Okay… I had a lot of free time this weekend so I decided to write. Here goes!

Last Time: Taio gave a sigh and agreed knowing he could not go against his mate. "Hai, Sesshomaru-sama we will do it." "Very well, we leave now." he said and left once again into the sky followed by the couple.

This had better work. Mate will be safe. I hope so…For all our sakes. Hn.

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Sesshomaru flew onwards as quickly as he could. His powers were diminishing quickly. Making demonic clouds used up a lot of energy. He blinked back his lack of sleep and pressed on. He soon passed Chou and dragged him along behind him. Taio caught up with the Inu and laughed.

"You are wasting much energy for a miko. You must really be fond of her." he stated.

Sesshomaru would have growled if he had the energy but right now he was just trying to get to Kagome as quickly as he could, before it was too late.

Soon to Sesshomaru's relief they had arrived. Sesshomaru dropped his general rather roughly and headed for the gates. They opened up to them and he was greeted by Jaken. He looked at the toad kicked him out of the way. He waited for the demon couple to ready themselves and lead them to the healing room.

His heart skipped a beat as he reached the door for he could already feel the miko's aura weaken. He opened the door and went to her side.

"Nice to have you back Sesshy-sama." teased his grandmother.

"This is not the time for games, Baa-chan." he scolded.

"Hmph! I try to show you some love and you tell me off.." she fake sobbed.

The couple standing at the door entered and bowed to the old woman.

"It is nice to see you again, Miyo-sama." the eager mother-to-be chimed.

"It is nice to see you as well, Nao-san." the old woman smiled.

"Sesshomaru-sama informed us of the problem and we have come to help." she stated happily.

"Oh, I see. So my harebrained grandson finally realized the value of help did he?" she joked.

"Miyo-sama I think it would be best that we proceed with the process." Taio groaned.

"My aren't we impatient." she laughed and went to gather the remedy for the potion turned poison.

Both Taiyoukai sighed and went to the old healer.

She proceeded to mix the herbs and brought out a knife which she handed to the Eastern Lord. "Here, you must mix some of your blood into the remedy. And I assume that your mate would like to add some of her blood as well?" she asked earning a nod from the Taiyoukai. He brought the knife to his wrist and fluidly moved it across his wrist until there were little beads of blood forming. He turned his hand over so it was palm down and watched as it dripped into the herbal liquid below it. His mate grabbed the knife from his hand and copied his movements letting it drip down into the bloody concoction.

Miyo grabbed the bowl now half full with blood and put it by Kagome's pale lips. Holding the girl in a sitting position she forced it down her throat. The miko naturally swallowed and moaned as more was put into her mouth. Sesshomaru watched the act with drooping eyes as his exhaustion took its coarse.

Miyo looked at her grandson with understanding eyes and left the room with the demon couple leaving him to be with his mate to be. Sesshomaru smiled down at the miko and leant down to kiss her forehead. As he pulled away it the world became fuzzy and then, it went black.

With the Inu-Tachi

Inuyasha sat in his tree staring off into the distance, 'Where is Kagome?'. He had not seen her since she sat him like a madman and fled into the woods. Things were rather boring without the cheery miko to lighten up the mood around the village. Sango was sitting by the hut's enterance glaring at a certain hanyou in a tree while Shippo was playing with the village children. Miroku sighed as he exited the hut and turned to Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha, why don't you just go apologize already? We would be able to collect shards faster if you would go and get her…" the monk sighed.

Inuyasha gave a loud 'Feh' and jumped down next to the houshi. "Fine, but you own me." he scoffed and was off on his way.

Inuyasha took his sweet time going up the hill. Sure he wanted Kagome back so they could continue with the quest but he wasn't so sure he wanted to be the one to get her. The last time he had went to retrieve her after an argument she had 'sit' him to the near underworld. Sweat formed at his brow, did he really want to risk his safety to go get her? He growled at his cowardly behavior and quickened his pace. He was not going to be scared of some stupid miko, feh, for all he cared she could get kidnapped but Sesshomaru and he wouldn't care.

As Inuyasha walked up the trail he caught a sent.

"Chikushou!!! That son of a-" before he could finish his sentence he was on his way.

He reached the village in record timing and dashed inside the hut.

"Get ready to leave, now! Sesshomaru has Kagome." he yelled.

The group grabbed their things and was out the door in less than a minute. (Which was an big difference for them. It usually took five minutes at least.)

Sango told the kitsune to wait here and that they would be back soon. He gave a small nod and they left into the air.

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Kagome woke up still in a daze. Everything seemed surreal. She noticed a pressure on her lap and looked down to see a sleeping Taiyoukai on her lap. She managed to only stare for a moment pushed herself up into a sitting position. She blinked numerous times for a while in confusion but soon remembered what had happened.

'Sesshomaru… All I remember is Sesshomaru asking me to be his mate then drinking a potion, then, everything went black.' She looked down at her 'mate' and sighed. What had she gotten herself into, and the bad part was inu youkai mated forever. So in simple words, she was royally screwed! He flinched as she ran her fingers across his forehead removing all of his silver locks from his face. She couldn't complain though. It had been her own decision to accept his offer and she never went back on her word. She looked down at his face and for some unknown reason cupped his cheek running her clawed thumb along his lips.

Wait, claws!? She felt fear run through her as she examined herself. She had midnight blue markings that circled her wrists and she also noted her now pointy ears. She tried one more thing and brought a strand of hair to her face so she could see it. She just stared at it for a while, it was jet black with orange streaks. Okay examination over she had enough. She knew that the potion was supposed to turn her into a demon but she didn't think it would actually work. She thought her priestess powers would have purified the potion or something. Well now she was definitely sure she was ROYALLY SCREWED!

Kagome covered her ears as a someone knocked at the door. It was really giving her a headache.

"Would you stop banging at the door?! What, are you trying to make me deaf?!" she screamed forgetting the demon on her lap.

She felt the pressure lift off and cursed under her breath. 'oops'….

Sesshomaru got up and opened the door angrily. If there were three things that he would kill for it was:

1) His property

2) His pride and honor &

3) His sleep (whenever he found he needed it)

Sesshomaru growled at the unexpecting visitor and watched as Taio jumped in surprise. He growled back at the inu and pushed him aside walking to the side of his new daughter. Sesshomaru snarled but stood back. Kagome looked up at the orange haired demon in question and smiled seeing that he meant her no harm.

"Hello, who are you?" she said with a radiant smile holding her hand out to shake his.

The demon lord smiled and took her hand gracing it with a small kiss and looked up at her.

"I am Taio, Lord of the Eastern lands. It is a pleasure to meet you, my daughter." he said bringing her into a tight hug.

Kagome sat there for a second letting him hug her and decided to respond. She brought her arms around him and hugged him closer to her. They were broken up by an 'ahem' coming from the doorway. A demoness with long black hair and green eyes stood by the door and smiled at the new demon.

Kagome smiled up at the demoness and greeted her.

The demoness smiled back a bigger smile and launched herself at the poor girl.

"Kyaa!! I'm so happy to meet you, Kagome! I'm your new Mama!!!" she screamed while rubbing her cheek to hers in a weird anime way.

Kagome hugged the woman and smiled. "It is nice to meet you too."

Taio laughed at the odd scene played before them and walked over to the inu.

"I see that this wasn't a waste of out time then. It seems that Nao-chan is very pleased with the results. She looks a lot like her." Taio smirked and brought his lips to the Inu's ear.

"I'll be waiting for the grandchildren." he laughed and walked out the door leaving the others to themselves.

Sesshomaru blushed and looked down at his feet like they were the most interesting thin in the world. A taiyoukai like himself was not supposed to get embarrassed by petty things such as mating. He looked once more at the women and left.

Kagome watched as Sesshomaru left. She felt the need to comfort the youkai for whatever reason she had. Noa caught site of this and smiled evilly.

"So you're mating Sesshomaru?" she asked in a childish way.

Her smile widened as she saw a blush creep onto her daughter's face.

"Haha! I finally get my daughter and already she is flying the coop. Mama is so sad!!!" she wailed with fake tears.

Kagome's blush deepened. She didn't know why this woman or the man she met earlier kept calling her their daughter but something inside her told her what they said was somehow true so she just decided to go along with it. Plus she really did seem like someone that would be her mother to her. It was kinda weird actually… But it was weirder that her supposed mother seemed to want her to mate the Dog Lord.

"Mama is gonna be so sad when we have to leave. Mama didn't get to play with her daughter yet… So will you come with me?" she asked fake tears still falling.

Kagome gave a nod and help up her new mother. Nao smiled and clasped hands with her. Kagome raised a brow and was answered by the demoness chanting a spell. By the time Kagome knew what she was doing they were in the middle of a ice covered lake. Snow was everywhere. She looked around to see where they were and growled in frustration.

Nao smiled and stepped away from her daughter.

"This was my home, before I met Taio, my mate." she explained. She walked to the snowy banks and frowned. "It used to be a happy place. It was dark all the time and filled with many demons of my kind and others. Sprites danced around lighting the place for us and we had many feasts and parties. My last feast here was for the Day of Peace. That's when we gathered outside among the moon flowers and played games and you didn't have to worry about anything. It was when everyone put aside their differences for a day and made friends with one another." she whispered.

"What happened?"

"Someone from the outside world came during the festival and attacked. We were not prepared and many were killed. Only my mother, the village elder, and myself survived. It was horrible…" she said straining to keep back tears that wanted to fall.

Kagome ran to her and brought her into her arms.

"It's okay. It was not your fault. You couldn't have known that was going to happen. It's okay, mama." she whispered into her ear while rubbing her back.

The spell wore off and they were brought back into the healing room. Nao passed out in her daughter's arms. Kagome sighed and picked her up bridal style following her senses she stopped at the garden. Her mom was heavy but she would endure for now. She walked into the garden and followed a path to a stream where she spotted the two taiyoukai talking. She ignored her instinct to leave and walked up to them carrying the sleeping woman.

"Otou-sama… Kaa-san is…" she started but was interrupted by him grabbing her from her arms.

"I will be taking my leave now." was all he said as he disappeared into the sky.

Kagome looked at Sesshomaru questioningly and sighed when she got no answer. Hah… Maybe things weren't different as she thought they would be.

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Nara: Inu trasha….. Where are you???

Inu: I'm here u stupid spider. (pulls out testuaiga)

Nara: haha you can't break through my barrier with that and you know it.

Inu: That was before. Now I have red testuaiga!

Nara: kukuku.. I, Naraku find this humorous but, How would you know if it is red? Kuku

Inu: Shut up about the dog jokes!!!!!