Here I am!!! Yeaherp. Chapter 6 is here (And its the first to have two words :) ) I hope you guys enjoy it! I liked this chapter a lot...wasnt as long as I had wanted but whatever. For those of you reading A Sinner's Love, I am not abandoning that story, I just...can't word this next chapter properly, but it will be great when I write it (hopefully). As for the sequel to Undefined Power, I'm working on that too, development is slow, but it'll be here before the end of March I garuntee! Now, On to the story!!!

A Simple Request

Chapter 6- Lost Trail

Kagome released a tired sigh as she packed the last box of dishware into her car. Everything she didn't need in the apartment was neatly stowed away in a storage box. Her apartment was just about set up, but she still had not had contact with Sango nor anyone else, and it had been two weeks since she had left the hospital. Unknown to Shippo, their move to a smaller home would cost him to leave the school he was currently attending. Kagome was albeit worried about him changing to a demonic school, but she knew he could adjust just as well as she could adjust to this new job she had just gotten.

Lucky for her and Shippo, she didn't have to start until she was officially finished moving in. Kagome checked the time on her cell phone and placed the last box in the passenger seat and shut the door. She had just enough time to drop off the boxes then head to pick up Shippo. Kagome glanced at the for sale sign in her yard as she backed out the driveway. Her real estate agent was doing a great job finding people who wanted to buy the home, and already they were bidding neck-and-neck with money that would have her and Shippo set for a life time. What had shocked Kagome most was that her agent wouldn't accept the twenty-five percent she was supposed to keep.

Releasing a tired sigh, Kagome parked next to her motorcycle and began to unload her car. She had just sat the last box in the kitchen when something silver caught her eye. Kagome's eyebrows drew together and she gently tugged the silver bracelet from the box. She held it to the light with observing eyes before memory clicked. InuYasha had given the eleven diamond bracelet to her when they had dated in junior high. Kagome snorted and fastened it to her left wrist before leaving her apartment in a hurry. She had been meaning to talk to the thickskulled hanyou, and she had a feeling she knew where to find him. Kagome removed the pistol from under the driver's seat and placed it in her belt. She would meet with him after picking up Shippo.

InuYasha grinned as he stuffed a whole cheeseburger into his mouth and began to chew. "Ugh. InuYasha, that is too disgusting."

"Yeah?" InuYasha questioned purposely leaving his mouth open as he chewed, "Is it really that bad Sango?" Sango put a hand over her mouth and nodded,

"InuYasha, that is truly disturbing. You are munching away my chance at the ladies." Miroku exclaimed winking and wiggling his eyebrows at a pretty female passing their table.

"Jerk!" The lady said slapping the right side of his face. She stormed away and Sango slapped the left side of his face.

"You deserved that." She said dipping a fry in ketchup and eating it.

"Why Sango, - you know that-,"

"Sango, is that you?" Sango turned her head at the familiar voice, meeting familiar cyan eyes.

"Kagome, since when were you out of the hospital and why didn't you call me? I was worried sick because-,"

"If you were worried then you would have went to the hospital to find out I had checked myself out the very next day-,"

"But-,"

"You obviously weren't worried about Shippo." Kagome replied taking a seat next to InuYasha. Sango's head bowed in shame as well as Miroku's.

"Why were you in the hospital?" InuYasha questioned as she slid over a little more to put a sleepy Shippo he hadn't even noticed in her lap.

"The same reason why we broke up." Kagome replied simply as she stroked Shippo's hair.

"Your brother? What'd he do this time? Last time he-,"

"Yeah, well this time he shot me nine times in the back."

"Kagome you can't keep lettin him beat up on you like that-,"

"Oh and you're one to talk? You knocked me out and left me in a burning building to die-,"

"Oh that's bull… You know that was at the command of Na-,"

"Oh really so what was 'You have to hit her again Kikyo, she's demon'?" InuYasha's face flushed a bright red. "I'm out of all this gang shit." Kagome said after a moment of uncomfortable silence, "I'll move out of the state if I have to." They were all silent but nodded in agreement.

"Yashy-boo?" Kagome heard the high-pitched annoying voice of her cousin. "What in the world are they doing here?" Kagome watched as dead brown eyes scanned their booth.

"We're having lunch you know something you anorexically skinny girls don't do." Kagome replied smirking slightly. Kikyo scoffed and flipped layered black hair off her shoulder.

"I am not anorexic, and I do too eat." She protested looking as if she might stomp her foot.

"Yeah, but making yourself throw it up afterwards doesn't count." Kagome replied smirking fully. Kikyo gasped and she stomped her right foot which was strapped into five inch Jimmy Chou's.

"I am not bulimic! You're just jealous of my figure!" Kikyo replied defiantly and Kagome snickered.

"Why would I be jealous of sticks and bones when I have an hourglass?" Kikyo's face turned bright red with anger as Miroku and Sango joined in with laughter.

"Yashy-boo, you can't let this bitch talk to me like this-,"

"It's not his fault you aren't able defend yourself whenever someone throws a stone at you." Kagome replied throwing her heavy hair from her right shoulder. Kikyo released a sound of frustration and tried to stomp off, but accidentally bumped into a waitress carrying smoothies and milkshakes. Three milkshakes hit the floor and the others onto the bright yellow Baby Phat outfit Kikyo was wearing.

"Watch where you're going you dumb broad!" Kikyo exclaimed, "This outfit cost more than your life!" She continued to walk, unfortunately slipping in the spilled drinks and falling embarrassingly on her rump. The whole burger joint erupted in laughter and a furious and embarrassed Kikyo stood quickly to her feet. "You'll pay for this Kagome!" She shouted before leaving as if the world were after her.

"Well, that's a way to knock down a super model Kagome." Sango joked still weak with laughter. Kagome smiled and winked at the waitress, who happened to be Ayame.

"Payback is often a mother fucker." Kagome replied stroking the still sleeping kit's hair.

"So why'd you show up here for 'Gome?" InuYasha questioned stuffing his mouth with half of his fries.

"I'd come to ask you if you had any dirt on Naraku. He's been too inactive lately."

"Last I heard he went to Mexico for a vacation of sorts." InuYasha answered after he finished chewing. He glanced down at her wrist and picked it up daintily. "I can't believe you still have this thing." Kagome smiled and gently took her wrist from him.

"Yeah, I didn't know I still had it till about a few hours ago."

"Do you have any word on Souta?" InuYasha questioned and Kagome shook her head.

"I know where he is, but I don't particularly care-,"

"You were always too nice 'Gome…" InuYasha said eating a single fry and Kagome smirked.

"Yeah, I shouldn't even be talking to you considering that the day I got out of the hospital you were necking in the woods with my cousin." InuYasha blushed furiously and he stuffed his mouth with the rest of his fries, muffling a response. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku laughed and Kagome removed her cell phone to check the time.

"Got some place to go Ms. Kagome?" Miroku asked as she placed Shippo on her shoulder and stood.

"Yeah, I have to finish unpacking if I ever want to be working by Monday, I only have a few boxes left at the house, so I have to swing by there and pick them up then head back to my apartment and put him down and unpack for the rest of the weekend. I still have some furniture waiting to be delivered as well."

"I wasn't aware you had moved." Miroku replied for everyone else and Kagome gave them a knowing smirk.

"Perhaps if you would have been looking for me or Shippo, you would have seen the for sale sign in my yard." She stuck her tongue out at them and waved goodbye, carefully avoiding the puddle of drink before making her way out the door.

Sesshomaru glanced at his sleeping daughter through his rearview as they departed the school. Her teacher had warned him they had done some strenuous exercises that tired them out, but Sesshomaru hadn't thought they were that tiring. His thoughts suddenly traveled to the house that he noted wasn't too far from here and he silently hoped that they would be home then. He was there within thirty minutes and mentally cursed when he spotted the for sale sign in the yard. There was no way he could find the being that lived there now. Sesshomaru U-turned and was home in fifteen minutes. He carefully carried Rin into his home and sat her in her bed for the babysitter to undress her and put her in sleeping clothes.

He left her room and headed straight to his study. He had managed to finish reading the Higurashi history only to find that Kagome's name wasn't mentioned anywhere in it, and all other Kagome's that had came up in the government search were deceased, too young, or too old. He growled at himself for scaring whoever the woman was away before he could find her true identity. His Rin had most definitely been angry with him after the day in the parking lot, and she would occasionally snap at him when he irritated her. Whoever the woman was, she awakened the remnants of demon in Rin, something he would have to thank her for sooner or later. Sesshomaru sat at his desk and opened the government program with uncertainty. He had researched all leads in Naraku Hanyou, but even the government didn't know where the hanyou had originally come from, and the Ishigamu line ended with Kikyo Yashiro because her brothers were no where to be found. Sesshomaru typed in the Higurashi name again and clicked the link to the eastern lord.

His name was Tamaruyoshi Usagi, a black inu demon and he had mated twice. His first mate was a legendary black wolf demoness by the name of Nijarobi Hinshiro, who died birthing his first seven sons. His second mate was supposedly an exiled goddess only known by the name of Kiroshi Gen. What type of goddess was widely rumored for she was never seen outside of the palace, and even then she did not make many appearances. Kiroshi had passed two years after birthing Tamaruyoshi his only daughter. Tamaruyoshi died not too long after, leaving his unnamed daughter in the care of a supposedly human woman. Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed suspiciously and he glared at the monitor as he sat back in his chair. Perhaps the blood he had tasted belonged to this missing daughter, but she had escaped from his grasp as well, and he had no way of tracking her down.

Sesshomaru tapped his fingers on his chin and began looking for the siblings of the eastern lord's missing daughter. Three of them were unknown, and the other four lived here in Virginia. Sesshomaru smiled and wrote down the four addresses, hoping that they were recent.

Kikyo made an annoyed sound of frustration as she watched her cousin drop her brother off at school then followed her to a furniture store. Kikyo waited patiently for three hours when the demon princess finally re-emerged, a largely built man following behind her with two tightly sealed boxes. He loaded them into a pickup and then returned into the store while Kagome waited inside her sky blue PT Cruiser. He returned with smaller boxes and returned to the store, helping a smaller man carry out a black leather couch. They fit the couch onto the truck and closed it before they nodded and waved to Kagome to lead the way.

Kikyo followed, knowing that her white Jaguar wouldn't attract too much attention. She watched as the men unloaded the pick up truck, and an hour later, they left. Kagome followed them out and locked the apartment as she too left. Kikyo followed Kagome still, this time three cars behind as Kagome parked in the parking lot of a building labeled 'Usagi Corporations' and went inside for about ten minutes. Kikyo's eyes narrowed on the paper she returned with, guessing it was a work schedule. Kikyo followed her once more to the school she had dropped Shippo off at, knowing that Kagome was ten minutes early, she decided to let her presence be known.

Kagome was beyond happy at how the day went. It had been three days since her meeting with Sango, Miroku, and InuYasha, and the four of them had promised to go out to eat later today. Her job had given her, her work schedule today, and the place she had bought furniture from had delivered them today, and her apartment was officially sat up. She looked in her rearview mirror to see a white Jaguar trailing her, as it had been all day. Kagome shrugged it off, making sure that the nine millimeter under her driver's seat was completely reachable as she parked. She knew she was at least twenty minutes early to picking up Shippo, but it appeared the person stalking her wanted a confrontation.
Sesshomaru scowled as he left his office. His secretary was horribly slacking in her job. She had forgotten to hand the cases to him this week, thus putting him behind. He would reacquire another secretary in two months, but the files had kept him busy for the last three days, making it impossible for him to search for the heirs to the Tamaruyoshi line. He glanced at his car clock to see he would be ten minutes early for picking up Rin, and gave a slight smile. At least something would go right today. He pulled into the school parking lot to see the super model Kikyo Yashiro arguing with another female in a familiar sky blue PT Cruiser and shook his head.

The woman had tried to date him once, and she was tied up with Naraku Hanyou. Perhaps if this led to a physical confrontation, Sesshomaru would have a chance to bring the female into questioning.

Kagome and Kikyo were too into arguing with each other that neither girl had noticed the light blue Lincoln pulling into the parking lot. "It isn't my fault your drunken excuse of a mother got killed in that car crash, leaving poor Shippo an orphan." Kikyo responded proudly, knowing she had struck a low blow. Kagome growled and got out of her car, slamming the driver's door and folding her arms across her chest.

"At least my father isn't some deadbeat who left my mother because she had a female child." Kikyo gritted her teeth and stepped forward.

"You take that back demon scum." She responded through clenched teeth. Kagome smirked and unfolded her arms, meeting Kikyo in step.

"Or what Prissy Priestess?" Kagome was ill-prepared for the unexpected slap across her right cheek, that she was unable to stop herself from leaping at her cousin and beating the smart talk out of her. Kikyo kicked violently from the ground on her back, trying to force the five foot four figure off of her. One of her kicks successfully landed on Kagome's abdomen, forcing her back so Kikyo could stand once more. Before Kikyo was fully balanced however, Kagome had landed three punches to her nose, resounding in a painful crack that sent the five foot eight model back on her rump. Kagome had once again climbed on top of her and began to put a barrage of fists on to the defenseless girl when someone picked her up by her waist and slung her away from the hurting super model.

"I do believe that is enough Ms. Higurashi." A familiar baritone voice pointed out as the heavy-breathing Kagome tried to catch her breath. Kagome glanced up into dark amber pools and glared, trying to control her breathing. She glanced down at Kikyo, who had sat up clutching her nose.

"Oh my god, I think you broke my nose!" Kikyo half-yelled as pained tears streamed down her cheeks. "You stupid bitch, you broke my nose." Kagome made a move to jump at her again, causing her to scream and try to scramble up, but Sesshomaru grabbed her by her waist again, this time not letting her go.

"Calm yourself woman before you are arrested for aggravated assault. You had rights the first time to beat her down for attacking you first in self-defense, but now that she is down it would be assault." Kagome tried to struggle out of his grasp at first, but he had an iron grip on her form and she limped as her breathing came under control. Sesshomaru and Kagome's attention was taken by the sudden notice of the paparazzi who had been unknowingly snapping pictures of them during the fight and now. Kagome growled and detached Sesshomaru's arm from her waist and ventured into the school. Kikyo screamed at the paparazzi to leave her alone as she tried to fix her disheveled appearance, revealing her out of place nose as she tried to smooth out her hair. Sesshomaru watched as she made a speedy departure and he also ventured into the school to get Rin. He knew that he could find Kikyo Yashiro once more at a hospital or plastic surgeon for her nose, so he wasn't worried about her quick leave. He had also written down her license plate number not too long after he pulled up, so he could track her down at any given time.

He spotted Kagome and Shippo walking towards him, also the exit of the building, and he intercepted their path. "Ms. Higurashi, I will need to have you come into questioning before I bring in Ms. Yashiro, so I can get your side of the story." Kagome glared at him, moving the thick French braid off her shoulder.

"Fine, but I can't come just yet, I have to drop Shippo off with a friend of mines, or you can question me tomorrow."

"Drop him off… We'll meet up at my office." Kagome gave him one last glare before departing quickly. Sesshomaru watched her go, trying to ignore the conversation his inner beast was trying to start with him. Kagome had shown him almost all the qualities a good mate should have, something no female he had ever met had done, and his beast was thrilled.

Yeahup, slightly a cliffy, but I haveta clean up and stuffes, so I'll continue in the next chapter :). I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.

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