WARNING—VARIOUS INUYASHA YUYU HAKUSHO CLICHES WILL BE PRESENT THROUGH OUT CHAPTER BE FOREWARNED!

Turning to Kagome he noted that Hiei had gone to her to see if she was well. Hiding his smirk he noted with some amusement as Kagome raised her hand to his Jagan and ran the pad of her thumb along its eyelid. The eye closed partially and she could feel the content aura it was admitting. She smiled and was about to press herself closer Hiei when she heard her younger bother shouting at her that she needed to ask permission and see if 'Kaa-san and Ji-chan wanted to go. Kagome stood and entered the house gracefully, leaving an amused Youko and a frustrated Hiei. Youko placed a hand on Hiei's shoulder and transforming back into Shuichi led him away from Kagome and towards his residence.

Souta smiled at his sister, "Nee-chan, do you like Hiei?"

Kagome just cuffed him upside the head and went to speak to her mom and grandfather about the dinner. He rubbed his head and followed Kagome into the kitchen catching when their grandfather started protesting their associating with demons. Kagome turned her level gaze on her grandfather, "Ji-chan surely you remember I am a demon right, so are you telling me that I'm a bad person because I am a demon. Besides I know these demons, it's Kouga, his mate Ayame, and their children. They helped defeat Naraku."

123123123 You know what I just thought of, Jijenji was a hanyou right... and so is InuYasha. InuYasha's had hands through his gut, arrows stab him slashes, gashes and everything, yet he doesn't scar while our gentle giant has scars all over his body from puny human villagers, why is that? 123123123123

Kun-Loon placed her hand on top of her daughter's, "Of course Kagome we would love to go and I will keep an eye on Father so that he doesn't try and purify your friends."

Kagome thanked her mother and ran upstairs to change out of the damaged clothes. She saw with some satisfaction that her injuries were mostly healed. Before she undressed she closed the curtains and locked the window, 'Repeat performance my ass.'

She went to the bathroom to bathe. Stepping out she wrapped herself in a towel and went back to her room. She looked around the room before dropping the towel and dressing. Kagome let out a shriek when Botan suddenly appeared in her room, "GWAH, don't do that."

Botan chuckled, "Sorry, but hurry up and dress, Koenma-sama wants to speak to you."

Kagome nodded and pulled the rest of her outfit on and towel drying her tail. Kagome then ran a towel through her hair. Botan began to brush Kagome's hair, "There, now lets go."

The grim reaper then grabbed her hand and opened a portal. Pushing the kitsune in, she followed closing the portal behind her. Kagome winced from her undignified landing sending a glare at the perky grim reaper she stood up. Koenma watched the girl in his teenage disguise, "Kagome Higurashi, I am Koenma, the Prince of Reikai."

Kagome looked him, "Koenma-sama, what did you wish to speak with me about?"

Koenma beamed he was finally getting some respect, "Well, Kagome, time-travel is illegal and because you broke the law your fate is now under my jurisdiction."

Kagome clenched her fist, "If I may speak freely, sir. Shouldn't the person responsible be punished as severely as possible?"

Koenma nodded. Kagome smiled, "Good so you agree with me. And if looking at the facts the guilty one is you. If you lived as long as I'm sure you have, you should have known what would happen and closed the portal before Mistress Centipede went through the well and grabbed me. And if you had prevented that one detail, I would have never shattered the jewel and have to go back through time to recover the pieces."

Koenma's jaw dropped and before he could retort, Kurama and Hiei came through the door, "Koenma-sir, Kagome's miss- oh never mind."

Kagome smiled at them, "So as I was saying, punishing me for an error on your part would seem to be unethical. Besides which, blame is always placed on the higher ups and I'm sure the rank of Prince of Reikai is a lot higher up then my own rank as Guardian of the Shikon no Tama."

Koenma sputtered as Kurama's gaze turned an icy gold, "What is this about, Koenma?"

Botan shifted nervously, the situation was a bit tense for her liking, "Koenma-sir, why don't you have her work for you as a Spirit Detective, just like the punishments you have for Hiei and Kurama."

Koenma nodded, "That is best, well Kagome, you have your punishment. I will have Botan give you the necessary information, Botan, portal now."

Botan opened one and allowed the kitsune to stalk through. Botan winced when she heard Youko begin to rant. Hiei had followed Kagome much the grim reapers amusement. She smiled and stepped beside the fire/ice apparition, "Hiei, do you…"

"Finish that thought and die."

Kagome turned to the two who were trailing behind smiling softly, "So, should I be jealous?"

Botan smiled, "And if you should be?"

Hiei grabbed her by the neck, "Lets see if Lady Death can be killed."

Kagome put a hand on Hiei's arm, "Don't kill her I'm pretty sure that will get us in more trouble then its worth…besides she was just teasing."

Hiei dropped her and disappeared while Kagome helped the reaper up, "Botan-sama you shouldn't antagonize him, that's my job."

Botan rubbed her neck ruefully, "Yeah but, its fun."

Kagome entered her house followed by Botan. She turned to the woman, "So what's this information you need to share with me?"

Botan tossed her a pink compact. "I use this to contact you for your missions and you can use it to contact me or any of the other spirit detectives like a certain demon."

Kagome smiled brightly, "Oh yes we can have phone sex all we want."

Botan choked, "What!"

The vixen chuckled, "I was just kidding…wow Botan is your mind in the gutter?"

The ferry girl shook her head, "No I was just surprised to hear something like that coming from the daughter of Kurama."

Kagome tilted her head to the side, "What are you talking about? My father, I'm told, was sensual and lustful like all kitsunes."

Botan smacked her head, "Right, I was thinking about Shuchi."

The girls entered the living room where Souta was sitting with Hitomi playing videogames. Kagome threw up her illusion before the two turned around. Hitomi greeted them and then returned to the game, Souta looked at Kagome, "You'll tell me what you were up to, right?"

Kagome nodded and rubbed his head affectionately. She and Botan went upstairs to Kagome's room. Botan sat on the bed bouncing softly. Kagome closed the door, "So how long is my sentence?"

Botan taped her chin thoughtfully, "It could be as short as 200 years to as long as life."

Kagome groaned, "And to think all I basically did was help save the past."

Botan placed a hand on her shoulder comfortingly, "Well, think of it as your next big adventure and Yusuke and the guys are your new traveling companions."

Kagome smiled, "That's pretty good Botan, have you ever thought to be a councilor?"

Botan laughed, "Well, I'm just happy that there is a girl on the actual team."

Kagome laughed as well, "At least your priorities are straight."

Kagome took out her notebook where she had written up to the point before running into the spirit detectives and continued her narrative. Botan noticing that she was busy, left to return to Reikai. Kagome managed to finish the account when Souta came to her room, "So, Nee-chan what happened?"

Explaining that the prince of Reikai asked her to join the Spirit Detectives to help keep the world safe from any bad youkai, she left out the part that it was part of a punishment for breaking the law. Souta looked at her in awe, "That is awesome, so you get to run around playing superhero, eh, Kagome?"

She nodded, "Guess so but, I won't be the only one. Yusuke, Kazuma and the others are also Spirit Detectives."

His eyes widened, "THE Yusuke Uremeshi, is going to be working with you."

Kagome nodded, "Not only am I going to be working with him, I'm told he is the leader of the rag-tag group."

Souta smiled, "THIS IS SOOOO COOL! I've got to tell everyone that my sister is friends with the Great Yusuke Uremeshi."

She sighed, "Just don't mention that we are working together or anything I told you okay, I can trust you with that secret, right."

He nodded and tried to look mature, "Of course, I would never betray your trust."

Kagome gave him a tight embrace, "You're so cute!"

He pulled out of the embrace, "I'm not cute."

She laughed and gave him a gentle shove towards the door, "Yeah now get out and play with your girlfriend."

He smirks, "At least I have someone to play with."

Kagome stiffened, "Didn't need to hear that from my younger brother."

He left the room laughing. Kagome shot the door and opened the window allowing for a breeze to drift through. Leaning out of the window she took in the sights of Tokyo mentally comparing them to the ones of the past. Coming back inside she caught sight of Hiei standing there looking at her with a smug expression on his face, "Hiei as lovely as it is to see you in my bedroom, the walls are thin and my family's here."

He pulled her into his arms, "We can be quiet."

She laughed and detangled herself from the embrace, "I happen to be a very vocal person."

Kun-Loon's voice drifted from downstairs as she was talking stiffly into the phone. Kagome curious went downstairs trailed by Hiei and she winced when Kun-Loon slammed the phone down. "Mama? What's wrong?"

Kun-Loon turned her attention to the kitsune standing at the base of the stairs. "Kagome that was Tokyo High apparently they think all your illnesses that you'll bring down their reputation so you have to retake the entrance exam during the winter break and go to another school. They said you can finish the semester though."

Kagome winced when her mother's voice rose after each word. Hiei quickly left allowing the mother-daughter pair time to carry about their chores. Kagome sighed and her mother smiled, "So when will I be expecting little red-eyed grandbabies?"

Kagome groaned and stepped out of the house. Her mother explained to the boys that they were leaving and shut the door behind her. The two grabbed their bikes and started the ride to the grocery store.

Kagome locked the bikes to the rack in front of the store and followed her mother inside. Kun-Loon sat weighing the merits of two different brands of water chestnuts when her daughter joined her. Kagome wrinkled her nose at the offending smell from the vegetable. She picked the one on the left, "This one is of better quality then the other one. The one on your right smells like they packaged the chestnuts when they were partially bad."

Kun-Loon nodded and placed the one Kagome picked into the shopping cart. Kagome caught the scent of Shuichi and she scanned the store looking for him. Shuichi looked up he had caught the scent of Kagome and he turned to his mother who was currently looking at Pocky for her step-son. Kagome caught sight of the red-head with an older woman. She discreetly waved and then returned to assisting her mother. Kurama nodded his head while carrying the groceries for his mother.

The mother-daughter pair paid for their groceries and Kagome put the packages in the basket of her bike and they rode their bikes to a near by ice cream parlor. The mother-daughter pair entered and Kagome ordered a strawberry cone while her mother bought a vanilla cone. The two sat at an outdoor table and ate the treat. Throwing away the napkins the women decided to return before the sun set.

Souta ran out when he saw his mother and sister pull up beside the house. Kagome managed to place the kickstand before Souta jumped at her. Kagome caught him and tossed him onto her back. Kun-Loon smiled as she saw her daughter give her son a piggy-back ride through the house

Friday

Kagome pulled on her black dress pants and slipped on her midnight blue sweater. Running her brush through her hair she quickly smoothed it out and went downstairs where her mother was waiting for her and her younger brother to go down stairs and leave. Ji-chan had to stay behind and watch the shrine and Kun-Loon was going to watch Ji-chan. Kagome sighed and went to retrieve her brother. Souta had put on his nicest pair of slacks and a button-down shirt.

Kun-Loon handed Kagome the keys to her car and after giving a last minute speech on proper behavior and safety. Kagome sighed and nodded before she took her brother to the car and driving down the back driveway. Kagome pulled up to Shuichi's place, he was going to ride with them to get to Kouga's place. Shuichi was dressed in black slacks and a white silk shirt. Kagome nodded at him and he sat in the back seat Youko watching her pull out and drive into traffic. Souta turned around looking at the red-head, "I thought you had green eyes Minamino-san?"

Kagome not looking away from traffic smacked her brother, "Put your seatbelt on, what if something happens?"

Souta nodded and put it on, "Sorry, I forgot who was driving."

The vixen growled under her breath and tightened her grip on the steering wheel trying to ignore the laughing guys. She pulled up to the house that housed the portal and took the keys and basically slammed the car door shut. Shuichi winced at the sound and followed the girl to the door. 'Why the hell do guys find it funny to make fun of women drivers?'

Kagome smiled when she saw Shippo come along the road and she smiled allowing him to sweep her into an embrace. Shippo nodded to Shuichi and a smooth voice spoke up from the now opened door, "Seriously, miko must you act so uncouth?"

Kagome looked up and saw Kouga hiding a laugh when Kagome smirked, "Ayame! Your mate's being mean to me!"

Kouga paled as his pregnant mate waddled up behind him and smacked him, "Don't tease Kagome. Sorry, Kagome-chan, let's go inside and leave the pig-heads out here."

The guys all protested and followed the giggling girls inside where Kagome saw that Sesshomaru was standing watching the younger ookami youkai playing with the ookami cubs. Kagome smiled at the children when Shippo walked up behind her, "'Kaa-chan I want brothers and sisters."

Kagome felt her face flush as Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow waiting to see how the vixen would respond to the questioning, "Well, Shippo, why don't you mate and have kids of your own."

Shippo tapped his chin thoughtfully, "We are one screwed up family, I'm older then you and ji-san and you're older then ji-san's human form."

Kagome swatted him playfully, "Cute."

He looked at her sporting a wounded expression when he decided that he had enough fun teasing his mother and wandered off to speak with Yuuki. Sesshomaru spoke, "So you shall return to the past soon?"

Kagome shook her head, "I've finished the mission besides that the well sealed after we defeated Naraku."

Sesshomaru blinked, "I was under the impression you died after the battle."

Kagome nodded thoughtfully, "So was I, but as you can see I'm alive and well."

Sesshomaru nodded not wanting to appear too curious. Kagome caught the look and explained about the Shikon no Tama bringing her to the present after the battle. He turned his gaze heaven ward to watch the sunset in the blood-red sky. "It would have been rather disappointing for the miko who slew Naraku to have been defeated in such an undignified manner."

Kagome blinked not sure if that was a complement or if she should have been offended so she settled with an uncertain nod. Sesshomaru excused himself and walked off to speak with other youkai that were present. Kagome laughed as the cubs started to play with her legs she allowed a couple to latch on giving them a ride to the table. Kouga helped Ayame settle down at the right of the head of the table Yuuki at the left Kagome to his left and Shippo across from her. Sesshomaru sat to the left of Kagome and Shuichi sat to the left of Shippo and to the right of Souta. All of the cubs were settled at a round table in the next room. "Cheers."

Kurama was watching Kagome talk to Kouga and Ayame when Souta got his attention, "Hey Minamino-san, I was wondering if you could help Kagome review for the High School Entrance Exam?"

He blinked, "I thought Kagome was already in high school."

Souta nodded then lowered his voice because the other conversations at the table were stopping, "Yeah but you know how she missed so much school the past two years."

Kurama nodded and Souta continued explaining that the school was going to make her leave and to apply to any other school she would have to retake the test."

He agreed and told Souta to expect him on Sunday and to inform Kagome of his visit. The miko began to eat her food not noticing the ookami youkai that was watching her every movement from the corner of his eye.

And there's another chapter, not the best chapter but I wanted Kagome to move to a new atmosphere…next time if the date happens and does Hiei get her out of it.