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"What? No, Keski just needs to know how much is at stake. Then he won't give it to him," Sesshoumaru said.
"He knew what was at stake the first time and he made the deal Sesshoumaru, I am sorry son I know you care for him, but Naraku has too deep of a hold on him now he won't listen to you." Inutashio says.
"Yes he will Keski listens to Sesshoumaru, you can't kill my dad, I won't let you!" Shippo yelled.
"What's with all the yelling?" Kagome asked Izayoi.
"I'm not sure. We should go check," Izayoi said, standing.
Kagome stood as well and the two walked up to the study. "What is going on in here?" Kagome said when they walked into the room.
"He's trying to kill my daddy!" Shippo yelled pointing at Inutashio.
"I am not, I am saying that might be the only way." Inutashio says defending himself. "What?!Izayoi yelled and walked over to her mate.
"It was a suggestion, and it's over we won't do it." he says.
Kagome walked over to Sesshoumaru ,"And what do you have to say for yourself Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked.
"I don't answer to you, I'm not afraid of you." Sesshoumaru tells her
Kagome glared at him and she hissed, "You should be. I have a million things I can hold over your head, one of them being myself."
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at Kagome. "I am not going to kill Keski, it never crossed my mind I was trying to figure out Keski's bloodline and how to get him and the baby away from Naraku without a lot of damage oh, here's something, Karas gave himself to Naraku so he's be near Keski." he tells her
Kagome's eyes widened and she said, "What!? What about Kira? Where is he?"
"He's in the dungeon, only to be fed bread and water," Sesshoumaru replied.
"Sesshoumaru, Kira is not a teen anymore!" Kagome tells him.
"He's acting like one they lied they had me thinking that my father wanted to have a talk with Inuyasha and I, they left here and went to find him, I cannot deal with this and save Keski so Kira will stay locked up till I can trust him." Sesshoumaru tells Kagome
"You know they did it for the best intentions, they knew you would never let them leave! Honestly, I think it's quite clever what they did," Kagome said, crossing her arms over her chest. "And if it had been you, you would be down there," Sesshoumaru said, not even looking up at her as he scanned over a scroll.
"Don't think because we're at your father's home you can get away with things." Kagome warns him.
"Kagome go watch Rin, I'm busy." Sesshoumaru tells her. Kagome walked over to Sesshoumaru she grabbed the pitcher of water and grabbed the scroll out his hand and poured the water over Sesshoumaru's head. "You jackass, I am your mate don't act like you're the only one that cares for Keski!" Kagome tells him
Inutashio looked at his once dry son, and shook his head.
Sesshoumaru just sat there, his hair sticking to his head and his mouth hanging open. Kagome slammed the pitcher down onto the desk, breaking the white glass. "My apologies Inutaisho. I will give you the money for that later," Kagome said through clenched teeth as she stormed out of the room.
"Don't worry about it," Inutaisho said as she walked out. Sesshoumaru growled and stood, storming out of the room after his wife
Sesshoumaru caught up with Kagome and grabbed her arm and swung her around, "How dare you wet my hair!" he growled.
"I do it again if I had more water, you will not talk to me as if I am a servant I am your wife, the mother of your pup!, I know you want to take care of Keski, but so do I yes Naraku has the upper hand right now but he won't always Sesshoumaru, let me help one mother to another I might be able to get through to Keski." Kagome says to him.
"Absolutely not. He will kill you Kagome, can't you see that!?" Sesshoumaru said, his voice rising to a yell as he now gripped both of Kagome's arms. "I'm a big girl, Sesshoumaru. We're both over nine hundred years old, I think I have enough experience," Kagome hissed, yanking her arms away from him.
"If you don't let me go I'll sneak out like Karas did!" Kagome tells him. Sesshoumaru growled at her. "Come with me then Sesshoumaru we'll find them together and bring Karas and Keski and the cute baby home." Kagome tells him.
"Fine but you stay by my side at all times." Sesshoumaru tells her. "Yes sir!" Kagome said and giggled.
Sesshoumaru gave her a small smile and she reached up and took a lock of his hair into her fingers. "Sorry I wet your hair," she said, giggling again over the fact he made such a scene over it.
"You should be." Sesshoumaru tells her and kisses her on her lips. "Come on let's go change your clothes." Kagome tells him.
Sesshoumaru sighed, I don't know where to look." he tells her as he walks to the bedroom. "We'll use our nose." Kagome tells him as she follows him to the bedroom.
"So who does the baby look like?" Kagome asks.
"She looks like Keski except for the red eyes." Sesshoumaru tells her as he takes his wet clothes off.
Kagome smiled and said, "I knew it would." She walked into the bathroom that joined their room and grabbed a towel before walking out and gently running it over his chest and arms, drying the water.
"How did you know that, I was hoping he have a boy!" Sesshoumaru says to her.
"Why?" Kagome asked him.
"It's enough girls in the palace. I wanted a boy." he says.
"He's not your mate I am, I'll give you a boy, I don't know why you want one with the trouble Karas, and Kira put you through." Kagome tells him
"I want a boy because then I can teach him the things a father should," Sesshoumaru said, smiling at his mate. "Oh, and you don't think Keski would have taught him that if it was a boy?" Kagome asked, smiling.
"Not with that beast, he looked so smug letting me know Keski had his heir." Sesshoumaru says as he put on dry clothes. Kagome sighed and opened the door, "Come on and this time keep your lips to yourself." Kagome says as they walk out the bedroom.
"So you're leaving?" Inutashio asked as he held Izayoi's hand.
"Yeah take care of Rin, and Shippo." Kagome says.
Shippo was on Inutaisho's shoulder and he said, "No, I want to come, too!" Kagome walked up to him and said, "Shippo, honey, you need to stay here and help take care of things, okay? We'll try to bring Keski home."
Shippo was about to protest but Kagome gave him a look that said she wasn't going to change her mind.
He sighed in defeat and just nodded. Kagome smiled and kissed the top of his head before looking at Inutaisho.
"We'll be back soon. Hopefully within a couple of days," she said.
He nodded and replied, "Take all the time you need. We'll take good care of them
." Kagome nodded and said, "Say goodbye to Rin for us."
Kagome and Sesshoumaru left the palace and transformed into their dog forms and took off running to find Keski.
Naraku had taken Keski and the others to a mountain, Keski had collected another shard. there were only a few more pieces needed. Kohaku was still gagged and tied.
"Why are we here?" Miroku asked.
"This is our new home we will live here until I am done. "Naraku tells them
."What you can't be serious, Akito can't be locked up in here. "Keski tells him
"Then you may wander around with an escort," Naraku said as they continued up the path.
"I'm not a child, Naraku. I don't need a babysitter," Keski said.
Naraku stopped and dropped Kohaku on the ground, Naraku walked over to Keski. "You will have whatever I want you to have did you not say you would obey if I let you raise her, tell me now Keski I'll end your life here and now she won't remember you." Naraku tells him. Karas balled his fist up he wanted to interfere so bad.
"No I'm sorry I forgot my place." Keski says to him
"That's what I thought," Naraku said. He walked back over and picked Kohaku back up before continuing up the path.
Keski walked up the path avoiding eye contact with Karas, and Taku. when they were inside the mountain Keski looked around him.
Naraku placed Kohaku on his feet. "I'm going to remove your gag if you say that word I will burn your tongue." Naraku tells him and unties Kohaku 's gag.
Kohaku glared at Naraku. "Untie me please." Kohaku tells him.
Naraku sliced the ropes off with his claws. "You will find rooms throughout the mountain." he tells Taku, Karas, Hojo and Miroku.
"You going to be okay?" Karas asks Keski.
"Yeah go get settled." Keski tells him
Karas nodded and walked off with Taku and Hojo to find a room.
Keski looked around him while bouncing Akito on his hip, making her giggle in delight.
"Pretty Girl, mommy's little doll. "Keski says to her.
"You two are really trying my patience, do I have to lock you both away ?" Naraku asked Keski and Kohaku.
"You couldn't last a day without us." Kohaku tells Naraku.
Keski kept his mouth closed. "Is that so Kohaku want to see if I can?" Naraku asked him. "Kohaku don't answer him he'll make you regret it." Keski says
Kohaku for once took Keski's advice and kept his mouth shut, just glaring at his mate.
"It was wise to take his advice just now, Kohaku. You should do it more often."
Kohaku walked over to Keski and for once hid behind him. "Why do I have a feeling you and I are going to go through a lot of pain?" Kohaku whispered to him.
"Well just try to stay on his good side and don't say the S word and we should be fine." Keski tells him.
"I agree," Naraku said, staring at the two of them. Akito started to fuss in Keski's arms and he gently shushed her, gently bouncing her in his arms.
"This isn't fair Naraku we're not slaves, you're supposed to treat us as your equal, we're your mates, but your treating us no better than Kagura and Kanna." Kohaku tells him as he stays hidden behind Keski.
Keski looked at Kohaku, "He does have a point." Keski tells Naraku.
"I only treat you this way because you haven't earned to be treated as my equals since you can't obey me," Naraku said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Obedience is not the same as being equal, Naraku. Being equal means that you don't order someone around and expect them to do it. You ask them to do something and if they say no, you either find someone else to do it or you do it yourself," Keski said.
"Yeah what he said." Kohaku said as he peeked over Keski's shoulder. "Why haven't we earned to be treated as equals?, Keski had your baby and we became enemies of Sesshoumaru to be with you we're doing all the sacrificing and gaining weight to have kids how dare you say we haven't earned the right!" Kohaku yells at Naraku and steps from behind Keski and walks up to Naraku and takes his finger and pokes it in Naraku's chest.
Keski held Akito closer as he said, "Kohaku, I wouldn't do that if I were you." Naraku grabbed Kohaku's finger and hissed, "Too late for that, Keski."
"Ow, ow that hurts!" Kohaku cries out.
"Who do you think you're to be demanding anything of me?!" Naraku hissed at him.
"But it's true, okay I'll shut up." Kohaku tells Naraku and Naraku grips his finger tighter. "Stop picking on him Naraku, he's smaller than you, you don't have to be a bully to him!" Keski said and kissed Akito atop her head.
Akito was looking between Naraku, Kohaku, and Keski and then started to cry as Kohaku yelled in pain. "Naraku, stop it! You're scaring her!" Keski said, covering Akito's eyes as best as he could.
Naraku let Kohaku go, Kohaku dropped to his knees as he held his abused finger. "Blame your reincarnation for her crying!, now get up Kohaku both of follow me!" Naraku tells them and walks back more into the mountain.
Kohaku stood up and walked beside Keski as they followed Naraku. "Sorry I didn't mean to upset her." Kohaku tells Keski.
Keski patted Akito on her back as she quieted down. "It's okay she'll be fine, Kohaku please for your own safety either get pregnant or be quite, he's more angry than usual." Keski tells him.
Kohaku nodded and said, "I'll try. It won't be easy."
"That's all I want. But if you get into anymore trouble, I won't be able to help you," Keski said.
"I know but it use to be a time when I could joke with him like that and he just smile, now he's ready to punish me for the smallest mistake, you don't think he's going to replace us with Karas and Taku do you?" Kohaku asked him.
"Seeing as they hate each other no. "Keski tells Kohaku as they walk into the bedroom.
The bedroom had a king size bed enough room for all of them, there were black sheets on the bed, a bassinet to the side for Akito.
"This is where we'll be sleeping for the duration of our stay. You'll be shown where the hot springs and other things are later by one of the servants," Naraku said when they walked into the room.
Kohaku looked at Keski and walked over to the bed. "So uh what's going to happen while we're here, and how long will we be staying here?" Kohaku asked.
Naraku looked at him. "For as long as I see fit, and if you keep testing me Kohaku I will let your family stay at the palace during the war." Naraku tells him.
Keski sighed and walked over to the bed also and placed Akito on the bed. "Is there enough food for us?" Keski asked.
"There's plenty. And if we run out, then we'll get more," Naraku said, looking at him.
Akito crawled over to Kohaku and pulled on the sleeve of his kimono. "Hey there Akito you okay?" Kohaku asked her. Akito laughed and bounced up and down while she held onto his sleeve.
"Seems she likes you Kohaku." Keski says and looks at Naraku.
Naraku grunted and pulled out the jewel, "Only three pieces left. Naraku says as he looks at the blackened shikon .