Q&A

This is just a chapter where I answer all the questions I was asked to the best of my ability.

1st Question: So is her demon side truly interested in Naraku? Or is she just fooling around?

Answer: You may have realized by now that Kagome's youkai side is very much in love with Naraku. Why? That will be explained soon. I'll probably dedicate a whole chapter to it.

2nd Question: Why did you have to banish her?

Answer: Kagome was banished so that I could get to the Kagome/Sesshomaru part. Do not be mislead :), there may be a bit more Naraku/Kagome soon.

3rd Question: How come Kiyoshiyuki give her baby a soul?

Answer: Kiyoshiyuki hasn't given her baby back its soul yet because I haven't brought him back into the story yet!

4th Question: Does Kiyoshiyuki have feelings for Kagome?

Answer: He admires her for her beauty, brains, and power. In a sense, he's somewhat childlike (hence the innocent name).

5th Question: What's coming up?

Answer: Can't exactly tell you that! However, I'll give you a hint. Kohaku falls in love, with whom? I don't know just yet. Naraku realizes his mistake in banishing Kagome, and pleads for her back. Will she return? I don't know yet either. lol. Kikyo lives again! How? IDK...again. xD Keep reading and reviewing!

Inuyasha looked down at Kagome worriedly. She'd been unconcious for nearly a week. He was getting tempted to wake her up. Only issue was, whenever he got too close to her, Seshomaru would either growl or punch him in the arm. If he hadn't known his brother better, he would've though that he had some type of feelings toward Kagome. But he knew his brother, and Sesshomaru didn't need friends or a mate for that matter.

Currently, they were headed toward the castle. Kagome and the baby were lying on Kirara's back. Strangely enough, no demons had attacked. The tachi assumed it was because the youkai sensed Sesshomaru and Kagome, not to mention Naraku's aura in the baby. The child's aura was faint, but you could see the power in it.

Everyone's attention was peaked when Kagome groaned, shifting. Her eyes carefully opened, squinting at the sunlight. "Has he awakened?" The first words she spoke.

"No." Sango replied solemnly.

"Oh." She managed to sit up. She noticed that her body was nearly completely covered in bandages. "Did you-"

"No. We didn't bathe you. We used rags, water, and the things in your bag."

Kagome nodded slowly, climbing off of Kirara's back, only to fall to the ground. "What. The. Fuck?"

Inuyasha smirked, squating beside her. "You're too weak to even walk."

"Grrr. Sit boy." She muttered, watching with satisfaction as he fell.

Inuyasha winced as the spell broke, and he sat up. "Jeez. I forgot about that. But still, I can get back up." He said smugly. He picked her up bridal style and rested her back on Kirara.

"Not if I say it a thousand times in a row. Now, where is the nearest stream?"

"Just ahead." The group emerged from the woods to find a crystal blue stream. "We'll leave while you clean up. Sango'll help." The guys turned to leave as Sango made her way to Kagome.

"Just like old times." Sango tossed her friend's arm over her shoulders, dragged her off of Kirara, and dropped to he knees from the weight. "Um, Inuyasha, there's a slight problem!"

The hanyou turned around, an eyebrow arched in a way much like his elder brother. "What?"

Sango groaned. "She's too heavy for me alone."

"Kikyo?" Inuyasha looked to his love.

"I don't bathe. I have no scent besides that of graveyard soil and bones." Besides, the water would disintegrate her flesh if she remained in for too long.

"Th-then that means a guy will have to...Maybe you should wait Kagome." Inuyasha said, his face heavy with blush.

Kagome shook her head furiously. "I'm itchy, and I stink. I'll drag myself there if I have too."

Inuyasha snorted. "And drown, I think not."

Miroku beamed. This was his chance. "Then I suppose I'll have to help you ladies out."

"No way, monk!" Inuyasha grabbed his friends collar. "If anyone's doing it, it's me."

"You enjoy the female anatomy as well, Inuyasha?" The lecherous monk asked eagerly.

"Wh-what?! No, that isn't what I meant!" He cried.

Kagome growled loudly, catching everyone's attention. "I don't care who does it. Kohaku."

The teen stared at her. "Yes?"

"Give Kakudan to Sango. You can help."

A heavy blush steamed his face. "If Sango can't do it, I'm sure I can't hold you up, Kagome."

"What are you trying to say? I'm fat?" She teased."

"N-no, just...um..."

"That's alright. Give the baby to Miroku then. You can help me get off this kimon while Sango gets into the water. Kirara will carry me, then dump me in. I can sit up, so I'll recline against a rock."

Sango nodded. "That'll work." She took off into the woods to undress.

"I'll take the children." Kikyo led Rin and Shippo off.

Kohaku's blush grew, but he obeyed, handing her baby to Miroku, then going to her side and peeling off her shredded, bloody kimono. Slowly he began to take off her bandages, pausing when he got to the ones that covered her breasts. "Um, Kagome?"

"What?" She asked boredly as she was snapped out of her thoughts of Naraku.

"I'll have to touch you to continue."

"You've been touching me this entire time."

"No, I mean, your bare skin. I'll have to touch it."

Sesshomaru inwardly fumed, though he wasn't particularly sure why. His beast wasn't handling the sight before him too well. But then again, his idiot of a beast was infatuated with her. He noticed that the monk and Jaken were staring intensely at Kagome and scowled slightly, kicking two pebbles.

Jaken fainted once he was hit, but the monk didn't twitch.

Inuyasha frowned, then looked in the direction the rock had come from, to find his brother with his eyes closed. "Feh." He shrugged.

"And?" Kagome asked.

"W-well, I'm a teenager now." Kohaku stroked the back of his neck.

"Oh, you mean your urges." Kagome giggled softly. "Like I care about that. But since you're uncomfortable, Sesshomaru, do you mind finishing?"

Kohaku, Inuyasha, and Miroku's eyes grew wide. Had she really asked that of the great Sesshomaru?

Sesshomaru stared at the miko intensely, unsure. He finally inclined his head in a slight nod, shocking the three more. When Kohaku moved aside, he knelt before the miko. Flexing his claws, he sliced down the top, staring boredly as the miko's breasts were unleashed.

Miroku struggled not to faint, while Inuyasha and Kohaku kept staring.

There was one last wrap of bandaged, wrapping from her womanhood, around to her hips, then her butt, and back around. Sesshomaru hesitated a moment, his hands gripping her waists lightly. He brought his pointer finger's claw to the very top, eyes widening ever so slightly when her stomach sucked in a bit. Being a demoness now, her stomach had nearly resumed it's regular form.

Kagome's face was blank as ever, Sesshomaru noticed when he looked up, but inside she was confused. 'Did I just shiver a bit?' When Kohaku had touched her, she felt a slight tingle, but with Sesshomaru, she realized that she was nearly fully aroused, though she hid it, and her scent, well.

Sesshomaru was nearly overcome by the urge to bury his face in her womanhood. His eyes flashed so quickly that no one noticed. His beast was nearly out. He had to do this quick. Slicking straight through it, he let the bandages fall, then stood up, walking away from her and away from the tachi. He needed to kill something.

"Uhhhhh...." Inuyasha was at a loss for words. Kagome was naked. Sesshomaru had paused for nearly a minute in front of her. What the hell was going on.

Kagome closed her eyes, resting and thinking as Kirara carried her toward the stream. 'What just happened? Sesshomaru was so close to me, and he was holding me. My body reacted as though he were Naraku...' Then it hit her, and a smirk came on her face as she fell into the water. 'Junsei, you're attracted to Sesshomaru!'

Inuyasha scowled. It was getting late. The son was going down. They'd made camp, and they were sitting around the fire eating. "Where the fuck are they?"

"Halfbreed, we only left them a moment ago." Sesshomaru remarked indifferently. "It was evening when they began their bath. It is merely sunset now."

"He's right, Inuyasha. Hold your horses." Kagome stumbled out of the woods and into the clearing, Sango just behind her in case she looked to be falling. She was wearing the new kimono Kikyo had gotten for her. It was solid black, with white and red cherry blossoms. Kakudan's was identical. There was no doubt in her mind that Kikyo had gotten it because of Naraku.

"Oi, wench. Sit down and eat. You look tired."

Kagome narrowed her eyes at him. "Wench?"

Junsei stepped out of her body, sitting down beside Shippo. "That's a term of endearment coming from Inuyasha."

Ashi huffed, sitting beside her half. "All of your friends are backwards."

"You're backwards." Junsei snapped.

"That was the best you could come up with?" She taunted, picking up her fish.

"Nope." Junsei knocked the fish onto the ground. "That was the best I coud come up with."

Ashi stared at her food, then at Junsei, then at her food again, before she lashed out, "You dirty bitch! You're supposed to be pure!"

Junsei sighed, pointed her finger at the fish, and watched it go back to Ashi. "See. I reversed the time on your stupid fish. It's like it never even fell."

"But it did fall."

"But there's nothing on it."

"I hate you."

Junsei beamed. "I love you too, sister."

"We aren't sisters."

"Might as well be."

Ashi shrugged. "Fine, then. I'll be the sexy sister."

Junsei glared. "We look exactly alike. You can be the slut." She pinched a piece of fish and dropped it into her mouth.

Ashi's eye twitched. Lifting her hand, she curled it up into a ball and punched her in the back.

"Ak!" Her half coughed viciously.

"Oh, Junsei, let me help!" She reached to help, only to get slapped back. "Ow!"

The tachi watched the two closely, all amused to some extent.

Junsei stroked her neck when she finally stopped choking. She glared at her 'sister' with watering eyes. "Eat your fish before I kill you."

"Whatever." Ashi snorted, pinching off a piece and eating it.

"I don't even feel like eating anymore."

"Junsei-chan, can I comb your hair?" Sango asked.

Junsei shrugged. "Sure."

Sango grabbed a brush from Kagome's backpack and set to brushing. "What kind of relationship did you and Naraku have, Ashi?"

"You humans are so nosy."

"Ashi." Junsei warned.

She sighed. "Naraku and I were very close, intimate. We planned to mate eventually."

"What?!" The tachi, save Sesshomaru, though he looked surprised and annoyed, screamed.

"We were lovers."

Junsei snorted. "Yeah, after he raped us, me, Kagome, whoever."

Ashi growled. "It wouldn't have happened if it weren't for you."

"What?! You were the one who flaunted our naked body in front of Hakudoshi!"

"I was teaching the little punk about the female anatomy! You're the one who was trying to save that little brat!"

All was quiet for a moment. Junsei nodded slowly, hugging her knees. "You're right. I can't blame you. It's my fault he took my virginity."

Ashi sighed, grabbing her sister's hand. "You can't live your entire life being selfless. Sometimes, you have to think about you."

"But he said he would've hurt Rin. I couldn't let that happen." She smiled when the sleeping girl cuddled into her side.

"She isn't your responsibility."

"She is. She looks at me like a mother. In the end, it was worth it. He never hurt her. He took pretty good care of her compared to me. Naraku used her. He's pure evil."

Ashi narrowed her eyes. "But after Rin left, when I started having sex with him willingly, he became a different person. He isn't entirely evil." She smiled a little. "He even has a romantic side."

"Name one thing that he did romantic?"

"Well, you remember that time when he lit all of those candles, and he cooked that meal, and he dedicated all of his time to me, to us. No shikon jewel, no babble about how to kill Inuyasha or Sesshomaru, no evil. We spent that whole night just with him. And it was perfect."

Junsei blinked at her, then gagged. "Oh god, don't remind me. The instant he entered the room, I fainted of disgust."

Ashi frowned. "Stop it. What about when I told him I loved him?"

"He didn't say it back."

"But he said his human heart would burst if I were ever to leave him. If that isn't love, you tell me what is."

Junsei scoffed. "Of coursed he loved us. I mean, what says love more than a kick in the pregnant, swollen gut?!" She gasped. "Ooh, or punch in the face! Oh, and my personal favorite, stealing our baby's soul!"

Ashi shook her head. "You don't understand. You blocked out all of the good times."

"Ashi, look," Junsei said softly, "I'll admit, Naraku had his moments where I truly wondered if he really was evil, but he is. I believe the one you saw was Onigumo and his humanity. Kiyoshiyuki once told me that he's as innocent as he is because of the humanity you brought out Naraku."

"I get it, Naraku is vile, disgusting, evil. I can't just stop loving him. You didn't get over Inuyasha until After I gave him Kikyo. How am I supposed to hate Naraku now?"

Kagome shrugged, sticking her free hand into the fire, withdrawing a ball, and rolling it around in her hand. "I'm not telling you not to love him. Just see him for who he is. He nearly killed his son. Hell, he might have suceeded if we can't find a way for Kakudan to get a soul."

Ashi dug the claws on her free hand into the ground. "How can you love someone and want to kill them at the same time?"

"Love hurts. What can I say?" She squeezed her sister's hand.

"Okay, say I were to fall for Kiyoshiyuki."

"What is with you and villains?" Junsei asked with a frown.

"They're good looking. Admit it. Kiyoshiyuki is hot. That was the first thing to go through your mind when we first saw him."

Junsei blushed, tossing her fireball back into the fire. "That's different. He was naked."

Ashi nodded. "Naraku was well endowed. I guess it only makes sense that Kiyoshiyuki was as well."

Junsei's blush deepened when she hear Sango gasp behind her. "Ashi!"

"What?! Tell me I'm lying."

She turned away. "Whatever. Besides, I think that's a demon thing."

Ashi, smirking mischievously, leaned over to whisper in her sister's ear. "Wanna ask one?"

"No way, you hentai!"

"I'll do it. Dare me."

"You wouldn't."

"Dare me."

"Fine. I dare you. Whatever." Junsei rolled her eyes.

Ashi licked her fangs. "Alright." She looked from Inuyasha to Sesshomaru, before settling on the Daiyoukai. "Lord Sesshomaru-sama."

Sesshomaru stared at her suspiciously, his eyes narrowing when Junsei's eyes widened.

"No, Ashi!"

"Junsei and I-"

"Don't include my name, you liar!"

"Would like to know-"

"Say it and I'll kill you."

"If a strong, handsome demon like yourself-"

"I meant it, Ashi!" Junsei reached to cover her mouth.

Ashi grinned viciously. "Is beastly in that department?"

The sky boomed with thunder as Junsei's eyes twitched in time with Sesshomaru's. No one seemed to notice the white, unearthly glowing orb entering Kakudan's chest.

"I wonder," Junsei stood on shaky legs, "if I should kill you first, then let Sesshomaru revive you with Tensaiga and kill you. Or let Sesshomaru kill you, the bring you back to like, so that I could kill you. What do you think, Sesshoma-"

"WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WAH WAH WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Everyone turned slowly at the sound of the baby's crying. A slow grin crossed Ashi and Junsei's faces. They then looked at each other. Ashi inched forward.

"Oh no, you don't!" Junsei pushed her other half back.

"What?! It's really my baby! I made love with Naraku!"

"So! You were in my body! I'm scarred! I deserve to hold him first!"

"WAHHHHHHHHH!"

"Damnit!" Junsei blended with her half, becoming one Kagome.

Giggling happily, she scrambled, on her hands and knees, over to her baby, taking him in her arms. "Shh. Shh." Grinning at him, she began to sing softly as she rocked him, rendering her travel companions silent as they listened.

torrianse, torrianse

koko wa doko no hosomichi jya tenjin-sama no hosomichi jya

chotto toshite kudashanse goyo no nai mono toshasenu

kono ko no nanatsu no iwai ni ofuda o osame ni mairimasu

iki wa yoi yoi, kaeri wa kowai kowainagara

torrianse, torrianse

The baby sniveled, calming slowly, but surely. When finally it was calmed, it cuddled against her, yanking at her kimono.

"Oh, you're hungry, huh?"

"Wahhhh!" He started up again.

"Sorry. That's not what you want? Shh. Um," Thinking back to the lullabies she'd sung at seven to Sota, she sung.

Mori no fukuro ga iimashita watashi wa mori no mihari yaku

kowai okami, kitsune nado kosasenai kara ne ne shina

gorosuke ho ho gorosuke ho

Kakudan cooed, smiling a bit as he nuzzled closer.

"Jeez, you demon kids grow up quick. Human babies can't make much of any noise. Or my family could just be dimwitted." She giggled.

"W-Wahh!"

"I can't sing to you all night." She tapped her cheek in thought, before something came to her. She bit her pointer finger's claw off, spitting it out. She stuck the finger into the baby's mouth, smiling when he calmed. "There we go."

Sango beamed. "You're great with kids, Kagome."

She nodded. "Dad died before Sota was born. Mom stayed in the hospital for a long time. And grandpa was sick. I basically took care of him." She nuzzled a baby. "You're so adorable."

Again the baby cooed, this time opening his eyes.

"Oh no." She groaned.

"What?" Inuyasha asked, getting up to go see the baby.

"He has Naraku's eyes. I was pleading desperately not to have a reminder of that bastard. But they do make him handsome." She looked up when Kikyo came to her side. "Huh?"

Kikyo smiled a little. "May I hold him?"

Though reluctant, Kagome nodded, handing him over.

Kikyo arched a brow when he started to fuss. 'Does he not like the smell?' That thought made her heart ache...her heart. She had a heart?! That wasn't there a moment ago. 'This babe?' Beaming, she cuddled the child. "Kagome, you have a special child."

"Thank you, Kikyo."

"And he has a piece of soul now. I don't know from where."

Kagome frowned, stretching her aura. She thought she felt something familiar just at the edge, but wasn't sure. "Oh...Well, as long as he's living."

Kikyo noticed him burying his face in her chest and smiled. "I think he's hungry now."

Kagome grinned. "Silly baby. The milk is over here." She accepted the baby. "Inuyasha, I'm going to feed him."

"Don't go too far." He replied. He thought he head something and turned around. 'Where'd Sesshomaru go? Probably hunting since he didn't get to kill Ashi.'

Sesshomaru watched the miko feed her child with something akin to longing burning in his chest. 'She handles children well.'

'Yes. She handle pups good when she have em.'

'She will not be having our pups.' Again, that purn rose in his chest. 'Did the miko not call this heartburn?'

'Mate say that when you eat bad food. You no eat in days. You want mate.'

'She is not our mate, and I feel nothing toward the mi-'

"Sesshomaru?"

He stiffened at the sound of her voice. 'Her sweet voice.' He cursed himself for that thought.

"Sesshomaru, come out here."

He stepped out of the trees with a forced glare. "Do not think you can command me, miko."

She nodded sleepily. "I understand."

"Why is there a barrier around your child?"

"Because I have a few infected wounds, and I'm seconds away from fainting, but I couldn't stand and go back to camp."

"So why not form a barrier to shield yourself as well?" He inquired curiously, sitting beside her.

Kagome blinked a few times, then yawned. "All I thought about was his protection."

Sesshomaru couldn't stop the soft smile from crossing his lips as she nodded off against his shoulder. 'Selfless.'

"Do you want me to remove that mark?"

'No!' His beast cried. 'I like being hers.'

"Hn."

"You mind staying with me for a minute before we head back?" When he didn't reply, she huddled closer to him, humming.

Sesshomaru found himself lulled by her soothing voice and not soon after she stopped and fell asleep, so did he.