InuyashaForever1989: OMG it's been forever

Inu: Yeah, where the hell have you been?

IF: oh me well ummm, I've been around . . . . And lazy. Anyway I'm not gonna waste your time here today. Let's get on with chapter 3

"talking" / 'dragons/in head talking' / thinking

Chapter 3: Road Trip Anyone?

"Sesshomaru, you remember Daichi right?" Kagome asked. Not that he had actually met or seen the golden dragon but Kagome had told him about him.

"I recall you mentioning him, yes"

"Well, he has a favor to ask us. I'm trying to explain that now isn't the best time for us to be going anywhere that far away for an indefinite amount of time seeing as we're getting married soon, but he seems to really need our help," Kagome explained in a sort of rush.

Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow at the rambling girl and resisted the urge to smile. She really wanted to help. "What kind of favor is it exactly?"

"Well," Kagome started, "He needs us to become part of the dragon council of five."

"But I thought only dragons-" Sesshomaru started but was interrupted by Daichi.

'I was asked to form a new council seeing as the current one has had power for quite some time now and I believe that it's time for things to change. Humans and dragons live so closely now I think humans should have a bit more say in the connection between the two.

"So, I've come here to ask that dragons who are bonded with riders become members of the council. The council only meets once a year in the land of dragons but right now I still need to convince everyone that it's a good idea. I would need you to come with me and present yourselves to them so that they may make a decision."

Sesshomaru took everything in for a moment. "Who else would be on this council exactly?" he asked.

"Well, there would be me as gold, Kagome and Mamoru for silver, I'm told you are bonded with a red dragon and Inuyasha here is bonded with blue so that would only leave purple," Daichi explained.

"I thought Kouga would be a good choice. He may be a little rough around the edges but he has a really good heart." Kagome interjected.

Sesshomaru nodded his head slightly. Although he wasn't actually sure about putting such fools into such important positions, namely Kouga and Inuyasha. "How long exactly would all this convincing take?"

'That I can't tell you. It will take until the current council approves of you,' Daichi explained.

"I see," Sesshomaru muttered and he looked over to Kagome and Inuyasha who had been strangely quiet this whole time. "What do you think of all this?" he asked gesturing to Inuyasha. He already knew what Kagome thought. If he wasn't still deciding she would already be packing her things.

"To be honest it sounds like a pain in the ass," he said with a sigh. "Then again it would seem doing the right thing always is."

Sesshomaru took this into consideration and decided that his little brother might actually have a point for once. "Very well, we'll see what we can do."

"Thank you Sesshomaru!" Kagome shouted as she jumped said youkai, wrapping her arms around him tightly before she ran off to go home and start packing. "I'll see you tomorrow!" she said as she waved goodbye.

She was just about to enter the palace again when she stopped at the doorway and eyed it warily. Kagome then backed away from the door and decided to walk around rather than get lost in the maze inside. Sesshomaru laughed slightly at the girl he loved and shook his head. He then turned to the golden dragon once more.

"The caves are right this way if you would like to find an empty one to spend the night in," he offered. Daichi bowed his head and made his way to said caves.

Sesshomaru entered the palace followed by Inuyasha. "We should probably start getting out things together. Kagome will probably be here bright and early, ready to leave," Sesshomaru spoke over his shoulder. He looked behind him to see Inuyasha was not paying attention. "Inuyasha?"

"Oh, sorry, yeah sure," he finally responded distractedly. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow looking for an explanation. "Kikyo is going to kill me," was his simply explanation. Sesshomaru just nodded his head. Normally the woman was calm and even tempered, but his little brother be damned if he upset her somehow. She could throw a fit the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

"Well, I will speak with Kouga seeing as you must deal with Kikyo," Sesshomaru relented.

"Wow."

"What?"

"It almost seems like you're being nice to me," Inuyasha teased. Sesshomaru gave a warning growl and Inuyasha backed off. He decided to take a different hallway than Sesshomaru. He needed to tell Kikyo as soon as possible for minimal damage, to him that is.

As Inuyasha headed for Kikyo's room, Sesshomaru went for his room. Kouga wasn't actually there anymore. His last visit had been a couple weeks ago so they would have to stop by the wolf dens to see about him.

Sesshomaru knew just how big of a decision Daichi had made. The Council of 5 had ruled over dragons long before a dragon had ever made a pact with a rider. They did much more than oversee the relations between dragons and humans and he vaguely wondered if the others knew just what they were getting into.

'Are you sure now is a good time to be making such decisions?' Akako asked just as Sesshomaru made it to his room.

'I don't know, but you know Kagome. She's got this urge to help everyone and everything. I don't think I could stop her if I wanted to.' Sesshomaru resisted the urge to smile again. Kagome really was an amazing girl.

Sighing to himself, Sesshomaru pulled out a bag that hung on a hook in his closet and began to fill it with things he would need for an extended visit to the land of dragons.

- - - - (With Inuyasha and Kikyo)

"Shit!" Inuyasha mumbled as he ducked another vase. It was the second one Kikyo had thrown plus a book and a hair brush she had been using when Inuyasha had told her he was leaving. There was a crash when it hit the wall and the flowers cascaded down to the floor with the water and broken bits of porcelain.

"Inuyasha, you jerk!" she yelled as she felt around the top of the dresser for something else to throw. She wasn't so mad about the fact that he was leaving, although the short notice had her a bit miffed. She also didn't mind how long it may take for him to come back, it wasn't like it was the first time he'd be away for a while. Her real issue at that particular moment was the fact that she had asked if she could come along and Inuyasha had outright refused to let her and being Inuyasha he had said it in the rudest way possible.

"Kikyo, calm down, please. I just don't think this is the kind of trip for you to be going on. NO, DON'T!" Inuyasha then ducked something he didn't get a good look at. He heard a crash and looking behind him saw a rather good sized hole in the wall. "YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE DRAGONS!"

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" and with that Kikyo stormed out of the room. Inuyasha debated whether he should or shouldn't go after her. He decided against it. He wouldn't leave this way but right now didn't seem like a good time, besides who knows what else she could find outside the room to chuck at him next.

- - (with Kagome)

Kagome was busy packing her things. She wasn't exactly sure what to bring with her to the land of dragons. It didn't help that she didn't know how long she would be staying. Well, she at least knew she would need lots of cloths. She nearly packed her whole closet before she realized that she couldn't actually bring everything.

Kagome was at least happy that she had plenty of time seeing as she just could not sleep. So she repacked her bags again, trying this time to squeeze everything into one bag. She packed mostly dresses but also packed an extra riding suit. She supposed she would also need utilities such as soap then what not; she didn't imagine dragons had those sort of human things.

'You really should go to sleep,' she heard a voice in the back of her mind.

'So you're talking to me again now,' Kagome answered the silver dragon back.

'Kagome, I . . . I'm sorry,' Mamoru struggled. He didn't actually want to say it, but he knew it was something he had to do. He still didn't quite feel like he was wrong, but he didn't want to have to regret anything either.

Kagome was stunned into silence. It was strange to hear the stubborn dragon admit that he was sorry. 'That must've been some talk,' she commented to Mamoru.

'What are you doing up so late anyway,' he tried to change the subject.

'Actually were going to be going on a trip for a little while, Daichi has asked us to help him with something. He wants us to become members of the Dragon Council! Can you believe it may Mamoru?' Kagome asked all excited.

'But I thought-'

'He wants to do things differently now and have humans on the council to,' she interrupted before the dragon could actually say what he wanted to. Perhaps she was a bit more excited than the dragon had originally thought.

'I see. So this trip would be to, where exactly?' Kagome thought Mamoru was being a little dense. It seemed rather obvious to her of where they would be going for something so important.

'The land of dragons of course. We need to speak to the current Dragon Council to get their approval.'

'I was afraid she would say that,' Mamoru said with a sigh.

'What's wrong? Aren't you excited to be going to your homeland? It must be quite a site with dragons everywhere,' Kagome questioned. Even after all this time of being a Dragon Rider Kagome was still practically obsessed with and fascinated by them.

'It's nothing, don't worry about it. I guess I'll see you in the morning then. Try to get some sleep okay,' Mamoru urged her.

'Well I still have to pack but I'll see what I can do about the sleep.'

'Good night, Kagome.'

'Good night, Mamoru.' And with that said Mamoru pulled away to go to sleep while Kagome continued packing. It took her another couple of hours of packing and unpacking and packing again but she was finally satisfied with all the things that she decided to bring when her. As soon as she finished she flopped down on her bed and despite all the excitement she was out like a light.

The next morning Kagome was sleeping soundly until her mother rushed through the door. Kagome bolted upright and looked around trying to find out where all the screaming was coming from. It didn't take long as soon her mother was shaking her one hand on each shoulder asking her why, why did she have to go.

It would seem that somehow her mother had finally been informed that she was leaving this morning. Also, from the level of hysteria she seemed to be at, she also knew where Kagome was going. She would probably never know how her mother had found this out, but she always did seem to have her ways.

" Mother, you're overreacting I'm not going to be gone all that long," Kagome actually lied to her mother. It didn't seem to alleviate the woman fears. She must've known she was lying. Kagome wasn't a very good liar and Kagome's mom was in the kind of person you'd lied to easily.

"You're going off to that place, with all those dragons, and I may never see you ever again!" she continued to overreact.

"It's not like that. I'm just going for a little bit. Sesshomaru is going too and Inuyasha and Kouga. I'll be fine."

Kagome's mother didn't look exactly convinced, but whatever rationality was left in her brain told her she probably wouldn't be able to talk her daughter out it. So to make up for all the worrying that Kagome would cause her, she spent the rest of the morning bothering Kagome. She made sure that she had packed everything she would need even though she had spent hours on it the night before.

Before long, even though it had felt like forever to Kagome, she finally had to leave and head for the palace. As soon as she was far enough away that she didn't have to waved goodbye anymore she sat back and sighed. At the very least she hoped that the trip would be a quiet one. Although, with those three along who knows. Kagome sighed again and closed her eyes until she got there.

- - ( with Sesshomaru)

Sesshomaru hadn't actually given much thought to this whole trip at all. He had simply shoved some things in a bag and was done with it. He wasn't going to make this any more stressful than he already knew it was going to be, especially since he knew certain others would make it particularly stressful (ex. Inuyasha and Kouga.)

It was already light out and if he knew Kagome, and he pretty much did, she would be there soon. Sesshomaru picked up his bag and left his room to go and wake his brother who was probably still not awake yet. He didn't bother knocking, but once he got a good look at the people in the room he wished he had.

Kikyo screamed and grabbed all the blankets leaving Inuyasha sitting on the bed stark naked. "We're leaving," Sesshomaru said calmly and walked back out of the room. Mentally he was scrubbing his brain with extra strength bleach but he didn't think he would ever truly be rid of that damned image.

He could still here the woman screaming down the hall something about 'locking the god damn door' and Sesshomaru found himself agreeing with her. He could feel a headache forming already and the trip hadn't even started yet.

- - - (later with everyone)

Everyone had gathered out in front of the dragon caves, all dragons and riders accounted for. Sesshomaru refused to look at Inuyasha for the time being and Inuyasha couldn't get rid of the embarrassed blush that seemed to renew itself when he glanced at Sesshomaru.

Kagome watched this strange behavior and felt the need to say something. "I've got to say I'm kind of curious about why you two are acting this way and at the same time I'm not really sure I want to know."

"Nothing! Nothing happened ok?" Inuyasha burst out.

'Well you see Sesshomaru walked in on Inuyasha this morning while-'

"Shut up Akihiro!" Inuyasha interrupted the large dragon.

"Ooookkkk, now I'm pretty positive I don't want to know."

'Aww, but it's really funny,' Akihiro insisted.

"I said shut it!" Inuyasha was almost mad enough to forget his embarrassment.

Kagome looked over to Sesshomaru who in turn looked away. "Maybe we'll have that talk later, Akihiro."

"No! No you will not!" Inuyasha continued to fume. Kagome just laughed at the flustered hanyou.

Mamoru and Akako stood off to the side watching the fun when Daichi cleared his throat to interrupt the conversation. "We should really get going to see this friend of yours, I wasn't really given much time to form this new council."

"How much time do you have exactly?" Sesshomaru asked

"I have about a week left before the dead line. This is a very touchy subject and the council doesn't want the matter hanging in the air for too long," Daichi explained.

"I see, then that doesn't leave us much time. It will take two days to get to the wolf dens and then three days from there to the land of dragons," Sesshomaru reasoned.

"So that leaves us two days. Let's just hope we don't get sidetracked or something," Kagome was hopeful.

"Or that the mangy wolf will even say yes. I mean the guy is heir to like two different packs. Who says he has time to go running off to far away lands to deal with other people's problems," Inuyasha injected his own brand of optimism onto the subject. Suddenly there was a sharp pain in the back of Inuyasha's head. "Ah! What the hell did you do that for?" he asked as he rubbed the back of his head, where Kagome had hit him.

"Anyway, its not like we have much of any other choice. We don't know anyone else that is bonded with a purple dragon," Kagome ended that matter and climbed up onto Mamoru to get ready for take off.

The rest of the trip was rather uneventful. Kagome had finally gotten Akihiro alone on one of their pit stops and she laughed for about a half hour which was only renewed once she saw Inuyasha and Sesshomaru again.

Mamoru had actually, sort of apologized after a certain amount of prodding from Akako. This had stunned Kagome. True he was rather calm for the trip there and wasn't picking any fights but she had never actually expected an apology. She would have to remember to thank Akako like crazy later.

Beyond that nothing really remarkable to mention. In two days, just as Sesshomaru had said. They were escorted by guard wolves to the dens were they finally got to see Kouga again.

"Well what brings you all here?" Kouga asked mainly to Kagome and basically ignoring the other two dogs.

"Actually, we sort of have a favor to ask you."

InuyashaForever1989: And so ends another chapter of 'A New Age For Dragons' I hope you all enjoyed

Inu: chapter 3 already and we're just leaving, seriously?

Kag: Careful Inuyasha she could drag this out a lot longer if she wanted to

IF: yeah maybe some more character development or something

Inu: no, please anything but that!

IF: Hmm idk, what do you think Sesshy?

Sesshy: *still traumatized from seeing Inu naked*

IF: Ok then, lets get this all wrapped up then shall we? Comments please, I love them all, they give me warm fuzzies inside ^_^