Sorry it's been awhile, but I've been kinda burnt out on writing. I think I have too many stories going so I'm taking a short break. Although this story and a few others are done I will still post those every now and again. However the one's that are not done such as A Father's Desire and Fighters and Lovers... it will be awhile before I am posting new chapters for those. So just bare with me for awhile.

Also I pose this question to you guys. On other sites many have wanted me to write a story starring Kei and Kags and for those sites I am working on one but have yet to post any of it. So when I do put it up do you guys want it as well? Let me know and if so when I get it done I will put it on here as well. Much love for you all. Keva

P.S. Thanks for all the support and taking time to read my stuff for if it wasn't for you I would really be wasting my time in writing this stuff. Keva

XX

As soon as Sesshoumaru kneeled down upon his pillow, the sent of the girl bombarded his senses. All night her scent surrounded him, causing some rather carnal dreams starring the girl on her hands and knees begging him to take her long, fast, and hard. He woke up with his face buried in his pillow and the most painful erection he had ever had; and the only relief was to indulge in the lowly act of self satisfaction. Now sitting here staring at his general, the girl's scent still seemed to invade his senses, surrounding him in a most unnerving manner.

Kei finally felt that he had himself under enough control to speak with out laughing. "You have summoned me here, what's on your mind?"

Sesshoumaru stared hard at his general. "We will be departing in the morning to draw out the dark hanyou…" His words caught in his throat when he heard a loud voice outside the palace walls that sounded suspiciously like his worthless sibling's. A low growl sounded in his chest at his irritation; this was something he did not need and especially now. However, just as he was about to dismiss his sibling and let the palace guards take care of the matter; a loud crash sounded down the hall causing the walls in his study to shake.

Before the two youkai could make a move to see what was going on, a loud high pitched scream traveled down the hall causing both their ears to ring slightly. In the blink of an eye, both youkai were up, out of the study and down the hall to the girls room.

Kei slid the door open to the girl's room in time enough to see a blur of red leap out through the crumbling hole in the wall, carrying a screaming girl in nothing but her white silk sleeping dress upon its shoulder. "Figures." Kei sighed as he and Sesshoumaru followed after the demon lord's sibling. "Another room." He stated flatly. "If she keeps this up you will be looking for a new home inside a moon cycle." He stated sarcastically.

Sesshoumaru cut his gold eyes over to the cat and dismissed him; he had more important issues at hand at the moment. He and Kei landed in a clearing that the hanyou was sure to run through and waited for the little bastard to appear before them.

Kei looked over at Sesshoumaru with eyebrow cocked. "The usual manner?"

Sesshoumaru gave a curt nod and followed that up with an annoyed growl. "Two moon cycles."

"Hmm… two huh?" Kei dragged his claws over his chin in thought. "Feeling a little lenient today?"

Sesshoumaru smirked evilly. "Very well. Three."

"Perhaps four?" Kei questioned as he straightened his body stiff causing the air around him began to swirl wildly, churning up the earth as white light began to surround him. Then in a flash and a loud roar; there stood a large tiger, tail twitching in agitation and claws unsheathed in ready for attack.

Inuyasha landed in the clearing with the girl over his shoulder, screaming and pounding on his back. As soon as he landed his eyes upon his brother and the large tiger standing next to him, he unceremoniously dropped the girl to the ground.

"Hanyou." Sesshoumaru stated with narrowed eyes upon is sibling.

Kagome scrambled to her feet and ran to stand behind Sesshoumaru locking her hands into his haori; peeking around him to glare at the demon lord's brother. Her eyes then moved onto the large cat standing next to her, so large in fact that the arch of his back was several inches above the demon lord's head. She gasped in shock and fear for a moment before she noticed something that seemed familiar to her. "Kei?" She whispered with wide eyes.

The large cat turned its head towards her, gave a curt nod, and stared at her with amusement clearly written in his crimson depths. She kept one hand locked into Sesshoumaru's haori as her other tentatively reached out and stroked though his copper and black striped fur on his front leg. "Wow." She whispered as she released her hold upon the demon lord and began stroking though his fur with force.

Sesshoumaru ignored what was occurring between the girl and his general as he kept his hard stare upon his filthy sibling. "You have again overstepped you bounds, for this you shall be punished."

Inuyasha locked stares with his brother and curled his lip at him. "Yeah? What of it?!" He responded with a growl. "That hanyou bastard seeks the girl and I will use her to draw him out and kill him."

"Ooooh…" Came the girl's voice from behind him and Sesshoumaru was hard pressed not to look to see what was causing her to make that strangely erotic noise. However what ever the girl was doing was quickly pointed out by the whelp.

"Seems as if your whore has moved her attentions on to your general." Inuyasha said with a laugh as he watched the girl molesting the cat's fur on his belly as the cat lowered himself down so that the girl could have better access to his belly.

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes to little slits and before he could do or say anything the girl's voice sounded in his sensitive ears.

"I'm not a whore!!" Kagome screeched as she pointed a finger at the figure clad in red. She then halted her administrations upon the cat and moved to stand in front of the demon lord. "You jerk! If you ever touch me again you will be so sorry!" A large clawed hand was placed on her shoulder, and she turned to look up at the demon.

"Kei." Sesshoumaru stated with a low growl as he kept his eyes locked on the hanyou.

Inuyasha turned his eyes to the demon cat and widened them largely as he began stepping backwards. "Kei don't do it." The hanyou threatened weakly.

Kagome looked from the hanyou to the cat and smiled. "Kill em Kei." She stated evilly causing the cat to stare at her. As she locked eyes with the cat, she could have sworn he was smirking when it gave her a curt nod. She watched with a large grin and a barely contained laugh as Kei bowed down on his front legs and began digging his rear legs into the earth to give him good launch support. A giggle broke her lips at the sight of the large cat seemingly to be shaking his butt in the air.

"I'm warning you Kei." Inuyasha said just above a whisper as he stumbled over a bush in his backward retreat.

Kei let off a rumbling growl as he flattened his ears to his head, bared his sharp fangs, and flexed his front claws into the soft earth.

"Hanyou, I believe you had better run." Sesshoumaru stated as he glared at his sibling.

Inuyasha cut his eyes over to his brother then back to the cat before he took his brothers advice and turned tail, disappearing into the early morning shadows of the forest.

Kagome looked over at the cat in question. "Are you not going to go after him?"

Sesshoumaru tightened his hand on her shoulder slightly. "He is waiting."

She looked up at the demon lord. "For what?" She questioned and upon receiving no answer she looked over at Kei. His right ear was twitching slightly and his crimson eyes were staring straight ahead, locked on an unseen point. Then suddenly and silently the giant cat was gone before she could blink.

Sesshoumaru released his hold upon her shoulder, turned and began making his way back towards the palace.

Kagome walked next to him with a giant grin upon her face. "Kei is so kawaii." She whispered to herself, not noticing the glare she received from the being walking next to her. "So can you change like that as well?" She looked up at the demon lord just as he got his face back under control. "And if so are you a cat as well?"

Gold eyes narrowed at the girl. "This Sesshoumaru is not a mangy neko." He stated with a barely contained growl.

"Then what are you?" She asked with wide genuinely curious eyes. She looked him over for any signs of what if anything he was. Nothing about him gave anything away; he and Kei shared some of the same attributes; such as pointed ears, fangs, claws, and well muscled bodies. She eyed his facial markings and furrowed her eyebrows trying to think of all creatures, other than cats, that held odd colored stripes. "A snake maybe or perhaps a lizard of some sort?"

Sesshoumaru could feel his ire with the girl beginning to rise; assuming he was some kind of a lowly snake or lizard. Granted she was just trying to figure out what he was, really giving him no right to be angry with her, but he still felt insulted.

She opened her mouth to continue guessing as to what he was; when a loud yelp, like a dog in pain startled her, forcing an 'eep' from her lips and causing her to leap closer to the demon lord; wrapping herself around his arm. "What was that?" She questioned in a whisper, afraid that if she spoke too loud, whatever it was was going to attack her.

Sesshoumaru looked down at the girl attached to him and was caught somewhere between being pleased with her actions and disgusted that she was touching him. "I believe…" He started with a small jerk of his arm, trying to detach himself from her hold upon him. "That Kei has caught the hanyou and is currently punishing him for daring to exist."

Kagome instinctively gripped him tighter when she felt him try to pull away from her. "You don't like your brother much; do you?" She asked as she looked up at him.

He gave a short curt nod of his head and again tried to subtlety remove his arm from her grasp, only to fail when she again tightened her hold upon him.

xx

Several long moments later Kei peered through the trees at the two beings walking and had to smirk at the sight of the girl holding the demon lord's arm and of him trying to break free of her hold upon him. 'Hmm… Let's just see how close you two can get.' He thought with an evil chuckle.

Closing his eyes and letting the feel of nature flow over him, he slowly moved towards the tree several feet behind him. He kneeled down silently before the tree and faster than a being could blink; he shot his hand into hole at the base of the tree, grabbing the snake hiding within. Holding the creature in front of his face he smirked. "Large, slithery, and not poisonous. You will do nicely." He stated to the creature with a smirk upon his lips.

He then silently made his way towards the two walking through the forest back to the palace. Trying to stay down wind of the sensitive nose of the demon lord, he place the snake right in the path of the girl, covering it with some leaves and hoping the creature would stay where he put it; at least until the girl came upon it.

With the silent grace that he was so well know for, he leapt up into a tree overlooking the area and waited for them to come upon the creature.

xx

"So are you going to tell me what you are?" Kagome huffed as she stared hard at the large male.

"It is of no importance to you." He stated with a small growl of annoyance.

Kagome narrowed her eyes up at him. "This is why you're such a jerk." She hissed.

"You will watch your tongue wench."

Her eyes went wide at the insult. "Don't you dare talk to me like that!" She ordered with a curl of her lip.

"I will speak to you as I please." He stated letting the edge to his voice be known.

Kagome stopped, moved to stand in front of him, and began poking him in the chest. "No you will not!" She bit out. "I don't care who or what you are! You will treat me with the respect I am deserving of!"

Sesshoumaru snatched her hand up, leaned down so that they were face to face. "Do not order me about girl." His chest rumbled with the growl in his voice. "You are a worthless ningen that is only still alive because you hold the shikon in your body. Do not test my patience lest you wish me to remove the jewel…" He flexed his claws in front of her face. "From your body and your head from your shoulders."

Kagome jerked her hand from his grasp and glared hard at him. "I dare you." She hissed as she looked at him with determined anger.

Sesshoumaru just continued to stare hard at her, seriously contemplating on following through with his threat. With a hard glare at her, he pulled his self up to his full height and continued on his way using long strides to put a lot of distance between them; deciding to leave the girl to her devices to get back on her own.

Kagome stared at his back and snorted in disgust, then put an evil smirk on her lips, turned and began walking the other way. "Bastard." She hissed as she made her way through the forest. "I hope he drops dead where he stands." She growled to herself as she, forgetting she had no shoes on, kicked a poor defenseless stone that had the unfortunate luck of being in her path. "Ow!" She hissed between clenched teeth.

Kei watched this from the tree he stood in and smirked. 'This was better than the snake idea.' He thought as he broke a branch from the tree and flung it expertly in the girl's direction.

Kagome screamed in fear as a loud thud sounded in the bushes to her right, causing her to snap her head up to see if there was anything in the trees. She knew it was a branch that hit the ground beside her, but the question was what caused the branch to suddenly fall? There was no wind or any creatures that she could see; perhaps the branch was loose and just fell of its own accord… Or so she thought. Another branch suddenly fell a few feet in front of her tearing another scream of startlement from her throat and this time she didn't waste time with pondering on what was forcing the trees to suddenly drop their branches as she took off running.

In her blinded by fear sprint, she failed to see the being standing in front of her as she crashed full force into the hard silk covered chest of the being known as Sesshoumaru causing her to cry out in fear.

Sesshoumaru grabbed her by the shoulders and stared down at her. "Girl."

Kagome looked up to see who was speaking to her and sighed in relief. "Oh it's just you."

"Home is that way." He stated as he turned her roughly in the appropriate direction.

"Yeah your home." She bit out as she jerked herself free of his hold upon her. Spinning on him she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him. "I am going to go find a way for me to get to my own home and time, which is not nearly far enough away from you for me to be happy, but I will take what I can get." She turned her back to him and stared blankly into the forest. "I know you only keep me because of the jewel in my body; but wouldn't me going home to my own time be better than me staying here where there's a risk that your enemy can get me? Not to mention I will be FAR away from you and you infuriating, domineering behavior towards me."

Sesshoumaru locked his eyes hard onto her back. He was not going to sink so low as to waste his time arguing with the girl. She was going to do as he desired her to and she had no choice in the matter. Placing his hand on her shoulder, he gave her a small push in the direction of his home.

"Hey!" Kagome bellowed as she stumbled over the uneven ground. Once she steadied herself she spun on the taiyoukai. "What the hell is wrong with you?! Have I done something to you to deserve such abuse from you? Because if I have I would sure as hell like to know what it was!" She glared up at him and upon seeing his bored looking face which added fuel to her rage, she curled her fingers into a fist and let it fly into his stomach.

He couldn't believe it; it didn't hurt, for that matter he barely felt it, but for her to actually do something like that was just too shocking for him to believe. With a curl of his lip, he grabbed the girl up, slung her over his shoulder, and made for home.

xx

"Damn" Kei hissed as he watched the demon lord pass him by with the girl draped over his shoulder. His head snapped down to the ground when he heard Sesshoumaru's voice hit his ears.

"That will be enough. We will return home and you will discover who failed to keep the hanyou from breeching the walls." Sesshoumaru ordered to the cat in the tree above him.

Sesshoumaru wasn't so stupid as to not know that Kei was the source of frightening the girl, what he didn't know was why; and he had every intention of finding out once they reached the Palace of the Moon.