagome drummed her fingers on her chin, "I don't think your daddy liked you running away too much and if you don't listen to him he might not let you come back, then I would never see you again."
Rin immediately jumped up and wrapped her arms around Kagome, squeezing the maid senseless. "No, no, no, Rin defiantly wants to come back and spend time with Aunt Kagome. Rin likes Aunt Kagome and how you always make fun of Uncle Inuyasha. Rin would be sad if she never saw you again."
"Which is why you need to say sorry to your dad like we talked about."
Rin sighed and slowly dragged herself up from the couch, eyes down cast as she walked over to her still baffled father. Finally gaining the courage to look up she quickly bowed and muttered her apology, "I'm sorry daddy, I'm sorry that I made you come from work and I'm sorry that I scared you." She turned around hoping to leave silently but caught Kagome's look, she turned back around and bowed again, "And I promise I won't do it again."
She turned back around to see Kagome smiling. She just had to catch that didn't she. Rin quietly walked over to Kagome hoping for any sign of approval the woman was willing to muster. Kagome laughed and hugged the girl tightly. "Oh, that was so good, now if only we could get you to actually mean it."
"Hey I meant it Aunt Kagome, well, the sorry part anyway," whispered Rin
Seeing that the girl was deep in thought Kagome quickly snuck a bite from Rin's ice cream, leaving over the girls shoulder and biting down on her spoon. Rin, seeing this, automatically turned around and tried to get the spoon back, knowing her dad probably wouldn't approve her eating ice cream with her hands. "Finders keepers!" laughed Kagome with the spoon still in her mouth as Rin lunged for it.
"Aunt Kagome!" laughed Rin while trying to sound annoyed but in all honesty she knew it wasn't working out to well. She stomped her foot, attempting to be adult like.
Kagome laughed, "I'll tell you what, you promise you go and hide all your Uncle Inuyasha's shoes, in the name of women everywhere of course, and I'll give you your spoon back."
"I was going to do that anyway."
"Well, I guess I could always think of something else-"
"No, I'll do it for all woman kind!" yelled Rin triumphantly.
Kagome handed her the spoon back and laughed again as she watched the small girl dash out of the room. "Sweet girl, poor thing needs attention though," she shook her head dismissively and turned back to Kayede, "so what about my day off?"
Kayede smiled, "Granted."
"Wait!" yelled Inuyasha desperately, "I'm the boss here, I get a say in this!"
Kagome rolled her eyes, "No actually, you really don't."
"Do too!"
"Do not," she said almost sweetly.
"Do too!"
"Do not."
"I do too because I say so!"
"Oh, that's the mature way to play it, am I also not allowed to play with your rocket ship either?"
"Damn strait!" he said proudly.
Kagome rolled her eyes again, "I swear it's like talking to a two year old. Inuyasha, you have serious issues. Are the crusts cut off your sandwiches as well?"
"Shut up wench!"
"Would that be a yes?" she smirked again knowingly, she was the assistant cook after all.
"That would be a shut the hell up before I shut it up for you!"
"Awe, puppy needs to have a time out," she gave him a baby face with the pouting lip, which he was finding utterly sexy. Of course, you know, if it was on anyone but her, cause she was so not sexy, she was like the opposite of sexy, she was like…damn it, he couldn't even think strait.
"Bitch needs to be trained," he crossed his arms at the reversal of her argument.
"Pimp needs to be arrested,"
"Hooker needs to be paid!"
Kayede stood up blocking their viewing rage of each other. Although, it was funny, with Inuyasha getting riled up yet obviously having fun at the same time, right along side Kagome who was probably just doing it to entertain herself. As colorful as this evening had been there was still some work she needed to do, and as amusing as this conversation was getting, maybe it was time to be moving. Though, it was thrilling watching Kagome at work, she was a breath of fresh air. "Inuyasha I think you should go and try to find Rin since you do have a rather important business meeting today and I doubt they would appreciate it if you showed up in your sneakers."
He looked down to see he was indeed wearing sneakers, which really wasn't all that dignified, and he didn't have time to send out a maid to shop. He gave a quick glance at Kagome, trying to fill it with as much malice as he could muster as he watched her smirk triumphantly. Women and their damn fucking brains. He stomped out of the room hoping to god Rin hadn't found the pair he kept hidden under his bed for such emergencies.
Kagome watched as he stomped out of the room, trying not to run in front of her, though he was obviously dying to find Rin and stop her. She listened as his pace quickened down the hall. So what did that make it now, Inuyasha one, Kagome, like, seven? But who's counting anyway?
She looked back over at Inuyasha's three comrades, each looking more baffled than the next. Looking back at Kayede she waved goodbye and skipped out the door, knowing it was way too late to back out now. Her and Inuyasha were at war.
As soon as she left Miroku blinked a couple of times and spontaneously broke out in laughter. That was hysterical! He instinctively grabbed onto Sesshomaru's shoulder trying to balance himself as he clutched his gut with his other hand, cringing from the pain of laughing so hard.
Sesshomaru just ignored the new found pressure on his left shoulder, he was still stunned by Rin. She had been so care free with that woman, so open, so loving, and the woman had responded with the same amount of feelings, if not more. And what was with this "Aunt" title? She didn't even call Kayede Aunt, someone who she had known all her life! He slouched down in the nearest chair, taking Miroku down for the count as the man continued to laugh. God, he needed a drink, he needed a strong drink.
Kouga continued to look at the door where the new found goddess of his life had just retreated to. Anyone who talked to mutt face like that deserved a gold metal, and not to mention his undying attention. Maybe there was such a thing as the perfect woman. "Hey Kayede, set up an extra room, I'll be staying too," he smirked evilly.
Kayede just sighed, this was defiantly going to be an interesting few weeks. Now if only she could figure out what type of interesting she was referring to. Oh, and the Demon Ball was coming up too, yes, interesting was really the only word that fit here. She was getting to old for this.
Firevixen73-Well, I hope you all liked! I really tried to get this out as soon as possible and I think I did. Those reviews really helped me, see, we writers really aren't lying, they really do help! So please everyone keep up this the reviews, and I'm working on the next chapter for "Mt. Olympus High School" so thanks again! You're all great! Please Review!
