AN: For all the anime crossover fics and to you guys who have still not given up on my story during my lazy absence and without further a do ...... ENJOY!

Chapter 8 : Story telling

"We're back at the park? Well at least we didn't have a thousand foot drop below us this time.... thank goodness." She heaved a grateful sigh.

"You never told Botan exactly where you wanted to go so I guess she just left us where she last picked us up. And why would we drop from the sky for?" He looked at her like she grew an extra head. She smiled and shook her head at him.

"That's what happened last time I went through a portal although it was to a graveyard of a demon lord the size of a skyscraper and we were caught by the skeletons of demon vultures... at least I think that's what they were."

Kagome sighed as she tightened her grip on his hand. She looked up at the dark sky but became a bit sad when she realized that the stars were different in the present than the past. There were hardly any visible.

Yusuke looked at her and down at their hands tightly cupped together. What the hell was she talking about and damn did his head ever hurt. Shit.

"Kai?"

"Hm?"

"You know we really need to talk right? About this whole demon thing and the three worlds and that..." she had let go of his hand and he suddenly missed the warmth.

" We definitely will Kei, okay? Lets just go back to the shrine right now and have my moms dinner before she finds out we aren't up at the shrine at all. Hurry up slow poke!" Kagome had ran up ahead of him as he mentioned demon and was now far up ahead of him waving her arm high up into the air. With a slight smile he ran up to her side as the raced to the shrine and then up the steps. He would get his answers but who was he to deny free food especially if his favorite cook in the world was making it. Ms. Higurashi was a god when in the kitchen.

Kagome peeked to the side to Yusuke where he ran next to her and saw the goofy grin on his face. She giggled since it was most likely about her moms cooking. It was the best after all and seriously who wouldn't want it. She just couldn't wait to get home especially after she realized that she left her son behind. He would have already realized that she had left after searching for her scent. She needed to get everything straightened out here in the present first before she had to return to Sesshoumaru.

This was a once in a lifetime oppurtuniy and she was not going to miss it. Then a stray thought had hit her. Inuyasha was in her room. Injured and sleeping and she couldn't just leave him there like that.

"Shit." Kagome had cursed under her breath as she made it to the top of the steps to the shrine.

Taking a deep breath she waited for her resolve to calm before heading straight into the house. She could do this. She had 4 days to spend time with her family and to get ready to leave for who knew how long. Her training could take weeks if not months to finish with the kind of torture she knew the demon lord would conduct upon his new... victim.

She shuddered at the thought.

"You okay Kai?"

"Yup! I'm fine Kei so don't worry but lets hurry and get inside I'm starving and it's already late."

"Yeah i hope your mom didn't notice we were gone for at least half the day already!"

Opening the front door with as much caution as possible the two teens closed the door behind them as they tried to take off their shoes as quietly as possible. Too bad mothers always know everything.

"KAGOME HIGURASHI AND YUSUKE URAMESHI! DO YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED I WAS TO FIND BOTH OF YOU MISSING FOR HOURS WITHOUT A NOTE OR A CALL! YOU HAD BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE FOR WORRYING ME LIKE THAT ? WELL!"

Both teens had gripped each other for dear life quaking in fear in front of the outraged woman with a deadly looking wooden spoon in her hand clutched just above her head as if to strike any second. Before excuses could fly their stomachs grumbled loudly and they sweat dropped dramatically while clutching each others stomachs to muffle the sound.

"Oh my you two must be famished why don't you two go up stairs and wash up then come to eat with the rest of us. Hurry up before you pass out or something."

They exchanged wary looks before scrambling up the stairs.

"Oh and kids?"

They froze mid step and looked back hesitantly at Ms. Higurashi who had a deep purple aura swirling about her and her face was shadowed in black as her eyes glowed and eerie yellow. Her mouth opened into a wide smile showing deadly fangs.

"I'll let it slide this time but if you ever do that again I'll stick cement blocks to your limbs so you stay put next time, alright dears? Now hurry on up before dinner gets cold."

Nodding vigorously they watched her until she turned back to normal and retreated back into the kitchen. Glancing at each other again they rushed to the bathroom together and leaned up against the now closed door sliding down to the floor. Breathing deeply they looked at each other before laughing hysterically. For now they had cheated death.

"Damn, I forgot how scary your mom could be sometimes!"

"Yeah she hasn't been like that since we were kids. I guess it was always because we caused so much trouble back them."

They calmed down as they washed up and tried to leave the bathroom only to bump into Souta. He eyed them critically then the bathroom and then again back to them. He just shook his head and sighed.

"I don't even want to know, do I? Mom was worried sick about you guys when Shippo started crying about his momma missing. He's in your room chewing on Inuyasha's ear. That guy can sleep through anything."

Souta shook his head and headed off downstairs. Kagome went straight to her room and was glomped by a bright red and green ball. Stumbling backwards into Yusuke, Kagome held on tightly to a sniffling kit.

"Oh Shippo I am so sorry I left you. I just had to talk with some people right away and couldn't tell you in time." Kagome hugged him tightly and his small arms clutched the front of her shirt even more.

"I was so scared when I went to go find you and your scent just disappeared! I thought you were attacked or Naraku actually found you or..."

Kagome began to rock him side to side and whispered soothingly into his small pointed ears. Yusuke reached around to ruffle the little fox's hair.

"Hey I was with her too you know. I would never let anything happen to Kagome. Your mom is safe with me kid don't worry. Next time we go we'll just take you with us regardless if the other people want you to or not. Okay?"

Shippo looked up and stopped his sniffling. Kagome gently wiped his tears away and kissed his forehead.

"Really? I thought you didn't like me like Inuyasha."

"Nah. I like you kid. Besides one of my best friends is a fox demon too. I'll have to remember to introduce you to him next time I see him. I'm sure he would want to see you too."

"Really you would do that? Awesome!"

Kagome looked at him strange then to Shippo. "Where did you learn to say awesome from?"

"Oh from uncle Souta."

"Great now I have to talk to him about teaching you slang. I don't want you sounding like Yusuke."

"Hey whats that supposed to mean?"

Kagome laughed hard and Shippo giggled as he snuggled into Kagomes chest. Yusuke felt his lips twitch up a bit and felt suddenly envious of Shippo. Then the happy little moment was interrupted when a big red blur tackled Yusuke into the hallway wall. Yusuke immediately kicked the offender off and was tackled again closer to the stairs. Gasps were heard but they were muffled by the growling coming from the red figure. When it went to stand up again Yusuke readied his fingers into position but Kagome was already retaliating.

"SIT! Inuyasha SIT BOY, SIT!"

Sorry it was short but I wanted you guys to get a better fight scene than what I had set fro the next chapter. Someone gets hurt... D